Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

        When I was a little girl growing up in the 1940, we didn’t have much in the way of material things. The Great Depression had hit just about everyone, and we were just climbing out (37)______it. My dad had a job in a factory, and mom stayed at home with the kids. I got a new outfit (38)_______a year, and that was only because mom was pretty good at the sewing machine. Good thing, too, because when World War II came, mom got a job sewing uniforms for the soldiers. The extra money helped, and by the time I was in my teens in the late 1950s we had enough to get one of those fancy new TV.

        I decided around that time I didn’t want to work in a factory or sew like my mom had. I wanted to go to the college. I wanted to be a lawyer. Though others scoffed, my parents told me that they would support me in any way they could. Fortunately, I worked hard at school and got a scholarship. It wasn’t easy, but a few years later I was a lawyer. In the late ‘60s I knew I could use my education and spirit to help our nation. I took a job working against discrimination. (39)______is where I met your grandpa. He was not only handsome but believed in the same things I did. When your mom came along, I took a year (40)_____but when back to work, we were able to (41)_______a color TV, and like me, your mom was a glued to it.

Điền vào số 37

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

        When I was a little girl growing up in the 1940, we didn’t have much in the way of material things. The Great Depression had hit just about everyone, and we were just climbing out (37)______it. My dad had a job in a factory, and mom stayed at home with the kids. I got a new outfit (38)_______a year, and that was only because mom was pretty good at the sewing machine. Good thing, too, because when World War II came, mom got a job sewing uniforms for the soldiers. The extra money helped, and by the time I was in my teens in the late 1950s we had enough to get one of those fancy new TV.

        I decided around that time I didn’t want to work in a factory or sew like my mom had. I wanted to go to the college. I wanted to be a lawyer. Though others scoffed, my parents told me that they would support me in any way they could. Fortunately, I worked hard at school and got a scholarship. It wasn’t easy, but a few years later I was a lawyer. In the late ‘60s I knew I could use my education and spirit to help our nation. I took a job working against discrimination. (39)______is where I met your grandpa. He was not only handsome but believed in the same things I did. When your mom came along, I took a year (40)_____but when back to work, we were able to (41)_______a color TV, and like me, your mom was a glued to it.

Điền vào số 39

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

        When I was a little girl growing up in the 1940, we didn’t have much in the way of material things. The Great Depression had hit just about everyone, and we were just climbing out (37)______it. My dad had a job in a factory, and mom stayed at home with the kids. I got a new outfit (38)_______a year, and that was only because mom was pretty good at the sewing machine. Good thing, too, because when World War II came, mom got a job sewing uniforms for the soldiers. The extra money helped, and by the time I was in my teens in the late 1950s we had enough to get one of those fancy new TV.

        I decided around that time I didn’t want to work in a factory or sew like my mom had. I wanted to go to the college. I wanted to be a lawyer. Though others scoffed, my parents told me that they would support me in any way they could. Fortunately, I worked hard at school and got a scholarship. It wasn’t easy, but a few years later I was a lawyer. In the late ‘60s I knew I could use my education and spirit to help our nation. I took a job working against discrimination. (39)______is where I met your grandpa. He was not only handsome but believed in the same things I did. When your mom came along, I took a year (40)_____but when back to work, we were able to (41)_______a color TV, and like me, your mom was a glued to it.

Điền vào số 40

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

        When I was a little girl growing up in the 1940, we didn’t have much in the way of material things. The Great Depression had hit just about everyone, and we were just climbing out (37)______it. My dad had a job in a factory, and mom stayed at home with the kids. I got a new outfit (38)_______a year, and that was only because mom was pretty good at the sewing machine. Good thing, too, because when World War II came, mom got a job sewing uniforms for the soldiers. The extra money helped, and by the time I was in my teens in the late 1950s we had enough to get one of those fancy new TV.

        I decided around that time I didn’t want to work in a factory or sew like my mom had. I wanted to go to the college. I wanted to be a lawyer. Though others scoffed, my parents told me that they would support me in any way they could. Fortunately, I worked hard at school and got a scholarship. It wasn’t easy, but a few years later I was a lawyer. In the late ‘60s I knew I could use my education and spirit to help our nation. I took a job working against discrimination. (39)______is where I met your grandpa. He was not only handsome but believed in the same things I did. When your mom came along, I took a year (40)_____but when back to work, we were able to (41)_______a color TV, and like me, your mom was a glued to it.

Điền vào số 41

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

        When I was a little girl growing up in the 1940, we didn’t have much in the way of material things. The Great Depression had hit just about everyone, and we were just climbing out (37)______it. My dad had a job in a factory, and mom stayed at home with the kids. I got a new outfit (38)_______a year, and that was only because mom was pretty good at the sewing machine. Good thing, too, because when World War II came, mom got a job sewing uniforms for the soldiers. The extra money helped, and by the time I was in my teens in the late 1950s we had enough to get one of those fancy new TV.

        I decided around that time I didn’t want to work in a factory or sew like my mom had. I wanted to go to the college. I wanted to be a lawyer. Though others scoffed, my parents told me that they would support me in any way they could. Fortunately, I worked hard at school and got a scholarship. It wasn’t easy, but a few years later I was a lawyer. In the late ‘60s I knew I could use my education and spirit to help our nation. I took a job working against discrimination. (39)______is where I met your grandpa. He was not only handsome but believed in the same things I did. When your mom came along, I took a year (40)_____but when back to work, we were able to (41)_______a color TV, and like me, your mom was a glued to it.

Điền vào số 38

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions .

Computer programmer David Jones earns £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a cheque card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.

The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David's firm releases two new games for the expanding home computer market each month. But David's biggest headache is what to do with his money.

Despite his salary, earned by inventing new programs within tight schedules, with bonus payments and profit-sharing, he cannot drive a car, take out a mortgage, or obtain credit cards.

He lives with his parents in their council house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His company has to pay £150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive.

David got his job with the Liverpool-based company four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels and working for a time in a computer shop. "I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs," he said.

"I suppose £35,000 sounds a lot but actually that's being pessimistic. I hope it will come to more than that this year." He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother £20 a week. But most his spare time is spent working.

"Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school," he said. "But 1 had been studying it in books and 'magazines for four years in my spare time. 1 knew what 1 wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway."

David added: "I would like to earn a million and 1 suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear."

He left school after taking O-levels because ____.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 38 to 42.

  Computer programmer David Jones earns £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a cheque card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.

  The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David's firm releases two new games for the expanding home computer market each month.

  But David's biggest headache is what to do with his money.

  Despite his salary, earned by inventing new programs within tight schedules, with bonus payments and profit-sharing, he cannot drive a car, take out a mortgage, or obtain credit cards.

  He lives with his parents in their council house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His company has to pay £150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive.

  David got his job with the Liverpool-based company four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels and working for a time in a computer shop. "I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs," he said.

  "I suppose £35,000 sounds a lot but actually that's being pessimistic. I hope it will come to more than that this year." He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother £20 a week. But most his spare time is spent working.

  "Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school," he said. "But 1 had been studying it in books and 'magazines for four years in my spare time. 1 knew what 1 wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway."

  David added: "I would like to earn a million and 1 suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear."

David's greatest problem is _________.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions .

Computer programmer David Jones earns £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a cheque card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.

The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David's firm releases two new games for the expanding home computer market each month. But David's biggest headache is what to do with his money.

Despite his salary, earned by inventing new programs within tight schedules, with bonus payments and profit-sharing, he cannot drive a car, take out a mortgage, or obtain credit cards.

He lives with his parents in their council house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His company has to pay £150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive.

David got his job with the Liverpool-based company four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels and working for a time in a computer shop. "I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs," he said.

"I suppose £35,000 sounds a lot but actually that's being pessimistic. I hope it will come to more than that this year." He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother £20 a week. But most his spare time is spent working.

"Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school," he said. "But 1 had been studying it in books and 'magazines for four years in my spare time. 1 knew what 1 wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway."

David added: "I would like to earn a million and 1 suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear."

The word " pessimistic " in the reading passage probably means____.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions .

Computer programmer David Jones earns £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a cheque card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.

The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David's firm releases two new games for the expanding home computer market each month. But David's biggest headache is what to do with his money.

Despite his salary, earned by inventing new programs within tight schedules, with bonus payments and profit-sharing, he cannot drive a car, take out a mortgage, or obtain credit cards.

He lives with his parents in their council house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His company has to pay £150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive.

David got his job with the Liverpool-based company four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels and working for a time in a computer shop. "I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs," he said.

"I suppose £35,000 sounds a lot but actually that's being pessimistic. I hope it will come to more than that this year." He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother £20 a week. But most his spare time is spent working.

"Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school," he said. "But 1 had been studying it in books and 'magazines for four years in my spare time. 1 knew what 1 wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway."

David added: "I would like to earn a million and 1 suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear."

Why does David think he might retire early?