Task 6. 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 26 – 30.            Neil Armstrong started flying at an early age. He became interested in airplanes at the age of 2. At 15, he took flying lessons. He got a license to fly at 16. He learned how to fly before he learned how to drive a car. At university, he studied aeronautical engineering. This is the study of designing and making aircraft.         After Armstrong became an astronaut in 1962, he was trained for 4 years for the Apollo program. The Apollo mission was to put a man on the moon in ten years. On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Because Armstrong was the leader, he became the first man to step on the moon. He said, "This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." He and his fellow astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon for two and a half hours. They collected rocks and did some experiments.
Câu 1: What is the main idea of the passage?


A. The Apollo mission to the moon          


B. Why Neil Armstrong became an astronaut


C. Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon   


D. The aeronautic education of Neil Armstrong
Câu 2: The word “license” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ________.


A. skill            


B. desire                      


C. education                


D. permission
Câu 3: The word “This” in paragraph 1 refers to ________.


A. license to fly               


B. aeronautical engineering


C. flying lessons           


D. aircraft
Câu 4: According to paragraph 2, which of the following is true about Armstrong's training as an astronaut?


A. Its purpose was to have him step on the moon.


B. Its aim was to make Neil Armstrong a leader.


C. It helped Neil Armstrong design the Apollo spacecraft.


D. It made Neil Armstrong an astronaut in 1962.
Câu 5: The author's main purpose in paragraph 2 is _______.


A. to explain the objectives of the Apollo 11 mission


B. to compare Apollo 11 and late flights to the moon


C. to tell about Armstrong and the success of Apollo 11 's mission


D. to reveal what Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did on the moon

A.
B.
C.
D.

Task 4. 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 16 – 20.           Trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products, they give him shade, and they help to prevent drought and floods.              Unfortunately, in many parts of the world man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. In his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees, he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had.          Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It gained the empire but, without its trees, its soil became hard and poor. When the empire fell to pieces, the country found itself faced by floods and starvation.      Even though a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade the villager to see this. The villager wants wood to cook his food with, and he can earn money by making charcoal or selling wood to the townsman. He is usually too lazy or too careless to plant and look after trees. So unless the government has a good system of control, or can educate the people, the forests will slowly disappear.        This does not only mean that there will be fewer trees. The results are  even more serious. For where there are trees their roots break the soil up, allowing the rain to sink in and also bind the soil, thus preventing it being washed away easily, but where there are no trees, the soil becomes hard and poor. The rain falls on hard ground and flows away on the surface, causing floods and carrying away with it the rich topsoil, in which crops grow so well. When all the topsoil is gone, nothing remains but a worthless desert.
Câu 1: In the writer's opinion,                        , or the forests slowly disappear.


A. people shouldn't draw benefit from the tree     


B. measures must be taken


C. government must realize the serious results     


D. unless trees never be cut down
Câu 2: The word “bind” in the passage probably means                     .


A. to make wet        


B. to wash away     


C. to make stay together


D. to improve
Câu 3: In the last two paragraphs the writer wanted to make it clear that                  .


A. where there are no trees, the soil becomes hard and poor


B. where there are no trees, the land might become desert slowly


C. where there are many trees, there are fewer floods


D. floods will make the land become desert
Câu 4: It’s a great pity that in many places                     .


A. man is not eager to make profits from trees


B. man hasn’t found out that he has lost all trees


C. man hasn’t realised the importance of trees to him


D. man is only interested in building empire
Câu 5: Trees are useful to man mainly in three ways, the most important of which is that they can _                 _.


A. keep him from the hot sunshine    


B. make him draw quick profit from them


C. enable him to build warships          


D. protect him from drought and floods

A.
B.
C.
D.

Task 3. 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 11 – 15.         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.

Task 2. 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 6 – 10.HISTORY OF POTATO CHIPS           Peru’s Inca Indians first grew potatoes in the Andes Mountains in about 200 BC. Spanish conquistadors brought potatoes to Europe, and colonists brought them to America. Potatoes are fourth on the list of the world’s food staples – after wheat, corn, and rice. Today, Americans consume about 140 pounds of potatoes per person every year, while Europeans eat twice as many.           One of our favourite ways to eat potatoes is in the form of potato chips. While Benjamin Franklin was the American ambassador to France, he went to a banquet where potatoes were prepared in 20 different ways. Thomas Jefferson, who succeeded Franklin as our French ambassador, brought the recipe for thick–cut, French fried potatoes to America. He served French fries to guests at the White House in 1802 and at his home, Monticello.         A native American chef named George Crum created the first potato chips on August 24, 1853, at Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga, New York. He became angry when a diner complained that his French fries were too thick, so he sliced the potatoes as thinly as possible, making them too thin and crisp to eat with a fork. The diner loved them, and potato chips were born. In 1860, Chef Crum opened his own restaurant and offered a basket of potato chips on every table.          Joe “Spud” Murphy and Seamus Burke produced the world’s first seasoned crisps, cheese & onion and salt & vinegar chips, in the 1950s in Ireland. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, crisps are what we, in the United States, call potato chips, while their chips refer to our French fries. Ketchup–flavored chips are popular in the Middle East and Canada. Seaweed–flavored chips are popular in Asia, and chicken– flavored chips are popular in Mexico. Other flavors from around the world include: paprika, pickled onions, béarnaise, meat pie, chili crab, salmon teriyaki, borscht, Caesar salad, roasted sausage, firecracker lobster, roast ox, haggis and black pepper, olive, and spaghetti.
Câu 1: The word “them” in the passage refers to                       .


A. potatoes                  


B. colonists                  


C. conquistadors                     


D. Indians
Câu 2: What happened in the 1950s?


A. The world’s first French fries were produced.


B. The world’s first seasoned potato chips were produced.


C. The world’s first potato chips were produced.


D. The world’s first seasoned French fries were produced.
Câu 3: Which of the following is a true statement?


A. Different flavored potato chips are popular in different parts of the world.


B. Potato chips are only popular in America.


C. Ketchup–flavored potato chips are most popular in America.


D. Potato chips are not really eaten very much in Asia.
Câu 4: Potato chips are called                       in the United Kingdom.


A. fries                                    


B. crisps                      


C. lobsters                   


D. potatoes
Câu 5: What question is answered in the second paragraph?


A. Who invented the potato chip?


B. How many pounds of potatoes are eaten per person in America each year?


C. When were salt & vinegar chips invented?


D. Who served French fries in the White House?

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: To attract her teacher’s attention, she raised her hand high.


A. Because her teacher attracted her, she raised her hand again.


B. Though she raised  her hand high, she couldn’t attract her teacher’s attention.


C. She raised her hand high so that she could attract the teacher’s attention.


D. She had such a high raising of hand that she failed to attract her teacher’s attention.
Câu 2: The number of young people using social media is increasing.


A. There are more people using social media than in the past.


B. The number of social media for the youth is increasing.


C. More and more social media are for the youth.


D. More and more young people are using social media.
Câu 3: The problem was too serious for her to solve by herself.


A. The problem was such serious that she couldn’t solve alone.


B. So serious was the problem that she couldn’t solve it alone.


C. It was such a serious problem that she could solve it alone.


D. She was so serious she couldn’t solve the problem alone.
Câu 4: If it hadn’t been for the wind, the fire would never have spread so fast.


A. Even without the wind, the fire would have spread just as fast.


B. It was the wind that caused the fire to spread at such a speed.


C. Had there been a wind, the fire would have spread even faster.


D. The force of the wind affected the way the fire spread.
Câu 5: “Don’t forget to hand in the report, Peter!” said Kate.


A. Kate reminded Peter of handing in the report.


B. Kate said that Peter had forgotten to hand in the report.


C. Kate forgot to hand in the report to Peter.


D. Kate reminded Peter to hand in the report.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Listen to the presentation about unusual British festivals and choose the correct option to complete the sentence.
Câu 1: During a pancake race, you have to __________________.


A. eat as many pancakes as possible


B. run as fast as possible while tossing a pancake in a pan


C. run and jump over ropes without dropping the pancake


D. Ø
Câu 2: Nowadays, the people who win the cheese rolling competition are usually _______________.


A. top athletes       


B. people from the village  


C. visitors from all over the world


D. Ø
Câu 3: The fastest snail in the Snail Racing is __________________.


A. cooked with garlic and butter


B. rescued from the barbecue


C. given a prize of extra lettuce


D. Ø
Câu 4: Black Pudding throwing is similar to __________________.


A. pancake tossing


B. Olympic sports like javelin and shotput


C. bowling


D. Ø
Câu 5: To win the best gurner competition, one man __________________.


A. had all his teeth removed      


B. grew a really long beard    


C. had a lot of facial piercings


D. Ø
Câu 6: The Burning of the Clocks festival is __________________.


A. 2 years old        


B. 20 years old            


C. 200 years old


D. Ø
Câu 7: The Clavie is __________________.


A. a whisky container


B. a wooden cross


C. a bonfire made of things people don't need


D. Ø
Câu 8: In the Up Helly Aa festival, they burn __________________.


A. a wooden man   


B. a Viking boat 


C. a line in the grass


D. Ø

A.
B.
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 following questions.
Câu 1:


A. works                     


B. hands                      


C. shifts                       


D. groups
Câu 2:


A. certificate                


B. application              


C. curriculum              


D. compulsory

A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose the underlined words or phrases that are incorrect in standard written English.
Câu 1: If the news turns out to be true, I would sell my shares at once.


A. news


B. to be true


C. would


D. at once
Câu 2: If she studied English before, she wouldn't be in a beginners' class.


A. studied


B. she


C. in


D. beginners' class
Câu 3: Unless you hadn't told me about Mary's hair, I wouldn't have noticed.


A. Unless


B. hadn't told


C. about


D. Mary's hair
Câu 4: We have been waiting for our friends. I wonder if they had lost their way.


A. have been waiting


B. for


C. if


D. had lost
Câu 5: The people at the party were worried about Jane because no one was aware of a which she had gone.


A. at the party


B. about


C. aware of


D. which
Câu 6: Children enjoy telling and listen to ghost stories, specially on Halloween night.


A. enjoy


B. listen to


C. specially on


D. Halloween night
Câu 7: Mary usually arrives at the office at 8 o'clock, but because the storm, she was two hours late.


A. arrives


B. at the office


C. because


D. late
Câu 8: If Monique had not attended the conference, she wouldn't meet her old friend a Dan, whom she hadn't seen for years.


A. the


B. wouldn't meet


C. whom


D. hadn't seen
Câu 9: John wouldn't have missed the ferry if his car didn't break down on the way.


A. missed


B. didn't break


C. on


D. the way
Câu 10: If he had painted that picture, he would sign his name in the corner.


A. picture


B. would sign


C. his name


D. in
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A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) that is the same meaning with the bold sentence.
Câu 1: What a pity! You aren't here with us now.


A. I wish you aren't here with us now.


B. I wish you weren't here with us now.


C. I wish you were here with us now.


D. I wish you would be here with us now.
Câu 2: I want to get the house painted before winter.


A. I want to get someone paint the house before winter.


B. I am going to have the house paint before winter.


C. I am going to have the house to paint before winter.


D. I am going to have the house painted before winter.
Câu 3: My father allowed me to use his car.


A. My father let me to use his car.


B. My father let me using his car.


C. My father let me to be using his car.


D. My father let me use his car.
Câu 4: Would you please open the door?


A. Would you mind to open the door?


B. Would you mind opening the door?


C. Would you mind open the door?


D. Would you mind being opened the door?
Câu 5: I tried to eat the cake, but it was too sweet.


A. It was such a sweet cake that I couldn't eat it.


B. It was so sweet cake that I couldn't eat it.


C. The cake was too sweet that I couldn't eat it.


D. The cake was very sweet that I couldn't eat 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 sentences.
Câu 1: Many people decided to give up eating meat and become vegetarians.


A. use up    


B. cut up           


C. put up        


D. continue
Câu 2: When it comes to diversity, language can be a bridge for building relationships, or a tool for creating and maintaining divisions across differences.


A. uniformity               


B. distinction               


C. variety                    


D. variance

A.
B.
C.
D.