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 from 36 to 40.
If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children.
However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well – especially if the parents are very supportive of their child. Michael Collins is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. Michael’s mother knows very little about music, but his father plays the trumpet in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling. Winston Smith, Michael’s friend, however, is not so lucky. Both his parents are successful musicians, and they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.
The word “They” in the second paragraph refers to ______.
A. competitions 
B.concerts 
C.Michael’s parents
D.Michael’s lessons

My mother is a _______woman. She does all the household chores to make us more comfortable.
A.caring                                 
B.careless                               
C.harmful                               
D.boring

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. 
“Did you have ______ nice holiday?” - “Yes, it was ______ best holiday I have ever had.”
A.a - the    
B.the - the   
C.the - a  
D.a - a

Everybody in the house woke up when the burglar alarm _____.
A.went out
B.went off
C.came about
D.rang off

It is only fair that everyone would get equal pay for equal work.
A.only
B.everyone
C.would get
D.for

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.
David was narrowly defeated and blew his own chance of becoming a champion.
A.But for his title as the former champion, David would not have defeated his rivals.
B.In spite of the narrow defeat, David won the championship.
C.As a result of his narrow defeat, David did not win the championship.
D.Losing the championship cam as a terrible blow to David.

Choose A, B, C, or D that best completes the sentence.
She not only works hard _____ has a good relationship with all her workmates.
A.since
B.as
C.but also  
D.so

The main idea of the passage is about______
A.how to prevent bird flu in Asia.
B.Can bird flu be infected from people to people?
C.Bird flu and its infection.
D.Bird flu and its destruction in Indonesia.

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.
Ancient people made a clay pottery because they needed it for their survival.
A.a clay  
B.because                   
C.it                             
D.their survival

The children denied ………………the wallet.
A.take
B.to take
C.having taken
D.being taken