Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 23 to 27.
Tropical forests have supplied us with many sorts of plants for food, medicine and industry. They can probably supply man much more. They also reduce floods and droughts, keep water clean, and slow down the Greenhouse Effect. However, the tropical forests are being destroyed to make rooms for things like farms and fields. Besides, forest fires are the most terrible destruction.
About 20 million hectares are lost annually - an area which is twice as big as that of Australia. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is working to protect and save the forests that are in danger, to plant new trees for fuel wood and to slow down the Greenhouse Effect. It encourages governments and people to do something for the sake of the tropical forests.

What is the main purpose of the writer when writing this passage?

The    to make quick decisions is vital in an emergency.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

If you practice harder, you will have better results.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

He was exhausted by his work. He threw himself on his bed.

One of the longest wars in history were the Hundred Years’ War, fought between England and France in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

The weather is getting     _.

I need time to think about____ offer you gave me last week.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges.

Mary: What an attractive hair style you have got, Jane!

Jane:                .

You             make the same mistake again, otherwise you will lose your job.

         Geography is a very interesting subject, very few people study it thoroughly.

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

The director was deeply impressing by the girl about whom I told you yesterday.