A. distinctive 

B. equality       

C. production                

D. accurate 

Câu 2:

A. apply     

B. persuade  

C. reduce   

D. offer

A. could

B. the

C. refueling

D. carrying

Câu 2: Every country has its own traditions, some of them have existed for centuries. 

A. Every

B. its own

C. some of them

D. for

Câu 3: Made up of more than 150 member countries, the organization known as the United Nations were established after World War II to preserve international peace and security.

A. of more than

B. known

C. were

D. to preserve

Câu 4: The  company did not want to hire  a man that his  experience was so limited 

A. The

B. want to hire

C. that his

D. so limited

Câu 5: People seldom  act natural in front  of   the camera.  Often they stiffen up and the pose becomes rather wooden.

A. act natural

B.  the

C. Often

D. rather

A. failed   

B. reached  

C. absorbed      

D. solved

Câu 2:

A. develops   

B. takes 

C.  laughs 

D. volumes

A. went off accidentally  

B. fell down unexpectedly

C. exploded suddenly 

D.  erupted violently 

Câu 2: My mom is always bad-tempered when I leave my room untidy.

A.  feeling embarrassed 

B. talking too much

C. very happy and satisfied

D. easily annoyed or irritated

Câu 3: Smoking has been banned in public places in some countries.

A. made illegal     

B. limited   

C.  restricted 

D. given way

Câu 4: Sometimes when I hear the news, I feel very miserable.

A. confused  

B.  frightened        

C. upset 

D. disappointed

Câu 5: A woman had a narrow escape when the car came round the corner.

A. was hurt   

B. was nearly hurt 

C. ran away 

D. bumped into the car

A. I have seen her for the last three years. 

B. It’s three years ago since I last saw her.

C. I have not seen her for three years.   

D.  B and C are incorrect

Câu 2: If I were taller, I could reach the top shelf.

A. I am not tall enough to reach the top shelf.      

B. I am too tall to reach the top shelf.

C. I cannot reach the top shelf  because I am very tall.         

D. In spite of being tall, I cannot reach the top shelf.

Câu 3: People believe that there is an other world after death.

A. That there is an other world after death is believed by people.

B. It was believed that there is an other world after death.

C. It is believed that there is an other world after death.

D.  There is believe to have an other world after death.

Câu 4: He looked so funny that I couldn^’t help laughing.

A. I couldn^’t laugh because he looked so funny.

B.  I couldn^’t help him laugh because he looked so funny.

C. He looked too funny for me to laugh.

D. I laughed because he looked so funny.

Câu 5: “ Why don’t we go out for dinner tonight?” said Mary.

A. Mary suggested a dinner out that night.               

B. Mary invited a dinner out that night.

C. Mary ordered a dinner out that night.             

D. Mary suggested that we shouldn’t have a dinner out that night.

A. fare   

B. journey  

C.  bill

D.  travel

Câu 2: John: “Do you think that we should use public transportation to protect our environment?” Laura: “___________________ ”.

A. Yes, it's an absurd idea  

B. There's no doubt about it

C. Of course not. You bet  

D. Well, that's very surprising

Câu 3: A few animals sometimes fool their enemies _______ to be dead.

A. have been appearing   

B. to be appearing

C. to appear               

D. by appearing

Câu 4: His brother refuses to even listen to anyone else's point of view. He is very_______.  

A. open – minded 

B.  kind – hearted   

C. narrow- minded

D. absent - minded

Câu 5: We bought some _______.

A.  German lovely old glasses    

B. German old lovely glasses

C. lovely old German glasses  

D.  old lovely German glasses

Câu 6: If you had taken my advice, you _______ in such difficulties now.

A. wouldn't have been    

B. hadn't been

C. wouldn't be   

D. won't be

Câu 7: Sophia: “Oh, no!  I left my book at home. Can I share yours? ” Scott:    “_______ ”

A. Yes, I do too  

B. No, thanks       

C. No, not at all 

D. Yes, sure

Câu 8: To solve this problem, it is advisable _______ .

A. a drastic measure to be adopted    

B. that to adopt a drastic measure

C. that a drastic measure be adopted         

D. that a drastic measure is adopted

Câu 9: Her parents gave her everything she asked for. She's a completedly __________ child.  

A. wounded

B.  spoilt  

C. damaged    

D. destroyed

Câu 10: Laura: "What a lovely hat you have!"Maria: "_______  "

A. Of course not, it's not costly.

B.  I think so.  

C. No problem.          

D. Thank you. A present from my father.

Câu 11: We _________ today and I got into trouble because I hadn't done it.

A.  had checked our homework     

B. had our homework checked

C. were checked our homework   

D. have our homework checking

Câu 12: -“Do you like the weather here?”       -“I wish it __________________”

A. doesn’t rain  

B. didn’t rain  

C. won’t rain 

D. hadn’t rained  

Câu 13: Just keep working on him; he'll come_______________the idea sooner or later.

A. down with

B.  up for    

C. up with     

D. round to

Câu 14: I'm afraid a rise in the salary is out of ________ just now.

A. sight  

B. control      

C. date      

D. question

Câu 15: A: Can I help you, madam? B: __________.

A. Yes, it’s in our summer sale.

B. It’s very cheap.

C. No, thanks. I’m just looking   

D. Right. It looks a bit small.

Câu 16: It turned out that we _________ rushed to the airport as the plane was delayed by several hours.  

A. hadn’t        

B. should have

C. mustn’t have     

D. needn’t have

Câu 17: Let’s go out for a walk, _________  ?

A. do we    

B.  don’t we     

C. won’t we 

D.  shall we

Câu 18: _________the weather forecast it will rain heavily later this morning.

A. On account of   

B.  Due to  

C. According to         

D. Because of

Câu 19: He earns _____ he used to last year.

A. twice as much as 

B. twice as many as  

C. as much twice as  

D.  as much as twice

Câu 20: Do you know the man ______ over there?

A.  to interview   

B. interviewing   

C.  interviewed  

D. interviews

A. succeed   

B. to succeed      

C. successful

D. successfully

Câu 2: _________(34)

A. 35-year-old

B. 35-years-old   

C. 35-years aged 

D. 35-years ages

Câu 3: _________(35)

A. to teach  

B. by teaching 

C. as teaching  

D.  taught

Câu 4: _________(36)

A. damaged     

B. destroyed  

C. broken   

D. injured

A. manufacture

B.  mature   

C. pasture          

D. nature      

Câu 2:

A. chooses    

B. houses      

C. rises  

D. horses

A. American pioneer life    

B. Children’s literature    

C. A weekly television series  

D. Wilder’s career

Câu 2: Laura Ingalls Wilder began writing novels ______.

A. when being a child on the frontier 

B.  right after she moved to the Ozarks

C. when being a young mother          

D. after her sixty-fifth birthday

Câu 3: The author mentions all of the following in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life except ______.
 

A. she went west by covered wagon

B.  she graduated from a one-room school

C. she married Almanzo Wilder        

D. she had one daughter

Câu 4: It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A. Laura Ingalls Wilders wrote scripts for the television series

B. the Wilders were not happy living in the Ozarks

C. Wilder’s daughter was not a successful writer

D. the Wilder books have a universal appeal

A. The waves created by ocean currents are very large.

B. Despite the strength of the wind, it only moves surface water.

C. Deep ocean water is seldom affected by forces that move water.

D. The tides are the most powerful force to affect the movement of ocean water.

Câu 2: The word “felt” is closest in meaning to __________ .

A. based     

B. dropped    

C. detected     

D. explored

Câu 3: The words “In reality” are closest in meaning to ________ .

A.  surprisingly

B. actually 

C. unfortunately

D. similarly

Câu 4: It can be inferred from the passage that the most important factor in determining how much gravitational effect one object in space has on the tides is _________ .

A. size

B. distance

C. temperature        

D. density

Câu 5: The word “correspondingly” is closest in meaning to _________ .

A. unpredictably   

B. interestingly   

C. similarly      

D.  unusually

Câu 6: What is the cause of spring tides?

A. Seasonal change in the weather

B. The gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon when nearly in line with the Earth

C. The Earth's movement around the Sun

D. The triangular arrangement of the Earth, Sun, and Moon

Câu 7: Where in the passage does the author mention movements of ocean water other than those caused by tides?  

A. Lines 2-4    

B.  Lines 8-9

C. Lines 10-11   

D. Lines 13-15   

Câu 8: The word “configuration” is closest in meaning to ________ .

A. unit     

B. center 

C.  surface 

D. arrangement

Câu 9: Neap tides occur when __________ .

A. the Sun counteracts the Moon's gravitational attraction

B. the Moon is full

C. the Moon is farthest from the Sun

D. waves created by the wind combine with the Moon's gravitational attraction

Câu 10: According to the passage, all of the following statements about tides are true EXCEPT __________ .  

A. The time of high tide is later each day.

B.  Tides have a greater effect on the sea than waves do.

C. The strongest tides occur at the quarters of the Moon.

D. Neap tides are more moderate than spring tides.

A. reviews       

B. dips into

C. swallows   

D. chews and digests 

Câu 2: The goalkeeper can also be ejected for twenty seconds if a major foul is committed.  

A. excluded    

B. sprinted  

C. played

D. advanced

Câu 3: _______ is a game in which two teams hit a large ball with their hands backwards and forwards over a high net. If you allow the ball to touch the ground, the other team wins a point.  

A. Basket ball  

B. Water polo

C. Volleyball

D.  Badminton

Câu 4: ______ is a situation in which large numbers of people have little or no food, and many of them die.

A. Disaster     

B. Poverty   

C. Famine  

D. Flood.

Câu 5: He still behaves like a child. I wish he’d _______________ .

A. catch up      

B. grow up 

C. speak up         

D.  wait up

Câu 6: Wait for me. I don’t want to ___________.

A. keep up          

B. cool off       

C. fall behind 

D.  give in 

Câu 7: What a lovely baby! He certainly __________ his father.

A. look likes 

B. looks forward to

C. looks after 

D. takes after 

Câu 8: Jane has a computer.___________ , she doesn’t use it.

A. But

B. Therefore  

C. so  

D. However

Câu 9: "Let's go to the movie now." - "Oh, ________"

A.  Good idea  

B. I don't      

C.  Why's that?    

D.  I need it

Câu 10: He wasn't _____the job

A. experienced enough doing  

B. experienced to do enough

C. experienced enough to do    

D. enough experienced to do

Câu 11: The man __________________on the plane talked all the time.

A.  who I was sitting next      

B. that I was sitting next to

C. that I was sitting next to him  

D. who I was sitting next him

Câu 12: I wish you ______ to the theatre last night, but you didn't.

A. would come 

B. came  

C.  was coming                

D. had come

Câu 13: He went to the library ______.

A.  so as to borrow a book   

B.  so that to borrow a book

C. a book to borrowing a book   

D. in order that borrow

Câu 14: It is ______ to talk about a problem than to solve it.

A.  easiest

B. more easy  

C. easy      

D. easier

Câu 15: - "Happy birthday! This is a small present for you."

A. What a pity!   

B. How terrible!    

C. Have a good time!        

D. How beautiful it is! Thanks.

Câu 16: ________________, this disaster would not have happened.

A. Had you obeyed orders 

B. You obeyed orders 

C. Had you have obeyed orders      

D. You had obeyed orders

Câu 17: They asked me a lot of questions, __________I couldn't answer.

A. much of which   

B. both of them   

C. neither of which 

D. most of which

Câu 18: I like Tom and Ann. They are _______.

A.  such as nice people

B. such nice peoples   

C.  such a nice people      

D.  such nice people

Câu 19: His visit toNew Yorkseemed to get ______ because he was busy at work.

A.  more and more short      

B. shorter and shorter

C.  the shortest     

D. the shorter and shorter

A. American money from past to present.

B. the English monetary policies in colonialAmerica.

C.  the effect of the Revolution on American money.

D.  the American monetary system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Câu 2: The passage indicates that during the colonial period, money was ___________ .

A. supplied by England. 

B.  coined by colonists.             

C. scarce.  

D. used extensively for trade.

Câu 3: The Massachusetts Bay Colony was allowed to make coins ___________ .

A.  continuously from the inception of the colonies. 

B. throughout the seventeenth century.

C. from 1652 until the Revolutionary War.

D.  for a short time during one year.

Câu 4: The expression “a means of” in paragraph 1 could be best replaced by _________ .

A. an example of  

B. a method of 

C. a result of              

D. a punishment for

Câu 5: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as a substitute for money during the colonial period?  

A. Wampum 

B. Cotton

C. Tobacco 

D. Beaver furs

Câu 6: The pronoun “it” in paragraph 2 refers to which of the following ___________ .

A. The Continental Congress     

B. Paper money

C.  The War                          

D. Trade in goods

Câu 7: It is implied in the passage that at the end of the Revolutionary War, a paper dollar was worth  ___________ .  

A. exactly one dollar

B. just under one dollar 

C. just over one dollar

D. almost nothing

Câu 8: The word “remedy” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to __________ .

A.  resolve       

B. understand      

C. renew  

D. medicate

Câu 9: How was the monetary system arranged in the Constitution?

A. Only the US Congress could issued money.

B. The US officially went on a bimetallic monetary system.

C. Various state governments, including Massachusetts, could issue money.

D. The dollar was made official currency of the US.

Câu 10: According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about the bimetallic monetary system?  

A. Either gold or silver could be used as official money.

B. Gold could be exchanged for silver at the rate of sixteen to one.

C. The monetary system was based on two matters.

D. It was established in 1792.

A. except

B. instead of

C. than

D. unless

Câu 2: The boy was brought up with a family in the countryside.

A. reared

B. bred

C. raised

D. grown

Câu 3: Snow forced many drivers to abandon their vehicles.
 

A. leave

B. stop

C.  sell

D. hide  

A. started

B.  stemmed

C.  came

D. appeared

Câu 2:

A. by surprise

B. by chance

C. with accident

D. with chance

Câu 3:

A. manner

B.  style

C. method

D. way

Câu 4:

A. steady

B. square

C. regular

D. normal

Câu 5:

A. next

B. then

C. second

D. lately

Câu 6:

A. found

B. realized

C. presented

D. noticed

Câu 7:

A. just

B. having

C. ever

D. previously

Câu 8:

A. from

B. by

C. with

D. in

Câu 9:

A. choose

B. take

C.  select

D. decide

Câu 10:

A. recent

B. late

C. lately

D. latest

A. Noise may pose a serious threat to our physical and psychological health.

B. Loud noises signal danger.

C.  Hearing loss is America’s number one nonfatal health problem.

D. The ear is not like the eye.

Câu 2: According to the passage, what is noise?

A. Unwanted sound.

B. A byproduct of technology.

C. Physical and psychological harm.

D. Congestion.

Câu 3:  Why is noise difficult to measure?

A.  All people do not respond to it in the same way.

B. It causes hearing loss.

C. It is unwanted.

D.  People become accustomed to it.

Câu 4: The word congested in paragraph 1 could best be replaced by ___.
 

A.  hazardous

B. polluted

C.  crowded

D. rushed

Câu 5: It can be inferred from the passage that the eye ___. 

A. responds to fear

B. enjoys greater protection than the ear 

C.  increases functions 

D. is damaged by noise

Câu 6: According to the passage, people respond to loud noises in the same way that they respond to ___. 

A.  annoyance

B.  disease

C. damage

D. danger

Câu 7: The word accelerate in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ___.

A. decrease

B. alter 

C.  increase

D.  release

Câu 8: The word it in the first paragraph refers to ___. 

A. the noise

B. the quality of life

C. advancing technology

D. a byproduct

Câu 9: With which of the following statements would the author most probably agree? 

A.  Noise is not a serious problem today. 

B. Noise is America’s number one problem. 

C.  Noise is an unavoidable problem in an industrial society.

D. Noise is complex problem.

Câu 10: The phrase as well in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to ___.

A. after all 

B. also

C. instead

D. regardless