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EXERCISE:
I. Lexico - Grammar:
1. You can not believe this, Tina accidentally swallowed the ________ when she ate a peach yesterday!
A. nut                         B. seed                         C. stone                          D. core
2.  Unfortunately, no agreement was reached. The strikers decided to ________ for a better deal.
A. hold                      B. keep                          C. watch                        D. draw
3. Why are all your clothes in a  ________ on the floor? Go and tidy the room now!
A. batch                     B. bulk                          C. sum                           D. heap
4. The job you’ve been offered is a(n)  ________ opportunity to travel and meet people. 
A. sole                       B. only                          C. unique                       D. single 
5. A: “Oh, I’m exhausted! I’ve been doing homework all day.”
    B: “Come and put your  ________ up for 5 minutes and I’ll make you a cup of tea.”
A. hands                    B. hair                           C. heart                          D. feet
6. He showed us the house ________ he was born. To be honest, it was a little different from what we had
expected when considering his prestige at that moment. 
A. which                   B. where                        C. in where                    D. in that
7. What’s all this crying ________ ?
A. without the aid of                                      B. in aid of
C. with the aid of                                           D. within the aid of
8. On second thoughts, I believe I will go with you to the art gallery.
A. Upon reflection                                         B. After discussing with my husband
C. For this time only                                      D. For the second time
9. When it is very hot and stuffy, you may  ________ the top button of your shirt.
A. undress                  B. unwrap                      C. untie                           D. undo
10. John: “Our teacher, Mr. Jones, is not very flexible. He always requires us to submit his assignments
on time.”
     Jack: “ ________. He should know that we have to learn many subjects.”
A. I can’t agree with you more                        B. I can’t disagree with you more
C. That can be true                                           D. I am not with you here

II. Reading 1,Guided cloze test

            The problems of racial minorities make the headlines occasionally when one group or another
(1)____________   to (2)_____________ their protests against the oppressive treatment of their
authorities. The native Indians have been living within the (3)____________  of their reserves, the
Australian Aborigines have a hard time of integrating with the descendants of the European colonizers
and the African Movement keeps (4)____________ its war against the concealed racial discrimination
in America. There are also cultures and nations whose heritage and history has only remained alive
(5)____________  chronicles and museums. Vast numbers of indigenous populations have been
slaughtered by merciless invaders or persecuted by acquisitive colonizers, then, deprived of their lands,
rights and properties. Many of them have (6)__________ with their oppressors to be finally
(7)___________ 'non-existent'.
One example of such a community is represented by the Ainu people - the original inhabitants
of the Japanese Archipelago whose independent existence was ruined by an extremely rapid
assimilation with Japanese culture. The Ainu are believed to have possessed very distinct
characteristics from those that (8)__________ the Japanese people. Theirs was a light complexion and
thick wavy hair as well as a totally isolated language. They adored many spirits (9)_________ by
natural phenomena like animals, plants or climatic forces. Once a year they would sacrifice a bear cub
at a religious festival which was a sign of reverent worship for the gods. Now, they are claimed to be
no longer existent in their pure form.
          By similar means, dozens of other cultures have vanished leaving behind only a trait of their
(10)_________imprinted in the character of the societies that have absorbed them.
1.           A. pursues             B. resolves              C. undergoes          D. embarks
2.           A. place                 B. stage                   C. assure                D. expose
3.           A. boundaries        B. realms                 C.margins              D. zones
4.           A. deploying          B. engaging             C.waging               D.tackling
5.           A. in lieu of            B. in the way of       C. by dint of          D. for the sake of
6.           A. intermingled      B. exchanged           C. intertwined       D. incorporated
7.           A. decided              B. nicknamed          C. presupposed      D. classified
8.           A. divulge               B. typify                  C. relate                 D. sport
9.           A. embodied           B. displayed            C. ingrained            D. defaced
10.         A. legacy                 B. heredity              C. remnant              D. Heirloom          
2. Open cloze test
The second-time saga
It was so simple (0) __the__ first time round, my main anxieties being what dress to wear to the
wedding and (1)  _______to invite. Twenty years ago, it never (2) occurred to me to worry about
money or to contemplate what would happen if it all fell apart.
However, this time, all (3) _______aware of the failure rate or second marriages, and with children
from our previous relationships to think about, we’ve prepared for the worst, spending the last month
absorbed in the (4) ________than romantic details of wills and life assurance. I have to say (5)
________hasn’t been much fun. We’ve asked all sorts of morbid questions, such as What if one of us
falls under a bus? What if (6) _______of us do? Our main priority has been to produce wills dealing
with (7) ________possible eventuality, though this hasn’t been easy.
The other nightmare scenario was splitting up. What if we decided we couldn’t stand each other within
the first couple of years? The administrative answer to this was fairly simple, involving us
(8)_________signing a prenuptial contract, stating our intention to walk away with (9)
________resources we had brought into the marriage. Pre-nuptial contracts have (10) _________actual
force at all in English law, but we certainly felt better after we had signed. We were at long last ready
to enjoy our wedding!
3. Multiple choice 
COMMUNICATING WITH THE FUTURE
         In the 1980s the United States Department of Energy was looking for suitable sites to bury
radioactive waste material generated by its nuclear energy programs. The government was considering
burying the dangerous wastes in deep underground chambers in remote desert areas. The problem,
however, was that nuclear waste remains highly radioactive for thousands of years. The commission
entrusted with tackling the problem of waste disposal was aware that the dangers posed by radioactive
emissions must be communicated to our descendants of at least 10,000 years hence. So the task
became one of finding a way to tell future societies about the risk posed by these deadly deposits.
         Of course, human society in the distant future may be well aware of the hazards of radiation.
Technological advances may one day provide the solutions to this dilemma. But the belief in constant
technological advancement is based on our perceptions of advances made throughout history and
prehistory. We cannot be sure that society won’t have slipped backward into an age of barbarism due
to any of several catastrophic events, whether the result of nature such as the onset of a new ice age or
perhaps mankind’s failure to solve the scourges of war and pollution. In the event of global
catastrophe, it is quite possible that humans of the distant future will be on the far side of a broken link
of communication and technological understanding.
         The problem then becomes how to inform our descendants that they must avoid areas of
potential radioactive seepage given that they may not understand any currently existing language and
may have no historical or cultural memory. So, any message indicated to future reception and
decipherment must be as universally understandable as possible.
         It was soon realized by the specialists assigned the task of devising the communication system
that material in which the message was written might not physically endure the great lengths of time
demanded. The second law of thermodynamics shows that all material disintegrates over time. Even
computers that might carry the message cannot be expected to endure long enough. Besides, electricity
supplies might not be available in 300 generations. Other media storage methods were considered and
rejected for similar reasons.
         The task force under the linguist Thomas Sebeok finally agreed that no foolproof way would be
found to send a message across so many generations and have it survive physically and be
decipherable by a people with few cultural similarities to us. Given this restriction, Sebeok suggested
the only possible solution was the formation of a committee of guardians of knowledge. Its task would
be to dedicate itself to maintaining and passing the knowledge of the whereabouts and dangers of the
nuclear waste deposits. This so-called atomic priesthood would be entrusted with keeping knowledge
of this tradition alive through millennia and developing the tradition into a kind of mythical taboo
forbidding people to tamper in a way with the nuclear waste sites. Only the initiated atomic priesthood
of experts would have the scientific knowledge to fully understand the danger. Those outside the
priesthood would be kept away by a combination of rituals and legends designed to warn off intruders.
 

This proposal has been criticized because of the possibility of a break in continuity of the original
message. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that any warning or sanction passed on for millennia
would be obeyed, nor that it could survive with its original meaning intact. To counterbalance this
possibility, Sebeok’s group proposed a “relay system” in which information is passed on over
relatively short periods of time, just three generations ahead. The message then to be renewed and
redesigned if necessary for the following three generations and so on over the required time span. In
this way information could be relayed into the future and avoid the possibility of physical degradation. 
A second defect is more difficult to dismiss, however. This is the problem of social exclusiveness
brought about through possession of vital knowledge. Critics point out that the atomic priesthood could
use its secret knowledge to control those who are scientifically ignorant. The establishment of such an
association of insiders holding powerful knowledge not available except in mythic form to non-
members would be a dangerous precedent for future social developments.
1. The word "chambers" in the passage is closest in meaning to________. 
         A. partitions   B. openings C. cavities    D. fissures
2. What problem faced the commission assigned to deal with the burial of nuclear waste?
         A. How to reduce the radioactive life of nuclear waste materials
         B. How to form a committee that could adequately express various nuclear risks
         C. How to notify future generations of the risks of nuclear contamination
         D. How to choose burial sites so as to minimize dangers to people
3. In paragraph 2, the author explains the possible circumstances of future societies________.
         A. to warn about the possible natural catastrophe
         B. to question the value of advances
         C. to highlight humankind's inability to resolve problems
         D. to demonstrate the reason nuclear hazards must be communicated
4. The word "scourges" in the passage is closest in meaning to ________.
         A. pressures B. afflictions   C. worries   D. annoyances
5. In paragraph 4, the author mentions the second law of thermodynamics________.
         A. to support the view that nuclear waste will disperse with time
         B. to show that knowledge can be sustained over millennia
         C. to give the basic scientific reason behind the breakdown of material objects
         D. to contrast the potential life span of knowledge with that of material objects
6. The word "Its" in the passage refers to ________
         A. knowledge  B. committee   C. solution  D. guardians
7. In paragraph 5, why is the proposed committee of guardians referred to as the "atomic priesthood"?
         A. Because they would be an exclusive group with knowledge about nuclear waste sites.
         B. Because they would use rituals and legends to maintain their exclusiveness
         C. Because they would be an exclusive religious order
         D. Because they would develop mythical taboos surrounding their traditions
8. According to the author, why did the task force under Sebeok propose a relay system for passing on
information?
         A. To show that Sebeok 's ideas created more problems than they solved
         B. To support the belief that breaks in communication are inevitable over time
         C. To contrast Sebeok's ideas with those proposed by his main critics
         D. To compensate for the fact that  meaning will not stable over long periods of time
9. According to paragraph 7, the second defect of the atomic priesthood proposal is that it could lead
to________.
         A. the nonmembers turning knowledge into dangerous mythical forms
         B. the possible misuse of exclusive knowledge
           C. the establishment of a scientifically ignorant society
         D. the priesthood's criticism of points concerning vital knowledge
10. All of the following are mentioned in the passage as difficulties in devising a communication
system with the future EXCEPT________.
         A. the failure to maintain communication link       
         B. the loss of knowledge about today's civilization
         C. the inability of materials to endure over time   
         D. the exclusiveness of priesthood
4/Bài đọc IELTS ( Matching headings và Yes/No/Not given)
         This Marvellous Invention
A 
Of all mankinds manifold creations, language must take pride of place. Other inventions -the wheel,
agriculture, sliced bread - may have transformed our material existence, but the advent of language is
what made us human. Compared to language, all other inventions pale in significance, since everything
we have ever achieved depends on language and originates from it. Without language, we could never
have embarked on our ascent to unparalleled power over all other animals, and even over nature itself.

B 
But language is foremost not just because it came first. In its own right it is a tool of extraordinary
sophistication, yet based on an idea of ingenious simplicity: ‘this marvellous invention of composing
out of twenty-five or thirty sounds that infinite variety of expressions which, whilst having in
themselves no likeness to what is in our mind, allow us to disclose to others its whole secret, and to
make known to those who cannot penetrate it all that we imagine, and all the various stirrings of our
soul’ .This was how, in 1660, the renowned French grammarians of the Port-Royal abbey near
Versailles distilled the essence of language, and no one since has celebrated more eloquently the
magnitude of its achievement. Even so, there is just one flaw in all these hymns of praise, for the
homage to languages unique accomplishment conceals a simple yet critical incongruity. Language is
mankind s greatest invention - except, of course, that it was never invented. This apparent paradox is at
the core of our fascination with language, and it holds many of its secrets.
C Language often seems so skillfully drafted that one can hardly imagine it as anything other than the
perfected handiwork of a master craftsman. How else could this instrument make so much out of
barely three dozen measly morsels of sound? In themselves, these configurations of mouth
p,f,b,v,t,d,k,g,sh,a,e  and so on - amount to nothing more than a few haphazard spits and sputters,
random noises with no meaning, no ability to express, no power to explain. But run them through the
cogs and wheels of the language machine, let it arrange them in some very special orders, and there is
nothing that these meaningless streams of air cannot do: from sighing the interminable boredom of
existence to unravelling the fundamental order of the universe.

D The most extraordinary thing about language, however, is that one doesn’t have to be a genius to set
its wheels in motion. The language machine allows just about everybody from pre-modern foragers in
the subtropical savannah, to post-modern philosophers in the suburban sprawl - to tie these
meaningless sounds together into an infinite variety of subtle senses, and all apparently without the
slightest exertion. Yet it is precisely this deceptive ease which makes language a victim of its own
success, since in everyday life its triumphs are usually taken for granted. The wheels of language run
so smoothly that one rarely bothers to stop and think about all the resourcefulness and expertise that
must have gone into making it tick. Language conceals art.

E Often, it is only the estrangement of foreign tongues, with their many exotic and outlandish features,
that brings home the wonder of languages design. One of the showiest stunts that some languages can
pull off is an ability to build up words of breath-breaking length, and thus express in one word what
English takes a whole sentence to say. The Turkish word çehirliliçtiremediklerimizdensiniz, to take
one example, means nothing less than ‘you are one of those whom we can’t turn into a town-dweller’.
(In case you were wondering, this monstrosity really is one word, not merely many different words
squashed together - most ol its components cannot even stand up on their own.)

F.
And if that sounds like someone-off freak, then consider Sumerian, the language spoken on the banks
of the Euphrates some 5,000 years ago by the people who invented writing and thus enabled the
documentation of history. A Sumerian word like munintuma'a (‘when he had made it suitable for her’)
might seem rather trim compared to the Turkish colossus above. What is so impressive about it,
however, is not its lengthiness but rather the reverse - the thrifty compactness of its construction. The
word is made up of different slots, each corresponding to a particular portion of meaning. This sleek
design allows single sounds to convey useful information, and in fact even the absence of a sound has
been enlisted to express something specific. If you were to ask which bit in the Sumerian word
corresponds to the pronoun ‘it’ in the English translation ‘when he had made it suitable for her’, then
the answer would have to be nothing. Mind you, a very particular kind of nothing: the nothing that
stands in the empty slot in the middle. The technology is so fine-tuned then that even a non-sound,
when carefully placed in a particular position, has been invested with a specific function. Who could
possibly have come up with such a nifty contraption?
Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-F from the list of headings below.
i    Differences between languages highlight their impressiveness
ii    The way in which a few sounds are organised to convey a huge range of meaning
iii    Why the sounds used in different languages are not identical
iv    Apparently incompatible characteristics of language
v    Even silence can be meaningful
vi    Why language is the most important invention of all
vii    The universal ability to use language
1. Passage A:
 2. Passage B:
3. Passage C:
4. Passage D:
5. Passage E:
6. Passage F:

Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in the Reading Passage?
YES    if the statement agrees with the views of the writer
NO    if the statement contradicts the views of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
7     Human beings might have achieved their present position without language.
8     The Port-Royal grammarians did justice to the nature of language.
9     A complex idea can be explained more clearly in a sentence than in a single word.
10     The Sumerians were responsible for starting the recording of events.
 ANSWER KEY:
I. Lexico - Grammar:
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. C
5. D
6. B
7. B
8. A
9. D
10. A
II. Reading:
1. Guided cloze test:
1.B
2.B
3.A
4.C
5.C
6.A
7.D
8.B
9.A
10.A
2. Open cloze test:
1.who
2.occurred
3.too
4.less
5.it
6.all
7.what 
8.in 
9.whatever
10.no
3. Multiple choice
1.C
2.C
3.D
4.B
5.D
6.B
7.A
8.D
9.D
10.D
4. Bài đọc IELTS ( Matching headings và Yes/No/Not given)
1.vi
2.iv
3.ii
4.vii
5.i
6.v
7.No
8.Yes
9.Not Given
10.Yes