Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions from 26 to 28.

He started working as an engineer 5 years ago.

A. He has worked as an engineer for 5 years

B. He was working as an engineer 5 years ago

C. He didn’t work as an engineer any more

D. He has started working as an engineer since 5 years ago

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 9 to 20

Families in the Western world _______ very much in the last 100 years.

A. has changed

B. have changed

C. changed

D. had changed

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 9 to 20

You are old enough to take _______ for what you have done.

A. irresponsible

B. responsible

C. responsibility

D. responsibly

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions from 26 to 28.

The noise next door did not stop until after midnight.

A. It was not until after midnight that the noise next door stopped

B. Not until after midnight did the noise next door stopped

C. The noise next door stopped at midnight

D. It was midnight that the noise next door stopped

Mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the sentences from 34 to 35.

Billy, come and give me a hand with cooking.

A. help

B. prepared

C. attempt

D. be busy

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

There have been a report of several bombings by terrorist group.

A. have been

B. several

C. bombings

D. terrorist

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

“Where is the university?” is a question many visitors to Cambridge ask, but no one can give them a clear answer, for there is no wall to be found around the university. The university is the city. You can find the classroom buildings, libraries, museums and offices of the university all over the city. And most of its members are the students and teachers or professors of the thirty-one colleges. Cambridge is already a developing town long before the first students and teachers arrived 800 years ago. It grew up by the river Granta, as the Cam was once called. A bridge was built over the river as early as 875.

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, more and more land was used for college buildings. The town grew faster in the nineteenth century after the opening of the railway in 1845. Cambridge became a city in 1951 and now it has the population of over 100000. Many young students want to study at Cambridge. Thousands of people from all over the world come to visit the university town. It has become a famous place all around the world.

Around what time did the university begin to appear?

A. In the 8th century

B. In the 13th century

C. In the 9th century

D. In the 15th century