Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the bold and underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
My father hit the roof when he found out that I’d damaged the car.
A.was over the moon
B.burst with anger
C.went with the flow 
D.kept his shirt on

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 26 to 30.
The position of sport in today’s society has changed out of all regconition. People no longer seem to think of sport as “just a game” – to be watched or played for the (26) ___________  of enjoyment. Instead, it has become big business worldwide. It has become accepted practice for loading companies to provide sponsorship. TV companies pay large sums of money to screen important matches or competitions. The result has been huge financial rewards for athletes, some of (27) ___________  are now very wealthy, particularly top footballers, golfers and tennis players. (28) ___________, it is not unusual for some athletes to receive large fees on top of their salary, for advertising products or making personal appearances.
A trend towards shorter working hours means that people generally tend to have more free time, both to watch and to take part in sporting activity; sport has become a significant part of the recreation industry that we now rely (29) ___________  to fill our leisure hours. Professional sport is a vital part of that industry, providing pleasure for millions of (30) ___________  people all over the world.
(26) __________
A.advantage       
B.good   
C.benefit     
D.sake

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
We arrived at the conference. Then we realized that our reports were still at home.
A.No sooner had we realized that our reports were still at home than we arrived at the conference.
B.Only after we arrived at the conference did we realize that our reports were still at home.
C.Not until we arrived at the conference that we realized that our reports were still at home.
D.Hardly had we arrived at the conference than we realized that our reports were still at home.

Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to the printed one.
The coffee was not strong. It didn't keep us awake.
A.The coffee was very strong, but it couldn't keep us awake.
B.The coffee was so strong that we couldn't sleep.
C.The coffee was not strong enough to keep us awake.
D.We was kept awake because the coffee was strong.

Read the passge carefully, then choose the correct answer.
THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US on the fourth Thursday in November. For many Americans it is the most important holiday apart from Christmas. Schools, offices and most businesses close for Thanksgiving, and many people make the whole weekend a vacation.
Thanksgiving is associated with the time when Europeans first came to North America. In 1620 the ship the Mayflowers arrived, bringing about 150 people who today are usually called Pilgrims. They arrived at the beginning of a very hard winter and could not find enough to eat, so many of them died. But in the following summer Native Americans showed them what foods were safe to eat, so that they could save food for the next winter. They held a big celebration to thank God and the Native Americans for the fact that they had survived.
Today people celebrate Thanksgiving to remember these early days.
The most important part of the celebration is a traditional dinner with foods that come from North America. The meal includes turkey, sweet potatoes (also called yams) and cranberries, which are made into a kind of sauce or jelly. The turkey is filled with stuffing or dressing, and many families have their own special recipe. Dessert is pumpkin made into a pie.
On Thanksgiving there are special television programs and sports events. In New York there is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, when a long line of people wearing fancy costumes march through the streets with large balloons in- the shape of imaginary characters. Thanksgiving is considered the beginning of the Christmas period, and the next day many people go out to shop for Christmas presents.
All of the following statements are mentioned EXCEPT ______.
A.People celebrate Thanksgiving to thank God
B.People usually have traditional dinners on Thanksgiving
C.There are lots of entertainments on Thanksgiving
D.People go to churches for religious services on Thanksgiving.

Read the passge carefully, then choose the correct answer.
THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US on the fourth Thursday in November. For many Americans it is the most important holiday apart from Christmas. Schools, offices and most businesses close for Thanksgiving, and many people make the whole weekend a vacation.
Thanksgiving is associated with the time when Europeans first came to North America. In 1620 the ship the Mayflowers arrived, bringing about 150 people who today are usually called Pilgrims. They arrived at the beginning of a very hard winter and could not find enough to eat, so many of them died. But in the following summer Native Americans showed them what foods were safe to eat, so that they could save food for the next winter. They held a big celebration to thank God and the Native Americans for the fact that they had survived.
Today people celebrate Thanksgiving to remember these early days.
The most important part of the celebration is a traditional dinner with foods that come from North America. The meal includes turkey, sweet potatoes (also called yams) and cranberries, which are made into a kind of sauce or jelly. The turkey is filled with stuffing or dressing, and many families have their own special recipe. Dessert is pumpkin made into a pie.
On Thanksgiving there are special television programs and sports events. In New York there is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, when a long line of people wearing fancy costumes march through the streets with large balloons in- the shape of imaginary characters. Thanksgiving is considered the beginning of the Christmas period, and the next day many people go out to shop for Christmas presents.
In the United States, Thanksgiving is ______.
A.a religious celebration held by Christians only  
B.celebrated as a public holiday .
C.more important than Christmas  
D.apart from Christmas

Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank  space in the following passage.
SPRING FESTIVALS
From (26) _______ times people have celebrated the end of winter and the new life that spring brings. One of the most important Christian festivals is Easter, (27) _______ Christians remember the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Easter, however, is not the only  spring festival. In Sweden, people celebrate the end of the winter by making (28) _______ bonfires. Fire also plays an important part in the Hindu festival of Holi. In some villages children are carried round bonfires by their mothers to protect them from danger in the coming year. Buddhists in Thailand soak (29) _______ in water when celebrating their New Year, which occurs in the middle of April. In Antigua in Guatemala they carpet the streets with flowers. Chinese spring parades are (30) _______ colourful, but instead of  flowers they have large dragon puppets which dance in the streets.
(29) _______
A.through             
B.one other 
C.each other 
D.mutually

Identify the one underlined word or phrase  that must be changed for the sentence to be correct.
No one in our office wants (A) to drive to work because of (B) there are (C) always traffic jams at rush hour. (D)
A.wants
B.because of
C.are
D.at rush hour

Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentences or substitutes for the underlined part.
A number of students ______ in intensive language programs abroad nowadays.
A.participated 
B.has participated
C.have participated  
D.is participating

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
One of the most important social developments that helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education was the effect of the baby boom of the 1950's and 1960's on the schools. In the 1920's, but especially in the Depression conditions of the 1930's, the United States experienced a declining birth rate – every thousand women aged fifteen to forty-four gave birth to about 118 live children in 1920, 89.2 in 1930, 75.8 in 1936, and 80 in 1940. With the growing prosperity brought on by the Second WorldWar and the economic boom that followed it, young people married and established households earlier and began to raise larger families than had their predecessors during the Depression. Birth rates rose to 102 per thousand in 1946, 106.2 in 1950, and 118 in 1955. Although economics was probably the most important determinant, it is not the only explanation for the baby boom. The increased value placed on the idea of the family also helps to explain this rise in birth rates. The baby boomers began streaming into the first grade by the mid-1940's and became a flood by 1950. The public school system suddenly found itself “overtaxed”. While the number of schoolchildren rose because of wartime and postwar conditions, these same conditions made the schools even less prepared to cope with the flood. The wartime economy meant that few new schools were built between 1940 and 1945. Moreover, during the war and in the boom times that followed large numbers of teachers left their profession for better-paying jobs elsewhere in the economy.
Therefore, in the 1950's and 1960's, the baby boom hit an antiquated and inadequate school system. Consequently, the "custodial rhetoric" of the 1930's and early 1940's no longer made sense; that is, keeping youths aged sixteen and older out of the labor market by keeping them in school could no longer be a high priority for an institution unable to find space and staff to teach younger children aged five to sixteen. With the baby boom, the focus of educators and of laymen interested in education inevitably turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and discipline. The system no longer had much interest in offering nontraditional, new, and extra services to older youths.
The public school of the 1950s and 1960s faced all of the following problems EXCEPT
A.an inadequate number of school buildings
B.old-fashioned facilities
C.a shortage of teachers      
D.a declining number of students