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.
Despite having a bigger and cheaper choice of healthy foods, many Americans have lost a lot of weight.
A.acquire          
B.win               
C.gained           
D.obtain

______hot day it is today!
A.How
B.What
C.What a
D.Such

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  30 to 34.
For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming back to an empty house. Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hide. But all of them have something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called “latchkey children”. They are children who look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad condition has become a subject of concern.
Lynette Long was once the principal of an elementary school. She said, “we had a school rule against wearing jewelry. A lot of kids had chains around their necks with keys attached. I was constantly telling them to put the keys inside shirts. There were so many keys; it never came to my mind what they meant.” Slowly, she learned that they were house keys.
She and her husband began talking to the children who had keys. They learned of the effect working couples and single parents were having on their children. Fear was the biggest problem faced by children at home alone. One in three latchkey children the Longs talked to reported being frightened. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safety
The most common way latchkey children deal with their fears is by hiding. They may hide in a shower stall, under a bed or in a closet. The second is TV. They often turn the volume up. It’s hard to get statistics on latchkey children, the Longs have learned. Most parents are slow to admit that they leave their children alone.
One thing that the children in the passage share is that                .
A.they all wear jewelry    
B.they spend part of each day alone
C.they all watch TV       
D.they are from single-parent families

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underline part is pronounced differently from that of the others.

A.knowledge
B.flower
C.shower
D.coward

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.
Cambridge University is considering axing compulsory written exams, allowing students to use laptops or iPads instead, after tutors complained that students' handwriting is becoming illegible. Academics say the move, which would bring an end to over 800 years of tradition, has come about because students rely too heavily on laptops in lectures, and are losing the ability to write by hand.
Dr Sarah Pearsall, a senior lecturer at Cambridge University, said handwriting is becoming a ''lost art'' among the current generation of students. She added, ''It's increasingly hard for our examiners to read students' scripts. Those with illegible writing are forced to come back to their college during the summer holidays to read their answers aloud in the presence of two university administrators. It's extraordinarily commendable that the University is considering reforms to its examination practices.''
Sir Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, said it is inevitable that universities will move to computers as handwriting deteriorates in the coming years. ''We have to accept the reality. Handwriting has now become an optional, not a necessary, part of education. There simply isn't the same time in the curriculum for learning elegant, beautiful handwriting. Life is so quick now. Everybody writes as if they were a doctor writing a prescription,'' he said. ''Handwriting is not necessary for great thought, great English, or great intelligence. Some of our finest wordsmiths today write using laptops, and we have to fight to preserve what is really important, such as the use of great English or great sentence structures.''
Others, however, were not very positive about the move. Tracey Trussell, a handwriting expert, urged Cambridge to ensure that students continue to write by hand. She said, ''It's vital that people continue to write by hand. Writing by hand improves memory and equates to a higher rate of comprehension and information retention.'' There is also concern that schools could follow Cambridge's example by moving away from handwriting. Dr Jane Medwell, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, is concerned that scrapping handwritten exams in universities could prompt ''downward curriculum pressure'' on primary and secondary schools to follow suit.
(Adapted from http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
As mentioned in paragraph 4, writing by hand can ______.
A.enhance the ability to remember information
B.guarantee desirable academic performance
C.facilitate the process of information exchange
D.relieve students of unnecessary pressure

Exercise 3. Choose the best answer to complete each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
_______ logo of the 22nd SEA Games is the stylization of Lac bird, the ancient bird pictured of the face of Ngoc Lu kettledrum, _______ most special and typical relic of the ancient Vietnamese culture.
A.A / the      
B.The / the      
C.Ø / Ø      
D.The / Ø

Stop that nonsense,______
A.don’t you
B.do you
C.will you
D.aren’t you

Choose the correct answer (marked A, B, C or D) to complete each of the following questions.
It is time___________.
A.the children to go to bed       
B.for the children to go to bed
C.for the children to going to bed 
D.for the children go to bed

Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences.
I thought that I could complete my homework and go to the movie. But I didn’t have time to do both                    , and I missed the movie.
A.after all       
B.above all  
C.before long  
D.every other

The band’s first album is due for release later this month.
A.Late
B.Expected
C.Improper
D.Early