PART 2. Choose the correct option A, B, C, or D for each blank.
Passage 1.
Did you know that reading can (1)……….. your mind active and engaged well into old age? Several years ago when I was working as a newspaper reporter, I interviewed a woman who was a resident at a local nursing home. She was 100 years old. She read (2)……….. one book per week. She was bright, intelligent and fun to talk with. "I love to read. It helps me keep up with what is going (3)……….. in the world," she said. "A friend of (4)……….. brings me a new book every week. I look forward to her visits and I look forward to the books. We talk about the books we have read." Reading has other benefits, as well. For one thing, reading a good story can help you forget some of the problems in your own life. For the other thing, reading also sets a good (5)          for younger generations.

1.   A. make    B. keep    C. give     D. take
2.   A. between   B. in all    C. at least      D. at all
3.   A. for       B. out      C. off         D. on
4.   A. mine    B. my     C. me         D. I
5.   A. view     B. goal   C. example      D. story

Passage 2.
Nguyen  Dinh  Chieu  was a Vietnamese poet who  was known (1)................ his patriotism and anti-colonial writings against the French. His work, Luc Van Tien, remains one of the most celebrated works in Vietnamese literature.

In 1843, he passed high school graduation of Gia Dinh school and left home for Hue to join the second-degree examination. However, when (2).............. that his mother was dead, he had to come back to the hometown. On the journey south, he contracted an eye infection and was soon completely blind. In spite of his disability, he opened a small school in Gia Dinh and was soon in high (3)..................................................................................... as both a teacher

and medical practitioner.

He refused to cooperate with the colonial system. When an official of the French authorities offered him the land that had been taken from his family plot in Gia Dinh, he was (4)......................................... to have replied, “When our common land, our country, has

been lost, how is it possible to have (5).............. land”?

1. A. with     B. as         C. through        D. for
2. A. he would hear     B. hearings       C. to hear      D. to be heard
3. A. order      B. requirement         C. need        D. demand
4. A. reported      B. reacted         C. responded      D. told
5. A. single         B. original         C. individual       D. personal

Passage 3.
The Red Cross is an international agency (1) …………, in time of war, to reducing the sufferings of wounded soldiers, civilians, and prisoners of war. In time of peace, it gives medical aid and (2)............................................ help to victims of major disasters such as floods, earthquakes, epidemics, and famines. Initiative for founding the Red Cross came from a Swiss called Jean Henri Dunant. Appalled by the almost complete lack

(3) …… care for wounded soldiers, he appealed to the leaders of nations to found societies devoted to the aid of the wounded in wartime. A conference was held in Geneva in 1964, and official (4) … of 12 nations signed the first Geneva Convention,

(5)     ……down rules for the treatment and protection of the wounded and disaster- stricken.

1.       A. dedicate               B. dedicating              C. dedicated              D. dedication
2.       A. like                        B. as                             C. at                            D. of
3.     A. another                  B. other                       C. the other               D. any
4.     A. delegation             B. employers              C. managers              D. delegates
5.     A. lying                      B. laying                     C. finding                  D. looking