Neither/ there excitement/ entertainment/ this small, old town.




A.Neither were there excitement nor entertainment in this small old town.
B.Neither is there excitement or entertainment in this small old town.
C.Neither is there excitement nor entertainment in this small old town.
D.Neither is there excitement and entertainment in this small old town.

Peter: “Do you think that we should use public transportation to protect our environment?” Mary: “.............................. .”




A.Of course not. You bet.
B.Well, that’s very surprising.
C.There is no doubt about it.
D.Yes, it’s an absurd idea.

That the committee members could not agree with each other about solving that problem........................ caused a serious problem.




A.is
B.was
C.has
D.have

Floods have completely.................the farmer’s crops




A.change
B.supply
C.cash
D.cost

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
Tom: “Didn’t you go to the cinema last night?” Sue: “_________.”




A.OK. That was a good idea.
B.Yes, I lost the ticket.
C.Yes, I stayed at home.
D.No, it was too cold to go out.

“No, I won’t go to work at the weekend,” said Sally.




A.Sally refused to go to work at the weekend.
B.Sally regretted not going to work at the weekend.
C.Sally apologized for not going to work at the weekend.
D.Sally promised to go to work at the weekend.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following question.
Would she come to see us if she knew _____ ?




A.where we lived
B.where we are living
C.where do we live
D.where we were living

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.postman
B.respiratory
C.tornado
D.infant

Rewrite the following sentences using the words in brackets. Do not alter the words given.
Mr. Lee managed to repair the garage roof only because his neighbor helped him. (WITHOUT)




A.Without the helping of his neighbor, Mr. Watson could not have managed to have succeeded in repairing the garage roof
B.Without the help of his neighbor, Mr. Watson could have managed to have succeeded in repairing the garage roof
C.Without the help of his neighbor, Mr. Watson could not have managed to have succeeded in repairing the garage roof
D.Without the help of his neighbor, Mr. Watson could not have managed to have succeeded for repairing the garage roof

Read the text below and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 35.
Language change
Language change over time, but (26) ________ don’t realise it. We may hear young people (27) _______ differently from us and (28) ________ by the way they speak. For example, we may notice new words, new expressions or even grammatically incorrect sentences. We will not, however, (29) ________ these different speech forms as language changes. We are most likely to attribute these forms to the irresponsibility of the youth and hope that they will speak correctly when they (30) ________.
They may never do this, (31) ________. The new words, expressions and grammatical forms they use may become part of the language, and future generations will bring more changes to the language. So if members of the same community or country could speak to (32) ________ across five hundred years, they may be unable to communicate.
Imagine a group of people moving away from (33) ________ they live. They will undoubtedly come into contact with other languages or dialects. They will borrow a lot of linguistic elements from those languages and eventually their own language will change to such a degree that what they say will be unintelligible to the people back home. Another example is a community which is (34) ________ into two different classes: an upper class and a lower class. If the children of the upper class have (35) ________ different education from those of the lower class, the kinds of jobs they choose will also be different. As a result, different dialects will develop and the speech of the two groups will differ.
(35)




A.the
B.very
C.any
D.a