ii complete the passage by writing one suitable preposition in each gap

      Australia is the only country in the country in the world that covers entire continent. It is one (1) the largest countries on Earth. Although it is rich (2) natural resources and has a lot of fertile land, more than one-third (3_ Australia is desert.     

     Most Australian cities and farms are located (4) southwest and southeast, where the climate is more comfortable. There are dense rain forests (5) the northeast. The famous outback (remote rural areas) contains the country's largest deserts, where there are scorching temperatures, little water, and almost no vegetation.

    Running(6) the eastern and and south-eastern edge (7) Australia is the Great Dividing Range. This 2,300-mile (3,700-kilometre) stretch (8) mountain sends water down (9) Australia's most important rivers and the Great Artesian Basin, the largest groundwater source (10) the world.

i. Click the correct option for each gap to complete the following passage. 
One of the first novels in the history of literature was written (23) ______ England in 1719. It was Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Daniel Defoe was born in London in the family of a rich man. When Daniel was (24) ______ schoolboy, he began to write stories. After leaving school, he (25) ______ in his father’s shop and wrote articles for newspapers. Defoe visited many countries (26) ______ met many people. That helped him much in his writings. In 1719, when Defoe was sixty years old, he wrote the novel Robinson Crusoe which made him famous.
23. A. in                                            B. at                                        C. on                                      
24. A. the                                          B. an                                       C. a
25. A. sold                                        B. worked                              C. bought                              
26. A. so                                           B. and                                     C. because

Martin has been on holiday. Complete what he tells his friends about it by putting in
suitable adverbs of degree. Sometimes more than one adverb is suitable in a gap.

1 The weather was ----- nice but it wasn't wonderful.
2 It got -------- cold in the evenings and I had to put on lots of warm
clothes.
3 The hotel was --------------- a long way from the beach and it took a --------
long time to get there.
4 The beach was ------ nice and I had a wonderful time there.
5 I went to the beach ------- frequently but there were lots of days when
I didn't go there.
6 Local people spoke to me ------- politely and treated me -------- 
well - they were lovely.
7 I was -------- amazed by some of the wonderful things I saw.
8 It was an ------- fantastic holiday - the best I've ever had.
 

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that

best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

Early writing and Alphabets

When people first began to write, they did not use an alphabet. Instead, they drew small pictures to (31) _______ the objects they were writing about. This was very slow because there was a different picture for every word.

            The Ancient Egyptians had a (32) _______of picture writing that was called hieroglyphics. The meaning of this writing was forgotten for a very long time but in 1799 some scientists (33) _______ a stone near Alexandria, in Egypt. The stone had been there for over a thousand years. It had both Greek and hieroglyphics on it and researchers were finally able to understand what the hieroglyphics meant.

          An alphabet is quite different from picture writing. It (34) _______of letters or symbols that represent a sound and each sound is just part of one word. The Phoenicians, who lived about
3,000 years ago, developed the modern alphabets. It was later improved by the Roman's and this alphabet is now used (35) _______ throughout the world.
Question 31

A. notice

B. show

C. appear

D. mark

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that

best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

Early writing and Alphabets

When people first began to write, they did not use an alphabet. Instead, they drew small pictures to (31) _______ the objects they were writing about. This was very slow because there was a different picture for every word.

            The Ancient Egyptians had a (32) _______of picture writing that was called hieroglyphics. The meaning of this writing was forgotten for a very long time but in 1799 some scientists (33) _______ a stone near Alexandria, in Egypt. The stone had been there for over a thousand years. It had both Greek and hieroglyphics on it and researchers were finally able to understand what the hieroglyphics meant.

          An alphabet is quite different from picture writing. It (34) _______of letters or symbols that represent a sound and each sound is just part of one word. The Phoenicians, who lived about
3,000 years ago, developed the modern alphabets. It was later improved by the Roman's and this alphabet is now used (35) _______ throughout the world.

Question 32

A. practice

B. manner

C. plan

D. system

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that

best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

Early writing and Alphabets

When people first began to write, they did not use an alphabet. Instead, they drew small pictures to (31) _______ the objects they were writing about. This was very slow because there was a different picture for every word.

            The Ancient Egyptians had a (32) _______of picture writing that was called hieroglyphics. The meaning of this writing was forgotten for a very long time but in 1799 some scientists (33) _______ a stone near Alexandria, in Egypt. The stone had been there for over a thousand years. It had both Greek and hieroglyphics on it and researchers were finally able to understand what the hieroglyphics meant.

          An alphabet is quite different from picture writing. It (34) _______of letters or symbols that represent a sound and each sound is just part of one word. The Phoenicians, who lived about
3,000 years ago, developed the modern alphabets. It was later improved by the Roman's and this alphabet is now used (35) _______ throughout the world.

Question 35

A. broadly

B. widely

C. deeply

D. hugely

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that

best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

Early writing and Alphabets

When people first began to write, they did not use an alphabet. Instead, they drew small pictures to (31) _______ the objects they were writing about. This was very slow because there was a different picture for every word.

            The Ancient Egyptians had a (32) _______of picture writing that was called hieroglyphics. The meaning of this writing was forgotten for a very long time but in 1799 some scientists (33) _______ a stone near Alexandria, in Egypt. The stone had been there for over a thousand years. It had both Greek and hieroglyphics on it and researchers were finally able to understand what the hieroglyphics meant.

          An alphabet is quite different from picture writing. It (34) _______of letters or symbols that represent a sound and each sound is just part of one word. The Phoenicians, who lived about
3,000 years ago, developed the modern alphabets. It was later improved by the Roman's and this alphabet is now used (35) _______ throughout the world.

Question 34

A. consists

B. includes

C. contains

D. involves

Read the passage and choose the best answer for each question below.

          By far the most important United States export product in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was cotton, favored by the European textile industry over flax or wool because it was easy to process and soft to tile touch. Mechanization of spinning and weaving allowed significant centralization and expansion in the textile industry during

this period, and at the same time the demand for cotton increased dramatically. American producers were able to meet this demand largely because of tile invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793. Cotton could be grown throughout the South, but separating the fiber – or lint – from the seed was a laborious process. Sea island cotton was relatively easy to process by hand, because its fibers were long and seeds were concentrated at the base of the flower, but it demanded a long growing season, available only along the nation's eastern seacoast. Short-staple cotton required a much shorter growing season, but the shortness of the fibers and their mixture with seeds meant that a worker could

hand-process only about one pound per day. Whitney's gin was a hand-powered machine with revolving drums and metal teeth to pull cotton fibers away from seeds. Using the gin, a worker could produce up to 50 pounds of lint a day.   The later development of larger gins, powered by horses, water, or steam, multiplied productivity further.

          The interaction of improved processing and high demand led to the rapid spread of the cultivation of cotton and to a surge in production. It became the main American export, dwarfing all others. In 1802, cotton composed 14 percent of total American exports by value. Cotton had a 36 percent share by 1810 and over a 50 percent share

in 1830. In 1860, 61 percent of the value of American exports was represented by cotton. In contrast, wheat and wheat flour composed only 6 percent of the value of American exports in that year. Clearly, cotton was king in the trade of the young republic. The growing market for cotton and other American agricultural products led to an unprecedented expansion of agricultural settlement, mostly in the eastern half of the United States---west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Mississippi River.

According to the passage, one advantage of sea island cotton was its

A. abundance of seeds

B. long fibers 

C. long growing season

D. adaptability to different climates