Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
____________ all the rules of chess, the contestants started to play the first game.
A. Learn 
B. To learn
C. Learning
D. Having learned

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence and correct it:
The new supermarket is nearby the bank.
A. new
B. is
C. nearby
D. bank

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
It's no good ____________ to him, he never answers letters.
A.  write             
B. being written
C.  writing             
D.  to write

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
Ann _____________ that she would wait at the bus stop.
A. say
B. said
C. saying
D. to say

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
The number of people receiving reading and writing lesson ____________ over 4,500 by 2001. 
A. came                
B. went                   
C. arrived              
D. reached

Choose one sentence that has the same meaning as the root one:
Mrs. Mai is our English teacher. Her daughter works in the city ’s post office.
A. Mrs. Mai is our English teacher whose daughter works in the city’s post office.
B. Mrs. Mai, whose daughter works in the city’s post office, is our English teacher.
C. Mrs. Mai, who’s daughter works in the city’s post office, is our English teacher.
D. Mrs. Mai, her daughter works in the city’s post office, who is our English teacher.

Choose a word that has different stress pattern:
off-spring             spirit               devastation               telegram
A. off-spring             
B. spirit               
C. devastation               
D. telegram

Choose one sentence that has the same meaning as the root one:
They arrange the tests in this book according to their difficult levels. 
A. The tests in this book are arranged in order of difficult.
B.  The test in this book is arranged in order of difficulty.  
C. The tests in this book are arranged in order of difficulty. 
D. The tests in this book are arranged in the order of difficult.

Choose one sentence that has the same meaning as the root one:
Jane made a cake but nobody liked it.
A. Nobody liked the cake Jane made.
B. Not everybody liked the cake, but Jane.
C. It was the cake that Jane made nobody liked.
D. Nobody liked both the cake and Jane.

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence and correct it:
It helps people who has suffered badly in wars or natural disasters.
A. It
B. helps
C. people
D. who has suffered badly in wars or natural disasters