READING COMPREHENSION

READING COMPREHENSION
(Đọc hiểu)
I.
Read the passage and choose the best answer :

In Stone Age people wore clothes made of fur and leather (1)
…………. from animal skins or woven grasses. Then (2) …………. the
Bronze Age, people learned to weave clothes on looms. Clothes made of
wool and cotton came into existence. Fur, leather, grass, wool and cotton (3)
…………… the materials that people at that time could get from the nature.
In the 20th century with the (4) …………… of science and (5)
………………, people made their clothes from synthetic materials (6)
…………. nylon or acrylic.
1. A. with
B. on
C. at
D. by
2. A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were
3. A. develop
B. developed
C. developing
D. development
4. A. technology
B. education
C. fashion
D. designers
5. A. for
B. by

C. like
D.
such

Singapore is an island country of about three million people. It’s a
beautiful (1) ………… with lots of parks and opens spaces. It’s also a very
(2) ………. city. Most people (3) ………. in high-rise flats in different parts
of island. The business district is very modern with lots of high new
office buildings. Singapore also has some nice older sections. In Chinatown,
there are rows of old
short houses. The government buildings in Singapore are very beautiful and
date (4) …… the
colonial days.
Singapore is famous for (5) ………… shops and restaurants. There are
many good shopping centers. Most of the (6) ……….. are duty free.
Singapore’s restaurant sell Chinese, Indian, Malay and European food, and
the prices are quite reasonable.
1. A. district
B. town
C. city
D. village
2. A. large
B. dirty
C. small
D.
clean


A. live
B. lives

C. are living
D. lived
4. A. for
B. since
C. from
D. of
5. A. their
B. the
C. it’s
D. its
6. A. priced
B. prices
C. good
D. goods
 Áo Tứ Thân is (1) …………… one of Vietnam’s enduring relics, having
been worn widely by (2) …………… centuries before the Áo Dài. As
Vietnam expanded southward, Áo Tứ Thân was the gradually became
associated specifically with northern women. Áo Tứ Thân was the (3)
…………… of peasant women, which explains why it was often made with
plain fabric in dark colors, expect when it was to be worn at special occasions
such as festivals (4) …………. weddings. Regardless of its many different
forms, the basic Áo Tứ Thân consists (5) …………… : A flowing outer tunic
reaching almost the floor, a long skirt, worn under the tunic and Yếm, an
ancient bodice worn as an undergarment by women. A silk sash (6)
…………… is tied at the waist as a belt. Áo Tứ Thân is modern-day Vietnam
(worn almost exclusively in northern-related festivals) tends to be extremely
colorful , using different hues throughout the dress, from the tunic to the
bodice and the skirt.
1. A. mentioned
B. considered

C. symbolized
D. described
2. A. girls
B. women
C. men
D.
woman
3. A. skirt
B. shirt
C. dress
D.
blouse
4. A. or
B. but
C. and
D. so
5. A. with
B. from
C. of
D. at
6. A. who
B. whom
C. whose
D.
which

An increasing number of people are now going on a(n) (1) …………..
to Egypt. Last year, for example, one and half million (2) ……….. visit
Egypt. The population of Egypt is about fifty million and the (3) ……. is
Cairo, a busy city of just under nine million people. Although the (4) ………

is hot and dry and most country is desert, the average (5) …………. From
3.


October to March is not too high. The most (6) …….... sights are the Pyramid
of Giza. However, it is also pleasant to visit Alexandria, Port Said and several
other places, and do as much (7) ………. as possible in the time available. A
(8) ……… to Luxor is an unforgettable experience, and there are frequent
flights there from Cairo.
1. A. visit
B. holiday
C. trip
D. exclusion
2. A. voyagers
B. tourist
C. passengers
D. explores
3. A. head
B. state
C. capital
D.
principal
4. A. temperature
B. climate
C. condition
D. position
5. A. weather
B. comparison
C. climate
D. temperature

6. A. famous
B. known
C. visited
D. requested
7. A. viewing
B. inspecting
C. sightseeing
D. looking
8. A. picnic
B. trip
C. guide
D. entertainment

Many people think that the teachers give students too (1) ……….
homework. That say it is (2) ………. for children to work at home (3)
………. their free time. Moreover, they argue that most teachers do not
properly have to repeat tasks which they have already done (4) …….. school.
Recently in Greece many parents complained (5) ………… the difficult
homework which the teachers give to their children. Most people agree that
homework is unfair. A student who can do his homework in a quiet and
comfortable room is in (6) ………… better position than a student who does
his homework in a small, noisy room with television (7) ………… Some
parents help their children (8) …………… their homework. Other parents
take no interest at their children’s homework.
It is important, however, that teachers talk to parents about
homework. A teacher should suggest suitable tasks for parents (9) …………
with their children. Parents are often better (10) …… teacher their own
children.

A. much
B. many
C. more
D.
less
2. A. necessary
B. necessity
C. unnecessary
D. unnecessarily
3. A. in
B. at
C. on
D.
within
4. A. at
B. since
C. on
D.
from
5. A. for
B. on
C. with
D.
about
6. A. many
B. much
C. more
D.
few
7. A. in

B. at
C. on
D.
with
8. A. in
B. at
C. on
D.
with
9. A. do
B. to do
C. doing
D.
does
10. A. in
B. for
C. at
D.
with

All of us use energy every day – for transportation, cooking, (1)
…………. and cooling rooms, manufacturing, lighting and entertainment.
The choices we make about (2) …………. we use energy – turning machines
off when we’re not using them or choosing to buy (3) ………….
appliances – impact our environment and our lives.
There are many things we can do to use less energy and use it more
wisely. Two main ways to
(4) ………… energy are energy conservation and energy efficiency. Turning
lights off when you leave the room and (5) ………… aluminum cans are both
ways of conserving energy. Energy efficiency is the use of technology that

requires less energy (6) ……… the same function. A compact fluorescent
light bulb that uses less energy than an ordinary bulb to produce the same (7)
…………. of light is an example of energy efficiency.
1. A. lighting
B. heating
C. hotting
D.
airing
2. A. when
B. why
C. how
D.
which
1.


A. efficient
B. efficiency
C. efficiently
D. effective
4. A. store
B. produce
C. use
D. save
5. A. reusing
B. returning
C. recycling
D. redoing
6. A. perform
B. to perform

C. performing
D. to performing
7. A. number
B. amount
C. speed
D.
source

Air pollution is a cause of ill health in (1) ………… In many
countries, there are laws limiting the amount of smoke that factories can
produce. Although there isn’t (2) ………. on the (3) ………… of smoke in
the atmosphere, doctors have proved that air pollution causes lung diseases.
The gar from the exhausts of car have also (4) ………… air pollution in
(5) ………… cities. The (6) ………… in petrol produces a poisonous gas
that often collects in busy street surrounded by high buildings. Children (7)
………… live in areas where there is a lot of lead in the atmosphere can’t
think as (8) ………. as other children and are clumsy when they use their
hands.
There are other long-term effects of pollution. If the gases in the
atmosphere continue (9) ………… increase, the earth’s climate may become
warmer. A lot of ice near the Poles may (10) ………… and may cause
serious floods.
1. A. man
B. men
C. human beings
D.
person
2. A. enough information
B. enough informative C. information enough
D. informatively

3. A. effect
B. effects
C. affect
D.
affects
4. A. increasing
B. increased
C. decreasing
D. decreased
5. A. the most
B. most of
C. most
D.
steel
6. A. lead
B. zinc
C. bronze
D.
steel
3.


A. who
B. which
C. those
D.
whom
8. A. quick
B. quickly
C. fastly

D.
intelligent
9. A. along
B. down
C. toward
D. to
10. A. melt
B. freeze
C. defrost
D.
flow
 If you are an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a
sneer or snarl. It becomes a symbol of our wasteful, throw-away society. But
there seems little (1) ………….. it is here to say, and the truth is, of course,
that plastics have brought enormous (2) …………. even environmental ones.
It is not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental (3)
………… - it is the way
society chooses to use and (4) ………. them
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from
oil, gas or coal – non-renewable natural (5) …………. We (6) ……………
well over three million tons of the stuff in Britain each year and, sooner and
later, most of it is thrown away. A high (7) ………… of our annual
consumption is in the (8) …………… of packaging and this (9) ………….
about seven per cent by weight of our domestic (10) …………. Almost all of
it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling (11)
………………. is growing fast.
The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich – they have a higher
calorific (12) …………. than coal and one (13) …………… of “recovery”
strongly (14) ………… by the plastic manufactures is the (15) ……………
of waste plastic into a fuel.

1. A. evidence
B. concern
C. doubt
D.
likelihood
2. A. pleasures
B. benefits
C. savings
D.
profits
3. A. poison
B. disaster
C. disadvantage
D.
evil
4. A. dispose
B. store
C. endanger
D. abuse
5. A. resources
B. processes
C. products
D. fuels
7.


A. remove
B. import
C. consign
D.

consume
7. A. percentage
B. amount
C. per cent
D.
rate
8. A. way
B. kind
C. form
D.
type
9. A. takes
B. makes
C. carries
D.
constitutes
10. A. refuse
B. goods
C. requirements
D. rubbish
11. A. manufacture
B. plant
C. factory
D. industry
12. A. degree
B. value
C. demand
D.
effect
13. A. measure

B. mechanism
C. method
D.
medium
14. A. desired
B. argued
C. favored
D.
presented
15. A. conversion
B. melting
C. change
D.
replacement
 Television first (1) ……………… some fifty years ago in the 1950s.
Since then, it has been one of the most popular sources of (2) …………… for
both the old and the young. Television can actually satisfy almost all kinds of
taste. It (3) ……………… cartoons for children, world news, music and
many other programs. If someone is interested in sports, (4) …………., he
can tune in to a sports channel. There he can enjoy a (5) ……………..
broadcast of an international football match. Television is also a very useful
way for companies to (6) ……………… their products.
It’s not (7) ……………. hard for us to see why there is a TV set in
almost every home today. And, engineers are developing interactive TV
which allows to communicate (8) …………… viewers and producers.
1. A. appears
B. appeared
C. has appeared
D.
was appeared

2. A. entertain
B. entertaining
C. entertainment
D.
entertainer
3. A. offers
B. responds
C. invents
D.
explores
6.


4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

A. as a result
example
A. alive
D. life
A. advertise
interact
A. such
D. very
A. from
between

B. therefore
B. live

C. however

D. for

C. lively

B. produce

C. develop

B. enough

C. too

B. among

C. with

D.

D.

 WATER
There’s much more water than land on the (31) ___ of the earth. The seas and
oceans cover nearly (32) ___ of the whole world, and only one-fifth of (33)
___ land. If you traveled over the earth in different directions, you would
have to spend (34) ___ more of your time (35) ___ on water that on roads or

railways. We sometimes forget that for every mile of land (36) ___ four miles
of water.
There’s so much water in the surface of our earth that we (37) ___ to
use two words to describe. We use the word SEAS (38) ___ those parts of
water surface which (39) ___ only few hundreds of mile, the word OCEANS
to describe the huge area of water (40) ___ are thousands of miles wide and
very deep.
1. A. cover
B. surface
C. outer
D. outside
2. A. four-fives
B. four-fifth
C. four fifths
D.
fourth-fifths
3. A. it is
B. it’s
C. its
D. them are
4. A. many
B. much
C. few
D. too
5. A. to move
B. move
C. moved
D. moving
6. A. there are
B. there is

C. there has
D. have
7. A. must
B. should
C. have
D. would
8. A. describing
B. describes
C. describe
D.
to
describe
9. A. is
B. are
C. has
D. will be
10. A. that’s
B. which
C. where
D. whose
 DROUGHT IN THE UNITED STATES
The Southwestern States of the United States suffered one of the worst
droughts in their history from 1931 to 1938. The drought (1) ______ the


entire country. Few food crops could be grown. Food became (2)______, and
prices went up (3) ______ the nation. Hundreds of families in the Dust Bowl
region had to be moved to farms in other areas with the help of the federal
government. In 1944, drought brought great damage to (4)______ all Latin
America. The drought moved to Australia and then to Europe, (5)______ it

continued throughout the summer of 1945. From 1950 to 1954 in the
United States, the South and Southwest suffered a (6)______ drought.
Hundreds of cattle ranchers had to ship their cattle to other regions because
(7)______ lands had no grass. The federal government again (8)______ an
emergency drought-relief program. It offered farmers (9)______ credit and
seed grains (10)______ low prices.
1.
A. pushed
B. incurred
C. occurred
D. affected
2.
A. scarce
B. mystified
C. hidden
D.
uncommon
3.
A. over
B. throughout
C. all
D. across
4.
A. near
B. totally
C. almost
D. factually
5.
A. which
B. that

C. where
D. when
6.
A. heavy
B. sharp
C. strict
D. severe
7.
A. pasture
B. culture
C. moisture
D. manure
8.
A. carried
B. conducted
C. convened
D.
conformed
9.
A. emergency
B. crisis
C. tension
D. disaster
10. A. to
B. in
C. over
D. at
 DRUGS
Drugs are one of the (1) ________ profession’s most valuable tools. Doctors
prescribe drugs to (2) ________ or prevent many diseases. Every year,

penicillin and other (3) ________ drugs save the lives of countless victims of
pneumonia and other dangerous infectious diseases. Vaccines prevent attacks
by such diseases as (4) ________, polio, and smallpox. The use of these and
many other drugs (5) ________ helped millions of people live longer,
healthier lives than would (6) ________ have been possible.
Almost all our most important drugs, however, were unknown before the
1900’s. For example, the sulfa drugs and antibiotics did not come into use (7)
________ the late 1930’s and early 1940’s. Before that time, about 25
percent of all pneumonia victims in the United States died of the disease. The
new drugs quickly reduced the (8) ________ rate from pneumonia to less
than 5 percent. Polio vaccine was introduced in 1955. At that time, polio


struck about 30,000 to 50,000 Americans each year. (9)________ 1960, the
use of the vaccine has reduced the number of new polio cases to about 3,000
a year. In 1900, most Americans did not live (10) ________ the age of 47.
Today, Americans live an average of more than 70 years, in great part
because of the use of modern drugs.
1.
A. medical
B. medicine
C. health
D.
medic
2.
A. solve
B. settle
C. ruin
D. treat
3.

A. germ-killing B. helping
C. saving
D. rescuing
4.
A. AIDS
B. measles
C. influenza
D.
hiccups
5.
A. would have B. have
C. has
D.
did
6.
A. only
B. even
C. also
D.
otherwise
7.
A. until
B. to
C. onto
D. upon
8.
A. end
B. ruin
C. death
D.

termination
9.
A. About
B. By
C. To
D. Prior
10.

A. past

B. passing

C. well

D. through

 The Great Pyramid of Giza, a monument of wisdom and prophecy, was
built as a tomb for Pharaoh Cheops in 2720 B.C. (1)________ its antiquity,
certain (2)________ of its construction make it one of the truly great wonders
of the world. The four sides of the pyramid are (3)________ almost on
exactly true north, south, east and west – an incredible engineering feat. The
ancient Egyptians were sun worshippers and great astronomers, so
computations for the Great Pyramid were (4)________ on astronomical
observations.
Explorations and detailed examinations on the base of the structure
(5)________ many intersecting lines. Further scientific (6)________
indicates that these (7)________ a type of time line of events – past, present,
and future. Many of the events have been interpreted and found to
(8)________ with known facts of the past. Others are prophesied for future
generations and are presently under (9)________.

Was this superstructure made by ordinary beings, or (10)________
built by a race far superior to any known today?
1.
A. Though
B. In spite
C. By
D. Despite
2.
A. tenets
B. relics
C. aspects
D.
properties
3.
A. lined
B. aligned
C. assigned
D.
fathomed
4.
A. set
B. based
C. fitted
D. founded
5.
A. reveal
B. testify
C. impose

D. reset
6.
A. volume
B. trial
C. study
D. text
7.
A. front
B. represent
C. repose
D.
forward
8.
A. tangle
B. consort
C. resort
D. coincide
9.
A. inspection
B. introduction C. recommendation
D.
investigation
10. A. that
B. which
C. such
D.
one
 Most ghost stories are (1)________ in mysterious, old houses or castles.
The ghosts themselves whose (2)________ wander the earth at night, are
usually the victims of some horrible crimes. This

is not always the case as the following story (3)________.
When my friend, Paul, was a schoolboy, he often used to chat to Mr. Scott,
an elderly gentlemen living on his own. Mr. Scott was a keen gardener. He
would always be looking after his lawn or his flowers and Paul was
(4)________ the habit of saying a few words to him over the fence.
One summer’s evening, as Paul was on his way home from school, he
saw, as (5)________, Mr. Scott in his garden. The old man was busily
weeding his flowerbeds. When he saw Paul, he invited him into the garden
with a (6)________ of his hand. Slowly, they strolled all around, admiring
the various flowers. Then, to Paul’s surprise, Mr. Scott bent down and picked
a (7)________ of his finest dahlias. ‘Here boy,’ he said. ‘Give these to your
mother.’
No sooner had he arrived home than he (8)________ the flowers to his
mother. He then told her that they were with Mr. Scott’s compliments. His
mother’s face went red with anger. ‘You wicked boy!’ she shouted. ‘How
(9)________you say such a thing! I (10)________ into his daughter in the


supermarket this morning. She told me that the poor old chap had passed
away in
his sleep last Friday.
1. A. set
B. put
C. fixed
D.
programmed
2. A. bodies
B. minds
C. spirits
D. phantoms

3. A. points
B. indicates
C. states
D. shows
1. A. on
B. in
C. within
D. with
2. A. frequent
B. common
C. often
D. usual
6. A. rise
B. spread
C. wave
D. shake
7. A. carton
B. bunch
C. roll
D.
packet
8. A. submitted
B. turned
C. presented
D.
demonstrated
9. A. should
B. dare
C. would
D. wrong

10. A. bumped
B. struck
C. rushed
D. knocked