Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Though I didn’t want my son to leave home since he was twenty- one, there was nothing I could do to ____ it.
A.hinder
B.resist
C.prevent
D.cease

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
It is suggested that smoking should to be banned in pubs, restaurants, and other public places.
A.It is suggested
B.smoking
C.should to be
D.other public places.

He finds it ….. to read detective books.
A. fascinates
B.fascinated
C.fascinate

 fascinates
D.fascinating

VII. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer in each of the following questions.
Many companies don’t treat their sewage before discharging it into rivers ________ the process takes so much money.
A.so that
B.since
C.although
D.due to

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 44 to 48.
            If women choose to pursue a career once they have children, they often miss out on a close relationship with children. Helen Jamieson is a mother of three who has given up work to look after her children (44) _____. She strongly believes that women are pressurized to do too much, (45) _____ themselves to the absolute limit. In her own case, after six years of paid employment, Helen finally decided to call it a day. She says she initially found it hard to be at home, though she never misses the job itself. She admits that if she had had a brilliant career to begin (46) _____, she might feel differently now. Financially, she is no worse off (47) _____ before, as the cost of childcare and commuting exceeded her actual income. (48) _____ the government starts to give other tax incentives to working parents, she says she will not return to the workplace until her children are grown up.
(46)
A.with                      
B.as                      
C.to                         
D.at

_______(41)
A.inconsistent  
B.incapable
C.inexperienced
D.independent

Choose the best answer.
Our country will have ____ space shuttle to ____ moon ____ next month.
A.a/ the/ the  
B.a/ the/ø       
C.the/ ø/ the  
D.ø/ the/ a

“Sally finally got here from Chicago .”

“  If she had come earlier , we ______taken her to the play.”
A.would be
B.would have 
C.have had
D.would had

She had a cozy little apartment in Boston. 
A.uncomfortable 
B.warm 
C.lazy 
D.dirty

Use the correct form of the words in brackets to complete sentences
“Look after your mother”, were his ............words   (die)
A.dying  
B.died
C.death
D.die