Mark the letter A, B, C or D in your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

They asked me what did happen the night before, but I was unable to tell them.

A. asked     

B. did happen       

C. but         

D. to tell

Mark the letter A,B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word in the following sentence

The soldier was demoted for improper behavior

A. promoted

B. lowered

C. resigned

D. let off

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.

           The handling and delivery of mail has always been a serious business, underpinned by the trust of the public in requiring timeliness, safety, and confidentiality. After early beginnings using horseback and stagecoach, and although cars and trucks later replaced stagecoaches and wagons, the Railway Mail Service still stands as one of America’s most resourceful and exciting postal innovations. This service began in 1832, but grew slowly until the Civil War. Then from 1862, by sorting the mail on board moving trains, the Post Office Department was able to decentralize its operations as railroads began to crisscross the nation on a regular basis, and speed up mail delivery. This service lasted until 1974. During peak decades of service, railway mail clerks handled 93% of all non-local mail and by 1905 the service had over 12,000 employees.

Railway Post Office trains used a system of mail cranes to exchange mail at stations without stopping. As a train approached the crane, a clerk prepared the catcher arm which would then snatch the incoming mailbag in the blink of an eye. The clerk then booted out the outgoing mailbag. Experienced clerks were considered the elite of the Postal Service’s employees, and spoke with pride of making the switch at night with nothing but the curves and feel of the track to warn them of an upcoming catch. They also worked under the greatest pressure and their jobs were considered to be exhausting and dangerous. In addition to regular demands of their jobs they could find themselves the victims of train wrecks and robberies.

          As successful as it was, “mail-on-the-fly” still had its share of glitches. If they hoisted the train’s catcher arm too soon, they risked hitting switch targets, telegraph poles or semaphores, which would rip the catcher arm off the train. Too late, and they would miss an exchange.

Which of the following can be inferred from the first paragraph?

A. There was a high turnover of railway mail clerks.

B. The development of the mail roads during the second half of the 19th century enabled Post Office Department to focus on timeliness.

C. The Post Office Department was more concerned about speeding up mail delivery than the safety of its clerks.

D. Mail was often lost or damaged as it was exchanged on the mail crane.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to fill in the following exchange

Jack and Joe are discussing how to make salad for dinner.

-Jack: “______”.

-Joe: “How about putting some grapes in it, instead?”.

A. We could fry some onions with it too

B. I’d rather just have some bread, thanks

C. Let’s put some pieces of apple in the salad

D. Good idea! I’ll go and make one.

Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to answer the following questions.

A (25) _____ teacher can reach thousands of students in an online course, opening up a world of knowledge to anyone with an internet connection. This limitless reach also offers substantial benefits for school districts that need to save money, by reducing the number of teachers. (26) _____, in high schools and colleges, there is mounting evidence that the growth of online education is hurting a critical group: the less proficient students (27) _____ are precisely those most in need of skilled classroom teachers. Online courses can be broken down into several categories, and some are more effective than others.

In "blended” courses, for example, students don’t do their work only online: They also spend time in a classroom with a flesh-and-blood teacher. Research suggests that students - at nearly all levels of achievement - do just as well in these blended classes as they do in traditional classrooms. In this model, online resources supplement traditional instruction but don’t replace it. In the fully online model, on the other hand, a student may never be in the same room with an instructor. This category is the main problem. It is where less proficient students tend to (28) _____ trouble. After all, taking a class without

a teacher requires high levels of self-motivation, self-regulation and organization. Yet, in high schools across the country, students who are struggling in (29) ______ classrooms are increasingly steered into online courses.

Điền vào đáp án 27

A. which

B. where 

C. when 

D. who

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or B on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 37.

  Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played bore no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was sufficient. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing lively music to a solemn film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces to the mood of the film.

  As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain cases, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before the y were to be shown (if, indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see them then), the musical arrangement was normally improvised in the greatest hurry.

  To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing suggestions for musical accompaniments. In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began issuing with their films such indications of mood as “pleasant’, “sad”, “lively”. The suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the musical cue sheet containing indications of mood, the titles of suitable pieces of music, and precise directions to show where one piece led into the next.

  Certain films had music especially composed for them. The most famous of these early specialscores was that composed and arranged for D. w. Griffith’s film Birth of a Nation, which was released in 1915.

The passage mainly discusses music that was _________.

A. performed before the showing of a film 

B. played during silent films 

C. specifically composed for certain movie theaters 

D. recorded during film exhibitions