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APER 1: READING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A: Choose one correct word or phrase in the list given to complete each of the following sentences. Each word / phrase is used once only. Sentence 0 has been done for you as an example.
up | hard | much | patient | due to |
on | well | more | so as to | sharing |
as | have | since | put off | according to |
so | make | unless | though | to close |
do | only | whose | patience | would have gone |
you | based | which | closing | would go |
like | until | good | for you | enough |
such | just | shared | put on | so that to |
0. He is strong ............. to lift the parcel.
1. Those students are looking forward the new word ............. in the dictionaries.
2. No matter how ............. he tried, he was unable to complete the course.
3. Our class meeting was canceled............. the recent storm in the city.
4. Nobody has ever spoken to me .............that before.
5. The computer ............. virus-scanning program doesn’t work needs checking
6. I was .............tired that I went to bed right after I got home last night.
7. They are working very hard .............save enough money to buy a new car.
8. Would you mind ............. the window, please? It’s getting a bit colder now.
9. They won’t catch the train .............they have to hurry up.
10. We ............. there if we had been invited.
11. She has been in such a trouble that she doesn’t want to talk about it any .............
12. Last night we went to the theatre and saw a play ............. on a true story of Helen Keller.
13. The championship football match had to be ............. because the rain.
14. Smoking can ............. harm your health.
15. You’ll catch cold if you don’t .............more warm clothes.
16. He has no brothers and sisters; he is the ............. child in the family.
17. You’ll need to be .............to teach these children.
18. We still admire him.............we know that sometimes he is wrong
19. The two thieves were seen ............. the stolen money between themselves.
20. It’s time .............to make presentation.
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ECTION B: Read those passage and answer briefly the questions that follow.
Passage 1.
You have probably heard the expression “It’s raining cats and dogs outside.” That means that it is raining very hard - not that real cats and dogs are falling from the sky. However, one day in June, 1882, it really did rain frogs over Dubuque, Iowa. The frogs began falling along with hailstones during a terrible storm.
During the storm in Dubuque, the strong winds lifted small frogs from nearby ponds into the air along with raindrops. When some of these frogs became covered with ice, both hailstones and “frog-stones” fell onto ground. Imagine what the people thought when frogs bounced off their umbrellas.
21. What do people mean when they say “It’s raining cats and dogs!”?
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22. What is the strange phenomenon in the story?
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23. Where was there that strange phenomenon?
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24. Didn’t the frogs fall along with hailstones during the storm?
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25. Where the frogs caught by the strong winds?
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assage 2:
Our century has seen great changes in the life and living conditions of people. Less than a hundred years ago, many of the things that we do now seemed impossible. No one could imagine that people could fly, of that we could listen to music thousands of miles away.
Imagine a man of Dickens’s time in our modern world. In the sky, he sees people flying in tremendous “birds”. At home, we turn a switch and the dark room immediately becomes light. But the greatest surprise is the radio and the television set standing in a corner of the room.
26. What has our century witnessed?
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27. What seemed impossible about 100 years ago?
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28. What are examples for this?
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29. What is the greatest surprise to a man of Dickens’s time?
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30. What is meant by saying “tremendous birds”?
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Passage 3
Today, radio and television serve many purposes besides pleasure and entertainment. They help us to find fish in the sea and to land airplanes in bad weather condition or at night. They control the work of large numbers of machines in industry, and they hold spaceships in their orbits. With the help of radio and television, scientists are able to photograph the far side of the moon.
Among the most important scientific discoveries are new medicines. Many illnesses that people died from fifty years ago are not longer dangerous. People today have better chance of living long.
31. Pleasure and entertaimentare just the only services that radio and television can ever offer, aren’t they.
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32. How can radio and television assist fishmen?
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33. Heavy industries can also benefit from using radio and television. Whats is the benefit?
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34. What can radio and television enable scientists to do?
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35. Why are many illnesses that people died from fifty years ago no longer dangerous?
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Passage 4
In an effort to produce the largest, fastest, and most luxurious ship afloat, the British built the SS Titanic. It was so superior to anything else on the seas that it was called “unsinkabe”. So sure of this were owners that they provided only twenty lifeboats and rafts, less than one half the number needed for the 2,227 passengers on the board.
The Titanic had enjoined only two days of raising glory on its maiden voyage in 1912 before plunging into the water near the coast of Newfoundland.
36. What drove the British to build the SS Titanic?
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37. Why was the SS Titanic thought to be “unsinkable”?
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38. What does “this” in “So sure of this were the owners...” refer to?
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39. What was the number of lifeboats and rafts needed for 2,227 passengers on board the SS. Titanic?
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40. Where did the SS Titanic sink?
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SECTION C: Fill in each of the gaps in the passage below with only one suitable word.
The earth is becoming increasingly linked by telecommunications. People in one country can speak to those in another country on the opposite ............... (41) of the earth by telephone. They can ............... (42) in writing by means of fax machines. But if they are from c ountries ............... (43) different languages are spoken, what language should they agree to speak to each............... (44)?
For many years now ............... (45) has been hope that the world might find a universal ............... (46) , or lingua franca. The western world had ............... (47) a language for hundreds of years in the middle ages: Latin was used ............... (48) the language of education. In the last four hundred years or ............... (49) , French has been viewed as............... (50) international language of diplomacy. But what about a world language for general and everyday use?
PAPER 2: WRITING
SECTION A: Make all changes and additions necessary to produce sentences from the following sets of words and phrases.
51. Mary / who / young / beautiful / but lazy / live / New York.
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52. She / like / have / much money / but / not like / work.
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53. So / she / decide / marry / old / man / whose / assets / worth / millions / dollars / last year.
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54. Now / she / live / easy life / and / be / pleased / what / she / have / get.
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55. She / never / get up / before 9:00 / very often / have / breakfast / bed / which / not / very usual.
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56. Her / maid / whose age / be / twice / much / as hers / always there / look after / her.
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57. Things / be / exactly / same / her / every day / except / Saturday.
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58. Her hobbies / different / her husband’s / many way.
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59. While / she / like / go out / theatre / cinema / husband / prefer / stay / home.
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60. What / she / like / be / stay / his own room / read / books / until / 11:00 or 12:00.
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SECTION B: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it.
61. People have cut down a lot of trees on both side of the street.
A lot of trees ...
62. There are so many cars in the center of Newton that it is becoming impossible to park.
Parking ...
63. The Wildlife Conservation Society has been participating in fund - raising to protect endangered species.
The Wildlife Conservation Society’s purpose is raising fund ...
64. A combination of sewage, salt, air pollution, sun, sand, and wind may destroy the huge statue on the outskirts of Cairo.
The huge statue on the outskirts of Cairo ...
65. Found in food chains are chemical and insecticides.
Chemical and insecticides ...
66. The plane couldn’t take off because the fog.
The fog prevented ...
67. Somebody repaired her car yesterday.
She ...
68. The water was so cold that the children couldn’t swim in it.
The water was not ...
69. “Please don’t make noise.” Said the teacher to his student.
The teacher told ...
70. Where were the frogs caught by the strong wind?
Where did ...
SECTION C:
A. Translate to following sentences into Vietnamese
71. Think of the many household items that contain some type of computer.
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72. Televisions, video recorders, stereos, microwave ovens, and even coffee makers are computer - controlled.
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73. Some houses have computers that regulate temprature and energy use
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74. On September19, 1985, there a violent earthquake in southwestern Mexico, devastating sections of Mexico city and killing and estimated 7000 persons.
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75. After viewing the destruction as a result of the earthquake from a helicopter, the United State Ambassador remarked that, “It looked as if a giant foot had stepped on the building.”
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B. Translate to following sentences into English
76. Viãûc nghiãn cæïu caïc tráûn âäüng âáút laì ráút cáön thiãút âäúi våïi caïc nhaì khoa hoüc, âàûc biãût laì nhaì âëa cháút hoüc.
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77. Khaío saït khu væûc naìy âoïng vai troì quan troüng trong viãûc quy hoaûch thaình phäú.
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78. Mäüt trong nhæîng màût maûnh cuía giaïo duûc phæång Táy laì viãûc hoüc táûp tæû láûp.
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79. Tháût laì sai láöm nãúu chuïng ta cho ràòng maïy tênh coï khaí nàng “suy nghé”.
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80. Næåïc bao phuí khoaíng - bãö màût traïi âáút.
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