VII. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer in each of the following questions.
Many companies don’t treat their sewage before discharging it into rivers ________ the process takes so much money.
A.so that
B.since
C.although
D.due to

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 44 to 48.
            If women choose to pursue a career once they have children, they often miss out on a close relationship with children. Helen Jamieson is a mother of three who has given up work to look after her children (44) _____. She strongly believes that women are pressurized to do too much, (45) _____ themselves to the absolute limit. In her own case, after six years of paid employment, Helen finally decided to call it a day. She says she initially found it hard to be at home, though she never misses the job itself. She admits that if she had had a brilliant career to begin (46) _____, she might feel differently now. Financially, she is no worse off (47) _____ before, as the cost of childcare and commuting exceeded her actual income. (48) _____ the government starts to give other tax incentives to working parents, she says she will not return to the workplace until her children are grown up.
(46)
A.with                      
B.as                      
C.to                         
D.at

_______(41)
A.inconsistent  
B.incapable
C.inexperienced
D.independent

Choose the best answer.
Our country will have ____ space shuttle to ____ moon ____ next month.
A.a/ the/ the  
B.a/ the/ø       
C.the/ ø/ the  
D.ø/ the/ a

“Sally finally got here from Chicago .”

“  If she had come earlier , we ______taken her to the play.”
A.would be
B.would have 
C.have had
D.would had

She had a cozy little apartment in Boston. 
A.uncomfortable 
B.warm 
C.lazy 
D.dirty

Use the correct form of the words in brackets to complete sentences
“Look after your mother”, were his ............words   (die)
A.dying  
B.died
C.death
D.die

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) that is  CLOSEST   in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
As children we were very close, but as we grew up we just drifted apart.
A.Not as friendly as before
B.Not as serious as before
C.Not as sympathetic as before
D.Not as childlike as before

Their teacher is making them to study hard
A.They are being made to study hard by their teacher
B.They are being had to study hard by their teacher
C.They are being let to study hard by their teacher
D.They are being offered to study hard by their teacher

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.
It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes that businesses operated by women are small because______________
A.women can’t deal with money
B.many women fail at large businesses
C.women prefer a small intimate setting
D.women are not able to borrow money easily