Mark the letter A,B,C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
The change in population distribution was barely noticeable to the demographers conducting the study.
A.often
B.hardly
C.never
D.softly

Mark the letters A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
In Vietnamese schools, English, mathematics, and literature are three …………… subjects, which are compulsory in many important national examinations.
A.core                             
B.middle                         
C.part                             
D.center

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group

A.metropolitan                    
B.popularity 
C.pronunciation 
D.international

Write the letter A, B, C or D on the top of the first page to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The famous dodo, which lived on the island of Madagascar, _______ extinct in the 17th Century because of overhunting by European settlers.
A.went 
B.got
C.turned 
D.became

More parents teach their children because they completely _______ the current educational system.
A. appeal to 
B.please with 
C.approve of 
D.object to

______(36)
A.mastering  
B.learning     
C. receiving
D.attending

Choose the best answer to complete each unfinished sentence.
To build on the field of political and security cooperation, _______ ASEAN Leaders have agreed to establish the ASEAN Security Community CASC).
A.a
B.an
C.the                          
D.Ø

VII. Read the following passage carefully, and then select the best option A, B, C or D to complete it.
Music, artful arrangement of sounds across time. This definition is obviously very broad, but a narrower one would exclude too much. Music is part of virtually every culture on Earth, (26)                it varies widely among cultures in style and structure. Definitions of music can change dramatically over a short time, as they have across the world during the 20th century.
Can music exist without sound? Some philosophers argue that music should be defined as a kind of “mental image” and that the (27)                aspects of sound are simply by-products of this image. If you think you can have a musical experience by imagining the sound of a piece of music, then you think music can exist without sound. But most musical experiences (28)                producing or listening to physical characteristics of sound such as pitch and timbre (quality comparable to texture or color in sight).
Is the tape recorded sound of a large metal-stamping machine music? Are 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence music? Is the activity of reading a list of hundreds of (29)                unrelated objects, activities, and states of mind music? Each of these “works”, as well as many (30)                sounds (or nonsounds), has been copyrighted as a musical composition, performed, and recorded in the 20th century. One of the legacies of 20th-century music is to have blurred the definition of music as never before.
(29) 
A.seem
B.seeming
C.seemingly
D.seems

Question 31 – 35: Which of the following best restates each of the given sentences?
“Why don’t you ask the Council for help?” my neighbor said.
A.My neighbor advised me to ask the Council for help.
B.My neighbor told me not to ask the Council for help.
C.My neighbor recommends asking the Council for help.
D.My neighbor wants to know why I don’t ask the Council for help.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Each of the chemical elements have its own standard symbol.
A.of the
B.chemical
C.have
D.its own