Đề thi môn Tiếng Anh - Kỳ thi tuyển sinh Lớp 10 THPT chuyên Quang Trung - Đề số 24 - Năm học 2014-2015 (có đáp án)

 UBND TỈNH BÌNH PHƯỚC KỲ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 THPT CHUYÊN QUANG TRUNG
 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO	 NĂM HỌC 2014-2015
TEST NUMBER 24 
 	Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH (chuyên)
 	Ngày thi: 21/01/2014.
 (Đề thi này gồm có 06 trang) 	Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút.
Họ và tên thí sinh: . .. Số báo danh: ...
Chú ý: Thí sinh làm bài vào phiếu trả lời (có phát kèm đề).
A. PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM.
I. PHONETICS (1 pt)
1. Choose a word (A, B, C, D) that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.(0.5 pt)
1. 	A. campus 	B. cake 	C. capture 	D. hamburger
2. 	A. publish 	B. cut 	C. bury 	D. but
3. 	A. fly 	B. scenery 	C. slowly 	D. usually
4. 	A. wood 	B. look 	C. cook 	D . blood 
5. 	A. china 	B. check 	C. chemist	D. chocolate 
2. Choose the word (A, B, C, D) whose main stress pattern is not the same as that of the others. (0.5 pt)
6.	A. computer	B. imprudent	C. powerful	D. tradition
7.	A. allocation	B. locality	C. respectfully	D. successfully
8.	A. beloved	B. decision	C. motorbike	D. proficient
9.	A. athletics	B. hopelessness	C. resident	D. tolerance
10.	A. practical	B. notation	C. reconcile	D. wanderings
II. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR. (5 pts)
Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best completes the sentences.
11. You are late again! Please, try to be ______ in future.
A. accurate	B. efficient	C. punctual	D. reliable
12. According to the ______ of the contract, tenants must give six months notice if they intent to leave.
A. laws	B. rules	C. terms	D. details
13. All the ______of the dances went to charity.
A. results	B. proceeds	C. rewards	D. finances
14. Enough money has been raised to ______ the hospital’s survival.
A. ensure	B. enlarge	C. enable	D. empower
15. When they retired they bought a tiny ______ in the country.
A. mansion	B. bungalow	C. shack	D. barn
16. It is too early in the ______ to expect many visitors to the town.
A. term	B. season	C. time	D. calendar
17. There is no reason to______ his honesty; he is absolutely sincere.
	A. search 	B. doubt	C. inquire	D. ask
18. Blue whales are considered _______ species.
A. dangerous	B. danger	C. endangered	D. endanger
19. Fax machines were a wonderful _______ at the time.
A. inventive	B. invention	C. discover	D. discovery
20. A computer is _______ of doing almost anything you ask it to.
A. able	B. disable	C. capable	D. ability
21. He was offered the job _______ his qualifications were poor.
A. although	B. in spite of	C. because of	D. because
22. Do you know the reason _______he didn’t marry her?
A. when	B. where	C. why 	D. which
23. I can answer the question _______ you say is difficult.
A. which	B. whom	C. who	D. whose
24. Bao Yen sings _______ than this singer.
A. well	B. better	C. gooder	D. more good
25. Paper money _______ for over a thousand years.
A. used	B. is used	C. has used	D. has been used
26. She apologized _______ late.
A. to arriving	B. in arriving	D. for arriving	D. at arriving
27. We're in good time; there's __________ to hurry
A. no purpose	B. no need	C. unnecessary	D. impossible
28. Mary never cooks ______?
A. did not she	B. doesn’t she	C. does she	D. did she
29. For lunch, you may have ______ fish or chicken.
A. both	B. neither	C. not only	D. either
30. The stereo radio is twice_______ the cassette player.
A. cheaper than	B. as cheap as	C. as cheapest as	D. much cheaper as
31.There are ten children_______ in the yard near my house.
A. play	B. plays	C. to play	D. playing
32. “If I were you, I would go to the doctor,” Peter said to Mary. 
	A. Peter told Mary to become a doctor. 
	B. Peter told Mary that he will go to the doctor. 
	C. Peter advised Mary not to go to the doctor. 
	D. Peter advised Mary to go to the doctor. 
33. In today’s paper it _______that we shall have an election this year.
A. says 	B. admits	C. expresses 	D. proposes
34. Tropical diseases are comparatively _______ in Europe. 
A. scarce 	B. rare 	C. slight 	D. few
35. She _______ the cold climate.
A. used to 	B. get used to 	C. got used to 	D. has used to
36. He was surprised _______her wonderful beauty on the Women’s Day.
A. to 	B. at 	C. with 	D. on
37. A dictionary is a _______ book.
A. research	B. fiction 	C. reference 	D. catalogue
38. The _______ in Viet Nam usually begins in December and ends in July.
A. football match 	B. football team 	C. football fan 	D. football season
39. I am going to a job _______tomorrow.
A. arrangement 	B. appointment 	C. interview	D. meeting
40. I shall do the job to the best of my _______.
A. capacity 	B. ability 	C. knowledge	D. talent
41. The woman said “This carpet was made _______so it is expensive”
A. by hand 	B. by the hand 	C. by hands 	D. by our hands
42. When they could put _______ the noise no longer, they banged on their neighbor’s door.
A. back	B. in for	C. off	D. up with 	
43. We don’t sell foreign newspaper because there is no _______for them.
	A. request	B. claim	C. requirement	D. demand
44. In the legal profession, men _______women by 5 to 1.
	A. outnumber	B. supersede	C. overcome	D. outclass
45. That was absolutely delicious. Can you give me the _______?
	A. formula	B. instruction	C. prescription	D. recipe
46. I wish I _________ all about this matter a week ago.
A. knew	B. know	C. had known	D. knowing
47. _________ I hear that song, I think of you.
A. Whatever	B. Forever	C. Whenever	D. However
48. He was made _________ for two hours.
A. to wait	B. wait	C. waiting	D. waited
49. My boss is angry with me. I didn’t do all the work that I _________ last week.
A. should do	B. should have done	C. must have done	D. might have done
50. Your bad result made me__________.
A. disappoint 	B. disappointed 	C. disappointing	D. disappointedly 
Select the synonym of the following bold and underlined word in each sentence.
51. This contamination has threatened the park and many of the animals in it.
	A. killed	B. endangered	C. kicked	D. weakened
52. Why would November be a suitable time to visit this park?
	A. nice	B. great	C. meaningful	D. proper
53. This national park is special because it has plants and animals from both tropical and temperate zones.
	A. places	B. regions	C. parks	D. classes
54. This contamination has threatened the park and many of the animals in it.
	A. dirt	B. dust	C. pollution	D. ugliness
55. An interesting feature of this park is the Orphanage where lots of orphaned or abandoned animals are taken care of.
	A. immoral	B. wicked	C. shameless	D. deserted
Select the antonym of the following bold and underlined word in each sentence.
56. Visitors, especially children, can go there to learn how to recognize the different species of animals and plants.
	A. pure	B. same	C. alike	D. whole
57. An interesting feature of this park is the Orphanage where lots of orphaned or abandoned animals are taken care of.
	A. bad	B. ugly	C. weak	D. dull
58. Due to an increase in population and the use of nearby land for farming, there are toxic levels of chemicals in the water.
	A. drop	B. lowness	C. shortage	D. illness
59. When did Nguyen Hue defeat Thanh enemies?
	A. peoples	B. animals	C. friends	D. kids
60. Rearrange the following sentences to make a letter of acceptance responding to an invitation to spend a weekend in the country.
	A. dislike	B. disparagement	C. rebuke	D. refusal
III. LANGUAGE FUNTIONS (0.5 pt)
Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best completes the sentences.
61. –“Did you finish the report? – “Yes, but I wish I had known __________.”
A. how hard would it be 	B. how hard it would be 
C. would be hard	D .how would it be hard 
62. – “What was the weather like yesterday?” – “It was a _________afternoon.”
A. raining	B.rainy	C. rain	D. rained
63. – “This traffic is terrible! – “You're right. People should ___________.”
A. less use their cars	B. use less their cars C. use their cars less D. their cars use less
64. – “Those students study a lot.” – “Yes, __________the students here are very serious.”
A. most	B. almost	C. most of	D. almost of
65. –“Why did Bob get into trouble?” – “Someone heard him __________his views of the boss.”
A. to express	B. expressing	C. expressed	D. was expressing
IV. GUIDED CLOZE TEST (1 PT)
Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits each blank space in the following passage.
Cotton has been grown for thousands of years in places as (66)________ apart as Mexico, China, Egypt, and India. American colonists (67) ________ to grow cotton in the early 1600s. Before 1800, cotton was a great luxury, more expensive than silk, (68) ________ so many workers were needed to pick it. (69) ________, a huge increase in the number of slaves in the American South (70) ________ in much greater cotton production and a fall (71) ________ the price. This, and the new technology of the industrial (72) ________, made cotton the cheapest fabric in history. By 1820, cotton (73) ________ more money for the United States than tobacco, and more money worldwide than sugar. Many Southern farmers and plantation (74) ________ believed that slave labor was (75) ________ for them to make money growing cotton.
66. 	A. long	B. away	C. out	D. far
67. 	A. started	B. brought	C. came	D. carried
68. 	A. after	B. although	C. despite	D. because
69. 	A. In addition	B. Since	C. However	D. Therefore
70. 	A. took	B. resulted	C. brought	D. was
71. 	A. to	B. in	C. down	D. of
72. 	A. factory	B. reform	C. revolution	D. company
73. 	A. will make	B. has made	C. makes	D. had made
74. 	A. keepers	B. owners	C. growers	D. directors
75. 	A. necessary	B. based	C. certain	D. made
V. READING COMPREHENSION (0.5 pt)
Read the passage below and choose the best answer for each question.
By adopting a few simple techniques, parents who read to their children can substantially increase their children's language development. It’s surprising, but true. How parents talk to their children makes a big difference in the children's language development. If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading, the child's language skills increase.
A study was done with two- to three-year-old children and their parents. Half of the thirty children participated in the experimental study; the other half acted as the control group. In the experimental group, the parents were given a two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask open-ended questions rather than yes/no questions. For example, the parents should ask, "What is the doggie doing?" rather than, "Is the doggie running away?". Experimental parents were also instructed in how to expand on their children's answers, how to suggest alternative possibilities, and how to praise correct answers.
At the beginning of the study, the children did not differ on measures of language development, but at the end of one month, the children in the experimental group tested 5,5 months ahead of the control group on a test of verbal expression and vocabulary. Nine months later, the children in the experimental group still showed an advance of 6 months over the children in the control group.
76. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Children who talk a lot are more intelligent.
B. Parents who listen to their children can teach them more.
C. Active children should read more.	D. Verbal ability can easily be increased.
77. In line 2, what does Ifs refer to?
A. Parents increasing children's language development. 
B. Reading techniques being simple.
C. Parents reading to children.	D. Children's language development.
78. According to the author, which of the following questions is the best type to ask children about reading?
A. Do you see the elephant? 	C. What animals do you like? 
B. Is the elephant in the cage? 	D. Shall we go to the zoo?
79. What was the difference between the control group and the experimental group?
A. The training parents received. 	C. The books that were read. 
B. The age of the children. 	D. The number of children.
80. What conclusion is best supported by the passage?
A. Parents should be trained to read to their children.
B. The more children read, the more intelligent they become.
C. Children's language skills increase when they are required to respond actively. 
D. Children who read actively act six months older.
B. PHẦN TỰ LUẬN. 
I. VERB FORMS. (1.5 pts)
Give the correct form of the verbs in brackets to complete the sentences.
1. We enjoy (81. permit) _____________ (82. stay) ___________ up late if there is something special on TV. 
2. Tom (83. lose) _______ his job eight months ago, and since then he (84. be) _______________ unemployed.
3. Look, Trung! You (85. know) _______________the man who (86. talk) _______________ to our teacher?
4. This morning while I (87. wait) _______________for the bus, the rain (88. stop) _______________.
5. Jenny (89. study) _______________French for a few month last year.
6. We decide (90. spend) _______________ our holiday at DaLat.
II. WORD FORMS. (1.5 pts)
91. He treated them with _______________. (generous)
92. How many _______________entered the race? (compete)
93. If you are _______________with our service, please write to the manager. (satisfy)
94. He drives so _______________that he often has accidents. (care)
95. Flowers are often _______________by bees as they gather nectar. (fertile)
96. I think these thin clothes are _______________for cold weather. (suit)
97. The computer is one of the most marvelous _______________in our modern age. (invent)
98. She is always worried about her children’s _______________. (safe)
99. He was kept in the hospital overnight as a _______________measure. (precaution)
100. Housework has _______________ been regarded as women’s work. (tradition)
III. READING COMPREHENSION. (1 pts)
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer: True (T), False (F), No information (NI)
	Many countries around the world have no caves. This is not because there are no hills or mountains in those places. Some of the world largest mountains have no caves because they are not made of the right sort of stone . But the low, limestone hills of north of English and the south of France are full of interesting caves.
	For hundreds of years, people have enjoyed finding caves and going inside them. This sport is called “caving” and the people who do it are called “cavers” Cave exploration began in Europe and even today most cavers come from there. That is why we know so much about European cavers. But in many parts of the world there are hundreds of cavers which few people have ever visited. For example, there are many caves in Russia and Afghanistan, in Albania and China. But not many cavers in those countries and it is often very difficult for foreign cavers to get permission to visit.
Statements
True
False
101. Every country in the world has caves
102. Caves are found in limestone hills and mountain.
103. Most cavers are European.
104. There are still many unexplored caves in the world
105. Cavers can visit any caves in the world.
IV. PREPOSITIONS AND PHRASAL VERBS.
Supply each space with a suitable preposition to complete each sentence.
106. His reaction _________winning the prize was quite funny.
107. I am writing to ask _________ some information about courses.
118. After her marriage broke _________, Emma went to live in London.
109. The headquarters _________ the United Nations is in New York.
110. It's dangerous to play football _________the streets.
111. The report about the accident was _________ the front page of the newspaper.
112. Give me some solution _________this problem.
113. There is no difference _________ those two colors.
114. Are you acquainted _________ the lady?
115. Miss White was very upset _________ the news of her father’s death.
V. ERROR CORRECTION (2 pts)
There are ten errors in the following passage. Identify the errors, then underline and correct them. Write your answers in the numbered spaces.
 Sally Ride, American’s first spacewoman, doesn’t looks very different from a lot of other American professional women. She is attracting with curly brown hair, dark brown eyes, and a bright smile. She like to dress simply: she wears comfortable but colorful clothes, like much people from California. But in 1983 Sally Ride became America's first woman astronaut. She was one of the five astronaut on the space shuttle Challenger, which completed a successful six-days voyage in space in June 1983. What makes a woman want to go in space?
 Sally Ride grows up in Los Angeles, California. Her father is a professor at Santa Monica College, and his mother is housewife. At Westlake High School for girls, she was both an excellent student but a tennis player.Today she still looks like a sportswoman. She is 1.6 meters tall, weighs 52 kilos, and very fit. While she was till a student, she became a very successful tennis player. She thought on becoming a professional sportswoman but she decided to continue with her studies at college, and later at university.
Mistakes
Correction
Mistakes
Correction
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118. 
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120. 
121. 
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124. 
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VI. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (2.5 pts)
126. The teacher allowed me to stay at home to finish the assignment.
=> The teacher 	
127. Unless the train arrives on time, we shall miss the start of the concert.
=> If 	
128. Children between the age of 6 and 16 have to go to school in Malaysia.
=> Education 	
129. Due to the traffic in Viet nam, foreign tourists prefer walking to driving.
=> Foreign tourists would rather 	
130. Please don’t smoke in the kitchen.
=> I’d rather 	
131. My sister rarely takes a holiday.
=> It is rare 	
132. I work in a factory which has more than a thousand employees.
=> There 	
133. There is no one I like more than you. 
=> You 	
134. Her behaviour annoyed me.
=> I found 	
135. The name of the film is “ The river of Hope”.
=> The film is 	
III. It is widely recognized that we have to protect the environment, not only for our own sake but for our next generations’ as well. Write a composition of around 200 words to say what you would and would not do in order to keep the world unpolluted, fresh and green. 
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 UBND TỈNH BÌNH PHƯỚC KỲ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 THPT CHUYÊN QUANG TRUNG
 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO	 NĂM HỌC 2014-2015
TEST NUMBER 24 
 	Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH (chuyên)
 	Ngày thi: 21/06/2014.
 (Đề thi này gồm có 06 trang) 	Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút.
Họ và tên thí sinh: . .. Số báo danh: ...
Chú ý: Thí sinh làm bài vào phiếu trả lời (có phát kèm đề).
A. PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM.
I. PHONETICS (1 pt)
1. Choose a word (A, B, C, D) that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.(0.5 pt)
1. 	A. campus 	B. cake 	C. capture 	D. hamburger
2. 	A. publish 	B. cut 	C. bury 	D. but
3. 	A. fly 	B. scenery 	C. slowly 	D. usually
4. 	A. wood 	B. look 	C. cook 	D. blood 
5. 	A. China 	B. check 	C. chemist	D. chocolate 
2. Choose the word (A, B, C, D) whose main stress pattern is not the same as that of the others. (0.5 pt)
6.	A. computer	B. imprudent	C. powerful	D. tradition
7.	A. allocation	B. locality	C. respectfully	D. successfully
8.	A. beloved	B. decision	C. motorbike	D. proficient
9.	A. athletics	B. hopelessness	C. resident	D. tolerance
10.	A. practical	B. notation	C. reconcile	D. wanderings
II. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR. (5 pts)
Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best completes the sentences.
11. You are late again! Please, try to be ______ in future.
A. accurate	B. efficient	C. punctual	D. reliable
12. According to the ______ of the contract, tenants must give six months notice if they intent to leave.
A. laws	B. rules	C. terms	D. details
13. All the ______of the dances went to charity.
A. results	B. proceeds	C. rewards	D. finances
14. Enough money has been raised to ______ the hospital’s survival.
A. ensure	B. enlarge	C. enable	D. empower
15. When they retired they bought a tiny ______ in the country.
A. mansion	B. bungalow	C. shack	D. barn
16. It is too early in the ______ to expect many visitors to the town.
A. term	B. season	C. time	D. calendar
17. There is no reason to______ his honesty; he is absolutely sincere.
	A. search 	B. doubt	C. inquire	D. ask
18. Blue whales are considered _______ species.
A. dangerous	B. danger	C. endangered	D. endanger
19. Fax machines were a wonderful _______ at the time.
A. inventive	B. invention	C. discover	D. discovery
20. A computer is _______ of doing almost anything you ask it to.
A. able	B. disable	C. capable	D. ability
21. He was offered the job _______ his qualifications were poor.
A. although	B. in spite of	C. because of	D. because
22. Do you know the reason _______he didn’t marry her?
A. when	B. where	C. why 	D. which
23. I can answer the question _______ you say is difficult.
A. which	B. whom	C. who	D. whose
24. Bao Yen sings _______ than this singer.
A. well	B. better	C. gooder	D. more good
25. Paper money _______ for over a thousand years.
A. used	B. is used	C. has used	D. has been used
26. She apologized _______ late.
A. to arriving	B. in arriving	D. for arriving	D. at arriving
27. We're in good time; there's __________ to hurry
A. no purpose	B. no need	C. unnecessary	D. impossible
28. Mary never cooks ______?
A. did not she	B. doesn’t she	C. does she	D. did she
29. For lunch, you may have ______ fish or chicken.
A. both	B. neither	C. not only	D. either
30. The stereo radio is twice_______ the cassette player.
A. cheaper than	B. as cheap as	C. as cheapest as	D. much cheaper as
31.There are ten children_______ in the yard near my house.
A. play	B. plays	C. to play	D. playing
32. “If I were you, I would go to the doctor,” Peter said to Mary. 
	A. Peter told Mary to become a doctor. 
	B. Peter told Mary that he will go to the doctor. 
	C. Peter advised Mary not to go to the doctor. 
	D. Peter advised Mary to go to the doctor. 
33. In today’s paper it _______that we shall have an election this year.
A. says 	B. admits	C. expresses 	D. proposes
34. Tropical diseases are comparatively _______ in Europe. 
A. scarce 	B. rare 	C. slight 	D. few
35. She _______ the cold climate.
A. used to 	B. get used to 	C. got used to 	D. has used to
36. He was surprised _______her wonderful beauty on the Women’s Day.
A. to 	B. at 	C. with 	D. on
37. A dictionary is a _______ book.
A. research	B. fiction 	C. reference 	D. catalogue
38. The _______ in Viet Nam usually begins in December and ends in July.
A. football match 	B. football team	C. football fan	D. football season
39. I am going to a job _______tomorrow.
A. arrangement 	B. appointment 	C. interview	D. meeting
40. I shall do the job to the best of my _______.
A. capacity 	B. ability 	C. knowledge	D. talent
41. The woman said “This carpet was made _______so it is expensive”
A. by hand 	B. by the hand 	C. by hands	D. by our hands
42. When they could put _______ the noise no longer, they banged on their neighbor’s door.
A. back	B. in for	C. off	D. up with 	
43. We don’t sell foreign newspaper because there is no _______for them.
	A. request	B. claim	C. requirement	D. demand
44. In the legal profession, men _______women by 5 to 1.
	A. outnumber	B. supersede	C. overcome	D. outclass
45. That was absolutely delicious. Can you give me the _______?
	A. formula	B. instruction	C. prescription	D. recipe
46. I wish I _________ all about this matter a week ago.
A. knew	B. know	C. had known	D. knowing
47. _________ I hear that song, I think of you.
A. Whatever	B. Forever	C. Whenever	D. However
48. He was made _________ for two hours.
A. to wait	B. wait	C. waiting	D. waited
49. My boss is angry with me. I didn’t do all the work that I _________ last week.
A. should do	B. should have done	C. must have done	D. might have done
50. Your bad result made me__________.
A. disappoint 	B. disappointed 	C. disappointing	D. disappointedly 
Select the synonym of the following bold and underlined word in each sentence.
51. This contamination has threatened the park and many of the animals in it.
	A. killed	B. endangered	C. kicked	D. weakened
52. Why would November be a suitable time to visit this park?
	A. nice	B. great	C. meaningful	D. proper
53. This national park is special because it has plants and animals from both tropical and temperate zones.
	A. places	B. regions	C. parks	D. classes
54. This contamination has threatened the park and many of the animals in it.
	A. dirt	B. dust	C. pollution	D. ugliness
55. An interesting feature of this park is the Orphanage where lots of orphaned or abandoned animals are taken care of.
	A. immoral	B. wicked	C. shameless	D. deserted
Select the antonym of the following bold and underlined word in each sentence.
56. Visitors, especially children, can go there to learn how to recognize the different species of animals and plants.
	A. pure	B. same	C. alike	D. whole
57. An interesting feature of this park is the Orphanage where lots of orphaned or abandoned animals are taken care of.
	A. bad	B. ugly	C. weak	D. dull
58. Due to an increase in population and the use of nearby land for farming, there are toxic levels of chemicals in the water.
	A. drop	B. lowness	C. shortage	D. illness
59. When did Nguyen Hue defeat Thanh enemies?
	A. peoples	B. animals	C. friends	D. kids
60. Rearrange the following sentences to make a letter of acceptance responding to an invitation to spend a weekend in the country.
	A. dislike	B. disparagement	C. rebuke	D. refusal
III. LANGUAGE FUNTIONS (0.5 pt)
Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best completes the sentences.
61. –“Did you finish the report? – “Yes, but I wish I had known __________.”
A. how hard would it be 	B. how hard it would be 
C. would be hard	D .how would it be hard 
62. – “What was the weather like yesterday?” – “It was a _________afternoon.”
A. raining	B.rainy	C. rain	D. rained
63. – “This traffic is terrible! – “You're right. People should ___________.”
A. less use their cars	B. use less their cars C. use their cars less D. their cars use less
64. – “Those students study a lot.” – “Yes, __________the students here are very serious.”
A. most	B. almost	C. most of	D. almost of
65. –“Why did Bob get into trouble?” – “Someone heard him __________his views of the boss.”
A. to express	B. expressing	C. expressed	D. was expressing
IV. GUIDED CLOZE TEST (1 PT)
Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits each blank space in the following passage.
Cotton has been grown for thousands of years in places as (66)________ apart as Mexico, China, Egypt, and India. American colonists (67) ________ to grow cotton in the early 1600s. Before 1800, cotton was a great luxury, more expensive than silk, (68) ________ so many workers were needed to pick it. (69) ________, a huge increase in the number of slaves in the American South (70) ________ in much greater cotton production and a fall (71) ________ the price. This, and the new technology of the industrial (72) ________, made cotton the cheapest fabric in history. By 1820, cotton (73) ________ more money for the United States than tobacco, and more money worldwide than sugar. Many Southern farmers and plantation (74) ________ believed that slave labor was (75) ________ for them to make money growing cotton.
66. 	A. long	B. away	C. out	D. far
67. 	A. started	B. brought	C. came	D. carried
68. 	A. after	B. although	C. despite	D. because
69. 	A. In addition	B. Since	C. However	D. Therefore
70. 	A. took	B. resulted	C. brought	D. was
71. 	A. to	B. in	C. down	D. of
72. 	A. factory	B. reform	C. revolution	D. company
73. 	A. will make	B. has made	C. makes	D. had made
74. 	A. keepers	B. owners	C. growers	D. directors
75. 	A. necessary	B. based	C. certain	D. made
V. READING COMPREHENSION (0.5 pt)
Read the passage below and choose the best answer for each question.
By adopting a few simple techniques, parents who read to their children can substantially increase their children's language development. It’s surprising, but true. How parents talk to their children makes a big difference in the children's language development. If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading, the child's language skills increase.
A study was done with two- to three-year-old children and their parents. Half of the thirty children participated in the experimental study; the other half acted as the control group. In the experimental group, the parents were given a two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask open-ended questions rather than yes/no questions. For example, the parents should ask, "What is the doggie doing?" rather than, "Is the doggie running away?". Experimental parents were also instructed in how to expand on their children's answers, how to suggest alternative possibilities, and how to praise correct answers.
At the beginning of the study, the children did not differ on measures of language development, but at the end of one month, the children in the experimental group tested 5,5 months ahead of the control group on a test of verbal expression and vocabulary. Nine months later, the children in the experimental group still showed an advance of 6 months over the children in the control group.
76. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Children who talk a lot are more intelligent.
B. Parents who listen to their children can teach them more.
C. Active children should read more.	D. Verbal ability can easily be increased.
77. In line 2, what does It’s refer to?
A. Parents increasing children's language development. 
B. Reading techniques being simple.
C. Parents reading to children.	D. Children's language development.
78. According to the author, which of the