Please, will you just tidy your room, and stop _____ excuses!
A.having  
B.making 
C.doing  
D.taking

Even if you are rich, you should save some money for a _____ day.
A.foggy  
B.rainy    
C. snowy   
D. windy

It’s imperative that _____ what to do when there is a fire.
A.everyone knew
B.everyone know
C.everyone knows 
D.everyone knows about

A.facilitate  
B. intimacy   
C. participate 
D.hydrology

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to incorrect answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42:
Smart cards and mobile phones are becoming an increasingly popular way to make all sorts of payments. Even now, in Japan thousands of transactions, from paying rail tickets to picking up the groceries, take place every day with customers passing their handsets across a small flat-screen device. And predictions in the world of finance reckon that payments using mobile phones will have risen to more than $50 billion in the very near future.
What's the appeal of e-cash? Compared to cheque or credit cards, it offers the speed of cash, but more so. It takes just one tenth of a second to complete most transactions and as no change is required, errors in counting are eliminated. Fraud and theft are also reduced and for the retailer, it reduces the cost of handling money. Sony's vision of having a chip embedded in computers, TVs and games consoles means that films, music and games can be paid for easily without having to input credit card details. And what about the future of the banks? Within their grip on the market, banks and creditcard firms want to be in a position to collect most of the fees from the users of mobile and contactless-payment systems. But the new system could prove to be a "disruptive technology" as far as the banks are concerned. If payments for a few coffees, a train ticket and a newspaper are made every day by a commuter with a mobile, this will not appear on their monthly credit card statements but on their mobile phone statements. And having spent fortunes on branding, credit-card companies and banks do not want to see other payment systems gaining popularity. It's too early to say whether banks will miss out and if so, by how much. However, quite a few American bankers are optimistic. They feel there is reason to be suspicious of those who predict that high-street banks may be a thing of the past. They point out that Internet banking did not result in the closure of their high-street branches as was predicted. On the contrary, more Americans than ever are using local branches. So, whether we'll become a totally cash-free society remains open to contention.                        
The word "embedded” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ________.
A.isolated                            
B.manufactured                
C.generated                      
D.integrated

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Vietnamese children are taught at a very young age to obey and look ___ elderly people.
A.up to
B.down on
C.away from
D.out of

What is true according to the passage?
A.The linguists don’t like Esperanto
B.Esperanto is not a natural language
C.Esperanto is difficult to learn  
D.Esperanto is becoming more and more popular

(30)_____ 
A.pollute  
B.polluting                 
C.polluted                  
D.pollution

We spent the entire day looking for a new apartment.
A.all long day
B.day after day 
C.all day long
D.the long day

Anne hoped ________ to join the private club. She could make important business contact here.
A.to be invited
B.to invite 
C.being invited
D.inviting