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. 
Thanks to our modern lifestyle, with more and more time spent sitting down in front of computers than ever before, the (36) _________ of overweight people is at a new high. As people frantically search for a solution to this problem, they often try some of popular fad diet being offered. Many people see fad diet (37) ______ harmless ways of losing weight, and they are grateful to have them. Unfortunately, not only do fad diet usually fo the trick but also they can actually be dangerous for your health.
Although permanent weight loss is the goal, few are able to achieve it. Expert estimate that 95 percent of dieters return to starting weight, or even (38) _________ weight. While reckless use of fad diets can bring some initial results, long-term results are very rare.
Nonetheless, people who are fed up with the difficulties of changing their eating habits often turn to fad diets. (39) _________ being moderate, fad diets involve extreme dietary changes. They advise eating only one type of food, or they prohibit other types of foods entirely. This results in a situation (40) _________ a person’s body doesn’t get all the vitamins and other things that it needs to stay healthy.
(39) 
A.In spite of     
B.Rather than
C.In addition to 
D.More than

Read the text below and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 35.
Language change
          Language change over time, but (26) ________ don’t realise it. We may hear young people (27) _______ differently from us and (28) ________ by the way they speak. For example, we may notice new words, new expressions or even grammatically incorrect sentences. We will not, however, (29) ________ these different speech forms as language changes. We are most likely to attribute these forms to the irresponsibility of the youth and hope that they will speak correctly when they (30) ________.
          They may never do this, (31) ________. The new words, expressions and grammatical forms they use may become part of the language, and future generations will bring more changes to the language. So if members of the same community or country could speak to (32) ________ across five hundred years, they may be unable to communicate.
          Imagine a group of people moving away from (33) ________ they live. They will undoubtedly come into contact with other languages or dialects. They will borrow a lot of linguistic elements from those languages and eventually their own language will change to such a degree that what they say will be unintelligible to the people back home. Another example is a community which is (34) ________ into two different classes: an upper class and a lower class. If the children of the upper class have (35) ________ different education from those of the lower class, the kinds of jobs they choose will also be different. As a result, different dialects will develop and the speech of the two groups will differ.
(32)  
A.every other  
B.one another    
C.each the other  
D.all other

Read the following passage and mark A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the questions
Coincident with concerns about the accelerating loss of species and habitats has been a growing appreciation of the importance of biological diversity, the number of species in a particular ecosystem, to the health of the Earth and human well-being. Much has been written about the diversity of terrestrial organisms, particularly the exceptionally rich life associated tropical rain-forest habitats. Relatively little has been said, however, about diversity of life in the sea even though coral reef systems are comparable to rain forests in terms of richness of life.
     An alien exploring Earth would probably give priority to the planet's dominants - most distinctive feature - the ocean. Humans have a bias toward land that sometimes get in the way of truly examining global issues. Seen from far away, it is easy to realize landmasses occupy only one-third of the Earth’s surface. Given that two thirds of the Earth's surface is water and that marine life lives at all levels of the ocean, the total three-dimensional living space of the ocean is perhaps 100 times greater than that of land and contains more than 90 percent of all life on Earth even though the ocean has fewer distinct species.
     The fact that half of the known species are thought to inhabit the world's rain forests doesn't seem surprising, considering the huge numbers of insects that comprise the bulk of the species. One scientist found many different species of ants in just one tree from a rain forest. While every species is different from every other species, their genetic makeup constrains them to be insects and to share similar characteristics with 750,000 species of insects. If basic, broad categories such as phyla and classes are given more emphasis than differentiating between species, then the greatest diversity of life is unquestionably by sea. Nearly every major type of plant and animal has some presentation there.
     To appreciate fully the diversity and abundance of life in the sea, it helps to think small. Every spoonful of ocean water life, on the order of 100 to 100,000 bacteria cells plus assorted microscopic plants and animals, including larvae of organisms ranging from sponges and corals to starfish and clams and much more.
Which of the following conclusions is supported by the passage?
A.Ocean life is highly adaptive.
B.Ocean life is primarily composed of plants.
C.More attention needs to be paid to preserving ocean species and habitats.
D.The sea is highly resistant to the damage done by pollutants.

How many countries does UNICEF work in?
A.23                       
B.190                                
C.192                           
D.52

V. Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
The 24th Southeast Asian Games was held in Thailandfrom December 6 to December 16, 2007. The Thai Olympic Committee was (26) _____ the event to coincide with the commemoration of 80th birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Officials were studying the possibility of doing the events in multiple venues (27) _____ what had been done inVietnam and thePhilippines. It was the sixth timeThailand hosted the SEA Games.Thailand hosted the 1959, 1967, 1975, 1985 and 1995 SEA Games.
On 24 February 2006, northeast Thailand's Province authorities met to (28)            the 2007 SEA Games schedule, and progress on the province's under-construction US$65 million sports complex. The meeting provided an overview of (29) _____, and ended with reassurances that everything would be ready for SEA Games in 2007.
The sports venues included a 5,000-seater indoor stadium and 16 tennis court facilities among other facilities scheduled to be finished on June 2007.
The 2007 SEA Games featured (30) _____ than 400 events in 45 sports. The 24th edition of the games had the highest number of sporting events in the entire history of the SEA Games, more events than the Asian Games and the Olympic Games.
(28)
A.talk
B.discuss         
C.tell                       
D.quarrel

I know we had an argument, but now I’d quite like to _______.
A.fall out
B.make up
C.look down
D.bring up

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
 _______so aggressive, we’d get on much better.
A.She was not
B.Had she not
C.Were not she
D.If she weren’t

Today, many serious childhood diseases                     by early immunization.
A.are preventing
B.can prevent
C.prevent
D.can be prevented

_________ (8)
A.freedom           
B.independence      
C.tradition  
D. equality

As orders are becoming more and more, we’ve been rushed off our feet all week.
A.very angry                        
B.very busy                       
C. very worried        
D.very happy