Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete the following exchange.

Billy and Bobby are in a coffee shop. Billy is asking Bobby for his opinion about the coffee there.

- Billy: “How's the coffee here?” – Bobby: “_________.”
A.It's a little better now that I've got a car. 
B.It's a little bitter, to tell the truth.
C.As a matter of fact, I'm not interested.  
D.No, I don't think so.

Read the following passage and then choose the best answer for each question by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C or D from 36 to 40.
The modern comic strip started out as ammunition in a newspaper war between giants of the American press in the late nineteenth century. The first full-color comic strip appeared in January 1894 in the New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer. The first regular weekly full-color comic supplement, similar to today’s Sunday funnies, appeared two years later, in William Randolph Hearst’s rival New York paper, the Morning Journal.
Both were immensely popular and publishers realized that supplementing the news with comic relief boosted the sale of papers. The Morning Journal started another feature in 1896, the “Yellow Kid”, the first continuous comic character in the United States, whose creator, Richard Outcault, had been lured away from the World by the ambitious Hearst. The “Yellow Kid” was in many ways a pioneer.  Its comic dialogue was the strictly urban farce that came to characterize later strips, and it introduced the speech balloon inside the strip, usually placed above the characters’ heads.
The first strip to incorporate all the elements of later comics was Rudolph Dirks’s “Katzenjammer Kids”, based on Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz, a European satire of the nineteenth century. The “Kids” strip, first published in 1897, served as the prototype for future American strips. It contained not only speech balloons, but a continuous cast of characters, and was divided into small regular panels that did away with the larger panoramic scenes of earlier comics.
Newspaper syndication played a major role in spreading the popularity of comic strips throughout the country. Though weekly colored comics came first, daily black-and-white strips were not far behind. The first appeared in the Chicago American in 1904. It was followed by many imitators, and by 1915 blackand-white comic strips had become a staple of daily newspapers around the country.
Why does the author mention Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst?
A.They published comic strips about the newspaper war.
B.They established New York's first newspaper.
C.Their comic strips are still published today.
D.They owned major competitive newspapers.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the answer to the following question.

If Tom ______ an alarm, the thieves wouldn't have broken into his house.
A.was installed    
B.to install
C.had installed
D.have installed

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 the following question.
A.equip      
B.secure   
C.vacant  
D.oblige

VI. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.
Basketball was invented by James Naismith in 1891. Naismith wanted to make a game that could be played indoors. He remembered a game he used to play in his childhood. He developed that game to make basketball.
Basketball is played on a basketball court. There is a backboard with an iron basket at each end of the court. The basket is 10 feet high. The only other equipment is a basketball.
Naismith made 13 rules to guide the game. There are 5 people on each team. Basketball players must dribble the ball. The goal of this game is to put the ball into the other team’s basket and to earn points. The team with the most points wins the game.
Basketball is now very popular all over the world.Americahas very good teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
The purpose James Naismith invented basketball was ______
A.to remember his childhood.                                  
B.to make a game that could be played indoors.
C.to develop it into a popular game throughout the world. 
D.to make 13 rules to guide the game.

III. Choose the best answer to complete each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
Vietnam recommended archery, vovina, billiards-snooker and canoeing ______ official sports at the games.
A.at       
B.with               
C.as                  
D.in

III. Choose the best answer to complete each unfinished sentence, substitutes the underlined part, or has a close meaning to the original one.
The Mekong Delta is _______ deltas in Vietnam.
A.the largest of the two    
B.the more larger of the two  
C.one of the two largest                
D.one of the two larger

II. Choose the word which is stressed differently from the rest.

A.spirit
B.impress               
C.event               
D.perform

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the answer to the following question.

Someone must have taken my keys. I clearly remember _____ them by the window and now they are nowhere to be seen.
A.leaving     
B.to leave  
C.to be leaving  
D.to have left

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