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I Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose stress pattern is
different from that of the others in each of the following questions
II Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
6 The little boy heard the rustle of biscuit wrappers and look up at his mother
A expectantly B decisively C conceitedly D intricately
7 He held me personally whenever anything went wrong in the project
A responsibility B responsible C responsibly D responsive
8 He decided to buy some chocolate kept in an container for his father, a watch for his mother and a doll with hair for his little sister
A airtighted; water-proofed; snow-whited
B tight air; proof water; white snow
C tight aired; proof watered; white snowed
D air-tight; water-proof; snow-white
9 The sky was gray and cloudy , we went to the beach
A Consequently B Nevertheless C Even though D In spite of
10 “John should have warned you about that.”
“ Yes, but , he’s still my good friend.”
11 Once used up,
A these minerals can never be replaced B we can never replace these minerals
C but these minerals can never be replaced D can these minerals be never replaced
12 “Can I help you?”
“ ”
A No, thanks I’m just looking B Yes, I’m watching
C No, I’m seeing D Yes, I’m thinking
13 “Must we do it now?”
“No, you ”
A won’t B mustn’t C can’t D needn’t
14 I had a red day yesterday
15 Governments decided to take measures to deal with terrorism
THI TH I H C 2014 – THÁNG 6 THI, ÁP ÁN MÔN TI NG ANH
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17 Each time I sneezed, everyone said: “ you!”
18 Don’t worry about the lunch, I’ll to it
19 I the short story just as Karen in from work
20 If Penny a place at Oxford University, she philosophy and politics
A gets; is going to study B will get; is going to study
21 The teacher against talking to strangers
22 The trouble with Jean is that she is with sport!
23 You’ve lived in the city for most of your life, so you’re used to the noise
24 The interviewer told Alison that she would earn $30,000 a year, she to be offered the job
25 it were well paid, I would accept this proposal
26 I have just taken a Test of English as a Foreign Language or TOEFL short
27 “Your fur coat looks very expensive.”
“ It was secondhand.”
C Really? It wasn’t expensive D No, it isn’t
28 If you say you are using a word , you mean you are choosing it after thinking about it very carefully
29 Sensible he is, he had acted foolishly in this case
30 “Excuse me Do you do watch-repair?”
“ ”
31 Marianne seemed to take at my comments on her work
32 He wasn’t sure if he’d be any good at tennis, but actually he took it immediately
33 “The ceiling in this room doesn’t look very safe, does it?”
“ .”
C No, it is going to fall down D Yes, it doesn’t fall down
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“Never mind it myself tonight.”
A I’m going to post B I’ll post C I’m posting D I will have posted
35 Children should be taught to peace rather than wars
III 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 from 36 to 45
IMAGE AND THE CITY
In the city, we are barraged with images of people we might become Identify is presented as plastic, a
matter of possessions and appearances; and a very large proportion of the urban landscape is taken up by slogans, advertisements, flatly photographed images of folk heroes – the man who turned into a
sophisticated dandy overnight by drinking a particular brand of drink, the girl who transformed herself into a femme fatale with a squirt of cheap scent The tone of the wording of these advertisements is usually pert and facetious, comically drowning in its own hyperbole But the pictures are brutally exact: they reproduce every detail of a style of life, down to the brand of cigarette-lighter, the stone in the ring and the economic row of books on the shelf
Yet, if one studies a line of ads across from where one is sitting on a tube train, these images radically conflict with each other Swap the details about between the pictures, and they are instantly made illegible
if the characters they represent really are heroes, then they clearly have no individual claim to speak for society as a whole The clean-cut and the shaggy, rakes, innocents, brutes, home-lovers, adventurers, clowns all compete for our attention and invite emulation As a gallery, they do provide a glossy mirror of the aspirations of a representative city crowd: but it is exceedingly hard to discern a single dominant style
an image of how most people would like to see themselves
Even in the business of the mass-production of images of identity, this shift from the general to the diverse and particular is quite recent Consider another line of stills: the back-lit, soft-focus portraits of the first and second generations of great movie stars There is a degree of romantic unparticularity in the face of each one, as if they were communal dream-projections of society at large Only in the specialized genres
of westerns, farces and gangster movies were stars allowed to have odd, knobby cadaverous faces The
hero as loner belonged to history or the underworld: he spoke from the perimeter of society, reminding us
of its dangerous edges
The stars of the last decade have looked quite different Soft-focus photography has gone, to be replaced
by a style which searches out warts and bumps, emphasizes the uniqueness not the generality of the face Voices, too, are strenuously idiosyncratic: whines, stammers and low rumbles are exploited as features of
“star quality” Instead of romantic heroes and heroines, we had a brutalist, hard-edged style in which
isolation and egotism are assumed as natural social conditions
In the movies, as in the city, the sense of stable hierarchy has become increasingly exhausted; we no
longer live in a world where we can all share the same values, the same heroes (It is doubtful whether this world, so beloved of nostalgia moralists ever existed; but lip-service was paid for it, the pretense, at least was kept up) The isolate and the eccentric push towards the centre of the stage; their fashions and
mannerisms are presented as having as good a claim to the limelight and the future as those of anyone else In the crowd on the underground platform, one may observe a honeycomb of fully-worked-out
worlds, each private, exclusive bearing little comparison with its nearest neighbor What is prized in one is
despised in another There are no clear rules about how one is supposed to manage one’s body, dress, talk,
or think Though there are elaborate protocols and etiquettes among particular cults and groups within the city, they subscribe to no common standard
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if he has parachuted into a funfair of contradictory imperatives There are so many people he might
become and a suit of clothes, a maker of car, a brand of cigarettes will go some way towards turning him into a personage even before he has discovered who that personage is Personal identity had always been deeply rooted in property, but hitherto the relationship has been a simple one – a question of buying what
you could afford, and leaving your wealth to announce your status In the modern city, there are so many things to buy, such a quantity of different kinds of status, that the choice and its attendant anxieties have created a new pornography of taste
The leisure pages of the Sunday newspapers, fashion magazines, TV plays, popular novels, cookbooks, window displays all nag at the nerve of our uncertainty and snobbery Should we like American cars, hard-rock hamburger joints, Bauhaus chairs…? Literature and art are promoted as personal accessories: the paintings of Mondrian or the novels of Samuel Beckett “go” with certain styles like matching
handbags There is in the city a creeping imperialism of taste, in which more and more commodities are made over to being mere expressions of personal identity Tire piece of furniture, the pair of shoes, the book, the film, are important not so much in themselves but for what they communicate about their
owners; and ownership is stretched to include what one likes or believes in as well as what one can buy
36 What does the word “barraged” mean?
37 What does the writer say about advertisements in the first paragraph?
A Certain kinds are considered more effective in cities than others
B The way in which some of them are worded is cleverer than it might appear
C They often depict people that most other people would not care to be like
D The pictures in them accurately reflect the way that some people really live
38 The writer says that if you look at a line of advertisements on a tube train, it is clear that
A city dwellers have very diverse ideas about what image they would like to have
B some images in advertisements have a general appeal that others lack
C city dwellers are more influenced by images on advertisements than other people are
D some images are intended to be representative of everyone’s aspirations
39 What does the writer imply about portraits of old movie stars?
A Their tried to disguise the less attractive features of their subjects
B Most people did not think they were accurate representation of the stars in them
C They made people feel that their own faces were rather unattractive
D They reflected an era in which people felt basically safe
40 What does the word “cadaverous” mean?
A extremely pale and thin B energetic and enthusiastic
41 What does the writer suggest about the stars of the last decade?
A Some of them may be uncomfortable about the way they come across
B They make an effort to speak in a way that may not be pleasant on the ear
C They make people wonder whether they should become movie selfish
D Most people accept that they are not typical of society as a whole
42 What does the word “hierarchy” mean?
43 The writer uses the crowd on an underground platform to exemplify his belief that
A no single attitude to life is more common than another in a city
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C views of what society was like in the past are often inaccurate
D people in cities would like to have more in common with each other
44 The writer implies that new arrivals in a city may
A change the image they wish to have too frequently
B underestimate the importance of wealth
C acquire a certain image without understanding what that involves
D decide that status is of little importance
45 What point does the writer make about city dwellers in the final paragraph?
A They are unsure as to why certain things are popular with others
B They are aware that judgments are made about them according to what they buy
C They want to acquire more and more possessions
D They are keen on to be the first to appreciate new styles
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct word for each of the blacks from 46 to 55
ENGLISH SPELLING
Why does English spelling have a reputation for being difficult? English was first written down when Christian monks came to England in Anglo-Saxon (46) They used the 23 letters of Latin to write down the sounds of Anglo-Saxon (47) as they heard it However, English has a wider range of basic sounds (over 40) than Latin The alphabet was too small, and so combinations of letter were needed
to (48) the different sounds Inevitably, there were inconsistencies in the way that letters were combined
With the Norman invasion of England, the English language was put at risk English survived, but the spelling of many English words changed to follow French (49) , and many French words were (50) into the language The result was more irregularity
When the printing press was invented in the fifteenth century, many early printers of English texts spoke other first languages They (51) little effort to respect English spelling Although one of the short-term (52) of printing was to produce a number of variant spellings, in the long short-term it created fixed spellings People became used to seeing words spelt in the same way Rules were (53) , and dictionaries were put together which printers and writers could refer to However, spoken English was not fixed and continued to change slowly – just as it still does now Letters that were sounded in the Anglo-Saxon period, like the “k” in “knife”, now became (54) Also, the pronunciation of vowels then
had little in common with how they sound now, but the way they are spelt hasn’t changed No
(55) , then, that it is often difficult to see the link between sound and spelling
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56 Until recently, women were forbidden by law from owning property
57 It is extremely important for an engineer to know to use a computer
58 The committee decided to cancel its law suit, to approve the contract, and that it would adjourn the meeting
59 Mathematics is such important field and serves so many of the sciences that it is a prerequisite for studying every scientific discipline
60 It may be argued that modern presidents have far great responsibilities than their predecessors did
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best way to complete each of the following sentences
61 is not worth buying
A That ugly old yellow Chinese toy car B That ugly yellow old Chinese toy car
C The yellow ugly old toy Chinese car D An ugly old Chinese yellow toy car
62 I visited last year, is a nice city
63 One man outside his own country is tipped to become the new President
64 The chairman requested that
A the member studied the problems more carefully
B with more carefulness the problem could be studied
C the problem was more carefully studied
D the members study the problems more carefully
65 Pease don’t talk so loudly while I am studying Actually,
A I’d rather you not talk loudly while I am studying
B I’d rather you didn’t talk loudly while I was studying
C I’d rather you don’t talk loudly while I am studying
D I’d rather you didn’t talk loudly while I am studying
Read the following passage and choose the best option to complete the blank or answer the question
The adage that "a woman’s place is in the home” no longer applies to the dauntless ladies in space The
first woman in space was a Soviet who orbited the Earth with a male companion in 1963 and landed unscathed after a three-day sojourn abroad a spacecraft Seemingly, it was inevitable that another Soviet woman would repeat her feat The second woman in space was Svetlana Savitskaya, a parachutist and test pilot, who served as researcher aboard Soviet Soyuz T-7, which had a rendezvous with Salyut 7, the space station in which the longest manned orbital flight was complete
Ms Savitslaya’s aptitude for space travel was patent in her past experience in aviation Holder of several women’s records in aviation, she had flown sundry types of aircraft and made over 500 parachute jumps
Her father was a Soviet Air Force marshal, and her husband a pilot Without a qualm she boarded the
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the flight engineer
Soviet authorities announced that they were looking forward to gaining further information about the
“weaker sex”, so-called in the Soviet newspaper Tass, under the stressful conditions of space travel Sex,
however, is considered and impediment but rather a benefit in space, for the Soviet have lauded women
for their precision and accuracy in carrying out experiments
As planned, the American put their first woman in space in mid-1983 Sally Ride was their choice Ms Ride joined the NASA program with five other woman and thirty-four men to train as astronauts in the space shuttle program She faces an epoch when space travel will no longer be a glamorous adventure but,
rather, a commonplace day’s work
66 The word “rookie” is closest meaning to
67 You can infer that women have been included in the space program as a result of
68 Soviet authorities apparently think that men and women are
69 The Soviet Salyut 7 was
A joined by Soyuz T-7 B manned by a woman C an experiment D a training craft
70 Ms Savitskaya was chosen to travel into space because
A her father was in the Soviet Air Force
B she was dauntless
C her ability to endure stress and her precision in doing experiments
D she was experienced in aviation
71 How do you know whether the statement “Ms Savitskaya showed no fear of space travel” is true or
false?
72 From the use of the term “weaker sex”, you can infer that the Soviet
A think that Soviet women are not strong
B entertain a bias against women
C think that Soviet men are better than women
D question the women’s movement
73 The word “lauded” is closest in meaning to
74 An American woman has traveled
A to the moon B to NASA C in the space shuttle D with the Soviets
75 Space travel will soon be
A glamorous B adventuresome C an everyday experience D a lot of work
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to the sentence in italics
76 Nobody is helping me, so I can’t finish my science project on time
A I could finish my science project on time if I were being helped by someone
B I needed help with my science project, but everyone just ignored me
C My science project will be difficult to do alone, so I should ask someone for help
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77 People who are unhappy sometimes try to compensate by eating too much
A Unhappy people are usually overweight because they tend to eat too much
B Eating too much occasionally makes people unhappy and depressed
C For some people, eating too much is a reason to be miserable
D When depressed, people occasionally attempt to offset their misery by overeating
78 One can hardly expect profits to double again this year
A Profits will probably drop by as much as 50 percent again this year
B It’s not likely that profits will again go up by 100 percent this year
C It’s quite possible that profits this year will be halved again
D It won’t be easy to double the profits again this year
79 What can we do to convince him that the project is sure to succeed?
A How should we go about persuading him that the success of the project is assured?
B Why can’t he admit that the success of the project is in doubt?
C Why can’t we persuade him that the scheme is sure to fail?
D Doesn’t he want us to believe that the project is sure to succeed?
80 I’ve been out of the country for nearly a year, so I’m out of touch with everything here
A A year or so abroad will make you feel different about your own country
B On my return after almost a year, I was touched to find so few changes here
C I feel quite like a stranger now that I’m back after almost a year abroad
D The year abroad has estranged me, so I don’t want to go back to my own country
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