How long ago ______ to learn French?




A.have you started
B.would you start
C.were you starting
D.did you start

III. Read the passage and answer the questions.

Camping holidays are always popular with students and young people – they are a cheap and easy way to see a country. People ofter travel by train, by coach or on foot, so one thing is important to remember before starting: you can only take with you what you can carry – usually in a rucksack on your back. If you travel with a friend, of course some items can be shared – a tent, a gas stove, food. Other things must be taken by each person – clothes, footwear, a sleeping bag.

So you must be sure of how much you can carry. Most people find 10 kg about right. Much more than that and you need another holiday when you get home! And remember when the weather is wet your rucksack is heavier.

Many people who go camping for the first time take too much and then find they have forgotten the essentials – a tin of beans is no good without a tin opener! But with practice and good advice you can have a fantastic holidays.

Why are camping holidays very popular with students and young people? In what ways do they often travel? Does each person always have to carry everything? Why/Why not? What should campers remember?




A.
B.
C.
D.

B. Reading comprehension: Read the text and choose the best answer.
A new study shows that women can reduce their chances of developing heart disease by jogging for about three hours every week. The researchers at Harvard Medical School in Bostonhave just reported the results of the study on the New England Journal of Medicine. The study is the first to show the effectiveness of jogging in the developing of heart disease in women. Only a few earlier studies have examined the effects of jogging on the heart, but nearly all have been done on men. The new study involves more than 72,000 women between the ages of forty and sixty-five during a period of eight years. The researchers have found that women who jog at least three hours a week have a thirty to forty percent lower chance of suffering a heart attack than those who do not.
The new study is about __________.




A.how to prepare for jogging
B.the effects of jogging on women’s heart
C.men and jogging
D.medicine in Harvard Medical School

VI:
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The use of vitamin _____ and herbs has become increasingly popular among Americans.




A.ingredients
B.supplements
C.components
D.materials

VI:
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Why don’t you sit down and _____?




A.make it your own home
B.make yourself at rest
C.make yourself at peace
D.make yourself at home

A.accomplish
B.establish
C.abolish
D.mechanism

A.mysteriously
B.originally
C.necessarily
D.elaborately

___________ (4)




A.just as
B.even if
C.as well
D.so that

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
The word “scuba” is actually an acronym that comes of the phrase “self-contained underwater breathing apparatus”.




A.The word
B.actually
C.comes of
D.self-contained

Traffic began to flow normally again after the accident.




A.in the usual or ordinary way
B.repeatedly in different modes
C.strangely and irregularly
D.with the same speed