ĐỀ THI TUYỂN SINH ĐẠI HỌC 2010
Môn Thi: ANH VĂN – Khối D
ĐỀ THI THAM KHẢO
Thời gian: 90 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in each group.
1. a. mammal
b. material c. saddle
d. manage
2. a. table
b. lady
c. labour
d. captain
3. a. cost
b. most
c. host
d. post
4. a. there
b. chair
c. clear
d. hair
5. a. dear
b. beard
c. beer
d. heard
Pick out the word that has the stress pattern different from that of the other words.
6. a. computer b. museum c. important d. visitor
7. a. calculator b. intelligent c. impossible
d. American
8. a. compare
b. compose c. company d. consist
9. a. artificial

b. aristocrat c. arithmetic d. argument
10. a. maintain
b. entertain c. fountain d. retain
Choose the most appropriate answer from a, b, c or d.
11. The scientific study of the life and structure of plants and animals is called ______.
a. biology
b. philosophy
c. geography d. physic
12. The process of finding somebody / something, or learning about something that was not known about
before is called a /an ______.
a. finding
b. experiment
c. discovery d. development
13. The science of numbers and shapes is called ______.
a. physics
b. mathematics
c. biology
d. politics
14. When you ______food, you chance it into substances that your body can use.
a. cure
b. digest
c. invent
d. fee
15. A force of attraction that causes objects to move towards each other is called ______.
a. electricity
b. Evolution c. gravitation d. invention
16. Christopher Columbus ______ the New Continent quite by chance.
a. invented
c. experimented
b. discovered

d. developed
17. The telephone was ______ by Graham Bell.
a. discovered
b. cured
c. appointed d. invented
18. Issac Newton had to do many ______ before he could produce an electric lamp.
a. discoveries b. inventions c. experiments
d. developments
19. Most of the experiments are carried out in ______ .
a. laboratories b. farms
c. fields
d. schools
20. Charles Darwin was the father of the ______ of evolution.
a. practice
b. project
c. theory
d. problem
Read the passage and then decide which word (a, b, c or d) best fits each space.
It is estimated (the (21) ______ number is not known that worldwide some 60,000 newspapers
exists, with a (22) ______ circulation of nearly 500 million. However, the number of readers is (23) ______
greater-as many as three times the circulation figure.
This is because newspapers are shared, some are posted, and (24) ______ placed in libraries and
other (25) ______ places. Worldwide, about 8,000 of these newspapers are dailies. About a third of all
newspapers are published in North America, (26) ______ third in Europe, and the (27) ______ third in the
rest of the world. Countries with the highest newspaper (28) ______ are Britain, Norway, Denmark,

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Sweden, Japan, and the United States. Europe has nearly half of the world's total newspaper circulation,

North America about a quarter, and the rest of the world another quarter. Taking the world (29) ______ ,
the average circulation of dailies per 1,000 persons is about 100, but there are many parts of the world
where the modern newspaper is (30) ______ ever seen.
21. a. correct
b. exact
c. right
d. precise
22. a. combined b. connected
c. linked
d. mixed
23. a. even
b. more
c. far
d. very
24. a. the rest
b. another
c. the others d. others
25. a. public
b. common c. open
d. shared
26. a. the next
b. the other c. another
d. the last
27. a. spare
b. extra
c. left
d. remaining
28. a. readers
b. readership
c. buyers

d. subscribers
29. a. as a whole b. in all
c. generally d. on general
30. a. not
b. almost
c. scarcely d. seldom
Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
31. It's quite a long way, isn't it? We ______ about five miles by the time we get back, I'd say.
a. have walked
c. will have walked
b. had walked
d. would have walked
32. You can apply for a better job when you ______ more experience
a. have b. had
c. have had
d. had had
33. ______ I leave home ______ the journey is because the buses aren't so crowded.
a. The earlier...the easier
c. The earlier...the easy
b. The early...the more easy d. The early...the most easy
34. We ______ that game when we were younger.
a. use to play
c. used to play
b. used playing
d. use to play
35. If Mathew ______ his alarm clock, he wouldn't have overslept.
a. have set
b. set
c. had set
d. was setting

36. I decided to stay at home last night. I would have gone out if I ______ so tired.
a. wasn't b. weren't
c. wouldn’t have been
d. hadn’t been
37. Why did you stay at a hotel when you went to New York? You with ______ Barbara.
a. can stay
c. could have stayed
b. could stay
d. have stayed
38. Linda has lost her passport again. It's the second time this ______.
a. has happened
c. happened
b. happens
d. to happen
39. She tried to be serious but she couldn't help ______.
a. laughing
c. that she laughed
b. to laugh
d. laugh
40. 'Do you know where ______?' 'No, he didn't say.'
a. Tom has gone
c. has gone Tom
b. has Tom gone
d. Tom go
41. We gave ______ a meal.
a. at the visitors
c. the visitors
b. for the visitors
d. to the visitor
42. The ______ produced at our factory in Scotland.

a. good are
b. good is
c. goods are d. goods is
43. Is that my key, or is it ______ ?
a. the yours
b. you
c. have had d. yours
44. She doesn't live here ______.
a. no longer
b. some more
c. no more d. any longer
45. The young man seems very ______.

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a. sensible
b. sense
c. sensibly d. senses
46. I'm not very good ______ repairing things.
a. at
b. for
c. in
d. with
47. My boys always postpone ______ things.
a. done
b. do
c. to do
d. doing
48. A friend of mine phoned ______ me to a party.

a. for invite
c. so that inviting
b. to invite
d. invited
49. He's lazy. He never does ______ work.
a. some
b. any
c. no
d. none
50. I'll be in London next week. I hope to see Tom ______ there.
a. while I will be
c. during I will be
b. while I am
d. during I am
Choose the underlined part (a, b, c, or d) that is incorrect.
51. The rain came sudden and everybody got wet because nobody
a
b
c
had an umbrella.
d
52. Children nowadays seem to be more intelligenter than their
a
b
parents when they were at the same age.
c
d
53. When I came in, my father was talking to anyone so I went
a
b

c
out quietly.
d
54. I want to try on the blue skirt over there. Can you showing me
a
b
c
d
the changing room?
55. Can you make me a cup of coffee? No, there are no coffee left.
a
b
c
d
56. Ha Anh can now speak English more well than the last time I met him.
a
b
c
d
57. I am sorry that I could not go to your birthday party. Any
a
b
c
problems occurred and I could not go.
d
58. There are many ways to do this exercise but mine is the best good one
a
b
c
d

59. She can sing very beautiful and dance very gracefully but she
a
b
cannot do any difficult math exercise.
c
d
60. With this type of exercise, reads the questions first and then
a
b
read the text to find the correct answer.
c
d
Read the passage and choose the best answer.
Our demand for water is constantly increasing. Every year there are more and more people in the
world. Factories turn out more and more products and need more and more water. We live in a world of

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water. But almost all of it - about 97%-is in the oceans. This water is too salty to be used for drinking,
farming, and manufacturing. Only about 3% of the world's water is fresh. Most of this water is not easily
available to man because it is locked in glaciers and icecaps.
There is as much water on earth today as there ever was or will ever be. Most of the water we use
finds its way to the oceans. There, it is evaporated by the sun. It then falls back to the earth as rain. Water
is used and reused over again. It is never used up. Although the world as a whole has plenty of fresh
water, some regions have a water shortage. Rain does not fall evenly over the earth. Some regions are
always too dry, and others too wet. A region that usually gets enough rain may suddenly have a serious
dry spell and another region may be flooded with too much rain.
61. All of the following statements can be inferred from the text EXCEPT
a. We need more and more water.

b. The population of the world is increasing every year.
c. Most of the world’s water is locked in glaciers and icecaps.
d. Factories also need more water.
62. Which of the following is NOT true about the world’s water?
a. The vast majority of the world’s water is ocean (or salty) water.
b. Ocean water is salty enough to be used for drinking, farming, and manufacturing.
c. Most fresh water is locked in glaciers and icecaps.
d. The percentage of fresh water is very small.
63. What can be inferred about water?
a. The amount of water on earth is always the same.
b. Water will probably be exhausted.
c. Water can be used once only.
d. Most of the water we use is rain water.
64. It can be inferred from the text that ______
a. no region in the world suffers from a lack of fresh water.
b. rain does not fall equally everywhere on earth.
c. the world has plenty of fresh water in comparison with salty water.
d. a region that usually gets enough rain hardly ever has a dry spell.
65. The phrasal verb “turn out” in the second line is closest in meaning to.
a. sell
b. prove to be
c. switch off d. produce
Choose the sentence (a, b, c or d) which has it similar meaning to the original sentence.
66. George is a better mechanic than Arthur.
a. Arthur is not better than George at being a mechanic.
b. Arthur is not such a good mechanic as George.
c. Arthur is not better mechanic than George.
d. Arthur is worse than George at being a mechanic.
67. “Please let me borrow your bike, “ he said to her.
a. He asked her if she could let him borrow her bike.

b. He asked her to borrow your bike.
c. He asked her whether she would let him borrow her bike
d. He asked her to let him borrow her bike.
68. I wish I had chosen English to study at school.
a. The speaker studied English and now regrets doing so.
b. The speaker is not studying English.
c. The speaker regrets not choosing English to study at school.
d. The speaker regrets having chosen English to study.
69. The book interested me more than the film.
a. I thought the book was more interesting than the film.
b. I thought the book was more interested than the film.
c. I thought the book was as interesting as the film.
d. I thought the book was not as interesting as the film.

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70. The teacher did not allow the class to leave before 4:30.
a. The teacher made the class to stay until after 4:30.
b. The teacher made the class not leave until after 4:30.
c. The teacher made the class stay until after 4:30.
d. The teacher made the class leave after 4:30.
71. You need to support your ideas with facts and __________.
a) numbers
b) figures
c) informations
d) material
72. By and __________, the pupils are well-behaved.
a) by
b) from

c) forward
d) large
‘By and large’ has a similar meaning to ‘in general’
73. I’m sick and __________ of studying grammar!
a) cross b) tired
c) ill
d) bored
74. I never read the instruction manual. I learned how to use the computer by trial and __________.
a) error b) mistake c) test
d) experiment
75. Yesterday the Prime Minister made an important speech on the subject of law and __________.
a) rule
b) legal
c) punishment
d) order
76. Let’s settle this argument once and for __________.
a) ever b) all
c) always
d) once
77. When she died, she gave ________ all her money to a charity for cats.
a. away
b. out c. on
d. off
(a. away - If you give something away, you offer something without charging for it)
78. You boy! Don’t walk ________ when I’m speaking to you.
a. on
b. to
c. away
d. out
(away - ‘Walk away’ from someone is the opposite of walk towards to someone. Ouch!)

79. He’s fallen ________ his motorbike and broken his shoulder.
a. off
b. away
c. out of
d. down
(a. off - You get on a bike or a horse, so therefore you fall off.
b. away - ‘Fallen away’ is not correct.
c. out of - ‘Out of’ is the opposite of ‘in’ e.g. The baby fell out of the pram!
d. down - Someone can fall down, but not fall down something)
80. Would you mind taking ________ your shoes when you come inside?
a. away
b. on
c. off
d. out
(a. away - If you take something away, you move it to another place.
b. on - You can put on your shoes, but what’s the opposite of put on?
c. off – You take “off” what you put “on”. Correct
d. out - If you take something out, you put it outside.)
81. I don’t feel like cooking, let’s order a take-________. (There are two possible answers for this
question)
a. out
b. up
c. in
d. away
(Two answers are possible for this question
a. out - ‘Take out’ is correct, but is mainly used in American English – what do we say in British
English? Correct
b. up - ‘Take up’ is not correct.
c. in - If you take something in, you understand it. E.g. I couldn’t take in the bit about computers –
it was too complicated.

d. away - Take-away is a verb but in this case a noun (it can also be an adjective – take-away
food.. Correct)
82. Can you pick ________ a few things in the supermarket? We need milk, bread and loo rolls.
a. off
b. in c. up
d. away
(c. up - If you pick something up you buy, collect or get it. E.g. I’ll pick up the children from school.)
which have to be filled either “do” or “make” forms

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83. - Have you …….. a decision to go with them ?
- Not yet. I need time to think it over or I’ll …….. a mistake.
84. Today I’m very happy. I want to …………. some music now.
85. Is this yours ? It is ………. fashionably. - Wae!
86. Are you ………. trouble, class ? - Oh, no, we are....
87. This man has to ………. a monthly report.
88. Do I have to ………. washing up and the ironing ? - No, never!
89. Do you like the way I’ve ………. your hair ?
90. - Hello Nam! Is your sister at home ?
- Yes, she is. She is ………. the cleaning.
91. - Where are your children, Mrs Young ?
- They are in the kitchen, there are ………. cakes.
92. Mary always gets bored when ………. homework.
93. There police are ………. their business. There are sunning after the robber.
94. Mrs. Brown’s children are ………. too much noise outside the house.
95. Who ………. such a mess ? It must be ………. the tidying-up now.

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1B
11A
21B
31B
41C
51A
61C
71B
81A- D

2D
12C
22A
32A
42C
52B
62B
72D
82C

3A
13B
23C
33A
43D
53C
63A
73B


4C
14B
24D
34C
44D
54D
64B
7A

5D
15C
25A
35C
45A
55D
65D
75D

6D
16B
26C
36D
46A
56C
66B
76B

7A
17D

27D
37C
47D
57C
67D
77A

8C
18C
28B
38A
48B
58D
68C
78C

9D
19A
29A
39A
49B
59A
69A
79A

10C
20C
30C
40A
50B

60A
70C
80C

83- Have you made a decision to go with them ?
-Not yet. I need time to think it over or I’ll make a mistake.
84-Today I’m very happy. I want to make some music now.
85-Is this yours ? It is made fashionably. - Wae!
86-Are you making trouble, class ? - Oh, no, we are....
87-This man has to make a monthly report.
88-Do I have to do washing up and the ironing ? - No, never!
89-Do you like the way I’ve done your hair ?
90- Hello Nam! Is your sister at home ?
- Yes, she is. She is doing the cleaning.
91- Where are your children, Mrs Young ?
- They are in the kitchen, there are making cakes.
92-Mary always gets bored when doing homework.
93-There police are doing their business. There are sunning after the robber.
94-Mrs. Brown’s children are making too much noise outside the house.
95-Who made such a mess ? It must be done the tidying-up now.

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