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. motorbikes                         B. determines              C. involves                  D. cultures 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 2:     A. contain                   B. feature                    C. picture                    D. culture 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. overwhelming        B. intellectual              C. incredible               D. optimistic 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 4:     A. academic                B. inorganic                 C. understanding        D. uncertainty 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 5: Buying clothes are often a very time-consuming practice because those clothes that a person likes                                              A                             B                                         C  are rarely the ones that fit him or her.              D 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 6: The British national anthem, calling “ God Save the Queen”, was a traditional song in the 18th                                                   A                   B                                               C             D century. 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 7: Maryland, even though a southern state, remained loyalty to The Union during the Civil War.                                             A                                             B              C                              D Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. Question 8: Since the flood the number of homeless people ________dramatically. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.  Question 9: While everybody else in our class prefers working in groups, Mina likes working___________. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.   Question 10:________, the young mother appeared visibly very happy after the birth of her child. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.   Question 11: Could you please tell me________? Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.  Question 12 : He’s always trying _________ me. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.  Question 13 : Ms Kent expects _________ about any revisions in manuscript before it is printed. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.  Question 14: After nine months without any rain, the country was facing one of the most _______ in the last thirty years. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.  Question 15: If my candidate had won the election, I _______ happy now. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.  Question 16: Georfe and Paul are the two men ____________ in my factory. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.  Question 17: He did not share his secrets with other people but he ________in her.  Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.   Question 18: I can’t ________this noise any longer. I’m going to write a letter of complaint to the local authority about this problem Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.  Question 19: The new manager laid down very strict rules as soon as he had ________the position.   Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges. Question 20:  - Marie: “ what a lovely house you have !”                                            - Phil : “                                 Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.  Question 21:  - Duong : “ My first English test was not as good as I expected.”                                      - Thomas:   “ __________”   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 22: The air is naturally contaminated by foreign matter such as plant pollens and dust.  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 23: Over a long time, customs can erode. They are gradually replaced by newer customs.   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 24: “ Please speak up a bit more, Jason. You’re hardly loud enough to be heard from the back”, the teacher said.  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 25: The funny story told by the man amused all the children.  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 26: The gate was closed to stop the children running into the road. 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 27: If it hadn’t been for the wind, the fire would never have spread so fast 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 28: “ Don’t forget to hand in the report, Pete !” said Kate. 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 29: Anne jogs every morning. It is very good for her health. 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 30: The student was very bright. He could solve all the math problems.   Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.  The warming of the Pacific Ocean has created weather pattern (31)_______ strongly affect the world. When the water is warm, the amount of rainfall in Indonesia and the surrounding regions decreases. Australia could (32)_______ experience a drought in many parts. On the other hand, Chile (which borders the Pacific Ocean) is preparing for severe rainstorms. In Pakistan and northwestern India, the weather pattern makes the rainy season weaker and makes the area much drier. This happening is called El Nino and is used (33)_______ weather forecasters to make long-range weather predictions. They also know that El Nino will bring unusually rain to the southwestern part of the United States and make the central part of the country drier at the same time. According to research, weather forecasters (34)_______ know about the coming weather with certainty. Now everything has become completely different. El Nino itself used to be predictable. It would occur every two to seven years. But now this weather pattern is becoming more frequent. We cannot say when and how often tornadoes or cyclones occur. Scientists are unsure of the reason for this (35)_______ on the global scale either. Question 31:     A. what                     B. when                       C. that                         D. whether (Dữ liệu từ câu 31) Question 32:     A. even                     B. ever                         C. nevertheless            D. however (Dữ liệu từ câu 31) Question 33:     A. on                         B. by                                       C. to                            D. at (Dữ liệu từ câu 31) Question 34:     A. used to                 B. get used to              C. are used to              D. used to be (Dữ liệu từ câu 31) Question 35:     A. change                  B. transfer                   C. transformation        D. shift 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 42.      Horace Pippin, as an African- American soldier during World War I, was wound in his right arm. He discovered, however, that by keeping his right wrist steady with his left hand, he could paint and draw. Pippin was not trained, but his artistic sensitivity and intuitive feel for two- dimensional design and the arrangement of colour and patterns made him one of the finest Primitive artists America has produced.       Pippin did a series of paintings on the abolitionist John Brown and one on his war experiences, but he shied away from social issues for the most part and achieved his greatest success with scenes of the people and places of his hometown of West Chester, Pennsylvania. His Domino Players, featuring four women gathered around a wooden table in a simple kitchen setting, is an excellent example of his rural domestic scenes. Question 36: According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about primitive art?    (Dữ liệu từ câu 36) Question 37: Horace Pippin discovered he could paint and draw_________. (Dữ liệu từ câu 36) Question 38: Where in the passage is the name of Pippin’s hometown mentioned? (Dữ liệu từ câu 36) Question 39: It may be inferred from the passage that Pippin__________. (Dữ liệu từ câu 36) Question 40: The word “arrangement” in line 5 could best be replaced by which of the following? (Dữ liệu từ câu 36) Question 41: With which of the following statements would the author agree?     (Dữ liệu từ câu 36) Question 42: The passage would most likely be required reading in which course?   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     It is hard to think of a world without gas or electricity. Both are commonly used for lighting and heating today. We now can instantly flick a lighter or strike a match to make a flame. But it was not long ago that there were no such things as matches or lighters. To make fire, it was necessary to strike a piece of iron on flint for sparks to ignite some tinder. If the tinder was damp, or the flint old, you had to borrow some fire from a neighbor.     We do not know exactly when or how people first used fire. Perhaps, many ages ago, they found that sticks would burn if they were dropped into some hole where melted lava from a volcano lay boiling. They brought the lighted sticks back to make their fire in a cave. Or, they may have seen trees catch fire through being struck by lightning, and used the trees to start their own fires.     Gradually people learned they could start a fire without traveling far to find flames. They rubbed two pieces of wood together. This method was used for thousands of years.     When people became used to making fires with which to cook food and stay warm at night, they found that certain resins or gums from trees burnt longer and brighter. They melted resins and dipped branches in the liquid to make torches that lit their homes at night. Iron stands in which torches used to be fixed can still be seen in old buildings of Europe.     There was no lighting in city streets until gas lamps, and then electric lamps were installed. Boys ran about London at night carrying torches of burning material. They were called torch boys, or link boys, and earned a living by guiding visitors to friends’ houses at night.     For centuries homes were lit by candles until oil was found. Even then, oil lamps were no more effective than a cluster of candles. We read about the splendors and marvels of ancient palaces and castles, but we forget that they must have been gloomy and murky places at night. Question 43: What does “they” refer to? (Dữ liệu từ câu 43) Question 44: According to the passage the first fire used by people was probably obtained ______.   (Dữ liệu từ câu 43) Question 45: Torches for lighting were made from ____. (Dữ liệu từ câu 43) Question 46: Before the electric lamp was invented ______. (Dữ liệu từ câu 43) Question 47: The word “splendors” in the passage could be best replaced by which of the following?   (Dữ liệu từ câu 43) Question 48: According to the passage, which of the following sentence is NOT true?   (Dữ liệu từ câu 43) Question 49: The word “gloomy” in the passage is closest in meaning to   (Dữ liệu từ câu 43) Question 50: What form of street lighting was used in London when link boys used to work there?