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ĐỀ THI THỬ ĐẠI HỌC 29 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. picturesque	B. company	C. element	D. beautiful
Question 2: A. ambitious	B. chocolate	 C. position	D. occurrence
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest from question 
Question 3: A. talked	B. laughed	C. stopped	D. moved
Question 4: A. shift	B. sure	C. sugar	D. pleasure
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction from question.
Question 5: I don’t think I can get the job because there are many applicant for it.
	 A B C D
Question 6: My uncle lived in Ha noi since 1990 to 1998, but he is now living in Hue.
	 A B C D
Question 7. In order to do a profit, the new leisure centre needs at least 2000 visitors a month.
A. at least	B. do a profit	C. a month	D. the
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 8: When I picked up my book I found that the cover had been torn.
A. Picking up my book, the cover had been torn. 
 B. On picking up the book, I saw that the cover had been torn.
C. The cover had been torn when my book picked up. 
D. Picked up, I saw that the cover of the book was torn.
Question 9: “You're always making terrible mistakes”, said the teacher.
A. The teacher asked his students why they always made terrible mistakes.
B. The teacher realized that his students always made terrible mistakes.
 C. The teacher complained about his students making terrible mistakes.
D. The teacher made his students not always make terrible mistakes.
Question 10: I had no problems at all during my trip to France.
 A. No problems were there during my trip to France at all.
 B. Everything went according to plan during my trip to France.
C. My trip to France was not at all went as planned.
D. No problems during my trip had I at all in France.
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 11: Tourists today flock to see the two falls that actually constitute Niagara falls.
	A. come without knowing what they will see	B. come in large numbers
	C. come out of boredom	D. come by plane
Question 12: Their migration may be halted if fog, clouds, or rain hides the stars.
A. postponed	 B. spoiled	C. stopped	D. endangered
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 13: She had a cozy little apartment in Boston.
 A. uncomfortable	B. warm	C.	lazy	D. dirty
Question 14: He was so insubordinate that he lost his job within a week.
 A. fresh	B. disobedient	C. obedient	D. understanding
insubordinate = ngỗ nghịch, không tuân theo
Choose the best response A, B, C or D for the following situation
 Question 15: “If only I hadn’t lent him all my money!” -“.”
	A. Well, you did, so it’s no use crying over spilt milk. B. All right. You will be OK.
	C. Sorry, I have no idea.	 D. I’m afraid you will have to do it.
Question 16: When another person sneezes, you say: “________.”
A. Pardon?	B. Bless you	C. See you!	D. Great you
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 17: The student next to me kept chewing gum. That bothered me a lot.
A. The student next to me kept chewing gum, that bothered me a lot.
B. The student next to me kept chewing gum, which bothered me a lot.
C. The student next to me kept chewing gum bothering me a lot.
D. The student next to me kept chewing gum bothered me a lot. 
Question 18: There was a terrible flood. The villagers, who had received a warning of the impending flood, escaped to safety. 
A. All of the villagers had been warned but only some escaped. 
B. All of the villagers had been warned and all escaped. 
C. Only some of the villagers had been warned and only some escaped. 
D. Only some of the villagers had been warned and all escaped. 
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: “I hope I haven’t hurt his feelings!” 
 -“ No, don’t worry. He’s so.that he probably thought you were talking about someone else.
 A. absent-minded	B. kind-hearted	C. thick-skinned	D. open-minded
Question 20: I read the contract again and again ____ avoiding making spelling mistakes
A. in terms of	B. by means of	C. with a view to	D. in view of 
Question 21: After years of being exposed to the sun and rain, the sign had become completely____.
	A. unreadable	B. readable	C. misread	D. illegible
Question 22: The government have tried to_______the price of petro, but they failed.
A. bring down	B. bring on	C. put in	D. get over
Question 23: If you ___ Peter, could you tell him to ring me up?
	A. come into	B. come over	C. come across	D. come back
Question 24:I have had such important decisions_______for the last three months.
A. to do	B. to make	C. to give	D. to put
Question 25: You must drive slower in built up areas. _______ you drive in the city, it is _______ that you will have an accident.
A. The faster and faster / the more	B. The faster / the more probable
C. The more and more fast / the more and more probable	D. The more fastly / the probable
Question 26: Florida, ____ the Sunshine State, attracts many tourists every year.
A. that is known as	B. is 	C. is known as	D. known as
Question 27: Nobody’s got to stay late this evening, ____?
A. don’t they	B. isn’t it	C. is it	D. have they
Question 28. Mary received 100 dollars from her sister. She ____ the computer she wanted. It costs 200 dollars. 
A. couldn’t have bought B. wouldn’t buy 	C. hadn’t bought	D. didn’t buy
Question 29: ____ Albert is late, let’s begin without him
A. Nevertheless	B. However	C. Consequently	D. Since
Question 30: He was ____ speaker.
A. so a good	B. how good a	C. so good a	D. what a good
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.
Can you imagine what life would be like if there were no telephone? You could not call (31) ________ your friends on the phone and talk to them. If fire (32) ________ out in your house you could not call the fire department. If somebody was sick, you could not call a doctor.
In our daily life, we need to (33) _______ with one another. We need do this mostly by speaking to other people and listening to (34) _________ they have to say to us, and when you are close (35) ___ them you can do this very easily. However, our voices will not travel very far even when we shout.
Question 31. A. on 	B. up	C. for	D. in
Question 32. A. burst	 	B. broke	 	C. went	 	D. got
Question 33. A. communicate 	B. contact	C. address	D. tell
Question 34. A. that	 	B. this	 	C. what	 	D. which
Question 35. A. from	B. out	C. to	D. on
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. 
	As many as one thousand years ago in the Southwest, the Hopi and Zuni Indians of North America were building with adobe-sun-baked brick plastered with mud. Their homes looked remarkably like modern apartment houses. Some were four stories high and contained quarters for perhaps a thousand people, along with storerooms for grain and other goods. These buildings were usually put up against cliffs, both to make construction easier and for defense against enemies. They were really villages in themselves, as later Spanish explorers must have realised since they called them “pueblos”, which is Spanish for towns. The people of the pueblos raised what are called “the three sisters”- corn, beans, and squash. They made excellent pottery and wove marvelous baskets, some so fine that they could hold water. The Southwest has always been a dry country, where water is scarce. The Hopi and Zuni brought water from streams to their fields and gardens through irrigation ditches. 	Water was so important that it played a major role in their religion. They developed elaborate ceremonies and religious rituals to bring rain. The way of life of less – settled groups was simpler and more strongly influenced by nature. Small tribes such as the Shoshone and Ute wandered the dry and mountainous lands between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. They gathered seeds and hunted small animals such as rabbits and snakes. In the Far North, the ancestors of today’s Inuit hunted seals, walruses, and the great whales. They lived right on the frozen season shelters called igloos built of blocks of packed snow. When summer came, they fished for salmon and hunted the lordly caribou. The Cheyenne, Pawnee and Sioux tribes, known as the Plains Indians, lived on the grasslands between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River. They hunted bison, commonly called the buffalo. Its meat was the chief food of these tribes, and its hide was used to make their clothing and the covering of their tents and tepees.
Question 35. What does the passage mainly discuss?
	A. The architecture of early America Indian buildings
	B. The movement of American Indians across North America
	C. Ceremonies and rituals of American Indians
	D. The way of life of American Indian tribes in early North America
Question 36. According to the passage, the Hopi and Zuni typically built their homes ______
	A. in valleys	B. next to streams	C. on open plains	D. against cliffs
Question 37. The word “They” refers to ____	A. goods	B. buildings	C. cliffs	D. enemies
Question 38. It can be inferred from the passage that the dwellings of the Hopi and Zuni were 
	A. very small	 B. highly advanced	C. difficult to defend	D. quickly constructed
Question 39. The author uses the phrase “the three sisters” refers to
	A. Hopi women	B. family members	C. important crops	D. rain ceremonies
Question 40. Which of the following is TRUE of the Shoshone and Ute?
	A. They were not as settled as the Hopi and Zuni	B. They hunted caribou.
	C. They built their homes with adobe.	D. They did not have many religious ceremonies.
Question 41. According to the passage, which of the following tribes lived in the grasslands?
A. The Shoshone and Ute	B. The Cheyenne	C. The Hopi and Zuni	 D. The Pawnee and Inuit
Question 42. Which of the following is NOT mentioned by the author as a dwelling place of early North America?
	A. Log cabins	B. Adobe houses	C. Tepees	D. Igloos
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
You can usually tell when your friends are happy or angry by the looks on their faces or by their actions. This is useful because reading their emotional expressions helps you to know how to respond to them. Emotions have evolved to help us respond to important situations and to convey our intentions to others. But does raising the eyebrows and rounding the mouth say the same thing in Minneapolis as it does in Madagascar? Much research on emotional expression has centered on such questions.
According to Paul Ekman, the leading researcher in this area, people speak and understand substantially the same “facial language”. Studies by Ekman’s group have demonstrated that humans share a set of universal emotional expressions that testify to the common biological heritage of the human species. Smiles, for example, signal happiness and frowns indicate sadness on the faces of people in far-flung places as Argentina, Japan, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Sumatra, the United States, Vietnam, the jungles of New Guinea and the Eskimo villagers north of the Artic Circle. Ekman and his colleagues claim that people everywhere can recognize at least seven basic emotions: sadness, fear, anger, disgust, contempt, happiness, and surprise. There are, however, huge differences across cultures in both the context and intensity of emotional displays – the so-called display rules. In many Asian cultures, for example, children are taught to control emotional responses – especially negative one – while many American children are encouraged to express their feelings more openly. Regardless of culture, however, emotions usually show themselves, to some degree, in people’s behaviour. From their first days of life, babies produce facial expressions that communicate their feelings.
The ability to read facial expressions develops early, too. Very young children pay close attention to facial expressions, and by age five they nearly equal adults in their skill at reading emotions on people’s faces. This evidence all points to a biological underpinning for our abilities to express and interpret a basic set of human emotions. Moreover, as Charles Darwin pointed out over a century ago, some emotional expressions seem to appear across species boundaries. Cross-cultural psychologists tell us that certain emotional responses carry different meanings in different cultures. For examples, what emotion, you suppose, might indicate disgust, while in China it can signify surprise. Likewise, a grin on an American face may indicate joy, while on a Japanese face it may, just as easily, mean embarrassment. Clearly, culture influences emotional expressions.
Question 43: Young children __________.
A. make amazing progress in controlling their emotions	B. take time to control their facial expressions
C. are sensitive towards others’ emotions	D. spend a long time learning to read others’ emotions
Question 44: Unlike American children, Asian children are encouraged to __________.
A. control their emotions	B. conceal their positive emotions
C. display their emotions openly	D. change their behaviour
Câu 45: Many studies on emotional expressions try to answer the questions whether __________.
A. eyebrows raising means the same in Minneapolis and Madagascar
B. rounding the mouth has the same in Minneapolis and Madagascar
C. raising the eyebrows has similar meaning to rounding the mouth
D. different cultures have similar emotional expressions
Question 46: The biggest difference lies in __________.
A. how long negative emotions are displayed	B. how emotional responses are controlled
C. how intensive emotions are expressed	D. how often positive emotions are shown
Question 47: The phrase “this evidence” in paragraph 3 refers to __________.
A. the fact that children can control their feelings	
B. human facial expressions
C. a biological underpinning for humans to express emotions
D. the fact that children are good at recognizing others’ emotions
Question 48: According to the passage, we respond to others by __________.
A. watching their actions	B. observing their look
C. looking at their face	D. observing their emotional expressions
Question 49: Paul Ekman is mentioned in the passage as an example of __________.
A. lacks of many main ingredients	B. investigators on universal emotional expressions
C. researchers who can speak and understand many languages	D. researchers on universal language
Question 50: The best title of this passage is __________.
A. Cultural universals in emotional expressions	B. Human habit of display emotions
C. A review of researchers on emotional expressions D. Ways to control emotional expressions
ĐỀ THI THỬ ĐẠI HỌC 29 - KEY
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. picturesque	B. company	C. element	D. beautiful
Question 2: A. ambitious	B. chocolate	 C. position	D. occurrence
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest from question 
Question 3: A. talked	B. laughed	C. stopped	D. moved
Question 4: A. shift	B. sure	C. sugar	D. pleasure
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction from question.
Question 5: I don’t think I can get the job because there are many applicant for it.
	 A B C D
Question 6: My uncle lived in Ha noi since 1990 to 1998, but he is now living in Hue.
	 A B C D
Question 7. In order to do a profit, the new leisure centre needs at least 2000 visitors a month.
A. at least	B. do a profit	C. a month	D. the
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 8: When I picked up my book I found that the cover had been torn.
A. Picking up my book, the cover had been torn. 
 B. On picking up the book, I saw that the cover had been torn.
C. The cover had been torn when my book picked up. 
D. Picked up, I saw that the cover of the book was torn.
Question 9: “You're always making terrible mistakes”, said the teacher.
A. The teacher asked his students why they always made terrible mistakes.
B. The teacher realized that his students always made terrible mistakes.
 C. The teacher complained about his students making terrible mistakes.
D. The teacher made his students not always make terrible mistakes.
Question 10: I had no problems at all during my trip to France.
 A. No problems were there during my trip to France at all.
 B. Everything went according to plan during my trip to France.
C. My trip to France was not at all went as planned.
D. No problems during my trip had I at all in France.
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 11: Tourists today flock to see the two falls that actually constitute Niagara falls.
	A. come without knowing what they will see	B. come in large numbers
	C. come out of boredom	D. come by plane
Question 12: Their migration may be halted if fog, clouds, or rain hides the stars.
A. postponed	 B. spoiled	C. stopped	D. endangered
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 13: She had a cozy little apartment in Boston.
 A. uncomfortable	B. warm	C.	lazy	D. dirty
Question 14: He was so insubordinate that he lost his job within a week.
 A. fresh	B. disobedient	C. obedient	D. understanding
insubordinate = ngỗ nghịch, không tuân theo
Choose the best response A, B, C or D for the following situation
 Question 15: “If only I hadn’t lent him all my money!” -“.”
	A. Well, you did, so it’s no use crying over spilt milk. B. All right. You will be OK.
	C. Sorry, I have no idea.	 D. I’m afraid you will have to do it.
Question 16: When another person sneezes, you say: “________.”
A. Pardon?	B. Bless you	C. See you!	D. Great you
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 17: The student next to me kept chewing gum. That bothered me a lot.
A. The student next to me kept chewing gum, that bothered me a lot.
B. The student next to me kept chewing gum, which bothered me a lot.
C. The student next to me kept chewing gum bothering me a lot.
D. The student next to me kept chewing gum bothered me a lot. 
Question 18: There was a terrible flood. The villagers, who had received a warning of the impending flood, escaped to safety. 
A. All of the villagers had been warned but only some escaped. 
B. All of the villagers had been warned and all escaped. 
C. Only some of the villagers had been warned and only some escaped. 
D. Only some of the villagers had been warned and all escaped. 
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your an