Choose the underlined part among A,B,C or D that needs correcting.
There was (A) a gradual raise (B) in the number of literate (C) males and females in (D) the Lowlands.
A.was
B.raise
C.literate
D.in

Read the passage and choose the correct answers
There are many proverbs about friends and friendship, such as “True friendship is like sound health; the value of its seldom know until it is lost”, and “A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out”. When you read these quotes, stop and think about your friendship. Do you and your friends act in a caring way towards one another, do you respect them and do they respect you, but most of all do you value the relationship and love spending time together? Friendship is more than just hanging out together and gossiping about other people. True friendship is when two people have mutual respect for one another, and really care about the each other’s feelings and dreams. You need to be able to be honest with your friends. If there is ever a time when you feel that you cannot tell them the truth, for fear that they will be mad or will not understand, then they are not true friends. Friends share with each other important things that they would not share with others. Friends also care about each other, stick up for one another and enjoy spending time together.
The author advised us________________.
A.not to tell a secret to a friend.
B.to respect our friends.
C.not to tell a friend about important things.
D.to make friends to gossip

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The children enjoyed ________ on fishing trips.
A.taking
B.to be taken
C.being taken
D.having taken

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.
John always dreams________ a doctor.
A.for becoming
B.to being become
C.of becoming
D.to becoming

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Mary should have apologised________ being late this morning, but she did not.
A.about
B.at
C.for
D.up

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The doctor said ________ the patient did not stop smoking, he’d be seriously ill.
A.that if
B.whether
C.if that
D.as if

I like seeing the..............crashing onto the beach.
A.hurricane
B.typhoon
C.tornado
D.waves

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.
______ is the limitation of the number of children born.
A.Population
B.Resource
C.Birth rate
D.Birthcontrol

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.
If you had taken my advice, we________ our way.
A.will not lose
B.would not lose
C.would not have lost
D.had lost

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to compete the following passage.
In some countries there is negative population growth, which means that the population (21)_______, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, mainly due to low birth rates, and Southern Africa due to the high number of HIV-related deaths. Within the next decade, Japan and Western Europe are also (22)_______to encounter negative population growth due to sub-replacement fertility rates.
Population growth which exceeds the carrying capacity of an area or environment (23)_______in overpopulation. Conversely, such areas may be considered “underpopulated” if the population is not large (24)_______to maintain an economic system. The future of world’s population could be significantly affected by the worldwide HIV/AIDS pandemic. In Africa, birth rates are already the highest in the world, especially in sub-Sahara Africa. But if HIV/AIDS is controlled or even eradicated, the world’s population could increase (25)_______faster than predicated.
(21)______
A.increases
B.grows
C.raises
D.decreases