1. My friends were students last year.

2. The children are playing in the park at the moment.

3. Did you go to school last Sunday?

4. My mother is cooking a meal now, she cooks everyday.

5. What will your mother do next week?

6. My mother bought a new bike two months ago.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

            Speech is one of the most important (55) _________ of communicating. It consists of far more than just making noises. To talk and also to (56) _________ by other people, we have to speak a language, that is,  we have to use combinations of (57)_________ that everyone agrees to stand for a particular object or idea. Communication would be impossible if everyone made up their own language. Learning a language properly is very (58)_________ . The basic (59) _________  of English is not very large, and not only about 2,000 words are needed to speak it quite (60) _________. But the more idea you can (61) _________ the more precise you can be about their exact meaning. Words are the (62)_________  thing we use in communicating what we want to say. The way we (63) _________ the words is  also very important. Our tone of voice can express many emotions and (64) _________  whether we are  pleased or angry, for instance.

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A. be spoken                  

B. be examined    

C. be understood 

D. be talked