When I worked in Canada, I could communicate with people there in French but now I am a ________ rusty.

If Phuong comes to England, it _______ a good opportunity for her to improve her English.

The boy was so boring with the film that he couldn’t sleep last night.

It’s high time you _______ to study harder since last year, you had a very bad result.

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

The leading causes of (23) ______ in many developing countries are now heart disease, cancer, accident, flu, pneumonia etc. Moreover cigarettes, alcohol, physical inactivity and overeating also add to the causes of several of these killing diseases. Medicine has little help to offer, however, to persons (24)______ can not get rid (25)______ habits harmful to their health. Surgery is the only (26)______ to offer any chance of survival for people (27) ______ lung cancer.

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 41 to 45

After inventing dynamite, Swedish-born Alfred Nobel became a very rich man. However, he foresaw its universally destructive powers too late. Nobel preferred not to be remembered as the inventor of dynamite, so in 1895, just two weeks before his death, he created a fund to be used for awarding prizes to people who had made worldwide contributions to mankind. Originally there were five awards: literature, physics, chemistry, medicine and peace. Economics was added in 1968, just sixty-seven years after the first awarded ceremony.

Nobel’s original legacy of nine million dollars was invested, and the interest on this sum is used for the awards which vary from 30.000 dollars to 125.000 dollars.

Every year on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death , the awards (gold medals, illuminated diploma and money) are present to the winners. Sometimes politics plays an important roles in  the judges’ decision.  American have won numerous science awards, but relatively few literature prizes.

No awards were presented from 1940 to 1942 at the beginning of  World War II. Some people have won two prizes, but this is rare; other have shares their prizes.

Your teacher writes poems or stories, ______ she?

In which field have American received the most awards?

Did I really tell you I was unhappy? I don’t remember _______ that.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word in each of the following question

The organization has the authority to manage and regulate new and existing free trade agreements, to supervise world trade practices and to settle trade disputes among member states.

I congratulated Ann ________ passing the exam. She spent a lot of time studying.

You should  _______ the shoes when coming into the Japanese houses

Mr. Thach who sing English songs very well is my teacher of English.

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 the following question.