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 25 to 29.
In many countries of Northern Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, Northern Russia, and the Baltic states, ice swimming is closely connected with the tradition of sauna, (25)______ has led to the creation of a new activity where stays in the sauna are (26)______ with quick 'pauses' in ice water. In Russia, ice swimmers are called what can be literally translated as 'walruses '. The north of Europe, (27) ______, is not the only place where winter swimming is practised regularly. A large ice swimming movement exists in the UK, based in a famous location: the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park in London. In Harbin, Northern China, about 200,000 people ice-swim in the Songhua River every winter. The oldest ice swimming club in the United States, the Coney Island Polar Bear Club of New York, organises an annual (28) ______ on New Year's Day. In Canada, 'Polar Bear Swims; 'Plunges' or 'Dips' are a New Year's Day tradition in (29)______ communities as well, the biggest one taking place in Vancouver since 1920.
(26)
A.interdependent
B.intermingled
C.interactive
D.interrelated

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_____ Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a country with a great patriotism through its history.
A.The
B.A
C.An
D.ø (no article)

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
You should pay attention to _____ precautions of this machine before operating it.
A.safety
B.safely
C.safe
D.unsafe

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
In today’s paper, it _____ that the Vietnam’s national examination for high school students will take palce from June 24th to 27th.
A.expresses
B.admits
C.says
D.proposes

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

A.examination
B.exhibit
C.exhaust
D.fix

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

A.romantic
B.reduction
C.popular
D.financial

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_______ what she prepared for the job interview, Megan didn’t pass it.
A.Despite of
B.In spite of
C.Though
D.However

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Why are you always so jealous _______ other people?
A.in
B.of
C.below
D.on

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

A.painting
B.daily
C.fairly
D.faithful

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.
It’s a sound you will probably never hear, a sickened tree sending out a distress signal. But a group of scientists has heard the cries, and they think some insects also hear the trees and are drawn to them like vulture to a dying animal. Researchers with the US Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service fastened sensors to the bark of drought-stricken trees clearly heard distress calls. According to one of the scientists, most parched trees transmit their plight in the 50-hertz to 50-kilohertz range. (The unaided human ear can detect no more than 20 kilohertz). Red oak, maple, white pine, and birch all make slightly different sounds in the form of vibrations at the surface of the wood.
The scientists think that the vibrations are created when the water columns inside tubes that run along the length of the tree break, a result of too little water following through them. These fractured columns send out distinctive vibration pattems. Because some insects communicate at ultrasonic frequencies, they may pick up the trees' vibration and attack the weakened trees. Researchers are now running tests with potted trees that have been deprived of water to see if the sound is what attracts the insects. “Water-stressed trees also smell differently from other trees, and they experience thermal changes, so insects could be responding to something other than sound”, one scientist said.
Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
A.The sound made by trees
B.The vibrations produced by insects
C.The effect of insects on trees
D.The mission of the U.S Forest Service