On the New Year’s days,_________

Which of the following, according to the passage, is not usually eaten during Tet?

Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question:

In Viet Nam, there is great excitement built up well before Tet Nguyen Dan. First, every family organizes a trip to the cemetery to visit the graves of their ancestor. After that, to create an air of prosperity, wealth and fun for the first three days of the Lunar New Year, people are kept busy cooking traditional foods, buying gifts, and making other preparations. Certain items deemed to be bought or made are banh chung, dried watermelon seeds, tea, dried sausages, fruit (fresh and candied), ornamental plants and flowers. Red and yellow flowers are ideal as they make the house more welcoming.

On the New Year’s days, only good comments and wishes can be expressed. Children receive their li xi (or red envelopes with lucky money inside). People make a visit to family members, neighbors, and close friends. And people who live apart from their family try to get together on these days. Clearly enough, games and various forms of entertainment are staged and these often last a week. Varying traditional specialties including wrestling, buffalo fighting, dragon or unicorn dancing take place in different regions.

Before Tet, people usually _________.

He_________ thousands of dollars to charity.

Young college and university students participate ______ helping disadvantaged children.

The result of the exam_________ this afternoon.

The rain_________ It’s been raining for 3 hours.

Whenever she wants something, she tries her best to get it and doesn’t let anyone discourage her. She is so _________.

I _________be delighted to show you round the factory.

Their homework needs_________ up again.

They promised _________the Christmas party.

How do volunteers help disadvantaged and handicapped children_________ their difficulties?

He loved Marry for her honesty, her modesty and her_________.

_________ all his homework, Tom was allowed to go out with his friends. 

Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in each sentence:

The _________ of Southeast Asian Nations was founded in 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand.

- Tom: “Let’s go out for dinner.” - John:“_________.”

Choose the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges:

- Mike: “I’m taking my end of term examination tomorrow” -Windy: “_________”

He admitted breaking his mother's vase.

Choose the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions:

The price of petroleum has decreased since last month.

Some high school students take part in helping the handicapped.

Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences:

Because of the natural disasters, homelessness is on the increase.

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others:

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others:

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others:

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others:

The bag was heavy, so we could not take it with us.

He was suspected of having stalen credit cards. The police have investigated him for days.

Peter used to work as a journalist for a local newspaper.

The last time when I saw her was three years ago.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

“You broke my glasses”, said the woman to me.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word orphrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks

A student learning English occasionally meets the following problems (41) _____ he listens to talks and lectures. It is difficult to decide where one word finishes and the next one starts. In speech, many sounds (42) _____ a student difficulties and he fails to identify them. Some words in English, which occur very commonly, have a weak form. An overseas student identifies them with difficulty. (43) _____ addition. many students sometimes do not hear the unstressed syllable in a word. This problem never arises in print.

The lecturer (44) _____ uses an informal style and who pronounces his vowels with a strong accent will difficult to follow. A student takes notes more (45) _____ when the lecturer speaks with a BBC accent.

Mike and Lane are university students. They are talking about Lane's upcoming high-school reunion. Select the suitable response to fill in the blank.

Mike: “So, you have your fifth high-school reunion coming up?”

Lane: “_________________”

Two friends Linda and Peter are at a party.

- Linda: “Would you like some more sandwiches?”

- Peter: “ _____. I'm full.”

The author mentions all of the following as causes of the declines in population growth after 1957 EXCEPT _____.

The word “five” in the first paragraph refers to _____.

The author suggests that in Canada during the 1950s _____.

According to the passage, when did Canada's baby boom begin?

It can be inferred from the passage that before the Industrial Revolution ____.

When was the birth rate in Canada at its lowest postwar level?

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.

Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country’s impressive population growth. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over five in 1966. In September 1966, Canada’s population passed the 20 million mark. Most of this surging growth came from natural increase. The depression of the 1930s and the war had held back marriages, and the catching-up process began after 1945. The baby boom continued through the decade of the 1950s, producing a population increase of nearly fifteen percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been exceeded only once before in Canada’s history, in the decade before 1911 when the prairies were being settled. Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950s supported a growth in the population, but the expansion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth rate stood at 28 per thousand, one of the highest in the world.

After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It continued falling until in 1966 it stood at the lowest level in 25 years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of births during the depression and the war, but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school longer; more women were working; young married couples were buying automobiles or houses before starting families; rising living standards were cutting down the size of families.

It appeared that Canada was once more falling in step with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western world since the time of the Industrial Revolution. Although the growth in Canada’s population had slowed down by 1966 (the increase in the first half of the 1960s was only nine percent), another large population wave was coming over the horizon. It would be composed of the children of the children who were born during the period of the high birth rate prior to 1957.

What does the passage mainly discuss?