A. curiosity                   B. awareness

C. priority                     D. emphasis

10. Those familiar with evening dress will always ______ black with elegance.

A. link                     B. associate

C. connect                    D. relate

11. If you’re sitting around a lonely campfire at night, the howl of a wolf can sound pretty ______.

A. fearful                      B. threatening

C. dreadful                       D. frightening

12. The suspect cooperated fully with the police when ______ about his role in the incident.

A. required                B. questioned

C. demanded                 D. negotiated

13. Homing pigeon is useful as a ______ carrier because when taken from home, it will return at the first opportunity.

A. meaning               B. information

C. message                 D. content

14. One of the responsibilities of the Coast Guard is to make sure that all ships ______ follow traffic rules in busy harbors.

A. conveniently                   B. obediently

C. sufficiently                     D. reluctantly

15. She was so ______ the noise that she sent the children to bed.

A. broken down by                B. filled in with

C. taken over by                    D. fed up with

II. CLOZE

Fill in each of the 15 blanks in the passage with the most likely answer. Write the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 15 points in all)

A quarter of the world’s population now speaks English. If you want to 16 your products, or yourself, you have no choice 17 to do it in English. Politicians and business people must speak English if they want to make their mark 18 the world’s stage. Writers of minority languages can 19 hope to sell their books unless they write in English.

As English is spoken all over the world, it means that no individual country can really exercise a 20 influence over it. In the past, it was the mother tongue 21 who controlled the future of the language. Now, indeed for the last few dec