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 following questions.. Centuries ago, man discovered that [r]
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Môn: TIẾNG ANH 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
Question 2: A celebration B nation C expedition D question
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
Question 3: A familiar B impatient C uncertain D arrogant
Question 4: A disappear B arrangement C opponent D contractual
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.
Question 5: As a child grows on, its physical health is affected by many elements in the air, water and food.
A B C D
Question 6: The assumption that smoking has bad effects on our health have been proved.
A B C D
Question 7: The examination will test your ability to understand spoken English, to read non-technical
language and
writing correctly
C D
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions
Question 8 : We are watering the trees which _.
A were grown by John yesterday in the backyard B were grown in the backyard by John yesterday
C were grown in the backyard yesterday by John D in the backyard were grown yesterday by John Question 9 : I can’t possibly lend you any more money, it is quite out of the
Question 10: The salary of a computer programmer is _ a teacher.
C twice as higher as that D twice as high as that of
Question 11: There has been little rain in this area for months, ?
Question 12: The doctors know that it is very difficult to save the patient's life, , they will try their best
Question 13: Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is _; if it was destroyed no amount of money could ever replace it
Question 14: Does it _ any difference to you where we go for dinner?
A take B do C make D go
Question 15 UNICEF supports and funds for the most disadvantaged children all over the world
Question 16: Five thousand dollars _ a big sum of money It’s worth trying
Question 17: We had to the noise from the building site next door for three months.
A put up with B stand up to C give up D look up to
Question 18: He spent a year in India and loves spicy food _ the food is, _ he likes it.
A The hotter / the more and more B The hotter / the more
C The more and more hot / the more D The hottest / the most
Question 19 : It is imperative that he _ the school regulations.
Question 20: I _along the street when I suddenly heard footsteps behind me.
Question 21: had she opened the door than the phone rang.
Trang 2Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges
Question 22: “Would you mind turning down your stereo?’’ - “ ”
A I’m really sorry! I’m not paying attention B Yes, I do
C Oh! I’m sorry! I didn’t realize that D No I don’t
Question 23: - David: “I failed my driving test yesterday.”
- Tom: “ _”
A You should try your hand at it B I wish that we could talk about it.
C Oh well You’re in a good company-so did I last week. D You want to pass the test Dream on!
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
Question 24: Deforestation may seriously jeopardize the habitat of many species in the local area
A do harm to B set fire to C give rise to D make way for
Question 25: Nutritious foods, such as fruits and vegetables, help our bodies grow.
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.
Question 26: When I was going shopping yesterday, I accidentally met one of my old friends in high school.
Question 27: The chairman initiated the proceedings with a brief speech
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
Question 28: : He decided not to go to university and went to work in a restaurant.
A Despite of going to university he went to work in a restaurant.
B.He went to work in a restaurant instead of going to university
C Instead of going to university, he went to work in a restaurant.
D He decided to go to work in a restaurant because he liked it.
Question 29: Many people think that Steve stole the money.
A The money is thought to have stolen by Steve B It is thought that Steve stole the money
C Steve was thought to have stolen the money D Steve was thought to steal the money
Question 30: “I’m very pleased at how things have turned out”, she said to her employees.
A She asked her employees how things had turned out and was pleased to know it
B She expressed her satisfaction with the way things had turned out
C She complimented her employees for making things turn out
D She wanted her employees to tell her how many things had turned out
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 31: Nick recovered very quickly He was injured in a car accident
A Nick, who was injured in a car accident, recovered very quickly
B Nick recovered very quickly because he was injured in a car accident
C Nick was injured in a car accident, so he recovered very quickly
D Nick recovered very quickly, but he was injured in a car accident
Question 32 The Moon doesn't have the atmosphere The planet Mars doesn't either.
A Neither the Moon or the planet Mars has the atmosphere.
B Either the Moon or the planet Mars has the atmosphere.
C Either the Moon nor the planet Mars has the atmosphere.
D Neither the Moon nor the planet Mars has the atmosphere.
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
The universal symbol of the Internet era communications, the @ sign used in e-mail addresses to signify the word 'at', is (34) a 500-year-old invention of Italian merchants, a Rome academic has revealed Giorgio Stabile, a science professor at La Sapienza University, claims to have stumbled on the earliest
Trang 3known example of the symbol's use, as a(n) (35) of a measure of weight or volume He says the sign represents an amphora, a measure of capacity based on the terracotta jars used to transport grain and liquid in the ancient Mediterranean world
The professor unearthed toe ancient symbol in the course of research for a visual history of the 20 th century, to be published by the Treccani Encyclopedia The first (36) instance of its use, he says, occurred
in a letter written by a Florentine merchant on May 4, 1536 He says the sign made its way along trade routes to northern Europe, where it came to represent 'at the price of’, its contemporary accountancy meaning
Professor Stabile believes that Italian banks may possess even earlier documents (37) the symbol lying forgotten in their archives The oldest example could be of great value It could be used (38) publicity purposes and to enhance the prestige of the institution that owned it, he says The race is on between the mercantile world and the banking world to see who has the oldest documentation of @
Question 33: A actually B truly C essentially D accurately
Question 35: A known B knowing C knowable D knowledgeable
Question 36: A taking B carrying C delivering D bearing
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 following questions.
Centuries ago, man discovered that removing moisture from food helped to preserve it, and that the
easiest way to do this was to expose the food to sun and wind, In this way the North American Indians produced
pemmican (dried meat ground into powder and made into cakes), the Scandinavians made stockfish and the Arabs dried dates and “apricot leather”
All foods contain water – cabbage and other leaf vegetables contain as much as 93% water, potatoes and other root vegetables 80%, lean meat 75% and fish anything from 80% to 60% depending on how fatty it is If
this water is removed, the activity of the bacteria which cause food to bad is checked.
Fruit is sun-dried in Asia Minor, Greece, Spain and other Mediterranean countries, and also in California, South Africa and Australia The methods used carry, but in general the fruit is spread out on trays in drying yards in the hot sun In order to prevent darkening, pears, peaches and apricots are exposed to the fumes
of burning sulphur before drying Plums for making prunes, and certain varieties of grapes for making raisins and currants, are dipped in an alkaline solution in order to crack the skins of the fruit slightly and remove their wax coating, so increasing the rate of drying
Nowadays most of foods are dried mechanically; the conventional method of such dehydration is to put
food in chambers through which hot air is blown at temperatures of about 1100C at entry to about 450C at exit.
This is usual method for drying such things as vegetables, minced meat, and fish
Liquids such as milk, coffee, tea, soups and eggs may be dried by pouring them over a heated horizontal steel cylinder or by spraying them into a chamber through which a current of hot air passes In the first case, the dried material is scraped off the roller as a thin film which is then broken up into small, though still relatively coarse flakes In the second process it falls to the bottom of the chamber as a fine powder Where recognizable pieces of meat and vegetables are required, as in soup, the ingredients are dried separately and then mixed
Dried foods take up less room and weigh less than the same food packed in cans of frozen, and they do not need to be stored in special conditions For these reasons they are invaluable to climbers, explorers and soldiers in battle, who have little storage space They are also popular with housewives because it takes so little time to cook them
From Practical Faster Reading by Gerald Mosback and Vivien Mosback, CUP
Question 38 : What is the main idea of the passage?
A Mechanization of drying foods B Water: the main component of food
C Advantages of dried foods D Different methods of drying foods
Question 39 : The word “checked” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to
Question 40: The final product of the process of drying liquids that uses the first method will be
A dried soup B recognizable pieces C fine powder D small flakes
Question 41: According to the passage, dried foods are most useful for
A people who are on the move B explores who are underweight
Trang 4C housewives who have little storage space D soldiers who are not in battle
Question 42: This passage is mainly _
A informative B fictional C argumentative D analytical
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 following questions.
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness and its originality of perspective Satire itself, however, rarely offers original ideas Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false
Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism None of these ideas is original Chivalry was suspect
before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift
It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude
Satire exists because there is need for it It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an
irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth Satire
tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is sanctimonious,
sentimental, and only partially true Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it
Question 43: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A Difficulties of writing satiric literature B Popular topics of satire.
C New philosophies emerging from satiric literature D Reasons for the popularity of satire.
Question 44: Don Quixote, Brave New World, and A Modest Proposal are cited by the author as
A classic satiric works B a typical approach to satire
C best satirists of all times D good critiques by satirists
Question 45: What satires fascinates readers is how
A ideas are expressed B ideas are organized C realistic they are D plots are created
Question 46: Which of the following can be found in satiric literature?
A Newly emerging philosophies B Odd combinations of objects and ideas.
C Abstract discussion of morals and ethics D Wholesome characters who are unselfish.
Question 47: According to the passage, there is a need for satire because people need to be
A informed about new scientific developments
B exposed to original philosophies when they are formulated
C.reminded that popular ideas may often be inaccurate
D told how they can be of service to their communities
Question 48: The word "refreshing" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to
Question 49: The word "sanctimonious" may be new to you It most probably means " " in this context
Question 50: The various purposes of satire include all of the following EXCEPT
A introducing readers to unfamiliar situations B brushing away illusions
C reminding readers of the truth D exposing false values
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