Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheer to indicaretha correct answer to each of the questions from 1 to 5.Herman Melville, an American author best known today for his novel Moby Dick, was actually more popular during his lifetime for some of his other works. He traveled extensively and used the knowledge gained during his travels as the basis for his early novels. In 1837, at the age of eighteen, Melville signed as a cabin boy on a merchant ship that was to sail from his Massachusetts home to Liverpool, England. His experiences on this trip served as a basis for the novel Redburn (1849). In 1841 Melville set out on a whaling ship headed for the South Seas. After jumping ship in Tahiti, he wandered around the islands of Tahiti and Moorea. This South Sea island sojourn was a backdrop to the novel Omoo (1847). After three years away from home, Melville joined up with a U.S. naval frigate that was returning to the eastern United States around Cape Horn. The novel White-Jacket (1850) describes this lengthy voyage as a navy seaman. With the publication of these early adventure novels, Melville developed a strong and loyal following among readers eager for his tales of exotic places and situations. However, in 1851, with the publication of Moby Dick, Melville's popularity started to diminish. Moby Dick, on one level the saga of the hunt for the great white whale, was also a heavily symbolic allegory of the heroic struggle of man against the universe. The public was not ready for Melville's literary metamorphosis from romantic adventure to philosophical symbolism. It is ironic that the novel that served to diminish Melville's popularity during his lifetime is the one for which he is best known today.
Câu 1: The main subject of the passage is _______.


A. Melville's travels 


B. Melville's personal background


C. the popularity of Melville's novels      


D. Moby Dick
Câu 2: The passage implies that Melville stayed in Tahiti because __________ .


A. he had unofficially left his ship      


B. he was on leave while his ship was in port


C. he had finished his term of duty


D. he had received permission to take a vacation in Tahiti
Câu 3: How did the publication of Moby Dick affect Melville's popularity?


A. His popularity increased immediately.       


B. It had no effect on his popularity.


C. It caused his popularity to decrease.             


D. His popularity remained as strong as ever.
Câu 4: According to the passage, Moby Dick is _________ .


A. a romantic adventure         


B. a single-faceted work


C. short story about a whale             


D. symbolic of humanity fighting the environment
Câu 5: The word "metamorphosis" is closest in meaning to ________ .


A. change


B. circle


C. mysticism


D. descent

A.
B.
C.
D.

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.
Câu 1: You don't try to work hard. You will fail in the exam.


A. Unless you don’t try to work hard, you will fail in the exam.


B. Unless you try to work hard, you won’t fail in the exam.


C. Unless you try to work hard, you will fail in the exam.


D. Unless do you try to work hard, you will fail in the exam.
Câu 2: Marry loved her stuffed animal when she was young. She couldn’t sleep without it.


A. When Mary was young, she loved her stuffed animal so as not to sleep without it.


B. As Marry couldn’t sleep without her stuffed animal when she was young, she loved it.


C. When Marry was young, she loved her stuffed animal so much that she couldn’t sleep without it.


D. When Marry was young, she loved her stuffed animal though she couldn’t sleep without it.
Câu 3: "Cigarette?", he said. "No, thanks." I said.


A. He asked for a cigarette, and I immediately refused.


B. He mentioned a cigarette, so I thanked him.


C. He offered me a cigarette, but I promptly declined.


D. He asked if I was smoking, and I denied at once.

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 39 to 43.Accidents do not occur at random. People eighty-five years of age and older are twenty-two times likely to die accidentally than are children five to nine years old. The risk for native Americans is four times that for Asian-Americans and twice that for white Americans or African-Americans. Males suffer accidents at more than twice the rate of females, in part because they are more prone to risky behavior. Alaskans are more than three times as likely as Rhode Islanders to die in an accident. Texans are twenty-one times more likely than New Jerseyites to die in a natural disaster. Among the one hundred most populous counties, kern County, California (Bakersfield), has an accident fatality rate three times greater than Summit County, Ohio (Akron).Accidents happens more often to poor people. Those living in poverty receive inferior medical care, are more apt to reside in houses with faulty heating and electrical systems, drive older cars with fewer safety features, and are less likely to use safety belts. People in rural areas have more accidents than city or suburban dwellers because farming is much riskier than working in a factory or office and because emergency medical services are less readily available. These two factors – low income and rural residence – may explain why the south has a higher accident rate than the north.
Câu 1: Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?


A. Children aged five to nine face the greatest accident risk.


B. All people face an equal risk of having an accident.


C. One in every 22 people aged 85 and over will die in an accident.


D. The risk of having an accident is greater among certain groups of people.
Câu 2: The word "inferior" in the passage is closest in meaning to ______.


A. modern          


B. low-quality    


C. well-equipped


D. unsafe
Câu 3: According to the passage, which of the following groups of people in America face the highest risk of having an accident?


A. Native Americans 


B. Asian-Americans              


C. White Americans            


D. African-Americans
Câu 4: What does the word "that" in the passage refer to?


A. males              


B. native Americans    


C. the risk                      


D.  African-Americans
Câu 5: Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a reason for a higher accident rate among the poor?


A. Little knowledge about safety             


B. Inadequate medical services


C. Poor housing and working conditions        


D. Use of cars which incorporate fewer safety features

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C or Don your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning for the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Câu 1: She was a very superficial person with a large group of frivolous friends.


A. superior


B. deep


C. attractive


D. horrible
Câu 2: I think we have solved this problem once and for all.


A. in the end    


B. forever


C. temporarily


D. for everybody

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheer to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Câu 1: Joe has finished his first-aid course. He proves extremely helpful as a rescue worker.


A. Although Joe proves extremely helpful as a rescue worker, he hasn't finished his first-aid course.


B. Without finishing his first-aid course, Joe proves extremely helpful as a rescue worker.


C. However helpful Joe proves as a rescue worker, he hasn't finished his first-uid course.


D. Having finished his first-aid course, Joe proves extremely helpful as a rescue worker.
Câu 2: His friends supported and encouraged him. He did really well in the competition.


A. Such were his friends' support and encouragement that he couldn't do really well in the competition.


B. Had it not been for his friends' support and encouragement, he couldn't have done so well in the competition.


C. If his friends had given him support and encouragement, he could have done really well in the competition.


D. No matter how much his friends supported and encouraged him, he couldn't do well in the competition.

A.
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: All nations should _______ hands to work out a plan to solve the problem of global warming.


A. shake                                  


B. join                         


C. lend


D. hold
Câu 2: He asked me _______ that film the night before.


A. if had I seen      


B. that I saw 


C. had I seen 


D. if I had seen
Câu 3: Paul has just sold his ________ car and intends to buy a new one.


A. black old Japanese   


B. Japanese old black


C. old black Japanese 


D. old Japanese black
Câu 4: I know we had an argument, but now I’d quite like to _______.


A. fall out   


B. make up


C. look down  


D. bring up
Câu 5: In many families the important decisions are _______ by women.          


A. done                                   


B. made                       


C. arrived                    


D. given
Câu 6: Air pollution is getting ________ serious in big cities in the world.       


A. more and more    


B. the most and the most    


C. most and most                     


D. the more and the more
Câu 7: If I ______ that there was a test yesterday, I would not be punished now.       


A. knew                                  


B. have known  


C. had known 


D. would know
Câu 8: He lost the race because he _______ petrol on the last lap.         


A. put out of  


B. got out of   


C. run out of  


D. made out of
Câu 9: The students don’t know how to do the exercises _______ by the teacher yesterday.


A. who given        


B. is giving        


C. which given    


D. given
Câu 10: Many educationalists feel that continued _______ is fairer than formal examinations.


A. judgement                          


B. assignment              


C. assessment              


D. cramming
Câu 11: Scarcely had he stepped out of the room ______ he heard a loud laughter within.           


A. until                                    


B. then                         


C. than


D. when
Câu 12: Anne hoped ________ to join the private club. She could make important business contact here.   


A. to be invited  


B. to invite  


C. being invited  


D. inviting
Câu 13: Don’t be late for the class often, _______ people will think you are a disobedient student.         


A. otherwise                            


B. if not         


C. or so     


D. unless
Câu 14: _______ man suffering from _____ shock should not be given anything to drink.            


A. A/the 


B. The/ a    


C. Ø/ a


D. A/ Ø
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A.
B.
C.
D.

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 the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Câu 1:


A. excitement              


B. emphasis                 


C. document                


D. property
Câu 2:


A. workforce               


B. bamboo                   


C. exist


D. survive

A.
B.
C.
D.

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.
Câu 1: The children were attracted by the show. It was performed by the animals.


A. The children were attracted by the show performed by the animals.


B. The children were attracted by the show to have been performed by the animals.


C. Performing by the animals, the show attracted the children.


D. The children attracted by the show which was performed by the animals.
Câu 2: There are few passengers. The coach to Dover will still leave on schedule.


A. The coach to Dover would be going to depart soon even if there weren’t many people on it.


B. Despite having few passengers, the coach to Dover will still leave as planned.


C. The coach planned to going to Dover only carries a small number of passengers.


D. Even though the coach for Dover leaves now, there won’t be few people travelling on it.

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: “Have a drink!” said Mr Smith.


A. Mr Smith said that I should have a drink.


B. Mr Smith recommend me with a drink.


C. Mr Smith asked me for a drink.


D. Mr Smith offered me a drink.
Câu 2: Right after the boy got out of his house, it started to rain heavily.


A. Not until it started to rain heavily did the boy got out of his house.


B. No sooner had the boy got out of his house than it started to rain heavily.


C. Hardly had it started to rain heavily when the boy got out of his house.


D. It had rained heavily before the boy got out of his house.
Câu 3: Many people think that Steve stole the money.


A. The money is thought to be stolen by Steve.


B. Many people think that the money is stolen by Steve.


C. Steve is thought to have stolen they money.


D. It was Steve who stole the money.

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 following questions.People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive accuracy – one plate, one knife, one spoon, one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are capable of noting that they have placed five knives, spoons, and forks on the table and, a bit later, that this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastered addition, they move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were secluded on a desert island at birth and retrieved seven years later, he or she could enter a second-grade mathematics class without any serious problems of intellectual adjustment.Of course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends. Children were observed as they slowly grasped or, as the case might be, bumped into concepts that adults that for granted, as they refused, for instance, to concede that quantity is unchanged as water pours from a short stout glass into a tall thin one. Psychologists have since demonstrated that young children, asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed into finding the total.Such studies have suggested that the rudiments of mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested that the very concept of abstract numbers – the idea of a oneness, a twoness, a threeness that applies to any class of objects - is a prerequisite for doing anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table – is itself far from innate.
Câu 1: What does the passage mainly discuss?


A. Trends in teaching mathematics to children


B. The fundamental concepts of mathematics that children must learn


C. The development of mathematical ability in children


D. The use of mathematics in child psychology
Câu 2: It can be inferred from the passage that children normally learn simple counting _______.


A. when they begin to be mathematically mature


B. after they reach second grade in school


C. by looking at the clock


D. soon after they learn to talk
Câu 3: The word “illuminated” is closest in meaning to _______.


A. clarified            


B. accepted               


C. illustrated                           


D. lighted
Câu 4: According to the passage, when small children were asked to count a pile of red and blue pencils, they _______.


A. counted the number of pencils of each color


B. guessed at the total number of pencils


C. counted only the pencils of their favorite color


D. subtracted the number of red pencils from the number of blue pencils
Câu 5: Which of the following statement would the author LEAST agree with?


A. Most people follow the same pattern of mathematical development.


B. Children learn to add before they learn to subtract.


C. Children naturally and easily learn mathematics.


D. Mathematical development is subtle and gradual.

A.
B.
C.
D.