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 following questions.
Every day on radio, on TV, and in the newspapers, we hear, see, or read about many problems in the world, for example, pollution problems.
Air pollution is the first kind. It mostly comes from fumes released from motorbikes, cars, airplanes, trains, and poisonous gases emitted from factories. Also, waste is dumped anywhere, even in the city where many people are living.
The second pollution problem is sea pollution. Many people earn their living from fishing in the sea, and the fish they catch feed many people. But the sea has become so polluted from oil spills and factory wastes that the fish are dying. This pollution is not only killing the fish, but also affecting those people who eat fish.
Seldom do you find a place nowadays that is not polluted. This problem is growing more difficult every day. We must find a good solution that makes the world a better place to live.
What is the passage about?
A.Sea pollution
B.Pollution
C.Noise pollution
D.Air pollution

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.
We get great pleasure from reading. The more advanced a man is, the greater delight he will find in reading. The ordinary man may think that subjects like philosophy or science are very difficult and that if philosophers and scientists read these subjects, it is not for pleasure. But this is not true. The mathematician finds the same pleasure in his mathematics as the school boy in an adventure story. For both, it is a play of the imagination, a mental recreation and exercise. The pleasure derived from this activity is common to all kinds of reading. But different types of books give us different types of pleasure. First in order of popularity is novel-reading. Novels contain pictures of imaginary people in imaginary situations, and give us an opportunity of escaping into a new world very much like our world and yet different from it. Here we seem to live a new life, and the experience of this new life gives us a thrill of pleasure. Next in order of popularity are travel books, biographies and memoirs. These tell us tales of places we have not seen and of great men in whom we are interested. Some of these books are as wonderful as novels, and they have an added value that they are true. Such books give us knowledge, and we also find immense pleasure in knowing details of lands we have not seen and of great men we have only heard of. Reading is one of the greatest enjoyments of life. To book-lovers, nothing is more fascinating than a favorite book. And, the ordinary educated man who is interested and absorbed in his daily occupation wants to occasionally escape from his drudgery into the wonderland of books for recreation and refreshment.
 (Source: http://www.importantindia.com)
According to the passage, travel books, biographies and memoirs ______.
A.are wonderful novels  
B. tell stories of well-known places
C.are less popular than novels
D. are more valuable than novels

What use was made of the nineteenth-century women’s history materials in the Schlesinger Library and the Sophia Smith Collection?
 
 
A.They were combined and published in a multivolume encyclopedia.
B. They were shared among women’s colleges throughout the United States. 
C.They formed the basis of college courses in the nineteenth century. 
D.They provided valuable information for twentieth-century historical researchers.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. 
Students are encouraged to develop critical thinking ______ accepting opinions without  questioning them. 
A.in addition  
B.for instance  
C.instead of  
D.because of

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
 
Switch off all the lights _____
A.after you will leave the room   
B.until you enter the room
C.before you leave the room
D.by the time you enter the room

A.twenty 
B. hundred 
C.thirteen     
D.fifty

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable respond to complete each of the following exchanges.
- Diana: “Do you like the advanced training course you are taking, Anne?” - Anne: “                           ”
A.No, thanks.  
B.No, not everyone.
C.By and large, yes. 
D.Not me, I’m still waiting.

_______(40)
A.increasing 
B.ascending  
C.climbing    
D.growing

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The number of working women in China __________ from 49% in 1980 to nearly 65% today.
A.has been increasing      
B.has increased                     
C.is increasing            
D.have increased

Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) that best completes each sentence.
We’ll be late unless we …………. now.
A.leave     
B.don’t leave      
C.left    
D.had left