Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
Mrs. Skate’s in a fashion store. Choose the most suitable response to fill in the blank in the following exchange:
- Mrs. Skate: “How can this dress can be so expensive?”
- The shop assistant: “________.”
A.Yes, it’s the most expensive  
B.You’re paying for the brand
C.What an expensive dress
D.That’s a good idea

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

A.represented         
B.biography
C.indirectly   
D.entertainment

At parties where she does not know anybody, my aunt normally__________.
A.feels embarrassed and stays away from people
B.asks people to introduces themselves to her
C.comes over to the first person and introduces herself
D. sits alone and avoids talking to other people

Which of the following is a task that an ant of the genus Polyergus might do?
A.look for food   
B.raid another nest
C.care for the young 
D.clean its own nest

The jeans are too long; you should have them__________.
A.shorten     
B. to shorten  
C. shortened 
D. being shortened

Did he tell you __________?
A.where could we meet him         
B.we would be able to meet him where
C.where would be able to meet him    
D.where we would meet him

-"Let's have a pizza." -"__________"
A.Not again 
B.It doesn't matter  
C.It’s a good idea        
D. Not really

It is important to have someone that you can__________in.
A.talk
B.speak
C.confide 
D.know

A.borrow        
B.neighbour 
C. stapler  
D.harbour

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 31 to 35.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The Prime Minister's comments yesterday on education spending miss the point, as the secondary education system also needs a major overhaul. Firstly, the system only views the weakest learners as having special needs. The brightest and most conscientious students are not encouraged to develop to their full (31)_____. Secondly, there's too much testing and not enough learning. My fifteen-year-old daughter, for example, has just spent the last month or so (32)_____ for exams. These aren't even real, important exams, as her GCSEs will be next year. They're just mock exams. Is the work she's been doing really going to make her more knowledgeable about her subjects, or will she forget it all tomorrow? I suspect the (33)_____.
Thirdly, the standard (34)_____ doesn't give students any tuition in developing practical work-related, living and social skills, or in skills necessary for higher education. How many students entering university have the first idea what the difference is between plagiarising someone else's work and (35)_____ good use of someone else's ideas? Shouldn't they have been taught this at school? How many of them are really able to go about self-study skill that's essential at university because there are no teachers to tell you what to do - in an efficient way? Indeed, hoe many students graduate from university totally unable to spell even simple English words correctly? The system is letting our children down.
(34)_____
A.timetable    
B.curriculum   
C.lecture   
D.seminar