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

I propose that you should stop this rally.

The teacher read _____ interesting article from the newspaper. 

Around 1190, Tcmujjin and his close allies and advisers began to unite many (i) _____ Mongol clans. Using his strong will and charisma, he managed to persuade (ii) _____ of those fighting and warring clans to accept him as the one and only leader. It seems Tcmujjin had a gift, the unusual ability to act as a leader and (iii) _____ respect. Several tribes tried to oppose him. There were a lot of betrayals and killings, but eventually Tcmujjin managed to do what nobody had ever done before: unite all Mongols (iv) _____  one nation in 1206. In honor of his achievements, the Mongol clan chiefs (v) _____Tcmujjin the title Khan, or “leader”.

(iii)______

People love to complain. Moaning to friends can be a source of relief from the stresses and strains of work, study or relationships. But when it comes to protesting to a retailer about faulty good and services, many of US find we don’t have nerve and choose to (i) _____ in silence. By the time we do eventually summon up the courage to make our point, we have generally already allowed the problem to get to us, and we are angry. In this stale, we can all too (ii) _____ become aggressive, gearing up for battle and turning what should be a rational discussion into a conflict. To complain effectively, you need to be specific about your problem and communicate it clearly using words which are objective and fair. (iii) _____ over the top with emotional language and unreasonable claims will get you nowhere.

Good negotiators tend to be calm and logical. They start by explaining situation and stating their requirements clearly, without threat. Most complains prompt a defensive (iv) _____ from the other person, but by being reasonable yourself, you stand more chance of achieving the positive (v) _____ you want.

(ii)_______

Stress is our body’s reaction to events or conditions that we cannot easily manage or control. When we are troubled by something, we usually experience some types of stress. There are thousand conditions that (i) _______ us to become tense. These may be major and horrible lighting for our lives in a war, being imprisoned or facing death. On the other hand, minor (ii) _______ in our daily lives cause stress as well: waiting in lines, taking a quiz, or asking for or accepting a date. Although we usually think of stress as something caused by unpleasant events, pleasant happenings also bring stress. As a new researeh is done on the effects of stress, new techniques are developed to help (iii) _______ with anxiety. One aid is to plan for situations that wc know will be stressful. Some imagine the event before it happens, thus preparing their minds and bodies for the tension. Others pretend they are on a pleasant beach (iv) _______ in the sunshine; soon their bodies relax and tension melts away. Other people believe strenuous exercise helps the body handle the problems of daily life. It matters very little which method we use to relax; what docs matter is finding the time to temporarily reduce the (v) _______ of modem life on our brain and body.

(iv)________

We heard a baby .......  in a neighbouring village.

The traffic was held  .......   by fog.

What does an elephant eat on typical day? Layang – Layang, an elephant at London Zoo, has a good appetite. Her keeper describes what she ate yesterday. “Breakfast (i) _____ of a kilo of dog biscuits mixed with 750g of dried horse food with extra vitamins, hay, bread, bananas apples, oranges, potatoes, carrots and cabbage. Zoo food is always of a (ii) _____standard! “During the morning, the daily supply of branches is delivered. Layang -Layang is particularly fond of cherry and apple, so she was given four big (iii) _____. She chewed the twiggy bits and used the rest as toys. Lunch was another kilo of dog biscuits, more bread, vegetables and fruit. Most of this comes from local supermarkets who give us stock that otherwise they would (iv) _____. After lunch she ate more branches. We have to make sure she doesn’t run out of these. Some visitors to the zoo aren’t very sensible and feed laying- Layang unsuitable things. If she swallows paper and plastic, her stomach hurts. “Supper was another kilo of dog biscuits, 750g of dried horse food, 350g of linseed oil to (v) _____ healthy skin and hair and 500g of vitamin E. Layang-Layang cats a lot but she never puts onweight. “If she feels like a snack during the night, Layang-Layang has some hay and more branches.”

(v)______

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

It was very important that we delay discussion.

Please dream ………….. a solution for this problem. 

What do you think about his new car? 

" .............................."   .

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

I would rather that the weather is fine tomorrow morning.

The Penny Black is the name of the world’s postage stamp. It was introduced by the U.K. in 1840 and is perhaps the most famous stamp ever issued. It has a (i) _____  of the young Queen Victoria and because of its colour, and its price of one penny, it is known as the “Penny Black”. Before 1840, postage rates for delivery of letters in the U.K. depended on the (ii) _____  the letter had to travel and the number of sheets of paper used. Furthermore, at that time it was not possible to pay for your letter before you sent it. The postage had to be paid by the receiver (iii) _____ than the sender of the letter. The Penny Black changed everything: al the rate of one penny, letters that did not weigh more than half an ounce could be sent to any destination in the U.K.Nowadays, Penny Black stamps are not all that rare although they are (iv) _____ regarded by stamp collectors. About 68 million of these stamps were issued between 1840 and 1841, and it is thought that about 1.5 million of these survive today. The price of the stamp today varies according to whether it has been used or not and its condition. A line used copy can be bought for around 77 pound or less, while unused examples are quite rare and sold for 2,000 pound or more. To honour the U.K. for having issued the world’s first postage stamp, the Universal Postal Union has made an exception regarding its rule that the name of the country must (v) _____ on a stamp. No British stamp to date has ever had the country name on it.

(iv)______

History is full of inventions that looked good at the time, but which nobody wanted to buy. New ideas may fail for one of several reasons. Firstly, there are those which do not (i) _____ work very well when put to the lest. Then, there are the ideas which are good in themselves, but which do not fulfill a real (ii) _____. In other words people can do without them, so do not buy them. A third group are those which prove to be too expensive to manufacture. But none of these reasons explains why, in the 1990s, no new technology was (iii) _____ in replacing (iv) _____ for the home. During this time, a number of alternative technologies were invented that could have replaced the CD, but none of them (v) _____ on. The new ideas worked, were not costly to make and would have provided consumers with higher quality recordings. Despite all this, few people bought them. And this can only be explained by the fact that people who had invested in CD players and discs of their favorite music did not think the improvement in quality on offer was great enough to make it worth the effort and expense ofchanging.

(iii)_______

Our lesson _____ at 7.30 a.m every morning.

Parrots and macaws have become so rare that special varieties of these birds are fetching up to £9,000 each on the black market in Britain. Macaws from Brazil cost from £1,000 and parrots from Australia can cost £7,500 a pair. The demand for parrots, cockatoos and macaws has led to a (i) _______ increase in thefts from zoos, wildlife parks and pet shops. London and Whipsnade zoos are among the many places from which parrots have been stolen. Some thefts have not been (ii) _______  in an effort to prevent further incidents. Parrot rustling, as it is known among bird fanciers, has increased rapidly in Britain since 1976 when imports and exports of exotic birds became (iii) _______ controlled. Quarantine controls, coupled with the scareity of many types of paiTOts in the wild in Africa, Australia, Indonesia, and South America, have caused a shortage of birds which can be sold legally under (iv) _______. This has sent prices to (v) _______ levels. Working al night and equipped with wire-cutters, nets and substances to dope the birds, the rustlers are prepared to take serious risks to capture the parrots they want. At Birdworld, a specialist zoo, thieves stole two parrots after picking their way through an enclosure containing cassowaries. The cassowary is a large flightless bird, related to the emu, which can be extremely agressive, and has been known to kill humans with blows from its powerful legs.

(iv)_______

Earthquakes are amongst the most destructive natural disasters. They usually (i) _____ without any warning and result in a great (ii) _____ of life and an enormous demolition of buildings. Additionally, they may cause devastating landslides or create gigantic tidal waves which, in fact, are colossal walls of water smashing into seashores with such force that they are (iii) _____ of destroying coastal cities.

However, the vast majority of fatalities and serious injuries come about when buildings collapse. Most frequently, the earthquake lasts 30 to 60 seconds, so usually there is no time to avert the mortal (iv) _____ once the shaking starts. The savage forces of an earthquake trigger (v) _____ a complex chain reaction in the building structure when it is shaken, lifted, pushed or pulled. A building’s height, its shape and construction materials are the most significant factors deciding about the survival or collapse of the structure and, consequently, about the life or death of its inhabitants.

(v)_______

All sorts of people need to know what the weather is going to do. They do not all want to know the same information for the same period of time, however. For someone (i) _____ a small boat across the lake, wind or rain on that day will matter whereas a farmer might be more interested in the chances of rain over the next six months. The one thing they (ii) _____  need, however, is totally dependable information. And it is for this reason that forecasting is a very big international business. Today, because the accuracy of forecast is important to so many people, weather satellites cross from pole to pole every hour and a quarter, reporting back to earth from fifty miles up, although of course, it hasn’t always been so easy. Ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle started weather forecasting by trying to (iii) _____ logically what was happening in the sky above them. They weren’t always right, but they understood the importance of systematic observation. But forecasting remained limited so long as people only knew what was happening in their own section of sky. It was the arrival of the electric telegraph in the 1830s that (iv) _____ forecasters to get a wider picture of the weather that was on its way. This information could then be (v) _____ on to those in its path while it was still of use.

(ii)_______

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

Minh's Mother would rather that she met her friend last week

A new magazine has just ……………..out 

Everyone needs a home where they feel sheltered and sale. Today we live in modem flats and houses, (i) ________ have air- conditioning to keep us cool, and heating to keep US warm. There is electricity for lighting and supplies of gas or oil for the heating. Hot and cold water (ii)__________________ from the taps and

dirty water disappears (iii)_________ the drains. Many of our homes have balconies or gardens. In the past, people made their homes from materials that they found nearby. When we look at different houses, we can tell how old they are from the materials used and the way they were built. It was different long (iv) ________ people did not have water in their homes and there were no electric lights. To keep warm,they sometimes made (v)________ inside their homes. With a fire started they could cook their food and heat waler

(i)____