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CHUYÊN ĐỀ E05:
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Set in the red desert of central Australia is the mining town of Coober Pedy. At first sight, the town looks
similar to many other such communities, but Coober Pedy is different. Sixty per cent of its population of
4000 people lives underground. There are today about 800 underground houses as well as shops, hotels and
even churches in the town and the (1) ___hills. Once a site has been chosen, special tunnel machines are
(2)___ in to create passages and rooms in the sandstone. Rock pillars are left to (3)___ the roof, and doors
and windows are cut into the front. Houses are of all shapes and (4)___ , the largest having 20 rooms, and
some even have their own swimming pool.
Living underground may sound strange but in fact it has a number of advantages. In summer, the
temperature outside can reach an astonishing 47◦C, and in winter the nights can be (5) ___cold. However,
inside the houses it remains a steady 25◦C all year (6)___. Many people say that living u nderground makes
them feel very secure. There is no problem with noise from the neighbors and the houses are not (7)___ by
the fierce dust storms that regularly (8)___ through the area. And of course, if your family (9)___ or lots of
friends come to stay, you can (10)____ dig another room.
E05 001: A. near

B. enclosing

C. close

D. surrounding

E05 002: A. brought

B. entered

C. placed

D. worked

E05 003: A. lift

B. support

C. push

D. rise

E05 004: A. sizes

B. areas

C. volumes

D. numbers

E05 005: A. strongly

B. heavily

C. extremely

D. sharply

E05 006: A. along

B. wide

C. across

D. round

E05 007: A. affected

B. spoiled

C. disturbed

D. influenced

E05 008: A. flood

B. hurry

C. sweep

D. pour

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E05 009: A. grows

B. rises

C. stretches

D. explodes

E05 010: A. only

B. always

C. regularly

D. ever

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Ask any sport enthusiast to name the most popular sports and the stock (1)___will probably be football,
cricket, golf and rugby. A lot of people do play those games but far (2) ___ go fishing, play badminton or
sail. Why do we get it wrong? Because sport editors of newspapers and TV channels, are stuck with their
traditional patterns of judging by crowds (3)___ than by how many actually go out and do the thing.
Sailing probably (4)___ most from this narrow- mindedness because it is often difficult to report and
almost impossible to film except at huge expense.
Yet, despite the absence of the oxygen of publicity, sailing is (5)___ of the most popular participants
sports. Why is it so important in England? Possibly (6) ___ of the great island tradition of being a nation of
sailors, but probably much more because of its many opportunities. (7) ___ in Britain is all that far from
sea and the rare plenty of rivers and lakes (8) ___ it is easy to get float. But many would- be sailors are
(9)___ from taking the first steps. They worry about the cost of a boat, need for special equipment, the
dangers of tackling the elemental forces of nature and believe that sailing club people are snobbish and
unapproachable. All misconceptions you can start sailing (10)___ next to nothing and find friendly sailing
club throughout the country and where nobody is snobbish or look down on beginners.
E05 011: A. reaction

B. appeal

C. answer

D. key

E05 012: A. more

B. much

C. less

D. fewer

E05 013: A. rather

B. much more

C. any more

D. any longer

E05 014: A. get

B. suffer

C. contract

D. affect

E05 015: A. none

B. one

C. neither

D. most

E05 016: A. owing to

B. due to

C. account

D. because

E05 017: A. Nowhere

B. Anywhere

C. Not place

D. None

E05 018: A. which

B. that

C. in these

D. where

E05 019: A. encouraged

B. discouraged

C. persuaded

D. tempted

E05 020: A. for

B. from

C. with

D. of

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The ideal breakfast, (1)___ scientists, is a glass of orange juice, a cup of coffee and a bowl of cereal.
People who (2)___the day with a drink of vitamin C, a dose of caffeine and a helping of their favorite
cereal are happier and perform better (3)___ the morning, Andy Smith, of the university of Bristol said. A
study of 600 people who were (4)___ to record their breakfast habit found that (5)___ who regularly ate

cereal first thing in the morning had a more positive (6) ___ with those who ate other foods or had no
breakfast. Earlier research had (7) ___ that people whose mental performance was measured immediately
after eating breakfast of any kind (8)___ 10% better on tests of remembering, speed of response and ability
to concentrate, compared with those given only a cup of decaffeinated coffee. In further research, Professor
Smith said that people who drank four cups of coffee a day performed more (9)___ all day than those who
drank less. He (10)___ that sensible employers should give out free coffee or tea.
E05 021: A. declare

B. say

C. state

D. announce

E05 022: A. open

B. initiate

C. start

D. begins

E05 023: A. during

B. in

C. whole

D. throughout

E05 024: A. said

B. commanded

C. ordered

D. asked

E05 025: A. whole

B. all

C. these

D. those

E05 026: A. tried

B. compared

C. dealt

D. mentioned

E05 027: A. reveal

B. exposed

C. shown

D. indicate

E05 028: A. did

B. performed

C. made

D. carried

E05 029: A. profitable

B. deficiently

C. beneficially

D. efficiently

E05 030: A. said

B. requested

C. suggested

D. ordered

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In 1987 a research team from an American university set out to explore the Well of Sacrifice at Chichen
Itza. Unfortunately, (1)___, the water in the well was so dark that it is impossible for divers to see, so the
team had to use filters to clean it. Just as this work was (2)___ to begin, some local Indian told the team

that the well was inhabited by the spirit of a rain god. The god was (3)___ as Chac, and they warned the
team that the Chac would (4)___ revenge if his home was disturbed. The team listened politely but ignored
these warnings and (5)___ on with the research. Throughout the summer, pumps and filters were used, but
it wasn’t until several months later (6)___ the water was clear enough for divers to go down into the well.
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When they got down to work they began to (7)___ various objects at the bottom of the well. Between these
things they brought back to the surface were human bones, and by the time they (8)___, they had recovered
more than 50 skeletons. This was proof that the well had indeed been used for human sacrifice. Perhaps it
would have been better if the team (9) to the warnings of the Indians, because within a year, several
members of the team had been killed (10)___ mysterious accidents.
E05 031: A. however

B. although

C. even though

D. whereas

E05 032: A. up

B. about

C. planned

D. intended

E05 033: A. named

B. known

C. called

D. told

E05 034: A. make

B. have

C. do

D. take

E05 035: A. got

B. went

C. took

D. carried

E05 036: A. but

B. and

C. when

D. that

E05 037: A. see

B. discover

C. invent

D. notice

E05 038: A. finished

B. would finish

C. would finish D. would have finished

E05 039: A. had listened

B. listened

C. would listen

D. listen

E05 040: A. during

B. by

C. in

D. for

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Stress is our body reaction to events or conditions that we cannot easily manage or (1)___. When we are
troubled by something, we usually experience some types of (2)___. There are thousands of conditions that
(3)___ us to become tense. There may be major or horrible: fighting for our lives in a war, being
imprisoned of facing death. On the other hand, minor (4)___ in our daily lives cause stress as well: waiting
in line, taking a quiz or asking for or accepting a date. Although we usually think of stress as something
caused (5)___ unpleasant events, pleasant happenings also bring on stress. Vacations, pay raises and
winning an award all (6)___ tension in our body.
As new experiment is done on the effect of stress, new technique developed to help (7)___ with anxiety.
One aid is to plan for situations that we know will be stressful. Some imagine the event before it happens,
thus preparing their minds and bodies for tension. Other people relax or (8)___ at regular intervals to lessen
the muscle strains in our bodies. Still others (9)___ they are on a pleasant beach lying in the sunshine; soon
their bodies relax and tension melt away. Other people believe strenuous exercise helps the body handle the
problem of daily life. And for still others, joining with others for games or parties helps them less anxious.
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It (10)___ very little which method we use to relax; what does matter is finding the time to temporarily
reduce the effects of modern life on our mind and body.
E05 041: A. resist

B. stop

C. halt

D. control

E05 042: A. strain

B. anxiety

C. pressure

D. stress

E05 043: A. enable

B. bring

C. take

D. cause

E05 044: A. things

B. occasions

C. events

D. conditions

E05 045: A. by

B. with

C. to

D. on

E05 046: A. built

B. add

C. create

D. give

E05 047: A. come

B. cope

C. manage

D. confront

E05 048: A. medicate

B. wonder

C. consider

D. think

E05 049: A. maintain

B. intend

C. pretend

D. decide

E05 050: A. matters

B. helps

C. determines

D. pays

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In the spring of 1891, a young Canadian named James Naismith (1)___ the staff of the International
YMCA Training school in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he was instructed to devise an (2)___ game
that did not involve bodily contact, would not(3)___ in damage to the gym and in which every player had a
chance to get in on the action. The game he invented was basketball- or basket ball as it was (4)___ until
about 1912. Naismith hung peach baskets at either end of the gym and used a soccer ball to play with. The
first game, in December 1891, was played (5)___ two teams of nine men each and was not exactly a
classic. The final (6)___ was 1- 0. As an off- season recreation, basketball took (7) ___ in a big way,
largely because it was cheap and easy to (8) ___ up. Oddly, although peach baskets were soon replaced by
nets, until 1912 it didn’t (9)___ to anyone to cut a hole in the bottom of them. Until then it was unnecessary
(10) ___ someone to climb a ladder and retrieve the ball after each score.
E05 051: A. enrolled

B. joined

C. entered

D. became

E05 052: A. inside

B. internal

C. indoor

D. interior

E05 053: A. cause

B. result

C. end

D. lead

E05 054: A. named

B. spoken

C. called

D. referred

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E05 055: A. again

B. among

C. from

D. between

E05 056: A. goal

B. score

C. shot

D. point

E05 057: A. up

B. off

C. out

D. in

E05 058: A. get

B. play

C. set

D. do

E05 059: A. think

B. realize

C. suggest

D. occur

E05 060: A. that

B. so

C. for

D. even

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Visitors to Britain are always complaining about English food. But they do not really know what they are
talking about because they rarely get a chance (1)___it. Most of the restaurants in large towns have foreign
(2)___ who serve foreign food. (3)___ visitors are invited (4)___ in an English home their hosts often feel
they must (5)___ them something foreign and exotic.
Those of us who (6)___ know English food are aware that at its best it can be really very good. On the
other (7)___, it is true to say that it is sometime terrible. Part of the problem is that we are not really
interested in food- we eat to live, we do not live to eat. So we don’t generally (8)___ the necessary time

and effort to which are needed to cook really good meals. We prefer food that is simple and easy to cook,
(9)___ready prepared food which only needs heating up before eating.
You can find the best English food in the country away from the large towns, where life is (10)___and
people are not in such a hurry. But, of course, most visitors came from London. They come because they
are interested in shopping and sightseeing. They do not come to find the food. So why should they
complain about it?
E05 061: A. to think

B. to cook

C. to eat

D. to fetch

E05 062: A. owners

B. visitors

C. eaters

D. guests

E05 063: A. The

B. When

C. No

D. Any

E05 064: A. drinking

B. eat

C. to eat

D. to drink

E05 065: A. fetch

B. take

C. carry

D. offer

E05 066: A. do

B. did

C. don’t

D. didn’t

E05 067: A. side

B. way

C. hand

D. point

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E05 068: A. cost

B. spend

C. kill

D. occupy

E05 069: A. or

B. nor

C. but

D. neither

E05 070: A. slower

B. quicker

C. slowly

D. quickly

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Chocolate, one of the most popular food in the world, has a history as rich as its flavor. Chocalate (1)___
from the bean of a special tree, a plant that has grown in the American countries for (2)___ four thousand
years. As long ago as the 12th century, Indian families drank chocolate at wedding parties (3)___other
important ceremonies. However, chocolate was not known in Europe until 1528, (4)___the Spanish
explorer Hernado Cortes brought it to Spain.
Drinking chocolate soon became popular in Spain and quickly (5)___to the rest of Europe. 300 years later,
a scientist in Holland who loved chocolate learned (6)___to make chocolate into sweets. After that, people
who liked chocolate could eat it as well as drink it. (7)___ the years passed, people in other countries began
to make many kinds of chocolate. Today the making of chocolate has become a very big industry.
There are many (8)___ why chocolate has become so popular. People like its rich, delicious flavor. Some
people think that chocolate is (9)___ more delicious when it is made with other things, such as fruits and
nuts. Also, chocolate makers can (10)___ chocolate in different shapes that are pleasing to look at. And
also, eating chocolate has a helpful physical effect. The sugar and fat in chocolate give people quick
energy.
E05 071: A. goes

B. comes

C. turns

D. changes

E05 072: A. at least

B. at last

C. at first

D. at all

E05 073: A. on

B. and

C. with

D. of

E05 074: A. when

B. why

C. then

D. because

E05 075: A. sent

B. got

C. spread

D. changed

E05 076: A. why

B. what

C. how

D. who

E05 077: A. As

B. For

C. With

D. Because

E05 078: A. reasons

B. causes

C. questions

D. conditions

E05 079: A. very

B. even

C. so

D. quite

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E05 080: A. make

B. take

C. put

D. change

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Your mind’s ability to bring back experiences you have had is your memory. There are two kinds of
remembering: recall and recognition. (1)___, you may not be able to recall the poem you read yesterday in
class, but you see it again, you’ll know it instantly because you (2)___it. Some few people have “total
recall”, often spoke of as photographic memory. A person (3)___ total recall can recite a whole page of a
book after (4)___ it once or play a musical composition after hearing it once. This is very unusual, (5)___
and most people have difficulty remembering even the names they heard they day before. This is not
because (6)___ people lack the ability to remember but because they had not (7)___ much attention to what
they had heard. They felt no personal reasons to remember. Having a personal reason for remembering is
one of the most important factors in a good memory. When you have a strong (8)___ for remembering,
concentrate when you read or listen, and try to connect the new information to things you (9)___know. A
detail is easy to remember when it fits into a whole that makes sense. If you understand the entire lesson
before you try to remember any (10)___ dates, your memory may surprise you.
E05 081: A. However

B. For instance

C. Moreover

D. As a result

E05 082: A. make out

B. realize

C. recognize

D. understand

E05 083: A. with

B. of

C. for

D. owns

E05 084: A. seeing

B. hearing

C. listening

D. reading

E05 085: A. yet

B. despite

C. however

D. otherwise

E05 086: A. almost

B. most of

C. most

D. all of

E05 087: A. stuck

B. paid

C. put

D. laid

E05 088: A. reason

B. cause

C. explanation

D. clue

E05 089: A. wholly

B. already

C. completely

D. entirely

E05 090: A. special

B. particular

C. specific

D. particularly

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Music is clearly different from language. People can, nevertheless, use it to (1)___ things especially their
motions and when allied with speech in a song, it is one of the most powerful means of communication that
a human (2)___. But (3)___ biologically speaking, is it? If music is truly distinct (4)___ speech then it
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ought to have a distinct processing mechanism in brain- one that keeps it separate from the interpretation of
other sounds, (5)___ language. The evidence suggests that such a separate mechanism does, indeed, exist.
Scientist’s curiosity (6)___ the auditory system dates back to the mid- 19th century. In 1861 Paul Broca, a
French surgeon observed that speech was impaired due to damage (7)___ a particular part of the brain, now

(8)___ as Broca’s area. In 1874, Carl Wernickle, a German neurologist, made a similar observation about
(9)___ brain area and was similarly immortalized. The location of different language processing tasks in
Broca’s area (found in the Brain’s left temporal lobe, above the area) was one of the first piece of (10)___
that different bits of the brain are specialized to do different jobs.
E05 091: A. communicate

B. hold

C. give

D. transmit

E05 092: A. made

B. possess

C. has

D. owns

E05 093: A. that

B. what

C. which

D. who

E05 094: A. along with

B. which

C. of

D. from

E05 095: A. consisting of

B. composing

C. including

D. whole

E05 096: A. of

B. for

C. about

D. with

E05 097: A. for

B. about

C. of

D. to

E05 098: A. named

B. known

C. regarded

D. considered

E05 099: A. other

B. another

C. different

D. others

E05 100: A. approval

B. favour

C. support

D. evidence

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Ask most people for their list of Top Ten fears, and you will be sure to find (1)___burgled fairly high on
the list. An informal survey I carried out among friends at a party last week revealed that eight of them had
had their homes (2)___ into more than twice, and two had been burgled five times. To put the record
straight, (3)___ of my friends owns valuable paintings or a sideboard full of family silverware. Three of
them are students, in fact. The most typical burglary, it seems, involves the (4)___ of easily transportable

items- the television, the video, even food from the freezer. This may have something to do with the fact
that the average burglar is in his (or her) late teens, and probably wouldn’t know (5) ___ to do with a
Picaso, whereas selling a Walkman or a vacuum cleaner is much easier (6)___. They are perhaps not so
much professional criminals, as hard- up young people who need a few pounds and some excitement.
(7)___ that this makes your house turned upside down and your favorite things stolen any easier to (8)___.
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In most cases, the police have no luck recovering any of the stolen goods. Unless there is any definite
(9)___, they are probably unable to do anything at all. And alarms or special locks don’t seem to help,
either. The only advice my friend could (10)___ was “Never live on the ground floor” and “ Keep two or
three very fierce dogs”, which reminded me of a case I read about, where the burglar loot included the
family’s pet poodle.
E05 101: A. been

B. having

C. being

D. out

E05 102: A. robbed

B. broken

C. taken

D. entered

E05 103: A. none

B. some

C. all

D. few

E05 104: A. theft

B. example

C. robbing

D. carrying

E05 105: A. where

B. how

C. what

D. whatever

E05 106: A. one

B. event

C. price

D. matter

E05 107: A. Given

B. So

C. Not

D. Despite

E05 108: A. attempt

B. do

C. accept

D. believe

E05 109: A. case

B. burglary

C. investigation

D. evidence

E05 110: A. come up with

B. get by with

C. bring up with

D. put in with

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Anger has many (1)___. Often it is an emotion which is secondary (2)___ some other emotion that you are
feeling- like fear, guilt or relief. So the parent who shouts at her kid who gets home late is using anger as a
way of (3)___ fear. Sometimes it is the result of a sense of great (4)___ - such as someone is wrongly
(5)___ of a crime, finds that their partner has been (6)___ to them, or feels a passionate sense of social
injustice. (7)___ anger may have other causes as well. We know that animals can be made more aggressive
if the limbic parts of their brains are stimulated; (8)___ , overstimulatation of the limbic (emotional) centre
of the brain may override the neo- cortex, the (9)___ part. Changes in hormone levels may seem to cause
anger too, and inheritance plays a part, as does our (10)___. The more we raised in anger, the more anger
we are likely to feel later in our lives.
E05 111: A. sources

B. bases

C. origins

D. foundations

E05 112: A. for

B. about

C. to

D. with

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E05 113: A. overturning

B. overthrowing

C. overcoming

D. overtaking

E05 114: A. inequality

B. unfairness

C. disproportion

D. inconsistency

E05 115: A. punished

B. charged

C. condemned

D. accused

E05 116: A. unbelievable

B. questionable

C. suspicious

D. unfaithful

E05 117: A. However

B. Therefore

C. Moreover

D. But

E05 118: A. additionally

B. consequently

C. furthermore

D. so

E05 119: A. reasoning

B. thinking

C. considering

D. contemplating

E05 120: A. maturity

B. upbringing

C. growth

D. development

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New evidence has (1)___ some very interesting things about the world’s most famous painting, the Mona
Lisa. A French researcher, Pascal Cotte, has spent the (2)___ year investigating Leonardo da Vince’s
famous painting. And his 240 megapixel scan reveals traces of facial hair, which had been obliterated by
(3)___ efforts. This shows that the woman with the enigmatic smile (4)___ eyebrows and eyelashes. The
research also shows that Da Vinci changed his mind about the position of two of Mona Lisa’s fingers on
her left hand. Mr. Cotte spent 3000 hours examining data that he collected (5)___scans that he had made
whilst he was at the Louvre’s laboratory. These scan used infrared and ultraviolet sensors (6)___ the very
first time. Apart from the eyelashes, eyebrows and fingers, Mr. Cotte said that the scan also showed that the
woman who (7)___ in the background of the painting was holding a blanket. This has all (8)___
disappeared from view today. This is not the first time Mr. Cotte has analyzed a famous painting with his
special technique. He has previously made high- resolution scans (9)___ more than 500 other paintings,
(10)___ works by Van Gogh, Brueghel and Courbet.
E05 121: A. found

B. revealed

C. announced

D. claimed

E05 122: A. prior

B. former

C. last

D. past

E05 123: A. repair

B. renewal

C. restoration

D. revival

E05 124: A. grew

B. had

C. possessed

D. owned

E05 125: A. from

B. out of

C. in

D. through

E05 126: A. since

B. at

C. in

D. for

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E05 127: A. shows

B. displays

C. appears

D. occurs

E05 128: A. but

B. over

C. around

D. there

E05 129: A. from

B. of

C. with

D. on

E05 130: A. including

B. such as

C. for example

D. particularly

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Most people, when they asked who Frankenstein was, will reply “a monster”. This is not really (1)___. The
monster, both in Mary Shelly’s book and in the (2)___, has no name! It is (3)___ known as “the monster”
or “ the Frankenstein” monster. Frankenstein was the (4)___ of the doctor who created it. In the (5)___
book, the monster was kind and gentle when he was first created. He wanted friends and (6)___. Soon,
however, people began to persecute him because his (7)___ was so frightening. The monster then changed
into the (8)___ creature that we know from the movies. Mary Shell wrote Frankenstein in 1818, at the age
of 21. She wrote the novel to teach two lessons that people shouldn’t (9)___ other badly because they are
different, and that sometimes we may create something that can (10)___ us.

E05 131: A. correct

B. true

C. real

D. actual

E05 132: A. movies

B. pictures

C. photos

D. scene

E05 133: A. simply

B. only

C. simple

D. really

E05 134: A. picture

B. name

C. call

D. recall

E05 135: A. original

B. first

C. early

D. former

E05 136: A. like

B. favorite

C. priority

D. love

E05 137: A. vision

B. appearance

C. looking

D. face

E05 138: A. terrible

B. bad

C. devil

D. practical

E05 139: A. handle

B. deal

C. behave

D. treat

E05 140: A. damage

B. destroy

C. spoil

D. worse

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INFLUENCES OF TELEVISION

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Television has changed the lifestyle of people in every industrialized country in the world. In the United

State, where sociologists have studied the effects, some interesting observations have been made.
Television, although not essential, has become a(n)(1)___part of most people’s lives. It has become a babysitter, an initiator of conversations, the major transmitter of culture, and a keeper of traditions. Yet when
what can be seen on TV in one day is critically analyzed, it becomes evident that television is not a teacher
but a sustainer. The poor (2)___ of programming does not elevate people into greater (3)___, but rather
maintains and encourages the status quo.
The (4)___reason for the lack of quality in American television is related to both the history of TV
programming development and the economics of TV. Television in America began with the radio. Radio
companies and their sponsors first (5)___with television. Therefore, the close relationship, which the
advertisers had with radio programs become the system for American TV. Sponsors not only paid money
for the time within programs, but many actually produced the programs. Thus, (6)___ from the capitalistic,
profit- oriented sector of American society, television is primarily (7)___ with reflecting and attracting
society rather than (8)___and experimenting with new ideas. Advertisers want to attract the largest viewing
audience possible; to do so requires that the programs be entertaining rather the challenging.
Television in America today remains, to a large (9)___, with the same organization and standards as it had
thirty years ago. The hope for some evolution and true achievement toward improving society will require
a change in the (10)___ system.
E05 141: A. integral

B. mixed

C. fractional

D. superior

E05 142: A. product

B. effect

C. quality

D. quantity

E05 143: A. preconception

B. knowledge

C. understanding

D. feeling

E05 144: A. adequate

B. unknown

C. inexplicable

D. primary

E05 145: A. made

B. did

C. tried

D. experimented

E05 146: A. going

B. leaving

C. coming

D. getting

E05 147: A. connected

B. worried

C. concerned

D. interested

E05 148: A. reflecting

B. innovating

C. attracting

D. entertaining

E05 149: A. extent

B. amount

C. degree

D. size

E05 150: A. total

B. full

C. entire

D. complete

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Paragraph 16:
EXAMS OR CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT?
How do you feel when you (1)___ an exam? Do you always (2)___in getting all your ideas down on paper,
or do you sometimes feel that you’re (3)___ a mess of it? Apart from those lucky few who (4)___ through
exams, most secondary school (5)___ find them very stressful. Many teachers are (6)___ of the problems
their students face and use a different method for measuring their progress: continuous assessment. With
continuous assessment, students are given various (7)___ to do throughout the year. All their marks are
added together to produce a total mark at the (8)___ of the year. Students have to (9)___ more
responsibility for their education because they can’t rely on doing well in just one day. Also, they have
more time to (10)___ over their work, meaning that they are abe to do their best.
E05 151: A. write

B. sit

C. give

D. make

E05 152: A. pass

B. succeed

C. achieve

D. manage

E05 153: A. making

B. having

C. taking

D. doing

E05 154: A. drive

B. move

C. go

D. sail

E05 155: A. colleagues

B. classmates

C. prefers

D. pupils

E05 156: A. knowledgeable B. recognizable

C. aware

D. intelligent

E05 157: A. results

B. achievements

C. tasks

D. efforts

E05 158: A. finish

B. end

C. edge

D. stop

E05 159: A. do

B. make

C. take

D. get

E05 160: A. imagine

B. consider

C. think

D. examine

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Volcanoes have been erupting (1)___ the earth for millions of years. More than five hundred still (2)___
today. These are called active volcanoes. Volcanoes is located (3)___ belts or chains. They are found
(4)___ the earth’s crust is weak. The weak spot lets the hot rock escape when the volcano erupts.
Many volcano belts are (5)___ along the edge of continents. One belt runs along the western coast of South
America (6)___ the western part of the United States. Other volcanoes are found (7)___ ocean basins.

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About (8)___ of all active volcanoes in the world are in the Pacific Ocean. Many of these volcanoes
erupt(9)___ water. The Hawaiian Islands were built by volcanoes that (10)___ erupting under water and
finally reached the surface of the ocean.
E05 161: A. in

B. on

C. under

D. over

E05 162: A. erupt

B. are erupting

C. have erupted

D. erupted

E05 163: A. in

B. on

C. under

D. along

E05 164: A. when

B. which

C. that

D. where

E05 165: A. mountainous ranges B. mountain ranges

C. mountains ranges

D. range mountains

E05 166: A. down

B. up through

C. under

D. up

E05 167: A. along

B. on

C. under

D. in

E05 168: A. three fifths

B. three fifth

C. third fifth

D. three five

E05 169: A. over

B. on

C. under

D. in

E05 170: A. were

B. began

C. continued

D. finished

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School inspectors have found that, contrary to all (1)___ , children don’t dislike homework at all. In fact,
many do more than their teachers suggest, either because of (2)___ about their marks or simply for (3)___ .
The inspectors’ findings add to the evidence of the (4)___ and beneficial effects that homework has on
pupils’ (5)____. The inspectors also recommend the (6)___ of “homework chatter”. This tell parents and
children how much (7)___work is expected and provides (8)___ to schools to form links with parents who
can check that tasks are (9)___ completed.
International (10)___ suggest that a typical 14- year- old student spends 6 hours on homework in Britain, 8
hours in Italy and 9 hours in Japan.
E05 171: A. expects

B. expectations

C. expecting

D. expiators

E05 172: A. anxious

B. anxiously

C. anxious lines

D. anxiety

E05 173: A. enjoyment

B. enjoying

C. enjoyable

D. being enjoyed

E05 174: A. powers

B. powerless

C. powerful

D. power

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E05 175: A. achieve

B. achieving

C. achieves

D. achievement

E05 176: A. introduce

B. introduction

C. introducer

D. introductory

E05 177: A. adding

B. additional

C. additive

D. addition

E05 178: A. encourage

B. courage

C. encouragement

D. courageous

E05 179: A. proper

B. properness

C. properly

D. improperly

E05 180: A. compares

B. comparisons

C. comparing

D. comparison

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Today our knowledge of food and what it does for our body is far more advanced than (1)___ of the
ancient. Now we know about vitamins and how each kind of vitamins helps in the (2)___ of a particular
part of our bodies. There are (3)___ the market all kinds of vitamins pills which one can take to make up
for one’s (4)___ of certain important things which are needed for normal health, (5)____if we eat well and
properly, the food that we eat will take care of our bodies without these pills and so there is no need for us
to take any kinds of vitamins pills (6)___ our doctor tells us that our bodies are short of something which
can be (7)___ by them.
(8)___, everything we eat does some good to our bodies, but if we eat too much of one kind of food and
pay no attention to (9)___, we may have too much of one kind of chemical substance and not enough
others. Then, we may be in (10)___

E05 181: A. this

B. that

C. it

D. them

E05 182: A. development

B. extending

C. increase

D. growth

E05 183: A. in

B. over

C. on

D. of

E05 184: A. deficiency

B. lack

C. short

D. need

E05 185: A. Of course

B. For example

C. However

D. Moreover

E05 186: A. if

B. yet

C. unless

D. nevertheless

E05 187: A. supplied

B. given

C. supported

D. offered

E05 188: A. In brief

B. Generally speaking

C. In a word

D. To cut a long short

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E05 189: A. another

B. other

C. others

D. the others

E05 190: A. problem

B. difficulty

C. trouble

D. obstacle

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Like the body, the memory improves with use. (1)___ the body, the memory improves with age. For many

years, doctors have been studying the way the brain (2)___. We all know that the brain has two sides, the
left and the right side. The right side controls the senses (seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting and smelling), and
is the creative and imaginative side. The (3)___ of the brain controls our logical thinking. It processes the
information which comes in and put in into order. We call the left side “educated” side of the brain and
generally. In Western societies, people have developed this side of the brain more than the right side.
Scientists (4)___ that our brain will work much more efficiently if both of the right side and left side are
developed equally. In many schools today, teachers try to educate the children in such a (5)___that both
sides of the brain are used. This can be done with logical subjects, (6)___ mathematics and science as well
as with creative (7)___ such as art and literature. The results (8)___ by students who are educated in a more
traditional way. Traditional teaching (9)___ to exercise the left side of the brain without paying much
attention to the development of the right side. Only many different interests in life (10)___ the brain able to
achieve the full development of both sides.
E05 191: A. As

B. Unlike

C. Not like

D. Differ

E05 192: A. works

B. does

C. perform

D. operates

E05 193: A. other side

B. another side

C. left side

D. the other side

E05 194: A. believe

B. aware

C. know

D. hope

E05 195: A. way

B. route

C. manner

D. measure

E05 196: A. composing

B. containing

C. including

D. consisting

E05 197: A. subjects

B. objects

C. targets

D. purposes

E05 198: A. obtained

B. achieved

C. gained

D. won

E05 199: A. tendency

B. tends

C. trend

D. fashion

E05 200: A. let

B. help

C. force

D. make

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According to the magazine I have read recently, we (1)___ live in an age of increasing leisure. Not only are
more and more people reaching retirement age with their taste of enjoyment and even adventure relatively
(2)___ but the working week is becoming shorter and the opportunities for leisure are becoming greater
and greater all the time. Not to mention the fact that people (3)___ to spend less time travelling to work or
may even be working from home. What I can’t understand, however, is who these people are. As far as I
can (4)___ the whole thing is another one of (5)___ journalistic fictions. I admit that there are a lot of
retired people (6)___ but I am not sure that all of them are dashing about learning hang- gliding or sailing
single- handed (7)___ the world. My own parents seem to (8)___ most of their time gazing at the
television. And as for the shorter working week, I wish someone (9)___ remind my company about it. I
seem to be working longer and longer hour all the time. The little leisure time I have is eaten into by sitting
in the traffic jams or waiting for trains to (10)___ up at rain-swept platforms. I haven’t notices any
dramatic improvements in my lifestyle either, but perhaps I just have to wait until I get my pension.
E05 201: A. presently

B. at the moment

C. now

D. at this time

E05 202: A. present

B. survived

C. free

D. intact

E05 203: A. use

B. tend

C. have

D. demand

E05 204: A. concern

B. imagine

C. expect

D. tell

E05 205: A. the

B. those

C. these

D. some

E05 206: A. in our days

B. in these times

C. nowadays

D. now and again

E05 207: A. round

B. over

C. through

D. into

E05 208: A. spend

B. save

C. use

D. have

E05 209: A. would

B. to

C. had

D. might

E05 210: A. keep

B. line

C. show

D. set

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What is money? The pound, the dollar or the franc are actually just like a gram or a kilometer. The
difference is that you can exchange money for something (1)___. A five pound note may buy a book, a
huge bag of sweets, or a (2)___ of cinema tickets. But the note itself is only a printed (3)___ of paper
which costs almost nothing to make. Thousands of years (4)___, people didn’t have money as we
know(5)___. There were no banks (6)___ even shops. In those days, Mr. Green, the farmer, exchanged the
corn he (7)___ grown for Mr. Hive’s honey. This was an exchange arranged between two (8)___, each of
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whom had something that the other wanted. But in time, most societies invented their own “currencies”
(9)___ that people could exchange more. The different currencies began to join together , which is why
(10)___ everyone uses a national currency.
E05 211: A. other

B. else

C. another

D. apart

E05 212: A. couple

B. double

C. few

D. several

E05 213: A. slice

B. apart

C. piece

D. side

E05 214: A. since

B. past

C. before

D. ago

E05 215: A. them

B. it

C. some

D. that

E05 216: A. but

B. and

C. neither

D. or

E05 217: A. had

B. was

C. did

D. has

E05 218: A. jobs

B. things

C. goods

D. people

E05 219: A. by

B. for

C. so

D. because

E05 220: A. today

B. tomorrow

C. recently

D. soon

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There has been a revolution in the world of newspapers. Not many years (1)___, newspapers were still
being produced using techniques unchanged for (2)___ hundred years.
The journalists gave their stories to a typist, who prepared them for an editor, who passed them in (3)___
the printer. The printer, who was a (4)___ skilled man, set up the type. (5)___ was then collected to make
the pages. When the pages were complete, the printing machines could be (6)___.
Nowadays what (7)___? The journalists type their stories into a computer. The (8)___ checks their
spelling, plans the page, shapes and articles. When the pages are ready, another computer may control the
printing.
(9)___ can be no doubt about it, producing a newspaper is an entirely different (10)___ now.
E05 221: A. before

B. after

C. ago

D. yet

E05 222: A. a

B. some

C. an

D. over

E05 223: A. to

B. by

C. through

D. with

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E05 224: A. hardly

B. mostly

C. partly

D. very

E05 225: A. They

B. Which

C. This

D. All

E05 226: A. moved

B. stopped

C. started

D. switched

E05 227: A. gives

B. occurs

C. goes

D. happens

E05 228: A. printer

B. typist

C. editor

D. computer

E05 229: A. It

B. There

C. You

D. We

E05 230: A. skill

B. work

C. management

D. business

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Throughout history, women have had responsibility for healing the sick. However, it is only in (1)___
recent time that they have been allowed to train as doctors at (2)___ schools in Britain. Yet in that short
time, they have made an enormous (3)___ to modern medicine.
The first female doctors were priestesses who gave (4)___about diseases and (5)___ prepared medicines. In
ancient Roma, women healers were considered (6)___ and respected.
In Britain, for centuries male doctors are (7)___ of women who practiced medicine (8)___ and in 1512 a

law was passed making it (9)___for them to do so. Women couldn’t study medicine at universities until the
19th century and they only began to gain (10)___with the make doctors in the 20th centuries.
E05 231: A. comparison

B. comparatively

C. comparative

D. compared

E05 232: A. medic

B. medical

C. medicine

D. medication

E05 233: A. contribution

B. contributor

C. contributive

D. contributory

E05 234: A. advise

B. advice

C. adviser

D. advisability

E05 235: A. injuries

B. injury

C. injured

D. injurers

E05 236: A. unskilled

B. skilled

C. skilless

D. skills

E05 237: A. suspicious

B. suspicion

C. unsuspicious

D. suspiciously

E05 238: A. professor

B. professionally

C. professional

D. professorial

E05 239: A. illegal

B. legal

C. legality

D. legalist

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E05 240: A. equality

B. equalizer

C. inequality

D. unequality

Paragraph 25:
There can’t be many people who are (1)___ of e- mail, even if they have never actually sent one. Although

there are some (2)___ between e-mail and letters, there are also many differences. The first is that e-mail is
delivered (3)___ so it can be a very (4)___ means of communication when speed is important. This speed
means that e- mail is more (5)___ for communicating over large distances. Another difference is that email tends to be (6)___ informal. People are much more likely to use language which they would consider
(7)___ for a formal letter. Words spelled (8)___ in an e- mail are less likely to be checked than in a letter.
One explanation for this is that an e- mail seems to be less permanent than something (9)___ on paper. We
can be sure that the future development of e- mail will have all kinds of (10)___ effects on the way we
communicate.
E05 241: A. aware

B. unaware

C. awareness

D. unawareness

E05 242: A. similar

B. similarity

C. similarities

D. dissimilar

E05 243: A. instant

B. instance

C. instantly

D. instances

E05 244: A. effect

B. effecting

C. effective

D. affected

E05 245: A. practice

B. practiced

C. practical

D. impractical

E05 246: A. relatively

B. related

C. relating

D. relative

E05 247: A. suited

B. suitable

C. unsuitable

D. suitably

E05 248: A. correct

B. incorrect

C. correctly

D. incorrectly

E05 249: A. written

B. writing

C. to write

D. being written

E05 250: A. expected

B. unexpected

C. expecting

D. unexpectedly

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Have you ever noticed advertisements which (1)___ “Learning foreign language in 6 weeks, or your money
back? From the first day your pronunciation will be excellent… Just send…” and (2)___. Of course, it

never happens quite like that. The only language that is easy to learn is one’s mother tongue. And think
how much practice that gets! Before the Second World War, people usually learned a language in order to
read the literature of the country. Now, (3)___a foreign language is what most people want. Every year
millions of people start learning one. How do they (4)___ it? Some people try at home, with books and
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records of tapes; some use the radio or TV programmes; some use computers and networks; (5)___ go to
evening or part- time classes. If they use the language only two or three times, it is like learning a language
at school. A few people try to learn a language fast by studying (6)___ six or more hours a day. It is clearly
easier to learn the language in the country (7)___ it is spoken. However, most people cannot (8)___this and
for many it is not necessary. They need the language in order to do their work better. For example,
scientists and doctors chiefly need to be able to read books and reports in the foreign language. (9)___ the
language is learnt slowly or quickly, it is really hard work. Machines and good books will help, but they
cannot (10)___ the students’ work with him.
E05 251: A. tell

B. say

C. inform

D. indicate

E05 252: A. so on

B. so and so

C. so long as

D. so- so

E05 253: A. speaking

B. reading

C. listening

D. understanding

E05 254: A. learn

B. practice

C. do

D. use

E05 255: A. the others

B. some others

C. others

D. another

E05 256: A. over

B. for

C. in

D. within

E05 257: A. that

B. in where

C. where

D. which

E05 258: A. suffer

B. bargain

C. pay

D. afford

E05 259: A. if

B. whether

C. unless

D. however

E05 260: A. make

B. perform

C. do

D. carry out

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With increasing development and (1)___ of computer technology, there is a new disease to (2)___ about.
Computer “viruses” programme (3)___to sabotage computers, are infecting in corporations, homes and
universities. These viruses (4)___ exponentially, much (5)___ biological contagion, and then interrupt the
effected system. When the virus secretly attaches itself (6)___ files the damage is generally activated by
using the computer’s lock. Then any programs executed many be exposed to the virus including
programme spread (7)___ telephone connections. (8)___ the increasing incidents of virus infiltration,
business and agencies are becoming wary of sharing (9)___. Security policies need to be increased as
immunity programmes (10)___.
E05 261: A. transference

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C. application

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E05 262: A. mention

B. speak

C. worry

D. anxious

E05 263: A. made

B. designed

C. formed

D. modernized

E05 264: A. transfer

B. interfere

C. infectious

D. spread

E05 265: A. alike

B. liking

C. unlike

D. like

E05 266: A. to alter

B. to destroy

C. to damage

D. eradicate

E05 267: A. on

B. over

C. through

D. by

E05 268: A. Since

B. For

C. Because

D. Because of

E05 269: A. software

B. hardware

C. disk

D. device

E05 270: A. developed

B. being developed

C. are being developed

D. developed

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There are two types of twins: identical and non- identical twins. Identical twins are (1)___ from a single
egg in the mother’s body which divides to form two separate babies. Identical twins look the same, and are
often difficult to (2)___ identical twins from each other, even when they are standing (3)___. Nonidentical twins come into (4)___ when the mother produces two separate eggs at the same time, both of
(5)___ grow to form babies. In this case, the twins look like normal brothers and sisters are easy to tell
from one to the other.
In the 1970s and 1980s a scientist (6)___ some research into twins in the USA. He invited many pairs of
identical twins to university and asked them to take part in a week of tests. He was particularly interested in
adopted twins who had been separated (7)___ birth. He would give the twins different kinds of (8)___ to
study their speed of thinking, their speech, their memory, the ways they saw and heard different things and
so on. Time and (9)___ he found separated twins who preferred clothes of the same colour, (10)___ used
the same kind of shaving soap, wore the same shaped square glasses and the same colored socks.
E05 271: A. born

B. formed

C. made

D. constitute

E05 272: A. say

B. tell

C. differ

D. distinguish

E05 273: A. close

B. side by side

C. beside

D. near

E05 274: A. world

B. being

C. the earth

D. that world

E05 275: A. these

B. which

C. whom

D. them

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E05 276: A. made

B. carried out

C. did

D. exercised

E05 277: A. at

B. from

C. of

D. out of

E05 278: A. tests

B. exams

C. researches

D. experiments

E05 279: A. past

B. distance

C. again

D. time

E05 280: A. altogether

B. all together

C. each other

D. together

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Speech is one of the most important (1)___ of communicating. It consists of far more than just making
noises. To talk and to also (2)___ by other people, we have to speak a language, that is we have to use
combination of (3)___ that everyone agrees to stand for a particular object or idea. Communication would
be impossible if everyone made up their own language.
Learning a language properly is very (4)___. The basic (5)___ of English is not very large and not only
about 2000 words are needed to speak it quite (6)___. But the more ideas you can (7)___ the more precise
you can be about their exact meaning.
Words are the (8)___thing we use in communicating what we want to say. The way we (9)___ the words is

also very important. Our tone of voice can express many emotions and (10)___ whether we are pleased or
angry, for instance.
E05 281: A. ways

B. reason

C. rules

D. tests

E05 282: A. be spoken

B. be examined

C. be talked

D. be understood

E05 283: A. sounds

B. languages

C. systems

D. talks

E05 284: A. important

B. expensive

C. simple

D. easy

E05 285: A. word

B. vocabulary

C. structure

D. grammar

E05 286: A. perfect

B. well

C. fluent

D. good

E05 287: A. grow

B. need

C. pass

D. express

E05 288: A. most

B. main

C. certain

D. full

E05 289: A. send

B. talk

C. say

D. pass

E05 290: A. ask

B. understand

C. know

D. show

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Khóa Luyện Giải Bài Tập Môn T iếng Anh
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THE LANGUAGE OF CLOTHES

We don’t only choose clothes to make us look (1)___, we also use them to tell the world (2)___ our
personality. The clothes we wear and our (3)___ as a whole give other people useful information about
what we think and (4)___we feel. If we feel cheerful, we usually wear (5)___ clothes and if we feel (6)___
we sometimes put on dark clothes. But why do teenagers wear black so (7)___ ? Is it because they feel
miserable all (8)____? This is unlikely to be the case. It is probably just because it is (9)___ to wear black,
and young people they are real fans of (10)___.
E05 291: A. attract

B. attractive

C. attractively

D. attraction

E05 292: A. about

B. by

C. with

D. of

E05 293: A. appear

B. appearance

C. appeared

D. appearing

E05 294: A. when

B. how

C. what

D. which

E05 295: A. colorful

B. colors

C. colorfully

D. colorless

E05 296: A. depresses

B. depressed

C .depressing

D. depression

E05 297: A. frequent

B. frequency

C. frequently

D. infrequent

E05 298: A. the time

B. the day

C. the week

D. the month

E05 299: A. fashion

B. fashionable

C. fashioner

D. fashioned

E05 300: A. fashion

B. fashionably

C. fashioner

D. fashioned

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