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You look terribly tired. You really __________ to get more sleep.

They haven't been able to estimate the _______ of damage caused by the earthquake.

He would __________ go to Ho Chi Minh City by plane than travel by train.

Their efforts were much __________ when they won 2 medals in bodybuilding and billiards.

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 from 36 to 42.

The ability of falling cats to right themselves in midair and land on their feet has been a source of wonder for ages. Biologists long regarded it as an example of adaptation by natural selection, but for physicists it bordered on the miraculous.

Newton's laws of motion assume that the total amount of spin of a body cannot change unless an external torque speeds it up or slows it down. If a cat has no spin when it isreleased and experiences no external torque, it ought not to be able to twist around as it falls.

In the speed of its execution, the righting of a tumbling cat resembles a magician's trick. The gyrations of the cat in midair are too fast for the human eye to follow, so the process is obscured. Either the eye must be speeded up, or the cat's fall slowed down for the phenomenon to be observed. A century ago the former was accomplished by means of high-speed photography using equipment now available in any pharmacy. But in the nineteenth century the capture on film of a falling cat constituted a scientific experiment.

The experiment was described in a paper presented to the Paris Academy in 1894. Two sequences of twenty photographs each, one from the side and one from behind, show a white cat in the act of righting itself. Grainy and quaint though they are, the photos show that the cat was dropped upside down, with no initial spin, and still landed on its feet. Careful analysis of the photos reveals the secret; as the cat rotates the front of its body clockwise, the rear and tail twist counterclockwise, so that the total spin remains zero, in perfect accord with Newton's laws. Halfway down, the cat pulls in its legs before reversing its twist and then extends them again, with the desired end result. The explanation was that while nobody can acquire spin without torque, a flexible one can readily change its orientation, or phase. Cats know this instinctively, but scientists could not be sure how it happened until they increased the speed of their perceptions a thousandfold.

Question 36. What does the passage mainly discuss?

7. They are both famous, but unfortunately their marriage is known to be _______.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions

 I am glad that we see eye to eye on the matter of the conference location.  

Question 15. You shouldn‘t work all the time. It ______ you good to go out and enjoy yourself sometimes.

I tried to talk to her, but she was as high as a______.

 George has ____; he loves cakes, chocolate, ice- cream- anything which is sweet.

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

Jack persisted in attempting to convince his employers to use more technology and fewer people.

Question 13: People usually look through travel ________ to decide on their holiday destinations.

 You've all ____ the point. The film itself is not racist – it simply tries to make us question our own often racist attitude.

I find it difficult to make _______ as prices keep ________. 

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

My father hit the roof when he found that I'd damaged the car.

Susie and Fran _____________us last night, so I had to quickly defrost a pizza. 

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is

OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions

The palace was badly damaged by fire, but was eventually restored to its original spiendor.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

We tend to assume that people like Shakespeare or Darwin owe their success (1) _______ their genius. In his new book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell suggests that the truth may be more complex. Of course, all successful people are bound to have some natural (2) _______. But the true (3) _______of success are most probably hard work, opportunity, and the environment you grow up in.

You need about 10.000 hours of practice before you get really good at something. Mozart’s early work was certainly not great or (4) _______ . By the time he composed his first true masterpieces, he must have spent about ten years composing concertos.

But hard work is not enough, you have to get your chance. Most Silicon Valley tycoons, like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, were born around 1955. When the personal computer revolution came twenty years later, they were at (5)____ age to lead it.

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Neither of the boys came to school yesterday, _______?

Mr Simpson enjoys an excellent ________ as a specialist.

Huong: “That millions of people attended General Vo Nguyen Giap’s funeral made a special impression on almost every foreigner.”

Lan: “___________.”

Choose the best answer:

1. Hanh: “They look a bit different, these conical hats. Which one would you like, this one or that one?” - Mary: “ ________________”

Choose the best answer:

- What time shall we leave? -“___________”.

Daisy: “______?” 

Lisa: “Have you been able to reach Peter?”

Gina: “……………”'

Question 43: A person who says lies habitually must have a good memory.

For its establishment, ASEAN Tourism Association has played an important role in promoting and developing ASEAN Tourism services.

The occean probably distinguishes the earth from other planets of the solar system, for scientists believe that large bodies of water are not existing on the other planets.

Mark the letter A, B C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

He bought (A) a lot of books, none (B) of them (C) he has ever read (D).

Historically , it was the 3rd Asian Games in Japan that tennis, volleyball, table tennis and hockey were added.