The first people who used the term “blockbuster” were __________ .
A.theatergoers in Britain
B.the British military
C.Hollywood producers
D.the American military

Not all teenagers are well ________for their future jobs when they are at high schools.
  
A.prepared                
B.interested                      
C.satisfied                     
D.concerned

Make a question for the underlized part


A.When did she talked to him? 
B.How long she talked to him?
C.How long did she talk to him?
D. How long does she talk to him?

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.
The word “layout” in the passage refers to
 
 
A. the cartogram     
B.the geographical size
C.population      
D. each country

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 37 to 44.
Life Writings
The diary and the letter were the most extensively practiced forms of life writings in eighteenth-century America. From the numerous examples of these two types of writing from the period, a portrait of daily life of the period can be gleaned.
Many of the diaries that were kept during this period were life diaries by authors interested in maintaining day-to-day records of reflective self-examination, but some of the most compelling were situational diaries; those prompted by and limited to lengthy descriptions of personal reflections about a particular event. Three of the many situational journals of this period are those written by Sarah Kemble Knight, William Burd II, and Dr. Alexander Hamilton. Sarah Kemble Knight's diary of her five-month trip at the end of 1704 and the beginning of 1705 from Boston to New Haven to New York and back again to Boston was published more than a century later as The Journal of Madam Knight. Though this diary does include an account of the hardship that she encountered along the way, it is principally composed of humorous descriptions of and commentary on the hospitality that she was offered and the manners of those that she encountered. William Burd II kept two diaries to describe his experiences on a 1729 surveying expedition to settle a border dispute between Virginia and North Carolina. One of the diaries, History of the Dividing Line between Virginia and North Carolina, was published in 1842, while its companion, Secret Diary, was published in 1929. In these diaries, Burd used a humorous and satirical approach to describe not just the day-to-day events of the trip but also the characteristics which set his beloved Virginia culture apart from the (in his opinion) decidedly less praiseworthy culture of those non-Virginians that he encountered in his trip. Dr. Alexander Hamilton's Itinerarium (1744) describes a four-month voyage of discovery undertaken by Hamilton through the mid-Atlantic and New England colonies; in the diary that he kept of this trip. Hamilton provides considerable commentary on the social customs of various areas, comparing the customs and culture of the better homes of the American colonies with those of the great salons of Europe.
Letter-writing also held a place of importance in eighteenth-century America (indeed, the ability to produce cultured letters was considered a form of art), and many letters extant from that period provide insights into the culture, mores, and styles of written communication of that era. Many of the letter writers employed devices in common usage in European models of the time, demonstrating that letter writers felt a sense of cohesiveness with the cultured classes of Europe: John and Abigail Adams signed the names Lysander and Constantia to their early letters, while Thomas Jefferson created an elaborate dialogue between his head and his heart to discuss the nature of friendship in a 1786 letter to Maria Cosway. The variety of purposes that these letters served provides additional insight into the priorities of the society of the time. The letters were used to cement love matches and friendships, as the previously mentioned letters did; they were the primary method for relaying news among family and friends who were scattered across various geographic locations; they were often used as a means of carrying out business in this era before more rapid long-distance communication; they were often used used as a way of sharing professional, social, or political ideas among leaders in various fields who perhaps had no other way to get together and exchange ideas.
The word “gleaned” in paragraph 1 could best be replaced by ______.
A.left out        
B.pulled up           
C.taken back 
D.put together

There is a possibility of better weather tomorrow. It ..............fine tomorrow
A.should be
B.will be
C.might be
D.must be

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.
The Prime Minister failed to explain the cause of the economic crisis, he did not offer any solutions.
A.Although the Prime Minister explained the cause of the economic crisis, he failed to offer any solutions.
B.Not only did the Prime Minister explain the cause of the economic crisis, but he also offered solutions.
C.The Prime Minister offered some solutions based on the explanation of the cause of the economic crisis.
D.The Prime Minister didn’t explain the cause of the economic crisis, nor did he offer any solutions.

I know that if I start watching a soap opera, I immediately become hopelessly addictive.
A.addictive                           
B.if   
C.watching                  
D.hopelessly

Trương THPT Minh Khai - Hà Tĩnh - năm 2013-2014
Đề số 2
Câu 1: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others
2
A.earn
B.learn 
C.search
D.clear

It’s very wonderful to spend the weekend in the countryside. Spending ___________________________________________ .
A.
B.
C.
D.