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


A. excitement              


B. emphasis                 


C. document                


D. property
Câu 2:


A. workforce               


B. bamboo                   


C. exist


D. survive

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: The children were attracted by the show. It was performed by the animals.


A. The children were attracted by the show performed by the animals.


B. The children were attracted by the show to have been performed by the animals.


C. Performing by the animals, the show attracted the children.


D. The children attracted by the show which was performed by the animals.
Câu 2: There are few passengers. The coach to Dover will still leave on schedule.


A. The coach to Dover would be going to depart soon even if there weren’t many people on it.


B. Despite having few passengers, the coach to Dover will still leave as planned.


C. The coach planned to going to Dover only carries a small number of passengers.


D. Even though the coach for Dover leaves now, there won’t be few people travelling on 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: “Have a drink!” said Mr Smith.


A. Mr Smith said that I should have a drink.


B. Mr Smith recommend me with a drink.


C. Mr Smith asked me for a drink.


D. Mr Smith offered me a drink.
Câu 2: Right after the boy got out of his house, it started to rain heavily.


A. Not until it started to rain heavily did the boy got out of his house.


B. No sooner had the boy got out of his house than it started to rain heavily.


C. Hardly had it started to rain heavily when the boy got out of his house.


D. It had rained heavily before the boy got out of his house.
Câu 3: Many people think that Steve stole the money.


A. The money is thought to be stolen by Steve.


B. Many people think that the money is stolen by Steve.


C. Steve is thought to have stolen they money.


D. It was Steve who stole the money.

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 questions.People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive accuracy – one plate, one knife, one spoon, one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are capable of noting that they have placed five knives, spoons, and forks on the table and, a bit later, that this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastered addition, they move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were secluded on a desert island at birth and retrieved seven years later, he or she could enter a second-grade mathematics class without any serious problems of intellectual adjustment.Of course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends. Children were observed as they slowly grasped or, as the case might be, bumped into concepts that adults that for granted, as they refused, for instance, to concede that quantity is unchanged as water pours from a short stout glass into a tall thin one. Psychologists have since demonstrated that young children, asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed into finding the total.Such studies have suggested that the rudiments of mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested that the very concept of abstract numbers – the idea of a oneness, a twoness, a threeness that applies to any class of objects - is a prerequisite for doing anything more mathematically demanding than setting a table – is itself far from innate.
Câu 1: What does the passage mainly discuss?


A. Trends in teaching mathematics to children


B. The fundamental concepts of mathematics that children must learn


C. The development of mathematical ability in children


D. The use of mathematics in child psychology
Câu 2: It can be inferred from the passage that children normally learn simple counting _______.


A. when they begin to be mathematically mature


B. after they reach second grade in school


C. by looking at the clock


D. soon after they learn to talk
Câu 3: The word “illuminated” is closest in meaning to _______.


A. clarified            


B. accepted               


C. illustrated                           


D. lighted
Câu 4: According to the passage, when small children were asked to count a pile of red and blue pencils, they _______.


A. counted the number of pencils of each color


B. guessed at the total number of pencils


C. counted only the pencils of their favorite color


D. subtracted the number of red pencils from the number of blue pencils
Câu 5: Which of the following statement would the author LEAST agree with?


A. Most people follow the same pattern of mathematical development.


B. Children learn to add before they learn to subtract.


C. Children naturally and easily learn mathematics.


D. Mathematical development is subtle and gradual.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following questions.
Câu 1: John and Tim are talking about future jobs. John: “What kind of job would you like?” Tim: “_______.”


A. Any of them are OK                    


B. Anything to do with computer


C. That will do                


D. Any time after next week
Câu 2: John and Jill are talking about Jill’s trip. Jack: “How was your trip to Denmark?” Jill: “_______. Everything was perfect.”


A. I couldn’t be so sure                


B. I couldn’t agree more


C. I couldn’t dream about it 


D. I couldn’t feel better about it

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Câu 1: If you are at a loose end this weekend, I will show you round the city.


A. occupied             


B. reluctant                 


C. confident                            


D. free
Câu 2: Adverse reviews in the New York press may greatly change the prospects of a new product on the market and lead to its failure.


A. complementary       


B. additional


C. comfortable                                    


D. favorable

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Câu 1: The issue of pay rise will loom large at this year’s conference as it is what all the attendees want to mention.


A. be improved      


B. be avoided  


C. be discussed     


D. become important
Câu 2: Educators are complaining that students rely on social media so much that they lose the ability to think critically.


A. decide on   


B. insist on   


C. depend on


D. dismissed

A.
B.
C.
D.

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


A. objective      


B. consequence            


C. interpret                  


D. profession
Câu 2:


A. criticize     


B. miserable                 


C. questionable           


D. inferior

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Câu 1: No sooner had she put the telephone down than her boss rang back.


A. Hardly she had hung up, she rang her boss immediately.


B. Scarcely had she put the telephone down when her boss rang back.


C. She had hardly put the telephone down without her boss rang back.


D. As soon as her boss rang back, she put down the telephone.
Câu 2: Peter said “I wish I hadn’t lent him some money.”  


A. Peter regretted lending him some money.


B. Peter thanked him for lending him some money.


C. Peter wished not to lend him some money.


D. Peter suggested not lending him some money.
Câu 3: As he gets older, he wants to travel less.


A. The more old age he gets, the less he wants to travel.


B. The less he wants to travel, the older he gets.


C. As soon as he wants to travel, he gets older.


D. The older he gets, the less he wants to travel.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Câu 1: He behaved in a very strange way. That surprised me a lot.


A. He behaved very strangely, which surprised me very much.


B. What almost surprised me was the strange way he behaved.


C. His behavior was a very strange thing, that surprised me most.


D. I was almost not surprised by his strange behavior.
Câu 2: I strongly disapproved of your behavior. But I will help you this time.


A. Despite of my strong disapproval of your behavior, I will help you this time.


B. Despite my strong disapproval of your behavior, I will help you this time.


C. Because of you behaviour, I will help you this time.


D. Although I strongly disapproved of your behavior, but I will help you this time.

A.
B.
C.
D.