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          Jane is twenty- six (1)___________ old. She lives with her family in an (2)_________  in London. There are four (3) __________in her family. Her parents (4) __________ in a hospital. Her brother is a (5) __________ at university. Jane works (6) __________ a travel writer for a magazine. She (7) _________abroad five or six times a year.

          Now she is traveling in South America. She does not (8) ___________ Spanish very well, but she is studying it at the moment (9)________ she needs to talk to local people. Every evening she writes notes about people (10) __________ places.

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Must                    is                             are                         more                     course

Best                       all                           too                        take                       of

Today our knowledge of food and what it does for our bodies is far (1) _______ advanced than that of the ancient. Now we know about vitamins and how each kind of vitamin helps in the growth of a particular part of our bodies. There (2)______ all kinds of vitamin pills which one can take to make up for one’s lack of certain important things which are needed for normal health. Of (3)______, if we eat well and properly, the food that we eat will take care (4) _____ our bodies without these pills and so there is no need to (5)_____ any kinds of vitamin pills unless our doctor tells us that our bodies are short of something which can be supplied by them.

Generally speaking, everything we eat does some good to our bodies, but if we eat (6)______ much of one kind of food and pay no attention to others, we may have too much of one kind of chemical substance and not enough of others. Then, we may be in trouble.

We are often told that we (7)________ eat some meat at each meal in order to get the necessary protein. That (8)________ only partly true, for proteins are not found only in meat. We can also get them from some vegetables.

The (9)_______  advice about what to eat is that we should eat (10)_______ kinds of food but never too much of any.

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It is not easy for (1)………..……students of English to improve their accent. Unlike children, who are flexible, adults often find (2)…………..….hard to change the way they speak. This is (3)………………..even the top or smartest adult students have difficulty with pronunciation. There are several things that (4)……………..…..international student can do to improve his or her (5)………………..
One method is to sign up for a pronunciation class. Studying pronunciation can (6)……………….…students understand the rules of English, but in (7) ……………..…. to practice speaking, students often need to be opposed to English outside the classroom as well. This is why many students say that studying  in an English – speaking (8)………..………greatly affects their English. Living with native (9) …..………. can help students to learn new vocabulary as (10)……………….…as improve their accents. International students can also learn important cultural information. This can help to prevent misunderstandings  that can occur when people from different cultures live together.

VIII. Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word. (2.0 points) My name is Lisa. I am 12 years old and I am in class 6 at Kingston junior high (1) _______________. It is a big and beautiful school. The school has a very tall gate with the (2) ___________________"Kingston junior high school". Behind the gate, there is a big (3) _________________with many trees. Students love (4) ___________________books, playing or chatting under the trees during recess. There is also a big playground with many wings (5) ___________________to 5 school yard. Many students can play on the wings during recess. There are 20 classrooms in my school. Each (6) __________________ has 30 desks, 6 lights, a black board, a teacher's table and a clock. All of us try to (7) ________________ our classrooms clean. Each class has from 25 to 30 students. Students have right to choose their seats and I often (8) ___________________ on the first row because I can listen to the lesson (9) ___________________ clearly. I learn many interesting things at school, so I always want to go to school (10) ___________________day. I love my school very much.

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My name is Lisa. I am 12 years old and I am in class 6 at Kingston junior high (1) ________. It is a big and beautiful school. The school has a very tall gate with the (2) ________"Kingston junior high school". Behind the gate, there is a big (3) ________with many trees. Students love (4) ________books, playing or chatting under the trees during recess. There is also a big playground with many wings (5) ________to school yard. Many students can play on the wings during recess. There are 20 classrooms in my school. Each (6) ________ has 30 desks, 6 lights, a black board, a teacher's table and a clock. All of us try to (7) ________ our classrooms clean. Each class has from 25 to 30 students. Students have right to choose their seats and I often (8) ________ on the first row because I can listen to the lesson (9) ________ clearly. I learn many interesting things at school, so I always want to go to school (10) ________day. I love my school very much.

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1…………………   2…………………  3………………….  4………………….  5…………………

6…………………   7………………….  8………………….  9………………….. 10……………….

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Computing is now at the (1) ___________ stage as printing was when the first printing presses were used. (2) ___________ printing presses were invented, only rich people like kings and dukes could afford to buy books. Often these (3) ___________ were unable to read and hadn’t got enough time to learn. In any case, the books were so big that it was difficult for anyone to relax with a book (4) ___________ we do today. They wanted books (5) ___________ they were expensive and there was something magical about them. Only a few people were able to (6) ___________, and it took an extremely long time to write a book. Monks and other people who could write said ordinary people could not learn to read.

The position with computers is very similar today. A few years (7) ___________, computers were very large and expensive. Business managers and rich people ordered them but (8) ___________ didn’t know how to (9) ___________ them. In many (10) ___________,  however, the situation has now completely changed. Lots of people not only own microcomputer but also know how to use them.

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Let me tell you something about my family. My father is sixty-four. He's a lot older ..............(1) my mother. She is only fifty-one. Dad has his ..............(2) business ( an export business ). Mum help him .................(3) the business. I have two brother and two sisters, so ..................(4) are seven of us altogether in the family.

The oldest is my brother Thomas. He's twenty-eight. He is ................(5) and has two children. The ..................(6) oldest is my sister Helen. She's twenty-three. She's .................(7) accountant and she works in a bank. Then there's me. I'm twenty. I'm in my second year ..................(8) university. The next youngest is Susan. She's eighteen and is in ......................(9) last year at high school. Then there's Tony. He's the youngest. He's fifteen. He ....................(10) to secondary school.

Read the passage below and fill  each blank with one suitable word. (2.0 points)

Part 1:

            Most students, in their own countries have had little opportunity to practise using English. When foreign learners first have the ( 1 ) ………. to speak to an English-speaking person they may have a shock: they often ( 2 ) ………… great difficulty in understanding. I’ll just mention three of the possible reasons for this.

            First, it seems to students that English people speak very quickly. ( 3 ) ………, they speak with a variety of accents. Third, different styles of speech are used. For all of these reasons ( 4 ) ……….. will have difficulty, mainly because they lack everyday practice in listening to English people speaking English.

            ( 5 ) ………….. can a student do then to overcome these difficulties? Obviously, attend English classes and if a language laboratory is available, use it as ( 6 ) ………… as possible. He should listen to programs in English on the radio and TV. Perhaps, most important of ( 7 ) ……………… , he should take every opportunity to meet and speak with native English-speaking people.

            In addition, the student probably has difficulty in speaking English fluently. The advice here will seem ( 8 ) ………. to follow but it’s necessary. Firstly, he must simplify what he wants to say so that he can express himself reasonably and clearly. Secondly, he must try to think in English, ( 9 ) ………… translate from his mother tongue. This will only begin to take place when his use of English become automatic; using a language laboratory ( 10 ) ………. listening to as much English as possible will help.