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Question 1: Doing part-time jobs can help students _____________ their practical skills, such as
communication or teamwork.
A. enhance
B. enhancing
C. enhanced
Question 2: The number of tourists travelling to the UK___________ 3.2 million in 2015.
A. reach
B. reached
C. has reached
Question 3: I think the Internet ______________ in the past.
A. don't exist
C. won’t exist
B. didn't exist
Question 4: When I studied in Hartfield, I ______________ drive on the left.
A. get used to
B. often used to
C. used to
Question 5: The thing _____________ we haven't enough money for the tickets.
A.is
B. are
C.be
Question 6: He passed the exam ____________ he didn't study very hard throughout the semester.
A. despite
B. even though
C. unless
Question 7: When I arrived at the airport, the plane ________________ already.
A. had taken off
B. took off
C. had been taking off
Question 8: Doctors are ___________ responsible for examining, diagnosing and treating patients.
A. main
B. mainly
C. remain
Question 9: Brazil exported _____________ beef than Japan, Norway and Uruguay combined.
A. much
B. many
C. more
Question 10: In the next years, it ______________ too difficult for me to travel abroad.
A. won't be
B. is
C. was
Question 11: From this chart, we can see that Turkey ____________ the same proportion of oil use
as France at the moment.
A. shares
B. is sharing
C. shared
Question 12: It is impossible ____________ almost all young people with access to tertiary
education.
A. to provide
B. providing
C. provided
Question 13: When I was a little kid, I often had ___________ hair.
A. long black
B. black long
C. the long black
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Question 14: Son Tung MTP is a singer, ______________ most Vietnam's teenagers like.
A. who
B. whom
C. that
Question 15: I decided to put up a tent and build a campfire _____________ I made it to the peak of
the mountain.
A. as soon as
B. if
C. or
Question 16: Public transportation is a _____________ for many people in big cities.
A. necessary
B. necessity
C. necessarily
Question 17: In the past, people were _______________ find out what other people thought of the
items they were buying.
A. unable to
B. unable of
C. unable in
Question 18: ___________ this is a serious problem, it can be solved by teaching students good
online etiquette.
A. While
B. However
C. But
Question 19: 2020 is the year _________ many natural disasters happen.
A. where
B. what
C. when
Question 20: Nevertheless, the issue ________ by finding a hobby one can enjoy.
A. can solve
B. solve
C. can be solved
Question 21: A favorable work environment does not encourage employee to perform ___________.
A. good
B. well
C. goodly
Question 22: Nowadays, most people try to balance between work __________ other parts of life.
A. and
B. but
C. or
Question 23: The museum was very crowded. There were too _____ people.
A. much
B. many
C. few
Question 24: Frankly to say, I don't know __________ our education system works.
A. what
B. why
C. how
Question 25: I like that really __________ antique tractor in the museum.
A. old red big
B. red big old
C. big old red
Question 26: I did not want to believe it and then I saw the UFO _________.
A. me
B. myself
C. mine
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Question 27: If you earn a good salary, you can be independent _________ your parents.
A. for
B. to
C. of
Question 28: I don't know whether to accept the job she has offered me. It is ________.
A. a tough decision B. the tough decision
C. tough decision
Question 29: Statistics have shown that owing a pet can ________ stress and increase happiness.
A. reduce
B. reducing
C. reduced
Question 30: This company produces some of __________ computers in the world.
A. best
B. the best
C. better
Question 31: I enjoy my job because I like the people __________ whom I work.
A.in
B. of
C. with
Question 32: The reason __________ I decided to give this particular gift is because we had spent a
lot of time together in Cambridge.
A. why
B. which
C. where
Question 33: What __________ in order to get a scholarship in the UK?
A. do I need doing B. must I do
C. ought I do
Question 34: He _________ to pay me $20 per hour for cleaning a house.
A. suggested
B. advised
C. offered
Question 35: These days, people are overly concerned about their ________.
A. appear
B. appearance
C. apparently
Question 36: I'm really __________ watching English programmes.
A. keen on
B. keen of
C. keen about
Question 37: A recent weather forecast has warmed that _________ people stop cutting down trees,
there will be more floods for the planet.
A. provided that
B. in case
C. unless
Question 38: My mother always encouraged _____________ as many clubs as possible to be more
confident.
A. me take part in
B. me to take part in
C. me taking part in
Question 39: Air pollution has negative effects on the environment. _________, it also affects our
health.
A. However
B. In spite of this
C. In addition
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Question 40: That was the worst trip ever. We had all our money _________ while we were on holiday.
A. to have
B. having
C. had
Question 41: Employers tend to value creative thinking skills above practical or technical skills. If this
were the case, perhaps we __________ need more students of art, history and philosophy than of science
and technology.
A. would need
B. would have needed
C. will need
Question 42: I wish my mother ________ to let me dye my hair. I really want to change my hair colour
these days.
A. would agree
B. agreed
C. had argeed
Question 43: Many people in this day and age do not have a healthy diet. ______ is possible that this is
because fast food is more convenient than healthy ones.
A. That
B. What
C. It
Question 44: When you write your research, you_________ copy all ideas from books or magazines
without proper references.
A. mustn't
B. have to
C. don't have to
Question 45: It is _________ that protecting environment is more important than funding the arts.
A. a common belief
B. the common belief
C. common belief
Question 46: The Temple of Literature _________ is the oldest university in Vietnam.
A. which was opened in 1070
B., which was opened in 1070
C., that was opened in 1070
Question 47: The ___________ of people living in the outskirts is undoubted increasing.
A. number
B. amount
C. great deal
Question 48: At the end of the party, only three people were left: myself, Eric, and Cathy ___________,
there were four cars.
A. So
B. Since
C. However
Question 49: The government must care __________ the families of invalid soldiers.
A. about
B. for
C.at
Question 50: Julie is always looking at ___________ in the mirror.
A. herself
B. hers
C. she
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