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: Marco Polo’s account of his travels has been invaluable to historians.


A. valuable


B. important   


C. worthless  


D. priceless
Câu 2: Satish’s point of view was correct but his behavior with his father was quite impertinent.


A. healthy      


B. smooth   


C. inadequate


D. respectful

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C.
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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 10 to 16.No educational medium better serves as a means of spatial communication than the atlas. Atlases deal with such invaluable information as population distribution and density. One of the best, Pennycooke’s World Atlas, has been widely accepted as a standard owning to the quality of its maps and photographs, which not only show various settlements but also portray them in a variety of scales. In fact , the very first map in the atlas is a cleverly designed population cartogram that projects the size of each country if geographical size were proportional to population. Following the proportional layout , a sequence of smaller maps shows the world’s population density, each country’s birth and death rates, population increase and decrease , industrialization, urbanization , gross national product in terms of per capita income, the quality of medical care, literacy, and language. To give readers a perspective on how their own country fits in with the global view, additional projections despite the world’s patterns in nutrition, calorie and protein consumption, health care, number of physicians per unit of population, and life expectancy by region. Population density maps on a subcontinental scale, as well as political maps, convey the diverse demographic phenomena of the world in a broad array of scales.
Câu 1: What is the main topic of this passage ?


A. The educational benefits of atlases. 


B. Physical maps in an atlas.


C. The ideal in the making of atlases.   


D. Partial maps and their uses.
Câu 2: According to the passage, the first map in Pennycooke’s World Atlas shows


A. the population policy in each country.  


B.  the hypothetical sizes of countries.


C. geographical proportions of each country.  


D. national boundaries relative to population.
Câu 3: In the passage, the word “invaluable” is closest in meaning to


A.  invalid


B. priceless   


C. shapeless 


D. incremental
Câu 4: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage ?


A. calorie consumption   


B. population decline


C. a level of education    


D. currency exchange rate
Câu 5: The word “layout” in the passage refers to
 
 


A.  the cartogram     


B. the geographical size


C. population      


D.  each country
Câu 6: It can be inferred from the passage that maps can be used to


A. identify a shortage of qualified labour.


B. pinpoint ethnic strife in each country.


C.  show readers photographs in a new form.


D. give readers a new perspective on their own country.
Câu 7: The author of the passage implies that


A. atlases provide a bird’s eye view of country.


B. atlases can be versatile instruments.


C. maps use a variety of scales in eachprojection.


D.  maps of countries differ in size.

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B.
C.
D.

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence: 
Câu 1: Americans drive _______ third of _______ 400 million cars on _______ planet.


A. one-the-the


B. a-X-the 


C.  one-X-a   


D. a-the-a
Câu 2: _______ you miss this train you can _______ catch the next one.


A. Because-often


B. If-always


C. When-usually


D. Unless-sometimes
Câu 3: I thought I _______ him come in _______ we were having dinner.


A. hear-when


B. look-while


C. looked-when


D. heard-while
Câu 4: _______ I know likes the smell of bacon - _______ Mike does and he's a vegetarian.


A. Anyone-but


B. No one-while 


C. Everyone-even


D. Someone-and

A.
B.
C.
D.

Select the antonym of the following bold and underlined word in each sentence in the unit: 
Câu 1: The history of what we call cinema today began in the early 19th century.


A. lately


B. late


C. after


D. next
Câu 2: As the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones on the screen, a new cinema form appeared, the musical cinema.


A. talkative


B. vocal  


C. voluble  


D. deafening
Câu 3: Jack Dawson is a young and generous adventurer.


A. petty


B. small


C. narrow


D. meaningful

A.
B.
C.
D.

Select the synonym of the following bold and underlined word in each sentence in the unit: 
Câu 1: At that time scientists discovered that when a sequence of still pictures was set in motion, they could give the feeling of moment.


A. detected 


B. founded


C. knew  


D. saw
Câu 2: In the first two decades of its existence, the cinema developed rapidly.


A. stressed


B. enlarged


C. progressed


D. ripened
Câu 3: They used changes of scene and camera positions to tell a story, with actors playing character parts.
  


A. makeup


B. feature


C. position


D. figure

A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group: 
Câu 1:


A. cinema               


B. existence


C. sequence    sequence   


D. set
Câu 2:


A. developed


B. used                      


C. played


D. enjoyed
Câu 3:


A. motion       


B. position


C.  production


D. decision

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 questionsThunderstorms, with their jagged bursts of lightning and roaring thunder, are actually one of nature’s primary mechanisms for transferring heat from the surface of the earth into the atmosphere. A thunderstorm starts when low-lying pockets of warm air from the surface of the earth begin to rise. The pockets of warm air float upward through the air above that is both cooler and heavier. The rising pockets cool as their pressure decreases, and their latent heat is released above the condensation line through the formation of cumulus clouds.What will happen with these clouds depends on the temperature of the atmosphere. In winter, the air temperature differential between higher and lower altitudes is not extremely great, and the temperature of the rising air mass drops more slowly. During these colder months, the atmosphere, therefore, tends to remain rather stable. In summer, however, when there is a high accumulation of heat near the earth’s surface, in direct contrast to the considerably colder air higher up, the temperature differential between higher and lower altitudes is much more pronounced. As warm air rises in this type of environment, the temperature drops much more rapidly than it does in winter; when the temperature drops more than 4 degrees Fahrenheit per thousand feet of altitude, cumulus clouds aggregate into a single massive cumulonimbus cloud, or thunderhead.In isolation, a single thunderstorm is an impressive but fairly benign way for Mother Earth to defuse trapped heat from her surface; thunderstorms, however, can appear in concert, and the resulting show, while extremely impressive, can also prove extraordinarily destructive. When there is a large-scale collision between cold air and warm air masses during the summer months, a squall line, or series of thunderheads, may develop. It is common for a squall line to begin when an advancing cold front meets up with and forces itself under a layer of warm and moist air, creating a line of thunderstorms that races forward at speeds of approximately forty miles per hour. A squall line, which can be hundreds of miles long and can contain fifty distinct thunderheads, is a magnificent force of nature with incredible potential for destruction. Within the squall line, often near its southern end, can be found supercells, long-lived rotating storms of exceptional strength that serve as the source of tornadoes.
Câu 1: The topic of the passage is ________.


A. the development of thunderstorms and squall lines


B. the devastating effects of tornadoes


C. cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds


D. the power of tornadoes
Câu 2: The word “mechanisms” in paragraph 1 is most likely ________.


A. machines


B. motions     


C. methods   


D. materials
Câu 3: It can be inferred from the passage that, in summer, ________.


A. there is not a great temperature differential between higher and lower altitudes


B. the greater temperature differential between higher and lower altitudes makes thunderstorms more likely to occur


C. there is not much cold air higher up in the atmosphere


D. the temperature of rising air drops more slowly than it does in winter
Câu 4: The word “benign” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.


A. harmless 


B. beneficial  


C. ferocious


D. spectacular
Câu 5: The expression “in concert” in paragraph 3 could best be replaced by ________.


A. as a chorus 


B. with other musicians  


C. as a cluster   


D. in a performance
Câu 6: The word “itself” in paragraph 3 refers to ________.


A. a large-scale collision   


B. a squall line


C. an advancing cold front   


D. a layer of warm and moist air
Câu 7: All of the following are mentioned in the passage about supercells EXCEPT that they ________.


A. are of short duration   


B. have circling winds


C. have extraordinary power 


D. can give birth to tornadoes
Câu 8: This reading would most probably be assigned in which of the following courses?


A. Geography  


B. Meteorology    


C. Marine Biology 


D. Chemistry
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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: I know we had an argument, but I know I’d quite like to ______.


A. make up


B. look down


C. fall out    


D. bring up
Câu 2: It is vital that everyone ______ aware of the protection of the environment.


A. is            


B. be    


C. are     


D. were
Câu 3: My uncle was ______ ill last summer; however, fortunately, he is now making a slow but steady recovery.


A. seriously     


B. deeply    


C. fatally  


D. critically
Câu 4: All of her sons joined the army when the war broke ______.


A. out     


B. off 


C. over  


D. up
Câu 5: This is the second time you ______ your door key.


A. are losing  


B. lose  


C. lost    


D. have lost
Câu 6: Her fiance is said ______ from Harvard University five years ago.


A. having graduated


B. to have graduated 


C. being graduated


D. to be graduated
Câu 7: This is ______ the most difficult job I’ve ever had to do.


A. by chance  


B. by myself    


C. by far  


D. by heart
Câu 8: The number of higher education ______ has risen this year for the first time in more than a decade.


A. applies        


B. applications   


C. applicable     


D. applicants
Câu 9: Not until 1856 ______ across the Mississippi River.


A. the first bridge was built 


B. was the first bridge built


C. the first bridge built    


D. did the first bridge build
Câu 10: At first sight I met her, I was impressed with her ______ eyes.


A. big beautiful round black  


B. beautiful big round black


C. beautiful black big round


D. beautiful round big black
Câu 11: ______ the film’s director, Ben Affleck, was famously left off the 85th Oscar’s Best Director list of nominees surprised everyone.


A. What   


B. Due to   


C. Although 


D. That
Câu 12: I love this painting of an old man. He has such a beautiful ______ smile.


A. childlike    


B. childish   


C. childhood 


D. childless
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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.Early peoples had no need of engineering works to supply their water. Hunters and nomads camped near natural sources of fresh water, and populations were so sparse that pollution of the water supply was not a serious problem. After community life developed and agricultural villages became urban centres, the problem of supplying water became important for inhabitants of a city, as well as for irrigation of the farms surrounding the city. Irrigation works were known in prehistoric times, and before 2000 BC the rulers of Babylonia and Egypt constructed systems of dams and canals to impound the flood waters of the Euphrates and Nile rivers, controlling floods and providing irrigation water throughout the dry season. Such irrigation canals also supplied water for domestic purposes. The first people to consider the sanitation of their water supply were the ancient Romans, who constructed a vast system of aqueducts to bring the clean waters of the Apennine Mountains into the city and built basins and filters along these mains to ensure the clarity of the water. The construction of such extensive water-supply systems declined when the Roman Empire disintegrated, and for several centuries local springs and wells formed the main source of domestic and industrial water.The invention of the force pump in England in the middle of the 16th century greatly extended the possibilities of development of water-supply systems. In London, the first pumping waterworks was completed in 1562; it pumped river water to a reservoir about 37 m above the level of the River Thames and from the reservoir the water was distributed by gravity, through lead pipes, to buildings in the vicinity.Increased per-capita demand has coincided with water shortages in many countries. Southeast England, for example, receives only 14 per cent of Britain's rainfall, has 30 per cent of its population, and has experienced declining winter rainfall since the 1980s.In recent years a great deal of interest has been shown in the conversion of seawater to fresh water to provide drinking water for very dry areas, such as the Middle East. Several different processes, including distillation, electrodialysis, reverse osmosis, and direct-freeze evaporation, have been developed for this purpose. Some of these processes have been used in large facilities in the United States. Although these processes are successful, the cost of treating seawater is much higher than that for treating fresh water.
Câu 1: Clean water supply was first taken into consideration by                      .


A. the Egyptians       


B. the US people        


C. the English people


D. the ancient Romans
Câu 2: The word “mains” in paragraph 1 could best be replaced by “                     ”.  


A. rivers        


B. pipes            


C. areas            


D. lands
Câu 3: Which of the following is NOT true about London’s water supply in the middle of the 16th century?


A. Water was pumped from the River Thames.


B. Water was stored in a reservoir.


C. Water was conducted through canals.


D. Water ran from the reservoir to buildings.
Câu 4: Early peoples didn’t need water supply engineering  works because                     .


A. they had good ways to irrigate their farms


B. their community life had already developed


C. there was almost no dry season in prehistoric times


D. natural sources of fresh water nearby were always available
Câu 5: One of the causes of water shortages in South-east England is                      .


A. increased demand                           


B. water pollution


C. water-supply system decline          


D. water evaporation
Câu 6: For several centuries after the disintegration of the Roman Empire, the main source of water supply was from            .


A. water pipes                   


B. systems of aqueducts                    


C. dams and canals                          


D. springs and wells
Câu 7: Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a process of converting seawater to freshwater?


A. Steaming and cooling        


B. Water evaporation


C. Dissolving chemicals                 


D. Purification method
Câu 8: The word “ vicinity” in paragraph 2 refers to “                     ”


A. The neighborhood around a reservoir.         


B. The region where industry developed.


C. The cities in South- East England.            


D. The areas along the River Thames.
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Mark the letter A, B, C or D in your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Câu 1: Having not been (A) to (B) the sea before, the children couldn’t fall asleep (C) due to (D) their excitement.


A. Having not been


B. to 


C. fall asleep


D. due to
Câu 2: The food that (A) my mom is cooking (B) in the kitchen smells (C) deliciously (D) .


A. that


B. is cooking


C. smells


D. deliciously
Câu 3: If he paid a little (A) more attention to (B) his accounting work in the first place, he wouldn’t be (C) in (D) the red now.


A. paid a little


B. to


C. wouldn't be


D. in

A.
B.
C.
D.