Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Our form teacher couldn't come to the party’, _______was a pity.

Read the followingpassage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

Francis Bacon, one of the most important philosophers of England, was born in London and educated at Cambridge University. When he was only 15, he went to France to work for the English ambassador. Two years later he went back to England to study law. At the age of twenty- three he was chosen to parliament. His ideas about how scientist should study things in nature help to bring the modern way of thinking called the scientific method.

One of the Bacon’s best known books was his Essays. Each Essay was a short piece of writing in which he tried to give a lesson by discussing sides of a subject such as studying, conversation, friends and healthy living. In many of his books, Bacon explained how scientists should study things as they really existed in nature and then tried to figure out what caused a particular thing to be as it was. Later, by doing experiments, the scientist could see that any one cause would always have the same result. This method, which is called inductive reasoning, is used by all the scientists today, but it was new in Bacon’s time.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correcting in each of the following questions.

The bridge was very low. The ship couldn’t go under it.

Juniper was kayaking in the ocean. He saw a humpback whale at that time.

He put on his coat and leaves in a hurry.

Read the followingpassage 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.

It is usually very hard to become familiar (21)______ the culture of a foreign country. If you live a long time in that country, you will find out how little you really know about its culture. Books are often of little use (22)______ they concentrate on differences between your own culture and that of the foreign country. A lot of information they contain is not correct. It is even difficult for us to become (23)______ of the culture of our own country. A recent (24)______ showed that British people did not know what was really typical of their country! They listed stereotypes when they were asked to (25)______ the things they thought were typical of Britain.

New universities are being establish at a slower rate nowadays due to the lack of funds.

People rumoured that her husband had died in the battle.

I found it difficult to communicate in English.

She worked very hard. She could not please her step mother.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to the original sentence in each of the following questions.