The worry about salt is that it may…(1) high blood pressure. Chemically, salt …(2) of sodium and chloride ions, both of…(3) are common in the human…(4) and are important for many physiological and biochemical …(5). We not only need salt, we are salt, but too…(6) may still be bad for us. Although the idea of a…(7) between salt and high blood pressure…(8) back to 2000 BC, there is still no scientific…(9) as to whether this is so or not. One reason for this…(10) to agree is that individual salt intake…(11) enormously from day to day, and so reliable measures of intake are hard to come…(12).
Those who believe that salt does…(13) to high blood pressure…(14) to the high incidence of high blood pressure in countries that eat a very…(15) diet. In Japan, for instance, where salted fish is an important part of diet, high blood pressure and…(16) complications are common,…(17) among some Amazonian and African tribes, which have a low intake of salt, they are almost…(18).
But…(19) there is this neat relation between salt intake and the incidence of high blood pressure between countries, it doesn't seem to apply…(20) those countries themselves. Studies, for instance, of couples who have a similar salt intake don't show any consistency in how often they develop high blood pressure.

1.     You are not allowed to go inside the museum without ………….( pray)

2.    We like their ___________________ (Friendly).

3.     The ________________ between Vietnam and China is not good. (Friend)

4.    Much superstitions and ……………………are connected with Halloween ((symbolize)

5.     They seem to be ________________. We dislike them. (Friend)

6.    Fathers and mothers share …………….. in the raising of their children, household chores…( equal)

7.     We saw ___________________ girls there. (Beauty)

8.    Visitors were most________________by the enthusiasm and commitment of pupils, teachers and all concerned.(impress)

9.    At each shrine you pause, and you say some_______________and you greet each deity.(pray)

Are some people born cleaver and others born (1) ____? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to both these (2) ____ is "Yes". To some extent, our intelligence is given at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of (3) ____ born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring surrounding will develop his intelligence less than (4) ____ who lives in rich and varied surrounding. Thus the limits of a person's intelligence are fixed at birth but (5) ____ or not he reaches those limits will (6) ____ on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways. It's easy to show that intelligence is something we are born with (7) ____ we take two unrelated people at random from the population. It's likely that (8) ____ degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other hand, we take children - identical twins, they will very likely be (9) ____ intelligent as other. This clearly suggests that intelligence depends on (10) ____.

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

      School exams are, generally speaking, the first kind of test we take. They find out how much knowledge we have gained. But do they really show how intelligent we are? After all, isn’t it a __(23)__ that some people who are very academically successful don’t have any common sense. Intelligence is the speed ___(24)___ which we can understand and react to new situations and it is usually tested by logic puzzles. Although scientist are now preparing ___(25)___ computer technology that will be able to “read” our brains, __(26)__ tests are still the most popular ways of measuring intelligence.

       A person’s IQ is their intelligence ___(27)__ it is measured by a special test. The most common IT tests are run by Mensa, an organization that was found in England in 1946. By 1976, it had 1,300 members in Britain. Today there are 44,000 in Britain and 100,000 worldwide , largely inthe US.

Điền vào số (23)

A. truth 

B. case 

C. circumstances  

D. fact

[Complete the following sentences with suitable collocations connected with the body parts. Random letters are provided to help you]

Example: There was a h_ _ _ - _ _ collision on a single carriage way, and of course in his opinion road conditions were to blame for that.

→ head-on collision

1. Twenty years ago my brother and sisters all have to wear h _ _ _ - _ _ - _ _ _ _ as we could hardly make ends meet.

2. It came as no surprise to me that Jordan didn't come to the rally - he's too _ _ _ _ _ w-b _ _ _ _ _ _ to defend his beliefs in public. 

3. It was a _ _-b _ _ _ _ _ _ to hire her and place her in a position where he could really influence things.

4. But Eric wants no part of the old-boy network held in high regard by his t _ _ _ _ _ - n _ _ _ _ peers.

5. The two competitors ran toward the finish line n _ _ _ and n _ _ _.

6. Countries now are strictly protecting commercial aviation against the s _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - f _ _ _ _ missile threat.

7. It has everything the greatest has, a j _ _ - _ _o _ _ _ _ _ set, catchy music, amazing costumes and intricate choreography.

8. Nevertheless, m _ _ _ _- b _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in all ages has been regarded as a bad habit, and of course with good reason.

9. Obviously, many people have read that book recently because it was w _ _ _ - t _ _ _ _ _ _.

10. He and his family have to live c _ _ _ _    b_    _ o _ _ with oiks, people with tattoos and hooligans. ( 3 words )

11. The family spent the next 72 hours, plus a lot of e _ _ _ _  gr _ _ _ _, cleaning the space and moving in, in less than one week.

School exams are, generally speaking, the first kind of tests we take. They find out (31) ______ much knowledge we have gained. But do they really show how intelligent we are? After all, isn't it a fact that some people who are very successful academically don't have any common sense?

Intelligence is the speed at which we can understand and react to new situations and it is usually tested by logic puzzles. (32) ______ scientists are now preparing advanced computer technology that will be able to “read” our brains, for the present, tests are still the most popular ways of measuring intelligence. 

A person's IQ is his intelligence (33) ______ it is measured by a special test The most common IQ tests are run by Mensa, an organization that was founded in England in 1946. By 1976 it had 1,300 m.embers in Britain. Today there are 44,000 in Britain and 100,000 worldwide, (34) ______ the US. 

People taking the tests are judged in relation to an average score of 100, and those (35) ______score over l48 are entitled to join Mensa. This works out at 2% of the population.

Điền ô sô 33

A. how        

B. as  

C. that          

D. so