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2 arrive at the first destination, Puzzling World at 9.30. The first puzzling (2) _____________ which welcomes you is the leaning Tower. When you get inside the spacious café, you will find yourself among various wooden puzzles and games. The Illusion Room is a must-see as there’s nothing else like it in the world. Puzzling World is possibly the most photographed attraction in New Zealand. At 12.30 we (3) _____________ for Lake Wanaka, New Zealand’s (4) _____________ largest lake. This “natural paradise” has something for everyone. Adventure lovers may follow the biking and walking (5) _____________ through the park. PART B: PHONETICS (5 pts) Question I: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in the same line. (3 pts) 1. A. sensitive B. benefit C. pretty D. remedy 2. A. exhibition B. exhaust C. exhibit D. exist 3. A. food B. school C. tool D. good Question II: Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three words in each question. (2 pts) 1. A. intermediate B. documentary C. psychedelic D. communicate 2. A. exhibition B. precaution C. position D. selection PART C: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts) Question I: Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence. (10 pts) 1. Let’s go somewhere for a drink, _____________? A. shall we B. won’t we C. will we D. shan’t we 2. When we get to the park, there will be several places _____________ we can have lunch. A. when B. what C. where D. which 3. In spite _____________, he did not get the highest grade in the final exam. A. of his intelligence B. his intelligence C. he was intelligent D. of he was intelligent 4. The water supply of Hanoi was _____________ off because the main underground pipeline supplying water from Da River in Hoa Binh to Hanoi burst. A. held B. paid C. handed D. cut 5. He took a lot of interest _____________ our work and he promised to help us _____________ any troubles. A. for / from B. about / at C. in / with D. for / on 6. The greatest _____________ between fresh water and seawater lies in its concentration of salt.
3 A. difference is B. difference C. is a difference D. difference that 7. It is _____________ that about 700 deer have been killed in the last few years due to their horns. A. estimated B. grown C. declined D. damaged 8. How are you _____________ on with your work? - It is OK. A. calling B. looking C. laying D. getting 9. During the interview, you should speak _____________. A. slowly and clearly B. slow and clearly C. slowly and clear D. slow and clear 10. Not until darkness fell _____________ he hadn’t done half of his work. A. that he realized B. did he realize C. didn’t he realize D. that he didn’t realize Question II: Give the correct form of the word in brackets to complete the sentence. (10 pts) 1. Going to university has made her more _____________. (CONFIDE) 2. Teachers must keep a record of students'_____________. (ATTEND) 3. They are thinking of the _____________ of travelling abroad this summer. (ATTRACT) 4. Daisy has fulfilled all the _____________ for graduation. (REQUIRE) 5. An _____________ is a student in a college or university who has not received a degree yet. (GRADUATE) 6. You should make _____________ for the wishes of others. (ALLOW) 7. He was paid for the _____________ he worked. (TIME) 8. Red Cross chapters provide _____________ services to help people within communities lead safer, healthier, more self-reliant lives. (HUMAN) 9. The practice of _____________ helps maintain an adequate supply of timber for the manufacture of paper and other wood products (FOREST) 10. _____________ banks traditionally served businesses, but they now meet the financial needs of individuals as well. (COMMERCE) Question III: Use the correct forms of the verbs in the brackets to complete the sentences. (10 pts) 1. What do you think the children (do) _____________ when we get home ? 2. I was terribly disappointed (discover) _____________ that he (lie) _____________ to me. 3. Nothing (give) _____________ to you if you (not study) _____________ hard. 4. We (tell) _____________ not to go out at night recently. 5. “I left a cake on the desk but now it’s gone. What happened to it?” – “I don’t know. One of the children (eat) _____________ it”. 6. The ideas (present) _____________ in this book are not really interesting.
4 7. Scarcely she (leave) _____________ the office when they arrived. 8. Should you agree to help us with the housework, we (finish) _____________ everything on. PART D: READING COMPREHENSION (30 pts) Question I: Read the following passage and fill in each numbered gap with ONE suitable word to complete it (10pts) Maybe you recycle cans, glass, and paper. Do you know that nature recycles, too? One of the nature (1) _____________ is water. Water goes from oceans, lakes, and rivers into the air. Water falls from the air as (2) _____________ or snow. Rain and snow eventually find their way back to the oceans. Nature’s recycling program for water is (3) _____________ the water cycle. The water cycle has four stages: storage, evaporation, precipitation, and runoff. Water on Earth gets stored in oceans, lakes, rivers, ice, and even underground. Water goes from storage into the atmosphere by a process called (4) _____________. When water evaporates, it changes from a liquid (5) _____________ a gas, called water vapor. Water vapor goes up into (6) _____________ atmosphere. Water returns to the Earth as precipitation in rain or snow by changing into drops of water when the air (7) _____________ cold enough. Clouds are collections of water droplets. Most precipitation falls into the oceans and goes right back into storage. Water that falls (8) _____________ land always flows from (9) _____________ places to lower ones. This flow is called runoff. Water from land flows into streams. Streams join (10) _____________ to make rivers and eventually the water flows into storage in the oceans. Then the water cycle starts all over again. Question II: Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word or phrase for each space. (10 pts) It is easy in these days for a boy or a girl to have a book to enjoy. Today books are light and (1) _____________. Try to imagine a time when there were no books. There was (2) _____________ a time. When man first began to draw, he used the walls of his caves; later he made marks on (3) _____________ other objects such as large pieces of stone and bricks of clay. (4) _____________ time, man thought of using the smooth sides of animal hides to write on. You see, paper did not yet exist. Without paper, books (5) _____________ we know them could not be made. Paper was first produced by the Egyptian many hundreds of years ago. At that time there grew in the valley of the Nile River in Egypt a reedy plant (6) _____________ the papyrus. In endeavoring to find material suitable (7) _____________ writing, the Egyptian found a (8) _____________ to use this plant. The stem of the plant, especially its center or pith, was cut up and laid out in layers which were processed by