According to the passage, what led to Johnson’s downfall?
A.His personal characteristics       
B.His waffling and hesitation
C.The state of the nation’s economy     
D.His liberal position on slavery

Roget's Thesaurus, a collection of English words and phrases, was originally arranged by the ideas they express rather than by alphabetical order.
 
 
A.restricted
B.as well as 
C.unless  
D.instead of

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 25 to 29.
Becoming an independent language learner
In an educational context, the term “learner independence” has gained increasing importance in recent years. It is of particular (25) ________ to language learning and commonly refers to the way students confidently control and organize their own language learning process. While some people seem to have an almost (26) ________ flair for languages, others have rely on strategies to maximize their skills and learn a foreign language more effectively.
The main thing to remember is that becoming a truly independent learner ultimately depends above all on taking responsibility for your own learning and being prepared to take every opportunity available to you to learn. You also increase your chances of (27) ________ by learning according to your own needs and interests, using all available resources. Research shows that learners (28) ________ adopt this approach will undoubtedly manage to broaden their language abilities considerably and, (29) ________, are more likely to achieve their objectives in the longer term.
(Adopted from “Complete Advanced” by Laura Malthews and Barbara Thomas)
(27) 
A.successfully            
B.successful               
C.succeed                  
D.success

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Billy, come and give me a hand with cooking.
A.A. be busy                       
B.B. attempt                        
C.C. prepare                        
D.D. help

Read the following passage, and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks.
 The first question we might ask is: What can you learn in college that will help you in being an employee? The schools teach a (51)....................... many things of value to the future accountant, doctor or electrician. Do they also teach anything of value to the future employee? Yes, they teach the one thing that it is perhaps most valuable for the future employee to know. But very (52)……… students bother to learn it. This basic is the skill ability to organize and express ideas in writing and in speaking. This means that your success as an employee will depend on your ability to communicate with people and to (53)....................... your own thoughts and ideas to them so they will (54)....................... understand what you are driving at and be persuaded.
Of course, skill in expression is not enough by itself. You must have something to say in the first (55)………. The effectiveness of your job depends (56)....................... your ability to make other people understand your work as they do on the quality of the work itself.
(57)………..one’s thoughts is one skill that the school can really teach. The foundations for (58)………….in expression have to be laid early: an interest in and an ear for language; experience in organizing ideas and data, in brushing (59)……..the irrelevant, and above all the (60)………. of verbal expression. If you do not lay these foundations during your school years, you may never have an opportunity again.
(52)
A.several  
B.few
C.some     
D.a few

Just keep working on him; he'll come_______________the idea sooner or later.
A.down with
B. up for    
C.up with     
D.round to

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
This is the second time____________.
A.you are losing your door key 
B.you've lost your door key
C.you were losing your door key   
D.your door key was lost by you

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.
Bank holidays besides New Year's Day and Christmas Day are not public holidays in Scotland because _______.
A. the Scots observe traditional local customs  
B.Scotland does not belong to the U.K.            
C.they are common law holidays               
D.the Scots celebrate Good Friday

(73)
A.better
B.well    
C.advanced 
D. far

Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting
Stop making so much noise or the neighbors will get angrily.
A.making 
B.or
C.will 
D.angrily