Choose the word which has the bolded part pronounced differently from the rest.

Question 1:

• a. post
• b. busy
• c. swim

• d. spacious

Question 2:

• a. equipped

• b. delivered
• c. transferred
• d. received

Question 3:

• a. helps

• b. provides

• c. documents
• d. texts

Question 4:

• a. noisy

• b. subscribe
• c. service
• d. graphics

Question 5:

• a. transfer

• b. newspaper
• c. thousand
• d. relatives

Choose a, b, c or d that best completes each unfinished sentence; subtitutes the bolded part; or has a close meaning to the orginal one.

Question 6: She was given the award for a lifetime of public ____.

• a. serve

• b. service

• c. servant
• d. serviceable

Question 7: To become a novelist, you must be ____.

• a. imagine
• b. imagination
• c. imagining

• d. imaginative

Question 8: Can you let me have the ____ of your report? I can’t read this photocopy.

• a. origin

• b. original

• c. originally
• d. originate

Question 9: I received that parcel ____ my sister this morning, but I have not opened it yet.

• a. to

• b. from

• c. on
• d. over

Question 10: Cunningham sent a note ____ me thanking me for dinner.

• a. with

• b. to

• c. from
• d. by

Question 11: Could you please help me ____ mail delivery?

• a. for
• b. on

• c. with

• d. about

Question 12: Britain has still been proud of the cheapest postal ___.

• a. sending
• b. care

• c. service

• d. delivery

Question 13: The post is the public service or system by which letters and ___ are collected and delivered.

• a. parcels

• b. faxes
• c. documents
• d. graphics

Question 14: The winner will be notified by post.

• a. sent quickly
• b. acted thoughtfully
• c. limited strictly

• d. inform officially

Question 15: A consultation paper has been ____ on the Internet inviting input from Net users.

• a. served
• b. weighed
• c. received

• d. posted

Question 16: If you go to the post office, please post these letters.

• a. fax
• b. sign

• c. send

• d. stamp

Question 17: She felt ___ and protected when she was with her parents.

• a. thoughtful

• b. secure

• c. spacious
• d. convenient

Question 18: Opening  the present ____, she was trembling with excitement.

• a. her sweetheart had sent her that

• b. her sweetheart had sent her

• c. to that her sweetheart had sent her
• d. whose her sweetheart had sent her

Question 19: My friend, ____ I visited last week, is taking a holiday soon.

• a. that

• b. whom

• c. which
• d. whose

Question 20: My brother who lives abroad ____.

• a. returns to see us

• b. returning to see us
• c. that return to see us
• d. where returns to see us

Question 21: He bought the present _____ from a souvenir shop in Paris.

• a. that he gave me

• b. that he gave me it
• c. that he gave it to me
• d. he gave me it

Question 22: The doctor are examining a patient ____ was taken to hospital last night.

• a. which

• b. who

• c. whom
• d. whose

Question 23: The park ____ I used to jog in has been demolished.

• a. which

• b. where
• c. in which
• d. in where

Question 24: Finding a cure for cancer is one of the biggest challenges _____ medical researchers face.

• a. who
• b. when
• c. why

• d. that

Question 25: Money is all ____ many people consider to be the aim of their life.

• a. whose
• b. which

• c. that

• d. whom

Question 26: I have to leave for London tomorrow, ___ means I cannot go to the party with you.

• a. that

• b. which

• c. when
• d. why

Question 27: The film was about three young girls, ___ are policewomen.

• a. whom all
• b. all of who

• c. all of whom

• d. all of that

Question 28: ____ has just won an international scholarship.

• a. David Pike, whose parents are both teachers,

• b. David Pike whose parents are both teachers
• c. David Pike parents of who are both teachers
• d. David Pike, whom parents are both teachers

Question 29: Is there anything _____?

• a. I can do to help you that
• b. with that I can do to help you
• c. that I can do to help you with it

• d. I can do to help you

Question 30: Money is not really ____ they have often quarreled.

• a. a reason which
• b. a reason that
• c. a reason, why

• d. a reason why

Choose the best sentence that can be made from the cues given.

Question 31: yesterday / I / go / Thanh Ba Post Office / send some money / my brother / the city

• a. Yesterday I went to Thanh Ba Post Office where to send some money to my brother who was in the city.

• b. Yesterday I went to Thanh Ba Post Office to send some money to my brother in the city.

• c. Yesterday when I went to Thanh Ba Post Office sending some money to my brother in the city.
• d. Yesterday I went to Thanh Ba Post Office and sending some money to my brother in the city.

Question 32: I / arrive / 7 am/ the post office / open

• a. When I arrived at 7 a.m., the post office which had just been opened.

• b. When I arrived at 7 a.m., the post office had just been opened.

• c. I arrived at 7 a.m. when the post office had just been opened.
• d. I arrived at 7 a.m. at the time the post office had just opened.

Question 33: the staff / help / me / send the money / very helpful and courteous

• a. The staff helped me to send the money were very helpful and courteous.
• b. The staff that helped me to send the money which were very helpful and courteous.
• c. The staff whom helped me to send the money they were very helpful and courteous.

• d. The staff that helped me to send the money were very helpful and courteous.

Question 34: the service / good / only two hours later / my brother / phone / he had received the money

• a. The service was so good that only two hours later my brother phoned me to say that he had received the money.

• b. The service which was such a good that only two hours later my brother phoned me to tell that he had received the money.
• c. The service was such good that only two hours later my brother phoned to tell he had received the money.
• d. The service was so good that only two hours later when my brother phoned to tell that he had received the money.

Question 35: I / satisfied / the service / Thanh Ba Post Office

• a. I was satisfied with the service of Thanh Ba Post Office.

• b. So that, I was satisfied with the service of Thanh Ba Post Office.
• c. Nevertheless, I was satisfied with the service of Thanh Ba Post Office.
• d. I was satisfied with the service of which Thanh Ba Post Office.

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer.

In early colonial times, correspondents depended on friends, merchants, and Native Americans to carry messages between the colonies. However, most correspondence ran between the colonists and England, their mother country. It was a very hard work to handle so many letters like that. In 1639, the first official notice of a postal service in the colonies appeared. The General Court of Massachusetts designated Richard Fairbanks’ tavern in Boston as the official place of mail brought from or sent overseas, in line with the practice in England and other nations to use coffee houses and taverns as mail drops. Local authorities operated post routes within the colonies. Then, in 1673, a monthly post was set up between New York and Boston. The service was of short duration, but the post rider’s trail became known as the Old Boston Post Road, part of today’s U.S. Route 1. William Penn established the first post office in 1683. In the South, private messengers, usually slaves, connected the huge plantations.
After the Boston revolution in September 1774, the colonies began to separate from the mother country. A Continental Congress was organized at Philadelphia in May 1775 to establish an independent government. One of the first questions before the delegates was how to convey and deliver the mail.

Question 36: In early colonial times, _____.

• a. the English did not know how to write a mail
• b. merchants were not allowed to send letters
• c. the US was the mother country of many colonies 

• d. England had colonies 

Question 37: The first place which was used as a post office was ___

• a. a tavern

• b. a big house
• c. an official place
• d. a coffee house

Question 38: In 1673, letters were sent from New York and Boston, and vice versa ____ a month.

• a. once

• b. twice
• c. three times
• d. four times

Question 39: The first post office was set up in _____.

• a. 1639
• b. 1673

• c. 1683

• d 1774

Question 40: According to the passage, _____ had to work as a mailman between the huge plantations.

• a. delegates
• b. governors
• c. messengers

• d. slaves

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

A post office is (Question 41) _____ authorized by a postal system for the posting, I receipt, sortation, handling, transmission or (Question 42) ___ of mail. Post offices offer mail-related services (Question 43)___ post office boxes, postage and packaging supplics. (Question 44)____ addition, some post offices offer (Question 45)___ postal services such as passport applications and other government forms, money orders, and banking services.

Post offices also (Question 46)____ post-office boxes to people and businesses (Question 47) ____ prefer not to have mail delivered to their home or office, or who live or stay at addresses to (Question 48) ___  mail delivery is not (Question 49) ____.

The back rooms of a post office are a place (Question 50)___ mail is processed tor delivery. Mail may also be processed in other post offices that are not open to the general  public.

Question 41:

• a. services

• b. equipment
• c. sending
• d. mailing

Question 42:

• a. pass
• b. giving
• c. handle

• d. delivery

Question 43:

• a. so
• b. such

• c. such as

• d. so as to

Question 44:

• a. For

• b. In

• c. Of
• d. On

Question 45:

• a. non

• b. nor
• c. not
• d. no

Question 46:

• a. lend
• b. borrow

• c. rent

• d. employ

Question 47:

• a. who
• b. whom
• c. which

• d. that

Question 48:

• a. who

• b. which

• c. that
• d. where

Question 49:

• a. present
• b. free 
• c. ready

• d. available

Question 50:

• a. where

• b. that 
• c. which 
• d. what