Read the following announcement and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 6.

Question 1: A. judged        B. judgment        C. judicial        D. judging

Question 2: A. awareness situational high-pressure        B. high-pressure situational awareness

C.  high-situational pressure awareness        D. situational-pressure high awareness

Question 3: A. with        B. to        C. of        D. for

Question 4: A. giving in        B. to give in        C. give in        D. gave in

Question 5: A. where        B. by which        C. which        D. whose

Question 6: A. draw        B. form        C. make        D. seek

Read the following leaflet and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 7 to 12.

Question 7: A. number        B. range        C. level        D. deal

Question 8: A. Unlike        B. During        C. Beyond        D. Amid

Question 9: A. each other        B. another one        C. both others        D. all the others

Question 10: A. privacy        B. cohesion        C. separation        D. boundary

Question 11: A. scroll through        B. look through        C. come across        D. flick through

Question 12: A. personal        B. domestic        C. private        D. societal

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best arrangement of utterances or sentences to make a cohesive and coherent exchange or text in each of the following questions from 13 to 17.

Question 13:

A.  Mia: Exactly, and those habits also make them more confident when they start living or studying away from home.

B.  Mia: My brother can cook simple meals and plan his bus route, so he rarely panics when our parents work late.

C.  Ethan: That makes sense. Teenagers who practise small life skills usually solve daily problems with less stress.

A.  a – b – c        B. b – c – a        C. c – a – b        D. b – a – c

Question 14:

A.  Ben: Both, actually. I stay up to finish homework, and my phone keeps buzzing with group messages.

B.  Ben: I know. Even when I sit down to study, I start worrying about marks before I open the book.

C.  Lily: You have looked exhausted lately. Is it the exam schedule, or are you sleeping badly again?

D.  Lily: Try putting the chat on mute for an hour and writing one short task list first.

e. Lily: That would wear anyone out. Too many deadlines and no quiet time can make school feel heavier than it is.

A.  c – e – a – b – d        B. a – c – e – d – b        C. c – a – b – e – d        D. c – a – e – b – d

Question 15:

Dear Applicants,

Thank you for your message. We hope your week is going well.

A.  Experiences like these often help students become more confident, responsible, and better at working with others in different situations.

B.  The greatest benefit is not the certificate itself but the opportunity to develop useful skills through real community work.

C.  If you would like to join next term, the sign-up form will open on Monday, and each new member can start with one project.

D.  Last month, several of you asked what students could gain from joining our weekend community team.

e. For example, during our park clean-up, volunteers learned how to cooperate, solve unexpected problems, and see the positive results of their efforts.

Best regards,

Community Office

A.  d – e – b – a – c        B. c – d – e – a – b        C. d – b – e – a – c        D. c – d – b – e – a

Question 16:

A.  The problem is that these meals often contain too much salt, sugar, and fat while offering very little fibre or fresh nutrients.

B.  This pattern can affect concentration, encourage unhealthy weight gain, and slowly turn convenience into a daily habit that is hard to break.

C.  Many students grab fast food after class because it is cheap, quick, and easy to eat on the way home.

D.  Fast food is not dangerous because of one burger or one box of fries; it becomes harmful when speed and taste replace balanced eating too often.

e. After eating them often, some teenagers feel full for a short time but become tired or hungry again surprisingly soon.

A.  c – a – e – b – d        B. a – c – e – d – b        C. c – e – a – d – b        D. a – e – c – b – d

Question 17:

A.  Schools become fairer when tasks, subjects, and opportunities are offered by interest and ability rather than by old assumptions about what each gender should prefer.

B.  Gender equality is sometimes discussed as if it were only an adult issue, yet teenagers already see its effects in classrooms, clubs, and family expectations.

C.  Examples like that do more than surprise people; they show that equal treatment helps talent appear more clearly, which benefits individuals and the whole community.

D.  In one media project at our school, for instance, the strongest video editor was a boy who first joined only to write, while the most confident team leader was a girl from the robotics club.

e. When boys are pushed away from caring roles or girls are quietly discouraged from science and leadership, both groups lose chances to discover what they can do well.

A.  b – e – a – d – c        B. a – b – d – e – c        C. b – a – e – c – d        D. e – b – a – d – c

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22.

Question 18:

A.  regard them as experimental novelties, which many brands continue to

B.  which many brands have come to regard as experimental novelties

C.  have come to regard them not simply as experimental novelties

D.  are beginning to regard them not simply as experimental novelties

Question 19:

A.  all of them can shape a single online identity from different professional roles

B.  each of that can shape one online identity by means of different roles

C.  of which can be shaped as a single online identity from professional roles

D.  all of whom can shape a single online identity from different professional roles

Question 20:

A.  why some researchers argue that transparency should matter as much as creativity

B.  some researchers argue that transparency should matter equally with creativity

C.  that transparency is what some researchers argue should matter as much as creativity

D.  for some researchers to argue transparency should matter equally as creativity

Question 21:

A.  how efficiently they can reproduce patterns of audience attention

B.  whether normalising them may subtly reshape what audiences expect from real people

C.  why audiences have expected real people to be reshaped by them subtly

D.  what audience expectations are reproduced efficiently by their subtle normalisation

Question 22:

A.  although the commercial value of virtual personalities has already become impossible to deny

B.  making it harder for companies to deny the impossible value of virtual personalities

C.  while virtual personalities are denied commercial value less impossibly by companies

D.  because impossible commercial value has already been denied by virtual personalities

Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions from 23 to 30.

Question 23: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as a sign of resenteeism?

A.  visible complaints        B. reduced effort        C. sudden resignation        D. sarcastic behaviour

Question 24: The word "exacerbate" in paragraph 3 is OPPOSITE in meaning to __________.

A.  explain        B. soothe        C. contain        D. predict

Question 25: The word "inert" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to __________.

A.  passive        B. troubled        C. delayed        D. divided

Question 26: The word "it" in paragraph 1 refers to __________.

A.  resenteeism        B. description        C. a role        D. unsatisfied job

Question 27: Which of the following best paraphrases the underlined sentence in paragraph 1?

A.  Rather than being driven by a continued faith in their current roles, many dissatisfied workers stay put due to the perceived risks of departure.

B.  It is not so much the lack of confidence in their current positions as the financial stability that prevents unhappy employees from resigning.

C.  Only when the uncertainty of leaving is removed do employees begin to lose their belief in the jobs they are currently unhappy with.

D.  Unless leaving a job feels completely certain, unhappy employees will continue to harbor a strong belief in the organisation’s future.

Question 28: According to the passage, why is it challenging for managers to identify resenteeism in its early stages?

A.  Affected employees often decide to resign without any prior warning.

B.  The employees’ complaints are usually too direct and easy to ignore.

C.  Employees still fulfill their duties and meet the expected standards.

D.  Managers tend to focus only on the social atmosphere rather than output.

Question 29: In which paragraph does the author distinguish the emotional intensity of resenteeism from other similar workplace behaviors?

A.  Paragraph 1        B. Paragraph 2        C. Paragraph 3        D. Paragraph 4

Question 30: In which paragraph does the author discuss the collective consequences of an individual’s negative attitude on the wider team environment?

A.  Paragraph 1        B. Paragraph 2        C. Paragraph 3        D. Paragraph 4

Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions from 31 to 40.

Question 31: Where in the passage does the following sentence best fit?

More deeply, it was a theory of personhood.

A.  [I]        B. [II]        C. [III]        D. [IV]

Question 32: The expression “packed to the edge of collapse” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to __________.

A.  stretched to a dangerous limit        B. filled almost beyond endurance

C.  arranged with extreme precision        D. driven by constant uncertainty

Question 33: The word “that distortion” in paragraph 1 refers to __________.

A.  the belief that ambition needed careful branding

B.  the habit of treating overwork as quiet self-erosion

C.  the idea that hustle culture relied on moral pressure

D.  the view that exhaustion signalled a meaningful life

Question 34: Which of the following is NOT mentioned as part of the logic of hustle culture?

A.  Rest should be earned through visible sacrifice.

B.  Human worth must be shown again and again.

C.  Personal limits are managed like private embarrassment.

D.  Life is judged by efficiency, visibility, and optimisation.

Question 35: Which of the following best summarises paragraph 3?

A.  Rejecting hustle culture mainly reflects a growing desire for softer routines, greater comfort, and more lifestyle freedom than ambitious workplaces usually permit.

B.  The backlash matters because modern workers increasingly prefer boundaries and ease, even if such priorities sometimes weaken seriousness and productive discipline.

C.  Rejecting hustle culture means resisting a value system that reduces people to output and teaches them to mistake exhaustion for moral worth.

D.  The reaction against hustle culture has grown because recent commentary has persuaded more people to exchange ambition for passivity under gentler language.

Question 36: The word “prize” in paragraph 3 is OPPOSITE in meaning to __________.

A.  define        B. pursue        C. overlook        D. measure

Question 37: Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A.  Hustle culture is criticised mainly because it confuses labour with income and makes career advancement harder to measure fairly.

B.  The rejection of hustle culture centres on reducing effort, since the old ideal demanded a level of discipline that few people could sustain.

C.  Hustle culture survives by presenting exhaustion openly as harm, yet people continue following it because it promises comfort and emotional ease.

D.  Rejecting hustle culture involves more than changing routines, because it also challenges a deeper way of judging value and personhood.

Question 38: Which of the following best paraphrases the underlined sentence in paragraph 4?

A.  A society becomes mature only when people work less and understand that living without rest is a sign of a very committed person.

B.  Not until people simplify their work can they see that damage is a virtue and that moral failure is actually caused by taking too much rest.

C.  Societies truly grow up when they stop seeing overwork as a good thing and realize that being committed does not mean giving up rest.

D.  Although people are deeply committed, a society is only mature when it stops working and recognizes that rest is a form of moral failure.

Question 39: Which of the following can most likely be inferred from the passage?

A.  If workplaces praised rest more openly, hustle culture would probably disappear without requiring broader changes in how worth is understood.

B.  Since discipline still matters, the strongest response to hustle culture is to preserve ambition while simply reducing the number of working hours.

C.  The rejection of hustle culture is likely to remain incomplete unless people also question the standards by which effort, worth, and seriousness are judged.

D.  Because hustle culture depends on public display, it affects mainly professionals whose work is visible enough to be measured and branded.

Question 40: Which of the following best summarises the passage?

A.  Hustle culture is being rejected not simply because it is tiring, but because it turns exhaustion into a moral signal, reshapes self-worth around performance, and confuses damage with virtue.

B.  Hustle culture once helped people appear disciplined and ambitious, but it is now fading because modern workers increasingly prefer calmer schedules and less demanding professional identities.

C.  The decline of hustle culture shows that productivity has lost cultural prestige, as more people now value comfort, private limits, and slower routines over visible achievement.

D.  Although hustle culture can be harmful when taken too far, discipline and ambition still remain useful, so the real solution is to balance intense effort with better recovery.