English is becoming the world’s first ........................ language.
A. official B. common C. universal D. main
........................ traffic uses flag and light signals.
A. Air B. Maritime C. Rush-hour D. Land
English is the native language of ........................ million people in 12 countries.
A. 885 B. 500 C. 400 D. 900
The language of the ........................ Age is English.
A. Stone B. Bronze C. Iron D. Information
English is not replacing other languages; it is ........................ them.
A. supplementing B. controlling C. prevailing D. challenging
........................ means buying services externally rather than producing them internally.
A. joint venture B. generation C. catching up D. outsourcing
In Chile, the government has ........................ on a national program of teaching English in all elementary and high schools.
A. embarked B. linked C. embodied D. honed
We see English not only as a way of ........................ , but as a way of opening windows on the wider world.
A. learning B. communicating C. travelling D. entertaining
Mongolians by announcing that their country would become a ........................ nation.
A. monolingual B. multilingual C. bilingual D. trilingual
“Father shark, mother shark, sister shark,” she ........................ carefully.
A. recited B. hone C. fuel D. prevail
Human beings ........................ intimacy, to love and to be loved.
A. crave B. hate C. hope D. deny
We often fall in love with someone because he or she ........................ us of a significant person from our childhood
A. recall B. remind C. tell D. ask
How we ........................ our intimate relationships, and what we can do to fix them.
A. build B. create C. sabotage D. have
Tara fell in love with a man with “a ........................ look in his eyes”
A. romantic B. close C. friendly D. faraway
Tara met Abe at a ........................
A. party B. club C. school D. meeting
Do you think that love can ........................ a person.
A. help B. support C. transform D. hurt
How many months are tops for weddings in U.S.?
A. 12 B. 10 C. 9 D. 11
Americans prefer ........................ weather for weddings.
A. cold B. warm C. hot D. cool
“........................ of intimacy” means if the woman gets too close, the man pulls back; and vice versa.
A. Circle B. Dance C. Love D. Sing
The percentage of weddings in August is ........................
A. 10% B. 9% C. 10.2% D. 7.0%
What type of mnemonic system is To remember the term arcuate faciculus, think of “The ark you ate was fastidious.”?
A. word or sound pattern B. mental graph or picture C. loci D. number association
The students are always ............... when they hear how well he speaks their language.
A. fashionable B. impressed C. memorized D. detected
I have only been skiing once before, so I would consider myself a ............... .
A. founder B. trainee C. fresh D. novice
My son was unable to ............... me to buy him a motorcycle for his fifteenth birthday.
A. convince B. impress C. hypothesize D. detect
She had a ............... voice that made her easily recognizable on the phone.
A. high pitched B. distant C. distinctive D. exceptional
What is the reason that the narrator gives for wanting to kill the old man?
A. He does not like the old man's eye. B. He wants the old man's gold. C. The old man insulted the narrator's girlfriend. D. The old man treats him poorly.
Which statement does NOT apply to the narrator?
A. He is careful. B. He is deceptive. C. He is impatient. D. He is insane.
How does the narrator get caught?
A. The police officers trick the narrator into admitting his guilt. B. A witness told the police officers what happened. C. The police officers coerce the narrator into confessing. D. The narrator confesses because he hears noises in his head.
According to the narrator, why does he fail to kill the old man the first seven nights?
A. The old man awoke at the sound of the creaking door. B. The narrator felt bad about what he was doing. C. The narrator's lantern woke the old man. D. The old man was sleeping with both of his eyes closed.
Which of the following is NOT one of the steps that the narrator took to cover up his crime?
A. He chops up the old man's body. B. He charms the police officers and tells them lies. C. He puts the old man's body under the floorboards. D. A neighbor contacted the police after hearing a scream.
Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt movement in Kenya in ............................
A. 1970 B. 1977 C. 1979 D. 1980
Wangari Maathai has planted more than 10 million trees to prevent .............................
A. soil pollution B. soil degradation C. soil erosion D. soil moisture
Points Wangari Maathai’s program has been carried out primarily by women in the ............................. of Kenya.
A. cities B. centres C. areas D. villages
She was ............................. numerous times by the government of Kenyan President Danielarap Moi.
A. awarded B. arrested C. selected D. fired
Wangari Maathai continued her work with the Green Belt Movement ............................. .
A. Meeting B. Training C. Movement D. Certification
English prevails in ........................ and the media.
A. transportation B. media C. medicine D. A&B
A common language used by speakers of different languages is ........................
A. laissez-faire B. bi-lingual C. link D. lingua franca
The rush toward English in Mongolia has not been without its ........................ .
A. bumps B. land C. language D. interests
“When you pick up one end of a ........................ , you also pick up the other”
A. rod B. can C. stick D. string
Mongolia now is embarking on a program to attract hundred of ........................ teachers from around the world to teach here. A. foreign B. international C. qualified D. active