SECTION 1. LISTENING I. PART 1

45. He was taken to court for ______________ . (PAY)

Question IV. The passage below contains 5 mistakes (from 46 to 50). Recognize the mistakes and

write their correct forms in your answer sheet. (5 pts)

Line 1 _____

English has without doubt became the second language of Europe and the

world. European countries which have the most successfully assimilated English into

Line 2 _____

daily life are England's neighbours in Northern Europe:Ireland, the Netherlands,

Line 3 _____

Sweden, Norway, and the rest of Scandinavia.

Line 4 _____

Line 5 _____

The situation is such marked that any visitor to the Netherlands will soon be

Line 6 _____

aware of the pressure of English on daily life: television, radio and print bring it into

Line 7 _____

every home and the schoolyard conversations of children; advertisers use it pepping

Line 8 _____

up their message, journalists take refuge in it which their home-bred skills fail them.

Line 9 _____

Increasing one hears of the view that Dutch will give way to English as the national

tongue within two or three generative.

Line 10 _____

Example : Line 1 : became -> become

SECTION D: READING COMPREHENSION (30 pts)

Question I. Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word to complete the text below. Write the answers on

your answer sheet. There is an example at the beginning (0). (10 points)

TOMORROW’S WORLD WILL BE A LITTLE LATE

In a report for the US magazine Wired, a large number of academics, writers and experts were

invited to (0) make their predictions for the future. In some respects they are quite cautious, ruling out

ideas that they believe belong (51) __________ science fiction more than to practical reality, at least in

the next half-century or so. In other areas, (52) __________ , they foresee changes before too long.

On the roads, self-driving taxis and cars, in (53) __________ satellites guide the vehicle from

office to home, or to holiday destinations, could arrive by 2019, according to the experts. By 2034, (54)

__________ than 50 per cent of people in industrialized countries, (55) __________ is forecast, will

drive clean electric vehicles.

In space, a landing of humans on Mars could be the highlight of 2020, say writers and scientists at

NASA. Aliens may be contacted in 2025, but even 2050 is (56) __________ soon for androids like

C-3PO in Star Wars.

On the James Bond-style personal jetpack, Noah Rifkin, director of technology deployment at (57)

__________ United States’s Department of Transportation, said that companies are unlikely to put

enough money into research and development (58) __________ they know how many people might

want to buy it.

At work, all the technologies needed to do (59) __________ with the need for paper have already

been invented, yet Don Norman at Apple Computer forecasts that people (60) __________ always want

paper, although society may be 80 per cent paperless in 2009.

Question II. Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word or phrase for each

space. Write the answers on your answer sheet. (10pts)

SMOG AND AIR POLLUTION

For years London was synonymous with smog, the word coined at the (61)_____ of the 20th

century to describe the city’s characteristic blend (62) ______ fog and smoke. The capital’s “pea-

soupers” were caused by suspended pollution of smoke and sulfur dioxide from coal fires. The most

(63)_____ affected area was the 19th-century residential and industrial (64)_____ of inner London –

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particularly the East End, which had the highest density of factory smokestacks and domestic chimney

pots and the lowest-(65)______ land, inhibiting dispersal. As recently as the early 1960s, the smokier

districts of east Inner London experienced a 30 percent reduction in winter sunshine hours. That

problem was (66)______ by parliamentary legislation (the Clean Air Acts of 1956 and 1968) outlawing

the burning of coal, combined with the clearance of older housing and the loss of manufacturing.

The less visible (67) _____ equally toxic pollutants of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone,

benzines, and aldehydes continue to spoil London’s air. Traffic fumes and other exhausts are

(68)______ to become trapped between the surrounding hills and below a stagnant capping mass of

warm urban air at an altitude of about 3,000 feet (900 metres), causing immediate increases in eye

irritation, asthma, and bronchial complaints. But London’s weather is too (69)_____ for the

development of a full-scale photochemical smog of the kind that can build up under the more stable

weather conditions of cities (70) _______ as Los Angeles.