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 from 35 to 42.
Washington was the first city in history to be created solely for the purpose of governance. Following the Revolution, members of Congress had hotly debated the question of a permanent home for themselves and for those departments – the Treasury, the Patent Office and so on – which even the sketchiest of central governments would feel obliged to establish. In 1790, largely in order to put an end to congressional bickering, George Washington was charged with selecting a site for the newly designated federal district. Not much to anyone’s surprise but to the disappointment of many he chose a tract of land on the banks of the Potomac River, a few miles upstream from his beloved plantation Mount Vernon.
The District of Columbia was taken in part from Virginia and in part from Maryland. At the time it was laid out, its hundred square miles consisted of gently rolling hills, some under cultivation and the rest heavily wooded, with a number of creeks and much swampy land along the Potomac. There is now a section of Washington that is commonly referred to as Foggy Bottom; that section bore the same nickname a hundred and eighty years ago.
Two ports cities, Alexandria and Georgetown, flourished within sight of the new capital and gave it access by ship to the most important cities of the infant nation – Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Newport, Salem and Portsmouth – and also to the far-off ports of England and the Continent.
Which of the following sentences is NOT TRUE?
A.Washington was founded for the purpose of administration.
B.Congressmen did not find it necessary to have a home for themselves.
C.George Washington’s choice was a disappointment to many people.
D.District of Columbia is commonly referred to as Washington.

What does the author mean by saying that electricity is flexible?
A.It is cheap and easy to use.    
B.It is used to drive motor engines.
C.It can be adapted to various uses.    
D.It can be made with ease.

The best title for this passage could be ____________.
A."Types of Power Plants”  
B.“Electricity: Harmful Effects on Our Life”
C.“How to Produce Electricity” 
D.“Why Electricity Is So Remarkable”

III. Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) that best completes each sentence.
A child who has lost one or both of his parents by death is called ________ child.
A.an abandoned
B.an orphan
C.a homeless
D.orphanage

II. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.

A.dependent
B.survival
C.minority
D.recognize

I. Choose the word that has the underlined syllable pronounced different from the others.

A.nature
B.toxic
C.plant
D.contain

VII. Read the following passage carefully, and then select the best option A, B, C or D to complete it.
Conservation, sustainable use and protection of natural resources (26)            plants, animals, mineral deposits, soils, clean water, clean air, and fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas. Natural resources are grouped (27)            two categories, renewable and nonrenewable. A renewable resource is one that may be replaced over time by natural processes, such as fish populations or natural vegetation, (28)         is inexhaustible, such as solar energy. The goal of renewable resource conservation is to ensure that such resources are not consumed faster than they are replaced. Nonrenewable resources are those in limited supply (29)               cannot be replaced or can be replaced only over extremely long periods of time. Nonrenewable resources include fossil fuels and mineral deposits, such as iron ore and gold ore. Conservation activities for nonrenewable resources focus on maintaining an adequate supply of these resources well into the future.
Natural resources are conserved for their biological, economic, and recreational values, as well as their natural beauty and importance to local cultures. (30)               , tropical rain forests are protected for their important role in both global ecology and the economic livelihood of the local culture; a coral reef may be protected for its recreational value for scuba divers; and a scenic river may be protected for its natural beauty....
(27)
A.in
B.on
C.into 
D.to

VI. Find the one mistake (A, B, C or D) in these sentences and then correct them.
Because of (A) his mother has been (B) seriously ill (C), she can’t come (D) to the party.
A.Because of
B.has been
C.seriously ill
D. can’t come

III. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence.
Many people are very concerned about the _______ of the rainforests.
A.destroy
B.destruction
C.destructive 
D.destructively

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
There are _________.
A.twice as much computers in our office as there was
B.as twice many computers in our office as they were
C.twice as many computers in our office than there used to be
D.twice as many computers in our office as there used to be