The success of the party was mainly due to the presence of several_______
A.celebrations
B.celebrated
C.celebrities
D.celebrates

________, we tried our best to complete it.
A.Difficult as the homework was
B.Thanks to the difficult homework
C.As though the homework was difficult
D.Despite the homework was difficult

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 question.
Sunlight is solar energy. Sunlight is needed for growing plants that you eat to get energy. Sunlight is also used to make clean electricity. Burning fossil fuels to make electricity pollutes our atmosphere and rivers. Fossil fuels are expensive and limited sources of energy. Nuclear fission is used to create enormous amount of heat and electricity. However, nuclear fission forms dangerous radioactive waste.
Sunlight offers many ways to get energy. A window can allow warm sunlight into your room. Solar water-heating systems can use sunlight to warm the water for your home, swimming pool and school. Sunlight also warms the Earth and causes wind. Electricity can be made by wind generators.
Photovoltaic, or PV system use a type of material that converts sunlight into electricity. PV systems can power your air conditioner or a satellite like the International Space Station. PV systems are also used to run a calculator, recharge cell phones, or even power lightweight cars.
Sunlight is also changed into electricity by concentrating solar power or CSP systems. CSP systems have mirrors that focus the sunlight. The concentrated sunlight turns water into steam which turns a turbine that is connected to an electric generator. A CSP system is like an electric power plant that burn coals or natural gas to create heat. But a CSP system usually use sunlight to make steam. CSP power plants can store large amounts of heat. The stored heat is used to make electricity at night. During cloud days, many CSP plants can also burn natural gas to provide the heat that is used to turn water into steam.
Sunlight provides the energy needed to grow plants and make large amounts of environment-friendly heat and electricity. Solar can provide power today and for a long time in the future.
In the third paragraph, the word “convert” is closet meaning to ________.
A.change from one religion to another
B.transform
C.exchange for something equal in value
D.converse

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 question.
Sunlight is solar energy. Sunlight is needed for growing plants that you eat to get energy. Sunlight is also used to make clean electricity. Burning fossil fuels to make electricity pollutes our atmosphere and rivers. Fossil fuels are expensive and limited sources of energy. Nuclear fission is used to create enormous amount of heat and electricity. However, nuclear fission forms dangerous radioactive waste.
Sunlight offers many ways to get energy. A window can allow warm sunlight into your room. Solar water-heating systems can use sunlight to warm the water for your home, swimming pool and school. Sunlight also warms the Earth and causes wind. Electricity can be made by wind generators.
Photovoltaic, or PV system use a type of material that converts sunlight into electricity. PV systems can power your air conditioner or a satellite like the International Space Station. PV systems are also used to run a calculator, recharge cell phones, or even power lightweight cars.
Sunlight is also changed into electricity by concentrating solar power or CSP systems. CSP systems have mirrors that focus the sunlight. The concentrated sunlight turns water into steam which turns a turbine that is connected to an electric generator. A CSP system is like an electric power plant that burn coals or natural gas to create heat. But a CSP system usually use sunlight to make steam. CSP power plants can store large amounts of heat. The stored heat is used to make electricity at night. During cloud days, many CSP plants can also burn natural gas to provide the heat that is used to turn water into steam.
Sunlight provides the energy needed to grow plants and make large amounts of environment-friendly heat and electricity. Solar can provide power today and for a long time in the future.
To help the reader understand some of benefits of solar energy, the author ______.
A.provides a list of solar energy projects.
B.lists in chronological order the invention of various systems that gather the energy of sunlight.
C.describes in detail how a PV system works.
D.briefly compares and contrasts the differences in using fossil fuels, nuclear fission and solar energy in electric power systems.

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 question.
Sunlight is solar energy. Sunlight is needed for growing plants that you eat to get energy. Sunlight is also used to make clean electricity. Burning fossil fuels to make electricity pollutes our atmosphere and rivers. Fossil fuels are expensive and limited sources of energy. Nuclear fission is used to create enormous amount of heat and electricity. However, nuclear fission forms dangerous radioactive waste.
Sunlight offers many ways to get energy. A window can allow warm sunlight into your room. Solar water-heating systems can use sunlight to warm the water for your home, swimming pool and school. Sunlight also warms the Earth and causes wind. Electricity can be made by wind generators.
Photovoltaic, or PV system use a type of material that converts sunlight into electricity. PV systems can power your air conditioner or a satellite like the International Space Station. PV systems are also used to run a calculator, recharge cell phones, or even power lightweight cars.
Sunlight is also changed into electricity by concentrating solar power or CSP systems. CSP systems have mirrors that focus the sunlight. The concentrated sunlight turns water into steam which turns a turbine that is connected to an electric generator. A CSP system is like an electric power plant that burn coals or natural gas to create heat. But a CSP system usually use sunlight to make steam. CSP power plants can store large amounts of heat. The stored heat is used to make electricity at night. During cloud days, many CSP plants can also burn natural gas to provide the heat that is used to turn water into steam.
Sunlight provides the energy needed to grow plants and make large amounts of environment-friendly heat and electricity. Solar can provide power today and for a long time in the future.
In the first paragraph, the word “fossil fuels” in line 2 means ________.
A.Fuels formed millions of years from the remains of animals and plants.
B.nuclear energy.
C.solar power.
D.fuel formed from energy of the wind.

_________ appears considerably larger at the horizon than it does overhead ismerely an optical illusion.
A.The Moon
B.The Moon which
C.When the Moon
D.That the Moon

In most ______ developed countries, up to 50% of ______ population enters higher education at some time in their lives
A.the -
B. -
C.the - a
D. - the

On ______he had won, he jumped for joy.
A.he was told
B.having told
C.being told
D.telling

Read the passage mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Children (31) ______ this and other Finland public schools are given not only basic subject instruction in maths, language and science, but learning-through-play-based preschools and kindergartens, training in second languages, arts, crafts, music, physical education, ethics, and, amazingly, as many as for outdoor free-play breaks per day, each (32) ______ 15 minutes between classes, no matter how cold or wet the weather is. Educators and parents here believe that these breaks are a powerful engine of learning that improves almost all the “metrics” that (33) _____ most for children in school – executive function, concentration and cognitive focus, behavior, well-being, attendance, physical health, and yes, test scores, too.
The homework load for children in Finland varies by teacher, but is lighter overall than most other developed countries. This insight is supported by research, (34) _______ has found little academic benefit in childhood for any (35) ______ than brief sessions of homework until around high school.
(35) ______
A.more
B.sooner
C.other
D.rather

Read the passage mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Children (31) ______ this and other Finland public schools are given not only basic subject instruction in maths, language and science, but learning-through-play-based preschools and kindergartens, training in second languages, arts, crafts, music, physical education, ethics, and, amazingly, as many as for outdoor free-play breaks per day, each (32) ______ 15 minutes between classes, no matter how cold or wet the weather is. Educators and parents here believe that these breaks are a powerful engine of learning that improves almost all the “metrics” that (33) _____ most for children in school – executive function, concentration and cognitive focus, behavior, well-being, attendance, physical health, and yes, test scores, too.
The homework load for children in Finland varies by teacher, but is lighter overall than most other developed countries. This insight is supported by research, (34) _______ has found little academic benefit in childhood for any (35) ______ than brief sessions of homework until around high school.
(33) _____
A.mean
B.relate
C.matter
D.happen