Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions. 1. A. comrade B. invade C. pervade D. evade 2. A. bread B. dread C. bead D. thread Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions. 3. A. tolerant B. ignorant C. descendant D. immigrant 4. A. dismal B. decent C. contents D. presented Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
3 A tolerant B ignorant C descendant D immigrant
4 A dismal B decent C contents D presented
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
5 How long have you attended your training?
A military B militarize C militarism D militaristic
6 Thanks to the help of his teacher and classmates, he made great and passed the
end-term exam with high marks
7 When Mr Spendthrift ran out of money, he his mother for help.
A fell in with B fell upon C fell behind D fell back on
8 Tessa was determined to become wealthy and to that she started her own company.
9 I can‟t understand why you have to make such a about something so unimportant.
10 “Is dinner ready?” “No, mother is it ready now.”
Trang 211 Grace Kelly was first famous as a Hollywood actress and Prince Rainier of Monaco.
A as the wife of B to be the wife of
C she was the wife of D the wife of
12 We watch the cat the tree.
A climb B climbed C had climbed D was climbing
13 If only motorists drive more carefully.
14 When it is very hot, you may the top button of your shirt.
15 What on earth is going in there?
16 May I have more meat, please?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
17 Some snakes have hollow teeth are called fangs that they use to poison their victims.
=> called
18 The nitrogen makes up over 78 percent of the Earth‟s atmosphere The gaseous
surrounding the planet
D
=> nitrogen
Trang 319 Venomous snakes with modified teeth connected to poison glands in which the venom is
secreted and stored
have
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
20 "More coffee? Anybody?" – “ ”
A I don't agree, I'm afraid B I'd love to
C Yes, please D It's right, I think
21 “Can I leave early?” “ ”
A Yes, that‟s fine B Before 4.30 C Not at all D You‟re
welcome
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
22 TV commercials that sell household products have often been accused of reinforcing
stereotypes of societal roles
A Exposing B modifying C contrasting D strengthening
23 The new cowboy film catches the fancy of the children.
A Satisfies B amuses C attracts D surprises
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
24 We have to husband our resources to make sure we make it through these hard times.
Trang 425 His physical condition was not an impediment to his career as a violinist He has won a
lot of prizes
A disadvantage B barrier C obstacle D advantage
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
26 How lucky! You called me, because I tried to call you a few minutes ago and got a busy
signal
A You luckily called me, so I didn‟t have to call you for a few minutes because
the signal was busy
B Luckily, you called me in time, for I failed to call you a few minutes ago
C The busy signal prevented me from calling you a few minutes ago, so please call me back
D I was not lucky enough to call you a few minutes ago because I was busy
27 You must have boiled the potatoes too long.
A The potatoes were not boiled long enough
B It was not long before the potatoes were boiled
C It was not necessary to boil the potatoes too long
D You had to boil the potatoes too long
28 Sarah is not usually late.
A Sarah does not like to be late B Sarah is not likely being late
C It is not like Sarah to be late D It is not likely to be late for Sarah
Trang 5From the four words or phrases A, B, C, D, choose the one that best completes the
sentence.
29 The fact that was discovered in 1923 by the astronomer Edwin Hubble.
A the expansion of the universe
B the universe, which is expanding
C the universe is expanding
D when the universe expands
30 Fossil recoeds indicate existing in the past have become extinct.
A many species of organisms that
B many species of organisms are
C that many species of organisms
D there are many organisms
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 from 31 to 35.
Public transport plays a central role in any (31) urban transport system In
developing countries where at least 16 cities are expected to have more than 12 million
people each by the end of this decade, failing to give priority to public transport would be (32)
The term „public transport‟ covers many different types of vehicles, but most commonly refers to buses and trains Rail services fall into four major categories, rapid rail (also called the underground, tube, metro, or subway), which operates on exclusive tunnels or
on elevated tracks; trams, which move with other traffic on regular (33) ; light rail, which is a quieter, more modern version of trams that can run either on exclusive way or with other traffic; and suburban or regional trains, which (34) a city with surrounding areas The recent trend in many cities is toward light rail over „heavy‟ rapid rail systems Whereas metros require exclusive rights-of-way, which often means building costly elevated
or underground lines and stations, light rail can be build on regular city streets
Trang 6Public transport modes vary in fuel use and emissions and in the space they require, but if carrying reasonable (35) of passengers, they all perform better than single-occupant private cars on each of these counts
32 A costly B cheap C disastrous D impossible
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 36 to 42.
The general principles of dynamics are rules that demonstrate a relationship between the motions of bodies and the forces that produce those motions Based in large part on the work
of his predecessors, Sir Isaac Newton deduced three laws of dynamics, which he published in
his famous PrincipiA.
Prior to Newton, Aristotle had established that the natural state of a body was a state of
rest, and that unless a force acted upon it to maintain motion, a moving body would come to rest Galileo had succeeded in correctly describing the behavior of falling objects and in
recording that no force was required to maintain a body in motion He noted that the effect of force was to change motion Huygens recognized that a change in the direction of motion involved acceleration, just as did a change in speed, and further, that the action of a force was required Kepler deduced the laws describing the motion of planets around the sun It was primarily from Galileo and Kepler that Newton borrowed
In short, Newton‟s laws of Motion are: (1) a body at rest remains at rest, and a body in motion remains in motion along a straight line, unless acted upon by an unbalanced force, (2)
if an unbalanced force acts upon a body, the momentum of the body changes in proportion to
the force and in the same direction as the force, (3) to every action or force, there is an equal and opposite reaction
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A To demonstrate the development of Newton‟s laws
B To establish Newton as the authority in the field of physics
C To discredit Newton‟s laws of motion
D To describe the motion of planets around the sun
Question 37 The word "predecessors" refers to
A those who came before B those who provided help
C those who published their work D those who agreed with the ideas
Question 38 The phrase "prior to" could best be replaced by which of the following?
simultaneously
Question 39 Which of the following scientists established that the natural state of a body was
a state of rest?
Question 40 According to Huygens, when was acceleration required?
A For either a change in direction or a change in speed
B Only for a change in speed
C Only for a change in direction
D Neither for a change in direction nor for a change in speed
Question 41 The word "momentum" in line 16 is closest in meaning to
Question 42 Which of the following describes Inertia, or the principles of bodies at rest?
A Newton‟s first law B Newton‟s third law
Trang 8C Newton‟s law of motion D Newton‟s law of dynamics
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 43 to 50.
THE CONVENIENT SOCIETY
The other day I took my younger children to a Burger King for lunch and there was a line of about a dozen cars at the drive-through window Now, a drive-through window is not a
window you drive through, but a window you drive up to and collect your food from, having placed your order over a speakerphone along the way; the idea is to provide quick takeaway food for those in a hurry
We parked, went in, ordered and ate and came out again, all in about ten minutes As we
departed, I noticed that a white pickup truck that had been last in the queue when we arrived was still four or five cars back from collecting its food It would have been much quicker if the driver had parked like us and gone in and got his food himself, but he would never have
thought that way because the drive-through window is supposed to be speedier and more convenient
Americans have become so attached to the idea of convenience that they will put up with almost any inconvenience to achieve it The things that are supposed to speed up and simplify our lives more often than not have the opposite effect and I started wondering why this should be
Americans have always looked for ways to increase comfort It is an interesting fact that
nearly all the everyday inventions that take the difficulties out of life - escalators, automatic doors, passenger lifts, refrigerators, washing machines, frozen food, fast food were invented in America, or at least first widely used here Americans grew so used to seeing a constant
stream of labour-saving devices, in fact, that by the sixties they had come to expect machines
to do almost everything for them
The moment I first realized that this was not necessarily a good idea was at Christmas of 1961
or '62, when my father was given an electric carving knife It was an early model and not as
light as the ones you can buy today Perhaps my memory is playing tricks on me, but I have
a clear impression of him putting on goggles and heavy rubber gloves before plugging it in
Trang 9What is certainly true is that when he sank it into the turkey it sent pieces flying everywhere
and then the blade hit the plate with a shower of blue sparks and the whole thing flew out of
his hands and shot across the table and out of the room, like a creature from a Gremlins movie
My father was always buying gadgets that proved to be disastrous - clothes steamers that failed to take the wrinkles out of suits but caused wallpaper to fall off the walls in whole sheets, or an electric pencil sharpener that could consume an entire pencil (including the tips
of your fingers if you weren't quick) in less than a second
But all of this was nothing compared with the situation today Americans are now surrounded with items that do things for them to an almost absurd degree - automatic cat-food dispensers, refrigerators that make their own ice cubes, automatic car windows, disposable toothbrushes that come with their own ration of toothpaste People are so addicted to convenience that they have become trapped in a vicious circle: the more labour-saving devices they buy, the harder they need to work; the harder they work, the more labour-saving appliances they feel they need
When we moved into our house in New Hampshire it was full of gadgets installed by earlier
owners, all of them designed to make life a little easier Most, however, were completely
useless One of our rooms, for instance, came equipped with automatic curtains You flicked a switch on the wall and four pairs of curtains effortlessly opened or closed That, at least, was the idea In practice what happened was that one opened, one closed, one opened and closed repeatedly and one did nothing at all for five minutes and then started to produce smoke We didn‟t go anywhere near them after the first week
Automatic curtains, electric cat-food dispensers and clothes steamers only seem to make life easier In fact, all they do is add expense and complication to your existence
43 What is the author’s opinion of everyday inventions?
A On the whole they make life easier
B Some people do not know how to use them very well
C They cause more problems than they solve
D He likes them now more than he used to
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A Fast food restaurants are not very fast
B Some aspects of modern life are not always as convenient as they are intended to be
C The driver of the pickup truck had parked in the wrong place
D The queues at the drive-through windows are usually very long
45 What does the author tell us about everyday inventions in America?
A They were all invented there
B They make life less exciting
C People assumed they would make life more comfortable
D There aren't as many now as there used to be
46 What does the author mean by 'Perhaps my memory is playing tricks on me' (line 13)?
A He is sometimes very forgetful
B He cannot remember all the details
C What he says might not be completely true
D He remembers having fun
47 What does 'the whole thing' (line 15) refer to?
A the turkey
B the plate
C the rubber gloves
D the carving knife
48 What does the author say about labour-saving devices today?
A People cannot stop buying them
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C They are better than the ones in the sixties
D They help people to do more work
49 What does “them” in paragraph 8 refer to?
A Earlier owners
B The gadgets
C Houses in New Hampshire
D The writer‟s family
50 What are we told about the automatic curtains?
A They had been brought from a previous house
B Some of them worked as they were supposed to
C The room where they were fitted was never used
D The author and his family decided not to use them