Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences .

1 . ___________ moved to that city recently .

A . A number of Vietnamese have

B . A number of Vietnamese has

C . The number of Vietnamese has been

D . The number of Vietnamese have

2 . Each of the refencence __________ available in the school library .

A . books on that list is

B . books on that list are

C . book on that list is

D . book on that list are

3 . Several _________ sleeping under a tree .

A . of lions were

B . lion was

C . of the lions was

D . lions were

4 . Many of the _____ not used today . They are remmants of the past .

A . railroad tracks around here are

B . railroad's tracks around here is

C . railroad tracks around here is

D . railroad's tracks around here are

5 . As we walked through the jungle , the ________ unusually quiet .

A . monkeys were

B . monkeys was

C . monkies were

D. monkies was

V. Match the two parts of the sentences. A B 1. overcrowded 2. spacious 3. slum 4. poverty 5. megacity 6. malnutrition 7. density 8. population explosion 9. overpopulation 10. flea market a. the state of having very little money. b. a market usually held outdoors. c. a very large city, typically one with a population of over 10 million. an area of a city where living conditions are extremely bad. d. bad health that is the result of not having enough food. e. the number of people in a place in relation to its area. f. with too many people. g. large in size. h. a situation in which too many people live in a certain area. i. the sudden increase in the number of people in a country or in the world.

Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences .

1 . Many a candidate unsuccesful in the oral test .

A . was B . aren't C . weren't D . were

2 . The writer and poet going to preside over this meeting .

A . are B . is C . have been going D . is to

3 . She told me that she happy for what she .

A . is feeling - did B . was feeling - had done C . feels - did D . had felt - has been doing .

4 . The teacher said that Vietnam to South - Easr Asia .

A . has belonged B . had belonged C . have belonged D . belongs

5 . Neither the mother nor the childen aware of the danger .

A . were B . was C . is D . has been

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following question.

______ number of boys were swimming in the lake, but I didn’t know ______ exact number of them.

A. A/the      

B. A/an        

C. The/the    

D. The/an

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

______ number of boys were swimming in the lake, but I didn’t know ______ exact number of them.

A. A/the 

B. The/an

C. The/the

D. A/an

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

The president’s compassion for the refugees caused him to admit a very large number of them.

A. hostility

B. sympathy 

C. friendship

D. respecta

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 from 1 to 10.

Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and medieval worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term "reading" undoubtedly meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace.

One should be wary, however, of assuming that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud was a distraction to others. Examinations of factors related to the historical development of silent reading have revealed that it became the usual mode of reading for most adults mainly because the tasks themselves changed in character.

The last century saw a steady gradual increase in literacy and thus in the number of readers. As the number of readers increased, the number of potential listeners declined and thus there was some reduction in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the flourishing of reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and offices, where reading aloud would cause distraction to other readers.

Towards the end of the century, there was still considerable argument over whether books should be used for information or treated respectfully and over whether the reading of materials such as newspapers was in some way mentally weakening. Indeed, this argument remains with us still in education. However, whatever its virtues, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and periodicals for a specialised readership on the other.

By the end of the twentieth century, students were being recommended to adopt attitudes to books and to use reading skills which were inappropriate, if not impossible, for the oral reader. The social, cultural and technological changes in the century had greatly altered what the term "reading" implied.

Question 1: Reading aloud was more common in the medieval world because:

A. people relied on reading for entertainment

B. silent reading had not been discovered

C. there were few places available for private reading

D. few people could read to themselves

Question 2: The word "commonplace" in the first paragraph mostly means:

A. for everybody's use B. most preferable

C. attracting attention D. widely used

Question 3: The development of silent reading during the last century indicated

A. an increase in the average age of readers

B. an increase in the number of books

C. a change in the nature of reading

D. a change in the status of literate people

Question 4: Silent reading, especially in public places, flourished mainly because of:

A. the decreasing need to read aloud

B. the development of libraries

C. the increase in literacy

D. the decreasing number of listeners

Question 5 It can be inferred that the emergence of the mass media and specialized reading materials was an indication of .

A. a decline of standards of literacy

B. a change in the readers' interest

C. an alteration in educationalists ’attitudes

D. an improvement of printing techniques.

Question 6: The phrase "a specialized readership" in paragraph 4 mostly means:

A. a requirement for readers in a particular area of knowledge

B. a limited number of readers in a particular area of knowledge

C. a reading volume for particular professionals

D. a status for readers specialized in mass media

Question 7: The phrase “oral reader" in the last paragraph mostly means a person who:

A. is good at public speaking

B. practices reading to an audience

C. takes part in an audition

D. is interested in spoken language

Question 8: All of the following might be the factors that affected the continuation of the old shared literacy culture EXCEPT .

A. the inappropriate reading skills B. the specialized readership

C. the diversity of reading materials D. the printed mass media

Question 9: Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A. Reading aloud was more common in the past than it is today.

B. Not all printed mass media was appropriate for reading aloud.

C. The decline of reading aloud was wholly due to its distracting effect.

D. The change in reading habits was partly due to the social, cultural and technological changes.

Question 10: The writer of this passage is attempting to .

A. explain how reading habits have developed

B. change people's attitudes to reading

C. show how reading methods have improved

D. encourage the growth of reading.