TEST 2

Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the others.
1.    a.  canoeing                      b. penalty                    c. precision                  d. opponent
2.    a.  advocate                      b. disaster                    c. inflation                   d. domestic
3.    a.  refugee                                    b. referee                     c. employee                 d. committee
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.
4.    a. destroyed                     b. developed               c. conquered                d. closed
5.    a. musical                         b. instrument               c. united                      d. mutual
 

Choose the most suitable option to complete the sentence or substitute the underlined part.
6. “Well, it was nice talking to you, but I have to dash.”      - “___________”
       a. Yes, I enjoyed talking to you too.                   b. OK, see you.
       c. Why don’t you stay for a while?                     d. You are so polite.
7. “I wish you wouldn’t smoke in here!”        - “____________”          
       a. There’s nothing wrong here.                            b. Thank you for telling me.
       c. I don’t agree, I’m afraid.                                 d. Sorry, shall I open the window?
8. In 1965, the sport was included ____ the SEAP Games ____ the name sepak takraw _____
    combining the Malaysian and Thai names ____ the sport.
       a. with /in /for /by                        b. in /with /by /for       c. in /with /from /in     d. at /in /by /with
9. Lean it ______ the wall if you don’t want it to fall ________.
       a. to / off              b. against / over           c. for / down               d. under / against
10. I last ______ him about a month ago, when he ____ his job with the film company.
       a. have seen / left             b. had seen / was leaving        c. saw / had just left         d. saw / has left
11. When I ____ the station this morning, the train ____ ten minutes before .
       a. reached / had left         b. had reached / left      c. was reaching / left      d. have reached / left
12. Money spent ______ education is an investment ________ the future.
       a. on / for                          b. on / in                      c. into / in                    d. in / for
13. World Wild Fund for Nature was formed to do the mission of the preservation of biological diversity,
       sustainable use of natural resources, and the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.
       a. contamination               b. energy                     c. extinction                d. development
14. My neighbor is driving me mad! It seems that ____ it is at night, _____ he plays his music!
       a. the less / the more loud                                                b. the less / less
       c. the more late / the more loudlier                      d. the later / the louder
15. The International Committee of the Red Cross is a private ______ institution founded in 1863 in Geneva,
      Switzerland.
       a. human                           b. humanity                 c. humanization           d. humanitarian
16. _____ Sahara of ______ Africa is the world’s largest desert.
       a. X / the                          b. The / X                    c. A / an                       d. The / an
17. In 2004 more than 40 national societies have worked with more than 22,000 _____ to bring relief to the
      countless victims of the earthquake.
       a. actions                          b. volunteers                c. founders                  d. nations
18. Deserts are also classified by their ____ location and dominant weather pattern.
       a. geographical                 b. aerial                        c. sandy                       d. facial
19. On behalf of the referees and athletes, referee Hoang Quoc Vinh and shooter Nguyen Manh Tuong swore
      to an oath of “_______, Honesty and Fair Play.”
       a. Performance                 b. Delegation               c. Participation            d. Solidarity
20. In times of war the Red Cross is dedicated to reducing the sufferings of wounded soldiers, civilians, and
      prisoners of war.
       a. mounted                       b. excited                    c. devoted                   d. interested
21. Neither the director nor the assistant ________ yet.
       a. have come                    b. haven’t come           c. has come                  d. hasn’t come
22. The burglar ___________.
       a. has been disappeared with the crash                b. disappeared the crash
       c. disappeared with the crash                               d. was disappeared with the crash
23. She got ________ her car to pick ________ some wild flowers.
       a. from / on                       b. in / at                       c. off / up                    d. out / for
24. He acted in an extremely ________ manner, which made him very unpopular.
       a. dictatorial                     b. dictate                     c. dictation                  d. dictatorship
25. The Mekong Delta is __________ deltas in Việt Nam.
       a. the largest of the two                                       b. the more larger of the two
       c. one of the two largest                                      d. one of the two larger
 
Identify the words/phrases that need correcting to make perfect sentences.
26. Until the 1840’s, practically the only pioneers who had ventured to the western United States were
          A                            B                                                       C
      trappers and a little explorers.
                              D
27. Women’s movements work for the purpose of guaranteeing women the enjoyment of human rights and
                                                A                  B                                                       C
      fundamental freedoms on a basis of equal with men.
                                                                   D
28. UNICEF’s child protection programs also aim at those children who are uniquely vulnerable to the
abuses,
                                        A                                   B                              C
      so as when living without parental care, in remote areas, or in very poor family.
        D
29. The Southeast Asian Games, also knowing as the SEA Games, is a biennial multi-sport event involving
                                                                   A                                                 B                                         C
       participants from the current eleven countries of Southeast Asia.
                                                                                             D
30. Windsurfing, which is a water sport combining elements of surfing and sailing, first developed in the
                                A                                     B                                                                      C
      United States in 1968 and also called boardsailing.
                                                       D
 
Choose the most suitable option to complete the sentence.
31. The player ___________________.
       a. will reward for his hat-trick                             b. will be rewarded for his hat-trick
       c. will reward his hat-trick                                   d. will be rewarded his hat-trick
32. __________ in Rome than he was kidnapped.
       a. No sooner he arrived                                        b. Had he no sooner arrived
       c. No sooner had he arrived                                 d. No sooner he had arrived
33. The book is about the people in the country __________ for two years.
       a. that she lived                                                    b. that she lived among them
       c. among whom she lived                                                d. where she lived among them
34. Women spend nearly 3 hours a day on average on housework _____________.
       a. as much as shopping and childcare                  b. together with they go shopping and childcare
       c. excluding shopping and childcare                    d. and they do shopping and childcare
35. She is not only intelligent _______________.
       a. but she is creative also                                      b. but also she is creative
       c. but she also is creative                                      d. but also creative
 
Choose the sentence that has the same meaning as the given one.
36. Mary said, “I have not seen Peter since last month.”
       a. Mary said she has not seen Peter since the previous month.
       b. Mary said she had not seen Peter since the previous month.
       c. Mary said she was not seen Peter since the previous month.
       d. Mary said she doesn’t see Peter since the previous month.
 
37. Because the weather was bad, we didn’t go camping.
       a. If the weather wasn’t bad, we would go camping.
       b. If the weather weren’t bad, we would go camping.
       c. If the weather is good, we will go camping.
       d. If the weather hadn’t been bad, we would have gone camping.
38. Lucy always reminds me of my youngest sister.
       a. My youngest sister’s name is Lucy.
       b. Whenever I see Lucy, I think of my youngest sister.
       c. It is Lucy who is my youngest sister.
       d. I always think of Lucy, my youngest sister.
39. She enjoys other people admiring her for her talent.
       a. She enjoys other people being admired her for her talent.
       b. She enjoys being admired for her talent by other people.
       c. She is enjoyed being admired for her talent by other people.
       d. She is enjoyed to be admired for her talent by other people.
40. Jane suggested going on a walking holiday.
       a. “How about going on a walking holiday?” said Jane.
       b. Jane wanted to go on a walking holiday alone.
       c. Jane suggested they have gone on a walking holiday.
       d. Jane didn’t want to go on a walking holiday.
 
Choose the most suitable option to complete the passage.
          The United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, was ____41__ by the United Nations General
Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and ___42_ to children in “countries that had
been devastated by World War II”. In 1953, UNICEF became a permanent part of the United Nations System
and its name was shortened from the ____43__ United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund but
it has continued to be known by the popular acronym based on this old name. ____44__ in New York City,
UNICEF provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in
developing countries. UNICEF is currently focused ____45__ five primary priorities: Child Survival and
Development, Basic Education and Gender Equality, including girls’ education, Child protection from
____46__ exploitation, and abuse, HIV/AIDS and children, and Policy advocacy and partnerships for
children’s rights. Related areas of UNICEF action include early childhood development, adolescence
development and participation; life skills based on education and child rights all over the world.
          A ____47__ funded agency, UNICEF relies on contributions from governments and private ____48__.
Its programs emphasize developing community-level services to promote the health and well-being of
children. Recently, UNICEF has begun partnerships with world-class athletes and teams to promote the
organization’s work and to ____49__ funds. UNICEF greeting cards are sold worldwide to support efforts on
behalf of children creating a better world where children are happy, healthy and live in dignity. UNICEF
selects suitable paintings for reproduction from contemporary artists. Total income to UNICEF for 2006 was
$2,781,000,000.
          UNICEF was ____50__ the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 and Prince of Asturias Award of Concord in
2006. UNICEF is present in 190 countries and territories around the world.
41.    a. taken off                     b. set up                       c. paid on                    d. pushed back
42.    a. instrument                  b. projects                    c. work                                    d. healthcare
43.    a. original                       b. ancestor                   c. old                           d. relatives
44.    a. Managed                    b. Led                          c. Headquartered        d. Committed
45.    a. at                                b. with                         c. on                            d. in
46.    a. violence                      b. fun                           c. excitement               d. entertainment
47.    a. volunteer                    b. volunteered             c. voluntary                 d. voluntarily
48.    a. persons                       b. patients                    c. donors                     d. victims
49.    a. rise                              b. raise                         c. lift                            d. heighten
50.    a. complimented             b. awarded                  c. won                         d. taken
 
 
Choose the most suitable option to complete the passage.
          The Western Desert people of Australia have been ____51__ by European settlement like Aborigines
everywhere else. Metal, glass ____52__ cloth have been adopted by the people whenever they have been
available. Explorers visited the area early on and information spread very quickly ____53__ the settlement of
the white people ____54__ the coastal area.
          ____55__ from these occasional explorers, the Aboriginal people of the desert had little ____56__ with
white Australia.
          Missionaries came later but it was not ____57__ the 1950s and 1960s when the British began testing
rockets and atomic bombs in the desert ____58__ the Aborigines’ traditional way of life virtually came to an
____59__. Today there are no Aborigines ____60__ have not been affected by the white Invasion of their
lands.
51.    a. directed                      b. affected                   c. controlled                d. guided
52.    a. or                                b. and                          c. but                           d. with
53.    a. by                               b. for                           c. about                       d. so
54.    a. on                               b. at                             c. to                             d. in
55.    a. Apart                          b. Except                     c. Similarly                  d. Quickly
56.    a. contact                        b. touch                       c. relate                        d. contain
57.    a. when                           b. until                         c. in                             d. from
58.    a. so that                         b. that                          c. where as                  d. why
59.    a. usual                           b. appearance              c. end                          d. information
60.    a. whom                         b. which                      c. they                         d. who
 
Read the following passage and choose the best answers to the questions.
          The modern comic strip started out as ammunition in a newspaper war between giants of the American
press in the late nineteenth century. The first full-color comic strip appeared January 1894 in the New York
World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer. The first regular weekly full-color comic supplement, similar to today’s
Sunday funnies, appeared two years later, in William Randolph Hearst’s rival New York paper, the Morning
Journal.
          Both were immensely popular, and publishers realized that supplementing the news with comic relief
boosted the sale of papers. The Morning Journal started another feature in 1896, the “Yellow Kid”, the first
continuous comic character in the United States, whose creator, Richard Outcault, had been lured away
from the World by the ambitious Hearst. The “Yellow Kid” was in many ways a pioneer. Its comic dialogue
was the strictly urban farce that came to characterize later strips, and it introduced the speech balloon inside
the strip, usually placed above the characters’ heads.
          The first strip to incorporate all the elements of later comics was Rudolph Dirks’s “Katzenjammer
Kids”, based on Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz, a European satire of the nineteenth century. The “Kids”
strips, first published in 1897, served as the prototype for future American strips. It contained not only
speech balloons, but a continuous cast of characters, and was divided into small regular panels that did away
with the larger panoramic scenes of earlier comics.
          Newspaper syndication played a major role in spreading the popularity of comic strips throughout the
country. Though weekly colored comics came first, daily black-and-white strips were not far behind. The
first appeared in the Chicago American in 1904. It was followed by many imitators, and by 1915 black-and-
white comic strips had become a staple of daily newspapers around the country.
61. What does the passage mainly discuss?
       a. A comparison of two popular comic strips
       b. The differences between early and modern comic strips
       c. The effects of newspapers on comic strip stories
       d. Features of early comic strips in the United States
62. Why does the author mention Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Heart?
       a. They established New York’s first newspaper.
       b. They published comic strips about the newspaper war.
       c. Their comic strips are still published today.
       d. They owned major competitive newspapers.
 63. The passage suggests that comic strips were popular for which of the following reasons?
       a. They provided a break from serious news stories.
       b. Readers enjoyed the unusual drawings.
       c. Readers could identify with the characters.
       d. They were about real-life situations.
64. To say that Richard Outcault had been “lured away from” the World by Hearst (line 8) means which of
      the following?
a.       Hearst convinced Outcault to leave the World.
b.      Hearst fired Outcault from the World.
c.       Hearst warned Outcault not to leave the World.
d.      Hearst wanted Outcault to work for the World.
65. The word “it” in line 10 refers to _____________.
       a. The “Yellow Kid”        b. dialogue                  c. farce                                    d. balloon
66. According to the passage, the “Yellow Kid” was the first comic strip to do all of the following EXCEPT
      _________.
a.       feature the same character in each episode
b.      include dialogue inside a balloon
c.       appear in a Chicago newspaper
d.      characterize city life in a humorous way
67. The word “incorporate” in line 12 is closest in meaning to __________.
       a. affect                            b. create                       c. combine                   d. mention
68. The word “prototype” in line 14 is closest in meaning to __________.
       a. story                             b. humor                      c. drawing                   d. model
69. The word “staple” in line 20 is closest in meaning to __________.
       a. regular feature              b. popular edition        c. new version             d. huge success
70. In what order does the author discuss various comic strips in the passage?
       a. In alphabetical order by title
       b. In the order in which they were created
       c. According to the newspaper in which they appeared
       d. From most popular to least popular
 
Read the following passage and choose the best answers to the questions.
          Every drop of water in the ocean, even in the deepest parts, responds to the forces that create the tides.
No other force that affects the sea is so strong. Compared with the tides, the waves created by the wind are
surface movements felt no more than a hundred fathoms below the surface. The currents also seldom involve
more than the upper several hundred fathoms despite their impressive sweep.
          The tides are a response of the waters of the ocean to the pull of the Moon and the more distant Sun.
          In theory, there is a gravitational attraction between the water and even the outermost star of the
universe. In reality, however, the pull of remote stars is so slight as to be obliterated by the control of the
Moon and, to a lesser extent, the Sun. Just as the Moon rises later each day by fifty minutes, on the average,
so, in most places, the time of high-tide is correspondingly later each day. And as the Moon waxes and
wanes in its monthly cycle, so the height of the tide varies. The tidal movements are strongest when the
Moon is a sliver in the sky, and when it is full. These are the highest flood tides and the lowest ebb tides of
the lunar month and are called the spring tides. At these times the Sun, Moon, and Earth are nearly in line
and the pull of the two heavenly bodies is added together to bring the water high on the beaches, to send its
surf upward against the sea cliffs, and to draw a high tide into the harbors. Twice each month, at the quarters
of the Moon, when the Sun, Moon, and Earth lie at the apexes of a triangular configuration and the pull of
the Sun and Moon are opposed, the moderate tidal movements called neap tides occur. Then the difference
between high and low water is less than that at any other time during the month.
71. What is the main point of the first paragraph?
       a. The waves created by ocean currents are very large.
       b. Despite the strength of the wind, it only moves surface water.
       c. Deep ocean water is seldom affected by forces that move water.
       d. The tides are the most powerful force to affect the movement of ocean water.
72. The word “felt” in line 3 is closest in meaning to __________.
       a. based                            b. dropped                   c. explored                  d. detected
73. The word “In reality” in line 7 is closest in meaning to __________.
       a. surprisingly                   b. actually                    c. characteristically      d. similarly
74. It can be inferred from the passage that the most important factor in determining how much gravitational
      effect one object in space has on the tides is ____________.
       a. size                               b. distance                   c. temperature             d. density
75. The word “correspondingly” in line 9 is closest in meaning to ___________.
       a. unpredictably               b. interestingly                        c. similarly                   d. unusually
76. What is the cause of spring tides?
       a. Seasonal change in the weather
       b. The gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon when nearly in line with the Earth
       c. The Earth’s movement around the Sun
       d. The triangular arrangement of the Earth, Sun, and Moon
77. Which of the following pictures best represents the position of the Sun, Moon, and Earth during spring
      tides?
a.       The Sun, Moon, and Earth are nearly in line.
b.      The Sun, Moon, and Earth lie at the apexes of a triangular configuration.
c.       The Sun, Moon, and Earth are in different lines.
d.      The Sun, Moon, and Earth have the opposite directions.
78. The word “configuration” in line 15 is closest in meaning to ___________.
       a. unit                               b. center                      c. surface                     d. arrangement
79. Neap tides occur when ___________.
       a. the Sun counteracts the Moon’s gravitational attraction
       b. the Moon is full
       c. the Moon is farthest from the Sun
       d. waves created by the wind combine with the Moon’s gravitational attraction
80. According to the passage, all of the following statements about tides are true EXCEPT ______.
       a. The time of high tide is later each day
       b. Tides have a greater effect on the sea than waves do.
       c. The strongest tides occur at the quarters of the Moon.
       d. Neap tides are more moderate than spring tides.