B. SKILLS: READING - WRITING
I. Choose the correct answer A, B, c or D to fill each blank in the following passage.
You have a headache and you sneeze and cough. Your nose is all stuffed up, and it keeps
running, so you have to blow it every few minutes. You know by these (1)_
cold, and you feel completely (2)
that you have a
Everyone suffers (3)
the common cold at some time or other. It isn't a serious
but nothing can cure it. Medicine can relieve the symptoms. That is, it can make you
make your head less intense, and stop your nose (6)
for a while. So far(7)
no cure for the common cold and no medicine to prevent it.
there is no cure or preventive medicine for colds, people have all kinds of ideas about (9)
won't get
to prevent and treat colds. Some people think that if you eat a lot of onions, you
say that you should avoid getting wet and chilled, or you will catch cold.
3. fevers
C. cures
C. miserable
C. witho
C. headache
C. much
C. running
C. they are
C. In spite
C. where
C. Others
(4)
cough (5)
(8)
cold. (10)
A. diseases
1.
2.
A. sad
3.
A. from
4.
A. misery
5.
A. less
6.
A. walking
7.
A. it is
8.
A. Although
9.
A. what
A. Other's
10.
B. hungry
B. of
B. illness
B. fewer
2.A. strange
3.A. another
4.A. exercise
5.A. play
B. jogging
B. there is
B. Despite
B. why
B. Another
II. Choose the correct answer A, B, Cor D to fill each blank in the following passage.
Hobbies are activities for entertainment. Hobby can cost you almost nothing. Music is the most popular.
in their free time. Sports provide other (2)
For example, many people play the guitar for (1)
hobbies. Cycling, running, tennis, table-tennis are the sports that millions of people play during
their free time.
Some people's coin collections are wonderful. There are still hundreds of (3)
as bottle collections, seashell collections, butterfly collections, and so on.
For some people, a hobby is a favourite (4)
like chess. In chess, we need two or more people
collections, such
(5)
1.A. fun
B. funny
B. normal
B. other
B. game
B. to play
D. symptoms
D. thirsty
D. about
C. funnies
C. favourite
C. others
C. interest
C. playing
D. wrong
D. more
D. flowing
D. there are
D. But
D. how
D. Other
D.funniest
D. unusual
D. the other
D. sports
D. to playing