According to linguists, man’s first form of communication was ______.

A.a long period
B.points and numbers
C.sign language
D.thoughts

According to Paragraph 2, which of the following might describe the development of language?
A.Spoken language – animal sounds – man’s sounds – written language
B.Animal sounds – spoken language – man’s sounds – written language
C.Written language – spoken language – animal sounds – man’s sounds
D.Animal sounds – man’s sounds – spoken language – written language

According to Paragraph 3, the number of words of the generation after is ______ that of words of the one before it.
A.fewer than
B.less than
C.greater than
D.as many as

This reading passage may be taken out from ______.
A.an advertisement
B.a fashion program
C.a letter of complaint
D.a language magazine

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:
Earthquakes: Ninety percent of earthquakes occur around the Pacific Rim, which is known as the “Ring of Fire”. In 1995, a huge earthquakes (25) ______ the city of Kobe in Japan. A large number of people were killed when homes, office blocks and highways collapsed.
Tidal waves: Tidal waves are the (26) ______ of abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the Earth. In the 1960s, a huge tidal wave hit Anchorage, Alaska. The tidal wave travelled (27) ______ Alaska to California!
Typhoons: When a tropical storm (28) ______ 120 kilometres per hour, it is called a hurricane in North and South America, a cyclone in Australia, and a typhoon in Asia. The word “typhoon” comes from Chinese: tai means “big” and feng means “wind”, so the word “typhoon” means “big wind”.
Volcanoes: We can usually predict (29) ______ a volcano will erupt. Mount Pinatubo, which is a volcano in the Philippines, erupted in 1991. It was the world’s largest volcanic eruptionin more than 50 years. Hundreds of people died, but thousands were saved (30) ______ scientists had warned them about eruption.
Tornadoes: Tornadoes are funnel-shaped storms which pass overland (31) ______ a thunderstorm. They can suck up anything that is in their path. In Italy 1981, a tornado lifted a baby, who was (32) ______ in its baby carriage, into the air and put it down safely 100 meters away!
(Extract from English 9, p.78, 79 – Giáo dục Publishing House)
(25)
A.arrived
B.came
C.saved
D.struck

From June to October, the flood plains would be _____.
A.left to the sowing of new crops dams
B.open to the building of new
C.raised to a higher level
D.inundated with floodwaters from the Nile

The king was wealthy because _____.
A.he possessed all the land
B.farmers paid him their tribute
C.he was in absolute power
D.huge irrigation projects were set up

According to the passage, the king was wise _____.
A.to import the things that Egypt did not have
B.to pay for huge irrigation projects
C.to own slaves and gold
D.to control the land

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.ear
B.hear
C.wear
D.year

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

A.arrive
B.begin
C.return
D.visit