The recycling of aluminum converses ninety percent of the energy needed to make new metal.

The food being cooked in the kitchen was giving ________ a wonderful smell.

Can you hear the wind? It’s blowing a ________!

The word “penetrate” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions. 

You mustn’t have seen Linda, for she has left for Australia for almost 2 months.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

My mother told me to ________ for an electrician when her fan was out of order.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29 

     An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes are recognized (25) _______ vibration, shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. The vibrations may vary in (26) _______. They are caused mostly by slippage within geological faults, but also by other events such as volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear tests. The underground point of (27) _____ of the earthquake is called the focus. The point directly above the focus on the surface is called the epicenter. Earthquakes by themselves rarely kill people or wildlife. It is usually the secondary events (28) _______ they trigger, such as building collapse, fires, tsunamis (seismic sea waves) and volcanoes, that are actually the human disaster. Many of these could possibly be avoided by better construction, safety systems, early warning and (29) _______ planning.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. 

The press puts ________ on the police forces who were unable to cope with the crowd of savage hooligans.