Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Câu 1: I could see the finish line and thought I was home and dry.


A. hopeless 


B. hopeful  


C. successful  


D. unsuccessful
Câu 2: Carpets from countries such as Persia and Afghanistan often fetch high prices in the United States.


A. Artifacts


B. Pottery     


C. Rugs 


D. Textiles
Câu 3: Though many scientific breakthroughs have resulted from mishaps it has taken brilliant thinkers to recognize their potential.


A. accidents      


B. misunderstandings  


C. incidentals   


D. misfortunes

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B.
C.
D.

Đọc kỹ đoạn văn sau và chọn phương án đúng (ứng với A, hoặc B, C, D) cho mỗi câu từ 36 đến 44.     The ocean bottom – a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth – is a vast frontier that even today is largely unexplored and uncharted. Until about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor was completely inaccessible, hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep. Totally without light and subjected to intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the Earth’s surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a hostile environment to humans, in some ways as forbidding and remote as the void of outer space. Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks and sediments for over a century, the first detailed global investigation of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1968, with the beginning of the National Science Foundation’s Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP).Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP’s drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the ocean’s surface and drill in very deep waters, extracting samples of sediments and rock from the ocean floor.    The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, the vessel logged 600,000 kilometers and took almost 20,000 core samples of seabed sediments and rocks at 624 drilling sites around the world. The Glomar Challenger’s core samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundred of millions of years ago and to calculate what it will probably look like millions of years in the future. Today, largely on the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challenger’s voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes that shape the Earth.     The cores of sediment drilled by the Glomar Challenger have also yielded information critical to understanding the world’s past climates. Deep-ocean sediments provide a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years, because they are largely isolated from the mechanical erosion and the intense chemical and biological activity that rapidly destroy much land-based evidence of past climates. This record has already provided insights into the patterns and causes of past climatic change – information that may be used to predict future climates.
Câu 1: The author refers to the ocean bottom as a “frontier” in line 2 because it


A. is not a popular area for scientific research


B. contains a wide variety of life forms


C. attracts courageous explorers


D. is an unknown territory
Câu 2: The word “inaccessible” in line 3 is closest in meaning to


A. unrecognizable      


B. unreachable  


C. unusable       


D. unsafe
Câu 3: The author mentions outer space in line 6 because


A. the Earth’s climate millions of years ago was similar to conditions in outer space.


B. it is similar to the ocean floor in being alien to the human environment


C. rock formations in outer space are similar to those found on the ocean floor


D. techniques used by scientists to explore outer space were similar to those used in ocean exploration
Câu 4: Which of the following is true of the Glomar Challenger?


A. It is a type of submarine.                                         


B. It is an ongoing project.


C. It has gone on over 100 voyages                             


D. It made its first DSDP voyage in 1968
Câu 5: The word ” extracting ” in line 11 is closest in meaning to


A. breaking     


B. locating


C. removing   


D. analyzing
Câu 6: The deep Sea Drilling Project was significant because it was


A. an attempt to find new sources of oil and gas


B. the first extensive exploration of the ocean bottom


C. composed of geologists form all over the world


D. funded entirely by the gas and oil industry
Câu 7: The word ” strength ” in line 17 is closest in meaning to


A. basis    


B. purpose    


C. discovery   


D. endurance
Câu 8: The word ” they ” in line 22 refers to


A. years     


B. climates   


C. sediments      


D. cores
Câu 9: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as being a result of the Deep Sea Drilling Project?


A. Geologists were able to determine the Earth’s appearance hundreds of millions of years ago.


B. Two geological theories became more widely accepted


C. Information was revealed about the Earth’s past climatic changes.


D. Geologists observed forms of marine life never before seen.
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Đọc kỹ đoạn văn sau và chọn phương án đúng (ứng với A hoặc B, C, D) cho mỗi câu từ 16 đến 25.     Every drop of water in the ocean, even in the deepest parts, responds to the forces that create the tides. No other force that affects the sea is so strong. Compared with the tides, the waves created by the wind are surface movements felt no more than a hundred fathoms below the surface. The currents also seldom involve more than the upper several hundred fathoms despite their impressive sweep.     The tides are a response of the waters of the ocean to the pull of the Moon and the more distant Sun. In theory, there is a gravitational attraction between the water and even the outermost star of the universe. In reality, however, the pull of remote stars is so slight as to be obliterated by the control of the Moon and, to a lesser extent, the Sun.     Just as the Moon rises later each day by fifty minutes, on the average, so, in most places, the time of high tide is correspondingly later each day. And as the Moon waxes and wanes in its monthly cycle, so the height of the tide varies. The tidal movements are strongest when the Moon is a sliver in the sky, and when it is full. These are the highest flood tides and the lowest ebb tides of the lunar month and are called the spring tides. At these times the Sun, Moon, and Earth are nearly in line and the pull of the two heavenly bodies is added together to bring the water high on the beaches, to send its surf upward against the sea cliffs, and to draw a high tide into the harbors. Twice each month, at the quarters of the Moon, when the Sun, Moon and Earth lie at the apexes of a triangular configuration and the pull of the Sun and Moon are opposed, the moderate tidal movements called neap tides occur. Thenthe difference between high and low water is less than at any other time during the month.
Câu 1: What is the main point of the first paragraph?


A. The waves created by ocean currents are very large.


B. Despite the strength of the wind, it only moves surface water.


C. Deep ocean water is seldom affected by forces that move water.


D. The tides are the most powerful force to affect the movement of ocean water.
Câu 2: The word “felt” in line 3 is closest in meaning to


A. based     


B. dropped


C. detected    


D. explored
Câu 3: The words “In reality” in line 8 are closest in meaning to


A. surprisingly  


B. actually    


C. characteristically  


D. similarly
Câu 4: It can be inferred from the passage that the most important factor in determining how much gravitational effect one object in space has on the tides is


A. size 


B. distance   


C. temperature   


D. density
Câu 5: The word “correspondingly” in line 11 is closest in meaning to


A. unpredictably


B. interestingly   


C. similarly    


D. unusually
Câu 6: What is the cause of spring tides?


A. Seasonal changes in the weather


B. The gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon when nearly in line with the Earth


C. The Earth’s movement around the Sun


D. The triangular arrangement of the Earth, Sun, and Moon
Câu 7: The word “configuration” in line 18 is closest in meaning to


A. unit 


B. center  


C. surface 


D. arrangement
Câu 8: Neap tides occur when


A. the Sun counteracts the Moon’s gravitational attraction


B. the Moon is full


C. the Moon is farthest from the Sun


D. waves created by the wind combine with the Moon’s gravitational attraction
Câu 9: According to the passage, all of the following statements about tides are true EXCEPT:


A. The time of high tide is later each day.


B. Tides have a greater effect on the sea than waves do.


C. The strongest tides occur at the quarters of the Moon.


D. Neap tides are more moderate than spring tides.
Câu 10: Where in the passage does the author mention movements of ocean water other than those caused by tides?


A. Lines 2-5             


B. Lines 10-11             


C. Lines 12-13                 


D. Lines 17-20
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Chọn phương án A, B, C hoặc D ứng với từ có phần gạch chân được phát âm khác với các từ còn lại 
Câu 1:


A. sometimes 


B. visit   


C. worship


D. with
Câu 2:


A. washed  


B. looked 


C. stopped 


D. played
Câu 3:


A. three 


B. through 


C.  month     


D.  than
Câu 4:


A. nation  


B. pollution 


C. question


D. information
Câu 5:

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 for each of the blank from 71 to 80 Proof that silence is golden for studying    The combination of music and study has long been a source of disagreement between adults and children. Patents and teachers alike maintain that silence is itmxmant when learning, (71)_____ youngsters insist that their favourite sounds help them concentrate.  Now a study shows that grown-ups have been (72)______ all along. Psychologists in Florida tested how fast students wrote essays with and without music in the (73)_______ . They found that the sounds (74)_____ progress down by about sixty words per hour. " This demonstrates clearly that it is difficult to (75)________ with listening and writing at the same time." said Dr Sarah Randall. She also came to the conclusion that it is a myth that insmimental music is less distracting than vocals. " All types of music (76)________ the same effect," she said in her report . " One's ability to pay attention and write fluently is likely to be (77)______ by both vocal and instrumental music. " she added.   Dr Randall claimed the research (78)_______ that the idea that music could improve performance was wrong.' Writing an essay is a complex task.You are recalling information and putting it in (79) _______ . An additional stimulus in the form of music is hound to distinct. But music is not the only distractor. What is (80) ______worrying is that more and more teenagers are studying in front of the television?
Câu 1: ________(71) 


A. besides


B. unlike 


C. despite


D.  whereas
Câu 2: ________(72) 


A. precise


B.  right


C. true 


D. valid
Câu 3: ________(73) 


A. circumstances


B.  surrounding


C. background


D. setting
Câu 4: ________(74) 


A. reduced


B. decreased


C. lowed 


D. slowed
Câu 5: ________(75) 


A. cope 


B. stand


C. support 


D.  manage
Câu 6: ________(76) 


A. made


B. kept 


C. brought 


D. had 
Câu 7: ________(77) 


A. bothered 


B. shocked 


C. interfered 


D. disturbed
Câu 8: ________(78) 


A. demonstrated 


B. presented


C. pointed


D. displayed
Câu 9: ________(79) 


A. order


B. pattern 


C.  arrangement 


D. line
Câu 10: ________(80) 


A. largely


B. partly 


C. mainly 


D. particularly 
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Give the suitable form of the words in brackets.
Câu 1: If we go on wasting water, there will be a (short) __________ of fresh water in a few decades.
Câu 2: According to the weather forecast, it will be (sun) __________ tomorrow.
Câu 3: Festivals are (culture) __________ factors which can help to understand a country better.
Câu 4: The street is (crowd) __________ with people watching parades.
Câu 5: Young people are now very (interest) __________ in chatting on the Internet.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose one suitable word to complete each of spaces in the following passage.members, day, food, prepare, together, celebration, cleanTet, the lunar new year holiday, is the most important (19)  ________ for Vietnamese people. It is a time for families to (20) ________  and decorate their homes and enjoy special (21) ________  such as sticky rice cakes. That is also a special occasion for family (22) ________  living apart to have free time to get (23) ________  or visit their relatives, friends, acquaintance who they can not see all the year round because of their business.
Câu 1: ____________(19)
Câu 2: ____________(20)
Câu 3: ____________(21)
Câu 4: ____________(22)
Câu 5: ____________(23)

A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose the word with the different pronunciation of the underlined part.
Câu 1:


A. blanket


B.  fashion   


C. champagne


D. material 
Câu 2:


A. children    


B.  chair 


C. machine   


D. chest 
Câu 3:


A. disappointed


B. reduced 


C. celebrated   


D. needed
Câu 4:


A. energy


B. eruption      


C. extensive        


D.  replace 
Câu 5:


A. hour  


B.  house


C. hot 


D. head 

A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose the word whose bold part is pronounced differently.
Câu 1:


A. extinction 


B. exhibit 


C.  exhaustion       


D. exist
Câu 2:


A. document  


B. education  


C. endangered 


D. secondary

A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to each italic one.
Câu 1: Impressed as we were by the new cinema, we found it rather expensive.  


A. We weren't as much impressed by the new cinema's look as its cost.


B.  The new cinema was more expensive than we expected.


C. We were very impressed by the new cinema, but found it rather expensive.


D. We were not impressed by the new cinema at all because it looked rather expensive.
Câu 2: Even though some events were cancelled, thousands of people attended the festival.  


A. In spite some cancelled events, thousands of people attended the festival.


B. Despite the cancellation of some events, thousands of people attended the festival.


C. No matter how many people attended the festival, some events were cancelled.


D. As some events were cancelled, thousands of people attended the festival.
Câu 3: I found myself at a loss to understand my closest friend's words.


A. I understood my closest friend's words completely.


B. I found my closest friend's words easy to understand.


C.  I lost heart and didn't understand my closest friend's words


D. I found my closest friend's words quite incomprehensible.
Câu 4: She should know better than to lend the money to him.


A. She knew it would be better not to lend him the money.


B. She oughtn't to lend him the money.


C.  She was just being helpful when she lent him the money.


D. It would be kind of her to lend him the money.
Câu 5: What you have been saying is beside the point.


A. You was honest to have said about the point like that .


B.  What you have been saying is quite irrelevant.


C. You have been talking too much about the point.


D. What you have been saying is beyond my expectation.

A.
B.
C.
D.