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.     Increasing numbers of parents in the U.S. are choosing to teach their children at home. In fact, the U.S. Department of Education has estimated that in 1999, about 850,000 children were being home- schooled. Some educational experts say that the real number is double this estimate, and the ranks of home-schooled children seem to be growing at the average rate of about eleven percent every year.    At one time, there was a theory accounting for home-schooling: it was traditionally used for students who could not attend school because of behavioral or learning difficulties. Today, however, more parents are taking on the responsibility of educating their own children at home due to their dissatisfaction with the educational system. Many parents are unhappy about class size, as well as problems inside the classroom. Teacher shortages and lack of funding mean that, in many schools, one teacher is responsible for thirty or forty students. The children are, therefore, deprived of the attention they need. Escalating classroom violence has also motivated some parents to remove their children from school.    Although there have been a lot of arguments for and against it, home-schooling in the U.S. has become a multi-million dollar industry, and it is growing bigger and bigger. There are now plenty of websites, support groups, and conventions that help parents protect their rights and enable them to learn more about educating their children. Though once it was the only choice for troubled children, home- schooling today is an accepted alternative to an educational system that many believe is failing.
Câu 1: The word "arguments " in the third paragraph can be best replaced by "_______"


A. viewpoints  


B. quarrels


C. rows


D. discussions
Câu 2: According to some experts, the exact number of home-schooled children then must be _______.


A. 1,700,000 


B. 1,900,000


C.  850,000


D. 1,600,000 
Câu 3: The attitude of the author towards home-schooling can be best described as _______.


A. unfavorable 


B. favorable


C. remarkable


D. acceptable
Câu 4: More parents teach their children because they completely _______ the current educational system.


A.  appeal to 


B. please with 


C. approve of 


D. object to 
Câu 5: Many parents stop their children from going to school because it is now too _______ for them.


A.  expensive  


B. explosive


C. dangerous


D. humorous 
Câu 6: The number of parents who want to teach their own children in the U.S. is _______. 


A. remaining unchanged


B. remaining the same


C. going down 


D. going up 
Câu 7: This estimated number was presented by _______. 


A.  a governmental office 


B. the parents 


C. home-schooled children 


D. school teachers
Câu 8: The past participle "home-schooled " in the first paragraph is best equivalent to "_______at home".


A. self-studied


B. untaught 


C. taught


D. self-learned
Câu 9: The closest synonym of the participle phrase "accounting for " in the second paragraph is "_______".


A. counting for


B. calculating documents of


C. reasoning   


D. explaining
Câu 10: The noun "dissatisfaction " in the second paragraph is best equivalent to "_______".


A. discouragement 


B. disagreement 


C. discrimination 


D. disappointment
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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 th e following questions.
Câu 1:


A. comment  


B. compose 


C. command  


D. complain
Câu 2:


A. choice 


B. chaos 


C. charge


D. chase

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D.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best joins each of the following pairs of sentences in each of the followi ng questions.
Câu 1: It was an interesting novel. I stayed up all night to finish it.


A. The novel was so interesting that I stayed up all night to finish it. 


B. Though it was an interesting novel, I stayed up all night to finish it. 


C. I stayed up all night to finish the novel so it was interesting. 


D. Unless it were an interesting novel, I would not stay up all night to finish it.
Câu 2:  Mr. Smith is a professor. His car was stolen yesterday. 


A. Mr. Smith, who his car was stolen yesterday, is a professor. 


B. Mr. Smith, whose car was stolen yesterday, is a professor. 


C. His car was stolen yesterday, he is a professor. 


D. Mr. Smith, who is a professor, his car was stolen yesterday. 
Câu 3: The girl didn't have any friends. Therefore, she felt lonely. 


A. Having many friends, the girl felt lonely. 


B. Deprived of friends, the girl felt lonely. 


C. Not having friends, they made the girl feel lonely. 


D. Having no friends, the girl felt lonely. 
Câu 4:  She was irritated by her husband's lack of punctuality. She left him. 


A. Being irritating by her husband's lack of punctuality, she left him. 


B. She left her husband because of her irritation with his lack of punctuality. 


C. Irritated by her husband, she punctually left him. 


D. Irritating with her husband's lack of punctuality, she left him. 
Câu 5: I admire her achievements. However, I don't really like her. 


A. I don't really like her for I admire her achievements. 


B. Although I admire her achievements, I really like her. 


C. Even though I admire her achievements, I don't really like her. 


D. Whatever her achievements, I don't really like her.

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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Câu 1: Mr. Smith suggested that Sara ________ for the job in the company. 


A. applying   


B. would apply   


C.  applied  


D. apply 
Câu 2: Our neighbours are normally very noisy, but they're being __________this evening.


A.  unusually quietly 


B. unusual quiet 


C. unusually quiet


D. unusual quietly 
Câu 3: No matter __________, Mozart was an accomplished composer while still a child. 


A. how it remarkable seems


B. how it seems remarkable 


C. how seems it remarkable 


D. how remarkable it seems 
Câu 4: -"Do you have a minute, Dr Keith?" - "_____________" 


A.  Sorry, I haven't got it here.  


B. Good, I hope so. 


C. Sure. What's the problem? 


D. Well. I'm not sure when. 
Câu 5: I was surprised to find my French was still ________ good. I could use it to speak during the meeting.


A. pretty 


B. hard  


C.  prettily   


D. hardly 
Câu 6: The manager ________ him for a minor mistake. 


A. complained    


B.  charged     


C. accused 


D. blamed
Câu 7: People who are out of work can receive the __________. 


A. pension 


B. scholarship 


C. allowance


D. unemployment benefit
Câu 8: Following the accident, he was officially accused of _________ driving. 


A. reckless 


B. careful  


C. hurry   


D. responsible 
Câu 9: Laura: "What a lovely house you have!" Maria: "_____________". 


A. Of course not, it's not costly 


B. Thank you. Hope you will drop in 


C. No problem  


D. I think so 
Câu 10: If you had taken my advice, you _________ in such difficulties now. 


A. wouldn't have been


B. wouldn't be   


C. won't be


D. hadn't been 
Câu 11: ________, we tried our best to complete it. 


A. Despite the homework was difficult 


B. Difficult as the homework was 


C. Thanks to the difficult homework 


D. As though the homework was difficult
Câu 12: Having a best friend to confide in can bring a positive effect on our ________ health. 


A. emotional 


B. emotionally     


C. emotion


D. emotionless 
Câu 13: ________ her fiction describes women in unhappy marriages. 


A. Many of


B. A large number of  


C. Much of  


D. A great variety of
Câu 14: Police believe that there is a _________ between two crimes.


A. chain


B. relation 


C. connector


D. link 
Câu 15: After I _________ finished working, I switched off the machine. 


A. had 


B. have  


C. to have  


D. having 
Câu 16: The players' protests ________ no difference to the referee's decision at all. 


A. caused


B. did 


C. made  


D. created 
Câu 17: I was wakened by the sound of someone ________ on the door. 


A. bumping 


B. crashing   


C. hitting 


D. knocking 
Câu 18: Tom. "I'm sorry. I won't be able to come". - Mary. "_____________". 


A. Oh, that's annoying 


B. Great 


C.  Sounds like fun 


D. Well, never mind
Câu 19: Nobody's got to stay late this evening, __________? 


A. have they


B. is it  


C. isn't it


D. don't they
Câu 20: After the flash flood, all the drains were overflowing ________ storm water. 


A. with 


B. by  


C. from 


D. for
Câu 21: - A: "Happy New Year!"       - B: "_____________!" 


A. The same to you  


B. Congratulation 


C.  Thanks  


D. Same for you 
Câu 22: I saw him hiding something in a __________bag. 


A. small plastic black


B. black small plastic  


C. small black plastic 


D. plastic small black 
Câu 23: The child was told to__________  for being rude to his uncle.


A. forgive


B. excuse  


C. confess 


D. apologize 
Câu 24: "If only I hadn't lent him all my money!"       -"_____________."


A. All right. You will be OK 


B. I'm afraid you will have to do it 


C. Sorry, I have no idea 


D. Well, you did, so it's no use crying over spilt milk 
Câu 25: _________ of the book, they get married and live happily ever after. 


A. End to end 


B. At the end  


C. By the end 


D. In the end
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Read the following postage and mark the letter A, R, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 47 to 56.     Each advance in microscopic technique has provided scientists with new perspectives on the function of living organisms and the nature of matter itself. The invention of the visible-light microscope late in the sixteenth century introduced a previously unknown realm of single-celled plants and animals. in the twentieth century, electron microscopes have provided direct views of viruses and minuscule surface structures. Now another type of microscope, one that utilizes x-rays rather than light or electrons, offers a different way of examining tiny details, it should extend human perception still farther into the natural world.     The dream of building an x-ray microscope dates to 1895, its development, however, was virtually halted in the 1940's because the development of the electron microscope was progressing rapidly. During the 1940's electron microscopes routinely achieved resolution better than that possible with a visible-light microscope, while the performance of x-ray microscopes resisted improvement. In recent years, however. interest in x-ray micruswpes has revived, largely because of advances such as the development of new sources of x-ray illumination. As a result, the brightness available today is millions of times that of x-ray tubes, which, for most of the century, were the only available sources of soft x-rays.     The new x-ray microscopes considerably improve on the resolution provided by optical microscopes. They can also be used to map the distribution of certain chemical elements. Some can form pictures in extremely short times; others hold the promise of special capabilities such as three- dimensional imaging. Unlike conventional electron microscopy, x-ray microscopy enables specimens to be kept in air and in water, which means that biological samples can he studied under conditions similar to their natural state. The illumination used, so-called soft x-rays in the wavelength range of twenty to forty angstroms (an angstrom is one ten-billionth of a meter), is also sufficiently penetrating to image intact biological cells in many cases. Because of the wavelength of the x-rays used, soft x-ray microscopes will never match the highest resolution possible with electron microscopes. Rather, their special properties will make possible investigations that will complement those performed with light- and electron-based instruments. 
Câu 1: Based on the information in the passage, what can be inferred about x-ray microscopes in the future? 


A. They will eventually change the illumination range that they now use 


B. They will provide information not available from other kinds of microscopes.


C. hey will eventually be much cheaper to produce than they are now.


D. They will probably replace electron microscopes altogether. 
Câu 2: The word "those" in line 24 refers to 


A. investigations


B. microscopes 


C. properties


D. x-rays 
Câu 3: According to the passage, the invention of the visible-light microscope allowed scientists to


A. understand more about the distribution of the chemical elements


B. develop the electron microscope later on 


C. discover single celled plants and animals they had never seen before. 


D.  see viruses directly
Câu 4: The word "enables' in line 18 is closest in meaning to


A. specifics


B. allows


C. expands


D. constitutes
Câu 5: The word "it" in line 6 refers to


A. human perception


B. light


C. a type of microscope


D. the natural world
Câu 6: Why did it take so long to develop the x-ray microscope?


A. Funds for research were insufficient.


B. The source of illumination was not bright enough until recently


C. Materials used to manufacture x-ray tubes were difficult to obtain 


D. X-ray microscopes were too complicated to operate.
Câu 7: What does the passage mainly discuss? 


A. Sources of illumination for microscopes 


B. The detail seen through a microscope


C. Outdated microscopic technique 


D. A new kind of microscope 
Câu 8:  Why does the author mention the visible - light microscope in the first paragraph?


A. To explain how it functioned 


B. In show how limited its uses are 


C.  To begin a discussion of sixteenth century discoveries.


D. To put the x-ray microscope in historical perspective 
Câu 9: The word "minuscule" in line 4 is closest in meaning to


A. complex


B. tiny 


C. circular


D. dangerous
Câu 10: The word "Rather" in line 23 is closest in meaning to


A. somewhat


B. instead


C. significantly


D. preferably
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Choose the underlined word or phrase that needs correcting.
Câu 1: They had a discussion about training not only the new employees but also giving them some challenges.


A. about 


B. training not only 


C. giving


D. some challenges
Câu 2: If motorists do not observe the traffic regulations, they will be stopped, ticketed and have to pay a fine.


A. not observe


B. the traffic


C. they 


D. have to pay a fine
Câu 3: Fossils of plant that have been extinct for fifty million years have been found in large deposits of amber near the Baltic Sea.


A. plant


B.  been extinct


C. fifty million years


D. near 
Câu 4: One-cent coins issued in the United States in 1982 was 96 persent zine.


A.  issued 


B.  the 


C. in 


D. was

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B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that is not received the tress or unstressed words
Câu 1: Those of us who smoke are liable to die of cancer.


A. of 


B. smoke


C. die


D. cancer
Câu 2: Would you like to have a drink with me tonight, John?


A. Would


B. a 


C. tonight


D. John
Câu 3: Jenny must have been suffered after her husband’s death


A. must


B. suffered 


C. husband’s


D. death
Câu 4: Never in his whole life has he forgotten what happened to his wife.


A. Never


B. has


C. to


D. wife
Câu 5: You remember the words if  you write them down in your notebook.


A. You 


B. the 


C. write 


D. notebook

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B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following 
Câu 1:


A. parameter 


B. speedometer  


C. thermometer


D. conscious
Câu 2:


A. production  


B. deficient


C. ancient 


D. sufficient
Câu 3:


A. endangered 


B. humidity 


C. necessary


D. incredible
Câu 4:


A. secretary  


B. necessary 


C. classifies  


D. vocabulary
Câu 5:


A. biology


B. accordance 


C. incomplete   


D. pudicity

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B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Câu 1: Manufacturers often sacrifice quality _________.


A. in place of to earn more money                       


B. and instead earn a bigger amount of money


C. for a larger profit margin                                 


D. to gain more quantities of money
Câu 2: When reaching the top of the hill, __________.


A. below us extended the sea                              


B. the sea came into view


C. it was the sea that extended below us             


D. we suddenly caught sight of the sea
Câu 3: To solve this problem, it is advisable ________.


A. that a drastic measure be adopted                   


B. that a drastic measure is adopted


C. a drastic measure to be adopted                      


D. that to adopt a drastic measure
Câu 4: The instructions from air traffic control were not fully explicit, and   ___________                              


A. therefore the pilot made it crash


B. as a result, the pilot made an error and crashed


C. so that the pilot made an error and crashed


D. resulting from the pilot crashing the plane
Câu 5: ______________, Sir Isaac Newton described the laws of gravitation.


A. A seventeenth-century scientist                     


B. When was a seventeenth-century scientist


C. Was a seventeenth-century scientist                


D. Who was a seventeenth-century scientist  

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B.
C.
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Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that has the stress pattern different  from that of the rest in each of the following questions.
Câu 1:


A. tattoo  


B. taboo 


C. igloo


D. shampoo
Câu 2:


A. innovate    


B. insolent      


C. insistent


D. innocent
Câu 3:


A. irrelevant    


B. irreparable


C. irritable 


D. irrational
Câu 4:


A. psychological  


B. photographic


C. agricultural


D. spectacular
Câu 5:


A. subculture       


B. vigorous     


C. gadgetry 


D. consensus

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B.
C.
D.