We would rather _____________  at home than _____________  on our day off.
A.staying/ going out   
B.to stay/ to go out
C.to stay/ going out        
D. stay/ go out

(8)_______
A.gradually
B.obviously
C.differently
D.immediately

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.
The modern comic strip started out as ammunition in a newspaper war between giants of the American press in the late nineteenth century. The first full-color comic strip appeared January 1894 in the New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer. The first regular weekly full-color comic supplement, similar to today's Sunday funnies, appeared two years later, in William Randolph Hearst's rival New York paper, the Morning Journal.
Both were immensely popular, and publishers realized that supplementing the news with comic relief boosted the sale of papers. The Morning Journal started another feature in 1896, the "Yellow Kid," the first continuous comic character in the United States, whose creator, Richard Outcault, had been lured away from the World by the ambitious Hearst. The "Yellow Kid" was in many ways a pioneer. Its comic dialogue was the strictly urban farce that came to characterize later strips, and it introduced the speech ballon inside the strip, usually placed above the characters' heads.
The first strip to incorporate all the elements of later comics was Rudolph Dirks's "Katzenjammer Kids," based on Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz, a European satire of the nineteenth century. The "Kids" strip, first published in 1897, served as the prototype for future American strips. It contained not only speech balloons, but a continuous cast of characters, and was divided into small regular panels that did away with the larger panoramic scenes of earlier comics.
Newspaper syndication played a major role in spreading the popularity of comic strips throughout the country. Though weekly colored comics came first, daily black-and-white strips were not far behind. The first appeared in the Chicago American in 1904. It was followed by many imitators, and by 1915 black-and-white comic strip had become a staple of daily newspapers around the country.
The word “prototype” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to ________.
A.story                                   
B.humor                     
C.drawing                  
D.model

Read the following passage and then choose the best answer
       The most important celebration holiday inChinais the New Year. At this time shops are closed. The people celebrate by feasting, by paying friendly calls to their neighbors, and by visiting the temples to make promises for the New Year. Children parade through the streets carrying colorful lanterns and paper figures. Firecrackers similar to those used in theUnited Stateson the Fourth of July are set off. In fact, on the night that the New Year's celebration begins, the exploding fireworks make so much noise that no one is able to sleep.
       The time of the New Year is also the time at which Chinese people refresh their homes. For example, the windows, which are made of thick rice paper, are torn down, and new ones are put up. This is also the time during which people pay their debts. Every man tries to settle all his bills before the beginning of the New Year.
No one is able to sleep on the night  that the New Year's celebration begins because ..............
A.they pay their debts
B.they explode fireworks
C.fireworks make noise.
D.their children carry colorful lantems and paper figures.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_______, Peter came to see me.
A.While having dinner    
B.While I was having dinner
C.When having dinner    
D.When I am having dinner

Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for this text?
 
A.George Washington’s life in the White House.    
B.The Early History of the White House.
C.The burning of the White House.         
D.Presidential Policies of Early U.S. Presidents.

(43) 
A.select                      
B.selection
C.selective                  
D.selectively

According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A.Only some US students do part-time jobs.    
B.US students suffer part-time job stress. 
C.Part-time jobs are somehow good for teenagers.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
The children ________ happily in the park when their parents asked them to go home.
A.played                              
B.had played              
C.were playing            
D.would play

Exercise 7. Choose the sentence which is closest in meaning to the printed one.
Scientists say forests are being destroyed by air pollution.
A.Scientists blame air pollution for the destruction of forests.
B.Scientists are blamed for destroying forests.
C.Forests are being destroyed by scientists.
D.Forests account for air pollution.