Choose the underlined words or phrases that are incorrect in standard written English.
Câu 1: These shoes wore in so quickly that I had to buy a new pair after two months.


A. wore


B. quickly


C. a new pair


D. after
Câu 2: We don't have any milk left. We have run in of milk.


A. any


B. left


C. in


D. of milk
Câu 3: It took me a long time  to get up from my illness


A. took


B. a long time 


C. get up


D. from
Câu 4: The professor told me that I was doing well; therefore, my final grade was awful.


A. told me


B. was doing


C. therefore


D. grade
Câu 5: My mother suggested taking a shower instead of a bath and use energy-saving bulbs to save energy.


A. instead of


B. use


C. energy-saving


D. to save
Câu 6: The class meeting had to be put away until a week later.


A. class meeting


B. had to


C. put away


D. until
Câu 7: Everyone in the village was concerning about the plan for the new road.


A. in the village


B. was concerning


C. about


D. the new road
Câu 8: After his mother died, he was brought in by his grandmother.


A. After


B. died


C. brought in


D. by
Câu 9: Because he was sick, he still turned up for his music lesson


A. Because


B. still


C. for


D. music lesson
Câu 10: It will be nice to see you again at the party. I'm looking forward to see you.


A. will be nice


B. see you again


C. at the party


D. to see
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Câu 1: A number of large insurance companies has their headquaters in the capital city.


A. the capital city  


B. has


C. their headquaters   


D. A
Câu 2: Please remember when you are on duty, your uniform must have been worn at all times.


A. remember


B. must have been    


C. on duty          


D. at all times
Câu 3: All the judges paid the dancer compliments on their excellent performance in the competition.


A. All


B. paid


C. their


D. in

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: He wanted to borrow some money. He went to the bank.


A. He would have gone to the bank if he had wanted to borrow some money.


B. He went to the bank so that he wanted to borrow some money.


C. He went to the bank to borrow some money.


D. He will go to the bank if he wants to borrow some money.
Câu 2: We ought to visit Grandma. Otherwise, she will be worried about us.


A. Grandma is worried about us, so we ought to visit her.


B. We need not visit Grandma unless she is worried about us.


C. We should visit Grandma in case she will be worried about us.


D. If we do not visit Grandma soon, she will start to worry.

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. swallowed


B. compared


C. conserved


D. poached
Câu 2:


A. endanger


B. solidarity


C. habitat


D. practice

A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose A, B, C, or D that best completes the sentence.
Câu 1: The fire-prevention system is ____ by any small increase in temperature.


A. active                                  


B. activated                             


C. acted


D. acting
Câu 2: She was completely ____ because she was wearing a mask and sunglasses.


A. recognize                            


B. recognition                         


C. recognizable                       


D. unrecognizable
Câu 3: A laser beam consists of a ____ of pure light.


A. concentrate                         


B. concentration                      


C. concentrative                      


D. concentrating
Câu 4: Laser beams have been used for cancer ____ .


A. treat                                                


B. treatable                              


C. untreatable                         


D. treatment
Câu 5: To ____ in a job interview, you should arrive on time, be well-dressed, and keep ____ when answering the questions.


A. successfully /calm 


B. successful /calmness       


C. success /calmly    


D. succeed /calm
Câu 6: Air pollution happens when wastes are poured into the atmosphere and the air becomes ____ and unpleasant to breathe.


A. contaminate                        


B. contamination                     


C. contaminated                      


D. contaminative
Câu 7: The practice of ____ is also known as farming.


A. agriculture                         


B. agricultural             


C. agriculturally                      


D. agriculturalist
Câu 8: A (an) ____ home environment can affect a child’s ____ .


A. happiness / behavioral       


B. happy / behave       


C. unhappiness / behave                        


D. unhappy / behavior
Câu 9: Isaac Newton laid the ____ for many other discoveries in mathematics and physics.


A. found                                  


B. founded                              


C. founder                               


D. foundation
Câu 10: The geneticists have discovered the laws of ____ .


A. inherit                                 


B. inheritance                         


C. inheritor                              


D. inheritable
Câu 11: The most serious cause of pollution is the ____ of industry.


A. develop                               


B. development                       


C. developmental                    


D. developed
Câu 12: We earn our ____ by raising cattle and chicken.


A. live                                     


B. life                                      


C. living                                  


D. lives
Câu 13: Marilyn Monroe was very ____ in 1960s.


A. famous                                


B. famously                             


C. fame                                   


D. famousness
Câu 14: That car is ____ .


A. surprisingly expensive        


B. surprised expensively  


C. surprise expense                


D. surprising expensiveness
Câu 15: Smoking has ____ effects on our health.


A. harm                                   


B. harmful                               


C. harmfully                            


D. harmlessly
Câu 16: Something went ____ with my computer so I could not complete my work.


A. wrong                                 


B. wrongly                              


C. wrongness                         


D. wrongfulness
Câu 17: He looked at the picture ___ without saying a word.


A. attentive                              


B. attention                              


C. attentively                           


D. attentiveness
Câu 18: Vitamin D helps us not only build ____ teeth and bones but also absorb calcium.


A. strong                                 


B. strength                               


C. strongly                              


D. strengthen
Câu 19: Every day, people dispose ____ waste from both domestic and ____ sources without paying any attention to the bad results.


A. wanting / commerce                    


B. unwanted / commercialize


C. wanted / commercially       


D. unwanted / commercial
Câu 20: My mother has just bought an ____ washing machine.


A. automation                         


B. automate                             


C. automatic                            


D. automatically
Câu 21: Many teenagers are not well- ____ for  ____ .


A. prepare / employer      


B. prepared / employment      


C. preparation / unemployed     


D. preparative / employee
Câu 22: They have little ____ about ____ Technology.


A. knowledgeable / Inform       


B. knowledge / Information


C.  knowable / Informing        


D. know / Informative
Câu 23: Railroads, airplanes, cars and highways make it ____ to travel.


A. easy                                                


B. ease                                     


C. easily                                  


D. easiness
Câu 24: English provides you with ready access to higher ____ .


A. promote                              


B. promoter                             


C. promotion                           


D. promotional
Câu 25: It is very important for children to do something ____ , such as to play some musical instrument, paint, and play football.


A. create and athlete                 


B. creatively and athletics       


C. creative and athletic               


D. creation and athletically
Câu 26: The ____ of automobile has created a demand for petrol ____ .


A. invent / consume   


B. inventive / consumer          


C. inventor / consuming      


D.  invention / consumption
Câu 27: We find it ____ to do housework.


A. bore                                                


B. bored                                  


C. boring                                 


D. boringly
Câu 28: ____ does not interest me as much as literature.


A. Economics                         


B. Economy                            


C. Economic                           


D. Economical
Câu 29: Almost every language in the world has dialects and American English is no ____ .


A. except                                 


B. exceptive                            


C. exception                            


D. exceptional
Câu 30: Laura failed to give ____ reasons for her ____ from the meeting yesterday.


A. satisfactory / absence  


B. satisfy / absent          


C. satisfaction / absently 


D. satisfied / absence
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Câu 1: He was overconfident. Therefore, he ruined our plan completely.


A. It was because his overconfidence that ruined our plan completely.


B. He was overconfident, which ruined our plan completely.


C. That he was overconfidence ruined our plan completely.


D. It was his overconfidence ruined our plan completely.
Câu 2: The 2022 FIFA World Cup is an important competition in international football. Almost everyone around the world is looking forward to it.


A. The 2022 FIFA World Cup is so important a competition in international football that almost everyone around the world is looking forward to it.


B. The 2022 FIFA World Cup is too important a competition in international football that almost everyone around the world to look forward to it.


C. So important is the 2022 FIFA World Cup competition in international football that almost everyone around the world is looking forward to.


D. The 2022 FIFA World Cup is such important competition in international football that almost everyone around the world is looking forward to it.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Câu 1: The likelihood of suffering a heart attack rises as one becomes increasingly obese.


A. Heart attacks are happening more and more often, and most of the sufferers are obese.


B. Obesity results in only a slight increase in the probability of having a heart attack.


C. The more obese one is, the higher the chances for a heart attack become.


D. Anyone who is obese is likely to experience a heart attack at any time.
Câu 2: It is such a pity that your sister can’t come as well.


A. If only your sister could come as well.


B. I wish your sister can come as well.


C. But for your sister can come as well.


D. Your sister not coming as well is such a pity.
Câu 3: “Would anyone like to express an opinion on this matter?” said he.


A. He asked everyone whether they would like to express an opinion on the matter.


B. He asked everyone as if someone would like to express their opinion on the matter.


C. He doubted that everyone would like to express their opinion on the matter.


D. He wondered that anyone would like to express their opinion on the matter.

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 35 to 42.          It weighed about 10,000 tons, entered the atmosphere at a speed of 64,000 km/h and exploded over a city with a blast of 500 kilotons. But on 15 February 2013, we were lucky. The meteorite that showered pieces of rock over Chelyabinsk, Russia, was relatively small, at only about 17 metres wide. Although many people were injured by falling glass, the damage was nothing compared to what had happened in Siberia nearly one hundred years ago. Another relatively small object (approximately 50 metres in diameter) exploded in mid-air over a forest region, flattening about 80 million trees. If it had exploded over a city such as Moscow or London, millions of people would have been killed.          By a strange coincidence, the same day that the meteorite terrified the people of Chelyabinsk, another 50m-wide asteroid passed relatively close to Earth. Scientists were expecting that visit and know that the asteroid will return to fly close by us in 2046, but the Russian meteorite earlier in the day had been too small for anyone to spot.          Most scientists agree that comets and asteroids pose the biggest natural threat to human existence. It was probably a large asteroid or comet colliding with Earth which wiped out the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago. An enormous object, 10 to 16 km in diameter, struck the Yucatan region of Mexico with the force of 100 megatons. That is the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb for every person alive on Earth today.Many scientists, including the late Stephen Hawking, say that any comet or asteroid greater than 20 km in diameter that hits Earth will result in the complete destruction of complex life, including all animals and most plants. As we have seen, even a much smaller asteroid can cause great damage.          The Earth has been kept fairly safe for the last 65 million years by good fortune and the massive gravitational field of the planet Jupiter. Our cosmic guardian, with its stable circular orbit far from the sun, sweeps up and scatters away most of the dangerous comets and asteroids which might cross Earth’s orbit. After the Chelyabinsk meteorite, scientists are now monitoring potential hazards even more carefully but, as far as they know, there is no danger in the foreseeable future.(Adapted from British Council Learning English Teens)
Câu 1: According to the last paragraph, scientists say that_____.


A. their early warning systems will protect us     


B. a meteorite is likely to hit Earth sooner or later


C. all the possible dangers are being monitored carefully    


D. we are not in any danger for the moment
Câu 2: It can be inferred from the 1st paragraph that the Siberian meteorite ______.


A. could be much worse       


B. caused many deaths due to falling glass


C. was not as destructive as the one in Russia        


D. was greatly reduced by the early warning system
Câu 3: Which of the following statement is TRUE about the Russian meteorite?


A. It was too small to worry about.    


B. It came as a surprise.


C. It had been predicted by scientists.                   


D. It will come close to Earth again in the future.
Câu 4: On the same day as the meteorite exploded over Chelyabinsk, _______.


A. scientists realized that an even bigger asteroid could hit the Earth


B. an asteroid terrified the people of Chelyabinsk


C. scientists spotted many other asteroids around the Earth


D. there was another unrelated asteroid event
Câu 5: The word “blast” is closest in meaning to ______.


A. explosion                           


B. collision                             


C. event                                  


D. crisis
Câu 6: All of the following statements are true EXCEPT ______.


A. Earth has been relatively safe thanks to luck and the protective force of another planet from our solar system


B. Comets and asteroids could put an end to all plant and animal life on Earth


C. A small asteroid can still cause a lot of damage


D. Millions of people were killed in an explosion of a meteorite in Moscow and London
Câu 7: The word “it” in paragraph 1 refers to _____.


A. Rock                                  


B. Meteorite                            


C. City                                    


D. Object
Câu 8: Which could be the best title for the passage?


A. The Russian Meteorite: A Disaster                       


B. A Strange Coincidence


C. Meteorite Killed Millions Of People                 


D. The End Of Life On Earth?
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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 from 30 to 34.Each year, the Academy Awards, better known as the “Oscars”, celebrate the best films and documentaries with categories ranging from acting, directing and screenwriting, to costumes and special effects. This year, 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis joins the list of kids who have taken the movie business by storm, as she competes for the best actress award for her role as ‘Hushpuppy’ in the film “Beasts of the Southern Wild”.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is made up of filmmakers in all fields. The group ranks their favorites in each category. Oftentimes Oscar recognition can take many years, but for some lucky and talented individuals that honor comes early in life.Newcomer Quvenzhané Wallis (pronounced Kwe-VEN-zhah-nay) portrayed ‘Hushpuppy,’ a young girl fighting to survive in a poor Mississippi Delta community prone to devastating flooding. In the film, Wallis learns to find food in the wilderness, escapes a homeless shelter and deals with the death of her father. She will be the youngest ever nominee in the best actress category at nine years old.Born in Houma, LA., Quvenzhané was just five years old when she auditioned for Beasts of the Southern Wild. Since auditions for the role of Hushpuppy were only open to 6-9 year olds, Quvenzhané’s mother lied on the initial paperwork to allow her daughter to audition. When director Benh Zeitlin saw her audition however, he immediately recognized her as the best pick for this strong and independent young character.(https://www.pbs.org)
Câu 1: Which of the following is the best title for this passage?


A. Young Actors Achieve Big for the Oscars


B. Little Lady Nominees for the Oscars


C. Youngest Ever Nominee for the Oscars


D. A Young Actress makes it to the Oscars
Câu 2: Which of the following is NOT celebrated by the Academy Awards?


A. films                       


B. documentaries                     


C. news                       


D. cartoons
Câu 3: The phrase “that honor” in paragraph 2 refers to _______.


A. lucky and talented individuals       


B. Oscars recognition


C. favorites                                                                  


D. award
Câu 4: Which of the following best describe Quvenzhané Wallis according to the passage?


A. She is a young girl fighting to survive in a poor Mississippi Delta community.


B. She has won the best actress Oscars award for her role in “Hushpuppy”.


C. She escapes a homeless shelter and deals with the death of her father.


D. She is the youngest ever nominee in the best actress category for the Oscars.
Câu 5: Which of the following best paraphrases the clause “who have taken the movie business by storm” in the reading?


A. who have earned their living in the movie business


B. who have made huge profits in the movie business


C. who have been particularly successful in the movie business


D. who have recovered from a difficult period in the movie business

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. post                         


B. close                       


C. police                      


D. phone
Câu 2:


A. kicked                     


B. judged                    


C. survived                  


D. opened

A.
B.
C.
D.