Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Herman Melville, an American author best known today for his novel Moby Dick, was actually more popular during his lifetime for some of his other works. He traveled extensively and used the knowledge gained during his travels as the basis for his early novels. In 1837, at the age of eighteen, Melville signed as a cabin boy on a merchant ship that was to sail from his Massachusetts home to Liverpool, England. His experiences on this trip served as a basis for the novel Redburn (1849). In 1841 Melville set out on a whaling ship headed for the South Seas. After jumping ship in Tahiti, he wandered around the islands of Tahiti and Moorea. This South Sea island sojourn was a backdrop to the novel Omoo (1847). After three years away from home, Melville joined up with a U.S. naval frigate that was returning to the eastern United States around Cape Horn. The novel White-Jacket (1850) describes this lengthy voyage as a navy seaman. With the publication of these early adventure novels, Melville developed a strong and loyal following among readers eager for his tales of exotic places and situations. However, in 1851, with the publication of Moby Dick, Melville's popularity started to diminish. Moby Dick, on one level the saga of the hunt for the great white whale, was also a heavily symbolic allegory of the heroic struggle of man against the universe. The public was not ready for Melville's literary metamorphosis from romantic adventure to philosophical symbolism. It is ironic that the novel that served to diminish Melville's popularity during his lifetime is the one for which he is best known today.
In what year did Melville’s book about his experiences as a cabin boy appear?
A. 1849
B. 1837
C. 1847
D. 1841
Choose the correct answer – A, B C or D – to complete the passage.
To many people, their friends are the most important in their life. Really good friends always (31)………. joys and sorrows with you and never turn their backs on you. Your best friend may be someone you have known all your life or someone you have grown (32)………………with.
There are all sorts of things that can (33)……………about this special relationship. It may be the result of enjoying the same activities and sharing experiences. Most of us have met someone that we have immediately felt relaxed with as if we had known them for ages. However, it really takes you years to get to know someone well (34)…………to consider your best friend.
To the majority of us, this is someone we trust completely and (35)………….. understands us better than anyone else. It’s the person you can tell him or her your most intimate secrets.
Question 35:
A. which
B. whom
C. who
D. Whose
Choose the correct answer – A, B C or D – to complete the passage.
To many people, their friends are the most important in their life. Really good friends always (31)………. joys and sorrows with you and never turn their backs on you. Your best friend may be someone you have known all your life or someone you have grown (32)………………with.
There are all sorts of things that can (33)……………about this special relationship. It may be the result of enjoying the same activities and sharing experiences. Most of us have met someone that we have immediately felt relaxed with as if we had known them for ages. However, it really takes you years to get to know someone well (34)…………to consider your best friend.
To the majority of us, this is someone we trust completely and (35)………….. understands us better than anyone else. It’s the person you can tell him or her your most intimate secrets.
Question 34:
A. enough
B. such
C. so
D. too
Choose the correct answer – A, B C or D – to complete the passage.
To many people, their friends are the most important in their life. Really good friends always (31)………. joys and sorrows with you and never turn their backs on you. Your best friend may be someone you have known all your life or someone you have grown (32)………………with.
There are all sorts of things that can (33)……………about this special relationship. It may be the result of enjoying the same activities and sharing experiences. Most of us have met someone that we have immediately felt relaxed with as if we had known them for ages. However, it really takes you years to get to know someone well (34)…………to consider your best friend.
To the majority of us, this is someone we trust completely and (35)………….. understands us better than anyone else. It’s the person you can tell him or her your most intimate secrets.
Question 32:
A. through
B. in
C. up
D. on
Choose the correct answer – A, B C or D – to complete the passage.
To many people, their friends are the most important in their life. Really good friends always (31)………. joys and sorrows with you and never turn their backs on you. Your best friend may be someone you have known all your life or someone you have grown (32)………………with.
There are all sorts of things that can (33)……………about this special relationship. It may be the result of enjoying the same activities and sharing experiences. Most of us have met someone that we have immediately felt relaxed with as if we had known them for ages. However, it really takes you years to get to know someone well (34)…………to consider your best friend.
To the majority of us, this is someone we trust completely and (35)………….. understands us better than anyone else. It’s the person you can tell him or her your most intimate secrets.
Question 31:
A. share
B. spend
C. give
D. have
Choose the correct answer – A, B C or D – to complete the passage.
To many people, their friends are the most important in their life. Really good friends always (31)………. joys and sorrows with you and never turn their backs on you. Your best friend may be someone you have known all your life or someone you have grown (32)………………with.
There are all sorts of things that can (33)……………about this special relationship. It may be the result of enjoying the same activities and sharing experiences. Most of us have met someone that we have immediately felt relaxed with as if we had known them for ages. However, it really takes you years to get to know someone well (34)…………to consider your best friend.
To the majority of us, this is someone we trust completely and (35)………….. understands us better than anyone else. It’s the person you can tell him or her your most intimate secrets.
Question 33:
A. cause
B. provide
C. result
D. bring
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
It would be unreasonable ____ him ____ you money if you didn't pay it back.
A. to expect/lend
B. to expect/to lend
C. expect/to lend
D. expecting/lend
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
All over the country, young people are entering a world of homelessness and poverty, according to a recent report by the housing group, Shelter.
Nearly 150,000 young people aged between sixteen and twenty-five will become homeless this year, says Shelter. Some of the young homeless may sleep out in the open in such places as the "cardboard city” in London, where people of all ages sleep in the open air in their only homes - cardboard boxes. Others may find accommodation in shelters run by voluntary organisations or get a place in a hostel, which gives them board up to ten weeks.
But who are these people? Those who are seeking a roof over their heads are mostly not runaways but “throwaways" - people who have been thrown out of their homes or forced to leave because of parental divorce, an unsympathetic step-parent or one of many other reasons.
Take the case of one sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, Alice. She did not come from a poor home and had just passed her exams with good results. The Shelter team met her in a hostel where she was doing her physics homework. Her parents had thrown her out of her home for no other reason that she wanted to do Science Advanced Level Exams - which her parents refused her permission to do, saying that studying sciences was unladylike!
Shelter says that the government's laws do nothing to help these youngsters. Rising rents, the shortage of cheap housing and the cut in benefits for young people under the age of twenty-five are causing a national problem, according to Shelter. The recent changes in the benefit laws mean that someone aged between sixteen and twenty-five gets less than older people and they can only claim state help if they prove that they left home for a good reason.
Shelter believes that because of the major cuts in benefits to young people, more and more are being forced to sleep on the streets. Shelter also points out that if you are homeless, you can't get a job because employers will not hire someone without a permanent address; and if you can't get a job, you are homeless because you don't have any money to pay for accommodation. It's an impossible situation.
Question. According to a recent report by Shelter, it appears that ____.
A. hostels are too full to offer accommodation to homeless young people
B. more and more young people all over the world are finding themselves homeless
C. nearly 150,000 young people live out in the open
D. young homeless people live in places like "cardboard city”
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
All over the country, young people are entering a world of homelessness and poverty, according to a recent report by the housing group, Shelter.
Nearly 150,000 young people aged between sixteen and twenty-five will become homeless this year, says Shelter. Some of the young homeless may sleep out in the open in such places as the "cardboard city” in London, where people of all ages sleep in the open air in their only homes - cardboard boxes. Others may find accommodation in shelters run by voluntary organisations or get a place in a hostel, which gives them board up to ten weeks.
But who are these people? Those who are seeking a roof over their heads are mostly not runaways but “throwaways" - people who have been thrown out of their homes or forced to leave because of parental divorce, an unsympathetic step-parent or one of many other reasons.
Take the case of one sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, Alice. She did not come from a poor home and had just passed her exams with good results. The Shelter team met her in a hostel where she was doing her physics homework. Her parents had thrown her out of her home for no other reason that she wanted to do Science Advanced Level Exams - which her parents refused her permission to do, saying that studying sciences was unladylike!
Shelter says that the government's laws do nothing to help these youngsters. Rising rents, the shortage of cheap housing and the cut in benefits for young people under the age of twenty-five are causing a national problem, according to Shelter. The recent changes in the benefit laws mean that someone aged between sixteen and twenty-five gets less than older people and they can only claim state help if they prove that they left home for a good reason.
Shelter believes that because of the major cuts in benefits to young people, more and more are being forced to sleep on the streets. Shelter also points out that if you are homeless, you can't get a job because employers will not hire someone without a permanent address; and if you can't get a job, you are homeless because you don't have any money to pay for accommodation. It's an impossible situation.
Question. Why was Alice turned out of her home?
A. Her parents didn't agree with what she wanted to do.
B. She didn't want to study for her Advanced Level Exams.
C. She had not obtained high marks in her exams.
D. She refused to do her homework in the evening