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.
Nepal has made important progress over the past few years to promote equality, but the country still has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. 41% of Nepalese girls are married before the age of 18.
Poverty is both a cause and consequence of child marriage in Nepal. Girls from the wealthiest families marry 2 years later than those from the poorest, who are seen as an economic burden, and who drop out of school and earn little money.
Food insecurity plays an important role too. Nepalese families that do not have enough food to eat are more likely to marry their daughters at a young age to decrease the financial burden. One study shows that 91% of people who had secure access to food married over the age of 19.
Dowry is also common practice in many communities. Parents marry their daughters as soon as possible because the money they have to pay to the groom’s family is higher if their daughter is older. Since 2010, the legal age of marriage is 20 for both men and women, or 18 with parental consent, according to the Nepalese Country Code.
The law states that punishment for child marriage is imprisonment for up to three years and a fine of up to 10,000 rupees (£102). But reports suggest that this law is rarely applied. There has been quite a lot of progress in Nepal over the past 3 years with a clear government commitment to ending child marriage and civil society cooperation. The Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare is currently developing Nepal’s first national strategy on child marriage in collaboration with UNICEF Nepal and Girls Not Brides Nepal. However, the post-earthquake and post-fuel crisis environment has meant progress is slow and the national strategy has been delayed.
(Adapted from http://www.girlsnotbrides.org/)
According to paragraph 2, in Nepal, girls from needy families ________.




A.play an important role in bolstering their household finances
B.have to get married earlier than those are from affluent families
C.can get married two years later than those are from poor families
D.are forced to drop out of school because their parents have no money

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 38 to 42.
Table manners differ around the world. If you visit a friend’s home for a meal, it’s good to know about the customs they follow.
If you are invited to a Moroccan’s home, bring a gift of sweet pastries, nuts, figs, dates, or flowers to the hostess. In many traditional homes, people often sit on the floor to eat a meal. Often, everyone shares food from the same 10 plate. The plate is put in the centre of the table. Usually, everyone also drinks water from the same glass. Only eat the food in front of you. Don’t reach across someone for food. It is common to use you your fingers and small pieces of bread to eat food. Use only your right hand to eat. Don’t say “no” to food. If the host of the meal offers you food or drink, take some and try a little. In many Moroccan homes, it is common to take off your shoes.
Tanzania is known for its fresh fish and spices. Don’t act scared if your meal comes with its head still on the plate. It is polite to try a bite of everything. In many Tanzania homes, people sit at a table on a small stools to eat. It is OK to eat with your right hand, using bread or chapati to pick up food. Everyone may take food from the same plate., but it is not usual for people to share drinks. You may compliment the cook on a delicious meal, but don’t exaggerate. In some parts of Tanzania, men and women still sit at different tables. Also remember: it is common to take off your shoes in the home, but it is rude to show the bottom of your foot.
(Adopted from Active Skills for Reading Intro by Neil J Anderson)
Which best serves as the title for the passage?




A.Table Manners across some cultures in the world.
B.Tips for foreigners when having meal in Tanzania
C.Table Manners in Morocco, Things to do for everyone
D.Table Manners - Ultimate Guide to Dining Etiquette

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.
Adult Learners
Adult learners have many characteristics that distinguish them from school or college learners. Firstly, they come to courses with experiences and knowledge in diverse areas. They often prefer (25) ________ learning activities that enable them to draw on the skills and experience they have acquired. In the main, adults have realistic aims and have valuable (26) ________ into what is likely to be successful. (27) ________, they are readily able to relate new facts to past experiences and enjoy having their talents explored in leaning situations. Adults have established opinions and beliefs, (28) ________ have been formed over time through their experience of families, work, community, or politics.
A majority of adults also have (29) ________ motivation and their effort increases because of their desire to learn. they are also motivated by the relevance of the material to be addressed, and learn better when material is related to their own needs and interests.
(Adopted from “Complete Advanced” by Guy Brook-Hart and Simon Haines)
(26) ________




A.ability
B.grasp
C.uptake
D.insight

If ________ access to education, children living in poverty will have a brighter future.




A.providing
B.are provided
C.having provided
D.provided

The realization that I had made a serious mistake came later.




A.I had made a serious mistake came later than the realization.
B.I wish I had the realization before I made a serious mistake.
C.Only later did I realize that I had made a serious mistake.
D.I regret making a serious mistake without the realization.

Vietnamese students play different sports and games ___ the break time.




A.in
B.during
C.on
D.after

Team sports are sometimes called _____sports.




A.compete
B.competition
C.competitor
D.competitive

Tom is one of the students which get the worst result in the latest exam.




A.the latest exam
B.worst result
C.one of the students
D.which

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to incorrect answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42:
Smart cards and mobile phones are becoming an increasingly popular way to make all sorts of payments. Even now, in Japan thousands of transactions, from paying rail tickets to picking up the groceries, take place every day with customers passing their handsets across a small flat-screen device. And predictions in the world of finance reckon that payments using mobile phones will have risen to more than $50 billion in the very near future.
What's the appeal of e-cash? Compared to cheque or credit cards, it offers the speed of cash, but more so. It takes just one tenth of a second to complete most transactions and as no change is required, errors in counting are eliminated. Fraud and theft are also reduced and for the retailer, it reduces the cost of handling money. Sony's vision of having a chip embedded in computers, TVs and games consoles means that films, music and games can be paid for easily without having to input credit card details. And what about the future of the banks? Within their grip on the market, banks and creditcard firms want to be in a position to collect most of the fees from the users of mobile and contactless-payment systems. But the new system could prove to be a "disruptive technology" as far as the banks are concerned. If payments for a few coffees, a train ticket and a newspaper are made every day by a commuter with a mobile, this will not appear on their monthly credit card statements but on their mobile phone statements. And having spent fortunes on branding, credit-card companies and banks do not want to see other payment systems gaining popularity. It's too early to say whether banks will miss out and if so, by how much. However, quite a few American bankers are optimistic. They feel there is reason to be suspicious of those who predict that high-street banks may be a thing of the past. They point out that Internet banking did not result in the closure of their high-street branches as was predicted. On the contrary, more Americans than ever are using local branches. So, whether we'll become a totally cash-free society remains open to contention.
The author mentions the case of commuters in the third paragraph to illustrate ________.




A.the banks' cooperation with credit-card companies
B.a possible drawback of the system
C.the modern technology of the e-cash system
D.the transferability of the system

Jim ……………….. a book at the moment.




A.is reading
B.had read
C.reads
D.has read