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 following questions.
The living room isn’t as big as the kitchen.
A.The living room is bigger than the kitchen.
B.The kitchen is smaller than the living room.
C.The kitchen is bigger than the living room.
D.The kitchen is not bigger than the living room.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
Two friends, Peter and Linda, are talking about pets.
- Peter: “Well, cats are very good at catching mice around the house”
- Linda: “___________________”
A.Nothing more to say.       
B.You can say that again.
C.Yes, I hope so.     
D.No, dogs are good, too.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
To absorb a younger workforce, many companies offered retirement plans as incentives for older workers to retire and make way for the young ones who earned lower salary.
A.rewards                   
B.opportunities           
C.motives                   
D.encouragements

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Make sure you __________________ us a visit when you are in town again.
A.give                        
B.do                           
C.pay                                     
D.have

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
We all felt cold, wet and hungry; _________________ , we were lost.
A.moreover                
B.although                  
C.however                 
D.so that

“I didn’t attack anybody!” said the man.
A.The man denied to attack anybody
B.The man denied attacking anybody
C.The man denied attacked anybody
D.The man denied having attacking anybody

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the numbered blanks from 30 to 34.
When summer comes and the sun appears, it’s good to have a hat. Many people have traditionally (30) _______ for the panama hat. Stylish, light and cool on the head, these palm leaf hats are (31) _______ enough to roll up and put in a pocket or bag. Nowadays panamas can be found in fashionable shops all over the world, sometimes at exorbitant price. However, the hat itself originated in rather humble surroundings in the jungles of South America. In a long tradition (32) _______ was handed down from generation to generation, the palm leaves are gathered by the men and the hats are woven by the women. It can take up to 12 palm leaves to make a top quality hat. Each leaf is split up to 25 times to obtain a straw that is fine enough to be woven into a hat. The women’s job is dictated by the weather and visibility: there must be enough light for them to see the fine straw, but the air must be moist enough for it to (33) _______ flexible. This means that the women can usually only work in the early morning. (34) _______ panama hats are expensive, back in the villages the craftsmen and women are struggling to keep the tradition alive and often receive only a fraction of the price you pay in the shops.
(30)
A.tried     
B.sought               
C.asked               
D.gone

Read the following passage and mart the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 39.
Fish that live on the sea bottom benefit by being flat and hugging the contours. There are two very different types of flatfish and they have evolved in very separate ways. The skates and rays, relatives of the sharks have become flat in what might be called the obvious way. Their bodies have grown out sideways to form great “wings” They look as though they have been flattened but have remained symmetrical and “the right way up”. Conversely fish such as plaice, sole, and halibut have become flat in a different way. There are bony fish which have a marked tendency to be flattened in a vertical direction; they are much “taller” than they are wide. They use their whole vertically flattened bodies as swimming surfaces, which undulate through the water as they move. Therefore when their ancestors migrated to the seabed, they lay on one side than on their bellies. However, this raises the problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively useless - In evolution this problem was solved by the lower eye “moving” around the other side. We see this process of moving around enacted in the development of every young bony flatfish. It starts life swimming near the surface, and is symmetrical and vertically flattened, but then the skull starts to grow in a strange asymmetrical twisted fashion, so that one eye for instance the left, moves over the top of the head upwards, an old Picasso - like vision. Incidentally, some species of 20 flatfish settle on the right side, others on the left, and others on either side.
The passage is mainly concerned with _____.
A.bony flatfish                       
B.evolution asymmetrical
C.symmetrical flatfish                               
D.different types of flatfish

Choose the sentence which has the closest meaning to the original one.
"I will ring you up after I get home." Peter said to Mary.
A.Peter promised to give Mary a wedding ring after he got home.
B.Peter asked Mary to pay him a visit after he' got home.
C.Peter promised to visit Mary after he got home.
D.Peter promised to telephone Mary after he got home.

Choose the sentence which has the closest meaning to the original one.
It is really important to have friends whom you can count on.
A.You should have reliable friends whom you can trust.
B.You should not contact with friends who make use of you.
C.Some friends may make your feelings hurt.
D.Do not believe in any friends.