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: She simply took it for granted that the check was good and did not ask him any questions about it.


A. permitted it


B. accepted it without investigation


C. objected to it  


D. looked it over
Câu 2: Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2016 for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end.


A. determined


B. sure 


C. original 


D. certain

A.
B.
C.
D.

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.
Câu 1: We found the bad weather very inconvenient. We chose to find a place for the night.


A. The bad weather prevented us from driving any further.


B. Bad weather was approaching, so we started to look for a place to stay.


C. Seeing that the bad weather had set in, we decided to find somewhere to spend the night.


D. Because the climate was so severe, we were worried about what we’d do at night.
Câu 2: She tried very hard to pass the driving test. She could hardly pass it


A. Although she didn’t try hard to pass the driving test, she could pass it.


B. She tried very hard, so she passed the driving test satisfactorily.


C. No matter how hard she tried, she could hardly pass the driving test.


D. Despite being able to pass the driving test, she didn’t pass it.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
Câu 1: Kenny asked for permission to smoke, but his colleague couldn’t put up with the smoke.
- Kenny: “Do you mind if I smoke in here?”
- Alex: “_________.”


A. I’d rather you didn’t  


B. No, thank you


C. No, I couldn’t 


D. Yes, you can.
Câu 2: Hana and Jenifer are talking about a book they have just read.
- Hana: “The book is really interesting and educational.”
-Jenifer: “_________.”


A. That’s nice of you to say so.     


B. I’d love it.


C. Don’t mention it   


D. I couldn’t agree more.

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 questions.
Câu 1: Marco Polo’s account of his travels has been invaluable to historians.


A. valuable


B. important   


C. worthless  


D. priceless
Câu 2: Satish’s point of view was correct but his behavior with his father was quite impertinent.


A. healthy      


B. smooth   


C. inadequate


D. respectful

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 from 10 to 16.No educational medium better serves as a means of spatial communication than the atlas. Atlases deal with such invaluable information as population distribution and density. One of the best, Pennycooke’s World Atlas, has been widely accepted as a standard owning to the quality of its maps and photographs, which not only show various settlements but also portray them in a variety of scales. In fact , the very first map in the atlas is a cleverly designed population cartogram that projects the size of each country if geographical size were proportional to population. Following the proportional layout , a sequence of smaller maps shows the world’s population density, each country’s birth and death rates, population increase and decrease , industrialization, urbanization , gross national product in terms of per capita income, the quality of medical care, literacy, and language. To give readers a perspective on how their own country fits in with the global view, additional projections despite the world’s patterns in nutrition, calorie and protein consumption, health care, number of physicians per unit of population, and life expectancy by region. Population density maps on a subcontinental scale, as well as political maps, convey the diverse demographic phenomena of the world in a broad array of scales.
Câu 1: What is the main topic of this passage ?


A. The educational benefits of atlases. 


B. Physical maps in an atlas.


C. The ideal in the making of atlases.   


D. Partial maps and their uses.
Câu 2: According to the passage, the first map in Pennycooke’s World Atlas shows


A. the population policy in each country.  


B.  the hypothetical sizes of countries.


C. geographical proportions of each country.  


D. national boundaries relative to population.
Câu 3: In the passage, the word “invaluable” is closest in meaning to


A.  invalid


B. priceless   


C. shapeless 


D. incremental
Câu 4: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage ?


A. calorie consumption   


B. population decline


C. a level of education    


D. currency exchange rate
Câu 5: The word “layout” in the passage refers to
 
 


A.  the cartogram     


B. the geographical size


C. population      


D.  each country
Câu 6: It can be inferred from the passage that maps can be used to


A. identify a shortage of qualified labour.


B. pinpoint ethnic strife in each country.


C.  show readers photographs in a new form.


D. give readers a new perspective on their own country.
Câu 7: The author of the passage implies that


A. atlases provide a bird’s eye view of country.


B. atlases can be versatile instruments.


C. maps use a variety of scales in eachprojection.


D.  maps of countries differ in size.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence: 
Câu 1: Americans drive _______ third of _______ 400 million cars on _______ planet.


A. one-the-the


B. a-X-the 


C.  one-X-a   


D. a-the-a
Câu 2: _______ you miss this train you can _______ catch the next one.


A. Because-often


B. If-always


C. When-usually


D. Unless-sometimes
Câu 3: I thought I _______ him come in _______ we were having dinner.


A. hear-when


B. look-while


C. looked-when


D. heard-while
Câu 4: _______ I know likes the smell of bacon - _______ Mike does and he's a vegetarian.


A. Anyone-but


B. No one-while 


C. Everyone-even


D. Someone-and

A.
B.
C.
D.

Select the antonym of the following bold and underlined word in each sentence in the unit: 
Câu 1: The history of what we call cinema today began in the early 19th century.


A. lately


B. late


C. after


D. next
Câu 2: As the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones on the screen, a new cinema form appeared, the musical cinema.


A. talkative


B. vocal  


C. voluble  


D. deafening
Câu 3: Jack Dawson is a young and generous adventurer.


A. petty


B. small


C. narrow


D. meaningful

A.
B.
C.
D.

Select the synonym of the following bold and underlined word in each sentence in the unit: 
Câu 1: At that time scientists discovered that when a sequence of still pictures was set in motion, they could give the feeling of moment.


A. detected 


B. founded


C. knew  


D. saw
Câu 2: In the first two decades of its existence, the cinema developed rapidly.


A. stressed


B. enlarged


C. progressed


D. ripened
Câu 3: They used changes of scene and camera positions to tell a story, with actors playing character parts.
  


A. makeup


B. feature


C. position


D. figure

A.
B.
C.
D.

Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group: 
Câu 1:


A. cinema               


B. existence


C. sequence    sequence   


D. set
Câu 2:


A. developed


B. used                      


C. played


D. enjoyed
Câu 3:


A. motion       


B. position


C.  production


D. decision

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 questionsThunderstorms, with their jagged bursts of lightning and roaring thunder, are actually one of nature’s primary mechanisms for transferring heat from the surface of the earth into the atmosphere. A thunderstorm starts when low-lying pockets of warm air from the surface of the earth begin to rise. The pockets of warm air float upward through the air above that is both cooler and heavier. The rising pockets cool as their pressure decreases, and their latent heat is released above the condensation line through the formation of cumulus clouds.What will happen with these clouds depends on the temperature of the atmosphere. In winter, the air temperature differential between higher and lower altitudes is not extremely great, and the temperature of the rising air mass drops more slowly. During these colder months, the atmosphere, therefore, tends to remain rather stable. In summer, however, when there is a high accumulation of heat near the earth’s surface, in direct contrast to the considerably colder air higher up, the temperature differential between higher and lower altitudes is much more pronounced. As warm air rises in this type of environment, the temperature drops much more rapidly than it does in winter; when the temperature drops more than 4 degrees Fahrenheit per thousand feet of altitude, cumulus clouds aggregate into a single massive cumulonimbus cloud, or thunderhead.In isolation, a single thunderstorm is an impressive but fairly benign way for Mother Earth to defuse trapped heat from her surface; thunderstorms, however, can appear in concert, and the resulting show, while extremely impressive, can also prove extraordinarily destructive. When there is a large-scale collision between cold air and warm air masses during the summer months, a squall line, or series of thunderheads, may develop. It is common for a squall line to begin when an advancing cold front meets up with and forces itself under a layer of warm and moist air, creating a line of thunderstorms that races forward at speeds of approximately forty miles per hour. A squall line, which can be hundreds of miles long and can contain fifty distinct thunderheads, is a magnificent force of nature with incredible potential for destruction. Within the squall line, often near its southern end, can be found supercells, long-lived rotating storms of exceptional strength that serve as the source of tornadoes.
Câu 1: The topic of the passage is ________.


A. the development of thunderstorms and squall lines


B. the devastating effects of tornadoes


C. cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds


D. the power of tornadoes
Câu 2: The word “mechanisms” in paragraph 1 is most likely ________.


A. machines


B. motions     


C. methods   


D. materials
Câu 3: It can be inferred from the passage that, in summer, ________.


A. there is not a great temperature differential between higher and lower altitudes


B. the greater temperature differential between higher and lower altitudes makes thunderstorms more likely to occur


C. there is not much cold air higher up in the atmosphere


D. the temperature of rising air drops more slowly than it does in winter
Câu 4: The word “benign” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.


A. harmless 


B. beneficial  


C. ferocious


D. spectacular
Câu 5: The expression “in concert” in paragraph 3 could best be replaced by ________.


A. as a chorus 


B. with other musicians  


C. as a cluster   


D. in a performance
Câu 6: The word “itself” in paragraph 3 refers to ________.


A. a large-scale collision   


B. a squall line


C. an advancing cold front   


D. a layer of warm and moist air
Câu 7: All of the following are mentioned in the passage about supercells EXCEPT that they ________.


A. are of short duration   


B. have circling winds


C. have extraordinary power 


D. can give birth to tornadoes
Câu 8: This reading would most probably be assigned in which of the following courses?


A. Geography  


B. Meteorology    


C. Marine Biology 


D. Chemistry
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