Read  the  following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the best answer for the following questions
In the past, both men and women were expected to be married at quite young ages. Marriages were generally arranged by parents and family, with their children having little chance to say no in the matter. In the past it was not surprising to find that a bride and groom had only just met on the day of their engagement or marriage.
In modern Vietnam, this has changed completely as people choose their own marriage-partners based on love, and in consideration primarily to their own needs and wants. Moreover, early marriage is quite illegal.
The traditional Vietnamese wedding is one of the most important of traditional Vietnamese occasions. Regardless of westernization, many of the age-old customs practiced in a traditional Vietnamese wedding continue to be celebrated by both Vietnamese in Vietnam and overseas, often combining both western and eastern elements. Besides the wedding ceremony, there is also an engagement ceremony which takes place usually half a year or so before the wedding. Due to the spiritual nature of the occasion, the date and time of the marriage ceremony are decided in advance by a fortune teller. The traditional Vietnamese wedding consists of an extensive array of ceremonies: the first is the ceremony to ask permission to receive the bride, the second is the procession to receive the bride (along with the ancestor ceremony at her house), the third is to bring the bride to the groom's house for another ancestor ceremony and to welcome her into the family, then the last is a wedding banquet. The number of guests in attendance at these banquets is huge, usually in the hundreds. Several special dishes are served. Guests are expected to bring gifts, often money, which the groom and bride at one point in the banquet will go from table to table collecting.
According to the passge, which does not exist in a Vietnamese wedding party?
A.guests                     
B.dishes                     
C.gifts                                    
D.firecrackers

What substances is thought to stimulate the brain to make us feel pleasure?
A.Adrenaline
B.Nor adrenaline.
C.Lemon juice.
D.Manganese dioxide.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
In China’s largest psychiatric facility, there is a serious lack of resources but the staff try hard to____ _this in their treatment of the patients.
A.make up for
B.go in for
C.put up with
D.set in for

Read the passage carefully, then choose the best answer for each question.
THE HISTORY OF PIZZA
Today, pizza is one of the world's favorite foods. All over the world, people make different pizzas, with different ingredients. But where does pizza come from? And who made the first one?
The First Pizza
People have been making pizza for a very long time. In the Stone Age, some people mixed flour with water to make dough. Then they cooked it on hot rocks. Over time, people started using the cooked dough as a plate, covering it with various other foods, herbs, and spices. They had made the world's first pizza.
A New Ingredient
Then—in the early 1500s—European explorers brought the first tomatoes back from the Americas. Tomatoes are a basic ingredient in many pizzas today. At first, however, most Europeans thought eating tomatoes would make them sick. So, for about 200 years, few people ate them.
Slowly, people learned that tomatoes were safe to eat, as well as tasty. In the early 19th century, cooks in Naples, Italy, started the tradition of putting tomatoes on baking dough. The flat bread soon became a favorite food for poor people all over Naples. In 1830, a cook in Naples took another big step in the history of pizza—he opened the world's first pizza restaurant.
A World Food
Today, about five billion pizzas are made every year around the world. In the U.S. alone, people eat about 350 slices every second! People may not know it, but every piece is a slice of history.
The word century refers to_____.
A.50 years
B.10 years
C.200 years
D.100 years

Choose the word or phrase  that best completes the sentences.
They invited ______ to their golden anniversary.
A.my wife and I
B.I and my wife
C.both my wife and I  
D.my wife and me

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.
"Go on, Susan! Apply for the job," the father said.
A.The father forced Susan to apply for the job.
B.The father asked Susan to applying for the job.
C.The father wanted Susan not to apply for the job.
D.The father encouraged Susan to apply for the job.

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete sentences.
Dinosaurs have been................ for millions of years.
A.endangered
B.extinct
C.threatened
D.disappeared

________(1)
A.which
B.some
C.who
D.those

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
He’d hardly finished doing his homework when you arrived, ______?
A.didn’t he
B.had he
C.would he
D.hadn’t he

The passage mainly discusses ___________ .
A.American money from past to present.
B.the English monetary policies in colonialAmerica.
C. the effect of the Revolution on American money.
D. the American monetary system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.