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I. Choose the best answers.
1. The water in this river will be polluted unless some measures
___________.
A. will be taken
B. are taken
C. take
D. had been taken
2. To preserve that _________, it was necessary to preserve the people
that had created it.
A. civilized van minh hoa
B. civilization
C. civility le nghi, le phep
D. civil dan su
3. Many of the __________ not expect to win.
A. participants in the race do
B. participants in the races does
C. participants in the race does
D. participant in the race do

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4. It was the musical performance on TV that ______ by our family.

A. was most enjoying B. was most enjoyed
C. most enjoyed D. was most enjoyable
5. An endangered species is a species ___________ population is so small
that is in danger of becoming extinct.
A. whose
B. which
C. what
D. who
6. Our recent _____ in medicine is the development of laser in treating
cancer.
A. achievements B. achievement C. achievers D. achieved

7. When you return to your country, don’t forget to…………….

A. keep in hand
B. keep time
C. keep in touch
D. keep in step
8. Some people tend to wrongly believe that men are not as good ____
children as women.
A. with
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B. as
C. at
D. On
9. He _____ since the day we left school.
A. hasn't seen
B. hasn't been being seen
C. wasn't seen
D. hasn't been seen
10. Her knowledge of climbing helped her during the _______
A. compete
B. competitive
C. competitor
D. competition
11. He is not good ______ math. He is incapable________calculating.
A. at/of
B. on/for
C. for/of
D. at/in
12. You had better……….nothing.
A. to say
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B. saying
C. say
D. having said
13. That nice girl can tell us what _____.
A. is your name
B. your name is
C. does your name
D. your name does
14. Buy me something to drink, ____________?
A. aren't you
B. won't you
C. don't you
D. will you
15. People in this village are_________ those of that village.
A. so alike
B. the same to
C. similar as
D. as friendly as
16. Malaysia is divided __________two regions.
A. to
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B. on
C. in
D. into
17. Have you ever read _______ by Mark Twain?
A. "Oliver Twist", that was written
B. "Oliver Twist" it was written
C. "Oliver Twist" written
D. "Oliver Twist" writing

18. The man ______ at the blackboard is our teacher.

A. stood
B. stands
C. standing
D. to stand
19. Can you possibly make ______ what he has written here?
A. for
B. up
C. out
D. up for

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20. ______, many houses are going to be demolished to make ways for a
new supermarket.
A. Fortunate B. Unfortunate
C. Fortunately D. Unfortunately
II. Choose the suitable word to fill in each plank.
The United Nations Children's Fund (or UNICEF) was (21) _______ by
the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December 1946, to provide
emergency food and (22) ________ to children in countries that had been
destroyed by World War II. Headquartered in New York City, UNICEF
provides long-term (23) ________ and developmental assistance to
children and mothers in devel¬oping countries. UNICEF relies on
contributions from governments and private (24) ________ Governments
contribute two thirds of the organization's resources; private groups and
some 6 million individuals contribute the rest through the Na¬tional
Committees.
UNICEF's programs emphasize developing community-level services to
promote the health and well-being of children. UNICEF was (25) _______
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 and the Prince of Asturias Award of
Concord in 2006.
21. A. produced
B. founded
C. invented
D. covered
22. A. health office
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B. health care
C. health food
D. health officer
23. A. scientific
B. technical ki thuat
C. mechanic tho co khi
D. humanitarian nhan dao
24. A. donors nha tai tro
B. explorers
C. discoverers
D. adventurers
25. A. cost
B. won
C. awarded
D. beaten bi danh bai
TAX REFORM CRUCIAL FOR STATE BUDGET SUSTAINABILITY
Viet Nam has implemented many tax reforms, including the introduction
of the Value Added Tax Law in 1997 and Corporate Income Tax Law in
1999.The current proportion of VAT, CIT and import-export tax in Việt
Nam’s total budget revenue is higher than in other middle-income
developing Asian countries, so the expansion of this tax source is unlikely.
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Taxes that Viet Nam may expect to increase in the future include personal
income tax, excise duty, natural resources tax and property tax.
Các loại thuế mà Việt Nam có thể dự kiến sẽ tăng trong tương lai bao gồm
thuế thu nhập cá nhân, thuế tiêu thụ đặc biệt, thuế tài nguyên và thuế tài
sản.
With personal income tax, tax collection in 2014-18 averaged only half of
that of middle-income developing countries. However, there needs to be a
mechanism to control income sources, to make tax increases possible, ,
and more importantly, to raise people’s incomes, driven by stable and
faster economic growth.

26. Which taxes in Việt Nam have higher proportion in the total budget
revenue in comparison with other middle-income developing Asian
countries?
A. Personal income tax
B. VAT, CIT and Import – Export tax
C. natural resources tax
D. property tax
27. What is the reason that it is not easy to increase the budget revenue
from VAT, CIT and import-export tax?
A. It is difficult to control
B. it is not expected to increase in the further
C. It is already high in comparison in the region
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D. it is difficult to raise people’s incomes

28. What type of tax is considered to have more room for reform in the
future?
A. Personal income tax
B. VAT
C. CIT
D. Import-Export tax
29. Which tax does the writer think is most possible to expand in the
future ?
A. property tax
B. natural resources tax
C. personal income tax
D. excise duty
30. What should the tax authorities do to make tax increases possible?
A. To faster economic growth
B. To raise people’s income
C. To stabilize the economy
D. To control income sources

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