(36-40). Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) that needs correcting.

36. We have such many things to do that we have no time to go out.

-> too ( cấu trúc too...to)

37. There's no point to talk to such a conservative-minded person.

-> in talking ( there's no point in+ Ving )

38. Film can only be developed in a room that is totally darkness.

-> totall ( trước danh từ là một tính từ )

39. My friend George, that arrived late, was not permitted to enter the class

-> who ( thay thế cho chủ ngữ chỉ người )

40.I do not know where could he have gone so early in the morning.

-> where he could ( cái này giống với công thức câu gián tiếp ấy )

(41- 55). Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c, or d) that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

English has for more than a century and a half been (1) called a world language. The number of people who speak it as their mother tongue ( mother tongue: tiếng mẹ đẻ) has been estimated at between three hundred million and four hundred million. It is recognized ( công nhận ) as an official language in countries where ( bổ nghĩa cho countries) 1.5 billion people live. In China, the importance attached to learning English is such that a televised teaching course drew audiences of up to one million. But this spread of English throughout the world is relatively recent. In the late sixteen century English was spoken ( câu bị động ) by just under five million people. The arrival ( sự xuất hiện) of English in North American was the key in its worldwide expansion. The United States is a huge commercial market and this has tended to promote the English language in many other nations. About eighty percent of the data stored on the world's computers is believed to be (54) English and nowadays (55) knowledge of English can be a problem in business.