Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

He became successful as a professional writer at the age of 20.

A. He did not succeed as a professional writer until he was 20.

B. He did not write professionally until he succeeded at the age of 20.

C. He succeeded as a professional writer until he was 20.

D. He wrote professionally until he became successful at the age of 20.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

He became successful as a professional writer at the age of 20.

A. He did not succeed as a professional writer until he was 20.

B. He did not write professionally until he succeeded at the age of 20.

C. He succeeded as a professional writer until he was 20.

D. He wrote professionally until he became successful at the age of 20.

15. Marie Curie ____________ a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
A. awarded B. was awarded C. has awarded D. is awarded
16 He/ so rilliant/ that/ get/ Doctor‟s degree/ age / twenty
A He was so rilliant that he got the doctor‟s degree at the age of twenty
B. He was brilliant that he got the doctor‟s degree at the age of twenty
C He was so rilliant that he get the doctor‟s degree at the age of twenty
D He was so rilliant that he got the doctor‟s degree the age twenty
17. What lesson do you have at 8:00 on Monday?
A. Literature B. Blue C. Friday D. four lessons
18. "___________ do you get to school ?" – " By bike"
A. What B. How C. How often D. How far
19. If you want to sell your house, why not put an ___________ on television.
A. advertisement B. advertise C. advertised D. advertising
20. Mr. Lam goes to school on foot once a week. It means he ___________ walks to work.
A. never B. sometimes C. often D. usually
21. When does he have a civic Education lesson?
A. At 7.15 on Monday B. On 7.15 at Monday C. At 7.15 in Monday D. In 7.15 on Monday
22. Mr. Lam is a cyclo driver. Most of his______are foreigners. They like going by cyclo.
A. customers B. passengers C. children D. friends.
23. I ------------- football since I --------------- 6 years old.
A. play / am B. have played/ was C. played / was D. had played / was
24. Please keep silent ! the baby -------------.
A. sleep B. is sleeping C. was sleeping D. had sleeping
25. ------------- class allows students to acquire knowledge about the living things.
A. Geography B. Chemistry C. Biology D. History
26.Family ________ is very important for a child to form his personality.
A. name B. background C. specialization D. degree

8 Read the text. Choose the correct answers.

Climb every mountain Stephen Venables’ love of mountains began at nine years old on a skiing trip to the Alps. ‘I was thrilled,’ he remembers. ‘It was actually far more impressive and exciting than seeing the Himalayas for the first time, because when you’re nine it’s all new and you don’t know what to expect.’

From that moment, Stephen knew that he wanted to climb mountains, but he didn’t realise then that one day he would be the first British man to climb Everest without oxygen. However, his record-breaking expedition in 1988 was not an easy one. 1 ___ After years of climbing, he was prepared for this and he knew that the best thing he could do was wait for the weather to change.

‘At first I tried sitting on a rock because rock is warmer than snow, but it wasn’t completely flat. I really wanted to lie down so I decided to cut a ledge in the snow. I did sleep a bit,’ he says. ‘They always say you should stay awake but I was totally exhausted.’ Fortunately, the storm passed, and Stephen managed to climb back down to his camp and enter the record books. 

The Everest expedition wasn’t Stephen’s only difficult climb. 2 ___ ‘It was very unlucky that it happened, but I was lucky that there were five of us.’ The group included Chris Bonnington and Stephen’s good friend Harish Kapadia. It took them twelve hours to make camp in a safe place. Then two of the team went for help.

‘I think that was one of the most wonderful moments of my life – finally being in the tent and realising that I could just lie back in my sleeping bag.’ 3 ___ By that time, there was almost no food left. ‘On the last day we had a boiled sweet and we used the last tea bag so many times that it wasn’t actually changing the colour of the water.’ But luckily, the team managed to keep going until help arrived.

1 What happened to Stephen Venables when he was nine years old?

a He was able to compare two different mountain ranges.

b He realised where he would like to live in the future.

c He decided what he wanted to do in his life.

2 What is the writer’s purpose in this article?

a To describe the best way to climb a mountain.

b To tell the story of a mountain climber.

c To explain why mountain climbing is dangerous. 

9 Read the text again. Match sentences A–E with gaps 1–3. There are two extra sentences.

A But Stephen didn’t know then that the rescue would take four days.

B While he was climbing Everest, he met the climber Chris Bonnington for the first time.

C In 1992, while climbing another Himalayan mountain, he fell 100 m, breaking both his legs.

D It was the second time that he needed medical attention because of his injuries.

E He was coming down from the top of the mountain when he was caught in a snowstorm.

PART 7: Read the passage below carefully and choose the best answer.

Langston Hughes was one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. He was born in Joplin, Missouri, and moved to Cleveland at the age of 14. Several years later he spent one year in Mexico before attending Columbia University in New York. For a few years after that, he roamed the world as a seaman, visiting ports around the world and writing some poetry. He returned to the United States and attended Lincoln University, where he won the Witter Bynner Prize for undergraduate poetry. After graduating in 1928, he traveled to Spain and to Russia with the help of a Guggenheim fellowship. His novels include Not without Laughter (1930) and The Big Sea (1940). He wrote an autobiography in 1956 and also published several collections of poetry. The collections include The Weary Blues (1926), The Dream Keeper (1932), Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Fields of Wonder (1947), One Way Ticket (1947), and Selected Poems (1959) A man of many talents, Hughes was also a lyricist, librettist, and a journalist. As an older man in the 1960s, he spent much of his time collecting poems from Africa and from African-Americans to popularize black writers. Hughes is one of the most accomplished writers in American literary history, and he is seen as one of the artistic leaders of the Harlem Renaissance, the period when a neighborhood that was predominantly black produced a flood of great literature, music, and other art forms depicting daily city life for African-Americans.

1. What is the main topic of this passage?

3.       As used in the passage, which of the following words could best replace the word "ports"?

A.  Islands     B. Ships         C. Friends.     D. Harbors

4.       To which of the following movements might Shakespeare in Harlem refer?

A.  The Civil War    B. The Harlem Riots

                   C. The Harlem Renaissance            D. The Civil Rights Movement

5.       What provided Hughes with assistance for his travel to Spain and Russia?

A.  His job as a reporter     B. His career as a soldier

                  C. A literary fellowship                               D. A college study program

6.       The word "talents" in the passage could be replaced by which of the following?

A.  Desires    B. Abilities    C. Strategies  D. Careers

7.       According to the author, what did Hughes do during the later years of his life? A. Write short stories    B. Popularize African-American writers

                   C. Advocate racial equality         .               D. Write about life in Harlem

8.       Which of the following could best replace the word "accomplished" as used in the passage?

A.  Successful          B. Prolific      C. Brilliant    D. Imaginative

9.       Which of the following can best substitute for the word "depicting" in the passage?

A.  Congratulating   Blessing         C. Screening  D. Portraying

10.  According to the passage, Langston Hughes was all of the following EXCEPT:

A.  A novelist           B. A poet       C. A historian           D. A journalism.

III. Read the following passage and answer the question

You have probably never heard of Charles Burgess Fry but in the early years of this century, he was the (1) ....................... famous in England. He became ....................... (2) while still at the university, mainly ....................... (3) of his sporting achievements. He was, at the same time, captain of the university football, cricket and athletics teams and held the world record for the long jump. He was ....................... (4) a popular sport journalist. He was ....................... (5) famous that letters addressed to ‘Mr. Fry, Oxford’ were delivered to him ....................... (6) any difficulty. His college, although it had quite a different name, ....................... (7) known as ‘Fry’s College’.

Some people have criticized Fry’s sporting ....................... (8). They point out that he lived at a time ....................... (9) standards were quite low and ....................... (10) was much easier to do well in several sports. It is certainly true that athletes ....................... (11) that time did not have the totally dedicated approach of modern athletes. However, it is only fair to judge him ....................... (12) the standards of his ....................... (13) time. There is no doubt that he ....................... (14) extraordinary skill and an ability to write ....................... (15) sport with style and intelligence

Mozart, who was born on January 27, 1756 in the Austrian city of Salzburg, was neither the first nor the last child prodigy, but he was certainly the greatest. He was born into a moderately prosperous family where his unmatched musical genius made itself known extremely early. Mozart began learning to play the harpsichord at three and his earliest known work was composed in 1761 when he was five, the age at which he also first appeared in p ublic. From the age of six, when his father took him on the first foreign tour, Mozart toured the courts and musical centres of Austria, Germany, France, England, Holland, Switzerland and Italy. It has been calculated that Mozart spent almost a third of his short life ( he died at the age of 35) travelling. As Mozart matured, he continued to tour and give concerts. Mozart also wrote a lot of operas. His first opera,

Mitridate, Re di Ponto, was perfomed in Milan when he was 14, and it was one of many successes in the life of the genius.

1.How rich was Mozart's family?->..........

2.When did he take the first step into the world of music as a composer?->........

3.What did he do on his tour to some major Europe countries?->............

4.Why is it possible to name Mozart'' A travelling composer''?->............

5.What expression in the passage means''an exceptionally clever child''?->...........