VII. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the answer that best fits in each gap in the following questions.
An economic _______ is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
A.development 
B.depression 
C.mission
D.improvement

V. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correcting
Many optimist (A) people have made predictions (B) about the positive (C) impact (D)of the increasing mechanization on human life.  
A.optimist 
B.predictions
C.positive
D.impact

III. 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.
For children over the age of 10, daily attendance at schools is not compulsory. Some of the older children attend school only once or twice weekly to get tutorial support or instruction from a teacher. For the most part, pupils are encouraged to work online from home. Students should complete a minimum number of study hour per year; however, they may make up these hours by studying at home at times that suit their family schedule. They can log on early or late in the day and even join live classes in other countries. In order to ensure that each student is learning adequately, computer software will automatically monitor the number hours a week each student studies on line as well as that student's learning materials and assessment activities. Reports will be available for parents and teachers. The software can then identify the best learning activities and conditions for each individual student and generate similar activities. It can be also identify areas of weak achievement and produce special programs adjusted to the students' needs.
What is NOT MENTIONED as a benefit of information technology to the students? 
A.Students can learn at times that suit their schedule
B.Students can stay at home to learn
C.Students' weak achievement can be identified.
D.Students' learning time won't be monitored

______(80)
A.fall    
B.go
C.pull
D.come

It is important that                  .
A.an exact record to be kept        
B.an exact record should be kept
C.keeping an exact record 
D.to keep an exact record

VI. Read the following passage and choose the best answers to the questions below.
After the Revolutionary War people in America were able to get news of European fashions. Fashion plates (=pictures) and dolls showing the latest fashions were sent to the US, and American women began wearing large hoop skirts. Some people thought that heavy hoops and corsets were bad for the health, and encouraged women to wear looser clothes. Amelia Bloomer designed light frilled trousers, called bloomers, but many people laughed at them. Though bloomers were not popular, there was a fashion for smaller, lighter skirts. American men also followed fashion and began wearing long trousers (or pants) instead of breeches.
When did American women begin to wear large hoop skirts?
A.After the Revolutionary War                    
B.After fashions plates and dolls showing the latest fashions
C.After buying fashions plates and dolls     
D.After some people encouraged women to wear looser clothes

IV. Choose the underlined words or phrases that are not correct in standard written English.
Are (A) you accustomed (B) to live (C) in a big city yet (D)?
A.Are 
B.accustomed 
C.live 
D.yet

 
You should have persuaded him to change his mind.
 
A.You should persuade him to change his mind.
B.You didn’t persuade him to change because of his mind.
C.It was essential to persuade him to change his mind but you didn’t.
D.You persuaded him to change his mind but he didn’t listen

A.edition
 
 
B.influence
C.desperate
D.definite

The words In reality are closest in meaning to       .

A.actually                      
B.surprisingly                
C.similarly                     
D.characteristically