I.                Complete these sentences with the appropriate words from the box

 1.     You’d better learn by ……….all the new words.

2.     What ……….of learning English do you find difficult?

3.     Most foreign students live in ………. on campus.

4.     His novel won the Booker Prize and established his ……….

5.     You can take the exam at intermediate or advanced ……….

6.     If you want to sell your car, why not put an ……….in the daily paper?

7.     On the way, we stopped 3 times to admire mountain ……….

8.     I’ve never seen this word before. Use a ……….to look it up.

IV. Read the text below. Complete the gaps (1-3) with appropriate words A-F from the box to obtain a
grammatically and lexically correct text. Fill in the gaps with appropriate letters. There are three
extra words that do not match any of the gaps.

A. invented

B. designed

C. discovered

D. planned

E. first

F. early

CALENDARS
These days, everybody uses calendars to note important dates like birthdays, but when did we start
measuring time?
Until recently, experts believed that people in the Near East made the 1) ………………..……. calendar
5,000 years ago. However, they then 2) ………………..……. an ancient site in Scotland from over
10,000 years ago. At the site, there were 12 holes in the ground. Scientists think that people
3) ………………..……. them to track the movement of the Moon and measure time. It’s an exciting discovery because it shows that people had calendars many centuries ago.

I.    Complete the passage with words from the box.

      With the socioeconomic development, more and more cities around the world have been(1)                            with the shortage of housing. These day, there are a large (2)                       of laborers flooding into city centers to search for suitable jobs with high level of (3)                         . As a result, the demand of the (4)                            has risen significantly than ever before because the demands outweigh the supplies. Moreover, most people would like to live in cities because they have a higher (5)                of living than that of the countryside. Obviously, with stable and high income of the employees, they would have a better cultural life as well as (6)                        life in cities.

      To address this social problem, governments should call for investment in the countryside to (7)                           labor forces. In addition, they also need to put an effort into raising a great deal of money to build more skyscrapers to meet demands of housing and(8)                                a law that sets strict conditions to work and to live in cities.

7/ Complete the passage with words from the box.

conflict -      refers    -     less   -   most     -     through     -      ambitions      -  with    -       studying

            The term “Life Skills” (1)                               to the skills you need to make the most outof life. Life skills are usually associated with managing and living a better quality of life.They help us to accomplish our (2)                  and live to our full potential. Any skillthat is useful in your life can be considered a life skill. Different life skills will be more or(3)                   relevant at different times in your life, for example:

s  When at school or university, you’ll need (4)                               skills.

s  When you have a job, leadership and presentation skills may be useful, along with a whole host of other skills.

s  There will be times throughout your life when you’ll need (5)                resolution, stress management and problem solving skills too.

            However, perhaps the (6)                                important life skill is the ability and willingnessto learn. By learning new skills we increase our understanding of the world around us and equip ourselves with the tools we need to live a more productive and fulfilling life, findingways to cope (7)                                    the challenges that life, inevitably, throws at us. Life skillsare not always taught directly but often learned indirectly (8)               experienceand practice.

* Complete the sentences with appropriate words picked out from the list.

1. The resort ……………………in a valley.
2. Did you have a good ……………………?
3. My sister is ……………………of ants and bees.
4. That rule is not ……………………in this case.
5. The fields were being ……………………for winter wheat.
6. That year, ……………………failure led to widespread famine.
7. He was ordered to have complete ……………………after his heart attack.
8. Vietnam declared its ……………………on September 2 nd , 1945.
9. The twins are so alike that it is difficult to ……………………one from the other.
10. In the North of Vietnam, people tend to visit The Perfume Pagoda, a ……………………of pagodas.

XI. Complete the passage with words from the box.

      The term “Life Skills” (1)                         to the skills you need to make the most outof life. Life skills are usually associated with managing and living a better quality of life.They help us to accomplish our (2)          and live to our full potential. Any skillthat is useful in your life can be considered a life skill. Different life skills will be more or(3)                      relevant at different times in your life, for example:

s  When at school or university, you’ll need (4)                                    skills.

s  When you have a job, leadership and presentation skills may be useful, along with a whole host of other skills.

s  There will be times throughout your life when you’ll need (5)                      resolution, stress management and problem solving skills too.

      However, perhaps the (6)                          important life skill is the ability and willingnessto learn. By learning new skills we increase our understanding of the world around us and equip ourselves with the tools we need to live a more productive and fulfilling life, findingways to cope (7)                           the challenges that life, inevitably, throws at us. Life skillsare not always taught directly but often learned indirectly (8)              experienceand practice.

VII. Complete the passage with the words in the box, then answer the

       Brunei is one of the (31).................... countries in the world. Its population is only 25,000 and (32)........................... of them live in the capital city.  It is also the richest country in Asia and may be the richest country in the world because it has a lot of oil and (33)……..…….... gas  which it exports to Japan. Every week huge tankers carry oil and gas (34)…… the oil-fields of Brunei to Japan. The head of the state in Brunei is Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah. He is the richest man in the world. The Sultan has more than 200 cars and he also has hundreds of (35)..........

* Complete the passage with words from the box.

With (1) ……………………of over 200 meters (656 feet) wide and 150 meters (492 feet) high as well as a length of 9 kilometers (5.6 miles), Son Doong Cave is the largest cave in the world.

Before 2009, Malaysia’s Deer Cave was (2) ……………………as the largest cave in the world until a group of scientists from the British Cave Research Association (3) ……………………and studied the Son Doong Cave finding it was in fact over (4) ……………………the size of Deer Cave.

Named by BBC News, the “most beautiful cave on the globe” makes this one of the great natural (5) ……………………of Asia. It is a mountain river cave featuring a fast flowing (6) ……………………river. Son Doong Cave is mostly comprised of limestone that has over time shaped into some of the tallest stalagmite (7) ……………………in the world. Within Son Doong Cave visitors will find it is so big that it contains its own jungle and river and has the (8) ……………………to be able to fit a 40-story skyscraper inside. The source of the river still remains (9) ……………………to this day with future plans of the British Cave Research Association to return soon and (10) ……………………to solve the many mysteries this cave holds.

III. Fill in each blank with an appropriate word to complete the passage. The first letter is given.
Every year in July, people in Ubon Ratchathani Thailand (1)
c______________ the Candle Festival. 
(2) T___________ from all over the country come to Ubon to look
at huge wax (3) c_____________ that are (4)
p__________through the streets on floats, accompanies by dancers and musicians in (5) t_____________ clothing. There is even a competition for artists and (6) p__________are given for the best decorated floats and most beautiful wax carvings.