I can’t remember ___ people were killed in the explosion, but it was quite a few.
A.how much
B.how many
C.how long
D. how often

___ the results of this study show is ____ happier people live longer, healthier lives; so it is important to try to think positively about everything in life.
A.How - who
B.What - that
C.Which - how much
D.When - how long

___ he is the son of a wealthy senator helped him get into the prestigious university, because his grades weren’t good enough for him to qualify on his own.
A.How
B.Whether or not
C.The fact that
D.What

It’s going to be a long journey, ___ we travel, because we can only take the plane as far as the nearest airport, which is more than 200 miles away from the area, and then we will have to take the coach.
A.how far

how long
B.however
C.how long
D.how much

Her career was all ___ she cared about, ___ made her so successful.
A.what - which
B.what - that
C.that - that
D.that - which

The guy from the service department showed me ___ to operate the machine, but I don’t remember ___ this knob is for.
A.why - which
B.how - what
C.whom - when
D.when - how

Many psychological problems experienced during the Vietnam War by American soldiers were caused by the fact that many young men were not sure exactly ___ they were fighting for.
A.why
B.how
C.where
D.what

Our experts agree that one tenth ___ the terrorists put into the parcel would have blown up the judge’s car.
A.of what
B.of that
C.which
D.of that what

Wait a minute, Susan! We cannot allow the pupils to read ___ they would pick themselves. They would end up with science fiction and cheap love stories.
A.only that what
B.just what    
C.just which
D.only that

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each question from 51 to 60.
           Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists don’t offer the world new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false. Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift. It wasn’t the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsensebriskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous  juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.
          Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear and read in popular media is sanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold the ideas that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity. Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they don’t hear them expressed.
According to the passage, there is a need for satire because people need to be_________.
A.informed about new scientific developments.
B.exposed to original philosophies when they’re formulated.
C.reminded that popular ideas are often inaccurate.
D.told how they can be of service to their communities.