it was a mistake for tony to buy that house

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to lớn indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California. Tan grew up in Northern California, (25) _______ when her father and older brother both died from brain tumors in 1966, she moved with her mother and younger brother to lớn Europe, where she attended high school in Montreux, Switzerland. She returned to lớn the United States for college. After college, Tan worked as a language development consultant and as a corporate freelance writer. In 1985, she wrote the story "Rules of the Game" for a writing workshop, which laid the early (26) _______ for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. Published in 1989, the book explored the (27) _______ between Chinese women and their Chinese–American daughters, and became the longest–running Thủ đô New York Times bestseller for that year. The Joy Luck Club received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award. It has been translated into 25 languages, including Chinese, and was made into a major motion picture for (28) _______ Tan co–wrote the screenplay. Tan's other works have also been (29) ______ into several different forms of truyền thông.

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A. preparation

B. base

C. source

D. foundation

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

A supermarket is more convenient than vãn a shopping centre.

A. A shopping centre is not as convenient as a supermarket.

B. A shopping centre is more convenient than vãn a supermarket.

C. A supermarket is not as convenient as a shopping centre.

D. A supermarket is as inconvenient as a shopping centre.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to lớn indicate the most suitable response to lớn complete each of the following exchanges.

Two students are talking in a new class.

Student 1: “Excuse bủ, is anybody sitting here?” – Student 2: “____________”

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A. No, thanks.

B. Yes, I am sánh glad.

C. Sorry, the seat is taken.

D. Yes, yes. You can sit here. 

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

“I agree that I am narrow–minded,” said the manager.

A. The manager denied being narrow–minded.

B. The manager admitted being narrow–minded.

C. The manager refused to lớn be narrow–minded.

D. The manager promised to lớn be narrow–minded.

Linda rarely goes to lớn school by xe đạp, but today she ______ a xe đạp.

A. rides

B. is riding

C. is going to lớn ride

D. will ride

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

Newspapers and television news programs always seem to lớn report about the bad things happening in society. However, there is a place where readers can find some good news. That place is the trang web called HappyNews. The man behind HappyNews is Byron Reese. Reese phối up HappyNews because he thought other news sources were giving people an unbalanced view of the world. Reese said about HappyNews, “The news truyền thông gives you a distorted view of the world by exaggerating bad news, misery, and despair. We’re trying to lớn balance out the scale.”

Not everyone agrees with Reese’s view, though. Many people think that news sources have a responsibility to lớn provide news that is helpful to lớn people. People need to lớn know about issues or problems in today’s society. Then they are better able to lớn make informed decisions about things that affect their daily lives. Reese said that HappyNews is not trying to lớn stop people from learning about issues or problems. HappyNews is just trying to lớn provide a balanced picture of today’s world.

By the over of its first month online, HappyNews had more than vãn 70,000 unique readers. About 60 percent of those readers were women. Something else unique makes HappyNews different from any of the other news or information websites that are on the Internet. Unlike many other websites, HappyNews gets người yêu thích mail from its readers on a daily basis.

The word “they” in paragraph 2 refers to lớn _______.

A. sources

B. problems

C. people

D. issues