Part I. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D whose underlined part is pronounced

differently from the others. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

1. A. ploughed B. coughed C. weighed D. displayed

2. A. clean B. disease C. mean D. nuclear

3. A. slum B. abundant C. nutrition D. hungry

4. A. necessary B. special C. receive D. city

5. A. honestly B. habitable C. holiday D. healthy

Part II. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to complete each of the following sentences.

Write your answers on the answer sheet.

6. My father _____________ as a volunteer for ten years.

A. works B. has worked C. worked D. have worked

7. Choosing a career is one of the most important ______________ you will make in life.

A. decide B. decisive C. decisions D. decision

8. -Lan: “Why don’t we go to the cinema now?” -Tuan: “_____________”

A. Will you join us? B. I’d like it. C. What play is it? D. Yes, let’s!

9. I wish I _____ on holiday with my family next summer vacation.

A. can go B. would go C. went D. will go

10. You can ______________ the new words in the dictionary.

A. look up B. look for C. look after D. look at

11. You have never heard about teleportation, ______________?

A. do you B. don’t you C. have you D. haven’t you

12. He suggested ______________ a BBQ party in the garden.

A. have B. should have C. to have D. having

13. He spoke a ______________ of French that we found hard to understand.

A. dialect B. jargon C. slang D. language

14. Mumbai is land of some of the world’s richest people. ____________, it is also home to the world’s poorest.

A. Although B. Therefore C. However D. Despite

15. Self-driving cars are expected to be ______________ than human-driven ones.

A. more safely B. less safe C. more safer D. much safer

16. If I were you, I _______________ hard to pass the examination.

A. work B. would work C. worked D. will work

17. He talked about the books and the authors ______ interested him.

A. who B. that C. which D. whom

18. She is _____________ on collecting shells on the beach in her free time.

A. keen B. fond C. interested D. like

Part III. Each of the following sentences has one mistake. Identify the mistake by writing the letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

19. Jane, as well as her parents, are going on holiday together next week.

A B C D

20. Mary was drying the dishes when she was dropping the plate.

A B C D

21. Although the film was bored, we watched it from the beginning to the end.

ABC D 22. David can not communicate with foreigners in English. So can Melanie.

A B C D

23. The information I got from the assistant was such confusing that I didn’t know what to do.

A B C D

Part IV. Fill in the numbered blanks in the passage with ONE suitable word from the box. There is ONE extra word. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

while sensible go gain

giving Unfortunately make stay

A calorie is a unit for measuring the amount of energy food will produce. The average person needs about 1,800 calories per day to (24) ___________healthy. Without energy, the heart cannot pump blood through blood vessels and organs cannot function.

You (25)___________weight because you consume more calories a day than your body

requires. The only way to lose weight is to reduce the number of calories you consume. This is the basic principle behind most diets.

(26) ___________, diets don't work for most people. It's not that they don't lose weight: they do, but when they (27) ____________off the diet, the kilos creep back. The key to losing weight and maintaining weight loss is a (28) ____________ diet and exercise plan. You need to work out how to eat fewer calories than you actually consume. You should also exercise daily so you can use up calories. Burning 250 to 500 calories per day can (29)___________a big difference. Try riding an exercise bike (30) ____________ you are watching TV or climbing the stairs rather than taking the lift. Persuade someone to exercise with you; exercise is a lot easier if done in company.

Part V. Read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each of the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

Books and reading are a very important part of education. If you go into someone’s house in the modern world, they will usually have some sort of bookshelf full of books that they like to read. Some very educated or book-loving people have large rooms full of books.

Nowadays, you can have many books without needing a room to store them. The Internet is making it more efficient for people to read. Web sites now make it easy for people to buy books. Thousands of books are available online. You can buy used books or new books. Now you can even buy electronic books. The Kindle, released by the web site Amazon, allows people to download books online and read them on the device. People can download hundreds of books at a time and put them on this small, hand-held e-book reader.

The personal libraries of the past still look good and many people still like to have paper books, but e-book readers like the Kindle are changing things fast. Now people can carry huge libraries with them anywhere. People can read books for a lot cheaper as well. Books bought electronically are inexpensive because they do not have to be printed. They are stored in files and sold straight to the device. The Kindle and other reading devices are going to change book-buying and reading forever.

31. What would be the best title for the passage?

32. The author mentions all of the following EXCEPT_______________. A. Carrying huge libraries everywhere

B. The Internet making it easier for people to read

C. Books and reading as an important part of education D. Where to buy inexpensive books in North America

33. The word “efficient” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to________________.

A. hard B. safe C. happy D. handy

34. What do the Kindle and other e-book readers allow people to do?

A. read faster B. read books with friends

C. travel with more books D. buy more books in stores

35. The word “They” in paragraph 3 refers to________________.

A. books B. people C. libraries D. readers

Part VI. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the provided sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

36. The boys said: “We will have to try our best to pass the final exam.” ->The boys said…………….

37. They have built a new supermarket near the airport. -> A new supermarket ………………………..

38. He hasn’t gone back to his village since 1989. -> He last …………………………………………...

39. She speaks English better than her younger brother. ->Her younger brother doesn’t ……………....

40. The house price has gone up dramatically in the last few years. -> There ………………………….

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