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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 modern comic strip started out as ammunition in a newspaper war between giants of the American press in the late nineteenth century. The first full-color comic strip appeared in January 1894 in the New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer. The first regular weekly full-color comic supplement, similar to today’s Sunday funnies, appeared two years later, in William Randolph Hearst’s rival New York paper, the Morning Journal. Both were immensely popular and publishers realized that supplementing the news with comic relief boosted the sale of papers. The Morning Journal started another feature in 1896, the “Yellow Kid”, the first continuous comic character in the United States, whose creator, Richard Outcault, had been lured away from the World by the ambitious Hearst. The “Yellow Kid” was in many ways a pioneer. Its comic dialogue was the strictly urban farce that came to characterize later strips, and it introduced the speech balloon inside the strip, usually placed above the characters’ heads. The first strip to incorporate all the elements of later comics was Rudolph Dirks’s “Katzenjammer Kids”, based on Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz, a European satire of the nineteenth century. The “Kids” strip, first published in 1897, served as the prototype for future American strips. It contained not only speech balloons, but a continuous cast of characters, and was divided into small regular panels that did away with the larger panoramic scenes of earlier comics. Newspaper syndication played a major role in spreading the popularity of comic strips throughout the country. Though weekly colored comics came first, daily black-and-white strips were not far behind. The first appeared in the Chicago American in 1904. It was followed by many imitators, and by 1915 black-and-white comic strips had become a staple of daily newspapers around the country.

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks

Mobile phones emit microwave radio emissions. Researchers are questioning whether exposure to these radio waves might (61) _______ to brain cancer. So far, the data are not conclusive. The scientific evidence does not (62) _______ us to say with certainly that mobile phones are categorically (63) _______. On the other hand, current research has not yet (64) _______ clear adverse effect associated with the prolonged use of mobile phones. Numerous studies are now going (65) _______ in various countries. Some of the results are contradictory but others have shown an association between mobile phone use and cancer. (66) _______, these studies are preliminary and the issue needs further, long - term investigation. (67) _______ the scientific data is more definite, it is prudent for people to try not to use mobile phone for long (68) _______ of time. Don't think that hands free phones are any safer either. At the moment, research is in fact showing the (69) _______ and they may be just as dangerous. It is also thought that young people (70) _______ bodies are still growing may be at particular risk.

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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.
Butterflies are among the most extensively studied insects, an estimated 90 percent of the world's species have scientific names. As a consequence, they are, perhaps, the best group of insects for examining patterns of terrestrial biotic diversity and distribution. Butterflies also have a favorable image with the general public. Hence, they are an excellent group for communicating information on science and conservation issues such as diversity. Perhaps the aspect of butterfly diversity that has received the most attention over the past century is the striking difference in species richness between tropical and temperate regions. For example, in 1875 one biologist pointed out the diversity of butterflies in the Amazon when he mentioned that about 700 species were found within an hour's walk, whereas the total number found on the British islands did not exceed 66, and the whole of Europe supported only 321. This early comparison of tropical and temperate butterfly richness has been well confirmed. A general theory of diversity would have to predict not only this difference between temperate and tropical zones, but also patterns within each region, and how these patterns vary among different animal and plant groups. However, for butterflies, variation of species richness within temperate or tropical regions, rather than between them, is poorly understood. Indeed, comparisons of numbers of species among the Amazon basin, tropical Asia, and Africa are still mostly "personal communication" citations, even for vertebrates. In other words, unlike comparison between temperate and tropical areas, these patterns are still in the documentation phase. In documenting geographical variation in butterfly diversity, some arbitrary, practical decisions are made. Diversity, number of species, and species richness are used synonymously; little is known about the evenness of butterfly distribution. The New World butterflies make up the preponderance of examples because they are the most familiar species. It is hoped that by focusing on them, the errors generated by imperfect and incomplete taxonomy will be minimized. 

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I decided to go to the library as soon as I _______.

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Please cut my hair _______ the style in this magazine.

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Câu 16:

_______ in this national park declined from a few thousand to a few hundred in ten years.

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Câu 17:

_______, he would have been able to pass the exam.

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Câu 18:

Study harder _______.

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Câu 23:

_______ that she burst into tears.

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Câu 24:

We regret to tell you that the materials you ordered are _______.

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Câu 26:

I’m really sleepy today. I wish I _______ Bob to the airport late last night,

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Câu 27:

Matthew’s hands were covered in oil because he _______ his bike.

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Câu 29:

Mark: -“_______                 Helen: “Oh, thank you. I just got it yesterday.”

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Câu 30:

Host: “I’m terribly sorry for this inconvenience.”     Guests: -"_______"

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Câu 31:

Once known as the “Golden State” because of its gold mines, _______.

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Câu 41:

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In what order does the author discuss various comic strips in the passage?

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According to the passage, the “Yellow Kid” was the first comic strip to do all of the following EXCEPT __.

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Câu 44:

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The word “staple” is closest in meaning to _______.

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Câu 46:

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Why does the author mention Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst?

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Câu 47:

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The word “it” refers to _______.

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Câu 48:

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The passage suggests that comic strips were popular for which of the following reasons?

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Câu 49:

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To say that Richard Outcault had been “lured away from” the World by Hearst means which of the following?

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Câu 50:

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What does the passage mainly discuss?

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Câu 51:

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.

The noise next door did not stop until after midnight.

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Câu 52:

Their dog was so fierce that nobody would visit them.

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If you want to be kept informed about current affairs, you should listen to the radio.

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I travel by bus only when I have no alternative.

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Câu 55:

Calling Jim is pointless because his phone is out of order.

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Câu 56:

The Prime Minister is unlikely to call an early general election.

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Lin’s success took us all by surprise.

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Câu 58:

You are in this mess right now because you didn’t listen to me in the first place.

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Fiona goes to the theater once in a blue moon.

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Câu 60:

What the politician was saying fell on deaf ears last night.

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Which aspect of butterflies does the passage mainly discuss?

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Câu 73:

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Butterflies are a good example for communicating information about conservation issues because they _______.

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Câu 76:

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All of the followings are mentioned as being important parts of a general theory of diversity EXCEPT

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The author mentions "tropical Asia" in the passage as an example of a location where _______.

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Câu 78:

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Which of the following is NOT well understood by biologists?

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The idea "little is known about the evenness of butterfly distribution" is that _______.

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