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.
Tet marks the beginning of spring and, for agrarian people who depend on the lunar calendar to manage their crops, the start of the year.
A.traditional ones
B.minority people
C.farmers
D.old people

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.
You can usually tell when your friends are happy or angry by the looks on their faces or by their actions. This is useful because reading their emotional expressions helps you to know how to respond to them. Emotions have evolved to help us respond to important situations and to convey our intentions to others. But does raising the eyebrows and rounding the mouth say the same thing in Minneapolis as it does in Madagascar? Much research on emotional expressions has centered on such questions.
According to Paul Ekman, the leading researcher in this area, people speak and understand substantially the same "facial language". Studies by Ekman's group have demonstrated that humans share a set of universal emotional expressions that testify to the common biological heritage of the human species. Smiles, for example, signal happiness and frowns indicate sadness on the faces of people in such far- flung places as Argentina, Japan, Spain, Hungary, Poland , Sumatra ,the United States, Vietnam, the jungles of New Guinea , and the Eskimo villages north of Artic Circle. Ekman and his colleagues claim that people everywhere can recognize at least seven basic emotions: sadness, fear, anger, disgust, contempt, happiness, and surprise. There are, however, huge differences across cultures in both the context and intensity of emotional displays - the so called display rules. In many Asian cultures, for example, children are taught to control emotional responses - especially negative ones- while many American children are encouraged to express their feelings more openly. Regardless of culture, however, emotions usually show themselves, to some degree , in people's behavior. From their first days of life, babies produce facial expressions that communicate their feelings.
The ability to read facial expressions develops early, too. Very young children pay close attention to facial expressions, and by age five, they nearly equal adults in their skill at reading emotions on people's faces. This evidence all points to a biological underpinning for our abilities to express and interpret a basic set of human emotions. Moreover, as Charles Darwin pointed out over a century ago, some emotional expressions seem to appear across species boundaries. Cross - cultural psychologists tell us that certain emotional responses carry different meanings in different cultures. For example, what emotion do you suppose might be conveyed by sticking out your tongue? For Americans, this might indicate disgust, while in China it can signify surprise. Likewise, a grin on an American face may indicate joy, while on a Japanese face it may just as easily mean embarrassment. Clearly, culture influences emotional expressions.
The biggest difference lies in __________.
A.how intensive emotions are expressed      
B.how emotional responses are controlled            
C.how often positive emotions are shown               
D.how long negative emotions are displayed

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.

A.decent
B.reserve
C.confide
D.appeal

Rewrite the sentences so that it means the same as the first one, beginning with the given words. (10 pts)
This is the first time I've made such a stupid mistake.
A.I have never made such a stupid mistake.
B.I have never made so a stupid mistake.
C.I have never made such a stupid mistake then.
D.I have never been making such a stupid mistake.

Rewrite the sentences so that it means the same as the first one, beginning with the given words. (10 pts)
Please don't make me annoyed by such silly questions.
A.I'd rather you hadn't make me annoyed by such silly questions.
B.I'd rather you didn't make me annoyed by such silly questions.
C.I'd rather you didn't make me annoyed by so silly questions.
D.I'd rather you didn't make me to annoyed by such silly questions.

According to the passage, the difficulty in diagnosing allergies to foods is due to______
A.the vast number of different foods we eat
B.lack of a proper treatment plan
C.the similarity of symptoms of the allergy to other problems
D.the use of prepared formula to feed babies

Read the passage and write your answers to the questions given. (5 pts)
     Uri Geller was born in 1946. When he was only three, he was aware that he had an amazing ability. In 1969, he gave his first performance in a school. He gently rubbed a spoon with his fingers, and it began to bend. Three years later, he drove a car blindfolded through the crowded streets of Munich. Later Uri Geller appeared on television in Britain in front of a small studio audience of scientists. He bent spoons and broke metal objects simply by touching them gently with his fingers. He also drew pictures of hidden objects. After the programme, however. there were hundreds of telephone calls. People reported that spoons in their homes bent during the programme. Metal objects broke, and watches which had stopped many years before suddenly started to go again.
In what year did Uri Geller find himself with an amazing ability?
A.in 1946
B.1947
C.1949
D.1969

Getting a law passed is one thing but getting it enforced is quite another thing.
A.The law has already been passed, but I suspect it won’t be easy to implement it.
B.Once the law has been passed, it will be easy enough to put it into effect.
C.The passing of a law and the implementing of it are two different things.
D. If the law has been passed, it will soon come into effect.

In the scientists’ research, where did the pollutants come from originally?
A.arid areas 
B.the Saudi Coast
C. Cairo   
D.the Sahara desert

Although he is my friend, I find it hard to _______ his selfishness 
A.put up with 
B.catch up with 
C.keep up with 
D.come down with