1. What is the news report mainly about?

A) A store employee shot a suspected thief. 

B) A customer shot a suspected thief.

C) A police officer shot a suspect. 

D) A suspect shot a customer.

2. Why did the man fire?

A) He was pursuing a suspect.

B) He meant to help other people.

C) He felt his life threatened.

D) He didn't want the suspect to get away.

3. What can we learn about the old woman? 

A) She has lived for much longer than a century.

B) She has survived many wars and disasters.

C) She has never had any disease all her life.

D) She has supported a big family.

4. What's the old woman's favorite food? 

A) Cakes. 

B) Eggs. 

C) Fruit. 

D) Vegetables.

5. What is the two speakers' relationship? 

A) Sisters. 

B) Old friends. 

C) Coworkers. 

D) Mother/daughter.

6. What is Brenda's job?

A) Writer for a fashion magazine. 

B) Photographer for a magazine.

C) Teacher at a high school. 

D) Fashion designer.

7. What is the promary purpose of Brenda's call? 

A) To have early memories of her high school and old friends.

B) To tell Angie about life in Chicago and her job.

C) To ask Angie to be the maid of honor for her marriage. 

D) To call on Angie during her business stay in her city. 

8. How does Angie feel about Brenda's call? 

A) Puzzled. 

B) Excited. 

C) Expected. 

D) Calm.

9. How many groups of witnesses were questioned respectively about the accident? 

A) Three. 

B) Four. 

C) Five. 

D) Six.

10. What was the old lady doing when the car accident happened? 

A) Gardening in her front yard. 

B) Walking on the street.

C) Standing on the street corner. 

D) Selling newspapers at her stand.

11. What's the new information mentioned about the car accident? 

A) A red car. 

B) A blue car. 

C) A stranger.  

D) A dog.

12. Which of the following statements is true? 

A) The witnesses told the police about different accidents.

B) The witnesses told different stories from varied perspectives.

C) The police found the witnesses' words very helpful.

D) The police dismissed the witnesses' words.

13. Who are taking advantage of the "sharing economy"? 

A) People who run traditional B and Bs. 

B) People who run commercial car parks.

C) People who are in taxi services. 

D) People who have spare things or space.

14. Which is a British business?

A) JustPark. 

B) Airbnb. 

C) Uber. 

D) Lyft.

15. Which is NOT true about the "sharing economy"?

A) It is a new business world. 

B) It runs with clear rules.

C) It has met with competition. 

D) It makes money for those who share

16. Which is NOT mentioned to do with the used items? 

A) Chuck them away. 

B) Recycle them.

C) Give them to a charity. 

D) Save them for a better price.

17. How does James Wallman think of labelled goods?

A) They are what we need. 

B) They are not necessary.

C) They can promote our image. 

D) They can make us happy.

18. What is a shopaholic?

A) Someone who works in a shop.

B) Someone who owns a shop.

C) Someone who likes shopping very much.

D) Someone who gives advice on shopping.

1. What is the news mainly about? 

A) The reason behind the low high school graduation rate.

B) The best time to help students graduate from high school.

C) An organization which helps students graduate from high school.

D) The number of students who graduate from high school.

2. What does Higher Achievement NOT provide for the students? 

A) A welcoming space. 

B) Help with classwork.

C) Caring teachers. 

D) Financial support.

3. What is the news mainly concerned with? 

A) Machine translators. 

B) Modeling sentence outputs.

C) Translation software. 

D) Translation languages.

4. Which system produces translations more like real human language?

A) Phrase-by-phrase system. 

B) Neural machine translation.

C) Multilingual system. 

D) Translation requests.

5. What is mainly talked about in the conversation? 

A) The ways to become good students.

B) The characteristic behaviors of bad students.

C) The way good students behave themselves.

D) The differences between good and bad students.

 6. What best describes good students? 

A) They are not afraid to make mistakes.

B) They like to experiment on bad students.

C) They like to play games with language.

D) They do not cooperate with their teacher.

7. What is said of bad students?

A) They rarely admit their mistakes. 

B) They have no confidence in themselves.

C) They usually ask many a question. 

D) They seldom accept what is being taught.

8. What is the possible relationship between the speakers?

A) A teacher and a student. 

B) A teacher and a reporter.

C) A teacher and a parent. 

D) A teacher and an officer.

9. What are the man and the woman mainly talking about? 

A) The man's grades in high school. 

B) The man's application for college.

C) The man's two sisters at college. 

D) The man's growing hobbies.

10. What is known about the man's schooling?

A) He went to a military school in his hometown.

B) He spent eight years in a public school.

C) He spent his high school life in his hometown.

D) He was a soldier before he went to high school.

11. What can we learn about his second year of high school?

A) He got very interested in sports. 

B) He worked very hard in studies.

C) He chose to major in biology. 

D) He did well in both sports and studies.

12. Where does the conversation most likely take place?

A) At school. 

B) At home.

C) At a studio. 

D) At a meeting.

13. What do we learn from the passage?

A) How Anna and Peter spent a romantic day.

B) How Anna and Peter spent their first summer.

C) How Anna and Peter got to know each other.

D) How Anna and Peter spent the rest of their lives.

14. How did they feel about the rain on that day?

A) disappointed.  

B) Excited.

C) Regretful. 

D) Annoyed.

15. What is said of Peter?

A) He was 86 years old. 

B) He lived on the beach.

C) He was good at dancing. 

D) He died nine months ago.

16. Which of the following do most people ignore? 

A) A good job. 

B) Good health.

C) Good relationships. 

D) Lifelong love. 

17. Which best describes most people's attitude towards love and work? 

A) They give more importance to their work.

B) They give more importance to their love life.

C) They make a balance between love and work.

D) They give deep thoughts before they make choice.

18. What does the speaker suggest we do to have an enjoyable life? 

A) We make a lot of money to spend. 

B) We develop long-term love relationships.

C) We have a loving and caring person.

D) We build a meaningful life.

1. What can we learn from the news report? 

A) A man tried strangling his wife after dreaming she cheated.

B) A man wedded an unfaithful wife in a lightning marriage.  

C) A woman was arrested for killing her alcoholic husband. 

D) A woman was killed for cheating on her husband. 

2. What made it possible for the woman to survive her husband's attack? 

A) The daughter's call of 911. 

B) The neighbor's interruption. 

C) The woman's cheat on her husband. 

D) The man's wake-up from the dream

3. What do the officials say about the woman? 

A) She was stopped by a dog from jumping off a bridge.  

B) She threw a dog from a bridge, claiming it could fly.

C) She was pulled out of the river by her pet dog.

D) She jumped off a bridge to save a sick dog.

4. What does the woman's behavior mean to her? 

A) A significant pain. 

B) A serious condition.

C) A leg dislocation. 

D) Animal cruelty charges.

5. Why is the man not going on vacation until September? 

A) He would like to go with the woman then.

B) He does not have a vacation until then.

C) He has already had one in March.

D) He does not have enough money.

6. What seems to be the problem with the man's travel plan? 

A) He does not want to travel alone. 

B) He has not made up his mind now.

C) His vacation is only one-week long. 

D) His travel plan is not practical enough.  

7. Why is the man most probably going to do extra work instead of going on vacation? 

A) Because he hates to ask the woman to lend him money.

B) Because he needs money to pay the mortgage.

C) Because he has used up all his savings for travel.  

D) Because such a travel is not worth it. 

8. What can be said of the man in the conversation? 

A) He is a liar.  

B) He loves to travel.

C) He loves the woman. 

D) He is a workaholic.

9. What has the man been doing? 

A) Dating the woman. 

B) Looking for an apartment.

C) Decorating his apartment. 

D) Moving pieces of his furniture.  

10. What can we say about the woman's attitude toward her neighbors? 

A) Uncertain. 

B) Friendly. 

C) Positive. 

D) Careful. 

11. What does the man seem to disagree on about the apartment? 

A) A good size. 

B) Used furniture. 

C) Good condition. 

D) A reasonable rent.

12. What is the man most probably going to do? 

A) To show the woman around his neighborhood.

B) To share the apartment with the woman. 

C) To buy a new set of furniture. 

D) To contact the landlord soon.

13. What happened after Mark helped Bill pick up his dropped books on their way home after school? 

A) Things were getting better. 

B) They had trouble with their studies.

C) The books were scattered all over. 

D) They became friends to know each other.

14. How low was the spirit Bill was in on that day when they first met? 

A) He would avoid spending time with Mark.

B) He would break up with his girlfriend. 

C) He would drop everything he had.

D) He would commit suicide.

15. What did Mark learn from Bill three weeks before graduation? 

A) They had been friends indeed. 

B) Bill had learned a lot from the books.

C) Their friendship had saved Bill's life. 

D) Bill had dropped the books on purpose

16. How special is the coffee shop? 

A) It has the speaker as the only one user. 

B) It opens only to the speaker's friends. 

C) It is a drawing on a piece of paper.  

D) It is in the speaker's mind.

17. What is the speaker trying to tell us while describing the coffee shop in detail? 

A) The real coffee the speaker serves.

B) So many functions of the coffee shop.

C) Wonderful environment for friendship.

D) The expensive building of the coffee shop.

18. What happens when you have a cup of coffee at the speaker's coffee shop? 

A) Friendship will be experienced as coffee.

B) Friendship will take the place of coffee.

C) Friendship will heal your wound.

D) Friendship will follow you always.

1. What does the news report tells us about the two Canadian teenagers? 

A) They quarreled with their mother and left home for America.

B) They invented a cell phone game called "Pokemon Go"? 

C) They were arrested for accidental border crossing.

D) They were found by Border Patrol officials after getting lost.

2. What did the Border Patrol officials do after they contacted the teenagers' mother? 

A) They sent them back to their home. 

B) They released them to their mother.

C) They asked the mother to get a lawyer. 

D) They told all the details to reporters.

3. What is the news report mainly about? 

A) An escaped prisoner tried to prove her innocence. 

B) An escaped prisoner got caught while attending a show.

C) An escaped prisoner told the public the wrong doings of police.

D) An escaped prisoner asked TV station to use a better picture of her.

4. What did people online suggest that police should do? 

A) They use her post to locate her. 

B) They file an escape charge on her. 

C) They ask her family to help find her. 

D) They put more pictures of her on Facebook.