Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs to correction on each of the following questions.

Câu 26: We usually walk to work but sometimes takes a cab when it is raining.

Because the little boy would not stop playing with matches, it was ___________ that he would burn himself.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 34 to 38.

There have never been so (34)___________ people living in cities in quake zones because the worse the damage can be from a big quake, bringing fires, tsunamis, and the loss of life, property, and maybe an entire city. We understand how earthquakes happen but not exactly where or when they will occur. Until recently, quakes seemed to occur at random. In Japan, government research is now showing that quakes can be predicted. At the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Koshun Yamaoka says earthquakes do follow a (35)__________ —pressure builds in a zone and must be released. But a colleague, Naoyuki Kato, adds that laboratory experiments indicate that a fault slips a little before it breaks. If this is true, predictions can be made based on the detection of slips. Research in the U.S. may support Kato’s theory. In Parkfield, California earthquakes occur about every 22 years on the San Andreas Fault. In the 1980s, scientists drilled into the fault and set up equipment to record activity to look for warning signs. (36)________ an earthquake hit again, it was years of schedule. At first the event seemed random but scientists drilled deeper. By 2005 they reached the bottom of the fault, two miles down, and found something. Data from two quakes reported in 2008 show there were two “slips’—places (37)_______ the plates widened—before the fault line broke and the quakes occurred. We are learning more about these destructive events every day. In the future we may be able to track earthquakes and design an early-warning system. So if the next great earthquake does (38)_______ in Tokai, about 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, as some scientists think, the citizens of Tokai may have advance warning.

When I researched into the singer Rihanna’s hometown of Saint Michael Parish, I learned that her _____________ was Barbadian.

Câu 29: I don’t know but I guess a faulty electrical connection caused the explosion.

Câu 5: Winning an incredible prize from the state lottery was a turning point in my life, which I have never imagined before.

We’ll give a reward to anyone _____________ the police with information about the missing child.

If a doctor does not abide _______________ the laws of his profession, he may lose the right to practice medicine.

Nobody understood what was going on, ____________?

I really wanted to get my homework done early today, but my favorite TV show proved to be a serious distraction.

It's pretty tough to find a job when you don't have any previous experience.

The word “guilty” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ___________.

Marry and John are talking about drinking water at night.

- Marry: “I don’t think we should drink too much water at night”

- John: “___________. This can interrupt your sleep cycle and negatively impact heart health.”

He received a pat on the ____________ from his boss from the new project that he had done.

It is hard to _____________ the difference between the two versions of this phone.