Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30.

Imagine you are buying an apple in a supermarket. Which do you choose, one with a small brown mark, or one without? Be honest - you'd go for the apple (26) looks perfect. Supermarkets do this too, but on a much larger scale when buying fruit and vegetables from farmers. And what (27) of the ones with marks on them? They are thrown away. So are the ones that are a funny shape or size.

(28) reason for waste is that people buy more food than they can eat and supermarkets do everything they can to encourage this, for example with offers like “Buy one, get one free”. Developed countries waste about 650 million tons of food each year and so do developing countries. (29), the waste happens for very different reasons. As the world's population grows, this problem will only (30), so we need to take action urgently.

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The party will begin ______.

Fiona and Lan are talking about hunting wild animals.

- Fiona: "I think hunting wild animals should be banned."

- Lan: “______. Many wild animals are in danger of extinction."

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.

The Tale of Tam and Cam use to be one of her favourite stories when she was at school.

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

My mom really loves the ______ handbag I gave her on her birthday.

She last wrote to her pen pal 6 months ago.

The teacher tries her best to ______ sure that her students can understand her explanations.

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

Tony is in a café.

- Tony: “Can I have a cup of coffee with ice?” - Waiter: “ ______.”

We could tolerate your noisy parties time and again, but throwing bottles out of the window was beyond the ______.

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

If you want to become a famous music composer, you need to have talent and determination.

They have been living here since they ______ married.

I picked up some holiday brochures ______ around the table at the travel agency.

"My mum gave me some pocket money," said Jerry.

The principle of comprehensive inputs states that the language provided for students should go only a little beyond their current experience and understanding.

You should ______ the form and hand it in as soon as possible.

The newly advertised product had just been on sale. Customers realised that it had lots of defects.