Mark the letterA, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.
Câu hỏi số 1: Chưa xác định
A. familiar
B. impatient
C. uncertain
D. arrogant
Câu hỏi số 2: Chưa xác định
A. forgettable
B. philosophy
C. humanism
D. objectively
Câu hỏi số 3: Chưa xác định
A. disappear
B. arrangement
C. opponent
D. contractual
Câu hỏi số 4: Chưa xác định
A. respectable
B. affectionate
C. occasional
D. kindergarten
Câu hỏi số 5: Chưa xác định
A. environmental
B. conservatively
C. approximately
D. considerable
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your anstwer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Câu hỏi số 6: Chưa xác định
Research has shown that there is no difference at all between the brain of the average woman and ______ of the average man.
A. what
B. which
C. one
D. that
Câu hỏi số 7: Chưa xác định
“MD” is the abbreviation of___________ .
A. Medical Deveiopment
B. Doctor of Medicine
C. Medium Density
D. Management Director
Câu hỏi số 8: Chưa xác định
- “That’s a very nice skirt you’re wearing .” - " __________ ".
A. How a compliment!
B. That’s all right.
C. It’s nice of you to say so.
D. I like you said so.
Câu hỏi số 9: Chưa xác định
_______________ are the formal rules of correct or polittion behavior among people using the Internet.
A. Traffic rules
B. Family rules
C. Codes of etiquettes
D. Codes of netiquettes
Câu hỏi số 10: Chưa xác định
- "_________________ ” - “Yes, of course”
A. You won’t help me this time.
B. You’d better give me one hand.
C. I don’t think I’ll need your help.
D. Could you give a hand?
Câu hỏi số 11: Chưa xác định
UNICEF___________ supports and funds for the most disadvantaged children all over the world.
A. presents
B. assists
C. provides
D. offers
Câu hỏi số 12: Chưa xác định
Is there anyone who___________ the plan put forward by the committee?
A. differs
B. disagrees
C. objects
D. opposes
Câu hỏi số 13: Chưa xác định
He would win the race if he__________ his brother’s example and trained harder.
A. repeated
B. set
C. answered
D. followed
Câu hỏi số 14: Chưa xác định
“Excuse me. Where is the_________ office of OXFAM located?”
A. leading
B. head
C. central
D. summit
Câu hỏi số 15: Chưa xác định
She neglected her study during the term,________ she couldn't pass the exam.
A. although
B. because
C. so that
D. so
Câu hỏi số 16: Chưa xác định
The doctors know that it is very difficult to save the patient’s life, ____ they will try their best.
A. but
B. although
C. despite
D. however
Câu hỏi số 17: Chưa xác định
I am sending you my curriculum vitae________ you will have a chance to study it before our interview.
A. so that
C. for
D. since
Câu hỏi số 18: Chưa xác định
Unfortunately, your letter arrived after the final date for application. ______ , we cannot consider you for the post.
A. As result
B. That is because
C. Consequently
D. To this
Câu hỏi số 19: Chưa xác định
Everybody in the house woke up when the burglar alarm_____ .
A. went out
B. went off
C. came about
D. rang off
Câu hỏi số 20: Chưa xác định
- "You’re already leaving? The ball is only starting.” - “But it’s very late, so ___”
A. take care
B. have a good day
C. goodbye for now
D. it’s great fun, thanks
Câu hỏi số 21: Chưa xác định
Have a piece of chocolate,___________ ?
A. do you
B. would you
C. don’t you
D. Haven’t you
Câu hỏi số 22: Chưa xác định
By the time you come here tomorrow, the work_______ .
A. will have been finishing
B. will be finishing
C. will have been finished
D. will be finished
Câu hỏi số 23: Chưa xác định
If you put your money in a bank now, you may get 12% _________ annually.
A. interest
B. profit
C. money
D. income
Câu hỏi số 24: Chưa xác định
- " _________ " - “Yes, I’d like to buy a computer.”
A. Do you look for something?
B. Good morning. Can I help you?
C. Excuse me. Do you want to buy it?
D. Can you help me buy something?
Câu hỏi số 25: Chưa xác định
In making remarks, he____________ to understatement.
A. declined
B. intended
C. aligned
D. inclined
Câu hỏi số 26: Chưa xác định
After her illness, Lam had to work hard to______ her classmates.
A. catch sight of
B. keep pace with
C. get in touch with
D. make allowance for
Câu hỏi số 27: Chưa xác định
Some kinds of birds are on the___________ of extinction.
A. brink
B. tip
C. side
D. edge
Câu hỏi số 28: Chưa xác định
_______ of popular expressions in our language have interesting backgrounds.
A. A large number
B. The large number
C. A great deal
D. A sum
Câu hỏi số 29: Chưa xác định
_________________ for farming purposes, soil must contain the minerals plants require.
A. To be good
B. Being good
C. Be good
D. That’s good
Câu hỏi số 30: Chưa xác định
Please______________ your cigarette, I am going to get choked.
A. cut down
B. blow out
C. put aside
D. put out
Câu hỏi số 31: Chưa xác định
The new laws have encouraged both domestic and foreign private ________ .
A. savings
B. paying
C. investment
D. economics
Câu hỏi số 32: Chưa xác định
Since the reform, the country has undergone________ changes.
A. large
B. sizeable
C. substantial
D. favorable
Câu hỏi số 33: Chưa xác định
- “Do you like your new job?” - “Yes, but my employer insisted that I_____ on time.”
A. was
B. am
C. have been
D. be
Câu hỏi số 34: Chưa xác định
Many companies know that attractive__________ can persuade customers to buy their goods.
A. packs
B. packets
C. package
D. packaging
Câu hỏi số 35: Chưa xác định
I think the company should inform its customers _____________ the improvements in their services.
A. on
B. about
C. to
D. with
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 blanks from 36 to 45.
The universe Symbol of the Internet era communication, the @ sign used in e-mail addresses to signify the word ‘at’ is (36) ______ a 500-year-old invention of Italian merchants, a Rome academic has revealed. Giorgio Stabile, a Science professor at La Sapienza University, (37) ______ to have stumbled on the earliest known example of the symbol’s use, as a(n) (38) ______ of a measure of weight or volume. He says the sign represents an amphora, a measure of (39) ______ based on the terracotta jars used to transport grain and liquid in the ancient Mediterranean world.
The professor (40) ______ the ancient Symbol in the course of research for a visual history of the 20th century, to be published by the Treccani Encyclopedia. The first (41) ______ 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 (42) ______ along trade routes to northern Europe, where it came to represent ‘at the price of’, its contemporary accountancy (43) ______ .
Professor Stabile believes that Italian banks may possess even earlier documents (44) ______ the Symbol lying forgotten in their archives. “The oldest example could be of great value. It could be used (45) ______ 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 @.
Câu hỏi số 36: Chưa xác định
______ (36)
A. actually
B. truly
C. essentially
D. accurately
Câu hỏi số 37: Chưa xác định
______ (37)
A. says
B. states
C. claims
D. tells
Câu hỏi số 38: Chưa xác định
______ (38)
A. proof
B. sign
C. evidence
D. indication
Câu hỏi số 39: Chưa xác định
______ (39)
A. ability
B. capacity
C. capability
D. facility
Câu hỏi số 40: Chưa xác định
______ (40)
A. exposed
B. unearthed
C. dug
D. devised
Câu hỏi số 41: Chưa xác định
______ (41)
A. known
B. knowing
C. knowable
D. knowledgeable
Câu hỏi số 42: Chưa xác định
______ (42)
A. line
B. means
C. way
D. method
Câu hỏi số 43: Chưa xác định
______ (43)
A. sense
B. importance
C. meaning
D. understanding
Câu hỏi số 44: Chưa xác định
______ (44)
A. taking
B. carrying
C. delivering
D. bearing
Câu hỏi số 45: Chưa xác định
______ (45)
B. for
C. with
D. by
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 .
A rather surprising geographical feature of Antarctica is that a huge freshwater lake, one of the world’s largest and deepest, lie hidden there under four kilometers of ice. Now known as Lake Vostok. this huge body of water is located under the ice block that comprises Anlarctica. The lake is able to exist in its unfrozen State beneath this block of ice because its waters are warmed by geothermal heat from the earth’s core. The thick glacier above Lake Vostok actually insulates it from the frigid temperatures on the surface.
The lake was first discovered in the 1970s while a research team was conducting an aerial survey of the area. Radio waves from the survey equipment penetrated the ice and revealed a body of water of indeterminate size. It was not until much more recently that data collected by satellite made scientists aware of the tremendous size of the lake; the satellite-borne radar detected an extremely flat region where the ice remains level because it is floating on the water of the lake.
The discovery of such a huge freshwater lake trapped under Antarctica is of interest to the scientific community because of the potential that the lake contains ancient microbes that have survived for thousands upon thousands of years, unaffected by factors such as nuclear fallout and elevated ultraviolet light that have affected organisms in more exposed areas. The downside of the discovery, however, lies in the difficulty of conducting research on the lake in such a harsh climate and in the problems associated with obtaining uncontaminated samples from the lake without actually exposing the lake without actually exposing the lake to contamination. Scientists are looking for possible ways to accomplish this.
Câu hỏi số 46: Chưa xác định
The word “hidden” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to_______ .
A. undrinkable
B. untouched
C. unexploitable
D. undiscovered
Câu hỏi số 47: Chưa xác định
What is true of Lake Vostok?
A. It is completely frozen.
B. It is a saltwater lake.
C. It is beneath a thick slab of ice.
D. It is heated by the sun.
Câu hỏi số 48: Chưa xác định
Which of the following is closest in meaning to “frigid” in paragraph 1?
A. Extremely cold
B. Easily broken
C. Quite harsh
D. Lukewarm
Câu hỏi số 49: Chưa xác định
All of the following are true about the 1970 survey of Antarctica EXCEPT that it _____ .
A. was conducted by air
B. made use of radio waves
C. could not determine the lake’s exact size
D. was controlled by a satellite
Câu hỏi số 50: Chưa xác định
It can be inferred from the passage that the ice would not be flat if _____ .
A. there were no lake underneath
B. the lake were not so big
C. Antarctica were not so cold
D. radio waves were not used
Câu hỏi số 51: Chưa xác định
The word “microbes’' in paragraph 3 could best be replaced by which of the following?
A. Pieces of dust
B. Tiny bubbles
C. Tiny organisms
D. Rays of light
Câu hỏi số 52: Chưa xác định
Lake Vostok is potentially important to scientists because it _________ .
A. can be studied using radio waves
B. may contain uncontaminated microbes
C. may have elevated levels of ultraviolet light
D. has already been contaminated
Câu hỏi số 53: Chưa xác định
The word “downside” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________ .
A. bottom level
B. negative aspect
C. underside
D. buried section
Câu hỏi số 54: Chưa xác định
The last paragraph suggests that scientists should be aware of _____.
A. further discoveries on the surface of Antarctica
B. problems with satellite-borne radar equipment
C. ways to study Lake Vostok without contaminating it
D. the harsh climate of Antarctica
Câu hỏi số 55: Chưa xác định
The purpose of the passage is to________ .
A. explain how Lake Vostok was discovered
B. provide satellite data concerning Antarctica
C. discuss future plans for Lake Vostok
D. present an unexpected aspect of Antarctica’s geography
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness and its originality of perspective. Satire itself, hovvever, 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 condilions 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 a need for it. It has lived because readers appreciatc 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.
Câu hỏi số 56: Chưa xác định
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.
Câu hỏi số 57: Chưa xác định
The last sentence of the first paragraph refers to ____ as a result ofreading satire.
A. a long fact-finding quest
B. a pleasant surprise
C. a process of disillusionment
D. a process of total confusion
Câu hỏi số 58: Chưa xác định
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
Câu hỏi số 59: Chưa xác định
What satire fascinates readers is how _______ .
A. ideas are expressed
B. ideas are organized
C. realistic they are
D. plots are created
Câu hỏi số 60: Chưa xác định
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.
Câu hỏi số 61: Chưa xác định
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
Câu hỏi số 62: Chưa xác định
The word “refreshingv in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _____ .
A. popular
B. revitalizing
C. common
D. awakening
Câu hỏi số 63: Chưa xác định
The word “sanctimonious" may be new to you. It most probably means “ ____” in this context.
A. exaggerated
B. good
C. educational
D. moderate
Câu hỏi số 64: Chưa xác định
Readers of satiric literature will be most likely to ______ .
A. teach themselves to write fiction
B. accept conventional points of view
C. become better informed about current affairs
D. re-examine their opinions and values
Câu hỏi số 65: Chưa xác định
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
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
Câu hỏi số 66: Chưa xác định
Please remain in your assign seats until the instructor dismisses the class.
A. in
B. assign seats
C. until
D. dismisses
Câu hỏi số 67: Chưa xác định
Employees who haven’t seen the new regulations often ask for unnecessary questions; instead they should ask for a copy of the regulations and read them.
A. who
B. ask for
C. instead
D. read them
Câu hỏi số 68: Chưa xác định
Even you are unsure of the standard procedures in any situation, please don’t hesitate to consult with your supervising manager.
A. Even
B. unsure of
C. in any situation
D. consult with
Câu hỏi số 69: Chưa xác định
We have alwavs believed that honesty is best policy in personal as well as professional maters.
A. have alwavs believed
B. best policy
C. personal
D. professional
Câu hỏi số 70: Chưa xác định
The nutritionist told him to avoid eating lots of carbohydrates, focus having more protein-rich foods and green vegetables, and drink at least eight glasses of water a day.
A. avoid eating
B. focus having
C. protein-rich foods
D. drink
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Câu hỏi số 71: Chưa xác định
In Roman numerals,____________ symbols for numeric values.
A. letters are the alphabet’s
B. letters of the alphabet are
C. which uses letters of the alphabet
D. in which letters of the alphabet are
Câu hỏi số 72: Chưa xác định
_________________ received law degrees as today.
A. Never so many women have
B. Never have so many women
C. The women aren’t ever
D. Women who have never
Câu hỏi số 73: Chưa xác định
George would certainly have attended the meeting______ .
A. if he didn’t get a flat tire
B. if the flat tire didn’t happen
C. had he not had a flat tire
D. had the tire not flatten itself
Câu hỏi số 74: Chưa xác định
While the language barrier was once an obstacle to trade,______ .
A. the technical case is now no more
B. the case doesn’t longer exist
C. which is no longer the case
D. the technical hurdle is now the case
Câu hỏi số 75: Chưa xác định
New sources of energy are constantly being looked for____ .
A. although fossil fuels continue to dwindle
B. as fossil fuels continue to dvvindle
C. so that we continue to reduce fossil fuels
D. fossil fuels continuing to dwindle
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.
Câu hỏi số 76: Chưa xác định
“Getting a good job doesn’t matter much to me.”
A. “I am only interested in getting a good job.”
B. “It’s interesting for me to get a good job.”
C. “I am not good at getting a good job.”
D. “I don’t care about getting a good job.”
Câu hỏi số 77: Chưa xác định
Access to the library Computer facilities is open to students.
A. Computers in the library are not used for students.
B. Students can freely assess the library computer service.
C. Students are not allowed to use library computers.
D. The library computer facilities are accessible to students.
Câu hỏi số 78: Chưa xác định
They were exposed to biased information, so they didn’t know the true story.
A. If they got unbiased information, they could know the true story.
B. If they had unbiased the information, they could have known the true story.
C. If they had been exposed to unbiased information, they would have known the true story.
D. If they have exposed to the unbiased information, they would have seen the true story.
Câu hỏi số 79: Chưa xác định
It doesn’t cost much to run a solar power system.
A. A solar power system is quite cheap to set up.
B. Running a solar power system costs nothing.
C. A solar power system costs so much to run.
D. Running a solar power system is not costly.
Câu hỏi số 80: Chưa xác định
We missed the turning because we forgot to take the map with us.
A. Without the right map with us, we missed the turning.
B. If we were taking the map with us. we did not miss the turning.
C. Without the map with us, we missed the turning.
D. Having remembered the map with us, we would not miss the turning.