The living conditions in the rural areas of the country ______ during the past five years.
A.had been improved
B.have been improved
C.had improved
D.were improved

III/ Choose the word or phrase - a, b, c or d - that best completes the sentence or substitutes for the underlined word or phrase.
My uncle, who is an accomplished guitarist, taught me how to play.
A.skilful                   
B.famous                 
C.perfect                                
D.modest

Exercise 2. 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 6 to 10.
In European and North American cultures, body language behaviors can be divided into 2 groups: open or closed and forward or backward.
Open/closed postures are the easiest to (6)__________. People are open to messages when they show open hands, face you fully, and have both feet on the ground. This indicates that they are (7)__________ to listen to what you are saying, even if they are disagreeing with you. When people are closed to messages, they have their arms folded or their legs crossed, and they may turn their bodies away. This body language usually means that people are rejecting your message.
Forward or backward behavior reveals an active or a passive (8)__________ to what is being said. If people lean forward with their bodies toward you, they are actively engaged in your message. They may be accepting or rejecting it, but their minds are on (9)__________ you are saying. On the other hand, if people lean back in their chairs or look away from you, or perform activities such as drawing or cleaning their eyeglasses, you know that they are either passively taking in your message or that they are ignoring it. In (10)__________ case, they are not very much engaged in the conversation.
(9) 
A.who            
B.what            
C.that 
D.things

IV. Find the one mistake (A, B, C or D) in these sentences and then correct them.
He (A) rang James, (B) that was (C) a good friend (D) as well as the family doctor.
A.rang
B.that
C.a good friend
D.as well as

III. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence.
Van Mieu is an example of well-preserved _______ Vietnamese architecture.
A.tradition
B.traditional
C.traditionally
D.traditionalism

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Mr. Park Hang Seo, a Korean coach, is considered a big _______ in Vietnam football.
A.bread                      
B.cheese                     
C.sandwich                
D.egg

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 35 to 42.
Washington was the first city in history to be created solely for the purpose of governance. Following the Revolution, members of Congress had hotly debated the question of a permanent home for themselves and for those departments – the Treasury, the Patent Office and so on – which even the sketchiest of central governments would feel obliged to establish. In 1790, largely in order to put an end to congressional bickering, George Washington was charged with selecting a site for the newly designated federal district. Not much to anyone’s surprise but to the disappointment of many he chose a tract of land on the banks of the Potomac River, a few miles upstream from his beloved plantation Mount Vernon.
The District of Columbia was taken in part from Virginia and in part from Maryland. At the time it was laid out, its hundred square miles consisted of gently rolling hills, some under cultivation and the rest heavily wooded, with a number of creeks and much swampy land along the Potomac. There is now a section of Washington that is commonly referred to as Foggy Bottom; that section bore the same nickname a hundred and eighty years ago.
Two ports cities, Alexandria and Georgetown, flourished within sight of the new capital and gave it access by ship to the most important cities of the infant nation – Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Newport, Salem and Portsmouth – and also to the far-off ports of England and the Continent.
In 1970, a large part of the federal district was______.
A.seashore                         
B.wilderness                   
C.village squares
D.a flourishing port

Smoking is an extremely harmful habit. You should give it up immediately.
A.When you give up smoking immediately. you will affect your health with this harmful habit.
B.You should give up smoking immediately and you will fall into an extremely harmful habit.
C.Stop your smoking immediately so it will become one of your extremely harmful habits.
D.As smoking is an extremely harmful habit, you should give it up immediately.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
To solve this problem, it is advisable ________ .  
A.a drastic measure to be adopted    
B. that a drastic measure be adopted
C.that a drastic measure is adopted        
D.that a drastic measure to be adopted

It was inevitable that the smaller company should merge with the larger. 
 
A.urgent                    
B.unavoidable          
C.important                           
D.necessary