Câu hỏi 1 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
comprise; provision; intentions; plasma
Câu hỏi 2 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
wreath; measles; breadth; heathen
Câu hỏi 3 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Câu hỏi 4 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Câu hỏi 5 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
After meeting the famous actor in the flesh, they felt a sense of disappointment.
Câu hỏi 6 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
A democratic leader delegates authority and responsibility to others.
Câu hỏi 7 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
The basic idea behind that movie was too unbelievable. Therefore, I don’t recommend you go and see it.
Câu hỏi 8 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
The ending of the film was so sad that we all were reduced to tears.
Câu hỏi 9 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
He kicked up a tremendous fuss about having to wait long hours for the next flight.
Câu hỏi 10 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word/phrase that best completes each sentence.
The law in this area is very strict and doesn't allow us much _________.
Câu hỏi 11 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word/phrase that best completes each sentence.
He refused to give up work, _________ he had won a million pounds.
Câu hỏi 12 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word/phrase that best completes each sentence.
The company will _________ the land before it starts construction of any buildings.
Câu hỏi 13 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word/phrase that best completes each sentence.
In order to protect the environment, the government is trying to increase public _________ of the problem.
Câu hỏi 14 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word/phrase that best completes each sentence.
Despite _________ attempts to reach the site of the ancient city, the explorers never made it.
Câu hỏi 15 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word/phrase that best completes each sentence.
A new _________ of spider was recently discovered in Africa.
Câu hỏi 16 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word/phrase that best completes each sentence.
That new vegetarian restaurant seems to be _________ a treat with many people.
Câu hỏi 17 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word/phrase that best completes each sentence.
A large photograph of the children takes _________ on the sitting room wall.
Câu hỏi 18 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word/phrase that best completes each sentence.
_________ Patrick, he can’t possibly go alone - he’s far too young.
Câu hỏi 19 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word/phrase that best completes each sentence.
_________, including climate, mineral content, and the permanency of surface water, wetlands may be mossy, grassy, scrubby or wooded.
Câu hỏi 20 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word/phrase that best completes each sentence.
Don’t be stupid. You have tried that trick _________.
Câu hỏi 21 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word/phrase that best completes each sentence.
No sooner _________ the wine than he began to feel sick.
Câu hỏi 22 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the most suitable response to complete each exchange.
- Linda, I didn’t get the job after all.
- Oh, _________.
Câu hỏi 23 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the most suitable response to complete each exchange.
- It’s true that she’s going to leave the company.
- _________.
Câu hỏi 24 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each sentence.
Students (A) should be encouraged (B) to discuss (C) critically (D) about the information that they are given.
Câu hỏi 25 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each sentence.
Although he (A) pleaded not quilt, the court (B) sentenced him (C) to three years (D) in prison.
Câu hỏi 26 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each sentence.
(A) In early days, hydrochloric acid (B) was done by (C) heating a mixture of sodium chloride (D) with iron sulfate.
Câu hỏi 27 (5 điểm):
Read the following passage and decide which option best fits each numbered space.
BRAIN GEL
A gel that helps brains recover from traumatic injuries has been developed by scientists at the Clemson University in South Carolina. The gel, which is injected in liquid form at the site where the injury was sustained, (27) (stimulates / motivates / vitalizes / mobilises) stem cell growth in the affected area. In (28) (connection / reference / regard / terms) of circumstances in which it might be applied, the gel has the potential to treat a wide range of head injuries, including those (29) (arisen / being arisen / arising / arose) from car accidents, falls and gunshot wounds.
Serious brain injuries are notoriously difficult to recover from on account of the fact that the affected tissue can swell up considerably, which causes additional (30) (corresponding / collateral / coincident / dependent) damage to the surrounding cells. Existing treatments do little more than attempt to limit secondary damage and are relatively ineffective, certainly when it comes to repairing the damaged cells, so the discovery of a gel which stimulates cell repair is being heralded as revolutionary.
Despite the wave of excitement now running through medical circles, it is important to note that results so far are based solely on observations of the effects of the gel on laboratory rats. The development of the treatment is very much still in its (31) (penultimate / concluding / fundamental / preliminary) stages and human testing is expected to be some three years or more away yet.
Câu hỏi 28 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences.
Give me a phone call when you arrive. It doesn’t matter even if it is after my bedtime.
Câu hỏi 29 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences.
The player lacks match practice. It is threatening to ruin his chances of qualifying.
Câu hỏi 30 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences.
She phoned him early in the morning. She didn’t want him to forget to bring along the document.
Câu hỏi 31 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to each of the following sentences.
Of course I did not agree to lend them the money although they asked me to.
Câu hỏi 32 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to each of the following sentences.
He refused to accept help and this led to his increasing isolation.
Câu hỏi 33 (1 điểm):
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to each of the following sentences.
The lawyer for the defence suggested the witness was not telling the truth.
Câu hỏi 34 (6 điểm):
Read the texts below and choose the best answer to each question. Write A, B, C or D in the given blanks.
If you enjoy water sports, Hawaii is the place for you. You can go swimming all year round in the warm water. You can go sport fishing from the shore or from a boat. If you like boats, you can go sailing, canoeing, or windsurfing. Or, you can also try some other water sports that are especially popular in Hawaii: surfing, snorkeling and scuba diving.
Surfing is a sport which started in Hawaii many years ago. The Hawaiians called it "he'e nalu", which means "to slide on a wave’’. If you want to try surfing, you need, first of all, to be a good swimmer. You also have to have an excellent sense of balance. You must swim out from the beach with your surfboard under your arm. When you get to where the waves begin to break, you wait for a calm moment. Then you try to stand up on the board. The wave will begin to rise under you. You must try to steer the board with your feet so you stay on top of the wave. The important thing is to keep your balance and not fall down. If you can manage this, you will have an exciting ride all the way in to the shore.
Scuba diving and snorkeling are two ways to get a close look at the beauty lying below the surface of the ocean. The waters off the Hawaiian Islands are clean, clear and warm. They contain hundreds of kinds of colorful fish. The undersea world is made even more colorful by the coral reefs of red, gold, white and light purple. Among these reefs there may be larger fish or sea turtles.
Scuba diving allows you to see the most interesting undersea sights. "Scuba" means "Self-contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus", that is, equipment for breathing and swimming around far under water. In Hawaii, you can take special courses to learn how to scuba dive. After the courses, you can get a certificate that will allow you to dive alone. Since it can be dangerous, proper instruction and great care are always necessary when you are scuba diving.
If you are adventurous, you might try snorkeling instead of scuba diving. Less equipment is needed, just a face mask, a breathing tube (snorkel) and flippers for your feet. It only takes a few minutes to learn how to snorkel. Although you cannot dive deep into the water, you can swim with your face below the surface. Breathing through the tube, you float on the surface, and keep yourself moving with your flippers. Even from the surface like this, there will be plenty of color and beauty to see.
38: You can infer from the passage that ________.
A. swimming in Hawaii can be dangerous
B. you need to take a course for all water sports
C. water sports are all expensive
D. everyone can find a way to enjoy sports in the water
Your answer:
39: You can go deep under water when you are ________.
A. surfing
B. snorkelling
C. scuba diving
D. swimming
Your answer:
40: The water around the Hawaiian Islands is ________.
A. full of dangerous fish
B. often quite cold
C. usually very dark
D. full of colorful things to see
Your answer:
41: The word "this" in the second paragraph refers to ________.
A. an exciting ride
B. standing on the board
C. staying on top of the wave
D. keeping balanced and not falling down
Your answer:
42: According to the passage, scuba diving ________.
A. is an ancient Hawaiian water sport
B. requires good balance
C. requires special equipment and training
D. is the only way to see the fish underwater
Your answer:
43: According to the passage, snorkeling ________.
A. requires more expensive equipment than scuba diving
B. can be dangerous
C. is an easy way to see the underwater life
D. was invented in ancient times
Your answer:
Câu hỏi 35 (7 điểm):
Read the texts below and choose the best answer to each question. Write A, B, C or D in the given blanks.
One area of paleoanthropological study involves the eating and dietary habits of hominids, erect bipedal primates - including early humans. It is clear that at some stage of history, humans began to carry their food to central places, called home bases, where it was shared and consumed with the young and other adults. The use of home bases is a fundamental component of human social behavior; the common meal served at a common hearth is a powerful symbol, a mark of social unity. Home base behavior does not occur among nonhuman primates and is rare among mammals. It is unclear when humans began to use home bases, what kind of communications and social relations were involved, and what the ecological and food-choice contexts of the shift were. Work on early tools, surveys of paleoanthropological sites, development and testing of broad ecological theories, and advances in comparative primatology are contributing to knowledge about this central chapter in human prehistory.
One innovative approach to these issues involves studying damage and wear on stone tools. Researchers make tools that replicate excavated specimens as closely as possible and then try to use them as the originals might have been used, in woodcutting, hunting, or cultivation. Depending on how the tool is used, characteristic chippage patterns and microscopically distinguishable polishes develop near the edges. The first application of this method of analysis to stone tools that are 1.5 million to 2 million years old indicates that, from the start, an important function of early stone tools was to extract highly nutritious food - meat and marrow - from large animal carcasses. Fossil bones with cut marks caused by stone tools have been discovered lying in the same 2-million-year-old layers that yielded the oldest such tools and the oldest hominid specimens (including humans) with larger than ape-sized brains. This discovery increases scientists’ certainty about when human ancestors began to eat more meat than present-day nonhuman primates. But several questions remain unanswered: how frequently meat eating occurred; what the social implications of meat eating were; and whether the increased use of meat coincides with the beginnings of the use of home bases.
44: The passage mainly discusses which of the following aspects of hominid behavior?
A. Changes in eating and dietary practices
B. The creation of stone hunting tools
C. Methods of extracting nutritious food from carcasses
D. Social interactions at home bases
Your answer:
45: According to the passage, bringing a meal to a location to be shared by many individuals is _________.
A. an activity typical of nonhuman primates
B. a common practice among animals eating meat
C. a behavior that encourages better dietary habits
D. an indication of social unity
Your answer:
46: The word “consumed” is closest in meaning to ________.
A. prepared
B. stored
C. distributed
D. eaten
Your answer:
47: According to paragraph 2, researchers make copies of old stone tools in order to ________.
A. protect the old tools from being worn out
B. display examples of the old tools in museums
C. test theories about how old tools were used
D. learn how to improve the design of modern tools
Your answer:
48: In paragraph 2, the author mentions all of the following as examples of ways in which early stone tools were
used EXCEPT to ________.
A. build home bases
B. obtain food
C. make weapons
D. shape wood
Your answer:
49: The word “innovative” is closest in meaning to ________.
A. untouched
B. cutting-edge
C. fresh
D. crisp
Your answer:
50: The author mentions “characteristic chippage patterns” as an example of ________.
A. differences among tools made of various substances
B. decorations cut into wooden objects
C. impressions left on prehistoric animal bones
D. indications of wear on stone tools
Your answer:
