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.

Once there were lots of pandas in the mountains of western China. Today, they are ___(23)___ extinct. The reason is that they cannot find enough food. Pandas eat ___(24)___ leaves. They do not like other food. The bamboo grows very slowly. It can take 10 years for bamboo to grow from a seed to a big plant. Some types of bamboo have seeds only once every 60 years. Pandas ___(25)___ wait many years for their food to grow. While the bamboo is growing, pandas do not have enough leaves to eat.

China and Wildlife Fund (WWF) are trying to save the panda. In 1979, they began to set up special parks ___(26)___ pandas live. Scientists come here to study the panda’s eating and mating habits. By learning more about the panda’s habits, scientists can save it from ___(27)___.

25 ____________

Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only one word in each space

In the United States, the gender earnings ratio suggests that there has been an increase in women's earnings (1) ___________ to men. Men’s plateau in earnings began after the 1970s, allowing for the increase in women's wages to close the ratio between incomes. Despite the smaller ratio between men and women's wages, disparity still exists. Census data suggests that women's earnings are 71 percent of men's (2) ______________ in 1999.

As women (3)____________the workforce in larger numbers since the 1960s, occupations have become segregated based on the level of femininity or masculinity associated with each occupation. Census data suggests that some occupations have become more gender integrated (mail carriers, bartenders, bus drivers, and real estate agents). In other areas, however, the reverse is true: occupations such as teachers, nurses, secretaries, and librarians have become female-dominated while (4)__________ including architects, electrical engineers, and airplane pilots remain predominately male in composition. Women seem to occupy jobs in the (5) ________ sector at higher rates then men. Women's overrepresentation in these jobs as opposed to jobs that require managerial work acts as a reinforcement of women and men into traditional (6) ______ role that might influence persisting gender inequality.

(5) ________

Read the following passage, then choose the correct answer to questions 26 - 30. 
Solar energy is a long lasting source of energy, and it can (26)_________ almost anywhere. To generate solar energy, we only need solar cells and (27) _________. Solar cells can easily be installed on house (28)_________, so we don’t need any new space. Compared to other renewable sources, this source of energy possesses more advantages because wind and water power rely on turbines which (29)_________ noisy, expensive and which take lip large space. Solar cells are totally silent and (30)_________. As they have no moving parts, they require little maintenance and have a long lifetime.
(30......................

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My first piece of advice to people who want to start getting fit is don’t buy an exercise bike. Typically, people who buy them use them for a week or so and then forget about them. There are effective if they are used regularly but you need to be determined. Most people will find it much easier to go for a gentle jog around the park.

As well as being easy to do, jogging is also relatively cheap compared to most other sports. You don’t need to buy expensive clothes if you’re just going running around the park or on the beach. The main thing is that they’re comfortable and that they keep you warm in the winter and cool in the summer. There is one piece of equipment, however, that you will have to spend time and money on, and that’s your running shoes. Remember that you are not looking for a fashion item, but for something that will support your feet and protect you from injury. They can be expensive, but if they are of good quality they will last you a long time. It’s always best to get expert advice, and the best place for that is a sports shop.

As for the actual jogging, the secret is to start gently, and not to do much at the beginning – especially if you haven’t had any exercise for a long time. Try a mixture of walking and running for ten minutes about three times a week at first. Once you are happy doing that you can then start to increase the amount you do gradually. After a few months, you should hope to be able to run at a reasonable speed for twenty minutes three or four times a week. It’s important that you feel comfortable with whatever you do. If you do, you’ll start to enjoy it and will probably keep doing it. If it makes you feel uncomfortable, you’ll probably stop after a short time and return to your bad habits. In any case, training too hard is not very effective. Research has shown that somebody who exercises for twice as long as or twice as hard as another person doesn’t automatically become twice as fit.

According to the author, you should________.

Read the following passage, then choose the correct answer to questions 31 - 35. 
Devastating floods along the coast have left many people homeless. People are asked to help by donating food, clothes, furniture, and other supplies to the Assistance Fund. Donations of bottled water are especially needed, since, the floods have disrupted the local water supply. In addition, volunteers are needed to travel to the hooded area to help distribute the donations.

In addition to supplies, what is needed?

Choose the best answer: 
Can you imagine traveling in a tiny pod, inside a tube that can quickly shoot people to (1)...............they want to go? It sounds like something out of a silly cartoon or a movie about the future. But this futuristic tube may soon become (2)............... And it could be a faster, easier, and cheaper way to travel than anything we know now. Elon Musk is a very wealthy South African-American (3)...................... In the past, he has worked on private space flight and electric cars. Recently, Musk has been planning this futuristic traveling tube, called the Hyperloop. Musk said that he (4).................up with the idea for the Hyperloop whAe thinking about the train that takes people between Eos Angeles and San Francisco. That train is known for being one of the slowest trains in the country. But the Hyperloop would be (5).................faster. In fact, it could go about twice as fast as an airplane and three or four times as fast as the fastest train in the world. People using the Hyperloop would shoot (6) .............in pods, which are each just over six-and-a-half feet across. The pods would travel through tubes that are (7)............... above ground or under water. The Hyperloop could even run all day and night, and it could let people travel on their own schedule. People could (8) ................at the Hyperloop station.
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In the 1960s it took pop and rock groups one or two days to record their songs. Nowadays, it can take months and months. Many rock groups begin by recording only one instrument, for example, the voice. Then they record other instruments- electric piano, synthesizer, guitars, drums, and so on.

Next, they might use a computer to add special effects. Finally, they ‘mix’ all the instruments until they get the sound that they want. This means that a CD or cassette will always sound very different from a live concert.

Music engineers have developed a new computer program that will change the future of music. A computer can analyze a singer’s voice. Then if you give the computer the lyrics and music of a song, the computer can ‘sing’ it in that voice. This means that a singer only needs to record one song and the computer can then sing other songs in the singer’s voice. Singers can sing new songs many years after they have died.

Most of us listen to music for pleasure, but for record companies, music is a product, the same as soap powder. When a record company finds a new group (or “band”), they first try to develop the band’s ‘profile’. They will try to create an ‘image’ for the band that they think will attract young people. Instead of allowing the band’s full artistic freedom, they will often tell the band what they should wear, what they should say, and how they should sing and play.

In recent years, many rock groups have started their own record companies because they say that the big companies are too commercial.

Today’s record procedure results in __________.

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FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON
Long ago a lot of people thought the moon was a god. Other people thought it was just a light in the sky. And others thought it was a big ball of cheese.
The telescopes were made. And men saw that the moon was really another world. They wondered what it was like. They dreamed of going there.
On July 20,1969, that dream came true. Two American men landed on the moon. Their names were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin. The first thing the men found was that the moon is covered with dust. The dust is so thick that the men left footprints where they walked. Those were the first marks a living thing had ever made on the moon. And they could stay there for years and years. There is no wind or rain to wipe them off.
The two men walked on the moon for hours. They picked up rocks to bring back to earth for study. They dug up dirt to bring back. They set up machines to find out things people wanted to know. Then they climbed back into their moon landing craft.
Next day, the landing craft roared as the two men took off from the moon. They joined Michael Collins in the spaceship that waited for them above the moon. Then they were off on their trip back to earth. Behind them they left the plains and tall mountains of the moon. They left the machines they had set up. And they left footprints that may last forever.

When the men returned to earth, they ___________

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word that best fits each of the numbered blanks:
WILL OUR PLANET SURVIVE?
There are over 7 billion people in the world today. The richest 1.5 billion (36)_________ 75% of all the world’s resources. To give the other 5.5 billion people who live in (37)_________ a better life, we will need the resources of (38)_________ four or five planets. (39)_________ we have only one, and 1.5 billion of us have already (40)_________ a large part of it.
Forests are essential to life. They give us clean air and plants for medicines, (41)_________ contain over half the world’s animals, birds, and plants. Humans destroy an area of forest the (42)_________ of Greece every year. If we don’t (43)_________ this destruction, it will be too late. There are some signs of (44)_________, but we will have to work very (45)_________ if we want to save the planet. 
(44).......................

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The year at an American college is divided into two semesters or three quarters. A semester includes 15 weeks ; a quarter includes 10 weeks. American college students usually go to school from September to May. They can also study during the summer. 
Students choose their classes a few weeks before the start of each term. Universities and colleges offer a great many classes in the students’ main areas of study and in other areas as well. Students must take both. These include science, math, computer, history and English. Other classes such as dance, theater, or sports may be just for fun. Tests are usually given in the middle of the term and at the end. The final exam is extremely important. In some classes, the professors ask the students to write a research paper or complete a certain task instead of taking a test. 
Classes at an American college are usually organized through lectures. For example, a student may attend two or three lectures a week by one professor. There may be as many as several hundred students at each lecture. 

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? 

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All over the world, all different cultures created interesting processed meat products, and one of the most popular is undoubtedly sausage.

To begin with, sausage-making may be considered disgusting as it deals with using various animal parts. Since meat is ground up, certain cuts and parts of an animal that wouldn’t be served in their original forms can be used. This means animal parts such as noses, ears, and other less appetizing areas of an animal’s body. Very often, the ground-up meat and flesh are mixed well, this meat mixture is then stuffed into the cleaned intestines of the animal, which are then sealed at both ends. The result is sausage.

The meats used in sausages come from a variety of animals, although beef and pork are by far the favorites. In some cultures, sausage made from the meat of horses is considered a delicacy. When sausages are cooked, the cooking process sometimes adds to the flavor. While boiling is probably the simplest method, smoking sausages will add a lot of smoky flavors.

Next time you bite into a sausage, it is probably best not to think too much about how it became the tasty thing you eat. After all, you don’t want to ruin a good snack.

Where is the mixture of meat placed?

Choose the best answers to the following questions

Sonita Alizadeh was born and grew up in Afghanistan until she was eight when the family fled to Iran because of war. Sonita remembers her childhood of hunger, aerial bombardment and Taliban fighters. In Iran, she couldn't get a formal education because of not having proper identification. She had to clean bathrooms and learnt the basics of how to read and write herself.

Sonita watched music videos on TV to kill her free time and learnt the styles of Iranian rapper Yas and US rapper Eminem. She started to write songs about her life as a refugee, child worker and especially a female. Other songs are about her girl friends with broken spirits after arguing and begging their parents not to sell them. Her songs have empowered her friends to protest against forced marriages which account for 60-80 per cent of Afghan marriages.

Things were all right until they weren't. Sonita's mother asked her to come back to Afghanistan as she needed 7,000 dowry to prepare for Sonita's brother's wedding. Her mother thought she could sell Sonita for a man with 9,000 dowry. Devastated by her mother's wish, Sonita fought by making a music video "Daughters for Sale" with the help of an Iranian filmmaker. Thanks to the video, the Strongheart Group contacted her and gave her a scholarship in the US where she now can go to school and remain single.

Where does Sonita live now?

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Have you ever noticed advertisements which say “Learn a foreign language in 6 weeks or your money back. From the first day your pronunciation will be excellent. Just send…” and so on?  Of course, it never happens quite like that. One’s mother language is easier to learn, but it also requires a lot of practice to be fluent. And think how much practice that gets! Before the Second World War, people usually learned a foreign language in order to read the literature of the country.

Now speaking a foreign language is what most people want. Every year millions of people start learning one. How do they do it? Some people try it at home, with books and records of tapes; some use radio or television programs; some use computers and networks; others go to evening classes. If they use the language only 2 or 3 times a week, it will take a long time, like learning a foreign language at school. A few people try to learn the language fast by studying for 6 or more hours a day. It is clearly easier to learn the language in the country where it is spoken. However, most people cannot afford this, and for many, it is not necessary. They need the language in order to do their work better. For example, scientists and doctors chiefly need to be able to read books and reports in a foreign language. Whether the language is learned quickly or slowly, it is hard work. Machines and good books will help, but they cannot do the students’ work for him.

Learning a foreign language is a hard job______.

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below

The Cu Chi Tunnels are part of a massive war museum in Ho Chi Minh. They offer visitors a sneak-peek at the underground life of Vietnamese soldiers back ___________ (6) 1948. The site has over 120km of underground tunnels, with trapdoors, living areas, kitchens, storage facilities, armoury, hospitals, and command centres. After the war against the French, Vietnamese soldiers expanded ___________ (7) tunnels and included effective air filtration systems, which helped them survive the Cu Chi carpet-bombings. It is now one of Ho Chi Minh’s ___________ (8) iconic attractions. You can enjoy plenty of activities during your visit. A popular option ___________ (9) following the narrow routes of the underground tunnel. Before entering the underground tunnels, visitors watch a short film of Cu Chi Tunnels so that they can understand how the tunnel system works. There are emergency exit points every 10 metres for safety. The Cu Chi Tunnels are an hour's drive from Ho Chi Minh City. There are tour operators ___________ (10) can arrange for a half-day tour for VND 825,000 upwards.

Question 8:

Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to complete the sentences:

" Yesterday afternoon while Dung (1) _______ in her study, Quang (2) _______ in and (3) _______ her to lend him an English exercise book. “I (4) _______ tomorrow’s English lesson,” he (5) _______, “and I (6) _______ a few words that I (7) _______."

5. “I am preparing tomorrow’s English lesson” he (5) _______,

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

It is a common saying that we do not fully value a thing until we lose it. We often value the love and worth of a friend when he has been taken from us by death more than when he was with us in the flesh; it is only when we have left school or college that we understand the greatness of our opportunity of education, which has gone forever; and it is the sick and the ailing who realize the value of good health. When we are young and strong, we cannot imagine what it is like to be weak and ill. We are so used to vigorous health that we take it for granted. The organs of our bodywork so smoothly that we scaredly know we have lungs and liver, heart and stomach. But when any of these gets upset and gives us pain and sickness, we learn by bitter experience what an unspeakable blessing it is to be well.

Loss of health makes us miserable, and a burden to ourselves and our friends. It cripples our efforts so that we cannot accomplish many of the good and great things we might have done. It spoils our life. What must we do to keep our health?

We must be moderate in eating and drinking and wise in the choice of plain,  wholesome simple food. Gluttony has killed thousands and strong drink tens of thousands. We must, when young, get plenty of sleep, which is “nature’s sweet restorer”, and not try to burn the candle at both ends. We must live as much as possible in the open air and keep our rooms well ventilated. We must get sufficient and regular physical exercise, and keep our bodies clean. And we must avoid bad habits and secret sins as we avoid the devil, and keep our thoughts clean and our bodies pure. Our ideal must be the sound mind in the sound body.

According to the passage, we often appreciate our friends ______________.

The Internet now (9) _________ all the countries in the world.

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below

The Cu Chi Tunnels are part of a massive war museum in Ho Chi Minh. They offer visitors a sneak-peek at the underground life of Vietnamese soldiers back ___________ (6) 1948. The site has over 120km of underground tunnels, with trapdoors, living areas, kitchens, storage facilities, armoury, hospitals, and command centres. After the war against the French, Vietnamese soldiers expanded ___________ (7) tunnels and included effective air filtration systems, which helped them survive the Cu Chi carpet-bombings. It is now one of Ho Chi Minh’s ___________ (8) iconic attractions. You can enjoy plenty of activities during your visit. A popular option ___________ (9) following the narrow routes of the underground tunnel. Before entering the underground tunnels, visitors watch a short film of Cu Chi Tunnels so that they can understand how the tunnel system works. There are emergency exit points every 10 metres for safety. The Cu Chi Tunnels are an hour's drive from Ho Chi Minh City. There are tour operators ___________ (10) can arrange for a half-day tour for VND 825,000 upwards.

(6) ___________

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 questions. 
The year at an American college is divided into two semesters or three quarters. A semester includes 15 weeks ; a quarter includes 10 weeks. American college students usually go to school from September to May. They can also study during the summer. 
Students choose their classes a few weeks before the start of each term. Universities and colleges offer a great many classes in the students’ main areas of study and in other areas as well. Students must take both. These include science, math, computer, history and English. Other classes such as dance, theater, or sports may be just for fun. Tests are usually given in the middle of the term and at the end. The final exam is extremely important. In some classes, the professors ask the students to write a research paper or complete a certain task instead of taking a test. 
Classes at an American college are usually organized through lectures. For example, a student may attend two or three lectures a week by one professor. There may be as many as several hundred students at each lecture. 

American college students choose their classes________________. 

Teachers and administrators use such devices to send materials and information ________ (9) students and parents.

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.

Once there were lots of pandas in the mountains of western China. Today, they are ___(23)___ extinct. The reason is that they cannot find enough food. Pandas eat ___(24)___ leaves. They do not like other food. The bamboo grows very slowly. It can take 10 years for bamboo to grow from a seed to a big plant. Some types of bamboo have seeds only once every 60 years. Pandas ___(25)___ wait many years for their food to grow. While the bamboo is growing, pandas do not have enough leaves to eat.

China and Wildlife Fund (WWF) are trying to save the panda. In 1979, they began to set up special parks ___(26)___ pandas live. Scientists come here to study the panda’s eating and mating habits. By learning more about the panda’s habits, scientists can save it from ___(27)___.

26___________