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.
Smallpox was the first widespread disease to be eliminated by human intervention. Known as a highly contagious viral disease, it broke out in Europe, causing the deaths of millions of people until the vaccination was invented by Edward Jenner around 1800. In many nations, it was a terror, a fatal disease until very recently. Its victims suffer high fever, vomiting and painful, itchy, pustules that left scars. In villages and cities all over the world, people were worried about suffering smallpox.
In May, 1966, the World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations was authorized to initiate a global campaign to eradicate smallpox. The goal was to eliminate the disease in one decade. At the time, the disease posed a serious threat to people in more than thirty nations. Because similar projects for malaria and yellow fever had failed, few believed that smallpox could actually be eradicated but eleven years after the initial organization of the campaign, no cases were reported in the field.
The strategy was not only to provide mass vaccinations but also to isolate patients with active smallpox in order to contain the spread of the disease and to break the chain of human transmission. Rewards for reporting smallpox assisted in motivating the public to aid health workers. One by one, each small-pox victim was sought out, removed from contact with others and treated. At the same time, the entire village where the victim had lived was vaccinated.
By April of 1978 WHO officials announced that they had isolated the last known case of the disease but health workers continued to search for new cases for additional years to be completely sure. In May, 1980, a formal statement was made to the global community. Today smallpox is no longer a threat to humanity. Routine vaccinations have been stopped worldwide.
The global community considered the smallpox ___________.
A.a minor illness 
B.a deadly illness  
C.a mental illness       
D. a rare illness

The article was posted by Jimhello on Tuesday,_________?
A.didn’t it
B.wasn’t it          
C.was it
D.did it

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete the sentences.
Parents and teachers play a                 role in helping children become independent.
A.final    
B.quick    
C.deciding 
D.decisive

The football match was ______ . Our team lost the game and we left the stadium quite _________.
A.disappointing – disappointing
B.disappointing – disappointed
C.disappointed – disappointed
D.disappointed – disappointing

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.
Mr. Smith first knew his partner in 2011.
A.Mr. Smith has known his partner since 2011.   
B.Mr. Smith hasn’t known his partner before.
C.Mr. Smith hasn’t known his partner for 6 years.     
D.Mr. Smith has known his partner since 6 years.

IX:
Choose the best answer among A, B, C, D to complete each sentence below:
Tim: “____________”            – Jeycy: “Certainly”
A.Welcome back! 
B.What are you doing there?
C.I’m sorry I am late  
D.May I borrow a pencil , please?

All the cereal grains __________ grow on the prairies and plain of the United State. 
A.but rice
B.excepting rice 
C. but for rice
D.except the rice

Exercise 6. 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 26 to 30.
         According to sociologists, there are several different ways in which a person may be recognized as the leader of a social group in the United States. In the family, traditional cultural patterns confer leadership on one or both of the parents. In other cases, such as friendship groups, one or more persons may gradually (26) ______ as leaders, although there is no formal process of selection. In larger groups, leaders are usually chosen formally through election or recruitment.
       (27) ______ of the common belief that leaders are people with unusual personal ability, decades of research have failed to produce consistent evidence that there is any category of “natural leaders”. It seems that there is no set of personal qualities that all leaders have (28) ______ common; rather, virtually any person may be recognized as a leader if the person has qualities that meet the needs of that particular group.
       Furthermore, although it is commonly supposed that social groups have a single leader, research suggests that there are (29) ______ two different leadership roles that are held by different individuals. Instrumental leadership emphasizes the completion of tasks by a social group. Group members look to instrumental leaders to “get things done”. Expressive leadership, on the other hand, is leadership (30) ______ emphasizes the collective well-being of a social group’s members.
(27) 
A.Whereas                                   
B.Although                
C.In spite   
D.Despite

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.

A.fireplace     
B.outweigh                
C.lifestyle                  
D.folklore

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.
"Leave my house now or I'll call the police!" shouted the lady to the man.
A.The lady threatened to call the police if the man didn't leave her house.
B.The lady said that she would call the police if the man didn't leave her house.
C.The lady told the man that she would call the police if he didn't leave her house.
D.The lady informed the man that she would call the police if he didn't leave her house.