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 33 to 40.
Early peoples had no need of engineering works to supply their water. Hunters and nomads camped near natural sources of fresh water, and populations were so sparse that pollution of the water supply was not a serious problem. After community life developed and agricultural villages became urban centers, the problem of supplying water became important for inhabitants of a city, as well as for irrigation of the farms surrounding the city. Irrigation works were known in prehistoric times, and before 2000 BC the rulers of Babylonia and Egypt constructed systems of dams and canals to impound the flood waters of the Euphrates and Nile rivers, controlling floods and providing irrigation water throughout the dry season. Such irrigation canals also supplied water for domestic purposes. The first people to consider the sanitation of their water supply were the ancient Romans, who constructed a vast system of aqueducts to bring the clean waters of the Apennine Mountains into the city and built basins and filters along these mains to ensure the clarity of the water. The construction of such extensive water-supply systems declined when the Roman Empire disintegrated, and for several centuries local springs and wells formed the main source of domestic and industrial water.
            The invention of the force pump in England in the middle of the 16th century greatly extended the possibilities of development of water-supply systems. In London, the first pumping waterworks was completed in 1562; it pumped river water to a reservoir about 37 m above the level of the River Thames and from the reservoir the water was distributed by gravity, through lead pipes, to buildings in the vicinity.
Increased per-capita demand has coincided with water shortages in many countries. Southeast England, for example, receives only 14 percent of Britain's rainfall, has30 percent of its population, and has experienced declining winter rainfall since the 1980s.
            In recent years a great deal of interest has been shown in the conversion of seawater to fresh water to provide drinking water for very dry areas, such as the Middle East. Several different processes, including distillation, electrodialysis, reverse osmosis, and direct-freeze evaporation, have been developed for this purpose. Some of these processes have been used in large facilities in the United States. Although these processes are successful, the cost of treating seawater is much higher than that for treating fresh water.
From A. Briggs’ article on culture, Microsoft® Student 2008
Clean water supply was first taken into consideration by _______.
A.the US people             
B.the English people
C.the ancient Romans    
D.the Egyptians

HOW TRANSPORTATION AFFECTS OUR LIFE?
Without transportation, our modern society could not            (56) . We would have no metal, no coal and no oil nor would we have any            (57) made from these materials.             (58) we would have to spend most of our time             (59)food and food would be            (60) to the kinds that could grow in the climate and soil of our neighborhood.
Transportation also            (61) our lives in other ways. Transportation can speed a doctor to the            (62)  of a sick person, even if the patients’ lives on an isolated farm. It can take police to the           (63)  of a crime within a moments of being noticed. Transportation            (64) teams of athletes to compete in national and international sports contests. In time of            (65) transportation can rush aid to persons in areas stricken by floods, families and earthquakes.
_________(64)
A.brings
 
 
B.fetches
C.enables
D.gets

This is the school……………………my father had been teaching for 13 years.
 
A.which                       
B.where                       
C.that                           
D.who

In the third paragraph, what does the term "wild card" mean?
A.an unknown card in the card game  
B. an unknown item in the scientists' calculation
C.a large amount of acid dust    
D. none of the above

Exercise 5. 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 21 to 25.
Many American customs will surprise you; the same thing happens to us when we (21)_______ another country. People from various cultures handle many small daily things differently. What a dull world it (22)_______ be if this were not true! Some differences are minor, and people soon become accustomed to them. At (23)_______ , for example, some foreign women may be startled at the idea of (24)_______ their hair cut or styled by men. Visitors maybe amazed to see men wearing wigs. People may find the transitory quality of much American life odd, for example, one (25)_______ rent art by the week or the entire furnishings of an apartment, from sofa and bed to the last spoon, on less than eight hours’ notice. “Package” living is part of today’s American scene.
(21) 
A.arrive    
B.come                       
C.travel                      
D.visit

It was such a hard cake that I couldn’t eat it.
A.The cake was so hard that I couldn’t eat it
B.The cake was such hard for me to eat.
C.The cake was too hard for me to eat.
D.Both A and C

A.preferable 
B.disrespectful           
C.secondary               
D.voluntary

I. PHONOLOGY   
Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the others.
A.athlete 
B.event
C.relative           
D.hobby

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.
He offers me a unique opportunity to pass the first round without difficulties.
A.distinctive                          
B.common                  
C.single                      
D.exceptional

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 question.
Improving girl’s educational levels has been demonstrated to have clear impacts on the health and economic future of young women, which in turn improves the prospects of their entire community. The infant mortality rate of babies whose mothers have received primary education is half that of children whose mothers are illiterate. In the poorest countries of the world, 50% of girls do not attend secondary school. Yet, research shows that every extra year of school for girls increases their lifetime income by 15%. Improving female education, and thus the earning potential of women, improves the standard of living for their own children, as women invest more of their income in their families than men do. Yet, many barriers to education for girls remain. In some African countries, such as Burkina Faso, girls are unlikely to attend school for such basic reasons as a lack of private latrine facilities for girls.
Higher attendance rates of high schools and university education among women, particularly in developing countries, have helped them make inroads to professional careers with better-paying salaries and wages. Education increases a woman's (and her partner and the family's) level of health and health awareness. Furthering women's levels of education and advanced training also tends to lead to later ages of initiation of sexual activity and first intercourse, later age at first marriage, and later age at first childbirth, as well as an increased likelihood to remain single, have no children, or have no formal marriage and alternatively, have increasing levels of long-term partnerships. It can lead to higher rates of barrier and chemical contraceptive use (and a lower level of sexually transmitted infections among women and their partners and children), and can increase the level of resources available to women who divorce or are in a situation of domestic violence. It has been shown, in addition, to increase women's communication with their partners and their employers, and to improve rates of civic participation such as voting or the holding of office.
The word "barriers" in the passage is closest in meaning to ______.
A.challenges
B.problems
C.difficulties
D.limits