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 from 43 to 47.
SUMMER RAIN
The worst days of any summer are rainy ones. We spend all year looking forward to nice weather and long, hot days. All of winter, with its dreary gray days and bitter cold, we dream of those endless days at beach, lying on the sand and soaking in the bright and burning sun. And then, summer comes, and it rains.
As a child, I would wake up to rainy summer days and come close to crying. It wasn’t fair. We suffered through months of schooling and miserable weather for those scant ten weeks of freedom and balmy weather. Any day that I could not spend at the beach or playing ball with my friends seemed like a punishment for something I didn’t even do.
On those rainy summer days, I had nothing fun to do and could only sit inside, staring out at the rain like a Dickensian orphan. I was an only child, so there was no one else to play with. My father worked from home, so I was not truly alone, but he could not actively play with me since he was technically at work. It was those days that I would resign myself to whatever was on television or any books that I could find lying around. I’d crawl through the day and pray each night that the rain would not be there the next day.
The phrase “come close to crying” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _________ .




A.almost cry
B.cry a lot
C.be in tears
D.burst into tears

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions from 48 to 50.




A.described
B.damaged
C.memorized
D.celebrated

V. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the given ones.
The last time I saw Rose was three years ago.




A.I haven’t seen Rose three years ago.
B.I didn’t see Rose for three years.
C.I haven’t seen Rose for three years.
D.I haven’t seen Rose since three years.

IV. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option to complete each of the following sentences.
We are talking about the preservation of resources.




A.natural
B.nature
C.naturalize
D.naturally

III. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option to answer each of the following questions.
David Hemplerman Adams is an explorer and adventurer. In April 1984, he walked through northern Canada to the North Pole. He walked 400 kilometers in 22 days. He was 27 years old when he did it. David was the first person to walk to the North Pole by himself. Other people travelled to the North Pole before David but they had a sled and a dog team. David didn't have a dog team. David was a brave man to go on this adventure on his own. He was also a lucky man because the bear and the icy water didn't kill him.
David Hemplerman started his travel from .




A.the South of Canada
B.the North of Canada
C.the end of 1984
D.the North of Pole

I. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option to complete each of the following numbered blanks.
If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According (1) several scientists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children.
(2) , if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may (3) in doing very well – especially if the parents are very supportive of their child. Michael Collins is very lucky. He is (4) about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons.
(4)




A.interested
B.keen
C.crazy
D.tired

.............(6)




A.protected
B.protecting
C.protection
D.protective

..............(1)




A.spoken
B.speaking
C.speaker
D.speak

He gave me some very valuable advices on buying a new house.




A.gave
B.some
C.advices
D.on

_________(62)




A.ready
B.readily
C.readiness
D.unready