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.Washington was the first city in history to be created solely for the purpose of governance. Following the Revolution, members of Congress had hotly debated the question of a permanent home for themselves and for those departments – the Treasury, the Patent Office and so on – which even the sketchiest of central governments would feel obliged to establish. In 1790, largely in order to put an end to congressional bickering, George Washington was charged with selecting a site for the newly designated federal district. Not much to anyone’s surprise but to the disappointment of many he chose a tract of land on the banks of the Potomac River, a few miles upstream from his beloved plantation Mount Vernon.The District of Columbia was taken in part from Virginia and in part from Maryland. At the time it was laid out, its hundred square miles consisted of gently rolling hills, some under cultivation and the rest heavily wooded, with a number of creeks and much swampy land along the Potomac. There is now a section of Washington that is commonly referred to as Foggy Bottom; that section bore the same nickname a hundred and eighty years ago.Two ports cities, Alexandria and Georgetown, flourished within sight of the new capital and gave it access by ship to the most important cities of the infant nation – Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Newport, Salem and Portsmouth – and also to the far-off ports of England and the Continent.
Câu 1: What is the main topic of the passage?


A. The founding of Washington, DC


B. The governing of the federal district


C. The first years of the United States Congress


D. The role of George Washington in the American Revolution
Câu 2: The word “hotly” in paragraph 1 is closet in meaning to_____.


A. mildly                                 


B. warmly                   


C. spicily                


D. vehemently
Câu 3: In 1970, a large part of the federal district was______.


A. seashore                         


B. wilderness                   


C. village squares


D. a flourishing port
Câu 4: It can be referred from the passage that the term “Foggy Bottom” in the second paragraph refers to a section of Washington. D. C that______.


A. used to be mostly swampland      


B. has the lowest population in the district


C. lies at the bottom of Mount Vernon   


D. used to be the site of the national weather station
Câu 5: Which of the following conclusions about the federal district is supported by the passage?


A. Mount Vernon was not chosen because it was too close to the river.


B. Congress was unable to agree on a location.


C. George Washington’s choice of a site pleased almost everyone.


D. Congress did not believe that a home for the federal government was necessary.
Câu 6: Which of the following sentences is NOT TRUE?


A. Washington was founded for the purpose of administration.


B. Congressmen did not find it necessary to have a home for themselves.


C. George Washington’s choice was a disappointment to many people.


D. District of Columbia is commonly referred to as Washington.
Câu 7: Which of the following does the word “it” in paragraph 2 refer to?


A. the District of Columbia       


B. part                       


C. Virginia                


D. Maryland
Câu 8: The author implies that Georgetown was important in the eighteen century because it _________. 


A. linked the federal district with the ocean    


B. was a model for building the new federal district


C. defended the east coast against invaders   


D. was the home of the Treasury and the Patent Office
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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 word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29.               When hosting an Olympic Games, a country has to take account of several considerations, among which the financial one is by far the most important. The costs of hosting the Olympics can (25) _____tens of billions of dollars, and it is commonplace for budgets to double or even triple. In addition to the direct costs of hosting the Games (the opening and closing ceremonies, athletes’ village, security, etc.,), cities often must build expensive new venues (26) _____lesser-known sports. Once constructed, sports venues often incur additional maintenance costs long after the Games have ended.            While costs are the (27) _____concern for a host city, there are other factors to consider. For one, an Olympic host city may receive substantial revenue from ticket sales, tourist spending, corporate sponsorship, and television rights. Cities such as Los Angeles (1984) actually made a large profit from the Games they hosted. (28) _____, hosting the Olympic Games confers prestige on a host city and country, which can lead to increased trade and tourism. The Olympics are also an opportunity to invest in projects (29) _____ improve the city’s quality of life, such as new transportation systems.
Câu 1: (25) 


A. surmount                


B. overcharge                          


C. exceed                    


D. outnumber
Câu 2: (26) 


A. on                           


B. for                                       


C. in                            


D. at
Câu 3: (27) 


A. supplementary        


B. influential                            


C. instrumental            


D. primary
Câu 4: (28) 


A. In addition    


B. However                             


C. For example   


D. Otherwise
Câu 5: (29) 


A. who                                    


B. which                                  


C. what                       


D. whom

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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.         Successful students often do the followings while studying. First, they have an overview before reading. Next, they look for important information and pay greater attention to it (which often needs jumping forward or backward to process information). They also relate important points to one another. Also, they activate and use their prior knowledge. When they realize that their understanding is not good, they do not wait to change strategies. Last, they can monitor understanding and take action to correct or “fix up” mistakes in comprehension.        Conversely, students with low academic achievement often demonstrate ineffective study skills. They tend to assume a passive role, in learning and rely on others (e.g., teachers, parents) to monitor their studying, for example, low-achieving students often do not monitor their understanding of content; they may not be aware of the purpose of studying; and they show little evidence of looking back, or employing “fix-up” strategies to fix understanding problems. Students who struggle with learning new information seem to be unaware that they must extent effort beyond simply reading the content to understand and remember it. Children with learning disabilities do not plan and judge the quality of their studying. Their studying may be disorganized. Students with learning problems face challenges with personal organization as well. They often have difficulty keeping track of materials and assignments, following directions, and completing work on time. Unlike good studiers who employ a variety of study skills in a flexible yet purposeful manner, low-achieving students use a restricted range of study skills. They cannot explain why good study strategies are important for learning; and they tend to use the same, often ineffective study approach for all learning tasks, ignoring task content, structure or difficulty.(Source: Adapted from Study Skills: Managing Your Learning — NUI Galway
Câu 1: What is the topic of the passage?


A. Successful and low-academic achieving students


B. Successful learners and their learning strategies


C. Study skills for high school students


D. Effective and ineffective ways of learning
Câu 2: The word “prior” in the first paragraph is closest meaning to ______?


A. important 


B. earlier


C. forward


D. good 
Câu 3: According to the passage, what can be learnt about passive students?


A. They depend on other people to organize their learning 


B. They are slow in their studying


C. They monitor their understanding     


D. They know the purpose of studying
Câu 4: Which of the followings is NOT an evidence of monitoring studying?


A. Being aware of the purpose of studying      


B. Monitoring their understanding of content


C. Fixing up mistakes in understanding  


D. Looking at their backs 
Câu 5: In compared with low-achieving students, successful students use______.


A. aimless study techniques


B. various study skills


C. restricted strategies


D. inflexible study ways

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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 35 to 42.Today we take electricity for granted and perhaps we do not realize just how useful this discovery has been. Steam was the first invention that replaced wind power. It was used to drive engines and was passed through pipes and radiators to warm rooms. Petrol mixed with air was the next invention that provided power. Exploded in a cylinder, it drove a motor engine. Beyond these simple and direct uses, those forms have not much adaptability.On the other hand, we make use of electricity in thousands of ways. From the powerful voltages that drive our electric trains to the tiny current needed to work a simple calculator, and from the huge electric magnet in steel works that can lift 10 tons to the tiny electric magnet in a doorbell, all are powered by electricity. An electric current can be made with equal ease to heat a huge mass of molten metal in a furnace, or to boil a jug for a cup of coffee.Other than atomic energy, which has not as yet been harnessed to the full, electricity is the greatest power in the world. It is flexible, and so adaptable for any task for which it is wanted. It travels so easily and with incredible speed along wires or conductors that it can be supplied instantly over vast distances.To generate electricity, huge turbines or generators must be turned. In Australia they use coal or water to drive this machinery. When dams are built, falling water is used to drive the turbines without polluting the atmosphere with smoke from coal.            Atomic power is used in several countries but there is always the fear of an accident. A tragedy once occurred at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, at an atomic power plant used to make electricity. The reactor leaked, which caused many deaths through radiation.Now scientists are examining new ways of creating electricity without harmful effects to the environment. They may harness the tides as they flow in and out of bays. Most importantly, they hope to trap sunlight more efficiently. We do use solar heaters for swimming pools but as yet improvement in the capacity of the solar cells to create more current is necessary. When this happens, electric cars will be viable and the world will rid itself of the toxic gases given off by trucks and cars that burn fossil fuels.
Câu 1: The author mentions the sources of energy such as wind, steam, petrol in the first paragraph to ___________.


A. suggest that electricity should be alternated with safer sources of energy


B. emphasize the usefulness and adaptability of electricity


C. imply that electricity is not the only useful source of energy


D. discuss which source of energy can be a suitable alternative to electricity
Câu 2: Before electricity, what was sometimes passed through pipes to heat rooms?


A. Gas 


B. Petrol


C. Steam


D. Hot wind
Câu 3: What does the author mean by saying that electricity is flexible?


A. It is cheap and easy to use.    


B. It is used to drive motor engines.


C. It can be adapted to various uses.    


D. It can be made with ease.
Câu 4: What do we call machines that make electricity?


A. Voltages 


B. Electric magnets 


C. Generators or turbines 


D. Pipes and radiators
Câu 5: The word "they" in the last paragraph refers to ____________.


A. harmful effects 


B. the tides 


C. scientists 


D. new ways
Câu 6: The advantage of harnessing the power of the tides and of sunlight to generate electricity is that they ____________.


A. do not pollute the environment   


B. are more reliable


C. are more adaptable


D. do not require attention
Câu 7: Which of the following power sources causes pollution by emitting harmful gases?


A. Sunlight 


B. Petrol  


C. Water


D. Wind
Câu 8: The best title for this passage could be ____________.


A. "Types of Power Plants”  


B. “Electricity: Harmful Effects on Our Life”


C. “How to Produce Electricity” 


D. “Why Electricity Is So Remarkable”
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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: She was brought up in a well-off family. She can’t understand the problems we are facing.


A. broke                         


B. wealthy                      


C. kind                               


D. poor
Câu 2: He fell foul of me when I asked him to apologize to his teacher.


A. quarreled with me         


B. made friends with me


C. attacked me        


D. showed appreciation for me

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B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSET in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Câu 1: Within their home country, National Red Cross and Red Crescent societies assume the duties and responsibilities of a national relief cociety.


A. get off       


B. take on  


C. go about       


D. put in
Câu 2: I had tried to sketch an aspect of life that I had seen and known, and that was very well indeed, and I had wrought patiently and carefully in the art of the poor little affair.


A. a nature  


B. a part        


C. a character  


D. an appearance

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


A. philosopher              


B. discriminate             


C. individual              


D. significant
Câu 2:


A. maneuver                 


B. distribute                  


C. synchronize


D. acknowledge

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: You should visit Bath. It’s __________ place.


A. an interesting historical   


B. a historicial interesting 


C. a historicial and interesting        


D. an interesting and historicial
Câu 2: After he left ________ University of Massachusetts, he went to ________ Ball State in Indiana.


A. the; the         


B. the; Ø     


C. Ø; the      


D. Ø; Ø
Câu 3: Anyone who is concerned about the environment cannot ignore the facts ________ the speaker was refering.


A. to that   


B. to which         


C. when                          


D. where
Câu 4: Seals can _________ because they have a thick layer of blubber under their fur.


A. keep them warm   


B. keep their warm


C. they keep warm     


D. keep themselves warm
Câu 5: _________ a cheese shop has since grown into a small conglomerate consisting of a catering business and two retail stores.


A. It began as     


B. In the beginning of


C. What began as     


D. Its beginning which was
Câu 6: There _________ be a lot more open space around here before they built  the new underground station.


A. would                           


B. used to  


C. got used to


D. were used to
Câu 7: __________ invited, so we three won’t come to her wedding. If you are invited, you should go.


A. Not only I but also my parents are        


B. Both my parents and I are


C. Either my parents or I are not    


D. Neither my parents nor I am
Câu 8: Dad, I’m afraid to __________ the matter again, but I really need to have a computer of my own that I’m preparing for my final exam.


A. come down        


B. bring up     


C. take out     


D. get through
Câu 9: As Europe became more industrialized, art began to reflect a growing nostalgia ________ the old rural way of life.


A.  in


B. of                                       


C. for                          


D. to
Câu 10: Temperature, the simplest weather element to measure, is probably _________ used than any other kind of data.


A.  more frequently       


B. more frequent 


C. as frequent     


D. the most frequent
Câu 11: It’s difficult to think of the anything nice to say about my neighbour’s naughty boys, ________, they are at least honest.


A. therefore                        


B. even though  


C. however                  


D. as a result
Câu 12: Ann: Is attendance important in this class? Maggie: No, but in the last class it ________ very seriously.


A. was taken      


B. has been taken  


C. took


D. has taken
Câu 13: _________ who made Thanksgiving an official holiday in the United States.


A. Abraham Lincoln               


B. He was Abraham Lincoln


C. It was Abraham Lincoln              


D. Abraham Lincoln was
Câu 14: Were _________ millions of dollars each year replenishing eroding beaches, the coastline would be changing even more rapidly.


A. the U.S Army Corps of Engineers not spending


B. the U.S Army Corps of Engineers not spend


C. the U.S Army Corps of Engineers does not spend


D. not spending the U.S Army Corps of Engineers
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Câu 1: Many people are very concerned about the _______ of the rainforests.


A. destroy


B. destruction


C. destructive 


D. destructively
Câu 2: Most zoos try to exhibit animals in _______ settings.


A. nature


B. natural 


C. naturalize


D. naturalistic
Câu 3: Most of the old part of the city was _______ by bombs during the war.


A. planted


B. destroyed


C. eliminated


D. worried
Câu 4: The nationalists are very keen to _______ their customs and language.


A. interest


B. value


C. conserve                      


D. cost
Câu 5: The bush looked badly _______, with black marks on all the leaves.


A. ill


B. sick


C. endangered


D. diseased
Câu 6: - “ I sometimes think I'd be happier teaching in Spain.” – “Oh well, the _______ is always greener on the other side!”


A. grass


B. plant  


C. tree  


D. bush
Câu 7: The article was about the different _______ of Spanish spoken in South America.


A. varieties


B. differences


C. changes 


D. types
Câu 8: The bay _______ by the enemy many years ago.


A. was used to be attacked  


B. used to be attacked


C. was used for being attacked


D. used to attack
Câu 9: The report will be read _______.


A. at the conference by Dr. Blake at 3 p.m. 


B. at the conference at 3 p.m. by Dr. Blake


C. by Dr. Blake at the conference at 3 p.m.  


D. at 3 p.m. by Dr. Blake at the conference
Câu 10: That man has never been known _______ before.


A. lie


B. to lie


C. lying


D. has lied
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Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
Câu 1: Try to do this test. It is ____ than the others.


A. less difficult        


B. less and less difficult


C. least difficult            


D. more and more difficult
Câu 2: Summer is _____ season of the year.


A. hottest                     


B. the hottest   


C. the hotter       


D. the more hottest
Câu 3: It is one of ____ books I have ever had.


A. most useful      


B. the most useful      


C. the most useful than 


D. the most useful as
Câu 4: Of all athletes, Alex is ______.


A.  the less qualified    


B. the less and less qualified


C. the more qualified         


D.  the least qualified
Câu 5: Mary was _____ of the two sisters.


A. the clever     


B. as clever as        


C. the cleverer     


D. the cleverest
Câu 6: ____you get to the cinema, ____ seat you have.


A. The sooner/ the better      


B. The soon/ the good


C. The soonest/ the best                   


D. Sooner/ better
Câu 7: In this summer there are ______ there was last year.


A. so few visitors as


B. as few visitors as


C. as few visitors than       


D. less few visitors as
Câu 8: ____ he drank, ____ he became.


A. more/ more violent             


B. the most/ the most violent


C. the more/ the more violent          


D. the less/ less violent
Câu 9: She is _____ her colleagues.


A. as intelligent than         


B. few more intelligent than


C. so more intelligent than      


D. a lot more intelligent than
Câu 10: After three months’ practice, Peter can run _____.


A. fast and fast         


B. faster and faster


C. the more and more fast     


D. more and more fast
Câu 11: Her husband is ____ she is.


A. ten years older than       


B. as ten years old as


C. older ten years than         


D. so many ten years older
Câu 12: Rolls Royce is ____ any other cars.


A. much more expensive than 


B. as much experience than


C. so much expensive as        


D. very more expensive than
Câu 13: They are ____ they used to be.


A. less wealthy as        


B. as less wealthy as


C. less wealthy than  


D. less wealthy more than
Câu 14: Today women do not have ____ they used to years ago.


A. as much children as         


B. as many children as


C. as children as            


D. more children as
Câu 15:  ____ money he makes, ____ useless things he buys.


A. more/ more      


B. the more/ the more


C. more/ the more           


D. the most/ the most
Câu 16: Because of the heavy rain, the drivers drove ______.


A. carefully and carefully                   


B. more and more carefully


C. more than carefully               


D. most and most carefully
Câu 17: She is ____ in the staff.


A.  the most good      


B. the far better     


C. most the best    


D. by far the best
Câu 18: He is ______ person I have ever met.


A. quite the most intelligent 


B. far more intelligent


C. far intelligent as               


D. as intelligent
Câu 19: We are _____ involved in charity than they are.


A. most                        


B. as                            


C. as far     


D. far more
Câu 20: He is _____ his wife.


A.  twice as heavy as  


B. as twice heavy as  


C. as heavy as twice 


D. twice as heavy than
Câu 21: _____ he insisted he was innocent, _____ they seemed to believe him.


A. the more/ the less 


B. more/ less    


C. the most/ the least  


D. most/ least
Câu 22: Kate is ____ her sister.


A. more nice and intelligent than         


B. nicer and less intelligent as


C. nicer and more intelligent than     


D. as nice and intelligent than
Câu 23: Among the students in my class, Peter is _____.


A. most active   


B. the most active    


C. the more active       


D. more active
Câu 24: _____ a person wears eyeglasses, _____ on them he tends to be.


A. longer/ more dependent      


B. the longest/ the most dependent


C. the longer/ more dependent                   


D. the longer/ the more dependent
Câu 25: Russian is a ______ language to learn than English is.


A. difficult                   


B. more difficult       


C. most difficult       


D. more and more difficult
Câu 26: He has ______ his sister does.


A. as friends as  


B.  more friends as  


C. many friends than


D. more friends than
Câu 27: There are _________.


A. twice as much computers in our office as there was


B. as twice many computers in our office as they were


C. twice as many computers in our office than there used to be


D. twice as many computers in our office as there used to be
Câu 28: Silver is not ____ gold.


A. as much heavy as 


B. so heavy than     


C. more heavier as    


D. so heavy as
Câu 29: I think cow is ____ of all animals.


A. most useful   


B. less useful  


C. the most useful    


D. the more useful
Câu 30: The new machines use _____ the old ones.


A. less water and electricity more than      


B. less water and electricity than


C.  less water and electricity       


D. as less water and electricity than
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