____________ (33)




A.systems
B.sounds
C.languages
D.talks

Everyone in both cars _____ injured in the accident last night, ______?




A.were / weren't they
B.was / weren't they
C.was / wasn't he?
D.were / were they

Nam has now ______________ to the point where his English is almost fluent.




A.arrived
B.approached
C.reached
D.advanced

_____ are forms of carbon has been known since the late 18th century.




A.Diamonds
B.Diamonds, which
C.Because diamonds
D.That diamonds

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on you answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
At the end of the training course, each participant was presented with a _______ of completion.




A.certificate
B.diploma
C.degree
D.qualification

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Quang won a scholarship. We are excited about that fact.




A.The fact being excited us had won Qunag a scholarship.
B.Quang’s excited about a scholarship’s having won us.
C.We’re excited about Quang’s having won a scholarship.
D.We won Quang’s excitement about the fact of a scholarship.

VI. Read the passage below and choose the best answer A, B, C or D to each question.
I’m interested in sports, especially athletics, and I run seven or eight kilometres every day. I particularly enjoy cross country running, where you have to run across fields, jump over streams and so on. While I’m running I think about all sorts of things, and at the end of a run I’m sometimes surprised to find that I’ve managed to solve a problem that was on my mind.
Next year, I’m going to try the London Marathon. It’s hard race 26 miles, or 42 kilometres-and you have to be tough to finish, but I very much want to do it. I worry a bit about getting too old, and I’d like to prove to myself that I’m still almost as fit as I was twenty years old.
I’m interested in mountaineering s well as running. I’ll never become an except climber, but I know what I’m doing in the mountains. I successfully completed a course in snow and ice climbing when I was younger; and I’ve done a series of easy climbs in the Alps during the last few years. My wife doesn’t share my interest in mountains. She agreed to go climbing with me once, but she found that she felt ill as soon as she got above 1,000 metres.
The writer takes up mountaineering because ____.




A.he wants to become an expert climber
B.he simply likes it
C.his wife is interested in it
D.it is easy to practise

V. Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
FUN AND GAMES
Do you think computer games is just for kids? Then you should think again. You might be surprised to learn that the game industry now (26) ______ more money than Hollywood. As soon as a family buys a new PC, all they really want to do is to play games.
It is hardly surprising that video gaming has become one of the most popular forms of entertainment today. A good game is like a good film; it will hold your (27) ______, capture your imagination and play with your emotions.
The big difference, (28) , is that watching a movie is a passive pastime. You have no say in how the plot develops or which characters dominate the story. With computer games, you direct the action and that is what makes them so exciting. Finding the (29) ______ game is likely to signal the beginning of a lasting love affair with the interactive world of make-believe.
It is wrong to think of gaming (30) something simply for children and teenagers. In fact, the biggest growth area of the market is the 25-35 age group.
(28)




A.so
B.otherwise
C.however
D.therefore

III. Choose the best answer to each of the following question.
Some training courses can provide people ____ practical skills.




A.from
B.on
C.for
D.with

IX. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
He spent all his money. He even borrowed some from me.




A.Not only did he spend all his money but he borrowed some from me.
B.Not only did he spend all his money but also borrowed some from me.
C.As soon as he borrowed some money from me, he spent it all.
D.Hardly had he borrowed some money from me, he spent it all.