Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 5 to 18.
______, we stay inside the house.
A.It is a stormy day     
B.The storm day it was
C.It being a stormy day   
D.It was a stormy day

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 5 to 18.
There are ______ that not only governments but also individuals should join hands to tackle.
A.such many environmental problems    
B.too numerous environmental problems
C.such a lot of environmental problems  
D.so fewer environmental problems

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Chemical engineering is based on (A) the principles (B) of physics, chemists (C), and mathematics (D).
A.on
B.principles
C.chemists
D.mathematics

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
In the early twenty (A) century, there was considerable (B) interest among sociologists in the fact that (C) in the United States, the family was losing its traditional (D) role.
A.twenty
B.considerable
C.that
D.traditional

Some marine animals are dangerous to humans.
A.in the mountain   
B.in the ocean 
C.in the forest    
D.in the house

I. Choose the word that has the underlined (letters) pronounced differ­ently from the others.

A.undersea                 
B.ocean                     
C.reveal                    
D.breathe

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
John got a terminal illness. He couldn’t get out of the bed on his own.
A.Such was John’s illness that he could never get out of the bed on his own.
B.John’s illness is too terminal for him to get out of the bed on his own.
C.Were it not for his terminal illness, John would be able to get out of bed on his own.
D.No sooner had John’s illness got terminal than he could not get out of the bed on his own.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Thanks to sheer hard work (A), the young entrepreneur has successfully managed (B) to launch (C) a magazine of his own (D).
A.hard work 
B.successfully
C.launch
D.of his own

Read the following passage and mark the letter Ay B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29.
In many countries of Northern Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, Northern Russia, and the Baltic states, ice swimming is closely connected with the tradition of sauna, (25)______ has led to the creation of a new activity where stays in the sauna are (26)______ with quick 'pauses' in ice water. In Russia, ice swimmers are called what can be literally translated as 'walruses '. The north of Europe, (27)______, is not the only place where winter swimming is practised regularly. A large ice swimming movement exists in the UK, based in a famous location: the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park in London. In Harbin, Northern China, about 200,000 people ice-swim in the Songhua River every winter. The oldest ice swimming club in the United States, the Coney Island Polar Bear Club of New York, organises an annual (28)______ on New Year's Day. In Canada, 'Polar Bear Swims; 'Plunges' or 'Dips' are a New Year's Day tradition in (29)______ communities as well, the biggest one taking place in Vancouver since 1920.
(29) 
A.numbering
B.numerate
C.numerable
D.numerous

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.
As they were standing quite far away, Jeremy couldn’t make out what his friends were saying.
A.create                        
B.hear                          
C.imagine                     
D.assume