Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
People rumour that the leader has been suffering from a rare disease.
A.It was rumoured that the leader has been suffering from a rare disease.
B.A rare disease is rumoured to be causing sufferings to the leader.
C.The leader is rumoured to have been suffering from a rare disease.
D.The leader has been rumoured to suffer from a rare disease.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
In some countries, the disease burden could be prevented through environmental improvements.
A.something sad 
B.something to entertain
C.something to suffer
D.something enjoyable

The word "related" in paragraph 1 is closest in  meaning to                   .
A.described
B.identified
C.connected
D.completed

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. 
Minh, a student from Hai Phong , is going to take the college entrance exam in Hanoi next week. His father is seeing him off at the railway station. Select the most suitable response to fill in the blank. Dad: “Good luck with the exam, Minh!” Minh: “______, Dad.” 
A.By no means  
B.I wish so  
C.Thank you  
D.Never mind

“A friend in need is a friend indeed”: Our friends have voiced their strong criticism of China’s escalation of tension on our continental shelf. 
A.facing the reality  
B.worsening the situation 
C. easing the tension  
D.improving the condition

Choose the word which has different stress pattern from the others.

A.introduce   
B.delegate
C.marvelous 
D. currency

II. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that dfffers from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.

A.authentic                 
B.ultimate                   
C.graduate                  
D.personal

Rewrite  the following sentences and the meaning stays the same.
This event  will always be remembered for the rest of our life.
A.Never will we forget this event for the rest of our life
B.Never have we forget this event for the rest of our life
C.Never would we forget this event for the rest of our life
D.Never will we remember this event for the rest of our life

Neither of the farmhouses___________________
A. has a connection with a farm.  
B.has been sold.
C.is attached to the farmers,
D.is managed by the commuters.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29.
It is true that digital manufacturing does cut out the middle-man. More and more routine, repetitive assembly tasks will be taken (25)_____ by machines. But as certain jobs disappear, new ones open up in other parts of the factory. Germany in many ways exemplifies this trend. Today, German manufacturers (26) _____ three times more robots than U.S. companies, but they also still employ more humans. Relative to the size of our economies, German's manufacturing workforce is twice the size of America's.
From its very beginning, the fourth Industrial revolution has never presented manufacturers with an either-or choice - robots or humans. It has always been about combining the talents of (27)_____. (28)_____, it is the convergence of artificial and human intelligence that will enable manufacturers to achieve a new era of speed, flexibility, efficiency and connectivity in the 21st century. Machines have the ability to assemble things faster than any human ever could, but humans possess the analytics, domain expertise and valuable knowledge (29) _____  to solve problems and optimize factory floor production.
(Adapted from: http://time.com/4940374/joe-kaeser-siemens-robots-jobs/)
(27)_____
A.ones    
B.they  
C.both
D.two