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SECTION A (8 points)
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs
from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
1. A. digested
B. chewed
C. killed
D. enjoyed
2. A. enough
B. through
C. cough
D. laugh
3. A. cancel
B. commercial
C. construction
D. climate
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other
three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
4. A. environment
B. establish
C. emergency
D. organization
5. A. terrific
B. tertiary
C. territory
D. terminal
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.

6. ________ is a sport in which two or more people perform complicated and carefully planned movements
in water to music.
A. Rowing
B. Windsurfing
C. Diving
D. Synchronized swimming
7. On behalf of the __________ country, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai declared the 22nd SEA Games
opening ceremony.
A. visiting
B. guest
C. home
D. host
8. The 22nd SEA Games _______ a good impression on sports enthusiasts.
A. did
B. caused
C. gained
D. made
9. This man __________ all his life to science.
A. appealed
B. dedicated
C. preserved
D. proposed
10. Chemical wastes from factories are _________________ that cause serious damage to species habitats.
A. pollutants
B. pollutes
C. pollutions
D. polluters
11. A number of incredible things ________ in the final match.
A. happening
B. happened

C. were happened
D. have happened
12. Mike is _____________.
A. five years older than me
B. years five older than me
C. older than me five years
D. than me older five years
13. Life is becoming ________.
A. more and more complicated
B. more than complicated
C. most and most complicated
D. least and least complicated
14. When she got the news from her family, she could not do anything, _________________ cry.
A. but
B. and
C. so
D. however
15. John still feels like a cigarette though he gave __________ smoking a few years ago.
A. in
B. up
C. over
D. on
16. Maria takes __________ her mother; she has blue eyes and fair hair, too.
A. in
B. up
C. down
D. after
17. The alarm clock __________ at midnight, which prevented me from sleeping.
A. went off
B. went on

C. go off
D. went up
18. The room is too dirty. It ________ now.
A. should clean
B. should have cleaned C. should be cleaning D. should be being cleaned


19. I can’t stand __________ in front of many people.
A. to be laughed at
B. laugh at
C. being laughed at D. being laughing at
20. The guy ______ next to me at the party yesterday is my workmate.
A. who
B. that
C. sat
D. sitting
21. Those letters ________ now. You can do the typing later.
A. need typing
B. needn't be typed C. need to type
D. needn't typing
22. Only by working hard______________ your goal.
A. you can achieve
B. you will achieve
C. can you achieve D. will help you achieve
23. Kate: “Would you mind helping me with these heavy boxes?”
Ted: _______
A. “My Gosh!”
B. “Yes, I would.”
C. “What a pity !” D. “Not at all.”
24. Alice: ____________________________.

Betty: Thanks for your compliment.
A. You’ve done your work.
B. This is a present for you.
C. I’m glad that you’re well again.
D. You look pretty in this dress.
25. Tom: Would you rather go to the beach or to the mountains?
Candy: __________________
A. That’s very nice of you.
B. The beach definitely
C. I’d love to go
D. Thanks for the mountains.
26. Hung: Could you help me with my essay?
Lam: _____________________
A. Yes, I’m afraid not
B. Why not?
C. Not completely
D. I think that, too.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to
the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
27. A plan has been proposed for Vietnam to host the Asia Sports Games at some point in the future.
A. any time
B. in a moment
C. sometime
D. at the moment
28. Today the total number of national Red Cross Societies from all over the world has mounted to 186.
A. increased
B. peaked
C. accounted for
D. included
29. He was very interested in the diversity of cultures all over the world.

A. change
B. effect
C. variety
D. majority
30. Do you know the seven hand-made wonders of the modern world?
A. artificial
B. natural
C. ancient
D. manual
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to
the underlined word(s) in each of t he following questions.
31. There have been significant changes in women’s lives since the women’s liberation movement.
A. unimportant
B. controlled
C. political
D. disagreeable
32. In 1989, a ban was given on all international trade in ivory.
A. a destruction
B. an allowance
C. an exploitation
D. a prohibition
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs
correction in each of the following questions.
33. Alice had a mechanic to repair her car two years ago.
A. had
B. mechanic
C. to repair
34. Neither her sons nor her daughter speak English fluently.
A. Neither
B. nor

C. speak

D. two years
D. fluently


35. The students are interested in take a trip to the zoo on Sunday.
A. are
B. in
C. take
D. on
36. Had he planned on going, he will have let us know.
A. Had
B. on
C. will have let
D. know
37. Anthropologists agree that our primitive ancestors who inhabited the tropics probably have natural
protection against the sun.
A. agree
B. primitive ancestors C. probably have
D. against
38. Since rats are destructive and may carry disease, therefore many cities try to exterminate them.
A. destructive
B. may carry
C. them
D. therefore many
Choose the best option that has the nearest meaning to the given sentence.
39. My classmate gave a book about desert to me.
A. My classmate was given a book about desert by me.
B. A book about desert was given my classmate by me.

C. A book about desert was given to my classmate by me.
D. A book about desert was given to me by my classmate.
40. The more money Dane makes, the more his wife spends.
A. Dane spends more money than his wife.
B. Dane and his wife both make money.
C. Dane spends the money his wife makes.
D. Dane’s wife keeps spending more money.
41. We will come back home __________.
A. when the school time will be over.
B. when the school time is over.
C. if the school time is over.
D. as soon as the school time will be over.
42. I prefer __________.
A. driving to travel by train.
B. to drive than to travel by train.
C. driving than travelling by train.
D. driving to travelling by train.
43. _______. We got there far too early.
A. We needn't have hurried
B. We should hurry up
C. Hurry up or we will be late
D. We must have walked hurriedly
44. Many people think Steve stole the money.
A. It was not Steve who stole the money.
B. Steve is thought to have stolen the money.
C. Many people think the money is stolen by Steve. D. The money is thought to be stolen by Steve.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your anser sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the questions from 45 to 54.
Harvard University, today recognized as part of the top echelon of the world’s universities, came
from very inauspicious and humble beginning.

This oldest of American universities was founded in 1636, just sixteen years after the Pilgrims landed
at Plymouth. Included in the puritan emigrants to the Massachusetts colony during this period were more
than 100 graduates of England’s prestigious Oxford and Cambridge universities, and these universities
graduates in the New Word were determined that their sons would have the same educational opportunities
that they themselves had had, Because of this support in the colony for an institution of higher learning, the
General Court of Massachusetts appropriated 400 pounds for a college in October of 1636 and early the
following year decided on a parcel of land for the school; this land was in an area called Newetowne, which
was later renamed Cambridge after its English cousin and is the site of t he present-day university.


When a young minister named John Harvard, who came from the neighboring town of Charlestowne,
died from tuberculosis in 1638, he willed half of his estate of 1,700 pounds to the fledgling college. In spite
of the fact that only half of the bequest was actually paid, the General Court named the college after the
minister in appreciation for what he had done. The amount of the bequest may not have been large,
particularly by today’s standard, but it was more than the General Court had found it necessary to
appropriate in order to open the college.
Henry Dunster was appointed the first president of Harvard in 1640, and it should be noted that in
addition to serving as president, he was also the entire faculty, with an entering freshmen class of four
students. Although the staff did expand somewhat, for the first century of its existence the entire teaching
staff consisted of the president and three or four tutors.
45. The main idea of this passage is that_________.
A. Harvard is one of the world’s most prestigious universities.
B. What is today a great university started out small
C. John Harvard was key to the development of a great university
D. Harvard University developed under the auspices of the General Court of Massachusetts
46. The passage indicates that Harvard is___________.
A. one of the oldest universities in the world
B. the oldest university in the world
C. one of the oldest universities in America
D. the oldest university in America

47. It can be inferred from the passage that the Puritans who traveled to the Massachusetts colony
were__________.
A. rather well educated
B.rather rich
C. rather supportive of the English government
D. rather undemocratic
48. The pronoun “they” in the second paragraph refers to_____.
A. Oxford and Cambridge universities
B. university graduates
C. sons
D. educational opportunities
49. The “pounds” in the second paragraph are probably_______.
A. Types of books
B. college students
C. units of money D. school campuses
50. The “ English cousin” in the second paragraph refers to a_______.
A. City
B. relative
C. person
D. court
51. Which of the following is NOT mentioned about John Harvard?
A. What he died of
B. Where he came from
C. Where he was buried
D. How much he bequeathed to Harvard
52. The word “fledgling” in the third paragraph could be best replaced by which of the following?
A. newborn
B. flying
C. winged
D. established

53. The passage implies that_______.
A. Henry Dunster was an ineffective president
B. Someone else really served as president of Harvard before Henry Dunster
C. Henry Dunster spent much of his time as president managing the Harvard faculty
D. The position of president of Harvard was not merely an administrative position in the early ears
54. The word “somewhat” in the last paragraph could best be replaced by_______.
A. Back and forth
B. to and pro
C. side by side
D. more or less


Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 55 to 64.
GENDER GAP IN EDUCATION
For many years now, British girls have performed much better in exams than boys. Most theories
about the causes of this gap ---(55)--- the sexes have blamed the education ---(56)--- . However, new
research suggests that boys’ poor performance has nothing to do ---(57)--- internal practices at schools.
Instead external factors, such as different learning styles and how children are ---(58)--- up, have to be
considered.
For this ---(59)--- , many educationalists are now studying how boys and girls learn to read. They
believe that, since reading is ---(60)--- taught either by mothers or by female primary school teachers, many
boys ---(61)--- reading as a woman’s activity and this puts them ---(62)--- it.
Another factor could be that boys are generally more ---(63)--- than girls. When they can’t be the
best, they would rather ---(64)--- up on education than be considered average. Girls seem much happier to
be second best.
55. A. among
B. between
C. beside
D. beyond

56. A. method
B. style
C. technique
D. system
57. A. by
B. from
C. at
D. with
58. A. brought
B. raised
C. given
D. grown
59. A. cause
B. purpose
C. reason
D. objective
60. A. hardly
B. generally
C. rarely
D. lately
61. A. look
B. notice
C. see
D. watch
62. A. off
B. on
C. across
D. through
63. A. determined
B. optimistic

C. possessive
D. competitive
64. A. give
B. take
C. break
D. turn
SECTION B (2 points)
Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed
before it. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
1. “I don’t know what you are talking about,” George said to me.
 George said to me that …………………………………………………………………………………
2. “Would you like another cup of tea?” the landlady said to the guests.
 The landlady invited the guests ……………………………………………………………………….
3. Linda often gets up early in the morning. She wants to review her lessons before class.
 In order to …………………………………………………………..…………………………………
4. Diana was born in 1960. Mike was born in 1960 too.
 Diana is as ………………………………………………………..…………………………………
5. Collecting stamps from foreign countries is one of Jane’s interests.
Jane is ………………………………………………………..………………………………………..…
II. In about 140 words, write a paragraph about the reasons why more and more people learn foreign
languages. Write your paragraph on your answer sheet.
------- GOOD LUCK TO YOU -------


Key:
SECTION A (8 points)
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs
from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
1. A. digested
B. chewed

C. killed
D. enjoyed
2. A. enough
B. through
C. cough
D. laugh
3. A. cancel
B. commercial
C. construction
D. climate
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other
three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
4. A. environment
B. establish
C. emergency
D. organization
5. A. terrific
B. tertiary
C. territory
D. terminal
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
6. ________ is a sport in which two or more people perform complicated and carefully planned movements
in water to music.
A. Rowing
B. Windsurfing
C. Diving
D. Synchronized swimming
7. On behalf of the __________ country, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai declared the 22nd SEA Games
opening ceremony.

A. visiting
B. guest
C. home
D. host
8. The 22nd SEA Games _______ a good impression on sports enthusiasts.
A. did
B. caused
C. gained
D. made
9. This man __________ all his life to science.
A. appealed
B. dedicated
C. preserved
D. proposed
10. Chemical wastes from factories are _________________ that cause serious damage to species habitats.
A. pollutants
B. pollutes
C. pollutions
D. polluters
11. A number of incredible things ________ in the final match.
A. happening
B. happened
C. were happened
D. have happened
12. Mike is _____________.
A. five years older than me
B. years five older than me
C. older than me five years
D. than me older five years
13. Life is becoming ________.

A. more and more complicated
B. more than complicated
C. most and most complicated
D. least and least complicated
14. When she got the news from her family, she could not do anything, _________________ cry.
A. but
B. and
C. so
D. however
15. John still feels like a cigarette though he gave __________ smoking a few years ago.
A. in
B. up
C. over
D. on
16. Maria takes __________ her mother; she has blue eyes and fair hair, too.
A. in
B. up
C. down
D. after
17. The alarm clock __________ at midnight, which prevented me from sleeping.
A. went off
B. went on
C. go off
D. went up
18. The room is too dirty. It ________ now.
A. should clean
B. should have cleaned C. should be cleaning D. should be being cleaned
19. I can’t stand __________ in front of many people.
A. to be laughed at
B. laugh at

C. being laughed at D. being laughing at
20. The guy ______ next to me at the party yesterday is my workmate.


A. who
B. that
C. sat
D. sitting
21. Those letters ________ now. You can do the typing later.
A. need typing
B. needn't be typed C. need to type
D. needn't typing
22. Only by working hard______________ your goal.
A. you can achieve
B. you will achieve
C. can you achieve D. will help you achieve
23. Kate: “Would you mind helping me with these heavy boxes?”
Ted: _______
A. “My Gosh!”
B. “Yes, I would.”
C. “What a pity !” D. “Not at all.”
24. Alice: ____________________________.
Betty: Thanks for your compliment.
A. You’ve done your work.
B. This is a present for you.
C. I’m glad that you’re well again.
D. You look pretty in this dress.
25. Tom: Would you rather go to the beach or to the mountains?
Candy: __________________
A. That’s very nice of you.

B. The beach definitely
C. I’d love to go
D. Thanks for the mountains.
26. Hung: Could you help me with my essay?
Lam: _____________________
A. Yes, I’m afraid not
B. Why not?
C. Not completely
D. I think that, too.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to
the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
27. A plan has been proposed for Vietnam to host the Asia Sports Games at some point in the future.
A. any time
B. in a moment
C. sometime
D. at the moment
28. Today the total number of national Red Cross Societies from all over the world has mounted to 186.
A. increased
B. peaked
C. accounted for
D. included
29. He was very interested in the diversity of cultures all over the world.
A. change
B. effect
C. variety
D. majority
30. Do you know the seven hand-made wonders of the modern world?
A. artificial
B. natural
C. ancient

D. manual
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to
the underlined word(s) in each of t he following questions.
31. There have been significant changes in women’s lives since the women’s liberation movement.
A. unimportant
B. controlled
C. political
D. disagreeable
32. In 1989, a ban was given on all international trade in ivory.
A. a destruction
B. an allowance
C. an exploitation
D. a prohibition
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs
correction in each of the following questions.
33. Alice had a mechanic to repair her car two years ago.
A. had
B. mechanic
C. to repair
D. two years
34. Neither her sons nor her daughter speak English fluently.
A. Neither
B. nor
C. speak
D. fluently
35. The students are interested in take a trip to the zoo on Sunday.
A. are
B. in
C. take
36. Had he planned on going, he will have let us know.

D. on


A. Had
B. on
C. will have let
D. know
37. Anthropologists agree that our primitive ancestors who inhabited the tropics probably have natural
protection against the sun.
A. agree
B. primitive ancestors C. probably have
D. against
38. Since rats are destructive and may carry disease, therefore many cities try to exterminate them.
A. destructive
B. may carry
C. them
D. therefore many
Choose the best option that has the nearest meaning to the given sentence.
39. My classmate gave a book about desert to me.
A. My classmate was given a book about desert by me.
B. A book about desert was given my classmate by me.
C. A book about desert was given to my classmate by me.
D. A book about desert was given to me by my classmate.
40. The more money Dane makes, the more his wife spends.
A. Dane spends more money than his wife.
B. Dane and his wife both make money.
C. Dane spends the money his wife makes.
D. Dane’s wife keeps spending more money.
41. We will come back home __________.

A. when the school time will be over.
B. when the school time is over.
C. if the school time is over.
D. as soon as the school time will be over.
42. I prefer __________.
A. driving to travel by train.
B. to drive than to travel by train.
C. driving than travelling by train.
D. driving to travelling by train.
43. _______. We got there far too early.
A. We needn't have hurried
B. We should hurry up
C. Hurry up or we will be late
D. We must have walked hurriedly
44. Many people think Steve stole the money.
A. It was not Steve who stole the money.
B. Steve is thought to have stolen the money.
C. Many people think the money is stolen by Steve. D. The money is thought to be stolen by Steve.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your anser sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the questions from 45 to 54.
Harvard University, today recognized as part of the top echelon of the world’s universities, came
from very inauspicious and humble beginning.
This oldest of American universities was founded in 1636, just sixteen years after the Pilgrims landed
at Plymouth. Included in the puritan emigrants to the Massachusetts colony during this period were more
than 100 graduates of England’s prestigious Oxford and Cambridge universities, and these universities
graduates in the New Word were determined that their sons would have the same educational opportunities
that they themselves had had, Because of this support in the colony for an institution of higher learning, the
General Court of Massachusetts appropriated 400 pounds for a college in October of 1636 and early the
following year decided on a parcel of land for the school; this land was in an area called Newetowne, which
was later renamed Cambridge after its English cousin and is the site of t he present-day university.

When a young minister named John Harvard, who came from the neighboring town of Charlestowne,
died from tuberculosis in 1638, he willed half of his estate of 1,700 pounds to the fledgling college. In spite
of the fact that only half of the bequest was actually paid, the General Court named the college after the
minister in appreciation for what he had done. The amount of the bequest may not have been large,


particularly by today’s standard, but it was more than the General Court had found it necessary to
appropriate in order to open the college.
Henry Dunster was appointed the first president of Harvard in 1640, and it should be noted that in
addition to serving as president, he was also the entire faculty, with an entering freshmen class of four
students. Although the staff did expand somewhat, for the first century of its existence the entire teaching
staff consisted of the president and three or four tutors.
45. The main idea of this passage is that_________.
A. Harvard is one of the world’s most prestigious universities.
B. What is today a great university started out small
C. John Harvard was key to the development of a great university
D. Harvard University developed under the auspices of the General Court of Massachusetts
46. The passage indicates that Harvard is___________.
B. one of the oldest universities in the world
B. the oldest university in the world
C. one of the oldest universities in America
D. the oldest university in America
47. It can be inferred from the passage that the Puritans who traveled to the Massachusetts colony
were__________.
B. rather well educated
B. rather rich
C. rather supportive of the English government
D. rather undemocratic
48. The pronoun “they” in the second paragraph refers to_____.
B. Oxford and Cambridge universities

B. university graduates
C. sons
D. educational opportunities
49. The “pounds” in the second paragraph are probably_______.
B. Types of books
B. college students
C. units of money D. school campuses
50. The “ English cousin” in the second paragraph refers to a_______.
B. City
B. relative
C. person
D. court
51. Which of the following is NOT mentioned about John Harvard?
B. What he died of
B. Where he came from
C. Where he was buried
D. How much he bequeathed to Harvard
52. The word “fledgling” in the third paragraph could be best replaced by which of the following?
B. newborn
B. flying
C. winged
D. established
53. The passage implies that_______.
A. Henry Dunster was an ineffective president
B. Someone else really served as president of Harvard before Henry Dunster
C. Henry Dunster spent much of his time as president managing the Harvard faculty
D. The position of president of Harvard was not merely an administrative position in the early ears
54. The word “somewhat” in the last paragraph could best be replaced by_______.
B. Back and forth
B. to and pro

C. side by side
D. more or less


Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 55 to 64.
GENDER GAP IN EDUCATION
For many years now, British girls have performed much better in exams than boys. Most theories
about the causes of this gap ---(55)--- the sexes have blamed the education ---(56)--- . However, new
research suggests that boys’ poor performance has nothing to do ---(57)--- internal practices at schools.
Instead external factors, such as different learning styles and how children are ---(58)--- up, have to be
considered.
For this ---(59)--- , many educationalists are now studying how boys and girls learn to read. They
believe that, since reading is ---(60)--- taught either by mothers or by female primary school teachers, many
boys ---(61)--- reading as a woman’s activity and this puts them ---(62)--- it.
Another factor could be that boys are generally more ---(63)--- than girls. When they can’t be the
best, they would rather ---(64)--- up on education than be considered average. Girls seem much happier to
be second best.
55. A. among
B. between
C. beside
D. beyond
56. A. method
B. style
C. technique
D. system
57. A. by
B. from
C. at
D. with

58. A. brought
B. raised
C. given
D. grown
59. A. cause
B. purpose
C. reason
D. objective
60. A. hardly
B. generally
C. rarely
D. lately
61. A. look
B. notice
C. see
D. watch
62. A. off
B. on
C. across
D. through
63. A. determined
B. optimistic
C. possessive
D. competitive
64. A. give
B. take
C. break
D. turn
SECTION B (2 points)
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed

before it. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
1. “I don’t know what you are talking about,” George said to me.
 George said to me that he didn’t know what I was talking about.
2. “Would you like another cup of tea?” the landlady said to the guests.
 The landlady invited the guests to have another cup of tea.
3. Linda often gets up early in the morning. She wants to review her lessons before class.
 In order to review her lessons before class, Linda often gets up early in the morning.
4. Diana was born in 1960. Mike was born in 1960 too.
 Diana is as old as Mike.
5. Collecting stamps from foreign countries is one of Jane’s interests.
Jane is interested in collecting stamps from foreign countries.
II. In about 140 words, write a paragraph about the reasons why more and more people learn foreign
languages. Write your paragraph on your answer sheet.