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Grammar & vocabulary

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

Question 1: My mother is often _____ last person to go to bed in my family

Question 2: The air quality in this area has improved a lot since that factory _____.

Question 3: The striker had already celebrated the goal, but the _____ decided that he had been offside.

Question 4: An accomplished chef himself, Ronald is _____ about his use of ingredients and spices, especially
when preparing feasts.

Question 5: I'm planning _____ my children to the new amusement park this weekend.

Question 6: My aunt excitedly _____ a compliment on the scarf I knitted for her as a birthday present.

Question 7: Hoi An is famous _____ its ancient architecture.

Question 8: You will not know who your true friend is _____.

Question 9: Mrs Carter feels happy _____ her daughter has made good progress in her studies recently.

Question 10: I can't give chapter and _____, but to the best of my knowledge, it's a line from a sonnet by William Shakespeare.

Question 11: The data _____ from the survey allowed the researchers to gain insights into young people's attitudes to marriage.

Question 12: The job gives you lots of chances to travel abroad; it's certainly a very _____ offer.

Question 13: If I _____ you, I wouldn't stay up this late.

Question 14: The Covid-19 pandemic reminds us to respect doctors and nurses, who _____ others in our society.

Question 15: You often play sports, _____?

Pronunciation

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

Question 16: Choose the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress.

Question 17: Choose the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress.

Pronunciation

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the
other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

Question 18: Choose the word whose underlined "s" differs from the other three in pronunciation.

Pronunciation (19) · push / cut / hunt / run

Antonyms

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

Question 20: Having to work to a deadline can be a stressful experience for students.

Question 21: Everyone was secretly rehearsing a surprise performance for Peter's proposal, but annoyingly James let the cat out of the bag at the last minute.

Synonyms

Mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

Question 22: The author mostly writes novels, and he has also published some books of poetry.

Question 23: I invited John to my wedding but he declined, saying that he would be busy.

Completing Conversations

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the
following exchanges.

Question 24: Joe and Linda are planning a night out.
- Joe: “Let's go out for dinner tonight."
- Linda: “_____”.

Question 25: David and Tim are talking about films.
- David: "In my opinion, action films are really exciting."
- Tim:“_____ They always give me thrills."

Error Identification

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in
each of the following questions.

Question 26: The team's spirits were really low after the first loss, but their morality was improved remarkably by the next three consecutive victories.

Question 27: In some areas, solar energy is used to light, heat, and cooling houses and buildings.

Question 28: My house look more beautiful in spring when the front garden is full of flowers.

Sentence Transformation

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.

Question 29: It is compulsory for all the students to obey the class rules.

Question 30: "I'm going to participate in a volunteer program this summer," said Martha.

Question 31: Mary is more intelligent than her brother.

Sentence Combination

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.

Question 32: The Internet connection was not stable. The teacher couldn't conduct the online lesson successfully.

Question 33: Body shaming is hurtful. Many people enjoy making fun of others' appearance.

READING

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 34 to 38.

YOUR ONLINE IDENTITY
Presenting yourself in the best possible light to a prospective employer is what job applications are all about.
(34) _____ when you put together a compelling CV, write your concise covering letter and check your Linkedin
profile, you might also want to 'Google' yourself and see what comes up, because increasingly that's what
employers are doing. Your online identity, in (35) _____ your Facebook profile, could in fact be considered the
ultimate CV - a personal, honest and spontaneous description of how you see yourself and how those (36) _____
know you see you.
That's not to say that a potential employer is necessarily going to disapprove of your silly behaviours on a night
out with friends; indeed, they might be looking for an extrovert character. But it does mean they will be
examining your real interests and motivations and mining (37) _____ sites for clues to your true character. So if
you say in your CV that you're a motivated, loyal team player and then criticize your employer to friends on
Facebook, that's probably not going to go (38) _____ Try Googling yourself and then ask: "Would you hire
you?"
(Adapted from Keynote by Paul Dummett, Helen Stephenson and Lewis Lansford)

Question 38: So if you say in your CV that you're a motivated, loyal team player and then criticize your employer to friends on Facebook, that's probably not going to go (38) _____.

READING

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 39 to 43.

Most of us have taken a selfie at one time or another, be it a photo of ourselves in a beautiful place, during a
performance by our favourite band, or on a memorable night out with friends. But today, more and more people
are putting their lives at risk in an attempt to get the most shocking pictures to share on social media. In several
cases, this action has had disastrous consequences.
Take, for example, the Spaniard who was killed by a bull while he was taking a selfie during the annual bull run
in a village near his hometown, or the Singaporean tourist who died when he fell from cliffs on the coast of Bali.
Such incidents have led to the death toll from selfie-related incidents reaching double figures for the first time in
2015, overtaking the number of victims of shark attacks.
Despite the risks, social media is full of pictures featuring near misses that could have been fatal under other
circumstances. Under the caption 'Most dangerous selfie ever', a woman posing at a stadium can be seen
narrowly avoiding being hit in the head by a baseball approaching her. Yet the photo has received thousands of
'likes', and the comments below it suggest that this behaviour is something to be admired.
In response to the increasing threat posed by the selfie, the authorities have started to take action. The Russian
Interior Ministry, for instance, has launched a public education campaign advising selfie-takers against balancing
on dangerous surfaces or posing with their pets, among other things. But if instructions like this are really
necessary, then perhaps it is about time we asked ourselves which is more important, a 'like' or a life?
(Adapted from Solutions - Third Edition by Tim Falla and Paul A Davies)

Question 39: What could be the best title for the passage?

Question 40: According to paragraph 1, selfie-takers try to get shocking pictures mainly to ____.

Question 41: The word "overtaking" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ____.

Question 42: The word "it" in paragraph 3 refers to ____

Question 43: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

READING

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 44 to 50.

One day, a middle-aged man asked a taxi to take him to see Chelsea play Arsenal at football. He told the driver
"Stamford Bridge", the name of Chelsea's stadium, but he was delivered instead to the village of Stamford
Bridge in Yorkshire. Of course, he missed the match.
What had happened? With the Sat-Nav system in place, the driver in this story felt he did not need to know
where he was going. He confidently outsourced the job of knowing this information to the Sat-Nav. Using an
Internet search engine takes a broadband user less than a second. And with smartphones at hand, people will be
online almost all of the time.
The same could be true of university education. Today, the average student seems not to value general
knowledge. If asked a factual question, they will usually click on a search engine without a second thought.
Actually knowing the fact and committing it to memory does not seem to be an issue, it's the ease with which we
can look it up.
However, general knowledge has never been something that you acquire formally. Instead, we pick it up from all
sorts of sources as we go along, often absorbing facts without realising. The question remains, then: is the
Internet threatening general knowledge? When I put that to Moira Jones, expert in designing IQ tests, she
referred me to the story of the Egyptian god Thoth. It goes like this: Thoth offers writing as a gift to the king of
Egypt, declaring it an "elixir of memory and wisdom." But the king is horrified, and tells him: "This invention
will induce forgetfulness in the souls of those who have learned it, because they will not need to exercise their
memories, being able to rely on what is written."
Who wants to be a millionaire finalist David Swift, responding to the same question, recognises that there was a
problem of young people saying: "I don't need to know that", but he is far more excited about the educational
potential of the Internet. "There is so much more information out there, giving people opportunities to boost their
general knowledge."
After all, the Internet might just help us to forget more and more. But meanwhile, the continuing popularity of
quizzes and game-shows shows us that general knowledge is strong enough to remain.
(Adapted from English Unlimited by Adrian Doff and Ben Goldstein)

Question 44: Which best serves as the title for the passage?

Question 45: Why did the middle-aged man miss the football match?

Question 46: The word "outsourced" in paragraph 2 mostly means ____.

Question 47: The word "that" in paragraph 4 refers to ____.

Question 48: The word "induce" in paragraph 4 mostly means ____.

Question 49: Which of the following is TRUE, according to the passage?

Question 50: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

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