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.
The first question we might ask is: What can you learn in college that will help you in being an employee? The schools teach a great many things of value to the future accountant, doctor or electrician. Do they also teach anything of value to the future employee? Yes, they teach the one thing that it is perhaps most valuable for the future employee to know. But very few students bother (10) ______ it. This basic is the skill ability to organize and express ideas in writing and in speaking. This means that your success as an employee will depend on your ability to communicate, with people and to present your own thoughts and ideas to them so they will (11) ________ understand what you are driving at and be persuaded.
Of course, skill in expression is not enough (12) _______ itself. You must have something to say in the first place. The effectiveness of your job depends (13) _______ your ability to make other people understand your work as they do on the quality of the work itself.
Expressing one's thoughts is one skill that the school can really teach. The foundations for skill in expression have to be laid early: an interest in and an ear for language; experience in organizing ideas and data, in brushing aside the irrelevant, and above all the habit of verbal expression. If you do not lay these foundations (14) ________ your school years, you may never have an opportunity again.
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A.on much
B.much on
C.on most
D.most on

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 the primary stress in each of the following questions.




A.interview
B.essential
C.processor
D.compliment

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 boss scolded Laura for that minor mistake. He now feels really bad about it.




A.The boss wishes he did not scold Laurafor that minor mistake.
B.The boss wishes Laura had not made that minor mistake.
C.If only the boss had not scolded Laura for that minor mistake.
D.The boss regretted to scold Laurafor that minor mistake.

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.
Janet speaks English better than Daisy.




A.Janet does not speak English as well as Daisy.
B.Daisy speaks English better than Janet.
C.Janet is a better speaker of English than Daisy.
D.Daisy and Janet are not so good at speaking English.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Most teachers tend to detest ______ during classes.




A.interrupting
B.being interrupted
C.to interrupt
D.to be interrupted

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_______ toward shore, its shape is changed by its collision with the shallow sea bottom.




A.During a wave rolls
B.As a wave rolls
C.A wave rolls
D.A wave’s rolling

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Bodies of ______ dead in the tragic accident yesterday were taken away.




A.the
B.a
C.an
D.Ø

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.
Some years ago, my daughter was studying English at a university on the south coast. One evening, she phoned to (46)_______ me that what she really wanted to do was a travel round the world, (47)________ she was looking into the possibility of working in another country. She had seen several advertisements in the paper for students and teachers of English abroad, and she was interested in one in Italy, (48) _________ she was desperate to visit. She decided that this would be a good way to achieve her ambition, so she was writing to apply for the job. The reply (49)_______ a long time to arrive, but eventually she received a letter asking if she would go for an interview in London the following week. She was so excited that she immediately got in touch with the school owner and agree to attend the interview . She was determined that nothing would prevent her (50)_________ doing what she had set out to do.
(Adapted from http//:www.telegraph.co.uk)
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A.because
B.so
C.as
D.but

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
What (A) the woman was saying (B) were (C) so important that I asked everyone to stop talking (D) and listen.




A.What
B.was saying
C.were
D.to stop talking

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
It is difficult to _____ the exact meaning of an idiom in a foreign language.




A.convert
B.convey
C.exchange
D.transfer