Bài đọc hiểu tiếng anh

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HOPES AND DREAMS
Some years ago, my daughter was studying English at a university on the south coast.
One evening she phoned to tell me that what she really wanted to do was (1) _______
round the world, so she was looking into the possibility of working in another country.
She had seen several (2) _______ in the newspaper for student teachers of English
abroad, and she was interested in one in Italy, which she was desperate to visit. She
decided that this would be a good (3) _______ to achieve her ambition, so she was
writing to (4) _______ for the job The reply (5) _______ a long time to arrive, but
eventually she received a letter asking if she would go for an interview in London the
•following week. She was so excited that she immediately (6) _______ in touch with the
school owner and agreed to attend the interview. She was determined that nothing would
prevent her (7) _______ doing what she had set out to do. A few days before the
interview she had a very strange dream in which she (8) _______ birth to a beautiful
baby. She was a little nervous and (9) _______ about the dream and phoned to ask me
what I thought it might mean. As I knew something about dreams, I was able to assure
her that it only symbolized her (10) _______ to do well in her interview.
1. A. journey
B. travel
C. voyage
D. trip
2. A. notices
B. posters
C. advertisements
D. announcements
3. A. path
B. route
C. manner
D. way
4. A. claim
B. inquire

C. request
D. apply
5. A. was
B. took
C. spent
D. passed
6. A. got
B. came
C. went
D. became
7. A. of
B. from
C. in
D. about
8. A. made
B. had
C. gave
D. produced
9. A. bored
B. worried
C. offended
D. annoyed
10. A. desire
B. request
C. want
D. demand
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THE RUINS OF POMPEII
In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending out a huge cloud of dust and rock that
darkened the sky. It came without warning, and the (1) _______ of the explosion was so

great that it was felt from hundreds of miles away.


In the town of Pompeii, at the foot of the volcano, the inhabitants picked up whatever
belongings they (2) _______ carry and made for the open countryside. In the terrible
storm that followed, dust and rock from the volcano rained down onto the town, filling
the streets with deep layers of ash and poisonous gas, (3) _______ it impossible for the
people to get away. The town of Pompeii was completely destroyed by the rain of death,
and (4) _______ lost to the world for centuries.
Excavation work did not begin (5) _______ 1748, when Rocco Alcubierre found
some wall paintings while he was digging at the site. In the years that followed,
archaeologists realized that they had (6) _______ one of the most astonishing ruins of all
time. Almost everything in Pompeii had been (7) _______ preserved. Several houses still
had their roofs, and inside the furniture and the decorations were (8) _______ as they had
been centuries earlier. There were also the remains of over 2,000 people. Some of the (9)
_______ had made the mistake of sheltering in their cellars, where they were killed by
poisonous gases from the volcano. Others had been (10) _______ from escaping, and in
the prison were men who had been chained to the wall and left to die.
1.
A. energy
B. fuel
C. power
D. efficiency
2.
A. managed
B. succeeded
C. achieved
D. could
3.
A. having

B. leaving
C. making
D. turning
4.
A. lay
B. lied
C. laid
D. lain
5.
A. by
B. until
C. for
D. since
6. A. come up
B. come across
C. come over
D. come on
7.
A. exactly
B. perfectly
C. accurately
D. precisely
8.
A. same
B. alike
C. just
D. similar
9.
A. injured
B. victims

C. sufferers
D. deaths
10. A. avoided
B. blocked
C. arrested
D. prevented
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AN AUSTRALIAN MYSTERY
Interest in undiscovered human-like creatures continues to be widespread. Everyone
has (1) _______ of the Yeti, and its North American “cousin” Bigfoot, but since the last
century there have been (2) _______ of the existence in Australia of another, less famous
creature - the Yahoo. In 1912, a Sydney newspaper (3) _______ an account by Charles
Harper of a strange, large animal he observed (4) _______ the light of his campfire: “Its


body, legs, and arms were covered with long, brownish-red hair, but what struck me at
most extraordinary was its shape, which was human in some ways, yet at the same time
very different. The body was enormous, (5) _______ great strength. The arms were
extremely long and very muscular.”
Harper continued: “All this observation (6) _______ a few minutes while the creature
stood there, as if frightened by the firelight. After a few growls, and beating his breast, he
(7) _______, the first few metres upright, then on all four limbs through the low bushes.
Nothing would persuade my companions (8) _______ the trip, a fact at which I must
admit I was rather pleased.”
What could Harper and his companions (9) _______ have seen? Such a creature was
mentioned in south-eastern Australia in the 1800s, but no specimen was ever obtained for
scientific (10) _______, and all we are left with today is an historical puzzle.
1. A. understood
B. known
C. heard

D. noticed
2. A. statements
B. reports
C. arguments
D. proofs
3. A. delivered
B. typed
C declared
D. printed
4. A. by
B. at
C. with
D under
5. A. announcing
B. pointing
C. indicating
D. describing
6. A. lasted
B. covered
C. involved
D. engaged
7. A. set back
B. set up
C. set in
D. set off
8. A. continue
B. to continue C. continuing D. having continued
9. A. probably
B. likely
C. possibly

D. doubtless
10. A. arrangements B. designs
C. plans
D purposes
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DREAMS
Everyone can dream. Indeed, everyone does dream. Those who (1) _______ that they
never dream at all actually dream just as frequently as the rest of us, (2) _______ they
may not remember anything about it. Even those of us who are perfectly (3) _______ of
dreaming night (4) _______ night very seldom remember those dreams in great detail but
merely retain an untidy mixture of seemingly unrelated impressions. Dreams are not
simply visual - we dream with all our (5) _______, so that we appear to experience
sound, touch, smell, and taste.
One of the world’s oldest (6) _______ written documents is the Egyptian Book of


Dreams. This volume is about five thousand years old, so you can (7) _______ that
dreams were believed to have a special significance even then. Many ancient civilisations
believed that you should never wake a sleeping person as, during sleep, the soul had left
the body and might not be able to return (8) _______ time if the sleeper were suddenly
awoken.
From ancient times to the present day, people have been (9) _______ attempts to
interpret dreams and to explain their significance. There are many books available on the
subject of dream interpretation, although unfortunately there are almost as many
meanings for a particular dream (10) _______ there are books.
1.
A. demand
B. promise
C. agree
D. claim

2.
A. though
B. besides
C. however
D. despite
3.
A. familiar
B. accustomed C. aware
D. used
4.
A. after
B. on
C. through
D. over
5.
A. feelings
B. emotions
C. impressions
D. senses
6.
A. considered
B. known
C. regarded
D. estimated
7.
A. see
B. feel
C. ensure
D. think
8.

A. by
B. in
C. with
D. for
9.
A. doing
B. putting
C. making
D: taking
10. A. as
B. like
C. so
D. such
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In the U.S., industries that generate hazardous wastes want to dispose of them as
cheaply as possible. Private companies hired to dispose of this waste compete with each
other to offer the lowest prices to these industries. The government does not get involved,
beyond setting minimum safety standards.
Unfortunately, the (1) _______ of companies that generate and dispose of waste is to
save money, (2) _______ to guarantee safety. These companies usually send waste to
landfills because this is cheaper than recycling or incineration. Disposal firms who want
to increase their business must cut corners to lower costs and _______ (3) customers. At
the same time, relatively _______ (4) is done to reduce the volume of waste generated,
because disposal costs _______ (5) relatively modest.
Things are different in Denmark. There the government _______ (6) in the waste
disposal process beginning _______ (7) the front end. Together with industry, the


government formed a corporation to establish and _______ (8) waste disposal facilities.
This company, called Kommunichem, has a ________ (9) on waste disposal. Generators

of hazardous waste _______ (10) ship their waste to one of Kommunichem’s disposal
facilities. In this system, there is no price competition in the waste disposal business.
1. A. solution B. license
C. importance D. goal
2. A. not
B. just
C. besides
D. something
3. A. survive
B. efficient
C. gain
D. prosper
4. A. more
B. this
C. recycling
D. little
5. A Still
B. have
C. remain
D. Cheap
6. A. interferes B. participates
C involves
D. control
7. A. to
B. by
C. of
D. at
8. A. operate
B. found
C. prepare

D. generate
9. A power
B. profit
C. monopoly
D. responsibility
10. A. help
B. disposal
C. take
D. must
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The complexities involved in captive breeding of an animals are evident in the case of
the golden marmoset. Since 1965 scientists have been trying to improve the breeding
success of the golden marmosets at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park in
Washington, D C.
In (1) _______ attempts at the National Zoo and :other institutions, the zoologists
found that captive-born (2) _______ ignored,.abused, and sometimes inadvertently (3)
_______ their off spring. After considerable observation, the scientists (4) _______ that’
bath the mate and female have to have experience (5) _______ with and helping to care
for younger siblings (6) _______.they themselves become sexually mature - that is,
marmosets can successfully rear their young (7) _______ if they have had early
experience in the family situation.
The researchers learned that if young marmosets are left with their family groups for
too long - four or five years - they are (8) _______ to breed. Other research showed that
the animals needed special diets if they were to produce offspring (9) _______ of the
carbohydrate rich fruit diet they were (10) _______ fed, they required a menu high in
protein
1.

A. rare

B. fact

C. which

D. early


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

A. marmosets
B. which
C. was
D. were
A. refused
B. kilted
C. for
D. by
A. thought
B. experience
C. feel
D. teamed

A. captive
B. mature
C. breeding
D. living
A. when
B. before
C. therefore
D. and
A. only
B. since
C. siblings
D. animals
A. unlikely
B. incapable
C. supposed
D. able
A. Instead
B. Because
C. Some
D. Most
A daily
B. really
C to
D. customarily
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In the heat of summer in the eastern United States and Canada, monarch butterflies

hatch, mature, mate and die in tees than two months The cycle repeats three or four times
in the season, (1) _______ the last generation to find its way south in winter head of the
killing cold. At the end of the journey, they converge in the mountain of central Mexico

at a handful of sites, some of (2) _______ measure not more than an acre.
Ranging from Canada to Argentina, the monarch is a North American pioneer; it is
the (3) _______ species in a family of tropical (4) _______ to gain a foothold in the
temperate climate of the northern United States and southern Canada. These (5) _______
provide a rich supply of milkweed, a broadly diversified plant upon which the adult
monarch depends for nectar.
But during the winter, the Mexican sites (6) _______ a niche for the species, giving it
a tenuous yet vital lease on life in the midst of the forbidding (7) _______. At 10,000 feet
in the mountains of Mexico, the January nights can grow cold enough to (8) _______
several million monarchs. But the insects (9) _______ in a forest so dense that the
_______ (10)touch to form a blanket. If the dense forest is even selectively logged, it
loses its insulating properties and dooms the butterfly.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

A. and
A. which
A. many
A. ones
A. butterflies
A. provide
A. rule
A. die

B. making
B. them
B. modest
B. able
B. areas
B. need
B. away
B. make

C. until
C. the
C. best
C. butterflies ‘
C. are
C. give
C. summer
C. freeze

D. leaving
D. places
D. only
D. zone
D. species
D. change
D. cold
D. right


9. A. grow
B. lost

C. gather
D. that
10. A. trees
B. monarchs
C. crowd
D. warm
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THE DRIVING INSTRUCTOR
I’m a driving test examiner. I ran my own driving school for twelve years before
applying to become an examiner in 1996. Since then I’ve (1) _______ to examine lorry
and bus drivers and instruct trainee examiners. I (2) _______ that I’ve assessed 16,000
people and passed around half of them. The first lorry driver I passed (3) _______ tears.
However, the most (4) _______ reasons for failing are not being ready and being too (5)
_______. Inwardly I’m telling the candidates not to do something stupid like (6) _______
out into moving traffic, but I’m not (7) _______ to tell them how to drive.
When I (8) _______ my own test I was extremely nervous and had to (9) _______
with a very strict and unfriendly examiner. We’re taught. nowadays to put people at their
(10) _______. We pass everyone who’s up to (11) _______, but people often present
themselves too soon. I’ve never been offered money to pass anyone, (12) _______ one
man asked me if he could make me change my (13) _______. I then (14) _______ him to
the police. My ambition is to be a supervising examiner in (15) _______ of test centers in
a large area.
1. A. resulted
B. succeeded
C. qualified
D. mastered
2. A. count
B. number
C. judge
D. estimate

3. A. burst into
B. turned back
C. carried on
D. set off
4. A. simple
B. regular
C. average
D. common
5. A. tense
B. tight
C. stretched
D. stiff
6. A. make
B. pull
C. pick
D. stand
7. A. admitted
B. let
C. allowed
D. enabled
8. A. took
B. performed
C. achieved
D. effected
9. A. suffer
B. meet
C. experience D. deal
10. A. rest
B. ease
C. peace

D. leisure
11. A. limit
B. test
C. measure
D. standard
12. A. while
B. even
C. although
D. despite
13. A. mind
B. thoughts
C. attitude
D. view
14. A. reported
B. declared
C. announced D. notified
15. A. responsibility
B. care
C. duty
D. charge
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Can you imagine what life would be (1) _______ if. there were no telephone? You
could not call (2) _______ your friends on the phone and talk to them. If fire broke
(3)._______ in your house you could not call the fire department. If somebody was sick,
you could not call a doctor.
(4) _______ our daily life we need to communicate with (5) _______. We need do
this mostly by speaking to other people and listening to (6) _______ they have to say to
us, and when you are close (7) _______ them we can do this very easily. However, our

voices will not travel very far even when we shout.
The man who (8) _______ this possible was Alexandre Graham Bell, a Scotsman,
born (9) _______ Edinburgh in 1847. Bell, a teacher of visible speech who later moved to
Canada, (10) _______ all his spare time experimenting. (11) _______ enthusiastic was he
in his research _______ (12) a means for sending speech (13) _______ electricity that he
left (14) _______ time for his day-to-day work and at one time (15) _______ almost
penniless.
1.
A. as
B. like
C. of
D. for
2.
A. on
B. for
C. in
D. up
3.
A. out
B. in
C. up
D. off
4.
A. With
B. In
C. On
D. At
5.
A. you
B. one another

C. them
D. other
6. A. that
B, this
C. what
D. which
7.
A. from
B. to
C. out
D. on
8.
A. had
B. did
C. made
D. brought
9.
A. at
B. in
C. on
D. from
10. A. took
B. wasted
C. cost
D. spent
11. A. So
B. Very
C. Too
D. Such
12. A. as

B. for
C. to
D. by
13. A. in
B. with
C. by
D. on
14. A. some
B. much
C. little
D. enough
15. A. being
B. is
C. was
D. be
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THE THREAT TO THE ENVIRONMENT
Nowadays people are more aware that wildlife all over the world is in (1) _______.
Many (2) _______ of animals are threatened, and could easily become (3) _______ if we
do not make an effort to (4) _______ them. There are many reasons for this. In some


cases, animals are (5) _______ for their fur or for other valuable parts of their bodies.
Some birds, (6) _______ as parrots, are caught (7) _______, and sold as pets. For many
animals and birds, the problem is that their habitat – the (8) _______ where they live - is
(9) _______. More (10) _______ is used for farms, for houses or industry, and there are
fewer open (11) _______ than there once were. Farmers use powerful chemicals to help
them grow better (12) _______ but these chemicals pollute the environment and (13)
_______ wild life. The most successful animals on earth - human beings - will soon be
the only ones (14) _______, unless we can (15) _______ this problem.

1. A. danger
B. threat
C. problem
D. vanishing
2. A. marks
B. more
C. species
D. forms
3. A. disappeared
B. vanished
C. empty
D. extinct
4. A. harm
B. safe
C. protect
D. serve
5. A. hunted
B. chased
C. game
D. extinct
6. A. like
B. such
C. or
D. where
7. A. lively
B. alive
C. for life
D. for living
8. A. spot
B. pint

C. place
D. site
9. A. exhausting
B. departing
C. escaping
D. disappearing
10. A. earth
B. land
C. soil
D. area
11. A. spaces
B. air
C. up
D. parts
12. A. products
B. fields
C. herbs
D. crops
13. A. spoil
B. harm
C. wound
D. wrong
14. A. survived
B. over
C. missing
D. left
15. A. answer
B. calculate
C. solve
D. explain

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When the Moscow State Circus goes on its annual tour of Europe, the young members
of the circus are still expected to (1) _______ with their education. The circus usually (2)
_______ for a few days in each town, so how do the young performers manage?
One twelve-year- old gets up at the crack of (3) _______ to practise her act before (4)
_______ off to school. She returns at lunchtime to her family’s caravan and more
practice. Not only does she work (5) _______, but she also has to make a whole new (6)
_______ of friends each time she moves on. “It’s exhausting work but I like the circus (7)
_______ she says. “The worst (8) _______ is when I make new friends and have to leave
them, although I try to (9) _______ by letter.”
The Russian who runs the circus makes (10) _______ that all the children get a proper


education. When the circus first arrives in Britain, he (11) _______ the traveler education
service and gives them the (12) _______ of all the children, and when they will be in
certain towns and cities. “It’s a fantastic (13) _______ he says. “I receive a (14) _______
when we reach the next town telling us where to meet. We are then accompanied to
school and introduced to the head teacher. It works like (15) _______
1. A. progress
B continue
C. maintain
D. further
2. A. slows
B. stops
C. places
D. moves
3. A. dawn
B morning
C. day
D. light

4. A following
B. leaving
C. heading
D directing
5. A. strict
B. difficult
C. strong
D. hard
6. A. form
B. gathering
C. set
D. collection
7. A. life
B. way
C. living
D. type
8 A. section
B. piece
C part
D. side
9. A. keep in view B. keep in touch C. keep in mind
D. keep in line
10. A. sure
B definite
C. important
D. time
11. A”, connect
B notices
C. reaches
D contacts

12. A. facts
B. details
C. quantities
D demands
13. A. system
B. habit
C. plan
D. order
14. A. sign
B. signal
C. message
D. word
15. A. lightning
B. clockwork
C. new
D. wildfire
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It all happened rather quickly - the doctor realized that I needed to have my appendix
out immediately, to (1) _______ things from getting any (2) _______ and they operated
(3) _______ me straight away But I’m not feeling too bad and I’m getting (4) _______ all
the time. The doctors say it will take about a week for me to (5) _______ the operation
completely.
I’m in quite a large ward with about 20 other people, and (6) _______ I would (7)
_______ to be somewhere a bit smaller, we all (8) _______ with each other quite well.
Still, I do find it a bit (9) _______ here - there’s nothing to do. They say I (10)
_______ get up unless it’s absolutely necessary, so I can’t even get to the TV room.
Unfortunately I didn’t have the (11) _______ to get home before coming in, so I haven’t
got any money. (12) _______ I’m sure one of the nurses would probably (13) _______
me enough to buy a paper. I’d (14) _______ not ask as I’d (15) _______ it a bit
embarrassing.

1
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

A. prevent
A. bad
A. on
A. improved
A. get at
A. although
A. better
A. get down
A. annoying
A. don’t have to
A. opportunity
A. In spite

A. owe
A. better
A. feel

B. forbid
B. dangerous
B. up
B. good
B. get through
B. despite.
B. wants
B. get on
B. irritating
B. needn’t
B. possibility
B despite
B. lend
B. rather
B: see

C. block
C serious
C. at
C. finer
C. get over
C. unless
C. more
C get by
C. entertaining
C. mustn’t

C. occasion
C. Unless
C. borrow
C. prefer
C. think

D. avoid
D. worse
D in
D. better
D. get along
D. except
D. prefer
D. get out of
D. boring
D. don’t need to
D. permission
D. Even though
D. debt
D. want
D. find