Reading comprehension
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Paper one: Reading comprehension
Section A: Choose the word or phrase from the list below which best completes each sentence
1.We’ll have to the meeting until next week because no one can come tomorrow
2.I wish I could up smoking
3.Charles Dickens on 9 June 1870
4.It’s rude to interrupe when someone eles is
5.At the age of eighteen, he the army
6.We are looking forward when you next come to England
7.On the whole, I eating at home to eating out
8.If it fine, I’ll go out
9.Take an umbrella it rains
10. the weather forecast, it will rain tomorrow
11.Fortunately nobody was in the accident
12.When he stays in her house he always complains her dogs
13.Why don’t you do something of just complaining
14.The book is full of
15.A man came to see you this morning
16.Their office of three small rooms
17.It a year ago
18.Look, the bus
19.Are there any good on television tonight ?
20.No sooner had she the news than she fainted
Section B: Read these passages and answer briety the questions that follow
Passage 1:
Earnest Hemingway was began his writing carrer as an ambitious American newspaperman in Paris after the First World War His early books, including “The Sun Also Rises”, were published in Europe before they were released in the United States.
Hemingway always wrote from experience rather than from imagination In “Farewell To Arms”, published in 1929, he recounted his adventures as an ambulance drive in Italy during the war In
“For Whom the Bell Tolls”, published in 1940, he retold his memories of the Spanish Civil War 21.When did Earnest Hemingway start his writing career ?
22.In which novel did he retell his memories of the Spanish Civil War ?
23.When was “Farewell to Arms” published ?
24.Did Hemingway always write from imagination ?
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25.In which novel can we read about his adventures in Italy during the war ?
Passage 2:
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) exists in order to make the public more aware of the dangers of smoking It tries to make people give up the habit by organizing anti-smoking campaigns, and it is especially concerned with limiting cigarettes advertising So far, it has succeeded in persuading the government to ban cigarettes adventising on television
26.What does ASH stand for ?
27.What is the purpose of ASH ?
28.What particular things does it do ?
29.What has it done so far ?
30.What does the word ‘habit’ (to in dam) in this passage refer to ?
Passage 3:
The city with the highest temperature yesterday was Singapore At noon the temperature in Singapore was 330C and at midnight the temperature there was 250C Tokyo had the second highest temperature It was only 20C lower than in Singapore at noon The temperature in Rome at noon was
300C, the same as in New York, one degree higher than that in Athens and Hongkong The temperature at midnight in Paris was only 140C Stockholm’s temperature at midnight, was the same
as the temperature at midnight in Paris, but its noon temperature was 240C The coolest city was London with a temperature of only 220C at noon and 130C at midnight.
The five cities with the highest temperature had a lot of sunshine throughout the day Although it was cloudy in Athens and Paris, it didn’t rain It was also cloudy and dry in Stockholm, but its rained heavily in both London and Hongkong.
31.What’s the highest temperature in Singapore ?
32.What city had got the same temperature as in New York ?
33.What city was the coolest city on that day ?
34.Where didn’t it rain ?
35.Where does the passage come from ?
Passage 4:
I’m a nurse and don’t carn very much money at all In fact, I have a lot of difficulty in just making ends meet as we say But I like being a nurse I suppose it’s because I enjoy helping people Being a nurse it is hard work It means working all sorts of hours And it isn’t very pleasant sometimes There are all sorts of things I don’t enjoy For example I don’t enjoy seeing people in pain Working ten hours a day and more in a hospital isn’t much fun, but at least you know you’re
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36 Can she make ends meet from her job?
37 Does she like her job as a nurse? Why?
38 Why does she think that her job is hasd work
39 What does not she like or enjoy?
40 How many hours does she have to work in her hospital a day?
Section C: In this section you must fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with
one suitable word.
Watching TV and going for a walk (41) the most popular leisure activities in Britain, but although longer holidays and shorter (42) .hours, have given people more free (43) . Women generally have less free time (44) men, because they spend time (45) . domestic work, shopping and child care
(46) survey showed that men were (47) to read newspapers than women, while (48) slightly higher proportion of adults read (49) newspapers than read daily morning national (50)
Part two: Writing
Section A: Guided sentence Building
Make all changes and additions necessary to prodecs sentences from the following sets of words and phrases.
Example: I / hope / you / my letter / before now
Answer: I was hoping you should have replied to my letter before now
51 I / be very delighted / get / your letter
52 I / did not know/ you / had arrive back / United States
53 / you / have / good time / London?
54 I / bo looking / forward / to hearing / all / about
55 Thank you / for inviting / me/ dinner / next / weekend
56 I / be afraid / I / shall not / able / come / Sundays
57 But / I / will not / free / following weekend
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58 Why / don’t / you call / me / in / next few days ?
59 We / must / see / each other / soon / possible
60 I / look forward / see / you
Section B: Sentence Transfomation.
Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printer before it.
Example: They serviced my car last week.
Answer: I had my car serviced last week
61 If you don’t start at once you’ll be late.
Unless
62 Hanoi has a lot of interesting places
There are
63 My brother is taller than me
64 Do you like that film ? Nancy asked me
Nancy asked if
65 The water was so cold that the children couldn’t swim in it
The water was not
66 I advised you to put your money in the bank
You’d
67.He prefers playing football to tennis
He’d rather
68.He has also been collecting stamps for five years
He also started
69.How long is it since he bought the house ?
When
70.He couldn’t repair his broken vase
The
Section C: English translation
a.Vietnamese - English translation:
71.Chỉ có 3% nớc trên thế giới là nớc ngọt
72.Anh ấy không thể giải quyết đợc vấn đề này và các bạn anh ấy cũng thế
73.Khi nghe thấy tiếng ồn ào tôi vội chạy ra ngoài để xem điều gì đang xảy ra
74.Vì không có lý do gì để chờ đợi nên họ đã đi
75.Bạn đã đọc tin về trận động đất ở ý cha ?
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b.English- Vietnamese translation:
76.In 1785 the Congress of the United States chose the dollar as the unit of currency
77.The size of the audience as we expected was well over twenty thousand
78.The earth has a tremendous amount of water but almost all of it is in the oceans
79.I argely through the work of the World Health Organization most developed countries have eardicated malaria or brought under control
80.They made themselves understood by using sign language