Read the article, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.

Simple Ways to Lose Weight on a Budget

Plan to Cook at Home

Instead of buying costly prepared meals, which often tend to be high in calories, cook your own at home. Plan out your meals with high-fiber foods like beans and whole grains which will keep you full and are a cheaper, healthier alternative to rich proteins and more processed grains.

Eat Less

Eating less leads to weight loss, and cost savings, especially if you cut down on the right things. Start by cutting your portions of pricy meat and poultry. Double Up on Vegetables

Vegetables are great for weight loss, as well as all-around health. They are low in calories and high in water and fiber - two things that keep you feeling full. Save cash by shopping for those that are in season. Frozen vegetables can be a great bargain, with just as much nutrition as fresh, since they are picked and frozen at their peak ripeness.

Get Creative with Your Exercise Options

You don’t need to shell out a monthly gym fee to get moving. Instead, find fun activities you enjoy for free. If you’re just getting started with a regular exercise routine, try your beginning with daily walks: start slowly and build up time and speed.

The advantage of cooking at home is ………..

A.to have food that is high in calories

B.to enjoy a variety of rich proteins and more processed grains

C. to plan out your costly prepared meals

D. to choose foods that keep you full and is cheaper

Modern traffic lights are an American invention.Red-green systems were installed in Cleveland (1)..............

1914.Three-coour signas were (2)....................in New York in 1918.They used (3).............be operated by hand from a tower in the middle of the street.The first lights of this type appeared in Lon Don,on the junction between St.James Street (4)................Piccaadily,in 1925.Automatic signals were installed a year late.In the past,traffic used to (5)............very special.In New York,some lights used to (6)............a statue on top.In Los Angeles,the (7)...................did not just change silently,but would ring bells to wake the sleeping motorists of the 1930s.These are gone and have been replaced by modern systems that (8).................seen everywhere now.

WORD FORM :

1. Because of the volume of traffic, local councils are forced to give __________ for more roads to be constructed (permit)

2. My class is going to go on a two-day __________ to Hanoi (excurse)

3. He was very __________ of the work he had done (pride)

4. ___________ is a popular hobby (photograph)

5. Traveling by subway is fast, ____________ and cheap (convenience)

6. Her ________ was so great that she broke a glass (anxious)

7. The old fishing village is very _________ (picture)

8. I feel _________ in this book (interest)

9. The advantage of living in the countryside is that the air is ____________ (pollute)

10. People are becoming far more aware of _________ changes (environment)

11. There was a conference to promote international _________ (friend)

12. Don't waste __________ (electric)

13. Nam is one of the ______ on boat trip to Ha Long Bay (participate)

14. A lot of people were ___________ killed by tsunami in Japan in 2011 (disaster)

15. Gas and oil _________ always increased in cold weather (consume)

Read the following passage on transport, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 1 to 8.

In addition to the great ridges and volcanic chains, the oceans conceal another form of undersea mountains: the strange guyot, or flat-topped seamount. No marine geologist even suspected the existence of these isolated mountains until they were discovered by geologist Harry H. Hess in 1946.

He was serving at the time as naval officer on a ship equipped with a fathometer. Hess named these truncated peaks for the nineteenth-century Swiss-born geologist Arnold Guyot, who had served on the faculty of Princeton University for thirty years. Since then, hundreds of guyots have been discovered in every ocean but the Arctic. Like offshore canyons, guyots present a challenge to oceanographic theory. They are believed to be extinct volcanoes. Their flat tops indicate that they once stood above or just below the surface, where the action of waves leveled off their peaks. Yet today, by definition, their summits are at least 600 feet below the surface, and some are as deep as 8,200 feet. Most lie between 3,200 feet and 6,500 feet. Their tops are not really flat but slope upward to a low pinnacle at the center. Dredging from the tops of guyots has recovered basalt and coral rubble, and that would be expected from the eroded tops of what were once islands. Some of this material is over 80 million years old. Geologists think the drowning of the guyots involved two processes: The great weight of the volcanic mountains depressed the sea floor beneath them, and the level of the sea rose a number of times, especially when the last Ice Age ended, some 8,000 to 11,000 years ago.

According to the passage, which of the following two processes were involved in the submersion of guyots?

A. Erosion and volcanic activity.

B. The sinking of the sea floor and the rising of sea level.

C. High tides and earthquakes.

D. Mountain building and the action of ocean currents.

Read the following passage on transport, 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.

In addition to the great ridges and volcanic chains, the oceans conceal another form of undersea mountains: the strange guyot, or flat-topped seamount. No marine geologist even suspected the existence of these isolated mountains until they were discovered by geologist Harry H. Hess in 1946.

He was serving at the time as naval officer on a ship equipped with a fathometer. Hess named these truncated peaks for the nineteenth-century Swiss-born geologist Arnold Guyot, who had served on the faculty of Princeton University for thirty years. Since then, hundreds of guyots have been discovered in every ocean but the Arctic. Like offshore canyons, guyots present a challenge to oceanographic theory. They are believed to be extinct volcanoes. Their flat tops indicate that they once stood above or just below the surface, where the action of waves leveled off their peaks. Yet today, by definition, their summits are at least 600 feet below the surface, and some are as deep as 8,200 feet. Most lie between 3,200 feet and 6,500 feet. Their tops are not really flat but slope upward to a low pinnacle at the center. Dredging from the tops of guyots has recovered basalt and coral rubble, and that would be expected from the eroded tops of what were once islands. Some of this material is over 80 million years old. Geologists think the drowning of the guyots involved two processes: The great weight of the volcanic mountains depressed the sea floor beneath them, and the level of the sea rose a number of times, especially when the last Ice Age ended, some 8,000 to 11,000 years ago. 

According to the passage, which of the following two processes were involved in the submersion of guyots?

A. Erosion and volcanic activity.

B. The sinking of the sea floor and the rising of sea level.

C. High tides and earthquakes.

D. Mountain building and the action of ocean currents.

Read the following passage on transport, 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.

(1) Over the past 600 years, English has grown from a language of few speakers to become the dominant language of international communication. English as we know it today emerged around 1350, after having incorporated many elements of French that were introduced following the Norman invasion of 1066. Until the 1600s, English was, for the most part, spoken only in England and had not extended even as far as two centuries, English began to spread around the globe as a result of exploration, trade (including slave trade), colonization, and missionary work. Thus, small enclaves of English speakers became established and grew in various parts of the world. As these communities proliferated, English gradually became the primary language of international business, banking and diplomacy.

(2) Currently, about 80 percent of the information stored on computer systems worldwide is English. Two - thirds of the world’s science writing is in English, and English is the main language of technology, advertising, media, international airports, and air traffic controllers - Today there are more than 700 million English users in the world, and over half of these are nonnative speakers, constituting the largest number of nonnative users than any other language in the world.

Approximately when did English begin to be used to beyond England?

A. in 1066

B. around 1350    

C. before 1600     

D. after 1600

1.Read the passage and put a suitable word in each of the gaps

Model traffic lights are an American invenntion . Red-green system were installed in Cleveland (1).........1914.Three-color signals were (2).......in New York in 1918. They used (3).........be operated by hand from a tower in the middle of the street . The first light of the type appeared in London , on the junction between St.Jame Street (4).......Piccadilly, in 1925. Automatic signals were installed a year later. In the past, traffic lights used to (5).......very special. In New York, some light used to (6).........a statue on top

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

Thunderstorms, with their jagged bursts of lightning and roaring thunder, are actually one of nature’s primary mechanisms for transferring heat from the surface of the earth into the atmosphere. A thunderstorm starts when low-lying pockets of warm air from the surface of the earth begin to rise. The pockets of warm air float upward through the air above that is both cooler and heavier. The rising pockets cool as their pressure decreases, and their latent heat is released above the condensation line through the formation of cumulus clouds.

What will happen with these clouds depends on the temperature of the atmosphere. In winter, the air temperature differential between higher and lower altitudes is not extremely great, and the temperature of the rising air mass drops more slowly. During these colder months, the atmosphere, therefore, tends to remain rather stable. In summer, however, when there is a high accumulation of heat near the earth’s surface, in direct contrast to the considerably colder air higher up, the temperature differential between higher and lower altitudes is much more pronounced. As warm air rises in this type of environment, the temperature drops much more rapidly than it does in winter; when the temperature drops more than 4 degrees Fahrenheit per thousand feet of altitude, cumulus clouds aggregate into a single massive cumulonimbus cloud, or thunderhead.

In isolation, a single thunderstorm is an impressive but fairly benign way for Mother Earth to defuse trapped heat from her surface; thunderstorms, however, can appear in concert, and the resulting show, while extremely impressive, can also prove extraordinarily destructive. When there is a large-scale collision between cold air and warm air masses during the summer months, a squall line, or series of thunderheads, may develop. It is common for a squall line to begin when an advancing cold front meets up with and forces itself under a layer of warm and moist air, creating a line of thunderstorms that races forward at speeds of approximately forty miles per hour. A squall line, which can be hundreds of miles long and can contain fifty distinct thunderheads, is a magnificent force of nature with incredible potential for destruction. Within the squall line, often near its southern end, can be found supercells, long-lived rotating storms of exceptional strength that serve as the source of tornadoes.
Question:This reading would most probably be assigned in which of the following courses?

A. Geography

B. Meteorology

C. Marine Biology

D. Chemistry

Question 22. Hoa ________ the busy city traffic now.

A. used to                    B. uses to                      C. gets used to          D. gets use to

Question 23. On the table, there are vegetables, bread and two large ________.

A. bowl of soup           B. bowls of soup          C. bowl of soups       D. bowls of soups

Question 24. I hope the ________ can repair our car quickly.

A. mechanic                B. reporter                 C. nurse                       D. journalist

Question 25. What kind of ________ do you like? – I like cartoons.

A. book                       B. pictures                  C. flowers                    D. films