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 question from 8 to 14.
            What is “extreme” weather? Why are people talking about it these day? “Extreme” weather is an unusual weather event such as rainfall, a drought or a heat wave in the wrong place or at the wrong time. In theory, they are very rare. But these days, our TV screens are constantly showing such extreme weather events. Take just three news stories from 2010: 28 centimetres of rain fell on Rio de Janeiro in 24 hours, Nashville, USA, had 33 centimetres of rain in two days and there was record rainfall in Pakistan.
            The effects of this kind of rainfall are dramatic and lethal. In Rio de Janeiro, landslides followed, burying hundreds of people. In Pakistan, the floods affected 20 million people. Meanwhile, other parts of the world suffer devastating droughts. Australia, Russia and East Africa have been hit in the last ten years. And then there are unexpected heat waves, such as in 2003 in Europe. That summer, 35,000 deaths were said to be heat-related.
            So, what is happening to our weather? Are these extreme events part of a natural cycle? Or are they caused by human activity and its effects on the Earth’s climate? Peter Miller says it’s probably a mixture of both of these things. On the one hand, the most important influences on weather events are natural cycles in the climate. Two of the most famous weather cycles, El Nino and La Nina, originate in the Pacific Ocean. The heat from the warm ocean rises high into the atmosphere and affects weather all around the world. On the other hand, the temperature of the Earth’s oceans is slowly but steadily going up. And this is a result of human activity. We are producing greenhouse gases that trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere. This heat warms up the atmosphere, land and oceans. Warmer oceans produce more water vapour – think of heating a pan of water in your kitchen. Turn up the heat, it produces steam more quickly. Satellite data tells us that the water vapour in the atmosphere has gone up by four percent in 25 years. This warm, wet air turns into the rain, storms, hurricanes and typhoons that we are increasingly experiencing. Climate scientist, Michael Oppenheimer, says that we need to face the reality of climate change. And we also need to act now to save lives and money in the future.
It is stated in the passage that extreme weather is ______.
A.difficult for scientists to understand     
B.not a natural occurrence
C.becoming more common             
D.killing more people than ever before

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
The boy dose not resemble his brother in any way.
A.take up             
B.look up                  
C.look after   
D.take after

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSET in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
We are very anxious about the result of the exam.
A.careful      
B.worried          
C.excited                
D.indifferent

Choose the correct words to complete the sentences:
_______ of your brothers and sisters do you feel closer to?
A.Who
B.What
C.Whose
D.Which

Select the synonym of the following bold and underlined word in each sentence in the unit: 
Gradually more children were sent to the class as their parents realized that the young teacher was trying her best to help their poor kids.
A.Progressively   
B.Firstly   
C.Slowly 
D.Weakly

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
…………do you take a holiday? – Once a year.
A.When
B.How long
C.What time
D.How often

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
…………is this building? – It’s about two hundred years old.
 
A.How long
B.How far
C. How old
D. How

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each of the following sentences 
We ________ meet each other anymore.
A.frequently  
B. usually 
C. all the time 
D.rarely

Choose the word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest 

A.ready 
B.people  
C.three    
D.field

The students did not take to their lecturer.
A.The students did not understand what the lecturer said.
B.The new lecturer was unpopular with his students.
C.The new lecturer did not care his students.
D. The students did not follow the new lecturer.