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I. TRẮC NGHIỆM NGÔN NGỮ

PART 1: PHONETICS
Task 1: Choose the word (A, B, c or D) whose underlined part is pronounced differently from
that of the rest in each o f the following questions.
Question 1. A. financial B. intellectual C. preferential D. potential
Question 2. A. merchant B. sergeant C. commercial D. term
Task 2: Choose the word (A, B, c or D) whose main stress pattern is different from that o f the
rest in each of the following questions.
Question 3. A. character B. industry C. position D. audience
Question 4. A. activity B. investigate C. diversity D. fertilizer

PART 2: SYNONYM AND ANTONYM

Task 1: Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part
in each of the following sentences.
Question 5. During the Great Depression, there were many wanderers who traveled on the railroads and
camped along the tracks.
A. veterans B. tyros C. vagabonds D. zealots
Question 6. We decided to pay for the furniture on the installment plan.
A. monthly payment B. cash and carry C. credit card D. piece by piece
Task 2: Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
part in each of the following sentences.
Question 7. There is growing concern about the way man has destroyed the environment.
A. ease B. attraction C. consideration D. speculation
Question 8. Fruit and vegetables grew in abundance on the island. The islanders even exported the surplus.
A. large quantity B. small quantity C. excess D. sufficiency

PART 3: LEXICO - GRAMMAR

Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best completes each of the following sentences.
Question 9. Peter: “ Janet, make us some tea, will you?” Janet: “____________.”
A. No, I won’t I’m afraid. B. Don’t worry. Go ahead
C. Sorry, I don’t D. I’m afraid I can’t
Question 10. “The inflation rate in Venezuela is five times________my country,” he said.
A. as much as B. more than C. as many as that in D. as high as that in
Question 11. If you don’t stop smoking, you ________the risk of developing chronic bronchitis.
A. bear B. take C. make D. run
Question 12. If you lose your passport, you should contact the embassy without ________.
A. delay B. cancel C. postpone D. consider
Question 13. Peter: “Do you have a minute please?” - Tim: “____________.”

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 A. Yes. But you should be brief B. That’s just fantastic. Thank.
C. Sorry, I left my watch at home. D. Well, it is not as good as I think
Question 14. Congress finally ________the law after a two-year debate.
A. verified B. adapted C. applied D. adopted
Question 15. Either John or his friends ________ in the class now.
A. is B. are C. were D. have been
Question 16. My supervisor is angry with me. I didn’t do all the work I ________last week.
A. should have done B. need to have done C. may have done D. must have done
Question 17. This cheese isn’t fit for eating. It’s ________all over after lying in the bin for so long.
A. spoiled B. mouldy C. sour D. rusty
Question 18. ________, the whole family slept soundly.
A. Hot though the night air was B. Hot though was the night air
C. Hot although the night air was D. Hot although was the night air
Question 19. The new office block ________well with its surroundings.
A. blends in B. stands out C. shapes up D. sets off
Question 20. ________ native to Europe, the daisy has now spread throughout most of North America.
A. Although B. In spite of C. If it were D. That it is
Question 21. In the United States, a primary election is a method ________ voters select the nominees for
public office.
A. that B. is that C. by which D. by those
Question 22. You will have to ________ your holiday if you are too ill to travel.
A. call off B. cut down C. back out D. put aside

II. TỰ LUẬN KIẾN THỨC NGÔN NGỮ

PART 1: WORD FORM
Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete the following sentences.
Question 23. John lost his job because he often behaved …………………………. towards his customers.
POLITE
Question 24. Hoang Anh was …………………………. to apply for the job. COURAGE
Question 25. Many rural areas in Viet Nam have been …………………………. in the past few years. URBAN

PART 2: ERROR CORRECTION

There are 05 errors in the following passage. Identify the errors, write the line number and correct
them. Write your answers in the numbered spaces below. Number (00.) is done as an example.
ERROR IN A PASSAGE 02
Line Passage
1 The best way to learn English is to come to class regular and do your homework. If you
2 miss several days of classes, for any reason, you cannot keep up with the others students. The
3 Language and Culture Centre is a serious academic program in intensive English and wants all of
4 its students to success. Therefore, students are expected to attend all classes regularly, do all
5 classroom assignments, meet all class requirements, and make academic progress. Students who
6 do not meet these standards may be placed on probation. Students placed on academic probation
7 with meet their teacher(s) and with either or both the Associate Director and Foreign Student
8 Advisor. Students will be inform in writing of the terms and length of their probation. Students
9 who have 30 hours of absences are in danger of being placed on academic probation. Students
10 fail to meet the terms of their probation will be terminated from the LCC for the remainder of the

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11 semester. This will also likely result on loss of student status with the US Immigration and
12 Naturalisation Service.
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Line Error Correction

1 00. Regular à regularly
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KỸ NĂNG NGÔN NGỮ

PART 1: READING
Task 1: GUIDED CLOZE TEST
Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits each blank in the following passage.
Everyone wants to reduce pollution. But the pollution problem is as complicated (31) _________ it is
serious. It is complicated because much (32) _________ is caused by things that benefit people. For
example, exhaust (33) _________ automobiles causes a large percentage of all air pollution. (34) _________
the automobiles provide transportation for millions of people. Factories (35) _________ much of the
material which pollutes air and water, but factories give employment to a large number of people.
Thus, to (36) _________ or greatly reduce pollution immediately, people would have to stop using
many things that benefit them. Most of the people do not want to do that, of course. But pollution can be
(37) _________ reduced in several ways. (38) _________ and engineers can work to find ways to lessen the
(39) _________ of pollution that such things as automobiles and factories cause. Governments can pass and
enforce laws that require businesses and individuals to stop, or cut (40) _________ on certain polluting
activities.
Question 31. A. since B. because C. as D. for
Question 32. A. pollution B. pollutant C. polluter D. polluting
Question 33. A. in B. from C. at D. for
Question 34. A. Therefore B. However C. Moreover D. But
Question 35. A. offer B. discharge C. emit D. dissolve
Question 36. A. increase B. pause C. cause D. end
Question 37. A. increasingly B. gradually C. hopelessly D. dangerously
Question 38. A. Scientists B. Doctors C. Lecturers D. Botanists
Question 39. A. number B. figures C. amount D. numbers
Question 40. A. down B. off C. up D. into

Task 2: READING COMPREHENSION

Read the passage and choose the best answer for each question below.
On March 25, 1911, one of the five hundred employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New
York noticed that a rag bin near her eighth- floor work station was on fire. Workers immediately tried to
extinguish the flames. Their efforts prove futile, as piles of fabric ignited all over the eighth floor. The
manager of the factory ordered his employees to unroll the fire extinguisher hose, but they found it rotted
and useless.

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 The shirt factory occupied the top three floors of the ten- story Asch Building. The seventy
employees who worked on the tenth floor escaped the fire by way of the staircases or climbed onto the roof,
where students from New York University, located across the street, stretched ladders over to the Asch
Building.
The 260 workers on the ninth floor had the worst luck of all. Although the eighth- floor workers tried
to warn them by telephone, the call did not reach them, and by the time they learned about the fire, their
routes of escape were mostly blocked. Some managed to climb down the cables of the freight elevator.
Others crammed into the narrow stairway. Still others climbed onto the single, inadequately constructed fire
escape. But that spindly structure could not support the weight of hundreds of people, and it separated from
the wall, falling to the ground and carrying many people with it.
To combat the disaster, the New York Fire Department sent thirty-five pieces of equipment,
including a hook and ladder. The young women trapped on the ninth- floor window ledge watched in horror
as the ladder, fully raised, stopped far below them, reaching only as far as the sixth floor.
Within minutes, the factory- a fire trap typical of the period’s working conditions- was consumed by
flame, killing 146 workers, mostly immigrant women. City officials set up a temporary morgue on 26th
Street, and over the next few days streams of survivors filed through the building to identify the dead.
The Triangle Shirtwaist fire brought a public outcry for laws to regulate the safety of working
conditions. The New York Factory Investigating Commission was formed to examine the working
conditions in factories throughout the state. Their report introduced many new regulations. The fire had
occurred during an era of progressive reform that was beginning to sweep the nation, as people decided
that government had a responsibility to ensure that private industry protected the welfare of working people.
Question 41. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The causes of a fire in a shirt factory C. Escaping from a fire in a shirt factory
B. Working conditions in New York City D. The events surrounding a tragic fire
Question 42. The word “ignited” in paragraph 1 could best be replaced by____________.
A. became wet B. caught fire C. exploded D. spread
Question 43. According to the passage, the fire began__________.
A. on the ninth floor C. when some rags started burning
B. when a worker dropped a cigarette D. when a pile of fabric rotted
Question 44. Why does the writer mention the fire extinguisher hose in paragraph 1?
A. To emphasize the unsafe working conditions
B. To show the manager’s competence
C. To illustrate the factory’s modern technology
D. To explain how the fire was eventually put out.
Question 45. How did many workers on the top floor manage to escape?
A. On the fire escape B. On the elevator C. On ladders D. On ropes
Question 46. The phrase “Still others” in paragraph 3 refers to __________.
A. The eighth-floor workers C. the routes of escape
B. The ninth-floor workers D. the people in the freight elevator
Question 47. It can be inferred from paragraph 4that__________.
A. New York had a well-equipped fire department
B. fire fighters were able to rescue the women on the ninth floor
C. the women on the window ledge probably died
D. the women probably took the stairs down to the sixth floor
Question 48. According to the passage, most of the workers who died in the fire ___________.
A. were university students C. worked on the tenth floor

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 B. had only worked there for a short time D. were immigrant women
Question 49. The phrase “beginning to sweep the nation” in paragraph 6means ___________.
A. changing politics C. investigating the government
B. becoming more popular D. starting a controversy
Question 50. Which of the following could NOT be inferred from the passage?
A. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire influenced public opinion.
B. The Triangle Shirtwaist factory was rebuilt.
C. After the fire, new regulations improved working conditions in factories.
D. Disasters can lead to a demand for reform.

III. TƯ DUY LOGIC

Find out the correct answers to these questions below.
Question 51. You are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove, and a gas lamp. If you only have one
match, what do you light first?
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Question 52. An electric train is traveling SW at 60mph. The wind is blowing from the NE at 10mph.
Which way is the smoke blowing?
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Question 53. If a doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would
it be before all the pills had been taken?
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Question 54. Farmer Black came to town with some watermelons. He sold half of them plus half a melon
and found that he had one whole watermelon left. How many melons did he take to town?
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Question 55. What is the beginning of eternity? The end of time and space? The beginning of every end?
And the end of every place?
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Question 56. Paul's height is six feet, he's working at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he
weigh?
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Question 57. There once was a lady who liked pink. In her cozy, little one-story house, everything was pink.
Even her dog was pink. Her hair, her carpet, everything. What color are her stairs?
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Question 58. Look at this series: 53, 53, 40, 40, 27, 27, ... What number should come next?

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Question 59. If CLOCK is coded as 34235 & TIME as 8679, what will be the code for MOLEK?
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Question 60. A man is 3 years older than his wife and four times as old as his son. If the son becomes 15
years old after 3 years, what is the present age of the wife?

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