I. Choose the word whose underlined part has a different pronunciation from the others in each group. (0.5 pts)
| 1. A. active | B. disaster | C. national | D. campus |
| 2. A. charity | B. achieve | C. scholarship | D. exchange |
II. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group (0.5 pts)
| 3. A. poisonous | B. climate | C. violence | D. prohibit |
| 4. A. efficiency | B. complication | C. experience | D. priority |
III. Choose the word or the phrase or sentence that best completes each unfinished sentence below or that best keeps the meaning of the original sentence if it is substituted for the underlined word or phrase (2.5 pts)
5. Man: “Excuse me! Is anybody sitting here?” – Woman: “_______________.”
| A. No, thanks | B. Yes, I am so glad | C. Sorry, the seat is taken | D. Yes, you can sit here |
6. Thanh: “How about making posters on energy saving and hanging them around the school?”
– Xuan: “_______________.”
| A. Well, I agree | B. Great! Let’s do that. | C. No problem | D. I’m fine, thanks |
7. We really wanted to enroll for some charity organizations and were accepted.
| A. independently gave up | B. strongly applied to | C. separately sent to | D. totally turned backed |
8. For most households, lighting _______________ 10 to 15 percent of the electricity bill.
| A. accounts for | B. applies for | C. prepares with | D. contributes with |
9. Sapa, _______________ last summer vacation, is a nice mountainous city.
| A. where I visited | B. that I visited | C. which I visited | D. whom I visited |
10. You have read this article on the website, _______________?
| A. haven’t you | B. aren’t you | C. don’t you | D. didn’t you |
11. He _______________ to find a job but he had no luck.
| A. hardly promised | B. finally realized | C. quite prepared | D. tried hard |
12. We couldn’t go on a picnic as planned _______________.
| A. although it was raining | C. because the rain was heavy | C. but it rained | D. so it rained heavily |
13. A funnel-shaped storm passing overland below a thunderstorm is _______________.
| A. called a tornado | B. said a typhoon | C. prepared a hurricane | D. made a snowstorm |
14. “I’m grateful that you looked after my mother so well.” Which sentence expresses the same idea?
| A. Thank you that you looked like my mother. | B. Thanks for taking care of my mother. | C. Thank you about considering my mother. | D. Thanks for paying attention to my mother. |
IV. Look at the signs. Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) for each sign (0.5 pts)
| 15. What should you be aware of when you see this sign? | |
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A. Don’t come in.
B. Be careful or you’ll slip. C. Mind your head as the floor has just been repaired. D. Don’t enter this area. |
| 16. When you see this sign in a public place, it means: | |
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A. Using mobile phones is allowed when pumping gas.
B. Using mobile phones is prohibited when pumping gas. C. Making a phone call when pumping gas is possible. D. Using mobile phones isn’t dangerous when pumping gas. |
V. Use the correct form of the word given in each sentence (1.5 pts)
| 17. There is a severe ______________ of low-cost housing in the city. (short) |
| 18. She claims that money can be saved by reducing ______________. (efficient) |
| 19. The working hour in this job is very ______________, you sometimes have to work late at very short notice. (predict) |
| 20. He’s been suffering ______________ aches and pains for ages. (vary) |
| 21. My teacher criticizes his students both ______________ and individually. (collection) |
| 22. Previous big film projects had failed ______________ because of Covid-2019. (disaster) |
VI. Rearrange the words and phrases given in the correct order (0.5 pts)
| 23. not only run / as well / but it is / economical / The car does / effectively /.
→ ________________________________ |
| 24. see and / for the storm passing /, so I stopped / I couldn’t / the car / I was afraid/ and waited / I would have an accident /.
→ ________________________________ |
VII. Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in the following passage (1.5 pts)
When man first learned (25)__________ a fire, he began to use fuel for the first time. The first fuel he used was probably wood. As time passed, man eventually discovered that (26)__________ would burn.
Coal was not used very widely as a source of energy until the end of the 19th century. With the coming of (27)__________, it was soon realized that production would double if coal was used instead of wood. Nowadays, many of the huge factories and electricity generating stations would be unable to function if there was no coal.
In the last twenty or thirty years, however, the use of coal has declined. (28)__________, there have been changes in the coal industry. It is believed that (29)__________ if oil and gas were not readily available.
There is more than enough coal in the world for man’s needs for the next two hundred years if our use of coal does not increase. Unfortunately, however, about half of the world’s coal may never be used. (30)__________ would be very expensive even if it was possible to use new equipment.
| 25. A. what to do | B. when to work | C. how to make | D. where to take |
| 26. A. substances such as coal and oil |
| B. factors such as coal and oil |
| C. elements such as coal and oil |
| D. ingredients such as coal and oil |
| 27. A. the social innovation |
| B. the technological conservation |
| C. the economic resolution |
| D. the industrial revolution |
| 28. A. In addition | B. As a result | C. On the other hand | D. In other words |
| 29. A. more people employ coal |
| B. more people will apply coal |
| C. more people consumed coal |
| D. more people would use coal |
| 30. A. Mining much of it | B. Mining much at it | C. Mining much to it | D. Mining much for it |
VIII. Read the passage and then decide whether the statements that follow are True or False (1.5 pts)
The World Wide Web was developed by British physicist and computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee as a project within the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. Berners-Lee combined several existing ideas into a single system to make it easier for physicists to use data on the Internet. Most important, he added multimedia – the ability to include graphics – to the hyperlink concept found in a previous Internet service known as gopher. Berners-Lee had begun working with hypertext in the early 1980s. An early prototype implementation of the Web became operational at CERN in 1989, and the idea quickly spread to universities in the rest of the world.
Groups at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researched and extended Web technology. They developed the first browser that was used at many sites, named Mosaic, in 1993. To allow the Web to be accessed from a wide variety of computer systems, researchers built multiple versions of Mosaic. Each version was designed to be used with a specific operating system, the software that controls the computer. Within a year, computer programmer Marc Andreessen had formed a commercial company, Netscape Communications Corporation, to build and sell Web technologies.
31. The scientist who developed the World Wide Web was majoring in computer and physics.
| A. True | B. False |
32. Mosaic was one of the scientists who developed WWW.
| A. True | B. False |
33. It’s possibly easy for physicists when using internet data thanks to Berners’ ideas.
| A. True | B. False |
34. Web technology was studied and widened by Groups at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
| A. True | B. False |
Read passage again and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D)
35. The word “implementation” in the passage means:
| A. make something officially start |
| B. make detailed arrangements |
| C. put something orderly |
| D. organize something in advance |
36. Which of the following is NOT true?
| A. Numerous forms of the first browser were built to allow the Web to be accessed from a diversity of computer systems. |
| B. Netscape Communications Corporation aims to build and sell Web technologies. |
| C. The first browser used at many sites was developed in 1993. |
| D. Baird joined several existing ideas into the hyperlink including the graphics. |
IX. Rewrite the sentences so that they are nearest in meaning to the sentence printed before them (1.0 pt)
| 37. I spent two hours making a birthday cake for my beloved daughter.
→ It took __________________________ |
| 38. My mother was the most warm-hearted person I’ve ever known.
→ I have __________________________ |
| 39. His speaking skill will be improved soon by joining an English-speaking club.
→ If __________________________ |
| 40. “I’d rather you read more books to broaden the mind, students”, the teacher said to her students.
→ The teacher suggested that more books __________________________ |
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