Choose a word in each line that has the different stress pattern.
Câu 1:


A. floppy  


B. idol      


C. cotton


D. decide
Câu 2:


A. extremely


B.  excited


C. personal           


D. imagine
Câu 3:


A. sneaky


B. notice


C. open


D. around
Câu 4:


A. birthday           


B. reply    


C. schoolbag        


D. money

A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose a word in each line that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest:
Câu 1:


A. agree


B. arrange


C. area


D.  award
Câu 2:


A. changeable


B. chemistry


C. champion


D. church
Câu 3:


A. usually


B. unhealthy


C. usefulness


D. university
Câu 4:


A. whole 


B. whale


C. water


D. window

A.
B.
C.
D.

More and more young people are (37)...... voluntary work abroad. The wild variety of jobs and destinations available is making it an increasingly attractive option for those who have just left school and have a year free before university. Many choose to spend these twelve months working in poor countries. There they will earn little (38)...... no money. But they will be doing something useful – and enjoying the experience.     The work may . (39)..... of helping the local communities, for example by helping to build new road or provide water supplies to isolated rural villages. Other projects may concentrate more on conservation or environmental protection. (40)…. ... kind of job it is, it is certain to be challenging and worthwhile, and an experience that will never be forgotten.
Câu 1: (37)


A. making


B. getting


C. taking


D. doing
Câu 2: (38)


A. but


B. and


C. or


D. with
Câu 3: (39)


A.  involve


B.  include


C. contain


D. consist
Câu 4: (40)


A. What


B. Whatever


C. However


D. Any

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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 choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 6 to 15.In "Cerealizing America", Scott Bruce and Bill Crawford remark that the cereal industry uses 816 million pounds of sugar per year. Americans buy 2.7 billion packages of breakfast cereal each year. If (6)________ end to end, the empty cereal boxes from one year's consumption would (7)_________ to the moon and back. One point three (1.3) million advertisements for cereal are broadcast on American television every year at a(n) (8)______ of $762 million for airtime. Only automobile manufacturers spend more money on television advertising than the makers of breakfast cereal.(9)______ of the boxed cereals found in supermarkets contain large amounts of sugar and some contain more than 50% sugar. Cereal manufacturers are very clever in their marketing, making many cereals appear much healthier than they really are by "fortifying" them with vitamins and minerals. Oh, (10)____________ - you now have vitamin-fortified sugar!Before you eat any cereal, read the ingredient list and see how (11)______________ sugar appears on the ingredient list. Then check the "Nutrition facts" panel.There are actually only a small handful of national commercially-branded cereals that are made (12)_________whole grains and are sugar-free. If you shop at a health food store instead of your local supermarket, you (13)_____ to find a healthy, whole grain, sugar-free (or very low sugar) cereal. But (14)_________ ! Some of the health food store boxed cereals are sweetened with fruit juice or fructose. Although this may be an improvement (15)_____________________ refined white sugar, this can really skyrocket the calories.From"Foods That Burn Fat, Foods That Turn to Fat" by Tom Ventulo
Câu 1:


A. laying


B. lay


C. laid


D. to lay
Câu 2:


A. prolong


B. stretch


C. contact


D. reach
Câu 3:


A. cost


B. charge


C. average


D. expense
Câu 4:


A. Mostly


B. Furthermost


C. Most


D. Almost
Câu 5:


A. beautiful


B. gorgeous


C. lovely


D. charming
Câu 6:


A. many


B. large


C. tall


D. high
Câu 7:


A. by


B. from


C. at


D. in
Câu 8:


A. would be able


B. are more likelier


C. could more or less  


D. are much more likely
Câu 9:


A. see through


B. keep alert


C. look up


D. watch out
Câu 10:


A. from


B. on


C. with


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


A. commercial


B. constructive


C. essential


D. national
Câu 2:


A. copy


B. remove


C. notice


D. cancel
Câu 3:


A. curriculum


B. economics


C. hesitation


D. calculation

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 question.Where one stage of child development has been left out, or not sufficiently experienced, the child may have to go back and capture the experience of it. A good home makes this possible - for example, by providing the opportunity for the child to play with a clockwork car or toy railway train up to any age if he still needs to do so. This principle, in fact, underlies all psychological treatment of children in difficulties with their development, and is the basic of work in child clinics.The beginnings of discipline are in the nursery. Even the youngest baby is taught by gradual stages to wait for food, to sleep and wake at regular intervals and so on. If the child feels the world around him is a warm and friendly one, he slowly accepts its rhythm and accustoms himself to conforming to its demands. Learning to wait for things, particularly for food, is a very important element in upbringing, and is achieved successfully only if too great demands are not made before the child can understand them. Every parent watches eagerly the child's acquisition of each new skill: the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of anxiety in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural zest for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.Learning together is a fruitful source of relationship between children and parents. By playing together, parents learn more about their children and children learn more from their parents. Toys and games which both parents and children can share are an important means of achieving this co-operation. Building-block toys, jigsaw puzzles and crosswords are good examples.Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness or indulgence towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters; others are severe over times of coming home at night, punctuality for meals or personal cleanliness. In general, the controls imposed represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child's own happiness and well-being.With regard to the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality. Also, parents should realize that "Example is better than precept". If they are hypocritical and do not practise what they preach, their children may grow confused and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been, to some extent, deceived. A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents' ethics and their morals can be a dangerous disillusion.
Câu 1: The principle underlying all treatment of developmental difficulties in children ………………


A. is in the provision of clockwork toys and trains


B. is to send them to clinics


C. is to capture them before they are sufficiently experienced


D. offers recapture of earlier experiences
Câu 2: Learning to wait for things is successfully taught……………… 


A. in spite of excessive demands being made


B. only if excessive demands are avoided


C. because excessive demands are not advisable


D. is achieved successfully by all children
Câu 3: The encouragement of children to achieve new skills………………


A. should be focused on only at school


B. can never be taken too far


C. will always assist their development


D. should be balanced and moderate
Câu 4: Parental controls and discipline ………………


A. serve a dual purpose


B. are designed to promote the child's happiness


C. reflect only the values of the community


D. should be avoided as far as possible
Câu 5: The practice of the rule "Example is better than precept" ………………


A. only works when the children grow old enough to think for themselves


B. would help avoid the necessity for ethics and morals


C. will free a child from disillusion when he grows up


D. is too difficult for all parents to exercise
Câu 6: In the 1st paragraph, the author lays some emphasis on the role of the……………… in helping the child in trouble.


A. psychiatrists 


B. community 


C. family 


D. nursery
Câu 7: The phrase 'conforming to' in the 2nd paragraph means ………………


A. adapting to                        


B. accepting           


C. agreeing with   


D. following
Câu 8: The word 'zest' in the 2nd paragraph can be best replaced by ………………


A. appetite   


B. excitement    


C. enthusiasm 


D. enjoyment
Câu 9: The word 'imposed' in the 4th paragraph is closest in meaning to ………………


A. excepted      


B. introduced       


C. made       


D. constrained
Câu 10: Hypocrisy on the part of the parents may ………………


A. result in their children's wrong behaviour             


B. make their children lose faith in them


C. disqualify their teachings altogether                      


D. impair their children's mind
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Choose the word which has OPPOSITE meaning to the underlined word.
Câu 1: The clubs meet on the last Sunday of every month in a dilapidated building.


A. renovated


B. regenerated


C. furnished


D. neglected
Câu 2: He had never experienced such discourtesy towards the president as it occurred at the annual meeting in July.


A. politeness


B. encouragement


C. measurement


D. rudeness

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 pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Câu 1:


A.  journey


B. country


C. trouble


D. enough
Câu 2:


A. nephew


B. shepherd


C. physical


D. pharmacy

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closet in meaning to the original sentence in each of the following questions.
Câu 1: “Please don’t make such a mess in your room,” his mother said.


A. His mother asked him not to make such a mess in his room.


B. His mother asked him that he did not to make such a mess in his room.


C. His mother asked him did not make such a mess in his room.


D. His mother asked him please not to make such a mess in his room.
Câu 2: I whispered because I didn’t want anyone to hear our conversation.


A. I whispered so that I wouldn’t want anyone to hear our conversation.


B. I whispered so that no one would hear our conversation.


C. I whispered so that no one wouldn’t hear our conversation.


D. I whispered so that I wanted no one to hear our conversation.
Câu 3: It was such a big meal that we couldn’t finish it.


A. The meal was too very big for us to finish.


B. The meal was too big for us to finish it.


C. The meal was too big for us to finish.


D. The meal was such big that we couldn’t finish it.       
Câu 4: I/ take/ shoes/ avoid/ noise.


A. I took off my shoes so that avoid making noise.


B. So that avoiding making noise I took off my shoes.


C. I took off my shoes to avoid making noise.


D. Avoiding making noise I took off my shoes.
Câu 5: She/ always/ good terms/ her neighbors.


A. She always is in good terms to her neighbors.


B. She is always on good terms with her neighbors.


C. She always is on good terms to be to her neighbors.   


D. She is always in good terms to her neighbors.

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(s) for each of the blanks.            It’s nature of athletic records that they are broken and their place is taken by others. Yet in many sports (61)________there is a mark which isn’t (62)________in itself, but which becomes as legend as athletes try to break it. The most famous of these is the attempt to run the mile in less than four minutes.            In 1945, the mile record was (63)_______to 4 minutes, 1.5 seconds. And there, for nine years, it stuck. Then, in 1954, a medical student (64)_______Roger Bannister decided to try and break the record. He had been (65)________for this day since running the mile in 4 minutes, 2 seconds the previous year.            Two other runners set the pace for him and (66)________250 yards to go he burst ahead for the finish. He wrote afterwards: “my body had exhausted all its energy, but it (67)________on running just the same….. Those (68)________few second seemed never-ending. I could see the line of the finishing tape…I jumped like a man making a desperate attempt to save him from danger…” Bannister’s time was 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. (69)________this record had been broken on many (70)________since, Bannister’s achievement will never be forgotten.
Câu 1:


A. happenings


B. events


C. games


D. matches
Câu 2:


A. central


B. major


C. significant


D. considerable
Câu 3:


A. broken down


B. lessened


C. decreased


D. brought down
Câu 4:


A. entitled


B. called


C. nicknamed


D. known
Câu 5:


A. trying


B. studying


C. running


D. training
Câu 6:


A. on


B. in


C. with


D. by
Câu 7:


A. went


B. continued


C. ran


D. got
Câu 8:


A. last


B. late


C. latest


D. later
Câu 9:


A. but


B. in spite of


C. however


D. although
Câu 10:


A. times


B. events


C. occasions


D. incidents                            
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