To overcome cultural differences in marriage needs ________.




A.patience and time
B.time and money
C.movies and music
D.books and the Internet

There are dangerous times (A) in a marriage, especially (B) when the wife can come to feel such (C) overburdened that she decides (D) to end the relationship.




A.dangerous times
B.especially
C.such
D.decides

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
The grass was yellow because it _______ all summer.




A.does not rain
B.has not rained
C.had not rained
D.would not rain

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
It will take more or less a month to prepare for the wedding.




A.approximately
B.generally
C.frankly
D.simply

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
All parents are _______ to at least try to behave in ways that will give their own children an important protection




A.decided
B.supposed
C.followed
D.rejected

Choose a, b, c, or d that best completes each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
My mother used to be a woman of great _______, but now she gets old and looks pale.




A.beauty
B.beautiful
C.beautifully
D.beautify

A.sacrificed
B.trusted
C.recorded
D.acted

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 questions




A.cough
B.tough
C.hiccough
D.rough

Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it
The film star wore dark glasses so that no one could recognize her.




A.The film star avoided to recognize by wearing dark glasses.
B.The film star avoided recognizing by wearing dark glasses.
C.The film star avoided to recognized by wearing dark glasses.
D.The film star avoided being recognized by wearing dark glasses.

Read the text about oil spill 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 56 to 65.
On an ecologist’s list of nightmares, this (56)_______ looked like an easy member of the top five. An Ecuadorian fuel tanker, the Jessica, ran aground in the Galapagos Archipelago and slowly spilled its (57)_______ of 240.000 gal of fuel oil into the surrounding ocean. The disaster threatened to choke a unique and delicate (58)_______, the islands whose giant tortoises and 15 related species of finch inspired Charles Darwin’s “the origin of Species” in 1859.
he emergency began when the captain of the Jessica, a 30 year old boat, (59)_______ a buoy for a lighthouse and ran aground off the shore of San Cristobal Island. The ship’s cargo was 65% diesel oil (60)_______ for Baltra Island and 35% bunker fuel, a heavier form of oil used by tour boats. Rescue teams from Ecuadorian navy and the state-owned fuel company began (61)_______ fuel from the damaged vessel, but after three days of battering by waves up to 2 meters in (62)_______, the Jessica began leaking oil into the sea and would (63)_______ pour out over 180,000 gallons.
One week later, the government declared a state of (64)_______ in the Galapagos archipelago, setting (65)_______ an initial $2 million for cleanup operation.
(58)_______




A.wildlife
B.habitat
C.nature
D.vicinity