Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks from 38 to 42.
The United States has many different types of families. While most American families are traditional, (38)_         a father, mother and one or more children, 22 percent of all American families in 1998 were headed by one parent, usually a woman. In a few families in the United States, there are no children. These childish couples may believe that they would not make good parents; they may want freedom from the (39)           of childbearing; or, perhaps they (40)          physically able to have children. Other families in the United States have one adult(41)           a stepparent. A stepmother or stepfather is a person who joins a family by marrying a father or motherAmericans tolerate and accept these different types of families. In the United States, people have the right to privacy and Americans do not believe in telling other Americans what type of family group they must belong to. They respect each other’s (42) _  _ regarding family groups. Families are very important to Americans

A.ideal
B.choices
C.feeling
D.chance

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions

A.landed
B.filled
C.suited
D.wicked

“ Were you pleased with the translation?” 

“Yes. The job was ________.”
A.amazing satisfactory
B.amazingly satisfactory
C.amazing satisfactorily
D.satisfactory amazing

Prevention is better than ...............
A.treatment        
B.pills     
C.cure    
D.doctors

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

A.daunted      
B.installed      
C.committed  
D.confided

The essay is too short. It can’t be given a high grade.  
A.It is too short an essay to earn a high grade.
B.The essay needs to be shorter to receive a high grade.
C.Even if it were longer, the essay wouldn’t get a high grade.
D.The essay is so short that it can be given a high grade.

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase. 
Nellie Ross of Wyoming was the first woman ______ governor in theUnited States.
A.who elected            
B.to be elected            
C.was elected         
D.her election as

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
In my experience, freshmen today are different from those I knew when I started as a counsellor and professor 25 years ago. College has always been demanding both academically and socially. But students now are less mature and often not ready for the responsibility of being in college.
It is really too easy to point the finger at parents who protect their children from life’s obstacle. Parents, who handle every difficulty and every other responsibility for their children writing admission essays to picking college courses, certainly may contribute to their children’s lack of coping strategies. But we can look even more broadly to the social trends of today.
 How many people do you know who are on medication to prevent anxiety or depression? The number of students who arrive at college already medicated for unwanted emotions has increased dramatically in the past 10 years. We, as a society, don’t want to “feel” anything unpleasant and we certainly don’t want our children to “suffer”.
 The resulting problem is that by not experiencing negative emotions, one does not learn the necessary skills to tolerate and negotiate adversity. As a psychologist, I am well aware of the fact that some individuals suffer from depression and anxiety and can benefit from treatment, but I question the growing number of medicated adolescents today.
 Our world is more stressful in general because of the current economic and political realities, but I don’t believe that the college experience itself is more intense today than that of the past 10 years. What I do think is that many students are often not prepared to be young “adults” with all the responsibilities of life.
 What does this mean for college faculty and staff? We are required to assist in the basic parenting of these students – the student who complains that the professor didn’t remind her of the due date for an assignment that was clearly listed on the syllabus and the student who cheats on an assignment in spite of careful instructions about plagiarism.
 As college professors, we have to explain what it means to be an independent college student before we can even begin to teach. As parents and teachers we should expect young people to meet challenges. To encourage them in this direction, we have to step back and let them fail and pick themselves up and move forward. This approach needs to begin at an early age so that college can actually be a passage to independent adulthood.
According to the writer, failure in life and less support from parents will ______.
A.help students to learn to stand on their own feet
B.allow students to learn the first lesson in their lives
C.defeat students from the very beginning
D.discourage students and let them down forever

(29) _______
A.take                
B.show                  
C.in   
D.during

 That little joke really got me into deep water. 
A.That little joke really caused a lot of trouble for me. 
B.That little joke really brought me a lot of pleasure. 
C.That little joke really made me fall into the water. 
D.That little joke really made me enjoy being in the water.