1. Millions of people left Italy for the USA during the Italian _______ of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A. clique            B. diaspora                  C. horde                    D. troupe

diaspora: cuộc di cư

2. She was a ______Catholic and, so far as I am aware, morally unassailable.

A. firm               B. devout                     C. staunch                 D. strict

a devout Catholic: người sùng đạo Thiên chúa

3. The police are going to ______down on illegal stock exchange activities in the streets.

A. dragging       B. kicking                      C. dumbing              D. clamping

clamp down on: kiểm soát chặt chẽ

4. The media regarded Gorbachev as the ______favorite to dethrone the old champ

A. last-minute    B. odds-on                  C. so-called              D. well –earned

odds-on: chắc chắn

5. A: ‘Oh, I’m exhausted! I’ve been doing homework all day.’

B: ‘Come and put your _______ up for 5 minutes and I’ll make you a cup of tea.’

A. hands             B. hair                          C. heart                    D. feet

put your feet up: thư giãn