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 from 24 to 28.
Experiments have proved that children can be instructed in swimming at a very early age. At a special swimming pool in Los Angeles, children become expert at holding their (24)___  under water even before they can walk. Babies of two months old do not appear to be reluctant to enter the water. It is not long before they are so accustomed to swimming (25)_____  they can pick up weights from the floor of the pool. A game that is very popular (26) _____ these young swimmers is the underwater tricycle race. Tricycles are lined up on the floor of the pool seven feet under (27) ___. The children compete against each other to reach the other end of the pool. Many pedal their tricycles, but most of them prefer to push or drag them. Some children can cover the whole length of the pool without coming up for breath even once. Whether they will ever become future Olympic champions, only time will tell. Meanwhile, they should (28)_____ those among us who cannot swim five yards before they are gasping for air.
(25) 
A.which                     
B.that                          
C.when                      
D.where

It can be inferred from the passage that Indians did NOT____
A.assign sustenance tasks
B.accrue tribal wealth
C.pursue stampedes
D.use covered wagons

Read the following passage and Choose the best option A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
People used to know more or less how their children would live. Now things are changing so quickly that they don’t even know what their own lives will be like in a few years’ time. What follows is not science fiction. It is how experts see the future. You are daydreaming behind the steering wheel; is it too dangerous? No! That’s no problem because you have it on automatic pilot, and with its hi-tech computers and cameras, your car “knows” how to get home safe and sound. What is for lunch? In the old days you used to stop off to buy a hamburger or a pizza. Now you use your diagnostic machine to find out which foods your body needs. If your body needs more vegetables and less fat, your food-preparation machine makes you a salad.
       After lunch, you go down the hall to your home office. Here you have everything you need to do your work. Thanks to your information screen and your latest generation computer, you needn’t go to the office any more. The information screen shows an urgent message from a co-worker in Brazil. You can instantly send back a reply to him and go on to deal with other matters.
What is the main idea of the passage?
A.What foods people will eat in the future.
B.What life is like in the future.
C.Life in the future will be the same as life at present.
D.The role of the computer in future life.

XIII:
Choose the best answer for each sentence
First designed in 1970, Earth Day has become an international event _________  concerns about environmental issues such as pollution.  
A.dedicated to rising   
B.dedicated rising    
C.dedicates to raise    
D.that dedicates to rasing

IV. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
The teacher is going to a conference next week, so our presentation will be put off.
A.delayed                   
B.deferred                  
C.carried out            
D.cancelled

Task 2. Mark the letter A, B, C, D to indicate the word that differs from the rest in position of the main stress in each of the following questions.

A.morning                  
B.college                    
C.arrive                      
D.famous

What is the passage mainly about?
A.A new physical property of matters in nature 
B.A way of manufacturing technological products
C.An introduction to a new technology             
D.An overview of how technology will develop

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_______ where he tried to hide his favourite jacket, Jethreo’s brother always managed to find it.
A.Much as  
B.No matter      
C.Even though      
D.However

Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity.
  
A.conserve   
B.reveal 
C.presume   
D.cover

If you eat too much, you _________ the price by putting on weight.
A.will pay
B.paid                                    
C.would pay     
D.were paying