Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

If she passes the exam, her parents will be walking on air.

Instant messaging enables you to get (26) ____________touch with somebody immediately and talk in real time to that person in a (27) ____________artificial while seemingly urgent way.

Rarely have I visited____________Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.

How well people remember things____________on many different factors,

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 26 to 30.

Instant messaging enables you to get (26) ____________touch with somebody immediately and talk in real time to that person in a (27) ____________artificial while seemingly urgent way. Instant messaging discourages self-censoring, voice clues, or reality-based feedback loop. If you're angry with one another (or even if you're not), you may end (28) ____________typing something that you might not have said if you had a little longer to think it through. Although you do get an instant response, it's not the same as a conversation, so things like tone, (29) ____________of humour, body language, and irony really do get (30) ____________in typing. No matter how you cut it, communicating through the Internet really is simply typing. Chat rooms are another part of the fantasy world of the Internet. They've been known to be very disruptive to relationships even when they're not suggestive or pornographic, and when they are.

We should husband our resources to make sure we can make it through these hard times.

Hoa: "Well, I hope you enjoyed your meal."

Mai:" ____________"

She said, "Tim, I'll show you round my city."

Such a doctor____________retire from his job before the retirement age.

Governments should____________some international laws against terrorism,

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.

(A) It's thirty years (B) since this (C) fifty-storeys building (D) was built.

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.

My husband has lost his job, so we'll have to tighten our belt to avoid getting into debt.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

My mother has____________for a bargain.

I walked away as calmly as I could. ____________, they would have thought I was a thief.

He expects that the new trend will soon____________here.