Part I. Choose the word, phrase or expression which best completes each sentence. (5 points)
1. The police stated that the accident ______________ soon.
A. will be investigated B. had investigated
C. is being investigated D. would be investigated
2. Hardly ______________ the captain of the team when he had to face the problems.
A. had he been appointed B. did he appoint
C. was he being appointed D. was he appointing
3. I think he will join us, ______________?
A. doesn’t he B. won’t he C. will he D. do I
4. Regina, ______________ you have never met before, is a genius in painting.
A. that B. whose C. whomever D. whom
5. Studies indicate ______________ collecting art today than ever before.
A. there more people B. more people that are
C. that there are more people D. people there are more
6. You meet a friend at the air port on arrival and you might say: “__________Da Lat”
A. Welcome to B. Be welcome to C. Welcome in D. Well come to
7. We must begin testing the instrument, no matter _________ difficult it is.
A. however B. how C. whatever D. what
8. Do you like Harry Potter film series ? – Well, after _________ the books,
I was a bit disappointed.
A. have read B. having read C. being read D. I have read
9. The whole village was wiped out in the bombing raids.
A. changed completely B. cleaned well
C. destroyed completely D. removed quickly
10. Quite soon, the world is going to ...................... energy resources.
A. run out of B. get into C. keep up with D. come up again
II. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the given word.
1. Mackenzie wrote four best –sellers before he was 20. (age)
By_____________________________________________________________________
2. We were not able to have our picnic because of the heavy rain.. ( impossible)
The heavy rain made _______________________________________________________
3. If you run everyday, your breathing improves quickly. (running )
Daily____________________________________________________________________
4. Have you read this novel by Jack London? (looked)
Have ______________________________________________________________________?
5. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t start engine. ( Tries)
Hard ______________________________________________________________________
II. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the given word.
1. Mackenzie wrote four best –sellers before he was 20. (age)
By_____________________________________________________________________
2. We were not able to have our picnic because of the heavy rain.. ( impossible)
The heavy rain made _______________________________________________________
3. If you run everyday, your breathing improves quickly. (running )
Daily____________________________________________________________________
4. Have you read this novel by Jack London? (looked)
Have ______________________________________________________________________?
5. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t start engine. ( Tries)
Hard ______________________________________________________________________
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it.
1. She didn’t like literature and her sister didn’t either.
Neither _____ _____________________________________________________________
2. I’ve never done such a difficult test.
It _______________________________________________________________________
3. I only bought the dog because my children wanted a pet.
If _______________________________________________________________________
4. The weather was so beautiful that we went swimming.
It was ____________________________________________________________________
5. I am really sorry I didn’t invite her to the party.
I really wish _______________________________________________________________
IV. Read the following passage and choose the most suitable from A to G on the list and write it in each gap from 1 to 5. Write your answers in the correspondent numbered boxes. (10 pts)
STAYING HEALTHY IN SPACE
The range of foods available to astronauts is vast, and great care is taken to ensure that it looks and smells appetizing. Meals are organized to provide an average of 3,000 calories a day, which seems high for living in an enclosed environment in which there is no gravity. But astronauts can expend a great deal of energy in doing the simplest things. For example, if they try to turn a handle, they turn themselves as well. If they bend down to do up a shoelace, (1) ________. Finding unusual ways of doing such ordinary things uses up the excess calories. The space diet is balanced rather differently from a terrestrial diet. This is to try and compensate for changes that take place in the body during space flight. Bodily changes begin as soon as astronauts go into space (2) _______________Among the most serious is calcium loss, which causes a marked reduction in the mass and strength of bones. There is also a progressive loss of red blood cells. What causes these effects is not known, (3) ______________ The heart muscles, with no gravity to battle against, start to waste away. The leg muscles start to waste away too, since walking, as done on Earth, (4) _______________ Exercise also helps to reduce muscle wastage (5) _____________ No one yet knows the limit of human endurance in space. If astronauts can withstand two years or more of continuous weightlessness, the mankind’s dream of visiting other planets could become reality in the early decades of the next century.
A. can only be done if astronauts put on their heavy spacesuits
B. and will never be known
C. which is rather more than astronauts really need
D. and are quite noticeable after even a week
E. they start turning somersaults
F. and is vital on very long flights
G. and the question must be answered before long-duration space-flight is really safe