A cost-effective way to fight crime is that instead of making punishments more severe

Before I went to drama school, I had to … quite a lot of family pressure for me to study medicine.

Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting.

A Hoi An-based charity organization gave free milk to poor ailing, and disabled children in the central province of Quang Nam on last Wednesday.

Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting.

In Thomas Edison's early life, he has been thought to have a learning disability and he could not read till he was twelve.

Could you please close ____ window? I don't think it is necessary to open all the four.

I haven’t enjoyed myself so much for years.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or, D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.

School exams are, generally speaking, the first kind of tests we take. They find out (1) ..... much knowledge we have gained. But do they really show how intelligent we are? After all, isn't it a fact that some people who are very successful academically don't have any common sense?

Intelligence is the speed at which we can understand and react to new situations and it is usually tested by logic puzzles. (2) ...... scientists are now preparing advanced computer technology that will be able to "read" our brains, for the present, tests are still the most popular ways of measuring intelligence.

A person's IQ is his intelligence (3) ...... it is measured by a special test. The most common IQ tests are run by Mensa, an organization that was founded in England in 1946. By 1976 it had 1,300 members in Britain. Today there are 44,000 in Britain and 100,000 worldwide, (4) ...... in the US.

People taking the tests are judged in relation to an average score of 100, and those (5) ...... score over 148 are entitled to join Mensa. This works out at 2% of the population.