What is the passage mainly about?
A.A new physical property of matters in nature 
B.A way of manufacturing technological products
C.An introduction to a new technology             
D.An overview of how technology will develop

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_______ where he tried to hide his favourite jacket, Jethreo’s brother always managed to find it.
A.Much as  
B.No matter      
C.Even though      
D.However

Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity.
  
A.conserve   
B.reveal 
C.presume   
D.cover

If you eat too much, you _________ the price by putting on weight.
A.will pay
B.paid                                    
C.would pay     
D.were paying

John: " ____________________ "
Smith: " Thanks , I will write to you when I come to London"
 
A.God bless you !  
B.better luck next time !
C.have a go      
D.Have a nice trip

Rewrite  the following sentences and the meaning stays the same.
When I arrived in China. I wrote a letter home.        
A.On arriving in China,  I had written a letter home
B.On arriving in China,  I was writing  a letter home
C.On arriving in China,  I wrote  a letter home
D.On arriving in China,  I write  a letter home

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.
Rock carvings suggest that Stone Age people were hunting whales for food as early as 2,200 B.C. Such _____(41) hunting is still practised today in a number of ______(42) including the Inuit people of Greenland and North America.
Whaling became big______ (43) from the seventeenth century as the _______(44) for whale bone and whale oil rose, and the humpback and sperm whales were hunted in increasingly large numbers. ________(45) just as stocks of these species began to fall, the explosive harpoon gun was ______(46) . This weapon, together with the development of steam-powered ships, enabled the whalers to hunt the fast moving fin and blue whales.
In 1905, the whaling ______(47) moved to the waters of Antarctica. The introduction of massive factory ships enabled the whales to be processed at sea. As a result. the blue whale had ________(48) disappeared by the I95os. In 1946, the International Whaling Commission was established to maintain the declining whale populations. Quotas were set but ____(49) were often ignored and the numbers continued to fall. Hunting of many species continued until 1986 when the IWC finally responded to international________(50) and a ban on commercial whaling was introduced.
_______(50)
A.reputation
B.volume
C.shame
D.pressure

Yuri Gagarin was the first human being to journey _______ outer space on April 12, 1961.
A.to                               
B.towards                       
C.on                                
D.into

________ (50)
A.in
B.on
C.up
D.over

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 32 to 36.
Even with his diverse experience as an elected official at the state level, Andrew Johnson was the first president of the United States ever to be impeached, primarily because of his violent temper and unyielding stubbornness. His career started in 1828 with his election to the city council of Greenville, Tennessee, and after two years, as an alderman, he took office as mayor. His advancements followed in rapid succession when he was elected to the Tennessee state senate, then as the state governor, and later to the U.S. House of Representatives for five consecutive terms.
            In 1864, Johnson ran for the office of vice-president on the Lincoln-Johnson ticket and was inaugurated in 1865. After Lincoln’s assassination six weeks into his term, Johnson found himself president at a time when southern leaders were concerned about their forced alliance with the northern states and feared retaliation for their support of the secession. Instead, however, with the diplomatic skill he had learned from Lincoln, Johnson offered full pardon to almost all Confederates on the condition that they take an oath of allegiance. He further reorganized the former Confederate states and set up legislative elections.
            Congressional opposition to his peace-making policies resulted in gridlock between the House and Johnson, and the stalemate grew into an open conflict on the issue of emancipation of slaves. While Johnson held the view that newly freed slaved lacked understanding and knowledge of civil liberties to vote intelligently, Congress overrode Johnson’s veto of the Civil Rights Bill, which awarded them citizenship and ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. In the years that followed, Congress passed bills depriving the president of the power to pardon political criminals, stripping away his status of commander-in-chief, and taking away Johnson’s right to dismiss civil and executive officers from their duties. Johnson vetoed each bill, and each veto was overridden. When Johnson dismissed the secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, Stanton refused to step down and was supported by House of Representative, which voted to impeach Johnson. At the trial, the Senate came one vote short of the two-thirds majority necessary to remove his from office. After Johnson’s term expired, he returned to his home state, but in 1875 he was elected senator and went back to Washington to take his seat.
According to the passage, the attempt to impeach Andrew Johnson ______.  
A.overwhelmed his supporters in Tennessee    
B. succeeded as expected by the House
C.failed by a minimal margin
D.put an end to his political career