More and more Vietnamese youngsters are studying English. They recognize the importance of the language.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Disabled people can contribute to our community. Non-disabled people can also contribute to our community.

What is the benefit of aging mentioned in the last paragraph?

What does the word “this” in paragraph 3 refer to?

What can be inferred from the second paragraph?

As mentioned in the first paragraph, the following aspects will be influenced by the aging in the society, EXCEPT ___________.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

         People are living longer and, in some parts of the world, healthier lives. This represents one of the crowning achievements of the last century, but also a significant challenge. Longer lives must be planned for. Societal aging may affect economic growth and lead to many other issues, including the sustainability of families, the ability of states and communities to provide resources for older citizens, and international relations. The Global Burden of Disease, a study conducted by the World Health Organization, predicts a very large increase in age-related chronic disease in all regions of the world. Dealing with this will be a significant challenge for all countries’ health services.

      Population aging is driven by declines in fertility and improvements in health and longevity. In more developed countries, falling fertility beginning in the early 1900’s has resulted in current levels being below the population replacement rate of two live births per woman. Perhaps the most surprising demographic development of the past 20 years has been the pace of fertility decline in many less developed countries. In 2006, for example, the total fertility rate was at or below the replacement rate in 44 less developed countries.

       One central issue for policymakers in regard to pension funds is the relationship between the official retirement age and actual retirement age. Over several decades in the latter part of the 20th century, many of the more developed nations lowered the official age at which people become fully entitled to public pension benefits. This was propelled by general economic conditions, changes in welfare philosophy, and private pension trends. Despite the recent trend toward increased workforce participation at older ages, a significant gap between official and actual ages of retirement persists. This trend is emerging in rapidly aging developing countries as well. Many countries already have taken steps towards much-needed reform of their old-age social insurance programs. One common reform has been to raise the age at which workers are eligible for full public pension benefits. Another strategy for bolstering economic security for older people has been to increase the contributions by workers. Other measures to enhance income for older people include new financial instruments for private savings, tax incentives for individual retirement savings, and supplemental occupational pension plans.

       As life expectancy increases in most nations, so do the odds of different generations within a family coexisting. In more developed countries, this has manifested itself as the ‘beanpole family,’ a vertical extension of family structure characterized by an increase in the number of living generations within a lineage and a decrease in the number of people within each generation. As mortality rates continue to improve, more people in their 50’s and 60’s will have surviving parents, aunts, and uncles. Consequently, more children will know their grandparents and even their great-grandparents, especially their great-grandmothers. There is no historical precedent for a majority of middle-aged and older adults having living parents.

(Adapted from https://www.ielts-mentor.com)

Which of the following best describes the main purpose of the author in the passage?

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the option that best completes following exchanges.

Two graduates are talking with each other.

- Student A: "Then, are you working or taking a postgraduate course?" - Student B: “________.”

"It's the funniest show I've ever seen," Susan said.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

      In the near term, the goal of keeping AI’s impact on society beneficial motivates research in many areas, from economics and law to technical topics such as verification, validity, security and control. Whereas it may be little more than a minor nuisance if your laptop crashes or gets hacked, it becomes all the more important that an AI system does what you want it to do if it controls your car, your airplane, your pacemaker, your automated trading system or your power grid. Another short-term challenge is preventing a devastating arms race in lethal autonomous weapons.

       In the long term, an important question is what will happen if the quest for strong AI succeeds and an AI system becomes better than humans at all cognitive tasks. Such a system could potentially undergo recursive self-improvement, triggering an intelligence explosion leaving human intellect far behind. By inventing revolutionary new technologies, such a superintelligence might help us eradicate war, disease, and poverty, and so the creation of strong AI might be the biggest event in human history. Some experts have expressed concern, though, that it might also be the last, unless we learn to align the goals of the AI with ours before it becomes superintelligent.

      There are some who question whether strong AI will ever be achieved, and others who insist that the creation of superintelligent AI is guaranteed to be beneficial. At FLI we recognize both of these possibilities, but also recognize the potential for an artificial intelligence system to intentionally or unintentionally cause great harm. We believe research today will help us better prepare for and prevent such potentially negative consequences in the future, thus enjoying the benefits of AI while avoiding pitfalls.

(source: https://www.beyondteaching.com/)

Which best serves as the title for the passage?

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

Though the police tried their best to catch the thief, he was escaped.

By selling "street papers" they no longer need to beg for a (24) ____________.

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.

STREET PAPERS

      The problem of homelessness is an international one. In the capital cities of the world, the sight of people begging on the streets is becoming increasingly rare. But all over the world, homeless people are taking the future into their own (23) _____________. By selling "street papers" they no longer need to beg for a (24) ____________.

       The concept of the street paper is simple. It is sold by homeless and ex-homeless people (25) ________ buy it at a fixed price of 30p and sell it to the public for 70p, keeping 40p for themselves. If they have no money, then they can get the first ten copies on (26) _____________ and pay for them later. Every paper seller receives training and is given a special identity badge.

Urbanization is the triumph of the unnatural over the natural, the grid over the organic.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

The matches went on till as late as 10 p.m. on Saturday and even then the A division final had to be carried over to the next day.

Although the general manager is officially in charge, everyone knows his deputy is really in the driving seat.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

ln 1921, accompanied by her two daughters, Marie Curie made a triumphant journey to the United States to raise funds for research on radium.

We all thought that Doug was _________ to be an artist, so we were very surprised when he became a trader on Wall Street.

The widened _________ will help keep traffic flowing during rush hours.

Alex dreams of going on tour – he’s just waiting for his big ______________ to get his foot in the door of the music industry.

She thinks very _____ of him although he behaves badly to her.

In the United States, there has risen a demand that guns ____ from the public.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands - one for helping yourself, ______________ for helping others.

One of the main drawbacks of office work is that people can be easily inflicted _________________ back pains.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his _________________ concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

If my time-management skills had been better, I ____________________ from serious stress when I was in university.

John admitted ____ a lot of compulsory courses in his higher education curriculum.

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

 ____ Internet is offering human beings a wide range of benefits and some drawbacks as well.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.