Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 46

I was with Overseas Volunteers (OV) for a year after leaving university, and I was sent to an isolated village in Chad, about 500 kilometres from the capital N’Djamena. Coming from a (36)______country, I got quite a shock, as conditions were much harder than I had ( 37) ______. But after a few days I soon got used to (38) ______there. The people were very friendly and helpful, and I soon began to appreciate how beautiful the countryside was.

One of my job was to supply the village with water. The well was a long walk (39) _____, and the women used to spend a long time every day ( 40)_______heavy pots backwards and forwards. So I contacted the organization and arranged to (41 ) _____some pipes delivered. We built a simple pipeline and a pump, and it worked first time. It wasn’t perfect there were a few (42) _____but it made a great difference to the villagers, (43 )______had never had running water before. And not (44 ) ____did we have running water, but in the evenings it was hot, because the pipe had been (45) ____ in the sun all day.

All in all, I think my time with OV was a good experience. I would recommend it to anyone who was planning to work for a charity

Điền vào ô 39

A. away

B from

C. away from

D. far

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

_________ that she stormed out of the house.

A. Such was angry girl

B. So angry was she

C. She was angry so

D. Her anger was so

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American humor and American popular heroes were born together. The first popular heroes of the new nation were comic heroes, and the first popular humor of the new nation was the antics of its hero-clowns.

The heroic and the comic were combined in novel American proportions in popular literature. The heroic themes are obvious enough and not much different from those in the legends of other times and places: Achilles, Beowulf, Siegfried, Roland, and King Arthur. The American Davy Crockett legends repeat the familiar pattern of the old world heroic story: the pre-eminence of a mighty hero whose fame in myth has a tenuous basis in fact; the remarkable birth and precocious strength of the hero; single combats in which he distinguished himself against antagonists, both man and beast; vows and boasts; pride of the hero in his weapons, his dog, and his woman.

Davy Crockett conquered man and beast with a swaggering nonchalance. He overcame animals by force of body and will. He killed four wolves at the age of six. He hugged a bear to death; he killed a rattlesnake with his teeth. He mastered the forces of nature. Crockett’s most famous natural exploit was saving the earth on the coldest day in history. First, he climbed a mountain to determine the trouble. Then he rescued all creation by squeezing bear-grease on the earth’s frozen axis and over the sun’s icy face. He whistled, “Push along, keep moving!” The earth gave a grunt and began moving.

Neither the fearlessness nor the bold huntsman’s prowess was peculiarly American. Far more distinctive was the comic quality, all heroes are heroic; few are also clowns. What made the American popular hero heroic also made him comic. “May be”, said Crockett, “you’ll laugh at me and not at my book”. The ambiguity of American life and the vagueness which laid the continent open to adventure, which made the land a rich storehouse of the unexpected, which kept vocabulary ungoverned and the language fluid----this same ambiguity suffused both the Crockett legends were never quite certain whether to laugh or to applaud, or whether what they saw and heard was wonderful, awful or ridiculous.

Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a heroic theme?

A. Superior physical strength                     

B. Pride in the hero woman

C. Fluid use of language                             

D. Boasting by the hero

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 46

I was with Overseas Volunteers (OV) for a year after leaving university, and I was sent to an isolated village in Chad, about 500 kilometres from the capital N’Djamena. Coming from a (36)______country, I got quite a shock, as conditions were much harder than I had ( 37) ______. But after a few days I soon got used to (38) ______there. The people were very friendly and helpful, and I soon began to appreciate how beautiful the countryside was.

One of my job was to supply the village with water. The well was a long walk (39) _____, and the women used to spend a long time every day ( 40)_______heavy pots backwards and forwards. So I contacted the organization and arranged to (41 ) _____some pipes delivered. We built a simple pipeline and a pump, and it worked first time. It wasn’t perfect there were a few (42) _____but it made a great difference to the villagers, (43 )______had never had running water before. And not (44 ) ____did we have running water, but in the evenings it was hot, because the pipe had been (45) ____ in the sun all day.

All in all, I think my time with OV was a good experience. I would recommend it to anyone who was planning to work for a charity

Điền vào ô 42

A. breaks

B. leaks

C. splits

D. punctures

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The accident is believed _________ 2 years ago.

A. to be investigated

B. to have investigted

C. to investigate

D. to have been investigated

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It’s a sound you will probably never hear, a sickened tree sending out a distress signal. But a group of scientists has heard the cries, and they think some insects also hear the trees and are drawn to them like vulture to a dying animal. Researchers with the US Department of

Agriculture’s Forest Service fastened sensors to the bark of drought-stricken trees clearly heard distress calls. According to one of the scientists, most parched trees transmit their plight in the 50-hertz to 50-kilohertz range. (The unaided human ear can detect no more than 20 kilohertz). Red oak, maple, white pine, and birch all make slightly different sounds in the form of vibrations at the surface of the wood.

The scientists think that the vibrations are created when the water columns inside tubes that run along the length of the tree break, a result of too little water following through them. These fractured columns send out distinctive vibration pattems. Because some insects communicate at ultrasonic frequencies, they may pick up the trees' vibration and attack the weakened trees. Researchers are now running tests with potted trees that have been deprived of water to see if the sound is what attracts the insects. “Water-stressed trees also smell differently from other trees, and they experience thermal changes, so insects could be responding to something other than sound”, one scientist said.

Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?

A. The effect of insects on trees

B. The vibrations produced by insects

C. The mission of the U.S Forest Service

D. The sounds made by trees

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following question.
It was found that he lacked the ____ to pursue a difficult task to the very end.

A. obligation

B.  engagement

C.  commitment

D.  persuasion