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Choose the word or phrase among A, B, c or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.       Humans have a long history of eating insects, and it turns out that they can be a very (1)                   part of a person’s regular (2)                          . Insects have  a lot of protein, and they are often easier to catch than (3)                            animals. Therefore, it is no wonder that when our ancient (4)                               saw some tasty worms or grabs wiggling on the ground, they made a quick snack of them.       In Thailand, insects are a regular part of the street food that can be found. The different (5)                            that people snack on are crickets, grasshoppers, giant water bugs, and assorted worms. They are often deep-fried and salted, so they have a crunchy texture that makes them a perfect snack food. If you can get past the (6)                 that you are eating a cricket, it will crunch in your mouth just like a corn chip!       For a lot of people, however, it is difficult to get (7)                   the fear of eating insects. People tend to see insects as invaders, especially when they are crawling on the food that we are about to ear. (8)                   being able to eat insects (9)                      feeling disgusted is cultural. Some people cannot eat French cheese or stinky tofu because they weren’t brought up doing so. To many of us, insects fail right into that category, making it difficult to even try them.       If (10)                    the chance, though, be courageous, insects can be nutritious and tasty, so long as you can get over the “yuck” factor.

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Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only one word in each space.       Australia is a huge country and it has a lot of different kinds of (1)                          . In the past, the Aboriginal people of Australia ate animals like crocodiles and some insects like the witchetty grub. Aboriginal Australians travelled around the Australian countryside, or ‘bush’, to find food.       When the first British and Irish people moved to Australia in the 1830s, they brought sheep and cows from Europe. They also brought traditional Englishand Irish recipes. Many of these (2)                               , like fish and chips and (3)                            pies, are still popular today. They also created new Australian recipes such as the pavlova (a fruit dessert - named after a Russian dancer) and damper (a bread cooked in the bush).       After 1945, a lot of people came to live in Australia from countries like Italy, Germany, Greece, Thailand and India. They brought recipes with them and Australians began to eat and drink different things. People started to drink (4)                     coffee and eat Mediterranean and Asian food.       A lot of modern Australians love (5)                               with fresh food. They often cook food on (6)                                 in their gardens or on the beach. Today more people also eat (7)                              food like kangaroo and (8)                            . Mark Olive, an Aboriginal chef, has a popular TV (9)                  programme about traditional; (10)                        food. There are always new recipes to try in Australia!  

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Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.       To preserve and develop traditional craft villages, in recent years, the local authorities have conducted preservation of four traditional crafts: brocade weaving, silver carving, blacksmithing, and carpentry to bring about economic and social efficiency for the development of provincial tourism...       Currently, the province of Lao Cai has formed the clear models of traditional villages. Cat Cat villages has gradually built its brand with the forging and casting products, textiles of linens of Hmong people. The famous alcohol villages have found their footholds in the market such as Pho village corn wine (Bac Ha), Xeo village wine (in Bat Xat commune).       The villages in the province have been associated with tourism spots and promotetourism development in the community, improve living standards of many families through their home business, selling handicrafts, brocade products.       In the past, in the villages in Sa Pa, people mostly make their living in agriculture, forestry, but now there have been many households getting involved in tourism activities of the village.       With the aim of preserving and developing traditional village linked to tourism development, most of the villages have created its own definition for tourists to learn and explore. In particular, brocade weaving is dominant, serving the needs of families and tourists. Only in Sa Pa district has 11 embroidery and weaving villages, in Ta Phin village, and San Sa Ho village with about 1000 households participating and a number of groups from the district women society, put on the market each year more than 30,000 metres of fabric. Other districts like Van Ban, Bac Ha have also formed several embroidery villages, attracting thousands of workers.       1.   We can infer from the passage that tourism has                     .

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Read the passage below and decide which answer A, B, C or D fits each numbered gap.       Teenagers do not spend as much money as their parents suspect - at least not according to the findings of a (1)                   survey. The survey (2)                       teenagers, 13 – 18 years old, from all over Britain.       By the time they reach their teens, most children see their weekly (3)                     rise dramatically to an amazing national average of £20. Two thirds think they (4)            enough money, but most expect to have to do something to get it.       Although they have more cash, worry about debt is (5)                          among teenagers. Therefore, the majority of children make an effort to (6)                         some aside for the future.       Greater access (7)                         cash among teenagers does not, however, mean that they are more irresponsible (8)                           a result. Instead of wasting (9)            pocket money they have on sweets or magazines, the 13-year-old who took part in the survey seem to (10)                  to the situation by saving more than half of their cash.

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Fill in the blank using the words in the box.       Subsidy economy from 1976 to 1986 means all (1)                                of goods and raw materials are in the (2)                 of the central government. The government coordinated all steps of economy from planning, collecting, and distributing to (3)             . Each person (4)                                 with standard distributions which depended (5)               working level, age, rank and position in government or professional.       (6)                         essential supplies had many problems, for example, four people shared a pair of bicycle tires, or even a blanket. Sometimes one pig was shared among 20 households, everyone wanted to take the good (7)                            and very difficult to divide fairly. Moreover, because of bad storage and complicated delivery, many supplied foods were in bad condition, such as broken, rotten or even poisonous. Each family got (8)                   own rice booklet shown date and number kilos of rice. During that time, the Vietnamese had a famous saying, “Your face (9)                        sad like (10)                the rice booklet”.

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Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words.       Godolphin and Latymer School for girls is a private school in Hammersmith, West London. It (1)             originally a boy’s school, but became a girls’ (2)                 in the early 1900s. The girls didn’t wear a uniform. At thattime, the school had twelve (3)            , an assembly hall, a library, acookery room, a gymnasium, and three science laboratories for chemistry, physics(4)                        botany. The school had its own playing field, described as“lung of Hammersmith”, (5)                    the girls could play hockey, tennis,basketball and cricket. They had (6)                          play games twice a week,with gym once a week. There were 328 girls at the school in 1906.       There are now 700 girls aged (7)                         11 and 18 at the school.The younger pupils have to wear a uniform, but girls in the sixth form can wearwhatever they like. Several additions (8)                              been made to the originalVictorian building. Now there is a computer studies room, a language laboratory, a pottery room, a new gymnasium and an ecology garden. (9)                          newest buildings contain ten laboratories for science and technology, a workshop and darkroom, and art studios. (10)            are also improved facilities for music and drama. The playing field was recently converted into an all-weather surface for hockey and tennis.

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Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question. Street Food Shoulder Poles on Saigon streets       Street food shoulder pole is familiar with Saigon people throughout many years. Nowadays it has become a special thing that makes travelers curious. In small areas of District 1 and District 3, we could count more than 100 vendors who earned money using shoulder poles. A shoulder pole, also called a carrying pole, is a yoke of wood or bamboo, used by people to carry a load. The vendors put their goods in two baskets from each end of the yoke.       In the downtown, we can meet young women with their shoulder poles. The baskets are covered with plastic wrap carefully to protect the foods from the street dust. In a tight space ofone basket, she could mix the ingredients and bake the cake on a small charcoal which was defended by carton. The ready cakes were put in other basket.       In the morning or evening, on rainy or sunny day, Saigon streets are marked by shoulder poles of people from different regions of the country, which has become a      unique part of Saigon. It has been said that it isn’t hard to live in Saigon if you work hard. With the carrying pole on shoulders, the vendor has turned it into a “store”. The reason is very simple, they don’t have enough money to open a real store. Every day these women continue their journey through Saigon streets under the sun and the rain, selling cheap things or street foods to earn money and feed their children. 1.   A shoulder pole                .

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Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.       During the war, children wore straw hats to (1)               themselves from debris. Houses and schools were bombed and destroyed. Many children were made (2)     and their schools had to be moved around or lessons sometimes had to (3)                    after dark to avoid being targeted by heavy bombing. Many schools had its roof (4)             with several layers of straw to withstand the (5)             of the bombs. Life for children was very hard in both the North and South of Viet Nam during the war.       Young people were (6)                 of their duty to serve their country. Even young girls took part in the war efforts by digging bomb shelters. Children took first-aid courses after school so that they could (7)                  injured people.       Childhood years of children born in the 1960s are (8)                 . As innocent children, they went to school (9)                    straw hats in the sounds of American jet fighters in the sky and the shots from Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns.       Nowadays, they are proud that they came through those hardships. They had their heads held (10)                       walking out of the war.

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Complete the conversation about means of communication, using the responses (A-H) given. A.  Our messages will be transferred at the speech of light in the future. B.  Smoke was used as a means of communication from one mountain to another. C.  With the invention of stamps. D.  Only a few simple messages could be sent and received with this primitive method of smoke signals. E.   People carry it together with the identity card, the keys and the wallet. F.   The pigeons could fly to and fro to carry letters. G.  It tells about the means of communication in the past, present, and the future. H.  Carrier pigeon was another means communication to send messages further away.   John:        Which book are you reading, Hung? Hung:       (1)__________________________________________________________________                   _____________________________________________________________ John:        Wow, interesting! I think it has changed according to the changes in technology. What was first used for communication? Hung:       (2)___________________________________________________________                   _____________________________________________________________ John:        Maybe people only used smoke to ask for help or something like that. Hung:       (3)___________________________________________________________ John:        What happened after that? Hung:       (4)__________________________________________________________________                   _____________________________________________________________ John:        I’ve heard about that. The pigeons were trained for this two-way communication method of letter carrying. Hung:       Sure. (5)             John:        Then people send letters by post. Hung:       (6)___________________________________________________________                   Right? After that, we have Morse codes, telegraphs, telephones, email with the Internet, and so on. John:        Now mobiles are the most popular. Hung:       Yeah. (7)                   _____________________________________________________________                   _____________________________________________________________ John:        And the future? It is not difficult to predict the future of the communication. Hung: (8)

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