Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
1. Question 1: ______, we couldn't have continued with the project.
2. Question 2: Alex did not do very well in class ______.
3. Question 3: The more you talk about the situation, ______.
4. Question 4: Those boys took a long ladder ______.
5. Question 5: She regretted to tell him that ______.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 6 to 10.
By adopting a few simple techniques, parents who read to their children can considerably increase their children's language development. It is surprising, but true. How parents talk to their children makes a big difference in the children's language development. If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading, the child's language skills increase.
A study was done with two or three-year-old children and their parents. Half of the thirty children participants were in the experimental study; the other half acted as the control group. In the experimental group, the parents were given a two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask open-ended questions rather than yes-no questions. For example, the parent should ask, "What is the doggy doing?" rather than, "Is the doggy running away?" Experimental parents were also instructed how to expand on their children's answer, how to suggest alternative possibilities, and how to praise correct answers.
At the beginning of the study, the children did not differ on levels of language development, but at the end of one month, the children in the experimental group were 5.5 months ahead of the control group on a test of verbal expression and vocabulary. Nine months later, the children in the experimental group still showed an advance of 6 months over the children in the control group.
6. Question 6: Parents can give great help to their children's language development by _____ them.
7. Question 7: What does the word "they" in the second paragraph refer to?
8. Question 8: During the training session, experimental parents were taught to _____.
9. Question 9: What was the major difference between the control group and the experimental one in the study?
10. Question 10: What conclusion can be drawn from this passage?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
11. Question 11: She brought a lot of money with her so that she needed buy some duty-free goods.
12. Question 12: I have been working hardly for two weeks and now I feel like a rest.
13. Question 13: Tom likes taking part sports, so he will join the football team of his school.
14. Question 14: Many young people lack skills, good education, and financial to settle in the urban areas where many jobs are found.
15. Question 15: We are going to visit our grandparents when we will finish our final exams.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
16. Question 16: They are not ______ to take part in this program of the World Health Organization.
17. Question 17: I'm going ______ for a few days so don’t send me any more work.
18. Question 18: A scientist who studies living things is a ______.
19. Question 19: The football match was postponed ______ the bad weather.
20. Question 20: Yesterday I met your brother, ______ had taken us to the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York before.
21. Question 21: ______ students attended the meeting that there weren't enough chairs for all of them.
22. Question 22: Peter doesn't like scuba-diving. ______ does his brother.
23. Question 23: Endangered species ______ by the World Wildlife Fund.
24. Question 24: Maria: "Thanks for the lovely evening."
Diana: "______."
25. Question 25: High school students should be ______ for their future jobs before leaving school.
26. Question 26: The government initiated the programme of ______ reform in the 1980s.
27. Question 27: Kim: "What ______ this weekend?"
Sally: "Oh, we're going windsurfing. It's fantastic!"
28. Question 28: She didn't want to go ______ she knew all her friends would be there.
29. Question 29: If I had the map now, I ______ a short-cut across the desert.
30. Question 30: Kevin: "How far is it from here to the nearest post office?"
Lan: "______."
31. Question 31: Pat: "Would you like something to eat?"
Kathy: "______. I'm not hungry now."
32. Question 32: I first met her two years ago when we ______ at Oxford University.
33. Question 33: David: "Could you bring me some water?"
Waiter: "______."
34. Question 34: The recycling of waste paper ______ save a great amount of wood pulp.
35. Question 35: If I were you, I would advise her ______ the new teaching method.
36. Question 36: He went back to work in his country after he ______ his course on Advanced Engineering in London.
37. Question 37: Ellen: "______?"
Tom: "He's tall and thin with blue eyes."
38. Question 38: Could you fill out this ______ form?
39. Question 39: My father decided to ______ smoking after he had been smoking for ten years.
40. Question 40: My father is very busy. ______, he is always willing to give a hand with the housework.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 46 to 50.
It can be shown in facts and figures that cycling is the cheapest, most convenient, and most environmentally desirable form of transport (46)______ towns, but such cold calculations do not mean much on a frosty winter morning. The real appeal of cycling is that it is so (47)______. It has none of the difficulties and tensions of other ways of travelling so you are more cheerful after a ride, even through the rush hour.
The first thing a non-cyclist says to you is: "But isn't it (48)______ dangerous?" It would be foolish to deny the danger of sharing the road with motor vehicles and it must be admitted that there are an alarming (49)______ of accidents involving cyclists. However, although police records (50)______ that the car driver is often to blame, the answer lies with the cyclist. It is possible to ride in such a way as to reduce risks to a minimum.
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