Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
______ he arrived at the bus stop when the bus came.




A.No longer has
B.No sooner had
C.Not until had
D.Hardly had

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 question s from 45 to 54.
Early peoples had no need of engineering works to supply their water. Hunters and nomads camped near natural sources of fresh water, and populations were so sparse that pollution of the water supply was not a serious problem. After community life developed and agricultural villages became urban centres, the problem of supplying water became important for inhabitants of a city, as well as for irrigation of the farms surrounding the city. Irrigation works were known in prehistoric times, and before 2000 BC the rulers of Babylonia and Egypt constructed systems of dams and canals to impound the flood waters of the Euphrates and Nile rivers, controlling floods and providing irrigation water throughout the dry season. Such irrigation canals also supplied water for domestic purposes. The first people to consider the sanitation of their water supply were the ancient Romans, who constructed a vast system of aqueducts to bring the clean waters of the Apennine Mountains into the city and built basins and filters along these mains to ensure the clarity of the water. The construction of such extensive water-supply systems declined when the Roman Empire disintegrated, and for several centuries local springs and wells formed the main source of domestic and industrial water.
The invention of the force pump in England in the middle of the 16th century greatly extended the possibilities of development of water-supply systems. In London, the first pumping waterworks was completed in 1562; it pumped river water to a reservoir about 37 m above the level of the River Thames and from the reservoir the water was distributed by gravity, through lead pipes, to buildings in the vicinity.
Increased per-capita demand has coincided with water shortages in many countries. Southeast England, for example, receives only 14 per cent of Britain's rainfall, has 30 per cent of its population, and has experienced declining winter rainfall since the 1980s.
In recent years a great deal of interest has been shown in the conversion of seawater to fresh water to provide drinking water for very dry areas, such as the Middle East. Several different processes, including distillation, electrodialysis, reverse osmosis, and direct-freeze evaporation, have been developed for this purpose. Some of these processes have been used in large facilities in the United States. Although these processes are successful, the cost of treating seawater is much higher than that for treating fresh water.
From A. Briggs’ article on culture , Microsoft® Student 2008
The word “impound” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to “______”.




A.supply
B.irrigate
C.provide
D.drain

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.
Higher Education in the UK Students who have successfully completed an A-level course may go to university to do (35)_____ three- or four-year course leading to a first degree such as Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Science (BSc), etc. They apply to several universities which then (36)_____ an offer of a place specifying the minimum grades the student needs to obtain in the A level subjects studied. Higher education is not (37)_____. In principle, students have to pay a contribution to the cost of teaching (tuition fees) and have also to pay their living costs (maintenance). The government provides (38)_____ to help them pay for university education which have to be paid back from earnings once their income reaches a certain (39)_____. In recent years government policy has been to (40)_____ the percentage of 18-year olds (41)_____ go to university, which is now, at 40%, double the 1990 figure, but this growth has been at the (42)______ of the amount of financial support given to individual students. Universities receive money (43)_____ the state for each student and are responsible for employing staff and deciding which courses to offer. The head of a university, who is (44)_____ for its management, is called a vice-chancellor.




A.liable
B.responsible
C.answerable
D.chargeable

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.
Higher Education in the UK Students who have successfully completed an A-level course may go to university to do (35)_____ three- or four-year course leading to a first degree such as Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Science (BSc), etc. They apply to several universities which then (36)_____ an offer of a place specifying the minimum grades the student needs to obtain in the A level subjects studied. Higher education is not (37)_____. In principle, students have to pay a contribution to the cost of teaching (tuition fees) and have also to pay their living costs (maintenance). The government provides (38)_____ to help them pay for university education which have to be paid back from earnings once their income reaches a certain (39)_____. In recent years government policy has been to (40)_____ the percentage of 18-year olds (41)_____ go to university, which is now, at 40%, double the 1990 figure, but this growth has been at the (42)______ of the amount of financial support given to individual students. Universities receive money (43)_____ the state for each student and are responsible for employing staff and deciding which courses to offer. The head of a university, who is (44)_____ for its management, is called a vice-chancellor.




A.rise
B.remain
C.increase
D.decrease

“You can go to the party tonight______ you are sober when you come home.”




A.as soon as
B.as long as
C.as well as
D.as far as

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet t o indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
He was too sure of himself to pay ______ to the warnings against the danger.




A.notice
B.attention
C.respect
D.recognition

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet t o indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
He ______ till the early hours of the next morning listening to pop music.




A.took me up
B.kept me up
C.caught me up
D.held me up

______I might, I couldn’t open the door.




A.Try as
B.However hard
C.As try
D.No matter

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.builds
B.destroys
C.occurs
D.prevents

A.advertise
B.advantage
C.adventure
D.adverbial