Football is the most popular game in Britain. You can see that if you go to one of the important matches. Young and old people shout and cheer for one side or the other. Nearly every school has its football team and every boy in Britain knows much about the game. He can tell you the names of the players in most important teams, he has a picture of them, the rank of football teams and knows the results of many matches.
In Britain the football season begins in the middle of August, usually on the second Saturday and ends on the last Saturday in April. At the beginning of the season all the school football teams and the professional teams train very hard. They want to win their matches.

1 The word "nearly" in the second sentence can be replaced by……… .

a. almost     b. little     c. a few     d. much

2 What is NOT mentioned in the passage?

a. important matches   b. training methods    c. football teams     d. football season

3 What is the main idea of the passage?

a. game   b. hobby    c. football      d. sport

II. Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting.

1 It (A)was this book (B)which I (C)borrowed (D)from Lan.

a. was   b. which   c. borrowed   d. from

2 Mai (A)was (B)the last student (C)left the (D)class.

a. wasb. the lastc. leftd. class

3 They (A)got married twenty (B)years (C)ago, (D)did they?

a. got married    b. years    c. ago    d. did they

4 My father (A)works in (B)a hospital (C)building (D)in 1990.

a. works    b. a     c. building       d. in

5 She (A)is afraid (B)of (C)live (D)on her own in a big city.

a. is afraid   b. of   c. live    d. on her own

I. Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that best fits the blank space in each sentence.

 1 I've got neither time _______________ money.

       a. or       b. nor    c. and      d. but also

2 Why are you learning English ? - "___________I need it for my job".

a. So    b. Because     c. But      d. If

3 At 8 o'clock yesterday evening, I _________ my homework.

a. am doing     b. have done      c. did        d. was doing

4   He never smokes in the public, ________?

a. does he    b. doesn’t he    c. is he     d. isn’t he

I. Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that best fits the blank space in each sentence.

 1 I've got neither time _______________ money.

       a. or       b. nor    c. and      d. but also

2 Why are you learning English ? - "___________I need it for my job".

a. So    b. Because     c. But      d. If

3 At 8 o'clock yesterday evening, I _________ my homework.

a. am doing     b. have done      c. did        d. was doing

4   He never smokes in the public, ________?

a. does he    b. doesn’t he    c. is he     d. isn’t he

II. Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting.

1 It (A)was this book (B)which I (C)borrowed (D)from Lan.

a. was   b. which   c. borrowed   d. from

2 Mai (A)was (B)the last student (C)left the (D)class.

a. wasb. the lastc. leftd. class

3 They (A)got married twenty (B)years (C)ago, (D)did they?

a. got married    b. years    c. ago    d. did they

4 My father (A)works in (B)a hospital (C)building (D)in 1990.

a. works    b. a     c. building       d. in

5 She (A)is afraid (B)of (C)live (D)on her own in a big city.

a. is afraid   b. of   c. live    d. on her own

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

1 a. honest    b. horse    c. hook     d. hate

2 a. limited   b. needed   c. reached   d. exhausted

3 a. gives   b. fuels   c. stops     d. comes

4 a. reactor    b. clean    c. cheap   d. release

5 a. research   b. such   c. machine   d. change

I. Rewrite the sentences so that they are nearest in meaning to the sentence printed before them.

 1 His father gave him a bicycle on his birthday.

 It was...........................................................

 2  She often buys books from that shop.

 It is.............................................................................

3 They don’t smoke and they don’t drink everyday.

They...............................................................................

4 It is said that the thieves were arrested at the station.

The thieves..............................................................................

5 People say that he passed the exam easily.

It is...............................................................................................

1. He had an excellent grade in his examination …………… the fact that he hadn't worked particularly hard.

a. despite     b. although    c. because of     d. on account of

2.…………… earlier, I would have done it for you.

a. Had I known     b. If I knew      c. Should I know       d. Were I to know

3 Our friends won a big prize when he took part in the …………… on TV last week.

a. game show     b. news      c. music program       d. weather forecast

Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country's impressive population growth. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over five in 1966. In September 1966 Canada's population passed the 20 million mark. Most of this surging growth came from natural increase. The depression of the 1930's and the war had held back marriages, and the catching-up process began after 1945. The baby boom continued through the decade of the1950's, producing a population increase of nearly fifteen percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been exceeded only once before in Canada's history, in the decade before 1911 when the prairies were being settled. Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950's supported a growth in the population, but the expansion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth rate stood at 28 per thousand, one of the highest in the world.
After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It continued falling until in 1966 it stood at the lowest level in 25 years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of births during the depression and the war, but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school longer; more women were working; young married couples were buying automobiles or houses before starting families; rising living standards were cutting down the size of families. It appeared that Canada was once more falling in step with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western world since the time of the Industrial Revolution.
Although the growth in Canada's population had slowed down by 1966 (the increase in the first half of the 1960's was only nine percent), another large population wave was coming over the horizon. It would be composed of the children who were born during the period of the high birth rate prior to 1957.

The word "trend" in line 9 is closest in meaning to

a. tendency

b. aim

c. growth

d. directive

I. Choose the correct sentence from the four options a, b, c or d

1 we / plant trees / protect forests / cut

a. We need planting trees and protect forests cutting.

b. We need to plant trees and protect forests from being cut.

c. We plant trees and protecting forests from being cut.

d. We should plant trees and protecting forests cutting.

2 reading / help / widen my knowledge / relax / my free time

a. It is reading that helps me widen my knowledge and relax in my free time.

b. Reading it helps me widen my knowledge and relax in my free time.

c. Reading that helps me widen my knowledge and relax in my free time.

d. It is reading helps me widen my knowledge and relax in my free time.

3 People say that the American women are used to living independently.

a. It is said that the American women be used to living independently.

b. The American women are said to be used to living independently.

c. A and B

d. The American women are said they be used to living independently.

4 They found the bag they left there, didn’t they?

a. The bag was found they left there, didn’t they?

b. The bag wasn’t found they left there, was it?

c. The bag they left there was found, didn’t they?

d. The bag they left there was found, wasn’t it?

5 Do you know the man working in the laboratory over there?

a. Do you know the man who is working in the laboratory over there?

b. Do you know the man works in the laboratory over there?

c. Do you know the man whom working in the laboratory over there?

d. Do you know the man that working in the laboratory over there?