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Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

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Câu 3: Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions. 

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Câu 5: More and more investors are pouring ________ money into food and beverage start–ups. 

Câu 6: Do you think there _____ less conflict in the world if all people spoke the same language? 

Câu 7: Linda rarely goes to school by bike, but today she ______ a bike. 

Câu 8: John has worked very late at night these days, ______ he is physically exhausted. 

Câu 9: I agree ______ one point with Chris: it will be hard for us to walk 80km. 

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____________________, the ancient place is still popular with modern tourists. 

Câu 11: Once ___________ in the UK, the book will definitely win a number of awards in regional book fairs. 

Câu 12: Your hair needs _______. You’d better have it done tomorrow. 

Câu 13: He was pleased that things were going on _______. 

Câu 14: Although our opinions on many things ______, we still maintain a good relationship with each other. 

Câu 15: Daniel ______ a better understanding of Algebra than we do. 

Câu 16: The pointless war between the two countries left thousands of people dead and seriously _______. 

Câu 17: Eager to be able to discuss my work _____ in French, I hired a tutor to help polish my language skills. 

Câu 18: The sight of his pale face brought ________ to me how ill he really was. 

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Câu 20: Though I persuaded my boss to solve a very serious problem in the new management system, he just made light of it. 

Câu 21: Students from that university have conducted a survey to find out the most effective study habit. 

Câu 22: ome operations may have to be halted unless more blood donors come forward to help. 

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Question 23: Bill is talking to his colleague.

Bill: “_________, Jack?” – Jack: “Fine! I have just got a promotion.” 

Câu 24:

Two students are talking in a new class.

Student 1: “Excuse me, is anybody sitting here?” – Student 2: “____________”

Câu 25:

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California. Tan grew up in Northern California, (25) _______ when her father and older brother both died from brain tumors in 1966, she moved with her mother and younger brother to Europe, where she attended high school in Montreux, Switzerland. She returned to the United States for college. After college, Tan worked as a language development consultant and as a corporate freelance writer. In 1985, she wrote the story "Rules of the Game" for a writing workshop, which laid the early (26) _______ for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. Published in 1989, the book explored the (27) _______ between Chinese women and their Chinese–American daughters, and became the longest–running New York Times bestseller for that year. The Joy Luck Club received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award. It has been translated into 25 languages, including Chinese, and was made into a major motion picture for (28) _______ Tan co–wrote the screenplay. Tan's other works have also been (29) ______ into several different forms of media. 

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Câu 30: 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. Newspapers and television news programs always seem to report about the bad things happening in society. However, there is a place where readers can find some good news. That place is the website called HappyNews. The man behind HappyNews is Byron Reese. Reese set up HappyNews because he thought other news sources were giving people an unbalanced view of the world. Reese said about HappyNews, “The news media gives you a distorted view of the world by exaggerating bad news, misery, and despair. We’re trying to balance out the scale.” Not everyone agrees with Reese’s view, though. Many people think that news sources have a responsibility to provide news that is helpful to people. People need to know about issues or problems in today’s society. Then they are better able to make informed decisions about things that affect their daily lives. Reese said that HappyNews is not trying to stop people from learning about issues or problems. HappyNews is just trying to provide a balanced picture of today’s world. By the end of its first month online, HappyNews had more than 70,000 unique readers. About 60 percent of those readers were women. Something else unique makes HappyNews different from any of the other news or information websites that are on the Internet. Unlike many other websites, HappyNews gets fan mail from its readers on a daily basis.

Câu 31: How is HappyNews different than other news sources? 

Câu 32: The word “they” in paragraph 2 refers to _______. 

Câu 33: Why might some people NOT like HappyNews? 

Câu 34: What does “exaggerating” mean in this reading? 

Câu 35: 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. No sooner had the first intrepid male aviators safely returned to Earth than it seemed that women, too, had been smitten by an urge to fly. From mere spectators, they became willing passengers and finally pilots in their own right, plotting their skills and daring line against the hazards of the air and the skepticism of their male counterparts. In doing so they enlarged the traditional bounds of a women's world, won for their sex a new sense of competence and achievement, and contributed handsomely to the progress of aviation. But recognition of their abilities did not come easily. "Men do not believe us capable." The famed aviator Amelia Earhart once remarked to a friend. "Because we are women, seldom are we trusted to do an efficient job." Indeed old attitudes died hard: when Charles Lindbergh visited the Soviet Union in 1938 with his wife, Anne–herself a pilot and gifted proponent of aviation – he was astonished to discover both men and women flying in the Soviet Air Force. Such conventional wisdom made it difficult for women to raise money for the up – to – date equipment they needed to compete on an equal basis with men. Yet they did compete, and often they triumphed finally despite the odds. Ruth Law, whose 590 – mile flight from Chicago to Hornell, New York, set a new nonstop distance record in 1916, exemplified the resourcefulness and grit demanded of any woman who wanted to fly. And when she addressed the Aero Club of America after completing her historic journey, her plainspoken wordstestified to a universal human motivation that was unaffected by gender: "My flight was done with no expectation of reward," she declared, "just purely for the love of accomplishment." 

Câu 36: According to the passage, women pilots were successful in all of the following EXCEPT___. 

Câu 37: What can be inferred from the passage about the United States Air Force in 1938? 

Câu 38:

In their efforts to compete with men, early women pilots had difficulty in ______. 

Câu 39: According to the passage, who said that flying was done with no expectation of reward? 

Câu 40: The word ‘skepticism’ is closest in meaning to _______. 

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The word ‘addressed’ can be best replaced by ________. 

Câu 42: The word ‘counterparts’ refers to ________. 

Câu 43:

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.

Question 43: Some people say often that using cars is not so convenient as using motorbikes. 

Câu 44: They are having their house being painted by a construction company. 

Câu 45: Transgender people are denied the ability to join the armed forces due to discriminating policies implemented by the government. 

Câu 46: “I agree that I am narrow–minded,” said the manager.

Câu 47: A supermarket is more convenient than a shopping centre. 

Câu 48: It was a mistake for Tony to buy that house. 

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Câu 50: : Seth informed us of his retirement from the company. He did it when arriving at the meeting.