Choose from the four options given (marked A, B, C, and D) one best answer
They spent a lot of money their children with the best education.




A.providing
B.provided
C.to provide
D.on providing

Choose from the four options given (marked A, B, C, and D) one best answer
Don’t in matters that do not concern you.




A.interfere
B.discuss
C.question
D.study

Some designers have ...................the Ao Dai by printing lines of poetry on it. (modern)




A.modernized
B.modern
C.modernization
D.modernism

Choose from the four options given (marked A, B, C, and D) one best answer
Those two teams played so well and the scores were tied at 1-1 at last.




A.drew
B.put
C.kept
D.equaled

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest




A.caps
B.meters
C.swimmers
D.lines

He spent his entire life ____round the world, never settling down anywhere.




A.scattering
B.vesting
C.roaming
D.roaring

All work is better than_______ at all.




A.no
B.no one
C.none
D.not

I was very ............... that you won the first prize. (amaze)




A.amazing
B.amazed
C.amazedly
D.amazingly

The duties of the secretary are to take the minutes, mailing the correspondence, and calling the members before the meetings.




A.are
B.to take
C.mailing
D.meetings

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 23 to 27.
CHESS
Chess, often (23)______ to as the Royal Game, is the oldest of all board games which do not contain an element of chance.
The origins of chess are uncertain, (24)______ there are a number of legends regarding its invention. One story says that it was King Solomon who invented chess, another that it was the Greek god Hermes, and yet another that the Chinese mandarin Han-Sing was responsible for its creation. In fact, chess almost certainly originated in India in the sixth or seventh century AD. The game’s popularity then spread quickly through Persia (now known as Iran) and from there came to Europe. The first documented reference to chess in literature is in a Persian romance which was written about 600 AD.
It is (25)_______ the word ‘chess’ comes from ‘shah’, the Persian word for ‘king’ and that ‘checkmate’, the game’s winning (26)_______, comes from the phrase ‘shah mat’, (27)______ ‘the king is dead’.
The rules and pieces used in the game have undergone changes over the centuries. Modem chess owes much to the Spaniard Lopez de Segura, who in 1561 wrote the first book on how to play the game. In it, he introduced the concept of ‘castling’, which had not been part of the game until then.
(23)_____




A.mentioned
B.called
C.known
D.referred