Choose one word or phrase – (A, B, C or D) - that best completes the sentences  from questions 7 to 22:
He ____________me that if he were me, he would do that work.
A.asked
B.said to me    
C.talked
D.advised

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.
According to anthropologists, people in preindustrial societies spent 3 to 4 hours per day or about 20 hours per week doing the work necessary for life. Modern comparisons of the amount of work performed per week, however, begin with the Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) when 10- to 12-hour workdays with six workdays per week were the norm. Even with extensive time devoted to work, however, both incomes and standards of living were low. As incomes rose near the end of the Industrial Revolution, it became increasingly common to treat Saturday afternoons as a half-day holiday. The half holiday had become standard practice in Britain by the 1870's, but did not become common in the United States until the 1920's.
In the United States, the first third of the twentieth century saw the workweek move from 60 hours per week to just under 50 hours by the start of the 1930' s. In 1914, Henry Ford reduced daily work hours at his automobile plants from 9 to 8. In 1926 he announced that henceforth his factories would close for the entire day on Saturday. At the time, Ford received criticism from other firms such as United States Steel and Westinghouse, but the idea was popular with workers.
The Depression years of the 1930's brought with them the notion of job sharing to spread available work around; the workweek dropped to a modem low for the United States of 35 hours. In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act mandated a weekly maximum of 40 hours to begin in 1940, and since that time the 8-hour day, 5-day workweek has been the standard in the United States. Adjustments in various places, however, show that this standard is not immutable. In 1987, for example, German metalworkers struck for and received a 37.5-hour workweek; and in 1990 many workers in Britain won a 37-hour week. Since 1989, the Japanese government has moved from a 6- to a 5-day workweek and has set a national target of 1,800 work hours per year for the average worker. The average amount of work per year in Japan in 1989 was 2,088 hours per worker, compared to 1,957 for the United States and 1,646 for France.
The word "henceforth" in line 13 is closest in meaning to
A.for a brief period.  
B.from that time on. 
C.in the end.        
D.on occasion.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
He expected _______ for an Oscar, but he wasn’t.
A.nominating
B.to nominate
C.to be nominated
D.being nominated

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Larry was so _______ in his novel that he forgot about his dinner cooking in the oven.
A.absorbed               
B.attracted                 
C.drawn                    
D.obliged

Read  the  following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the best answer for the following questions
In the past, both men and women were expected to be married at quite young ages. Marriages were generally arranged by parents and family, with their children having little chance to say no in the matter. In the past it was not surprising to find that a bride and groom had only just met on the day of their engagement or marriage.
In modern Vietnam, this has changed completely as people choose their own marriage-partners based on love, and in consideration primarily to their own needs and wants. Moreover, early marriage is quite illegal.
The traditional Vietnamese wedding is one of the most important of traditional Vietnamese occasions. Regardless of westernization, many of the age-old customs practiced in a traditional Vietnamese wedding continue to be celebrated by both Vietnamese in Vietnam and overseas, often combining both western and eastern elements. Besides the wedding ceremony, there is also an engagement ceremony which takes place usually half a year or so before the wedding. Due to the spiritual nature of the occasion, the date and time of the marriage ceremony are decided in advance by a fortune teller. The traditional Vietnamese wedding consists of an extensive array of ceremonies: the first is the ceremony to ask permission to receive the bride, the second is the procession to receive the bride (along with the ancestor ceremony at her house), the third is to bring the bride to the groom's house for another ancestor ceremony and to welcome her into the family, then the last is a wedding banquet. The number of guests in attendance at these banquets is huge, usually in the hundreds. Several special dishes are served. Guests are expected to bring gifts, often money, which the groom and bride at one point in the banquet will go from table to table collecting.
According to the passge, which does not exist in a Vietnamese wedding party?
A.guests                     
B.dishes                     
C.gifts                                    
D.firecrackers

What substances is thought to stimulate the brain to make us feel pleasure?
A.Adrenaline
B.Nor adrenaline.
C.Lemon juice.
D.Manganese dioxide.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
In China’s largest psychiatric facility, there is a serious lack of resources but the staff try hard to____ _this in their treatment of the patients.
A.make up for
B.go in for
C.put up with
D.set in for

Read the passage carefully, then choose the best answer for each question.
THE HISTORY OF PIZZA
Today, pizza is one of the world's favorite foods. All over the world, people make different pizzas, with different ingredients. But where does pizza come from? And who made the first one?
The First Pizza
People have been making pizza for a very long time. In the Stone Age, some people mixed flour with water to make dough. Then they cooked it on hot rocks. Over time, people started using the cooked dough as a plate, covering it with various other foods, herbs, and spices. They had made the world's first pizza.
A New Ingredient
Then—in the early 1500s—European explorers brought the first tomatoes back from the Americas. Tomatoes are a basic ingredient in many pizzas today. At first, however, most Europeans thought eating tomatoes would make them sick. So, for about 200 years, few people ate them.
Slowly, people learned that tomatoes were safe to eat, as well as tasty. In the early 19th century, cooks in Naples, Italy, started the tradition of putting tomatoes on baking dough. The flat bread soon became a favorite food for poor people all over Naples. In 1830, a cook in Naples took another big step in the history of pizza—he opened the world's first pizza restaurant.
A World Food
Today, about five billion pizzas are made every year around the world. In the U.S. alone, people eat about 350 slices every second! People may not know it, but every piece is a slice of history.
The word century refers to_____.
A.50 years
B.10 years
C.200 years
D.100 years

Choose the word or phrase  that best completes the sentences.
They invited ______ to their golden anniversary.
A.my wife and I
B.I and my wife
C.both my wife and I  
D.my wife and me

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
"Go on, Susan! Apply for the job," the father said.
A.The father forced Susan to apply for the job.
B.The father asked Susan to applying for the job.
C.The father wanted Susan not to apply for the job.
D.The father encouraged Susan to apply for the job.