Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 28 to 34.
Most weddings in Japan start with a religious ceremony in which usually only family members attend. Afterwards, a banquet is customarily held to which many people, including friends and colleagues, are invited. To celebrate the happy occasion, guests give the bride and groom goshuugi - gift money in special envelopes. Goshuugi from friends is usually 20,000 yen or 30,000 yen.
A typical Japanese wedding party starts when the bride and groom enter the banquet hall together, and take their seats on a slightly raised platform facing their guests. Invited guests are seated closer to the bride and groom, with family and relatives seated further in back. The bride's and groom's bosses usually give congratulatory speeches then their friends sing in celebration. Other wedding highlights include a candle ceremony where the couple holds a candle while greeting their guests at each table, and the cutting of the wedding cake. Afterwards, the bride and groom thank their parents with a speech, then leave to end the party.
In the past, dishes that supposedly brought good fortune, such as prawns and sea breams, were served in abundance. So much of the food was ordered that guests ended up taking the surplus home. Today, the majority of the weddings serve just enough for everyone. Additionally, before leaving, guests would traditionally receive souvenir gifts called hikidemono.
Many wedding ceremonies take place at wedding halls or hotels. Rough estimates show that it costs about 3 million yen to host a wedding party for 80 guests. During Japan's economic bubble, overseas weddings and flamboyant receptions with special effects, such as smoke machines and having the bride and groom fly in on gondolas, were very popular. But these days, couples choose to tie the knot in various ways, from not having any ceremony to having a modest affair, or still going all out.
(Source: http://www.hiraganatimes.com)
The word "fortune" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _                                    .  
A.luck
B.benefit
C.excitement
D.money

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

A.summit           
B.voluntary             
C.compulsory             
D.upgrade

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
My uncle’s company made a very good profit in _______________.
A.the 1990
B.1990s                      
C.1990’s     
D.the 1990s

Mr. Smith's new neighbors appear to be very friendly.
A.inapplicable    
B.hostile  
C.amicable    
D.futile

Which of the following is not true?
A.The Independence Palace used to be the president's home.
B.After 1975, the Independence Palace was renamed Reunification Conference Hall.
C.The US-backed government of South Viet Nam surrendered without conditions.
D. Reunification Conference Hall marked the historical significance of the liberation of Sai Gon.

Don't for get to ...............the alarm clock for six oclock tomorrow morning
A.put
B.ring
C.set
D.wind

If he hadn’t wasted too much time , he_______in his examination.
A.would fail      
B.wouldn’t fail         
C.wouldn’t have failed        
D.won’t fail

Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
Some designers have................. the Ao dai by printing lines of poetry on it.
A.modernized
B.introduced
C.made
D.increased

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 17 to 24.
Chile has rejected a billion-dollar mining project because it would hurt marine life. The area the company wanted to mine is home to 80 percent of the world's Humboldt penguin. Blue whales, fin whales and sea otters also live there. A mining company called Andes Iron had wanted to mine millions of tons of iron and copper. It also wanted to build a new port. Chile's Environment Minister told reporters: “I firmly believe in development, but it cannot be at the cost of our environmental heritage or cause risk to health, or to unique ecological areas in the world.”
Chile's National Mining Society said this was bad news for the country. It said the project was essential for the economic development of the country. The controversial project would have created $2.5 billion. The government said the mining company had not shown the full negative impact of the project on the environment. It questioned the project's finances. The government said: “There are deficiencies in basic information and insufficiencies in…compensation, meaning we believe that the eventual impacts have not been properly taken care of.”

Which of the following is NOT one thing Andes Iron wanted to do?
A.mining iron                   
B.hunting penguins              
C.building a new port        
D.mining copper

Choose the sentence - a, b, c, or d - which is closest in meaning to the sentence above.
At the factory he likes people to let him have his own way.
A.He doesn't like it when people tell him what to do.
B.He often needs the help of other people in his work.
C.He doesn't accept help from people he dislikes.
D.He likes people to think all good ideas are his own.