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TEST 33
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the others
Question 1: A. replace B. eclipse C. overweigh D. danger
Question 2: A. eventually B. depletion C. competitive D. regretful
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the stress
Question 3: A. frequent B. ripen C. mother D. harness
Question 4: A. gravitate B. interest C. important D. vicious
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentences that best completes each of the exchanges.
Question 5: - “How often do you like to wear jeans?”- “_____________.”
A. Of course! I’m a big fan of jeans B. I often spend so much to buy jeans C. On a regular basis D. So far so good.
Question 6: Mike is having dinner at his girlfriend’s house.
Mike: “This course is scrumptious. I’m really big on it!” - His girlfriend: “_______________”
A. You must be kidding B. I’m glad you like it. C. Sure. I’d love to D. No, don’t worry
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE meaning.
Question 7: If you’re a shopaholic like me, it’s a great excuse to exercise the old credit card.
A. a slave to fashion B. rescuer C. miser D. shopping addict
Question 8: Even the most social butterfly sometimes needs to flutter away from the public gaze.
A. introvert B. extrovert C. scrumptious D. absent-minded
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Question 9: Mike made me ____ her next week.
A. promise to visit B. to promise to visit C. promist visiting D. promising visiting
Question 10: She won’t get married until she _____ 25 years old. A. is B. will be C. would be D. can be
Question 11: If you had arrived at the sale early, you _________ a better selection.
A. would have founded B. would find C. will find D. would have found
Question 12: _________ the solar system may seem big, it is a very small part of the universe.
A. Despite B. Although C. Even though it D. Because
Question 13: __________, Phil was a gregarious individual who enjoyed the company of others enormously.
A. Physically B. Phsychologically C. Socially D. Technically
Question 14: “Antidisestablishmentarianism” is one of ____ 14 longest words in English. A. a B. an C. the D. x
Question 15: Her homework ___, Sally went to bed at midnight.
A. complete B. completed C. was completed D. has been completed
Question 16: It took Martha three years to _________ “Clarissa”, or “The History of a Young Lady” by Samuel Richardson, as
the book contain 1,536 pages. A. get through B. look after C. make for D. end up
Question 17: ________ life began billions of years ago in the water.
A. In the belief B. Believing C. It is believed that D. The belief
Question 18: It is essential that every student _________ the exam before attending the course.
A. pass B. passes C. would pass D. should be passed
Question 19: Mike’s high marks on the National High School Graduation Examination were ________ his hard work.
A. caused B. because of C. since the fact D. due to
Question 20: Total weight of all the ants in the world is much greater than _________.
A. all human beings B. total human beings C. that of all human beings D. those of all human beings
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Question 21: The company’s total number of retired ___ is nineteen. A. personal B. personnel C. personals D. personnels
Question 22: _________ is a fact many smokers choose to ignore.
A. That smoking is harmful to health B. It is harmful to health to smoke
C. To smoke is harmful to harmful to health D. Smoking is harmful to health
Question 23: Can you see these letters first, please? The others __________.
A. don’t have been answered immediately B. haven’t to be answered immediately
C. aren’t answered immediately D. don’t have to be answered immediately
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer - RICE
Rice, or com, is the very bedrock of Vietnamese cuisine. In imperial Hue, rice with salt was served to distinguished guests by royal
mandarins; these days locals eat at least one rice-based meal every day and offer a bowl of rice to departed ancestors.
If a Vietnamese says, ‘An com di’ (literally ‘let’s eat rice’), it’s an invitation to lunch or dinner. You can also get your fill of the stuff,
accompanied by a variety of stir-fried meat, fish and vegetable dishes, at specialized, informal eateries called quan com binh dan.
Cooked to a soupy state with chicken, eel or duck, rice become chao (rice porridge); fried in a hot wok with egg, vegetables and other
ingredients, it’s com rang; and ‘broken’ into short grains, steamed, topped with barbecued pork, an egg, and sliced cucumber, and
accompanied by nuoc cham (a dipping sauce of sweetened fish sauce), it’s com tam. Tiny clams called hen are sautéed with peppery
Vietnamese coriander and ladled over rice to make com hen.
Sticky or glutinous rice (white, red and black) is mixed with pulses or rehydrated dried corn, peanuts and sesame seeds for a filling
breakfast treat called xoi (ngo in central Vietnam). It can also be mixed with sugar and coconut milk then moulded into sweet treats, or
layered with pork and steamed in bamboo or banana leaves for banh chung, a Tet speciality. Soaked and ground into flour, rice
becomes the base for everything from noodles and sweets to crackers and the dry, round, translucent ‘papers’ that Vietnamese moisten
before using to wrap salad rolls and other specialities.
Question 24: Which of the following best serves as the title for the passage?
A. Rice and Vietnameses Palates B. Rice and Its Combination
C. Rice and Its Culinary Repertoires D. Rice and Its Enthusiasts
Question 25: The word “distinguished” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to
A. important B. scrumptious C. aloof D. negligible
Question 26: According to the third paragraph, which of the following is NOT true?
A. Com hen are made by ladling sautéed tiny clams over rice.
B. The culinary techniques of ‘com rang’ and ‘com tam’ are identical.
C. Chao, com tam, com rang, com hen are all made from rice.
D. Rice becomes rice porridge if it’s cooked to a soupy state.
Question 27: The word “it” in the fourth paragraph refers to A. xoi B. dried corn C. sticky rice D. a filling breakfast
Question 28: According to the passage, one of Vietnamese specialities _________.
A. can be mixed with sugar and coconut milk then moulded into sweet treats
B. can be the base for noodles, sweets, crackers and the dry, round, translucent ‘papers’
C. can be moistened before being used to wrap salad rolls
D. can be made by layering rice with pork and steaming it in bamboo
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences
Question 29: Their feelings for each other deteriorate quickly after the incident. Eventually, they broke up.
A. Their feelings for each other deteriorate quickly after the incident, and they broke up at the end.
B. Their feelings for each other deteriorate quickly after the incident, as they broke up in the end.
C. Their feelings for each other deteriorate quickly after the incident; therfore, they broke up at the end.
D. Their feelings for each other deteriorate quickly after the incident, and they broke up in the end.
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Question 30: Her desire to see her boyfriend was so strong. She chose to ignore all advices from her family members.
A. Her desire to see her boyfriend was so strong but it was put down by advices from her family members.
B. Her desire to see her boyfriend was so strong that she chose to ignore all advices from her family members.
C. Her desire to see her boyfriend was strong and she chose to ignore all advices from her family member.
D. Her desire to see her boyfriend was so strong; however, she chose to ignore all advices from her family members.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer
Armed with digital devices, young people are leading the way to a cashless future with 111% increase in consumer use of mobile
person-to-person payment methods between 2014 and 2017, according to Boston-based research firm. Dylan Oesch-Emmel, a freshman
at Tufts University, can count on one hand the times he has used cash recently: to convert currency for a trip to Montreal, and for cab
fare when his smart phone died and he couldn’t use Uber.
“Quite frankly, I use zero cash,” said Oesch Emmel, 19, a Stoneham native. Like many in his age bracket, Oesch-Emmel does his
banking online, rarely uses an ATM, and keeps a credit card for backup. Nearly all his purchases are made with payment apps on his
iPhone 7 linked to his debit card: Venmo, which lets you make and share payments with friends, to split dinner and ride home with
friends, for example, or goPuff to have the essentials of college life, such as shampoo, floss, and Cheetos, delivered to his dorm.
Yet while younger people such as Oesch-Emmel don’t have much use for cash, the United States actually lags other nations in moving
toward a largely cashless financial system. Credit and debit cards have been in wide use here for much longer, and the nation’s large,
complex banking system makes it difficult to adopt change quickly.
Shaun Ferrari, managing director of Currency Research, said electronic payment businesses are still at the stage here where they are
competing against each other more so than cash. “It appears as though electronic forms of payment are cannibalizing each other rather
than replacing cash,” Ferrari said. “Mobile has a long way to go to be a significant player in the payment landscape in the US.”
Boston-based research firm Aite Group in February reported a 111 percent increase in consumer use of mobile person-to-person
payment methods between 2104 and 2017. A few of the big names are showing commanding gains: Zelle had a 59 percent rise in
processing volume in 2018, to $119 billion. Venmo, for its part, processed $62 billion last year, up from $35 billion the year before One
explanation for those increases, said Talie Baker of the Aite Group, is the ability of payment systems to be made in real time, instead of
that lag people used to experience waiting for money to clear. This has made digital payments feel the same as getting cash, more or
less instant and around the clock.
Question 31: What does the passage primarily discuss?
A. The reason for the sluggish development of cash-consuming countries
B. The speculation that cash will eventually “go the way of dinosaurs”
C. The declining amount of cash in the financial system
D. The fact that cash are being rejected and the explanation for this
Question 32: What can NOT be inferred according to the first paragraph?
A. Youngsters who make good use of digital devices are creating a new future.
B. Digital payment methods have gained in popularity.
C. Young people are likely to be on a meagre budget in the future.
D. The number of times when Dylan uses cash for payment is not significant
Question 33: According to the second paragraph, Vemno and goPuff are the representatives of __________.
A. cash-hoarding applications B. person-to-person payment methods
C. digital alternative to national currencies D. digital payment applications
Question 34: The word “lags” in paragraph 3 could be best replaced by
A. fall behind B. harness C. supervise D. enhance
Question 35: The word “they” in paragraph 4 refers to __________.
A. credit and debit cards B. electronic forms of payment
C. electronic payment businesses D. managing director of Currency Research
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Question 36: According to the passage, which of the following companies has the FASTEST budget growth?
A. Venmo B. Zelle C. Aite Group D. Uber
Question 37: The phrase “around the clock” in the final paragraph mostly means __________.
A. part-time B. intermittent C. sluggish D. happening all day and all night
Question 38: What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. New payment systems make life much easier. B. The future of money is a place where cash is non-existent.
C. Physical cash will gradually become ubiquitous. D. Cryptocoin are disappearing because of the convenience of physical cash.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning
Question 39: The police are keeping the suspects under round-the-clock surveillance.
A. consensus B. magnitude C. supervision D. concoction
Question 40: Tina has an eclectic taste for music: he listens to various genres such as classical, hard rock and country music.
A. docile B. perennial C. indispensable D. diverse
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that need correction.
Question 41: Several people were injured, but there were no fatality.
A. Several B. injured C. but D. fatality
Question 42: Reducing saturated fat are the single most important dietary change you can make to cut down blood cholesterol.
A. are B. the C. important D. make
Question 43: The strange incident has occurred in 1947 and it is only now that the true facts are coming out.
A. has occurred B. is C. that D.are coming out
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s)
If the tenacious spirit of the Vietnamese can be symbolized by a place, few sites are more symbolic than Cu Chi. During the fierce
times of war, local people and soldiers miraculously lived and fought for national liberation from the intricate network of underground
tunnels. At first glance there is scant evidence today of the fighting and bombing that (44)________ Cu Chi during the war.
To see what went on, you have to dig deeper – underground. The tunnel network of Cu Chi became (45) ________ during the 1960s for
facilitating VC control of a large rural area. The network, parts of (46) ________ were several storeys deep, included countless
trapdoors, constructed living areas, storage facilities, weapon factories, field hospitals, command centres and kitchens. The village of
Cu Chi have been presented with numerous (47) ________ awards, decorations and citations by the government since the end of the
American War, and many have been declared ‘heroic villages’. Since 1975, new hamlets have been established and the population of
the area has exploded; however, chemical (48) ________ remain in the soil in water, and crop yields are still poor.
Question 44: A. convulsed B. honed C. micromanaged D. levied
Question 45: A. legends B. legendized C. legendary D. legitimate
Question 46: A. that B. which C. it D. what
Question 47: A. honor B. honorific C. honorably D. honoraria
Question 48: A. nutrients B. deforestations C. ingredients D. defoliants
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning.
Question 49: Never before have they tasted such scrumptious apples.
A. They have never before tasted such scrumptious apples
B. This is the first time they have ever tasted such scrumptious apples.
C. These are the most scrumptious apples they ever tasted.
D. They have ever tasted more scrumptious apples than these.
Question 50: Peter had very little money but managed to make ends meet.
A. Peter could hardly live on little money. B. Having little money, Peter couldn’t keep the wolf from the door.
C. Peter found it hard to live on very little money. D. Peter got by on very little money.