Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
I hope that someone will __________ me a hand with these bags.




A.shake
B.give
C.hold
D.join

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
________sure that you follow the instructions carefully.




A.Believe
B.Try
C.Do
D.Make

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The Red Cross immediately sent help to the ________ of the earthquake.




A.survive
B.survival
C.survived
D.survivors

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Water and air are more and more ________.




A.contaminate
B.contaminated
C.contamination
D.contaminating

I didn’t pay attention to the teacher. I failed to understand the lesson.





A.I would have understood the lesson if I had paid attention to the teacher.
B.Although I paid attention to the teacher, I failed to understand the lesson.
C.I would have understood the lesson if I had failed to pay attention to the teacher.
D.Unless I failed to understand the lesson, I would pay attention to the teacher.

What drove Nigel Newton to publish Joanne's first novel?




A.His daughter's reaction to the book.
B.He took pity on Joanne.
C.The fact that children's books sold well.
D.He was captivated upon reading it.

Many people oppose corporal punishment when educating young children though several of them are naughty.




A.disagree with
B.object to
C.disapprove of
D.advocate

_________ for the fact that he was working abroad, he would willingly have helped with the project.




A.If it were
B.Hadn’t it been
C.were it to be
D.If it hadn’t been

Benjamin Franklin was the editor of the largest newspaper in the colonies, a diplomatic representative to France, and he invented many useful devices.




A.he invented
B.was
C.the largest
D.useful

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 from 36 to 40.
If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children.
However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well – especially if the parents are very supportive of their child. Michael Collins is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. Michael’s mother knows very little about music, but his father plays the trumpet in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling. Winston Smith, Michael’s friend, however, is not so lucky. Both his parents are successful musicians, and they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.
Michael Collins is fortunate in that ______.




A.his father is a musician
B.his parents are quite rich
C.his mother knows little about music
D.his parents help him in a sensible way