Bài đọc hiểu tiếng anh

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THE FIRST WOMAN SCIENTIST
Hypatia was born in Alexandria, in Egypt, in 370 A.D. For many centuries she was (1)
_______ only woman scientist to have a place in the history books.
Hypatia’s father was director of Alexandria University, and he (2) _______ sure his
daughter had the best education available. This was unusual, as most women then had
few (3) _______ to study.
After studying in Athens and Rome, Hypatia returned to Alexandria (4) _______ she
began teaching mathematics. She soon became famous (5) ________ her knowledge of
new ideas.
We have no copies of her books, (6) _______ we know that she wrote several
important mathematical works. Hypatia was also interested in technology and (7)
_______ several scientific tools to help with her work.
At the (8) _______ many rulers were afraid of science, and (9) _______ connected
with it was in danger. One day in March 415, Hypatia (10) _______ attacked in the street
and killed.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

A. one
A. could
A. classes
A. where

A. from
A. because
A. did
A. day
A. anyone
A. was

B. the
B. made
B. customs
B. how
B. by
B. but
B. experimented
B. period
B. nobody
B. had

C. a
C. said
C. opportunities
C. there
C. for
C. or
C. invented
C. year
C. all
C. has

D. an

D put
D. teachers
D. which
D. in
D. as
D. learnt
D time
D. something
D. is

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SAMUEL PEPYS
The most famous diary in English was written by Samuel Pepys It gives a detailed
and interesting (1) _______ of everyday life in England (2) _______ 1660 and 1669.
Pepys writes about important news stories of the time,, like disease, an enemy navy (3)
_______ up the River Thames and the Great Fire of London.


He also writes about himself, even about his (4) _______ - he often slept during
church or (5) _______ at the pretty girls. He describes his home life - a (6) _______ with
his wife and how they became friends again, his worry about her illness. As well as
books, he liked music, the theatre, card (7) _______, and parties with good food and (8)
_______ of fun. Pepys was a busy man who had many important (9) _______ - he was a
Member of Parliament and President of the Royal Society. He is also (10) _______ for
his work for the British Navy.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

6.
7.
8.
9
10.

A. description
A. between
A. driving
A accidents
A. looked
A. conversation
A. battles
A. amount
A acts
A. reviewed

B letter
B. from
B. flying
B. plans
B. prayed
B. discussion
B. games
B. plenty
B. hobbies
B. remembered

C. notice
C. through

C. running
C. dreams
C. talked
C. quarrel
C. matches
C. much
C. jobs
C. reminded

D. story
D. to
D. sailing
D. faults
D. thought
D. talk
D. plays
D. some
D. studies
D. reported

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THE ROCKIES
The Rocky Mountains run almost the length of North America. They start in the
North-west, but lie only a (1) _______ hundred miles from the centre in more southern
areas. Although the Rockies are smaller (2) _______ the Alps, they are no less wonderful.
There are many roads across the Rockies, (3) _______ the best way to see them is to
(4) _______ by train. You start from Vancouver, (5) _______ most attractive of Canada’s
big cities. Standing with its feet in the water and its head in the mountains, this city (6)
_______ its residents to ski on slopes just 15 minutes by car from the city (7) _______.
Thirty passenger trains a day used to (8) _______ off from Vancouver on the crosscontinent railway. Now there are just three a week, but the ride is still a great adventure.

You sleep on board, (9) _______ is fun, but travel through some of the best (10) _______
at night.
1.
2.

A. many
A. from

B. lot
B. to

C. few
C. as

D. couple
D. than


3.
4
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10

A. but
A. drive
A. a

A. lets
A. centre
A. leave
A. when
A. scenery

B. because
B. travel
B. one
B. allows
B. circle
B. get
B. which
B. view

C. unless
C. ride
C. the
C. offers
C. middle
C. take
C. who
C. site

D. since
D. pass
D. its
D. gives
D. heart
D. set

D where
D. beauty

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CARTOON FILMS
Cartoon films have very few limits. If you can draw something, you can (1) _______
it move on the cinema screen. The use (2) _______ new ideas and advanced computer
programs means that cartoons are becoming exciting again for people of (3) _______
ages.
By the (4) _______ of the 1970s, the cinema world had decided that cartoons were
only for children.
But soon (5) _______, one or two directors had some original new ideas. They proved
that it was possible to make films in which both adults and children could (6) _______
the fun.
However, not (7) _______ cartoon film was successful. The Black Cauldron, for
example, failed, mainly because it was too (8) _______ for children and too childish for
adults. Directors learnt from this (9) _______, and the film companies began to make
large (10) _______ of money again.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

A. get

A. for
A. more
A. end
A. afterwards
A. divide
A. every
A. nervous
A. damage
A. amounts

B. cause
B of
B. other
B. finish
B. later
B. add
B. both
B. fearful
B. crime
B. accounts

C. wish
C. with
C. all
C. departure
C. next
C mix
C. any
C. afraid
C. mistake

C. numbers

D. make
D. by
D. these
D. back
D. then
D. share
D. each
D. frightening
D. fault
D. totals

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NEW OPPORTUNITIES WITH AN OPEN UNIVERSITY DEGREE
Like any other university, the Open University can give you a degree. However, you
don’t have to (1) _______ working to study. It can also open up a whole variety (2)
_______ interests.
If you have (3) _______ studied before, you will enjoy the special, new pleasure of (4)
_______ your knowledge. You will make friends of (5) _______ kinds. You may also (6)
_______ that your qualification provides new career opportunities.
You don’t actually (7) _______ to the Open University for lectures, but study at home,
using television, radio and computer software. You can (8) _______ one class a month if
you wish at an Open University centre. Of course, there are exams to take, as in (9)
_______ university.
If you (10) _______ like to know more, all you have to do is complete the form
below. It could be the start of a wonderful new period in your life.
1.

2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

A. stop
A. from
A. ever
A. growing
A. all
A. suggest
A. join
A. give
A. any
A. did

B. end
B. of
B. never
B. changing
B. each
B. find
B. enter
B. attend
B. some

B. will

C. break
C. in
C. often
C. adding
C. both
C. wish
C. arrive
C. learn
C. many
C. would

D. leave
D. for
D. always
D. increasing
D. every
D. want
D. go
D. study
D. most
D. can

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LITTLE CAT, LITTLE CAT, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
When Bo the cat decided to explore a furniture van, she had a bigger adventure than
she expected. She was discovered (1) _______ the driver, after he had completed a (2)
_______ of over 500 kilometres. It was (3) _______ end of a long day. The driver and the
cat were both hungry! He gave her some milk and started making enquiries. He

telephoned his last (4) _______ but they had not lost a cat. It was getting late, so he took
Bo home for the night and (5) _______ - morning delivered her to an animal hospital.
The cat’s owner (6) _______ done some detective work too. After (7) _______.


everywhere for the cat, he suddenly remembered the furniture van (8) _______ had made
a delivery to a neighbour. Fortunately, he (9) _______ the name of the company. He
called their office and in a Short time Bo was (10) _______ safely.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

A of
A. trip
A. an
A. shoppers
A. next
A. has
A. seeing
A. what
A. called ‘
A. given

B. from
B. visit
B. some
B. buyers
B. following
B. is
B. searching
B. this
B. remembered
B. brought

C. at
C. tour
C. the
C. callers
C. tomorrow
C: had
C. watching
C. it
C. saw
C. returned

D. by
D. travel
D. any
D. customers
D. other
D. was
D. spying
D. which

D. reminded
D. taken

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MONEY
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 the two (8) _______ each of 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.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

A. other
A. couple
A. slice
A. since
A. them

A. or
A. did

B else
B. double
B. part
B. past
B. it
B. neither
B. was

C. another
C. few
C. side
C. before
C. some
C. and
C. had

D. apart
D, several
D. piece
D. ago
D. that
D. but
D. has


8. A. jobs
9. A. for

10. A. tomorrow

B. people
B. by
B. today

C. things
C. before
C. recently

D. goods
D. so
D. soon

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MOVING ON
On a cold March evening, Claire Johnson sat down at the kitchen table in her home
near London. She and her family had (1) _______ thirty years there. Her husband and her
daughter were already at the table. They (2) _______ a packet of biscuits and drank tea
(3) _______ with water which Claire had boiled in their only pan.
It was the same kitchen in (4) _______ Claire had organized hundreds of enormous
meals for her friends from all (5) _______ the world. For so (6) _______ years the
sounds of her family, friends and visitors had filled the house. Now it was quiet. It would
soon be (7) _______ to go. She had packed the last of their clothes (8) _______ two
suitcases which her husband had (9) _______ from a friend.
The three of them ate their food in (10) _______. They didn’t know what tomorrow
would bring.
1. A. left
2. A. gave
3. A. done

4. A. where
5. A. over
6. A. several
7. A. hour
8. A. for
9. A. given
10. A. quiet

B. attended
B. shared
B. got
B. what
B. about
B. many
B. moment
B. onto
B. borrowed
B. calm

C. spent
C. used
C. put
C. which
C. through
C. much
C. occasion
C. into
C. lent
C. silence

D. taken
D. offered
D. made
D. whose
D. among
D. plenty
D. time
D. with
D. supplied
D. rest

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KING LEAR
Adrian Noble’s modern production of William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” opened last
week at the Barbican Theatre in London to enthusiastic (1) _______
Robert Stephens, heading an impressive supporting cast, gives a moving and powerful
(2) _______ as Lear, and David Bradley, who (3) _______ the Earl of Gloucester, is so


convincing in the (4) _______ that several members of the (5) _______ who were sitting
in the front (6) _______ are reported to have fainted during one particularly realistic (7)
_______.
(8) _______ its length - the play runs for three and three quarter hours with two halfhour (9) _______ - Noble’s production is anything but tedious. King Lear’ will run at the
Barbican until March and (10) _______ booking is recommended.
1. A. reports
2. A. act
3. A. represents
4. A. character
5. A. audience
6 A. files

7. A. scene
8. A. However
9. A. gaps
10. A. ahead

B. statements
B. demonstration
B. plays
B. representation
B. observers
B. lines
B. episode
B. Although
B. intervals
B. previous

C. reviews
C. show
C. interprets
C. part
C. spectators
C. chairs
C. section
C. Despite
C. pauses
C. forward

D. commentaries
D. performance
D. acts

D. impersonation
D. crowd
D. rows
D. place
D. While
D. rests
D.advance

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CRIME PREVENTION
You can make life more difficult for thieves by (1) _______ your wallet in an inside
pocket instead of a back pocket. But make sure that you still have it if someone bumps
into you in a (2) _______. Most pickpockets are very skilful. Never let your handbag out
of your (3) _______. On public transport, (4) _______ hold of it. You are also (5)
_______ to take travellers’ cheques rather than cash when you go abroad, and to use cash
dispensers which are on (6) _______ streets, or are well lit at night.
A quarter of all crimes are car thefts or thefts of things from cars, like radios and
cassette players. If your car is (7) _______, you may not get it back One in four are never
found, and even if it is, it may be badly (8) _______. Always lock all doors and windows,
and think about fitting a car alarm too. If you are buying a new radio/cassette player, it is
(9) _______ choosing one that is security-coded or removable by the driver. These
precautions will help to (10) _______ thieves.
1. A. taking
2. A. mass

B. holding
B band

C. carrying
C. crowd

D. bringing
D. group


3
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

A. view
A. keep
A. suggested
A. main
A. robbed
A. hurt
A. beneficial
A. put off

B. sight
B. catch
B. told
B. important
B. burgled
B. damaged
B. practical

B. put down

C. visibility
C. take
C. informed
C. principal
C. stolen
C. spoilt
C. worthwhile
C. put out

D. vision
D. have
D. advised
D. major
D. hijacked
D. injured
D. sensible
D. put back

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ART FACTORIES
Several years ago an old factory on the edge of Paris was turned into an exhibition
centre. This helped many artists (1) _______ had found it too expensive to work in the
centre of Paris, and so for the (2) _______ few years painters, musicians, actors and other
people (3) _______ had space to work and perform. The people behind the idea now (4)
_______ to change the use of other old buildings (5) _______ the same reasons.
Sometimes the use of the buildings can only (6) _______ for a short period of time, a
year for example, (7) _______ the opportunity is always worth it for the young artists. On
one occasion a businessman lent an old building (8) _______ the organizers for two

years, and in that time the artists were (9) _______ to put on concerts, art exhibition and
fashion shows to (10) _______ the local people.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

A. which
A. other
A. have
A. think
A. with
A. take
A. but
A. for
A. suitable
A. attract

B. some
B. past
B. must
B. like
B. by
B. be

B. so
B, in
B. able
B. bring

C. who
C. late
C. would
C. go
C. beyond
C. seem
C. because
C. to
C. better
C. provide

D. those
D. remaining
D. had
D. want
D. for
D. have
D. since
D. from
D. successful
D. enjoy

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YOUTH AT THE WHEEL
One in six drivers in Britain is aged between 17 and 25. But more drivers in- this age

group are responsible (1) _______ a greater number of accidents than older drivers; in (2)


_______ one accident in four is the fault of a young, inexperienced driver.
A team of researchers has (3) _______ two years studying the driving performance,
attitudes and behaviour of young people. The report (4) _______ that not all young
drivers are dangerous, (5) _______ a large number of males, particularly those aged 17 to
20, do not drive as carefully (6) _______ other age groups. These young drivers are more
likely to have (7) _______ accident in their first year of driving (8) _______ when their
experience increases. The report also notes that men are more likely to (9) _______
driving rules than women, and that a girlfriend or wife in the car has a calming (10)
_______ on the driving pattern of young men.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

A. to
A. order
A. done
A. says
A. and
A. so
A. the

A. than
A. crash
A. way

B. for
B. place
B. put
B. tells
B. but
B. like
B. this
B. until
B. break
B. effort

C. with
C. time
C. given
C. speaks
C. since
C. as
C. an
C. or
C. tear
C. method

D. from
D. fact
D. spent
D. talks

D. because
D. that
D. some
D. while
D. escape
D. influence

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RAIL DISCO
Every Saturday night at six o’clock during the summer months up to 500 disco fans
climb a train in. Turin in Italy. They (1) _______ the next six hours dancing away until
the train (2) _______ a popular disco at one of the towns (3) _______ the Adriatic coast.
The whole trip (4) _______ eighty dollars, including entrance into the disco.
Italian railways started the idea (5) _______ a way of trying to reduce the growing
numbers of young people (6) _______ have accidents every weekend when they drive the
400 kilometres to the coast.
Even (7) _______ the train pulls away from the platform the disco car is crowded
with people (8) _______ all kinds of fashionable clothes. The discos stay open until four
in the morning and (9) _______ at 05.30 the train is ready to begin its journey back to
Turin. It will arrive in (10) _______ for its exhausted passengers to get home for Sunday


lunch!
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

8.
9.
10.

A. go
A. comes
A. in
A. pays
A. as
A. what
A. until
A. dressing
A. then
A. turn

B. spend
B. travels
B. to
B. charges
B. like
B. these
B. before
B. having
B. where
B. case

C do
C. Teaches
C: for
C. makes

C. such
C. who
C. above
C. wearing
C. when
C. fact

D. take
D arrives
D. on
D. costs
D. that
D. they
D. after
D. showing
D. since
D. time

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BIRTH OF COMPUTER
Most people think of computers as very modern inventions, products of our new
technological age. But actually the idea for a computer (1) _______ worked out over two
centuries ago by a man (2) _______ Charles Babbage.
Babbage was born (3) _______ 1791 and grew up to be a brilliant mathematician. He
drew up plans for several calculating machines (4) _______ he called “engines’’. But
despite the fact that he (5) _______ building some of these he never finished any of them.
Over the years people have argued (6) _______ his machines would ever work. Recently,
however, the Science Museum in London has finished building (7) _______ engine based
on one of Babbage’s designs. (8) _______ has taken six years to complete and more (9)
_______ four thousand parts have been specially made. Whether it works or not, the

machine will be on show at a special exhibition in the Science Museum (10) _______
remind people of Babbage’s work.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

A. has
A. known
A’ on
A. whose
A. wanted
A. until
A. some
A. One
A. than
A. to

B. was
B. recognized
B. in
B. who
B. made
B. whether

B. the
B. He
B. therefore
B. as

C. had
C. written
C. by
C. these
C. started
C. while
C. an
C. They
C. when
C. for

D. is
D. called
D. for
D. which
D. missed
D. though
D. that
D. It
D. then
D. so