WILL SHE GO TO THE MEETING WITH US THIS E. I THINK YOU SHOULD TAKE...

40.

Will she go to the meeting with us this

E. I think you should take your coat off then.

afternoon?

F. How about Ha Long Bay?

G. Yes, I hope so.

H. In about half an hour's time.

D.

READING

I. Read the following passage and decide which option A, B, C, D best fits each space (10 points).

Man has always depended on plants (41) ________ food and many other useful products. For this

reason, farming is one of the world's most important industries. At first, (42) ________ man did not know

how to plant seeds and raise crops. He (43) ________wild fruits and vegetables where he found them.

Then man discovered how to grow his own food. He (44) ________seeds and waited for the crop to grow.

For the first time, he could be reasonably sure of his food supply. He could settle down and set up shelters

in the places (45) ________ he grew food.

As populations began to increase, the (46) ________for food became greater. Old-fashioned tools and

farming methods were insufficient in (47) ________ the demand, so man cultivated more and more land

and invented complicated machines to make his work easier. Tractors replaced horses and other farm

animals. Scientists studied and (48) ________ with plants. They told farmers how to control plant

diseases, and how to grow bigger and better crops. Now one man, (49) ________ a wide knowledge of

plants and the help of machines, can cultivate hundreds of acres. He can raise plants which did not

originally grow in the soil or (50) ________ of his community.