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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

(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

(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

(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

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

(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

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

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

(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

7 Music has been called both the most mathematical -the most abstract of the arts

(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

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

(B) they are visible

18 Approximate 92 percent of the world's trading goods are transported by ships

19 Rapid eye movement sleep is sometimes called 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

25 Stereo recording began with the introductory of two-track magnetic tape in the 1950s

26 The cerebral cortex, 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 Commerce Commission power to

investigated financial accounts of interstate utilities and to set rates, subject to judicial review

30 Although Republican Dwight Eisenhower won the United Slates presidency in 1952 and 1956, the Democrats ran Congress for six of his eight years into office

31 Substance such common salt, when dissolved in water, lower the freezing point of water

32 Some advantages of celluloid ate that it is inexpensive and durable, takes a highly polish, does not warp or discolor, and is not affected by moisture •

33 The pitch of a musical note—how much high or low the sound is depends on its wavelength

34 Two good ways to prevent attacks of hay fever are to effect a change of climate also to eliminate harmful substances from the environment

35 In filmmaking a flashback is an interruption of the actual chronology of a story to relate a significant event of a earlier time

36 The bottom end of a guitar string is attached to a hardwood bridge, which transmitting the vibration to the top plate

37 Missouri is a heavily industrialized state whose leading products are transportation equipment, processed food, and chemical

38 Seamounts are isolated submarine mountains believed to be the remnants of extinct volcanoes that either formed or sank far beneath of the ocean surface

39 Transfusion of plasma or whole blood increases the volume of circulating blood, raising blood pressure and ensuring adequate distribution of oxygenated blood among the body

40 The national debt is the sum total of financial obligations the national government incurs by

borrow from foreign governments, international institutions, or its own population

SECTION III

Questions 1-10

Unlike those available for painting, the opportunities to exhibit sculpture in the United-States around the turn of the twentieth century were quite scarce There was almost no room for sculpture at the influential Fine Arts Society's 57th Street Galleries

Line in New York As late as 1905, the Monumental News, a journal dedicated to the

5 promotion of sculpture, lamented, "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 1893, the first organization dedicated solely to the advancement of sculpture

10 Incorporated in 1896 to promote sculptural production and encourage the exhibition and sale of the plastic arts, the National Sculpture Society (NSS) elected John Quincy Adams Ward (1830-1910), the prestigious sculptor of public monuments, to serve as its first president, an office he held from 1893 to 1905 During the last twenty years of his life, ward dedicated much time to public and private organizations that promoted public

15 art To the end, he headed the NSS committee that oversaw the sculptural decoration of the Library of Congress Reading Room in Washington D.C as well as the building and decorating of the Dewey Arch—a monument in New York to honor Admiral George Dewey He was a champion of the City Beautiful Movement— an effort to increase the presence of urban art—and defended the central role that sculpture played in its national

20 program

The National Sculpture Society promoted the production of sculpture by standardizing procedures for competitions, enhancing the professional status of sculptors, and encouraging commissions for American sculpture in homes, public buildings, parks, and squares Moreover, ii included members in its organization who were not sculptors,

25 hoping to close the gap between artists and the great body of the people, not merely well-to-do patrons, bui the working public The NSS encouraged the commission and purchase of sculptures for both private consumption—home and garden—and for public enjoyment—parks and squares Through this campaign, small-scale sculptures—either reductions of monumental artworks or smaller-sized originals—were brought to the attention of an interested public

1 What does the passage mainly discuss

(A) The establishment and goals of the National Sculpture Society

(B) Why artists of the twentieth century wanted to jojn the National Sculpture Society

(C) The effects of the National Sculpture Society on twentieth-century art

(D) The relationship between the National Sculpture Society and national arts groups

2 The word "scarce" in line 2 is closest in meaning to

(A) exciting

(B) expensive