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 35 to 42.
Public holidays in the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as bank holidays, are days where most businesses and non – essential services are closed although an increasing number of retail businesses (especially the larger ones) do open on some of the public holidays. There are restrictions on trading on Sundays and Christmas Day. Four public holidays are common to all countries of the United Kingdom. These are: New Year's Day, the first Monday in May, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day. Some banks open on some bank holidays. In Scotland, while New Year's Day and Christmas Day are national holidays, other bank holidays are not necessarily public holidays, since the Scots instead observe traditional local customs and practice for their public holidays. In Northern Ireland, once again, bank holidays other than New Year's Day and Christmas Day are not necessarily public holidays. Good Friday and Christmas Day are common law holidays, except in Scotland, where they are bank holidays. In Scotland the holiday on 1 January (or 2 January if 1 January is Sunday) is statutory, and 25 December is also a statutory holiday (or 26 December if Christmas Day falls on a Sunday). Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their bosses or employers.  Today, Boxing Day is the bank holiday that generally takes place on 26 December. And 28 December only is given if Boxing Day is Saturday.
Like Denmark, the United Kingdom has no national day holiday marked or celebrated for its formal founding date. Increasingly, there are calls for public holidays on the patron saints' days in England, Scotland and Wales. An online petition sent to the Prime Minister received 11,000 signatures for a public holiday in Wales on St. David's Day; the Scottish Parliament has passed a bill creating a public holiday on St. Andrew's Day although it must be taken in place of another public holiday; campaigners in England are calling for a bank holiday on St. George's Day; and in Cornwall, there are calls for a public holiday on St. Piran's Day.
What is the passage mainly about?
A.Boxing Holiday in the U.K.      
B.Public holidays in the U.K.   
C. Weekend holiday                 
D.Similar holidays in Europe

As we walked through the jungle, the __________ unusually quiet.
A.monkeys were                                             
B.monkeys was
C.monkies  were                                              
D.monkies was

Did he give you the book.... he bought yesterday?
A.which
B.who
C.whom
D.whose

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges.
John was late for a meeting with Jane. He’s now apologizing to Jane for the incident. John: “I’m so sorry I was late." Jane: “_______.”
A.Little wonder you do!                                
B.Forget about it!
C.Don’t sweat over it!                              
D.No offense intended!

Soil erosion is a result of forests being cut down carelessly.  
A.Soil erosion results in forests being cut down carelessly.
B.Soil erosion contributes to forests being cut down carelessly.
C.That forests are being cut down carelessly results from soil erosion.
D.That forests are being cut down carelessly leads to soil erosion.

Exercise 2. Choose the word with the different stress pattern.

A.background 
B.biologist
C.battle   
D.chemist

All of the following presidents were assassinated EXCEPT ________.
 
A.John F. Kennedy                      
B.Franklin D. Roosevelt
C.Abraham Lincoln   
D.  James A. Garfield

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

A.serves
B.hopes
C.likes 
D.writes

Only when you grow up ________the truth.
A.you will know
B.will you know
C.do you know
D.you know

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate  the word whose underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others

A.children
B.chicken
C.charity
D.christian