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.

Bill Gates is the co- founder of Microsoft, the world’s largest PC software company. He is among the richest people in the world. Bill Gates’ interest in computer started when he was a teenager. After high school, he was accepted to several top colleges in the USA:Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. He chose to go to Harvard to study law. At Harvard he focused more on his interest in computers than on coursework. He often relaxed by playing video games in Harvard’s computer lab. He left Harvard before graduating because he wanted open a software company with his friend Paul Allen. However, he later said, “I don’t think dropping out is a good idea. ” In 2007, he received an honorary degree from Harvard. He began his speech by saying this to his father in the audience. “I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this:Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree. ” Bill Gates is no longer working full time for Microsoft. He is now, with his wife, running the Bill & Melina Gates Foundation which aims to improve health care, reduce poverty, and promote education around the world.

Therefore, (25)_______ English language has helped to spread better understanding and friendship among countries.

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.

English is a very useful language. If we (21)_______ English, we can go to any countries we like. We will not find it hard to make people understand (22)_______ we want to say. English also helps us to learn all kinds (23)_______ subjects . Hundreds of books are written in English every day in (24)_______ countries. English has also helped to spread ideas and knowledge all corners of the world. Therefore, (25)_______ English language has helped to spread better understanding and friendship among countries.

If you are willing to fly at night, you can get a much cheaper ticket.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

Around one corner, a hundred goats suddenly appeared, in no apparent hurry to let us by

People can make a good living in sales if they have the right attitude and strategies.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.

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

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

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.

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.

The house is small. I like living in it.

I wish my English were good enough to go abroad.

I regret going to bed so late last night.

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.

He asked me whether I know that man over there .

You studied English at a university in London, weren’t you?

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.

What does the word “it” in the third paragraph refer to?

Which of the following in NOT mentioned as an alternative source of energy?

In the second paragraph the phrase “synthetic fuels” could be best replaced by which of the following?

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The search for alternative sources of energy has led in various directions. Many communities are burning garbage and other biological waste products to produce electricity. Converting waste products to gases or oil is also an efficient way to dispose of wastes.

Experimental work is being done to derive synthetic fuels from coal, oil shale and coal tars. But to date, that process has proven expensive. Other experiments are underway to harness power with giant windmills. Geothermal power, heat from the earth, is also being tested.

Some experts expect utility companies to revive hydroelectric power derived from streams and rivers. Fifty years ago, hydroelectric power provided one third of the electricity used in the US, but today it supplies only 4 percent. The oceans are another potential source of energy. Scientists are studying ways to convert the energy of ocean currents, tides, and waves to electricity. Experiments are also underway to make use of temperature differences in ocean water to produce energy.

the machine will be on show at a special exhibition in the Science Museum to (25)_______ people of Babbage’s work.

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Most people think of computers as very modern inventions, products of our new technological age.But actually the idea for a computer was (21)_______ out over two centuries ago by a man called Charles Babbage.

Babbage was born in 1791 and grew up to be a brilliant mathematician.He drew up plans for several calculating machines (22)_______ he called “engines”.But despite the fact that he started building some of these he never finished any of them.Over the years people have argued (23)_______ his machines would ever work.Recently, however, the Science Museum in London has finished building an engine based on one of Babbage’s designs.