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Câu 8:

_________, she spent nearly an hour walking all around the neighborhood looking for her car.

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Câu 10:

But for my mother’s help for the last two years, I ________________.

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Câu 17:

My mother ________ for a computer company, but she ___________ at home today.

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Câu 19:

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.

Linh: "How often does your brother have to do a night shift? "

Mary: " ______________ "

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Câu 20:

John: "___________"

Lucy: "Great. I have twenty students and they can speak English very well."

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Câu 33:

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 33 to 37.

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 33: What is the main idea of the passage?

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Câu 34:

The underlined phrase “the worse the damage” in the passage means ___________.

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Câu 35:

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

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Câu 36:

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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Câu 37:

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

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Câu 38:

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 38 to 45.

If you go back far enough, everything lived in the sea. At various points in evolutionary history, enterprising individuals within many different animal groups moved out onto the land, sometimes even to the most parched deserts, taking their own private seawater with them in blood and cellular fluids. In addition to the reptiles, birds, mammals and insects which we see all around us, other groups that have succeeded out of water include scorpions, snails, crustaceans such as woodlice and land crabs, millipedes and centipedes, spiders and various worms. And we mustn’t forget the plants, without whose prior invasion of the land, none of the other migrations could have happened.

Moving from water to land involved a major redesign of every aspect of life, including breathing and reproduction. Nevertheless, a good number of thoroughgoing land animals later turned around, abandoned their hard-earned terrestrial re-tooling, and returned to the water again. Seals have only gone part way back. They show us what the intermediates might have been like, on the way to extreme cases such as whales and dugongs. Whales (including the small whales we call dolphins) and dugongs, with their close cousins, the manatees, ceased to be land creatures altogether and reverted to the full marine habits of their remote ancestors. They don’t even come ashore to breed. They do, however, still breathe air, having never developed anything equivalent to the gills of their earlier marine incarnation. Turtles went back to the sea a very long time ago and, like all vertebrate returnees to the water, they breathe air. However, they are, in one respect, less fully given back to the water than whales or dugongs, for turtles still lay their eggs on beaches.

There is evidence that all modern turtles are descended from a terrestrial ancestor which lived before most of the dinosaurs. There are two key fossils called Proganochelys quenstedti and Palaeochersis talampayensis dating from early dinosaur times, which appear to be close to the ancestry of all modern turtles and tortoise. You might wonder how we can tell whether fossil animals lived in land or in water, especially if only fragments are found. Sometimes it’s obvious. Ichthyosaurs were reptilian contemporaries of the dinosaurs, with fins and streamlined bodies. The fossils look like dolphins and they surely lived like dolphins, in the water. With turtles it is a little less obvious. One way to tell is by measuring the bones of their forelimbs.

(Adapted from Cambridge English IELTS 9)

Câu 38: Which of the following best serves as the main idea for the passage?

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Câu 39:

According to the first paragraph, reptiles, birds, mammals and insects __________.

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Câu 41:

The word “ceased” in paragraph 2 mostly means ______________.

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Câu 43:

According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

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Câu 44:

What does the word “they” in the last paragraph refer to?

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Câu 45:

It can be inferred from the last passage that _____________.

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Câu 46:

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.

Câu 46: “Shall I post the letter for you?”

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Câu 47:

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

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Câu 48:

As a conductor of heat and electricity, aluminum exceeds all metals except silver, copper and gold.

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Câu 49:

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.

Câu 49: David was alone and lost in the woods. He did not panic.

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Câu 50:

The president failed to explain the cause of the crisis. He did not offer any solutions.

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