III. Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word. (10 pts)

Dear Sam,

Thanks for your letter. It was great to hear (1) ________ you again. Here's some information about where we could stay in London. The Pickwick Hotel is a small hotel in (2) ________  London. It sounds great because it's so close (3) ________ everything we want to visit. It costs £50 for a single room, which is expensive, but we'd get 10% (4) ________ if we booked early. The Lansdowne Hotel is a lot bigger and costs £39 for a single room. It's further out, but apparently there are (5) ________ of buses to the center and it takes about 35 minutes to get there. Personally, I think the Pickwick Hotel would be (6) ________. It's closer, so we wouldn't have to (7) ________ so much time and money traveling. With the discount, it'll be £45, so it's not that much more than the other one. Could you get in (8) ________ and tell me if this is OK? Then I can call to (9) ________ the rooms. Looking (10) ________ to seeing you.

Love,

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I keep a vocabulary notebook. It’s organized (1) ……………………. Whenever I hear or read a new word, I write it (2) ……………………. Then (3) ……………………I have time, I look it up in my dictionary.
Then I put down some key (4) ……………………about the word – you know, (5) ……………………it’s a noun or a verb, and some (6) ……………………of how it’s used. I go (7) ……………………the notebook and study the words as often as I can. I really (8) ……………………that the only way to learn new words – (9) ……………………in your own language – is by (10) ……………………them.

1. A. alphabet B. alphabetical C. alphabetic D. alphabetically
2. A. in B. on C. down D. beside
3. A. when B. if C. while D. unless
4. A. examples B. information C. meaning D. usage
5. A. what B. where C. whether D. when
6. A. meanings B. things C. examples D. words
7. A. after B. through C. on D. up
8. A. believe B. mean C. guess D. learn
9. A. whether B. ever C. even D. though
10. A. forgetting B. memorizing C. improving D. learning

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I keep a vocabulary notebook. It’s organized (1) ……………………. Whenever I hear or read a new word, I write it down. Then when I have time, I look it up in my dictionary. Then I put down some key (2) ……………………about the word – you know, whether it’s a noun or a verb, and some (3) ……………………of how it’s used. I go through the notebook and study the words as often as I can. I really (4) ……………………that the only way to learn new words – even in your own language – is by (5) ……………………them.

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1. A. alphabet B. alphabetical C. alphabetize D. alphabetically
2. A. examples B. information C. meaning D. usage
3. A. meanings B. things C. examples D. words
4. A. believe B. mean C. guess D. learn
5. A. forgetting B. memorizing C. improving D. learning

II. Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word to complete the following passage.

MY HOME TOWN

I was born in one of the most interesting cities in Malaysia. It has a rich, colourful history and many parts of the city have hardly changed at (1) .......................... during the last five centuries. However, nowadays, it is (2) ......................... longer the trade centre that it once (3) ....................... . It is difficult to imagine that at one time its harbour (4) ....................... to be visited by over 2,000 ships a week, and that the huge warehouses along the quayside would have (5) ......................... full of spices and silks, jewels and tea.

The old city centre is small, which (6) ......... it very easy to explore (7) ....................... foot. A river neatly divides the town, (8) ....................... only physically but in spirit, too. On one side, you find many grand houses, but on crossing the river, you find yourself in ancient Chinatown, where you really take a step back into the past.

It is great fun to wander through the colourful, noisy backstreets. As well as having shops that sell a wide range of clothes and shoes, some of these streets are also famous (9) ............................ high quality antiques. Unfortunately, most of the bargains disappeared many years ago. However, (10) ........................ you look around carefully, you can still come across an interesting souvenvir.

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FOOD FOR A FUTURE

Jon Wynne - Tyson was an original thinker whose best-known book “Food for a future” was published in 1975, In this classic work, a case was (1)________ forward for (2)________ can only be described as a more responsible and humane attitude towards the world’s food resources. It had gradually (3)________ clear to Wynne-Tyson that the economics and ecology of meat production did not (4)________ sense. What justification was (5)________, he argued, for using seven tonnes of cereal to produce one tonne of meat?

Even today, the book's succinct style makes it compulsively readable. (6)________ his approach is basically an emotional one, Wynne-Tyson goes to great lengths to back (7)________ every statement with considerable supporting evidence and statistical data. Thus, even (8)________ of us who are widely read (9)________ the subject of vegetarianism will gain fresh insights from this book. It is generally agreed that his most skillful achievement is the slow revelation of his main thesis (10)________ the arguments unfold. The book concludes that a move away from an animal-based diet to (11)________ which is based on plant sources is inevitable in the long-term, in (12)________ of the fact that there is no sound nutritional, medical or social justification for meat eating. (13)________ of whether you agree with (14)________ a conclusion or not, the book certainly makes (15)________ fascinating read.

VIII. Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. (2 pts)

            Television  owes its origins to many inventors. But it was the single -minded determination of an amateur’ John Logie Baird ‘that led (1)…….. the first live television broadcast.

            Born in Scotland in 1888 and educated in Glassgow’ John Logie Baird earned a living (2)………a razor-blade salesman. In the 1890s Guglielmo Marconi showed that sound could (3)……..sent by radio waves. Baird became convinced that a similar system could transmit a picture. He spent most of (4)……..spare time working on his ideas in his tiny workshop without any commercial support. He had to use his own earnings to continue his research. In 1924 ‘Baird successfully transmitted the general outline of a figure over more (5)……… three meters. He continued to experiment and (6) ………October 25 ‘1925  transmitted a recognizable image of a doll. He ran down to the office on the office on the ground floor and persuaded one of the boys to come upstairs. (7)………boy became the first  living image transmitted by television. Overnight ‘Baird became famous and the money (8) ……..he needed to continue his research was at (9)……...made one from London to New York. He continued experimenting  (10) ………spent his last years exploring the possibility of color television.

XI. Fill in each numbered blank ONE suitable word. (20 points)

Miss Darby was one of those people who never threw anything away. “You never know when you might need it” was (1) _____________ of her favorite sayings. She lived (2) _____________ herself in a large Victorian house across the road from us. Although I never went to her house, I knew it was full (3) _____________antique furniture, Persian carpets and so on. In every room, there were dozens of paintings so that her house was (4) _____________an art gallery. I remember my father (5) _____________ that she was a “Staffordshire Darby” but I had (6) _____________ idea what he meant. I (7) _____________ out years later that the Darby family had made their money from coal-mining in Staffordshire. We used to make up stories (8) _____________ her. My sister Alice, (9) _____________ was a romantic girl, told us that Miss Darby once had a lover, but he walked out one day and she (10) _____________ saw him again!

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VIII: Fill in each numbered blank with a suitable word.  

                 first      next      more     left    none      was    with     have      realized      sat    

   The morning train seemed ...(1)... crowded ...(2)... passengers than usual. At ...(3)... I thought I would have to stand for the whole ...(4)..., but when the train ...(5)... the station, I ...(6)... an empty seat ...(7)... to the window. I looked carefully around but ...(8)...of the passengers seemed to ...(9)... that seat. I came up to that seat and ...(10)...down . Opposite me ...(11)... a boy, he was playing with a  small object, no doubt but as soon as I looked at it again, I ...(12)... why I had found the seat so empty.