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.

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall. When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen.

The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second son said no – it was covered with green buds and full of promise. The third son disagreed, he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen. The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfilment.

The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but one season in the tree’s life. He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are – and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life – can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up. If you give up when it’s winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfilment of your fall.

Don’t judge a life by one difficult season. Don’t let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.

(source: https://www.beliefnet.com)

The word “laden” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to .

A. loade

B. decorated

C. enhanced

D. given

Tìm số nguyên n, biết

1 )   2 − 1 .2 n + 4.2 n = 9.2 5

2 )   1 2 .2 n + 4.2 n = 9.2 5

3 )   32 − n .16 n = 2048

4 )   5 2 n + 1 = 125 n + 25

Tìm số nguyên x, biết: a) 23 - x = 19 - (-12); b) x - 7 = (-2) - 8

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

John was in Hanoi and wanted to send a parcel to his parents. He asked a local  passer-by the way to the post-office. Choose the most suitable response to fill in the blank in the following exchange.

- John: “Can you show me the way to the nearest post office, please?”

- Passer-by: “_______”

A. Not way, sorry.

B. Just round the corner over there.

C. Look it up in a dictionary! 

D. There’s no traffic near here.

No one enjoys _______ in public.

A. being made fun of

B. to be made fun of

C. making fun of

D. to make fun of

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

He has been giving most of his money to charity. He hopes to ease the pain and suffering of the disadvantaged.

A. Giving most of his money to charity, he hopes to ease the pain and suffering of the disadvantaged.

B. Easing the pain and suffering of the disadvantaged made him give most of his money to charity.

C. He has been giving most of his money to the disadvantaged to ease their pain and suffering.

D. Hoping to ease the pain and suffering of the disadvantaged, he has given them most of his money

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 following questions from 42 to 50.

Are organically grown foods the best choices? The advantage claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates of organic foods- a term whose meaning varies greatly- frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.

The growing interest of consumers in the safety and nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development. However, much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims that the food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting of entirely organically grown foods prevents or cures diseases provides other benefits to health have become widely publicized and form the basis for folklore.

Almost daily, the public is besieged by claims for “no-aging” diets, new vitamins, and other wonder foods. There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains, and the like.

One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods. But in many cases, consumers misled if they believe organic foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods. So there is real cause for concern if consumers particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food supply and buy only expensive organic foods instead.

The word “others” in paragraph 1 refers to _________

A. advantages

B. advocates

C. organic foods

D. products