Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Never have people been so well informed as they are now, thanks to TV news programs.    
A.Thanks to TV news programs, people are now too well informed.
B.People have been so informative thanks to TV news programs.
C.TV news programs are very informative than before and people are better informed.
D.People are better informed than they have been, thanks to TV news programs.

She was happy, ________________ nobody sent her birthday cards.
A.so
B.but
C.although
D.because

 
I can’t remember when I last saw him, but it’s certainly a long time ago.
 
A.I’d like to forget how many years have passed since I last saw him.
B.We’ve only met once and that was too long ago for me to remember him.
C.I shall never forget meeting him even though it’s a long time ago.
D.I only know it is ages since I saw him and I can’t remember when it was.

The driver wanted to buy some cigarettes. So he stopped..................
A.buying some cigarettes
B.to have bought some cigarettes
C.to buy some cigarettes
D.having bought some cigarettes

(28) 
A.which                     
B.where                      
C.who                                    
D.what

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
No one knew precisely what would happen to human being in space.
A.casually
B.flexiblely
C.wrongly
D.exactly

______(37)
A.amount
B.penalty
C.toll
D.number

Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences.
Why don’t you attend our specialist business seminar and learn how to make a.............. in business?
A.catalogue     
B.fortune    
C.bargain  
D.debt

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 28 to 35.
'A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right.' These are the words of Mollie Hunter, a well known author of books for youngsters. Born and bred near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market. In Mollie's opinion it is essential to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing: 'If you aren't telling a story,you're a very dead writer indeed,' she says.
With the chief function of a writer being to entertain, Molly is indeed an entertainer. 'I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language,' she says. This love goes back to early childhood. 'I've told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said "Nonsense Mollie dear, you'll be a writer." So eventually I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher - and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer.
This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical and gives a picture both of Mollie's ambition and her struggle towards its achievement.
Thoughts of her childhood inevitably brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields - sadly now covered with modern houses. 'I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood. I'll never go back,' she said. 'Never.' 'When I set one of my books in Scotland,' she said, 'I can recapture my romantic feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at work. And that's important, because children now know so much so early that romance can't exist for them, as it did for us.'
To this day, Mollie has a lively affection for children, which is reflected in the love she has for her writing. 'When we have visitors with children the adults always say, "If you go to visit Mollie, she'll spend more time with the children." They don't realise that children are much more interesting company. I've heard all the adults have to say before. The children have something new.'
What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?
A.It should not aim at a narrow audience. 
B.It should be attractive to young readers. 
C.It should be based on original ideas. 
D.It should not include too much conversation.

Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.The Telephone: A Technological
B.The Developing Sophistication of the Telephone 
C.The Patent History of the Telephone
D.A Link between Research and Technology