Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each question from 51 to 60.
             Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists don’t offer the world new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false. Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift. It wasn’t the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.
            Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear and read in popular media is sanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity. Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they don’t hear them expressed.
Why does the author mention Don Quixote, Brave New World, and a Modest Proposal in the first paragraph?
A.They are famous examples of satiric literature.
B.They present commonsense solutions to problems.
C.They are appropriate for readers of all ages.
D.They are books with similar stories.

I didn’t come to his wedding party last week. I feel sorry for that.  
A.I wish I came to his wedding party last week.
B.I would prefer having come to his wedding party last week.
C.I would rather to have come to his wedding party last week.
D.I would sooner have come to his wedding party last week.

People often say new year ____ to one another.
A.wish                        
B.wishes                                 
C.promise                   
D.promises

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word (s) in each of the following questions.
A US man with a large online following in Vietnam has caused widespread anger, and faces possible criminal charges, over a Facebook post thought to have insulted a military hero.
A.embarrassed
B.offended    
C.confused       
D.depressed

She listened so attentively that not a word_______.  
A.she had missed       
B.she missed    
C.she didn't miss    
D.did she miss

Exercise 3. Choose the best answer to complete each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
The Sears Tower is _______ building in Chicago.
A.taller                       
B.the more tall          
C.the tallest           
D.taller and taller

Our industrial output_______ from $2 million in 2002 to $4 million this year.
A.rises
B.was rising
C.has risen
D.rose

“What a terrible football game!”.

“ I thought it was _____ .”
A.delightful  
B.delights
C.delight
D.delighted

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase for each of the blanks.
 
School exams are, generally speaking, the first kind of test we take. They find out  how much knowledge we have gained. But do they really show how intelligent  we are? After all, isn’t it a ___(30)_____ that some people who are very academically successful don’t have any common sense.
Intelligence is the speed ___(31)_____ which we can understand and react to new situations and it is usually tested by logic puzzles. Although scientist are now preparing ___(32)_____ computer technology that will be able to “read” our brains, ___(33)_____ tests are still the most popular ways of measuring intelligence.
A person’s IQ is their intelligence ___(34)_____ it is measured by a special test. The most common IT tests are  ___(35)_____ by Mensa, an organization that was found in England in 1946. By 1976, it  had 1,300 members in Britain. Today there are 44,000 in Britain and 100,000 _____(36)______, largely in the US.
People taking the tests are judged in ___(37)_____ to an average score of 100, and those who score over 148 are entitled to join Mensa. This works out at 2 percent of the population. Anyone from the age of six can take tests. All the questions are straightforward and most people can answer them if ___(38)_____ enough time. But that’s the problem; the whole ___(39)_____ of the test is that they’re against the clock.
(38)
A.spared
B.provided
C.let
D.allowed

He thinks about his life so simple that he always put off what he can do today until tomorrow.
A.about
B.simple
C.put off
D.until