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No more Polar Bears?
We all know that the Earth is getting warmer and warmer. This problem is called “global warming”. We also know that global warming is causing a lot of problems. Oceans levels are getting higher and higher. Because ocean levels are getting higher, storm are getting stronger and stronger. This list of problems goes on and on.
Animals are suffering a lot because of global warming. Polar bears are suffering more than most animals. This is because polar bears live in the North Pole. In the North Pole, global warming is making ice melt. Polar bears hunt from large pieces of floating ice. They jumps off the ice and hunt for food. Polar bears have to swim ad find these floating pieces of ice. These day, they have to swim farther to find the floating ice. Many of them don’t have enough energy. They get too tired, and they die in the water.
Polar bears are suffering because of other problems, too. Pollution makes their water dirty. Many countries go to the North Pole to look for oil and gas, and they damage the environment of the bears. In addition, when ships sail through the North Pole, they cause a lot of damage. Finally, people hunt and kill too many polar bears. However, melting ice is definitely the biggest problem.
Right now, there are about 25 000 polar bears in the world. If global warming continues, there may be only about 12 000 in the year 20150. By the year 2080, that number might be much smaller.
It is important to study polar bears. When we learn about polar bears, we also learn about the health of the North Pole. If polar bears are doing well, then the environment in the North Pole is probably healthy. If polar bears are suffering, then there are probably serious problems in the North Pole.
Right now, governments around the world are working to help polar bears. There are new laws that protect polar bears. However, if global warming continues to get worse, polar bears may disappear forever.
0Câu 11
Which of the following has the same meaning as the last sentence of the first paragraph?
A. Global warming doesn't make any other problems.
B.Global warming makes many more problems.
C. We should make a list of the problems that global warming causes.
D. We don’t know all of the problems that global warming causes.
Câu 12
Why do polar bears have to swim farther?
A. They have to get away from people.
B.They have to find cleaner water.
C. They have to find floating ice
D. They have to look for other bears
Câu 13
Why is it important to study polar bears?
A. Polar bears tell us whether the North Pole is healthy or not.
B.Polar bears help us stop ice from melting
C. Polar bears tell us if there is oil nearby.
D. Polar bears are the world’s most important animal.
Câu 14
The word “this” in paragraph 2 refers to ____.
A. global warming
B.floating ice
C. the situation
D. ice melting
Câu 15
The word “dirty” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ___
A. salty
B.polluted
C. fresh
D. melted
Câu 16
What is the biggest problem for polar bears?
A. Melting ice
B.Ships sailing through the North Pole
C. People hunting polar bears
D. More countries looking for oil
Câu 17
Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. According to studies, polar bears will become extinct soon.
B.Polar bears cannot swim well.
C. Polar bears are regarded as an indicator of the North Pole’s environment.
D. Polar bears live on food from floating ice.
A.
B.
C.
D.

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The World Trade Organization (WTO) has 150 member countries. They are looking to improve trade. Trade means the buying and selling goods. The WTO provides a place where these countries can talk about what they need. The goal of the WTO is to make trade grow by removing legal barriers between countries.
The WTO helps trade in several ways. First, it asks countries to treat each other equally. They should not give special trade deals to one country and not to another. Also, these countries should not try to stop foreign products from any one country. The idea is that goods and services should be able to cross borders easily. A second way to improve trade is to lower tariffs. These are special taxes for things bought and sold. A third way to strengthen trade is to make sure that the rules will stay the same. In order for people to invest their money, they need to feel secure for the future. A fourth way is to allow greater competitions between countries. The central belief is that competitions make for a stronger economy. The last way to improve trade is to help countries that are poor. The need help coming up to the level of modem countries. They can be helped by allowing them extra time to get their systems in order. They can be given priority in making deals with other countries.
Free and easy trade is the WTO’s goal. It supports rich countries and helps poor ones get ahead. It is one way of improving the lives of more people in the world. It asks countries to make laws that help this process. Every year, more countries apply to be in the WTO. They see membership as a good thing.
Notes:
- make for sth = to help to make something possible (đem lại).
0Câu 1
According to the passage, all of the following are true EXCEPT ______
A. he WTO wants to make trade better.
B.trade means the buying and selling of goods.
C. poor countries are not given priority
D. the WTO wants to improve trade by lowering taxes.
Câu 2
It can be inferred from the passage that_ ______
A. few countries want to become a member of the WTO
B.the WTO is a multi-national organization
C. the WTO helps remove political barriers between countries
D. the WTO’s goal is to trade with other organizations
Câu 3
The word “barriers” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______
A. borders
B.bans
C. documents
D. obstacles
Câu 4
Why does the author give details about how the WTO helps trade?
A. To distinguish between the WTO and the banks.
B.To complain about the actions of the WTO.
C. To promote discussion about the WTO.
D. To illustrate how the WTO improves international trade.
Câu 5
The word “tariffs” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to______
A. expenses
B.incomes
C. goods
D. taxes
Câu 6
The word “priority” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to______
A. importance
B. infiltration
C. fundamentalist
D. diversion
Câu 7
Paragraph 2 lists the ways in which the WTO helps trade. How many ways are mentioned?
A. 5
B.6
C. 3
D. 4
Câu 8
Which of the following is NOT correct?
A. The WTO supports poor countries.
B.The goal of the WTO is to improve trade.
C. Rich countries are given priority.
D. Many countries apply to be in the WTO every year.
Câu 9
According to paragraph 3, the WTO_______?
A. gives poor countries lots of food
B. asks rich countries to help poor ones
C. helps improve the lives of more people in the world
D. helps rich countries get ahead
Câu 10
Which of the following does NOT support the idea that the WTO provides a way for countries to improve trade?
A. Countries should allow goods and services to cross borders easily.
B.Countries should be fair to one another and help poor members.
C. Countries should allow time to raise taxes.
D. Countries should lower tariffs and make investors feel secure
A.
B.
C.
D.

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If you enjoy water sports, Hawaii is the place for you. You can go swimming all year round in the warm water. You can go sport fishing from the shore or from a boat. If you like boats, you can go sailing, canoeing, or windsurfing. Or, you can also try some other water sports that are especially popular in Hawaii: surfing, snorkeling and scuba diving.
Surfing is a sport which started in Hawaii many years ago. The Hawaiians called it “he’e nalu”, which means “to slide on a wave”. If you want to try surfing, you need, first of all, to be a good swimmer. You also have to have an excellent sense of balance. You must swim out from the beach with your surfboard under your arm. When you get to where the waves begin to break, you wait for a calm moment. Then you try to stand up on the board. The wave will begin to rise under you. You must try to steer the board with your feet so you stay on top of the wave. The important thing is to keep your balance and not fall down. If you can manage this, you will have an exciting ride all the way in to the shore.
Scuba diving and snorkeling are two ways to get a close look at the beauty lying below the surface of the ocean. The waters off the Hawaiian Islands arc clean, clear, and warm. They contain hundreds of kinds of colorful fish. The undersea world is made even more colorful by the coral reefs of red, gold, white, and light purple. Among these reefs there may be larger fish or sea turtles.
Scuba diving allows you to see the most interesting undersea sights. “Scuba” means “Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus”, that is, equipment for breathing and swimming around far under water. In Hawaii, you can take special courses to learn how to scuba dive. After the courses, you can get a certificate that will allow you to dive alone. Since it can be dangerous, proper instruction and great care are always necessary when you are scuba diving.
If you are less adventurous, you might try snorkeling instead of scuba diving. Less equipment is needed, just a face mask, a breathing tube (snorkel) and flippers for your feet. It only takes a few minutes to learn how to snorkel. Although you cannot dive deep into the water, you can swim with your face below the surface. Breathing through the tube, you float on the surface, and keep yourself moving with your flippers. Even from the surface like this, there will be plenty of color and beauty to see.
0Câu 1
This passage is about _______
A. tourist activities in Hawaii
B.surfing
C. water sports in Hawaii
D. water sports around the world
Câu 2
You can infer from this passage that _______
A. water sports are all expensive
B. everyone can find a way to enjoy sports in the water
C. swimming in Hawaii can be dangerous
D. you need to take a course for all water sports
Câu 3
You can go deep under water when you are ______
A. surfing
B.scuba diving
C. snorkeling
D. swimming
Câu 4
According to the passage, surfing________
A. requires expensive equipment
B. was invented by the native Hawaiians
C. began as a sport in 1943
D. is very dangerous
Câu 5
If you want to try surfing, you _____
A. need to wait for a windy day
B.should not go out into deep water
C. should go to Australia
D. need to be a good swimmer
Câu 6
The water around the Hawaiian Islands is ______
A. often quite cold
B.full of dangerous fish
C. full of colorful things to see
D. usually very dark
Câu 7
The word “this” in paragraph 2 refers to ____
A. keeping balanced and not falling down
B.an exciting ride
C. standing on the board
D. staying on top of the wave
Câu 8
According to the passage, scuba diving______ .
A. is an ancient Hawaiian water sport
B. is the only way to see the fish underwater
C. requires special equipment and training
D. requires good balance
Câu 9
The word “proper” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to___
A. enthusiastic
B.informative
C. short and clear
D. appropriate
Câu 10
According to the passage, snorkeling ______
A.
can be dangerous
B. is an easy way to see the underwater life
C. was invented in ancient times
D. requires more expensive equipment than scuba diving
A.
B.
C.
D.

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The life of a Professional Gamer
Gordon Hayward has a pretty cool job – he plays basketball for the team Utah Jazz in the American National Basketball Association (NBA). But in his free time, he also works as a professional gamer, competing in StarCraft 2 tournaments. Even as a top – level athletes, Gordon is impressed with the amount of commitment needed for these competitions. “These guys are professionals”, he says. “They play this game for their job, so they take this as seriously as I take playing basketball for a living.”
Competitive gaming has been around for almost as long as video games themselves, but it’s only recently that people have started earning money from it. This is because companies sponsor gamers, and tournaments. The gaming industry is now worth about $6 billion, and it is growing every year. Michel Masquelier, President of IMG Media (one of the world’s largest entertainment companies), called gaming the number one activity in the world for men aged 18 to 24. Just as young people aspire to play in the NBA, many also dream of becoming professional gamer.
There are now big global tournaments like World Cyber Games and Major League Gaming Championships, where hundreds of gamers come to compete in popular game like StarCraft, WarCraft, Counterstrike, and the football game FIFA in front of an audience. The prize money in a tournament can reach a few million dollars.
One thing gamer, and athletes have in common is that they often play in teams. These “clans”, as gamers call them, usually play tournaments together and practise against one another. Professional gamers and their clans earn money through sponsorships, winning tournament, and teaching and training people to play video games better.
Like athletes, gamers must train long and hard to become the best at the game that they play. Most gamers only compete in one game, the same way that most professional athletes only play one sport. Adrian Kwong, a professional gamer, says that he usually practises StarCraft 2 for more than three hours a day. Some days he even plays for more than five hours. “To become a pro player, it takes determination, skill, and extensive practice,” says Katie Goldberg, who is vice – president of communications at Major’s League Gaming.
Gordon Hayward isn’t going to give up his basketball career anytime soon, but he says that athletes and gamers are not that different: “You have to train hard if you want to be the best, and that goes for everything, not just basketball. That also goes for video games like StarCraft”.
0Câu 11
What best describes the main idea of the passage?
A. More athletes are playing video games than ever before.
B.Professional gamers train and compete like athletes
C. While popular, video name sports are not real sports.
D. Professional gamer earn as much as athletes.
Câu 12
Why does the writer say in paragraph 1 that Gordon is impressed “even as a top – level athlete”?
A. Athletes enter lots of competitions as well.
B.Athletes don't have time to play video game.
C. Athletes generally don't like playing video games.
D. Athletes are used to training long and hard.
Câu 13
Why does the passage say gamers have recently started earning money?
A. Companies now sponsor gamers and competitions.
B.Gamers now work for video game companies
C. Competitive gaming is very new.
D. Young people pay to watch their favourite gamers.
Câu 14
What is a "clan"?
A. a team of gamers
B.a gamer who no longer competes
C. a club for fans of gamers
D. a person who is new to gaming
Câu 15
Which is true about gaming tournaments?
A. Fans watch gamers as they play
B.Winners receive trophies, but not money
C. Only the lop gamers compete.
D. Gamers play from their homes.
Câu 16
Professional gamers like Adrian Kwong _________.
A. do some physical exercise to help their gaming.
B.compete in many different games
C. practise for many hours a day
D. take part in gaming competitions on their own
Câu 17
The word “everything” in the last paragraph refers to ____
A. any tournament
B.any sport
C. any gamer
D. any game
Câu 18
The purpose of the final paragraph is to show____.
A. how athletes and gamers are the same
B.how athletes and gamers are different
C. why Gordon Hayward plays video games like StarCraft 2.
D. why Gordon Hayward chooses basketball over video games.
A.
B.
C.
D.

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A number of factors related to the voice reveal the personality of the speaker. The first is the broad area of communication, which includes imparting information by use of language, communicating with a group or an individual, and specialized communication through performance. A person conveys thoughts and ideas through choice of words, by a tone of voice that is pleasant or unpleasant, gentle or harsh, by the rhythm that is inherent within the language itself, and by speech rhythms that are flowing and regular or uneven and hesitant, and finally, by the pitch and melody of the utterance. When speaking before a group, a person’s tone may indicate uncertainty or fright, confidence or calm. At interpersonal levels, the tone may reflect ideas and feelings over and above the words chosen, or may belie them. Here the speaker’s tone can consciously or unconsciously reflect intuitive sympathy, lack of concern or interest, fatigue, anxiety, enthusiasm or excitement, all of which are usually discernible by the acute listener. Public performance is a manner of communication that is highly specialized with its own techniques for obtaining effects by voice and/ or gesture. The motivation derived from the context, and in the case of singing, the music, in combination with the performer’s skills, personality, and ability to create empathy will determine the success of artistic, political or pedagogic communication.
Second, the voice gives psychological clues to a person’s self-image, perception of others, and emotional health. Self-image can be indicated by a tone of voice that is confident, pretentious, shy, aggressive, outgoing, or exuberant, to name only a few personality traits. Also the sound may give a clue to the facade or mask of the person, for example, a shy person hiding behind an overconfident front. How a speaker perceives the listener’s receptiveness, interest, or sympathy in any given conversation can drastically alter the tone of presentation, by encouraging or discouraging the speaker. Emotional health is evidenced in the voice by free and melodic sounds of the happy, by constricted and harsh sound of the angry, and by dull and lethargic qualities of the depressed.
Notes:
- belie (động từ) = gây một ấn tượng sai lầm, làm cho nhầm.
- intuitive (tính từ) = thuộc về trực giác.
- fatigue (danh từ) = sự mệt mỏi.
- discernible (tính từ) = có thề nhận thức rõ có thề thấy rõ.
- acute (tính từ) = sắc sào, nhạy bén.
- empathy (danh từ) = (tâm lí học) sự thấu cảm.
- pretentious (tính từ) = tự phụ, kiêu căng.
- aggressive (tính từ) = hay gây hấn, hung hăng.
- exuberant (tính từ) = cởi mở, hồ hởi.
- harsh (tính từ) = gay gát, cay nghiệt.
- perception (danh từ) = sự nhận thức.
0Câu 31
The passage mainly discusses _______
A. the function of the voice in performance
B. the connection between the voice and personality
C. the production of speech
D. communication styles
Câu 32
By stating: “At interpersonal levels, the tone may reflect ideas and feelings over and above the words chosen... " the author means that_____ .
A. a high tone of voice reflects an emotional communication
B.the tone of voice can carry information beyond the meaning of words
C. feelings are expressed with different words than ideas are
D. feelings are more difficult to express than ideas
Câu 33
The word “here” in paragraph 1 refers to___ .
A. ideas and feelings
B.the tone
C. words chosen
D. interpersonal interactions
Câu 34
The word “derived” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to__ .
A. obtained
B.registered
C. prepared
D. discussed
Câu 35
The author mentions “artistic, political or pedagogic communication ” ____.
A. as examples of public performance
B. to introduce the idea of self-image
C. to contrast them to singing
D. as examples of basic styles of communication
Câu 36
According to the passage, a person’s exuberant tone of voice may indicate his/ her
A. personality
B.general physical health
C. ability to communicate
D. vocal quality
Câu 37
According to the passage, an overconfident front may hide__ .
A. shyness
B.hostility
C. strength
D. friendliness
Câu 38
The word “evidenced” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to__ .
A. indicated
B.questioned
C. exaggerated
D. repeated
Câu 39
According to the passage, a constricted and harsh voice may indicate__ .
A. depression
B.boredom
C. anger
D. exhaustion
Câu 40
According to the passage, during their presentation, speakers may change their tone of presentation as a result of their perception of
A. time allowance
B.listeners’ interest
C. the location of the presentation
D. their relationship with the listeners
A.
B.
C.
D.

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Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special attention to the speech they hear around them. Within the first month of their lives, babies’ responses to the sound of the human voice will be different from their responses to other sorts of auditory stimuli. They will stop crying when they hear a person talking, but not if they hear a bell or the sound of a rattle. At first, the sounds that an infant notices might be only those words that receive the heaviest emphasis and that often occur at the end of utterances. By the time they are six or seven weeks old, babies can detect the difference between syllables pronounced with rising and falling inflections. Very soon, these differences in adult stress and intonation can influence babies’ emotional states and behavior. Long before they develop actual language comprehension, babies can sense when an adult is playful or angry, attempting to initiate or terminate new behavior, and so on, merely on the basis of cues such as the rate, the volume, and melody of adult speech.
Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to pick up a language by exaggerating such cues. One researcher observed babies and their mothers in six diverse cultures and found that, in all six languages, the mothers used simplified syntax, short utterances and nonsense sounds, and transformed certain sounds into baby talk. Other investigators have noted that when mothers talk to babies who are only a few months old, they exaggerate the pitch, loudness, and intensity of their words. They also exaggerate their facial expressions, hold vowels longer, and emphasize certain words.
More significant for language development than their response to general intonation is observation that tiny babies can make relatively fine distinction between speech sounds. In other words, babies enter the world with the ability to make precisely those perceptual discriminations that are necessary if they are to acquire aural language.
Babies obviously derive pleasure from sound input, too; even as young as nine months old they will listen to songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their understanding. For babies, language is a sensory-motor delight rather than the route to convey meaning that it often is for adults.
Notes:
- rattle (danh từ) = cái lúc lắc (đồ chơi trẻ con).
- utterance (danh từ) = lời nói ra, lời phát biểu.
- inflection (danh từ) = (âm nhạc) sự chuyển điệu.
- syntax (danh từ) = (ngồn ngữ học) cú pháp.
- pitch (danh từ) = độ cao thấp (giọng nói, âm thanh...).
- note (động từ) = chú ý, lưu ý, nhận thấy.
0Câu 21
The passage mainly discusses _____
A. the response of babies to sounds other than the human voice
B.how babies differentiate between the sound of the human voice and other sounds
C. the differences between a baby’s and an adult’s ability to comprehend language
D. how babies perceive and respond to the human voice in their earliest stages of language development
Câu 22
The author mentions a bell and a rattle in paragraph 1 in order to ____
A. give examples of sounds that will cause a baby to cry
B.give examples of typical toys that babies do not like
C. explain how babies distinguish between nonhuman sounds
D. contrast the reactions of babies to human and nonhuman sounds
Câu 23
The author mentions syllables pronounced with rising and falling inflection in order to ____ .
A. demonstrate how difficult it is for babies to interpret emotions
B.illustrate that a six-week-old baby can already distinguish some language differences
C. provide an example of ways adults speak to babies
D. give a reason for babies’ difficulty in distinguishing one adult from another
Câu 24
The word “noted” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to .
A. observed
B.disagreed
C. theorized
D. requested
Câu 25
The word “they” in paragraph 2 refers to_______ .
A. mothers
B.words
C. babies
D. investigation
Câu 26
All of the following are mentioned as ways adults use to modify their speech when talking to babies EXCEPT_______.
A. using meaningless sounds
B.speaking more loudly than normal
C. speaking with shorter sentences
D. giving all words equal emphasis
Câu 27
It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that _____ .
A. the mothers observed by the researchers were consciously teaching their babies to speak
B.mothers from different cultures speak to their babies in similar ways
C. babies who are exposed to more than one language can speak earlier than babies exposed to a single language
D. babies ignores facial expressions in comprehending aural language
Câu 28
The point the author makes to illustrate that babies are born with the ability to acquire languages is that____ .
A. babies notice even minor differences between speech sounds
B.babies exaggerate their own sounds and expressions
C. babies begin to understand words in songs
D. babies are more sensitive to sounds than adults are
Câu 29
According to the author, babies listen to songs and stories even though they cannot understand them because____.
A. they understand the rhythm
B.they enjoy the sound
C. they focus on the meaning of their parents’ words
D. they can remember them easily
Câu 30
All of the following are true about young babies EXCEPT that they____.
A. use language the way adults do
B.consider language as a source of joy
C. find pleasure from what they hear
D. enjoy listening to music without understanding it
A.
B.
C.
D.

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Television has transformed politics by changing the way in which information is disseminated, by altering political campaigns, and by changing citizen’s patterns of response to politics. By giving citizens independent access to the candidates, television diminished the role of the political party in the selection of the major party candidates. By centering politics on the person of the candidate, television accelerated the citizen’s focus on character rather than issues.
Television has altered the forms of political communication as well. The messages on which most of us rely are briefer than they once were. The stump speech, a political speech given by traveling politicians and lasting 3/2 to 2 hours, which characterized nineteenth century political discourse, has given way to the 30-second advertisement and the ten-second “sound bite” in broadcast news. Increasingly, the audience for speeches is not that standing in front of the politician but rather the viewing audience who will hear and see a snippet of the speech on the news.
In these abbreviated forms, much of what constituted the traditional political discourse of earlier ages has been lost. In 15 or 30 seconds, a speaker cannot establish the historical context that shaped the issue in question, cannot detail the probable causes of the problem, and cannot examine alternative proposals to argue that one is preferable to others. In snippets, politicians assert but do not argue.
Because television is an intimate medium, speaking through it require a changed political style that was more conversational, personal, and visual than that of the old style stump speech. Reliance on television means that increasingly our political world contains memorable pictures rather than memorable words. Schools teach us to analyze words and print. However, in a world in which politics is increasingly visual, informed citizenship requires a new set of skills.
Recognizing the power of television’s pictures, politicians craft staged events, called pseudo-event, designed to attract media coverage. Much of the political activity we see on television news has been crafted by politicians, their speechwriters, and their public relation advisers for televised consumption. Sound bites in news and answers to questions in debates increasingly sound like advertisements.
Notes:
- disseminate (động từ) = truyền bá, phồ biến.
- discourse (danh từ) = bài diễn văn.
- snippet (danh từ) = mẩu (tin...), đoạn trích ngắn.
- assert (động từ) = xác nhận, khẳng định;
- argue (động tứ) = tranh luận.
- intimate (tính từ) = thân mật; intimate medium = phương tiện truyền thông thân thiết.
- to be on the stump = (về chính trị) đang đi diễn thuyết; stump speech = bài diễn văn cồ động chính trị.
- craft (dộng từ) = làm cái gì thật tỉ mỉ, trau chuốt.
0Câu 11
The main point of the passage is that _______
A. politics in the United States has become significantly changed by controversial since the introduction of television
B.citizens in the United States are now more informed about political issues because of television coverage
C. citizens in the United States prefer to see politicians on television instead of in person
D. politics in the United States has been significantly changed by television
Câu 12
It can be inferred from the passage that in the past the introduction of television political parties_____
A. attracted more members
B.received more money
C. had more influence over the selection of political candidates
D. spent more money to promote their political candidates
Câu 13
The author mentions the “stump speech” in paragraph 2 as an example of ___
A. political presentation typical of the 19th century
B.a style of speech common to televised political events
C. an interactive discussion between two politicians
D. an event created by politicians to attract media attention
Câu 14
The phrase “given way to” in paragraph 2 can be best replaced by .
A. modified
B.imitated
C. been replaced by
D. added interest to
Câu 15
The word “that” in paragraph 2 refers to_____
A. audience
B.politician
C. advertisement
D. broadcast news
Câu 16
According to the passage, traditional political discourse was more successful than televised speeches because it_____
A. allows news coverage of political candidates
B.places political issues within a historical context
C. provides detailed information about a candidate’s private behavior
D. makes politics seem more intimate to citizens
Câu 17
By saying that “politicians assert but do not argue ", the author means that politicians_____ .
A. make claims without providing reasons for the claims
B. take stronger positions on issues than in the past
C. dislike having to explain their own positions on issues to citizens
D. enjoy explaining the issue to broadcasters
Câu 18
It can be inferred from paragraph 4 that_____
A. citizens tend to favor a politician who analyzes the issue over one who does not
B.politicians who are considered very attractive are favored by citizens over politicians who are less attractive
C. citizens will need to learn how to evaluate visual political images in order to become better informed
D. politicians will need to learn to become more personal when meeting citizens
Câu 19
According to paragraph 5, staged political events are created so that politicians can_____ .
A. create more time to discuss political issues
B.spend more time talking to citizens in person
C. engage in debates with their opponents
D. obtain more television coverage for themselves
Câu 20
The passage supports the statement that_____.
A. politicians today tends to be more familiar with the views of citizens than in the past .
B. political speeches today focus more on details about issues than in the past
C. political presentations today are more like advertisements than in the past
D. citizens today are less informed about a politician’s character than in the past
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.
Simply being bilingual doesn’t qualify someone to interpret. Interpreting is not only a mechanical process of converting one sentence in language A into the same sentence in language B. Rather, it’s a complex art in which thoughts and idioms that have no obvious counterparts from tongue to tongue - or words that have several meanings must be quickly transformed in such a way that the message is clearly and accurately expressed to the listener.
At one international conference, an American speaker said, “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”, which means nothing to the Spanish audience. The interpretation was, “A monkey in a silk dress is still a monkey” - an idiom the Spanish understood and that expressed the same idea.
There, are two kinds of interpreters, simultaneous and consecutive. The former, sitting in a separated booth, usually at a large multilingual conference, speaks to listeners wearing headphones, interpreting what a foreign language speaker says - actually a sentence behind. Consecutive interpreters are the ones most international negotiations use. They are employed for smaller meetings without sound booths and headphones. Consecutive interpretation also requires two-person teams. A foreign speaker says his piece while the interpreter, using a special shorthand, takes notes and during a pause, tells the client what was said.
Notes: to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear (thành ngữ) = ít bột vẫn gột nên hồ.
0Câu 1
What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To point out the importance of an interpreter
B.To explain the scope of interpreting.
C. To state the qualifications of an interpreter
D. To differentiate between simultaneous and consecutive interpreters.
Câu 2
What is a difference mentioned between a simultaneous interpreter and a consecutive interpreter?
A. The type of dictionary they use.
B. Their proficiency in the language.
C. The size of group with whom they work
D. The money they are paid.
Câu 3
A precondition of being a translator is_____.
A. being bilingual
B.working well with people
C. being a linguist
D. being able to use high-tech equipment
Câu 4
What would a simultaneous interpreter be most in need of?
A. Headphones and a booth.
B.Shorthand skills and a notepad.
C. Advanced technical style in writing.
D. A dictionary or phrase book
Câu 5
The word “converting” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ____.
A. changing
B.understanding
C. reading
D. concluding
Câu 6
The author implies that most people have the opinion that the skill of interpreting is______.
A. highly valued and admired
B.simpler than it really is
C. very complex and demanding
D. based on principles of business
Câu 7
The word “rather” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ____.
A. on the contrary
B.in general
C. in brief
D. as a result
Câu 8
Which of the following would a consecutive interpreter be used for?
A. A business transaction between two foreign speakers.
B. A transaction of a foreign book.
C. A large meeting of many nations.
D. An interpretation of a major literary work.
Câu 9
The phrase “the former” refers to_______
A. consecutive interpreters
B.the conference
C. simultaneous interpreters
D. the booth
Câu 10
The example “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear” is used to___
A. stress the importance of word for word translation
B. point out the difference in attributes of animals in English arid Spanish
C. emphasize the need for translation of the meaning of what is said
D. show the differences in language A and language B
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 1 to 10.
It’s often said that we team things at the wrong time. University students frequently do the minimum of work because they're crazy about a good social life instead. Children often scream before their piano practice because it’s so boring. They have to be given gold stars and medals to be persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. But the story is different when you’re older.
Over the years, I’ve done my share of adult learning. At 30, I went to a college and did courses in History and English. It was an amazing experience. For starters, I was paying, so there was no reason to be late - I was the one frowning and drumming my fingers if the tutor was late, not the other way round. Indeed, if I could persuade him to linger for an extra five minutes, it was a bonus, not a nuisance. I wasn’t frightened to ask questions, and homework was a pleasure not a pain. When I passed an exam, I had a big meal, not for my parents or my teachers. The satisfaction I got was entirely personal.
Some people fear going back to school because they worry that their brains have got rusty. But the joy is that, although some parts have rusted up, your brain has learnt all kinds of other things since you were young. It has learnt to think independently and flexibly and is much better at relating one thing to another. What you lose in the rust department, you gain in the maturity department.
In some ways, age is a positive plus. For instance, when you’re older, you get less frustrated. Experience has told you that, if you’re calm and simply do something carefully again and again, eventually you’ll get the hang of it. The confidence you have in other areas - from being able to drive a car, perhaps - means that if you can't, say, build a chair instantly, you don't, like a child, want to destroy your first pathetic attempts. Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get there.
I hated piano lessons at school, but I was good at music. And coming back to it, with a teacher who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical concepts that, at the age of ten. 1 could never grasp, was magical. Initially. I did feel a bit strange, thumping out a piece that I’d played for my school exams, with just as little comprehension of what the composer intended as I’d had all those years before. But soon, complex emotions that I never knew poured out from my fingers, and suddenly I could understand why practice makes perfect.
0Câu 1
It is implied in paragraph 1 that _______
A. young learners often lack a good motivation for learning
B.
parents should encourage young learners to study more
C. young learners are usually lazy in their class
D. teachers should give young learners less homework
Câu 2
The writer's main point in paragraph 2 is to show that as people grow up _____
A. they tend to leant less as they are discouraged
B.they have a more positive attitude towards learning
C. they cannot learn as well as younger learners
D. they get more impatient with their teachers
Câu 3
The phrase “For starters” in paragraph 2 could best be replaced by ______
A.
First and foremost
B.At the starting point
C. At the beginning
D. For beginners
Câu 4
While doing some adult learning courses at a college, the writer was surprised ___
A. to get on better with the tutor
B.to have mote lime to learn
C. to feel learning more enjoyable
D. to be able to learn more quickly
Câu 5
In paragraph 3, the word “rusty” means____
A. impatient because of having nothing to do
B.covered with rust and not as good as it used to be
C. staying alive and becoming more active
D. not as good as it used to be through lack of practice
Câu 6
The phrase “get there” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to ________
A. arrive at an intended place with difficulty
B.have the things you have long desired
C. achieve your aim with hard work
D. receive a school or college degree
Câu 7
All of the following are true about adult learning EXCEPT_____ .
A. young people usually feel less patient than adults
B.experience in doing other things can help one's learning
C. adult learners have fewer advantages than young learners
D. adults think more independently and flexibly than young people
Câu 8
It can be inferred from paragraph 4 that maturity is a positive plus in the learning process because adult learners ________.
A. pay more attention to detail than younger learners
B.have become more patient than younger learners
C. are able to organize themselves better than younger learners
D. are less worried about learning than younger learners
Câu 9
It is implied in the last paragraph that when you learn later in life, you _____
A. can sometimes understand more than when you were younger
B.find that you can recall a lot of things you learnt when younger
C. should expect to take longer to learn than when you were younger
D. are not able to concentrate as well as when you were younger
Câu 10
What is the writer’s main purpose in the passage?
A. To encourage adult learning.
B.To show how fast adult learning is.
C. To describe adult learning methods
D. To explain reasons for learning
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 1 to 10.
Most people think that lions only come from Africa. This is understandable because in fact most lions do come from there but this has not always been the case. If we went back ten thousand years, we would find that there were lions roaming vast sections of the globe. However now, unfortunately only a very small section of the lion’s former habitat remains.
Asiatic lions are sub-species of African lions. It is almost a hundred thousand years since the Asiatic lions split off and developed as a sub-species. At one time the Asiatic lion was living as far west as Greece and they were found from there, but in a band that spreads east through various countries of the Middle East, all the way to India. In museums now, you can sec Greek coins that have clear images of the Asiatic lion on them. Most of them are dated at around 500 B.C. However, Europe saw its last Asiatic lions roaming free to thousand years ago. Over the next nineteen hundred years the numbers of Asiatic lions in the other areas declined steadily, but it was only in the nineteenth century that they disappeared from everywhere but in India.
The Gir Wildlife Sanctuary in India was established especially to protect the Asiatic lion. There are now around three hundred Asiatic lions in India and almost all of them are in this sanctuary. However, despite living in a sanctuary, which makes them safe from hunters, they still face a number of problems that threaten their survival. One of these is the ever-present danger of disease. This is what killed more than a third of Africa’s Serengeti lions in 1994, and people are fearful that something similar could happen in the Gir Sanctuary and kill off many of the Asiatic lions there.
India’s lions are particular vulnerable because they have a limited gene pool. The reason for this is interesting - it is because all of them are descended from a few dozen lions that were saved by a prince who took a particular interest in them. He was very healthy, and he managed to protect them otherwise they would probably have died out completely.
When you see the Asiatic lion in India, what you sense is enormous vitality. They are very impressive animals and you would never guess that they this vulnerability when you look at them.
Notes:
- sanctuary (danh từ) = khu bảo tồn động vật hoang dã.
- gene pool = số gien chung của một loài.
- vitality (danh từ) = sinh khí, sinh lực.
0Câu 1
According to the passage, many people believe that lions come from _____.
A.
Africa
B.Middle East
C. India
D. Europe
Câu 2
Ten thousand years ago _____
A. lions came mainly from Africa
B.
there were much more lion habitats than nowaday
C.
lions did not live in small forests
D.
lions roamed much more than nowadays
Câu 3
The phrase “split off’ in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ___
A. developed into different species
B.spotted animate
C. changed the original species
D. divided
Câu 4
According to the passage, nowadays we can find the Asiatic lion _______
A. only in Greek museums
B.nowhere in the world
C. in Africa and India
D. only in India
Câu 5
The word “vulnerable” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _______
A. careless
B.cautious
C. easily protected
D. weak
Câu 6
The Asiatic lion _____
A. was looking for food mainly in India
B.was searching for food in a wide range of countries
C. was searching for food mainly in India and Africa
D. was looking for food mainly in the Middle East
Câu 7
According to the author, the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary_____
A. cannot reduce the Asiatic lion’s risk of catching diseases
B.
can make the Asiatic lion become weak
C. protects the Asiatic lion from hunters and diseases
D. is among many places where the Asiatic lion is well protected
Câu 8
The author refers to all of the following as characteristics of the Asiatic lion EXCEPT that _______
A. vulnerable
B.impressive
C. strong
D. vital
Câu 9
The following statements are correct EXCEPT that ______.
A.
a rich prince sponsored the protection of Asiatic lions
B.
the Asiatic lion was loved by a wealthy prince
C.
although the Asiatic lion looks strong from appearance they are easily attacked by diseases
D.
the current Asiatic lions come from a great number of lions
Câu 10
The passage was written to ______.
A. persuade readers to protect the Asiatic lions
B.provide an overview of the existence of the Asiatic lions
C. describe the developmental history of the Gir Sanctuary
D. explain why the Gir Sanctuary is the best habitat for the Asiatic lions
A.
B.
C.
D.