Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

My brother can't find a job. He is very well-qualified.

A. My brother can't find a job in spite of he is very well-qualified.

B. My brother can't find a job even though he is very well-qualified.

C. My brother can't find a job despite he is very well-qualified.

D. My brother can't find a job, but he is very well-qualified.

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.

BOOKS

          Nearly all the discoveries that have been made through the ages can (31) ______ in books. The invention of the book  is one  of  humankind's  (32) ______ achievements, the importance  of which can not be evaluated . Books are very useful, providing us with both entertainment and information. The production of books began in Ancient Egypt, though not in  the  form  that  is  accessible  to  us  today.The  books  read  by  Romans,  (33) ______, have some similarities to the ones we read now. Until the middle of the 15^th century, in Europe, all books were written by hand. They (34) ______ often  beautifully  illustrated  and  always  rare  and  expensive.  With  printing  came  the  possibility  of cheap,  large  publication  and  distribution  of  book  making  (35)  ______ more  widespread  and reliable.

Điền vào số (31)

A. found

B. find

C. founded

D. be found

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase thet best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

 In the western customs (31) _______ hands is the customary form of greeting, but in China a nod of the head or (32) _______ bow is sufficient. Hugging and kissing when greeting are uncommon. Business cards are often (33) _______ and yours should be printed in your own language and in Chinese. Also, it is more respectful to present your card or a gift or any other article using (34) _______ hands. The Chinese are (35) _______ applauders. You may be greeted with group clapping, even by small children.

Điền ô số 35

A. enthusiast

B. enthusiastic

C. enthusiasm

D. enthusiastically

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 question from 36 to 43.

A number of factors related to the voice reveal the personality of the speaker.

The first is the broad area of communication, which includes imparting information by use of language, communicating with a group or an individual and specialized communication through performance. A person conveys thoughts and ideas through choice of words, by a tone of voice that is pleasant or unpleasant, gentle or harsh, by the rhythm that is inherent within the language itself, and by speech rhythms that are flowing and regular or uneven and hesitant, and finally, by the pitch and melody of the utterance. When speaking before a group, a person's tone may indicate uncertainty or fright, confidence or calm. At interpersonal levels, the tone may reflect ideas and feelings over and above the words chosen, or may belie them.

Here the participant’s tone can consciously or unconsciously reflect intuitive sympathy or antipathy, lack of concern or interest, fatigue, anxiety, enthusiasm or excitement, all of which are .usually discernible by the acute listener. Public performance is a manner of communication that is highly specialized with its own techniques for obtaining effects by voice and /or gesture. The motivation derived from the text, and in the case of singing, the music, in combination with the performer's skills, personality, and ability to create empathy will determine the success of artistic, political, or pedagogic communication.

Second, the voice gives psychological clues to a person's self-image, perception of others, and emotional health. Self-image can be indicated by a tone of voice that is confident, pretentious, shy, aggressive, outgoing, or exuberant, to name only a few personality traits. Also the sound may give a clue to the facade or mask of that person, for example, a shy person hiding behind an overconfident front. How a speaker perceives the listener's receptiveness, interest, or sympathy in any given conversation can drastically alter the tone of presentation, by encouraging or discouraging the speaker. Emotional health is evidenced in the voice by free and melodic sounds of the happy, by constricted and harsh sound of the angry, and by dull and lethargic qualities of the depressed.

According to the passage, an exuberant tone of voice may be an indication of a person's___________

A. general physical health

B. personality

C. registered

D. obtained

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase thet best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

 In the western customs (31) _______ hands is the customary form of greeting, but in China a nod of the head or (32) _______ bow is sufficient. Hugging and kissing when greeting are uncommon. Business cards are often (33) _______ and yours should be printed in your own language and in Chinese. Also, it is more respectful to present your card or a gift or any other article using (34) _______ hands. The Chinese are (35) _______ applauders. You may be greeted with group clapping, even by small children.

Điền ô sô 33

A. exchanged

B. changed

C. transferred

D. converted

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 from 43 to 50.

    After the United States purchased Louisiana from France and made it their newest territory in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson called for an expedition to investigate the land the United States had bought for $15 million. Jefferson’s secretary, Meriwether Lewis, a woodsman and a hunter from childhood, persuaded the president to let him lead this expedition. Lewis recruited Army officer William Clark to be his co-commander. The Lewis and Clark expedition led the two young explorers to discover a new natural wealth of variety and abundance about which they would return to tell the world.

    When Lewis and Clark departed from St. Louis in 1804, they had twenty-nine in their party, including a few Frenchmen and several men from Kentucky who were well-known frontiersmen. Along the way, they picked up an interpreter named Toussant Charbonneau and his Native American wife, Sacajawea, the Shoshoni “Bird Woman” who aided them as guide and peacemaker and later became an American legend.

    The expedition followed the Missouri River to its source, made a long portage overland though the Rocky Mountains, and descended the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. On the journey, they encountered peaceful Otos, whom they befriended, and hostile Teton Sioux, who demanded tribute from all traders. They also met Shoshoni, who welcomed their little sister Sacajawea, who had been abducted as a child by the Mandans. They discovered a paradise full of giant buffalo herds and elk and antelope so innocent of human contact that they tamely approached the men. The explorers also found a hell blighted by mosquitoes and winters harsher than anyone could reasonably hope to survive. They became desperately lost, then found their way again. Lewis and Clark kept detailed journals of the expedition, cataloging a dazzling array of new plants and animals, and even unearthing the bones of a forty-five-foot dinosaur.

          When the party returned to St. Louis in 1806 after travelling almost 8,000 miles, they were eagerly greeted and grandly entertained. Their glowing descriptions of this vast new West provided a boon to the westward migration now becoming a permanent part of American life. The journals written by Lewis and Clark are still widely read today

The word “boon” in paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to ______.

A. power 

B. hurdle 

C. benefit 

D. conclusion