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
China - Missing Women
1.  In China the growing difference between the genders is giving signals of alarm to Government authorities. According to the latest census figures, 119 boys are born for every 100 girls. This striking difference is expected to shoot up by the year 2020 with almost 40 million unsettled bachelors. This distribution of the social ecology would create havoc in the future. The social leaders are trying to pressurize the masses into producing more females. The Government has embarked on policies extending innumerable incentives to the families bearing girls. Monetary support, free education, guaranteed employment is being gifted to parents who gift the country with a girl child. The Government is trying to persuade people to suppress their personal preferences and regulate their community behavior according to the new blueprint to stimulate the girl ratio. [A■] Sometimes the Government tries to woo them and sometimes it uses stem policies to force them into it
2. Consequent to the population explosion, the Government introduced, in the 80’s, one child policy in China. Any additional pregnancy had to be terminated. This was aimed to put a check on the teeming millions. The policy had no relation to extermination of girl child in the womb. But the policymakers had no idea about its long term impact. People, with a patriarchic mindset, came up with their preference for a single male child. The idea of a happy family became ‘parents with a single male child’.
3. The Chinese culture has always promoted sons over daughters because the society has been dominated by males. In villages, where hard work is needed to sustain the agriculture, a boy is always preferable due to his superior physical strength compared to that of a girl. [B■] In such circumstances, looking forward to a male baby seems justified.          If people have to limit their families, it is obvious they would prefer a boy over a girl child. This problem has been accentuated by the use of ultrasound scanning which helps determine the sex of the fetus. This technology has played a crucial role in creating gender imbalance.
4. Sociologists consider this imbalance as the aftermath of Government’s poorly thought and short-sighted policy. The Government's intentions notwithstanding, China came to develop a markedly lopsided sex ratio. Nobel Laureate Hayek feels that when Government tries to dominate the social system by making people forcibly inculcate a certain habit, such a condition is bound to happen. People try to find ways which not only fulfill their preferences but also satisfy the law makers. The Government damaged the dynamics of a healthy society and was now bearing the brunt of its past deeds.
5. Hayek argues that by no means should a centralized bureaucracy be allowed to design preferences for hundreds of thousands of people, without even consulting them. In such a system, with the passage of time, unforeseen consequences spring up. Government can bind people to its chosen course for a time but the impositions cannot limit their options for long. [C■] The quarter century that has passed since commencement of the effort to redesign the Chinese family is leaving behind its own trail.
6. The Government needs to be careful now. It has to invent new remedies to address this problem. It needs to redesign the social fabric so that programs like ‘Care for Girls’ get support of the masses, who seem to have little faith in the system. They view the new program for the girl child in the same resigned manner as the program that was forced on them in the past. Some women social workers are of the view that the fall of sex ratio has been an advantage for the women of China, as their social value has increased. [D■] The Government policy has in a way helped uplift the status of females. The real fear now is that China will soon be faced with hordes of bachelors at war with their brethren over finding their brides. The “surplus sons” of China need to stop interfering with the social system.
What is the "blueprint" as discussed in paragraph 1?
A.It is a list of rules for the Chinese people to follow to maintain population control.
B.It is a rough plan for regulating community behavior.
C.It is the Government’s plan containing details of regulations and incentives to improve the girl child ratio.
D.It is a printed guide for conduct rules governing sex ratio.

Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space.
The quality of life these days is something most of us take for (41) ……… It takes some radically(hoàn toàn) different experience to (42) ………….this fact home to people. In my (43) ……….., it was spending three weeks aboard a yacht with twelve other people, competing in a major sailing race. (44) …………… I was officially a guest, it was (45) …………..clear to me from the start that there was to be no room for passengers, and that I’d have to (46) ……….my weight.
            For the first few nights, none of us was able to sleep for more than a couple of hours at a (47) …………before being rudely awoken by an aggressive command. Then we’d do physically exhausting work in total darkness. Every few minutes we’d be completely soaked to the (48) ……... by a large wave we couldn’t see coming. I shared sleeping (49) ………….. with six other women, with barely enough room to stretch my legs. Soon I found myself (50) …………..for my comfortable sheets back home, a hot chocolate and a warm bath.

A.example   
B.instance 
C.case 
D.experience

I’d prefer him not to have said all those embarrassing things about me.
A.I’d not prefer his saying all those embarrassing things about me.
B.I’d prefer him not saying all those embarrassing things about me.
C.His having said all those things about me is preferentially embarrassing.
D.I’d sooner he hadn’t said all those embarrassing things about me.

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 first each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.
Nowadays people are more aware that wildlife all over the world is in (1)______ . Many species of animals are threatened, and could easily become (2)_______ if we do not make an effort to protect them. In some cases, animals are hunted for their fur or for other valuable parts of their bodies. Some birds, such as parrots, are caught (3)______  and sold as pets. For many animals and birds the problem is that their habitat - the place where they live - is disappearing. More land is used for farms, for houses or industry, and there are fewer open spaces than there once were. Farmers use powerful chemicals to help them to grow better crops, but these chemicals pollute the environment and (4)______  wildlife. The most successful animals on earth - human beings - will soon be the only ones (5)______, unless we can solve this problem.
(4)______
A.spoil       
B.wound   
C.wrong       
D.harm

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Any candidates caught _______ in the examination will be disqualified.
A.cheating
B.deceiving
C.conjuring
D.deluding

A.check
B.Christmas
C.chemistry
D.anchor

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.
Different cultures follow their own special customs when a child's baby teeth fall out. In Korea, for example, they have the custom of throwing lost teeth up on the roof of a house. According to tradition, a magpie will come and take the tooth. Later, the magpie will return with a new tooth for the child. In other Asian countries, such as Japan and Vietnam, children follow a similar tradition of throwing their lost teeth onto the roofs of houses.
Birds aren't the only animals thought to take lost teeth. In Mexico and Spain, tradition says a mouse takes a lost tooth and leaves some money. However, in Mongolia, dogs are responsible for taking teeth away. Dogs are highly respected in Mongolian culture and are considered guardian angels of the people. Tradition says that the new tooth will grow good and strong if the baby tooth is fed to a guardian angel. Accordingly, parents in Mongolia will put their child's lost tooth in a piece of meat and feed it to a dog.
The idea of giving lost teeth to an angel or fairy is also a tradition in the West. Many children in Western countries count on the Tooth Fairy to leave money or presents in exchange for a tooth. The exact origins of the Tooth Fairy are a mystery, although the story probably began in England or Ireland centuries ago. According to tradition, a child puts a lost tooth under his or her pillow before going to bed. In the wee hours, while the child is sleeping, the Tooth Fairy takes the tooth and leaves something else under the pillow. In France, the Tooth Fairy leaves a small gift. In the United States, however, the Tooth Fairy usually leaves money. These days, the rate is $1 to $5 per tooth, adding up to a lot of money from the Tooth Fairy!
(Source: Reading Challenge 2 by Casey Malarcher & Andrea Janzen)
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about the tradition of tooth giving in the West?
A.Lost teeth are traditionally given to an angel or fairy.
B.Children put their lost teeth under their pillows.
C.Children hope to get money or gifts from the Tooth Fairy.
D.Children give money to the Tooth Fairy.

Câu I
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.

A.indigenous 
B.compensate
C.combatant
D.alligator

Tet is a festival which occurs__________ late January or early February.
A.at
B.from
C.on
D.in

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
I still remember the _______ afternoons that we spent at the beach when I was a child.
A.long fantastic summer
B.fantastic summer long
C.fantastic long summer
D.summer fantastic long