Hardly ever _____get a good job these days without a good education.




A.people might
B.do people
C.people can
D.have people

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 14 to 21.
MAKING HONEY
Do you like honey? Honey is a natural product, and it is made by honey bees. It has a special sweet flavour (14)________ some people preferto ordinary sugar. Sometimes, it is even possible to known from the flavour what kind of flowers the bees (15)________ before producing the honey.
Have you ever (16)________ about how honey is produced? Beekeepers – people who look after bees – are very important in the making of honey. They (17)___________ the bees in their care produce (18)_______ honey than is needed. Then the honey can be removed (19)_________ causing problems for the bees.
Honey collection is an ancient activity, (20)________ back to least 10,000 years, and honey has (21)________ increasingly popular nowadays as a healthy food.
(15)________




A.met
B.went
C.passed
D.visited

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is DIFFERENT in meaning to each of the following questions from 7 to 10.
Let’s buy a kilo of meat for dinner.




A.I suggest buying a kilo of meat for dinner.
B.Why didn’t you buy a kilo of meat for dinner?
C.Why don’t we buy a kilo of meat for dinner?
D.How about buying a kilo of meat for dinner?

The best way to _______ garbage is to reuse and recycle things.




A.recover
B.rebuild
C.recollect
D.reduce

In the first two decades of its existence, the cinema developed quickly.




A.leisurely
B.shortly
C.weakly
D.slowly

Choose A, B, C, D that best completes the sentence or that can substitute the underlined part.
What did I have to do _____?




A.so that convince them
B.in order that convince them
C.so to convince them
D.so as to convince them

Choose A, B, C, D that best completes the sentence or that can substitute the underlined part.
Although they were tired, they stayed until they found out exactly what had happened.




A.Despite they were tired
B.Even if tiredness
C.In spite of being tired
D.As they were tired

Choose A, B, C, D that best completes the sentence or that can substitute the underlined part.
______, Lee decided to tell Susan the truth.




A.He thinking hard and long
B.Thought hard and long
C.To think long and hard
D.Having thought long and hard

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
Down _______.




A.fell half a dozen apples
B.half a dozen apples fell
C.did half a dozen apples fall
D.half a dozen apples fall

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 following questions from 43 to 47.
SUMMER RAIN
The worst days of any summer are rainy ones. We spend all year looking forward to nice weather and long, hot days. All of winter, with its dreary gray days and bitter cold, we dream of those endless days at beach, lying on the sand and soaking in the bright and burning sun. And then, summer comes, and it rains.
As a child, I would wake up to rainy summer days and come close to crying. It wasn’t fair. We suffered through months of schooling and miserable weather for those scant ten weeks of freedom and balmy weather. Any day that I could not spend at the beach or playing ball with my friends seemed like a punishment for something I didn’t even do.
On those rainy summer days, I had nothing fun to do and could only sit inside, staring out at the rain like a Dickensian orphan. I was an only child, so there was no one else to play with. My father worked from home, so I was not truly alone, but he could not actively play with me since he was technically at work. It was those days that I would resign myself to whatever was on television or any books that I could find lying around. I’d crawl through the day and pray each night that the rain would not be there the next day.
The phrase “come close to crying” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _________ .




A.almost cry
B.cry a lot
C.be in tears
D.burst into tears