Choose the correct answer – A,B,C or D – to each question

      Mankind is feeling greater pressure from the expanding number of people. The area of the earth can never be expanded. Nor are there endless sources of food and clothing. Yet people are being born faster than they are dying. In the next forty years, the world population may double. How can so many people be fed? What is worse, there is danger that someday mankind will have only standing room.

      Birth control should be a basic policy in our country. China has the greatest number of population in the world. With a high birth rate, the production of grains and goods will be unable to meet the need of the people. To raise people’s living standard, we must practise birth control.

      There are disadvantages of a family having more children. First, parents cannot give their children a good breeding in food, clothing and shelter, let alone education. Second, child-rearing will exhaust the parents, leaving no time and energy for their work. Last, a family with more children will increase the burden of society.

The world population may double in the next forty years because............................

A. people don't know how to limit population

B. government hasn't provided birth-control methods.

C. people are being born faster than they are dying

D. each individual isn't responsible for limiting population.

Choose the correct answer – A,B,C or D – to each question

      Mankind is feeling greater pressure from the expanding number of people. The area of the earth can never be expanded. Nor are there endless sources of food and clothing. Yet people are being born faster than they are dying. In the next forty years, the world population may double. How can so many people be fed? What is worse, there is danger that someday mankind will have only standing room.

      Birth control should be a basic policy in our country. China has the greatest number of population in the world. With a high birth rate, the production of grains and goods will be unable to meet the need of the people. To raise people’s living standard, we must practise birth control.

      There are disadvantages of a family having more children. First, parents cannot give their children a good breeding in food, clothing and shelter, let alone education. Second, child-rearing will exhaust the parents, leaving no time and energy for their work. Last, a family with more children will increase the burden of society.

The world population may double in the next forty years because............................

A. people don't know how to limit population

B. government hasn't provided birth-control methods.

C. people are being born faster than they are dying

D. each individual isn't responsible for limiting population.

II. Choose A, B, C or D for each blank in the passage below.

            Television first came sixty years ago …….(1) the 1950s. Nowadays, it is one of the most (2)……..sources of entertainment for both the old and the young. Television brings (3)……..for children, word news, music and many other (4)….…..If someone likes sports, he can just choose the right sports (5)……..It is not difficult for us to see why (6)……….is a TV set in almost every home today.

1.   A. on                B. in                          C. for                     D. at

2.   A. cheap      B. expensive        C. popular             D. exciting

3.   A. news       B. cartoons                C. sports               D. plays

4.   A. sets        B. reports             C. of           D. programmes

5.   A. athletes    B. channel            C. time                 D. studio

6.   A. it          B. this                       C. that                  D. there

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below

Television is one of _________ (6) inventions of human beings. Today we can find television almost everywhere ___________ (7) the world. The first television was invented in 1927 by a 21 years old inventor – Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Watching television __________ (8) both recreational and informative. There are some news programs for adults _________ (9) information. There are also tutorial channels based on specific subjects for the students. ___________ (10), it’s harmful to spend too much time watching television. Some shows are too violent for the children to watch because they may imitate.

Question 10:

A. Because

B. Therefore

C. But

D. However

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below

Television is one of _________ (6) inventions of human beings. Today we can find television almost everywhere ___________ (7) the world. The first television was invented in 1927 by a 21 years old inventor – Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Watching television __________ (8) both recreational and informative. There are some news programs for adults _________ (9) information. There are also tutorial channels based on specific subjects for the students. ___________ (10), it’s harmful to spend too much time watching television. Some shows are too violent for the children to watch because they may imitate.

Question 9:

A. to get

B. getting

C. get

D. to be getting

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below

Television is one of _________ (6) inventions of human beings. Today we can find television almost everywhere ___________ (7) the world. The first television was invented in 1927 by a 21 years old inventor – Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Watching television __________ (8) both recreational and informative. There are some news programs for adults _________ (9) information. There are also tutorial channels based on specific subjects for the students. ___________ (10), it’s harmful to spend too much time watching television. Some shows are too violent for the children to watch because they may imitate.

Question 6:

A. greater

B. the greatest

C. great

D. greater than

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below

Television is one of _________ (6) inventions of human beings. Today we can find television almost everywhere ___________ (7) the world. The first television was invented in 1927 by a 21 years old inventor – Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Watching television __________ (8) both recreational and informative. There are some news programs for adults _________ (9) information. There are also tutorial channels based on specific subjects for the students. ___________ (10), it’s harmful to spend too much time watching television. Some shows are too violent for the children to watch because they may imitate.

Question 8:

A. is

B. are

C. be

D. am

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below

Television is one of _________ (6) inventions of human beings. Today we can find television almost everywhere ___________ (7) the world. The first television was invented in 1927 by a 21 years old inventor – Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Watching television __________ (8) both recreational and informative. There are some news programs for adults _________ (9) information. There are also tutorial channels based on specific subjects for the students. ___________ (10), it’s harmful to spend too much time watching television. Some shows are too violent for the children to watch because they may imitate.

Question 7:

A. of

B. on

C. in

D. at

Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Amelia Earhart was born in Kansas in 1897. Thirty one years later, she received a phone call that would change her life. She was invited to become the first woman passenger to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a plane. The flight took more than 20 hours – about three times longer than it routinely takes today to cross the Atlantic by plane. Earhart was twelve years old before she ever saw an airplane, and she didn’t take her first flight until 1920. But she was so thrilled by her first experience in a plane that she quickly began to take flying lessons. She wrote, “As soon as I left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly.”

After that flight Earhart became a media sensation. She was given a ticker tape parade down Broadway in New York and even president Coolidge called to congratulate her. Because her record – breaking career and physical appearance were similar to pioneering pilot and American hero Charles Lindbergh, she earned the nickname “Lady Lindy.” She wrote a book about her flight across the Atlantic, called 20 Hrs, 40 Min.

Earhart continued to break records, and also polised her skills as a speaker and writer, always advocating women’s achievements, especially in aviation. Her next goal was to achieve a transatlantic crossing alone. In 1927 Charles Lindbergh became the first person to make a solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic. Five years later, Earhart became the first woman to repeat that feat. Her popularity grew even more and she was the undisputed queen of the air. She then wanted to fly around the world, and in June 1973 she left Miami with Fred Noonan as her navigator. No one knows why she left behind important communication and navigation instruments. Perhaps it was to make room for additional fuel for the long flight. The pair made it to New Guinea in 21 days and then left for Howland Island, a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The last communication from Earhart and Noonan was on July 2, 1937 with a nearby Coast Guard ship. The United States Navy conducted a massive search for more than two week but no trace of the plane or its passengers was ever found. Many people believe they got lost simply ran out of fuel and died. 

According to the passage, which of the following statements about Earhart is NOT true?

A. She wrote a book about her solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic, called 20 Hrs, 40 Min. 

B. She was in her late twenties when she took her first flight

C. She is regarded as the female Chare Lindbergh in aviation

D. In her last adventure, she didn’t take communication and navigation instruments by accident, and that led to the tragedy.