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BQ MON TIENG ANH
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MON TIENG ANH
LU"U HANH NOI BO
TP.HO CHi MINH - 2007

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GIOI THI~U CHUNG
Tiemg Anh la mi)t trong nhiJ'ng ngo9i ngiJ' cua mon thi eMu kien b<1t bui)c d6i vai thi
sinh dl,l' thi tuyen sinh sau d9i hoc t9i trU'ang Dai hoc Kinh h~ TP.HCM. Noi dung va
hinh thlfC thi do Bi) Giao dl,Jcva Daa t90 qui dinh. Tai li$u on thi mon tieng Anh dU'Q'c
bien s09n nh;ijm:
1. Giai thi$u ve ci!tu truc va d9ng thlfC bai thi mon tieng Anh cho cac thi sinh dl,l'
tuyen ky thi tuyen sinh sau d9i hoc t9i D9i hoc Kinh te TPHCM.
2. Cung dp bai thi milu giup thi sinh cM di)ng va dinh hu'ang cho vi$c on t$p.
Tai li$u gom 2 phan chinh: (1) Mo ta bili thi va (2) Cae bili thi m~u (Practice tests)
Chung toi hy vang TAl LieU ON THI MON TII~NG ANH se cung dp du thong tin CO'
ban giup thi sinh chu~n bi t6t cha ky thi.
Bi) mon tieng Anh
Ban Ngo9i ngiJ'
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Ph.in 1: M6 ta bai thi
Ph.in 2: Practice t£>5ts
Practice test 1

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Practice test 2
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MO TA cAu TRUC sAI THI TII~NG ANH
THI TUYEN SAU D~I HQC
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DuO'I day la phiin giO'I thi$u tom tM du truc bai thi tleng Anh cho cac thi sinh dV thi
ky thl tuyen sinh sau dai hQc Phiin mo ta baa gem
(i) Nol dung bili thl
(ii) Lo~i hinh bili taP va muc dlch danh gia
(Iii) So cau, so muc trong tLrng bai tap, va
(iv) Thang diem toi da cho tLrng loai bai taP
Thai gian lam bai la 120 pM! Bai thi gem 2 phiin chinh PART 1 va PART 2
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Lo{!i hinh bai taP va ml,lc dich danh gia
'So caul Thang
ml,lC diem
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PART 1 baa gem 3 loai hinh bi'Ji thi duQ'c
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Vocabulary &
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PART 1 nham danh gia kM nang SLI' dung
: tieng Anh cua thi sinh trang doc h,eu Tong

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so diem cua Part 1 la 55
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Vocabulary
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SECTION 1 gem mot hop tLr chLra 20 tLr va
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i cau chLra mot khoan trong - la tll' hay cum
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, tLr thi sinh can pMI lua chon tl!' hop tir da I
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SECTION 1 nham danh gia kha nang hleu
va sir dung du'O'c tll' vu'ng thich hop thong
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qua ngLr canh cho san
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SECTION 2 bao g6m cac bai oQc (2 hoac 4
bai) co khaong 5 (hol,ic 10) diu h6i
m6'/oong. Chu o€! van ban co lien quanoen
van o€! v€! van hoa, xa hQi, kinh te, khoa
hQc, giao dl,Jc v.v NhCl'ng cau h6i oat ra
giup thl sinh the hien kha nang (i) hieu y
chinh neu trong van ban, (ii) nam oU'Q'c
thong tin chi tiet , (ii) hieu oU'Q'cquan he
giCl'acac Y trong ooan van va van ban, va
(iii) hieu oU'Q'cthai 00 ml,JCoich cua tac gia /
van ban
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nhCl' phap, cau truc, tli vl,mg oe tim ra tli
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PART 2 bao gom 3 loai hinh bai thi oU'ac
goi Ii'! CONTROLLED/GUIDED WRITING,
SETENCE
TRANSFORMATION va
TRASLATION
PART 2 nham oanh gia kha nang Slf dung
tieng Anh de trinh bay/ dien d<;Jty tu'6'ng
du'o-i dang viet Day Ii'!bai tap kho, dbi h6i
thi sinh phai nam vCl'ng kien thlic v€! ngCl'
phap, cau truc va tLmg vl,fng trang tieng
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bai t(jp chuyen hoa
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cau, bao gom 10 cau hoan chinh cho san
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Th i sinh sLi dung ph~n gO'i y da cho de'!
haan thanh cau mai ma van giCY nguyen
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SECTION 3
nham danh gia kha nang sLi
dl,mg tieng Anh cua thi sinh qua chuyen
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Tcing diem bili thi
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PRACTICE TEST 1
PART 1: VOCABULARY AND READING COMPREHENSION
SECTION 1: VOCABULARY (15 marks)
Choose the best word/phrase in the box below to complete the sentences that follow.
Each word/phrase can be used ONCE ONLY.
1. You missed the beginning of the film
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you were latc.
2. She needed to relax
she went on holiday.
3. Excuse me. Can you tcll me
to get to the Art Gallery. please?

4. Factories and vehicles
waste which goes into the air and rivers.
5. When I saw a thief in the living room I was really

6. we finish eating she takes the plates and glasses to wash them up.
7. We don't understand this word! Let's the word in the dictionary.
8.

arc emergency calls? Call us free on ISO.
9. I can't find him

no\\'.
10. I don't remember much about him. I don't know what he looks

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another?

in many fields arc studying ways to increase: food production.
city do you think is Europe's "fashion capital" today
- Milan, Paris or

13. Fashion has become a big business and the top
large fortunes.

have made
]4. People
hands when they meet for the first time and when they
meet after a long time.
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you mind if I smoke? Well, I'd rather you didn't.
Practice test 1
SECTION 2: READING COMPREHENSION (30 marks)
Read each passage carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
Passage 1
The ancient Greeks were lucky, it seems. 'Their diet of olive oil, garlic, fish, vegetables, and
bread was very healthy. They ate very little meat, fat, or sugar. The experts today tell us to cat
less meat and morc vegetables, fruit, fish, pasta, brcad, and potatoes. Chicken is hcalthier
than beef because it has less fat. Garlic, the basis of French aioli, Spanish gambas al ajillo,
Italian bruehetta and Greek tzatziki, also has a good effect on the heart, as well as other
benefits, which is perhaps why the ancient Greeks ate so much of it. So, if you love your heart.
add a little more garlic to your diet!
1. What did the diet of the ancient Greeks mainly include?
2. Does beef have more fat than chicken?

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3. Which countries do these foads come from'(
ilioli

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tzatziki

4. What do they all have in common.?

5. According to the passage, what should we eat more often in order to reduce the risk of heart
attack?

Passage 2
A key word in the modern American vocabulary is "stress". Stress is the feeling of anxiety and
exhaustion that comes from the pressures of modern living. Stress is such a common problem

today' that many people are turning to one of its most common cures: physical exercise. People
of all ages and t)'pes arc exercising: jogging, weight lifting, swimming, and evcn just plain
walking! Is this just a fad, or will it last?
6. !low do people feci when they arc stressed?
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7. What i3 the cause of stress?


8 How can people avoid stress?

9-10 What words in the passage mean
Something that removes a problem
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A fashion that is not likely to last

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Passage 3
As in other countries, there are a number of different regional accents in the United Kingdom
Apart from Scottish, Welsh and Irish accents, the north, cast, west and southwest of England,
as welI as the Midlands and London, a11 have their distinctive accents. 1\t the same time there
is an accent which belongs to no particular region. This accent is GlUed the Standj}rd English
accent, and is the accent usually taught to foreigners. Northerners ca1I it the "southern accent"
- with some Scorn.
1I. According to the passage, what do other countries and the United Kingdom have in
common?

12. Name some popular accents that belong to different regions in the United Kingdom?

13. Which region in the United Kingdom docs the Scottish accent belong to?


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4. What docs
"11" in" Northerners caIl 11 the "southern accent" refer to?

15. Which phrase used in the passage has the same meaning as "many"?
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Passage 4
There are 7.000 periodicals published in the United Kingdom. Of these, \\'omen's magazines
have the largest circulations: Woman, (1,300,000) and Woman's Own, (1,200,OOG). There arc
magazines and periodicals for almost every trade, profession, sport, hobby or interest. The
most important periodicals for the more serious readers arc: The HcononHst, which comments
on events of international, political or economic interest; The SjJeclator, a journal \vith
conservative views, which publishes articles 6n many different subjects, including politics; New
Society, which has articles on social matters; New Scientist, which reports on scientific matters
in language that non-specialists can understand; Punch, a long
- established humorous
magazine which also has serious articles.
16. What are Woman and Woman's Own?


17. What word in the passage means the average number of magazines/periodicals sold each
day, month, or year?

18. If you are interested in science, which pcriodical(s) will you read?

19. Can you find a serious article in Punch?


20. Fill in the !§Iank with one suitable word from the passage.
New scientist is suitable for both kinds of readers - specialists and.
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SECTION 3: READING CLOZE (10 marks)
Instructions: Complete the following passage with the missing words. Fill in each blank
with ONE suitable word only.
ManuRll~odrigucs, 24, a ste\\',Hd on the new l<:urostar trains, one (])
the first
peop1c to travel through the Channel Tunnel. Now the three-hour journey from London (2)
Paris is a1l a d,1Y'S work for him. lie says," I have to know both cities rcally
well. I ha\'(' found some IC)\Tl)" restaurants!"
Euroslar stewards have to be
(3) 20 and 35 and physically fit. The company
trBins Hll nc\\' stewards, so they don't have to have experience in this kind of (4)
., bu t the.\' have to have (5)
10 have an\'
quahfic(l1ions, but YOLl have (6)
lovely personality. You don't have
fiuent English and French to
commurl1cat<' \\'jth the passengers. Manuel has to wcar uniform. The company pays for his
"We
(8)
next train, (9)

he sta.\'s abroad, so he doesn't have to worry about restaurant bills.
In Paris at about 11.00 a.m. Somctlmcs we have to come back on the
meals (7!
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when we don't have to return until the next day, (101
. can go shopping or sightseeing.
PART 2: WRITING
SECTION 1: CONTROLLED WRITING (15 marks)
From the following suggested words and phrases in the given sequences, make all the
changes and additions necessary to produce sentences, which together make a complete
paragraph. Follow the example
Example:
Answer:
my aunt; born; England; now; she; live; Perth; I\ustralia ;
My aunt H)(iS born in England, but now she lives in Perth} Australia.
1. this; lovel\ eo1 tage ; be ; 500 years; old;


2. it / be I
country lone mile I
vi1Jage ofParkham Cr~;ss I

3. there; be ; post office; small shop;


4. there I
be I
some good pubs I
restaurants /
arca /

too /


5. cottage I
have I
big garden I
flowers I
trees
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6. there / be / two / double bed room / bathroom
/ toilet /
7. living room / have / traditional/antique
/ furniture
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8. Paul/jenny
/ want / rent / collage
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9. children
/ like / garden
/ very much
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10. they / plan / stay / there / summer holiday

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SECTION 2: SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (15 marks)
Use the words given to rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it
means exactly the same as the original sentence.
1.She wanted to know if I had studied English for a long time.
She asked me"


2. I don't take sugar in my tea an}' more.
I used

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.1. I would like you to help me with this difficult homework.
Please
4. This old man is weak. He can't walk far.
The old man is not


The son \vas


5. The mother made the son te]] the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

6. Women drive more carefuJJy than men do.
Men do not

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7. It is essential that the students are informed of these ne\\' changes.
The students.





8. I started working in this company in
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I have





9. Although the \V~athcr was bad, we went out.
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10. Her job js
badly' paid so s}l(~ wants to leave the company.
She wants to leave the company.
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SECTION 3: TRANSLATION (15 marks)

Translate the following sentences into English,
1. Co Hoa co nhieu kinh nghiem trong cong viec nay.

2. Co Hoa lam viec aday dUQC bao nhieu lau roi? Co ay lam cho cong ty chung toi tU 1991.
3. Co Hoa I(\i rat chiu kho. Co ay khong ngai lam vi$c ngoai gio, ke c8. ngay Chu nhat.

4. Co Hoa co biet ngo(\i ngCi nao khong? Co ay su dung dUQc ca tieng Anh va tieng Phap.
5. NhUng co ay thanh thao tieng Anh hem tieng Phap.
Translate the following sentences into Vietnamese.
6. 13ritaiTl is too small and crowded to produce all the food its people need. In fact, more than
half of Uritain's foodstuffs arc bought abroad.
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7 -8. Every British citizen who is cIT1ployed has to pay a weekly' contribution to the national
insurance and health schemes. An employer also makes a contribution for each of his
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9-10. Today more of Britain's workers belong to a trade union than in any other major Western
country, but this may not be true for much longer because during 1980s the unions lost
much of their strength and popularity.
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Practice test 2
PRACTICE TEST 2
PART 1: VOCABULARY AND READING COMPREHENSION
SECTION 1: VOCABULARY (15 marks)
Choose the best word/phrase in the box below to complete the sentences that follow.
Each word/phrase can be used ONCE ONLY.
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I. Can I get information

train times at any station?
2.

does it cost to reserve a seat?
3. Look.
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's a car park. We can park there.
4. Sally,
,YOLIlike to go to a Mozart concert on Friday?
5. You
a co]d jf
}'ou take vitamin C.
6. So where were you yesterday? Well, I
bank. I was shopping.
7. The meat was
rotten that it had to be thrown away.

an,y'where near thc
8. After fighting the fire for fourteen hours the firemen
in putting it out.
9. We had champagne
it was my birthday.
10. To spend time with my ehi]dren is the most
,
. job I'vc ('vcr done.
11. I worked full time for twenty years,
after the children were born I didn't.
12.
, is an important part of a free entcrprise system, Each
business tries to make as much money as possible.
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is the most popular country in the world for tourists?
]3. Do you think of yourself
, and other people second?
]5. We must have a computer system that works well,
of the cost.
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SECTION 2: READING COMPREHENSION (30 marks)
Read each passage carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
Passage 1
Why are the French so lucky? That was the question medical researchers wanted to answer.
The French eat much more cheese than other Europeans but they have the lowest rate of heart

disease. Cheese is bad for'the heart because, like butter and cream, it has a lot of fat. The
results of research are surprising, and good news for wine lovers everywhere. The French are
also the biggest wine drinkers in Europe and drinking wine with food reduces the risk of heart
attack. And if you're not a wine lover? No problem, a daily aspirin has the same result.
I. Which country in Europe has the fewest people with heart disease?


2. What do cheese, butter and cream have in common?


3. In what way arc the results of research surprtsing?



4. Why do the French have the lowest rate of heart disease?


5. What docs the underlined part in "a daily aspirin has the same result" refer to?

Passage 2
\Vorkers in the United States usually take short vacations. VBcation time is usually given only
after a certain amount of time on the job. For example, a ne\' ' employee may only receive one
\\Tek of paid vacation per year. Many \\rorkers receive three or four weeks of paid vacation only
after they have been on the job five or ten years. Another problem is that it is often difficult to
schedule vacations to coincide with those of one's spouse.
6. Do all employees in the same company take paid vacation of the same length?

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7. What docs the length of paid vacations depend on?

8. lf a worker has worked for his/her company for eight years, how long docs the paid vacation
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Use the information in the passage to complete the sentence bc1ow.
/\. couple mn.""
not be able to .
on holiday together.
10. What docs the underlined part in " to coincide with those of one's spouse" rcfer to'?
Practice test 2
Passage 3
How important is image? Obviously film stars have to look right for the part, but what about
other people in the public eye? For example, do politicians have to think about their
appearance, too? Albert Mehrabian studied the effect that speakers have on their audience. His
research showed that only 7% of the effect depends on what you say; 38% of the effect comes
from your voice; but a huge 55% of the effect comes from your appearance. So you don't have
to worry much about contcnt! Your voice and your appearance are much more important.
11. What is the passage about?


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2. Is appcarance important to only film stars?
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13. What was Alberet Mehrabian's study about?

14. What does the figure '55%" refer to?
15. What is the conclusion of the study?
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Passage 4
National newspapers arc papers which arc sold in all parts of Britain. Nearly aH the national
newspapers have their head omccs in London, but the famous newspaper street, Fleet Street,
now houses only one of them, The Daily Express. The rest have moved to chcaper parts of
London, particularly
"Docklands", once part of the port of London. The national papers can be
divided into two main groups: quality papers and popular papers. Quality papers like 711e
Times, The Guardians, The Daily Telegraph, The Financial l1mes report national and
international news very thoroughly. The popular papers tend to makc news sensational, and to
publish "personal" articles which shock and excite.
16. What do you know about Fleet Street from the passage?

17. What did Docklands use to be?
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18. Name 1\vo kinds of nationa1 newspapers in Britain?
19. If you read The Times, what would you expect to learn from the paper?


20. Fill in the blank with one suitable word from the passage.
In the popular papers, news tend to be .

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SECTION 3: READING CLOZE (10 marks)
Instructions: Complete the following passage with the missing words. Fill in each blank
with ONE suitable word only.
When Andrew (1)
(2)
anyone therc to meet him. 1\ lot of people in uniforms were holding cards

at ar1y airport, hc looked round but he couldn't
with names (3)
them, but they were not waiting for him. It was
(4) .
beautiful Sunday morning and he decided to go to the hotel on his own.
Ill' \\cnt out of the airport (5)
looked for a taxi. A lot ofpeoplc were waiting,
(6)
he decided to get the airport bus into Paris. The bus stopped in
the city centre. quite near his hotel and (7)


got off. When he
(8)

\valking towards his hotel with his case a car suddenl:"
stopped next to him. A woman got out. She was (9)

a uniform and was
carrying a card (10)

said "Mr. Andrew Jones". "Mr. Jones", I was waiting
for you at the airport but you didn't see me!"
PART 2: WRITING
SECTION I: CONTROLLED WRITING (15 marks)
From the following suggested words and phrases in the given sequences, make all the
changes and additions necessary to produce sentences, which together make a complete
paragraph. Follow the example.
Example:
Answer:
my aunt /
born /
England / now/ she/live /
Perth /Australia /
My aunt was born in England, but noW she lives in Perth, Australia.
1. Susan /
be /
nervous /
when /
come back /
home /

2 unfortunately' /
phone /
not work /


3. she /
sit /living room /
read /

4. st arm /
be /
heavy /
noise /
be /
frightening /
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"
then /lights /
go out /



6. she. put book away /
and / sit / dark /


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Practice test ::
7. suddenly
/ phone
/ ring
/
8. voice say
/ "I / be / glad
/ you
/ in Miss White" /
'"

9.
"1 / like / come / see
/ you"/


10. Susan / be afraid /

SECTION 2: SENTENCE
TRANSFORMATION (15 marks)
Use the words given to rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it
means exactly the same as the original sentence.
1. This is the first time he has been to Vietnam.
He has

2. Lan has been collecting stamps for ten years.
Lan started


. . . . . . . . . . .

3. The sea was too cold for us to s\'vim.
The sea was

4. Although the weather was very bad, we went out.
In spite of

.


5. I arrived late so I didn't meet her.

1 didn't meet her
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6. "Where have you been?" she asked me.
She wanted to know

7. She did not work hard, so she failed the final exam.
If she had worked hard
8. The street \\'as nooded after the heavy rain yesterday', so I did not go to \\'ork.
The f100d prevented


9. The test was less difficult than I thought.
The test was not
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10. The student started writing the essay at 2p.m and finished an hOLir later.
The student spent


II
- - - -
Tili
LifU on thi tie'ng
Anh
SECTION 3: TRANSLATION (15 marks)
Translate the following sentences into English.
1. Vi$t nan co dan so hem 80 tri$u nguai.
d " ~
2. Hem 70% dan so song nha nghe n6ng.

3. Gao la n6ng sim ehinh va la m9t trong nhung mij.t hang xuat khau quan trong eua Viet nam

4. Vi$,t
~am la nuae xuat
khau
gao dung hanh
thu nhi sau Thai Lan.

5. Nam 1998, Vi$t nam xuat khau 3,8 tri$u tan gao.

Translate the following 'lentences into Vietnamese.
6-7. By the year 2007, 98% of the jobs will be in service industries and wi11 require workers
who can use computers and other information
processing technologies.




8. Japan leads the world in the development of robots. They have 12,000 robots working and
produce 30,000 per year, most of them, for export.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9-10. In the decade of the 1970s, the United Nations organised several meetings on the human
environment to study a serious problem. We humans are destroying the \vorld around lIS_
We are using up all our natural resources. We must learn to conserve them, or life will be
very hard for our children.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .



This is the end of Practice Test 2
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preven t
gets
unless
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by
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plenty
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presented
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PRACTICE TEST 3
PART 1: VOCABULARY AND READING COMPREHENSION
SECTION 1: VOCABULARY (20 marks)
Instruction: Choose the best word/ phrase in the box below to complete the sentences
that follow. Each word / phrase can be used ONCE ONLY.


1. My wife has a
. job at a chemist's.
2. I'm not sure if thc new tax is
a good idea after all.
3. We haven't. .
thought of going abroad for a holiday bcciJuse my husb,lnd
is afraid of flying.
4. Doctors also try to disease
\\'ith good c1dvicc. They tell their
patients to cat t~lC right kind of food and to exercise daily.
5. lie was in
aLa large number of men.
6. When he retired from his job the director:
him \vith a clock.
7. My sister had a baby daughter, and she is my first
8. Smoking is very bad habit, which many people find diffjcult to
9.
it was raining heavily he went out without a raincoat.
10. No child.
the age of sixteen wii! be admitted to th is film
11. Do you knmv what time the train.
to Ii0chiMinh

Cit.\"?
12. You
go to the dentist's before your tooUwchc get \\"(>rsc.
]3. We have
of time to catch the train so there's no need to rush.
]4.

you do better \vork than this, you \\,on't pass the exam.
15. Many doctors
ophthalmologists C:Jreeyc specialists.
in only on(~ kind of medicinc. For eX~JmpJc,
I
'
,
- - - - -
Tiii U~u on rhi lie-ng Anh
SECTION 2: READING COMPREHENSION (30 marks)
Read each passage carefully and the answer the questions that bellow.
Passage 1
It seems easy to say that you are employed if you work for somebody else and you are self
~
employ'Cd if you work for yourseltl But life isn't quite so simple. Being self-employed is not
restricted to people who run their O\vn business, in the physical sense of O\vning property
and stock and perhaps employing their own staff. A great number of people work from home
in a \\'id,-~ range of occupations and many of them arc classed as self-employed. Examples
arc the hairdresser " rho has set up a shop in one room of the house, the freelance book-
keeper \\.ho docs the accounts for other small businesses, the woman who holds clothing or
TLlppen\"~in' p~1rti('s, and the anist who takes on freelance work from various publishing
comp,-In\l's.
People \\'h(1 work on a freelance basis 'hire out' their skills to anyone who will pay them. A

freelance photographer. for inst,.mce, may eithcr be contracted to do a specific job for a
newspaper or may even take photographs of events on the chance that he/she nm sell
them.
The number of people in Britain \vho arc elassed as self-employed rose by 52% between
1YH1 and 1q91 from 2.2 million to 3.3 million people - and most of them work on their o\vn
(i.e. they do not employ other people) in many cases these are peopJe who have been faced
\\'ith redundancy and who have used their savings or their redundancy payments, or taken
advanlages of one of the government schemes to setup on their own.
I. What is the ONE main idea of the passage?
2. Do all se1f-emplo cd people own property and stock?
3. Nole down two of the examp1cs of self -
employment mentioned in the passage')
4. I!cm docs a frcclanccr rnDkc a lJVing?
5-6 The pussagc dvscrilws t\\'o particular job features of self -
employment. What are they?
\\/hat docs each of the rol1c)\ving underlined words or phrases refer to?
7.
"
and many afthem are classed as self-employed."
(puragr8ph 1)

H.
" rose
by 52fY, between 1981 cmd 1991 from 2.2 million to 3.3 million people
Waragraph 3)
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Pruclict'lnl3
Which words/phrases in the passage mean the foHawing
9. many
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10. does not only relate to



Passage 2
A typical British family used to consist of mother, father and two children, but in recent
years there havc been many changes in family life. Some of these changes have been caused
by new laws and others are the result ofchanges in society. In fact one ma.rriage in every
three now ends in divorce. This means that there arc a lot of onc-parent families. Suciety is
now more toJerant than it used to be of unmarried couples 8nd single parents.
Another ch8nge has been caused by the f8ct people arc Jiving longer nowadays, and many
old people Jive alone foIl owing the death of their partners. As a result of these changes in the
pattern of peop)c's lives, there are many households which consist of onl.v one person or one
Bdu]t and children. Members of a family - grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins _
kecp in
touch, but they see less of each other than they used to. This is because people often move
away from their home tcm,'n to work, and so the famiJy becomes Scattered.
In generaJ, each generation is keen to become independent of parents on estC1blishing its
own family unit, and this fact can lead to social as \ e]J as geographical
differences within
the larger family group.
11. Docs a typicaJ British family have 4 members?
12-13. What arc the major causes of many changes in British family life'?

14. What has the new law resulted in?
15. Ilo\\' does the pattern of British people's lives change?

./'.

]

6. Did members of a f8mily see each other 1css often than they do now?
17. What is the cause of sociaJ and geographicaJ
differences within the larger family group?
\Vhat docs each of the foJIov.'ing underlined words or phrases refer to?
]
8. "Some of these have been caused by new laws and others are the result of changes III
society" (Paragraph 1)

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