X. 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 43 to 47.
As a child, Phong always dreamt of going abroad to study. (43)__________ he graduate his parents sent him over toNew Zealandto attend college. Phong was very happy that his dream finally came true. When he first arrived in the country, Phong's English was not very good and sometime he did not understand what other people said. He also had difficulties in class because he was not familiar with the new teaching and learning method. He felt (44) __________ in this new place, and missed all his buddies inViet Nam. The food there was so different to what his mum used to cook for him. And for the first time in his life, Phong had to think about his finances, and to plan his spending (45)_________ . However, Phong was young and enthusiastic. He learnt to (46) ___________ to this new environment. After two years, Phong is how very fluent in English and has achieved the top academic award at his school. He has a lot of friends from different countries. He is even good (47) _______ being able to earn money for his daily needs from his part- time job at a restaurant.
(44)
A.happy
B.desperate
C.lonely
D.interested

Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D).
They are going to break eggs to make ________ for breakfast.
A.omelet    
B.noodle 
C.tofu    
D.spaghetti

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C ,or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the questions.
Many ants forage across the countryside in large numbers and undertake mass migrations; these activities proceed because one ant lays a trail on the ground for the others to follow. As a worker ant returns home after finding a source of food, it marks the route by intermittently touching its stinger to the ground and depositing a tiny amount of trail pheromone – a mixture of chemicals that delivers diverse messages as the context changes. These trails incorporate no directional information and may be followed by other ants in either direction.
Unlike some other messages, such as the one arising from a dead ant, a food trail has to be kept secret from members of other species. It is not surprising then that ant species use a wide variety of compounds as trail pheromones. Ants can be extremely sensitive to these signals. Investigators working with the trail pheromone of the leafcutter ant Atta texana calculated that one milligram of this substance would suffice to lead a column of ants three times around Earth.
 The vapor of the evaporating pheromone over the trail guides an ant along the way, and the ant detects this signal with receptors in its antennae. A trail pheromone will evaporate to furnish the highest concentration of vapor right over the trail, in what is called a vapor space. In following the trail, the ant moves to the right and left, oscillating from side to side across the line of the trail itself, bringing first one and then the other antenna into the vapor space. As the ant moves to the right, its left antenna arrives in the vapor space. The signal it receives causes it to swing to the left, and the ant then pursues this new course until its right antenna reaches the vapor space. It then swings back to the right, and so weaves back and forth down the trail.
The word “intermittently” in line 4 is closest in meaning to
A.periodically   
B.incorrectly   
C.rapidly
D.roughly

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given in each of the following question.
Only with careful environmental planning can we protect the world in which we live.
A.Careful environmental planning protects the world we live in.
B.Planning the environment carefully, we can protect the world in which we live.
C.Protecting the world we live in, we plan the environment carefully.
D.We can protect the world we live in only with careful environmental planning.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
As far as I can judge, she was completely unaware ______ the seriousness of the situation.
A.with                        
B.about                       
C.of                            
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 wonder who drank all the milk yesterday. It ______ have been Jane because she was out all day.
A.can’t                       
B.must                        
C.could                      
D.needn’t

Choose the word with underlined part differently pronounced.

A.horrible    
B.hour 
C.house    
D.here

The train was delayed __________________.
A.because the flood   
B.because of the flood
C.although it was flooded       
D.because it is flooded

The blackmailer denied _________  the photographs to the actress.
A.send
B.to send
C.sent
D.having sent

..............., you won't be successful.
A.Unless you know who you are
B.If you knew who you were
C.Unless you know who are you
D.If you knew who were you