1. Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.

          A. contestant                 B. occasion           C. underpass                  D. astonished

2. There is a …………. of employment opportunities in a city.

          A. group               B. change              C. type                           D. variety

3. We’d like our students to participate more …………. in the school’s social programs.

          A. actively            B. comprehensively        C. basically           D. dynamically

4. My sister asked me …………. to use the new washing machine.

          A. why                           B. where               C. what                 D. how

5. Find the word which has a different sound in the underlined part.

          A. aware               B. cast                            C. craft                           D. carve

6. Children in large families learn how to get …………. with other people.

          A. across              B. though             C. along                D. away

7. The drawing and printing techniques have been …………. and inherited over many generations.

          A. prevented                   B. preserved          C. treated              D. stored

8. Lacquering is a uniquely-performed …………. in Viet Nam.

          A. culture             B. craft                           C. tradition           D. production

II Supply the correct form of the word in parentheses to complete each sentence
1 Maria is ____ recovering from the illness ( slow)
2 There is a ____ of employment opportunities in a city ( various )
III Complete each sentence with the correct tense or form of one suitable verb from the box. One verb must be used in negative form
1 After Mary (speak) ____ in public on many occasions, she got the TV job offer
2 My wife and I (travel) ____ to Mexico at this time last summer

10.Tom asked his teacher …………..

A. what is the time                             B. what the time was

C. what was the time                          D. what the time is

11.     There is a    ......... of employment opportunities in a city.

     A.type               B.variety              C.group                     D.change

12.To consider an idea or a suggestion before deciding to accept it is to..........................          .

     A.look it up      B.face up to          C.think it over           D.take it up

13.     “Do you      ...........        your new classmate, or do you two argue?”.

     A.get on with    B.go on with        C.face up to               D.keep up with

14.     After visiting Van Phuc village, they came................. to their hotel for lunch.

     A. at                     B. up                    C. down               D. back

15.     How can we encourage people to get along with each other in this .............. society?

     A. considerable     B. multicultural     C. rural                 D. crashing

16.I want to talk to my teacher about my problems, but I have no idea                  to start, or               to talk to him.

     A.what – where     B.where - who     C.why -whom       D.where - how

17. I feel so .............. because I’ve worked all night

     A.depressed             B. tired                 C.frustrated             C.angry

18.Pressure           children to get into top schools has reached a crisis point.

      A.at                       B.under               C.on                     D.with

19.Jane needs someone to show her how to          her anxiety and depression.

      A.empathise          B.try                    C.succeed             D.manage

20. He told us that sometimes he had difficulty               his feelings.

     A.expressing     B.communicating      C.sending             D.talking

Sometimes I hear adults around me say that it is (0. good) better for children to grow up in the city than in the countryside. They say that the city offers a child more opportunities for (1. high)______ education, and (2. easy)______ access to (3. good) _______ facilities. Life there is and (5. convenient)______ .

They may be right, but there's one thing they might not know. I feel (6. happy) ______ here than in a crowded and noisy city. Country folk are (7. friendly)______ than city folk. I know every boy in my village. Life here is not as (8. fast)______ as that in the city and I feel (9. safe)______ . Perhaps the (10. good) ______ place to grow up is the place where you feel at home.

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Sometimes I hear adults around me say that it is (0. good) better for children to grow up in the city than in the countryside. They say that the city offers a child more opportunities for (1. high)_______  education, and (2. easy)_____  access to (3. good)________  facilities. Life there is (4. exciting)_________  and (5. convenient) __________.
They may be right, but there's one thing they might not know. I feel (6. happy) ________ here than in a crowded and noisy city. Country folk are (7.friendly)_______  than city folk. I know every boy in my village. Life here is not as (8. fast) _________ as that in the city and I feel (9. safe) __________. Perhaps the (10. good)_________  place to grow up is the place where you feel at home.

Sometimes I hear adults around me say that it is (0. good) better for children to grow up in the city than in the countryside. They say that the city offers a child more opportunities for (1. high) _higher_ education, and (2. easy) ____easier_____ access to (3. good) __better___ facilities. Life there is (4. exciting) __________ and (5. convenient) __more convenient__.
They may be right, but there’s one thing they might not know. I feel (6. happy) _happier__ here than in a crowded and noisy city. Country folk are (7. friendly) __more friendly_ than city folk. I know every boy in my village. Life here is not as (8. fast) __fast____ as that in the city and I feel (9. safe) _safer__. Perhaps the (10. good) __best__ place to grow up is the place where you feel at home.

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My father was the police (inspect)_____and my mother was a primary school(teach)___. They had both grown up in the city and lived there their entire lives. Their(decide)____to move to a small town when I was a child changed my life. It was a very(peace)____place and of course, living there meant that I had much more(free)___to go wherever I pleased. The people all knew each other and were(friend)____but I missed my close friends, my school, and the (noise)___city I had lived in. As I grew up, I realized that there wasn't much for a young person to do there, expect rush into(marry)_____. When I left, my parents were sad, but they realized that staying there would only make me(misery)____. The big city I live in now is not very far away, so I can visit my parents(frequent)___and have the best of both worlds.

My father was the police (inspect)_____and my mother was a primary school(teach)___. They had both grown up in the city and lived there their entire lives. Their(decide)____to move to a small town when I was a child changed my life. It was a very(peace)____place and of course, living there meant that I had much more(free)___to go wherever I pleased. The people all knew each other and were(friend)____but I missed my close friends, my school, and the (noise)___city I had lived in. As I grew up, I realised that there wasn't much for a young person to do there, expect rush into(marry)_____. When I left, my parents were sad, but they realised that staying there would only make me(misery)____. The big city I live in now is not very far away, so I can visit my parents(frequent)___and have the best of both worlds.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from (1) to (10).

PROACTIVE JOB HUNTING

Once upon a time, people left school or university, joined a company and stayed with it until they retired. The concept of a job for life is now long (1) x , and nowadays many employees find it hard o stay loyal to their companies for even a relatively short period of time. According to a recent survey, this is particularly (2) x in London, where more than half of those asked said that they constantly (3) x one eye on other job opportunities, (4) x they are fairly happy in their existing job. A high number of London workers say that they are always on the (5) x , although they are content and motivated in their current position.

Job seekers find that the internet (6) x them with a quick and easy way to find out what's available, and 53 percent said that they had applied for a job or registered with an employment agency inthe past 12 months. This proactive (7) x means that people can look for a perfect job match with the (8) x of effort. But while this is good for job hunters, the growing lack of company loyalty could (9) x up being a big problem for employers .Perhaps surprisingly, the (10) x factors attracting job seekers was not more money, but challenging and interesting work.Question 10

A. biggest

B. highest

C. widest

D. largest