Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 33 to 37.
The importance of fairy tales for children
Fairy tales are the stories that adults, especially parents, tell young children. In view of their name, it is surprising that hardly any of them are actually about fairies. (33) ________ most fairy tales have happy endings, the stories usually deal with very (34) ________ situations - children abandoned in the forest, terrifying giants, cruel stepmothers. However, despite being scared when they are told the stories, children
will often ask to hear them over and over again.
Many psychologists believe that what fairy tales do, in addition to (35) ________ children's
imagination, is to show that there are problems in the world and they can be overcome. Just like adults, children have fears and worries: theirs are of things such as abandonment, loss, injuries, witches. Fairy tales present real problems in a fantasy form (36) ________ children are able to understand. This, it is claimed, allow them to (37) ________ their fears and to realise, if ever in their unconscious mind, that no matter how difficult the circumstances, there are always ways of coping.
(Adopted from “Richmond Practice Tests for Cambridge English: Advanced ”)
(33)




A.Although
B.Despite
C.Because
D.Therefore

The books we borrowed are overdue, but we should return them immediately.




A.The books
B.overdue
C.but
D.immediately

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The film was so intriguing that the audience were all ________ to the screen until the end.




A.stuck
B.hooked
C.glued
D.attached

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Many teenagers like facebooking more than doing sport.




A.Many teenagers like doing sport more than facebooking.
B.Many teenagers like doing sport as much as facebooking.
C.Many teenagers don’t like facebooking as much as doing sport.
D.Many teenagers don’t like doing sport as much as facebooking.

Choose the best answer.
Many women have to suffer ____ because of poisonous ____.




A.children/ chemistry
B.childhood/ chemist
C.childless/ chemical
D.childlessness/ chemicals

Choose the best answer.
Everyone selected to serve on this jury ___ willing to give up a lot of time.




A.has to be
B.have to be
C.are
D.were

Choose the best answer.
Either you can talk to him, ____ I will.




A.or
B.and
C.but
D.if

Choose the best answer.
She ____ a sort of breakdown some years ago, and since then she ____ a special treatment.




A.had/ had
B.had/ has had
C.was having/ has had
D.had/ had had

Choose the best answer.
Eric appreciated ___ a birthday card from his mother.




A.get
B.to get
C.getting
D.got

Task 1. Choose the best answer.
____ I had brought my laptop to the meeting yesterday.




A.If
B.If only
C.Even if
D.As if