Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks.
In the modem world, there is a wealth of leisure activities to choose from. Entertainment industries (46)______ for your leisure time. You can watch TV, listen to music, go to an art gallery or concert or, of course, read a book. Sometimes it seems that reading is (47)_________ because, even if you’re a fast reader, it can take a (48)_____ amount of time to finish a novel, for example. But in the modem world, time is something that can be in short supply. Book publishers haven’t been (49)________ to realize this and are now selling a product which needn’t (50)________ as much of your time but still tells you an excellent story. The new product is the audiobook – cassette recordings of shortened novels, often read by well-known personalities or the authors themselves. Audiobooks are (51)_____ new but people are becoming more aware of them and sales are increasing all the time. One of the attractions of audiobooks is that they’re (52)______ listening to the radio, only better. You can listen to what you want when you want, and you won’t even miss anything. Much of their appeal (53)_________ in their flexibility. They allow you to do other things while you’re listening, such as driving or (54)________ the housework. For some people, audiobooks can be a much more enjoyable way of (55)_______ knowledge than reading.

46__________

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Although the world’s energy resources have taken many millions of years to produce, we are quickly beginning to …(1)… these supplies. Recently a UN committee reported that the world’s oil and gas supplies would last about 100 years if used carefully. The report stated that …(2)… would be enough oil and gas for a century only if the present demand could be controlled. If the demand continued to …(3)…, the report said that fuel supplies would …(4)… for less than forty years. According to the report, governments must now take steps to control the amounts of fossil fuels that are used.

4___________

Read the following text, then choose the correct answer for each question.

The general principles of dynamics are rules that demonstrate a relationship between the motions of bodies and the forces that produce those motions. Based in large part on the work of his predecessors. Sir Isaac Newton deduced three laws of dynamics, which he published in his famous Principia.

Before Newton, Aristotle had established that the natural state of a body was a state of rest and that unless a force acted upon it to maintain motion, a moving body would come to rest. Galileo had succeeded incorrectly in describing the behavior of falling objects and in recording that no force was required to maintain a body in motion. He noted that the effect of force was to change motion. Huygens recognized that a change in the direction of motion involved acceleration just as did a change in speed, and further, that the action of a force was required. Kepler deduced the laws describing the motion of planets around the sun. It was primarily from Galileo and Kepler that Newton borrowed.

In short, Newton’s Laws of Motion are: (1) a body at rest remains at rest, and a body in motion remains in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced force, (2) if an unbalanced force acts upon a body, the momentum of the body changes in proportion to the force and the same direction as the force, (3) to every action or force, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

What was the main purpose of this passage?

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option for each of the blanks.

The telephone was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman who became a US citizen. The word ‘telephone’ had been (61)_________ existence since the 1830s and had been (62)_______ to several inventions designed to produce sound.

Bell had become interested in the possibility of long-distance speech in his work with the deaf. He was twenty-eight and his assistant, Thomas Watson, was (64)______twenty-one when they achieved their great success on 10 March 1876. Despite their long and close association, Bell’s first communication by telephone was not “Tom, come here, I want you”, (65)_________ “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you”.

Filled with excitement, Bell and Watson demonstrated their invention to a US telegram company. The company wrote to Bell, (66)_______ that his invention was interesting. However, after giving it careful consideration, they had (67)________ to the conclusion that it had “no future”. Fortunately for Bell, others could see the possibilities. (68)_____ four years of its invention, the US had 60,000 telephones. In the next twenty years that figure increased to over 6 million.

Today, ninety-three percent of US homes have a phone, a (69)______ of phone ownership no other nation comes near to equal. Each US household makes or receives (70)______ average 3,516 calls per year, an astonishing statistic.

62____________

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each of the following questions by circling its corresponding letter A, B, C, or D. 

Most people agreed that pop music (1) _____________ in the United States in the 1950s and that it developed from black American music. Since its advent, it was especially (2) _____________ young people. In many countries, they liked listening to it and dancing to it (3) _____________ it was exciting and it was a way of rebelling against their parents’ generation. Many parents strongly (4) _____________ of it. They disliked the way many pop stars looked and acted. They thought the music was rubbish (5) _____________ the group couldn’t sing or play their instruments properly. They said that pop music wouldn’t last for long.

Today, attitudes are different. Many of today’s parents are people (6) _____________ loved the music when they were young and still do. As a result of this, pop music is no longer for the young. (7) _____________ addition, some of the stars (8) _____________ careers began a long time ago and who are now middle-aged are just as popular today as they were then. Their original fans still like them, perhaps, because they (9) _____________ them of when they were young. At the same time, new generations of young people buy their records and go to their concerts. So pop music was not just a brief fashion. All these years (10) _____________, it is more popular than ever.

3.___________

Read the passage and choose one correct answer: A, B, C, or D. 
A computer is a wonderful machine. It is the most important invention in our modern time. Computers have had a great effect on science, industry, business, machine, and education. Soon it will touch the lives of everyone, even people in distant villages. It is a revolutionary invention.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Imagine that you go and study English at a college where the local newspaper rarely has news about your hometown, but this does not bother you at all. You can sit comfortably in your room, turn on your personal computer, and search the news you want on the Internet. The screen is immediately filled with news from all over the world.

Computers can do all kinds of work. When someone buys something in a department store, a clerk puts information about the sale into a computer. During the night, the computer system works on the information from all the sales that day. In the morning, the manager can print out a report on everything that was sold and also on everything that must be reordered.

A computer_________.

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the passage below
Hi. We are from Neptune, the eighth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. Our planet is named (6) ___________ the Roman god of the sea. The climate here is very unfriendly, with a temperature of around -300 degrees Celsius, and the winds are very strong. Actually, we have a lot of storms here. Everything is freezing on the (7) ___________ of Neptune, so of course we don’t have liquid water. To be able to survive here, we have to build all of our cities underground, a hundred kilometers beneath the surface. Luckily, we don’t have Neptune-quakes!
Our life here is very different from your life on earth. Because it’s extremely (8) ___________ underground, we have a very good lighting system on round the clock. Every day, we need only three hours for sleep, four hours for work, and the rest of the day we (9) ___________ on our leisure activities. So life is relaxing. Most of us like traveling to other planets for new experiences. Although we are (10) ___________ than you in size, we can move very fast. In fact, we have wings, so we can fly. Thus, we don’t suffer heavy traffic like on your earth. We don’t have oxygen either, but we live on hydrogen.

 Because it’s extremely (8) ___________ underground, we have a very good lighting system on round the clock. 

Choose the correct word to complete the passage below.

It was the American sitcom (56)________ defined a generation and introduced one of the world’s most famous haircuts. The six stars of “Friends”, among the longest-running, most successful series ever to hit the small screen, went their separate ways in 237 (57)_______ and a decade together as flatmates, sharing the trials of their lives, loves, and careers (58)________ a trendy New York apartment. The last episode was seen by an estimated world audience of over 100 million(59)______.

“Friends had a huge (60)______ on American TV history,” said Steve Beverly, professor of communication arts. “This group of six reflected a microcosm of what people their age encountered in their daily lives. Viewers related to them. We all wanted a life (61)______ theirs – the cool New York flat with table football and easy chairs, and the social circle of beautiful, supportive (62)______ around.”

“Friends” is (63)______ more than just a sitcom, it’s a way of life. The characters were supposed to be in their mid-twenties, with lives (64)__________ by work and responsibility. They led a lazy and relaxed life altogether. With the cast approaching forty, the show had to (65)__________ to an end, but “Friends” will last forever.

9___________

Read the following two passages and choose the correct answer for each of the questions.

The invention of the phonograph happened quite a by accident. Thomas Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in 1876, where he established an industrial research laboratory. There Edison worked on a carbon telephone transmitter to improve the existing Bell system. In that laboratory a year later Edison invented the phonograph while trying to improve a telegraph repeater. He attached a telephone diaphragm to the needle in the telegraph repeater to produce a recording that could be played back. After some improvements to the machine, he recited “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and played the recognizable reproduction of his voice back to an astonished audience.

Which of the following could be the best title for the passage?

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each of the following questions by circling its corresponding letter A, B, C, or D. 

Most people agreed that pop music (1) _____________ in the United States in the 1950s and that it developed from black American music. Since its advent, it was especially (2) _____________ young people. In many countries, they liked listening to it and dancing to it (3) _____________ it was exciting and it was a way of rebelling against their parents’ generation. Many parents strongly (4) _____________ of it. They disliked the way many pop stars looked and acted. They thought the music was rubbish (5) _____________ the group couldn’t sing or play their instruments properly. They said that pop music wouldn’t last for long.

Today, attitudes are different. Many of today’s parents are people (6) _____________ loved the music when they were young and still do. As a result of this, pop music is no longer for the young. (7) _____________ addition, some of the stars (8) _____________ careers began a long time ago and who are now middle-aged are just as popular today as they were then. Their original fans still like them, perhaps, because they (9) _____________ them of when they were young. At the same time, new generations of young people buy their records and go to their concerts. So pop music was not just a brief fashion. All these years (10) _____________, it is more popular than ever.

5._________

Chọn đáp án thích hợp nhất (A, B, C hoặc D) để điền vào chỗ trống trong đoạn văn sau: 
            The most effective way of learning a language is by living in the country...(46).., but parents should think carefully before they send their children abroad. ..(47.)..some organizations arrange visits for children as young as ten, the majority of them won’t be ready…(48)...away from home and deal with cultural differences…(49)... they are in their teens. Even then they will need a basic knowledge of the language and some experience of foreign travel before they go. Exchange visits are a good way for teenagers to improve their language …(50).. . It is a good idea for them to exchange correspondence before the visits. ..(.51.)..families should not ….(52).. any obligation to provide an extensive programme of entertainment. It is more important to make the guest feel...(53)... Travel can ...(54)… the mind, and exchange visits give young people an experience of a different way of life ..(55)… a different language.

49_________

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks.
The big issue for plane-makers planning for the future is size, not speed. With the skies already full of air traffic, and with worse to (46)_________, the important questions for the designers are how many passengers they can fit into the new super-planes and who will be (47)_________to build them first. Imagine yourself ten years from now in a packed airport departure lounge. Eight hundred passengers are waiting with you for their first flight on one of a remarkable range of super-planes, and the check-in time (48)__________ have been as much as four hours before take-off to allow for the extra people. Impossible? Far from it. Designs for these planes are already (49)_________ on a computer at the world’s top aircraft manufacturers, waiting to be turned (50)_________ reality. The airlines badly need the new jets to (51)________ with future increases in passenger (52)________ . A billion passengers a year are currently carried by air, but that figure is (53)___________ to double by the year 2020. The only practical of avoiding making the skies even busier is to build much bigger planes. The race to build the new jets is the hottest contest in the airliner business. Manufacturers are working (55)______ with the major airlines to produce designs that will please airlines and passengers alike.

51___________

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks.
In the modem world, there is a wealth of leisure activities to choose from. Entertainment industries (46)______ for your leisure time. You can watch TV, listen to music, go to an art gallery or concert or, of course, read a book. Sometimes it seems that reading is (47)_________ because, even if you’re a fast reader, it can take a (48)_____ amount of time to finish a novel, for example. But in the modem world, time is something that can be in short supply. Book publishers haven’t been (49)________ to realize this and are now selling a product which needn’t (50)________ as much of your time but still tells you an excellent story. The new product is the audiobook – cassette recordings of shortened novels, often read by well-known personalities or the authors themselves. Audiobooks are (51)_____ new but people are becoming more aware of them and sales are increasing all the time. One of the attractions of audiobooks is that they’re (52)______ listening to the radio, only better. You can listen to what you want when you want, and you won’t even miss anything. Much of their appeal (53)_________ in their flexibility. They allow you to do other things while you’re listening, such as driving or (54)________ the housework. For some people, audiobooks can be a much more enjoyable way of (55)_______ knowledge than reading.

52___________

Read the following text, then choose the correct answer for each question.

The general principles of dynamics are rules that demonstrate a relationship between the motions of bodies and the forces that produce those motions. Based in large part on the work of his predecessors. Sir Isaac Newton deduced three laws of dynamics, which he published in his famous Principia.

Before Newton, Aristotle had established that the natural state of a body was a state of rest and that unless a force acted upon it to maintain motion, a moving body would come to rest. Galileo had succeeded correctly in describing the behavior of falling objects and in recording that no force was required to maintain a body in motion. He noted that the effect of force was to change motion. Huygens recognized that a change in the direction of motion involved acceleration just as did a change in speed, and further, that the action of a force was required. Kepler deduced the laws describing the motion of planets around the sun. It was primarily from Galileo and Kepler that Newton borrowed.

In short, Newton’s Laws of Motion are: (1) a body at rest remains at rest, and a body in motion remains in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced force, (2) if an unbalanced force acts upon a body, the momentum of the body changes in proportion to the force and the same direction as the force, (3) to every action or force, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

The word ‘momentum ’ in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to_________ .

Read the following passages and choose the correct answer to each question.

What is the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome? Past research has suggested a link to the Epstein-Barr virus, but now many scientists are questioning that connection. New findings suggest that the Epstein-Barr virus is not a primary cause, but it may still trigger the illness. The symptoms may be due to a variety of things, rather than just one. Still, some researchers are sticking with the idea of the Epstein-Barr virus causing the illness. They say that it is premature to make such a judgment.
Chronic fatigue syndrome has been dubbed the “yuppie disease” by some since it is often diagnosed in professional women in their twenties and thirties. It may be the result of never recovering completely from illnesses such as the flu. Though the cause is not clear, the symptoms are. To be a fatigue sufferer, one must have the debilitating illness for more than six months and must exhibit at least eight of the eleven symptoms, including sore throat, mild fever, and muscular aches.

Chronic fatigue syndrome will cause which of the following?

Read the following two passages and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.

Rock and soil samples brought back from the moon by the Apollo astronauts have taught scientists much about the composition of the moon. Moon soil contains small bits of rock and glass and was probably ground from larger rocks when meteors impacted the surface of the moon. Scientists found no trace of animal or plant life in the moon soil. In addition to the moon soil, astronauts gathered two basic types of rocks from the surface of the moon: basalt and breccia. Basalt is a cooled and hardened volcanic lava common to the earth. Since basalt is formed under extremely high temperatures, the presence of this type of rock is an indication that the temperature of the moon was once extremely hot. Breccia, the other kind of rock brought back by the astronauts, was formed during the impact of falling objects on the surface of the moon. This second type of rock consists of small pieces of rock compressed together by the force of impact. Gases such as hydrogen and helium were found in some of the rocks, and scientists believe that these gases were carried to the moon on the streams of gases that are constantly emitted from the sun.

According to the passage, what do scientists believe about the gases found in the moon rocks?

Read the following two passages and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.

Modern zoos are very different from zoos that were built fifty years ago. At that time, zoos were places where people could go to see animals from parts of the world. The animals lived in cages that were made of concrete with iron bars, cages that were easy to keep clean. Unfortunately for the animals, the cages were small and impossible to hide in. The zoo environment was anything but natural. Although the zookeepers took good care of the animals and fed them well, many of the animals did not thrive; they behaved in strange ways, and they often became ill.

In modern zoos, people can see animals in more natural habitats. The animals are given more freedom in large areas so that they live more as they would in nature. Even the appearance of zoos has changed. Trees and grass grow in the cages, and the streams of water flow through the areas that the animals live in. There are few bars; instead, there is often only a deep ditch, filled with water, which is called a moat. The moat surrounds an area where several species of animals live together as they would naturally. For example, in the San Diego Zoo, the visitors can walk through a huge special cage that is filled with trees, some small animals, and many birds. This particular kind of cage is called an aviary; it is large enough that the birds can live naturally. The birds in the aviary fly around, make nests in the trees, and hunt for food. At the Zoological Park in New York City, because of special night lights, people can observe nocturnal animals that most people have never seen; these animals are active only at night when most zoos are closed. In a zoo like the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, people can see animals that live in special environments like the desert. Some other zoos have special places for visitors to watch animals that live underwater like fish. Still, other zoos have special places for animals that live in cold polar surroundings like the great white bear from the Arctic region.

Modern zoos not only display animals for visitors, but they also preserve and save endangered species. Endangered animals such as the American bald eagle and bison are now living and producing offspring in zoos. For this reason, fifty years from now the grandchildren of today’s visitors will still be able to enjoy watching these animals.

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the article?

Read the text then choose the best option to answer the question

Long ago a lot of people thought the moon was God. Other people thought it was just a light in the sky. And others thought it was a big ball cheese!

The telescopes were made. And men saw that the moon was really another world. They wondered what it was like. They dreamed of going there.

On July 20th, 1969, that dream came true. Two American men landed on the moon. Their names were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin. The first thing the men found was that the moon is covered with dust. The dust is so thick that the men left footprints where they walked. Those were the first marks a living thing had ever made on the moon. And they could stay there for years and years. There is no wind or rain to wipe them off.

The two men walked on the moo for hours. They picked up rocks to bring back to earth for study. They dug up dirt to bring back. They set up machines to find out things people wanted to know. Then they climbed back into their moon landing craft.
Next day the landing craft roared as the men took off the moon. They joined Michael Collins in the spaceship that wait for them above the moon. Then they were off on their long trip back to earth.

Behind them they left the plains and tall mountains of the moon. They left the machines they had set up.
And they left footprints that may last forever.
 This story tells …………….

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

Past explorers have made vast contributions to our knowledge of the world today. They braved the oceans to discover the world and to bring their goods to other countries to trade.

Many explorers had to overcome their fear of the unknown to travel around the world on their sailing ships. Submitting themselves to unpredictable weather conditions, each explorer either traveled further than his predecessor or tried to find a different route to already discovered countries. For example, Vasco Da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, established a sea route from Europe to India. He had extended the sea route that Bartolomeu Dias had already done when he later sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa.

More importantly, explorers first closed the gap between the east and the west by trading their local goods with foreign ones. India was known for its spices such as nutmeg and cinnamon while China was known for its silk. A part of the east was brought to the west when western gourmets developed a taste for eastern spices in their food. People in the east dressed in clothes that were previously only worn in the west.

Without the explorers, many of us would still be living in our own enclave with little knowledge of the vast world and what other foreign countries have to offer us.

Based on the third paragraph, the___________ of people changed when they came into contact with foreigners.

Choose the correct option for each of the gaps to finish the passage.

A very important world problem it may be the most important of all the great world problems which face us at present – is the rapidly increasing pressure of population (41) _______ the land. The important thing is not so (42)_____ the actual population of the world at present, but its rate of increase. It works (43)_____ to be about 1.6 percent annual net increase. In numbers, it means something (44)_________ forty-five to fifty million additional people every year. Take Australia. There are about 18 million people in Australia. So it takes the world less than three months to (45)____________ itself a population which populates that vast (46)________ Speaking of birth rate, look at the second hand of your watch. Every second, three babies are born somewhere in the world. You cannot (47)__________ quickly enough to keep up with the birth rate. This enormous increase of population (48)_____ immense problems. In about 20 years, (49)________ something terrible happens there will be as many as a billion people on the surface of the earth!

So this is a problem which you are going to (50)_____in your lifetime.

42____________

Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.

A geyser is the result of underground water under the combined conditions of high temperatures and increased pressure beneath the surface of the earth. Since temperature rises approximately one degree F for every sixty feet under the earth’s surface, and pressure increases with depth, water that seeps down in cracks and fissures until it reaches very hot rocks in the earth’s interior becomes heated to a temperature in excess of 290 degrees F. Because of the greater pressure, it shoots out of the surface in the form of steam and hot water. The result is a geyser.
For the most part, geysers are located in three regions of the world: New Zealand, Iceland, and the Yellowstone National Park area of the United States. The most famous geyser in the world is Old Faithful in Yellowstone Park. Old Faithful erupts almost every hour, rising to a height of 125 to 170 feet and expelling more than ten thousand gallons during each eruption.

As depth increases,__________.