Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences.
If you play loud music late at night, you’ll                         .
A.drive your neighbors up the wall 
B.get your foot in the door
C.bring down the house          
D.hit home

Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.
Four miles off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts ______, a popular summer resort.
A.lies the island of Martha's Vineyard
B.the island of Martha's Vineyard lies there
C.does lie the island of Martha's Vineyard
D.where the island of Martha's Vineyard lies

Our company holds the monopoly over the import of these chemicals.
A.Our company is one of the few companies allowed to import these chemicals
B.These exported chemicals are held by our company, which is monopoly.
C.Ours is the only company allowed to import these chemicals.
D.All companies but ours are allowed to import these chemicals.

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.meat
B.threat                      
C.beat
D.seat

I can’t understand the people who are cruel _________ animals.
A.of
B.with
C.on
D.to

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.
A newborn baby can see, hear and feel. By the age of five, a child can talk, ride a bike and invent imaginary friends. How does this development happen? We don't understand the way language, thinking and planning develop very well. Now scientists are using new technology to ‘see’ into children's brains. And they are discovering new information about the way a baby's brain develops.
A study in 2010 showed that the experiences a child has in their first few years affect the development of the brain. It showed that children who received more attention often had higher IQs. The brain of a newborn baby has nearly a hundred billion neurons. This is the same number as an adult's brain. As they grow, a baby receives information through the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. This information creates connections between different parts of the brain. At the age of three, there are a hundred trillion connections.
One experiment looked at images of babies' brains while they were listening to different sounds. The sounds were in different sequences. For example, one sequence was mu-ba-ba. This is the pattern ‘A-B-B’. Another sequence was mu-ba-ge. This is the pattern ‘A-B-C’. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during ‘A-B-B’ patterns. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. This experiment is interesting because sequences of words are important to grammar and meaning. Compare two sentences with the same words in a different order: ‘John killed the bear’ is very different from ‘The bear killed John.’ So babies are starting to learn grammatical rules from the beginning of life.
Researchers also know that babies need to hear a lot of language in order to understand grammar rules. But there is a big difference between listening to television, audio books or the internet, and interacting with people. One study compared two groups of nine-month-old American babies. One group watched videos of Mandarin Chinese sounds. In the other group, people spoke the same sounds to the babies. The test results showed that the second group could recognise different sounds, however the first group learned nothing. The scientist, Patricia Kuhl, said this result was very surprising. It suggests that social experience is essential to successful brain development in babies.
What is the main conclusion from the study described in the last paragraph?
A.Babies can understand television at the age of nine months.
B.Social interaction has a big influence on the brain.
C.Watching videos is a good way to develop a child's brain.
D.Mandarin Chinese is not too hard to be learned for American babies.

Founded in 1967 in Bangkok,  __________ .
A.the ASEAN success in promoting peace and stability gained
B. the peace and stability in the region has been successfully promoted by the ASEAN
C. the ASEAN’s promotion of peace and stability has been successful
D.the ASEAN has successfully promoted peace and stability in the region

Never have people been so well informed as they are now, thanks to TV news programs.
A.People have been so informative thanks to TV news programs.
B.Thanks to TV news programs, people are now too well informed.
C.People are better informed than they have been, thanks to TV news programs
D.TV news programs are very informative than before and people are better informed.

I am sending you my curriculum vitae _______you will have a chance to study it before our interview.  
A.since     
B.because
C.so that  
D. for

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Economists have tried to discourage the use of the phrase “underdeveloped    nation and encouraging the more accurate phase “developing nation” in order to suggest an ongoing process.
A.to discourage
B.the use
C.encouraging
D.the more