Exercise 9. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks from 41 to 45.
The United States has many different types of families. While most American families are traditional, (41)_            a father, mother and one or more children, 22 percent of all American families in 1998 were headed by one parent, usually a woman. In a few families in the United States, there are no children. These childish couples may believe that they would not make good parents; they may want freedom from the (42)           of childbearing; or, perhaps they (43)            physically able to have children. Other families in the United States have one adult (44)                a stepparent. A stepmother or stepfather is a person who joins a family by marrying a father ormother
Americans tolerate and accept these different types of families. In the United States, people have the right to privacy and Americans do not believe in telling other Americans what type of family group they must belong to. They respect  each  other’s  (45)_          _  regarding family groups. Families are very important to Americans.
(41) 
A.consisting               
B.consisting of  
C.consist of      
D.including of

Exercise 8. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 36 to 40.
Vietnamese generally shake hands when greeting and parting. Using both hands shows respect as does a (36)              bow of the head. In rural areas, elderly people who do not extend their hand are greeted with a slight bow. Women are more likely to bow the head than to shake hands. Vietnamese names begin with the family name andare (37)               by a given name. People address one another by their given names, but add a title that indicates their perceived relationship to the other person. These titles are family related rather than professional. Among colleagues, for example, the younger of the two might combine the given name with the title of―Anh(OlderBrother). A/n (38)         greeting combined with the given name and titleis “Xin chao” (Hello). Classifiers for gender and familiarity are also combined with the greeting. In formal meetings, business cards are sometimes exchanged on greeting.
Vietnamese have astrong (39)              of hospitality and feel embarrassed if they cannot show their guests full respect by preparing for their arrival. Therefore, it is (40)                  to visit someone without having been invited. Gifts are not required, but are appreciated. Flowers, incense, or tea may be appropriate gifts for the hosts. Hosts also appreciate a small gift for their children or elderly parents.
(40)  
A.inactive                   
B.inaccurate               
C.inappropriate          
D.inexact

Exercise 6. Read the following passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks.
Higher education also provides a competitive edge in the career market. We all know that in the economic times we are living in today, finding jobs is not guaranteed. The number of people unemployed is still relatively high, and the number of new career (26)                 isn’t nearly enough to put people in jobs they areseeking.
As a job seeker, you’re competing with a high number of experienced workers (27)             have been out of the workforce for a while and are also seeking work. (28)                         , when you have a higher education, it generally equips you for better job security. Generally speaking, employers tend to value those who have completed college than those who have only completed high school and are more likely to replace that person whohasn’t (29)                    a higher education. Furthermore, some companies even go so far as to pay your tuition because they consider an educated (30)                     to be valuable to their organization. A college education is an investment that doesn’t just provide you with substantial rewards. It benefits the hiring company aswell.
(30) 
A.employment                        
B.employer                 
C.employee                
D.unemployed

(10) 
A.from                                    
B.about                       
C.in                            
D.of

(19)
A.publishes
B.published
C.to publish 
D.publish

Exercise 3. Read the passage mark letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 11 to 15.
            Most people think of computers as very modern inventions, products of our new technological age. But actually the idea for a computer had been worked out over two centuries ago by a man (11) ______ Charles Babbage. Babbage was born in 1791 and grew up to be a brilliant mathematician. He drew up plans for several calculating machines which he called “engines”. But despite the fact that he (12) ______ building some of these, he never finished any of them. Over the years, people have argued (13) _____ his machines would ever work. Recently, however, the Science Museum in London has finished building (14) _______ engine based on one of Babbage’s designs. (15) ______ has taken six years to complete and move than four thousand parts have been specially made.
            Whether it works or not, the machine will be on show at a special exhibition in the Science Museum to remind people of Babbage’s work.
(15)
A.It 
B.He
C.They
D.One

Exercise 1. 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 1 to 5.
Hospitality
Hospitality - looking after visitors - is universal but in different cultures hostsare (1)______to receive guests in different ways.
In much of the ancient world it was the custom to provide passing travellers with food and water. Today some old  customs have (2)_______. In a traditional Japanese household, if a guest admires a particular object in the house, the host will want to give it to the guest straight away. And in parts of Russia guests are greeted with bread and salt on a special cloth.The guest is (3)______to kiss them and hand them back to the host. Sometimes the guest breaks off a small piece of bread, dips it in the salt and eats it.
In some countries, when foreign guests arrive from abroad, they may feel they have been given a particularly (4)______meal. But this is probably because the host politely offers more and more food and drink and the guest is too embarrassed to (5)_______anything down.
(4) 
A.dense
B.strong
C.heavy
D.wide

Exercise 1. 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 1 to 5.
Hospitality
Hospitality - looking after visitors - is universal but in different cultures hostsare (1)______to receive guests in different ways.
In much of the ancient world it was the custom to provide passing travellers with food and water. Today some old  customs have (2)_______. In a traditional Japanese household, if a guest admires a particular object in the house, the host will want to give it to the guest straight away. And in parts of Russia guests are greeted with bread and salt on a special cloth.The guest is (3)______to kiss them and hand them back to the host. Sometimes the guest breaks off a small piece of bread, dips it in the salt and eats it.
In some countries, when foreign guests arrive from abroad, they may feel they have been given a particularly (4)______meal. But this is probably because the host politely offers more and more food and drink and the guest is too embarrassed to (5)_______anything down.
(2) 
A.preserved
B.existed
C.survived
D.supported

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 34.
The General Certificate of Secondary Education or the GCSE examinations for (30)_______ are the standard school-leaver qualifications taken by virtually all UK students in the May and June following their 16th birthday. If you come to a UK independent school before (31)_______ the age of 16, you will study towards GCSE examinations in up to 12 subjects. Some subjects are compulsory, including English and mathematics, and you can select (32)_______, such as music, drama, geography and history from a series of options. GCSEs provide a good all-round education that you can build on at college and eventually at university.
AS- and A-levels are taken after GCSEs. They are the UK qualifications most (33)_______ accepted for entry to university and are available in subjects from the humanities, arts, sciences and social sciences as well as in vocational subjects such (34)_______  engineering, and leisure and tourism. You can study up to four subjects at the same time for two years.
(33) 
A.wide           
B.widen          
C.widely                    
D.width

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
A number of factors related to the voice reveal the personality of the speaker.
The first is the broad area of communication, which includes imparting information by use of language, communicating with a group or an individual and specialized communication through performance. A person conveys thoughts and ideas through choice of words, by a tone of voice that is pleasant or unpleasant, gentle or harsh, by the rhythm that is inherent within the language itself, and by speech rhythms that are flowing and regular or uneven and hesitant, and finally, by the pitch and melody of the utterance. When speaking before a group, a person's tone may indicate uncertainty or fright, confidence or calm. At interpersonal levels, the tone may reflect ideas and feelings over and above the words chosen, or may believe them. Here, the participant's tone can consciously or unconsciously reflect intuitive sympathy or antipathy, lack of concern or interest, fatigue, anxiety, enthusiasm or excitement, all of which are usually discernible by the acute listener. Public performance is a manner of communication that is highly specialized with its own techniques for obtaining effects by voice and /or gesture. The motivation derived from the text, and in the case of singing, the music, in combination with the performer's skills, personality, and ability to create empathy will determine the success of artistic, political, or pedagogic communication.
 Second, the voice gives psychological clues to a person's self-image, perception of others, and emotional health. Self-image can be indicated by a tone of voice that is confident, pretentious, shy, aggressive, outgoing, or exuberant, to name only a few personality traits. Also the sound may give a clue to the facade or mask of that person, for example, a shy person hiding behind an overconfident front.
       How a speaker perceives the listener's receptiveness, interest, or sympathy in any given conversation can drastically alter the tone of presentation, by encouraging or discouraging the speaker. Emotional health is evidenced in the voice by free and melodic sounds of the happy, by constricted and harsh sound of the angry, and by dull and lethargic qualities of the depressed.
According to the passage, an exuberant tone of voice may be an indication of a person's ______.
A.vocal quality     
B.general physical health   
C.ability to communicate 
D.personality