Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
________ the stories about people who reduced their carbon footprint, we started to change our daily consumption habits.




A.Being read
B.Reading
C.Having read
D.Having been read

(13)_______




A.While
B.When
C.Before
D.After

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheets to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.




A.command
B.comprise
C.complete
D.common

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.
The president failed to explain the cause of the crisis. He did not offer any solutions.




A.The president couldn’t explain the cause of the crisis, nor did he offer any solutions.
B.The president was not able to explain the cause of the crisis as well as any solutions.
C.The president’s solution was not offered because he couldn’t give any explanation for the crisis.
D.The president’s explanation for the crisis was such a failure that he couldn’t offer any solutions.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_______ that we all went for a picnic.




A.So fine the weather
B.So fine was the weather
C.Such a fine weather was it
D.It was such a fine weather

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Janet: “Do you like going to the cinema this evening?”

Susan: “_______.”




A.You’re welcome
B.I feel very bored
C.That would be great
D.I don’t agree, I’m afraid

The word “empire” in the first line refers to ______.




A.a tribe of residents
B.a kind of a society
C.a country
D.a measurement

Having finished his term paper before the deadline, it was delivered to the professor before the class.




A.it was delivered
B.Having finished
C.before
D.before the

_________(21)




A.sights
B.objects
C.goals
D.ends

_________(16)




A.domain
B.area
C.field
D.branch