Bài đọc hiểu tiếng anh

1. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
One of the most remote places on earth surely (1) _______ to be the Galapagos
Islands, which (2) _______ _in the Pacific Ocean 1100 kilometres (3) _______ the west
of Ecuador. These (4) _______ islands made largely from volcanic rock were (5)
_______ to go their own way for millions of years without (6) _______ interference.
Most notably, the islands are (7) _______ to the giant tortoise and iguanas. There are also
turtles weighing up to 230 kilos and (8) _______ a cormorant which cannot fly!
The islands were not (9) _______ until a few hundred years ago when pirates came
(10) _______ them and buried their treasure there. Unpopular crew members were often
(11) “_______” there too! Later, in 1835 Charles Darwin visited the islands in (12)
_______ to study the wildlife and used his observations as the basis for his (13) _______
of natural selection and evolution. He noticed, for (14) _______, that many of the islands
had their own (15) _______ of tortoise which had evolved according to each environment
in isolation over millions of years.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

A. should

A. lay
A. by
A. anti-social
A. made
A. human
A. dwelling
A. yet
A. disturbed
A. into
A. removed
A. time
A. thoughts
A. once
A. style

B. ought
B. combine
B. in
B. inhospitable
B. allowed
B. humane
B. house
B. while
B. molested
B. across
B. vanished
B. case
B. wonders
B. instants
B. brand

C. has
C. lie
C. at
C. unkind
C. let
C. humanity
C. residence
C. just
C. annoyed
C. up
C. disappeared
C. order
C. theories
C. example
C. mark

D. is
D. impose
D. to
D. awkward
D engaged
D. mankind
D. home
D. even
D. teased
D. by
D. mislaid
D. purpose
D. guesses

D. chance
D species

2. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
Scottish Villain Arthur Ferguson has a different technique. He would stand around a
London monument where quite (1) _______ accident, or so it appeared, he would (2)
_______ the acquaintance of a wealthy tourist. When the (3) _______ invariably turned


to the monument, the tourist would ask Ferguson how he was so (4) _______. Ferguson
would confess to being the official (5) _______ for the sale of Britain’s monuments. His
greatest success was selling Nelson’s Column for £6,000. It was only when the
demolition company (6) _______ address had been given to the tourist refused to knock
(7) _______ the piece of Britain’s national (8) _______ that the tourist understood he had
been (9) _______ in Realizing that (10) _______ Americans were perfect (11) _______
of his technique, Ferguson emigrated to the States where he stood outside the White
House. He told a Texan cattleman that the government was (12) _______ ways of cutting
its costs and that the building could be rented for a (13) _______ £100,000 a year. In New
York he sold the Statue of Liberty but (14) _______ himself to be photographed. He was
identified as someone who was already (15) _______ suspicion and the police arrested
him.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

A. on
A. make
A. debate
A. well-known
A. dealing
A. that
A. off
A. heir
A. put
A. trusted
A. clients
A. seeking
A. just
A. allowed
A. with

B. from
B. have
B. argument
B. knowing
B. responsible
B. which
B. down

B. treasure
B. brought
B. trusty
B. victims
B. searching
B. mere
B. made
B. under

C. by
C. do
C. conversation
C. knowledgeable
C. chose
C. who
C. over
C. inheritance
C. taken
C. trusting
C. prey
C. looking
C. only
C. let
C. on

D. with
D. get
D. row
D. knowledge
D. charged

D. whose
D. out
D. heritage
D. carried
D. trustworthy
D. source
D. going
D. little
D. forced
D. above

3. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
Even though the crime rate keeps going up, society is soft on criminal. People who
have (1) _______ major crimes and even –murderers sentenced to (2) _______ are often
released after serving just part of their sentence. Every day (3) _______ crime is
destroying the (4) _______ of life of many people, particularly in city areas. (5) _______
you look there are many examples of graffiti and mindless vandalism. Personally, I have


had my car (6) _______ into twice in the last three months. As far as I know, the police
are not looking into (7) _______ of the crimes.
Even when a friend recently caught a young thief, the police (8) _______ him off with
a warning because of his age. Doubtless, the child in (9) _______, thinking he has got
(10) _______ with one crime, will be (11) _______ to try another. Yet if you or I park our
cars in the wrong place or exceed the speed limit slightly we have to pay a (12) _______.
I know it’s important to (13) _______ into account the age of criminals. I also know that
upbringing and drugs are (14) _______ for many crimes. All the (15) _______, the lives
and rights of the victims of crime should be considered too.
1.
2.

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

A. committed
A. live
A. little
A. standard.
A. Wherever
A. looked
A. both
A. set
A. mind
A. on
A. attempted
A. fee
A. take
A. guilty
A. time

B. done
B. living
B. petty
B. cost
B. Forever
B. turned
B. any
B. allowed
B. trouble
B. up
B. dared
B. caution
B. put
B. responsible
B. while

C. completed
C. life
C. small
C. level
C. However
C. broken
C. either
C. let
C. discussion
C. off
C. tempted
C. ticket
C. make
C. faulty

C. same

D. made
D. lifetime
D. major
D. quality
D. Whatever
D. made
D. none
D. got
D. question
D. away
D. threatened
D. fine
D. carry
D. cause
D. better

4. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
We were watching TV when we heard a lot of barking coming from our kitchen.
There, we came (1) _______ Jasper, our dog, throwing a furry bundle around the room.
This turned (2) _______ to be Flopsie, the pet rabbit (3) _______ to the children next
door. We had already been in (4) _______ with our neighbours as Jasper had dug up half
of their garden. Jasper had obviously broken (5) _______ the rabbit’s hutch and killed it.
We knew that the neighbours were out and that we had to (6) _______ quickly. I gave
Flopsie a soapy bath and my wife dried and brushed its fur (7) _______ it looked as good
as new. Making sure the coat was (8) _______, I jumped over the fence and placed


Flopsie lovingly in its home. Ten minutes (9) _______ we heard a Greenaway’s car come

back and sat in our kitchen (10) _______ with anticipation.
All of a sudden, there was a loud (11)

of terror from outside. Naturally, we

could not (12) _______ it and went out with a look of concern on our faces. Mrs.
Greenaway stood white-faced (13) _______ the fence with Flopsie in her arms. ‘‘What’s
the (14) _______ ?”, I asked. “Is there anything wrong with Flopsie?” “Flopsie’s dead,”
she cried, “but what is extraordinary is that we (15) _______ her last week!’’
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

A. across
A. off
A. possessed
A. problems
A. up

A. act
A. during
A. empty
A. afterwards
A. shivering
A. crash
A. forget
A. on
A. matter
A. dug

B. into
B. out
B. owing
B. argument
B. into
B. make
B. once
B. free
B. ago
B. trembling
B. splash
B. defy
B. in
B. wrong
B. planted

C. out
C. into
C. owned

C. trouble
C. off
C. perform
C. until
C. clear
C. after
C. yawning
C. scream
C. ignore
C. by
C. happening
C. buried

D up
D. down
D. belonging
D. difficult
D. with
D. behave
D. that
D. open
D. later
D. gasping
D. sigh
D. deny
D. off
D. up
D. grave

5. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.

The all time American hero has to be the cowboy seen in countless Westerns and TV
serials. Good guys wore white hats, (1) _______ those the baddies wore were always
black. In (2) _______ you knew everybody would be white (3) _______ from the red
Indians, who were there to be slaughtered. The (4) _______ belief that the only cowboys
were white is (5) _______ by the facts. Even though you (6) _______ ever see a black
face in cowboy films, (7) _______ a quarter and a third were Negroes.
The famous cowboy (8) _______ as Deadwood Dick who has been played by white
actors was in (9) _______ an ex-slave and civil war veteran. Only such people (10)
_______ by a tough physical existence could (11) _______ the challenges of life as a
cowboy. Outlaws and sheriffs included their fair (12) _______ of black men too. The


wicked and (13) _______ outlaw Belle Starr was half Negro and half Native American,
(14) _______ she was played by the white actress Barbara Stanwyck. Isn’t it time we (15)
_______ a more accurate portrayal of the wild west on our screens?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

A. yet
A. case
A. apart
A. varied
A, criticized
A. seldom
A. about
A. known
A. really
A. used
A. make
A. portion
A. famous
A. despite
A. took

B. while
B. addition
B. except
B. large
B. contrasted
B. nearly
B. roughly
B. called
B. truthful
B. hardened
B. take
B. amount
B. well-known

B. yet
B. had

C. so
C. time
C. rather
C. widespread
C. contradicted
C. almost
C. between
C. referred
C. reality
C. tough
C. do
C. share
C. reputable
C. although
C. made

D. then
D. fact
D. instead
D. vast
D. confirmed
D. hardly
D. within
D. nicknamed
D. factual
D. accustomed
D. have

D. ration
D. notorious
D. then
D. received

6. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
LEARNING TO MAKE A PERFECT PIZZA
According to the European Pizza-Makers’ Association, making a good pizza is not a
straightforward skill to learn. The ingredients seem very (1) _______: flour, yeast, water
and a bit of salt. But water and flour can easily (2) _______ glue and anyone who has
eaten a (3) _______ quality pizza will know how bad it can make your stomach (4)
_______.
“In Italy, 70 per cent of pizza makers could improve on their product, not to (5)
_______ all the pizza makers around the world who (6) _______ uneatable,” says
Antonio Primiceri, the Association’s founder. He has now started a pizza school in an
attempt to (7) _______ the reputation of this traditional dish. As part of an (8) _______
course, the students at Mr. Primiceri’s school are taught to (9) _______ common
mistakes, produce a good basic mixture, add a tasty topping and cook the pizza properly.
“Test the finished pizza by breaking the crust,” advises Mr. Primiceri. “If the soft (10)
_______ inside the pizza is white, clean and dry, it’s a good pizza. If it is not like this, the


pizza will (11) _______ your stomach. You will feel (12) _______ full and also thirsty.”
In Italy alone, the pizza (13) _______ has an annual turnover of more than $12
billion. Mr. Primiceri (14) _______ that there are 10,000 jobs in pizza restaurants waiting
to be (15) _______ by those with real skill “If you are a good pizza cook, you will never
be without a job,” he says
1.
2.
3.

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

A. simple
A. mix
A. sad
A. sense
A state
A. submit
A. save
A. extensive
A. pass
A. spot
A. worry
A. hardly
A. activity
A computes
A employed

B. primary

B construct
B. poor
B. do
B. mention
B. give
B. provide
B. extreme
B. escape
B. part
B. upset
B. tightly
B. body
B. estimates
B. filled

C. pure
C. assemble
C. short
C. feel
C. remark
C. serve
C. deliver
C. intensive
C. miss
C. side
C. ache
C. uncomfortably
C. industry
C. assesses
C. completed

D. regular
D. make
D. weak
D. be
D. tell
D. deal
D. return
D. intentional
D. avoid
D. slice
D. depress
D. heavily
D. company
D. counts
D. covered

7. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
EVERYONE’S AN ARTIST
Every year, the village of Pettineo celebrates its unique arts festival. For a few days
each summer, artists from all over Europe (1) _______ at this village near the north coast
of Sicily to (2) _______ the creative atmosphere. During their stay, the artists get (3)
_______ with the local people to paint a one-kilometre long picture that runs the (4)
_______ of the high street. (5) _______ the painting is done, each visiting artist joins a
local family for a big lunch and, (6) _______ the meal, the family receives the (7)
_______ of the painting that the artist has painted. As a result, (8) _______ few villagers
are rich, almost every home has at least one painting by a well-known European artist.
Visitors to the village are eagerly (9) _______ into homes to see these paintings.
The festival was the (10) _______ of Antonio Presti, a local businessman who (11)
_______ it up four years ago. Since then, Pettineo has (12) _______ a sort of domestic art

museum in (13) _______ any visitor can ring a doorbell, go into a house and (14)
_______ a painting. In addition to this exhibition of paintings in people’s homes, for
those who have time to spare, there is an opportunity to (15) _______ through the display
of huge sculptures in the village square.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

A. group
A. amuse
A. linked
A. size
A. Just
A. in addition to
A. partition
A. though

A. persuaded
A. image
A. set
A. become
A. what
A. wonder
A. move

B. crowd
B. enjoy
B. jointly
B. measure
B. Once
B. in place of
B. section
B. despite
B. invited
B. purpose
B. put
B. advanced
B. where
B. stare
B. step

C. gather
C. entertain
C. combined
C. length
C. Soon
C. in common with

C. division
C. since
C. requested
C. thought
C. got
C. grown
C. whom
C. admire
C. wander

D. combine
D. delight
D. together
D. area
D. Only
D. in exchange for
D. region
D. even
D. attracted
D, idea
D. had
D. increased
D. which
D. delight
D. march

8. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
THE NEED FOR BIGGER PLANES
The big issue.for plane-makers planning for the future is size, not speed. With the
skies already full of air traffic, and with worse to (1) _______, the important questions

for the designers are how many passengers they can (2) _______ into the new superplanes and who will be (3) _______ to build them first.
(4) _______ yourself ten years from now in a packed airport departure lounge. Eight
hundred passengers are waiting with you for their first flight on one of a remarkable
range of super-planes, and the check-in time (5) _______ have been as much as four
hours before take-off to (6) _______ for the extra people. Impossible? Far from it designs
for these planes are already (7) _______ on computer at the world’s top aircraft
manufacturers, waiting to be turned (8) _______ reality.
The airlines badly need the new jets to (9) _______ with future increases in passenger
(10) _______. A billion passengers a year are currently carried by air, but that figure is


(11) _______ to double by the year 2010. The only practical (12) _______ of avoiding
making the skies even busier is to build much bigger planes. The (13) _______ to build
the new jets is the hottest contest in the airliner business. Manufacturers are working (14)
_______ with the major airlines to produce designs that will please airlines and
passengers (15) _______.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.

15.

A. go
A. contain
A. possible
A. Consider
A. can
A. watch
A. supplied
A. as
A. deal
A. amounts
A. expected
A. scheme
A. game
A. tightly
A. equal

B. happen
B. fit
B. able
B. Suppose
B. need
B. allow
B. given
B. by
B. treat
B. sums
B. thought
B. process

B. sport
B. strongly
B. alike

C. come
C. hold
C. proper
C. Imagine
C. ought
C. look
C. stored
C. into
C. manage
C. quantities
C. known
C. way
C. match
C. closely
C. similar

D. arrive
D. sit
D. capable
D. Regard
D. may
D. permit
D. carried
D. for
D. succeed
D. numbers

D. hoped
D. plan
D. race
D. firmly
D. same

9. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
A FAMOUS EXPLORER
Captain James Cook is remembered today for being one of Britain’s most famous
explorers of the 18th century. Cook was (1) _______ most other explorers of the same
period as he did not come from a wealthy family and had to work hard to (2) _______ his
position in life. He was lucky to be (3) _______ by his father’s employer, who saw that
he was a bright boy and paid for him to attend the village school. At sixteen, he started
(4) _______ in a shop in a fishing village (5) _______ on the coast and this was a turning
(6) _______ in his life. He developed an interest in the sea and eventually joined the
Royal Navy (7) _______ to see more of the world.
Cook was (8) _______ by sailing, astronomy and the production of maps, and quickly
became an expert (9) _______ these subjects. He was also one of the first people to (10)
_______ that scurvy, an illness often suffered by sailors, could be prevented by careful


(11) _______ to diet. It was during his (12) _______ to the Pacific Ocean that Cook made
his historic landing in Australia and the (13) _______ discovery that New Zealand was
two (14) _______ islands. He became a national hero and still (15) _______ one today.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

A. different
A. manage
A. remarked
A. trade
A. held
A. moment
A. in view
A. keen
A. from
A. regard
A. attention
A. travel
A. serious
A. shared
A. keeps

B. contrary
B. succeed
B. viewed
B. work

B. placed
B. instant
B. in order
B. eager
B. over
B. estimate
B. organization
B. voyage
B. superior
B. particular
B. stands

B. distinct
C. achieve
C. glanced
C. career
C. positioned
C. point
C. as
C. fascinated
C. in
C. catch
C. observation
C. excursion
C. major
C. common
C. maintains

D. unlike
D. fulfil

D. noticed
D. job
D. situated
D. mark
D. due
D. enthusiastic
D. for
D. realize
D. treatment
D. tour
D. leading
D. separate
D. remains

10. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
VENICE UNDER WATER
A team of experts has arrived in Venice to save it from increasing incidences of
flooding. A controversial plan to construct a barrier with 79 gates, each weighing 300
tons, has been given permission to (1) _______ ahead. Once constructed, this will be (2)
_______ whenever a high tide (3) _______ to cover the city.
Everyone has known for centuries that Venice is (4) _______ further into the mud, but
floods are becoming a regular nuisance. Rising sea levels have gradually (5) _______ the
salt marshes and mud-banks that (6) _______ between the city and the Adriatic. Winter
storms cause higher waves, which are (7) _______ the walls of the old palaces.
But there are fears about how the (8) _______ of such a barrier might affect the
Venice lagoon, particularly the possibility that it could further (9) _______ the flushing of
the city’s waterways by the tide, making the famous foul-smelling canals even more (10)
_______.
To avoid making a bad situation worse, the experts have been (11) _______. To

analyse tidal flows, marine plants and sediment deposits, and then suggest ways to
prevent the city becoming the first high-profile (12) ________ of global warming and
rising sea levels.
But with global warming (13) _______. To add at least another half metre to the sea
level this century, the situation is bound to (14) _______. A spokesman for the team said,
“We cannot hope to stop Venice submerging eventually, but we can slow the whole (15)
_______ down and so enjoy the city for a while longer”.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

A. be
A. erected
A. threatens
A. decaying
A. eroded
A. faced

A. offending
A. building
A. delay
A. motionless
A. asked over
A. victim
A. believed
A. destabilize
A. damage

B. proceed
B. raised
B. endangers
B. sinking
B. worn
B. occurred
B. crashing
B. theory
B. direct
B. stationary
B. brought in
B. target
B. imagined
B. deflate
B. process

C. go
C. lifted
C. risks
C. collapsing

C. corrupted
C. featured
C. assaulting
C. intention
C. restrict
C. inactive
C. called up
C. sufferer
C. expected
C. detract
C. water

D. advance
D. installed
D. jeopardizes
D. falling
D. broken
D. stood
D. opposing
D. result
D. impose
D. stagnant
D. taken on
D. subject
D. supposed
D. deteriorate
D. event