I. Choose the word that has the underlined (letters) pronounced differ­ently from the others.

A.hair                         
B.chair                        
C.rain                         
D.air

________________ you study harder, you will fail your exam.
A.Unless
B.Although
C.Because
D.But

He is tired now. He __________ for a long time.
A.learned    
B.learns    
C.has learned        
D.has been learning

Viết lại các câu sau sao cho nghĩa tương tự với câu cho sẵn
The course finished with a big party.
A.At the end in the course, there was a big party.
B.At the end of the course, we have a big party.
C.At the end of the course, there was a big party.
D.At the end of the course, there were a big party.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
We cannot completely avoid stress in our lives. We need to find ways to cope with it.
A.Because stress can completely be avoided in our lives, we need to find ways to cope with it.
B.As long as we can completely avoid stress in our lives, we need to find ways to cope with it.
C.After we can completely avoid stress in our lives, we need to find ways to cope with it.
D.Since we cannot completely avoid stress in our lives, we need to find ways to cope with it.

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 following questions.
TEXAS
A Texas middle school is under fire after students say they have been banned from speaking Spanish in class. The students say their principal announced the rule last month over the intercom. Inside the walls of Hemptead Middle School, a language controversy is brewing. “There’s one teacher that said, ‘If you speak Spanish in my class, I’m gonna write you up,” 8th grader Tiffani Resurez says. Four students say their principal’s announcement – banning them from speaking Spanish in class – has given teachers and fellow students a hall pass to discriminate. “She was like, ‘No speaking Spanish.’ She told me that. I was like, ‘That’s my first language.’ She said, ‘Well, you can get out,” fellow classmate Yedhany Gallegos says. A letter sent home by the superintendent says, “Neither the district nor any campus has any policy prohibiting the speaking of Spanish.” The four students feel that the statement from the superintendent has not been made entirely clear that their school. “People don’t want to speak it anymore and don’t want to get caught speaking it because they’re going to get into trouble,” 6th grader Kiara Lozano says. Parents, like Cynthia Zamora, believe the school is not getting to the root of the problem. She wants to know why the “No Spanish” announcement was ever made in the first place. “I was very surprised that she would even go to such lengths,” Zamora says. Many students at the school grew up speaking Spanish at home, and they say it often comes as second nature when they’re talking to each other at school. “I’m not scared. I’m gonna keep speaking my language. That’s my first language, and I’m gonna keep doing it,” Lozano said. The principal has been placed on paid administrative leave while the district investigates. A spokewoman for Hempstead Independent School District has released a statement saying, in part, “The district is committed to efficiently and effectively resolving this matter with as little disruption to our students and their learning environment as possible.”
In the passage, the word “root” is closest in meaning to _______.
A.solution                   
B.cause                       
C.ground                    
D.time

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.
The boy dose not resemble his brother in any way.
A.take up              
B.look up                   
C. look after       
D.take after

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Having found guilty of racketeering, the mobster was sentenced to a number of years in prison.
A.Having found
B.of
C.was sentenced
D.a number

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
(A) A number of wildlife habitat reserves have been (B) established in order to (C) saving endangered (D) species from extinction.
A.A
B.established
C.saving
D.species

Nobody knows why___________ postponed until next week.
 
A. the meeting 
B. was the meeting    
C.did the meeting 
D. the meeting was