Supply the correct forms of the verbs in  brackets.
People always (blame)............... their circumstances for what they are.
A.are always blaming
B.have been always blaming
C.blamed
D.will blame

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Several measures have been proposed to ______ the problem of unemployment among university graduates.
A.pose                      
B.admit                  
C.address                 
D.create

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Though I tried my best, I failed to ______ them.
A.keep up with  
B.run out of 
C.get together  
D.go away from

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.
No sooner had the first intrepid male aviators safely returned to Earth than it seemed that women, too, had been smitten by an urge to fly. From mere spectators, they became willing passengers and finally pilots in their own right, plotting their skills and daring line against the hazards of the air and the skepticism of their male counterparts. In doing so they enlarged the traditional bounds of a women's world, won for their sex a new sense of competence and achievement, and contributed handsomely to the progress of aviation.
But recognition of their abilities did not come easily. "Men do not believe us capable."  the famed aviator Amelia Earhart once remarked to a friend. "Because we are women, seldom are we trusted to do an efficient job." Indeed, old attitudes died hard: when Charles Lindbergh visited the Soviet Union in 1938 with his wife, Anne-herself a pilot and gifted proponent of aviation - he was astonished to discover both men and women flying in the Soviet Air Force.
Such conventional wisdom made it difficult for women to raise money for the up - to - date equipment they needed to compete on an equal basis with men. Yet they did compete, and often they triumphed finally despite the odds.
Ruth Law, whose 590 - mile flight from Chicago to Hornell, New York, set a new nonstop distance record in 1916, exemplified the resourcefulness and grit demanded of any woman who wanted to fly. And when she addressed the Aero Club of America after completing her historic journey, her plainspoken words testified to a universal human motivation that was unaffected by gender: "My flight was done with no expectation of reward," she declared, "just purely for the love of accomplishment."
(TOEFL Readings)
In their efforts to compete with men, early women pilots had difficulty in _______.
A.addressing clubs               
B.flying nonstop
C.setting records         
D.raising money

The first two problems are very difficult, but the rest ................easy.
A.are
B. was
C.were
D.is

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
I have asked my boss _____ me one day- off to see the doctor.
A. to give  
B.that he give
C.giving                     
D.if could he give

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 11 to 24.
Why are you whispering to each other? If you have something important               say it aloud to all of us.
A.to say        
B.said                         
C.saying                     
D.say

Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank  space in the following passage.
SPRING FESTIVALS
From (31) _______ times people have celebrated the end of winter and the new life that spring brings. One of the most important Christian festivals is Easter, (32) _______ Christians remember the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Easter, however, is not the (33) _______ spring festival. In Sweden, people celebrate the end of the winter by making (34) _______ bonfires. Fire also plays an important part in the Hindu festival of Holi. In some villages children are (35) _______ round bonfires by their mothers to protect them (36) _______ danger in the coming year. Buddhists in Thailand soak (37) _______in water when celebrating their New Year, which (38) _______ in the middle of April. In Antigu, in Guatemal, they carpet the streets with flowers. Chinese spring parades are (39) _______ colourful, but (40) _______ flowers they have large dragon puppets which dance in the streets.
(35) 
A.gone                       
B.carried                     
C.brought                   
D.run

Choose word or phrase that needs correcting. 
Natural (A) resources provide the raw material are needed (B) to produce (C) finished goods.(D) 
A.Natural
B.are needed 
C.produce
D.goods

They had lunch together in the school __________  .
A.cafe
B.restaurant
C.canteen
D.bar