The word “focus” in the last paragraph can be replaced with__________.




A.central activity
B.primary theme
C.headline
D.biggest importance

The word “demanded” is closest in meaning to ________.




A.ordered
B.required
C.reported
D.questioned

___________(34)




A.of
B.about
C.with
D.for

He thinks you are _________ your time looking for a job in this town. There’s not much to do here.




A.wasting
B.missing
C.losing
D.spending

____ your help, I wouldn’t have got the scholarship.




A.If I had had
B.Had not it been for
C.But for
D.Unless I had

Deborah is going to take extra lessons to_____ what she missed while she was away.




A.catch up on
B.cut down on
C.take up with
D.put up with

Building thousands of years ago, the ancient palace is popular with modern tourists




A.Building
B.ago
C.the ancient
D.popular with

Mary is pretty but Camry is prettier -> Camry is the ……..




A.
B.
C.
D.

VIII- Read the following passage taken from Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 8th edition, and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 55 to 64
John F. Kennedy
(John Fitzgerald Kenedy 1917-1963) the 35th US President( 1961-1963). He was the country’s youngest president and the first Roman Catholic ever ___(55)___. He was ___(56)___
Known informally as Jack Kennedy and JFK. His wife was Jackie Kenedy. He won a medal for ___(57)___ during World War 2, and was elected to the US House of Representatives (19947-1953) and then ___(58)___, the US Senate ( 1952-1960).
Kennedy greatest success ___(59)___ President was in ___(60)___ the Cuban missile crisis and his worst failure was over the Bay of Pigs incident. He worked ___(61)___ his brother, US Attorney General Robert Kennedy , to support the civil rights ___(62)___ . He was murdered in Dallas, probably by Lee Harvey Oswald, in one of the most shocking events in US history. Some people believed that others were responsible for his murder, but ___(63)___ has ever been ___(64)___ proved. Kennedy’ book, Profiles in Courage (1956), won a Pulitzer Prize.
“And so, my fellow Americans : ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
JOHN F KENNEDY




A.to be electing
B.elected
C.electing
D.to be elected

_______(60)




A.suits
B.makes
C.agrees
D.appeals