Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose from the best answer to complete each sentence.
Sperm whale populations are at risk ______ hunting and their accidental entrapment in fishing nets.
A.because
B.in spite of
C.thanks to
D.due to

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose from the best answer to complete each sentence.
______ air makes people unpleasant to breathe.
A.Pollution
B.Polluting
C.Pollute
D.Polluted

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose from the best answer to complete each sentence.
Lan: I'm leaving for lunch. ______?
Mai: Thanks, but I can't right now. I'm really busy.
A.Do you come
B.Would you like to come
C.Could you come
D.Do you feel like going

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose from the best answer to complete each sentence.
If I had had enough money, I ______ a dictionary.
A.would bought
B.would buy
C.will buy
D.would have bought

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest.
A.abandoned
B.established
C.borrowed
D.threatened

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest.
A.crooked
B.booked
C.looked
D.cooked

Read and choose the best answer.
There are books with fairy tails in many countries. Often the same stories are known and repeated in many languages. Some of the things that happens in these stories are remarkable, although not as remarkable as things that are truly happening in medicine and science today.
Most fairy tails begin with “Once upon a time” and end with “They lived happily ever after”, so we will begin in the same way.
Once upon a time there was a girl called Cinderella who did all the work in the kitchen while her lazy sister did nothing.
One night, her sister went to a ball at the palace. Cinderella was left home, very sad. After a time her fairy godmother appeared and told Cinderella that she could go to the ball- but to return home by midnight.
So she went to the ball in a beautiful dress in a wonderful coach. She danced with the prince but at midnight she ran back home, leaving one of her shoes on the floor. The prince wanted to see her again and went to every house in the capital until he found that the shoe was the right size for Cinderella. She and the prince were married and lived happily ever after.
At the end of the story ________________.
A.Cinderella could go to the ball and it was so happened that she and the prince was married
B.Cinderella’s godmother came to comfort her
C.one of Cinderella’ sisters was married to the prince
D.the prince invited Cinderella to the hall

Read and choose the best answer.
There are books with fairy tails in many countries. Often the same stories are known and repeated in many languages. Some of the things that happens in these stories are remarkable, although not as remarkable as things that are truly happening in medicine and science today.
Most fairy tails begin with “Once upon a time” and end with “They lived happily ever after”, so we will begin in the same way.
Once upon a time there was a girl called Cinderella who did all the work in the kitchen while her lazy sister did nothing.
One night, her sister went to a ball at the palace. Cinderella was left home, very sad. After a time her fairy godmother appeared and told Cinderella that she could go to the ball- but to return home by midnight.
So she went to the ball in a beautiful dress in a wonderful coach. She danced with the prince but at midnight she ran back home, leaving one of her shoes on the floor. The prince wanted to see her again and went to every house in the capital until he found that the shoe was the right size for Cinderella. She and the prince were married and lived happily ever after.
Cinderella was very sad because ________________.
A.her sister did nothing
B.her sister went to a ball and left her at home
C.she did all the work in the kitchen
D.her sister was invited to a hall

Read and choose the best answer.
There are books with fairy tails in many countries. Often the same stories are known and repeated in many languages. Some of the things that happens in these stories are remarkable, although not as remarkable as things that are truly happening in medicine and science today.
Most fairy tails begin with “Once upon a time” and end with “They lived happily ever after”, so we will begin in the same way.
Once upon a time there was a girl called Cinderella who did all the work in the kitchen while her lazy sister did nothing.
One night, her sister went to a ball at the palace. Cinderella was left home, very sad. After a time her fairy godmother appeared and told Cinderella that she could go to the ball- but to return home by midnight.
So she went to the ball in a beautiful dress in a wonderful coach. She danced with the prince but at midnight she ran back home, leaving one of her shoes on the floor. The prince wanted to see her again and went to every house in the capital until he found that the shoe was the right size for Cinderella. She and the prince were married and lived happily ever after.
According to the passage, things truly happening in medicine and science today are_________ things that happened in some fairy tails,
A.more remarkable than
B.less remarkable than
C.as remarkable as
D.not as remarkable as

Read the passage below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space.
Today there are libraries in almost every towns in the world. Even in areas (36)______ there are no libraries, there are often mobile libraries which take boos from one village to (37)______. But in the days when books were copied by hand (38)______ than printed, libraries were very rare. The reason is simple: books took a very long time to produce, and there were far fewer copies of any given work around. The greatest library (39)______ all, that in Alexandia, had 54,000 books.
In the ancient world, this number (40)______ considered huge. It was the first time that anyone had collected so many books from all around the world (41)______ one roof. There are many theories about why these books were lost. (42)______is that the library accidentally burned down. Another is that one of the rulers of the city ordered the books to be burned. They were taken to various places and it took six months to burn them. (43)______ happened, the collection there was priceless. Many of the library’s treasures were lost forever-some books were (44)______ recovered. We cannot even know (45)______ what the library contained.
(45)
A.exactly
B.really
C.detailedly
D.yet