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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. strolled B. ruined C. crowded D. admired
Question 2: A. attraction B. important C. character D. irrational
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. influential B. associate C. variety D. accountancy
Question 4: A. celebration B. optimistic C. independent D. minority
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: The statue in the square is _____ memory of the soldiers who fought in the war.
A. with B. in C. by D. on
Question 6: He _____ great time on his vacation. He seems happy and relaxed.
A. have B. had C. has had D. be had
Question 7: Andrew _____ greater responsibilities when he was promoted.
A. went over B. put up C. took on D. got over
Question 8: When we arrived, the orchestra was already halfway through the first _____.
A. beat B. harmony C. movement phần của âm nhạcD. lyrics
Question 9: We spent weeks _____ in Africa the way lions catch their prey.
A. looking B. staring C. glancing D. observing
Question 10: Last year Marke earned _____ his brother, who had a better position.
A. twice as much as B. twice more than
C. twice as many as D. twice as more as
Question 11: There was a sign, but Charles couldn’t _______what it said.
A. see off B. hang on C. make up D. make out
Question 12: The audience started clapping _____ the singer came on stage.
A. by the time B. the moment C. while D. just
Question 13: She asked me if _______a new laptop computer the following day.
A. will buy B. buy C. would buy D. bought
Question 14: My English is progressing _____
A. odds and ends B. leaps and bounds
C. bounds and leaps D. ends and odds
Question 15: In a few hours, we _____ the test, and we’ll go home and rest

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A. are finishing B. have finished

C. will have finished D. will be finishing time writing an
Question 16: He had spent _____ essay on his childhood.
A. a few B. a large number of
C. a great deal of D. many
Question 17: Sedimentary rocks are formed below the surface of the earth _____ very high temperatures and
pressures.
A. where there are B. there are
C. where are there D. there are where
Question 18: Farmers look forward to_ _____ every summer.
A. participating in the country fairs
B. participate in the country fairs
C. be participating in the country fairs
D. have participated in the country fairs
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: My brother and I agree on most issues, but I sure don’t see eye to eye with him on this proposal
to build a new stadium.
A. disagree B. collide with
C. accompany D. have the same opinion
Question 20: This bike cost a pretty penny, but I think it was worth it.
A. out of money B. a lot of money
C. cheap D. a few money
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: The misunderstanding will be cleared up as soon as he gets here.
A. resolve B. explain C. deal With D. be still ambiguous
Question 22: The government kept back vital information concerning the oil spill.
A. not reveal B. reserve C. maintain D. show
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitabte response to complete
each of the following exchanges.
Question 23: Dung: “Thanks for the nice gift!” - Chuong: “___________”
A. You’re welcome.
B. But do you know how much it costs?

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C. In fact, I myself don’t like it.

D. I’m glad you like it.
Question 24: “I'm so sorry I forgot your birthday!” -“___________”
A. Oh, not really!
B. It's good of you to say so!
C. My pleasure!
D. Oh, don't worry, there's always next year!
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.
A NIGHT AT THE THEATRE
Going to the theater brings back happy memories, as it (25) ___________me of my very first performance
on stage, which was thirty years ago. Parts of that particular night are so vivid that I can still picture myself as
though it were yesterday. The excitement amongst the actors, the audiences’ applause and the party after the
opening night are memories which will remain with me for (26) ___________
I don’t know how we managed to do so well. The rehearsals were far from satisfactory because we thought
that we could just have two rehearsals a week (27) ___________ In fact we needed more. The background
scenes to the last act weren’t ready until an hour before the beginning of the play despite the set builder’s best
(28) ___________ The director was not satisfied with anything and he didn’t even want to show up on the first
night. Admittedly, I wouldn’t have wanted to either.
When the night finally arrived, we were all a bit worried. I remember glancing through the curtain ten
minutes before the start and being amazed at the (29) ___________ of a full house. Finally, it was time for the
curtain to go up. In the end, we proved the director wrong and everything went like clockwork.
Question 25: A. recognizes B. reminds C. recalls D. memorises
Question 26: A. life B. ages C. a while D. time
Question 27: A. where B. when C. whenever D. which
Question 28: A. attempts B. efforts C. trials D. tries
Question 29: A. view B. vision C. sight D. image
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.
As heart disease continues to be the number-one killer in the United States, researchers have become
increasingly interested in identifying the potential risk factors that trigger heart attacks. High-fat diets and ‘life
in the fast lane’ have long been known to contribute to the high incidence of heart failure. But according to new
studies, the list of risk factors may be significantly longer and quite surprising.

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Heart failure, for example, appears to seasonal and temporal patterns. A higher percentage of heart attacks
occur in cold weather, and more people experience heart failure on Monday than on any other day of the week.
In addition, people are more susceptible to heart attacks in the first few hours after waking. Cardiologists first
observed this morning phenomenon in the mid-1980, and have since discovered a number of possible causes.
An early-morning rise in blood pressure, heart rate, and concentration of heart stimulating hormones, plus a
reduction of blood flow to the heart, may all contribute to higher incidence of heart attacks between the hours
of 8:00 A.M and 10:00 A.M.

In other studies, both birthdays and bachelorhood have been implicated as risk factors. Statistics reveal that
heart attack rates increase significantly for both females and males in the few days immediately receding and
following their birthdays. And unmarried men are more at risk for heart attacks than their married counterparts.
Though stress is thought to be linked in some ways to all of the aforementioned risk factors, intense research
continues in the hope of further comprehending why and how heart failure is triggered.

Question 30: What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. Risk factors in heart attacks
B. Seasonal and temporal patterns of heart attacks
C. Cardiology in the 1980s
D. Diet and stress as factors in heart attacks
Question 31: The word “phenomenon” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to___________
A. habit B. illness
C. occurrence D. activity
Question 32: Which of the following is NOT cited as a possible risk factor?
A. Having a birthday B. Getting married
C. Eating fatty foods D. Being under stress
Question 33: It can be inferred from the passage that___________
A. we now fully understand how risk factors trigger heart attacks.
B. we recently began to study how risk factors trigger heart attacks.
C. we have not identified may risk factors associated with heart attacks.
D. we do not fully understand how risk factors trigger heart attacks yet.
Question 34: Which of the following in NOT true, according to the passage?
A. Heart disease kills more people in the US than the other diseases.
B. Males in general are more affected by heart disease than female.
C. People are more susceptible to heart attacks in the morning.

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D. Researchers are still studying the risk factors of heart disease.

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.
UFO - HAVE WE BEEN VISITED?
On a cold, dark winter’s evening in 1988, Jon Hickes and Richard Williams were driving to a friend’s house
near Canterbury when they saw a bright red object glowing above the fields about 500 meters in front of them.
As they drove nearer to investigate they were amazed to find a large area of molten metal, bubbling on the
ground like a pool of volcanic lava. When firemen arrived shortly after, it took them over an hour to cool down
the boiling mass and make it safe.

Samples of the solidified metal were taken to the nearby University of Kents where they were found to
contain iron and small amounts of tin and chromium. James Radcliffe, a specialist at the university, concluded
that material such as this could not have come from a meteor, and military experts, for their part, were quick to
point out that it could not have fallen from any aero plane or spacecraft; space debris does not hit the earth’s
surface in a liquid state.

Of course, there were suggestion that the whole thing might have been a hoax, but a practical joke on this
scale would have been very difficult to set up. The only factory in the area capable of producing molten metal
had recently closed down, and besides, arranging for large quantities of the metal to be dropped from the sky
would not be very easy. Clearly, this was not a simple open-and-shut matter.

Unexplained aerial phenomena of this nature have been observed and noted down for centuries, but the
modern preoccupation with UFOs began in 1947, when there were an unusually large number of reported
sightings. In the last 50 years there have been over 10,000 such reports in Britain alone. Most of these can be
attributed to man-made objects such as aircraft and satellites, or astronomical phenomena such as shooting
stars. Just over five per cent of case, however, remained unexplained, leading many UFO experts to the
conclusion that aliens have indeed visited our planet.

In another case in the 1980s Les and Linda Burnham were cycling together along a country road near Rye in
Sussex when a sudden, blinding light almost caused them to fall off their bicycles. As the couple stopped to
cover their eyes, they felt intense heat and heard a defeating roar like sound of high-speed train. A minute or so
later they were able to look up again, and were greeted with the sight of a huge, diamond-shaped metal object
floating above the treetops, spitting flames and emitting a loud, high-pitched noise. They watched in shocked

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silence as the gigantic structure climbed high into the air and disappeared from nowhere and raced off after the
mysterious object.

As they cycled the short distance home, Les and Linda suffered headaches and sickness, and during the next
few days experienced diarrhea and minor skin burn. As a result of illness and depression Linda was unable to
go to work for nearly six weeks.

Underneath where the object had been floating, an area of woodland had burnt down, electricity cables had
burnt down, electricity cables has snapped and the road surface had melted. Whatever caused it, the heat must
have been incredibly intense to do all that. As for the jet aircraft, military bases denied all knowledge of them
and to this day their origin, like that of the diamond-shaped object, remains a mystery.

Question 35: What are we told about the object which Jon Hickes and Richard Williams witnessed?
A. It was very hot.
B. It came up through the ground.
C. They watched it change from solid to liquid.
D. It was 500 meters wide.
Question 36: 'It' in paragraph 2 refers to
A. a meteor B. a spacecraft C. the metal D. the university
Question 37: What does the writer mean when he says, 'this was not a simple open-and- shut matter' (in
paragraph 3)?
A. It was a complicated hoax.
B. The factory was no longer open.
C. The sighting is still being investigated.
D. There was no obvious explanation for the incident.
Question 38: Records of mysterious happenings in the sky were first made
A. 50 years ago B. in 1947
C. hundreds of years ago D. in the nineteen eighties
Question 39: The object which Les and Linda saw___________.
A. was travelling at the same speed as a train.
B. made two different sounds.
C. was made of metal and diamonds.
D. was on fire.
Question 40: As a result of their experience Les and Linda___________.

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A. began to feel unwell soon afterwards.

B. were ill for several weeks
C. were bạcỉly burnt.
D. started feeling sick when they got home.
Question 41: According to Les and Linda, the jet aircraft they saw___________.
A. were involved in secret military activity.
B. followed the strange object.
C. probably came from a nearby military base.
D. were the same shape as the unidentified object.
Question 42: Which of the following sentences best sums up the writer's views?
A. Aliens have visited our planet.
B. All UFO sightings can be explained scientifically.
C. Alien life forms may exist.
D. Most UFOs are practical jokes.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction
m each of the following questions.
Question 43: The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom vary from element to element
A. of B. an C. vary D. to
Question 44: Dynamics is a branch of physics that deals for the relationship between motion and force.
A. branch of B. deals for C. between D. and force
Question 45: As they grow older, children in many cultures taught not to rely on their parents.
A. grow older B. taught C. not to D. on
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 some events were cancelled, thousands of people attended the festival.
A. No matter how many people attended the festival, some events were cancelled.
B. In spite some cancelled events, thousands of people attended the festival.
C. As some events were cancelled, thousands of people attended the festival.
D. Despite the cancellation of some events, thousands of people attended the festival.
Question 47: She must do her homework, otherwise her parents won’t let her go to the party.
A. In case her parents won’t let her go to the party, she must do her homework.
B. If her parents will let her go to the party, she does her homework, otherwise.
C. On condition that she must does her homework, her parents will let her go to the party.
D. She must do her homework unless her parents won’t let her go to the party.

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Question 48: "You should have finished the report by now”, John told his secretary.
A. John criticized his secretary for not having finished the report.
B. John scolded his secretary for not having finished the report,
C. John reminded his secretary of finishing the report on time.
D. John said that his secretary had not finished the report on time
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: I whispered. I didn’t want anybody else to hear our conversation.
A. I whispered in order that everyone else could hear our conversation.
B. I whispered in order to nobody else could hear our conversation,
C. I whispered in order that nobody else could hear our conversation.
D. I whispered so that nobody else couldn’t hear our conversation.
Question 50: The pilot left the aircraft. Everyone else had left before him.
A. The pilot was the first person to leave the aircraft.
B. The pilot was the only person to leave the aircraft.
C. The pilot was the last person to leave the aircraft.
D. The pilot was the last person who leave the aircraft.

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