It’s not easy to ______________ all new words you come across when reading. (memory)
A.
B.
C.
D.

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.
Rain pounded down on the roof. I was trying to read but the sound was too loud. I couldn’t help myself from being a little grumpy. I wanted to be outside playing, but the rain was keeping me inside.
My mom had gone to the grocery store, and my dad was spending Saturday at the office. I had planned to spend the day hiking, but Mother Nature decided that today was the perfect day for rain.
It meant that I would have to entertain myself. I spent most of the morning playing with my stuffed animals and reading. I was sitting next to the window staring out when I got a strange idea: why not just go outside anyway?
I put on my boots and a big raincoat and stepped out into the wet world. It was raining hard but it wasn’t cold. All I could hear were raindrops and the wind. I decided to go on my hike anyway.
My feet didn’t make any sound on the wet ground and the forest seemed different. I went to my favourite place and sat down. In the summer, my best friend Ellen and I would come here and sit for hours. It was our special place. All of a sudden, I thought I heard someone shouting my name. I turned and saw Ellen walking up behind me.
“Oh my Gosh! It’s really you, Martha!” she said. “I can’t believe that you are out here right now. I thought I would be the only person crazy enough to go for a walk in the rain.”
I was very happy to have some company. We decided that hiking in the rain was just as fun as hiking in the sunshine. We planned on hiking in the rain again.
The word “company”  in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to   
A.time     
B.space       
C.friend    
D.business

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
This surface                     rough but it                    smooth.
A. feels/touches 
B.appears/tastes    
C.sees/smells 
D.looks/feels

Choose the word or phrase that best fits the gap in each sentence. 
Whole-grain food products  __________ in most large supermarkets across the United States and Canada.
 
A.that can be purchased now  
B.purchased now
C.can now be purchased    
D.we can purchase now

Natural selection_____ .
A.allows living objects to adapt to environment
B.processes the environment 
C.evolves the environment
D.is dynamic

They had to walk up a very _________ hill every day.
A.stepped
B.sharp
C. steep 
D.straight

Read the passage and choose the correct answers to fill in the blanks.
            In the United states of American, English is (31)_______the national language, the language of the American nation. Four hundred years ago, some English people sailed to the North American to live (32)________ and they (33)_________ the English language to this new country. After them came people from all the countries of Europe. And they all learned English (34)_________they made it a little different from British English. In the USA now people speak American English. Very many words are the (35)___________ in American and in British English, but the American people do not speak the English language  in the same way as people in England.

A.alike       
B.difficult                  
C.same                       
D.difference

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The baby doesn't cry so much now but she.......cry every night.
 
A.used   
B.use 
C.use to   
D.used to

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
People in the sixth century braved the turbulent seas and  treacherous storms of the Atlantic Ocean in small leather boats.
 
A.marvelous 
B.cautious    
C.desirous 
D.perilous

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the numbered blanks.
THE LIFE OF COUNTRY VET
Don Strange, who works as a vet in northern England, leads a busy life. As well as having to treat pets which are unwell, he often visits farms where problems of (33) _______ kinds await him. He has lost (34) _______ of the number of times he has been called out at midnight to give advice to a farmer with sick sheep or cows.
Recently, a television company chose Don as the subject of a documentary program it was making about the life of a country vet. The program showed the difficult situations Don faces every day such as helping a cow to give birth or winning the trust of an aggressive dog (35) _______ needs an injection. Not all of Don’s patients are domestic animals, (36) _______, and in the program people saw him helping an owl which had a damaged wing. It also showed Don holding a meeting with villagers concerned about the damage a new road might do to their (37) _______ environment.
(33)
A.various     
B.variety                 
C.variation             
D.varied