Food prices have raised so rapidly in the past few months that some families have been forced to alter their eating habits.




A.raised
B.so rapidly
C.that
D.forced to alter their eating habits

All of the following presidents were assassinated EXCEPT _________ .




A.John F. Kennedy
B.Franklin D. Roosevelt
C.Abraham Lincoln
D.James A. Garfield

____________ (40)




A.show
B.ask
C.understand
D.know

____________ (33)




A.systems
B.sounds
C.languages
D.talks

Everyone in both cars _____ injured in the accident last night, ______?




A.were / weren't they
B.was / weren't they
C.was / wasn't he?
D.were / were they

Nam has now ______________ to the point where his English is almost fluent.




A.arrived
B.approached
C.reached
D.advanced

_____ are forms of carbon has been known since the late 18th century.




A.Diamonds
B.Diamonds, which
C.Because diamonds
D.That diamonds

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on you answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
At the end of the training course, each participant was presented with a _______ of completion.




A.certificate
B.diploma
C.degree
D.qualification

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Quang won a scholarship. We are excited about that fact.




A.The fact being excited us had won Qunag a scholarship.
B.Quang’s excited about a scholarship’s having won us.
C.We’re excited about Quang’s having won a scholarship.
D.We won Quang’s excitement about the fact of a scholarship.

VI. Read the passage below and choose the best answer A, B, C or D to each question.
I’m interested in sports, especially athletics, and I run seven or eight kilometres every day. I particularly enjoy cross country running, where you have to run across fields, jump over streams and so on. While I’m running I think about all sorts of things, and at the end of a run I’m sometimes surprised to find that I’ve managed to solve a problem that was on my mind.
Next year, I’m going to try the London Marathon. It’s hard race 26 miles, or 42 kilometres-and you have to be tough to finish, but I very much want to do it. I worry a bit about getting too old, and I’d like to prove to myself that I’m still almost as fit as I was twenty years old.
I’m interested in mountaineering s well as running. I’ll never become an except climber, but I know what I’m doing in the mountains. I successfully completed a course in snow and ice climbing when I was younger; and I’ve done a series of easy climbs in the Alps during the last few years. My wife doesn’t share my interest in mountains. She agreed to go climbing with me once, but she found that she felt ill as soon as she got above 1,000 metres.
The writer takes up mountaineering because ____.




A.he wants to become an expert climber
B.he simply likes it
C.his wife is interested in it
D.it is easy to practise