Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.

A.debt
B.climbing
C.timber
D.lamb

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.

A.apply
B.maximum
C.cactus
D.national

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Generally, the South of England is as ______ as the North.
A.flat
B.less flat
C.flatter
D.the flattest

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Helen is traveling to Germany tomorrow on her first working trip and she is very excited ______ it.
A.for
B.against
C.about
D.with

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Had they arrived at the shop earlier, they ______ a better selection of clothes.
A.will find
B.would be finding
C.would have found
D.will have found

III. Choose from the four options given (mark A, B, C or D) one best answer to complete each sentence. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.(3 points).
They don’t allow ______ here.
A.to take photographs
B.taking photographs
C.photographs taking
D.photographs to take

III. Choose from the four options given (mark A, B, C or D) one best answer to complete each sentence. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.(3 points).
Everyone hopes to succeed in life, _______?
A.don’t they
B.doesn’t he
C.do they
D.does he

III. Choose from the four options given (mark A, B, C or D) one best answer to complete each sentence. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.(3 points).
Swimming and water skiing are both _______ sports.
A.aquatic
B.blood
C.freestyle
D.field

III. Choose from the four options given (mark A, B, C or D) one best answer to complete each sentence. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.(3 points).
I want to apply _______ a job at that factory. I don’t know if I’ll get it.
A.by
B.to
C.for
D.with

IV. Read the passage and choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to fill in each blank. Mark your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point).
Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. It is in the Himalayan Mountains between Nepal and China, and it is 8,900 meters high. Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal were the first people (21) ______ to climb Mount Everest. They climbed it in 1953. Since then, men from different countries have been (22) _______ in climbing it.
However, the first woman to make this difficult climb was Junko Tabei, a (23) ________ Japanese woman from Hokkaido. She was a housewife but really interested in climbing mountains. She earned money for her trips (24) ________ English and piano to young children.
In 1975, a Tokyo newspaper-television company organized the Mount Everest climb for women. They chose fifteen women from, mountaineering clubs to go to Nepal. The groups climbed for several days. Then there was an avalanche, and most of the women were (25) _______. Only Ms Tabei was able to climb the last 70 meters and stand on the top of the world. She was the first woman there.
(21)
A.yet
B.never
C.already
D.ever