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. 
Herman Melville, an American author best known today for his novel Moby Dick, was actually more popular during his lifetime for some of his other works. He traveled extensively and used the knowledge gained during his travels as the basis for his early novels. In 1837, at the age of eighteen, Melville signed as a cabin boy on a merchant ship that was to sail from his Massachusetts home to Liverpool, England. His experiences on this trip served as a basis for the novel Redburn (1849). In 1841 Melville set out on a whaling ship headed for the South Seas. After jumping ship in Tahiti, he wandered around the islands of Tahiti and Moorea. This South Sea island sojourn was a backdrop to the novel Omoo (1847). After three years away from home, Melville joined up with a U.S. naval frigate that was returning to the eastern United States around Cape Horn. The novel White-Jacket (1850) describes this lengthy voyage as a navy seaman. With the publication of these early adventure novels, Melville developed a strong and loyal following among readers eager for his tales of exotic places and situations. However, in 1851, with the publication of Moby Dick, Melville's popularity started to diminish. Moby Dick, on one level the saga of the hunt for the great white whale, was also a heavily symbolic allegory of the heroic struggle of man against the universe. The public was not ready for Melville's literary metamorphosis from romantic adventure to philosophical symbolism. It is ironic that the novel that served to diminish Melville's popularity during his lifetime is the one for which he is best known today.

The passage implies that Melville stayed in Tahitibecause____________.
A.A. he had unofficially left his ship
B.B. he was on leave while his ship was in port
C.C. he had finished his term of duty
D.D. he had received permission to take a vacation in Tahiti

A.gorilla   
B.typical      
C.primary      
D.nursery

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.
The team tried for many years to win the competition and they finally brought it off.
A.required to do something           
B.failed in doing something
C.succeeded in doing something             
D.happened to do something

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.
Anne: "Make yourself at home".
John : "           ."
A.Thanks! Same to you.                                
B.That's very kind of you. Thank you.
C.Not at all. Don't mention it.               
D.Yes, Can I help you?

I. Phần trắc nghiệm
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Jane is a(n)……………. girl so she finds it easy to make friends with other students.
A.sociable
B.kind
C.honest
D.shy

The word "adversely " is closest in meaning to      .
A.considerably                 
B.quickly                      
C.admittedly                 
D.negatively.

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.As long as we can completely avoid stress in our lives, we need to find ways to cope with it.
B.Since we cannot completely avoid stress in our lives, we need to find ways to cope with it.
C.Because stress can completely be avoided in our lives, we need to find ways to cope with it.
D.After we can completely avoid stress in our lives, we need to find ways to cope with it.

_______(75)
A.but                  
B.although                   
C.whereas                  
D.while

Everyone wants to reduce air ................  (pollute)
A.polluted
B.pollution
C.polluting
D.pollutant

Such characters as fairies or witches in Walt Disney animated cartoons are purely ……….
A.imaginable              
B.imaginative             
C.imagining               
D.imaginary