Choose the best answer to each of the following questions
You should change your wet shoes,________ you’ll catch cold.
A.therefore
B.or
C.if
D.unless

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others

A.social
B.science
C.sour
D.sure

Read the passage and choose the best answers.
            Brunei is one of the smallest countries in the world. Its population is only 25,000 and most of them live in Bandar Seri Begawan (the capital city with the longest name in the world!) It is also the richest country in Asia and maybe the richest country in the world because it has a lot of oil and natural gas which it exports to Japan. Every week huge tankers carry oil and gas from the oil-fields of Brunei to Japan.
            The head of the state in Brunei is Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah. He is the richest man in the world. He has two wives and each lives in their own beautiful palace. The first wife lives in the biggest palace in the world which has 200 rooms. The Sultan has more than 200 cars and he also has hundreds of horses.
Brunei is_____________________.
 
A.among the smallest country in the world   
B.a country with a dense population
C.the smallest countries in the world   
D.is a capital city

Choose the underlined pert that needs correction
Because of him request and his bothering me all the time, I’m finishing the project myself.
      
A.him  
B.project  
C.bothering    
D.the time

Choose the best option
I have known a very nice girl _________ older sister is a famous actress.
           
A.what
B.who
C.whose
D.whom

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
New cycling schemes
The County Council has decided to give a higher (31)______ to cycling and agreed a new strategy to guide the way ahead in East Sussex.
Cycling is a (32) ______, healthy and environmentally friendly form of transport. It is (33) ______ to make it safer, more convenient, and to increase the proportion of journeys made by bicycle.
Cycling is being encouraged both for utility purposes (such as journeys to work, school and the shops) and for recreation trips for exercise and enjoyment, including longer trips by tour. Recent cycle schemes carried out in conjunction with District Councils and other bodies (34) ______ the Brighton and Hove seafront route and the Cross Levels Way cycle route, in Eastbourne.
Local people will be consulted as the strategy is implemented. The County council will work with local cycling and other groups, and a countrywide Cycling Forum will be formed to (35) ______ that all bodies concerned with cycling are in regular (36) ______ .
The (37) ______ of the Cycling strategy are given in a leaflet, and a copy of the full strategy document can be seen in County Council Public Libraries.
(33) _____
A.written
B.convinced      
C.spoken  
D.intended

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
New cycling schemes
The County Council has decided to give a higher (31)______ to cycling and agreed a new strategy to guide the way ahead in East Sussex.
Cycling is a (32) ______, healthy and environmentally friendly form of transport. It is (33) ______ to make it safer, more convenient, and to increase the proportion of journeys made by bicycle.
Cycling is being encouraged both for utility purposes (such as journeys to work, school and the shops) and for recreation trips for exercise and enjoyment, including longer trips by tour. Recent cycle schemes carried out in conjunction with District Councils and other bodies (34) ______ the Brighton and Hove seafront route and the Cross Levels Way cycle route, in Eastbourne.
Local people will be consulted as the strategy is implemented. The County council will work with local cycling and other groups, and a countrywide Cycling Forum will be formed to (35) ______ that all bodies concerned with cycling are in regular (36) ______ .
The (37) ______ of the Cycling strategy are given in a leaflet, and a copy of the full strategy document can be seen in County Council Public Libraries.
(35) _____
A.improve 
B.ensure
C.maintain       
D.assert

______ after trying three times, he passed the examination.
A.Last of all
B.Lastly
C.Last
D.At last

The word “prevails” is closest in meaning to _________.
A.dominates 
B.provides  
C.develops      
D. invests

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.
            For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming back to an empty house. Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hide. But all of them have something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called “latchkey children”. They are children who look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad condition has become a subject of concern.
            Lynette Long was once the principal of an elementary school. She said, “we had a school rule against wearing jewelry. A lot of kids had chains around their necks with keys attached. I was constantly telling them to put the keys inside shirts. There were so many keys; it never came to my mind what they meant.” Slowly, she learned that they were house keys.
            She and her husband began talking to the children who had keys. They learned of the effect working couples and single parents were having on their children. Fear was the biggest problem faced by children at home alone. One in three latchkey children the Longs talked to reported being frightened. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safety
            The most common way latchkey children deal with their fears is by hiding. They may hide in a shower stall, under a bed or in a closet. The second is TV. They often turn the volume up. It’s hard to get statistics on latchkey children, the Longs have learned. Most parents are slow to admit that they leave their children alone.
It’s difficult to find out the number of latchkey children because                .
A. there are too many of them in the whole country
B.most parents are reluctant to admit that they leave their children alone
C.they hide themselves in shower stalls or under beds
D.they do not give information about themselves for safety reasons