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TỔ NGOẠI NGỮ HỌC KỲ II (2020-2021)

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A. PHONETICS
I. Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others (0.5pt.)
1. A. remote B. purpose C. control D. solar 1. .........
2. A. equation B. tradition C. intention D. ambition 2. .........
3. A. sandwich B. Wednesday C. handsome D. standard 3. .........
4. A. creates B. motorbikes C. theatres D. tapes 4. .........
5. A. mixed B. amused C. laughed D. increased 5. .........
II. Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from that of the others in each group (0.5pt.)
1. A. obligatory B. geographical C. international D. undergraduate 1. .........
2. A. official B. artistic C. temperate D. courageous 2. .........
3. A. depend B. prepare C. predict D. forecast 3. .........
4. A. memorable B. ceremony C. category D. believable 4. .........
5. A. furniture B. dependence C. confidence D. reference 5. .........
B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
I. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences (1 pt.)
1. I don’t see any ______ in arriving early at the theatre.
A. cause B. point C. reason D. aim 1. …………
2. The stolen jewels were ______ a lot of money.
A. valued B. cost C. priced D. worth 2. …………
3. I keep ______ making the same mistake. It’s very frustrating.
A. up B. on C. in D. off 3. …………
4. It is good to be pleased ______ ourselves and proud ______ ourselves when we have done a good job.
A. with – on B. to – of C. with – of D. of – with 4. …………
5. Mathew Webb was the first person ______ across the English Channel.
A. to swim B. swam C. swim D. who swims 5. …………
6. ______ weather is unusual in autumn, so we have to stay at home.
A. What bad B. Such a bad C. Such bad D. So bad 6. …………
7. When she phoned, I ______ much time to talk because I ______ for Germany in two hours.
A. didn’t have – was leaving B. hadn’t had – would leave 7. …………
C. wouldn’t have – would leave D. didn’t have – had left
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s)
8. She must be on cloud nine now because she has won the first prize in the competition.
A. extremely panicked B. desperately sad C. very happy D. incredibly worried 8. …………
9. The team entered the competition confidently after getting sound advice from their coach.
A. tentative B. audible C. sensitive D. sensible 9. …………
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s)
10. Despite careful preparation, the student got cold feet when he entered the scholarship interview.
A. stayed confident B. had a fever C. got nervous D. became aggressive 10. ……….
II. Fill in each blank with one preposition or particle (1 pt.)
1. What channel is “King of Rap” ______? 1. …………
2. You can take bus 26 from this bus station and get ______ at the park. 2. …………
3. Bruno Fernandes was born ______ September 8, 1994. 3. …………
4. ______ my amazement, he ate the whole pie. 4. …………
5. She has put her house up ______ sale. 5. …………
6. ______ a view to getting to school on time, he got up early. 6. …………
7. When will we arrive ______ the railway station? 7. …………
8. Peter read the letter twice before its meaning sank ______. 8. …………
9. Several branches of the bank have recently opened ______ across China. 9. …………
10. She hasn’t come ______ yet after the surgery. 10. ……….
III. Supply the correct form of each word in brackets (1 pt.)
1. A (news) ______ is a person who reads the news on television or radio. 1. …………….…….
2. (Use) ______ shopping bags should be used instead of plastic ones. 2. …………….…….

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3. My sister works as a (weather) ______ on television whose job is describing the weather and 3. …………….…….
telling people what it is going to be like
4. There is a modern building in London which is (egg) ______. 4. …………….…….
5. The Empire State Building is a familiar (land) ______ on the New York skyline. 5. …………….…….
6. The letter was signed by fifty-two Nobel (prize) ______. 6. …………….…….
7+8. They sell a wide range of domestic (apply) ______ - washing machines, (dish) ______ and so on. 7. …………….…….
8. …………….…….
9. Land erosion is often caused by widespread (forest) ______. 9. …………….…….
10. The statue will remain in the museum for the (see) ______ future. 10. …………….…..
IV. Fill in each blank with an appropriate word whose first letter is given. (1 pt.)
(1) L______ in Southeast Asia, Singapore has become one of the world’s richest countries and has the world’s
busiest port. Modern Singapore was (2) f______ in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles as a trading port of the British Empire.
Singapore is also one of the most popular tourist (3) a______ in the world. With the (4) p______ of over 5.5 million people,
61% (3.4 million) of whom are Singaporean citizens, it is a very (5) c______ city, but it is one of the cleanest cities in the
world. Singapore is a garden city, with over fifty major parks, four nature (6) r______, the Flower Dome, the Cloud Forest,
museums, statues and theatres. Those who want to do shopping should go to Orchard Road with miles of shopping (7)
m______. Singapore (8) h______ a lot of events each year. Some of its famous festivals and events (9) i______ the
Singapore Food Festival, the Singapore Arts Festival, and the Chingay Parade. Christmas is also (10) w______ celebrated
in Singapore. It is a season when the city streets and shopping malls are crowded along its famous shopping belt.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
V. Complete the sentences with a suitable idiomatic expression. There are two extra expressions that you do not
need to use. (1pt.)
a home from home a thing of the past
a matter of opinion an Englishman's home is his castle
a matter of time home, sweet home
a matter of life and death make yourself at home
a matter of concern no laughing matter
a near thing no matter who
1. Come in and have a seat. I want you to feel you can behave as if you were in your house. So ………………………
……….…………………………………. while I make a cup of tea.
2. If there are any phone calls, …………………………………………………………………… it is, tell them I’m not here.
3. Jenny hasn’t realized her mistake yet, but she will. It’s just ……………………………………………………………………
4. I can do what I want in my own house. You know what they say: …………………………………………………………….
5. Harry is taking the exam too seriously. From what he says, you would think passing it is …………………………………
……………………….…….
6. They made me feel very welcome. It was like being in my own house. It was ………………………………………………
7. Whether state education or private education is best for a child is …………………………………………………………...
8. Gerald says it’s …………………………………………………………………being in hospital with a broken leg.
9. He had enjoyed travelling round the world and seeing different places, but at last he returned. He walked towards his
house and thought …………………………………………………………………
10. ‘Did Tony pass the exam?’ ‘Yes, but only just. His teacher told him that it was …………………………………………….
C. READING
I. Choose the best option to complete the gaps in the following passage (1 pt.)
It seems entirely (1) ______ to us that there are teams of scientists in universities and other institutions around
the world, attempting to (2) ______ the way the world works. However, it hasn’t always been that (3) ______. Although the
scientific method is now four or five hundred years old, the ancient Greeks, for example, believed that they could work out
the (4) ______ of natural events just by the power of thought.
During the 17th century, more and more people began to realize that they could (5) ______ their scientific ideas
by designing a relevant (6) ______ and seeing what happened. A lot of (7) ______ was made in this way by individual
scientists. These men and women often worked alone, carrying out (8) ______ into many different areas of science, and
they often received very little (9) ______ for their hard work. At the start of the 20th century, though, it became (10) ______
that science was becoming more complicated and more expensive. The individual scientists disappeared, to be replaced
by highly qualified teams of experts. Modern science was born.
1. A. physical B. natural C. typical D. real 1. …………
2. A. create B. invent C. construct D. discover 2. …………
3. A. route B. method C. way D. technique 3. …………
4. A. aims B. reasons C. causes D. impulses 4. …………
5. A. calculate B. estimate C. measure D. test 5. …………
6. A. experiment B. research C. attempt D. analysis 6. …………
7. A. development B. movement C. progress D. evolution 7. …………
8. A. research B. experiment C. discovery D. education 8. …………
9. A. award B. prize C. gift D. reward 9. …………
10. A. clear B. true C. accurate D. actual 10. ……….

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II. You are going to read four accounts of people who have travelled somewhere amazing. For questions 1-10,
choose from the people A-D. The people may be chosen more than once. (1pt.)
Which person:
1. interacted closely with wild animals? 6. appreciated the advantages of travelling alone?
2. was participating in a water sport? 7. spent time near places of worship?
3. did not think he/she would like the place so much? 8. told someone all about his/her experience?
4. was in relatively close proximity to dangerous animals? 9. compared the place he/she visited with other places?
5. refers to documenting their travel experiences? 10. was shown around by a professional?
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
A. HARRY: Just north of Fregate I met two manta rays. They were seven or eight feet wide with massive out-stretched fins that
seemed like rubberized wings. The water was murky, rich with plankton that attracted the giant rays that filtered it through their
wide mouths. They treated me with caution, maintaining a constant distance if I turned towards them, but were content to let me
swim on a parallel course, as if I, too, was feeding on the plankton. For a few minutes we were companions, until, circling and
shifting shape against the depths, they became faint black shadows in the gloom and were gone. The deep blue of the Indian
Ocean has captured my heart and drawn me back again and again to these pure shores. On Praslin there were dolphins off-
shore and a pair of octopus, sliding across the coral as they flashed signals to one another with changing skin tones as remarkable
as - but much faster than - any chameleon. At Conception, close to Mahc, giant rocks formed an underwater cathedral beckoning
me into its vaults where moray eels gaped at me, the strange visitor to their liquid world.
B. GABRIEL: And so my first real trip to Asia unfolded in what seemed a series of dream-panels - adventures and faces and
events so far removed from my day-to-day experience that I could not convert them into any tongue I knew. I revisited them
again and again, sleepless, in my memories and notes and photographs, once home. Almost every day of the three-week trip
was so vivid that, upon returning, I gave a friend a nine- hour account of every moment. The motorbike ride through Sukhothai;
the first long lazy evening in an expat's teak house in Sunkumvhit; the flight into the otherworldly charm of Rangoon and the
Strand Hotel, and the pulse of warm activity around the Sule Pagoda at nightfall. Long hot days in the silence, 5,000 temples on
every side; slow trips at dawn along Inle lake, seeing a bird-faced boat being led through the quiet water; a frenzied morning back
in Bangkok, writing an article while monsoon rains pounded on the windows all around me.
C. MAYA: As I stepped off the six-sealer Cessna plane after a bumpy flight over the Okavango Delta and my feet touched the
arid ground I knew this was what I'd been waiting for all my life - Africa. Our first day was at the Selinda Camp in one of the driest
parts of the Delta and when we arrived I thought that nothing could possibly survive under the relentless sun. I was almost
immediately proved wrong, as Belinda is near a small lagoon - home to a group of hippos. At night we could hear their bark-like
call. Our guides warned us that although hippos may seem harmless, if threatened, they could easily kill a man! We went on to
stay in various other camps that were situated in different habitats. Jacana Camp was surrounded entirely by water and only
accessible by boat. But my favourite place was the Kalahari Desert. Our final camp was located just on the edge of the
Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, which are home to many rare species of animal, such as the brown hyena.
D. TOM: I'd been to New York three times in the past but not for long and I couldn't remember much of it. This time I only had
four days but I was on my own and this seems like a better way to get to know a city: less being sociable, more walking and
visiting different places. Perfect. I liked New York even more than I expected and it's right up there on my list of foreign cities
where I'd like to live. It's fighting for the top spot with San Francisco, with the next position occupied by Paris. I stayed at the
Incentra Village House, which was lovely: reasonably priced, really friendly, comfortable rooms. I'd stay there again. I did a lot of
walking and could easily have done a lot more. I rarely left Manhattan. One day I walked more than 12 miles, including the length
of Central Park and on down Fifth Avenue. Fifth Avenue was the least pleasant place; it felt like London's Oxford Street. I also
walked along the High Line, which is very nicely done, although rather shorter than Paris's Promenade Plantee.
D. WRITING
Complete the second sentence using the word given in brackets so that it has a similar meaning to the first
sentence. Do not change the given word in any way. (2 pts.)
1. The enemy were not prepared for the attack. (surprised)
à The enemy ..............................................................................................................................................................
2. It won't be my fault if the project fails. (responsible)
à I will .........................................................................................................................................................................
3. Jane was very patient with me when I was ill and irritable. (patience)
à Jane ........................................................................................................................................................................
4. Helen has never seen such beautiful houses. (most)
à These are ................................................................................................................................................................
5+6+7. It’s pointless to try to convince him that he’s wrong.
à There................................................................................................................................................................ (point)
à It ....................................................................................................................................................................... (good)
à It ....................................................................................................................................................................... (use)
8+9+10. Mie’s father was very busy, but he still spent time playing with her.
à Busy ................................................................................................................................................................. (as)
à However ........................................................................................................................................................... (was)
à No .................................................................................................................................................................... (matter)
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