Read the following passage and choose the best option for each numbered blank.

      The Maldives are a group of very small islands in the Indian Ocean, near Sri Lanka. It has the smallest (1)                         of any Asian countries. There are about 1200 islands and there are people living on 200 of them. About 400,000 people live in the Maldives and 75,000 of them are (2)                         the capital island, Mai... Mai... is different from the other islands in the Maldives because it doesn’t have any beaches. In fact, there is a small wall (3)                          goes around the whole island.

      It is very easy to get around the islands. When you (4)                           on the airport island, you can take a dhoni and go to Mai... This is a small boat used for (5)             around the islands. Dhoni taxis go from the airport island to the capital island every fifteen minutes and (6)                                   midnight every half an hour. You can use these boats to visit other islands, too.

      The Maldives are a popular place for scuba diving (7)                there are many wonderful fish in the water to see. Also, the water is very clear so when you are (8)              you can see for more than 50 metres! There are many professional diving schools with instructors. They speak many languages, so you can (9)                       someone to help you. Of course, that’s not all you can do on these beautiful islands. You can go (10)                        whale and dolphin, fishing, surfing, snorkeling, hiking or explore the towns.

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      Many health (1)                            believe that children and young people todayare more (2)                                  than they used to be. So why has this happened?

      One reason is bad eating habits. (3)                     of young people don’thave a healthy diet. They eat too much fast food (4)             hamburgers and pizza and not enough fruit and vegetables. In the US, many children have been eating fast food (5)                       sincethey were very young. In fact, almost one-third of American children aged four to nineteen have been eating fast food (6)                 all the time. They also don’t (7)            exercise and spend too (8)                 of their time watching TV, surfing the Internet or playing computer games.

            So how can you change your habits if you have been following an unhealthy lifestyle for a long time? First, change your (9)                                 and eat more fruit and vegetables. Next, find an activity you enjoy. Why not try something different like rock climbing, surfing or hiking? Many young people have found that (10)                        fit and healthy can be a lot of fun.

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      Vietnamese food culture (1)                                 by regions from the north to the south. In Northern Viet Nam, Vietnamese food is (2)                                   by light and balanced flavours with the combination of many (3)                         Northerners have been using many kinds of meats like pork, beef, and chicken to cook; besides, some kinds of freshwater fish, crustaceans, and other mollusks like (4)              , crabs, and oysters, etc. Many famous dishes of Viet Nam are cooked with these ingredients such as Bun Rieu, Pho, Bun Thang, Bun Cha, Banh Cuon, etc.

            Then food culture in Central and Southern Viet Nam has developed suitable (5)                                    in each region. In Central Viet Nam, the regional cuisine of Central Viet Nam is famous for its spicy food, which differs from two other parts with mostly non-spicy food. Hue cuisine is typical Central Viet Nam’s food culture. (6)                        of Hue cuisine are decorative and colorful, which expresses the influence of the Vietnamese royal (7)                          in the feudal period. Food in the region is often decorated (8)               and used with chili peppers and shrimp sauces, namely, Bun Bo Hue, Banh xeo, or Banh beo, etc.

            In Southern Viet Nam, the region is characterized by warm weather and fertile soil, which creates favorable conditions for planting a variety of fruit, vegetables and (9)                                    . Thus, food in the region is often added with garlic, shallots and fresh herbs. Particularly, Southerners are favored of sugar; they add sugar in most dishes. Here, there is also an (10)                              of western and Asian cuisines on southern food, such as influences from China, India, France, and Thailand.

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      Isn’t it amazing how much time we spend (1)                             about food? “Have you ever eaten...?” “What did you have for lunch?” and so on. And when you travel from one country to another, you find that people have quite different (2)                              about food. People often feel that what they eat is normal, and that what other people eat is strange or silly.

      In most parts of Asia, for example, no (3)                       is complete without rice. In England, people (4)                potatoes every day. In the Middle East, bread is the main part of every meal. Eating, like so many things we do, becomes a (5)                which is difficult to change. Americans like to drink a lot of orange juice and coffee. The English (6)                       tea four or five times every day. Australians drink large amount of beer and the French drink (7)                                every day.

      The sort of meat people like to eat also differs from one country to another. Horse (8)                        is thought to be delicious in France. In Hong Kong, some people enjoy eating snakes. New Zealanders eat sheep, but they never eat goat meat. The Japanese don’t like to eat sheep meat because of its smell, but they enjoy raw fish.

      So it (9)                 that although eating is a topic that we can talk about forhours, there is very little (10)                                 sense in what we say about it. People everywhere enjoy eating what they have always been earing, and there is very little we can do to change our eating habits.

Choose the word or phrase among A, B, c or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

      Humans have a long history of eating insects, and it turns out that they can be a very (1)                   part of a person’s regular (2)                          . Insects have  a lot of protein, and they are often easier to catch than (3)                            animals. Therefore, it is no wonder that when our ancient (4)                               saw some tasty worms or grabs wiggling on the ground, they made a quick snack of them.

      In Thailand, insects are a regular part of the street food that can be found. The different (5)                            that people snack on are crickets, grasshoppers, giant water bugs, and assorted worms. They are often deep-fried and salted, so they have a crunchy texture that makes them a perfect snack food. If you can get past the (6)                 that you are eating a cricket, it will crunch in your mouth just like a corn chip!

      For a lot of people, however, it is difficult to get (7)                   the fear of eating insects. People tend to see insects as invaders, especially when they are crawling on the food that we are about to ear. (8)                   being able to eat insects (9)                      feeling disgusted is cultural. Some people cannot eat French cheese or stinky tofu because they weren’t brought up doing so. To many of us, insects fail right into that category, making it difficult to even try them.

      If (10)                    the chance, though, be courageous, insects can be nutritious and tasty, so long as you can get over the “yuck” factor.

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      Australia is a huge country and it has a lot of different kinds of (1)                          . In the past, the Aboriginal people of Australia ate animals like crocodiles and some insects like the witchetty grub. Aboriginal Australians travelled around the Australian countryside, or ‘bush’, to find food.

      When the first British and Irish people moved to Australia in the 1830s, they brought sheep and cows from Europe. They also brought traditional Englishand Irish recipes. Many of these (2)                               , like fish and chips and (3)                            pies, are still popular today. They also created new Australian recipes such as the pavlova (a fruit dessert - named after a Russian dancer) and damper (a bread cooked in the bush).

      After 1945, a lot of people came to live in Australia from countries like Italy, Germany, Greece, Thailand and India. They brought recipes with them and Australians began to eat and drink different things. People started to drink (4)                     coffee and eat Mediterranean and Asian food.

      A lot of modern Australians love (5)                               with fresh food. They often cook food on (6)                                 in their gardens or on the beach. Today more people also eat (7)                              food like kangaroo and (8)                            . Mark Olive, an Aboriginal chef, has a popular TV (9)                  programme about traditional; (10)                        food. There are always new recipes to try in Australia!

4.   The purpose of preservation of traditional craft villages is bringing about               .

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

      To preserve and develop traditional craft villages, in recent years, the local authorities have conducted preservation of four traditional crafts: brocade weaving, silver carving, blacksmithing, and carpentry to bring about economic and social efficiency for the development of provincial tourism...

      Currently, the province of Lao Cai has formed the clear models of traditional villages. Cat Cat villages has gradually built its brand with the forging and casting products, textiles of linens of Hmong people. The famous alcohol villages have found their footholds in the market such as Pho village corn wine (Bac Ha), Xeo village wine (in Bat Xat commune).

      The villages in the province have been associated with tourism spots and promotetourism development in the community, improve living standards of many families through their home business, selling handicrafts, brocade products.

      In the past, in the villages in Sa Pa, people mostly make their living in agriculture, forestry, but now there have been many households getting involved in tourism activities of the village.

      With the aim of preserving and developing traditional village linked to tourism development, most of the villages have created its own definition for tourists to learn and explore. In particular, brocade weaving is dominant, serving the needs of families and tourists. Only in Sa Pa district has 11 embroidery and weaving villages, in Ta Phin village, and San Sa Ho village with about 1000 households participating and a number of groups from the district women society, put on the market each year more than 30,000 metres of fabric. Other districts like Van Ban, Bac Ha have also formed several embroidery villages, attracting thousands of workers.

      1.   We can infer from the passage that tourism has                     .

The survey (2)            teenagers, 13 – 18 years old, from all over Britain.

Read the passage below and decide which answer A, B, C or D fits each numbered gap.

      Teenagers do not spend as much money as their parents suspect - at least not according to the findings of a (1)                   survey. The survey (2)                       teenagers, 13 – 18 years old, from all over Britain.

      By the time they reach their teens, most children see their weekly (3)                     rise dramatically to an amazing national average of £20. Two thirds think they (4)            enough money, but most expect to have to do something to get it.

      Although they have more cash, worry about debt is (5)                          among teenagers. Therefore, the majority of children make an effort to (6)                         some aside for the future.

      Greater access (7)                         cash among teenagers does not, however, mean that they are more irresponsible (8)                           a result. Instead of wasting (9)            pocket money they have on sweets or magazines, the 13-year-old who took part in the survey seem to (10)                  to the situation by saving more than half of their cash.

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      Subsidy economy from 1976 to 1986 means all (1)                                of goods and raw materials are in the (2)                 of the central government. The government coordinated all steps of economy from planning, collecting, and distributing to (3)             . Each person (4)                                 with standard distributions which depended (5)               working level, age, rank and position in government or professional.

      (6)                         essential supplies had many problems, for example, four people shared a pair of bicycle tires, or even a blanket. Sometimes one pig was shared among 20 households, everyone wanted to take the good (7)                            and very difficult to divide fairly. Moreover, because of bad storage and complicated delivery, many supplied foods were in bad condition, such as broken, rotten or even poisonous. Each family got (8)                   own rice booklet shown date and number kilos of rice. During that time, the Vietnamese had a famous saying, “Your face (9)                        sad like (10)                the rice booklet”.

Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words.

      Godolphin and Latymer School for girls is a private school in Hammersmith, West London. It (1)             originally a boy’s school, but became a girls’ (2)                 in the early 1900s. The girls didn’t wear a uniform. At thattime, the school had twelve (3)            , an assembly hall, a library, acookery room, a gymnasium, and three science laboratories for chemistry, physics(4)                        botany. The school had its own playing field, described as“lung of Hammersmith”, (5)                    the girls could play hockey, tennis,basketball and cricket. They had (6)                          play games twice a week,with gym once a week. There were 328 girls at the school in 1906.

      There are now 700 girls aged (7)                         11 and 18 at the school.The younger pupils have to wear a uniform, but girls in the sixth form can wearwhatever they like. Several additions (8)                              been made to the originalVictorian building. Now there is a computer studies room, a language laboratory, a pottery room, a new gymnasium and an ecology garden. (9)                          newest buildings contain ten laboratories for science and technology, a workshop and darkroom, and art studios. (10)            are also improved facilities for music and drama. The playing field was recently converted into an all-weather surface for hockey and tennis.