Question 1

A. assistant

B. holiday

C. colony

D. possible

Question 2

A. faithfully

B. sincerely

C. completely

D. extremely

Question 3

A. recognize

B. contaminate

C. orphanage

D. infrastructure

Question 4

A. survival

B. wilderness

C. dependent

D. intention

Question 5

A. composer

B. artistic

C. funeral

D. musician

Question 6:

A. merchant

B. sergeant

C. commercial

D. term

Question 7:

A. colonel

B. journal

C. touring

D. adjourn

Question 8:

A. examine

B. famine

C. determine

D. miner

Question 9:

A. descend

B. decent

C. delicious

D. percentage

Question 10:

A. knowledge

B. flower

C. shower

D. coward

Question 11: My clothes are not in the room. They _________ them away.

A. took

B. have taken

C. had taken

D. will take

Question 12: The bicycle he lent me badly needed ______ .

A. to clean

B. clean

C. to be cleaning

D. cleaning

Question 13: If you had done as I told you, I think you _________ .

A. would succeed

B. would have succeeded

C. could succeed

D. had succeeded

Question 14: What would happen if our environment __________ ?

A. polluted

B. were polluted

C. is being polluted

D. is polluted

Question 15: Anyone _____ must apply before next Friday.

A. who are interested in the job

B. who is interested in the job

C. who are interesting in the job

D. whose job is interested

Question 16: Do you know a restaurant _________ ?

A. that we have a good meal

B. which we have a good meal

C. where we can have a good meal

D. what we can have a good meal

Question 17: I remembered __________ a letter a few days before going on holiday.

A. to receive

B. to have received

C. received

D. receiving

Question 18: My father _______ to the Golf Club for the past 25 years.

A. was belonging

B. has belonged

C. has been belonged

D. has belonging

Question 19: The girls and flowers __________ he painted were vivid.

A. who

B. which

C. whose

D. that

Question 20: All night long people dance and sing. They do it _______ .

A. during the whole night

B. in all the night

C. the night long

D. in the night

Question 21: After he ______ work, he went straight home.

A. had finished

B. had been finishing

C. has finished

D. would finish

Question 22: Thank you for reminding me _______ the tickets. I almost forgot it.

A. to bring

B. bringing

C. to bringing

D. of bringing

Question 23: "I can’t see the stage very well from here." “________.”

A. Neither can’t I

B. Neither I can

C. I can’t neither

D. Neither can I

Question 24: The only person ______ the crime was killed in an accident this morning.

A. to witness

B. witnessed

C. witness

D. witnessing

Question 25: He’d prefer ______ chicken soup rather than ______ milk.

A. having / having

B. to have / drink

C. have / drink

D. had / drank

Question 26: It sounds incredible; It's true _____.

A. yet

B. though

C. although

D. because

Question 27: He just can't _____ without cigarettes.

A. make

B. do

C. pass

D. go

Question 28: A : "A motorbike knocked Ted down." B : "______. "

A. What is it now?

B. What a motorbike!

C. How terrific!

D. Poor Ted!

Question 29: The workers voted in favour of a (n) ___________ strike.

A. interminable

B. endless

C. ceaseless

D. indefinite

Question 30: Not until _____ home _______ that he had taken someone else's bike.

A. did he get/ he realised

B. he got/ did he realise

C. he got/ he realised

D. he got/ he did realised

Question 31: One condition of this job is that you must be _____ to work at weekends.

A. acceptable

B. available

C. accessible

D. capable

Question 32: Ken ______ his doctor's advice and continued to overwork.

A. disregarded

B. disassociated

C. disowned

D. disappointed

Question 33: We don't allow ____________ in the classroom.

A. people smoke

B. smoke

C. people to smoke

D. to smoking

Question 34: It is vital that we _______ a change in people's attitude.

A. bring down

B. bring back

C. bring about

D. bring away

Question 35: She resented ________ waiting for hours in front of the cinema.

A. to be kept

B. keeping

C. being kept

D. being keeping

Question 36: Small pox and diphtheria disappeared in Britain many years ago, _______ cancer, AIDS and heart disease are now predominant.

A. because

B. in the event that

C. in case

D. whereas

Question 37: We haven't seen ________ for ten years. I did wonder where you were.

A. one other

B. each other

C. together

D. the others

Question 38: I___________ three rooms of the house so far today; I'll do the other two this afternoon.

A. has been cleaning

B. cleaned

C. are cleaning

D. have cleaned

Question 39: Come and have a _________ at this insect. It is strange, isn't it?

A. go

B. difficulty

C. look

D. try

Question 40: Everybody should comply __________ this rule. There is no exception, I am afraid.

A. to

B. for

C. with

D. in

Question 41: If it hadn’t been for his carelessness, we would have finished the work.

A. He was careless because he hadn’t finished the work.

B. If he were careful, we would finish the work.

C. If he had been more careful, we would have completed the work.

D. Because he wasn’t careless, we didn’t finish the work.

Question 42: The hostess made every effort to see that her guests got the food and drinks they wanted.

A. The hostess was reluctant to offer her guests food and drinks.

B. The hostess tried hard to please her guests.

C. The guests refused the food and drinks prepared by the hostess.

D. Neither the guests nor the hostess had food or drinks.

Question 43: Most people get fewer colds in the summer than in the winter.

A. A person is more likely to get a cold in the winter than in the summer.

B. More people have summer colds than winter colds.

C. People get colder in the summer than in the winter.

D. The winter is much colder than the summer.

Question 44: He told her, “Your dress looks dirty. Why didn’t you wash it?”

A. He told her that her dress looked dirty and asked why she didn’t wash it.

B. He told her that her dress looks dirty and asked why she didn’t wash it.

C. He told her that her dress looked dirty and asked why she hadn’t wash it.

D. He told her that her dress looked dirty and asked why she hadn’t washed it.

Question 45: “Come in. I am very glad that you come,” he told them.

A. He told them to come in and said that he is very glad that you come.

B. He told them to come in and said that he was very glad that you come.

C. He told them to come in and said that he is very glad that they come.

D. He told them to come in and said that he was very glad that they came.

Question 46: In spite of (A) my father is old (B), he still goes (C) to work (D).

A

B

C

D

Question 47: The result (A) of that test must be (B) inform (C) before (D) August.

A

B

C

D

Question 48: The Charles Dickens’s character (A) Wilkins Micawber lived (B) in optimistic (C) expectation of a best fortune (D).

A

B

C

D

Question 49: Mrs. Steven, along with (A) her cousins (B) from New Mexico, are (C) planning to attend (D) the festivities.

A

B

C

D

Question 50: As soon as we’ve (A) finished supper (B), we’ll all (C) go to (D) downtown to see our friends.

A

B

C

D

   In the United States and Canada, it is very important to look a person in the eyes when you are having a conversation with him or her. If you look down or to the side when the other person is talking, that person will think that you are not interested in what he or she is saying. This of course, is not polite. If you look down or to the side when you are talking, you may appear hiding something, that is, it might seem that you are not honest. However, people who are speaking will sometimes look away for a few seconds when they are thinking of or trying to find the right word. But they always turn immediately back to look the listener in the eyes. These social rules are the same for two women, two men, a woman and a man or an adult and a child.

Question 51: When you are talking to an American or Canadian, you should ________.

A. look to the side

B. look down

C. avoid looking directly at him/ her

D. look directly at him/ her

Question 52: It is very _______ of you not to look in the eyes of the listener while talking.

A. polite

B. nice

C. honest

D. dishonest

Question 53: Looking down or to the side when the other person is talking means ________.

A. you feel bored with his/ her words

B. you respect of him/ her

C. you are paying attention to her/ him

D. you are afraid of him/ her

Question 54: People can look away for a few seconds while speaking ________.

A. to find the correct word

B. to hide something

C. to hide their feelings

D. to find something

Question 55: These social rules are used for ________.

A. a man and a woman

B. two women

C. two men

D. everybody

   Language, the way we express ourselves, is a vital part of learning. A baby learns his native tongue naturally by hearing speech around him. If the speech he hears is rapid, not clear and never directed at him then he learns slowly and speaks badly. A child of two or three who can’t make his desires known or put his thoughts into words will usually become angry. His relationships with other get worse. If the speech a baby hears around him is clear, and his family talk to him, he will gain a satisfactory command of language directly, by his mother, his language ability will be greater. By the time he is two, it is quite possible for him to have a vocabulary of two thousand words and by the time he is three he will be able to read. Once ahead he will stay ahead.

Question 56: How is language defined by the writer?

A. Language is the way we express ourselves

B. Language is what we learn

C. Language is what we say

D. Language is what we write

Question 57: How does a baby learn his mother tongue?

A. by listening to radio

B. by reading books

C. by hearing what is said around him

D. watching TV

Question 58: How does the child usually react when he can’t express himself?

A. He will get worse

B. He will get angry

C. He won’t talk

D. He will be better

Question 59: How should the mother talk to her baby?

A. clearly, directly

B. clearly, indirectly

C. rapidly, clearly

D. slowly, indirectly

Question 60: How many words does a baby at the age of two can acquire?

A. 20 words

B. 200 words

C. 2,000 words

D. 20, 000 words

       Originally commissioned years ago, the new British Library was supposed to open in 1990. However, the project has been (61)____ by political infighting, poor planning and financial problems. The most recent (62) ____came in June when inspectors discovered that 60 miles of new metal shelving had started to rust and needs to be (63) _____. That would (64) _____ the opening of the project’s first phase for another two years. “Things has gone from bad to worse.” Said Brian Lake, secretary of the Regular Readers, an association of writers and scholars who are not happy with plans for the new library. “It is a grand national project that has become a great national scandal.”

       It sounded like a splendid idea when the government unveiled its $164 million project in 1978. Sophisticated elctronic (65) _____ would help and keep the library’s irreplaceable stock at an optimal (66) ______ and humidity. A computer-controlled delivery system would provide books to readers within minutes of a (67) ______ rather than days. And to (68) ______ other needs of the reading public, the library would also include exhibition galleries, a restaurant and a conference hall.

      That was the plan, anyway the start of construction was delayed until 1982 by arguments about planning and by a (69) ______ of government. Four years later, members of cabinet ordered a progress report and discovered that the committee who were responsible for (70) ______ the project hadn’t met in four years.

Question 61:

A. delayed

B. bothered

C. infected

D. restricted

Question 62:

A. comeback

B. setback

C. drawback

D. cutback

Question 63:

A. substituted

B. replaced

C. abandoned

D. rejected

Question 64:

A. distract

B. destroyed

C. postpone

D. postdate

Question 65:

A. items

B. computers

C. equipment

D. tools

Question 66:

A. heat

B. temperature

C. cold

D. warmth

Question 67:

A. reservation

B. demand

C. wish

D. request

Question 68:

A. fit

B. serve

C. bring

D. obey

Question 69:

A. variation

B. difference

C. shift

D. change

Question 70:

A. guarding

B. supervising

C. overlooking

D. watching

       A number of factors related to the voice reveal the personality of the speaker.

       The first is the broad area of communication, which includes imparting information by use of language, communicating with a group or an individual and specialized communication through performance. A person conveys thoughts and ideas through choice of words, by a tone of voice that is pleasant or unpleasant, gentle or harsh, by the rhythm that is inherent within the language itself, and by speech rhythms that are flowing and regular or uneven and hesitant, and finally, by the pitch and melody of the utterance. When speaking before a group, a person's tone may indicate uncertainty or fright, confidence or calm. At interpersonal levels, the tone may reflect ideas and feelings over and above the words chosen, or may believe them. Here the participant’s tone can consciously or unconsciously reflect intuitive sympathy or antipathy, lack of concern or interest, fatigue, anxiety, enthusiasm or excitement, all of which are .usually discernible by the acute listener. Public performance is a manner of communication that is highly specialized with its own techniques for obtaining effects by voice and /or gesture. The motivation derived from the text, and in the case of singing, the music, in combination with the performer's skills, personality, and ability to create empathy will determine the success of artistic, political, or pedagogic communication.

       Second, the voice gives psychological clues to a person's self-image, perception of others, and emotional health. Self-image can be indicated by a tone of voice that is confident, pretentious, shy, aggressive, outgoing, or exuberant, to name only a few personality traits. Also the sound may give a clue to the facade or mask of that person, for example, a shy person hiding behind an overconfident front. How a speaker perceives the listener's receptiveness, interest, or sympathy in any given conversation can drastically alter the tone of presentation, by encouraging or discouraging the speaker. Emotional health is evidenced in the voice by free and melodic sounds of the happy, by constricted and harsh sound of the angry, and by dull and lethargic qualities of the depressed.

Question 71: What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The function of the voice in performance

B. Communication styles

C. The connection between voice and personality

D. The production of speech

Question 72: What does the author mean by staring that, "At interpersonal levels, tone may reflect ideas and feelings over and above the words chosen" in lines 6?

A. Feelings are expressed with different words than ideas are.

B. The tone of voice can carry information beyond the meaning of words.

C. A high tone of voice reflects an emotional communication.

D. Feelings are more difficult to express than ideas.

Question 73: The word "Here" in line 6 refers to _____________.

A. interpersonal interactions

B. the tone

C. ideas and feelings

D. words chosen

Question 74: The word "derived" in line 13 is closest in meaning to ____________.

A. discussed

B. prepared

C. registered

D. obtained

Question 75: Why does the author mention "artistic, political, or pedagogic communication" in line 10?

A. As examples of public performance

B. As examples of basic styles of communication

C. To contrast them to singing

D. To introduce the idea of self-image

Question 76: According to the passage, an exuberant tone of voice may be an indication of a person's _______.

A. general physical health

B. personality

C. ability to communicate

D. vocal quality

Question 77: According to the passage, an overconfident front may hide _______.

A. hostility

B. shyness

C. friendliness

D. strength

Question 78: The word "drastically" in line 14 is closest in meaning to ____________.

A. frequently

B. exactly

C. severely

D. easily

Question 79: The word "evidenced" in line 15 is closest in meaning to ________.

A. questioned

B. repeated

C. indicated

D. exaggerated

Question 80: According to the passage, what does a constricted and harsh voice indicate?

A. Lethargy

B. Depression

C. Boredom

D. Anger