ĐỀ NÂNG CAO SỐ 1-KEY

I. Lexico-grammar (3.0P)
1. I hope there are enough glasses to .............. round.
A. drink B. set C. go D. lay
Go round: If there is enough of something to go round, there is enough for everyone in a
group of people
Ex: Are there enough pencils to go round?
2. It's time you ................ about organising your revision programme.
A. got B. set C. took D. put
Set about: to start doing something, especially something that uses a lot of time or energy
Ex: I got home and immediately set about cleaning the house.
Get about: to travel to a lot of places, to be able to go to different places without difficulty,
especially if you are old or ill
Ex: My gran is finding it harder to get about these days.
Put about: to tell a lot of people something that is not true:
Ex: Someone's been putting it about that Dan is leaving.
3. I can't quite .............. out what the sign says.
A. make B. read C. get D. carry
4. We have ............... up a huge bill at the grocer's across the road.
A. set B. run C. ended D. paid
5. I would never have .................Jim of being the culprit.
A. thought B. convicted C. suspected D. reminded
6. How did Sheila .............. to the news of her award?
A. react B. answer C. confess D. appeal
7. Someone has been .............. with the lock of the cash box.
A. cluttering B. dealing C. tampering D. matching
8. Don't worry about the lunch. I'll ........... to it.
A. succeed B. apply C. devote D. see
9. They are a real _________ organisation; they are only interested in making profits as soon
as possible
A. devil-may-care B. fly-by-night C. open-and-shut D. down-to-earth
10. We should all ________ when advertisers attempt to use unfair practices.
A. make a stand B. make a comeback C. make amends D. make a deal
11. Our salesmen normally ......................... their travel expenses from the company.
A. settle B. reimburse C. cover D. claim
12. A property company was making a take-over ......................... for the supermarket site.
A. proposition B. bid C. tender D. proposal
13. I was.........to believe that she was a representative of the Labour Party.
A. declared B. carried C. led D. explained
14. This cheese isn’t fit for eating. It’s............. all over after lying in the bin for so long.
A. rusty B. mouldy C. spoilt D. sour

15. Mr. Li is _______ on Chinese food and customs

A. a distributor B. an authority C. a partisan D. a bursar
16. Perhaps, the fresh scrap of evidence will throw some new............on the murder case in
Witshire.
A. light B. vision C. flash D. spark
17. More women show their ______ for dangerous sports, especially mountaineering and
bungee jumping.
A. inspiration B. dominance C. predilection D. attraction
18. His new play is not only interesting but also unique. lt is really off the beaten _________
A. track B. road C. Path D. route
19. The delight in treasure finding doesn’t always ________ acquiring tremendous amounts
of valuables.
A. dwell on B. poke around C. lay abotu D. hinge upon
20. Rachel has an amazing ______ of jokes that he uses to good effect at the parties.
A. body B. repertoire C. variation D. store
21. Critics of the welfare system argue that, rather than aiding people’s efforts to govern their
own lives, it _________ their independence.
A. supports B. saps C. hastens D. renews E. Abets
22. The audience failed to warm to the candidate whose speech contained nothing but empty
promises, ________, and clichés.
A. candor B. platitudes C. nuances D. ingenuity E. Threats
23. By dint of much practice in the laboratory, the anatomy student became _______and was
able to manipulate her dissecting tools with either hand.
.A. practical .B. tricky C. ambiguous D. ambidextrous E. Ambivalent
24. . While a great deal of change and modernization has taken place in India since 1947, the
basic economic arrangements, values, and family roles have been generally _________.
A. overturned B. stable C. modified D. complicated E. Appropriate
25. The latest biography of Malcolm X is a nuanced and sensitive picture of a very complex
man, ---- analysis of his personality.
A. an ineffectual B. a telling C. a ponderous D.a simplistic E. an overblown
II. Reading (2.0P)
There can be no (1) ______ that online shopping is of huge benefit to the consumer. Far from
becoming (2) ______, online shoppers are very demanding. Overpriced merchants with poor
services should beware. Gone are the days when stores could charge what they liked for
goods and get away with it. The same, too, for shady manufacturers: smarter consumers
know which products have a good (3) ______and which do not because online they now read
not only the sales (4) ______ but also reviews from previous purchasers. And if customers
are disappointed, a few clicks of the mouse will take them to places where they can let the
world know. Nowadays there is nothing more damning than a (5) ______ of negative
comments on the internet.
However, the big boys, as always, are ahead of the game. Some companies are already
adjusting their business models to take account of these trends. The stores run by Sony and
Apple, for instance, are more like brand showrooms than shops. They are there for people to
try out (6) ______ and to ask questions to knowledgeable staff. Whether the products are
(7)______ bought online or offline is of secondary importance.
Online traders must also adjust. Amazon, for one, is rapidly turning from being primarily a
bookseller to becoming a (8) ______ retailer by letting other companies sell products (9)
______ its site, rather like a marketplace. During America's Thanksgiving weekend last
November, Amazon's sales of consumer electronics in the United States exceeded its book
sales for the first time in its history. Other transformations in the retail business are (10)
______to follow.
1. A. query B. question C. examination D. proposal
2. A. competent B. dissatisfied C. complacent D. compassionate
3. A. reputation B. resolution C. opinion D. distinction
4. A. blurb B. message C. blare D. bubble
5. A. prod B. pile C. row D. flood
6. A. emblems B. tools C. devices D. schemes
7. A. intrinsically B. ultimately C. utterly D. intricately
8. A. block B. lump C. mass D. chunk
9. A. by B. through C. at D. on
10. A. bound B. secured C. tied D. forced
III. TRIOS (1.0P)
1. His phone is engaged - can I put you on ________?
After the bankruptcy Mr. Jones will still ______ his head high.
I know learning to drive can be daunting, but if you can hold your nerve ______ out on the
road, you'll do just fine.
2. Each letter from my bank manager is another turn of the ________.
It really _______ him up when he saw his friend get killed.
They put the _______on him until he paid up.
3. I'm trying to cut ________on caffeine.
"John has had an accident," she said, choking _______the tears.
He's always harking _______to his childhood and saying how things were better then.
4. Suddenly she sat _______ upright as if something had startled her.
He started off the game well but seemed to have shot his ________by half-time.
The news of his marriage was a _______from the blue.
5. After the exams we kicked up our _______ and had a really good party.
I suspect the government is dragging its _______over this issue.
When they saw the soldiers coming, they took to their _______.
IV. WORD FROMATION (2.0P)
1. The police __________ the driver, who was driving at constant velocity. (breath)
2. The child grows up with __________ treatment and so don’t know how merciless the
world is. (glove)
3. Makaton and Signalong are two systems which are commonly used for teaching children
who do not have hearing problems and those who are ____________. (hear)
4. So_________ is he that he wouldn’t hurt anyone on purpose. (be)
5. Drywall, or wallboard, is a sandwich of _________ gypsum between two layers of heavy-
duty paper. (fire)
6. Our car broke down, so we had to _______back home. (hit)
7. Getting older, Tom regreted ________ his youth. (miss)
8. His wife set about ________ him for neglecting the children (up)
9. She _________ smiled apologized me for what she had done. (sheep)
10. He is a true _____. He'd rather spend stay at home with a book than out at a party. (book)
V. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (2.0P)
1. The main focus of the plot is the adventures of two teenagers. (centred)
-> The plot .centred on adventures of two teenagers.
2. Covid-19 has killed a great number of people (prey)
-> A great number .have fallen prey to Covid-19.
3. She has been agonizing herself over the decision of leaving him. (Exercising)
-> The decision .of leaving him has been exercising her mind.
4. He was green with envy when he saw his brother's new car (monster)
-> He succumbed .to green-eyed monster when he saw his brother’s new car.
5. I fell asleep because the play was so tedious (run)
-> I nodded .off as the play was run-of-the-mill.
6. So goof-off is he that he won't do any exercise (potato)
-> He won't undertake .any course of exercise because he is a couch potato.
7. The way Tom dressed was a carbon copy of mine (muchness)
-> Tom and I .dressed much of a muchness.
8. He has finally reconciled himself to the fact that getting something for nothing is out of the
question. (Dawning)
It is .finally dawning on him that there’s no thing such as free. lunch
9. We were horror-tricken when we saw the accident. (shoes)
-> We .were shaking in our shoes when we saw the accident.
10. She didn't shed a tears over her failed scheme because she knew it was certain to happen.
(Doomed)
-> She woke up .to the fact that her scheme is doomed to failure, so she didn’t shed a
tear over it.