III. Read the following passage carefully and fill in each gap with one suitable word.

         New Year is one of the most important (1) _______ in the United States. On New Year’s Eve, most people go to the parties. At twelve o’clock (2) _______ night, everyone says “Happy New Year” and they (3) _______ their friends and relatives good luck. New Year’s parties usually last a long (4) _______ . Many people don’t go home (5) _______ next morning. Another holiday, Halloween, is mainly for children. On this holiday, children (6) _______ as witches, ghosts or others. Most children go (7) _______ house to house asking for candy or fruit. If people at the house don’t give (8)_______candy, the children will (9)_______a trick on them. But this hardly ever happens. Almost people give them (10)_______or fruit.

 III/ (1,0 point) Fill in each gap of the following sentences with ONE suitable word. Write it on your answer sheet.  1. He is not very good ______ Maths. 2. Hanoi is ______ capital of Vietnam. 3. I’m going to buy either a camera ______ a DVD player with the money. 4. Are you sure you did this exercise by ______, Tom? 5. Mai: Why don’t we go ______ a picnic this weekend? – Nga: That’s a good idea!  IV/ (1,0 point) Choose the word that best fits the blank in the following passage. Write the letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.             Choosing clothes can be difficult. Some people want to be fashionable (1)______ they don’t want to look exactly like everybody else. Not all clothes are (2)______ for work or school, perhaps because they are not formal enough, or simply not comfortable. It is easy to buy the (3)______ size, and find that your trousers are too tight, especially if you are a bit overweight. If you buy light cotton clothes, you might not be (4)______ enough for winter. If your shoes are not waterproof, and if you aren’t (5)______ for the cold, you might look good, but feel terrible! 1.         A. if                             B. but                          C. so                            D. therefore 2.         A. suitable                   B. equal                       C. comfort                   D. fitted 3.         A. error                        B. mistake                   C. wrong                     D. false 4.         A. warm                      B. cold                        C. cool                         D. hot 5.         A. fitted                      B. worn                       C. clothed                   D. dressed

 V/ (1,5 points) Read the following passage then answer the questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.             As a result of years of research, we know that too much animal fat is bad for our health. For example, Americans eat a lot of meat and only a small amount of grains, fruit and vegetables. Because of their diet, they have high rates of cancer and heart disease. In Japan, in contrast, people eat large amounts of grains and very little meat. The Japanese also have low rates of cancer and heart disease. In fact the Japanese live longer than anyone else in the world. Unfortunately, when people move to the US, the rates of heart disease and cancer increase as their diet changes. Moreover, as hamburgers, ice-cream, and other high fat food become popular in Japan, the rates of heart disease and cancer are increasing there as well. People are also eating more meat and dairy products in other countries such as Cuba, Mauritius and Hungary. Not surprisingly, the disease rates in these countries are increasing along with the change in diet. Consequently, doctors everywhere advise people to eat more grains, fruit and vegetables and to eat less meat and fewer dairy products. 

            1. As a result of years of research, what is bad for our health? 

            2. Why do Japanese people have lower rates of cancer and heart disease? 

            3. What happens when the Japanese people move to the US? 

            4. In which countries are people also eating more meat and dairy products? 

            5. What do doctors everywhere advise people to do? 

III. Fill each gap with ONE suitable word. Write the answers in the box. (10 ms)

SECONDARY EDUCATION IN ENGLAND

In England, children start secondary school (86) ………………. the age of 11. In the first two years of secondary school, all the students study the same 12 (87) ………………………... They are: English, maths, science, design and technology, history, geography, a foreign (88) ……………………. , art and design, music, citizenship and P.E. When students are 14, they can (89) ……………………. the subjects that they like, but some subjects (e.g. maths, English, science and P.E.) are still (90) ……………………..

At the (91) ………………………. of sixteen, students take national exams called GCSEs (General Certificate of secondary Education exams). After the (92) …………………….., about 25% of students leave school and find jobs. The other 75% stay at (93) …………………. They study two, three or four school subjects and take advanced level exams (‘A levels’) when they are 18.

Most students in England (about 90%) (94) ……………..… to state secondary schools. State schools are free. The other 10% go to private schools. Some of these schools are very famous – and very expensive. For (95) ……………………, it costs about £24.000 a year to study at Eton College!

III. Fill each gap with ONE suitable word. Write the answers in the box. (10 ms)

SECONDARY EDUCATION IN ENGLAND

In England, children start secondary school (86) ………………. the age of 11. In the first two years of secondary school, all the students study the same 12 (87) ………………………... They are: English, maths, science, design and technology, history, geography, a foreign (88) ……………………. , art and design, music, citizenship and P.E. When students are 14, they can (89) ……………………. the subjects that they like, but some subjects (e.g. maths, English, science and P.E.) are still (90) ……………………..

At the (91) ………………………. of sixteen, students take national exams called GCSEs (General Certificate of secondary Education exams). After the (92) …………………….., about 25% of students leave school and find jobs. The other 75% stay at (93) …………………. They study two, three or four school subjects and take advanced level exams (‘A levels’) when they are 18.

Most students in England (about 90%) (94) ……………..… to state secondary schools. State schools are free. The other 10% go to private schools. Some of these schools are very famous – and very expensive. For (95) ……………………, it costs about £24.000 a year to study at Eton College!

     Read the text and think of the correct word for each gap. Use only ONE word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning.

The lunches at school ⁰ aren’t very good, in fact they’re horrible! There’s always too ¹ ____________ salt and not ² ____________ pepper in the food! Oh, and there are too ³ ____________ vegetables as well. I’ ⁴ ____________ got enough time to make a sandwich to take to school, but my mum is against this idea. There ⁵ ____________ a fast food
⁶ ____________ near the school, but it’s very
⁷ ____________ and I haven’t got much money.

• For questions (1 - 8), read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

                                                                                                      BLUE DIAMONDS

  Blue diamonds are the world’s most expensive diamonds, with some valued (0) ...... AT....... over 350 million US dollars. However, no one knew (1) ............... recently precisely where these rare stones came from.

  Most diamonds are formed from pure carbon under extreme heat 150 to 200 kilometers underground, and (2) ............... is thought that volcanic eruptions bring them to the earth’s surface. Research by scientists has revealed, however, that blue diamonds were probably formed somewhere (3) ............... 600 and 800 kilometers down, in a part of the earth’s interior known (4) ............... the lower mantle.

  These researchers analyzed 46 blue diamonds, all of (5) .............. contained minerals only found in the lower mantle. (6) .............. only were these stones formed four times nearer the earth’s core (7) ............... normal diamonds, but they also contain an element called boron that is mostly found on the earth’s surface. What seems to have happened, (8) ............... to the researchers, is that billions of years ago, rocks containing boron were carried down into the lower mantle by movements of the earth’s tectonic plates, and were eventually returned to the surface by volcanic action.

• For questions 9 – 16, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

                                                                                                 A HISTORY OF SURFING

The history of surfing undoubtedly goes (0) BACK a long way. It seems to (9) .......... formed a central part of the culture of the Polynesian people, who were inhabitants of islands in the Pacific Ocean (10) .......... as Samoa, Tonga, and Hawaii. These people did not regard surfing (11) .......... a mere recreational activity. For them, it was much (12) .......... of an art. Although surfing disappeared from many parts of Polynesia in (13) .......... early twentieth century, a small number of people in Hawaii kept the tradition alive. In 1912, it spread to the east coast of the United States, and in particular to Virginia Beach, (14) .......... became an important surfing center. Surfing developed quite rapidly from then on, and the design of surfboards became more sophisticated. However, (15) .......... was not until the 1960s that surfing came to be a truly global phenomenon, boosted not only by the success of surfing films (16) .......... also by pop songs about surfing culture.

• For questions 1 - 8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

      Founded in 1972, the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award is celebrated in 27 countries. Veuve Clicquot has now introduced a new award (0) ___TO___ complement its Business Woman of the Year category. Called The New Generation Award, (1) __________ recognizes the best young female talent across the business and corporate life. The first winner of the award, Kathryn Parsons, (2) __________ innovative start-up company, Decoded, teaches people to code in a day, has joined the judging panel to help find this year’s winner. ‘The importance of these awards cannot (3) __________ overestimated,’ she says. ‘Women need role models that prove to (4) __________ that they can do it, too.’ The New Generation Award is open to entrepreneurial businesswomen (5) __________ the ages of 25 and 35. They can run (6) __________ own businesses or hail from corporate life. ‘This award isn’t about how much money you’ve made or how long you’ve been in business, it’s about recognizing young women (7) __________ a mission and a vision,’ says Parsons. ‘We want to meet women who are working to (8) __________ the world a better place.’

VIII. Write one word in each gap to complete the sentences.

1.   Most people seem to be                             of the harmful effects of their diet.

2.   Everyone complemented her                                 the wonderful buffet she’d laid on.

3.   The problem with drinks like that is they’re full                           sugar.

4.   The snack choice was                                fruit salad or chocolate cake.

5.   I’m going to tell you what your supper is. You’ll just have to wait                                  see.

6.   She’s generally regarded                           being the best cookery book writer of her generation.

7.   Most people associate English food                                  fish and chips and shepherd’s pie.

8.   Karen’s very careful                                  how much the salt she has.

9.   There’s a lack                                good restaurants round here.

10. The meat was well cooked, but the sauce was totally lacking                              flavor.

Read the text and think of the word which best fits each gap (76-85). Use only ONE WORD in each gap. Write your answer on YOUR ANSWER part.

This summer, a group of 16-year-old students are taking (76)_________ in a three-week programme designed to teach them new skills and (77)_________ them used to working with people they have never met before. (78)_______ things go according to plans, in two years’ time, nearly one in six teenagers will be involved in the programme with (79)_________ eventually aim of offering it to (80)_________ young person in the country. So far, every group has (81)________ two weeks living (82)________ from home (many for the first time), initially on an outdoor course, with activities, (83)________ as rock climbing, rafting, and trekking, and then spending a week in self-catering accommodation where they are planning and setting (84)________ a volunteering project. At the moment, the students are putting their plans into action not (85)________by cooking for themselves but also by organizing a night outside sleeping rough in order to raise money for a local homeless shelter.