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.

VIII. Mark the letter A, B, Cor D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.




A.likes
B.writes
C.serves
D.hopes

VII. Mark the letter A, B, Cor Don your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to each of the following questions.
The weather was so terrible that we spent the whole day indoors.




A.The weather was too terrible for us to spend the whole day indoors.
B.The weather wasn't terrible enough for us to spend the whole day indoors.
C.It was such terrible weather that we spent the whole day indoors.
D.The weather was too terrible that we spent the whole day indoors.

V. Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Most of the fastening devices used in clothing today, like the shoelace, the button, and the safely pin. have existed in some form in various cultures for thousands of years. But the zipper was the brainchild of one American inventor, namely Whitcomb Judson of Chicago. At the end of the 19th century. Judson was already a successful inventor, with a dozen patents to his credit for mechanical items such as improvements to motors and railroad braking system.
He then turned his mind to create a replacement for the lengthy shoelaces which were then used in both men’s and women's boots. On August 29th 1893, he won another patent, for what he called the case “locker”. Though the model was somewhat clumsy, and frequently jammed, it did work: in fact, Judson and his business associate Lewis Walker had sewn the device into their own boots. Although Judson displayed his clasp-locker at the World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893, the public largely ignored it. The company founded by Judson and Walker, Universal Fastener, despite further refinements, never really succeeded in marketing the device.
The earliest zip fasteners were being used in the clothing industry by 1905, but it was only in 1913, after a Swedish-American engineer, Gideon Sundbach, had remodeled Judson's fastener into a more streamlined and reliable form, that the zipper was a success. The US Army applied zippers to the clothing and equipment of the troops of World War I. By the late 1920s, zippers could be found in all kinds of clothing, footwear, and carrying cases; by the mid-1930s, zippers had even been embraced by the fashion industry.
The term “zipper" was coined as onomatopoeia (resembling the sound it makes) by B.F. Goodrich whose company started marketing rubber shoes featuring the fastener in 1923. Regrettably. Whitcomb Judson died in 1909, and never heard the term, or saw the success by which his invention would become popular.
(Adapted from https://lemelson.mit.edu)
According to the passage, zippers did not really become a success until _____.




A.they were used in the apparel industry after 1905
B.the Army used them in World War I
C.in 1913 after being remodeled
D.be the late 1920s

III. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheel to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
It's silly of him to spend a lot of money buying _______ .




A.a thick wooden old table
B.a thick old wooden table
C.an old wooden thick table
D.a wooden thick old table

The judge asked the suspect to explain reason why he was present at the place of the crime .




A.the suspect
B.reason
C.present
D.the place of the crime