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THE FIRST-SEMESTER EXAMINATION 1
Time allotted: 60 minutes
A. PHONETICS 
I. Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other words. 
1. A. bus 	B. fun 	C. busy 	D. husband
2. A. wonderful 	B. something 	C. month 	D. bottle
3. A. wound 	B. around 	C. bound 	D. amount
4. A. human 	B. humane 	C. woman 	D. brilliant
5. A. worked 	B. naked 	C. lacked 	D. picked
II. Pick out the word that has the stress pattern different from that of the other words. 
6. A. spectacular 	B. information 	C. confirmation 	D. education
7. A. company 	B. director 	C. holiday 	D. advertise
8. A. polite 	B accept 	C. custom 	D. provide
9. A. youscll 	B. Chinese 	C. exam 	D. member
10. A. parents 	B. routine 	C. student 	D. glory
B. VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURE
I. Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence.
11. Marie Curie harbored the dream of a ....... career which was impossible for a woman at her time.
A. scientist 	B. scientific 	C. science 	D. scientifical
12. Marie Curie was the first woman in France...... a university professor.
A. to be 	B. be 	C. being 	D. been
13. After the death of her husband, she had to take charge.......educating the children by herself.
A. in 	B. for	C. of 	D. with
14. When I was a child, I........go to the zoo with my father on Sundays.
A. was used to	B. was used for 	C. used for	D. used to
15. This is Mr White.......invention has helped hundreds of deaf people.
A. whom 	B. who	C. whose 	D. that
16. She wondered......her only son was then.
A. where 	B. if	C. whether 	D. what
17. If he...... harder, the results will he better.
A. worked 	B. works 	C. has worked 	D. will work
18. I like.......to musie while I'm studying.
A. listen	 	B. to listening 	C. listening 	D. listened
19. Lan is a.........student.
A. working hard 	B. hard-worked 	C. hard-working 	D. hard-work
20. I.an is never........for school.
A. absent 	B. present 	C. early 	D. late
21. The meeting had been cancelled.......the chairman's absence.
A. because 	B. because of 	C. despite 	D. although
22. A person who is at the same class as you at school or college is called a.........
A. roommate 	B. friend 	C. classmate 	D. groupment 
23. We haven't seen each other........we left school.
A. since 	B. for 	C. before 	D. after
24. I don't know why he avoids........me.
A. to meet 	B. meet 	C. being met 	D. meeting
25. We decided to eat out........the weather was bad.
A. although 	B. despite 	C. because 	D. whether
II. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting.
26. I (A) like the present (B) whom you (C) gave me (D) on my birthday.
27. (A) If the weather (B) is fine (C) today, we (C) would go to the beach.
28. My (A) friends gave me a (B) big surprise, (C) that was very good (D) of them.
29. (A) One of the (B) more interesting things for me (C) to do is (D) listening to music.
30. After Tom (A) had finished (B) doing his (C) homework, (D) had gone to bed.
III. Choose the correct sentence among A, B, C or D which has the same meaning as the given one.
31. The thick fog made it impossible for me to drive to work.
A. I couldn't drive.
B. I couldn't control the car because the fog was thick.
C. I couldn't control the car because of the thick fog.
D. The thick fog prevented me from driving to work.
32. Despite feeling cold, we kept walking.
A. We kept walking if we didn't feel cold.
B. Although we felt cold, we kept walking.
C. We kept walking so we felt cold.
D. We kept walking without feeling cold.
33. He used to write home once a week.
A. He enjoys writing home every week.
B. He never fails to write a weekly letter home.
C. He doesn't now write home once a week.
D. He was (breed to write home every week.
34. She said to us "Don't be late."
A. She told us not to be late.
B. She told not to be late.
C. We can't come there late.
D. She didn't want us to come late.
35. I haven't been to the cinema for two months.
A. The last time 1 went to the cinema was two months ago.
B. It's two months since I last went to the cinema.
C. I didn't go to the cinema until two months ago.
D. Both A & B are correct.
C. READING
I. Read the text below and choose the correct word or phrase for each space. For each question, circje the letter you choose A, B, C or D.
SAMUEL PEPYS
 The most famous diary in English v\as written by Samuel Pepys. It gives a detailed and interesting (36).......of everyday life in England (37)........1660 and 1669. Pepys write: about important news stories of the time, like disease, an enemy navy (38).......up the River Thames and the Great Fire of London. He also writes about himself, even about his (39)........ – he often slept during church or (40)....... at the pretty girls. He describes his home life - a (41).......with his wife and how they became friends again, his worry about her illness. As well as books, he liked music, the theatre, card (42).......and parties with good food and (43)........of fun. Pepys was a busy man who had many important (44)........- he was a Member of Parliament and President of the Royal Society. He is also (45)....... for his work for the British Navy.
36. A. description 	B. letter 	C. notice 	D. story
37. A. between 	B. from 	C. through 	D. to
38. A. driving 	B. flying 	C. running 	D. sailing
39. A. accidents 	B. plans 	C. dreams 	D. faults
40. A. looked 	B. prayed 	C. talked 	D. thought
41. A. convention 	B . discussion 	C. quarrel 	D. talk
42. A. battles 	B. games 	C. matches 	D. plays
43. A. amount 	B. plenty 	C. much 	D. some
44. A. acts 	B. hobbies 	C. jobs 	D. studies
45. A. reviewed 	B. remembered 	C. reminded 	D. reported
II. Read the text and questions below. For each question, circle the letter you choose A, B, C or D.
 The computer age is producing an army of robots - machines that are directed by electronic brains and which replace human labour in industrial operations. Many arc artificial arms which reach into areas man enters only at his peril, such as the inside of a nuclear reactor. Already in 2000 there were 90,000 such robots working in industrial plants throughout the world. The big change over to robots, however, is likely to come only when their costs go down while workers' wages continue to rise.
46. Sentence 1 indicates that robots are used mainly........
A. to fight wars.	B. to operate computers.
C. to direct electronic brains.	D. to take the place of human workers.
47. An observer today is most likely to see robots in operation in........
A. military battles. 	B. business offices.
C. modern factories. 	D. scientific laboratories.
48. The shape of many robots already in use is somewhat similar to that of a human........
A. brain 	B. hand 	C. arm 	D. foot
49. The passage makes clear that a very valuable use of many robots is to........
A. act as a teacher to human beings.
B. replace the human brain in producing computers.
C. aid doctors in medical operations.
D. do tasks extremely dangerous for humans to do.
50. Which of the following statements about the last sentence in the passage is certainly true?
A. The cost of the average robot is higher than that of a human worker.
B. The cost of a human worker is higher than that of the average robot.
C. Robots are becoming more and more expensive.
D. Robots are becoming cheaper all the time.
The End