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. Earthquakes are destructive events in nature. The damage depends on the size or magnitude of the quake. There have never been so many people living in cities in quake zones, and so the worse the damage can be from a big quake, bringing fires, tsunamis, and the loss of life, property, and maybe an entire city. We understand how earthquakes happen but not exactly where or when they will occur. Until recently, quakes seemed to occur at random. In Japan, government research is now showing that quakes can be predicted. At the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Koshun Yamaoka says earthquakes do follow a pattern—pressure builds in a zone and must be released. But a colleague, Naoyuki Kato, adds that laboratory experiments indicate that a fault slips a little before it breaks. If this is true, predictions can be made based on the detection of slips. Research in the U.S. may support Kato’s theory. In Parkfield, California earthquakes occur about every 22 years on the San Andreas fault. In the 1980s, scientists drilled into the fault and set up equipment to record activity to look for warning signs. When an earthquake hit again, it was years off schedule. At first the event seemed random but scientists drilled deeper. By 2005 they reached the bottom of the fault, two miles down, and found something. Data from two quakes reported in 2008 show there were two “slips’—places where the plates widened—before the fault line broke and the quakes occurred. We are learning more about these destructive events every day. In the future we may be able to track earthquakes and design an early-warning system. So if the next great earthquake does happen in Tokai, about 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, as some scientists think, the citizens of Tokai may have advance warning. (Adapted from Reading Explorer 3, Nancy Douglas et al., 2010)

Câu 1:

What is the main idea of the passage?

A. We can predict earthquakes using pre-slip theory.

B. There are now many theories about earthquakes.

C. Research is showing that we may be able to predict earthquakes.

D. Earthquakes are the most destructive natural disaster on earth.

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Câu 2:

The underlined phrase “the worse the damage” in the passage means___________.

A. The result of a great earthquake is a tsunami or fire that causes great damage.

B. Greater damage will occur from earthquakes in highly populated cities in danger zones.

C. Tsunamis and fire are caused by big earthquakes that we have not been able to predict.

D. Cities and other populous areas may suffer from worse earthquakes than other places.

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Câu 3:

The underlined word “it” in the passage refers to _____________.

A. a fault

B. a little

C. an experiment

D. a pattern

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Câu 4:

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. The San Andreas fault is two miles deep.

B. Scientists in the U.S. found slips in the fault in the 1980’s.

C. Earthquakes occur about every 22 years along the San Andreas Fault.

D. The slip at a fault can predict when the fault will break.

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Câu 5:

Evidence for the pre-slip theory has been found by scientists in __________.

A. Japan and the United States

B. Tokai and San Andreas

C. Parkfield and Kato

D. California and Tokyo

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Câu 6:

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.

A. put

B. mud

C. but

D. cut

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Câu 7:

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.

A. chemist

B. cherish

C. cheerful

D. children

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Câu 8:

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.

A. commit

B. enter

C. corpus

D. physic

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Câu 9:

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.

A. economic

B. economy

C. competitive

D. commitment

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Câu 10:

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.

We need to find new ways to promote our local products and services in order to attract more customers.

A. desire

B. manage

C. consider

D. advertise

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Câu 11:

Young people are taught essential skills for the job market.

A. completely satisfied

B. completely delighted

C. completely new

D. completely necessary

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Câu 12:

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions

Anthony was the last student ______ at the oral exam.

A. to be asked

B. asking

C. asks

D. to ask

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Câu 13:

The ______ accident in the history of the city occurred last night on the Freeway.

A. badest

B. most bad

C. worse

D. worst

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Câu 14:

___________, he will be very happy.

A. When my father was seeing my success

B. When my father had seen my success

C. When my father sees my success

D. When my father saw my success

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Câu 15:

This friend was grateful ______ the ticket, but confessed he was dead asleep for almost the entire programme.

A. to

B. with

C. for

D. of

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Câu 16:

They never came to class late, ________?

A. didn’t they

B. did they

C. do they

D. don’t they

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Câu 17:

Annie really liked ________ present that her boyfriend gave her last week .

A. a

B. an

C. Ø

D. the

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Câu 18:

Viet Nam __________ foreign investors in various parts of the economy.

A. expresses

B. welcomes

C. hesitates

D. promotes

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Câu 19:

WHO main activities are ________ researches on medical development and improving international health.

A. taking on

B. putting off

C. looking for

D. carrying out

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Câu 20:

The restaurants in Phu Quoc are expensive, but it’s worth ______ your money on it.

A. spend

B. spending

C. to spend

D. to spending

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Câu 21:

My sister is a scientist in Antarctic, so I only see her once in a _______ moon.

A. full

B. yellow

C. blue

D. half

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Câu 22:

He came when I ________ the anime “Demon slayer”.

A. was watching

B. watched

C. were watching

D. has watched

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Câu 23:

Just forget him, Jennie! You will ______ a cold if you keep crying in the rain.

A. bring

B. catch

C. take

D. get

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Câu 24:

As many as 49.743 people in 19 provinces and cities across Vietnam ______ against COVID-19 in March.

A. vaccinated

B. were vaccinating

C. were vaccinated

D. vaccinate

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Câu 25:

In 1945, Japanese Fascist made Vietnamese people live in absolute _______.

A. poor

B. poorer

C. poorly

D. poverty

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Câu 26:

Among all the changes resulting from the ___________ entry of women into the workforce, the transformation that has occurred in the women themselves is not the least important.

A. quantitative

B. massive

C. surplus

D. formidable

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Câu 27:

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer seer to indicate the underlined part that needs correction following questions.

My client accepts the former apology without prejudice to any further legal action she may decide to take.

A. former

B. accepts

C. prejudice

D. further

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Câu 28:

I usually ride a bike to school every day but today I rode to school by bus because it was stolen yesterday.

A. because

B. rode

C. usually

D. stolen

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Câu 29:

In the past, everybody could hardly tell what they thought about an issue.

A. they

B. In

C. hardly

D. about

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Câu 30:

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the following exchanges

Phineas and Ferb are talking about where to have lunch:

Phineas: “What’s the best place to have lunch?

Ferb: “_________________.”

A. I’ll have a soup, please

B. There’s a great restaurant at the street corner

C. I usually eat lunch at twelve there.

D. Twelve would be convenient for us

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Câu 31:

Steve is having an annual check-up:

Steve: “I’ve got an earache in this ear. I couldn’t sleep last night because it was so painful.”

Doctor: “___________”

A. Let me check your temperature…. Yes, it’s higher than normal.

B. Drink lots of water and come back if you don’t feel better.

C. Let me have a look …… ah …. Yes, it’s very red in there.

D. Well, you should take this medicine twice a day. It’s good for a sore throat

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Câu 32:

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.

“Will you give this to Bruce when you see him, please?”, he said to me.

A. He asked me if I would give that to Bruce when I saw him.

B. He asked me whether I could give that to Bruce when he saw me.

C. He asked me to give that to Bruce when I saw him.

D. He begged me to give that to Bruce when I saw him

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Câu 33:

This presentation is optional for the students to do.

A. The students mustn’t do this presentation.

B. The students shouldn’t do this presentation.

C. The students don’t have to do this presentation.

D. The students mightn’t do this presentation.

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Câu 34:

Linda began working as nurse in this hospital two years ago.

A. Linda has been working as a nurse in this hospital two years ago.

B. Linda worked as a nurse in this hospital two years ago.

C. Linda has begun working as a nurse in this hospital for two years ago.

D. Linda has been working as a nurse in this hospital for two years.

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Câu 35:

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

He wasn’t wearing a seat-belt. He fell out of the car.

A. If he hadn't been wearing a seat-belt, he wouldn't have fallen out of the car.

B. If he had been wearing a seat-belt, he would have fallen out of the car.

C. It he had been wearing a seat-belt, he would have fallen out of the car.

D. If he had been wearing a seat-belt, he wouldn't have fallen out of the car.

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Câu 36:

Students are forbidden to bring their papers into the exam room. There is no except whatsoever.

A. On no account are students permitted to bring theirs papers into the exam room.

B. In no way are students prohibited from bringing their papers into the exam room.

C. Under no circumstances are students prohibited from bringing their papers into the exam room.

D. At no time were students permitted to bring their papers into the exam room.

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Đoạn văn 2

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. The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that “We expect to see the number of cases, the number of deaths, and the number of affected countries climb even higher.” WHO officials had said earlier they were hesitant to call the outbreak a pandemic in case it led governments and individuals to give up the fight. On Wednesday, they stressed that fundamental public health interventions can still limit the spread of the virus and drive down cases even where it was transmitting widely, as the work of authorities and communities in China, Singapore, and South Korea has shown. The virus, which probably originated in bats but passed to people via an as yet unrecognized intermediary animal species, is believed to have started infecting people in Wuhan, China, in late November or early December. Since then the virus has raced around the globe. South Korea, which has reported nearly 8,000 cases, also appears poised to bring its outbreak under control with aggressive measures and widespread testing. But other countries have struggled to follow the leads of China and South Korea — a reality that has frustrated WHO officials who have exhorted the world to do everything possible to end transmission of the virus. Tedros used the fact that 90% of the cumulative cases have been reported in just four countries as evidence that the rest of the world still had time to prevent an explosion of cases with action. WHO officials also stressed that countries should be implementing a strategic combination two types of measures. One involves trying to detect and stop known chains of transmission by isolating cases and following and potentially quarantining their contacts. The other involves community-level steps like social distancing and comes into play when the virus is spreading more broadly and transmission chains can’t be tracked. Mike Ryan, the head of the WHO’s emergency program, said that the public health interventions might not have straightforward effect, but to slow the spread of the virus. People with severe cases can require long periods of critical care and strain the resources of hospitals. He said he was worried about “the case load, the demand on the health workers, the dangers that come with fatigue, and potentially shortages of personal protective equipment.”

Câu 37:

Which best serves as the title for the passage?

A. Some contracted with coronavirus get very ill but most don’t.

B. What scientists still don’t know about coronavirus patients.

C. What governors are doing to tackle spreading coronavirus.

D. The WHO declares the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.

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Câu 38:

The word “pandemic” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______.

A. epidemic

B. ebullition

C. epizootic

D. endemic

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Câu 39:

The word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to _____.

A. outbreak

B. spread

C. fight

D. virus

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Câu 40:

According to paragraph 3, what is NOT mentioned about the virus and its state of spreading?

A. The WHO suggested that all countries can still change the course of this pandemic.

B. The current spreading virus is the second coronavirus to reach pandemic levels.

C. Coronavirus primitively circulates among animals but somehow spreads to human.

D. China is the assumed country of virus origin and where the disease hits the hardest.

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Câu 41:

The word “poised” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______.

A. composed

B. confident

C. excited

D. ready

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Câu 42:

According to paragraph 4, what is the objective of the measures mapped out by the WHO?

A. To buy time for the invention of vaccines.

B. To stop the virus sharply in its tracks.

C. To avoid an overwhelmed health system.

D. To achieve the point of zero transmission.

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Câu 43:

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A. The WHO acknowledged that the virus will likely spread to all countries on the globe.

B. Local factors related to healthcare systems have no effect on the course of the disease.

C. Countries used to an authoritarian government is most suitable to contain the virus.

D. The pandemic is an opportunity to see the backfire of an expensive healthcare system.

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Đoạn văn 3

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

While many behaviors and practices associated with going green are designed to save money, there are certain ways in which green living can actually be moderately to very expensive. (19) ________ of the technology associated with green living provides benefits to the environment but often at a much higher cost than their traditional counterparts. For instance, the use of solar panels can potentially save you money on your energy bills, but they can (20) ______________ thousands of dollars to install. Energy-efficient appliances are designed to use less electricity and water but they often come with a high price tag. Going green can also potentially have a negative effect on the environment. (21) ___________, the development of alternative fuels is an innovation in the green movement in an effort to reduce reliance on nonrenewable (22) ________ resources. While these fuels are intended to reduce the toxic emissions caused by the burning of traditional gasoline, they may have unintentionally caused the opposite effect. One of these alternative fuels, E85, actually gives off more ozone into the atmosphere than traditional fuel. While ozone is a natural part of the Earth’s upper atmosphere, if it becomes concentrated in the lower atmosphere, it can potentially increase air pollution in areas where smog is a concern, (23) ________ can in turn impact the health of those living in these areas.

Câu 44: