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

Câu 1: Why do you say the project should be changed even more? Personally, I cannot see the __________of introducing so many alternations.

A. ground     

B. reason      

C. point    

D. clue

Câu 2: - Mrs. Brown:  Taxi! Taxi!                               - Taxi driver: ______

A. It’s my duty to drive you.                                

B. Where to, Madam?

C. Fancy meeting you here.                                 

D. Where are you?

Câu 3: The military government was determined to ______all opposition.

A. put through               

B. put out                       

C. put down                  

D. put in

Câu 4: The tiny bells on the Christmas tree were ______ in the draught.

A. clanging      

B. tinkling      

C. gurgling    

D. ringing

Câu 5: Top fashion models often spend hundreds of pounds______.

A. getting straightened their teeth                       

B. having got their teeth straightened

C. getting their teeth straightened                       

D. straightening their teeth

Câu 6: ______, Edison didn’t have much schooling and he was taught by his mother.

A. When was a boy       

B. A boy was when       

C. Was a boy                 

D. When a boy

Câu 7: Only if these conditions are fulfilled ______to the next stage.

A. can the application proceed                             

B. the application can proceed

C. the application proceed                                   

D. do the application proceed

Câu 8: Mach numbers describe the velocity of airplanes ______ over the speed of sound.

A. have moved              

B. move  

C. moving

D. moved

Câu 9: Auroras are created when the sun’s particles are caught in ______.

A. field the earth’s magnetic                                

B. the field magnetic earth

C. the earth’s magnetic fields                              

D. the magnetic field earth

Câu 10: (After a party at Mary’s house). Bill: ______ Mary: Thanks for your compliment. Good night!

A. You are a good cooker. Good night!              

B. You are a good cook. Good night!

C. Long time no see. Good night!                       

D. Many happy returns. Good night!

Câu 11: It is ______ that so many young people leave school without qualifications.

A. regretted          

B. regrettable        

C. regretful           

D. to regret

Câu 12: Sumerians were the first to invent cuneiform, ______.

A. was system of writing                                   

B. for a system of witting

C. a system of writing                                          

D. which a system of writing

Câu 13: After the seventh month of pregnancy, ______ a good chance of survival.

A. there is a premature baby                                 

B. a premature baby has

C. does a premature baby have                            

D. it has premature baby

Câu 14: Migratory patterns in births ______ term of seasonal changes.

A. in usually be explained                                    

B. can be explained usually in

C. can usually be explained in                              

D. can be explained in usually

Câu 15: I am afraid that if I started running, the man would ______ me

A. take on                      

B. take after                   

C. take up                      

D. take apart

Câu 16: Mary lost one of her running shoes, but won the race despite this ______

A. disaster  

B. feat    

C. awkwardness 

D. handicap

Câu 17: - “Where’s Polly?”                - She ______.

A. in her room is studying                                    

B. has in her room studying

C. studies in her  room                                         

D. is in her room studying

Câu 18: Veronica broke the school rules so many times that the headmistress finally had no alternative but to ______ her.

A. eject 

B. expel    

C. export  

D. deport

Câu 19: ______ your precious help, I wouldn’t have certainly overcome most of the practical difficulties

A. If not                         

B. Provided   

C. Unless 

D. Without

Câu 20: I’ve applied for several jobs. I don’t want to ______.

A. be a good egg                                                  

B. have an egg on my face

C. kill the goose that lay the golden eggs            

D. put all my eggs in one basket

Câu 21: Everyone is surprised to know that the Korean Vice-prime Minister resigned and he _____ all responsibility for what had happened in the Sewol ferry.

A. captured

B. bore     

C. maintained   

D. solved

Câu 22: - Bill:  ‘I was hoping to get a ticket for Saturday.’     - Bull: ‘­______’

A. You’ll be lucky

B. Lucky to you

C. Lucky you!                

D. Good luck

Câu 23: We must adopt firm policy on punctuality. We can’t have people ______ late all the time.

A. arriving   

B. arrive     

C.  to arrive     

D. to have arrived

Câu 24: Fortunately, several of his colleagues had ______ in his downfall.

A. every hand                

B. their hands                

C. a hand                       

D. both hands