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Hp Group (www.hp-vietnam.com) 1 Đề thi TOEFL tháng 8 năm 2005 SECTION I PART A 1. (A) He is not sure where the student-service’ office is. (B) He recently got a new student ID card. (C) He is too busy to go to the student-services office now. (D) He plans to get his new student ID card on Monday. 2. (A) She lost the man's calculator. (B) She will lend the man her calculator. (C) The calculator may be under the man's book. (D) The man will not have time to find the calculator. 3. (A) He wanted to be an artist. (B) He is not qualified to judge the painting. (C) The painting is not finished yet. (D) He will find a fine arts major for the woman. 4. (A) She does not know where the student center is. (B) She does not need a flu shot this year. (C) Flu shots will not be free this year. (D) She would like to get a free flu shot next week. 5. (A) He will be studying tomorrow. (B) He will see the game at night. (C) He does riot like baseball. (D) He has a ticket for the game. 6. (A) She is not sure if she can attend the meeting. (B) She will be out of town until Friday. (C) She has been planning to go to the meeting. (D) She cannot change her schedule for Friday. 7. (A) He will help the woman move. (B) The woman needs to accept her current situation. (C) The woman can move in the middle of the semester. Hp Group (www.hp-vietnam.com) 2 (D) The woman is already living in the best dorm. 8. (A) She will help me man look for the book:. (B) She knows where the man's book is. (C) She will return the book to the man later. (D) She saw someone walk away with the man's book. 9. (A) Lend the woman money (B) Get the woman's purse (C) Invite the woman to lunch next week (D) Pay for the woman's lunch 10. (A) Ask the man to help her figure out how to' use her new computer (B) Let the man use her computer (C) Take her computer to a repair shop (D) Help the man fix his Computer 11. (A) He always exercises on Wednesdays. (B) He would like to play tennis with the woman this week. (C) He thinks the woman plays tennis as well as he does. (D) He always plays tennis with the same person. 12. (A) Professor Miller is not teaching in this semester. (B) Professor Miller teaches anthropology. • ; (C) The man should take a different biology course, (D) The man is looking in the wrong part of the catalog. 13. (A) He will do it before he begins his other work. (B) He will submit it on Thursday. (C) He has already finished it. (D) He is allowed to complete it later. 14. (A) She forgot about the sale books. (B) She thinks the man should get a second job. (C) She wants the man to move the sale books. (D) She has changed her mind about the textbooks. 15. Hp Group (www.hp-vietnam.com) 3 (A) She does not agree that it is a stressful time. (B) She does not feel as calm as she seems. (C) She admires the man's calmness. (D) She will help the man to deal with his stress. 16. (A) He would like to take a break. (B) He thinks the library will close soon. (C) He does not want to stop working. (D) He does not like coffee. 17. (A) When he is coming to visit (B) Why he was not as friendly as (C) Why he did not feel well (D) What he was trying to tell her on the phone 18. (A) Mary is not going to the (B) Mary does not know about the concert. (C) The man should call Mary. (D) The man should go to the concert without Mary. 19. (A) The woman was surprised by the topic of Professor Black's lecture. (B) The man was out able to attend Professor Black' s lecture. (C) Professor Black missed class today. (D) Professor Black gives challenging lectures. 20. (A) He does not have time to help the woman. (B) He is not sure whether he can help the woman. (C) He can help the woman after three o'clock. (D) He will help the woman. 21. (A) Become a photography instructor (B) Return to her old photography class (C) Try a class at the new studio (D) Look for a less expensive class 22. (A) It is hard to read. (B) Some of the answers are wrong. Hp Group (www.hp-vietnam.com) 4 (C) The professor requires that it be typed. (D) It was not completed on time. 23. (A) Continue working on her paper (B) Go out for coffee (C) Ask the man to bring her coffee (D) Prepare a pot of coffee for the 24. (A) Phone the company to ask about the job (B) Buy a new answering machine (C) Wait for the company to call him (D) Assume that he did not get the job 25. (A) Jim might not have been (B) Jim often changes his mind, (C) Jim was just joking about (D) Jim rarely tells jokes. 26. (A) It will take a few days for the fan to be repaired. (B) Air conditioners will be installed on Saturday. (C) Using the oven made the apartment hotter. (D) The weather will cool off soon. 27. (A) She is not sure how long it takes to knit a sweater. (B) She will make a sweater for the man, (C) The wool she uses for her sweaters has gotten very expensive. (D) Her academic schedule does not allow time for knitting. 28. (A) Tell the woman what time the bus will come (B) Change his class schedule (C) Go downtown with the (D) Give the woman his history book 29. (A) She plans to attend the meeting. (B) She thinks the meeting time will be fine for everyone. (C) She enjoys going to basketball games: (D) She set up the study group meeting time. Hp Group (www.hp-vietnam.com) 5 30. (A) He read an article about Professor Monroe's research. (B) He does not know Professor Monroe (C) Professor Monroe probably will talk to the woman. (D) Professor Monroe does not like giving interviews. PART B 31. (A) Inorganic chemistry (B) Genetics (C) Mathematics (D) Anthropology 32. (A) He is waiting to hear about the woman's research. (B) He is more interested in DNA found in frogs. (C) He is just twinning 10 gather the data. (D) He avoids controversial research topics. 33. (A) They attack and destroy other molecules. (B) They do not reproduce under ordinary conditions. (C) They do not contribute to the organism that supports them. (D) They carry the blueprints only for complex organisms. 34. (A) A swimming competition (B) A singing contest (C) The water temperature at the beach (D) The woman's schedule this semester 35. (A) They have won for the past three years. (B) They placed second last year. (C) They practiced for three months prior to the competition. (D) She ihought they did not perform well. 36. (A) Studying in the library (B) Practicing his singing (C) Walking on the iieach (D)Swimming in the ocean Hp Group (www.hp-vietnam.com) 6 37. (A) She spent many hours on a bus. (B) She was too busy to enjoy the beach. (C) She had plenty of time to study. (D) She did not have time to watch the competition. 38. (A) Enter a singing competition (B) Add new members (C) Organize a graduation party (D) Take a trip to the beach PART C 39. (A) Musicians of the early twentieth Century (B) Early vaudeville theaters in Europe (C) The development of American silent films (D) The history of vaudeville entertainment 40. (A) Their scripts were written by famous playwright*. (B) They featured a variety of (C) They did not include music. (D) They were usually performed outdoors. 41. (A) To acquaint audiences with a European art form (B) To increase attendance at the vaudeville theaters (C) To introduce new actors to the audience (D) To enable vaudeville theaters to raise ticket prices 42. (A) It was performed more frequently. (B) It featured actors from films. (C) It became less popular, (D) It was first accepted as serious 43. (A) One factor that affects the Earth's climate (B) The professor's experience analyzing types of dust (C) How to estimate temperature the ice ages (D) The use of technological advances in studying climate Hp Group (www.hp-vietnam.com) 7 44. (A) To find ways of improving aircraft safety in storms (B) To discover new species of bacteria (C) To find out whether dust contains dangerous substances (D) To determine what types of dust are present under different conditions 45. (A) To explain why collecting dust is difficult (B) To illustrate the damage that dust can cause (C) To show how different types of dust affect the weather in different ways (D) To give an example of how dust in the atmosphere is reduced 46. (A) Whether dust caused the last ice age (B) Whether the overall effect of dust is heating or cooling (C) How high temperatures affect the amount of dust in the (D) How cold the planet was daring the lie ages 47. (A) Reasons the Mycenaeans never became successful sea traders (B) The development and decline of Minoan and Mycenaean sea trade (C) The influence of the Mycenaeans on the Minoans (D) Causes of conflict between the Minoans and Mycenaeans 48. (A)They existed long before the Minoans began to trade by sea. (B) They produced great wealth for the Minoans. (C) They were established by the Mycenaeans. (D) They were frequently attacked by the Mycenaeans. 49. (A) It ended the dominance of the Minoans. (B) It resulted in increased sales of farm goods by [he Minoans. (C) It was not serious enough to affect Sea trade. (D) It interrupted the Mycenaean production of bronze objects. 50. (A) The decline of their harbors (B) Natural disasters that destroyed their crops (C) An increase in trade by the Minoans (D) Politician unrest that interfered with trade. Hp Group (www.hp-vietnam.com) 8 SECTION II PART A 1. Drinking water excessive enamel of teeth to become brittle and to chip off, leaving a stained or mottled effect. (A) containing (B) in which containing (C) contains (D) that is contained 2. Carbohydrates, of the three principal constituents of food, form the bulk of the average human diet (A) are one (B) one [hat (C) one (D) which one 3. the eye, a camera takes in rays of light thai are reflected from an object and focuses the rays into an image. (A) Alike (B) As like (C) Is like (D) Like 4. Great pain and swelling characterize both sprains and fractures, but he affected part and unnatural ting often indicate a bone break. inability lo move (A) inability to move (B) they were unable to move (C) unable to move (D) when inability to move 5. The human skin forms against the action of physical, chemical, and bacterial agents on the deeper tissues. (A) a protective barrier is (B) a protective barrier (C) a barrier and protective (D) when a protective barrier 6. The technique of frying food has prepare n^eats, fish, vegetables, and breads. (A) to have most cultures (B) that in most cultures (C) in cultures when (D) in most cultures Hp Group (www.hp-vietnam.com) 9 7. Music has been called both the most mathematical the most abstract of the arts. (A) but (B) and (C) however (D) or 8. Roots of plants lend to grow downward into soil, unless —-— more readily available at the surface. (A) have water (B) water has (C) is water (D) water is 9. United States income taxes are paid to the Internal Revenue Service, funds for use by the government. (A) which distributes (B) and distributes (C) the distribution of (D) so that the distribution of 10. Robert Penn Warren's first novel was published in 1939, and seven years later, his third novel, All the King's Men, made —-— famous. (A) he was (B) him (C) his (D) how he was 11. Although legend has it that the Pilgrims first set foot in America on Plymouth Rock in 1620, documentary evidence confirming (A) no (B) still is no (C) there is no (D) but no 12. The gardenia, about 200 species —to tropical and subtropical countries, was named in honor of eighteenth-century naturalist Alexander Garden. (A) native of which are (B) are nalive of which (C) which are native of (D) of which are native 13- High-speed photography has made certain aspects of motion never before seen. (A) visible Hp Group (www.hp-vietnam.com) 10 (B) they are visible (C) visibly (D) it visible 14. Nitroglycerin is an unstable chemical compound that is very sensitive sudden movement dangerous to transport (A) because (B) and therefore (C) why it is (D) making 15. A computer is a fast electronic machine information according to a stored sequence of instructions called a program. (A) processes (B) that processes (C) that it processes (D) thai processes it PART B 16. Lucy Motile Montgomery, a Canadian novelist, is best of known for Anne of Green Gables, the story of a spirited, unconventional orphan girl. 17. Every magnet has two ends, called north and south poles, where the forces it exert are strongest 18. Approximate 92 percent of the world's trading goods are transported by ships. 19. Rapid eye movement sleep is sometimes calle d paradoxical sleep because it has characteristics of either the waking and sleeping states. 20. With the exception of gold, silver is most malleable and ductile of all metals. 21. The fact that mothers in some species of animals reaction immediately if they are missing one or more of their litter demonstrates a sense of number . 22. Approximately four percent of human body weigh is made up of fat in me organs, skeletal muscles, and central nervous system. 23. By about seven years of age, children begin to grasp that a given quantity remains the same not matter how its shape changes. 24. Sleek and powerful swimmers found to all seas, dolphins are distinguished from porpoises by well-defined, beaklike snouts and conical teeth. [...]... the outer layer of the brain, is where most memory storage, cognitive skills, and creative think reside 27 The physical universe is governed by law that demand the continuous increase of entropy or disorder 28 Metonymy is a literary device involving the substitution of the name of one thing with that of other thing with which it is closely associated 29 The 1906 Hepburn Act gave the United Stales Interstate... many social reformers in the late nineteenth century demonstrated a concern for improved housing conditions for workers, George Pullman ( 183 1- 189 7), the wealthy industrialist who introduced luxury railway cars with beds, built his model tine city called Pullman in 188 0 to address housing problems caused by Chicago's 5 industrialization Constructing the town, Pullman hoped to produce an ideal environment... circulation of a warm current would produce ice-free sea around the North Pole, a claim not disproved until Fridtjof Nansen allowed his vessel The Pram to be carded to within a few degrees of the pole in the years 189 3- 189 6 40 What does this passage mainly discuss? (A) Exploration of the Atlantic Ocean seabed (B) Differences between the Gulf Stream and other ocean currents (C) Oceanography in the nineteenth... his workers In its first five yean, this new experiment in industrial life received little criticism, except from radical political groups Crediting the town of Pullman with producing a new type of dependable and ambitious worker in a rationally ordered environment, reformers, at first, praised it as a successful model for modern industrial life However, after 188 5, with the high gloss of the experiment... "Exhibitions of sculptors' works are so comparatively rare." In response to this dire predicament, (he sculptor Frederick W Ruckstull and Charles de Kay, art editor of the newspaper The New York Times, founded the National Sculpture Society (NSS) in 189 3, the first organization dedicated solely to the advancement of sculpture 10 Incorporated in 189 6 to promote sculptural production and encourage the exhibition... (C) Charles de Kay (D) Admire! George Dewey 7 The phrase "that end" in line 15 refers to (A) the last twenty years of his life (B) much time (C) promoting public art (D) the NSS committee 8 The word "champion" in line 18 is closest in meaning to (A) critic (B) founder (C) creator (D) supporter 9 According to the passage, what was a goal of the City Beautiful Movement? (A) To increase national sales of... are commonly used in rituals and performances They not only hide the real face of the mask wearer but they often evoke powerful emotions in the audience-danger, fear, sadness, joy You might think, because so many things vary Line cross-culturally, that the ways in which emotions are displayed and recognized in the 5 face vary too Apparently they do not Recent research on masks from different cultures... especially (B) with difficulty (C) expertly (D) frequently 38 The hind wings of red and yellow underwing moths function in a way that is most similar to (A) the hind wings of peregrine falcons (B) the zigzag flight of European hares (C) the colored patches on frogs (D) the clicking of grasshoppers 39 Why does the author mention grasshopper* in line 28? (A) To contrast animals that "flash" with animals that... zoologist Edward Forbes argued that no lire existed below a depth of 300 fathoms (about 600 meters) a view widely accepted until disproved by the voyage of the British research vessel HMS Challenger( 187 2- 187 6)The HMS Challenger expedition provided valuable information about the seabed, including the discovery of manganese nodules that are now being seen as a potentially valuable source of minerals The... production and encourage the exhibition and sale of the plastic arts, the National Sculpture Society (NSS) elected John Quincy 15 20 25 Adams Ward ( 183 0-1910), the prestigious sculptor of public monuments, to serve as its first president, an office he held from 189 3 to 1905 During the last twenty years of his life, ward dedicated much time to public and private organizations that promoted public art To the . Hp Group (www.hp-vietnam.com) 1 Đề thi TOEFL tháng 8 năm 2005 SECTION I PART A 1. (A) He is not sure where the student-service’ office is. (B) He recently