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.
Câu 1: Ships crossing the oceans can receive signals from satellites that enable them to calculate their position accurately.


A. carelessly


B. imprecisely


C. uneasily


D. untruthfully
Câu 2: He is very absent – minded . He is likely to forget things or to think about something different from what he should be thinking about.


A. retentive


B. unforgettable


C. old – fashioned


D. easy – going

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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.You can usually tell when your friends are happy or angry by the looks on their faces or by their actions. This is useful because reading their emotional expressions helps you to know how to respond to them. Emotions have evolved to help us respond to important situations and to convey our intentions to others. But does raising the eyebrows and rounding the mouth say the same thing in Minneapolis as it does in Madagascar? Much research on emotional expressions has centered on such questions.According to Paul Ekman, the leading researcher in this area, people speak and understand substantially the same "facial language". Studies by Ekman's group have demonstrated that humans share a set of universal emotional expressions that testify to the common biological heritage of the human species. Smiles, for example, signal happiness and frowns indicate sadness on the faces of people in such far- flung places as Argentina, Japan, Spain, Hungary, Poland , Sumatra ,the United States, Vietnam, the jungles of New Guinea , and the Eskimo villages north of Artic Circle. Ekman and his colleagues claim that people everywhere can recognize at least seven basic emotions: sadness, fear, anger, disgust, contempt, happiness, and surprise. There are, however, huge differences across cultures in both the context and intensity of emotional displays - the so called display rules. In many Asian cultures, for example, children are taught to control emotional responses - especially negative ones- while many American children are encouraged to express their feelings more openly. Regardless of culture, however, emotions usually show themselves, to some degree , in people's behavior. From their first days of life, babies produce facial expressions that communicate their feelings.The ability to read facial expressions develops early, too. Very young children pay close attention to facial expressions, and by age five, they nearly equal adults in their skill at reading emotions on people's faces. This evidence all points to a biological underpinning for our abilities to express and interpret a basic set of human emotions. Moreover, as Charles Darwin pointed out over a century ago, some emotional expressions seem to appear across species boundaries. Cross - cultural psychologists tell us that certain emotional responses carry different meanings in different cultures. For example, what emotion do you suppose might be conveyed by sticking out your tongue? For Americans, this might indicate disgust, while in China it can signify surprise. Likewise, a grin on an American face may indicate joy, while on a Japanese face it may just as easily mean embarrassment. Clearly, culture influences emotional expressions.
Câu 1: The word " evolved"  is closest in meaning to _____.


A. developed 


B. simplified


C. increased             


D. reduced                                 
Câu 2: Many studies on emotional expressions try to answer the question whether ______ .


A. raising the eyebrows has similar meaning to rounding the mouth. 


B. different cultures have similar emotional expressions.


C. rounding the mouth has the same meaning in Minneapolis and Madagascar.


D. eyebrow raising means the same in Minneapolis and Madagascar.
Câu 3: Unlike American children, Asian children are encouraged to _______.


A. change their behaviour


B. conceal their positive emotions


C. display their emotions openly                               


D. control their emotions                                           
Câu 4: The biggest difference lies in __________.


A. how intensive emotions are expressed      


B. how emotional responses are controlled            


C. how often positive emotions are shown               


D. how long negative emotions are displayed
Câu 5: According to the passage, we respond to others by _________.


A. looking at their faces


B. watching their actions


C. observing their looks


D. observing their emotional expressions                  
Câu 6: Young children _______.


A. spend a long time learning to read others' emotions


B. are sensitive towards others' emotions


C. make amazing progress in controlling their emotions


D. take time to control their facial expressions
Câu 7: The best title for the passage is ________________.


A. Human habit of displaying emotions         


B. Cultural universals in emotional expressions


C. Ways to control emotional expressions                 


D. Review of research on emotional expressions 

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C.
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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 followingquestions.
Câu 1: The plan may be ingenious. It will never work in practice.


A. The plan is as impractical as it is ingenious.


B. Ingenious as it may be, the plan will never work in practice.


C. Ingenious as may the plan, it will never work in practice.


D. The plan may be too ingenious to work in practice.
Câu 2: He held the rope with one hand. He stretched it out.


A. Holding the rope with one hand, he stretched it out.


B. Stretching the rope out, he holds it with one hand.


C. He stretching the rope with one hand and held it.


D. The rope is held with one hand then he stretched it out.

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B.
C.
D.

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.
Câu 1:


A. individual  


B. reputation 


C. experience  


D. scientific
Câu 2:


A. improve     


B. possible


C.  comfortable    


D. realize

A.
B.
C.
D.

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 1: He was driving very fast because he didn’t know the road was icy.


A. If he knew the road was icy, he wouldn’t drive so fast.


B. He hadn’t been driving very fast if he would have known the road was icy.


C. If he had known the road was icy, he wouldn’t have been driving so fast.


D. He wasn’t driving very fast if he would know the road was icy.
Câu 2: It is difficult to start looking for a job at my age.


A. It is difficult for me to get employed at my age.


B. I’m young, so it is difficult to start looking for a job.


C. Getting employed at such ages is also difficult.


D. I don’t think I can start looking for a job now.
Câu 3: I spent more time on the last question than I did on the first four.


A. The last question was the most difficult for me.


B. I answered only the first four questions.


C. I found the last question easier than the other questions.


D. I failed to get to the last question.

A.
B.
C.
D.

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 blanksChild workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions described as close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for one of the major high street retailers.The discovery of these children working in appalling conditions in the Shahpur Jat area of Delhi has renewed concerns about the (15)______ by some large retail chains of their garment production to India, recognised (16)______ the United Nations as one of the world’s hotspots for child labour. According to one (17)______, over 20 per cent of India's economy is dependent on children, (18)______ comes to a total of 55 million youngsters under 14 working. Consumers in the West should not only be demanding answers from retailers about how their (19)______  are produced but also should be looking into their consciences at how they spend their money and whether cheap prices in the West are worth the suffering caused to so many children.
Câu 1: (15)______


A. outsourcing    


B. outsources   


C. outsourced  


D. outsource
Câu 2: (16)______


A. for         


B. with   


C. of   


D. by
Câu 3: (17)_____


A. evaluation          


B. investigation


C. calculation  


D. estimate
Câu 4: (18)______


A. who      


B. which   


C. what      


D. that
Câu 5: (19)______


A. goods


B. stuff      


C. garment     


D. ware

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B.
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.
Câu 1: Only one person who can provide the best solution to the question will be promoted and ______ a financial grant.


A. equipped 


B. served    


C. entitled


D. awarded
Câu 2: If some endangered species ______ in zoos, it would help to ensure their future survival.


A. will be kept  


B. are kept    


C. had been kept 


D. were kept
Câu 3: My grandfather retired from work last month. He _______ for the same company for 40 years.


A. was working  


B. had been working


C. has worked  


D. had worked
Câu 4: This building _______ finished by the end of last year but there have been so many strikes that it isn’t finished yet.


A. will have been 


B. should have been


C. was to have been    


D. may not have been
Câu 5: Susan rarely stays up late, _______?


A. is she       


B. isn’t she     


C. does she  


D. doesn’t she
Câu 6: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the ______.


A. chin    


B. collar   


C. sleeves   


D. vest
Câu 7: Florida, ______ the Sunshine state, attracts many tourists every year.


A. is known as  


B. that is known as  


C. which known as


D. known as
Câu 8: You look really tired. You could ______ a week’s holiday, I think.


A. do with   


B. make for 


C. pass for    


D. make with
Câu 9: For Arabic speakers, more than two consonants together can be difficult to _______, so they often insert a short vowel between them.


A. announce 


B. denounce   


C. pronounce  


D. renounce
Câu 10: Flat-roofed buildings are not very ______ in areas where there is a great deal of rain or snow.


A. severe  


B. serious   


C. suitable  


D. sensitive
Câu 11: The local press has been pouring ______ on the mayor for dissolving the council.


A. scorn  


B. blame     


C. disapproval    


D. hatred
Câu 12: As a small boy, he was used to ______ alone in the house for an hour or two.


A. being left 


B. leaving    


C. be left    


D. leave
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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 1: It’s a waste of time asking Peter for help because he is too busy.


A. Peter is too busy that he can’t help anyone.


B. You shouldn’t ask Peter for help as he will refuse.


C. There’s no point asking Peter for help because he is too busy.


D.  It takes your time when you ask Peter for help because he is too busy,
Câu 2: “I’m sorry for not keeping my promise, Mum!” said John.


A. John said he was sorry for not keeping his promise.


B. John apologised to his Mum for breaking his promise.


C. John apologised his Mum because he didn’t keep his promise.


D. John felt sorry for his mum’s not keeping her promise.
Câu 3: We’re still hesitating about which school our son ought to go to.


A.  We had great difficulty deciding upon which school our son should attend.


B. We haven’t yet decided where we should send our son to school.


C.  We are not sure whether we should let our son choose a school for himself.


D. We won’t send our son to any school unless we are certain that it is the one we want.

A.
B.
C.
D.

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 28 to 34.Therapeutic cloningKorea’s recent unveiling of the world’s first cloned dog was welcomed by King Chow, assistant professor of biotechnology at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, but he also warned that we need to be on guard against possible reproductive cloning. Professor Chow went on to explain that, “The development of the technology is a good thing in itself but how we monitor it and who we allow to use it will be of great importance”.Professor Chow is one of many academics who feel that a clear line must be drawn between reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning. Therapeutic cloning involves the use of embryonic stem cells to develop human cells or organs that can be used to cure diseases such as Parkinson’s and diabetes. People in wheelchairs may be able to walk again thanks to this technology as scientists believe that they can clone new cells to repair back and neck injuries.Reproductive cloningReproductive cloning involves implanting a cloned embryo into a uterus in the hope of producing a healthy foetus. A company called Clonaid claims to have successfully cloned thirteen human babies. They say that all of the babies are healthy and are in various location including Hong Kong, UK, Spain and Brazil. Clonaid states that they are using human cloning to assist infertile couples, homosexual couples and families who have lost a beloved relative.The same technology can be used for animal cloning. If endangered species such as the giant panda and Sumatran tiger could be cloned, they could be saved from extinction. Livestock such as cows could also be cloned to allow farmers to reproduce cattle that produce the best meat and most milk. This could greatly help developing countries where cows produce significantly less meat and milk.
Câu 1: What does the passage mainly discuss?


A. How the development of technology can be monitored.


B. How different human cloning is from animal cloning.


C. A famous scientist working on cloning technology.


D. Two different types of human cloning technology.
Câu 2: According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?


A. Cloning technology can help cure back and neck injuries.


B. The first dog to be cloned was in Korea.


C. Many countries can use cloning technology to produce more meat and milk.


D. Diabetes can’t be cured by using cloning technology.
Câu 3: The word “assist” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____.


A. hinder    


B. help 


C. contribute  


D.     cure
Câu 4: The word “unveiling” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _____.


A. entrance       


B. introduction 


C. opening     


D. promotion
Câu 5: According to the passage, who is King Chow?


A. A scientist who discovered cloning technology.    


B. A Professor of Biotechnology.


C. A famous Parkinson’s doctor.   


D. A therapeutic cloning expert.
Câu 6: According to paragraph 4, what animals are in danger of extinction?


A. cows   


B. giant pandas   


C. all breeds of tiger 


D. livestock
Câu 7: The word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to ______.


A. reproductive cloning


B.  the development of cloning technology


C. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


D. the first cloned dog

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B.
C.
D.

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 23 to 27.SOCIAL NETWORKA 16-year-old girl from Essex has been sacked after describing her job as boring on the social networking website, Facebook. The teenager, who had been working (23) _____ an administrative assistant at a marketing company for just three weeks, didn’t feel very enthusiastic about the duties she was asked to do. (24) _____ of moaning to her friends she decided to express her thoughts on her Facebook page to a colleague, who (25) _____ the boss’s attention to it. He immediately fired her on the (26) _____ that her public display of dissatisfaction made it impossible for her to continue working for the company. She later told newspapers she had been treated totally unfairly, especially as she hadn’t even mentioned the company’s name. She claimed she’s been perfectly happy with her job and that her light-hearted comments shouldn’t (27) _____ taken seriously. A spokesperson from a workers’ union said the incident demonstrated two things: firstly, that people need to protect their privacy online and secondly, that employers should be less sensitive to criticism.
Câu 1: (23)


A. for            


B. as


C. like


D. at
Câu 2: (24)


A. Due       


B. Regardless        


C. Instead 


D.  In spite
Câu 3: (25)


A. got            


B. caught   


C. paid 


D. drew
Câu 4: (26)


A. terms 


B. condition


C. grounds


D. basis
Câu 5: (27)


A. to be    


B. have been 


C. be 


D. have

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B.
C.
D.