The song has __________ been selected for 22nd Sea Games, Vietnam.




A.official
B.officer
C.office
D.officially

Have I told you about how Mary is _________ at college?




A.getting on
B.getting over
C.getting round
D.getting out

Tom: Shall we go to the dancing hall tonight?” – Mary: “_______________________”.




A.Yes, let’s
B.Yes, we shall
C.Yes, please
D.Yes, we go

Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.




A.together
B.occasion
C.themselves
D.movement

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
NEW HUNT FOR LIFE IN SPACE
British space scientists are planning to join the American in the race to find evidence of life on other planets. Alan Penny and his team at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have (51) …… a telescope that is 40 times more powerful than Hubble. (52) …… as 'Darwin', this telescope could tell if planets 50 light years away have any kind of life on them. Two days (53) …… NASA scientists had shown proof that one of Jupiter's moons could support life, Penny (54) …… that his telescope may be included in a European Space Agency mission. The Darwin project, with a (55) …… of 500 million, is on a shortlist of two proposals. If approved, it will probably be (56) …… around 2010, its destination somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. The blueprint is actually for five telescopes positioned 50 meters (57) …… in space, slowly circling a central processing station. The combined data from these telescopes would build up a full picture of a planet, picking out faint images that have never been seen before. Darwin would not be able to take detailed photographs of the planets it (58) ……, but Penny believes a second-generation telescope could be sent up to do this. He claims it is worthwhile mapping the universe around our (59) …… galaxy, even though these planets lie (60) …… our reach for the moment. The European Space Agency will make its decision on Darwin within three years.
(54)




A.announced
B.spoke
C.advertised
D.told

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
In the western customs (36) _____ hands is the customary form of greeting, but in China a nod of the head or (37) _____ bow is sufficient. Hugging and kissing when greeting are uncommon. Business cards are often (38) _____ and yours should be printed in your own language and in Chinese. Also, it is more respectful to present your card or a gift or -any other article using (39) _____ hands. The Chinese are (40) _____ applauders. You may be greeted with group clapping, even by small children. When a person is applauded in this practice it is the custom for that person to return the applause or a "thank you." When walking in public places, direct eye (41) _____ .and staring is uncommon in the larger cities, especially in those areas accustomed to foreign visitors. (42) _____, in smaller communities, visitors may be the subject of much curiosity and therefore you may notice some stares. (43) _____ speaking, the Chinese are not a touch-oriented society, especially true for visitors. So, avoid (44) _____ or any prolonged form of body contact. Public displays of affection are very rare. On the other hand, you may note people of the same sex walking hand-in-hand, which is simply a gesture of friendship. Do not worry about a bit of pushing and shoving in stores or when groups board public buses or trains. In this case, (45) _____ are neither offered or expected. The Chinese will stand much closer than Westerners.
(40)




A.enthusiast
B.enthusiastic
C.enthusiasm
D.enthusiastically

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
It’s nature of athletic records that they are broken and their place is taken by others. Yet in many sports (61)________there is a mark which isn’t (62)________in itself, but which becomes as legend as athletes try to break it. The most famous of these is the attempt to run the mile in less than four minutes.
In 1945, the mile record was (63)_______to 4 minutes, 1.5 seconds. And there, for nine years, it stuck. Then, in 1954, a medical student (64)_______Roger Bannister decided to try and break the record. He had been (65)________for this day since running the mile in 4 minutes, 2 seconds the previous year.
Two other runners set the pace for him and (66)________250 yards to go he burst ahead for the finish. He wrote afterwards: “my body had exhausted all its energy, but it (67)________on running just the same….. Those (68)________few second seemed never-ending. I could see the line of the finishing tape…I jumped like a man making a desperate attempt to save him from danger…” Bannister’s time was 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. (69)________this record had been broken on many (70)________since, Bannister’s achievement will never be forgotten.




A.last
B.late
C.latest
D.later

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each question from 51 to 60.
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists don’t offer the world new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false. Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift. It wasn’t the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.
Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear and read in popular media is sanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity. Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they don’t hear them expressed.
The word “refreshing” in the second paragraph is closet in meaning to_________.




A.popular
B.ridiculous
C.meaningful
D.unusual

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
A.and
B.related
C.same
D.form

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each question from 36 to 45.
Until recently, most American entrepreneurs were men. Discrimination against women in business, the demands of caring for families, and lack of business training had kept the number of women entrepreneurs small. Now, however, businesses owned by women account for more than $40 billion in annual revenues, and this figure is likely to continue rising throughout the 1990s. As Carolyn Doppelt Gray, an official of the Small Business Administration has noted. “The 1970s was the decade of women entering management, and the 1980s turned out to be the decade of the woman entrepreneur.”
What are some of the factors behind this trend? For one thing, as more women earn advanced degrees in business and enter the corporate world, they are finding obstacles. Women are still excluded from most executive suites. Charlotte Taylor, a management consultant, had noted. “In the 1970s women believed if they got an MBA and worked hard they could become chairman of the board. Now they have found out that isn’t going to happen, so they go out on their own.”
In the past, most women entrepreneurs worked in “women’s” fields – cosmetics and clothing, for example. But this is changing. Consider ASK Computer System, a $22 million a year computer software business. It was founded in 1973 by Sandra Kurtzig who was then a housewife with degrees in math and engineering. When Kurtzig founded the business, her first product was software that let weekly newspapers keep tabs on their newspaper carriers – and her office was a bedroom at home, with a shoebox under the bed to hold the company’s cash. After she succeeded with the newspaper software system, she hired several bright computer-science graduates to develop additional programs. When these were marketed and sold, ASK began to grow. It now has 200 employees, and Sandra Kurtzig owns $66.9 million of stock. Of course, many women who start their own businesses fail, just as men often do. They still face hurdles in the business world, especially problems in raising money; the banking and finance world is still dominated by men, an old attitudes die hard. Most businesses owned by women are still quite small.
But the situation is changing; there are likely to be many more Sandra Kurtzig in the years ahead.
What is the main idea of the text?




A.Women today are opening more businesses of their own.
B.Women are better at small businesses than men are.
C.The computer is especially lucrative for women today.
D.Women today are better educated than in the past, making them more attractive to the business world.