Câu 1. 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.
During the 19th century, women in the US organized and participated in a large number of reform movements, including
movements to reorganize the prison system, improve education, ban the sale of alcohol, and most importantly to free slaves.
Some women saw similarities in the social status of women and slaves. Women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone
were feminists and abolitionists who supported the rights of both women and blacks. A number of male abolitionists, including
William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips also supported the rights of women to speak and participate equally with men in
anti- slavery activities. Probably more than any other movement, abolitionism offered women a previously denied entry into
politics. They became involved primarily in order to better their living conditions and the conditions of others When the Civil
war ended in 1865, the 14th, and 15th, Amendments to the Constitution adopted in 1868 and 1870 granted citizenship and
suffrage to blacks but not to women. Discouraged but resolved, feminists influenced more and more women to demand the right
to vote. In 1869, the Wyoming Territory had yielded to demands by feminists, but eastern states resisted more stubbornly than
ever before. A woman's suffrage bill had been presented to every Congress since 1878 but it continually failed to pass until
1920, when the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote.
Question 1. What is the topic of the passage?
A. Women's suffrage
B. Abolitionists
C. The Wyoming Territory.
D. The 14th and 15th Amendment
Question 2. What is not among the reformation movements of women?
A. reorganizing the prison
B. passing the laws
C. freeing the slaves
D. prohibiting the sale of alcohol
Question 3. According to the passage, why did women become active in politics?
A. to improve the conditions of life that existed at the time.
B. to support Elizabeth Cady Stanton
C. to amend the Declaration of Independence
D. to be elected to public office.
Question 4. The word "primarily" is closest in meaning to__________.
A. somewhat

B. above all
C. always
D. finally
Question 5. What had occurred shortly after the Civil War?
A. The eastern states resisted the end of the war.
B. Black people were granted the right to vote.
C. The Wyoming territory was admitted to the Union.
D. A women's suffrage bill was introduced in Congress.
Question 6. The word "suffrage" could be best replaced by __________.
A. citizenship
B. right to vote
C. pain
D. freedom
Question 7. What does the 19th Amendment guarantee?
A. Citizenship for women
B. Citizenship for blacks
C. Voting rights for women
D. Voting rights for blacks
Question 8. When were women allowed to vote throughout the US?


A. After 1920
B. After 1878
C. After 1870
D. After 1866
Question 9. What is wrong about William Lloyd Garrison?
A. He was living at the same time with Lucy Stone and Wendell Phillip.
B. He used to be a slave.
C. He supported the rights of women.
D. He believed in equality between men and women.

Question 10. What cannot be inferred from the passage?
A. The blacks were given the right to vote before women.
B. The abolitionists believed in anti- slavery activities.
C. A women's suffrage bill had been discussed in the Congress for 50 years.
D. The eastern states did not like the idea of women's right to vote.
Câu 2. 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.
Cities develop as a result of functions that they can perform. Some functions result directly from the ingenuity of the
citizenry, but most functions result from the needs of the local area and of the surrounding hinterland (the region that supplies
goods to the city and to which the city furnishes services and other goods). Geographers often make a distinction between the
situation and the site of a city. Situation refers to the general position in relation to the surrounding region, whereas site involves
physical characteristics of the specific location. Situation is normally much more important to the continuing prosperity of a city. If
a city is well situated in regard to its hinterland, its development is much more likely to continue. Chicago, for example,
possesses an almost unparalleled situation. it is located at the southern end of a huge lake that forces east-west transportation
lines to be compressed into its vicinity, and at a meeting of significant land and water transport routes. It also overlooks what is
one of the world's finest large farming regions.
These factors ensured that Chicago would become a great city regardless of the disadvantageous characteristics of
the available site, such as being prone to flooding during thunderstorm activity.
Similarly, it can be argued that much of New York City’s importance stems from its early and continuing advantage of
situation. Philadelphia and Boston both originated at about the same time as New York and shared New York's location at the
western end of one of the world's most important oceanic trade routes, but only New York possesses an easy-access
functional connection (the Hudson-Mohawk lowland) to the vast Midwestern hinterland. This account does not alone explain
New York's primacy, but it does include several important factors. Among the many aspects of situation that help to explain why
some cities grow and others do not. Original location on a navigable waterway seems particularly applicable. Of course, such
characteristic as slope, drainage, power resources, river crossings, coastal shapes, and other physical characteristics help to
determine city location, but such factors are normally more significant in early stages of city development than later.
Question 11. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The development of trade routes through United States cities
B. Contrasts in settlement patterns in United States
C. Historical differences among three large United States cities

D. The importance of geographical situation in the growth of United States cities
Question 12. The word “ingenuity” is closest in meaning to__________.
A. wealth
B. resourcefulness
C. traditions
D. organization
Question 13. The passage suggests that a geographer would consider a city’s soil type part of its __________.
A. hinterland
B. situation
C. site
D. function
Question 14. According to the passage, a city’s situation is more important than its site in regard to the city’s__________.


A. long-term growth and prosperity
B. ability to protect its citizenry
C. possession of favorable weather conditions
D. need to import food supplies
Question 15. The author mentions each of the following as an advantage of Chicago’s location EXCEPT its__________.
A. hinterland
B. nearness to a large lake
C. position in regard to transport routes
D. flat terrain
Question 16. The word “characteristics” is closest in meaning to__________.
A. choices
B. attitudes
C. qualities
D. inhabitants
Question 17. The primary purpose of paragraph 1 is to__________.
A. summarize past research and introduce a new study

B. describe a historical period
C. emphasize the advantages of one theory over another
D. define a term and illustrate it with an example
Question 18. According to the passage, Philadelphia and Boston are similar to New York City in __________.
A. size of population
B. age
C. site
D. availability of rail transportation
Question 19. The word “functional” is closest in meaning to__________.
A. alternate
B. unknown
C. original
D. usable
Question 20. The word “it” refers to__________.
A. account
B. primacy
C. connection
D. hinterland

Câu 3. 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.
Culture is a word in common use with complex meanings, and is derived, like the term broadcasting, from the
treatment and care of the soil and of what grows on it. It is directly related to cultivation and the adjectives cultural and cultured
are part of the same verbal complex. A person of culture has identifiable attributes, among them a knowledge of and interest in
the arts, literature, and music. Yet the word culture does not refer solely to such knowledge and interest nor, indeed, to
education. At least from the 19th century onwards, under the influence of anthropologists and sociologists, the word culture has
come to be used generally both in the singular and the plural (cultures) to refer to a whole way of life of people, including their
customs, laws, conventions, and values.
Distinctions have consequently been drawn between primitive and advanced culture and cultures, between elite and
popular culture, between popular and mass culture, and most recently between national and global cultures. Distinctions have

been drawn too between culture and civilization; the latter is a word derived not, like culture or agriculture, from the soil, but
from the city. The two words are sometimes treated as synonymous. Yet this is misleading. While civilization and barbarism are
pitted against each other in what seems to be a perpetual behavioral pattern, the use of the word culture has been strongly
influenced by conceptions of evolution in the 19th century and of development in the 20th century. Cultures evolve or develop.
They are not static. They have twists and turns. Styles change. So do fashions. There are cultural processes. What, for example,
the word cultured means has changed substantially since the study of classical (that is, Greek and Roman) literature, philosophy,


and history ceased in the 20th century to be central to school and university education. No single alternative focus emerged,
although with computers has come electronic culture, affecting kinds of study, and most recently digital culture. As cultures
express themselves in new forms not everything gets better or more civilized.
The multiplicity of meanings attached to the word made and will make it difficult to define. There is no single,
unproblematic definition, although many attempts have been made to establish one. The only non-problematic definitions go
back to agricultural meaning (for example, cereal culture or strawberry culture) and medical meaning (for example, bacterial
culture or penicillin culture). Since in anthropology and sociology we also acknowledge culture clashes, culture shock, and
counter-culture, the range of reference is extremely wide.
Question 21. According to the passage, the word culture____________.
A. is related to the preparation and use of land for farming
B. develops from Greek and Roman literature and history
C. comes from a source that has not been identified
D. derives from the same root as civilization does
Question 22. It is stated in paragraph 1 that a cultured person____________.
A. has a job related to cultivation
B. takes care of the soil and what grows on it
C. has knowledge of arts, literature, and music
D. does a job relevant to education
Question 23. The author remarks that culture and civilization are the two words that____________.
A. share the same word formation pattern
B. are both related to agriculture and cultivation
C. have nearly the same meaning

D. do not develop from the same meaning
Question 24. It can be inferred from the passage that since the 20th century____________.
A. schools and universities have not taught classical literature, philosophy, and history
B. classical literature, philosophy, and history have been considered as core subjects
C. classical literature, philosophy, and history have not been taught as compulsory subjects
D. all schools and universities have taught classical literature, philosophy, and history
Question 25. The word “attributes” in paragraph 1 most likely means____________.
A. aspects
B. fields
C. qualities
D. skills
Question 26. It is difficult to give the definitions of the word culture EXCEPT for its____________.
A. agricultural and medical meanings
B. historical and figurative meanings
C. philosophical and historical meanings
D. sociological and anthropological meanings
Question 27. The passage mainly discusses____________.
A. the distinction between culture and civilization
B. the figurative meanings of the word culture
C. the derivatives of the word culture
D. the multiplicity of meanings of the word culture