Choose the best option to complete each sentence.
Câu 1: He was on his way home ______ I saw him.


A. when


B. while


C. as
Câu 2: ______  to the fact that it had been snowing heavily all night, the roads were blocked.


A. As


B. Because


C. Owing
Câu 3: She can't get a job_______ having done brilliantly at college.


A. no matter


B. even though


C. in spite of
Câu 4: ______ he comes from New Zealand, he supports their national rugby team.


A. Because of


B. Since


C. Due to
Câu 5: The doctor advised him to______down on the amount of food he ate.


A. wind


B. turn


C. cut

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: Smoking is an extremely harmful habit. You should give it up immediately.


A. As smoking is an extremely harmful habit, you should give it up immediately.


B. When you give up smoking immediately, you will affect your health with this harmful habit.


C. Stop your smoking immediately so it will become one of your extremely harmful habits.


D. You should give up smoking immediately and you will fall into an extremely harmful habit.
Câu 2: We spend about one-third of our lives sleeping. We know relatively little about sleep.


A. We shall know more about sleep if we spend more than one-third of our lives sleeping.


B. Despite spending about one-third of our lives sleeping, we know relatively little about sleep.


C. We spend about one-third of our lives sleeping so that we know relatively little about sleep.


D. We know relatively little about sleep; as a result, we spend about one-third of our lives sleeping.

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 pronunciation of the underlined part in each of the following questions
Câu 1:


A. average          


B. natural


C. family   


D. already
Câu 2:


A. breakfast        


B. feature      


C. peasant   


D. pleasure

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Câu 1: Mail shots have proved to be the most cost-effective method of marketing our products.


A. cheap


B. inefficient


C. encouraging


D. discouraging
Câu 2: She now faces the daunting challenge of writing a successful sequel to her hugely popular first book.


A. formidable


B. feasible


C. encouraging


D. discouraging

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 question.The term "Hudson River school" was applied to the foremost representatives of nineteenth-century North American landscape painting. Apparently unknown during the golden days of the American landscape movement, which began around 1850 and lasted until the late 1860's, the Hudson River school seems to have emerged in the 1870's as a direct result of the struggle between the old and the new generations of artists, each to assert its own style as the representative American art. The older painters, most of whom were born before 1835, practiced in a mode often self-taught and monopolized by landscape subject matter and were securely established in and fostered by the reigning American art organization, the National Academy of Design. The younger painters returning home from training in Europe worked more with figural subject matter and in a bold and impressionistic technique; their prospects for patronage in their own country were uncertain, and they sought to attract it by attaining academic recognition in New York. One of the results of the conflict between the two factions was that what in previous years had been referred to as the "American", "native", or, occasionally, "New York" school-the most representative school of American art in any genre-had by 1890 become firmly established in the minds of critics and public alike as the Hudson River school.The sobriquet was first applied around 1879. While it was not intended as flattering, it was hardly inappropriate. The Academicians at whom it was aimed had worked and socialized in New York, the Hudson's port city, and had painted the river and its shores with varying frequency. Most important, perhaps, was that they had all maintained with a certain fidelity a manner of technique and composition consistent with those of America's first popular landscape artist, Thomas Cole, who built a career painting the Catskill Mountain scenery bordering the Hudson River. A possible implication in the term applied to the group of landscapists was that many of them had, like Cole, lived on or near the banks of the Hudson. Further, the river had long served as the principal route to other sketching grounds favored by the Academicians, particularly the Adirondacks and the mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire.
Câu 1: What does the passage mainly discuss?


A. The National Academy of Design


B. The training of American artists in European academies


C. Paintings that featured the Hudson River


D. North American landscape paintings
Câu 2: Before 1870, what was considered the most representative kind of American painting?


A. Historical painting


B. Figural painting


C. Landscape painting


D. Impressionistic painting
Câu 3: The word "monopolized" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______.


A. repelled


B. dominate


C. alarmed


D. pursued
Câu 4: According to the passage, what was the function of the National Academy of Design for the painters born before 1835?


A. It determined which subjects were appropriate.


B. It supported their growth and development.


C. It supervised the incorporation of new artistic techniques.


D. It mediated conflicts between artists.
Câu 5: The word "it" in paragraph 1 refers to _______.


A. country


B. patronage


C. technique


D. matter

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. mood                                  


B. flood                       


C. spoon                      


D. moon 
Câu 2:


A. casebook                


B. briefcase                 


C. suitcase                   


D. purchase
Câu 3:


A. production              


B. propaganda             


C. promotion               


D. proceed
Câu 4:


A. command                


B. community              


C. complete                 


D. common
Câu 5:


A. houses                    


B. rises                        


C. horses                     


D. chooses
Câu 6:


A. except                                 


B. excel                       


C. excess                     


D. exhaust
Câu 7:


A. equation                  


B. dedication               


C. option                     


D. exemption
Câu 8:


A. bruise                                  


B. circuit                      


C. biscuit                     


D. guilt
Câu 9:


A. stone                                  


B. top                                     


C. pocket                    


D. modern
Câu 10:


A. family                     


B. famine                     


C. famous                    


D. fabricate
Câu 11:


A. islander                   


B. alive                        


C. vacancy                  


D. habitat
Câu 12:


A. suggest                   


B. survive                    


C. support                   


D. summer
Câu 13:


A. eventually               


B. shore                       


C. proficient                


D. assure
Câu 14:


A. preparation             


B. susceptible              


C. experiment              


D. genetically
Câu 15:


A. hesitate                   


B. excessive                


C. saturate                   


D. restrict
Câu 16:


A. private                    


B. marriage                 


C. romantic                 


D. attract
Câu 17:


A. coach                      


B. goat                                    


C. toad                        


D. broad
Câu 18:


A. purpose                   


B. compose                 


C. suppose                  


D. propose
Câu 19:


A. stagnant                  


B. vacancy                  


C. charity                    


D. habitat
Câu 20:


A. champagne 


B. chaos                      


C. scheme                   


D. chemist
Câu 21:


A. daunt                      


B. astronaut                 


C. vaulting                  


D. aunt
Câu 22:


A. towed                     


B. towel                       


C. vowel                     


D. crowded
Câu 23:


A. coast                                   


B. board                      


C. load                                    


D. toad
Câu 24:


A. moment                  


B. monument               


C. slogan                     


D. quotient
Câu 25:


A. sharp                       


B. hammer                   


C. apple                      


D. applicant 
Câu 26:


A. shape                     


B. passion                    


C. push                        


D. discuss
Câu 27:


A. passionate               


B. pessimism               


C. assessment              


D. passages
Câu 28:


A. endanger                 


B. contractual              


C. defensive                


D. synchronize
Câu 29:


A. culture                    


B. justice                     


C. sudden                    


D. campus
Câu 30:


A. none                                  


B. dozen                      


C. youngster                


D. home
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A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose the word that has stress pattern different from that of the other words.
Câu 1:


A. volunteer


B. nation


C. college


D. hospital
Câu 2:


A. orphanage


B. participate


C. vacation


D. remote
Câu 3:


A. comfort


B. area


C. happiness


D. believe

A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in standard English:
Câu 1: What would happen because I pressed that red button?


A. would 


B. because 


C. pressed 


D. that 
Câu 2: She had left the office when she saw how angry he was.


A. had left


B. saw 


C. how 


D. he was
Câu 3: The doctor strongly advised her take a few days’ rest.


A. The 


B. strongly 


C. her take


D. days’ rest
Câu 4: She has disappeared three days ago, and they are still looking for her now.


A.  has disappeared 


B. and 


C. are still


D. for her
Câu 5: Mary has so many things  do  that she has no time to go out.


A. so many


B. do  


C. no time


D. go out

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.There are many African tribes but, for many people, the Masai are the most well-known. They are famous for their bright red clothing and their ceremonies with lots of music and dancing. Probably, one of the most colorful ceremonies is the festival of "Eunoto", when the teenage boys of the Masai become men.Eunoto lasts for many days and Masai people travel across the region to get to a special place nearthe border between Kenya and Tanzania. The teenage boys who travel with them are called "warriors". This is a traditional name from the past when young men fought with other tribes.At the beginning of the ceremony, the teenagers paint their bodies while their mothers start to build a place called the "Osingira," a sacred room in the middle of the celebrations. Later, the senior elders from different tribes will sit inside this place and, at different times, the boys go inside to meet them. Later in the day, the boys run around the Osingira, going faster and faster each time.The teenagers also have to alter their appearance at Eunoto. Masai boys' hair is very long before the ritual but they have to cut it off. In Masai culture, hair is an important symbol. For example, when a baby grows into an infant, the mother cuts the child's hair and gives the child a name. At a Masai wedding, the hair of the bride is also cut off as she becomes a woman. And so, at Eunoto, the teenage boy's mother cuts his hair off at sunrise.On the final day, the teenagers meet the senior elders one more time. They get this advice: "Now you are men, use your heads and knowledge." Then, people start to travel back to their homes and lands. The teenagers are no longer warriors. They are adult men and now they will get married and have children. Later in life, they will be the leaders of their communities.(Adapted from "Life" by John Hughes, Helen Stephenson and Paul Dummett)
Câu 1: What is the passage mainly about?


A. The ceremony that marks the beginning of Masai boys' adulthood


B. The journey by Masai teenage boys to the festival of Eunoto


C. The importance of Eunoto in African people's lives


D. The reasons for the Masai's popularity over other African tribes
Câu 2: The word " warriors" in paragraph 2 mostly means ______.


A. dancers               


B. fighters


C. musicians               


D. travellers
Câu 3: The word "them" in paragraph 3 refers to ______.


A. different tribes                   


B. their mothers                     


C. the boys                  


D. the senior elders
Câu 4: According to paragraph 3, the Osingira is built by ______.


A. the Masai senior elders                                  


B. Masai teenagers


C. the Masai teenage boys' mothers             


D. Masai men
Câu 5: The word "alter " in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to ______.


A. differ                         


B. change               


C. maintain                 


D. distinguish
Câu 6: According to the passage, what do the teenage boys do at Eunoto?


A. Painting their bodies                                                          


B. Receiving new names


C. Changing their clothes                   


D. Fighting with other tribes
Câu 7: According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?


A. The Masai teenage boys are given advice from senior elders before attending Eunoto.


B. The Masai teenage boys will become adults and get married after attending Eunoto.


C. Eunoto lasts for a day across the region between Kenya and Tanzania.


D. Eunoto is the ceremony for both Masai teenage boys and girls.

A.
B.
C.
D.

IX. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that is INCORRECT in each of the following questions.
Câu 1: The singer about who I told you yesterday is coming here tomorrow.


A. told


B. tomorrow


C. is coming


D. who
Câu 2: Energy exists in different forms such as light, heat, and chemical, mechanic and electrical energy.


A. electrical  


B. in


C. forms


D. mechanic
Câu 3: At 7:00 p.m. last night John talked on the phone with his friend when I came in.


A. his friend


B. on the phone


C. came


D. talked

A.
B.
C.
D.