MANY DEATHS ASSOCIATED WITH FIRES ARE NOT ACTUAL CAUSED BY THE FLAM...

5. Many deaths associated with fires are not actual caused by the flames, but are rather by

A B C

the decreased oxygen supply in burning buildings.

D

Part 3. Use the correct form of the word in capital letters. Write

your answers in the numbered spaces provided. (0.5 point)

Charles Dickens was one of the greatest nineteenth-century

NOVEL

English (1) ______________. At the time of his death in 1870

he was a wealthy man, in contrast to the (2) ______________ of

POOR

his early days. His parents tried their best to look after him but

were always in (3) _________________

with money.

DIFFICULT

Eventually, his father owed such a large amount of money that

he was sent to prison for three months.

TWELVE

Two days after his (4) _____________ birthday, Dickens was

taken away from school by his parents and made to work in a

factory. Charles was not only unhappy, but also (5) ____________

SHAME

of working there, and he would never forget that period of his life.

C. READING (3.5 points)

Part 1. Fill the gap with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the numbered

spaces provided. (1.0 point)

Famine is a prolonged food shortage that (1) _________________ widespread hunger

and death. Throughout history, famine has struck at least one area of the world

(2) ________________ few years. Most of the developing nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin

America have barely (3) ___________________ food for their people. Millions in these

countries go (4) ____________________. When food production or imports drop for

any (5) ___________________, famine may strike and thousands of people may die.

Many famines have more than one cause. For example, the great Bengai famine of

1943 in Eastern India was caused by (6) ___________________ natural and historical

events. World War II resulted in a general food shortage and (7) ___________________ to

the cutoff of rice imports from Burma, which had been occupied by the Japanese. Then a

cyclone destroyed (8) ____________________ farm land. Famine struck, and more than 1.5

million persons died.

Nearly all famines result from crop failures. The chief causes of crop failure include

(9) ___________________ (prolonged lack of rain), too much rainfall and flooding, and plant

disease and pests. Many other factors may also (10) ___________________ create a famine.

Part 2. Read the text and choose the best answer for each gap by circling the letter A, B,

C or D. (1.0 point)

CHOOSING CLOTHES

Are you one of the thousands of people who (1) _________ follow every new fashion

that appears? Or are you one of (2) _________ who go to the shops and just buy whatever they

can find in their size that suits them? Or perhaps you order from a mail-order catalogue, and

then have to send everything back because nothing fits? (3) _________ kind of shopper you

are, one thing is certain. Everyone finds clothes important. According to a recent (4)

_________, people spend more time either buying clothes, or thinking about buying them, or

looking at them in shop (5) _________, than they do on most other products, apart from food.

And the (6) _________ is obvious. Clothes are an important part of our (7) _________. At

work, you may need to impress a customer, or persuade the boss that you know what you are

doing, and clothes certainly help.

Well-dressed people, so they (8) _________, get on in the world. And as far as attracting

the opposite sex is (9) _________, clothes also play a vital role. If a friend who has been

wearing the same old jacket or the same old dress suddenly appears in the latest fashion, you

can be sure that romance is in the (10) _________.