A. Choose the correct word.

1. My son was born at / on Christmas day.

2. I hate the idea of / that men are brighter than women.
3. If I were a bird, I'd fly / I'd have flown around the world.
4. You won't know if / unless you ask him.
5. Feeling / She's feeling guilty, Emma apologized to her friend.
6. Are you afraid of / for spiders?
7. I'm going to the supermarket to / for buy some fruit.
8. If I hadn't gone to the party, I wouldn't have met / meet Ben.
9. Tess bought some flowers for / to her mother.
10. I think I'll / I'll going to stay in tonight.
11. I must have / had a suit made for the wedding.
12. Could you please remember putting / to put it in your bag?

B. Fill in one word in the blank

1. Toni is __an____ engineer.
2. I need to buy __a____ bread.
3. The house, ___which___ was built in 1901, is made of stone.
4. __Does____ Wei Jun get a girlfriend?
5. When I got to the garage, my car __had____ been repaired.
6. The criminals were caught __by____ the police.
7. How __much___ money have you got in your pocket?

C. Complete the sentences using maximum 5 words and the given one.
8. Many delegates stole pens from the conference room. Were
A lot of _pens were stolen from________ the conference room by delegates.
9. I didn't see anyone wearing yellow at the dinner. Nobody
There __was nobody wearing yellow_______ at the dinner.
10. The manager should think about experience when hiring new staff. Consideration
The manager should __take experience into consideration___when hiring new staff.
11. We spent our honeymoon in the Lodge Hotel in Vermont. Which
It was the Lodge Hotel _which we spent our _______ honeymoon in Vermont.
12. Anna got the job even though she didn't have much experience in public
relations. Spite
Anna got the job __in spite of her lack_____ of experience in public relations.

D. Complete the following sentences with a word from the box.

 factors significance assessment source policy assumption

1. Classroom _assessment____ is an essential part of the instructional process and can

serve as meaningful sources of information about student learning.
2. There is a general __assumption____ that women are worse drivers than men but
statistics do not support this.
3. The discovery of the new drug is of great __significance____ to people suffering
from heart problems.
4. Several __factors__ influenced the committee’s decision to hire a new teacher.
5. The college has adopted a strict no‐smoking _policy___
6. Solar power is considered a sustainable __source___ of energy.

E. Choose the correct part of speech, adding affixes if necessary, to complete the
following sentences.
1. Academic success can only be __achieved___ by hard work. ACHIEVEMENT
2. You don't respond well to positive _criticisms___ , which is only made to help
you. CRITIC
3. I've lost all __enthusiasm____ for this concert, I'm finding it boring. Can we
go? ENTHUSE
4. Though he'd read __ extensively___ on the subject of ancient Egypt, he couldn't
answer a single EXTEND
5. This controversial decision will ___inevitably_________ lead to political
tensions. EVITABLE
6. The opening of this new restaurant should satisfy the __sophistication___ of local
Vietnamese food fans. SOPHISTICATED

READING

Sleep helps reduce errors in memory

Sleep may reduce mistakes in memory, according to a first-of-its-kind study led by a scientist at
Michigan State University.
The findings, which appear in the September issue of the journal Learning El Memory, have
practical implications for many people, from students doing multiple-choice tests to elderly
people confusing their medicine, says Kimberly Fenn, principal investigator and assistant
professor of psychology.
‘It’s easy to muddle things in your mind,’ Fenn says. This research suggests that after sleep,
you’re better able to pick out the incorrect parts of that memory.’ Fenn and colleagues from the
University of Chicago and Washington University in St Louis studied the presence of incorrect
or false memory in groups of college students. While previous research has shown that sleep
improves memory, this study is the first one that looks at errors in memory, she said.
Study participants were ‘trained’ by being shown or listening to lists of words. Then, twelve
hours later, they were shown individual words and asked to identify which words they had seen
or heard in the earlier session. One group of students was trained at 10 a.m. and tested at 10
p.m. after the course of a normal sleepless day. Another group was trained at night and tested
twelve hours later in the morning, after about six hours of sleep.
Three experiments were conducted. In each experiment, the results showed that students who
had slept did not have as many problems with false memory and chose fewer incorrect words.
How does sleep help? The answer isn’t known, Fenn said, but she suspects it may be due to
sleep strengthening the source of the memory. The source, or context in which the information
is acquired, is a vital element of the memory process.
In other words, it may be easier to remember something if you can also remember where you
first heard or saw it. Or perhaps the people who didn’t sleep as much during the study received
so much other information during the day that this affected their memory ability, Fenn said.
Further research is needed, she said, adding that she plans to study different population groups,
particularly the elderly. ‘We know older individuals generally have worse memory performance
than younger individuals.
We also know from other research that elderly individuals tend to be more prone to false
memories,’ Fenn said. ‘Given the work we’ve done, it’s possible that sleep may actually help
them to reject this false information. And potentially this could help to improve their quality of
life.’
Answer
The groups in the study saw or heard lists of words at 1 __G____ times of the day.
After 2 ___C___ hours, the groups tried to identify these words correctly in a test. Before the
test, one group had __H____ sleep and chose the words in the evening. The other group had
their test in the morning.
In three experiments, the results were 4 ___J___ the groups that had slept during the
experiment remembered 5 ___A___ words correctly than the other groups.

A more F ten
comple
B G different
x
C 12 H no
D six I fewer
E less J the same