Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part
differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 1:
A. bare
B. far
C. card
D. farm
Question 2:
A. well
B. pretty
C. send
D. tell
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other
three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3:
A. television
B. telepathy
C. telescope
D. telephone
Question 4:
A. company
B. cinema
C. computer
D. government
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 5: I think it will rain soon. I just felt a___________.
A. drop
B. plant
C. treatment
D. wig
Question 6: Joan of Arc tried to lead her army to fight___________God.
A. ending up
B. having to do
C. in some cases
D. in the name of
Question 7: Do you think we can ___________ the package arriving tomorrow?
A. add up
B. count on
C. fill out
D. end up
Question 8: I think it is a good___________to take your shoes off in the house.
A. custom
B. fairy
C. mystery
D. pillow
Question 9: Please put the sauce on the side___________on top of the chicken.
A. according to
B. although
C. instead of
D. usually
Question 10: This problem is difficult, but I need to___________the answer.
A. exchange
B. figure out
C. flow
D. slide
Question 11: Please help me with this math problem. I can’t___________the answer.
A. end up
B. face up to
C. come up with
D. run into
Question 12: Apartment prices are only___________higher this year than last year.
A. clearly
B. frequently
C. necessarily
D. slightly
Question 13: The researcher wrote an interesting article about her new___________
A. form
B. myth
C. theory
.
D. puberty
Question 14: We were all in___________of the fact that the new manager was our oldfriend Duncan.
A. surprise
B. shock
C. awe
D. amazement
Question 15: We weren't___________of the danger we were in until it was too late and the ice started to
break. We are lucky to be alive!
A. alive
B. alert
C. awake
D. aware
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Question 16: “What do you want to be when you___________?”“l want to be a doctor.”
A. figure it out
B. get rid of it
C. grow up
D. turn into it
Question 17: He kept___________the same thing again and again.
A. repeat
B. to repeat
C. repeat to
D. repeating
Question 18: Mark prefers cycling___________driving.
A. than
B. for
C. to
D. as
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to
the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 19: When I told my boss I was leaving for another job, he gave me his blessing and wished me
the best.
A. benediction
B. malfunction
C. attack
D. criticism
Question 20: Doctors have discovered some startling facts about cancers.
A. frightening
B. rushing
C. upsetting
D. grabbing
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning
to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 21: For centuries, men tried to oppress women by forbidding them to work outside of the home.
A. suppress
B. hurt
C. moan
D. permit
Question 22: Old growth forest in this state has shrunk to the point where many people have never seen
an original, uncut forest.
A. fed
B. produced
C. expanded
D. cultivated
Mark the Setter As B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to
complete each of the following exchanges.
Question 23: A teacher is talking to one of his students about her exercise.
- Teacher: “What time does it finish?”
- Student: “___________.”
A. I’m not sure
B. On Thursday
C. It takes 15 minutes D. Every hour
Question 24: Peter is talking to a receptionist at a hotel.
- Peter: “I’d like a double room with a shower.”
- Receptionist: “___________.”
A. How much is that?
B. Certainly, sir.
C. Is it a quiet room?
D. Is service included?
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer for each of the blanks from 25 to 29.
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COMIC RELIEF
Comic Relief is a charitable organisation based in London. It was set (25) ___________by comedians in
1985 in response to the famine in Ethiopia, and uses comedy to (26) ___________ serious messages
across. Over the yearsthousands of celebrities have helped to raise over £600 millionto date. Every two
years, usually on a Friday in March, Comic Relieforganizes a nationwide fund-raising event (27)
___________ 'Red Nose Day'. On Red Nose Day everyone in the country isencouraged to put on a red
nose and do something silly to raisemoney for charity. Every contribution is important, whether it is
standing in thestreet (28) ___________money from passers-by, or takingpart in a sponsored event like not
talking for a whole day. The event is televised in the evening, when the combination of comedy and hardhitting documentaries persuades (29) ___________to make donations on their credit cards -over the
phone or via the internet - to those less fortunatethan themselves.
Question 25:
A. on
B. off
C. out
D. up
Question 26:
A. have
B. do
C. get
D. make
Question 27:
A. known
B. named
C. called
D. described
Question 28:
A. collecting
B. earning
C. asking
D. gathering
Question 29:
A. spectators
B. viewers
C. audience
D. observers
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer for each of the questions from 30 to 34.
RING OF FIRE
The ring of fire is an enormous chain of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean. The ring goes from New
Zealand up to Asia and across the ocean to Alaska. From Alaska, the ring continues southwardalong the
coast of both North and South America. More than seventy-five percent of the world’s volcanoes are
located in thisring.
Scientists are interested in studying the Ring of Fire because they can observeplate tectonics at work
there. In 1912, a German scientist, Alfred Wegener, came up withthe first theory of land movement
Wegener said continents are made up of lighterrocks resting on heavier material. Similar to the way large
things move while floatingon water, Wegener suggested that the positions of the continents were not
fixed, butthat they moved slightly. Later, scientists discovered most of Wegener’s ideas wereright on the
mark. They then developed the theory called plate tectonics.
According to plate tectonics, the surface of the Earth consists of a number ofenormous plates or
sections of rock, each about eighty kilometers thick. The platesfloat and slowly move at speeds between
one to ten centimeters every year. That isabout the rate your fingernails grow! Within the Ring of Fire,
new material for the Earth’s plates is constantly being created as hot liquid rock called magma flows
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fromthe center of the Earth up to the ocean floor. All the existing plates on the Earth’s surfacehave to
move slightly to make room for the new material.
As plates move both away from and towardeach other, they run into each other. When they hiteach
other, one plate might move under another. This process is called subduction. Subductionfrequently
causes earthquakes. It may also resultin the bottom plate meltingdue to the extreme temperatures under
the top plate. The magmacreated in this process can rise to the Earth’ssurface and come out through
volcanoes, as canbe seen along the Ring of Fire.
Question 30: What is the main focus of this reading?
A. The most active volcanoes found in the Ring of Fire
B. The location of the Ring of Fire
C. How the plates on the Earth’s surface move in different ways
D. How plate tectonics, volcanoes, and earthquakes are related
Question 31: According to the reading, which is true about the Ring of Fire?
A. All of the volcanoes along the ring are active.
B. Most of the volcanoes on Earth are part of the ring.
C. The ring gets bigger each year.
D. The ring was discovered in the 20th century.
Question 32: What does "subduction"mean in this reading?
A. Rocks moving under volcanoes
B. Erupting liquid rock
C. The theory of moving plates
D. Movement of a plate under another
Question 33: What is NOT a result of shifting tectonic plates?
A. Earthquakes
B. Extreme temperatures inside the Earth
C. Volcanoes
D. Subduction
Question 34: Which question is NOT answered in the reading?
A. How fast do tectonic plates move?
B. How thick are the plates in tectonic theory?
C. What is the most active volcano today?
D. Where is the Ring of Fire?
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer for each of the questions from 35 to 42.
Most earthquakes are caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's lithospheric plates and occur at
the boundaries between the plates. Experts recognize seven to twelve major plates and a number of
smaller ones. The plates take their names from continents (the North American plate): from oceans (the
Pacific plate): and from geographic areas (the Arabian plate).
Slow and steady Motion
The plates are in very slow but constant motion, so that seen from above, the earth's surface might look
like a slowly moving spherical jigsaw puzzle. The plates move at rates of 2 to 15 cm or several inches in a
year, about as fast as our fingernails grow. On a human scale, this is a rate of movement that only the
most sophisticated instruments can detect. But on the scale of geological time, it's a dizzying speed. At
this rate, those almost-four-billion-year old rocks could have traveled all the way around the Earth eleven
times.
The movement of the plates is generally one of three kinds: spreading, colliding or sliding. When
plates are spreading, or separating from each other, we call their movement divergent. When they are
colliding, or pushing each other, we call the movement convergent. Movement in which plates slide past
each other is called lateral (or transform) plate movement. Earthquakes can accompany each of the three
types of movement.
Plate Tectonics
The revolutionary theory of plate tectonics originated early in the 20th century, although it did not gain
general acceptance until the late 1960s. The German meteorologist, geophysicist, and explorer Alfred L
Wegener is now given credit for the first step in understanding the movement of the lithosphere. In the
period 1910-1912 he formulated the theory called continental drift and collected evidence from the rocks,
fossils, and climate of various continents to show that they had once been joined together. Wegener had
little data on the oceanic crust, so he thought that the continents merely moved through that crust.
Question 35: Earthquakes occur when what parts of the tectonic plates collide?
A. the edges
B. the centres
C. the peaks
D. The bottom
Question 36: Tectonic plates can get their names from what?
A. cities
B. rivers
C. seas
D. mountains
Question 37: Why is the phrase “jigsaw puzzle” used in the second paragraph?
A. To show how complex everything is
B. Because of the way the plates fit together
C. Because of the number of plates
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D. Because of the plates’ movements
Question 38: Why have the plates travelled so far?
A. Because they are moving quite fast.
B. Because the Earth is not very big.
C. Because of the age of the Earth.
D. Because there are too many rocks.
Question 39: All of these statements about earthquakes are correct EXCEPT
A. Earthquakes can be caused when plates are moving away from each other.
B. Large-scale movements of the Earth's lithospheric plates caused most earthquakes.
C. Earthquakes can accompany all three types of plate movement.
D. The five continents were possibly seperated by earthquakes.
Question 40: Why did Wegener's theory take so long to be accepted?
A. He had no understanding of the ocean floor.
B. It was very different from previous ideas in this area.
C. He made several errors in his theory.
D. He had no evidence to support his theory.
Question 41: What evidence did Wegener NOT use to support his theory of Continental Drift when
looking at two now-distant locations?
A. The existence of similar rocks.
B. The existence of similar extinct animals.
C. The existence of similar races of people.
D. The existence of similar types of weather.
Question 42: The word they in the third paragraph refers to
A. the plates.
B. the movements,
C. the earthquakes.
D. the rocks.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs
correction in each of the following questions.
Question 43: Drug addiction is a menace that must be stamp out.
A. addiction
B. must be
C. stamp
D. out.
Question 44: Bloomer is a fashion clothing for women riginally invented by Elizabeth Smith Miller and
was then established and popularized by Amelia Bloomer calling it "Bloomer suit".
A. a fashion
B. invented
C. and
D. was then
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Question 45: It pictures a long baggy pants worn below the skirt with a narrowing cut off towards the
ankle.
A. a long baggy pants B. below
C. cut off
D. towards
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning
to each of the following questions.
Question 46: Even though many of us don't suffer from a mental disorder, it is clear that some of us are
mentally healthier than others.
A. Many people who are diagnosed as having mental disorder are mentally healthier than we are.
B. Compared to the number of mentally healthy, the number of people with a mental disorder is
increasing.
C. It is not clear how many people suffer from a mental disorder since many of them seem mentally
healthy.
D. That some of us are not as mentally healthy as other is obvious but the number of people having a
mental disorder is not very high.
Question 47: You can renew your passport whenever you wish, but you must pay the full fee.
A. You would have paid the full fee if you had wanted to renew your passport.
B. Even if you don't renew your passport on time, you are not charged the full fee.
C. The time when you renew your passport is not important as long as you pay the full fee.
D. The fee for a new passport depends on why you wish to renew it.
Question 48: The only members of the cat family that can roar are lions, leopards, tigers, and jaguars but
lions are by far the loudest.
A. Lions, leopards, tigers, and jaguars are the only four cats that can roar; however, the others can't
roar as loudly as lions do.
B. Since lions come from the same cat family as leopards, tigers and jaguars do, they can roar as loud
as the others.
C. Lions, leopards, tigers, and jaguars are the only four cats that can roar; however, the others can't
roar as loudly as lions do.
D. Lions, leopards, tigers, and jaguars can roar, however the roar of a lion is not as frightening as the
roar of the others.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each
pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 49: Kelly volunteers at a day-care center after school. She enjoys working with children.
A. Kelly who enjoys working with children volunteer at a day-care center after school.
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B. Kelly volunteers at a day-care center after school who enjoys working with children.
C. Kelly, who volunteers at a day-care center after school, enjoys working with children.
D. Kelly volunteers at a day-care center after school, which make her enjoys working with children.
Question 50: I had my seat belt on during an accident last year. I was fortunate not to sustain any
injuries.
A. I had my seat belt on during an accident last year; as a result, I was fortunate not to sustain any
injuries.
B. Although I had my seat belt on during an accident last year, I was fortunate not to sustain any
injuries.
C. I had my seat belt on during an accident last year; however, I was fortunate not to sustain any
injuries.
D. I had my seat belt on during an accident last year; indeed, I was fortunate not to sustain any injuries.
Đáp án
1-A
2-B
3-B
4-C
5-A
6-D
7-B
8-A
9-C
10-B
11-C
12-D
13-C
14-C
15-D
16-C
17-D
18-C
19-A
20-A
21-D
22-C
23-A
24-B
25-D
26-C
27-B
28-A
29-C
30-D
31-B
32-D
33-B
34-C
35-A
36-C
37-B
38-C
39-D
40-B
41-C
42-A
43-D
44-D
45-A
46-D
47-C
48-A
49-C
50-A
LỜI GIẢI CHI TIẾT
Câu 1: Đáp án A
bare /beə/
Phần gạch chân của 3 phương án B, C và D được phát âm /ɑː/
Câu 2: Đáp án B
pretty /ˈprɪti/
Phần gạch chân của 3 phương án A, C và D được phát âm /e/
Câu 3: Đáp án B
telepathy /təˈlepəθi/ - nhấn âm thứ hai
Các từ còn lại nhấn âm đầu /ˈtelɪvɪʒn/ - /'teliskoup/ - /'telifoun/
Câu 4: Đáp án C
computer /kəmˈpjuːtər/ - nhấn âm thứ hai
Các từ còn lại nhấn âm đầu
/'kʌmpəni/ - /'sinimə/ - /'gʌvnmənt/
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Câu 5: Đáp án A
drop (n): hạt mưa, giọt mưa
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa.
Câu 6: Đáp án D
in the name of (phrase): nhân danh
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ngữ pháp và ý nghĩa.
Câu 7: Đáp án B
count on (phr. V): hi vọng, trông mong
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa.
Câu 8: Đáp án A
custom (n): phong tục, tục lệ
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa.
Câu 9: Đáp án C
instead of (conj): thay vì
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa.
Câu 10: Đáp án B
figure out (v): tìm, luận ra
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa.
Câu 11: Đáp án C
come up with (phr. V): nghĩ ra
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa.
Câu 12: Đáp án D
slightly (adv): nhỏ, không đáng kể
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa.
Câu 13: Đáp án C
theory (n)”: lý thuyết, giả thuyết
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa.
Câu 14: Đáp án C
in awe of (phrase): kinh ngạc, kính phục
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa và ngữ pháp.
Câu 15: Đáp án D
be aware of (phrase): ý thức, nhận biết
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa và ngữ pháp.
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Câu 16: Đáp án C
grow up (v): trưởng thành, lớn
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa.
Câu 17: Đáp án D
keep (v) + V_ing: tiếp tục làm gì
Câu 18: Đáp án C
prefer N1 to N2: thích hơn
prefer doing sth to doing sth else
prefer to do sth rather than (do) sth else
Câu 19: Đáp án A
Benediction (n): lời ban phúc
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa.
Câu 20: Đáp án A
Startling (adj): làm kinh ngạc, làm hoảng hốt
Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa.
Câu 21: Đáp án D
Permit (v): cho phép
Oppress (v): áp bức, đàn áp
Câu 22: Đáp án C
Expand (v): mở rộng
Shrink (v): co lại
Câu 23: Đáp án A
Phương án A là câu trả lời phù hợp với ngữ cảnh.
"What time..." hỏi về giờ giấc  Các phưong án B, C và D không phù hợp.
Câu 24: Đáp án B
Phương án B là câu trả lời phù hợp với ngữ cảnh.
Câu 25: Đáp án D
set up (phr.V): thành lập
set on (phr.V): xúi giục; tấn công
set off (phr.V): làm nổi bật; bắt đầu lên đường
set out (phr.V): trưng bày; bắt đầu lên đường
Câu 26: Đáp án C
get across (phr.V): trình bày, truyền đạt
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Các từ còn lại không phù hợp về ý nghĩa.
Câu 27: Đáp án B
named: được đặt tên chính thức called: được gọi là (không chính thức)
Phương án A và D sai ngữ pháp.
Câu 28: Đáp án A
collecting money; quyên tiền
earning money: kiếm tiền bằng công việc
asking for money: xin tiền, đòi tiền
gathering money: tập hợp tiền
Câu 29: Đáp án C
Audience (n): khán giả (các hoạt động chú trọng phần nghe và xem) - trong ngữ cảnh là các hoạt động
biểu diễn đường phố và chương trình truyền hình
Spectator (n): khán giả (các sự kiện thể thao)
Viewer (n): khán giả xem truyền hình
Observer (n): người quan sát
Câu 30: Đáp án D
Câu trả lời dựa vào nội dung toàn bài đọc.
Câu 31: Đáp án B
Câu trả lời dựa vào thông tin “More than seventy-five percent of the world’s volcanoes are located in this
ring.”
Câu 32: Đáp án D
Câu trả lời dựa vào thông tin “When they hit each other, one plate might move under another. This
process is called subduction."
Câu 33: Đáp án B
Câu trả lời dựa vào thông tin trong đoạn cuối của bài đọc.
Câu 34: Đáp án C
Thông tin để trả lời cho câu hỏi trong phương án A, B và D nằm trong đoạn 1 và đoạn 3.
Câu 35: Đáp án A
Câu trả lời dựa vào thông tin “Most earthquakes are caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's
lithospheric plates and occur at the boundaries between the plates.”
Câu 36: Đáp án C
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Câu trả lời dựa vào thông tin “The plates take their names from continents (the North American plate):
from oceans (the Pacific plate): and from geographic areas (the Arabian plate).”
Câu 37: Đáp án B
Câu trả lời dựa vào thông tin “seen from above, the Earth's surface might look like a slowly moving
spherical jigsaw puzzle.”
Câu 38: Đáp án C
Câu trả lời dựa vào thông tin “At this rate, those almost- four-billion-year old rocks could have traveled
all the way around the Earth eleven times.”
Câu 39: Đáp án D
Thông tin để trả lời cho câu hỏi trong phương án A, B và c nằm trong đoạn 1 và đoạn 3.
Câu 40: Đáp án B
Câu trả lời dựa vào thông tin “The revolutionary theory of plate tectonics originated early in the 20th
century, although it did not gain general acceptance until the late 1960s”
Câu 41: Đáp án C
Câu trả lời dựa vào thông tin “In the period 1910-1912 he formulated the theory called Continental drift
and collected evidence from the rocks, fossils, and climate of various continents to show that they had
once been joined together”.
Câu 42: Đáp án A
Câu trả lời dựa vào thông tin “When plates are spreading, or separating from each other, we call their
movement divergent. When they are colliding...”
Câu 43: Đáp án D
stamped out (thể bị động - động từ chia ở dạng past participle)
Câu 44: Đáp án D
was then (tính chất song song qiữa 2 động từ đươc nối bởi từ nối “and” - invented và established nên
động từ “was” không cần thiết)
Câu 45: Đáp án A
a long baggy pants - pants là danh từ số nhiều
Câu 46: Đáp án D
3 phương án A, B và C cho nghĩa khác với câu cho sẵn.
Câu 47: Đáp án C
3 phương án A,B và D cho nghĩa khác với câu cho sẵn.
Câu 48: Đáp án A
3 phương án B, C và D cho nghĩa khác với câu cho sẵn.
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Câu 49: Đáp án C
Phương án C - Mệnh đề quan hệ không bắt buộc.
Phương án A và B - sai ngữ pháp
Phương án D - cho nghĩa khác với câu cho sẵn
Câu 50: Đáp án A
3 phương án B, C và D cho nghĩa khác với câu cho sẵn.
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