7 Some researchers concluded that maturation rather than rhythmic training significantly affects 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade children’s ability to _____ their body movements with rhythmic stimuli.
(A) deviate
(B) diverge
(C) synchronize
(D) swerve

3 Some college students seemed to have become ______ creatures staying up to chat, to play online games, or to surf the Internet. (A) cynical (B) diurnal (C) filial (D) nocturnal

4 When something goes wrong, people sometimes try to make an innocent person a ______ so that they can blame that person for what happened. (A) braggart (B) libelant (C) renegade (D) scapegoat

5 To write a good cover letter for job application, one should avoid a ______ opening and try something a bit more original. (A) cognitive (B) forlorn (C) mundane (D) pertinent

6 Bill Clinton was _____ by the Democratic Party in 1990 and won the US presidential election in 1992. (A) demonstrated (B) estimated (C) manifested (D) nominated

8 In this down economy, it's time to work on your quality networking, especially when your network is nothing more than a gaggle of Facebook friends. (A) To help you better cope with this recession, you should start to meet people outside your current social circle, especially people in your professional circle. (B) To better face this recession, you should start to enhance the quality of your network, especially when you are poorly connected in your professional circle. (C) To survive this recession, nothing is more important than working on your quality professional networking since your Facebook friends will be of much help. (D) To do something about this recession, nothing is more urgent than making more friends through the online network apart from those Facebook friends of yours.

9 Diseases that have high profiles and vocal activists such as AIDS attract far more interest and money from big donors based partly on the mistaken belief that they kill most children. (A)Because of people’s mistaken belief, severe diseases such as AIDS are killing a great deal of people, including children as well as adults. (B) People are more likely to donate money for the diseases that attract most attention because they mistakenly believe that most children die from those diseases. (C) The high-profile activists and donors are giving a big sum of money to those diseases that kill most children now because they believe that they were misled in the past. (D) The disease AIDS was believed to be the main killer for most children, but now it is believed that children are in fact suffering from other more common diseases. 10

Which of the following is the best title for the passage? (A) Positive and Negative Emotions in Infants (B) Stimulating the Development of Infant Emotions (C) Brain Maturation and Emotional Growth in Infants (D) Measuring Infant Intelligence and Brain Development

11 In the second paragraph, which of the following generalizations about infants’ emotional behavior does the analogy of a clock refer to? (A) It emerges rapidly. (B) It has a complex pattern. (C) It develops with predictable regularity. (D) It may change from one minute to the next.

12 According to the passage, which of the following statements is true about ten-month-old infants? (A) Their brain activity is greater when they are happy. (B) Their behavior is affected only by positive emotions. (C) Their emotional range is wider than that of newborns. (D) Their various emotional responses are difficult to discriminate.

13 Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as an emotion displayed by a newborn? (A) Interest (B) Surprise (C) Fear (D) Despair