Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

How long ago _____ to learn French?
A.would you start
B.did you start
C.were you starting
D.have you started

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

I'd rather you ____to the English-speaking club with me this Sunday.
A.came
B.will come
C.come
D.to come

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

No sooner _____ my car than the alarm went off.
A.the thief had touched
B.the thief touched
C.had the thief touched
D.touched the thief

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

____ that she does not want to stay any longer.
A.So homesick does Beth feel
B.Beth feels such homesick
C.Homesick though Beth may feel
D.A little homesick does Beth feel

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

I hope you will ____ notice of what I am going to tell you.
A.gain
B.keep
C.get
D.take

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 61 to 70.

One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media - particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree.
The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication.
When television came along, it proliferated like a population of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more than a million. Today, it's not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day.
What's more, after the traumatic events of September 11,2001, live newscasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen - so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time.
Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to disaster (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the problem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with scare stories about things that possibly might threaten our health, safety, finances, relationships, waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin.
Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma - not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potential trauma - at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourselves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.

According to the passage, our continual exposure to bad news without perspective is obviously _____
A.the result of an overabundance of good news
B.the result of human brain's switch to alarm mode
C.a source of defects in human brain
D.a source of chronic stress

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 61 to 70.

One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media - particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree.
The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication.
When television came along, it proliferated like a population of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more than a million. Today, it's not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day.
What's more, after the traumatic events of September 11,2001, live newscasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen - so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time.
Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to disaster (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the problem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with scare stories about things that possibly might threaten our health, safety, finances, relationships, waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin.
Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma - not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potential trauma - at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourselves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.

What is probably the best title for this passage?
A.The Media - A Major Cause of Stress
B.More Modem Life - More Stress
C.Effective Ways to Beat Stress
D.Developments in Telecommunications

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase for each of the blanks from 71 to 80.

The popular image of student life is of young people with few responsibilities enjoying themselves and (71)_____ very little work. This is often not true. Many older people now study at college or university, sometimes (72)_____ a part-time basis while having a job and looking after a family. These students are often (73)_____ motivated and work very hard .
Younger students are often thought to be lazy and careless about money but this (74)_____ is changing. In Britain reduced government support for higher education means that students can no longer rely on having their expenses (75)_____ for them. Formerly, students received a grant towards their living expenses. Now most can only get a loan (76)_____ has to be paid back. Since 1999 they have paid over $1 000 towards tuition (77)_____ and this amount will increase up to a maximum of $ 3 000. In the US students already (78)_____ pay for tuition and room and board . Many get a financial aid package which may (79)_____ grants, scholarships and loans. The fear of having large debts places (80)_____ pressure on students and many take part-time jobs during the term and work full-time in the vacations.

A.carrying
B.doing
C.making
D.producing

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase for each of the blanks from 71 to 80.

The popular image of student life is of young people with few responsibilities enjoying themselves and (71)_____ very little work. This is often not true. Many older people now study at college or university, sometimes (72)_____ a part-time basis while having a job and looking after a family. These students are often (73)_____ motivated and work very hard .
Younger students are often thought to be lazy and careless about money but this (74)_____ is changing. In Britain reduced government support for higher education means that students can no longer rely on having their expenses (75)_____ for them. Formerly, students received a grant towards their living expenses. Now most can only get a loan (76)_____ has to be paid back. Since 1999 they have paid over $1 000 towards tuition (77)_____ and this amount will increase up to a maximum of $ 3 000. In the US students already (78)_____ pay for tuition and room and board . Many get a financial aid package which may (79)_____ grants, scholarships and loans. The fear of having large debts places (80)_____ pressure on students and many take part-time jobs during the term and work full-time in the vacations.

A.at
B.with
C.for
D.on

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given in each of the following questions.
"You stole my best cassette, Bob!" said Willy.
A.Willy accused Bob for having stolen his best cassette.
B.Willy accused Bob on having stolen his best cassette.
C.Willy accused Bob of having stolen his best cassette.
D.Willy accused Bob to have stolen his best cassette.