ĐỀ ÔN THI 06.05.2021 – COMPILED BY HAU TRAN A PHONETICS I Circle the option A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions A bargain B complain C ascertain D campaign A queue B quay C quota D liquor A exuberance B exhibition C exemplary D exhilarate A domicile B chamomile C futile D automobile A baths B paths C myths D mouths II Circle the option A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose primary stress differs from that of the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions A trigonometry B explanatory C immediately D democracy A legislature B repository C magnificent D mistake A argumentative B psychological C contributory D hypersensitive A photograph B payroll C accent D regretful A majority B ceremony C astronomy D investiture B VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURE I Choose the best answer to fill in each blank without cats? A What will our life be B What would our life be C What if our life D What would our life have been Lifelong learning involves the use of both formal and informal learning opportunities throughout people's lives in order to foster the development A continuing B continuous C continual D continued I can’t help in love with those lovely puppies A fall B to fall C falling D to have fallen During the evening football match, the stadium was illuminated by A flashlights B floodlights C highlights D spotlights You can buy fake designer clothes much more cheaply than the articles A exact B real C true D genuine I managed to complete the exam with 20 minutes to A run B leave C set D spare The soldiers seemed as they prepared for the battle A unappreciative B ubiquitous C undaunted D unanimous She was with guilt when she realized that the accident had been her fault A consumed B ravaged C devoured D dazzled Police have a plan to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy businessman A shunned B foiled C seized D executed 10 The film is a reminder of life in small town America in the 1960s A preordained B pungent C poignant D protruding 11 The new teacher was taken advantage of by the students and often had to her authority A assert B confirm C inflict D strike 12 He was given the France post even though his French is decidedly A fluent B untidy C rusty D disheveled 13 "Look, I don’t know the best solution." he said his shoulder and walking away from the table A shaking B shrouding C shrugging D bowing 14 Even though Ink Links is offering a larger account, the Clear Image's quality standards our needs better A suit B fit C match D fix 15 After they vandalized the school, the teenagers the scene A flew B flied C fleed D fled 16 by despair at her situation, she tried in vain to rob the local bank and ended up in prison for five years A Compelled B Driven C Desperate D Forced 17 The world's first boot camp for teenagers addicted to the Internet may be the of things to come A shape B formula C character D draft 18 Mary: “I'll never go mountaining again” - Linda: “Me ” A so B too C either D neither 19 Tom: “Can I have another cup of tea?” - Christy: “ ” A Be yourself B Do it yourself C Help yourself D Allow yourself 20 “How you like your steak done?" - “ ” A Well done B Very little C Very much D I don’t like it much II Think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences _ Paul is always _ of money by the end of the month The boss had to cut _ his holiday in order to sort out the crisis in the factory After one of the forwards was sent off, the team were one player _ for the rest of the match _ Jane didn‘t relish the _ of telling the class they would have to miss the match Being a working mother is often a thankless _ The policeman took his son to _ for throwing the stone through the window _ Her hands were swollen and _ from the unaccustomed hard work Dieticians consider _ vegetables to be the healthiest option I think you got a deal when you joined that firm _ I admit that I found the film _ to understand in places The government is encouraging people to save _ for the future The desert has a dry, _ surface which can sustain little life _ When all the facts came to _, there was such a scandal that he was forced to resign We built a huge bonfire in the garden out of all our rubbish and set _ to it It has been decided that, in the _ of all the criticism it has received, the scheme will be abandoned _ From her description of events, it was hard to get a clear mental _ of exactly what happened As regards the economic situation, the overall _ looks much the same as it did six months ago For some reason, we never get a very good _ on this channel on our TV III Fill in the blank with one preposition given in the box below There are extra ones you not need to use from in with along at back of together over through for into She left the coffee to boil in the kitchen and had to clean it up afterwards I can hardly believe that she actually won in the face of competition such a fiery writer The worsening condition of the president is giving cause concern Local people had to take matters their own hands because the governors failed to deliver their promise Some communities, unfortunately, still remains divided religious lines Their garden is over ten thousand square metres extent Only when they have discussed the matter great length will they draw any conclusion Without any prior preparation, Peter sailed his final exams I am afraid to say that the notes not seem to hang 10 For sufficient records are kept, Helen can trace her ancestry to the 1700s IV Give the correct form of the words in brackets Part 1: There is little to disagree about in the notion that a good voice, whether in opera or rock Recently, researchers have been kept busy picking lettuces under cover of darkness, but there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this (1 APPEAR) _ bizarre experiment Tests have shown that the vegetables picked at night stayed fresh (2 CONSIDER) _ longer than those picked during the day, though the reason for this improved (3 LONG) _ is unclear Lunar gardeners claim to have known about the (4 BENEFIT) _ effects of nocturnal vegetable management for years, and those gardeners who believe in environmentally friendly organic methods see the idea of working with the moon’s influence as a continuation of their principles They claim to be following a tradition, long-established in various parts of the world, of working in harmony with the moon’s (5 GRAVITY) _ pull In England, lunar gardening reached its zenith in the 16th century, but the vagaries of the (6 PREDICT) _ climate meant that it survived only as part of an oral folklore tradition (7 CONFUSE) _, several different and sometimes contradictory systems are practised today Although all of them focus on the effects of moonlight and the moon’s pull on the Earth’s water, the exact science remains controversial There are some (8 HORTICULTURE) _ who regard the ideas with (9 SCEPTIC) _ Others, however, are more encouraging and less (10 DISMISS) _, and advocate further research, even though no discernible results have been forthcoming in support of any particular theory 10 Part 2: THE MEANING OF DREAMS Until the twentieth century most scientists argued that dream were nothing but a random jumble of completely (1) COMPREHEND _ images remaining from the sensory accumulation of our daily lives Since the idea that dreams have meaning in their own way became popular, (2) PSYCHOLOGY _ have proposed (3) COUNT _ theories to explain the logic of dreams The bewildering nature of this logic reflects the primary source of the dreams outside the tidy confines of the conscious mind A dream can be a response to events in the outside world, or it can (4) ORIGIN _ within, expressing aspects of the dreamer’s deep-seated feelings; it can fulfil desires or highlight unresolved emotions in the dreamer’s life Not (5) EXPECT _, the contradictions implicit in these complex processes are reflected in the syntax of dreams Often (6) ENIGMA _, halting and fragmentary, the language of dreams can warp time, bringing together historical and contemporary figures It can mix the familiar with the (7) KNOW _, and work fantastic transformations by its own band of magic Scenes in dreams merge (8) MYSTERY _ into one another, as in certain movies People or animals may fly or inanimate things may move (9) DEPEND _ and talk It is out of such complex and contrary (10) HAPPEN _ that the meanings of dreams have to be teased 10 C READING I Read the following passage and circle the letter A, B, C, D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions COMMUNICATING WITH THE FUTURE In the 1980s the United States Department of Energy was looking for suitable sites to bury radioactive waste material generated by its nuclear energy programs The government was considering burying the dangerous wastes in deep underground chambers in remote desert areas The problem, however, was that nuclear waste remains highly radioactive for thousands of years The commission entrusted with tackling the problem of waste disposal was aware that the dangers posed by radioactive emissions must be communicated to our descendants of at least 10,000 years hence So the task became one of finding a way to tell future societies about the risk posed by these deadly deposits Of course, human society in the distant future may be well aware of the hazards of radiation Technological advances may one day provide the solutions to this dilemma But the belief in constant technological advancement is based on our perceptions of advances made throughout history and prehistory We cannot be sure that society won’t have slipped backward into an age of barbarism due to any of several catastrophic events, whether the result of nature such as the onset of a new ice age or perhaps mankind’s failure to solve the scourges of war and pollution In the event of global catastrophe, it is quite possible that humans of the distant future will be on the far side of a broken link of communication and technological understanding The problem then becomes how to inform our descendants that they must avoid areas of potential radioactive seepage given that they may not understand any currently existing language and may have no historical or cultural memory So, any message indicated to future reception and decipherment must be as universally understandable as possible It was soon realized by the specialists assigned the task of devising the communication system that material in which the message was written might not physically endure the great lengths of time demanded The second law of thermodynamics shows that all material disintegrates over time Even computers that might carry the message cannot be expected to endure long enough Besides, electricity supplies might not be available in 300 generations Other media storage methods were considered and rejected for similar reasons The task force under the linguist Thomas Sebeok finally agreed that no foolproof way would be found to send a message across so many generations and have it survive physically and be decipherable by a people with few cultural similarities to us Given this restriction, Sebeok suggested the only possible solution was the formation of a committee of guardians of knowledge Its task would be to dedicate itself to maintaining and passing the knowledge of the whereabouts and dangers of the nuclear waste deposits This so-called atomic priesthood would be entrusted with keeping knowledge of this tradition alive through millennia and developing the tradition into a kind of mythical taboo forbidding people to tamper in a way with the nuclear waste sites Only the initiated atomic priesthood of experts would have the scientific knowledge to fully understand the danger Those outside the priesthood would be kept away by a combination of rituals and legends designed to warn off intruders This proposal has been criticized because of the possibility of a break in continuity of the original message Furthermore, there is no guarantee that any warning or sanction passed on for millennia would be obeyed, nor that it could survive with its original meaning intact To counterbalance this possibility, Sebeok’s group proposed a “relay system” in which information is passed on over relatively short periods of time, just three generations ahead The message then to be renewed and redesigned if necessary for the following three generations and so on over the required time span In this way information could be relayed into the future and avoid the possibility of physical degradation A second defect is more difficult to dismiss, however This is the problem of social exclusiveness brought about through possession of vital knowledge Critics point out that the atomic priesthood could use its secret knowledge to control those who are scientifically ignorant The establishment of such an association of insiders holding powerful knowledge not available except in mythic form to nonmembers would be a dangerous precedent for future social developments The word "chambers" in the passage is closest in meaning to A partitions B openings C cavities D fissures What problem faced the commission assigned to deal with the burial of nuclear waste? A How to reduce the radioactive life of nuclear waste materials B How to form a committee that could adequately express various nuclear risks C How to notify future generations of the risks of nuclear contamination D How to choose burial sites so as to minimize dangers to people In paragraph 2, the author explains the possible circumstances of future societies A to warn about the possible natural catastrophe B to question the value of advances C to highlight humankind's inability to resolve problems D to demonstrate the reason nuclear hazards must be communicated The word "scourges" in the passage is closest in meaning to A pressures B afflictions C worries D annoyances In paragraph 4, the author mentions the second law of thermodynamics A to support the view that nuclear waste will disperse with time B to show that knowledge can be sustained over millennia C to give the basic scientific reason behind the breakdown of material objects D to contrast the potential life span of knowledge with that of material objects The word "Its" in the passage refers to A knowledge B committee C solution D guardians In paragraph 5, why is the proposed committee of guardians referred to as the "atomic priesthood"? A Because they would be an exclusive group with knowledge about nuclear waste sites B Because they would use rituals and legends to maintain their exclusiveness C Because they would be an exclusive religious order D Because they would develop mythical taboos surrounding their traditions According to the author, why did the task force under Sebeok propose a relay system for passing on information? A To show that Sebeok 's ideas created more problems than they solved B To support the belief that breaks in communication are inevitable over time C To contrast Sebeok's ideas with those proposed by his main critics D To compensate for the fact that meaning will not stable over long periods of time According to paragraph 7, the second defect of the atomic priesthood proposal is that it could lead to A the nonmembers turning knowledge into dangerous mythical forms B the possible misuse of exclusive knowledge C the establishment of a scientifically ignorant society D the priesthood's criticism of points concerning vital knowledge 10 All of the following are mentioned in the passage as difficulties in devising a communication system with the future EXCEPT A the failure to maintain communication link B the loss of knowledge about today's civilization C the inability of materials to endure over time D the exclusiveness of priesthood II Choose the best answer to fill in each blank No one else in the group (1) _ have been as relieved as I was to leave the dense forest The thick (2) _ had cut my knees and thighs and streaks of mud lined my shoes On (3) _ I was probably the most inappropriately dressed I regretted not reading the itinerary before leaving the house At the very least, I could have dressed suitably The area ahead was much better I walked more confidently, even daring to walk (4) _ the others instead of behind them For a while, I continued (5) _ at the ground, out of habit trying to search for places where the ground had already been (6) _ on We were about to stop for a break when Jason, the leader, (7) _ suddenly He held up both arms horizontally, forming a human barrier to prevent us from walking ahead I nearly bumped (8) _ him Luckily, Ash gripped my arms to (9) _ me Any further movement from me would have been (10) _ A should A undergrowth A retrospect A after A peeping A stridden A halted A up A becalm 10 A faithful B must B overgrowth B hindsight B outside B regarding B stepped B ceased B off B steady B needless C could C outgrowth C thinking C alongside C staring C footed C settled C against C overrule C wasted D need D regrowth D purpose D round D noticing D ambled D braked D after D collide D fatal III Fill in each of the blanks with one suitable word HOW MANY SENSES ARE THERE? The obvious answer is that there are five; but, (1) _ most such answers, this one is wrong In (2) _ to the generally recognised sense of vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste, human beings (3) _ known to have a further one, called kinaesthesia, (4) _ we are aware of the relative position of our limbs, the tensions in our muscles and (5) _ on Clearly, then, psychics and fortune tellers should talk about having “a seventh sense” (6) _ than a sixth! There has been a lot of debate, most (7) _ which has been conducted outside scientific circles, about the possible existence of (8) _ a sense – or, to be more accurate, set of senses We generally refer to them collectively (9) _ ESP (Extra Sensory Perception), thereby embracing the supposed abilities of telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition But in so (10) _ we are probably – assuming that these abilities exist at (11) _ – mixing chalk with cheese Clairvoyance, for example, has (12) _ little to with precognition as vision (13) _ to with touch The problem is that we not as (14) _ have any way of knowing for sure and, (15) _ scientists reluctant to address the subject, answers may be a long way off 10 11 12 13 14 15 IV There are 10 mistakes in the paragraph below Find and correct them Oxford is a city with such a mind-blowing reputation that many who come here find them intimidated by the place and can’t wait to leave, while others, taking with it like a duck to water, find themselves returning again and again The college lawns provide a gorgeous backdrop to seriously study, and in the right light, on a sunny winter’s morning saying, one feels as if one is floated on air, such is the sense of unreality Oxford may like to pretend that it is at the intellectual hub of things, but in many ways it is no less than a sleepy backwater where, to mix metaphors, transitory students, the cream of their generation, wait for the wings, allowing their talents to flourish before moving off into the industrial or political fast-lane Much of this is the myth, of course Hardship and hard work are very much part and parcel of a student life The level-headed get through the three years’ hard grind by simple putting their shoulders to the wheel before going on to fairly average jobs Only for the tiny minor is Oxford the first step on the ladder to fame and fortune No Mistake Correction No 10 Mistake Correction D WRITING Question Rewrite the following sentences, keeping their meaning unchanged, beginning with the words given She knew nothing about the party that they were planning DARK She was _ the party that they were planning Our team has won the football championship for the second year running SUCCESSION For the second year _ by a local team You must never leave the workplace without letting the team leader know ACCOUNT On _ without letting the team leader know If you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't dismantle the laptop APART Don't you know what you're doing I was shocked by the cheeky response that the girl gave to her mother TAKEN I was the cheeky response that the girl gave to her mother Simon is rumoured to be about to become a Sky News presenter VERGE Rumour has _ becoming a Sky News presenter Kids and seniors are much more prone to infection than others PICK Kids and seniors _ easily than others It's very difficult for many people to express their feelings WORDS Putting _ is very difficult for many people It would have been a total catastrophe for her to be made responsible PUT If she _, there would have been very serious consequences 10 The police were forced to release the suspect because new evidence was produced LIGHT The police were forced to release the suspect evidence produced Question Rewrite each sentence, beginning as shown, so that the meaning stays the same The students regretted that they had missed the lecture The students regretted not _ If you missed the programme you can't really judge Unless you It was more of an argument than a discussion It was not so I write to him almost every day Hardly _ I never intended to go to the meeting I never had I only recognised him when he came into the light Not until That rumour about the politician and the construction contract is absolutely false There is One runner was too exhausted to complete the last lap of the race One runner was so _ They never made us anything we didn't want to We 10 It is quite pointless to complain There's _ ... D draft 18 Mary: “I'll never go mountaining again” - Linda: “Me ” A so B too C either D neither 19 Tom: “Can I have another cup of tea?” - Christy: “ ” A Be yourself B Do it yourself C Help... into the industrial or political fast-lane Much of this is the myth, of course Hardship and hard work are very much part and parcel of a student life The level-headed get through the three years’... moon’s influence as a continuation of their principles They claim to be following a tradition, long-established in various parts of the world, of working in harmony with the moon’s (5 GRAVITY)