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.
Video cameras attached to sea turtles and sharks reveal an underwater world hidden to humans.




A.exposed
B.unrelated
C.invisible
D.phenomenal

Read the following passage and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each for the questions.
During the Middle Ages, societies were based on military relationships, as landowners formed their own foot armies into which they drafted their tenants and hired hands. The infantry that fought its way forward against the opposition engaged in heavy ground battles that proved costly in the ratio of losses to wins. These soldiers carried darts, javelins, and slings to be used before closing ranks with the enemy, although their swords and halberds delivered crushing blows on contact. Such armed forces were active for limited periods of time and had a predominantly defensive function, displayed in hand-to-hand combat.
Because this sporadic and untrained organization was ineffective, the ruling classes began to hire mercenaries who were generously compensated for their tasks and subject to contractual terms of agreement. The greatest idiosyncrasy of a hired military force was that the troops sometimes deserted their employers if they could bank on a higher remuneration from the opposition. The Swiss pikemen became the best-known mercenaries of the late Middle Ages. In the 1300s, they practically invented a crude body armor of leather and quilted layered head gear with nose and skull plates, ornamented with crests. Their tower shields proved indispensable against a shower of arrows, and their helmets progressed from cone cups to visors hinged at the temples. As their notoriety increased, so did their wages, and eventually they were rounded into military companies that later grew into the basic units in almost all armies. During the same period, the first full-size army of professional soldiers emerged in the Ottoman Empire. What set these troops apart from other contemporary armies was that these soldiers remained on duty in peacetime.
Companies of mercenaries were employed on a permanent basis in 1445, when King Charles VII created a regular military organization, complete with a designated hierarchy.. Gunpowder accelerated the emergence of military tactics and strategy that ultimately affected the conceptualization of war on a broad scale. Cannons further widened the gap between the attacking and the defending lineups, and undermined the exclusivity of contact battles.
On a permanent basis, companies of mercenaries were taken on in.............




A.1300
B.1440
C.1445
D.1335

From the four words or phrases (A, B, C or D), choose the one that best completes the sentence.
The offer of a place at university is not to be ………………….at.




A.sneezed
B.shrugged
C.winked
D.coughed

From the four words or phrases (A, B, C or D), choose the one that best completes the sentence.
. It seems our application has been refused ...............




A.point blank
B.bull ‘s eye
C.carte blanche
D.about- face

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.




A.harbor
B.mature
C.enable
D.container

A.command
B.secure
C.pretend
D.leisure

WRITING TASK

You should spend about 30 minutes writing a paragraph.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

'Parents are the best teachers.'

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. You should give reasons for your answer using your own ideas and experience.

Write at least 250 words.




A.
B.
C.
D.

___________(60)




A.result
B.reaction
C.development
D.product

Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space.
The quality of life these days is something most of us take for (41) ……… It takes some radically(hoàn toàn) different experience to (42) ………….this fact home to people. In my (43) ……….., it was spending three weeks aboard a yacht with twelve other people, competing in a major sailing race. (44) …………… I was officially a guest, it was (45) …………..clear to me from the start that there was to be no room for passengers, and that I’d have to (46) ……….my weight.
For the first few nights, none of us was able to sleep for more than a couple of hours at a (47) …………before being rudely awoken by an aggressive command. Then we’d do physically exhausting work in total darkness. Every few minutes we’d be completely soaked to the (48) ……... by a large wave we couldn’t see coming. I shared sleeping (49) ………….. with six other women, with barely enough room to stretch my legs. Soon I found myself (50) …………..for my comfortable sheets back home, a hot chocolate and a warm bath.




A.desiring
B.yearning
C.dreaming
D.craving

Read the following passage and mark the letter (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each for the question from 61 to 70.
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where staff physicians practice a special integrated approach to patient care, is one of the lasgest medical facilities in the world. The clinic staff consists of a 12-member, committee-based of governors and 900 physicians and medical personnel whose records are updated by approximately 200 auxiliary personnel. About 800 resident doctors assist the full-time physicians as a phase of their training in medicine and surgery while they acquire their specializations. The Mayo approach to treatment has been hailed for its almost miraculous patient recovery rate.
William Worral Mayo was born in Manchester, England, immigrated to the United States in 1845, and immediately began his medical training. In 1860, he took an active part in organizing the Minnesota Territory and accepted the position of an Army surgeon during a Sioux Indian outbreak. This appointment became a stepping stone for his advancement to the post of provost surgeon for the southern portion of the state in 1863. His personal dedication and courage became legendary when a cyclone struck Rochester, and he was placed in charge of an emergency hospital.
William Worral Mayo provided crucial assistance to his sons in launching their team practice in 1889, while they were holding positions at St. Mary’s Hospital. William James became recognized for his surgical skill in gallstone, cancer, and abdominal operations. He and his brother, Charles Horace, founded the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and donated $1.5 million to establish the foundation for contributions. Charles William, the son of Charles Horace Mayo, became a member of the board of governors at the Mayo Graduate School and an alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly before retiring from the clinic in 1963.
William James Mayo presided in the American Medical Association and served in the Army military corps as a brigadier general in the medical reserve. Charles Horace was a professor of surgery and a health officer of Rochester subsequent to serving in the armed forces between 1914 and 1918. The Mayo practice became known far and wide for its success in surgical procedures. In 1914, the practice moved into its own medical center, and today the number of patients equals approximately 280,000 per annum. Since the clinic opened in 1907, 4.5 million patients have been treated there.
According to the passage, who were the first physicians in the clinic?




A.William Worral Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo
B.William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo
C.William Worral Mayo and William James Mayo
D.William James Mayo and Charles William Mayo