Mark the letter A, B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. Question 12. Be quiet! The baby ____________ . A: isn’t sleeping B: is sleeping C: are sleeping D: aren’t sleeping 8 Mark the letter A, B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. Question 10. Visiting ________ increases my knowledge about cultures in the past. A: hometown B: mausoleums C: cinemas D: museums 9 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 blank (19). In the United States and Canada, it is very important to (17) ______a person directly in the eyes when you are having a conversation with him or her. If you lookdown or to the side when the (18) ______ person is talking, that person will think that you are not interested in what he or she is saying. This, of course, is not polite. If you look down or to the side when you are talking, it might (19) ______that you are not honest. However, people who are speakingwill sometimes look away for (20) ______ seconds when they are thinking or trying to find the right word. But they always turn immediately back to look the listener directly in the eyes. These social "rules" are (21) ______ for two men, two women, a man and a woman, or an adult and a child. A: seem B: come C: turn D: become 10 choose the correct sentence A, B, C or D. A: City children play less freely on the streets because of crowded traffic. B: City children play freelier on the streets because of crowded traffic. C: City children play freely on the street because of crowded traffic. D: City children play more freely on the streets because of crowded traffic. 11 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 blank (18). In the United States and Canada, it is very important to (17) ______a person directly in the eyes when you are having a conversation with him or her. If you lookdown or to the side when the (18) ______person is talking, that person will think that you are not interested in what he or she is saying. This, of course, is not polite. If you look down or to the side when you are talking, it might (19) ______ that you are not honest. However, people who are speakingwill sometimes look away for (20) ______ seconds when they are thinking or trying to find the right word. But they always turn immediately back to look the listener directly in the eyes. These social "rules" are (21) ______ for two men, two women, a man and a woman, or an adult and a child. A: other B: others C: another D: one 12 choose the correct sentence A, B, C or D. A: The starry sky at night in the countryside is clearer and fantastic than that in cities. B: The starry sky at night in the countryside is more clear and fantastic than that in cities. C: The starry sky at night in the countryside is more clearer and more fantastic than that in cities. D: The starry sky at night in the countryside is clearer and more fantastic than that in cities. 13 Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. Question 15. There are a number of drawbacks of living in the city. A: advantages B: benefits C: disadvantages D: difficulties 14 choose the correct sentence A, B, C or D. A: In the countryside, the life style is not so fast as the life style in cities. B: In the countryside, the life style is more faster than the life in cities. C: In the countryside, the life style is less faster than the life style in cities. D: In the countryside, the life style is faster than the life style in cities.