MOCK TEST 13
Find the word/phrase that has the opposite meaning to the underlined part.
1.I won’t change my mind no matter what you say.
A: consider my decision
B: alter my decision
C: make my decision
D: delay my decision
Đáp án : won’t change my mind: không thay đổi quyết định > < alter my decision: thay đổi quyết định.
Phương án sai: make my decision: đưa ra quyết đinh.
Phương án sai: delay my decision: trì hoãn việc quyết định.
Phương án sai: consider my decision: xem xét quyết định.
2.The only people he looks up to is his grandparents.
A: looks down to
B: looks down on
C: looks out for
D: looks out of
Đáp án : looks up to: tôn trọng, kính trọng > < looks down on: khinh bỉ, coi thường.
Nghĩa của câu: Những người duy nhất anh ấy kính trọng là ông bà anh ấy.
Find out the mistake from the underlined parts in each of the following sentences.
3.Nora hardly never misses an opportunity to play in the tennis tournaments.
Đáp án : hardly never Sửa: hardly never => hardly ever/almost never: gần như không bao giờ.
Nghĩa của câu: Nora gần như không bao giờ bỏ lỡ cơ hội thi đấu trong các giải đấu tennis.
4.In a person’s lifetime, the brain can store 10 trillion pieces of informations.
Đáp án : informations Sửa: informations => information (danh từ không đếm được)
Nghĩa của câu: Trong cuộc đời của một người, bộ não có thể chứa 10 nghìn tỷ mảnh thông tin.
5.The surface of the tongue covered with tiny taste buds.
Đáp án : covered Chủ ngữ là “The surface of the tongue” nên động từ phải được chia ở dạng bị động.
Sửa: covered => is covered Nghĩa của câu: Bề mặt của lưỡi được bao phủ bởi những chồi vị giác tí hon.
6.Fertilizer, which is added to the soil to replace or increase plant nutrients, include animal and green
manure, fish and bone meal, and compost.
Đáp án : include Vì chủ ngữ là Fertilizer nên động từ phải chia ở ngôi thứ ba số ít. Sửa: include => includes

Nghĩa của câu: Phân bón, thành phần được thêm vào đất để thay thế hoặc làm tăng chất dinh dưỡng cho đất,
gồm có phân động vật và phân xanh, bột cá và bột xương, và phân trộn.
7.She wishes we didn’t send her the candy yesterday because she’s on a diet.
Đáp án : didn’t send Đây là câu mong ước không có thật trong quá khứ. Sửa: didn’t send => hadn’t sent
Nghĩa của câu: Cô ấy ước giá như chúng tôi không gửi kẹo cho cô ấy hôm qua vì cô ấy đang ăn kiêng.
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
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My earliest memory is one of incredible trauma. When I was five, my older brother and I crept downstairs
on Christmas morning to light candles on the tree, and his pyjamas caught fire. As he ran around the room in
flames, I knew I had to fetch a bucket of water, but shock rooted me to the spot and I could do nothing. He’s
still scarred, and the incident had a lasting impact on me, too. Ever since, I’ve been driven by a need to help
heal other people. When I was 18, I started studying medicine, but I never really got into it. The course
wasn’t what I’d expected and I took some time out to think about what I really wanted to do. But before I
had a chance to start a new course, I’d fallen in love and was married.
I was sad to give up my studies but I put our marriage first. We had three children, but by the time the third
was born, our relationship was falling apart. After nearly five years, I realized nothing was going to change
unless I made it happen myself, so I persuaded my husband to leave. It was the hardest thing I’d ever done.
(A) So there I was, 29, on my own, with three young children to bring up and very little money. Things
were bleak. I knew I had to get on with bringing up the children. (B) My salvation was living in such a
lovely place – (C) it was so beautiful that just looking at the landscape was a form of therapy. (D)
But back then, nature also supported us on a practical level. I realized that if I saved a few potatoes and
planted them, I could grow my own. I taught myself as I went along, and learned how to use birch leaves
and nettles from the garden to make soups. The children and I would go to the woods to pick blackberries
and collect mushrooms and firewood. I also kept bees for honey. I’d always loved the outdoors, but for the
first time I found myself looking at plants and thinking about what I could use them for. The children still
remember those times as idyllic, but I knew I couldn’t go on living like that forever. After a few years, as I
built up my confidence, I decided I had to start using my brain again. I considered resurrecting my medical
ambitions, but in the end I turned down a place to study medicine in Dundee as it would have meant

studying 70 hours a week, which was unfair on the children.
Then I heard about a homeopathy course, which was held one weekend a month in Newcastle. It was the
mid-eighties, when homeopathy wasn’t so widely accepted, but I had faith in it because my parents had used
it. Suddenly I had an energy I hadn’t felt for years because I had regained control of my life. Healing people
with homeopathy made perfect sense because it is based on the relationship between nature and ourselves,
rather than being about automatically prescribing drugs.
For the first few years after I qualified, my surgery was a room in my house. It was exciting – people told
their friends about me, so I never had to advertise, but it wasn’t easy working from home. The children were
very good but I felt guilty telling them they had to be quiet, so I started working from treatment rooms at
clinics alongside other complimentary therapists. But before long I found I was working six days a week. It
was exhausting traveling between clinics and it dawned on me that with the money I was paying in rent I
might as well have my own place.
Eight years ago, I opened my own clinic in the centre of Edinburgh. I was totally out of my depth in the
beginning and simply looked around until I found premises and took on the lease. I had no savings; I just
planned to pay the rent with the money as it came in. I had no idea to run a business back then. I was no
naïve I didn’t even know you had to pay rates, until I received a huge bill! But I began to realize that
running a business is a creative process, too. I was determined that my lack of business skills wouldn’t let
me down, so I taught myself the basics, kept things simple and, when things went wrong, I learned from my
mistakes.
Running the clinic was my dream. I have three treatment rooms and I treat my patients in one of them, while
the other two are rented to other therapists. There’s also a shop where I sell natural healthcare products and
natural beauty products that I’ve made. These days I work six days a week – three days spent treating people
and the other three in the shop doing the accounts and making products.
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I’ve learned you have to accept the negative things in life and use them to move on. You can’t hide from
them. It’s hard when things go wrong, but it does help to clear out all the things that don’t matter and lets
you focus on what does. But more than anything, I’ve realized that it’s worth pushing for what you want,
because if you are lucky enough to find work you believe in, it can totally transform you.

8.What effect did her brother’s accident have on the writer?
A: She blames herself for causing the accident.
B: She felt somehow responsible for the extent of his injuries.
C: She realizes now that there was nothing that she could have done to help him.
D: She felt that they were being punished for misbehaving.
Đáp án : She felt somehow responsible for the extent of his injuries. (Ở một góc độ nào đó cô ấy cảm thấy
phải chịu trách nhiệm cho những vết thương của cậu ấy.)
Dựa vào ý trong bài: I knew I had to fetch a bucket of water, but shock rooted me to the spot and I could do
nothing. He’s still scarred, and the incident had a lasting impact on me, too. Ever since, I’ve been driven by
a need to help heal other people. (Tôi biết tôi phải đi lấy một xô nước tới, nhưng cảm giác sốc làm tôi đứng
chôn chân tại chỗ và tôi không thể làm được gì. Cậu ấy vẫn bị sẹo, và sự việc xảy ra cũng đã để lại một ảnh
hưởng lâu dài tới tôi. Kể từ đó, tôi luôn bị dồn vào thế cảm thấy cần thiết phải giúp đỡ chữa lành vết thương
cho người khác.)
9.What initially stopped the writer from following a career in medicine?
A: She was uninspired by the course.
B: She decided she would prefer to get married and have a family.
C: She found the course too demanding.
D: Her husband wanted her to stay home and be a housewife.
Đáp án : She was uninspired by the course. (Cô ấy đã cảm thấy mất hứng thú với khóa học.)
Dựa vào câu trong bài: “The course wasn’t what I’d expected.” (Khóa học này không như những gì tôi
mong đợi.)
10.What happened after the writer split up with her husband?
A: She avoided mixing with other people socially.
B: She became as self-sufficient as she could in order to save money.
C: She reverted to a childlike state herself.

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D: She didn’t have enough money to feed her children.

Đáp án : She became as self-sufficient as she could in order to save money. (Cô ấy đã cố gắng tự kiếm đủ
tiền để tiết kiệm.)
Dựa vào ý trong bài: So there I was, 29, on my own, with three young children to bring up and very little
money. Things were bleak. I knew I had to get on with bringing up the children. (Vậy là chỉ còn lại mình tôi,
29 tuổi, với ba đứa con để nuôi dạy và rất ít tiền. Mọi thứ trở nên cô quạnh. Tôi biết tôi phải làm tốt việc
nuôi dưỡng những đứa con của mình.)
”But back then, nature also supported us on a practical level. I realized that if I saved a few potatoes and
planted them, I could grow my own. I taught myself as I went along, and learned how to use birch leaves
and nettles from the garden to make soups. The children and I would go to the woods to pick blackberries
and collect mushrooms and firewood. I also kept bees for honey”
11.What was the writer’s attitude to studying homeopathy?
A: She was unsure what it involved but believed it might make a good career.
B: She naturally accepted it because her parents had a homeopathy clinic.
C: She was worried that people would be negative about it because it wasn’t used much at that time.
D: She was positive about it because she’d had previous experience of it.
Đáp án : She was positive about it because she’d had previous experience of it. (Cô ấy cảm thấy khá lạc
quan về nó vì cô ấy đã từng có kinh nghiệm trước đó trong lĩnh vực này.)
Dựa vào ý trong bài: … I had faith in it because my parents had used it… (Tôi có niềm tin vào nó vì bố mẹ
tôi đã từng dùng đến biện pháp này.)
12.What does the writer say about her business skills in the beginning?
A: She couldn't afford to pay her first rates bill.
B: She was so well prepared that she managed to deal with problems as they came up.
C: There were more challenges to deal with than she realized at first.
D: She found it fairly simple to deal with the business from day one.
Đáp án : There were more challenges to deal with than she realized at first. (Có nhiều thử thách cần phải
giải quyết hơn cô ấy nhận ra lúc đầu.)
Dựa vào ý trong bài: …but it wasn’t easy working from home. The children were very good but I felt guilty
telling them they had to be quiet, so I started working from treatment rooms at clinics alongside other
complimentary therapists. But before long I found I was working six days a week. It was exhausting
traveling between clinics… (…Nhưng quả không dễ dàng khi làm việc ở nhà. Bọn trẻ rất ngoan nhưng tôi

cảm thấy có lỗi khi phải nhắc chúng giữ trật tự, do đó tôi đã bắt đầu làm việc ở các phòng trị liệu tại các cơ
sở y tế cùng với các nhà trị liệu phụ giúp khác. Nhưng cũng không lâu sau đó tôi nhận thấy rằng mình đang
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phải làm việc 6 ngày một tuần. Việc đi lại giữa các cơ sở y tế cũng khá mệt mỏi…)
13.How could one describe the writer’s approach to life?
A: Insecure and negative.
B: Sensible and carefully planned.
C: Flexible and positive.
D: Unreliable and without commitment.
Đáp án : Flexible and positive: linh hoạt và tích cực
14.What could best replace the phrase “it dawned on me” in paragraph 5?
A: Suddenly the Sun shines on me
B: Suddenly I guessed
C: Suddenly people told me
D: Suddenly I realized
Đáp án : Suddenly I realized: Tôi đột nhiên nhận ra rằng.
Phương án sai: Suddenly the Sun shines on me: Đột nhiên mặt trời chiếu vào tôi.
Phương án sai: Suddenly people told me: Đột nhiên mọi người nói với tôi rằng.
Phương án sai: Suddenly I guessed: Đột nhiên tôi đoán rằng.
15.What is the closest meaning to the word “bleak” in paragraph 3?
A: dim
B: desolate
C: raw
D: cutting
Đáp án: bleak = desolate: bơ vơ, cô độc. Phương án sai: cutting: chua cay, cay độc, gay gắt.
Phương án sai: raw: sống, thô. Phương án sai: dim: lờ mờ, không rõ ràng.
16.Where should the following sentence be put? “But there were times I felt I couldn’t cope and then
I’d go outside, lie on the grass and cry.”

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A: B
B: A
C: D
D: C
Đáp án : (B) Dựa vào ý trong bài: I knew I had to get on with bringing up the children. But there were times
I felt I couldn’t cope and then I’d go outside, lie on the grass and cry. My salvation was living in such a
lovely place - it was so beautiful that just looking at the landscape was a form of therapy. (Tôi biết tôi phải
làm tốt việc nuôi dưỡng những đứa con của mình. Nhưng cũng có những lúc tôi cảm thấy không thể đương
đầu nổi và khi đó tôi thường ra ngoài, nằm trên bãi cỏ và khóc. Sự cứu vớt linh hồn tôi lại nằm ngay ở một
nơi đáng yêu như vậy – bãi cỏ đẹp tuyệt đến nỗi chỉ cần nhìn ngắm khung cảnh đó cũng đã là một cách xoa
dịu tâm hồn rồi.)
17.What is the best title for the passage?
A: How effective homeopathy is
B: Starting up my own business
C: Haboring my dream
D: How to manage your own life
Đáp án : Starting up my own business (Bắt đầu công việc kinh doanh của riêng mình.)
Find the synonym of the underlined word.
18.Today, household chores have been made much easier by electrical appliances.
A: housework
B: domestic works
C: all are correct
D: homework
Đáp án : household chores = housework: việc nhà. Phương án sai: homework: bài tập về nhà.
Phương án sai: domestic works: những tác phẩm trong nước.
19.Please, will you just tidy your room, and stop making excuses.
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A: telling off
B: ignoring
C: saying sorry
D: complaining
Đáp án : making excuses = saying sorry: nói xin lỗi. Phương án sai: complaining: phàn nàn.
Phương án sai: ignoring: lờ đi. Phương án sai: telling off: mắng mỏ.
20.I would really appreciate your help with this assignment.
A: thank for
B: love
C: praise
D: think highly of
Đáp án : appreciate = think highly of: đánh giá cao
Phương án sai: praise: khen, tự hào. Phương án sai: thank for: cảm ơn vì. Phương án sai: love: yêu.
Mark the letter A, B, C or to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in
pronunciation in each of the following questions.
21.A: thought
B: bought
C: drought
D: brought
Đáp án : drought /draʊt/: Phần gạch chân phát âm là /aʊ/. Phần gạch chân của các từ còn lại phát âm là /ɔ:/.
brought /brɔːt/
thought /θɔːt/ bought /bɔːt/
22.A: missed
B: kicked

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C: pleased
D: fixed
Đáp án : pleased /pliːzd/: Phần gạch chân phát âm là /d/. Phần gạch chân của các từ còn lại phát âm là /t/.
kicked /kɪkt/
fixed /fɪkst/
missed /mɪst/
Choose one word whose stress pattern is different.
23.A: establish
B: accomplish
C: companion
D: acronym
Đáp án : acronym /ˈækrənɪm/: Trọng âm của từ rơi vào âm tiết thứ nhất. Trọng âm của các từ còn lại rơi vào
âm tiết thứ 2.
accomplish /ə'kɒmplɪʃ/
establish /ɪs'tæblɪʃ/
companion /kəm'pænɪən/
24.A: librarian
B: experiment
C: historical
D: entertain
Đáp án : entertain /entə'teɪn/: Trọng âm của từ rơi vào âm tiết thứ 3. Trọng âm của các từ còn lại rơi vào âm
tiết thứ 2.
librarian /laɪ'breərɪən/ historical /hɪs'tɒrɪkəl/ experiment /ɪks`perəmənt/
25.A: complete
B: almost
C: decide

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D: vacation
Đáp án : almost / ‘ɔ:lməʊst/: Trọng âm của từ rơi vào âm tiết thứ 1. Trọng âm của các từ còn lại rơi vào âm
tiết thứ 2.
decide /dɪ‘saɪd/
complete /kəm‘pli:t/ vacation /və‘keɪʃn/

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
HYDROGEN
Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe and was perhaps the first to form. It is among the ten
most common elements on Earth as well and one of the most useful for industrial purposes. Under normal
conditions of temperature, hydrogen is a gas. Designated as H, hydrogen is the first element in the periodic
table because it contains only one proton. (1) Hydrogen can combine with a large number of other elements,
forming more compounds than any of the others. Pure hydrogen seldom occurs naturally, but it exists in
most organic compounds, that is, compounds that contain carbon, which account for a very large number of
compounds. Moreover, hydrogen is found in inorganic compounds. For example, when hydrogen burns in
the presence of oxygen, it forms water.
The lightest and simplest of the elements, hydrogen has several properties that make it valuable for many
industries. (2) It releases more heat per unit of weight than any other fuel. In rocket engines, tons of
hydrogen and oxygen are burned, and hydrogen is used with oxygen for welding torches that produce
temperatures as high as 4,000 degrees F and can be used in cutting steel. Fuel cells to generate electricity
operate on hydrogen and oxygen.
(3) Hydrogen also serves to prevent metals from tarnishing during heat treatments by removing the oxygen
from them. Although it would be difficult to remove the oxygen by itself, hydrogen readily combines
oxygen to form water, which can be heated to steam and easily removed . (4) Furthermore, hydrogen is one
of the coolest refrigerants. It does not become a liquid until it reaches temperatures of -425 degrees F. Pure
hydrogen gas is used in large electric generators to cool the coils.
Future uses of hydrogen include fuel for cars, boats, planes, and other forms of transportation that currently
require petroleum products. These fuels would be lighter, a distinct advantage in the aerospace industry, and
they would also be cleaner, thereby reducing pollution in the atmosphere.
Hydrogen is also useful in the food industry for a process known as hydrogenation. Products such as

margarine and cooking oils are changed from liquids to semisolids by combining hydrogen with their
molecules. Soap manufacturers also use hydrogen for this purpose.
In addition, in the chemical industry, hydrogen is used to produce ammonia, gasoline, methyl alcohol, and
many other important products.
26.What is the author’s main purpose in the passage?
A: To explain the industrial uses of hydrogen.
B: To give examples of how hydrogen and oxygen combine.

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C: To describe the origin of hydrogen in the universe.
D: To discuss the process of hydrogenation.
Đáp án : To explain the industrial uses of hydrogen. ( Giải thích về mục đích sử dụng của khí hydro trong
công nghiệp.)
Phương án “To describe the origin of hydrogen in the universe.” sai: Mô tả nguồn gốc của khí hydro trong
vũ trụ.
Phương án “To discuss the process of hydrogenation.” sai: Thảo luận về sự hydro hóa.
Phương án “To give examples of how hydrogen and oxygen combine.” sai: Đưa ra ví dụ về việc làm thế nào
để kết hợp hydro với oxy.
27.How can hydrogen be used to cut steel?
A: By heating the hydrogen with oxygen to a very high temperature.
B: By heating the steel to a very high temperature.
C: By cooling the steel to a very low temperature.
D: By cooling the hydrogen with oxygen to a very low temperature.
Đáp án : By heating the hydrogen with oxygen to a very high temperature.: (Bằng cách đốt nóng khí hydro
cùng với ôxy đến một nhiệt độ rất cao)
Dựa vào ý trong bài: In rocket engines, tons of hydrogen and oxygen are burned, and hydrogen is used with
oxygen for welding torches that produce temperatures as high as 4,000 degrees F and can be used in cutting
steel. (Trong các động cơ tên lửa, hàng tấn khí hydro và oxy được đốt cháy, và khí hydro được sử dụng cùng

với khí oxy để sản sinh ra một ngọn lửa hàn có nhiệt độ cao lên đến 4.000 độ F và có thể được sử dụng để
cắt thép.)
28.The word readily in sentence “Although it would be difficult to remove the oxygen by itself, hydrogen
readily combines oxygen to form water, which can be heated to steam and easily removed.” (paragraph
3) could best be replaced by ___.
A: usually
B: slowly
C: completely
D: easily
Đáp án : readily = easily: một cách dễ dàng. Phương án sai: completely: một cách hoàn toàn.
Phương án sai: slowly: một cách chậm chạp. Phương án sai: usually: luôn luôn.
29.The word combining in sentence “Products such as margarine and cooking oils are changed from
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liquids to semisolids by combining hydrogen with their molecules.” (paragraph 4) is closest in meaning
to ___.
A: adding
B: trying
C: finding
D: changing
Đáp án : combining = adding: thêm vào. Phương án sai: trying: cố gắng.
Phương án sai: changing: thay đổi. Phương án sai: finding: tìm thấy.
30.The word them in sentence “Hydrogen also serves to prevent metals from tarnishing during heat
treatments by removing the oxygen from them.” (paragraph 3) refers to ___.
A: fuel cells
B: metals
C: treatments
D: products
Đáp án : metals: kim loại. Phương án sai: fuel cells: các pin nhiên liệu.

Phương án sai: treatments: các cách xử lý. Phương án sai: products: các sản phẩm.
31.Where in the passage does the author explain why hydrogen is used as a refrigerant?
A: 1
B: 2
C: 4
D: 3
Đáp án : (4) Furthermore, hydrogen is one of the coolest refrigerants. It does not become a liquid until it
reaches temperatures of -425 degrees F. (Hơn thế nữa hydro là một trong những chất làm lạnh lạnh nhất. Nó
không biến thành chất lỏng cho đến khi đạt -425 độ F.)
32.What does the author mean in sentence “Although it would be difficult to remove the oxygen by
itself, hydrogen readily combines oxygen to form water, which can be heated to steam and easily
removed.” (paragraph 3) ?
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B: Hydrogen cannot be separated from oxygen because it is too difficult.
C: Water can be made by combining hydrogen and oxygen.
D: It is easy to form steam by heating water.
Đáp án : Oxygen is removed by combining it with hydrogen and heating it. (Oxy được tách ra bằng cách kết
hợp nó với hydro và đun nóng nó lên.)
33.How does hydrogen generally occur?
A: It is released during hydrogenation.
B: It is contained in many compounds.
C: It is often found in pure form.
D: It is freely available in nature.
Đáp án : It is contained in many compounds. (Nó có mặt trong rất nhiều hợp chất.)
Dựa vào câu trong bài: … it exists in most organic compounds … (Nó tồn tại trong hầu hết các hợp chất hữu
cơ.)
34.The author mentions all of the following as uses for hydrogen EXCEPT ___.
A: to produce fuels such as gasoline and methyl alcohol

B: to remove tarnish from metals
C: to change solid foods to liquids
D: to operate fuel cells that generate electricity
Đáp án : to change solid foods to liquids (Dùng để biến thực phẩm dạng rắn thành dạng lỏng.)
Dựa vào ý trong bài: Products such as margarine and cooking oils are changed from liquids to semisolids
by combining hydrogen with their molecules. (Những sản phẩm như bơ và dầu ăn được chuyển từ dạng lỏng
sang dạng bán rắn bằng việc kết hợp hydro với các phân tử của chúng.)
35.It can be inferred from the passage that hydrogen ___.
A: has many purposes in a variety of industries
B: is used in many industries for basically the same purpose
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C: has limited industrial uses because of its dangerous properties
D: is too dangerous to be used for industrial purposes
Đáp án : has many purposes in a variety of industries (Có rất nhiều mục đích sử dụng trong nhiều ngành
công nghiệp.)
Dựa vào câu trong bài: … one of the most useful for industrial purposes… (Là một trong những chất hữu ích
nhất cho các mục đích công nghiệp.)
Choose the most suitable word/phrase to complete each of the sentences.
36.He had suffered ___ loss of memory before he died.
A: along
B: with
C: about
D: from
Đáp án : suffer from: chịu đựng, bị. Nghĩa của câu: Ông ấy đã bị mắc bệnh mất trí nhớ trước khi qua đời.
37.We set _____ at about seven o’clock this morning and we eventually arrived at half past four.
A: out
B: in
C: to

D: up
Đáp án : set out: bắt đầu (một hành trình, một khóa học). Phương án sai: set in: đến.
Phương án sai: set to: nỗ lực. Phương án sai: set up: thành lập.
Nghĩa của câu: Chúng tôi khởi hành lúc 7 giờ sáng nay và cuối cùng đã đến nơi lúc 4 rưỡi.
38.The musicians have been practicing for eight hours. Needless _____, many of them want to stop
soon.
A: to say
B: to say that

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C: it’s said
D: saying
Đáp án : needless to say: khỏi phải nói. Nghĩa của câu: Các nhạc sĩ đã luyện tập được 8 tiếng rồi.
Khỏi phải nói, nhiều người trong số họ rất muốn nghỉ sớm rồi.
39.Did you finally paint your house? It should ______ a long time ago.
A: been done
B: have been done
C: have done
D: be done
Đáp án: have been done
Ta có cấu trúc: should have done: diễn tả một hành động được cho rằng nên xảy ra trong quá khứ. Hơn thế
nữa, vì chủ ngữ là “it” nên cần sử dụng thêm thể bị động.
Nghĩa của câu: Cuối cùng thì bạn cũng đã sơn nhà rồi đấy à?
Đáng lẽ ra việc này nên được làm từ cách đây lâu rồi.
40.Staying in a hotel costs ______ renting a room in a dormitory for a week.
A: twice as much as
B: twice more than
C: as much twice as

D: as much as twice
Đáp án : twice as much as: nhiều gấp hai lần.
Nghĩa của câu: Việc ở khách sạn sẽ tiêu tốn gấp hai lần số tiền thuê một căn phòng ở khu nhà tập thể trong
một tuần.
41.He will only pass the examination if there is a(n) ______ in his study.
A: improvement
B: rise
C: progress

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D: increase
Đáp án : an improvement in: sự cải thiện trong việc gì.
Phương án sai: Progress là danh từ không đếm được nên không thể dùng với mạo từ a/an.
Phương án sai: A rise/increase in: sự tăng lên về số lượng của cái gì.
Nghĩa của câu: Anh ta chỉ có thể vượt qua kỳ thi nếu có một sự cải thiện trong việc học của anh ta.
42.Mr. Jackson challenged the government as to who exactly was _____ the country.
A: running
B: ministering
C: administrating
D: reigning
Đáp án : run: điều hành. Phương án sai: reign: trị vì. Phương án sai: minister: chăm sóc, chăm nom.
Phương án sai: administrate: trông nom, quản lí.
Nghĩa của câu: Ông Jackson nêu ra với chính phủ câu hỏi chính xác ai sẽ điều hành đất nước.
43.I tried to explain why I had been delayed but he ______ my excuse as pathetic.
A: dismissed
B: refused
C: ignored
D: disregarded

Đáp án : dismiss: bác bỏ. Phương án sai: ignore: lờ đi. Phương án sai: disregard: xem thường.
Phương án sai: refuse: từ chối. Nghĩa của câu: Tôi cố gắng giải thích tại sao tôi phải hoãn lại nhưng ông ấy
bác bỏ lời giải thích của tôi là có thể thông cảm được.
44.While Mr. and Mrs. Smith were asleep, the burglar picked the lock of their front door and crept
______ into their living room.
A: criminally
B: lazily
C: clumsily

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D: stealthily
Đáp án : stealthily: một cách bí mật. Phương án sai: lazily: một cách lười biếng.
Phương án sai: clumsily: một cách hậu đậu. Phương án sai: criminally: một cách tội lỗi.
Nghĩa của câu: Trong khi ông bà Simpson đang ngủ thì tên trộm đã cậy khóa cửa trước và bí mật bò vào
phòng khách.
45.However good Schoenberg ______ have been, I still find his modern music very difficult to
appreciate.
A: could
B: may
C: would
D: should
Đáp án : may have done: có thể là đã. Phương án sai: could have done: đáng lẽ đã có thể.
Phương án sai: should have done: đáng lẽ đã nên. Phương án sai: would have done: đáng lẽ là đã.
Nghĩa của câu: Dù Schoenberg giỏi như thế nào, tôi vẫn cảm thấy khó có thể đánh giá cao thể loại âm nhạc
hiện đại của anh ta.
46.I understand most of this, but there are still one or two points I should like you to clear ______ for
me.
A: out

B: up
C: off
D: away
Đáp án : clear up: làm sáng tỏ. Phương án sai: clear away: dọn bàn sau bữa ăn.
Phương án sai: clear out: quét sạch. Phương án sai: clear off: trả hết nợ.
Nghĩa của câu: Tôi hiểu hầu hết những điều này, nhưng còn một hai điểm tôi cần bạn làm sáng tỏ cho tôi.
47.Out of sight, out of _______. Don’t you remember this proverb?
A: height
B: mind
C: type

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D: light
Đáp án : mind Nghĩa của câu: Xa mặt cách lòng.
48.Once the fire _______ out, we had to sit in the cold.
A: lit
B: went
C: fell
D: came
Đáp án : go out: tắt (lửa). Phương án sai: light out: bất thình lình bỏ đi.
Phương án sai: fall out: cãi nhau. Phương án sai: come out: lộ ra.
Nghĩa của câu: Khi lửa tắt, chúng tôi phải ngồi trong lạnh lẽo.
49.The bus stops here in order to ______ passengers only.
A: get off
B: pick up
C: pull in
D: pull up
Đáp án : pick up sb: đón ai. Phương án sai: get off: xuống (xe, tàu…).

Phương án sai: pull up: dừng lại (xe). Phương án sai: pull in: (tàu) vào ga.
Nghĩa của câu: Xe buýt dừng ở đây chỉ để đón khách.
50.Why did you ride your bike yesterday? It was more _______ than driving my car.
A: economical
B: economy
C: economic
D: economically
Đáp án : economical (a): tiết kiệm. Phương án sai: economically (adv): về mặt kinh tế.
Phương án sai: economic (a): thuộc về kinh tế. Phương án sai: economy (n): nền kinh tế.
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Nghĩa của câu: Tại sao hôm qua bạn lại đi xe đạp? Nó tiết kiệm hơn đi ô tô.
51.Rarely ___________ acorns until the trees are more than twenty years old.
A: do oak trees bear
B: when oak tress bear
C: oak trees that bear
D: oak trees bear
Đáp án : do oak trees bear
Nghĩa của câu: Hiếm khi có cây sồi nào lại cho ra hạt bói trước khi nó được 20 năm tuổi.
52.Do you know the old saying “A _________ stone gathers no moss”?
A: rolling
B: wet
C: rotating
D: new
A rolling stone gathers no moss Một nghề cho chín, còn hơn chín nghề
53.As the order to abandon the ship was given, hundreds of people ___ into the icy water.
A: plunged
B: emerged
C: submerged

D: drowned
Đáp án : plunge (v): gieo mình (xuống nước). Phương án sai: emerge (v): xuất hiện.
Phương án sai: drown (v): chìm. Phương án sai: submerge (v): lặn xuống.
Nghĩa của câu: Khi được lệnh rời khỏi con tàu, hàng trăm người lao xuống dòng nước lạnh như băng.
54.You have a good voice. ________.
A: Well done

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B: You’ve done a good job
C: I appreciate it
D: Yes, of course
Đáp án : I appreciate it: Tôi rất cảm kích trước lời khen của bạn.
Phương án sai: You’ve done a good job = well done: làm tốt lắm.
Phương án sai: Yes, of course: vâng, dĩ nhiên. Nghĩa của câu: Bạn có giọng hát hay quá.
Tôi rất cảm kích trước lời khen của bạn.
Choose the most suitable word to fill in each gap in the following passage.
LONG HOURS AND HEALTH DON’T MIX
Women are much healthier when they (1)___ it easy, (2)___ a new survey. Those who work long hours are
more likely than men to indulge in unhealthy behavior such as eating snacks, smoking and drinking
caffeine. (Long hours have no such (3)___ on men.) One positive benefit of long hours for both sexes,
however, is that alcohol (4)___ is reduced.
The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is (5)___ of a wider study by
psychologists from the University of Leeds, into the effects of stress on eating. “Stress causes people to
(6)___ for unhealthy high-fat and high-sugar snacks in preference to healthier food choices,” says researcher
Dr. Daryl O’ Connor of the University of Leeds. “People under stress eat less than usual in their main meals,
including their vegetable (7)___, but shift their preference to high-fat, high-sugar snacks instead.”
“Our (8)___ are disturbing in that they show stress produces harmful changes in diet and leads to unhealthy
eating behavior,” continues Dr. O’ Connor. “An overwhelming (9)___ of evidence shows the importance of

maintaining a balanced diet in (10)___ of reducing the risk of cancer and cardiovascular diseases – and that
means eating a low-fat diet and five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.”
55.A: take
B: do
C: have
D: make
Đáp án : take it easy: thư giãn, không gắng sức làm việc.
56.A: reveals
B: sustains
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C: betrays
D: conceals
Đáp án : reveal (v): tiết lộ. Phương án sai: betray (v): để lộ ra.
Phương án sai: sustain (v): xác nhận. Phương án sai: conceal (v): giấu giếm.
56.A: conflict
B: impact
C: clash
D: contact
Đáp án : have an impact on: có ảnh hưởng đến. Phương án sai: be in contact with: giao thiệp với.
Phương án sai: clash (n): tiếng chan chát. Phương án sai: be in conflict with: xung đột với
58.A: acceptance
B: expenditure
C: consumption
D: beverage
Đáp án : consumption (n): sự tiêu thụ. Phương án sai: beverage (n): nước giải khát.
Phương án sai: expenditure (n): sự chi tiêu. Phương án sai: acceptance (n): sự chấp nhận.
59.A: the part
B: a part

C: part
D: all part
Đáp án : part of sb/sth: một phần của cái gì đó.

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60.A: opt
B: select
C: choose
D: design
Đáp án : opt for: chọn. Phương án sai: choose = select: chọn. Phương án sai: design: thiết kế.
61.A: immersion
B: emission
C: influx
D: intake
Đáp án : intake (n): lượng lấy vào. Phương án sai: influx (n): sự chảy vào.
Phương án sai: emission (n): sự tỏa ra. Phương án sai: immersion (n): sự nhận chìm.
62.A: instructions
B: institutions
C: findings
D: rulings
Đáp án : finding (n) kết quả. Phương án sai: instruction (n): lời hướng dẫn.
Phương án sai: ruling (n): sự cai trị. Phương án sai: institution (n): cơ quan.
63.A: sack
B: body
C: lump

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D: packet
Đáp án : body (n): số lượng lớn. Phương án sai: lump (n): cục.
Phương án sai: sack (n): bao tải. Phương án sai: packet (n): gói nhỏ.
64.A: senses
B: sessions
C: terms
D: moments

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Đáp án : in terms of: xét về mặt, ở khía cạnh. Phương án sai: at the moment: bây giờ.
Phương án sai: in session: đang họp. Phương án sai: in a sense: nghĩ về điều gì theo một cách nào đó.
WRITE
1. No one has bought this house. This house ___________________________________________.
2. She didn't take an umbrella so she got wet. She wouldn't _________________________________.
3. It was a mistake for him to buy that house. He shouldn’t _________________________.
4. Although Nam was very tired, he tried to finish his work.
However ___________________________________________.
5. We couldn't go camping because of the storm. The storm _____________________________.
1. This house hasn’t been bought. (phải dùng not vì có “no one” ở chủ động)
2. She wouldn’t have got wet if she had taken an umbrella.
3. He shouldn’t have bought that house.
4. However tired Nam was, he tried to finish his work.
Although + mệnh đề 1, mệnh đề 2 : mặc dù……nhưng……. => However +adj/ adv + S + V, mệnh đề
5. The storm prevented us from going camping.
Prevent sb from doing sth: ngăn cản/ ngăn chặn ai làm gì
WRITE ABOUT YOUR IDEAL
Everybody has an idol in their life and it can be a source of inspiration to walk on. Idols inspire us in many

ways from life style to behaviour or characteristics. For me, I particularly admire NickVujicic, who is wellknown for his extraordinary fortitude. Born without arms or legs, Nick Vujicic overcame his disability to
live not just independently but a rich, fulfilling life, becoming a model for anyone seeking true happiness.
Now an internationally successful motivational speaker, his central message is that the most important goal
for anyone is to find their life’s purpose despite whatever difficulties or seemingly impossible odds stand in
their way. Nick’s life has no worries but is always filled with joy. He can play football, skateboarding, and
swimming. The way of his living has inspired millions of people in the entire world. Therefore, he is always
an idol in my mind. (148 words)