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1 Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.

TRAFFIC IN OUR CITIES

The volume of traffic in many cities in the world today continues to expand This causes many problems, including serious air pollution, lengthy delays, and the greater risk (1) _ accidents Clearly, something must be done, but it is often difficult to (2) _ people to change their habits and leave their cars at home

One possible (3) _ is to make it more expensive for people to use their cars by (4) _ charges for parking and (5) _ tougher fines for anyone who (6) _ the law In addition, drivers could be required to pay for using particular routes

at different times of day The system, (7) _ as “road pricing”, is already being introduced in a (8) _ of cities, using a special electronic card (9) _ to the windscreen Of the car

Another way of (10) _ with the problem is to provide cheap parking on the (11) _ of the city, and strictly control the number of vehicles allowed into the centre Drivers and their passengers then use a special bus service for the (12) _ stage of their journey

Of course, the most important (13) _ is to provide good public transport However, to get people to (14) _ the comfort of their cars, public transport must

be felt to be reliable, convenient and comfortable, with fares (15) _ at an acceptable level

2 A make B arrange C suggest D persuade

3 A approach B manner C custom D style

4 A enlarging B increasing C growing D developing

5 A carrying down B putting off C bringing in D taking away

6 A crosses B refuses C breaks D cracks

8 A quantity B number C total D sum

9 A fixed B joined C built D placed

10 A doing B handling C dealing D solving

11 A outskirts B border C outside D limit

12 A late B end C complete D final

13 A thought B thing C work D event

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14 A pass on B throw away C give up D leave out

15 A taken B kept C given D stood

AUDIOBOOKS - BOOKS ON CASSETTE

In the modern world, there is a wealth of leisure activities to choose from Entertainment industries (1) _ for your leisure time You can watch TV, listen to music, go to an art gallery or concert or, of course, read a book Sometimes it seems that reading is (2) _ because, (3) _ you’re a fast reader, it can take a (4) _ amount of time to finish a novel, for example But in the (5) _ world, time is something that can be in short supply

Book publishers haven’t been (6) _ to realise this and are now selling a product which needn’t (7) _ as much of your time but still tells you an excellent story The new product is the audiobook-cassette recordings of shortened novels, often read by well-known personalities or the authors themselves Audiobooks are (8) _ new but people are becoming more aware of them and sales are increasing (9) _ One of the attractions of audiobooks is that they’re (10) _ listening to the radio, only better You can listen to what you want when you want, and you won’t ever (11) _ anything Much of their appeal (12) _ in their flexibility They (13) _ you to do other things while you’re listening, such as driving or (14) _ the housework For some people, audiobooks can be a much more enjoyable way of (15) _ knowledge than reading

2 A neglected B declined C lessened D disposed

3 A in spite B no matter C regardless of D even if

4 A plentiful B broad C considerable D lasting

7 A take up B fill out C go through D pass by

8 A partly B approximately C roughly D relatively

9 A ever since then B all the time C up until now D from then on

12 A stands B belongs C bases D lies

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13 A grant B allow C spare D afford

14 A doing B running C making D cleaning

15 A grasping B catching C gaining D raising

THE PATHE FILM COMPANY

In 1885, a Frenchman, Charles Pathe, created what later became France’s most successful film studios By 1907, the company had expanded enormously and had studios

in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and the USA What seems surprising now that Hollywood dominates the film (1) _ is that a French company (2) _ itself

so well in the USA Pathe was one of the main film companies there at that (3) _, hiring out its studios to other film-making companies (4) _ distributing its own films

However, (5) _ Pathe was big in the USA, it was a giant Europe In 1913, the year before the First World War (6) _, Pathe made no fewer than three hundred films But the war affected the company (7) _ Shortage of staff and equipment led to big (8) _ in production, and by 1918 output had (9) _ to sixty-three films From then on, Pathe (10) _ on making fewer films of (11) _ length and better quality

Pathe was the first company to put out regular new films, which it started doing in

1903 Each film lasted fifteen minutes and (12) _ of six new items From (13) _ on, Pathe’s news department had branches all over Europe and later all over the world By the 1970s, TV news had completely (14) _ the role of cinema news film and so the company stopped making them Today, Pathe is chiefly (15) _ in TV, cinema and new video technology

2 A established B set C founded D placed

4 A in addition B together C as well as D also

6 A burst out B broke out C set off D went off

7 A badly B extremely C largely D highly

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9 A descended B shortened C fallen D subtracted

10 A thought B engaged C occupied D concentrated

11 A further B greater C higher D bigger

12 A consisted B featured C included D composed

13 A soon B firstly C early D initially

14 A brought off B turned into C caught on D taken over

15 A involved B connected C linked D tied

MARKETS

In practically any country in the world, you are (1) _ to find a market somewhere Markets have been with us since (2) _ times, when people became self-sufficient and needed to exchange the goods they produced For example, a farmer- might have exchanged a cow (3) _ tools and so on But just as times have (4) _, so have market practices So, (5) _ in early times the main activity (6) _ with markets would have been “bartering”, meaning the exchange of goods as described (7) _, today most stall-holders wouldn’t be too (8) _ on accepting potatoes as payment, for instance, instead of cash

In contrast, what might be a common (9) _ in a modern market is a certain amount of “haggling”, where customers and sellers eventually (10) _ on a price, after what can sometimes be quite a heated debate This has become so popular in certain places that many people think that this is what makes the (11) _ atmosphere of a market But (12) _ as no two people are the same, no two markets are the same either, and so behaviour which is expected in one market in one country may not be (13) _ in another Even within one country, there are those markets where you can haggle quite (14) _ and those where you would be (15) _ not to try!

1 A safe B confident C definite D sure

2 A ancient B antique C old D past

4 A changed B turned C developed D differed

5 A however B despite C nevertheless D whereas

6 A associated B relating C connecting D attached

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9 A look B appearance C sight D view

10 A confirm B: consent C approve D agree

11 A sole B single C only D unique

13 A acceptable B convenient C comfortable D receptive

14 A simply B plainly C clearly D easily

15 A informed B advised C noticed D suggested

GARETT A MORGAN

An accident between a car and a horse-drawn carriage turned on a green light in the mind of one witness to it Why not, thought Garrett A Morgan, design a signal that would (1) _ the movement of road traffic? (2) _ a result, in February 1927 Morgan produced the world’s first automatic electric traffic signal

His invention (3) _ of a pole with two arms that turned round to (4) _ when traffic should move The words “stop” and “go” were on different sides of the arms, which automatically turned and (5) _ the right line of traffic when necessary

Morgan who had been (6) _ about road safety because of the (7) _ number of cars coming on to the roads at the (8) _, sold his invention to the General Electric Company for $40,000

Morgan was born in Kentucky in 1877 and (9) _ an elementary education In

1905 he began a job (10) _ sewing machines and in 1907 he (11) _ his own shop for this He (12) _ on to start a company.selling hair treatments and later

he invented the “safety hood”, which (13) _ firemen from gas and smoke and (14) _ a prize at a 1914 exhibition

Morgan died in 1963, just months after being (15) _ by the US government with an award for inventing the first automatic traffic signal

1 A direct B train C master D rule

3 A composed B combined C constructed D consisted

4 A declare B indicate C sign D inform

5 A aimed B opposed C viewed D faced

6 A tense B restless C excited D concerned

7 A raising B increasing C enlarging D heightening

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8 A while B period C time D age

9 A received B attained C gathered D took

10 A remedying B mending C revising D correcting

11 A opened B introduced C installed D formed

13 A covered B prevented C saved D protected

14 A reached B caught C won D succeeded

15 A respected B honoured C approved D valued

EYEWITNESS GUIDES

It all started just six years ago with Birds Since then, Eyewitness Guides have become a publishing sensation - 50 subjects (1) _, 40 countries conquered, 15 million copies sold But the success of Eyewitness Guides cannot be (2) _ in statistics alone, (3) _ these high-quality reference books have established a (4) _ original way of presenting information

We live in an age of television, video and interactive computing, in which children are (5) at absorbing data from images at a glance (6) _ this makes them respond favourably to visual learning, the disadvantage is that they sometimes lack confidence with words So, what the Eyewitness Guides have done is to combine the two elements, words, and pictures, (7) _ them as just one thing - entertainment

One of the main reasons (8) _ the books’ success is the discovery that, against

a white background, even the most (9) _ objects can look wonderful Often a single photographic image will take (10) _ an entire double-page spread, grabbing your (11) _ Whatever the image, you’ll always find the text (12) _ alongside, building your understanding of the subject

Eyewitness Guides are the (13) _ of the unique approach, in which photographs, models, maps and diagrams are specially produced Everything is done to make (14) _ that they compete with the impact of television images But these books have one (15) _ advantage - children can return to them again and again, finding something fresh to read every time

1 A dealt B fulfilled C covered D managed

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2 A scored B valued C numbered D measured

4 A fully B completely C considerably D widely

5 A capable B powerful C effective D skilled

6 A In contrast’ B While C Even so D Despite

7 A conducting B treating C operating D applying

8 A under B behind C beneath D below

9 A accustomed B habitual C repeated D familiar

11 A fascination B involvement C attraction D attention

12 A quite B nearby C right D next

13 A outcome B production C formation D effect

14 A certain B definite C firm D guaranteed

BOWLS

If you can roll a ball, you can play bowls Everyone can play: young and old, men and women, the fit and the not so fit It is the one outdoor game that (1) _ is a sport for all What other sport can grandparents play on (2) _ terms with their grandchildren? What other game is so simple that you could take it up today and be (3) _ in the national championships tomorrow?

Simple? Perhaps that’s not the (4) _ word There are bowls players in their thousands who will tell you that, although bowls is a game that anyone can (5) _

in five minutes, it takes a lifetime to (6) _ it They are the people who have (7) _ a passionate interest in the game (8) _, for outsiders, bowls is another world, and strange and puzzling one They see a bowls game in (9) _ and wonder what is going on

What the players are trying to do is easy to explain Their (10) _ is to roll their bowls, called woods, as near as possible to the little white ball, called the jack If one of your bowls finishes nearer to the jack than your (11) _, you score one point and he

or she scores nothing If you have the two nearest, you score two, and (12) _ The skill (13) _ in rolling a bowl that weighs around 2 kilos across about 40 metres so that it stops only a very short (14) _ from the target is just as (15) _ as the

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skills required in other sports.

1 A exactly B really C precisely D accurately

2 A alike B equal C parallel D matching

3 A competing B entering C getting D going

4 A right B suitable C genuine D just

5 A catch on B see through C find out D pick up

7 A assembled B produced C.’ developed D grown

8 A Besides B Unlike C However D Although

9 A performance B movement C practice D action

11 A competitor’s B opponent’s C contestant’s D opposer’s

12 A further B so on C moreover D as follows

13 A involved B connected C relating D belonging

14 A distance B extent C range D length

15 A respectable B impressive C appreciative D favourable

THE QE2

Samuel Cunard’s first ship, the Britannia, made its first voyage from Liverpool in England to the US in 1850 In those days there was little choice about (1) _ of travel Anyone who (2) _ to go to the US from Britain had to sail across the Atlantic (3) _ that, there was no way of getting there The Britania was (4) _ a mail ship, but it also (5) _ passengers On that first (6) _, as records show, there was a (7) _ of 63 of them, including Samuel Cunard and his daughter and (8) _ for that time, the ship had private bathrooms

But Samuel Cunard would find it hard to (9) _ much similarity between his beloved Britannia and the Cunard company’s most famous liner today, the QE2, named after Queen Elizabeth II of England The Britannia is (10) _ to have had two members of staff (11) _ every passenger The passengers probably didn’t sleep in cabins as comfortable and with as much (12) _ as rooms in a good (13) _

of hotel, as they do on the QE2 today

The QE2 (14) _ on her first voyage across the Atlantic from Southampton on the south coast of England on May 2 1969 Five days later, she arrived in New York to an

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enthusiastic (15) _ Since that day she has carried over one and a half million passengers around the world

1 A procedures B processes C courses D means

2 A thought B wished C dreamed D fancied

3 A Apart from B Else C Instead of D Otherwise

4 A at most B above all C overall D vastly

5 A fetched B brought C took D sent

6 A incident B occasion C event D circumstance

7 A total B sum C number D quantity

8 A distinctly B differently C extremely D remarkably

10 A doubtful B improbable C uncertain D unlikely

12 A breadth B space C extent D expansion

13 A level B status C class D rank

14 A set off B went away C got out D came along

15 A meeting B applause C welcome D acceptance

INTELLIGENT TESTS

School exams are, generally speaking, the first kind of tests we take They find out how much knowledge we have (1) _ But do they really show how intelligent we are? After all, isn’t it a (2) _ that some people who are very successful academically don’t have any (3) _ sense?

Intelligence is the speed (4) _ which we can understand and (5) _ to new situations and it is usually tested by logic puzzles Although scientists are now preparing (6) _ computer technology that will be able to “read” our brains, (7) _ tests are still the most popular ways of measuring intelligence

A person’s IQ is their intelligence (8) _ it is measured by a special test The most common IQ tests are (9) _ by Mensa, an organization that was founded in England in 1946 By 1976 it (10) _ 1,300 members in Britain Today there are 44,000 in Britain and 100,000 worldwide, (11) _ in the US

People taking the tests are judged in (12) _ to an average score of 100, and those who score over 148 are entitled to join Mensa This (13) _ at 2% of the

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population Anyone from the age of six can take the tests All the questions are straightforward and most people can answer them if (14) _ enough time But that’s the problem-the whole (15) _ of the tests is that they’re against the clock

1 A fetched B gained C attached D caught

2 A case B fact C circumstance D truth

3 A natural B bright C sharp D common

5 A accord B react C answer D alter

6 A advanced B forward C ahead D upper

7 A at this age B for the present C at the time D now and then

9 A appointed B commanded C run D steered

11 A largely B enormously C highly D considerably

12 A concern B relation C regard D association

13 A adds up B turns to C comes up D works out

14 A allowed B spared C let D provided

15 A reason B point C matter D question

THE MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD

There are 4,000 toys in London’s Museum of Childhood, but it is not essential to be a child to enjoy it Most of the older toys were (1) _ to be played with by adults All the toys (2) _ in a beautiful glass-topped building in the East End of London -but it wasn’t built for them It was opened in 1872 and displayed art, shoe-making and furniture (3) _.It wasn’t until 1974, when the children’s section had (4) _ enormously, that the (5) _ building was officially devoted to the history of childhood

Once upon a time every toy was home-made, although by the late 1700s a huge toy industry had (6) _ Many home-made toys were made of metal and wood and a few of these have (7) _ well enough for the museum to display It even has one of the oldest dolls’ houses still (8) _, made in 1673 There is something for everyone, including the 18lh century toy theatre and the miniature Chinese gardens, (9) _ tiny animals Whichever is your favourite, each exhibit enables you to catch a (10)

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