Task 2. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions 6 – 10.A Working Vacation            Have you ever wondered what it would be like to get your dream job? It can take years to get the education and develop the skills you need for the perfect job. However, there is a way to experience your dream job without having to get the required training or degree. Since 2004, Brian Kurth’s company, Vocation Vacations, has been connecting people with mentors who have the jobs of their dreams.            Kurth had been working for a phone company before starting his own company. He didn’t like his job, and he had a long time to think about it on his drive to and from work. He also thought about his dream job while driving. He was interested in becoming a dog trainer, but he didn’t want to take any chances  and switch to a field he didn’t have experience in. He really wanted to know what the job was like and if  it was realistic for him to work towards his goal. So, he found a mentor – a dog trainer that could tell him about the job and everything it involved. After that, he helped his friends find mentors to explore jobs  they were interested in. They thought it was helpful to talk to people who had their dream jobs before spending lots of time and money getting the training they needed for those jobs.            Kurth saw how much this helped his friends, so he decided to turn it into his business. He started Vocation Vacations in 2004, and by 2005, the company was offering experience with over 200 dream jobs. Today, about 300 mentors work with the company to share their knowledge about their jobs. Customers pay to experience the job of their dreams and work with these mentors to see what a job is really like. A “job vacation” costs between 350 USD and 3,000 USD and can be for one to three days. Many people use Vocation Vacations to see if their dream job is a career path they want to continue. Others do  it just to experience the job of their dreams one time.          Vocation Vacations jobs are in the fields of fashion, food, entertainment, sports and animals. Many  people want to try glamorous jobs. For example, they want to try working as actors, music producers, photographers and fashion designers. According to Kurth, some other popular dream jobs are working as bakers, hotel managers and wedding planners.
Câu 1: What is the passage mainly about?


A.  A company where people can experience their dream jobs


B. A company where people get the training for their dream jobs


C. Brian Kurth’s dream job as a dog trainer


D. Brian Kurth’s company as a dream job provider
Câu 2: The word their in paragraph 3 refers to                        .


A. jobs                                    


B. mentors                               


C. customers                           


D. experiences
Câu 3: What do mentors at Vocation Vacations do?


A. explore jobs that people are interested in


B. train people for their dream jobs


C. give people advice on how to choose a job


D. show people what their jobs are like
Câu 4: The word glamorous in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _____.


A. uncommon             


B. attractive                             


C. unskilled                             


D. ordinary
Câu 5: All of the following are true about Vocation Vacations EXCEPT _____.


A. it belongs to Brian Kurth         


B. the company was started in 2004


C. the company hires about 300 mentors        


D. it provides jobs in many different fields

A.
B.
C.
D.

Task 5. Read the following passages and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 21 to 25.SETTLING IN OUR UNIVERSITYThe university campus is like one big village where thousands of students live, work and relax surrounded by rolling green fields. It is the centre of the student (21) _______ in all its variety. While it is basically a place for young people, there are a (22) _______ of family flats and children are never far away. People come to live here from all over the world, so members of different cultures and speakers of different languages live next door to each other. One house has had special structural (23) _______ to make it suitable for students with disabilities. Most first year students live on campus. It's the easiest way  to meet people when you first arrive and there’s always somebody to (24) _______. It’s a busy, lively place, but because the campus is in the middle of parkland, you can (25) _______ off and be alone if you want to.
Câu 1: (21) 


A. society                    


B. company                 


C. community             


D. connection
Câu 2: (22) 


A. block                      


B. quantity                   


C. pile                         


D. number
Câu 3: (23)


A. changes                  


B. adjustments             


C. exchanges               


D. alterations
Câu 4: (24) 


A. get round to 


B. drop in on    


C. face up to       


D. go in for
Câu 5: (25) 


A. limp                                    


B. crawl                       


C. wander                  


D. march

A.
B.
C.
D.

Task 3. Read the following passages and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 11 to 15.The position of sport in today's society has changed out of all recognition. People no longer seem to think of sports as ‘just a game’ - to be watched or played for the (11) _________ of enjoyment.Instead, it has become big business worldwide. It has become accepted practice for leading companies to provide sponsorship. TV companies pay large sums of money to screen important matches or competitions. The result has been huge rewards for athletes, some of (12) _________ are now very wealthy, particularly top footballers, golfers and tennis players.            (13) _________, it is not unusual for some athletes to receive large fees on top of their salary, for advertising products or making personal appearances.            A trend towards shorter working hours means that people generally tend to have more free time, both to watch and to take in sporting activity; sport has become a significant part of the recreation industry that we now rely (14) _________ to fill our leisure hours. Professional sport is a vital part of that industry, providing for millions of (15) _________ people all over the world.
Câu 1: (11) 


A. benefit                    


B. good                       


C. advantage  


D. sake
Câu 2: (12) 


A. who                        


B. whom                     


C. whose                     


D. that
Câu 3: (13) 


A. In contrast


B. However                 


C. In addition 


D. Therefore
Câu 4: (14) 


A. on                           


B. with                                    


C. for                           


D. in
Câu 5: (15) 


A. extremist                 


B. mighty                    


C. ordinary                  


D. abnormal

A.
B.
C.
D.

Task 1. Read the following passages and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 1 to 5.Postsecondary institutions and private schools are corporations under U.S. law. They are approved to  operate as non-profit,  for-profit, or public     corporations (1) ____education and training. Increasingly, state authorities are requiring approved educational providers to apply for and receive accreditation as a condition of final and continued  approval.As corporate entities, U.S. institutions are internally self-governing and are (2)               to make property facilities, equipment, and utilities transactions; make their own personnel decisions; decide whom to admit to study and to  graduate; (3)              their own funds from outside sources; enter into contracts and compete for grants; and do most of the other things that corporations do. Institutions compete (4)               one another for students, research funding, faculty, and other benefits. Public institutions may compete within the same state or territory  for  budget  appropriations.  It  is  the corporate  nature  of institutions  and the competition within  the system that (5)              Americans to refer to the concept of the educational or academic marketplace - an important distinctive element of the way U.S. education is  organized.
Câu 1: (1) 


A. provided                 


B. provision                 


C. provide                   


D. providing
Câu 2: (2)


A. capable                   


B. able                         


C. probable                 


D. possible
Câu 3: (3) 


A. rise                          


B. raise                        


C. call                          


D. lend
Câu 4: (4) 


A. with                                    


B. to                            


C. for                           


D. at
Câu 5: (5) 


A. lets                          


B. causes                     


C. prevents                  


D. makes

A.
B.
C.
D.

Task 6. Read the following passages and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 26 to 30.The pig was the last animal to be fully domesticated by the farmer. Unlike the cow  and the  sheep, it is not a grass-eater. Its ancient home was the forest, where it searched for different kinds of food, such as nuts, roots and dead animals, and found in the bushes (26)              for its almost hairless body from extremes of sun and cold. For many centuries the farmer allowed it to continue there, leaving his pigs to look after themselves most of the time. As the woodlands began to shrink, the pig slowly began to be kept on the farm itself. But it did not finally come into a shed, where it   was (27)               on waste food from the farm and the house, until the eighteenth  century.The pig, then, became a farm animal in  the (28)               of agricultural improvement in Britain in the eighteenth century, but it was given little attention by special animal breeders, for the major farmers of the time preferred to develop the larger kinds of animal. There were, however, various   less well-known farmers interested in pigs and  they (29)             their improvements on  new types of pigs from overseas. These were the Chinese pig, and its various relatives,  including  the  Neapolitan pig, which were descended from Chinese pigs that had found their (30)               to the Mediterranean in ancient times.
Câu 1: (26) 


A. protection               


B. guard                      


C. intention                 


D. defense
Câu 2: (27) 


A. sustained                 


B. supported                


C. grown                     


D. fed
Câu 3: (28) 


A. age                          


B. mark                       


C. point                       


D. pass           
Câu 4: (29) 


A. put                          


B. based                      


C. launched                 


D. fitted
Câu 5: (30)


A. course                     


B. direction                  


C. tendency                 


D. way

A.
B.
C.
D.

Task 5. Read the following passages and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 21 to 25.We know what happens when we don't have water - we die. We use water, other animals use it, plants use it... but the world never loses it. Basically, the (21)            of  water  on, above and within the planet never changes.Our use of it is part of an  immense (22)              , known simply enough as the water  cycle. The cycle can happen because water is one of the few substances that exists naturally, and  at  temperatures which people can tolerate, as a liquid, a gas and a  solid.We all know something about the water cycle; it is part of our daily scene. Water (23)             from lakes and oceans and from the leaves of plants. From there it forms clouds which come back to earth (24)             rain, ice or snow. That water soaks into the ground or runs off. And the cycle continues with rivers running into the sea, plants transpiring and so on. Animals like us use it on the way through the cycle.For millions of years, changes in the water cycle were slow, but now, with the (25)             increase in the number of people on earth and the development of technology, we are having a dramatic impact on the way the water cycle behaves and on the quality of the water   itself.
Câu 1: (21) 


A. amount                   


B. number                   


C. sum                         


D. figure
Câu 2: (22) 


A. method                   


B. process                    


C. procedure              


D. route
Câu 3: (23)


A. steams                     


B. evaporates               


C. dissolves                 


D. disperses
Câu 4: (24) 


A. like                         


B. similar                     


C. for                           


D. as
Câu 5: (25)


A. quick                      


B. abrupt                     


C. rapid                       


D. hasty

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase  CLOSEST in a meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions
Câu 1: The sudents got high marks in the test but Mary stood out.


A. got a lot of marks 


B. got very good marks


C. got lower marks than someone     


D. got higher marks than someone     
Câu 2: As a newspaper reporter she always wanted to get information at first hand.


A. quickly    


B. slowly   


C. easily 


D. directly

A.
B.
C.
D.

VIII. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to choose the best sentence that words given.
Câu 1: Thanks to her high grades at university, Barbara is offered the position.


A.  If she got high grades at university, Barbara would be offered the position.


B. It was her high grades at university which offer Barbara the position.


C. If she hadn't got high grades at university, Barbara would not have been offered the position.


D. If she had not got high grades at university, Barbara would not be offered the position.
Câu 2: Unless you come on time, we will go without you.


A. Come on time or we will go without you.


B. Come on time, we will go without you.


C. Because of your punctuality, we will go without you.


D. Without your coming on time, we will go.
Câu 3: They got success in their job interviews since they took my advice.


A. They took my advice, and failed in their job interviews.


B. If they did not take my advice, they would not get success in their job interviews.


C. But for taking my advice, they would not have got success in their job interviews.


D. My advice stopped them from getting success in the job interviews.
Câu 4: They waited such a long time that baby Caroline started to cry.


A. They waited too long for baby Caroline not to cry.


B. They waited so long that baby Caroline started to cry.


C. They waited long enough for baby Caroline to start to cry.


D. They waited enough long for baby Caroline to start to cry.
Câu 5: Although he lacked experience, he was offered the job.


A. Despite of his lack experience, he was offered the job.


B. Despite of his lack of experience, he was offered the job.


C. In spite of his lack experience, he was offered the job.


D. In spite of the fact that he lacked experience, he was offered the job.

A.
B.
C.
D.

VII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.            Although I left university with a good degree, I suddenly found that it was actually quite hard to find a job. After being unemployed for a few months, I realized I had to take the first thing that came along or I'd be in serious financial difficulties. And so, for six very long months, I became a market research telephone interviewer.I knew it wasn't the best company in the world when they told me that I'd have to undergo three days of training before starting work, and that I wouldn't get paid for any of it. Still, I knew that the hourly rate when I actually did start full time would be a lot better than unemployment benefit, and I could work up to twelve hours a day, seven days a week if I wanted. So, I thought of the money I’d earn and put up with three days of unpaid training.Whatever those three days taught me - and I can't really remember anything about them today - I wasn't prepared for the way I would be treated by the supervisors. It was worse than being at school. There were about twenty interviewers like myself, each sitting in a small, dark booth with an ancient computer and a dirty telephone. The booths were around the walls of the fifth floor of a concrete office block, and the supervisors sat in the middle of the room, listening in to all of our telephone interviews. We weren't allowed to talk to each other, and if we took more than about two seconds from ending one phone call and starting another, they would shout at us to hurry up and get on with our jobs. We even had to ask for permission to go to the toilet. I was amazed how slowly the day went.Our first break of the day came at eleven o'clock, two hours after we started. I'll always remember that feeling of despair when I would look at my watch thinking, 'It's must be nearly time for the break', only to find that it was quarter to ten and that there was another hour and a quarter to go. My next thought was always, 'I can't believe I'm going to be here until nine o'clock tonight.'The most frightening aspect of the job was that I was actually quite good at it. 'Oh, no!' I thought 'Maybe I'm destined to be a market-researcher for the rest of my life.' My boss certainly seemed to think so. One day - during a break, of course - she ordered me into her office. 'Simon,' she said, 'I'm promotimg you. From tomorrow, you're off telecoms and onto credit card complaints. I'm sure you can handle it. There's no extra pay, but it is a very responsible position.'Three weeks later, I quit. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made.
Câu 1: Why did the writer become a market research telephone interviewer?


A. He had completely run out of money.   


B. He had the right university degree for the job.


C. It was the first job he was offered.     


D. He knew it was only for six months.
Câu 2: The writer had doubts about the company when                       .


A. they only offered him three days of training


B. they told him he wouldn't receive payment for his training


C. they told him he had to be trained first 


D. he was told what the hourly rate would be
Câu 3: His workplace could be best described as                          .


A. large and noisy     


B. silent and dirty


C. untidy and crowded     


D. old-fashioned and uncomfortable
Câu 4: How did he feel when he realized it wasn't time for the break yet?


A. He felt that he would have to go home early.


B. He felt that he wouldn't survive to the end of the day.


C. He felt that the end of the day seemed so long away.


D. He felt that he must have made a mistake.
Câu 5: What was unusual about Simon's promotion?


A. It showed how good he was at his job.      


B. It meant he would be phoning different people.


C. It involved greater responsibility. 


D. There was no increase in salary.

A.
B.
C.
D.

V. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct response to each of the foIlowing exchanges.
Câu 1: ~ A: "What are you going to do after leaving school?"  ~  B: "                        "


A. I'd like to take a year out and travel abroad. 


B. My dream job is becoming a journalist.


C. Well, I love taking care of kids.  


D. I'm going to drop out of school.
Câu 2: ~ A: "What qualities do you have that make you a suitable candidate for this post? "
~ B: "                        "


A. Well, I have a lot of qualifications that match.    


B. I'm highly qualified for the post.


C. I used to work in a similar position for two years. 


D. I consider myself to be trustworthy, responsible and punctual.

A.
B.
C.
D.