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. 

           People used to know more or less how their children would live. Now things are changing so quickly that they don’t even know what their own lives will be like in a few years’ time. What follows is not science fiction. It is how experts see the future.

          You are daydreaming behind the steering wheel; is it too dangerous? No! That’s no problem because you have it on automatic pilot, and with its hi-tech computers and cameras, your car “know” how to get you home safe and sound.

          What is for lunch? In the old days you used to stop off to buy a hamburger or a pizza. Now you use your diagnostic machine to find out which foods your body needs. If your body needs more vegetables and less fat, your food-preparation machine makes you a salad.

          After lunch, you go down the hall to your home office. Here you have everything you need to do your work. Thanks to your information screen and your latest generation computer, you needn’t go to the office any more. The information screen shows an urgentmessage from a co-worker in Brazil. You can instantly send back a reply to him and go on to deal with other matters.

What does “its” in line 5 refer to?

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

The food that Mark is cooking in the kitchen is smelling delicious.

Look! The yard is wet. It ______ last night.

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

Meal time also gives children a chance to learn how some of their favorite dishes making.

Only because she had to support her family  ______ to leave school.

They stayed for hours, ______ my mother was very annoyed about.

______ objective primary education is to provide students with basic knowledge of the country’s history, ______ geography and traditions.

A new study group has been set  ______ by the government.

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.

But what the most prevents women from reaching the boardroom, say bosses and headhunters, is lack of hands-on experience of a firm’s core business.

______, he would have been able to pass the exam.

We would rather Helen  ______ us all the information we needed . We should have been well informed.

Mark  the  letter  A,  B,  C  or  D  on  your  answer  sheet  to  indicate  the  sentence  that  is  closest  in meaning to each of the following questions.

His parents made him study for his exams.

They always kept on good ______ with their next-door neighbors for the children’s sake.

Ann and Matthew are talking about the effects of global warming.

-Ann: “Does global warming worry you?”

-Matthew: “___________”

The majority of primary school teachers  ______ women.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in  the following questions.

It is raining cats and dogs outside. I want to climb the mountain today but I can’t.