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A14 PART I: LISTENING: You are going to listen to a conversation between two students. Here are some facts that they talk in the tape. Choose ONE best option for each fact corresponding to each sentence below: 1. One student is going to get married soon. A. true B. false C. this is not mentioned D. both of them are. 2. The date this student celebrates wedding is . A. June 21 st B. July 21 st C. July 26 th D. June 26 th 3. The reason the other student can’t join the wedding party is . A. going out for the fray B. knowing that’s fraud C. going on vacation D. showing the pray. 4. One student blames the other one for not coming to the party. Is this right? A. Certainly B. Why not? C. Yes, of course D. No, this isn’t right. 5. One student can’t join the wedding party. The other one says “ .” A. Never mine B. Never mind C. Forever my D. Ever kind 6. These students are . A. waiting for the bus B. waiting for the train C. missing the train D. missing the bus 7. The student who is going get married promise to sent the rest one a . A. date B. fate C. steak D. cake 8. When they are talking, it’s . A. a lovely day B. a day off C. a fee to pay D. coming of three gays 9. The thing one student want to find is . A. a banana B. a partner C. an umbrella D. an ancestor 10. They congratulate each other because they are going to have . A. a bath B. an example C. a jam D. an exam 11. The thing one student did last night was . A. watching TV B. writing a CV C. making an essay D. washing the face 12. One inveigles the other one to have a . A. an ink B. drink C. mint D. sink 13. of the two students, . A. One passed and one failed the exam B. Both passed the exam C. Both failed the exam D. All are incorrect. 14. Why did the student fail the exam? A. The test was too easy. B. Because of studiousness. C. Because of nervousness. D. The supervisor was too serious. 15. The last sentence of the conversation is . A. Well, all I can say is bad luck next time B. Well, all I can say is better luck next time. C. Well, all I can’t say is better luck next time. D. Well, all I can’t say is good luck next time. PART II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: Choose ONE best option (A, B, C or D) to complete each correspondent sentence: 1. You need to think it over or you’ll mistakes. Trang 1 A. make B. become C. do D. be 2. Do you bring __________with you? - No, we are going to sleep in a rented house. A. sleeping pills B. umbrellas C. drinks D. foods 3. The food smells_________. Nobody wants to try it. A. good B. well C. bad D. badly 4. much slower, he might have understood you. A. Had you spoken B. Did you speak C. If you speak D. If you spoke 5. In any case, you should not give up____________. A. danger B. worry C. death D. hope 6. I a car accident while I for you on this corner yesterday. A. saw / was waiting B. has seen / has wait C. is seeing / will wait D. see / wait 7. Never , household cleaning sprays, or solvent-based cleaners be used on the seat belts of a car. A. detergents should B. detergents C. the use of detergents D. should detergents 8. The to her daughter’s wedding are being sent out this week. A. invitations B. calls C. appeals D. requests 9. The of the lake is covered with reeds and rushes. A. beach B. shore C. coast D. bank 10. I don’t want any mistakes. A. that you make B. you to make C. you to do D. that you do 11. The Health Minister was in a private hospital last week. A. operated B. admitted C. cared D. treated 12. A washing machine of this type will certainly up to normal domestic use. A. hold B. stand C. come D. take 13. When he was a boy, he felt great for his uncle. A. marvel B. wonder C. admiration D. pleasure 14. The noise got as the car disappeared into the distance. A. smaller B. fainter C. weaker D. slighter 15. He looked forward to his pay packet. A. receive B. have received C. be receiving D. receiving 16. he hasn’t any qualifications, he has managed to do very well for himself. A. Despite B. Notwithstanding C. Although D. Whereas 17. After his service to the country, he was with a knighthood. A. raised B. honored C. improved D. granted 18. The government made serious attempts to raise the of living. A. standard B. cost C. level D. mode 19. She in the supermarket for a year when she the manageress last month. A. has worked / became B. worked / becomes C. works / is becoming D. had worked / became 20. What will happen if my parachute ? A. hadn’t opened B. won’t open C. doesn’t open D. didn’t open 21. Unless I a quiet room, I not be able to do any work. A. had/ will B. have/ will C. has/ would have D. had had/ would have Trang 2 22. Unless I had known that you were in hospital, I you. A. will visit B. would have visited C. visit D. don’t visit 23. Had he known that the river was dangerous, he to swim across it. A. would have tried B. would try C. will not try D. wouldn’t have tried 24. Or you had been in such a hurry, you sugar into the sauce instead of salt. A. will not put B. would put C. wouldn’t have put D. put 25. Unless you the examination, they a party for you. A. pass/ won’t celebrate B. passed/ won’t celebrate C. pass/ will celebrate D. had passed/ would celebrate 26. I’m not very good at word-processing. I learn when I was in Army. A. the / the B. Ø / the C. the / Ø D. a / a 27. The greatest invention of twentieth century is computer. A. a / Ø B. the / the C. a / the D. the / a 28. cinema was invented by Lumiere brothers in Lyon. A. the / the B. the / Ø C. Ø / the D. a / an 29. Chistmas comes once year. A. the B. Ø C. a D. an 30. Hawaii is island in the Pacific Ocean. A. the B. a C. an D. Ø 31. As result of corruption on large scale the election was lost. A. an / a B. the / a C. the / the D. a / a 32. laughter and tears are part of long life, Grandpa had said. A. the / the / a B. Ø / a / a C. a / the / a D. Ø / Ø / a 33. I’m returning France the end of this term. Are you coming back England after the holidays? A. in / for / in B. to / in / to C. on / without / beside D. upon / to / down 34. The Loch Ness Monster is supposed to live the bottom of the Lake Noch, and come the surface from time time. A. in/to/with B. on/to/on C. with/up/by D. in/up/to 35. Does Mr. Long forgive Linh interrupting him? A. by B. up C. to D. for 36. The monitor is really responsible the manager for the group. A. for B. with C. of D. to 37. For the last few days I haven’t been able to sleep night. A. for B. to C. of D. at 38. He is quite in capable such a thing. A. to B. of C. by D. out 39. I just couldn’t believe what he said. It was contrary his thought. A. from B. in C. out D. to 40. A man usually takes off his hat when he is introduced a woman or a girl the street. A. at / of B. to / in C. with / to D. for / on Trang 3 Choose ONE best correspondent options (A, B, C or D) to complete the passage below. The blank (0.1) id done for you. The next generation of telephone users will (0.1) laugh (41)______ we explain how we used to stand next to a wall in the kitchen to (42)______ a phone call. Mobile communications, already highly advanced compared with a decade ago, will completely change communications in the next few years. (43)______ there are millions of people using mobile phones, most people know (44)______ about the mobile telecommunications industry and its technology. There are three types of mobile phone. These are hand portables, pocket-sized hand portables and transportable. The smallest and most popular are the pocket-sized hand portables. These work on rechargeable batteries, which allow an (45)______of up to 80 minutes' conversation. Mobiles that are fitted permanently in a vehicle do not (46)______ on separate batteries. They require an external aerial on the vehicle. This can mean a stronger signal with clearer (47) ______. Transportable have a high power capability and can be used (48)______ everywhere. They come with powerful battery packs for longer, continuous use and may also be put (49)______ a vehicle, using its electricity. They (50)______ to be bulkier than hand portables. 0.1. A. probable B. probably C. probability D. probabilities Answer: B 41. A. unless B. when C. while D. whether 42. A. make B. give C. take D. do 43. A. In addition B. Because C. As a result D. Although 44. A. few B. some C. little D. lots 45. A. amount B. account C. activity D. average 46. A. rely B. create C. carry D. insist 47. A. wave B. letter C. speech D. speed 48. A. mostly B. hardly C. most D. almost 49. A. into B. on with C. up with D. in to 50. A. used B. have C. tend D. are Choose ONE best correspondent options (A, B, C or D) to complete the passage below. The blank (0.1) id done for you. I (51) up while flight attendant was serving breakfast. The plane was crossing the Channel, and when I looked out of the window, I could see ship far below. I (52) home after long time abroad, I had been away for over twenty years. I didn’t know what to expect. I wondered whether things (53) much. The plane landed and the bus took us the terminal building. After (54) my luggage, I walked out of the baggage hall. I didn’t know whether anyone (55) there to meet me. But when I appeared, I had a big surprise. Almost half of my family were there. It was wonderful. “You (56) the old town,” my sister told me. “Almost everything has changed since you last (57) it. They are building a new bridge at the moment. They (58) it for the past three years, but they (59) it yet”. I’ve been back for nearly a month now. And my sister was right. The place looked very different, Trang 4 but strangely enough it still (60) the same, because the people that I love are here. I’m leaving again in a few weeks” time but I know that even if I’m even if I’m away for twenty years again, this will be always be my home. 51. A. waked B. woke C. awake D. awaken 52. A. come B. am coming C. was coming D. have been coming 53. A. had changed B had been changed C. have changed D. have been changed 54. A. collected B. collecting C. have collected D. collect 55. A. is B. are C. were D. would be 56. A. don’t recognize B. didn’t recognize C. won’t recognize D. wouldn’t recognize 57. A. see B. seen C. have seen D. saw 58. A. build B. built C. have been building D. have built 59. A. haven’t finished B. hasn’t finished C. haven’t been finishing D. hasn’t been finished 60. A. feel B. feeling C. felt D. feels In each correspondently numbered row below, there are one or more than one mistakes. Choose ONE best option (A, B, C or D) in correspondence to each number that shows the most exact mistakes in each row. The number 0.2 is done for you: So far back as 700 B.C., people have talked about children being 0.2 cared for by wolves. Romulus and Remus, the legendary twins 61. founders of Rome, were purported to has been cared for by wolves. 62. According at legend, Mars fathered the two boys. As a result, a 63. relative of their mother imprisoned her and ordered that the boys been 64. drowned under a Tiber River. However, a she- wolf saved them from this 65. horribly fate and take them back to her lair to care for them. The legend has it that when a she-wolf loses her litter, she seeks a human child to take its place. This seemingly preposterous idea did not became credible until the late nineteen century when a French doctor actually found a naked 66. ten-year-old boy wandering in the woods. He did not walking erect, and he could not spoken intelligibly, nor could he relate to people. He only growled and stared at them. Finally, the doctor won the boy’s 67. confident and began to work with him. After many long years of 68. devoting and patient instruction, the doctor was able to getting the boy 69. to clothe and feeded himself recognize and utter a number of words, 70. and the boy write letters and forms words. 0.2. A. for B. wolves C. legendary D. twins Trang 5 → Answer: D 61. A. founders B. purported C. has D. for 62. A. at B. legend C. fathered D. result 63. A. relative B. imprisoned C. that D. been 64. A. drowned B. under a C. However D. she- wolf 65. A. horribly / take B. fate / them C. back / lair D. for / legend 66. A. year B. wandering C. woods D. walking 67. A. confident B. began C. work D. long 68. A. devoting B. patient C. getting D. boy 69. A. clothe B. feeded C. recognize D. words 70. A. the B. write C. letters D. forms PART III: READING: READING 1 : Choose ONE best option in each number below to complete the passage: From the moment they leave the security of their accustomed environment, travelers are at risk. (1) arise not just from strange diseases they meet on their travels but from other factors too: seemingly uninspiring home (2) such as safe water (3) , sanitation and public hygiene controls, legal safety standards for motoring vehicles and road (4) , are easily taken for granted, but simply do not exist in many countries. Environmental factors such as arduous conditions, (5) climate, and high altitude may constitute a danger; and so may travelers’ own behavior, free from the (6) of the daily routine, and determined to have a good time with scant (7) for the consequences. When illness or injuries occur abroad, many travelers are again at a disadvantage – from (8) to communicate with a doctor on account of language or cultural difficulties, or being unable to find a doctor owing to (9) of the (10) medical system. There may be a complete (11) of skilled medical care, or of medical facilities of a (12) acceptable to travelers from technological sophisticated countries. When symptoms of an illness (13) abroad do not appear until after return home, a final hazard becomes apparent: the symptoms may be (14) , may pass (15) and the correct diagnosis may not be considered until it is too late. 1. A. Questions B. Changes C. Hazards D. Complications 2. A. comforts B. helps C. cares D. aids 3. A. stores B. collection C. levels D. supplies 4. A. correction B. maintenance C. improvement D. quality 5. A. worsening B. unusual C. sudden D. adverse 6. A. restraints B. assurances C. certainties D. regulations 7. A. knowledge B. awareness C. regard D. need 8. A. inability B. difficulty C. inflexibility D. timidity 9. A. misuse B. doubt C. ignorance D. disbelief 10. A. local B. district C. neighborhood D. area 11. A. breakdown B. failure C. disruption D. absence 12. A. type B. design C. standard D. degree 13. A. received B. formed C. gained D. acquired Trang 6 14. A. unfamiliar B. unlikely C. unpleasant D. uncovered 15. A. unrecognized B. unknown C. underwear D. unearth READING 2: Choose ONE best option for each question below: FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON Long ago a lot of people thought the moon was a god. Other people thought is was just a light in the sky. And others thought it was a big ball of cheese! Then, telescopes were made. And men saw that the moon was really another world. They wondered what it was like. They dreamed of going there. On July 20, 1969, that dream came true. Two American men landed on the moon. Their names were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin. The first thing the men founded was that the moon is covered with dust. The dust is so thick that the men left footprints where they walked. Those were the first marks a living thing had ever made on the moon. And they could stay there for years and years. There is no wind or rain to wipe them off. The two men walked on the moon for hours. They picked up rocks to bring back to earth for study. They dug up dirt to bring back. They set up machines to find out things people wanted to know. Then they climbed back into their moon landing craft. Next day the landing craft roared as the two men took off from the moon. They joined Michael Collins in the spaceship that waited for them above the moon. Then they were off on their long trip back to the earth. Behind them they left the plains and tall mountains of the moon. They left the machines that they had set up. And they left their footprints that may last forever. QUESTIONS: According to the passage, 16. This story tells A. about the first men to walk on the moon. B. how men found footprints on the moon. C. what the men brought back from their trip to the moon. D. who had left footprints on the moon before the two men landed there. 17. A telescope A. makes ball of light seem brighter. B. turns the moon into another world. C. makes many of men’s dream come true. D. makes faraway things seem closer. 18. A man brought rocks and dirt from the moon because A. they wanted something to show they were there. B. people wanted to use them to learn about the moon. C. they wanted to keep them as souvenirs. D. they might sell them to scientists. 19. The American’s machines will most likely stay on the moon until A. someone takes them away B. a storm covers them with dust. C. rain and wind destroy them. D. they become rusty and break to pieces. 20. The next people who go to the moon most likely could Trang 7 A. find that the machines have disappeared. B. leave the first set of footprints on the moon. C. find the place where Armstrong and Aldrin walked. D. find the dust has wiped off the two men’s footprints. 21. When did the first spaceship of human beings land on the moon? A. On July 20, 1969 B. On June 20, 1969 C. On July 12, 1979 D. On June 20, 1979 22. Who were the first men to step on the moon? A. Neil Armstrong and Darwin. B. Neil Armstrong and Edward. C. Neil Armsrtong and Aldrin. D. Neil Armstrong and Austin. 23. The two spacemen walked on the moon for A. months B. years C. decades D. hours 24. Who went to the moon with Neil Armstrong and Aldrin? A. Collin Murphy B. Michael Collins C. Collin Brown D. Michael Faraday 25. The astronauts first found on the moon was A. dust B. garbage C. bushes D. storms READING 3: Choose ONE best option in each number below to complete the passage: DREAMS Everyone can dream. Indeed, everyone does dream. Those who (26) that they never dream at all actually dream (27) as frequently as the rest of us, (28) they may not remember anything about it. Even those of us who are perfectly (29) of dreaming night (30) night very seldom remember those dreams in (31) detail but merely retain an untidy mixture of seemingly unrelated impressions. Dreams are not simply visual – we dream with all our (32) , so that we appear to experience sound, touch, smell, and taste. One of the world’s oldest (33) written documents in the Egyptian Book of Dreams. This volume is about the five thousand years old, so you can (34) that dreams were believed to have special significance even then. Many ancient civilizations believed that you (35) never wake a sleeping person as, during sleep, the soul had left the body and might not be able to return (36) time if the sleeper were suddenly (37) . From ancient times to the present (38) , people have been (39) attempts to interpret dreams and to explain their significance. There are many books available on the subject of dream interpretation, although unfortunately there are almost as many meanings for a particular dream (40) there are books. 26. A. demand B. promise C. agree D. claim 27. A. also B. just C. only D. quite 28. A. though B. besides C. however D. despite 29. A. familiar B. accustomed C. aware D. used 30. A. after B. on C. through D. over Trang 8 31. A. great B. high C. strong D. deep 32. A. feelings B. emotions C. impressions D. senses 33. A. considered B. known C. regarded D. estimated 34. A. see B. feel C. ensure D. think 35. A. would B. ought C. should D. need 36. A. by B. in C. with D. for 37. A. awoke B. awoken C. awake D. awaken 38. A. minute B. hour C. moment D. day 39. A. doing B. putting C. making D. taking 40. A. as B. like C. so D. such PART IV: WRITING: WRITING 1: Rewrite these sentences so that the meaning of each sentence does not change. You must use the given word in the bracket following each sentence. Example: I spend an hour to watch TV every day. (takes) → It takes me an hour to watch TV every day. 1. It has always been her ambition to write a successful novel. (dreamt) → She__________________________________________________________________________ 2. You got lost because you didn’t do what I told you. (instructions) → If ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. “Are you a member of the club” the receptionist said to me. (belonged) → The receptionist asked_________________________________________________________ 4. This is the most amusing book I’ve ever read. (amusing) → I’ve never____________________________________________________________________ 5. The train timetable has been changed. (changed) → They______________________________________________the train timetable. 6. The afternoon was so hot that the road surface melted. (such) → It ____________________________________________________________________________ 7. The darkness made it impossible to see. (hardly) → We___________________________________________it was so dark. 8. They feed the seals at the zoo twice a day. (fed) → The seals ______________________________________________________________________ 9. It’s ten years since Mrs. Pike started her teaching career in our school. (has) → Mrs. Pike _____________________________________________________________________ 10. You can’t say anything that would persuade me to live overseas. (to persuade) → Nothing _______________________________________________________________________ WRITING 2 : Here is the conversation between a policeman and a motorist. Complete it by using the cues below: Policeman: be / you / owner / this car / sir? Motorist: yes / officer / there / be / nothing wrong / be / there? Policeman: it / park / here / last two hours / and / that / be / wrong. Motorist: when / I / arrive / there / be / several cars / park / here. Policeman: well / they / all go / now. / you / be / unlucky one. Motorist: It / be / kind / you / overlook / it / officer. Policeman: all right. / I / not take / action / this time. / but / be / warn / sir. Trang 9 Motorist: thank you. / I / certainly / not / commit / offence / again. WRITING 3. Write a composition of about 250 words to describe your dearest school, mentioning to the establishment, the scene of your school, the teachers, your school-mates and your thoughts of your school. THE END Trang 10 . a car. A. detergents should B. detergents C. the use of detergents D. should detergents 8. The to her daughter’s wedding are being sent out this week below: 1. One student is going to get married soon. A. true B. false C. this is not mentioned D. both of them are. 2. The date this student celebrates wedding