SECTION A: LISTENING/
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SECTION B: LANGUAGE FOCUS

I. Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D
1. Tam ____________ go fishing with his brother when he was young.
A. used to B. is used to C. has used to D. was used to
2. I don`t know what to do this evening. What about ____________ to the movies?
A. go B. to go C. going D. goes
3. I don`t like doing the ____________, especially cleaning the windows.
A. homework B. housework C. job D. occupation.
4. My favorite ____________ is Literature.
A. play B. game C. subject D. activity
5. My mother is very ____________ at cooking.
A. well B. good C. popular D. famous
6. She____________ a letter when the telephone rang.
A. writes B. wrote C. has written D. was writing
7. He has just got an interesting ____________ in a textile company.
A. work B. job C. occupation D. employment
8. William suggested ____________ at home for a change.
A. staying B. to stay C. stay D. stayed
9. The ____________ of waste paper can save a great amount of wood pulp.
A. recycle B. recyclable C. recycled D. recycling
10. Mr. Peter forgot to ____________ the faucet when she left for work.
A. turn off B. turn on C. turn up D. turn down


II. Choose the underlined word or phrase in each sentence thatneeds correcting.
1. They asked me what did happenlast night, but I was unableto tell them.
A B C D
2. Air pollution, together with littering, are causing many problems in our large, industrial cities today.
A B C D
3. Last summer I have stayed on my aunt’s farm for a month.
A B C D
4. Nora hardly never misses an opportunity to playin the tennis tournaments.
A B C D
5. Many people believe that New York is the most great city in America.
A B C D


6. Each year people around the world spending billions of dollars buying goods on
A B C D
the Internet

7. I will come and stay with you and your familyon March.
A B C D
8. I’m looking forward to hearfrom you. Write soon.
A B C D
9. She wishes she couldspeak Englishfluent.
A B C D
10. Despite of the heavysnow, she went out.
A B C D


SECTION C: READING

I. Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
El Nino is a weather phenomenon of the Pacific Ocean which is (1) by an abnormal (2) of water on the surface of the ocean. It has the (3) to influence global weather patterns as it brings drought to some continents and (4) rain to others. It was first (5) by fishermen coming from Spanish ports in the Pacific in the 17th century. It got its name (Spanish for “boy child”) because it usually takes (6) near Christmas time. It can cause catastrophic (7) . The 1982 El Nino (8) in 1,500 deaths, but it can be a lot worse than that. Sea animals, (9) fish and birds, also die in large numbers. It is (10) that sailors in the Pacific can smell the dead sea-life during El Nino.
1. A. caused B. happened C. origin D. done
2. A. increase B. warming C. heater D. extra
3. A. proficiency B. practice C. power D. performance
4. A. heavy B. shower C. plenty D. wet
5. A. saw B. time C. caught D. noticed
6. A. away B. place C. part