Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks from 38 to 42.
The United States has many different types of families. While most American families are traditional, (38)_         a father, mother and one or more children, 22 percent of all American families in 1998 were headed by one parent, usually a woman. In a few families in the United States, there are no children. These childish couples may believe that they would not make good parents; they may want freedom from the (39)           of childbearing; or, perhaps they (40)          physically able to have children. Other families in the United States have one adult(41)           a stepparent. A stepmother or stepfather is a person who joins a family by marrying a father or motherAmericans tolerate and accept these different types of families. In the United States, people have the right to privacy and Americans do not believe in telling other Americans what type of family group they must belong to. They respect each other’s (42) _  _ regarding family groups. Families are very important to Americans

A.consisting 
B.consisting of 
C.consist of 
D.including of

Which of the following statements can best summaries the main idea of the passage?
 
A.The aim of education is to find out how to teach the bright and not-so-bright pupils.
B.Various ways of teaching should be encouraged in class.
C.Children, in general, develop at different rates.
D.Bright children do benefit from mixed-class teaching.

A.aerial
B.clap
C.care
D.scary

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
______ through a telescope, Venus appears to go through changes in size and shape.
A.It has seen
B.It is seen
C.When seen
D.Seeing

Floods have completely.................the farmer’s crops.
A.ruined
B.damaged 
C.harmed
D.injured

(24) 
A.like                         
B.similar                     
C.for                           
D.as

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Nam had all the necessary qualifications. They didn't offer him the job.
 
A.They didn't offer Nam the job as he had all the necessary qualifications.
B.Despite having all the necessary qualifications, Nam was not offered the job.
C.If Nam had had all the necessary qualifications, he would have been offered the job.
D.Nam had all the necessary qualifications, so they didn't offer him the job.

(1).............
A.computer
B.microsoft
C.television
D.word

Fill in the blank with the correct form of the words in capital letter. 
_____________, Vietnamese women wear Ao dai on special occasions. (TRADITION)
A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.

A.funny
B.rubbish
C.upper
D.student