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
Telecommuting is some form of computer communication between employees’ homes and offices. For employees whose job involve sitting at a terminal or word processor entering data or typing reports, the location of the computer is of no consequence. If the machine can communicate over telephone lines, when the work is completed, employees can dial the office computer and transmit the material to their employers. A recent survey in USA Today estimates that there are approximately 8,7 million telecommuters. But although the numbers are rising annually, the trend does not appear to be as significant as predicted when Business Week published “The Portable Executive” as its cover story a few years ago. Why hasn’t telecommuting become more popular?
Clearly, change simply takes time. But in addition, there has been active resistance on the part of many managers. These executives claim that supervising the telecommuters in a large work force scattered across the country would be too difficult, or, at least, systems for managing them are not yet developed, thereby complicating the manager’s responsibilities.
It is also true that employees who are given the option of telecommuting are reluctant to accept the opportunity. Most people feel that they need regular interaction with a group, and many are concerned that they will not have the same consideration for advancement if they are not more visible in the office setting. Some people feel that even when a space in  their homes is set aside as a work area, they never really get away from the office.
The phrase “of no  consequence” means        
A.of no use 
B.irrelevant  
C.of no good 
D.unimportant

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
In my experience, freshmen today are different from those I knew when I started as a counsellor and professor 25 years ago. College has always been demanding both academically and socially. But students now are less mature and often not ready for the responsibility of being in college.
It is really too easy to point the finger at parents who protect their children from life’s obstacle. Parents, who handle every difficulty and every other responsibility for their children writing admission essays to picking college courses, certainly may contribute to their children’s lack of coping strategies. But we can look even more broadly to the social trends of today.
 How many people do you know who are on medication to prevent anxiety or depression? The number of students who arrive at college already medicated for unwanted emotions has increased dramatically in the past 10 years. We, as a society, don’t want to “feel” anything unpleasant and we certainly don’t want our children to “suffer”.
 The resulting problem is that by not experiencing negative emotions, one does not learn the necessary skills to tolerate and negotiate adversity. As a psychologist, I am well aware of the fact that some individuals suffer from depression and anxiety and can benefit from treatment, but I question the growing number of medicated adolescents today.
 Our world is more stressful in general because of the current economic and political realities, but I don’t believe that the college experience itself is more intense today than that of the past 10 years. What I do think is that many students are often not prepared to be young “adults” with all the responsibilities of life.
 What does this mean for college faculty and staff? We are required to assist in the basic parenting of these students – the student who complains that the professor didn’t remind her of the due date for an assignment that was clearly listed on the syllabus and the student who cheats on an assignment in spite of careful instructions about plagiarism.
 As college professors, we have to explain what it means to be an independent college student before we can even begin to teach. As parents and teachers we should expect young people to meet challenges. To encourage them in this direction, we have to step back and let them fail and pick themselves up and move forward. This approach needs to begin at an early age so that college can actually be a passage to independent adulthood.
Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A.College faculty and staff are required to help in the parenting of problematic students.
B.The college experience itself is more intense today than that of the past 10 years.
C.Our world is more stressful because of the current economic and political situation.
D.Our society certainly doesn’t want our children to experience unpleasant things.

________(2)
A.from
B.at
C.in
D.to

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.
Since the death of Laura's father, her mother has become a breadwinner to support the family.
A.a person who bakes bread every morning          
B.a bakery-owner
C.a person who delivers bread to make money      
D.a person who goes out to work to earn money

A.houses       
B.services         
C.passages       
D.techniques

A.that                
B.he              
C.it              
D.this

No matter how young are you, you should take responsibility to do some housework to help your parents.
A.no matter
B.are you
C.should take
D.you help

Shall I phone you this evening?
A.Do you want me phoning you this evening?
B.Do you want to phone you this evening for me?
C.Do you want me to phone you this evening?
D.Do you want me to phoned you this evening?

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
The plan may be ingenious. It will never work in practice.
A.Ingenious as it may be, the plan will never work in practice.
B.Ingenious as may the plan, it will never work in practice.
C.The plan may be too ingenious to work in practice.
D.The plan is as impractical as it is ingenious.

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.
He expected us to offer him the job.
A.We were expected to be offered him a job.
B.He expected to be offered the job.
C.He is expected that we should offer him the job.
D.He was offered the job without expectation.