Question

VI. Fill each blank with a, an or the to complete the following passage.
Vietnam is (1)_________ multi-nationality country with 54 ethnic groups. The Viet (Kinh) people account
for 87% of (2)_________ country’s population and mainly inhabit (3)_________ Red River Delta, (4)
_________ central coastal delta, (5) _________ Mekong Delta and major cities. (6) _________ other 53 ethnic
minority groups, totalling over 8 million people, are scattered over mountain areas spreading from the North to
the South.
(7) _________ number of ethnic minorities had master some farming techniques. They grew rice plants in
swamped paddy fields and carried out irrigation. Others went hunting, fishing, collecting and lived (8)
_________ semi-nomadic life. Each group has its own culture, diverse and special.
However, (9) _________ evident gap in the material and moral has indeed still existed between peoples
living in the deltas and those living in mountain areas as well as among ethnic minorities themselves. (10)
_________ Vietnamese government has worked out specific politics and special treatments in order to help
mountainous people catching up with lowland people, and made great efforts to develop and preserve traditional
cultural identities of each ethnic minority group

Answer 1

1a

2the

3the

4the

5the

6the

7the

8a

9the

10the

Answer 2

1. A

2. The

3. The

4. The

5. The

6. The

7. The

8. A

9. The

10. The