Scientists say that in the future incurable diseases will be cured, and "bad" genes will probably placed.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30.

The Great Barrier Reef is the earth’s largest reef system. At a length of over 2,500 km it is the largest (26) ________ structure. You can even see it from space. However, the reef is in danger of dying. Because of global (27) ________ , the temperature in the atmosphere keeps rising. This also affects the water temperature. When the oceans get too warm the colourful reefs (28) ________ grey and die. The reef is also dying from pollution caused by factories on the Australian and Indonesian coasts.

It’s a pity that we don’t (29) ________ the environment the ways the Aborigines did thousands of years ago. They respected nature, the animals and plants around them. They never killed more animals than they could eat. (30) ________ , when Europeans arrived in Australia they destroyed a lot of things that the Aborigines valued.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 21 to 25.

I know that it is my job to make sure that everything goes well for the tourists and I feel I work hard for the company. I cannot be blamed for last week. I met the group at the airport and took them to the coach. The coach driver was a bit annoyed because the flight was late. But it wasn’t far to the hotel and everyone was looking forward to their dinner. We hadn’t used the Hotel Riviera before but our normal one had a conference in it so it was fully booked. When I announced our arrival at the reception desk, they said they were full. I had booked rooms for the group but the manager said they were cancelled by phone a few days before. He insisted that he recognized my voice and that I had made the phone call. We had a bit of an argument but they obviously didn’t have enough rooms. In the end the manager phoned other hotels in the town and found rooms for everyone but in four different hotels. By this time, the coach had gone so we had to get taxis and some of the tourists started to get very angry with me. I still don’t know who made that phone call but it definitely wasn’t me.

Mark the letter A, B, Cor D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

The sun, ________ is one of millions of stars in the universe, provides us with heat and light.

They enjoyed living there ________.

People are not allowed to enter the park after midnight because of lacking of security.

Mark the letter A, B, Cor D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

There’s always ________ traffic in the city center at rush hour.

- "I hear that ‘Discovery’ is a very good TV channel."

     -“____________”

Half of the children were away from school last week because of an outbreak of ________ influenza.

Mark the letter A, B, Cor D to indicate the option that best completes each of the following exchanges.

My home town is ________ situated on the Luc Nam River.

You know it’s not going to change the course of world history. It’s really quite a trivial matter.