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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 1: A new book is twice as expensive as an old one.
A. An old book is as twice as the price of the new one.
B. A new book is twice the price of an old one.
C. A new book is so far more expensive than an old one.
D. An old book is more cheaper than a new one.
Question 2: “He is always arguing with his new classmate”. She said.
A. She explained that his new classmate was noisy.
B. She complained that he was always arguing with his new classmate.
C. She said that he didn’t like his new classmate.
D. She informed that he was always arguing with his new classmate.
Question 3: Is anyone checking your essay about the environmental pollution?
A. Are you having someone to check your essay about the environmental pollution?
B. Are you checking your essay about the environmental pollution?
C. Are you going to check your essay about the environmental pollution?
D. Are you having your essay about the environmental pollution checked?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on you answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.
Question 4: A. succeed	B. reduce	C. anxious	D. well-done
Question 5: A. studious	B. century	C. semester	D. similar
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 6: We live abroad. It is important for us to create a balance between being open sociably and keeping our own values personally.
A. We live abroad, it is important for us to create a balance between being open sociably and keeping our own values personally.	
B. The moment we will live abroad, it is important for us to create a balance between being open sociably and keeping our own values personally.
C. When living abroad, it is important for us to create a balance between being open sociably and keeping our own values personally.	
D. Although we live abroad, it is important for us to create a balance between being open sociably and keeping our own values personally.
Question 7: The students may be intelligent. They will not get used to dealing with practical situations.
A. The students may be too intelligent to get used to dealing with practical situations.
B. Intelligent as they may be, the students will not get used to dealing with practical situations.
C. Intelligent as may be the students, they will get used to dealing with practical situations.
D. The students will get used to dealing with practical situations although they are intelligent.
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.
The elements other than hydrogen and helium exist in such small quantities that it is accurate to say that the universe is somewhat more than 25 percent helium by weight and somewhat less than 75 percent hydrogen.
Astronomers have measured the abundance of helium throughout our galaxy and in other galaxies as well. Helium has been found in old stars, in relatively young ones, in interstellar gas, and in the distant objects known as quasars. Helium nuclei have also been found to be constituents of cosmic rays that fall on the earth (cosmic rays are not really a form of radiation; they consist of rapidly moving particles of numerous different kinds). It doesn`t seem to make very much difference where the helium is found. Its relative abundance never seems to vary much. In some places, there may be slightly more of it; in others, slightly less, but the ratio of helium to hydrogen nuclei always remains about the same.
Helium is created in stars. In fact, nuclear reactions that convert hydrogen to helium are responsible for most of the energy that stars produce. However, the amount of helium that could have been produced in this manner can be calculated, and it turns out to be no more than a few percent. The universe has not existed long enough for this figure to be significantly greater. Consequently, if the universe is somewhat more than 25 percent helium now, then it must have been about 25 percent helium at a time near the beginning.
However, when the universe was less than one minute old, no helium could have existed. Calculations indicate that before this time temperatures were too high and particles of matter were moving around much too rapidly. It was only after the one- minute point that helium could exist. By this time, the universe had cooled so sufficiently that neutrons and protons could stick together. But the nuclear reactions that led to the formations of helium went on for only relatively short time. By the time the universe was a few minutes old, helium production had effectively ceased.
Question 8: What does the passage mainly explain?
 A. Why hydrogen is abundant. B. When most of the helium in the universe was formed.
 C. The difference between helium and hydrogen. D. How stars produce energy.
Question 9: According to the passage, helium is _______.
A. difficult to detect. B. the second-most abundant element in the universe.
C. the oldest element in the universe. D. the most prevalent element in quasars.
Question 10: The word "constituents" is closest in meaning to _______.
A. targets	B. components	C. causes	D. relatives
Question 11: Why does the author mention "cosmic rays"?
A. To explain the abundance of hydrogen in the universe.
B. As part of a list of things containing helium.
C. To explain how the universe began.
D. As an example of an unsolved astronomical puzzle.
Question 12: The word ‘they’ refers to ________.
A. constituents	B. radiation	C. particles	D. cosmic rays
Question 13: The word "vary" is closest in meaning to
A. change	B. stretch	C. mean	D. include
Question 14: The creation of helium within stars ________.
A. produces hydrogen as a by-product	 B. cannot be measured
C. causes helium to be much more abundant in old stars than in young stars
D. produces energy
Question 15: Most of the helium in the universe was formed_________.
A. in interstellar space	B. during the first minute of the universe`s existence
C. in a very short time	D. before most of the hydrogen
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 16: George and Frankie are talking about their hobbies.
 George: “In my opinion, action films are exciting”.	Frankie: “_____”
A. Your opinion is exactly.	B. Yes, you can do it.
C. What are opinion!	D. There’s no doubt about it.
Question 17: Thomas and Peter are meeting after a long time.
	Thomas: “How have you been recently?”	Peter: “_____”
A. I am going on holiday next week.	B. By car, usually.
C. I am working here.	D. Pretty busy, I think.
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.
A little more than a hundred years ago, a number of European scholars began to record stories being told in peasant cottages and compile them into the first great collections of European folk tales. Written evidence exists to prove that the folk tales they recorded existed long before then though. Collections of sermons from the 12th to the 15th century show that medieval preachers knew of some of the same stories as those recorded by the 19th century folklorists.
The collections of folk tales made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries provide a rare opportunity to make contact with the illiterate masses who have disappeared into the past without leaving a trace. To reject folk tales as historical evidence because they cannot be dated and situated with precision like other historical documents is to turn one’s back on one of the few points of entry into the previous centuries. But to attempt to penetrate that world is to face a daunting set of obstacles, the greatest of which is the impossibility of listening in on the story tellers. No matter how accurate they may be the versions of the tales recorded in writing cannot convey the effects that the storytellers must have used to bring the stories to life: the dramatic pauses, the sly glances, the use of gestures to set scenes, and the use of sounds to punctuate actions. All of those devices shaped the meaning of the tales, and all of them elude the historian. He cannot be sure that the limp and lifeless text he holds between the covers of a book provides an accurate account of the performance that took place in earlier times.
Question 18: The author believes that written versions of folk tales _____.
A. should be rejected as historical evidence.
B. show how illiterate the masses were before the 19th century.
C. changed dramatically from the 19th to the 20th century.
D. are valid historical documents.
Question 19: What problems of folk tale collections does the author discuss?
A. They are used as historical evidence.
B. There is no way to tell which version of a story is the original system.
C. They don’t preserve the original performance style of the storytellers.
D. They contain historical inaccuracies.
Question 20: The author’s main purpose in the passage is to _____.
A. explain why historians must study the illiterate masses of the past.
B. criticize historians who use folk tales as historical documents.
C. argue that folk tales are authentic historical documents.
D. convince readers that modern versions of folk tales are probably not the same as the originals.
Question 21: According to the passage, peasant folklore was recorded by _____.
A. historians in the 12th to 15th centuries	B. 19th century peasants.
C. 19th century preachers.	D. 19th century folklorists.
Question 22: The author talks about “limp and lifeless” text because _____
A. the original texts have been damaged.
B. the texts do not reveal how the storytellers presented their folk tales.
C. the texts provide an accurate account of life in earlier times.
D. some of the texts are no longer relevant to historians.
Question 23: The word “He” refers to _______.
A. The author	B. the reader	C. the historian	D. the storyteller
Question 24: What do the collections of folk tales made in the late 19th and early 20th provide the historians?
A. Kinds of stories and books that are popular then.
B. good chance to know the life of people in the past.
C. lot of information about famous people in the past.
D. A rare opportunity to contact with the people who couldn’t read and write.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Question 25: Although no H7N9 avian flu infections have reported in poultry or humans yet, the likelihood of 
 A 	 B C	 	
outbreaks in Viet Nam is high.
 D
Question 26: It is the recommendation of many psychologists that a learner ought to use mental images to 
 A B
associate words and remember them. 
 C D
Question 27: You shouldn’t criticize him in front of his friends. It was insensitive of you.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.
Question 28: A. accurate	B. date	C. tale	D. shape
Question 29: A. sounds	B. obstacles	C. situations	D. secrets
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 30: Socially, a married couple _______the basic unit of society.
A. thinks to be	B. is thought of being	C. is thought to be	D. is thinking to be
Question 31: I don’t think T-shirts and jeans will ever go _____ of style among young people.
A. down	B. away	C. out	D. off
Question 32: ____ a busy city, Pompeii was virtually destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
A. Once	B. Once it was	C. It was once	D. That once
Question 33: _____ more help, I could call my neighbors and my friends.
A. Had I needed	B. Needed	C. Should I need	D. I have needed
Question 34: She locked the door of her room all day yesterday to avoid _____.
A. disturbing	B. being disturbed	C. to disturb	D. to be disturbed
Question 35: The moment he _____ this message, it is necessary that he call me.
A. received	B. will receive	C. receives	D. is receiving
Question 36: ______angles of any triangle always add up to 180 degrees.
A. If three	B. Three of	C. Three are	D. The three
Question 37: She wouldn’t buy any more new clothes until hers_____.
A. take out	B. wear out	C. let out	D. go out
Question 38: Her husband bought her ________when he went on holiday in Singapore last week.
A. a beautiful silk yellow scarf	B. a beautiful	yellow silky scarf
C. a beautiful yellow scarf silk	D. a beautiful yellow silk scarf
Question 39: Many people are trying their best to study and work in the hope that they will _______ fame and fortune in the near future.
A. collect	B. lose	C. remove	D. achieve
Question 40: I could sit here and argue with you till ______ come home, but it wouldn’t solve anything.
A. the horses	B. the sheep	C. the chickens	D. the cows
Question 41: Nothing is destroyed after the serious flood in this area, _____?
A. is it	B. isn’t it	C. aren’t they	D. are they
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 42: Animals on earth fascinate us with their beauty, their grace and their speed.
A. captivate	B. satisfy	C. amuse	D. improve
Question 43: If people’s interference with the environment decreases, more species will survive and produce offspring.
A. children	B. ancestor	C. descent	D. result
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 44: Not only my study but my hobbies also really keep me occupied every time.
A. worried	B. busy	C. free	D. relaxing
Question 45: She just collects the stamps from discarded envelopes that her relatives and friends give her.
A. kept	B. thrown away	C. discharged	D. disposed
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option for each of the blanks.
 In the past, it was common for three or more (46) ______to live together in the same roof. Nowadays most elderly people live (47) _______their own. They generally stay in contact with their children or grandchildren but might live in the different part of the country. People also live longer, often 20 years after they have (48) ______ from their job. Modern American culture tends to value youth rather than age. This create an interesting challenge for older people and for the country.
American families also have troubles. They are the divorce rate, the fact that working mothers might have (49) ______ time with their children, and the problems that parents and children sometimes misunderstand each other. (50)_______, family is still at the center of most people’s lives.
Question 46: A. generations	B. classes	C. peoples	D. nations
Question 47: A. on	B. with	C. at	D. by
Question 48: A. stopped	B. retired	C. saved	D. given up
Question 49: A. much	B. fewer	C. a few	D. less
Question 50: A. Therefore	B. However	C. Although	D. Otherwise
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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 1: A new book is twice as expensive as an old one.
A. An old book is as twice as the price of the new one.
B. A new book is twice the price of an old one.
C. A new book is so far more expensive than an old one.
D. An old book is more cheaper than a new one.
Question 2: “He is always arguing with his new classmate”. She said.
A. She explained that his new classmate was noisy.
B. She complained that he was always arguing with his new classmate.
C. She said that he didn’t like his new classmate.
D. She informed that he was always arguing with his new classmate.
Question 3: Is anyone checking your essay about the environmental pollution?
A. Are you having someone to check your essay about the environmental pollution?
B. Are you checking your essay about the environmental pollution?
C. Are you going to check your essay about the environmental pollution?
D. Are you having your essay about the environmental pollution checked?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on you answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.
Question 4: A. succeed	B. reduce	C. anxious	D. well-done
Question 5: A. studious	B. century	C. semester	D. similar
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 6: We live abroad. It is important for us to create a balance between being open sociably and keeping our own values personally.
A. We live abroad, it is important for us to create a balance between being open sociably and keeping our own values personally.	
B. The moment we will live abroad, it is important for us to create a balance between being open sociably and keeping your own values personally.
C. When living abroad, it is important for us to create a balance between being open sociably and keeping our own values personally.	
D. Although we live abroad, it is important for us to create a balance between being open sociably and keeping your own values personally.
Question 7: The students may be intelligent. They will not get used to dealing with practical situations.
A. The students may be too intelligent to get used to dealing with practical situations.
B. Intelligent as they may be, the students will not get used to dealing with practical situations.
C. Intelligent as may be the students, they will get used to dealing with practical situations.
D. The students will get used to dealing with practical situations although they are intelligent.
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.
The elements other than hydrogen and helium exist in such small quantities that it is accurate to say that the universe is somewhat more than 25 percent helium by weight and somewhat less than 75 percent hydrogen.
Astronomers have measured the abundance of helium throughout our galaxy and in other galaxies as well. Helium has been found in old stars, in relatively young ones, in interstellar gas, and in the distant objects known as quasars. Helium nuclei have also been found to be constituents of cosmic rays that fall on the earth (cosmic rays are not really a form of radiation; they consist of rapidly moving particles of numerous different kinds). It doesn`t seem to make very much difference where the helium is found. Its relative abundance never seems to vary much. In some places, there may be slightly more of it; in others, slightly less, but the ratio of helium to hydrogen nuclei always remains about the same.
Helium is created in stars. In fact, nuclear reactions that convert hydrogen to helium are responsible for most of the energy that stars produce. However, the amount of helium that could have been produced in this manner can be calculated, and it turns out to be no more than a few percent. The universe has not existed long enough for this figure to be significantly greater. Consequently, if the universe is somewhat more than 25 percent helium now, then it must have been about 25 percent helium at a time near the beginning.