Text 1:

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 from 26 to 30.

Parents whose children show a special interest in a particular sport have a difficult decision to (26) ______ about their children’s career. Should they allow their children to train to become top sportsmen and women? For many children it (27) ______starting very young and school work, going out with friends and other interests have to take second place. It’s very difficult to explain to a young child why he or she has to train for five hours a day, even at the weekend, when most of his or her friends are playing.

Another problem is of course money. In many countries money for training is (28) ______ from the government for the very best young sportsmen and women. If this help cannot be given, it means that it is the parents that have to find the time and the money to support their child’s development- and sports clothes, transport to competitions, special equipment etc. can all be very expensive.

Many parents are understandably concerned that it is dangerous to start serious training in a sport (29)_____ an early age. Some doctors agree that young muscles may be damaged by training before they are properly developed. Professional trainers, however, believe that it is only by starting young that you can reach the top as a successful sports person. What is clear is that very (30) _______ people reach the top and both parents and children should be prepared for failure even after many years of training.

Text 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 from 36 to 42.

Biological diversity has become widely recognized as a critical conservation issue only in the past two decades. The rapid destruction of the tropical rain forests, which are the ecosystems with the highest known species diversity on Earth, has awakened people to the importance and fragility of biological diversity. The high rate of species extinctions in these environments is jolting, but it is important to recognize the significance of biological diversity in all ecosystems. As the human population continues to expand, it will negatively affect one after another of Earth’s ecosystems. In terrestrial ecosystems and in fringe marine ecosystems (such as wetlands), the most common problem is habitat destruction. In most situations, the result is irreversible. Now humans are beginning to destroy marine ecosystems through other types of activities, such as disposal and runoff of poisonous waste; in less than two centuries, by significantly reducing the variety of species on Earth, they have irrevocably redirected the course of evolution.

Certainly, there have been periods in Earth’s history when mass extinctions have occurred. The extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by some physical event, either climatic or cosmic. There have also been less dramatic extinctions, as when natural competition between species reached an extreme conclusion. Only 0.01 percent of the species that have lived on Earth have survived to the present, and it was largely chance that determined which species survived and which died out.

However, nothing has ever equaled the magnitude and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world and demolishing the environment. In fact, there is wide agreement that it is the rate of change humans are inflicting, even more than the changes themselves, that will lead to biological devastation. Life on Earth has continually been in flux as slow physical and chemical changes have occurred on Earth, but life needs time to adapt-time for migration and genetic adaptation within existing species and time for the proliferation of new genetic material and new species that may be able to survive in new environments.

Text 3:

Biological diversity has become widely recognized as a critical conservation issue only in the past two decades. The rapid destruction of the tropical rain forests, which are the ecosystems with the highest known species diversity on Earth, has awakened people to the importance and fragility of biological diversity. The high rate of species extinctions in these environments is jolting, but it is important to recognize the significance of biological diversity in all ecosystems. As the human population continues to expand, it will negatively affect one after another of Earth’s ecosystems. In terrestrial ecosystems and in fringe marine ecosystems (such as wetlands), the most common problem is habitat destruction. In most situations, the result is irreversible. Now humans are beginning to destroy marine ecosystems through other types of activities, such as disposal and runoff of poisonous waste; in less than two centuries, by significantly reducing the variety of species on Earth, they have irrevocably redirected the course of evolution.

Certainly, there have been periods in Earth’s history when mass extinctions have occurred. The extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by some physical event, either climatic or cosmic. There have also been less dramatic extinctions, as when natural competition between species reached an extreme conclusion. Only 0.01 percent of the species that have lived on Earth have survived to the present, and it was largely chance that determined which species survived and which died out.

However, nothing has ever equaled the magnitude and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world and demolishing the environment. In fact, there is wide agreement that it is the rate of change humans are inflicting, even more than the changes themselves, that will lead to biological devastation. Life on Earth has continually been in flux as slow physical and chemical changes have occurred on Earth, but life needs time to adapt-time for migration and genetic adaptation within existing species and time for the proliferation of new genetic material and new species that may be able to survive in new environments.

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Câu 5:

Your grandfather was a millionaire, ______?

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Câu 6:

She ______ to be the best singer

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Câu 8:

Don’t worry! Everything seems to be______

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Câu 9:

He was fascinated by the __________ car at the exhibition.

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Câu 10:

When Jack _______ me, I _______ a letter.

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Câu 13:

______ all the homework, I went to bed.

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Câu 18:

I’ll remember his name in a moment. It’s _______.

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Câu 20:

The whole village was wiped out in the bombing raids.

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Câu 23:

My cousin tends to look on the bright side in any circumstance.

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Câu 25:

“Mom, May I go away to QuangBinh at the weekends to help the unlucky people there?” “______”

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Câu 33:

Text 2

What was the combined gross domestic product of ASEAN in 2006?

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Câu 35:

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Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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Câu 36:

Text 3

What does the passage mainly discuss?

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Câu 38:

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The author mentions all of the following as examples of the effect of humans on the world’s ecosystems EXCEPT______.

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Câu 39:

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The author mentions the extinction of the dinosaurs in paragraph 2 to emphasize that ______.

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Câu 40:

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According to the passage, natural evolutionary change is different from changes caused by humans in that changes caused by humans _______.

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Câu 41:

Text 3

The word “they” in paragraph 1 refer to _________.

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Câu 42:

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With which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree?

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Câu 46:

“Why don’t you participate in the volunteer work in summer?” said Sophie.

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Câu 47:

But for the heavy rain, the picnic wouldn’t have been canceled.

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Câu 48:

His friends never forgave his betrayal.

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Câu 49:

We cut down many forests. The Earth becomes hot.

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Câu 50:

It doesn’t make any difference if it rains. They will still go.

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