Exercise 5. Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
A major revolution for the automated office is electronic mail. The customary (31)........... system requires message written on paper to be transmitted physically from one location to another. With electronic mail, messages are converted (32)........... electronic signals, tranmitted anywhere in the world, and then changed back into the original written form, all in several seconds and minutes at most.
Through the use of video screens in company offices, a single (33)........... can be transmitted to hundreds of people in dozens of branch offices at the same time. Thus, electronic mail, along with databases, can be an important asset in teleconferences. Furthermore, the use of electric mail in the form of a 'mailbox' (34)........... to a telephone is also of great value. Since in offices many telephone calls go uncompleted on the first attempt, with electronic mail, two-way conversion is not essential, so it (35).......... telephone use and saves time.
(35)..........




A.increases
B.receives
C.reduces
D.transfers

Exercise 3. Choose the word or phrase to best complete the sentence.
I felt as if I ..... a confidence.




A.have betrayed
B.would betray
C.had betrayed
D.am betraying

Exercise 3. Choose the word or phrase to best complete the sentence.
Does he tell you how he is getting ..... his new colleagues?




A.on with
B.on of
C.away with
D.out of

(19)




A.in
B.by
C.with
D.to

Exercise 3. 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 11 to 15.
The Gerneral Cerificate of Secondary Education or the GCSE excaminations for short are the standard school-leaver qualifications taken by virually all UK students in the May and June following their 16th birthday. If you come to a UK (11)_______ school before you (12)_______ the age of 16, you will study towards GCSE excaminationin up to 12 subjects. Some subjects are compulory, including English and matchematics, and you can select (13)_____, such as music, drama, geography and history from a series of options. GCSEs provide a good all-round education (14)_______ you can build (15)______ at colleage and eventually at university.
(15)




A.on
B.at
C.in
D.for

Exercise 10. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrasethat best fits eachof the numbered blanks from 46 to 50.
Most people will come across money problems at some time in their lives. It often happens when they are students and they have to do a part-time job in order to make (46) ___ meet. This can be (47) _____, but sometimes it is the only way to survive. However, living on a (48) _____ budget is good training for the future. Everyone should learn to live within their (49)_____. Unfortunately, some people have totally unrealistic goals and think that one day they will have lots of money to pay off their debts. Then they can become very depressed when they fail to achieve those goals.
So, if you want to (50) ____ it in this world, you need to work hard and to have some good luck, too.
(49)




A.salaries
B.money
C.means
D.values

(30)




A.having
B.taking
C.making
D.creating

Exercise 5. 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 26 to 30.
The position of sport in today’s society has changed out of all regconition. People no longer seem to think of sport as “just a game” – to be watched or played for the (21) ___________ of enjoyment. Instead, it has become big business worldwide. It has become accepted practice for loading companies to provide sponsorship. TV companies pay large sums of money to screen important matches or competitions. The result has been huge financial rewards for athletes, some of (22) ___________ are now very wealthy, particularly top footballers, golfers and tennis players. (23) ___________, 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 part in sporting activity; sport has become a significant part of the recreation industry that we now rely (24) ___________ to fill our leisure hours. Professional sport is a vital part of that industry, providing pleasure for millions of (25) ___________ people all over the world.
(24)




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

IV. Choose the sentence which is closet in meaning to the sentence above.
It is about 120 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City to Vung Tau.




A.The distance from Ho Chi Minh City to Vung Tau are about 120 kilometres.
B.The distance from Ho Chi Minh City to Vung Tau are 120 kilometres.
C.The distance from Ho Chi Minh City to Vung Tau is 120 kilometes.
D.The distance from Ho Chi Minh City to Vung Tau is about 120 kilometres.

III. Find a mistake in each sentence below.
The car was (A) too (B) expensive for (C) him buying (D).




A.was
B.too
C.for
D.buying