III. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option to answer each of the following questions.
David Hemplerman Adams is an explorer and adventurer. In April 1984, he walked through northern Canada to the North Pole. He walked 400 kilometers in 22 days. He was 27 years old when he did it. David was the first person to walk to the North Pole by himself. Other people travelled to the North Pole before David but they had a sled and a dog team. David didn't have a dog team. David was a brave man to go on this adventure on his own. He was also a lucky man because the bear and the icy water didn't kill him.
David Hemplerman started his travel from .




A.the South of Canada
B.the North of Canada
C.the end of 1984
D.the North of Pole

I. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option to complete each of the following numbered blanks.
If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According (1) several scientists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children.
(2) , if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may (3) in doing very well – especially if the parents are very supportive of their child. Michael Collins is very lucky. He is (4) about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons.
(4)




A.interested
B.keen
C.crazy
D.tired

.............(6)




A.protected
B.protecting
C.protection
D.protective

..............(1)




A.spoken
B.speaking
C.speaker
D.speak

He gave me some very valuable advices on buying a new house.




A.gave
B.some
C.advices
D.on

_________(62)




A.ready
B.readily
C.readiness
D.unready

English is essential in this job. All the telephonists speak it. If they (not know)____ English, they (not understand)______ half the callers.




A.didn't know - would not understand
B.hadn't known - would not understand
C.didn't know - did not understand
D.didn't know - would have not understood

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.believes
B.pencils
C.tables
D.contents

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
We started out for California. It started to rain right after that.




A.No sooner did we start out for California than it started to rain.
B.No sooner had we started out for California when it started to rain.
C.No sooner had it started to rain than we started out for California.
D.No sooner had we started out for California than it started to rain.

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 questions from 41 to 45.
Langston Hughes was one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He was born in Joplin, Missouri, and moved to Cleveland at the age of 14. Several years later, he spent one year in Mexico before attending Columbia University in New York. For a few years after that, he roamed the world as a seaman, visiting ports around the world and writing some poetry. He returned to the United States and attended Lincoln University, where he won the Witter Bynner Prize for undergraduate poetry. After graduating in 1928, he travelled to Spain and to Russia with the help of a Guggenheim fellowship. His novels include Not without Laughter (1930) and The Big Sea (1940). He wrote an autobiography in 1956 and also published several collections of poetry. The collections include The Weary Blues (1926), The Dream Keeper (1932), Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Fields of Wonder (1947), One Way Ticket (1947), and Selected Poems (1959). A man of many talents, Hughes was also a lyricist, librettist, and a journalist. As an older man in the 1960s, he spent much of his time collecting poems from Africa and from African-Americans to popularize black writers. Hughes is one of the most accomplished writers in American literary history, and he is seen as one of the artistic leaders of the Harlem Renaissance, the period when a neighbourhood that was predominantly black produced a flood of great literature, music, and other art forms depicting daily city life for African-Americans.
Which of the following can best substitute for the word "depicting" in the passage?




A.congratulating
B.blessing
C.screening
D.portraying