Part 6: Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
He may be shy now, but he will soon come out of his ________ when he meets the right girl.
A.hole                        
B.shell                                    
C.shed                        
D.shoe

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
The ocean bottom - a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth - is a vast frontier that even today is largely unexplored and uncharted. Until about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor was completely inaccessible, hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep. Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth's surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space.
 Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks and sediments for over a century, the first detailed global investigation of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1968, with the beginning of the National Science Foundation's Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP).Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP's drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the ocean's surface and drill in very deep waters, extracting samples of sediments and rock from the ocean floor.
 The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, the vessel logged 600,000 kilometers and took almost 20,000 core samples of seabed sediments and rocks at 624 drilling sites around the world. The Glomar Challenger's core samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundred of millions of years ago and to calculate what it will probably look like millions of years in the future. Today, largely on the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challenger's voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes that shape the Earth.
 The cores of sediment drilled by the Glomar Challenger have also yielded information critical to understanding the world's past climates. Deep-ocean sediments provide a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years, because they are largely isolated from the mechanical erosion and the intense chemical and biological activity that rapidly destroy much land-based evidence of past climates. This record has already provided insights into the patterns and causes of past climatic change - information that may be used to predict future climates.
The word "extracting" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to 
A.removing      
B.breaking   
C.locating   
D.analyzing

The word “go around ” in paragraph three mostly means_____________.
A.have enough for everyone                
B.visit someone
C.spread from person to person          
D.behave in a particular way

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 36 to 42.
A letter of application is a sales letter in which you are both salesperson and product, for the purpose of an application is to attract an employer's attention and persuade him or her to grant you an interview. To do this, the letter presents what you can offer the employer, rather than what you want from the job.
Like a résumé, the letter of application is a sample of your work and an opportunity to demonstrate your skills and personality. If it is written with flair and understanding and prepared with professional care, it is likely to be very effective. While the résumé must be factual, objective, and brief, the letter is your chance to interpret and expand. It should state explicitly how your background relates to the specific job, and it should emphasise your strongest and most relevant characteristics. The letter should demonstrate that you know both yourself and the company.
The letter of application must communicate your ambition and enthusiasm. Yet it must be modest. It should be neither aggressive nor compliant: neither pat yourself on the back nor ask for sympathy. It should never express dissatisfaction with the present or former job or employer. And you should avoid discussing your reasons for leaving your last job.
Finally, it is best that you not broach the subject on salary. Indeed, even if a job advertisement requires that you mention your salary requirements, it is advisable simply to call them "negotiable." However, when you go on an interview, you should be prepared to mention a salary range. For this reason, you should investigate both your field and, if possible, the particular company. You don't want to ask for less than you deserve or more than is reasonable.
(Adapted from "Select Readings - Intermediate" by Linda Lee and Erik Gundersen)
The word "it " in paragraph 2 refers to ______.
A.the letter of application       
B.an opportunity
C.your work                               
D.the résumé

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Old people like the slow ______ of life in the countryside.
A.step
B.speed
C.space
D.pace

I ________telephone her if I knew her number.
A.would
B.have to
C.will     
D.shall

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the following exchanges.
Mai and Joey are talking about their favorite pastimes.
- Joey: “ What sort of things do you like doing in your free time?”
- Mai: “_______”
A.I love checking out the shops for new clothes.
B.None. Been starved since 9 yesterday.
C.I hate shopping.
D.Nothing special. Just some photos I took on the trip to Nepal.

Find the mistake in each of the following sentences.  
The homeworks that your teacher assigned is due on Tuesday unless you have made prior arrangements to turn it in late. 
A.homeworks 
B.due on Tuesday
C.made
D.in late

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges. 
The teacher is talking to Laura about her presentation in class today.

Teacher: “Your speech this morning was beyond my expectations.”

Laura: “ ____________________”
A.Are you kidding me? It’s terrible.     
B.It’s OK. It was the least I could do.
C.Thanks. Without your help, I couldn’t have.
D.That’s alright. I’m glad I could help.

Contemporary film directors, some of them write the scripts for, act in, and even produce their own motion pictures, are thereby assuming ever more control of their art.
A.them
B.even
C.motion
D.thereby assuming