Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
In harsh business competition, almost any company is _________ out for fresh new talent.
A.looking                               
B.searching                
C.crying                     
D.watching

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Last night, I couldn’t sleep because the music from the party next door ________ through the open windows.
A.blared                                 
B.was blaring
C.had blared 
D.had been blaring

 
know
A.know
B.so
C.go
D.now

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 primary stress in each of the following questions.

A.accident
B.essential                  
C.inventor                  
D.assemble

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
“If you’re ever in a jam and need any help, ask me.”
A.in a bad condition     
B.in an easy situation        
C.in a favourable condition        
D.in a trouble

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.
It is in Hanoi, Vietnam, in the year 2021 where the 31st SEA Games is scheduled to take place.
A.It   
B.in the year 
C.where                     
D.to take place

When was the “two-child” policy adopted in China?
A.In 1986              
B.In 2016          
C.In 2017        
D.In 2018

The word “catastrophe” is closest in meaning to _________.
A.disaster                               
B.conflict                               
C.embarrassment       
D.shame

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.
Before becoming successful, Charles Kettering, former vice president of General Motors, was so poor that he has to use the hayloft of a barn as a laboratory.
A.successful               
B.so poor      
C.has to        
D.as

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 primary stress in each of the following questions.

A.invention       
B.manager      
C.company                 
D.attitude