They think the owner of the house is abroad.
A.It is thought that the owner of the house to be abroad.   
B.The owner of the house is thought to be abroad.
C.The owner of the house is thought by them that he will be abroad  
D. It is thought to be abroad by the owner of the house.

VII. Read the passage then complete the sentences by marking the corresponding letter: A, B, C, or D. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
Scientists around the world have been studying the warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean known as EL Nino. The appearance of EL Nino is known to affect the weather around the world. Scientists still do not completely understand it. Yet they now find they can use it to tell about the future in different areas of the world.
One example is the work of two scientists at Columbia University in New York, Mark Cane and Gordon Eshel. A scientist of Zimbabwe, Roger Buckland worked with them. They have found that when EL Nino appears, Zimbabwe has little or no rain. This means corn crops in Zimbabwe are poor. The last EL Nino was in 1991 to 1993. That was when southeastern suffered a serious lack of rain.
The scientists wrote about their recent work in the publication "Nature". Their computer program can tell when an EL Nino will develop up to a year before it does. They suggest that this could provide an effective early warning system for southern Africa, and could prevent many people from starving.
Which of the following is TRUE according to the article?
A.Scientists understand thoroughly about EL Nino.
B.EL Nino affects the weather in some parts of the world.
C.Africa suffered a serious lack of rain from 1991 to 1993.
D.The scientists did not do anything about EL Nino.

 If we want to .......... up with them we'd better hurry.
A. come                    
B.arrive     
C.approach       
D.catch

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Jane would never forget ______ first prize in such a prestigious competition.
A.to be awarded
B.being awarded
C.to have awarded
D.having awarded

A.number
B.return 
C.summer
D.product

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The wet weather has ______ three weeks now; It has rained every single day
A.lasted
B.gone
C.run
D.existed

The “pounds” are probably _________.
A.school campuses    
B.types of books   
C.college student 
D.units of money

Peter has a bookcase with five shelves. 
A.Peter has a five — shelf bookcase.
B.Peter has five shelves of bookcase.
C.Peter has a five — shelves bookcase.
D.Peter has five — shelf bookcases.

If Tim had money, he ______ on holiday this year.
A.Went 
B.Will go 
C.would go
D.Was going to go

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 following questions.
According to anthropologists, people in pre-industrial societies spent 3 to 4 hours per day or about 20 hours per week doing the work necessary for life. Modern comparison of the amount of work performed per week, however, began with the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) when 10 to 12-hour workdays with six workdays per week were the norm. Even with extensive time devoted to work, however, both incomes and standards of living were low. As incomes rose near the end of the Industrial Revolution, it became increasingly common to treat Saturday afternoons as a half-day holiday. The half- day holiday had become standard practice in Britain by the 1870s, but did not become common in the United States until the 1920s.
 In the United States, the first third of the twentieth century saw the workweek move from 60 hours per week to just under 50 hours by the start of the 1930s. In 1914 Henry Ford reduced daily work hours at his automobile plants from 9 to 8. In 1926 he announced that henceforth his factories would close for the entire day on Saturday. At the time, Ford received criticism from other firms such as United States Steel and Westinghouse, but the idea was popular with workers.
 The Depression years of the 1930s brought with them the notion of job sharing to spread available work around; the workweek dropped to a modem low for the United States of 35 hours. In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act mandated a weekly maximum of 40 hours to begin in 1940, and since that time the 8-hour day, 5-day workweek has been the standard in the United States. Adjustments in various places, however, show that this standard is not immutable. In 1987, for example, German metalworkers struck for and received a 37.5-hour workweek; and in 1990 many workers in Britain won a 37-hour week. Since 1989, the Japanese government has moved from a 6 to a 5-day workweek and has set a national target of 1,800 work hours per year for the average worker. The average amount of work per year in Japan in 1989 was 2,088 hours per worker, compared to 1,957 for the United States and 1,646 for France.
What is one reason for the change in the length of the workweek for the average worker in the United States during the 1930's?  
A.Several people sometimes shared a single job.
B.Labor strikes in several countries influenced labor policy in the United states.
C.Several corporations increased the length of the workweek.
D.The United States government instituted a 35-hour workweek.