I have to sleep with the window closed because there is _____ noise outside.

My handbag was stolen ____________we were playing tennis.

I first met her four years ago when we _____________ at a middle school.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 40 to 44.

Nowadays there are many good reasons for using bicycles _(40)_____ cars to travel in city centres. First of all, bicycles are both silent and clean, and easy to park. Secondly, using a bicycle also __(41)____ people fit. However, city centres must either have cycle lanes _____(42)___ be free of private cars completely. Some large cities, such as Amsterdam in (43) __________Netherlands, are already organized in this way. (44) _______ a combination of the use of bicycles with very cheap or free public transport solves the problem of traffic jams and makes the city centre a more pleasant place.

- "I wonder if I could possibly use your car for tonight?"

- "__________ . I'm not using it anyhow."

Two days into the mission, the ____________ crew faced catastrophe.

He usually travels to ________ Philadelphia by _________ train.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 40 to 44.

Nowadays there are many good reasons for using bicycles _(40)_____ cars to travel in city centres. First of all, bicycles are both silent and clean, and easy to park. Secondly, using a bicycle also __(41)____ people fit. However, city centres must either have cycle lanes _____(42)___ be free of private cars completely. Some large cities, such as Amsterdam in (43) __________Netherlands, are already organized in this way. (44) _______ a combination of the use of bicycles with very cheap or free public transport solves the problem of traffic jams and makes the city centre a more pleasant place.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

There were some problems during the __________ even before the spacecraft got into space.

I can’t stand _____________people who are not tolerant of new ideas.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 45 to 50.

As many as one thousand years ago in the Southwest, the Hopi and Zuni Indians of North America were building with adobe-sun-baked brick plastered with mud. Their homes looked remarkably like modern apartment houses. Some were four stories high and contained quarters for perhaps a thousand people, along with storerooms for grain and other goods. These buildings were usually put up against cliffs, both to make construction easier and for defense against enemies. They were really villages in themselves, as later Spanish explorers must have realized since they called them “pueblos”, which is Spanish for towns. The people of the pueblos raised what are called “the three sisters”- corn, beans, and squash. They made excellent pottery and wove marvelous baskets, some so fine that they could hold water. The Southwest has always been a dry country, where water is scarce. The Hopi and Zuni brought water from streams to their fields and gardens through irrigation ditches. Water was so important that it played a major role in their religion. They developed elaborate ceremonies and religious rituals to bring rain. The way of life of less – settled groups was simpler and more strongly influenced by nature. Small tribes such as the Shoshone and Ute wandered the dry and mountainous lands between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. They gathered seeds and hunted small animals such as rabbits and snakes. In the Far North the ancestors of today’s Inuit hunted seals, walruses, and the great whales. They lived right on the frozen seas in shelters called igloos built of blocks of packed snow. When summer came, they fished for salmon and hunted the lordly caribou. The Cheyenne, Pawnee and Sioux tribes, known as the Plains Indians, lived on the grasslands between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River. They hunted bison, commonly called the buffalo. Its meat was the chief food of these tribes, and its hide was used to make their clothing and the covering of their tents and tips.

The word “They” refers to ____________.

My neighbor really gets on my nerves. She_________the washing machine on late at night.

I am surprised to hear that Sue and Paul have ___________, they seemed very happy together.

By far _____________ of Saudi Arabia is oil.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

For thousands of years, man has used rocks as main materials for building houses, made fences, pavements or even roofs for houses.