Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Apart from those three very cold weeks in January, it has been a very ______ winner.
A.plain
B.pale
C.mild
D.calm

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closet in meaning to each of the following questions.
“What have you done to your hair?” she said to her son.
A.She asked her son what to do to his hair.
B.She wanted her son to know what he had done to his hair.
C.She wanted to know what did her son do to his hair.
D.She asked her son what he had done to his hair.

We can’t go camping today. The weather is______
A.line
B.warm
C.snowy
D.sunny

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Marie didn’t turn up at John’s birthday party. I feel so sorry for that.
A.If only Marie turn up at John’s birthday party.
B.I wish Marie had turned up at John’s birthday party.
C.I wished Marie wouldn’t turn up at John’s birthday party.
D.It’s a shame Marie had turned up at John’s birthday party.

The purpose of the examination was to _____ the students’ knowledge of the subject.
A.try
B.inspect
C.prove
D.test

Read the passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks from 33 to 37.
ROSES
According to fossil fuel records, roses are over 35 million years old and they were cultivated in China about 5,000 years ago. A Chinese emperor in the 6th century B.C. apparently had over 600 books on roses in his library, and oil was extracted from those grown in his gardens. (33) _______, only the highest members of society were allowed to use it. If anyone else was found with even a small amount, they were (34) ________ to death. Roses were also popular with the Romans, who used their petals as medicine, a source of perfume and as confetti at weddings.
Cultivated rose were only introduced to Western Europe in the 18th century. Napoleon’s wife, Josephine, started a botanical garden near Paris, (35) ______ she collected all the known varieties of rose and encouraged the breeding of new ones. This led to the flowers becoming increasingly popular, and in Britain at that time roses became so (36) ______ that they were often used as currency in local markets.
All roses in Europe used to be pink or white until the first red ones arrived from China 200 years ago. These now (37) _______ love and are the world’s most common cut flower.
(Source: Face2face- Upper Intermediate – Student’s Book, by Chris Redston & Gillie Cunningham)
(33)
A.Furthermore
B.However
C.As a result
D.Otherwise

Read the passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks from 33 to 37.
ROSES
According to fossil fuel records, roses are over 35 million years old and they were cultivated in China about 5,000 years ago. A Chinese emperor in the 6th century B.C. apparently had over 600 books on roses in his library, and oil was extracted from those grown in his gardens. (33) _______, only the highest members of society were allowed to use it. If anyone else was found with even a small amount, they were (34) ________ to death. Roses were also popular with the Romans, who used their petals as medicine, a source of perfume and as confetti at weddings.
Cultivated rose were only introduced to Western Europe in the 18th century. Napoleon’s wife, Josephine, started a botanical garden near Paris, (35) ______ she collected all the known varieties of rose and encouraged the breeding of new ones. This led to the flowers becoming increasingly popular, and in Britain at that time roses became so (36) ______ that they were often used as currency in local markets.
All roses in Europe used to be pink or white until the first red ones arrived from China 200 years ago. These now (37) _______ love and are the world’s most common cut flower.
(Source: Face2face- Upper Intermediate – Student’s Book, by Chris Redston & Gillie Cunningham)
(37)
A.symbolise
B.symbolically
C.symbolic
D.symbol

This is her first visit to England.
A.She has visited England for the first time.
B.She is visiting England for the first time.
C.She will visit England for the first time.
D.She is visiting England in the first time.

Have you had your house repainted recently, Mrs. Nga?
A.Was your house repainted recently, Mrs. Nga?
B.Has your house been repainted recently, Mrs. Nga?
C.Have your house been repainted recently, Mrs. Nga?
D.Has your house repainted recently, Mrs. Nga?

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

A.pressure
B.future
C.enthusiasm
D.resume