SECTION ONE: PHONETICS

Question 1. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of
the others. Write your answers in the box below. (0) is an example (0.5 pt)
0. A. car B. hard C. late D. father
1. A. escape B. island C. discount D. florist
2. A. award B. carve C. market D. remark
3. A. prison B. upset C. position D. present
4. A. proud B. drought C. scout D. wound
5. A. sunbathe B. therefore C. gather D. author
Write your answers here:
0 1 2 3 4 5
C
question 2. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the other. Write your
answers in the box below.( 0) is an example (0.5pt)
0. A. happy B. pretty C. parent D. appear
1. A. concert B. event C. safety D. message
2. A. orphanage B. character C. volunteer D. waterfall
3. A. manufacture B. accessible C. emergency D. traditional
4. A. accommodation B. representative C. satisfactory D. educational
5. A. detective B. pollution C. athletics D. monument
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0 1 2 3 4 5
D
SECTION TWO: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
Question 1. Choose the best answer (marked A, B, C or D) to finish each of the following
sentences. Write your answers in the box numbered below. (1.5 pt)
1. We’re looking forward ______ you soon.
A. to see B. to seeing C. see D. for seeing
2. Unluckily, Susan didn’t have ______ to finish the test.
A. time enough B. so much time C. enough time D. little time
3. The teacher told the students ______ new words.
A. what to learn B. how to learn
C. how could they learn D. what could they learn
4. Be careful with the knife or you’ll cut ______.
A. your B. you C. yours D. yourself
5. You are a few minutes late. The train ______ the station recently.
A. has left B. is leaving C. left D. will leave
6. In the world, millions of ______ are thrown away every day.
A. use bottles B. bottles use C. used bottles D. bottles using
7. You look very happy today. Is there anything ______ at school?
A. to be interested B. interesting C. interested D. interest
8. I’ll try my best. I promise. - ______.
A. Good idea B. I hope so C. Yes, please D. I don’t think so
9. Could you do me a favor? - ______
A. How can I help you? B. Yes. Thank you very much.
C. Yes. Do you need any help? D. Yes. That’s very kind of you.
10. I hardly go out at night. - ______.
A. So do I B. Me too C. Neither do I D. A and B are correct
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11. Ha Long Bay is ______ its marvelous islands
A. famous for B. proud of C. successful in D. crowded with
12. The band gave a great ______ at the festival.
A. exhibition B. action C. demonstration D. performance
13. We are delighted that you are interested in ______ the environment.
A. preventing B. protecting C. recycling D. organizing
14. In the contest, people have their bulls fight against ______.
A. each another B. another each C. each other D. other each
15. You should work harder ______ your English pronunciation.
A. in B. on C. with D. at
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Question 2. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a
word that fits in the space in the same line. Write your answers in the box below. (0) is an
example (0.5 pt)
Best of friends
Best of friends is a great new TV program. On this
program five young people complete (0)______ tasks. DIFFER
The tasks are often very (1)______, such as eating DIFFICULTY
horrible things or (2)______ animals. If they complete CLEAN
their tasks (3)______, they can all do something fun. GOOD
They might take part in an (4)______ sport, or go to an EXCITE
(5)______ place. Last week, they went motor racing! INTEREST
This week, five friends from London are appearing on
the program. Will they stay Best of friends?
Write your answers here:
0. different 1. 2.
3. 4. 5.
Question 3. Some of the lines in this pasage are correct and some have a mistake. If a line is
correct, put a tick in the space. If a line has a mistake, underline the mistake and correct it in
the space. There are two examples at the beginning (1.0 pt)
0. In many countries in the world, the second Sunday in May was is .
00. Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day was the idea of an America √ .
1. woman, Anna Jarvis. Anna mother wasn’t alive anymore and __________
2. Anna wanted a special day to remember her mother. Her __________
3. friends agree. However, many people in the U.S. wasn’t __________
4. happy about Anna’s idea. Some thought a nation day of __________
5. celebration wasn’t unnecessary. Anna and her friends wrote __________
6. letters to important people. These people liked the idea. Finally, __________
7. in May 8, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson made the second __________
8. Sunday in May Mother’s Day, a day of celebration in the __________
United States.
SECTION THREE: READING
Question 1. Complete the text by filling each gap with one word from the box.Write your
answers in the box below. (0) is an example (1.0 pt)
biggest bought cook first other popular
restaurants serve started there work
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 McDonald’s
McDonald’s is the (0)______ and most successful fast-food restaurant in the world. It (1)______
in 1937 when brothers Dick and Mac McDonald began selling hotdogs and hamburgers in
California. The hamburger was cheap and very (2)______ and soon they had four (3)______. In
1954 Ray Kroc visited a McDonald’s restaurant and started to (4)______ with the brothers. He
opened restaurants in (5)______ American cities. In 1961 he (6)______ the McDonald’s
company from Dick and Mac for $2.7 million. In the same year, Kroc opened Hamburger
University. There, young people could study how to (7)______ hamburger. In 1967 the
(8)______ McDonald’s restaurant outside the USA opened in Canada, and in 1971 restaurants
opened in Europe and Japan. Today (9)______ are over 1,000 McDonald’s in the UK. They
(10)______ nearly 2.5 million customers every day.
Write your answers here:
0. biggest 1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6. 7.
8. 9. 10.

Question 2. Read the following text and answer the questions below (1.0 pt)

One day in 1963, a dolphin named Elvar and a scientist, Carl Sagan, were playing a little game.
The scientist was visiting an institute which was looking into the way dolphins communicate
with each other. Sagan was standing on the edge of one of the tanks where several of these
friendly, highly intelligent creatures were kept. (0)______
The dolphin wanted Sagan to scratch his stomach again, as the scientist had done twice before.
Elvar looked up at Sagan, waiting. Then, after a minute or so, the dolphin leapt up through the
water and made a sound just like the word 'more'. The scientist went to the director of the
institute and told him about the incident. (1)______
Dolphins have bigger brains in proportion to their body size than humans have, and it has been
known for a long time that they can make a number of sounds. What is more, these sounds seem
to have different functions, such as warning each other of danger. Sound travels much faster and
much further in water than it does in air. That is why the parts of the brain that deal with sound
are much better developed in dolphins than in humans. (2)______
Scientists don't agree on this. A language is not just a collection of sounds, or even words. A
language has a structure and what we call a grammar. The structure and grammar of a language
help to give it meaning. (3)______. If you stop to think about it, you will see that this difference
doesn't come from the words in the question but from the difference in structure. That is why the
question 'Can dolphins speak?' can't be answered until we find out if dolphins not only make
sounds but also arrange them in a grammatical order which affects their meaning.
* Note: scratch: gãi incident: việc bất ngờ xảy ra

Question a. Fit the missing sentences A-D into gaps 0-3 in the text.Write your answers in the
box below. (0) is an example.
A. For example, the two questions 'Who loves Mary?' and 'Who does Mary love?' mean very
different things.
B. 'Oh, yes. That's one of the words he knows,' the director said, showing no surprise at all.
C. Elvar had just swum up alongside him and had turned on his back.
D. But can it be said that dolphins have a 'language', in the real sense of the word?
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0 1 2 3
C

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Question b. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each question 1-5. Write your answers in
the box below.
1. Carl Sagan was
A. the name of a dolphin.
B. a visitor at the institute.
C. the director of the institute.
D. studying the way dolphins communicate with each other.
2. The dolphin leapt into the air because
A. Sagan was too near the water.
B. it was part of the game they were playing.
C. he wanted Sagan to scratch him again.
D. Sagan wanted to communicate with him.
3. Dolphins' brains are particularly well developed to
A. help them to travel fast in water.
B. arrange sounds in different structures.
C. respond to different kinds of sound.
D. communicate with humans through sound.
4. Sounds can only be called a language if
A. each sound has a different meaning.
B. each sound is different from the other.
C. there is a system of writing.
D. they have a structure or grammar.
5. Which sentence is not true about dolphins?
A. They can make a number of sounds.
B. In proportion to body size, dolphins’ brain is bigger than humans’ brain.
C. Dolphins can use sounds to warn each other of danger.
D. Dolphins’ brains are much better developed than humans’ brains.
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Question 3. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only
ONE word in each gap. Write your answer in the box below. (0) is an example (1.0pts)
British people love their animals. (0)______ half the households in Britain have got a pet.
Goldfish are the (1)______ popular pet, but the British own 7.2 million cats and 6.6 million
dogs.
People in (2)______ countries often spend a lot of money on comfortable kennels for their
dogs, which means that the dogs sleep outside. The British let their dogs take over their houses.
They allow their dogs to lie on their sofas and armchairs, and give them almost as (3)______
attention as their children.
Perhaps the British love their animals so much (4)______ they feel more confident with
animals than with other people! British people can be very formal and find it hard to talk to
people they do not (5)______. They feel embarrassed if they have to talk to strangers. But there
is no problem with dogs. The British can easily start a conversation with a strange (6)______.
George Mike is the (7)______ of a famous book about the British. He says that when British
people go for a walk with a friend, they don’t say a (8)______ for hours. But if they go out for a
walk with their dogs, they talk to them all the way.
Write your answers here:
0. Over 1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
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SECTION FOUR: WRITING
Question 1. Complete the second sentence so that it has the similar meaning to the sentence
before it. (0) is an example (1.5 pt)
0. Poe is taller than me.
I am shorter than Poe. .

1. People shell cacao beans and grind them to produce chocolate liquor.
Cacao beans ___________________________________________________________
2. “Jane, do you remember how to save new documents?” asked Tim.
Tim asked _____________________________________________________________
3. Nick can’t stop playing these games because he’s addicted.
Nick is too ____________________________________________________________
4. There were three participants in the discussion.
Three people took ______________________________________________________
5. May I close the window?
Do you mind __________________________________________________________
6. It’s the first time he’s ever driven a car.
He’s _________________________________________________________________
Question 2. (1.5 pt)
Write a passage of about 80-100 words to describe your best friend. In the passage you should
include:
- His/her personal information
- His/her appearance and characters
- Where and when you first met him/her
- Things/activities you and your close friend often do
Start your passage like this:
Let me tell you something about my close friend. ________________________________
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