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.
Higher Education in the UK Students who have successfully completed an A-level course may go to university to do (35)_____ three- or four-year course leading to a first degree such as Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Science (BSc), etc. They apply to several universities which then (36)_____ an offer of a place specifying the minimum grades the student needs to obtain in the A level subjects studied. Higher education is not (37)_____. In principle, students have to pay a contribution to the cost of teaching (tuition fees) and have also to pay their living costs (maintenance). The government provides (38)_____ to help them pay for university education which have to be paid back from earnings once their income reaches a certain (39)_____. In recent years government policy has been to (40)_____ the percentage of 18-year olds (41)_____ go to university, which is now, at 40%, double the 1990 figure, but this growth has been at the (42)______ of the amount of financial support given to individual students. Universities receive money (43)_____ the state for each student and are responsible for employing staff and deciding which courses to offer. The head of a university, who is (44)_____ for its management, is called a vice-chancellor.




A.rise
B.remain
C.increase
D.decrease

“You can go to the party tonight______ you are sober when you come home.”




A.as soon as
B.as long as
C.as well as
D.as far as

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet t o indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
He was too sure of himself to pay ______ to the warnings against the danger.




A.notice
B.attention
C.respect
D.recognition

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet t o indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
He ______ till the early hours of the next morning listening to pop music.




A.took me up
B.kept me up
C.caught me up
D.held me up

______I might, I couldn’t open the door.




A.Try as
B.However hard
C.As try
D.No matter

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions




A.builds
B.destroys
C.occurs
D.prevents

A.advertise
B.advantage
C.adventure
D.adverbial

Liz: “Thanks for the nice gift you brought to us!” Jennifer: “______”




A.Not at all. Don’t mention it.
B.Welcome! It’s very nice of you.
C.All right. Do you know how much it costs?
D.Actually speaking, I myself don’t like it.

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 question s from 55 to 64 .
Sleep is a natural process, and although a lot have been written about the subject, it is still surrounded by mystery. It is used by some as an escape from the world, and regarded by others as an irritating waste of time: some people get by on very little, others claim they cannot exist without at least ten hours, but nobody can do without sleep completely.
Our night’s sleep does not just consist of a steady phase of gradually deepening sleep. It alternates between two stages: Non-dreaming or ordinary sleep, and REM (rapid eye movement) or dreaming sleep. As soon as we fall asleep, we go straight into non-dreaming sleep for an hour or so, then into REM sleep for about 15 minutes, then back into non-dreaming sleep. It alternates in this way for the rest of the night, with non-dreaming sleep tending to last longer at the beginning of the night. Non-dreaming sleep occupies three-quarters of our night’s sleep, about a quarter of it deep and the rest fairly light.
It is widely believed that sleep repairs the body and makes good the damage caused by being awake. However, its main function is to refresh the brain. Experts believe that probably only about two-thirds of our sleep is necessary for repairing and refreshing the brain, with the most valuable sleep coming in the first few hours of the non-dreaming period, the last few hours of sleep are not so essential. The brain can manage quite well with reduced sleep as long as it is uninterrupted sleep.
The quality of sleep is important. A study conducted in the USA looked at short sleepers, who slept for 5.5 hours on average, and long sleepers, who had 8.5 hours or more. It is discovered after a variety of tests that the long sleepers were poor sleepers, had twice as much REM sleep as the short sleepers, appeared to sleep longer to make up for poor sleep, and did not wake up in the morning refreshed. Similarly, people who sleep deeply do not necessarily get a better quality of sleep than shallow sleepers. Deep sleepers can feel tired the following day, so six hours of good sleep is worth more than eight hours of troubled sleep.
From Awakening to Sleep – American Psychological Association
It can be concluded from the first paragraph that ______.




A.people need equal time of sleep
B.sleep remains a puzzle
C.sleep is among the processes of the nature
D.everything about sleep has been brought to light

This is Karin ______ and Tim ______ car.




A.__ / ’s
B.‘s / ’s
C.__ / s’
D.‘s / __