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Code 12 - Page 3 of D. He exported Coca-Cola to Europe. F 7. Which of the following could be the best title for paragraph 2? A. a worldwide well-known brand B. the Coca’s origin C. the popularity of the product D. the secret ingredients 8. Which of the following best replaces the word “licence” in paragraph 3? A. Regulations / B. paper of recognition C. official document of permission D. illegal instructions / 9. What can be inferred from the sentence “The exact ingredients for making Coca- Cola are only known to a handful of people”? A. Only clever people could make Coca-Cola. F B. A great number of people shared the formula of making Coca-Cola. F C. A group of people are trying to discover the exact ingredients of Coca-Cola. D. The formula to make Coca-Cola is not widely spread. 10. What does the word “eliminate” in the last paragraph mean? A. included B. maintained C. removed D. minimized PASSAGE 2 – Questions 11-20 After the United States withdrew its troops, North Vietnamese troops soon swept into South Vietnam and, by 1975, they had taken Saigon, the southern capital. In 1976, the country was reunited, but in 1978, it attacked its neighbor, Cambodia, in hope of stopping border raids staged by the Khmer Rouge, who attacked and killed Vietnamese who lived close to the border. Vietnam quickly drove the Khmer Rouge out of power and installed a government to control the country. In 1979, Communist China invaded Vietnam. Amazingly, however, the Vietnamese pushed the Chinese back to their own borders. After all of the centuries of fighting, Vietnam was united and without wars in the 1980s. The country still had a huge standing army, however, one of the four largest in the world. Turning this military machine into an economic dynamo would serve as the next big challenge for Vietnam.While Vietnam was fighting the First and Second Indochina Wars, much of the rest of Asia was already on a rapid path to economic development. Japan’s economic rise after World War II was meteoric. Many other Asian countries, including South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, China, Singapore, and Malaysia, began to prosper as