Read the following passage on commuting, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 61 to 70.
Commuting is the practice of travelling a long distance to a town or city to work each day, and then travelling home again in the evening. The word commuting comes from commutation ticket, a US rail ticket for repeated journeys, called a season ticket in Britain. Regular travellers are called commuters.
The US has many commuters. A few, mostly on the East Coast, commute by train or subway, but most depend on the car. Some leave home very early to avoid the traffic jams, and sleep in their cars until their office opens. Many people accept a long trip to work so that they can live in quiet bedroom communities away from the city, but another reason is ‘white flight’. In the 1960s most cities began to desegregate their schools, so that there were no longer separate schools for white and black children. Many white families did not want to send their children to desegregated schools, so they moved to the suburbs, which have their own schools, and where, for various reasons, few black people live.
Millions of people in Britain commute by car or train. Some spend two or three hours a day travelling, so that they and their families can live in suburbia or in the countryside. Cities are surrounded by commuter belts. Part of the commuter belt around London is called the stockbroker belt because it contains houses where rich business people live. Some places are becoming dormitory towns, because people sleep there but take little part in local activities.
Most commuters travel to and from work at the same time, causing the morning and evening rush hours, when buses and trains are crowded and there are traffic jams on the roads. Commuters on trains rarely talk to each other and spend their journey reading, sleeping or using their mobile phones, though this is not popular with other passengers. Increasing numbers of people now work at home some days of the week, linked to their offices by computer, a practice called telecommuting.
Cities in both Britain and the US are trying to reduce the number of cars coming into town each day. Some companies encourage car pooling (called car sharing in Britain), an arrangement for people who live and work near each other to travel together. Some US cities have a public service that helps such people to contact each other, and traffic lanes are reserved for car-pool vehicles. But cars and petrol/gas are cheap in the US, and many people prefer to drive alone because it gives them more freedom. In Britain many cities have park-and-ride schemes, car parks on the edge of the city from which buses take drivers into the centre.

(Extracted from Oxford Guide to British and American Culture, Oxford University Press, 2000)
The word “it” in the last paragraph refers to ______.
A.car pool
B.travelling together
C.driving alone
D.petrol/gas

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 1 to 10.
The texting pigeons
Not everybody recognizes the benefits of new developments in communications technology. Indeed, some people fear that text messaging may actually be having a negative (1)_____ on young people's communication and language skills, especially when we hear that primary school children may be at (2)______ of becoming addicted to the habit. So widespread has texting become, however, that even pigeons have started doing it. (3) _____, in this case, it's difficult to view the results as anything but positive.

Twenty of the birds are about to (4) ______ to the skies with the task of measuring air pollution, each (5) _____ with sensor equipment and a mobile phone. The (6) _____ made by the sensors will be automatically (7) _____ into text messages and beamed to the Internet - where they will appear on a dedicated 'pigeon blog'.

The birds will also each have a GPS receiver and a camera to capture aerial photos, and researchers are building a tiny 'pigeon kit' containing all these (8)_____. Each bird will carry these in a miniature backpack, (9) _____ , that is, from the camera, which will hang around its neck.
The data the pigeons text will be displayed in the (10) _____of an interactive map, which will provide local residents with up-to-the-minute information on their local air quality.
__________
A.danger
B.threat
C.risk
D.peril

Choose the word that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in the following questions
The notice should be put in the most conspicuous place so that all the students cab be well-informed.
A.popular
B.beautiful
C.suspicious
D.easily seen

Choose the word that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in the following questions
The history professor gave a synopsis of the events leading to World War I.
A.sight
B.summary
C.report
D.discussion

Choose the word that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in the following questions
I take my hat off to all those people who worked hard to get the contract.
A.respect
B.encourage
C.congratulate
D.welcome

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Hung: __________ Hoa: Thanks. I’m glad you like it. My sister gave it to me yesterday.
A.What a fashionable dress you are wearing!
B.Oh! I like your fashionable dress
C.Oh, I think you have a fashionable dress!
D.Your fashionable dress must be expensive.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
John: More peas? Jack: __________
A.Help yourself to them.
B.No, that’ll do. Thank you.
C.No more available.
D.My honor.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the answer to each of the questions.
Telecommuting is a form of computer communication between employees’ homes and offices. For employees whose jobs involve sitting at a terminal or word processor entering data or typing reports, the location of the computer is of no consequence. If the machine can communicate over telephone lines, when the work is completed, employees can dial the office computer and transmit the material to their employers. A recent survey in USA Today estimates that there are approximately 8,7 million telecommuters. Although the numbers are rising annually, the trend does not appear to be as significant as predicted when Business Week published “The Portable Executive” as its cover story a few years ago. Why hasn’t telecommuting become more popular?
Clearly, change simply takes time. But in addition, there has been actise resistance on the part of many managers. These executives claim that supervising the telecommuters in a large work force scattered across the country would be too difficultor at least, systems for managing them are not yet developed, thereby complicating the manager’s responsibilities.
It is also true that employees who are given the option of telescommuting are reluctant to accept the opportunity. Most people feel that they need regular interaction with a group, and many are concerned that they will not have the same consideration for advancement if they are not more visible in the office setting. Some people feel that even when a space in their homes is set aside asawork area, they never really get away front the office.
The reason why telecommuting has not become popular is that the employees _________.
A.need regular interaction with their families
B.are ignorant of telecommuting
C.feel that a work area in their home is assay from the office
D.are worried about the promotion if they an not seen at the office

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Mary: I didn’t get the job! Tom: __________.
A.Good heavens!
B.That’s brilliant
C.Same to you.
D.Never mind, better luck next time!

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
It was a six-hours journey; we were completely exhausted when we arrived.
A.a six-hours
B.completely
C.exhausted
D.we arrived