PRACTICE TEST 13

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THỬ SỨC TRƯỚC KỲ THI
QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015
ĐỀ SỐ 21
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part
differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. material
B. crucial
C. partial
D. financial
Question 2: A. reign
B. leisure
C. neighbor
D. vein
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other
three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3: A. equality
B. available
C. manufacture
D. biography
Question 4: A. penalty
B. attendance
C. opponent
D. adventure
Question 5: A. intensity
B. congratulate
C. philosophy
D. entrepreneur
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 6: As consumers’ response to traditional advertising techniques declines, businesses are
beginning ____ new methods of reaching customers.
A. to develop
B. develop
C. it developing
D. the development that
Question 7: Where’s the ____ dress that your grandma gave you?
A. lovely long pink silk
B. lovely pink long silk
C. pink long lovely silk
D. long pink silk lovely
Question 8: His handwriting is so bad I can’t make ____ what he has written.
A. up
B. off
C. out
D. down
Question 9: We were going to go by bus but in the end we ____ because Simon gave us a lift.
A. needn’t
B. didn’t need to
C. needn’t have
D. needed not to
Question 10: He was already worried lest she ____ someone what had happened.
A. would tell
B. told
C. might have told
D. had been telling
Question 11: ____ saying was so important that I asked everyone to stop talking and listen.
A. What the woman was
B. That the woman was
C. The woman was
D. What was the woman
Question 12: To plant rice, farmers, ____, set young plants in the mud.
A. whose bare feet wading in the water
B. water wading in their feet
C. wading in the water in their bare feet
D. they wade with bare feet in the water
Question 13: Not until ____ home ____ that he had taken someone else's bike.
A. did he get/he realized
B. did he get/did he realize
C. he got/did he realize
D. he got/he realized
Question 14: I’d rather you ____ anything for tonight, but I suppose it’s too late to change things now.
A. not arrange
B. didn’t arrange
C. hadn’t arranged
D. don’t arrange
Question 15: - “Have you seen the price of petrol these days?”
- “____”
A. I’m amazing, aren’t I?
B. Isn’t it great?
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C. It’s amazing, isn’t it?
D. What a lot of petrol?
Question 16: _____, they slept soundly.
A. Hot though was the night air
B. Hot though the night air was
C. Hot the night air as was
D. Hot although the nigh air was
Question 17: - "I apologize for keeping you waiting for 2 hours. My car broke down on the way."
- "____."
A. Your apology is accepted
B. You are welcome
C. Thank you
D. It's my pleasure
Question 18: When the U.S. and England proclaimed war against Iraq, the anti war protesters all
around the world ____ practically all the roads to the famous squares.
A. set up
B. took over
C. turned over
D. blocked off
Question 19: I don't think this record will ever ____.
A. get out
B. run off
C. catch on
D. put down
Question 20: It was too late to ____ of the contract.
A. back up
B. back down
C. back out
D. back away
Question 21: I’m _____a complete loss to understand why you reacted so violently
A. at
B. in
C. on
D. by
Question 22: After hours of bargaining with the salesman, Jake bought the jacket for a_____ of the
original price.
A. fraction
B. piece
C. part
D. spot
Question 23: Amelia Earhart ____history in1928 when she became the first woman to fly across the
Atlantic
A. fixed
B. made
C. prepared
D. did
Question 24: The Avicenna Partnership is a ______ company with a long and successful sales history.
A. respectable
B. respectful
C. respecting
D. respective
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) SIMILAR in meaning to
the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 25: Living in the central Australian desert has its problems, of which obtaining water is not the
least.
A. getting
B. storing
C. purifying
D. controlling
Question 26: The Industrial Revolution marked the beginning of an epoch of exodus from rural areas to
cities.
A. migration
B. period
C. episode
D. story
Question 27: The government is subsidizing the ship building industry.
A. ending
B. creating
C. aiding
D. improving
Question 28: We had to list the chronology of events in World War II on our test.
A. disaster
B. discrepancy
C. catastrophe
D. time sequence
Question 29: The price of gasoline fluctuates daily.
A. spin out of control
B. run faster
C. change frequently
D. disappear
Mark the letter A, B C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs
correction in each of the following questions:
Question 30: Digital clocks, however precise, they (A) cannot be perfectly (B) accurate because the (C)
earth’s rotation changes slightly (D) over years.
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Question 31: At the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s home in Tennessee, even his glasses have been left (A)
exactly (B) where he lay (C) them (D).
Question 32: The officials of the Board of Elections asked that each voter present (A) their (B) registration
card and a valid Texas driver’s (C) license before receiving (D) a ballot.
Question 33: Someone who (A) has ever tried to pick up (B) spilled mercury will agree that (C) this element
is hard to handle (D).
Question 34: Jaguarundis are sleek, long-tailed (A) creatures colored (B) either an (C) uniform reddish
brown or (D) dark grey.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
(35) ____ history, women have always aimed for a recognized place in (36) ____. Guided by their own
(37) ____ of knowledge and expertise, women like Marie Curie in science, Mary Wollstonecraft in literary
writing, Simone de Beauvois in philosophical existentialist debate, and Marie Stopes in medicine, to name
a few, have brought about (38)____ awareness of the role of the women in any walks of life. These women
have helped redefine and (39)____ the nature of women’s place in society. Today the (40)____ of global
women’s organizations and the impact of women’s contributions (41)____ society show that progress has
been made and the progress in furthering the role of women in society has been some benefit to the
(42)____ woman. It is true to say that not all women have the same need. The need of the woman who
stays at home and (43)____ children will differ widely from the woman who works outside. Nonetheless,
in the extensive field of equal opportunities, it would be good to know that access is given to both with
equal measure according to the true value of respective abilities. It also would be good to know that the
woman at home is recognized as a valued (44)____ of society just as much as the one who deals on business
outside the home.
Question 35: A. Among
B. Throughout
C. During
D. Upon
Question 36: A. society
B. social
C. socialize
D. socialist
Question 37: A. region
B. farm
C. field
D. path
Question 38: A. a
B. an
C. the
D. (no article)
Question 39: A. gain
B. encourage
C. force
D. consolidate
Question 40: A. right
B. belief
C. limit
D. spread
Question 41: A. on
B. for
C. to
D. at
Question 42: A. own
B. private
C. individual
D. personal
Question 43: A. rises
B. raises
C. increases
D. lift
Question 44: A. party
B. competitor
C. partner
D. member
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 45 to 54.
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Music can bring us to tears or to our feet, drive us into battle or lull us to sleep. Music is
indeed remarkable in its power over all humankind, and perhaps for that every reason, no
human culture on earth has ever lived without it. From discoveries made in France and
Slovenia even Neanderthal man, as long as 53,000 years ago, had developed surprisingly
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sophisticated, sweet-sounding flutes carved from animal bones. It is perhaps then, no accident
that music should strike such a chord with the limbic system – an ancient part of our brain,
evolutionarily speaking, and one that we share with much of the animal kingdom. Some
researchers even propose that music came into this world long before the human race ever did.
For example, the fact that whale and human music have so much in common even though our
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evolutionary paths have not interested for nearly 60 million years suggests that music may
predate humans. They assert that rather than being the inventors of music, we are latecomers
to the musical scene.
Humpback whale composers employ many of the same tricks that human songwriters do.
In addition to using similar rhythms, humpbacks keep musical phrases to a few seconds,
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creating themes out of several phrases before singing the next one. Whale songs in general are
no longer than symphony movements, perhaps because they have a similar attention span.
Even though they can sing over a range of seven octaves, the whales typically sing in key,
spreading adjacent notes no farther apart than a scale. They mix percussive and pure tones in
pretty much the same ratios as human composers – and follow their ABA form, in which a
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theme is presented, elaborated on and then revisited in a slightly modified form. Perhaps most
amazing, humpback whale songs include repeating refrains that rhyme. It has been suggested
that whales might use rhymes for exactly the same reasons that we do: as devices to help them
remember. Whale songs can also be rather catchy. When a few humpbacks from the Indian
Ocean strayed into the Pacific, some of the whales they met there quickly changed their tunes
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– singing the new whales’ songs within three short years. Some scientists are even tempted to
speculate that a universal music awaits discovery.
Question 45: Why did the author write the passage?
A. To describe the music for some animals, including humans
B. To illustrate the importance of music to whales
C. To show that music is not a human or even modern invention
D. To suggest that music is independent of life forms that use it
Question 46: The word “sophisticated” in line 5 is closest in meaning to:
A. compound
B. attractive
C. well-developed
D. beautiful
Question 47: The word “one” in line 7 can be replaced by:
A. the chord
B. the left brain
C. the right brain
D. the limbic system
Question 48: According to the passage, which of the following is true of humpback whales?
A. Their tunes are distinctively different from human tunes.
B. They can sing over a range of seven octaves.
C. They do not use rhyme, unlike humans.
D. Whale songs of a particular group cannot be learned by other whales.
Question 49: The word “They” in line 18 refers to:
A. human composers
B. whole songs
C. octaves
D. whales
Question 50: Which of the following is NOT true about humpback whale music?
A. It uses similar patterns to human songs.
B. It’s comparative in length to symphony movements.
C. It’s easy to learn by other whales.
D. It’s in a form of creating a theme, elaborating and revisiting in rhyming refrains.
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Question 51: The word “catchy” in line 24 is closest in meaning to:
A. easy to catch
B. easy to remember
C. easy to read
D. easy to think
Question 52: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. The earliest human beings came from France and Slovenia.
B. Music helped to shape the whale brain.
C. Humpback whales imitate the way human composers so in creating their own music.
D. The research of musical brain will lead to a discovery of a universal music.
Question 53: Where in the passage does the author first mention whales?
A. Lines 5-9
B. Lines 10-14
C. Lines 15-19
D. Lines 20-24
Question 54: The word ‘their” in line 25 refers to:
A. Indian Ocean humpbacks
B. Pacific Ocean humpbacks
C. all whales
D. whale songs
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the questions from 55 to 64.
The food we eat seems to have profound effects on our health. Although science has made
enormous steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat.
Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty
percent of cancer is related to the diet as well., especially cancer of the colon. People of different cultures
are more prone to contract certain illnesses because of the characteristic foods they consume.
That food is related to illness is not a new discovery. In 1945, government researchers realized
that nitrates and nitrites (commonly used to preserve color in meat) as well as other food additives caused
cancer. Yet, these carcinogenic additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to
know which ingredients on the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful.
The additives that we eat are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicillin to cattle and poultry,
and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows.
Sometimes similar drugs are administered to animals not for medicinal purposes, but for financial
reasons. The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the
market. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has tried repeatedly to control these
procedures, the practices continue.
A healthy diet is directly related to good health. Often we are unaware of detrimental substances
we ingest. Sometimes well-meaning farmers or others who do not realize the consequences add these
substances to food without our knowledge.
Question 55. How has science done a disservice to people?
A: The scientists have preserved the color of meats, but not of vegetables.
B: It caused a lack of information concerning the value of food.
C: As a result of scientific intervention, some potentially harmful substances have been added to our
food
D: Because of science, disease caused by contaminated food has been virtually eradicated.
Question 56. The word “prone” is nearest in meaning to ______.
A: healthy
B: predisposed
C: supine
D: unlikely
Question 57. What are nitrates used for?
A: They preserve the colour of meat.
B: They preserve flavor in packaged foods.
C: They are the objects of research.
D: They cause the animals to become fatter.
Question 58. FDA means ______.
A: Federal Dairy Additives
B: Final Difficult Analysis
C: Food Direct Additives
D: Food and Drug Administration
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Question 59. The word “these” refers to ______.
A: nitrates and nitrites
B: researchers
C: meats
D: colors
Question 60. The word “carcinogenic” is closest in meaning to ______.
A: cancer-causing
B: trouble-making
C: money-making
D: color-retaining
Question 61. All of the following statements are TRUE except ______.
A: Researchers have known about the potential hazards of food additives for more than forty-five
years
B: Drugs are always given to animals for medical reasons
C: Some of the additives in our food are added to the food itself and some are given to the living
animals
D: Food may cause forty percent of the cancer in the world
Question 62. The word “additives” is closest in meaning to ______.
A: benign substances
B: added substances
C: natural substances
D: dangerous substances
Question 63. What is the best title for this passage?
A: Harmful and Harmless Substances in Food.
B: Avoiding Injurious Substances in Food.
C: The Food You Eat Can Affect Your Health.
D: Improving Health through a Natural Diet.
Question 64. The word “ fit” is closest in meaning to ______.
A: tasty
B: suitable
C: athletic
D: adaptable
WRITING
Part I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence
printed before it.
Question 65: I was astonished by her confidence.
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Question 66: I don’t really like her, even though I admire her achievements.
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Question 67: He speaks more persuasively than his brother.
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Question 68: The only way to eliminate world terrorism is by united opposition.
 ……………………………………………………………………………………..
Question 69: Someone has stolen the boss’s car.
 ……………………………………………………………………………………..
Part II. In about 140 words, write a paragraph about an important person in your life.
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BÀI LÀM THAM KHẢO CỦA HỌC SINH:
The most important person in my life is no one but my mother. She is not only my mother but also my
very first teacher. When I was little, I was taught to be brave, honest and kind to everyone. She told me
the characteristics which made my life meaningful. Everytime I am in troubles, she’s always beside me
and encourages me so much whereby everything seems to be easy again. Obviously, my mother is like a
fairy who brings happiness and peace to my soul, helping me fight against all difficulties. She is even
kinder than a fairy because I always have her for every step in my life. Although I have saddened her a
few times, she always forgives my mistakes. I do want to say “I love you so much for all the things
you’ve done for me, mother!”. (142 words)
My mother is a person who plays an important part in my life. She is the most caring woman I have ever
known. Although being very busy at work, she still takes the responsibility for housework. She is always
the first one to get up in the morning to preare breakfast for us. In the afternoon, after work at the
hospital, she hurries home to make sure that dinner is ready on the table by the time my Dad gets home.
Not only is she caring but she is also very benign. When I make mistakes, she is always willing to
forgive me and give me constructive advice. She also teaches me how to behave, how to act like an
educated man and how to be happy in life. All in all, I always consider that Mom is a perfect woman and
I do want to say thank-you to her. (150 words)
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