Choose one option A, B, C or D which has the same meaning as the original one. 
Câu 1: The last time when I saw her was three years ago. 


A. I have seen her for the last three years. 


B. It’s three years ago since I last saw her.


C. I have not seen her for three years.   


D.  B and C are incorrect
Câu 2: If I were taller, I could reach the top shelf.


A. I am not tall enough to reach the top shelf.      


B. I am too tall to reach the top shelf.


C. I cannot reach the top shelf  because I am very tall.         


D. In spite of being tall, I cannot reach the top shelf.
Câu 3: People believe that there is an other world after death.


A. That there is an other world after death is believed by people.


B. It was believed that there is an other world after death.


C. It is believed that there is an other world after death.


D.  There is believe to have an other world after death.
Câu 4: He looked so funny that I couldn’t help laughing.


A. I couldn’t laugh because he looked so funny.


B.  I couldn’t help him laugh because he looked so funny.


C. He looked too funny for me to laugh.


D. I laughed because he looked so funny.
Câu 5: “ Why don’t we go out for dinner tonight?” said Mary.


A. Mary suggested a dinner out that night.               


B. Mary invited a dinner out that night.


C. Mary ordered a dinner out that night.             


D. Mary suggested that we shouldn’t have a dinner out that night.

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B.
C.
D.

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently 
Câu 1:


A. failed   


B. reached  


C. absorbed      


D. solved
Câu 2:


A. develops   


B. takes 


C.  laughs 


D. volumes

A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose the word whose stressed syllable is different from that of the others 
Câu 1:


A. distinctive 


B. equality       


C. production                


D. accurate 
Câu 2:


A. apply     


B. persuade  


C. reduce   


D. offer

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, 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 1:


A. psychology   


B. generative   


C.  insurance    


D.  inheritance 
Câu 2:


A. extinguish


B. fortunate     


C. technical   


D. resident 
Câu 3:


A. interference       


B.  influential


C. perception     


D. academic 
Câu 4:


A. adventure   


B. dimension


C. commercial 


D. hygiene 
Câu 5:


A. preferential        


B. calculation   


C. conventional 


D. apprehension

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction to each of the following questions 
Câu 1: It is generally believed that Thomas Jerferson was the one who had researched and wrote the Declaration of Independence during the months prior to its signing in July, 1776.                                                                                                                             


A. It is generally believed 


B. was


C. wrote


D. its signing 
Câu 2: Dr. Frank Conrad's musical radio broadcasts in 1919 led Westinghouse open the first fully licensed commercial broadcasting system in the United States on November 2nd, 1920.     


A. musical 


B. open


C. licensed commercial broadcasting system


D. on November 2nd, 1920.     
Câu 3: My uncle has just bought some expensive furnitures for his new house.  


A. has just bought


B. expensive 


C. furnitures


D. for his new house
Câu 4: People respected him because he was a honest man .


A. People


B. respected


C. because 


D. a honest man
Câu 5: The flag over the White House is risen at dawn everyday by a color guard from the United States armed forces.  


A. over the White House


B. is risen


C. at dawn


D. armed

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B , C or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Câu 1: The lady who had invited us heard me telling my wife the dinner terrible, so I was embarrassed.


A. heard 


B. telling


C.  the dinner terrible


D. embarrassed
Câu 2: After writing it, the essay must be duplicated by the student himself and handed in to the department secretary before the end of the month.


A. After writing it


B. be 


C. in to 


D. the end of 
Câu 3: They are known that colds can be avoided by eating the right kind of food and taking exercise regularly.


A. They are known


B. be avoided by


C. right


D. regularly
Câu 4: Before the invention of the printing press, books have been all printed by hand.


A. Before


B. the printing


C. have been 


D. by hand
Câu 5: We educate our children as well as we can, because an educational population is the key to future.


A. as well as


B. an educational


C. population


D. to

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 sentences.
Câu 1: She asked Janet to repeat what she had said. 


A.  “Will you please repeat what Janet said?”, she asked. 


B. “Please repeat what Janet had said.”, she asked.


C. “Please repeat what you say, Janet.”, she said. 


D. “Please repeat what you said, Janet.” , she said
Câu 2: Jenny denied breaking the window.


A. Jenny was determined not to break the window.  


B. Jenny said that she hadn’t broken the window.


C. Jenny didn’t break the window.                 


D.  Jenny refused to break the window.
Câu 3: I hardly know the truth about Jean’s success in the institute.


A. Jean’s success in the institute was not to be known.


B. It is difficult for Jean to be successful in the institute.


C.  I do not know much about Jean’s success in the institute.


D. Jean hardly become known and successful in the institute.
Câu 4: After Louie had written his composition, he handed it to his teacher.


A. Handed the composition to his teacher, Louie wrote it.


B.  Having written his composition, Louie handed it to his teacher.


C. Writing the composition, Louie handed it to his teacher.


D. Handing the composition, Louie had written his composition.
Câu 5: It is certain that the suspect committed the crime.


A. The suspect was certain to commit the crime.


B. The suspect might have committed the crime.


C. Certain commitment of the crime was that of the suspect.


D. The suspect must have committed the crime.
Câu 6: I thought she was the right person for the position, yet it turned out that she was quite useless.  


A. Contrary to my initial impression, she was totally unsuitable for the position.


B.  I was right in thinking that she was totally useless for the job.


C. I was mistaken about her suitability for the position, since she proved rather incompetent.


D. Because I was expecting her to be competent, I was shocked to see her perform rather badly.
Câu 7: People believed that the boys started the fire.


A. The boys were believed to start the fire.


B. That the boys started the fire was believed.


C. It is believed that the fire was started by the boys.                  


D. It is believed that the boys started the fire.
Câu 8: I had no problems at all during my trip to France.


A. No problems were there during my trip to France at all.


B. Everything went according to plan during my trip to France.


C. My trip to France was not at all went as planned.


D. No problems during my trip had I at all in France.
Câu 9: He felt very tired. However, he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain. 


A. He felt so tired that he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain. 


B. Feeling very tired, he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain.


C. As the result of his tiredness, he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain.


D. Tired as he might feel, he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain.
Câu 10: She heard the news of the death of her mother. She fainted.


A. On hearing the news of her dead mother, she fainted.


B. On hearing the news of her mother’s death, she fainted.


C. She fainted so she heard the news of the death of her mother.


D. She fainted and then she heard the news of the death of her mother.
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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. 
Câu 1: As a government official, Benjamin Franklin often traveled abroad.


A. widely 


B. secretly  


C. alone    


D. overseas
Câu 2: American poet James Merrily received critical acclaim for his work entitled Jim's Book.


A. advice   


B. disapproval      


C. praise     


D. attention
Câu 3: The lost hikers stayed alive by eating wild berries and drinking spring water.


A. connived     


B. survived 


C. surprised  


D. revived

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 .In the American colonies there was little money. England did not supply the colonies with coins and did not allow the colonies to make their own coins, except for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which received permission for a short period in 1652 to make several kinds of silver coins. England wanted to keep money out of America as a means of controlling trade: America was forced to trade only with England if it did not have the money to buy products from other countries. The result during this pre-revolutionary period was that the colonists used various goods in place of money: beaver pelts, Indian wampum, and tobacco leaves were all commonly used substitutes for money. The colonists also made use of any foreign coins they could obtain. Dutch, Spanish, French, and English coins were all in use in the American colonies.During the Revolutionary War, funds were needed to finance the world, so each of the individual states and the Continental Congress issued paper money. So much of this paper money was printed that by the end of the war, almost no one would accept it. As a result, trade in goods and the use of foreign coins still flourished during this period.By the time the Revolutionary War had been won by the American colonists, the monetary system was in a state of total disarray. To remedy this situation, the new Constitution of the United States, approved in 1789, allowed Congress to issue money. The individual states could no longer have their own money supply. A few years later, the Coinage Act of 1792 made the dollar the official currency of the United States and put the country on a bimetallic standard. In this bimetallic system, both gold and silver were legal money, and the rate of exchange of silver to gold was fixed by the government at sixteen to one.
Câu 1: The passage mainly discusses ___________ .


A. American money from past to present.


B. the English monetary policies in colonialAmerica.


C.  the effect of the Revolution on American money.


D.  the American monetary system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Câu 2: The passage indicates that during the colonial period, money was ___________ .


A. supplied by England. 


B.  coined by colonists.             


C. scarce.  


D. used extensively for trade.
Câu 3: The Massachusetts Bay Colony was allowed to make coins ___________ .


A.  continuously from the inception of the colonies. 


B. throughout the seventeenth century.


C. from 1652 until the Revolutionary War.


D.  for a short time during one year.
Câu 4: The expression “a means of” in paragraph 1 could be best replaced by _________ .


A. an example of  


B. a method of 


C. a result of              


D. a punishment for
Câu 5: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as a substitute for money during the colonial period?  


A. Wampum 


B. Cotton


C. Tobacco 


D. Beaver furs
Câu 6: The pronoun “it” in paragraph 2 refers to which of the following ___________ .


A. The Continental Congress     


B. Paper money


C.  The War                          


D. Trade in goods
Câu 7: It is implied in the passage that at the end of the Revolutionary War, a paper dollar was worth  ___________ .  


A. exactly one dollar


B. just under one dollar 


C. just over one dollar


D. almost nothing
Câu 8: The word “remedy” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to __________ .


A.  resolve       


B. understand      


C. renew  


D. medicate
Câu 9: How was the monetary system arranged in the Constitution?


A. Only the US Congress could issued money.


B. The US officially went on a bimetallic monetary system.


C. Various state governments, including Massachusetts, could issue money.


D. The dollar was made official currency of the US.
Câu 10: According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about the bimetallic monetary system?  


A. Either gold or silver could be used as official money.


B. Gold could be exchanged for silver at the rate of sixteen to one.


C. The monetary system was based on two matters.


D. It was established in 1792.
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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 .Every drop of water in the ocean, even in the deepest parts, responds to the forces that create the tides. No other force that affects the sea is so strong. Compared with the tides, the waves created by the wind are surface movements felt no more than a  hundred fathoms below the surface. The currents also seldom involve more than the upper several hundred fathoms despite their impressive sweep.The tides are a response of the waters of the ocean to the pull of the Moon and the more distant Sun. In theory, there is a gravitational attraction between the water and even the outermost star of the universe. In reality, however, the pull of remote stars is so slight as to be obliterated by the control of the Moon and, to a lesser extent, the Sun. Just as the Moon rises later each day by fifty minutes, on the average, so, in most places, the time of high tide is correspondingly later each day. And as the Moon waxes and wanes in its monthly cycle, so the height of the tide varies. The tidal movements are strongest when the Moon is a sliver in the sky, and when it is full. These are the highest flood tides and the lowest ebb tides of the lunar month and are called the spring tides. At these times the Sun, Moon, and Earth are nearly in line and the pull of the two heavenly bodies is added together to bring the water high on the beaches, to send its surf upward against the sea cliffs, and to draw a high tide into the harbors. Twice Each month, at the quarters of the Moon, when the Sun, Moon, and Earth lie at the apexes of a triangular configuration and the pull of the Sun and Moon are opposed, the moderate  tidal movements called neap tides occur. Then the difference between high and low water is less than at any other time during the month.
Câu 1: What is the main point of the first paragraph?


A. The waves created by ocean currents are very large.


B. Despite the strength of the wind, it only moves surface water.


C. Deep ocean water is seldom affected by forces that move water.


D. The tides are the most powerful force to affect the movement of ocean water.
Câu 2: The word “felt” is closest in meaning to __________ .


A. based     


B. dropped    


C. detected     


D. explored
Câu 3: The words “In reality” are closest in meaning to ________ .


A.  surprisingly


B. actually 


C. unfortunately


D. similarly
Câu 4: It can be inferred from the passage that the most important factor in determining how much gravitational effect one object in space has on the tides is _________ .


A. size


B. distance


C. temperature        


D. density
Câu 5: The word “correspondingly” is closest in meaning to _________ .


A. unpredictably   


B. interestingly   


C. similarly      


D.  unusually
Câu 6: What is the cause of spring tides?


A. Seasonal change in the weather


B. The gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon when nearly in line with the Earth


C. The Earth's movement around the Sun


D. The triangular arrangement of the Earth, Sun, and Moon
Câu 7: Where in the passage does the author mention movements of ocean water other than those caused by tides?  


A. Lines 2-4    


B.  Lines 8-9


C. Lines 10-11   


D. Lines 13-15   
Câu 8: The word “configuration” is closest in meaning to ________ .


A. unit     


B. center 


C.  surface 


D. arrangement
Câu 9: Neap tides occur when __________ .


A. the Sun counteracts the Moon's gravitational attraction


B. the Moon is full


C. the Moon is farthest from the Sun


D. waves created by the wind combine with the Moon's gravitational attraction
Câu 10: According to the passage, all of the following statements about tides are true EXCEPT __________ .  


A. The time of high tide is later each day.


B.  Tides have a greater effect on the sea than waves do.


C. The strongest tides occur at the quarters of the Moon.


D. Neap tides are more moderate than spring tides.
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