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 25 to 29.
Scuba diving is a sport in (25) ______ you swim underwater for extended (26) ________ using special equipment. The word Scuba is actually an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Scuba diving is an excellent way to see some very beautiful sites: coral diving sites with their colorful sea life are the most famous but other scuba diving (27) ______ include shipwrecks and caverns.
Scuba diving can also be a very relaxing sport and in many places it’s very beginner friendly. Many dive sites are (28) ______ (under the care of an instructor) after a short briefing and training dive. You can learn to dive far more quickly than you learn snow sports, for example. It’s also suitable for people with a number of physical disabilities. (29)_____you can use the breathing equipment and are able to successfully propel yourself underwater you may be able to dive.
(28) ______




A.available
B.approaching
C.accessible
D.manageable

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
"Is your house far from here?" "No, it's only a stone's throw away."




A.a very short distance
B.a very long distance
C.a very deep space
D.the shallow end

Exercise 3. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks from 11 to 15.
Any change in one part of an ecosystem can cause changes in other parts. Droughts, storms and fires can change ecosystems. Some changes ____(11)___ ecosystems. If there is too little rainfall, plants will not have enough water to live. If a kind of plant dies off, the animals____(12)___feed on it may also die or move away. Some changes are good for ecosystems. Some pine forests need fires for the pine trees to reproduce. The seeds are sealed inside pinecones. Heat from a forest fire melts the seal and lets the seeds ____(13)___. Polluting the air, soil, and water can harm ecosystems. Building dams on rivers for electric power and irrigation can harm ecosystems ____(14)___ the rivers. Bulldozing wetlands and cutting down forests destroy ecosystems. Ecologists are working with companies and governments to find better ways of ___(15)____ fish, cutting down trees, and building dams. They are looking for ways to get food, lumber, and other products for people without causing harm to ecosystems.
(13)




A.out
B.in
C.go
D.fly

Exercise 2. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks from 6 to 10.
Children (6) appear intelligent and have normal sight and hearing may nevertheless have learning disability such as dyslexia, difficulty in reading; dysgraphia, difficulty in writing; dyscalculia, difficulty with numbers; and auditory-memory problem that (7) the child from remembering what has just been said. Considered an "invisible" (8) , such learning disabilities can be detected by alert parents before the children go to school. (9) the child at about thirty months is not developing normal language skills, something is amiss. A child who cannot do puzzles or put pegs in holes lacks perceptual-motor skills. Kindergarteners should (10)______the ABCs. First-graders may commonly reverse their letters, writing ad or ab, but if they are still doing this at the start of second grade, they should be tested for learning disabilities. Proper and early treatment is essential.
(9)




A.If
B.When
C.Although
D.Because

Exercise 1. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.
More than two hundred years ago, the term “environmental pollution” was quite strange to people. They lived healthily, drank (1)_____ water and breathed fresh air. In those days, industry was not well-developed. Nowadays, the situation is quite different. The world today is faced with many (2)_____ threats. People all over the world are worried (3)______ things that are happening to the environment. Actually, it is man (4)______ is destroying the surroundings with many kinds of wastes from the devices that makes human live more comfortable and convenient. Everybody knows that motorbikes and cars emit dangerous gases that cause poisonous air and cancer, but no one wants to travel on foot or by bicycle. Manufactures know that wastes from factories make water and soil polluted, but they do not want to spend a lot of their money on (5)_____ the wastes safely. Scattering rubbish is bad for our health, but no one wants to spend time burying it. Is it worth talking a lot about pollution?
(3)




A.with
B.about
C.of
D.by

Exercise 8. 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 36 to 40.
Many people enjoy lying in bed in the morning, but can you imagine having to spend 90 days in bed? Could you stand the boredom and the frustration of not being (36) to get up? That was the task that faced 14 volunteers when they started out on a bed-rest experiment being conducted (37) the European Space Agency.
The study had a serious purpose: to investigate the changes that take place in the human body during long-duration spaceflight. Lying in a horizontal position was the best way of (38) weightlessness. The aim was to discover what effect period of weightlessness will have on the health of astronauts spending several months on the International Space Station.
The volunteers ate their meals, took showers and underwent medical tests without ever sitting up. That's even tougher than it sounds, especially when you (39) that no visitors were permitted. However, each volunteer did have a mobile phone, as well as access to the latest films, computer games and music. Surprisingly, Everyone was in a good (40) at the end of the 90 days, 'I would do it again,' said one of the volunteers. 'It was disorientating, but we knew we were 'contributing to medical research and space exploration.'
(39)




A.reckon
B.realise
C.regard
D.remark

Exercise 4. 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 16 to 20.
If women choose to pursue a career once they have children, they often miss out on a close relationship with children. Helen Jamieson is a mother of three who has given up work to look after her children (16)_____. She strongly believes that women are pressurized to do too much, (17)_____ themselves to the absolute limit. In her own case, after six years of paid employment, Helen finally decided to call it a day. She says she initially found it hard to be at home, though she never misses the job itself. She admits that if she had had a brilliant career to begin (18) _____, she might feel differently now. Financially, she is no worse off (19)_____ before, as the cost of childcare and commuting exceeded her actual income. (20) _____ the government starts to give other tax incentives to working parents, she says she will not return to the workplace until her children are grown up.
(20)




A.Unless
B.If
C.Provided
D.Even if

Exercise 2. 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 6 to 10.
Some people believe that soon schools will no longer be necessary. They say that (6) ______ the Internet and other new technologies, (7)_______ no longer any need for school buildings, formal class, or teachers. Perhaps this will be true one day, but this is hard to (8) _________ a world without schools. In fact, we need to look at how we can use new technology to make schools better, not (9) _______them. We should invent a new kind of school that is (10)________to libraries, museums, science centers, laboratories, and even companies.
(10)




A.linked
B.addressed
C.contributed
D.limited

Exercise 1. 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 1 to 5.
BOOKS
Nearly all the discoveries that have been made through the ages can (1)_ in books. The invention of the book is one of humankind's (2) achievements, the importance of which can not be evaluated. Books are very useful, providing us with both entertainment and information. The production of books began in Ancient Egypt, though not in the form that is accessible to us today. The books read by Romans, (3) , have some similarities to the ones we read now. Until the middle of the 15th century, in Europe, all books were written by hand. They (4) often beautifully illustrated and always rare and expensive. With printing came the possibility of cheap, large publication and distribution of book making (5) more widespread and reliable.
(4)




A.are
B.have
C.were
D.have been

Exercise 10. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrases that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 46 to 50.
ABROAD WITH US
The company study abroad was originally founded in 1991 for students who wished to study French in France. Its success led to the establishment of other schools around the world.
Learning the language in the country in which it is spoken is, of course,a (46)_______ more effective and faster process than studying in your own country. It is also an opportunities to mix with local habitants and (47)_______ a greater and deeper (48)_______ of the people whose language you are studying. This makes the whole experience much more enjoyable.
You may wish to attend an Italian language and a cooking course in Italy or combine a Portuguese course with a sport. You should look at all the possibilities and (49)_______ the best choice.
In order to choose the (50)_______ course and location for you, we suggest you contact us to discuss your particular requirements. From the information you give us, we can make some recommendation.
(49)




A.do
B.take
C.get
D.make