Seldom...................such a rude person!




A.have I met
B.I have met
C.did I met
D.am I meeting

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer in each of the following questions.
The water supply of our home city has failed to ______ average purity requirements.




A.see
B.meet
C.own
D.hold

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer in each of the following questions.
The children ran away as if they ______ a ghost.




A.have seen
B.had seen
C.would see
D.see

I make no ______for encouraging my children to succeed in school.




A.apologize
B.apologetic
C.apologies
D.apoplectic

- How lovely your pets are! - ___________




A.Thank you, it's nice of you to say so
B.Really? They are
C.Can you say that again
D.I love them, too

She wondered ______now, after so many years away.




A.how her father looked like
B.whose her father looks like
C.how her father looks like
D.what her father looked like

The accused denied ______ in the vicinity of the murder scene.




A.to have ever been
B.have ever been
C.having been ever
D.having ever been

..................... the truth, he wouldn't have invited them.




A.Had known he
B.Had he known
C.He had known
D.Known he had

- Can you give me a pen, please?

– Sure. ................... .




A.Here is it
B.Here it is
C.Is it here
D.It is here

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 45.
In a world where 2 billion people live in homes that don't have light bulbs, technology holds the key (36)______ banishing poverty. Even the simplest technologies can transform lives and save money. Vaccines, crops, computers and sources of solar energy can all reduce poverty in developing countries. For example, cheap oral-rehydration therapy developed in Bangladesh has dramatically cut the death (37)______ from childhood diarrhoea.But even when such technologies exist, the depressing fact is that we can’t make them (38)______ for those who most need them. Solar panels, batteries and light bulbs are still beyond the purse of many, but where they have been installed they change lives. A decent light in the evening gives children more time for homework and extends the productive day for adults.Kenya has a thriving solar industry and six years ago Kenyan pioneers also (39)______ connecting schools to the Internet via radio links. These people were fortunate (40)______ being able to afford solar panels, radios and old computers. How much bigger would the impact be if these things (41)______ and priced specifically for poor people?Multinationals must become part of the solution, because (42)______ they own around 60 per cent of the world's technology, they seldom make products for poor customers. Of 1,223 new drugs marketed worldwide from 1975 to 1996, for example, just 13 were for tropical diseases.People think those enterprises should do more to provide vital products such as medicines (43)______ different prices around the world to suit (44)______ people can afford. Alternatively, they could pay a percentage of their profit towards research and development for (45)______.
Adapted from “The Price is Wrong” in “Focus on IELTS Foundations” by Sue O’Connell, Pearson Longman, 2006
___________(36)




A.to
B.at
C.with
D.for