PART C: READING (2 marks)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from ($) to (#).

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the [21]   ________    musicians in the world. He created some of the most beautiful music ever heard, which made him become people's favorite composer of all time. Mozart was [22]   ________     in 1756 in Austria. Mozart's father, Leopold, was a musician. He played the violin and he worked as a music teacher. His son Mozart [23]   ________   plays the piano when he was 3. At the age of 4 he started to write music. He simply took a violin and started to play before anyone showed him how to play the instrument. Mozart's sister, Maria Anna, was good at music, too. Mozart and his sister invented their own secret language. They told stories about a magic kingdom where they were a king and a queen. Leopold took his two children to Vienna. There they played for the Emperor of Austria at his palace. Everyone [24] ______ their talent and the Emperor called Mozart a “little magician”.

SECTION D. Reading (2.0 pt)

Part 1: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 28. (1.0 pt).

            One of the (25)______traditional special food for New Year (Tet) of Vietnamese is Banh Chung or sticky rice cake. Banh Chung is (26)______of sticky rice, pork meat and green bean, every ingredient is wrapped inside a special leaf (27)______is called Dong. Making Banh Chung requires care and precision in every step. The rice and green bean has to be soaked in water for a day to make it stickier. The pork is usually soaked (28)______several hours. Squaring off the cakes with bamboo strings requires skillful hands to make it a perfect square.

Question 25. A. many               B. more                    C. most                       D. much

Question 26. A. make               B. made                    C. making                   D. to make

Question 27. A. which              B. what                     C. when                       D. who

Question 28. A. on                    B. to                         C. with                        D. for

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• Read the following passage and mark the letter (A, B, C, or D) on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

                                                                                        SMARTPHONES - A NECCESITY

Smartphones have spread beyond the boardroom and keeping a close eye on what's new is Mike Lazaridis, chief executive of RIM, the company that makes the BlackBerry smartphone. His device may no longer be quite as trendy as it once was but it is still (21) .................. − particularly for Argentinian milk farmers. Mr. Lazaridis says: "I like the way it's being used by the farmers so they are always up to date. Milk is a (22) .................. item, so delivery and production standards are incredibly important." He is reminded of the company's early days: "This is where we started in 1987, with a wireless vertical data business for the Swedish lumber (23) .................., and then on to fire brigades, ambulances, and garbage trucks."

    While the BlackBerry was quick to (24) .................. itself as the accessory of choice for business professionals such as Wall Street traders, the cheaper price (25) .................. and new, more colorful handsets now (26) .................. offer have opened it up to a much wider market. Mr. Lazaridis says: "It was obvious that business people and self-employed professionals would buy the BlackBerry, but we were not expecting the (27) .................. we had from ordinary consumers."

    The greatest challenge for RIM, however, could lie in an economic (28) ..................., when individuals and companies alike may see devices like the BlackBerry as luxuries they can (29) .................. without. The company has to make its product indispensable to the lifestyles of consumers or prove that they bring a real (30) .................. on investment for business users.

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21, A. constructive     B. functional     C. active     D. operative

22, A. perishable     B. short-lived     C. decaying     D. destructible

23, A. manufacturers     B. enterprise     C. commerce     D. industry

24, A. install     B. establish     C. create     D. demonstrate

25, A. designs     B. programmes     C. plans     D. systems

26, A. at            B. on             C. for            D. under

27, A. return     B. retort     C. reply     D. response

28, A. downturn     B. tall     C. decrease     D. drop

29, A. make      B. carry      C. do      D. stay

30, A. return      B. gain      C. interest      D. profit

Exercise 9. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

Taylor Swift Taylor Swift is one of the …………..­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­(81)­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­successful modern pop artists. She was born­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ ……………(82)December 13th, 1989. She started her career as a singer at the age of 14. She is not only a wellknown singer but also a …………………(83) . She sings the songs that she composes. Some of the most famous songs of hers are You belong with me, Love story, Mean, …. With the releasing three albums called Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, she was awarded 102 prizes. It was a very big …………….(84) for such a young girl like her and it was worth her effort. Taylor always ………………….(85) to captivate us with her talents and her music.

81. A. most                            B. more                     C. less               D. many

82. A. at                                B. in                           C. on                D. Both B and C are correct

83.A. writer                           B. compose                C. composer          D. write

84. A. succeed                       B. successful              C. succeeded          D. success

85. A. looks                            B. seems                    C. wants                  D. needs

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

                                     Erosion in America

Erosion of America's farmland by wind and water has been a problem since settlers first put the prairies and grasslands under the plow in the nineteenth century. By the 1930s, (1) .  .  .  .   .  .  .  282 million acres of farmland (2).   .   .   .   .    .  by erosion. After 40 years of (3). . . . . . . efforts, soil erosion has accelerated due to new demands (4) . . . . . . . . .on the land by heavy crop pollution. In the years ahead, soil erosion and the pollution problems it causes are likely to replace petroleum scarcity as the nation's most critical nation resource problem.

            1.

            A. more than                                    

            B. more   

            C. less     

            D. than

                2.

                 A. damaged                                 

                 B. damaging                               

                 C. were damaged                        

                 D. damages

                 3.

                 A. conserve                                 

                 B. conservation                           

                 C. conserving                              

                 D. conservations

                 4.

                 A.  placing                                

                 B.  places                                  

                 C. which placed                          

                 D. placed

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

Question 2

A. media

B. bulletin

C. programme

 D. journalism