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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from
the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 1. A. learns
B. keeps
C. cares
D. trains
Question 2. A. armchair
B. kitchen
C. catch
D. anchor
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the world that differs from the other three in
the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3. A. academic
B. inorganic
C. understanding
D. uncertainly
Question 4. A. disappear
B. arrangement
C. opponent
D. contractual
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.
Question 5. Modern skyscrapers have got a steel skeleton of beams and columns that forms a three-dimensional
grid, _________?
A. do they
B. do it
C. does it
D. haven’t they
Question 6. If Jim hadn’t tried to kill that millionaire, he ____________ in prison today.
A. wouldn’t have been B. hadn’t been

C. won’t be
D. wouldn’t be
Question 7. Henry ___________ into the restaurant when some his friends were having dinner.
A. went
B. was going
C. has gone
D. goes
Question 8. ____________ his good work and manners, he didn’t get a promotion.
A. Because of
B. In spite of
C. Even though
D. As a result of
Question 9. Can you tell me who is responsible _______________ checking passports?
A. to
B. in
C. for
D. about
Question 10. Ace Supplies, a Paris-based firm ___________ in office supplies, announced its plan to relocate
its.
A. is specializing
B. specializes
C. specialize
D. specializing
Question 11. I gave the waitress a $50 note and waited for my _____________.
A. change
B. supply
C. cash
D. cost
Question 12. Faraday was an ______________ in Davy’s laboratory.
A. assistance

B. assist
C. assistant
D. assisted
Question 13. My parents are really satisfied with ____________.
A. what I have done
B. what I had done
C. have done
D. what have I done
Question 14. Do you want to stop in this town, or shall we ______________?
A. turn on
B. turn off
C. go on
D. look after
Question 15. Lenses, ______________, are used to correct imperfections in eyesight.
A. are the forms of glasses and contract lenses B. in the forms of glasses and contract lenses
C. glasses and contract lenses which form
D. glasses and contract lenses may be form
Question 16. My grandmother ______________ her whole life to looking after her children.
A. pays
B. use
C. spends
D. devotes
Question 17. Making mistake is all _____________ of growing up.
A. bits and bobs
B. chalk and cheese
C. part and parcel
D. from top to bottom
Question 18. Our new classmate, John is a bit of a rough ________ but I think I’m going to like him once I get
used to him.
A. stone

B. rock
C. diamond
D. pearl
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.
Question 19. Each year about fifty hundred species of plants and animals are already being eliminated.
A. dropped
B. removed
C. kicked
D. tossed
Question 20. It is such a prestigious university that only good students are entitled to a full scholarship each
year.
A. have the right to refuse
B. are given the right to


C. are refused the right to
D. have the obligation to
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 21. My grandfather is becoming absent-minded. He often forgets things or does not pay attention to
what is happening near him.
A. retentive
B. forgetful
C. old-fashioned
D. easy-going
Question 22. The situation in the country has remained relatively stable for a few months now.
A. constant
B. changeable
C. objective

D. ignorant
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the
following exchanges.
Question 23. - Nam: “Would you like to join us for dinner after work?”
- Lan: “____________________.”
A. Thanks. You can cook dinner
B. I’d love to, but I have to finish my presentation for tomorrow
C. Thanks for your help, but I can cook dinner myself
D. What’s wrong with you?
Question 24. - Peter: “My father’s much better now”
- Tom: “____________________.”
A. Oh, I’m pleased to hear it
B. Oh, really? The doctor must be very famous.
C. Good news for you
D. Wonderful. Congratulations!
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29.
The warning of the Pacific Ocean has created weather pattern (25) ____________ strongly affect the world.
When the water is warm, the amount of rainfall in Indonesia and the surrounding regions decreases. Australia
could (26) ____________ experience a drought in many parts. On the other hand, Chile (which borders the
Pacific Ocean) is preparing for severe rainstorms. In Pakistan and northwestern India, the weather pattern
makes the rainy season weaker and makes the area much drier.
This happening is called El Nino and is used (27) ____________ weather forecasters to make long-range
weather predictions. They also know that El Nino will bring unusually rain to the southwestern part of the
United States and make the central part of the country drier at the same time.
According to research, weather forecasters (28) ____________ know about the coming weather with
certainty. Now everything has become completely different.
El Nino itself used to be predictable. It would occur every two to seven years. But now this weather pattern
is becoming more frequent. We cannot say when and how often tornadoes or cyclones occur. Scientists are
unsure of the reason for this (29) _____________ on the global scale either.

Question 25. A. what
B. when
C. that
D. whether
Question 26. A. even
B. ever
C. nevertheless
D. however
Question 27. A. on
B. by
C. to
D. at
Question 28. A. used to
B. get used to
C. are used to
D. used to be
Question 29. A. change
B. transfer
C. transformation
D. shift
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 30 to 34.
Why is it that flying to New York form London will leave you feeling less tired than flying to London
from New York? The answer may be a clear case of biology not being able to keep up with technology. Deep
inside the brain there is a "clock" that governs every aspect of the body's functioning: sleep and wake cycles,
levels of alertness, performance, mood, hormone levels, digestion, body temperature and so on. It regulates all
of these functions on a 24-hour basis and is called the circadian clock (from the Latin, circa "about" + dies
"day").
This body clock programmes us to be sleepy twice a day, between 3-5 a.m and again between 3-5 p.m.
Afternoon tea and siesta times are all cultural responses to our natural biological sleepiness in the afternoon.

One of the major causes of the travelers' malady known as jet lag is the non-alignment of a person's internal
body clock with clocks in the external world. Crossing different time zones confuses the circadian clock, which


then has to adjust to the new time and patterns of light and activity. To make matters more complex, not all
internal body functions adjust at the same rate. So your sleep/wake may adjust to a new time zone at one rate,
while your temperature adjusts at a different pace. Your digestion may be on a different schedule altogether.
Though we live in a 24-hour day, the natural tendency of the body clock is to extend our day beyond 24
hours. It is contrary to our biological programming to shrink our day. That is why travelling in a westward
direction is more body-clock friendly than flying east. NASA studies of long haul pilots showed that westward
travel was associated with significantly better sleep quantity and quality than eastward flights. When flying
west, you are "extending" your day, thus travelling in the natural direction of your internal clock. Flying
eastward will involve "shrinking" or reducing your day and is in direct opposition to your internal clock's
natural tendency.
One of the more common complaints of travelers is that their sleep becomes disrupted. There are many
reasons for this: Changing time zones and schedules, changing light and activity levels, trying to sleep when
your body clock is programmed to be awake, disruption of the internal circadian clock and working longer
hours. Sleep loss, jet lag and fatigue can seriously affect our ability to function well. Judgment and decisionmaking can be reduced by 50%, attention by 75 percent, memory by 20 percent and communication by 30
percent. It is often suggested that you adjust your watch as soon as you board a plane, supposedly to try to help
you adjust to your destination's schedule as soon as you arrive. But it can take the body clock several days to
several weeks to fully adjust to a new time zone.
Question 30. The main function of the body clock is to____________.
A. govern all the body's responses
B. regulate the body's functions
C. help us sleep
D. help us adapt to a 24-hour cycle
Question 31. Jet lag ____________________.
A. makes our body clock operate badly
B. cause our body clock to change
C. extends the hours of our body clock

D. upsets our body’s rhythms
Question 32. The word "malady" is closest in meaning to
A. illness
B. bore
C. thought
D. feeling
Question 33. According to the article, _______________.
A. various factors stop us sleeping when we fly.
B. travelers complain about the negative effects of flying.
C. flying seriously affects your judgment and decision-making.
D. jet lag can affect different abilities differently.
Question 34. On the subject of avoiding jet lag the article _____________.
A. makes no suggestions
B. says there is nothing you can do
C. proposes gradually adjusting your body clock
D. suggests changing the time on your watch
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 question from 35 to 42.
It may seem as if the art of music by its nature would not lend itself to the exploration and expression of
reality characteristic of Romanticism, but that is not so. True, music does not tell stories or paint pictures, but it
stirs feelings and evokes moods, through both of which various kinds of reality can be suggested or expressed.
It was in the rationalist 18th century that musicians rather mechanically attempted to reproduce stories and
subjects in sound. These literal renderings naturally tailed, and the Romanticists profited from the error. Their
discovery of new realms of experience proved communicable in the first place because they were in touch with
the spirit of renovation, particularly through poetry. What Goethe meant to Beethoven and Berlioz and what
German folk tales and contemporary lyricists meant to Weber, Schumann, and Schubert are familiar to all who
are acquainted with the music of these men.
There is, of course, no way to demonstrate that Beethoven’s Egmont music or, indeed, its overture alone
corresponds to Goethe’s drama and thereby enlarges the hearer’s consciousness of it; but it cannot be an
accident or an aberration that the greatest composers of the period employed the resources of their art for the

creation of works expressly related to such lyrical and dramatic subjects. Similarly, the love of nature stirred


Beethoven, Weber, and Berlioz, and here too the correspondence is felt and persuades the fit listener that his
own experience is being expanded. The words of-the creators themselves record this new comprehensiveness.
Beethoven referred to his activity of mingled contemplation and composition as dichten, making a poem; and
Berlioz tells in his Memoires of the impetus given to his genius by the music of Beethoven and Weber, by the
poetry of Goethe and Shakespeare, and not least by the spectacle of nature. Nor did the public that ultimately
understood their works gainsay their claims.
It must be added that the Romantic musicians including Chopin, Mendelssohn, Glinka, and Liszt-had at
their disposal greatly improved instruments. The beginning of the 19th century produced the modem piano, of
greater range and dynamics than there fore, and made all wind instruments more exact and powerful by the use
of keys and valves. The modem full orchestra was the result. Berlioz, whose classic treatise on instrumentation
and orchestration helped to give it definitive form, was also the first to exploit its resources to the full, in the
Symphonic fantastique of 1830. This work, besides its technical significance just mentioned, can also be
regarded as uniting the characteristics of Romanticism in music, it is both lyrical and dramatic, and, although it
makes use of a “story,” that use is not to describe the scenes but to connect them; its slow movement is a
“nature poem” in the Beethovenian manner; the second, fourth, and fifth movements include “realistic” detail of
the most vivid kind; and the opening one is an introspective reverie.
Question 35. Music can suggest or express various kinds of reality by ________________.
A. telling stories or minting pictures
B. stirring feelings and evoking moods
C. exploring and expressing reality
D. depicting nature and reality
Question 36. The word “error” in paragraph 1 refers to _____________.
A. the feeling and moods of the Romanticist musicians
B. the exploration and expression of reality of Romanticism
C. the works of the Romanticist musicians in the 18th century
D. musicians’ mechanical reproduction of stories and subjects
Question 37. It is started in the passage that the Romanticists were influenced by ______________.

A. the works of the rationalist musicians in the 18th century
B. Goethe, German folk tales and contemporary lyricists
C. the thoughts of Beethoven, Weber, and Berlioz
D. the art of music by the rationalist musicians
Question 38. The passage indicates that the Romanticist composers were inspired not only by lyrical and
dramatic subjects but also by _____________.
A. the rationalists
B. the creation of works
C. the love of nature
D. the poetry of Goethe
Question 39. The Romantic musicians also made use of modern technologies such us ______________.
A. improved wind instruments
B. powerful keys and valves
C. greater range and dynamics
D. instrumentation and orchestration
Question 40. Romanticism in music is characterized as being _______________.
A. exact and powerful B. realistic and vivid C. great and dynamic D. lyrical and dramatic
Question 41. All of the following are true about the Symphonic fantastique EXPECT ____________.
A. It is both lyrical and dramatic
B. It was composed by Beethoven
C. It was issued in 1830
D. It unites the characteristics of Romanticism
Question 42. According to the passage, Romanticism in music extended over _____________.
A. the 18th century and 19th century
B. the late 18th century
C. the early 19th century
D. the beginning of the 20th century
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs corrections in
each of the following questions.
Question 43. Your trip to Ho Chi Minh City sounds absolutely fascinated. I’d love to go there.

A. to
B. sounds
C. fascinated
D. there
Question 44. The wooden fence surrounded the factory is beginning to fall down because of the rain.
A. wooden
B. surrounded
C. to fall down
D. the
Question 45. Men and women in the Peace Corps work with people in the developing countries to help them
improving their living conditions.


A. work
B. developing
C. improving
D. living
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each
of the following questions.
Question 46. She had only just begun to speak when people started interrupting.
A. She hardly had begun to speak when people started interrupting.
B. Hardly she had begun to speak when people started interrupting.
C. Hardly had she begun to speak when people started interrupting.
D. She hadn’t begun to speak when people started interrupting.
Question 47. “Yes, I’d love to, but I must finish my home work first,” said Jill to Jack
A. Jill accepted Jack’s invitation, but she said that she had to finish her homework first.
B. Jill accepted Jack’s invitation first, but then she said she must finish her homework.
C. First and foremost, Jill loved to go with Jack much more than doing homework.
D. Jill wanted to go with Jack, but she wanted him to help her homework first.
Question 48. If you practice harder, you will have better results.

A. The harder you practice, the best results you will have.
B. The more hardly you practice, the better results you will have.
C. The hardest you practice, the most results you will have.
D. the harder you practice, the better results you will have.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate that best combines each pair of sentence in the
following questions.
Question 49. Thomas didn’t finish his assignment, he was lazy.
A. Thomas needn’t have finished his assignment because he was lazy.
B. Thomas might not have finished his assignment because he was lazy.
C. Thomas may not have finished his assignment because he was lazy.
D. Thomas couldn’t have finished his assignment because he was lazy.
Question 50. The announcement was made. Everyone started complaining about it.
A. No sooner did everyone start complaining about it than the announcement was made.
B. As soon as the announcement made, everyone started complaining about it.
C. No sooner had the announcement been made than everyone started complaining about it.
D. Everyone started complaining that the announcement was made.


ĐÁP ÁN
1. B
11. A
21. A
31. B
41. B

2. D
12. C
22. B
32. A
42. C


3. D
13. A
23. B
33. D
43. C

4. A
14. C
24. A
34. A
44. B

5. D
15. B
25. C
35. B
45. C

6. A
16. D
26. A
36. D
46. C

7. A
17. C
27. B
37. B
47. A


8. B
18. C
28. A
38. C
48. D

9. C
19. B
29. A
39. A
49. D

Câu 1: Đáp án B
Câu 2: Đáp án D
Câu 3: Đáp án D
Đáp án D trọng âm rơi vào âm tiết thứ 2, các đáp án còn lại trọng âm rơi vào âm tiết thứ 3.
Câu 4: Đáp án A
Đáp án A trọng âm rơi vào âm tiết thứ 3, các đáp án còn lại trọng âm rơi vào âm tiết thứ 2.
Câu 5: Đáp án D
Chủ ngữ chính trong câu: Modern skyscrapers → dùng đại từ “they”
Động từ chính trong câu: have got → dùng trợ động từ + not: “haven’t”
Câu 6: Đáp án A
Câu 7: Đáp án A
Câu 8: Đáp án B
Câu 9: Đáp án C
To be responsible for sth: chịu trách nhiệm về việc gì
Câu 10: Đáp án D
Câu 11: Đáp án A
- change (n): tiền lẻ, tiền thừa

- cash (n): tiền mặt

- supply (n): sự cung cấp
- cost (n): chi phí

Câu 12: Đáp án C
Căn cứ bằng mạo từ “an”. Sau mạo từ + N. Do đó, đáp án có thể là A hoặc C. Trong đó:
A. assistance (n) = help (n): sự hỗ trợ, giúp đỡ
B. assist (v) = help (v): hỗ trợ, giúp đỡ
C. assistant (n): trợ lí, người phụ tá, người giúp việc
Câu 13: Đáp án A
Câu 14: Đáp án C
Câu 15: Đáp án B
Dùng cụm danh từ (đồng cách danh từ)/ cụm giới từ để rút gọn mệnh đề quan hệ khi mệnh đề có dạng:
Cấu trúc: S + be + danh từ/ cụm danh từ/ cụm giới từ
Câu 16: Đáp án D
- pay (v): trả, thanh toán
- use (v): sử dụng
- spend (v): tiêu tốn, dùng, trải qua…
Spend sth doing sth / spend sth on sth / doing sth: dành/ tiêu tốn …. vào điều gì / làm gì
- devote (v): cống hiến, hiến dâng
Devote sth to sth / to doing sth: dành, cống hiến …. vào điều gì/ làm gì
Câu 17: Đáp án C
- bits and bobs/ piếc: những thứ lặt vặt, các vật linh tinh

10. D
20. B
30. B
40. D
50. C



- chalk and cheese: khác nhau hoàn toàn
- part and parcel of sth: an essential part of something: phần quan trọng, phần thiết yếu của cái gì
- from top to bottom: từ trên xuống dưới
Câu 18: Đáp án C
- stone (n): đá
- rock (n): đá
- diamond (n): kim cương
A rough diamond: kim cương chưa mài, một người căn bản tốt nhưng có thể cư xử thơ lỗ, cục mịch
- pearl (n): ngọc trai
Câu 19: Đáp án B
- eliminate (v) ~ remove (v): loại ra, loại bỏ, loại trừ
- drop (v): sụt, giảm, hạ; rơi, rớt xuống, gục xuống
- kick (v): đá
- toss (v) buông, quăng, thả, ném, tung
Câu 20: Đáp án B
- have the right to refuse: có quyền từ chối
- are refused the right to: bị từ chối quyền
- are entitled to: có quyền
Câu 21: Đáp án A
- retentive (adj): có trí nhớ lâu, tốt
- old-fashioned (adj): cũ, lạc hậu
Câu 22: Đáp án B
- stable (adj): ổn định
- changeable (adj): dễ thay đổi
- ignorant (adj): ngu dốt, không biết

- are given the right to: được cho quyền
- have the obligation to: có nghĩa vụ, bổn phận


- forgetful (adj): hay qn, có trí nhớ tồi
- easy-going (adj): đãng trí, hay quên ≠retentive
- constant (adj): liên tục, không ngừng, không thay đổi
- objective (adj): khách quan

Câu 23: Đáp án B
Câu 24: Đáp án A
Câu 25: Đáp án C
Từ cần điền vào là đại từ quan hệ which/ that để thay thế cho “weather pattern” ở phía trước.
Câu 26: Đáp án A
- Nevertheless ~ However: tuy nhiên
- Ever: đã từng (thường dùng trong thì hiện tại hồn thành)
- Even: thậm chí
Câu 27: Đáp án B
Phía trước chỗ trống có dạng “be + PP” → cấu trúc bị động. Do đó từ cần điền vào là “by” (by + O)
Câu 28: Đáp án A
- Used to + V(bare-inf): đã từng làm gì đó (thói quen q khứ, giờ khơng cịn nữa)
- Be/ Get used to + V-ing: quen làm gì đó (thói quen ở hiện tại)
Phía sau chỗ trống là động từ “know” → loại B, C
Cấu trúc “used to be” + PP (bị động) → loại D
Câu 29: Đáp án A
- change: sự thay đổi (từ cái này thành cái khác)
- transfer: sự di chuyển, dời chỗ

- shift: sự thay đổi về vị trí
- transformation: sự biến đổi

Câu 30: Đáp án B
Dẫn chứng: “Deep inside the brain there is a "clock" that governs every aspect of the body's functioning: sleep

and wake cycles, levels of alertness, performance, mood, hormone levels, digestion, body temperature and so
on. It regulates all of these functions on a 24-hour basis”


Câu 31: Đáp án B
Dẫn chứng: “Crossing different time zones confuses the circadian clock, which then has to adjust to the new
time and patterns of light and activity. To make matters more complex, not all internal body functions adjust at
the same rate. So your sleep/wake may adjust to a new time zone at one rate, while your temperature adjusts at
a different pace. Your digestion may be on a different schedule altogether.”
Câu 32: Đáp án A
- malady (n) ~ illness (n): bệnh
- bore (n): việc chán ngắt, việc buồn tẻ; điều buồn bựuc
- thought (n): ý nghĩa, tu duy, tư tưởng; ý, ý kiến
- feeling (n): cảm giác; cảm nghĩ, ý kiến
Câu 33: Đáp án D
Dẫn chứng: “Sleep loss, jet lag and fatigue can seriously affect our ability to function well. Judgment and
decision-making can be reduced by 50%, attention by 75 percent, memory by 20 percent and communication by
30 percent.”
Câu 34: Đáp án A
Dẫn chứng: “It is often suggested that you adjust your watch as soon as you board a plane, supposedly to try to
help you adjust to your destination's schedule as soon as you arrive. But it can take the body clock several days
to several weeks to fully adjust to a new time zone.”
Câu 35: Đáp án B
Dẫn chứng: “music does not tell stories or paint pictures, but it stirs feelings and evokes moods, through both of
which various kinds of reality can be suggested or expressed”
Câu 36: Đáp án D
Dẫn chứng: “It was in the rationalist 18th century that musicians rather mechanically attempted to reproduce
stories and subjects in sound. These literal renderings naturally tailed, and the Romanticists profited from the
error.”
Câu 37: Đáp án B

Dẫn chứng: “What Goethe meant to Beethoven and Berlioz and what German folk tales and contemporary
lyricists meant to Weber, Schumann, and Schubert are familiar to all who are acquainted with the music of these
men.”
Câu 38: Đáp án C
Dẫn chứng: “Similarly, the love of nature stirred Beethoven, Weber, and Berlioz, and here too the
correspondence is felt and persuades the fit listener that his own experience is being expanded.”
Câu 39: Đáp án A
Dẫn chứng: “It must be added that the Romantic musicians including Chopin, Mendelssohn, Glinka, and Liszthad at their disposal greatly improved instruments.”
Câu 40: Đáp án D
Dẫn chứng: “This work, besides its technical significance just mentioned, can also be regarded as uniting the
characteristics of Romanticism in music, it is both lyrical and dramatic”
Câu 41: Đáp án B
Câu 42. Đáp án C
Dẫn chứng: “It must be added that the Romantic musicians including Chopin, Mendelssohn, Glinka, and Liszthad at their disposal greatly improved instruments. The beginning of the 19th century produced the modem
piano, of greater range and dynamics”
Câu 43: Đáp án C
Vì cụm danh từ làm chức năng chủ ngữ trong câu này là “Your trip to Ho Chi Minh City” nên tính từ phía sau
phải tận cùng đi “ing” để miêu tả bản chất của chuyến đi.


Do đó: fascinated → fascinating
Câu 44: Đáp án B
- surround (v): bao quanh, vây quanh
because of + n/V-ing: bởi vì
- Do đó: surrounded → surouding
Trong câu này chúng ta khơng sử dụng bị động (PP) mà phải dùng chủ động (V-ing)
Câu 45: Đáp án C
- help sb (to) do sth: giúp ai đó làm việc gì
Do đó: improving → improve/ to improve
Câu 46: Đáp án C

Cấu trúc: Hardly/ Scarcely/ Barely + had + S + pp… + when + S + V (2/ed)… (Vừa mới/ ngay khi… thì…)
Câu 47: Đáp án A
Câu 48: Đáp án D
Cấu trúc: The + hình thức so sánh hơn + S + V, the + hình thức so sánh hơn + S + V (so sánh kép “càng…
càng…”)
Tính từ/ trạng từ ngắn + er/more + tính từ/ trạng từ dài
- Hard (adj/adv): chăm chỉ, vất vả → harder (so sánh hơn)
Câu 49: Đáp án D
Câu 50: Đáp án C