Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

Our chances of success are very small.

If you don't give up smoking, you'll_____________the risk of damaging your health

I didn't mean (A) offending him, but he (B) took my comments (C) amiss and now will not talk (D) to me.

He was (A) too exhausted (B) that he (C) couldn't even stand on (D) his feet.

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

Câu 5: _____________furniture needs supplying for the schools in the whole country will slow down the process of the reform of education.

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.

The storm was so great. Many families had to be evacuated to safer parts of the city.

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 from 26 to 30.

The (26)_____________American watches television for more than four hours a day. A recent study found that children 6 months to 6 years old spend on average 2 hours a day watching television, using a computer or playing a video game. That is three times as long as they spend reading or being read to. Television makes children violent and aggressive. (27) _____________to the National Institute of Mental Health, there is a consensus developing among members of the research community that violence on television does (28) _____________to aggressive behaviour by children and teenagers who watch the programs.

Television discourages face-to-face interaction among children or families. Sitting (29) _____________ in front of the television leads to weight gain, increasing the chances of diabetes in children and heart disease in adults. Television programs model undesirable behaviour such as drug and alcohol use or (30) _____________relationships. Research indicates that students may be less able to engage in formal descriptions of events or objects than their peers in the past.

A useful way to_____________your vocabulary is to read as much as possible,