23. The spellings of many Old English words have been preserved in the living language, ____ thei r pronunciations have changed.
(A) and
(B) owing to
(C) not withstanding
(D) although

19. Since my professor ____ on the syntactic structures of conditional sentences, I have been able to use them in my daily life. (A) expounded (B) compounded (C) pounded (D) expended

20. ____, he i s now becoming more interested in American football . (A)He was once an avid soccer fan (B) He once an avid soccer fan (C) Once was he an avid soccer fan (D)Once an avid soccer fan

21 A short time before she died, the old woman ____ a will, leaving her entire estate to her beloved dog. (A) has written (B) had written (C) was writing (D) had been writing

22. The geographic position of North America, ____ in the early days of the European settlement. (A) laying between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, isolating it (B) lying between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, isolated it (C) isolated it as it laid between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans (D) isolating it between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans as it was lied

24.Weathering ____ the action whereby surface rock is disintegrated or decomposed. (A) is (B) being (C) it is (D) is that

25. When any two English words that differ in meaning but are identical in every way except for one sound segment at the same place in the string, they are referred to as ‘______.’ (A) allophonic pairs (B) identical pairs (C) lexical pairs (D) minimal pairs

26. When you try to add both –ing and ed suffixes to the verb ‘age’, which of the following statements is not true about their new derived forms and the rules involved? (A). You need to drop the final ‘e’ when adding ed suffix to the base. (B). The only correct new derived forms should be ‘aging’ and ‘aged’. (C). You can add –ing directly to the base without making any changes. (D). You can either optionally drop the final ‘e’ or not when adding ing to the base.

27. The following are three attitudinal variables: 1. Motivation. Learners with high motivation generally do better.  2. Selfconfidence. Learners with selfconfidence and a good selfimage tend to be more successful. 3. Anxiety. Low personal anxiety and low classroom anxiety are more conducive to second language acquisition.  What i s the proper hy pothesis in second l anguage acquisi t i on that best matches them? (A) The Monitor Hypothesis (B) The Natural Order Hypothesis (C) The Affective Filter Hypothesis (D) The Acquisition/Learning Hypothesis

28.Identify the teaching method or approach that best matches the following characteristics: 1. Language teaching begins with the spoken language. Material is taught orally before it is presented in written form. 2. The target language is the language of the classroom. 3. Vocabulary selection procedures are followed to ensure that an essential general service vocabulary is covered. 4. Items of grammar are graded following the principle that simple forms should be taught before complex ones. (A) The GrammarTranslation Method (B) Community Language Learning (C) Communicative Language Teaching (D) Situational Language Teaching

29. (A) affixation (B) assimilation (C) germination (D) elision