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Directions: Choose the best answer from the multiple-choice questions below by crossing (X)
A, B, C, or D.

1. What _________ for breakfast?

a. You do eat
b. Does you eat
c. Do you eat
d. You eat
2. According to my uncle, Bugatti Chiron is ______ sports car in the world.
a. The most fast
b. The fastest
c. Most fast
d. Faster
3. People nowadays prefer the Internet as a form of communication.
The most suitable response is _________
a. I totally agree. It is fast, easy, and available any time.
b. Thank you for being so thoughtful. You are very kind.
c. How about going to the shopping mall this weekend?
d. I would like to be a doctor when I grow up.
4. Shakespeare was born ___ 1564, ___ 26th of April and died ____ 1616.
a. on, in, on
b. in, in, on
c. in, on, in
d. in, on, on
5. 1. The aim of a political party is to elect official who will try to carry their interests.
2. A large political party usually has millions of members and supporters.
3. A political party is a group organized to support certain policies on questions of public interest.
4. When people in a democracy disagree about what the government should do, each voter expresses
his opinion by voting for the candidate that supports his side of the argument.
5. The questions may range from issues of peace, war and taxes, to how people should earn a living.
The best arrangement of the sentence above is _________
a. 3-4-1-2-5
b. 2-1-4-3-5
c. 3-1-2-4-5
d. 2-1-3-5-4
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Read the following passage carefully, then answer the questions number 6 to 10
It is easy to make a delicious-looking hamburger at home. But would this hamburger still
look delicious after it sat on your kitchen table under very bright lights for six or seven hours? If
someone took a picture or made a video of this hamburger after the seventh hour, would anyone
want to eat it? More importantly, do you think you could get millions of people to pay money for
this hamburger?
These are the questions that fast-food companies worry about when they produce
commercials or print ads for their products. Video and photo shoots often last many hours. The
lights that the photographers use can be extremely hot. These conditions can cause the food to look
quite unpleasant to potential consumers. Because of this, the menu items that you see in fast food
commercials are probably not actually edible.
Let’s use the hamburger as an example. The first step towards building the perfect
commercial hamburger is the bun. The food stylist—a person employed by the company to make sure
the products look perfect—sorts through hundreds of buns until he or she finds one with no wrinkles.
Next, the stylist carefully rearranges the sesame seeds on the bun using glue and tweezers for
maximum visual appeal. The bun is then sprayed with a waterproofing solution so that it will not get
soggy from contact with other ingredients, the lights, or the humidity in the room. Next, the food
stylist shapes a meat patty into a perfect circle. Only the outside of the meat gets cooked—the
inside is left raw so that the meat remains moist. The food stylist then paints the outside of the
meat patty with a mixture of oil, molasses, and brown food coloring. Grill marks are either painted
on or seared into the meat using hot metal skewers. Finally, the food stylist searches through dozens
of tomatoes and heads of lettuce to find the best-looking produce. One leaf of the crispest lettuce
and one center slice of the reddest tomato are selected and then sprayed with glycerin to keep them
looking fresh.
So, the next time you see a hamburger in a fast-food commercial, you must remember that
you’re actually looking at glue, paint, raw meat, and glycerin! Are you still hungry?
6. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
a. The Food Stylist
b. Bright Lights & Humidity
c. How to Take Photos
d. Fast Food Commercials
7. The underlined word “commercial” in the 3rd paragraph has a closest meaning to?
a. Advertisement
b. Arrangement
c. Payment
d. Compliment
8. What does the underlined word ‘they’ in the 2nd paragraph refer to?
a. questions
b. millions of people
c. commercials
d. fast food companies
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9. According to the passage, the food stylist’s job is to _________

a. make food products look perfect.
b. make the most delicious products.
c. cook tasty hamburgers.
d. cook the inside and outside of the bun.
10. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT TRUE?
a. It takes a few hours to shoot photos to produce a commercial.
b. The sesame seeds are carefully rearranged by the stylist on the bun.
c. The meat will remain moist only if the inside of the meat is left raw.
d. Glycerin is used to make the lettuce leaf and tomato slice look fresh.
11. I really loved the Turkish restaurant _____ we had lunch last Friday.
a. Where
b. Who
c. Which
d. Whose
12. Mary likes horror movies, ______ Sally prefers light comedies.
a. although
b. instead of
c. or
d. while
13. He said that he ________ him at the railway station last Tuesday.
a. had seen
b. has see
c. have seen
d. had see
14. A friend argues that living in the country is not advantageous.
The most appropriate response to against is _______
a. I really think you should be happy for reusing old buildings.
b. You are right. Living in the city is not interesting at all.
c. You are mistaken. People enjoy fresh air and peace of mind there.
d. It is true as we can’t find any means of entertainment there.
15. Ina : You look pale, Dita. Are you OK?
Dita : Suddenly I got a stomach ache.
Ina : I see. You should she the doctor. Come on I’ll accompany you.
The underlined sentence above expresses?
a. Advice
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b. Disagreement
c. Satisfaction
d. Obligation
16. Mary introduced me to her former lecturer ____ she married after she had
graduated.
a. who
b. whom
c. whose
d. which
The following text is for questions number 17 to 19

17. What is the text written for?

a. To tell Michael to keep the dog’s food.
b. To remind Michael that the house is horrible.
c. To tell Michael that his parents will have a holiday with him.
d. To inform what Michael should do during his parents are away.
18. What should Michael do with the newspaper?
a. Put it near the fridge.
b. Use it to wrap the cat food.
c. Delivers it every morning at six.
d. Put it on the bookshelf.
19. “Do this before you go to school.”
Based on the text, the word “this” refers to?
a. Feeding the animals.
b. Going to school.
c. Putting the rubbish in the bin outside.
d. Keeping the delivered newspaper
20. My grandmother was born ____ 21st December, 1949.
a. on
b. in
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c. at
d. to