Exercise 3. 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 11 to 15.
The Gerneral Cerificate of Secondary Education or the GCSE excaminations for short are the standard school-leaver qualifications taken by virually all UK students in the May and June following their 16th birthday. If you come to a UK (11)_______ school before you (12)_______ the age of 16, you will study towards GCSE excaminationin up to 12 subjects. Some subjects are compulory, including English and matchematics, and you can select (13)_____, such as music, drama, geography and history from a series of options. GCSEs provide a good all-round education (14)_______ you can build (15)______ at colleage and eventually at university.
(11) 
A.dependence                        
B.independence          
C.independent            
D.independently

Exercise 2. 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 6 to 10.
In European and North American cultures, body language behaviors can be divided into 2 groups: open or closed and forward or backward.
Open/closed postures are the easiest to (6)__________. People are open to messages when they show open hands, face you fully, and have both feet on the ground. This indicates that they are (7)__________ to listen to what you are saying, even if they are disagreeing with you. When people are closed to messages, they have their arms folded or their legs crossed, and they may turn their bodies away. This body language usually means that people are rejecting your message.
Forward or backward behavior reveals an active or a passive (8)__________ to what is being said. If people lean forward with their bodies toward you, they are actively engaged in your message. They may be accepting or rejecting it, but their minds are on (9)__________ you are saying. On the other hand, if people lean back in their chairs or look away from you, or perform activities such as drawing or cleaning their eyeglasses, you know that they are either passively taking in your message or that they are ignoring it. In (10)__________ case, they are not very much engaged in the conversation.
(7) 
A.likely    
B.reluctant                  
C.able                         
D.willing

(4) 
A.effectiveness           
B.effect           
C.effectively               
D.effective

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
''What are you going to do after school, Anne?'' Kevin asked.
A.Kevin asked Anne what was she going to do after school.
B.Kevin asked Anne what she was going to do after school.
C.Kevin wanted to know what Anne would do after school.
D.Kevin wanted to know what would Anne do after school.

The smaller the room is ________, the furniture it needs. 
A.fewer
B. smaller
C.more
D.less

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.
Information on the Romans can find not only in these books but also on the Internet.
A.Information 
B.can find
C.in
D.the Internet

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.
Advances in mobile technology and social networking websites mean we spend more time online than ever before. If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world by population (The Economist, 2010). It is (25) ______ not surprising that so many psychologists, sociologists, and others are eager to give their thoughts on how this is impacting negatively on our society. The biggest criticism levelled at social networking is that young people are losing their offline friends to online friends (26) ______ are unable to provide the same deep connection and emotional support. However, a lot of research shows these criticisms are generally (27) ______. Allen et al. (2010) discovered that it is socially adjusted adolescents who are more likely to have a networking profile than those who are not. One study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project (2009) found that people are not (28) ______ offline friends with online companions but are using them to support their offline relationships. The study also found that social networks allow us to have discussions with a much more diverse set of people than in the real world, so we share knowledge with people from a wide (29) ______ of backgrounds.
(Adapted from ''Skillful Reading & Writing 4''by Mike Boyle and Lindsay Warwick)
(25)
A.while                      
B.however                  
C.despite                    
D.therefore

A.hamburger 
B.minority
C.material
D.linguistics

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Jane would never forget ______ first prize in such a prestigious competition.
A.to be awarded 
B.being awarded     
C.to have awarded 
D. having awarded

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.house
B.mouth                    
C.could                     
D.found