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BẮC GIANG 10
1. All authors need to be wary of ______ copying of other people's ideas.
A. disapproval

B. inadvertent

C. instrumental

D. freak

2. It may yet ______ that ministers knew more than they are admitting at the
moment.
A. transpire

B. assign

C. ascribe

D. startle

3. I was just content to see my daughter in such a stable relationship but a
grandchild, that really was the ______ on the cake.
A. icing

B. chilling

C. freezing

D. cooling

4. I thought it was better to ______ on the side of caution rather than take a risk.

A. blunder

B. err

C. mischief

D. transgress

5. It’s up to the course to decide, in the exercise of their ______, whether to
grant the favour or not.
A. circumspection B. discretion

C. judiciousness

D. prudence

6. With her beauty and charm, she ______ film audiences everywhere.
A. brightened

B. advocated

C. cultivated

D. captivated

7. After the newspaper story appeared his reputation was in ______.
A. fragments

B. scraps

C. tatters

D. segments

8. In friendship we ______ the embarrassment of a dissident disclosure.
A. are at pains to avoid

B. are on pain of avoidance

C. are under pain of avoidance

D. avoid for one another’s pains

9. After years of working together, the partners found themselves ______
linked.
A. permanently

B. indelibly

C. perpetually

D. inextricably

10. She was tired and ______ by the time she arrived home.
A. on the mend
fever

B. over the worst C. out of sorts

D.

under

the


11. People whose main concern is ______ may eventually develop some serious
health problems.
A. not to be overfed

B. not to be overfeeding

C. not to overfed

D. not overfeeding

12. A new generation of performers, ______ those who by now had become
household name, honed their skills before following the same path onto
television.
A. no less talented than

B. together with talented with

C. along with talented with

D. having been more talented than

13. There was such a strange ______ message on my voicemail that I couldn’t
understand.
A. inexplicable

B. muddled

C. garbled

D. illegible

14. When wood, natural gas, oil or any other fuel burns, ______ with oxygen in
the air to produce heat.
A. combining substances in the fuel

B. substances in the fuel that

combine
C. substances in the fuel combine

D. a combination of substances in

the fuel
15. After not speaking to each other for years, the two brothers decided to
______.
A. bury the hatchet

B. bury the lead

C. hide behind

D. hide your head in the sand

16. Providing homeless people with somewhere to stay when the weather is

cold only ______ the problem, it doesn't solve it.
A. boils down

B skates around

C. strings along

down
17. _____ earning all that money if you don’t have time to enjoy it?
A. Is it to the good

B. What’s the good of

C. Is it all to the good

D. Is it good for

D. tracks


18. The senator is opposed to any laws that infringe on a citizen’s right to free
speech.
A. infringed

B. impeached

C. abrogated

D. quashed

19. Perhaps you could ______ the chairwoman ______ before the meeting, to
see which way she's going to vote?
A. leak….out

B. come …..off

C. sound ….out

D.

bring

…..round
20. You ______ in this report to the managing director personally. Do you
understand?
A. are to hand

B. would like to hand

C. may have handed

D. would sooner hand

BẮC GIANG 11
1.With patience and diplomacy, she eventually ______ the son of the billiondollar company into marrying her.
A. deluded

B. inveigled

C. cruised

D. swindled

2. ______ piety has degraded in modern society as more children are
disobedient and disrespectful to their parents.
A. Filial

B. Childhood

C. Familial

D. Fraternal

3. After our three-hour hike, I had a sandwich and it tasted like the best food in
the world. Hunger is the best ______.
A. chef

B. sauce

C. seasoning

D. flavor

4. You are being unnecessarily ______ by spending too much time on the
details of your CV.
A. recalcitrant

B. mendacious

C. dogmatic

D. pedantic


5. Although the room was ______ decorated in gold and silver, it was not my
type.
A. ostentatiously

B. tantalizingly

C. gregariously

D. benevolently

6. You should stop buying those fancy sneakers, money doesn’t grow on
______.
A. grass

B. air

C. trees

D. land

7. Cold was the steel of my ______ for the boys who broke my heart.
A. hatchet to bury

B. axe to grind

C. screw to loose

D. nail to hit

8. I know she's had a hard time, but that is by no means a justifiable reason for
her to ______ her ex-husband of all his money.
A. dry

B. cede

C. take

D. milk

9. He only goes to watch a match when his favorite team plays, otherwise, he
has no ______ in the fight.
A. bull

B. chick

C. dog

D. bet

10. Human Resources managers complain that there is a ______ of talented
candidates.
A dearth

B. vestige

C. replica

D. drought

11. I have written books myself, to the dismay and despair of my few friends,
and the ______ delight of an ever-increasing circle of enemies.
A. exultant

B. exuberant

C. exorbitant

D. extempore

12. After 6 years serving, Harry was ______ from the army following his severe
injury.
A. evicted

B. discharged

C. excluded

D. detained


13. The police were corrupt and were operating in ______ with the drug dealers.
A. intricacy

B. tandem

C. agreement

D. collusion

14. Her racist comments came under severe ______.
A. censure

B. admonition

C. precept

D. vindication

15. I need to meet with Jim before the negotiations to make sure that we will be
on the same ______ when we meet with the other company.
A. line

B. boat

C. page

D. stage

BẮC KAN 10
1. The _______ of gases from car exhausts is one of the main causes of air
pollution.
A. magnitude

B. vibration

C. emission

D.

degradation
2. The criminal _______ guilty by the jury, and the judge sentenced him to nine
years in prison.
A. found

B. was found

C. is found

D.

had

found
3. I think we ought to see the rest of the exhibition as quickly as we can,
_________ that it closes in half an hour.
A. granted

B. assuming

C. given

D.

knowing
4. After a fall in profits, the company decided _________ the hotel business.
A. to pull out of

B. to back off from

C. to take out of

D. to keep away from


5. I prefer to practice the violin alone in my bedroom as having other
members of the family listen really ......... my style.
A. restricts

B. impedes

C. obstructs

D.

cramps
6. Ann's injuries took a long time to ..... completely and she has been left with
several scars.
A. cure

B. remedy

C. heal

D. treat

7. Mr. Parris said he’d like ……………….. by Monday, if that’s possible.

A. the report finished

B. finished the report

C. the report will be finished

D. have the report finished

8. I always get ……………….. in my stomach before visiting the dentist.
A. worms

B. butterflies

C. crabs

D.

hedgehogs
9. ______ was caused by breathing impure air was once a common belief.
A. Malaria

B. That malaria

C. Why malaria

D.

Because malaria
10 ______ at home requires only three types of chemicals, several pieces of
simple equipment, and running water.

A. For the development of film

B. To develop film

C. When film is developed

D. In developing film

11. His appearance at the reception with the late Mayor’s widow caused
something of a __________.
A. confusion

B. rumour

C. wonder

D. stir

12. A boycott of other countries’ sporting events appears a politically more
expedient form of protest than trade _________.
A. treaties
sanctions

B. actions

C. blocks

D.

13. He gave such a ________ speech that some people actually fell asleep.
A. long-range

B. long-term

C. long-winded

D. long-

standing
14. She wants me to carry out a special ________for her.
A. assignment

B. assessment

C. assertion

D.

C. humorously

D.

persistence
15 She found the movie ________ funny.
A. comically

B. jokingly

hilariously

16. He crept in ____________ his parents should wake up.
A. unless

B. lest

C. otherwise

D.

whereby
17. They threatened to cancel the whole project ____________.
A. thick and fast

B. at a stroke

C. on the whole

D. of set purpose
18. “Thank you very much. I haven’t been to ____________ party for ages,”
said the woman.
A. so enjoyable a

B. the so enjoyable

C. a so enjoyable D. so

enjoyable
19. No one really knows who composed this piece of music, but it has been
___________ to Bach.
A. identified

B. associated

C. referred

D.

attributed
20. Too many hotels have been built and this has ___________ down prices,
making holidays cheaper.
A forced
reduced
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B. cut

C. slowed

D.


1. These days, schools no longer _______ girls away from STEM subjects
thanks to the propagation of gender equality.
A. direct
B. drive
C. steer
D. guide
2. His talent meant he could create wondrous things, but his _______ meant he
hardly ever felt like working.
A. adversity

B. lethargy
C. inepitude
D. tactlessness
3. An unusual noise from the back of the class during the exam _______ the
teacher’s attention.
A. held
B. sustained
C. arrested
D. upheld
4. Peter is _______ on classical music. He can talk about it all day.
A. wide
B. deep
C. big
D. high
5. Cinderella wore a beatiful dress to the party and was the _______ of the ball.
A. beauty
B. belle
C. center
D. charmer
6. You can try reformatting your computer, but once you open that _______,
you’ll probably be working on it for days.
A. apple of discord
B. can of worms
C. load of cobblers
D. spot of bother
7. I like both teaching and researching so the position of a professor in a
college is a kind of halfway _______ between the two for me.
A. house
B. line
C. road

D. hunch
8. Her living room, with its delicate furniture and knickknacks, made him fell
like a bull in a _______ shop.
A. China
B. French
C. Swedish
D. German
9. The supervisor claimed that our reseach had more holes than _______
chesse. We need to conduct it again, with more effort and consideration.
A. American
B. Swiss
C. Cheddar
D. Burata
10.If there happened to be both rich and poor people, as there happen to be both
black and white ones, then the advantages of the _______ might well spread
in time to the hard-up.
A. well-heeled
B. big-hearted
C. open-handed
D. tight-fisted
11.It is hoped that this meeting will pave the way for ______ peace.
A. long-lasting
B. long-running
C. long-standing
D. long-winded
12.Travelling to Norway and experiencing the Nothern Lights first hand was
always at the very top of Mary’s _______ list.
A. luggage
B. lag
C. basket

D. bucket


13.The football fans were coming in _______ to watch the final game. An hour
before the kickoff the stadium was packed full.
A. fingers and thumbs
B. bits and bobs
C. dribs and drabs
D. bibs and tuckers
14.I've searched ________ for that old photo album, but I can't find it anywhere.
A. high and low
B. long and short
C. straight and narrow
D. thick and thin
15.I'm afraid we got our _______ crossed — I thought my husband would be
picking up the children and he thought I was doing it.
A. minds
B. purposes
C. wires
D. fingers
HẠ LONG 10
1. Your face looks red. You’ve really ______ the sun, haven’t you?.
A. caught

B. had

C. made

D. owned

2. Camels have either one hump or two humps. The Arabian camel has one
hump. The Bactrian camel, ____ has two humps.
A. nevertheless

B. however

C. therefore

D.

otherwise
3. The strike was ____ owing to a last-minute agreement with the
management.
A. broken up
4.

B. called off C. come through

D. set back

____ any other politician would have given way to this sort of pressure

years ago.
A. Really

B. Practically

C. Actually

D. Utterly

5. I know you have been working very hard today. Let’s ____ and go home.
A. pull my legg B. call it a day
cons

C. put your back up

D.

pros

and


6.

Buying shares in this company is as safe as ____. There’s no way you can

lose your money.
A. houses

B. a bank

C. gold bars

D. a vault

7. ____ their heads in his direction, he knew they were interested.
A. Seeing them both turn

B. On seeing they both turn

C. When he saw them both to turn

D. After seeing them both to have

turned
8.

When he examined the gun, the detective’s suspicion turned into ____.
A. certainty

9.

B. confirmation

C. reality

D. conclusion

I usually buy my clothes ______. It’s cheaper than going to the

dressmaker.
A. on the house

B. off the peg

C. in public

D. on the

shelf
10. My father _______ when he found out that I had damaged his car.
A. brought the house down

B. saw pink elephants

C. made my blood boil

D. hit the roof

11. I was in a quandary ______ what to say.
A. as to

B. for

C. owing to

D. of

12. We’ll have to take what he says on ______.
A. trust
confidence

B. faith

C. belief

D.

13. All building work must be carried out ______ safety regulations..
A. on behalf of

B. with obedience to

C. in compliance with

D. with reference to

14. The rents in this area are ______ the highest in the city.
A. far from away

B. away by far

C. far and away

D. far or

away
15. General Custer was confident of victory despite being vastly _______ by
the enemy.
A. outnumbered

B. outclassed

C. overcome

D.

overtaken
16. D

17. B

18. C

19. B

20. C

16. This painting stands a good __________ of winning a prize
A. possibility

B. opportunity

C. certainty

D.

chance
17. When the Chairman ran off with his secretary, the Board tried to _______
the matter.
A. switch off

B. hush up

C. calm down

D.

tuck

away
18. For most male spiders courtship is a perilous procedure, for they may be
eaten by females.
A. complicated
ordinary

B. peculiar

C. dangerous

D.


19. It must be true. I heard it straight from the ___________ mouth.
A. dog's

B. horse's

C. camel's

D. cat's

20. It was some time before she came to ________ with the fact that she had
lost.
A. catches

B. holds

C. grips

D. grabs

HẠ LONG 11
1. The draw took place yesterday but the competition winners ___________.
A. are yet to be announced

B. haven't been yet announced

C. yet are to be announced

D. haven't announced yet

2. The streets ___________ people celebrating the national team's victory.
A. had crammed by

B. were crammed by

C. crammed with

D. were crammed with

3. The celebrity ___________ to appear in the new advertising campaign.
A. consented

B. permitted

C. endorsed

D. advocated

4. We attended an in-depth and ___________ presentation on urbanisation and its impacts on
society.
A. wide-ranging

B. weather-beaten

C. never-ending

D. thought-provoking

5. Unless you ___________ yourself to the task, you’re bound to make mistakes.
A. resign

B. occupy

C. hold

D. apply

6. The plan received ___________ support although none of the committee spoke openly in
its favor.
A. silent

B. quiet

C. mute

D. tacit

7. Now I am unemployed, I have too much time ___________ and don’t know what to do
with myself.
A. in my hands

B. on my hands

C. to hand

D. in hand


8. I was all set to take the job in Tokyo, but at the last minute I ___________ and decided to
stay in Britain.
A. pulled my finger out

B. got cold feet

C. held my horses

D. called it a day

9. If the rain doesn’t ___________ soon, we shall have to look for a taxi.
A. set about

B. let up

C. slow down

D. go off

10. She is always ___________ her boss, which is quite embarrassing.
A. making up to

B. looking up to

C. doing up for

D. running up against

11. I fulfilled all the necessary prerequisites and ___________, I was not accepted by the
University of Leeds.
A. therefore
B. however
C. still
D. since
12. I hope I ___________ my PhD by next year because I’m really eager to get a job and start
working.
A. am going to finish B. am finishing
C. will have finished D. finish
13. For most Spanish literature students, it is the work of Miguel de Cervantes that often has
the most ___________ effect.
A. prominent
B. profound
C. renowned
D. popular
14. The local community experienced a marked ___________ in their living conditions after
the earthquake hit.
A. decline

B. decay
C. deterioration
D. descend
15. There is much ___________ about which political party will win the upcoming elections.
A. speculation
B. avoidance
C. criticism
D. rebellion

HÒA BÌNH 10
1. The police ______ off the street where the bomb had gone off.
A. battened

B. cordoned

C. fastened

D.

shuttered
2. He praised his wife for her dignity under the ______ of the tabloid press.
A. onslaught
offensive

B. assault

C. onset

D.

3. No decision has been taken about the building of the new airport. The
authorities are still ______.
A. beating about the bush

B. comparing apples

and oranges
C. sitting on the fence

D. holding all the aces  

4. Both of the jobs I’ve been offered are fantastic opportunities – I’m in such
______!
A. a constituency

B. a deviation

C. an arrhythmia

D.

a quandary
5. After hearing news of the attack, the general made plans for an immediate
______ against the enemy.
A. compilation

B. retaliation

C. accumulation

D.

incantation
6. The hotel, though obviously grand in its day, appeared rather neglected and
______ when we checked in.
A. tumble-down

B. downcast

C.down-and-out

D.

run-down
7. As he was caught ______ an offensive weapon, he was immediately a
suspect.
A. in possession of

B. on ownership of

C. with handling with

D. out of control with


8. If you’d like to take a seat in the waiting room till the doctor can see you,
you’ll find plenty of magazines to ______.
A. refer to

B. browse through

C. look over

D.

stare

at
9. I wanted to talk, but she was determined to sweep the matter under the
______.
A. cupboard

B. table

C. carpet

D.

bed
10. I’d give up my job ______ if only I could find a better one.
A. at one swoop

B. at the drop of a hat

C. on the dot

D. on the spur of the

moment

11. Just because we’ve had a good year, this does not mean that we cannot do
better. we must not ______.
A. have our heads in the clouds

B. bury our heads in the

sand
C. count on blessings

D. rest on our laurels

12. Local police have promised to ______ on the rampant drug scene that is
thought to have contributed to the death of two teenagers last week.
A. crack down

B. weigh down

C. put down

D.

come down
13. I’m hoping that this work experience will stand me in good ______ in my
future career.
A. stead
footing

B. grounding

C. precedent

D.


14. Despite the scandal, the leader emerged with his reputation ______.
A. untarnished

B. unpolluted

C. unimpaired

D.

unfettered
15. The police accused the bank employee of ______ after financial
irregularities were uncovered in his department’s accounts.
A. fraud

B. hoodwink

C. swindle

D.

cheating
16. Due to the computer malfunction all our data was lost. So unhappily, we
had to begin all the calculations from ______
A. onset

B. source

C. original

D.

scratch
17. I’ll just ______ an eye over these figures before you type them.
A. cast

B. fling

C. toss

D.

throw
18. I don't agree with his policies but I'm going to ______ them for now.
A. play along with

C. play havoc with

B. play cat and mouse with

D. play down

19. Don’t bother Alice with the problem - she’s in the ______ of moving house.
A. anguish

B. throes

C. agony

D.

pains
20. In the last century, it was widely ______ that Indian fakirs were capable of
superhuman feats.
A. held
shake

B. grasped

C. kept

D.


HỊA BÌNH 11
1. After years of working together, the partners found themselves
________linked.
A. permanently

B. indelibly

C. perpetually

D. inextricably

2. Don’t look so worried! You should take the boss’s remarks with a
________of salt.

A. teaspoon

B. pinch

C. grain

D. dose

3. Rachel has an amazing ________ of jokes that she uses to good effect at
parties.
A. body

B. repertoire

C. variation

D. store

4. The old house was unable to withstand the ________of severe winter weather
and suffered considerable structural damage.
A. extremity

B. onslaught

C. outrage

D. fury

5. The two sides are entrenched and any meeting between them is unlikely to
_______ a result.

A. summit

B. force

C. yield

D. concede

6. In terms of protocol, the President takes ________ over all others in the
country.
A. priority

B. the lead

C. precedence

D. the head

7. I’m not surprised people are arguing- they are at the _________of their
tether.
A. end

B. limit

C. finish

D. termination

8. To get his proposal accepted, the Finance Manager had to _______ heavy
pressure from colleagues.

A. fend off

B. laugh off

C. send off

D. push off

9. When attacked by his opponents, the general ________ with a strong
justification for his policy.
A. hit back

B. struck up

C. leapt up

D. pushed forward


10. Activities in the department store were _______ by animal rights activists
protesting against the sale of fur coats.
A. disorientated

B. disrupted

C. deranged

D. disturbed

11. Mike decided that election to the local council would provide a ……………

to a career in national politics.
A. milestone
B. springboard
C. highway
D. turning point
12. As a poet, I think she …………… comparison with the greatest this century.
.
A. stands

B. makes

C. leads

D. matches

13. The party was already …………… by the time we arrived. Everyone was
singing and dancing.
A. under the cloud

B. over the moon C. up in the air

D. in full swing

14. My uncle pulled a few …………… and got me a job in the company where
he works. .
A. chords

B. threads

C. ropes

D. strings

15. People suffered many hardships during the years of …………… after the
war.
A. severity

B. austerity

C. sobriety

D. integrity

PHÚ THỌ 10

1. The contemporary dialogue for me struck a slightly _______ note.
A. disembodied
disconcerting

B. discordant

C. dismissive

D.

2. We decided to celebrate by going out and painting the town ________.
A. red

B. purple

C. gold

D. brown

3. The series became so popular that it was moved to the ________ time spot
of 8 pm.
A. leading

B. prime

C. main

D. major

4. The current economic _______ is very good for small businesses.


A. disposition

B. whirlwind

C. climate

D. daze

5. He hit the other boy reluctantly as his friends __________ him on.
A. happened

B. egged

C. ground

D. played

6. The actors gave a very ________ performance, and the critics expressed
their disapproval in their reports the following day.
A. pie-in-the-sky

B. run-of-the-mill

C. good-for-nothing

D. behind-the-scene

7. He was _________ devastated by the news.
A. utterly
immensely

B. extremely

C. deeply

D.

8. The Red Cross is ________ an international aid organization.
A. intriguingly
intrepidly

B. intrusively

C. intrinsically

D.

9. I know it’s got his name on the cover, but he used a ________.
A. correspondent

B. model

C. ghost writer

D. fellow

10. Our lecturer _________ the importance of taking clear notes.
A. responded
recruited

B. reiterated

C. retained

D.

11. Suppose she _______ that outrageous story circulating around the office,
she’d be furious.
A. has heard

B. would hear

C. were heard

D. had heard

12. People can make themselves walk on nails or through fire. It’s a
question of mind over ______.
A. body

B. material

C. matter

D. facts

13. Our plan to start our own business seem ________to failure.
A. doomed
designed

B. fated

C. compelled

D.


14. ________ my buying tuna if you detest eating fish.
A. Is it any good
C. It’s not much use

B. As well as
D. There is nothing good

15. We welcome the new regulations, which become________ on the first of
next month.
A. effective

B. efficient

C. efficacious

D. effete

16. The chemicals spilled over the road and left drivers ________ for breath.
A. suffocating

B. inhaling

C. gasping

D. wheezing

17. It is impossible to miss the ______ of the Generation X in America.
A. manifestation
C. initiation

B. advancement
D. acknowledgement

18. He has been trying to improve his grades but instead, they have
remained as ______ as possible.
A. static

B. on coming

C. parasitic

D. virtual

A. in order that

B. for

C. so that

D. lest

A.leaving aside

B. let alone

C. apart

D. aback

19. They go to the seaside _____ they should be disturbed by the noise of the
city.
20. I haven’t got the time to do my own work, ______ help you with yours.
PHÚ THỌ 11

1. The head of the Human Resources Department found himself in the _____
line over recent job cuts.

A. heating

B. firing

C. blazing

D. flaming

2. The polar explorers have to plan everything carefully so as to leave nothing
to _____.
A. opportunity

B. luck

C. chance

D. possibility

3. A loud _____ of thunder woke him from a restless sleep.
A. bang

B. peal

C. ounce

D. pound

4. Unfortunately, he doesn’t usually listen to _____ advice.
A. sought-after

B. unlooked for

C. unwonted

D. unsolicited