Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete sentences.
Being the conductor of a large............ is an extremely demanding job. You have to make sure about a hundred musicians are playing in time.
A.group
B.band
C.company
D.orchestra

Of the two new teachers, one is experienced and ________ .
A.another is experienced
B.the other is not
C. the others are not   
D.other lacks experience

The tiny irrigation channels were everywhere and along some of them the water was running.
A.flushing out with water
B.washing out with water
C.supplying water
D.cleaning with water

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that needs correction. 
We could have given you a lift if we had know you were coming this way.
A.were coming 
B.could                         
C.had know  
D.given

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences. 
We had an accidental meeting with an old friend at the party last night.
A.expected                    
B.unacceptable              
C.unpleasant                 
D.unlucky

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences. 
People in this region cultivate mainly rice and vegetables.
A.destroy                      
B.develop                      
C.grow                          
D.support

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete sentences.
Despite the................ by many critics that reality TV would be a very short –lived phenomenon, it is still increasing in popularity.  
A.suggest 
B.suggesting
C.suggestion
D.suggested

The ______ source of power in 1970 was from natural gas with almost 25%.
A.most second important 
B.second most important
C.second important most 
D.most important second

Choose the word that best fits blank.
Thailand ________ Vietnam just one goal in the final in The 22nd SEA Games.
A.won     
B.beat  
C.knocked   
D.scored

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
Certainly no creature in the sea is odder than the common sea cucumber. All living creature, especially human beings, have their peculiarities, but everything about the little sea cucumber seems unusual. What else can be said about a bizarre animal that, among other eccentricities, eats mud, feeds almost continuously day and night but can live without eating for long periods, and can be poisonous but is considered supremely edible by gourmets?
For some fifty million years, despite all its eccentricities, the sea cucumber has subsisted on its diet of mud. It is adaptable enough to live attached to rocks by its tube feet, under rocks in shallow water, or on the surface of mud flats. Common in cool water on both Atlantic and Pacific shores, it has the ability to such up mud or sand and digest whatever nutrients are present.
Sea cucumbers come in a variety of colors, ranging from black to reddish-brown to sand-color and nearly white. One form even has vivid purple tentacle. Usually the creatures are cucumber-shaped-hence their name-and because they are typically rock inhabitants, this shape, combine with flexibility, enables them to squeeze into crevices where they are safe from predators and ocean currents.
Although they have voracious appetites, eating day and night, sea cucumbers have the capacity to become quiescent and live at a low metabolic rate-feeding sparingly or not at all for long periods, so that the marine organisms that provide their food have a chance to multiply. If it were not for this faculty, they would devour all the food available in a short time and would probably starve themselves out of existence.
But the most spectacular thing about the sea cucumber is the way it defends itself. Its major enemies are fish and crabs, when attacked, it squirts all its internal organs into the water. It also casts off attached structures such as tentacles. The sea cucumber will eviscerate and regenerate itself if it is attached or even touched; it will do the same if the surrounding water temperature is too high or if the water becomes too polluted.
The phrase “casts off” is closest in meaning to
A.gets rid of  
B.grows again
C.grabs      
D.uses as a weapon