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PRACTICE TEST NO. 11 – EXU 1 - 1617
Tài liệu của:
Cô Bích
Student’s full name:.......................................................................
Mark the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation
1: A. confine	B. conceal	C. convention	D. concentrate
2. A. four	B. journey	C. pour	D. your
Mark the the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress
3: A. sociable	B. vacancy	C. opponent	D. habitat	
4: A. discourage B. document 	C. general 	D. politics
Mark the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
5: Pollution makes streams, lakes and coastal water (A) unpleasant (B) to look at, to smell, and to swim in. Fish and shellfish harvested from (C) polluted waters may be unsafe to eat (D).
6: A finishing (A) motion picture (B) is the work (C) of the collaboration of many individuals (D).
7: Educational films are made for (A) schools, training films for industry; documentary films present (B) fact events (C) or circumstances of social, political, or historical nature (D).
Mark the the correct answer to each of the following questions.
8: On attaining maximum size, ______ by drawing itself out and dividing into two daughter amoebas, each receiving identical nuclear materials.
 A. the reproduction of the amoeba 	B. the amoeba, which reproduces
 C. reproducing the amoeba	D. the amoeba reproduces
9: I suggest the room ..before Christmas.
	A. be decorated	 B. is decorated	C. were decorated	D. should decorate
10: She should ___________ in the garage when we came around, which would explain why she didn't hear the bell.
	A. work 	B. be working 	C. have worked	D. have been working
11: James Cook,______ , also discovered tje Hawaiian Islands.
A. by exploring the South Sea he reached Australia. 	B. explored the South Sea and reaching Australia.
C. who explored the South Sea and reached Australia.	D. explored the South Sea then reached Australia.
12: When friends insist on ______ expensive gifts, it makes most people uncomfortable.
 	A. them to accept	B. they accepting	C. their accepting	D. they accept
13: There are several means of mass communication. The newspaper is one. Television is ______.
	A. another 	B. Other	C. the another	D. the other.
14. In my _______ to win a place at university, I am now under a lot of study pressure. 
	A. improvement 	B. support 	C. confidence 	D. attempt 
15: ____ the exception ____ the little baby, everybody in my family has to jog every morning.
 	A. With / to	B. With / of	C. In / of	D. By / of
16. “ Wild-life-preserves “ are areas where wild animals are _______ within their natural environment.
 A. hunted B .threatened C. protected D. discarded .
17: An addict can go to any ..to obtain his drug.
	A. cases	B. lengths	C. chances	D. places
18. Language is not necessarily the private ________ of those who use it .
 A . instruction B. property C . importance D. guidance .
19. An important part of conservation is the _________ of waste .
 A . preservation B. prevention C. production D. pollution .
Mark the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
20: Minh : " My first English test was not as good as I expected " Thomas : " _________."
	A. Good Heavens!	B. Never mind , better job next time!
	C. That's brilliant enough!	D. It's okay . Don't worry.
21:Tom : “This medicine tastes horrible! ” Mary : “________, it will cure your cough. ”
	A. Be that as it may. B. Come what may 	C. How much horrible is it 	D. Whatever it tastes
Mark the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
22: The removal of cataracts in the eyes by laser has become a common procedure.
 A. method 	B. belief	C. improvement	D. regulations
23: Mayo Hospital in New Orleans was so named in recognition of Dr. Mayo’s outstanding humanitarianism.  
 A. exhaustive B. Charitable C. remarkable 	D. widespread
Choose the word/phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in the following questions
24: After all these years of good work, Arthur deserves a promotion.
A. ought to be denied	B. might be produced	C. should be given	D. could be rejected
25: 25: At times, I look at him and wonder what is going on in his mind.
A. sometimes	B. always	C. hardly	D. never
Mark the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
26. At this time tomorrow, hopefully, I'll be relaxing at home rather than working this hard.
A. Resting at home is something I hope to be doing at this time tomorrow, but I'll probably be working quite hard instead.
B. Tomorrow, rather than relaxing at home as I'd hoped to do, I'll be working quite hard.
C. I'm planning to relax at home tomorrow, instead of working so hard.
D. I hope that, instead of working so hard at this time tomorrow, I'll be at home resting.
27. Public education is so good in European countries that there is almost no demand for private schools.
A. Even the excellence of public education in Europe does not stop people from sending their children to private schools.
B. People still send their children to private schools in Europe although the public education system is excellent.
C. Hardly anyone sends their children to private schools in Europe because state schools are excellent.
D. In Europe, there is no reason for parents to send their children to private schools because state schools are so good.
28. The number of people participating in the conference was far below my expectation.
A. I had expected that many more people would actually attend the conference.
B. I think attendance at the conference was low because it was held too far away from the city centre.
C. I knew that holding such a conference required the participation of more people.
D. The number of participants at the conference far exceeded my expectations.
Mark the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
29. When there is so much traffic on the roads, it is sometimes quicker to walk than to go by car.
During rush hours, walking gives me much more pleasure than driving in the heavy traffic.
The traffic is so heavy that you’d better walk to work; it’s quicker.
There is so much traffic these days that it is more pleasant to walk than to drive.
It is faster to walk than to drive in the heavy traffic at certain time of the day.
30. When we arrived at the party after our car broke down on the way there, there weren't many people left.
A. Our car broke down on the way to the party and by the time we got there, most of the guests had already left.
B. Because we had car trouble on the way to the party, many people grew tired of waiting and left before we arrived there.
C. Not many people had left the party yet when we got there, although we were late because of a car problem on the way.
D. When we arrived at the party after we had had car trouble on the way there, hardly anyone had left yet.
Read the following passage and mark the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the blanks 
 In “Cerealizing America”, Scott Bruce and Bill Crawford remark that the cereal industry uses 816 million pounds of sugar per year. Americans buy 2.7 billion packages of breakfast cereal each year. If (31)___ end to end, the empty cereal boxes from one year’s consumption would (32) ___ to the moon and back. One point three (1.3) million advertisements for cereal are broadcast on American television every year at a cost of $762 million for airtime. Only automobile manufacturers spend more money on television advertising than the makers of breakfast cereal.
 Most of the boxed cereals found in supermarkets contain large amounts of sugar and some contain more than 50% sugar. Cereal manufacturers are very clever in their marketing, making many cereals appear much healthier than they really are by “fortifying” them with vitamins and minerals. Oh, lovely - you now have vitamin-fortified sugar!
 Before you eat any cereal, read the ingredient list and see how (33) ___ sugar appears on the ingredient list. Then check the “Nutrition facts” panel.
 There are actually only a small handful of national commercially-branded cereals that are made (34) ___ whole grains and are sugar-free. If you shop at a health food store instead of your local supermarket, you (35) ___ to find a healthy, whole grain, sugar-free (or very low sugar) cereal. But watch out! Some of the health food store boxed cereals are sweetened with fruit juice or fructose. Although this may be an improvement on refined white sugar, this can really skyrocket the calories. 	 From “Foods That Burn Fat, Foods That Turn to Fat” by Tom Ventulo
31:	A. to lay	B. laying	C. lay	D. laid
32: 	A. reach	B. prolong	C. stretch	D. contact
33: A. tall	 	B. large	C. high	 	D. many
34: A. by	 	 	B. from	C. at	D. in
35: A. are more likelier	B. are much more likely	C. would be able	D. could more or less
Read the following passage and mark the correct answer to each of the questions 
One of the most important social developments that helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education was the effect of the baby boom of the 1950's and 1960's on the schools. In the 1920's, but especially in the Depression conditions of the 1930's, the United States experienced a declining birth rate – every thousand women aged fifteen to forty-four gave birth to about 118 live children in 1920, 89.2 in 1930, 75.8 in 1936, and 80 in 1940. With the growing prosperity brought on by the Second World War and the economic boom that followed it, young people married and established households earlier and began to raise larger families than had their predecessors during the Depression. Birth rates rose to 102 per thousand in 1946, 106.2 in 1950, and 118 in 1955. Although economics was probably the most important determinant, it is not the only explanation for the baby boom. The increased value placed on the idea of the family also helps to explain this rise in birth rates. The baby boomers began streaming into the first grade by the mid-1940's and became a flood by 1950. The public school system suddenly found itself overtaxed. While the number of schoolchildren rose because of wartime and postwar conditions, these same conditions made the schools even less prepared to cope with the flood. The wartime economy meant that few new schools were built between 1940 and 1945. Moreover, during the war and in the boom times that followed large numbers of teachers left their profession for better-paying jobs elsewhere in the economy.
Therefore, in the 1950's and 1960's, the baby boom hit an antiquated and inadequate school system. Consequently, the "custodial rhetoric" of the 1930's and early 1940's no longer made sense; that is, keeping youths aged sixteen and older out of the labor market by keeping them in school could no longer be a high priority for an institution unable to find space and staff to teach younger children aged five to sixteen. With the baby boom, the focus of educators and of laymen interested in education inevitably turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and discipline. The system no longer had much interest in offering nontraditional, new, and extra services to older youths.
36: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The teaching profession during the baby boom B. Birth rates in the United States in the 1930's and 1940
C. The impact of the baby boom on public education D. The role of the family in the 1950's and 1960's
37: The word "it" in line 11 refers to____.
A. 1950 	B. economics 	C. the baby boom 	D. value
38: The public school of the 1950's and 1960's faced all of the following problems EXCEPT
A. a declining number of students 	C. a shortage of teachers
B. old-fashioned facilities 	D. an inadequate number of school buildings
39: According to the passage, why did teachers leave the teaching profession after the outbreak of the war?
A. They needed to be retrained.	B. They were dissatisfied with the curriculum.
C. Other jobs provided higher salaries.	D. Teaching positions were scarce.
40: The word "inadequate" is closest in meaning to____.
A. deficient 	B. expanded 	C. innovative 	D. specialized
41: The "custodial rhetoric" refers to____.
A. raising a family 	C. running an orderly house hold
B. keeping older individuals in school 	D. maintaining discipline in the classroom
42: Which of the following best characterizes the organization of the passage?
A. The second paragraph presents the effect of circumstances described in the first paragraph.
B. The second paragraph provides a fictional account to illustrate a problem presented in the first paragraph.
C. The second paragraph argues against a point made in the first paragraph.
D. The second paragraph introduces a problem not mentioned in the first paragraph.
Read the following passage and mark the correct answer to each of the questions 
As the twentieth century began, the importance of formal education in the United States increased. The frontier had mostly disappeared and by 1910 most Americans lived in towns and cities. Industrialization and the bureaucratization of economic life combined with a new emphasis upon credentials and expertise to make schooling increasingly important for economic and social mobility. Increasingly, too, schools were viewed as the most important means of integrating immigrants into American society.
The arrival of a great wave of southern and eastern European immigrants at the turn of the century coincided with and contributed to an enormous expansion of formal schooling. By 1920 schooling to age fourteen or beyond was compulsory in most states, and the school year was greatly lengthened. Kindergartens, vacation schools, extracurricular activities, and vocational education and counseling extended the influence of public schools over the lives of students, many of whom in the larger industrial cities were the children of immigrants. Classes for adult immigrants were sponsored by public schools, corporations, unions, churches, settlement houses, and other agencies.
Reformers early in the twentieth century suggested that education programs should suit the needs of specific populations. Immigrant women were once such population. Schools tried to educate young women so they could occupy productive places in the urban industrial economy, and one place many educators considered appropriate for women was the home.
Although looking after the house and family was familiar to immigrant women, American education gave homemaking a new definition. In preindustrial economies, homemaking had meant the production as well as the consumption of goods, and it commonly included income-producing activities both inside and outside the home, in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States, however, overproduction rather than scarcity was becoming a problem. Thus, the ideal American homemaker was viewed as a consumer rather than a producer. Schools trained women to be consumer homemakers cooking, shopping, decorating, and caring for children "efficiently" in their own homes, or if economic necessity demanded, as employees in the homes of others. Subsequent reforms have made these notions seem quite out-of-date.
43:  The paragraph preceding the passage probably discusses _____.
A. the industrialization and the bureaucratization of economic life the United States in the nineteen century.
B. the formal schooling in the United States in the nineteen century.
C. the urbanization in the United States in the nineteen century.
D. the most important means of integrating immigrants into American society in the nineteen century.
44:  It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that one important factor in the increasing importance of education in the United States was _____.
A. the expanding economic problems of schools	B. the growing number of schools in frontier communities
C. an increase in the number of trained teachers	D. the increased urbanization of the entire country
45:  The phrase "coincided with" in line 7 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. happened at the same time as B. ensured the success of C. was influenced by	D. began to grow rapidly
46:  According to the passage, one important change in United States education by the 1920's was that _____.
A. the amount of time spent on formal education was limited
B. new regulations were imposed on nontraditional education
C. adults and children studied in the same classes
D. most places required children to attend school
47: “Vacation schools and extracurricular activities” are mentioned in line 9 to illustrate _____.
A. activities that competed to attract new immigrants to their programs.
B. alternatives to formal education provided by public schools
C. the importance of educational changes
D. the increased impact of public schools on students
48:  According to the passage, early-twentieth century education reformers believed that _____.
A. special programs should be set up in frontier communities to modernize them
B. corporations and other organizations damaged educational progress
C. different groups needed different kinds of education
D. more women should be involved in education and industry
49: The word "it" in line 19 refers to _____.
A. education	B. consumption	C. production	D. homemaking
50:  Women were trained to be consumer homemakers as a result of _____.
A. scarcity in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States
B. economic necessity in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States
C. income-producing activities in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States
D. overproduction in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States
PRACTICE TEST NO. 12 – EXU 1 - 1617
Tài liệu của:
Cô Bích 
Student’s full name:.......................................................................
Mark the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation
A. fool	B. bamboo	C. food	D. flood	
2. A. worked	B. laughed 	C. hoped	D. naked
Mark the the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress
3: 	A. Innocent 	B. nevertheless	C. contents	D. supermarket
4. 	A. consignation	B. abnormality	C. supplementary	D. confidence
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.
5: There are (A) vast, open grazing lands, (B) an area that receives (C) little rain than the farming region (D) west of the Missouri River.
6: Although the Indians (A) lacked animals they (B) had the ability to cultivate (C) plants suitably for (D) daily use.
7: (A) Not long after Galileo’s time, Sir Isaac Newton invented (B) another kind of telescope (C) which he used mirrors (D) instead of lenses.
Mark the the correct answer to each of the following questions.
8 . ______, many animals can still survive and thrive there.
A. Even though the weather conditions in the desert severe B. The weather conditions in the desert to be severe
C. Although the weather conditions in the desert are severe D. Being severe weather conditions in the desert
9. It is critical that you ____ anything the night before your surgery.
A. not eat 	B. do not eat	C. did not eat	D. ate
10: There’s a lot more to Willie than one would think: still waters run _____
A.deep	B. deeply	C. deepness	D. depth
11: Why ____ Peter to the party? He is always making trouble
A.Don’t we invite	B. don’t you invite	C. not invite	D. invite
12: You are under no obligation _____ to accept this offer
A. whatsoever	B. Eventually	C. Apart	D. indeed
13: ______ no money would be wasted, we will use energy more efficiently
A.so that	B. in order that	C in order to	D. A and B
14. Somebody who is foolish or stupid is ____.
A. soft in the head	B. over the moon	C. riding high  	D. p