Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete sentences.
Despite the................ by many critics that reality TV would be a very short –lived phenomenon, it is still increasing in popularity.  
A.suggest 
B.suggesting
C.suggestion
D.suggested

The ______ source of power in 1970 was from natural gas with almost 25%.
A.most second important 
B.second most important
C.second important most 
D.most important second

Choose the word that best fits blank.
Thailand ________ Vietnam just one goal in the final in The 22nd SEA Games.
A.won     
B.beat  
C.knocked   
D.scored

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
Certainly no creature in the sea is odder than the common sea cucumber. All living creature, especially human beings, have their peculiarities, but everything about the little sea cucumber seems unusual. What else can be said about a bizarre animal that, among other eccentricities, eats mud, feeds almost continuously day and night but can live without eating for long periods, and can be poisonous but is considered supremely edible by gourmets?
For some fifty million years, despite all its eccentricities, the sea cucumber has subsisted on its diet of mud. It is adaptable enough to live attached to rocks by its tube feet, under rocks in shallow water, or on the surface of mud flats. Common in cool water on both Atlantic and Pacific shores, it has the ability to such up mud or sand and digest whatever nutrients are present.
Sea cucumbers come in a variety of colors, ranging from black to reddish-brown to sand-color and nearly white. One form even has vivid purple tentacle. Usually the creatures are cucumber-shaped-hence their name-and because they are typically rock inhabitants, this shape, combine with flexibility, enables them to squeeze into crevices where they are safe from predators and ocean currents.
Although they have voracious appetites, eating day and night, sea cucumbers have the capacity to become quiescent and live at a low metabolic rate-feeding sparingly or not at all for long periods, so that the marine organisms that provide their food have a chance to multiply. If it were not for this faculty, they would devour all the food available in a short time and would probably starve themselves out of existence.
But the most spectacular thing about the sea cucumber is the way it defends itself. Its major enemies are fish and crabs, when attacked, it squirts all its internal organs into the water. It also casts off attached structures such as tentacles. The sea cucumber will eviscerate and regenerate itself if it is attached or even touched; it will do the same if the surrounding water temperature is too high or if the water becomes too polluted.
The phrase “casts off” is closest in meaning to
A.gets rid of  
B.grows again
C.grabs      
D.uses as a weapon

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.
The new restaurant looks good. However, it seems to have few customers.
A.In order to get more business, the new restaurant should improve its appearance.
B.If it had a few more customers, the new restaurant would look better.
C.The new restaurant would have more customers if it looked better.
D.In spite of its appearance, the new restaurant does not appear to attract much business.

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.opponent        
B.compose  
C.podium 
D.advocate

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.
Next week, when there will be (A) an English club held (B) here, I will give (C) you more information about (D) it.
A.there will be
B.held
C.will give
D.about

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
She is so  ______ to her children that she has decided to quit her job to stay at home and look after them.
A.persistent 
B.kind  
C.responsible  
D.devoted

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
What were some of the things that brought ______ the Resolution?
A.around    
B.up    
C.on        
D.about

Commercial airliners do not fly in the vicinity of volcanic eruptions because even a small amount of volcanic ash can damage its engine.
A.in the vicinity
B. amount
C.ash
D.its