III. Complete the passage with the given words

population      on      official      Many      began

English is the (21)_________ language of the Philippines. English-medium education (22)_________ in the Philippines in 1901 after the arrival of some 540 US teachers. English was also chosen for newspapers and magazines, the media, and literary writing.

The latest results from a recent survey suggest that about 65% of the (23)_________ of the Philippines has the ability to understand spoken and written English with 48 person stating that they can write standard English. The economy is based (24)_________ English, and successful workers and managers are fluent in English. (25)_________ schools know that their students must be fluent in English to be successful.

I. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete the following sentences

7. Last night’s storm caused a lot of __________ to people in that area.

A. droughts                 B. forests                     C. damages                 D. volcanoes

8. If you can speak English, you __________ able to go to Canada.

A. will be                    B. will                         C. were                        D. are

9. The road in front of my office is always __________ when it rains heavily.

A. to flood                  B. flooding                  C. flood                       D. flooded

10. The fire was raging so fiercely that the rescue workers found it hard to put it __________.

A. down                      B. out                          C. off                          D. with

11. After I __________ in the room, she left.

A. come                       B. had come                C. came                       D. will come

12. This is one of the worst volcanic __________ in this year.

A. eruption                  B. erupt                       C. erupting                  D. eruptive

13. The roof of the building __________ in a storm a few days ago.

A. damaged                B. was damaged         C. has damaged          D. has been damaged

14. In some English speaking countries, turkey is __________food at Christmas.

A. national                  B. historical                 C. traditional               D. possible

15. If the factory _________ dumping poison into the lake, all the aquatic animals will die.

A. continues                B. continued               C. will continue           D. continue

16. When the policeman came to the scene, the driver of the car __________.

A. have left                 B. had left                   C. leaves                      D. was left

II. Give the correct form of the words given to complete the sentences.

17. The street doesn’t look_____________ because it has a lot of rubbish. (attract)

18. If we use water____________ , more people will have fresh water. (care)

19. Air __________ is causing many environmental problems in our cities today. (pollute)

20. Singapore is famous for its __________ and green trees. (clean)

I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.

1. A. vehicle                B. behaviour                C. exhibition               D. homeless

2. A. untidy                 B. visual                      C. surprise                   D. environment

3. A. volcano               B. violent                    C. technology              D. property

II. Choose the word with different stress from the others in each question.

4. A. geography          B. apology                   C. employee                D. artistic

5. A. Taiwanese          B. biology                   C. botanical                 D. photography

6. A. historical             B. interviewee             C. biography               D. psychology

Describe A Time When You Gave Advice To Others

you should say:

when it was

to whom you gave the advice 

what the advice was 

end explain why you gave the advice

IV. Supply the correct tense or form of the verbs in parentheses:

1. If you drink more water, you (not/ have) …..……………. any more health problems.

2. Most of the pollution (come)…………………………. from human activities.

3. The kangaroo (become)…………………….... a symbol of Australia since 1773.

4. All the people (have)…………….……. dinner when the typhoon came yesterday.

5. Mr. John (deliver)………….… a speech at 9 a.m next Friday at the National University.

1. I find his handwriting very hard to read.

   ð I have …………………………………………..………………………..………

2. He got down to writing a letter as soon as he returned from his work.

   ð No sooner ………………………………………………………………….…..

 3. Success depends on your hard work.

    ð The harder …………………………………………………………………………………..…

4. “If I were you, I wouldn’t accept his marriage proposal”, said Nam to Lan.

  ð Nam ………………………………………………………………….………

5. No matter how hard I tried, I could not open the window.

   ð Try …………………………………………………………..……………..….

I. Choose the word whose underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others by circling A, B, C or D (0.2 x 5 = 1.0 pt)

II. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the others by circling A, B, C or D

II. Read the text and use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. (0) is  an example. (10 pts)