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 34.
Most weddings in Japan start with a religious ceremony in which usually only family members attend. Afterwards, a banquet is customarily held to which many people, including friends and colleagues, are invited. To celebrate the happy occasion, guests give the bride and groom goshuugi - gift money in special envelopes. Goshuugi from friends is usually 20,000 yen or 30,000 yen.
A typical Japanese wedding party starts when the bride and groom enter the banquet hall together, and take their seats on a slightly raised platform facing their guests. Invited guests are seated closer to the bride and groom, with family and relatives seated further in back. The bride's and groom's bosses usually give congratulatory speeches then their friends sing in celebration. Other wedding highlights include a candle ceremony where the couple holds a candle while greeting their guests at each table, and the cutting of the wedding cake. Afterwards, the bride and groom thank their parents with a speech, then leave to end the party.
In the past, dishes that supposedly brought good fortune, such as prawns and sea breams, were served in abundance. So much of the food was ordered that guests ended up taking the surplus home. Today, the majority of the weddings serve just enough for everyone. Additionally, before leaving, guests would traditionally receive souvenir gifts called hikidemono.
Many wedding ceremonies take place at wedding halls or hotels. Rough estimates show that it costs about 3 million yen to host a wedding party for 80 guests. During Japan's economic bubble, overseas weddings and flamboyant receptions with special effects, such as smoke machines and having the bride and groom fly in on gondolas, were very popular. But these days, couples choose to tie the knot in various ways, from not having any ceremony to having a modest affair, or still going all out.
(Source: http://www.hiraganatimes.com)
The phrase "tie the knot" in paragraph 4 could be best replaced by                                       .  
A.get married
B.loosen the tie
C.fasten the rope
D.get engaged

Retirement , during_____people have plenty of free time , should be a time of enjoyment and relaxation
A.whose
B.which
C.that 
D.when

I don't feel good. I..........home from work tomorrow.
A.am staying        
B.stay  
C.will have stayed
D.stayed

Mark the letter A,B,C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is closest in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
The drought was finally over as the fall brought in some welcome rain. 
A.heatware 
B.harvest
C.summer
D. aridity

Read the following passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks.
EXAM ADVICE
In Part Three of the Speaking Section you work together with a partner. You have to do a (43)______ task which usually lasts about 3 minutes. One possible task is “problem solving”, which means you have to look at some (44)______information and then discuss the problem with your partner. You may be shown photos, drawings, diagrams, maps, plans, advertisements or computer graphics and it is (45) ______ that you study them carefully. If necessary, check you know exactly what to do by politely asking the examiner to repeat the instruction or make them clearer.
While you are doing the task, the examiner will probably say very little and you should ask your partner questions and make (46) ______ if he or she is not saying much. If either of you have any real difficulties, the examiner may decide to step in and help. Normally, however, you will find plenty to say, which helps the assessor to give you a fair mark. This mark depends on your success in doing the task by competing with your partner, which includes taking (47) ______ in giving opinions and replying appropriately, although in the end it may be possible to “agree to disagree”.
(46) 
A.speeches               
B.statements               
C.ideas
D.suggestions

________(28)
A.programs
B.reasons
C.games
D.computers

__________ (6)
A.whose   
B. whom 
C.that   
D. who

Mother: "Gloria, I'd rather you ___________home so late."
A.hadn't come back  
B.haven't come back  
C.don't come back
D. didn't come back

Choose the word or phrase that best fits each space in the following passage.
            Currently most reading is of the printed word from ink on paper: a book, magazine, newspaper, leaflet, or notebook. More recently, with the progress of information technology, a book can be made in the form of e-book, which is very convenient for us to read whenever we like.
            An e-book, also known as a digital book, is an e-text (36) _______ forms the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed (37) _______, sometimes restricted with a digital rights management system. An e-book, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary of English, is “an (38) ________ version of a printed book which can be read on a personal computer or hand-held device designed specifically for this purpose”. E-books are usually read on dedicated (39) _______devices known as e-Readers or e-book devices. Personal computers and some cell phones can also be used (40) ______ e-books.
(38)
A.electrician        
B.electronic
C.electron           
D.electric

VI. 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.
People have been hunting whales for at least a thousand years, and there were no real problems until 20th century. What happened was that fishing technology became much more efficient and the ships were much faster, so more and more whales were caught. In the 1960s the main whaling countries were killing more than sixty thousand whales a year, and everyone began to realize that something had to be done.
It was environmental groups like Greenpeace that really made things change. They set out to make people aware of the fact that whales were fast becoming extinct. But even now we don’t know if all this interest has become too late. Let’s take the great blue whale for example, which at thirty to forty metres long is the biggest animal there has ever been – now there are perhaps about two thousand or so left. In fact they have been protected for quite a long time, but there is no sign that the population is growing.
What makes people aware of the fact that whales were fast becoming extinct?
A.Greenpeace  
B.Environmental groups
C.Main whaling countries
D.International agreement