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: “Mary, I think these clothes are inappropriate for this important celebration.”


A. suitable


B. improper


C. attractive


D. available
Câu 2: This puzzle is a piece of cake; I can do it with my eyes closed.


A. very difficult


B. easy enough


C. rather boring


D. quite understandable

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: Billy, come and give me a hand with cooking.


A. help


B. prepare


C. be busy


D. attempt
Câu 2: Pollution will increase to catastrophic levels unless we develop cleaner power sources.


A. low


B. disastrous


C. advanced


D. elementary

A.
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: My brother                      a lot of things for the past five years.


A. does


B. did


C. is doing


D. has done
Câu 2: The number of students attending the conference yesterday                  fifty-five.


A. is


B. are


C. was


D. were
Câu 3: They have a        discussion on biology last night.


A. bore


B. boredom


C. boring


D. bored
Câu 4: Her grandfather’s illness was                 we thought at first.


A. more seriously as


B. as seriously as


C. more serious than


D. as serious than
Câu 5:  The woman asked                                get lunch at school.


A. can the children


B. whether the children could


C. if the children can


D. could the children
Câu 6: The factory is said                                in a fire two years ago.


A. being destroyed


B. to be destroyed


C. to have destroyed


D. to have been destroyed
Câu 7: She reads newspaper everyday to look for a vacant positions            which she can apply.


A. to


B. with


C. at


D. for
Câu 8: I saw your school’s                  in today’s edition of Viet Nam News.


A. advertiser


B. advertisement


C. advertising


D. advertise
Câu 9: Many children are under such a high                 of learning that they do not feel happy at school.


A. recommendation


B. interview


C. pressure


D. concentration
Câu 10: I can’t                    this noise any longer. I’m going to write a letter of complaint to the local authority about this problem.


A. put up with


B. take away from


C. get back to


D. make out of
Câu 11:                          you, I’d think twice about that decision.


A. Should I be


B. If I am


C. Had I been


D. Were I
Câu 12: It is important that Mrs Hoa                   Mr Nam of the meeting tomorrow.


A. remind


B. reminds


C. must remind


D. will remind
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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 followingquestions.
Câu 1:


A. programs


B. individuals


C. subjects


D. celebrations
Câu 2:


A. delivered


B. visited


C. crooked


D. recommended

A.
B.
C.
D.

Read the following passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks.The Internet has truly transformed how students do their homework. (46)                            homework today still means spending time in the library, it’s for a different reason. Rather than using books for research, students today are (47)                      to the Internet to download enormous amounts of data available online. In the past, students were limited to their school’s (48)                             of books. In many cases, they got to the schoollibrary and found out that someone had already taken the books they needed. Nowadays, such inconvenience can be avoided since the Internet never runs out of information. Students, however, do have to (49)         sure that the information they find online is true. Teachers have also benefited from the homework which is done on the Internet. They do not need to carry students’ papers around with them any more. This is because online (50)              allow students to electronically upload their homework for their teachers to read and mark. Of course, this also means that students can no longer use the excuse that the dog ate their homework!
Câu 1: (46)


A. For         


B. But                 


C. While                


D. Because
Câu 2: (47)


A. connecting           


B. looking                   


C. searching                


D. linking
Câu 3: (48)


A. select       


B. selection               


C. selective               


D.  selectively
Câu 4: (49)


A. do       


B. make     


C. get            


D. come
Câu 5: (50)


A. systems 


B. materials             


C. sources                   


D. structures

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 word or phrases that best fits each of the numbered blanks.Ever since it was first possible to make a real robot, people have been hoping for the invention of a machine that would do all the necessary jobs around the house. If boring and repetitive factory work could be  (31)            by robots, why not boring and repetitive household chores too?For a long time the only people who really gave the problem their attention were amateur inventors And they came up against a major difficulty. That is, housework is (32)             very complex. It has never been one job it has always been many. A factor robot carries (33)                    one task endlessly until it is reprogrammed to do something else. It doesn’t run the whole factory. A housework robot on the other hand, has to do several different types of cleaning and carrying jobs and also has to cope with all the different shapes and positions of rooms, furniture, ornaments, cats and dogs. (34)               , there have been some developments recently. Sensors are available to help the robot locate objects and avoid obstacles. We have the technology to produce the hardware. All that is missing the software- the programs (35)                          will operate the machine.
Câu 1: (31)


A. managed 


B. made


C. succeeded


D. given
Câu 2: (32)


A. actually


B. likely


C. seriously


D. hardly
Câu 3: (33)


A.  away


B. out


C. over


D. off
Câu 4: (34)


A. Moreover


B. However


C. Although


D. Besides
Câu 5: (35)


A. who


B. what


C. that


D. where

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.When we moved to our new house near the sea, I was eight years old. Even before that I had spent every summer messing about on boats. My dad had taught me to sail before I learnt to ride a bike so I knew how I wanted to spend my time at the new house- I was going to get my own boat and sail it everyday. The house was only a few metres from the water's edge, and in rough weather the waves would come crashing into the front garden. I used to sit with my nose pressed to the glass, fascinated by the power of the ocean. I grew up watching the skies to see if it was going to rain; would I be going sailing that afternoon or not?Of course I sometimes wished I could live in the town like my friends. I used to get irritated with my parents, who had taken early retirement because they seemed incapable of getting anywhere on time. Dad drove me the eight miles to school everyday, but I was often late because he had been walking on the cliffs earlier in the morning and had lost track of time. When I was taking my university entrance exams, I used to stay over at a friend‟s in town, just in case. All in all, I was lucky to grow up by the sea and I still love to sail.
Câu 1: At the age of eight, the writer's house was                       .


A. in the town


B. by the sea


C. on boat


D. under the mountain
Câu 2: The word “rough” is closest in meaning to                                      .


A. careful


B. forceful


C. easy


D. mild
Câu 3: The writer's father retired early because                                    .


A. he walked on the cliffs every morning


B. he lost track of time


C. he had to drive his kid to school everyday


D. he was unable to get anywhere on time
Câu 4: The following are true EXCEPT                                    .


A. the waves came crashing into the writer's front garden in bad weather


B. the write moved to a new house when he was 8


C. the writer didn't know how to sail


D. the distance from the writer's house to school was 8 miles
Câu 5: Growing up by the sea, the writer felt                                  .


A. unlucky


B. irritated


C. excited


D. lucky
Câu 6: The writer learnt to sail                                        .


A. before learning to ride a bike


B. when his family moved to a new house


C. before going to school


D. when he was eight
Câu 7: When taking the university entrance exams,                          .


A. the writer's family moved to a new house by the sea


B. the writer had to live in a friend's house


C. the weather was terrible


D. the writer's father drove him/ her to university

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


A. ability   


B. sympathetic


C. political


D. significant
Câu 2:


A. postpone           


B. specialize  


C. purpose


D. summarize

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 questionsSince water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem of  desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man’s inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop.Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist- skinned, water-loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found. The giants of the North American desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert country is open, it holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated.Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere else in the word. The secret of their adjustment lies in the combination of behavior and physiology. None could survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a matter of minutes.  So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath the ground,  emerging to hunt only by night. The surface  of  the  sun-baked  desert  averages  around  150  degrees,  but  18  inches  down  the temperature is only 60 degrees.
Câu 1: The author mentions all the following as examples of the behavior of desert animals EXCEPT


A. they are watchful and quiet


B. they sleep during the day


C. they dig home underground


D. they are noisy and aggressive
Câu 2: We can infer from the passage that  


A. healthy animals live longer lives


B. living things adjust to their environment


C. desert life is colorful and diverse


D. water is the basis of desert life
Câu 3: According to the passage, creatures in the desert 


A. are smaller and fleeter than forest animals


B. are more active during the day than those in the tangled forest


C. live in an accommodating environment


D. are not as healthy as those anywhere else in the world
Câu 4: The phrase “those forms” in the passage refers to all of the following EXCEPT


A. moist-skinned animals


B. many large animals


C. water-loving animals


D. the coyote and the bobcat
Câu 5: The word “them” means


A. animals    


B. minutes   


C. people   


D. water
Câu 6: The word “emaciated” in the passage mostly means


A. wild         


B. unmanageable


C. cunning   


D. unhealthy
Câu 7: Man can hardly understand why many animals live their whole life in the desert, as  


A. water is an essential part of his existence


B. very few large animals are found in the desert


C. sources of flowing water are rare in a desert


D. water composes the greater part of the tissues of living things
Câu 8: The title for this passage could be 


A. “Man’s Life in a Desert Environment”


B. “Desert Plants”


C. “Animal Life in a Desert Environment”


D. “Life Underground”
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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 the following questions.
Câu 1:


A. matched      


B. worked  


C. cleaned   


D. stepped
Câu 2:


A. digestion


B. suggestion  


C. question  


D. perfection

A.
B.
C.
D.