Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
My father works very hard so he can afford _____________ my family to Singapore this summer.
A. to take
B. taking
C. takes 
D. take

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
While making the performance, he always considers ____________ .
A. how is the work time-consuming 
B. how the work is time-consuming
C. how time-consuming the work is  
D. how time-consuming is the work

Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest:
heart                           appear                           hear                           beard
A. heart                           
B. appear                           
C. hear                           
D. beard

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
The from _____________ the first round will go into the quarter final. 
A. qualify                
B. qualifying                  
C. qualified               
D. qualifiers

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence and correct it:
There isn’t room for me sit down, would you mind moving a little bit?
A. room
B. sit down
C. would
D. moving

Choose a word that has different stress pattern:
opposition                    difference                    information                    demonstration
A. opposition                   
B.  difference                    
C. information                    
D. demonstration

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence and correct it:
It is extremely important for an engineer to know to use a computer.
A. It is
B. extremely
C. for
D. to know

Choose one sentence that has the same meaning to the root one:
 “Minh has sent lots of emails to me since we were pen pals, ” said Thanh
A. Thanh told me that Minh has sent him lots of emails since we were pen pals.
B. Thanh told me that Minh had sent him lots of emails since they were pen pals.
C. Thanh told me that Minh had sent him lots of emails since they had been pen pals.
D. Thanh had told me that Minh had sent him lots of emails since they had been pen pals.

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
He didn’t get good mark ____________ he worked very hard.
A. because
B. though 
C.  if 
D. so

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence and correct it:
Jogging is the more popular form of exercise among the under-40s.
A. Jogging
B. more popular
C. exercise
D. the