Read the following passage and pick out the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
            Education is more important today than ever before. It helps people acquire the skills they need for such everyday (34) ________ as reading a newspaper or managing their money. It also gives them the specialized training they may need to prepare for a job or career. For example, a person must meet certain educational requirements and obtain a certificate before he can practice law or medicine. Many fields, like computer operation or police work, (35) ________ satisfactory completion of special training courses.
            Education is also important (36) ________ it helps people get more out of life. It increases their knowledge and understanding of the world. It helps them acquire the skills that make life more interesting and enjoyable, (37) ________ the skills needed to participate in a sport, paint a picture, or play a musical instrument. Such education becomes (38) _______ important as people gain more and more leisure time.
(38)  
A.increased
B.increasing
C.increase
D.increasingly

Pick out the correct answer to each of the following questions.
To improve its athletes’ ________, Viet Nam has regularly exchanged delegation of sport officials, coaches, referees and athletes with other countries.
A.team                        
B.competitor               
C.appearance             
D.performance

Choose the word(s) that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Population growth rates vary among regions and even among countries within the same region.
A.restrain                    
B.remain unstable   
C.fluctuate                  
D.stay unchanged

Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
The history of clinical nutrition, or the study of the relationship between health and how the body takes in and utilizes food substances, can be divided into four distinct eras: the first began in the nineteenth century and extended into the early twentieth century when it was recognized for the first time that food contained constituents that were essential for human function and that different foods provided different amounts of these essential agents. Near the end of this era, research studies demonstrated that rapid weight loss was associated with nitrogen imbalance and could only be rectified by providing adequate dietary protein associated with certain foods.
The second era was initiated in the early decades of the twentieth century and might be called "the vitamin period. " Vitamins came to be recognized in foods, and deficiency syndromes were described. As vitamins became recognized as essential food constituents necessary for health, it became tempting to suggest that every disease and condition for which there had been no previous effective treatment might be responsive to vitamin therapy. At that point in time, medical schools started to become more interested in having their curricula integrate nutritional concepts into the basic sciences. Much of the focus of this education was on the recognition of deficiency symptoms. Herein lay the beginning of what ultimately turned from ignorance to denial of the value of nutritional therapies in medicine. Reckless claims were made for effects of vitamins that went far beyond what could actually be achieved from the use of them.
In the third era of nutritional history in the early 1950's to mid-1960's, vitamin therapy began to fall into disrepute. Concomitant with this, nutrition education in medical schools also became less popular. It was just a decade before this that many drug companies had found their vitamin sales skyrocketing and were quick to supply practicing physicians with generous samples of vitamins and literature extolling the virtue of supplementation for a variety of health-related conditions. Expectations as to the success of vitamins in disease control were exaggerated. As is known in retrospect, vitamin and mineral therapies are much less effective when applied to health-crisis conditions than when applied to long-term problems of under nutrition that lead to chronic health problems.
The word “tempting” is closet in meaning to _____.
           
A.realistic                   
B.attractive                 
C.correct                    
D.necessary

According to the passage, one characteristic of animals living in the desert is that ________.
  
A.they live in an accommodating environment
B.they can hunt in temperature of 150 degrees
C.they are smaller and fleeter than forest animals
D.they are less healthy than animals living in other places

He has a very quiet and______ life in that big, empty house.
A.alone
B.lonely
C.only
D.by himself

The ghost walked out of the hall. and suddenly _______
A.entered
B.emerged
C.vacated
D.vanished

The woman....... lives next door to us is a weather caster on a local TV station.
A.whom
B.which
C.who
D.whose

The lakes in our town are(bad).......... polluted.
A.badful
B.badly
C.worse
D.worst

 Don't eat this food. It is (Poison)...............
A.poisonously
B.poisonous
C.poisoning
D.poisoned