NTHH - Chuyªn TP PRACTICE TEST 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.
1. A. vanish B. vapid C. valve D. various
2. A. subtle B. plumber C. doubt D. herbage
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.
3. A. sincerity B. remarkable C. curriculum D. combination
4. A. referee B. voluntary C. paradise D. parachute
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.
5. Almost without exception politicians of the period believed that regulation was always bad for
the economy.
What they though was the production and sale of alcohol.
A. did regulate B. have regulated C. must have regulated D. didn’t
regulate
6. I was rather surprised seeing Mr. Salt’s name on the list because he invited. Last time he got
drunk and
offended our Chinese visitors.
A. was not being B. was not to be C. wouldn't have been D.
wouldn't be
7. A: “When does this passport expire?” B: “ ”
A. You can pick it up tomorrow. B. It was very expensive.
C. It's good for one month. D. I want to return to my hometown.
8. This rather depressing novel is the product of an extremely period of his life.
A. jaunty B. introspective C. accessible D.
intrusive
9. His plays contain themes of real life that leave a lasting impression on you.
A. compelling B. trivial C. zany D. phoney
10. The surrounding the band’s latest world tour has been ridiculous.
A. advertisement B. campaign C. promotion D. hype
11. He stood up the work enthusiasm.
A. in B. with C. about D. on
12. The head is proportion with body.
A. out of B. outside C. off D. away
13. The policeman me off with a warning as it was Christmas.
A. sent B. gave C. let D. set
14. I’m not sure my brother will ever get married because he hates feeling of being .
A. tied up B. tied in C. tied in with D. tied
down
15. were slowly lowered to the ground for medical attention.
A. The victims who were screaming and who were burning B. The screaming burn victims
C. The screaming burnt victims D. The victims who were burning screamed
16. She is MC. She can help us to entertain guests in our wedding.
A. an / the B. a / Ø C. the / Ø D. a / the
17. By the gate .
A. a little girl stood B. stood a little girl C. did a little girl stand D. a little girl did
18. Everybody was sad . stand
A. the fact that the president in poor health B. why the president was in health
was
C. that the president was in health poor
D. that was the president in health
poor
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to poor
indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in
meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. Page 1
19. Habits can be consciously strengthened, as when student of the violin practices and memorizes different
fingerings.
A. conveniently B. lastingly C. intentionally
D. robustly
20. Ron O’Neal received widespread acclaim for his acting in productions of Dream on Monkey
Mountain.
A. recognition B. confidence C. reimbursement
D. training
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in
meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

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21. Several flaws in the design of the new model were revealed
A. concealed B. revised C. corrected D. put right
22. The course has been shortened to 12 weeks.
A. prolonged B. cut down C. expanded D. extended
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
23. A: “Will the match take place in this weather?” B: “ . In fact, I'm sure it won't.”
A. I think so B. I think not C. I expect so D. I don’t think
24. A: “ ” so “Yes, alright. But could you clean your room
B:
A. Would you like to go to David's party this first?”
B. Will you go to David's party this weekend?
weekend?
C. Can I go to David's party this weekend? D. What time does David's party begin?
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 25
to 29.
Reports that the government is about to (25) the go ahead to plans for the building of a new runway
at London’s Gatwick airport have angered local residents and raised fears of increased noise and
exhaust pollution. The controversial plans also include permission for additional night flights and will
involve the compulsory purchase of farmland, as well as the demolition of a number of private
homes. According to sources close to the Ministry of Transport, the government is known to be
concerned by the increasing (26) of traffic at London Heathrow, where there are no plans for further
runways in the foreseeable future. Gatwick is widely regarded as a better (27) for expansion than
London's third airport, Stansted, which still suffers from poor transport links. A spokesperson for the
Keep Gatwick Quiet association, (28) up of local people, accused the government of going back
on promises made before the General Election. 'We were told then that the airport authority had no
intention of building another runway, and we believe that the government has a duty to (29) its
pledges.’ Prominent figures in the government are also believed to be concerned at the news, although the
Prime Minister, interviewed last night, is quoted as saying that reports were ‘misleading’. However, he
would not give an assurance that plans for building a runway had definitely been rejected.
25. A. sign B. make C. give D. approve
26. A. sum B. size C. volume D. length
27. A. potential B. outlook C. prospect D. likelihood
28. A. made B. set C. brought D. taken
29. A. bear out B. count on C. pull off D. stand by
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 30 to
34.
People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably
that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after
learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive accuracy - one plate, one knife, one spoon,
one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are capable of nothing that they have placed five knives,
spoons, and forks on the table and, a bit later, that this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus
mastered addition, they move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were
secluded on a desert island at birth and retrieved seven years later, he or she could enter a second - grade
mathematics class without any serious problems of intellectual adjustment.
Of course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of cognitive psychologists has illuminated the
subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress depends. Children were observed as they
slowly grasped - or, as the case might be bumped into - concepts that adults take for granted, as they
refused, for instance, to concede that quantity is unchanged as water pours from a short stout glass
into a tall thin one. Psychologists have since demonstrated that young children, asked to count pencils
in a pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed into finding the total. Such
studies have suggested that the rudiments of mathematics are mastered gradually, and with effort. They
have also suggested that the very concepts of abstract numbers - the ideas of oneness, a twoness, a
threeness that applies to any class of objects and is a prerequisite for doing anything more
mathematically demanding than setting a table - is itself far from innate.
30. What does the passage mainly
discuss?
A. Trends in teaching mathematics to children
B. The use of mathematics in child psychology
C. The development of mathematical ability in children.
D. The fundamental concepts of mathematics that children must learn.
31. The author implies that most small children believe that the quantity of water changes
when it is transferred to a container of a different .
A. color B. quality C. weight D. shape
32. According to the passage, when small children were asked to count a pile of red and blue pencils
they
A. counted the number of pencils of each
color. B. guessed at the total number of
pencils.
C. counted only the pencils of their favorite color.
D. subtracted the number of red pencils from the number of blue pencils.
33. The word “itself” in the second paragraph refers to
.
A. the total B. the concept of abstract numbers
C. any class of objects D. setting a table
34. With which of the following statements would the author be LEAST likely
to agree?
A. Children naturally and easily learn mathematics.
B. Children learn to add before they learn to subtract.
C. Most people follow the same pattern of mathematical
development. D. Mathematical development is subtle and
gradual.
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 35 to 42.
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire
rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form, Satirists do not offer the world
new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these
conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked
realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false. Don Quixote makes chivalry seem
absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation
by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes,
humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine
before Swift. It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of
expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because
they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically
instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away
illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives,
scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of
abstract platitude.
Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an
irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish
philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of
truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is
sanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular
image of it. Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote
their lives to unselfish service of humanity. Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them
when they do not hear them expressed.
35. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Difficulties of writing satiric literature B. Popular topics of satire
C. New philosophies emerging from satiric literature D. Reasons for the popularity of satire
36. Why does the author mention Don Quixote, Brave New World, and Modest Proposal in the first
paragraph?
A. They are famous examples of satiric literature. B. They present commonsense solutions to
problems.
C. They are appropriate for readers of all ages. D. They are books with similar stories.
37. The word "aesthetically" is closest in meaning to .
 A. artistically B. exceptionally C. realistically D.
dependably
38. Which of the following can be found in satiric literature?
A. Newly emerging philosophies B. Odd combinations of objects and ideas
C. Abstract discussion of morals and ethics D. Wholesome characters who are unselfish
39. According to the passage, there is a need for satire because people need to be .
A. informed about new scientific developments B. exposed to original philosophies when they are
formulated
C. reminded that popular ideas are often inaccurate D. told how they can be of service to their communities
40. The word "refreshing" is closest in meaning to .
A. popular B. ridiculous C. meaningful D.
unusual
41. As a result of reading satiric literature, readers will be most likely to .
A. teach themselves to write fiction B. accept conventional points of view
C. become better informed about current affairs D. reexamine their opinions and values
42. The various purposes of satire include all of the following EXCEPT .
A. introducing readers to unfamiliar situations B. brushing away illusions
C. reminding readers of the truth D. exposing false values
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs
correction in each of the following questions.
43. The (A) various parts of the body require (B) so different (C) surgical skills that (D) many
surgical specialists have developed.
44. The thing about filming (A) is that you hang around (B) for hours (C) chat away to people, then
suddenly you’ve
got to (D) turn it on.
45. He was the son of a French (A) immigration, (B) who later began calling (C) himself Revere to
make his name
(D) easier for Americans to pronounce.
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.
46. “Please don’t drive so fast!” Nicole said to her husband.
A. Nicole pleaded with her husband not to drive so fast. B. Nicole pleaded her husband by not driving
so fast.
C. Nicole encouraged her husband to drive faster. D. Nicole’s husband didn’t want to drive so fast as she
suggested.
47. You should for no reason accept their offer.
A. For no reason are you to accept their offer. B. You should accept their offer in all
circumstances. C. You must refuse their offer for any reason. D. You are to accept their
offer for any reason.
48. The shops don’t deliver now, which makes life difficult.
A. If shops don’t deliver, life would be less difficult. B. If shops delivered, life would be less
difficult.
C. As shops delivered, life wouldn’t be so difficult. D. As shops don’t deliver, life would be
so difficult.
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.
49. She wrote the text. She selected the illustration as well.
A. She not only wrote the text but also selected the illustration.
B. The text she wrote was not as good as the illustration she
selected. C. In order to select the illustration, she had to write
the text.
D. If she had written the text, she would have selected the illustration.
50. Mr. Smith wanted to get some fresh air in the room. He opened the window.
A. Mr. Smith wanted to get some fresh air in the room because he opened the
window. B. Mr. Smith opened the window in order to get some fresh air in the
room.
C. Mr. Smith got some fresh air in the room, even though he opened the
window. D. Having opened the window, the room could get some fresh
air.
Complete the 2nd sentence so that it has a similar meaning as the first sentence, using the word in
bold. Do not change the word given.
 1. Some experts predict a doubling of car use within twenty (HAVE)
 years. Some experts predict that
2. .
Experts expect most people to be home workers in twenty years’ (BE)
 time. expect that
Experts .
3. The future is unknown. (HAPPE
 Nobody knows . N)
4. Some people expect future technology to be much (LOWE words, write
paragraph
 express
cheaper. yourpeople expect that the price
Some R) a
opinion.
5. Engineers
. expect to have completed the tunnel by the end of the (THAT)
 year.
“High Engineers expect
school is the best time in a person’s life.” Do you agree. or disagree? In
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