Mai: “Do you know an apple a day can help you keep fit, build healthy bones and prevent disease like cancer?”

Huong: “Wow!   ............  .”

 Education in many countries is compulsory ______ the age of 16. 

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions: 

Not all women can do two jobs well at the same time: rearing children and working at office.

Time For A Change Liza Cooke works (1) ________ VSO, a voluntary charity organization. For the last three years she (2) ________ English in a primary school in a small village in Nigeria. Before that she lived with her parents in a (3) ________ house in Croydon, and worked in an office in north London. Her life changed dramatically after she decided to join VSO (4)________ volunteer worker.
I used to travel to work every day by train. The journey would take (5) ________ forty minutes and an hour. Now it only takes me a few minutes. I used to work in a large office with about thirty other people. Now I teach classes of up to fifty children. I still work (6) ________ - well, more of less. The classroom has walls but no windows! I used to hate my office job. It was so boring. But teaching is so different - I really enjoy it. 
Of course, working in an office and living at home (7) ________ that I had a lot of free time. I would go out every night of the week and enjoy myself. I never stayed at home. Now I find I have hardly (8) ________ free time, but I don't mind. I seem to spend most of my free time doing volunteer work
(6)...................................

Gunpowder, in some ways the most effective of all the explosive materials, were a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions: 

Trees have to be pruned seasonally or annually to ensure that they continue to bear fruit. 

Choose the best option  A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence. " I wanted to be seen by the head of the company,______ it was impossible."

Polish artist Pawel Kuzinsky creates satirical paintings filled with thought-provoking messages about the world.

 In many ways, she _______ me of someone I knew at school. 

.........searching for long –term economic growth the government intends to study immediate solutions to avoid severe criticism from the public.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions: 

After a tie, there are two overtime periods of three minutes each. 

Hailey’s comet was named after the astronomer Edmund Hailey, who was the first to realize that some comets appear in regular cycle.

Can you ______ the opening times on the website?

No longer _______ in our office since it _______.

...............she’s got a job that she likes, she’s a lot happier.

Find mistake: Most of the (damage property) attributed (to) the San Francisco earthquake (of) 1906 resulted from the fire that (followed)

Unfortunately, much of the early history of Zimbabwe is still unknown, for example, we know a little about the early patterns of settlements.

The house                      six decades ago.

Every means .............  tried but without much result.

Choose the best answer:
Mother warned_______ the electric plug.

She wondered if they .......... her jeweler and rather hoped that they had.