Read the following passage and mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word that best completes each of the numbered blanks from 45 to 47.
Clothes can tell a lot about person. Some people like very colorful clothes (45) _____ they want everyone to look at them and they want to be the center of attention. Other people like to wear nice clothes, but their clothes are not (46) _____ or fancy. They do not want people to look at them. Clothes today are very different from the clothes of the 19th century. One difference is the way they look. For example, in the 19th century, all women wore blouses with long skirts. But today, women do not always wear blouses with long skirts. Sometimes they wear short skirts. Sometimes they wear pants. Another difference between the 19th century and today is the (47) _____. In the 19th century, clothes were made only from natural kinds of cloth. They were made from cotton, wool, silk. But today, there are many kinds of man-made cloth. A lot of clothes are now made from nylon, rayon or polyester.
(46)________
A.colorful
B.coloring
C.colorfully
D.color

Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group.

A.walks
B.pens
C.nuts
D.lamps

Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group.

A.natural
B.manage
C.prepare
D.damage

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
The judge dismissed the case ____ there was not enough evidence.
A.so
B.so that
C.when
D.because

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
_____ up at the airport? – John did.
A.Whom picked you
B.Whose did you pick
C.Who picked you
D.Who did you pick

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
Let’s go somewhere for lunch, ____?
A.do you
B.shall we
C.mustn’t you
D.won’t us

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
It was the speaker, not his idea, that ____ the students to riot.
A.has provoked
B.provoke
C.are provoking
D.were provoking

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
I am going to the ____ to buy some medicine.
A.chemists’s
B.chemists
C.chemist
D.chemist’s

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
We were unable to carry out the experiment _____.
A.on account of malfunction in the computer
B.being a malfunction in the computer
C.as the computer malfunction
D.there was a computer malfunction

Mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase to complete each of the sentences.
We usually watch the news on TV because it is very _____.
A.inform
B.informal
C.informative
D.information