The essay is too short. It can’t be given a high grade.  
A.It is too short an essay to earn a high grade.
B.The essay needs to be shorter to receive a high grade.
C.Even if it were longer, the essay wouldn’t get a high grade.
D.The essay is so short that it can be given a high grade.

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase. 
Nellie Ross of Wyoming was the first woman ______ governor in theUnited States.
A.who elected            
B.to be elected            
C.was elected         
D.her election as

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
In my experience, freshmen today are different from those I knew when I started as a counsellor and professor 25 years ago. College has always been demanding both academically and socially. But students now are less mature and often not ready for the responsibility of being in college.
It is really too easy to point the finger at parents who protect their children from life’s obstacle. Parents, who handle every difficulty and every other responsibility for their children writing admission essays to picking college courses, certainly may contribute to their children’s lack of coping strategies. But we can look even more broadly to the social trends of today.
 How many people do you know who are on medication to prevent anxiety or depression? The number of students who arrive at college already medicated for unwanted emotions has increased dramatically in the past 10 years. We, as a society, don’t want to “feel” anything unpleasant and we certainly don’t want our children to “suffer”.
 The resulting problem is that by not experiencing negative emotions, one does not learn the necessary skills to tolerate and negotiate adversity. As a psychologist, I am well aware of the fact that some individuals suffer from depression and anxiety and can benefit from treatment, but I question the growing number of medicated adolescents today.
 Our world is more stressful in general because of the current economic and political realities, but I don’t believe that the college experience itself is more intense today than that of the past 10 years. What I do think is that many students are often not prepared to be young “adults” with all the responsibilities of life.
 What does this mean for college faculty and staff? We are required to assist in the basic parenting of these students – the student who complains that the professor didn’t remind her of the due date for an assignment that was clearly listed on the syllabus and the student who cheats on an assignment in spite of careful instructions about plagiarism.
 As college professors, we have to explain what it means to be an independent college student before we can even begin to teach. As parents and teachers we should expect young people to meet challenges. To encourage them in this direction, we have to step back and let them fail and pick themselves up and move forward. This approach needs to begin at an early age so that college can actually be a passage to independent adulthood.
According to the writer, failure in life and less support from parents will ______.
A.help students to learn to stand on their own feet
B.allow students to learn the first lesson in their lives
C.defeat students from the very beginning
D.discourage students and let them down forever

(29) _______
A.take                
B.show                  
C.in   
D.during

 That little joke really got me into deep water. 
A.That little joke really caused a lot of trouble for me. 
B.That little joke really brought me a lot of pleasure. 
C.That little joke really made me fall into the water. 
D.That little joke really made me enjoy being in the water.

The word “they” in line 6 refers to_______ .
A.Interviewers  
B. judgments   
C.applicants
D.characteristics

 Are you_____ the party tonight?
A.going to
B.coming to
C.watching
D.inviting

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Were _________ millions of dollars each year replenishing eroding beaches, the coastline would be changing even more rapidly.
A.the U.S Army Corps of Engineers not spending
B.the U.S Army Corps of Engineers not spend
C.the U.S Army Corps of Engineers does not spend
D.not spending the U.S Army Corps of Engineers

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.

A.rhinoceros  
B.concentrate         
C.comfortable
D.literature

Read the following passage and choose the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the questions.
Tourism is a big business. Millions of people around Europe spend their winters planning their destinations for the following summer, and their summers (33) ____ to foreign climes for two weeks in the sun. They are the modern-day descendants of the aristocrats and the wealthy who would take months to complete the “Grand Tour” of Europe. But unlike their forefathers, tourists these days get a bad press. They're not (34) ____ in the local culture, we're told they're just after the chance to behave a bit more wildly than they do at home. What's more, they damage the local environment and don't respect the locals and their way  of life.
But are tourists really to blame ? (35)__________ is it the fault  of the tourist industry, which has failed to provide reasonably-priced alternatives? And if the local resort only offers a succession of bars for the tourists to visit, can we really criticise them for not doing more cultural activities?
One holiday company, Far and Away, claims that tourists are crying out for more cultural holidays and believes that it has (36) ____ to come up with a range of package holidays which are affordable, culturally interesting, and environmentally friendly. Their brochure, which is to be (37) ____ later this month, offers 200 holidays based on cultural themes, including history and architecture, learning the language, meeting the locals.
(33)
A.taking away  
B.moving away   
C.taking off         
D.jetting off