Jane never gives her mother a hand in housework _________ she has a lot of free time.
A.although                            
B.since                                   
C.in spite of   
D.because of

I am better ........................  English than Nam.
A.than
B.with
C.at
D.for

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete sentences.
 Some contestants manage             the fame from the TV game shows.
A.gain
B.gaining
C.to be gained
D.to gain

Choose the underlined part (marked A, B, C or D) that needs correction.
They have moved nothing in your room while they sent you to the hospital.
A.nothing
B.while
C.sent
D.to

Approximately how many of the cars assembled in the year 1900 were gasoline powered?  
A.1,000       
B.2,000   
C.4,000 
D.32

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 following questions.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law in 1990. This law extends civil rights protection to persons with disabilities in private sector employment, all public services, and in public accommodations, transportation, and telecommunications. A person with disability is defined as someone with a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits him or her in a major life activity, such as walking, talking, working, or self-care. A person with a disability may also be someone with a past record of such an impairment, for example, someone who no longer has heart disease but discriminated against because of that history.
The ADA states that employers with fifteen or more employees may not refuse to hire or promote a person because of a disability if that person is qualified to perform the job. Also, the employer must make reasonable accommodations that will allow a person with a disability to perform essential functions of the job.
        All new vehicles purchased by public transit authorities must be accessible to people with disabilities. All rail stations must be made accessible, and at least one car per train is existing rail systems must be made accessible.
It is illegal for public accommodations to exclude or refuse persons with disabilities. Public accommodations are businesses and services such as restaurants, hotels, grocery stores, and parks. All new buildings must be made accessible, and existing facilities must remove barriers if the removal can be accomplished without much difficulty or expense.
The ADA also stipulates that companies offering telephone service to the general public must offer relay services to individuals who use telecommunications devices for the deaf, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
It can be inferred from the passage that
A.every car of a train must be accessible to persons with disabilities.
B.the ADA is not well-liked by employers.
C.large companies may not discriminate against workers with disabilities.
D.restaurants can refuse service to people with disabilities.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Paul noticed a job advertisement while he                along the street.
A.was walking   
B.would walk      
C.walked                    
D.had walked

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
His replies were inconsistent with his previous testimony.
A.contradicted                    
B.compatible                  
C.enhanced            
D.incorporated

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each question from 36 to 45.
             Until recently, most American entrepreneurs were men. Discrimination against women in business, the demands of caring for families, and lack of business training had kept the number of women entrepreneurs small. Now, however, businesses owned by women account for more than $40 billion in annual revenues, and this figure is likely to continue rising throughout the 1990s. As Carolyn Doppelt Gray, an official of the Small Business Administration has noted. “The 1970s was the decade of women entering management, and the 1980s turned out to be the decade of the woman entrepreneur.”
            What are some of the factors behind this trend? For one thing, as more women earn advanced degrees in business and enter the corporate world, they are finding obstacles. Women are still excluded from most executive suites. Charlotte Taylor, a management consultant, had noted. “In the 1970s women believed if they got an MBA and worked hard they could become chairman of the board. Now they have found out that isn’t going to happen, so they go out on their own.”
            In the past, most women entrepreneurs worked in “women’s” fields – cosmetics and clothing, for example. But this is changing. Consider ASK Computer System, a $22 million a year computer software business. It was founded in 1973 by Sandra Kurtzig who was then a housewife with degrees in math and engineering. When Kurtzig founded the business, her first product was software that let weekly newspapers keep tabs on their newspaper carriers – and her office was a bedroom at home, with a shoebox under the bed to hold the company’s cash. After she succeeded with the newspaper software system, she hired several bright computer-science graduates to develop additional programs. When these were marketed and sold, ASK began to grow. It now has 200 employees, and Sandra Kurtzig owns $66.9 million of stock. Of course, many women who start their own businesses fail, just as men often do. They still face hurdles in the business world, especially problems in raising money; the banking and finance world is still dominated by men, an old attitudes die hard. Most businesses owned by women are still quite small.
            But the situation is changing; there are likely to be many more Sandra Kurtzig in the years ahead.
The word “hurdles” can be best replaced by____________
A.small groups
B.fences
C.obstacles
D.questions

How long ago _________ to learn French?  
A.have you started
B.would you start 
C.were you starting 
D.did you start