I. Choose the word / phrase / sentence (A, B, C or D) that best fits the space or best answers the question given in each sentence.

1. Which word has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others?

2. Which word has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others?

3. Which word has a different stress pattern from that of the others?

4. Which word has a different stress pattern from that of the others?

5. If you are suffering from a ______ of mosquitoes, here are some tips for how to get rid of these annoying uninvited guests.

6. Dangerous sports are something that I am not ______.

7. The grass on Wimbledon Center ______ is maintained carefully on a regular basis.

8. You look absolutely ______ in that dress. How lovely!

9. The office needs ______.

10.He has such adorable twins ______ everybody loves to play with.

11. The hotel provides excellent ______ facilities for families including spa, pool, jacuzzi and sauna.

12. Why don’t you start out ______ early ______ you don’t have to hurry?

13. Megan: “Does the global warming worry you?” – Jackie: “______”

14. Johnny: “______” – Maria: “That’s great. Congratulations.”

II. Look at each sign or notice. Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) that matches its meaning.

III. Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best fits each blank space in the following passage.

My Dinh National Stadium was inaugurated in 2003 with a capacity of 40,192 (17) ______. Recently, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) (18) ______ My Dinh National Stadium in the top 5 best stadiums in Southeast Asia. (19) ______ on Le Duc Tho Street (My Dinh 1 Ward, Nam Tu Liem District), 10 km southwest of Hanoi city center. This is the venue for major football matches in Vietnam, second only to Can Tho Stadium in scale. The construction (20) ______ of the stadium is 52.983 million USD with the winning bidder being HISG Group (China). My Dinh National Stadium has 4 stands. Stands A and B (east and west stands, respectively) are covered by a 2,300-ton roof in each stand. These two stands are two stories high and 25.8 m (85 ft) high (21) ______ stands C and D (south and north stand respectively) are one story high and 8.4 m (28 ft) high. (22) ______, this stadium has a capacity of 40,192 seats, including 450 VIP seats and 160 seats for journalists.

IV. Read the following and do as directed.

The Cu Chi Tunnels are just 35km from the huge metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City, a vast network of passageways awaits below rubber trees, compacted dusty ground and buzzing cicadas. Work on the Cu Chi Tunnels started in 1948. They were originally used to store weapons in the fight against French occupation in the First Indochina War, but by the time the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, a 250km warren spanned from Saigon to the border of Cambodia. The tunnels were dug by peasants and villagers with rudimentary tools; transporting tonnes of excess mud to the Saigon River or rice fields at night.

Under the circumstances, they were well built. They were higher than the river to avoid flooding, had access to a well to collect water, and masked ventilation holes within termite mounds and thick grass; defense against the much better equipped US army.

As bombers fired overhead, whole villages and Viet Cong soldiers took shelter underground. Attempts to destroy the tunnels with carpet bombing or flush out soldiers with hand grenades proved largely ineffective, but conditions were dire. Heat and lack of oxygen was overbearing; it was rife with rats, snakes and scorpions; and malaria proved deadly for many. In addition to providing underground shelter, the Cu Chi tunnels served a key role during combat operations, including as a base for Communist attacks against nearby Saigon.

Visitors to Vietnam can now crawl through some of the safer areas of the tunnels, view command centers and booby traps, fire an AK-47 rifle on a firing range and even eat a meal featuring typical foods that soldiers living in the tunnels would have eaten.

Decide whether the following sentences are True or False.

23. The Cu Chi Tunnels are 250km away from Ho Chi Minh City.

24. They started to build the Cu Chi Tunnels in the 1940s.

25. Military weapons were stored in the Cu Chi Tunnels in the battle of the First Indochina War with France.

26. Peasants and villagers used basic tools to dig the tunnels.

Choose the correct answer to each question.

27. What can be served as the best title of the passage?

28. Which animal is not mentioned in the text?

V. Supply the correct form of the word given in each sentence.

29. I was trying to find the museum, but I got ______ lost. (HOPE)

30. There are ______ books available on how to begin a compost heap and introduce organic garden methods. (NUMBER)

31. Of the 160 ______ assembled for the London show, one-third have been lent from the Hermitage collection. (EXHIBITION)

32. ______, if she hadn’t acted quickly, the cancer would have killed her. (SCARE)

33. We hope that you will make a ______ recovery. (SPEED)

34. I first started ______ when I was 12 years old. (ACTION)

VI. Look at the entry of the word “knowledge” in a dictionary. Use what you can get from the entry to complete the sentences with two or three words.

35. If you are extremely ______ blood, it may be a sign of a mental health condition called hemophobia.

36. Don’t be ______ ask for help.

VII. Rewrite each of the following sentences in another way so that it means almost the same as the sentence printed before it.

37. Hailey arranges the books on the shelf every day.

=> The books on ____________________________.

38. That bag was bought in Korea by Daniel.

=> Daniel ____________________________.

39. “Why don’t you go picnicking on a sunny day today, Linda?” she said.

=> She suggested that ____________________________.

40. The homework was so difficult that I had to spend hours solving it. (TOOK)

=> It was ____________________________.

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