A: Excuse me. Would you mind __1__ in front of my house?
  B: In front of your house?
  A: Er, yes. If you wouldn't mind, __2__ .
  B: No, I wouldn't mind.
  A: Oh, thank you for the ride.
  B: That's all right.
  1.
  A) getting off
  B) stepping out
  C) dropping me off
  D) bringing me out
  2.
  A) it is pleasing to me
  B) I'd be most grateful
  C) I hope it would be
  D) it might be a good idea

  The calendar is a method by which people measure time for their own internal or religious purposes, dividing it into years, months, weeks, and days. People of ancient times based the earliest calendars on the most clear regular __1__ they knew the movements of the Sun and moon, which together __2__ the three simplest divisions of time. These are the day. the lunar month, and the solar year. We now know that the __3__ movements of the Sun across the sky __4__ the Earth's turning. The day is the time __5__ by the Earth to orbit on its axis-just under 24 hours. The lunar month is the time between two new moons-about 29.5 days.
  
  1.
  A) details
  B) effects
  C) aspects
  D) events
  2.
  A) increase
  B) include
  C) produce
  D) improve
  3.
  A) regular
  B) facial
  C) definite
  D) growing
  4.
  A) causes
  B) causing
  C) being caused
  D) is caused by
  5.
  A) taken
  B) is taken
  C) is taking
  D) which takes

  Education matters to people. It is more than just a public __1__ and provides the
  very __2__ for a happy life and a civilized society. Not only does education bring
  personal __3__ , but in a rapidly expanding global economy the value of education
  and skills cannot be __4__ the future of the country depends on our knowledge and
  skills and our constant drive to push the limits __5__ knowledge further.
  
  1.
   A) clerk
   B) service
   C) fortune
   D) nation
  2.
   A) rubbish
   B) flight
   C) basis
   D) invention
  3.
   A) success
   B) end
   C) fact
   D) goal
  4.
   A) educated
   B) insisted
   C) examined
   D) refused
  5.
   A) about
   B) of
   C) on
   D) against