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.
IF ONLY WE’D KNOWN ABOUT YOUNG CONTACTS BEFORE
Thousands of young people come to London every month to (1) _______ love,
romance and adventure. A few (2) _______ in finding what they are looking for, but most
never do. It turns out to be far more (3) _______ than you imagined to meet people in
London, (4) _______ the sort of people you want to meet. But now there is a new
scientific way - YOUNG CONTACTS.
How does it work?
First, we (5) _______ you a scientific personality test, using the very (6) ______
computer techniques. Then we match you with someone whose tastes and interests are (7)
_______ to yours, and who also has the characteristics you are looking for in your (8)
_______ partner or companion.
Who can belong to Young Contacts?
We are the first organization in this country to (9) _______ in matching people
between the ages of 17 and 29. But, (10) _______ from that, anyone can join. We have
people from all walks of life. But they all have one thing in (11) _______. They’re tired
of feeling lonely and think it’s time they did something (12) _______ it. And that’s why
they come to us.
How do I actually meet people?
Just come to one of our centers, with its special club - like atmosphere, and we’ll do
the rest. A (13) _______ of our friendly staff will (14) _______. to you and then arrange
for you to meet just the sort of people you will get on with. For a list of centers and
further (15) _______, simply fill in the form and send it off today!
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

A. make
A. manage
A. heavy
A. particularly
A. ask
A. last
A. alike
A. ideal

B. have
B. are able
B. hard
B. exactly
B. pass
B. recent
B. similar
B. best

C. find
C. succeed
C. difficult
C. precisely
C. do
C. modern
C. same
C. last

D. get
D. achieve

D. impossible
D. additionally
D. give
D. latest
D. equal
D. absolute


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

A. specialize
A. apart
A. common
A. with
A. person
A. discuss
A. facts

B. focus
B. besides
B. usual
B. about
B. member
B. interview

B. information

C. concentrate
C. except
C. normal
C. for
C. worker
C. question
D. knowledge

D. centre
D. without
D. everyday
D. to
D. representative
D. talk
D. news

2. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
In 1967, a research team from an American university (1) _______ out to explore the
Well of Sacrifice at Chichen Itza. Unfortunately, however, the water in this well was so
dark that it was impossible for divers to see, so the team had to use filters to clean it.
Just as this work was about to begin, some (2) _______ Indians told the team that the
well was (3) _______ by the spirit of a rain god. The god was (4) _______ as Chac, and
they warned the team that Chac would (5) _______ revenge if his home was disturbed.
The team listened politely but (6) _______ ‘ these warnings and went on with their
research. (7) _______ the summer, pumps and filters were used, but it wasn’t until (8)
_______ months later that the water was clear enough for divers to go down into the well.
When they got (9) _______ to work they began to discover various objects at the (10)
_______ of the well. (11) _______ the things they brought back to the surface were

human bones, and by the time they had (12) _______ they had discovered more than 50
skeletons. This was (13) _______ that the well had indeed been used for human sacrifice.
Perhaps it would have been better if the team had (14) _______ to the warnings of the
Indians, because within a year, several members of the team had been (15) _______ in
mysterious accidents.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

A. put
A. local
A. lived
A. named
A. have
A. ignored
A. Along
A. few
A. down
A. end

B. broke
B. natural
B. housed

B. called,s
B. make
B. refused
B. Within
B. several
B. through
B. ground

C. set
C. near
C. resided
C. told
C. do
C. denied
C. Throughout
C. various
C. about
C. depth

D. looked
D. close
D. inhabited
D. known
D. take
D. rejected
D. Inside
D. any
D. at
D. bottom

11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

A. Between
A. ended
A. clear
A. listened
A. died

B. Around
B. finished
B. proof
B. heard
B. wounded

C. Within
C. concluded
C. evident
C. noticed
C. killed

D. Among
D. achieved
D. obvious
D. watched
D. missed

3. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
One of the most exciting archaeological discoveries in history was made in November
1922, when Howard Carter was working-in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. After many
months of work, he finally (1) _______ across an unknown tomb.
Together with his friend Lord Carnarvon, who was providing the (2) _______ for the
excavations, he entered the dark chamber. At first there was disappointment, because the
tomb was (3) _______, and it was clear that it had been (4) _______ at some time in the
past. However, one of the workers eventually uncovered a small stairway that (5)
_______ down to another door that had not been opened.
Carter went down the dark staircase, walking (6) _______ in case there were any
traps. As he opened the door, Lord Carnarvon (7) _______ if he could see anything. He
replied: ‘Yes - wonderful things. It was clear at once that they had discovered what they
had been looking (3) _______. The tomb was the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun was full of
treasures of great (9) _______. There were over 5,000 objects of silver, gold and precious
stones which had (10) _______ there undiscovered for thousands of years.
Lord Carnarvon’s pleasure at (11) _______ the treasures did not (12) _______ long.
Many of the local people were afraid of disturbing the pharaohs’ tombs, and believed that
the pharaohs would (13) _______ revenge on anyone who entered them. Lord Carnarvon
had (14) _______ little attention to these warnings, but only a few weeks later, he
suddenly fell ill and died; at the exact time of his death, all the lights in Cairo suddenly
(15) _______ out, and far away in England, his dog also died.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

A. came

A. salary
A. deserted
A. taken
A. took
A. accurately

B. arrived
B. money
B. abandoned
B. robbed
B. brought
B. carefully

C. got
C. currency
C. left
C. stolen
C. led
C. carelessly

D. found
D. wage
D. empty
D. broken
D. conducted
D. precisely


7.
8.

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

A. demanded
A. into
A. expense
A. lied
A. discovering
A. stay
A. have
A. sent
A. went

B. requested
B. after
B. price
B. laid
B. inventing
B. take
B. take
B. paid
B. passed

C. questioned
C. up

C. cost
C. lain
C. learning
C. make
C. make
C. taken
C. gave

D. asked
D. for
D. value
D. lying
D. searching
D. last
D. bring
D. made
D. ran

4. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
This year’s Innovations and Inventions Fair has just opened, and has attracted
inventions from all over the world who need to show their new ideas to the public. The
fair always provides a wonderful (1) _______ of inventions, and this year is no exception.
One inventor is demonstrating a way of making it impossible to copy documents (2)
_______ as passports and tickets. So far, the only person who has offered to buy the
patent is said (3) _______ a member of the Mafia, but it is not clear what he wants to do
(4) _______ it. The inventor will have to go ahead with the sale (5) _______ he can find
a more normal buyer (6) _______ the end of the show. There are plenty of new gadgets
too to help the disabled. The youngest inventor, fourteen (7) _______ old Jane Watson,
has come up with a battery- powered device for people who cannot clean their teeth (8)
_______. One of its special features is that it never needs (9) _______, because it runs on

solar power.
A new feature of this year’s show is the Help centre, which has been (10) _______ up
to give new inventors (11) _______ on how to make the most of their ideas. According to
the show’s organizers, many inventions fail because inventors spend (12) _______ much
time developing the product and don’t pay (13) _______ attention to the business side of
the project
The fair is open from 9 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. every day and runs (14) _______ March 11.
Tickets are (15) _______ at $3.50.
1. A. choice
2. A. so
3. A. had been

B. variation
B. like
B. to be

C. difference
C. such
C. to being

D. range
D. how
D. was


4. A. by
5. A. unless
6. A. until
7. A. age
8. A. itself

9. A. re-charge
10. A. set
11. A. advice
12. A. too
13. A. enough
14. A. by
15. A. priced

B. with
B. if
B. by
B. ages
B. himself
B. re-charged
B. established
B. suggestion
B. extra
B. plenty
B. until
B. valued

C. in
C. without
C. since
C. year
C. herself
C. to re-charge
C. started
C. recommendation
C. over

C. complete
C. for
C. worth

D. without
D. except
D. ago
D. years
D. themselves
D. re-charging
D. founded
D. directions
D. far
D. full
D. since
D. cost

5. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
‘PARTNER IN CRIME DID IT ALL FOR LOVE’
A property expert who was described as a man who would have had a bright future
if he had not fallen for a mysterious and beautiful woman, was (1) _______ to five years
in prison yesterday.
Kevin Rogers, 39, of Hurst Road, Horsham, Sussex was employed by Selford Holdings, a
London company with a broad (2) _______ of investments in hotels, golf courses and
shopping centers. His downfall began when he met someone (3) _______ as “La
Contessa”.
“I was completely in her (4) _______. I did everything she asked me to do. It didn’t
matter tome how dangerous it was or that I was (5) _______ the law,” he told the court.
“La Contessa”, whose real name was Pilar Gutierrez, (6) _______ as an agent for
Rogers’ employers. She found property in Spain and Portugal that was about to be (7)

_______ down or needed extensive repairs and then (8) _______ Selford Holdings to buy
them. The London company did not realize that the prices they were paying were
considerably more than the real (9) _______ of these properties. The original owners paid
her very large (10) _______ of money each time this happened.
Rogers, whose job it was to estimate how much the property was really worth,
admitted that he accepted a large (11) _______ of the profits Gutierrez made in this way.
Rogers claimed that at first he wasn’t (12) _______ of what she was doing. ‘When I


finally (13) _______ through it all, I warned her not to do it. However, I was already in
love with her, so instead of telling my employers what was really going on, I became her
partner in crime, he said.
Gutierrez, who has been (14) _______ of accepting illegal payments of money and
other crimes was last seen in England on the same day Rogers was arrested. She is
believed to be (15) _______ somewhere in South America.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

A. punished
A. range
A. referred
A. command
A. breaking
A. handled
A. pulled
A. advised
A. cost
A. sums
A. size
A. sensible
A. saw
A. criticized
A. hiding

B. sentenced
B. width
B. called
B. strength
B. cutting
B. behaved
B. brought
B. recommended
B. expense
B. numbers
B. share
B. sensitive
B. looked

B. attacked
B. concealing

C. subjected
C. extent
C. spoken
C. power
C. smashing
C. treated
C. put
C. suggested
C. value
C. totals
C. degree
C. aware
C. glimpsed
C. accused
C. covering

D. ordered
D. number
D. known
D. use
D. crashing
D. acted
D. taken
D. proposed
D. quality
D. figures
D. area

D. apparent
D. watched
D. doubted
D. escaping

6. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
AMAZING MICE
Researchers in the United States have discovered a powerful drug, pregnenolone, that
can improve (1) _______ in mice.
In the laboratory, mice were trained to associate a sound with a shock a few seconds
later. They had to (2) _______ their way through a maze to avoid the shock. Then some
of the mice were given pregnenolone. The mice that had been infected with the drug
showed such a (3) _______ improvement in memory that the researchers were
astonished.
It was already known that pregnenolone can help people (4) _______ from spinal cord
(5) _______ after car crashes or falls, but (6) _______ this new research shows is that it
plays an even more important role. The results suggest that it may one day be possible to


treat people (7) _______ memories have been affected by old age or disease.
Scientists have already, tried out the drug on a number of patients (8) _______ had
been (9) _______ affected by Alzheimer’s disease and who were (10) _______ of (11)
_______ members of their own family. (12) _______ they only showed a (13) _______
improvement, if any, but the scientists believe that the doses they used (14) _______ have
been either too high or too low. They are confident that they will reach their (15) _______
aim of producing a drug that will be safe and effective for humans.
1.
2.
3.
4.

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

A. recollection B. recognition C. reminder
A. remember
B. remind
C. review
A. grand
B. significant C. decisive
A. recover
B. return
C. rescue
A. harm
B. damage
C. hurt
A. which
B. what
C. who
A. who
B. their
C. whose

A. who
B. they
C. which
A. badly
B. wrongly
C. hardly
A. disabled
B. incapable
C. unaware
A. reviewing
B. recognizing
C. reminding
A Improbably
B. Unfortunately
C. Unlikely
A. petty
B. mean
C. poor
A. should
B. ought
C. will
A. long-distance
B. long-time
C. long-sight

D. memory
D. realize
D. important
D. regain
D. injury

D. that
D. which
D. whom
D. heavily
D. unconscious
D. realizing
D Importantly
D. small
D. might
D. long-term

7. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
A YEAR WITH OVERSEAS VOLUNTEERS
I was with Overseas Volunteers (OV) for a year after leaving university, and I was
sent to an isolated village in Chad, about 500 kilometres from the capital N’Djamena.
Coming from a (1) _______ country, I got quite a shock, as conditions were much harder
than I had (2) _______. But after a few days I soon got used to (3) _______ there. The
people were always very friendly and helpful, and I soon began to appreciate how (4)
_______ the countryside was.
One of my jobs was to supply the village with water. The well was long walk away,
and the women used to (5) _______ a long time every day (6) _______ heavy pots
backwards and forwards. So I contacted the organization and arranged to (7) _______


some pipes delivered. We built a simple pipeline and a pump, and it worked first time. It
wasn’t perfect – there were a few (8) _______ but it made a great difference to the
villagers, (9) _______ had never had running water before. And not (10) _______ did we
have running water, but in the evenings it was hot, because the pipe had been (11)
_______ in the sun all day.
All in all, I think my time with OV was a good experience. Although it was not wellpaid, it was well (12) _______ doing, and I would recommend it to anyone who was (13)

_______ working for a charity.
Finally, there’s one more reason why I’ll never (14) _______ working for OV. A few
months before I left, I met and fell in love (15) _______ another volunteer, and we got
married when we returned to England.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

A. rich
A. felt
A. live
A. beautiful
A. spend
A. fetching
A. make
A. breaks
A. which
A. hardly

A. lied
A. worth
A. considering
A. regret
A. at

B. comfortable
B. planned
B. lived
B. good-looking
B. spent
B. wearing
B. let
B. leaks
B. that
B. scarcely
B. lay
B. value
B. thinking
B. feel sorry
B. to

C. well-paid
C. found
C. living
C. handsome
C. spends
C. carrying
C. have
C. splits

C. they
C. only
C. laying
C. cost
C. going
C. miss
C. for

D. luxurious
D. expected
D. lives
D. sweet
D. spending
D. holding
D. allow
D. punctures
D. who
D. also
D. lying
D. price
D. planning
D. lose
D. with

8. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
Adam Francis was nothing at all like the man Jane had expected to meet. During the
year or two she had been with Brinkman’s, from various conversations she had (1)
_______ with the client, she had gradually drawn up a mental (2) _______ of the man.
She (3) _______ not have been more wrong. Not only was he years younger than she
had expected but he was (4) _______ attractive in a rugged sort of way. Handsome was

not quite the (5) _______ word for him. No, the (6) _______ of the man who was


approaching her were not handsome but they were exciting, interesting, and for one silly
(7) _______, Jane found herself wondering why John Brinkman had never (8) _______
how attractive Adam Francis was - until it occurred to her that her boss obviously
wouldn’t (9) _______ him attractive.
He was a big, tall man and there was something about him that (10) _______
attention, a strength that was more than physical. His hair, (11) _______ was a little too
long, was (12) _______ and straight and brushed carelessly from his face. Not only had
Jane expected a much older man, but someone who would be dressed in a business (13)
_______. And there she was, looking (14) _______ a man who seemed more like a film
(15) _______ than a property developer.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

A. had

A. drawing’
A. would
A. extremely
A. just
A. looks
A. instant
A. mentioned
A. remark
A. ordered
A. that
A. dense
A. dress
A. on
A. conductor

B. made
B. vision
B. could
B. greatly
B. fair
B. appearances
B. moment
B. talked
B. regard
B. commanded
B. which
B. thick
B. costume
B. to
B. register

C. done
C. painting
C. should
C. largely
C. adequate
C. look
C. second
C. told
C. believe
C. directed
C. who
C. fat
C. clothes
C. up
C. leader

D. experienced
D. picture
D. can
D. mainly
D. right
D. appearance
D. minute
D. related
D. consider
D. requested
D. what
D. heavy
D. suit

D. at
D. director

9. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
Music is universal - it is produced by all cultures.. Some scientists believe that music
came before speech and (1) _______ as a development of making calls. In fact, there is
(2) _______ theory that the (3) _______ languages were chanted or sung rather than
spoken. Indeed, in some cultures, music is a form of (4) _______ history. The Aboriginal
Australians, for example, use music as a means to (5) _______ on stories of the land and
spirits to the next (6) _______.
New evidence suggests that music does not just (7) _______ the feel good factor but it


is also good for the brain. A study of intellectually (8) _______ children showed that they
could recall more (9) _______ after it was given to them in a song than after it was read
to them as a story.
Researchers also report that people (10) _______ better on a standard intelligence (11)
_______ after listening to Mozart. The so-called “Mozart effect” has also been (12)
_______ by findings that rats (13) _______ up on Mozart run faster through a complex
network of paths or passages, (14) _______ as a maze. Overall, it seems that in most
instances people who suffer from any form of mental (15) _______ benefit from listening
to music.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

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

A. was
A. one
A. earliest
A. enjoying
A. move
A. children
A. convince
A. disabled
A. facts
A. examine
A. form
A. supported
A. held
A. called
A. badness

B. swelled
B. every
B. newest
B. making
B. pass
B. people

B. satisfy
B. inactive
B. knowledge
B. prepare
B. scheme
B. given
B. brought
B. heard
B. hurt

C. reacted
C. such
C. easiest
C. recording
C. hand
C. tribe
C. please
B. incapable
C. memory
C. score
C. demonstration
C. marked
C. stood
C. regarded
C. illness

D. arose
D. that
D. simplest
D. stating

D. happen
D. generation
D. prefer
D. disordered
D. information
D. achieve
D. test
D. remembered
D. set
D. known
D. pain

10. Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.
A new VR (virtual reality) headset for the home user will be in the shops soon. The
makers (1) _______ that it will change the way that computer games are played. Unlike
the heavy VR headsets that people have been using in arcades (2) _______ the last few
years, the new sets look more like a pair of sunglasses than a fireman’s (3) _______. A
spokesman for the company said: “A lot of people had (4) _______ with the old headsets.
They were (5) _______ heavy that if you wore them (6) _______ for more than an hour
or so, they could cause quite a lot of (7) _______. Our new headsets are very comfortable
and will be perfect for games as well as in education.”


Some scientists, however, are (8) _______ about the effects of VR. Child
psychologists Brenda Smith explained: “There have (9) _______ been several cases of
violence among young children where computer games were to (10) _______. With VR,
we will soon have children who are not (11) _______ to playing with other people. (12)
_______ your life in a constant battle with aliens and monsters is not really a (13)
_______ environment for someone young. We (14) _______ that a child should
experience actual reality, not virtual reality, and it would be a great (15) _______ for

parents to bring this sort of technology into the home.”
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

A. claim
A. since
A. hat
A. mistakes
A. very
A. continuously
A. hurt
A. afraid
A. yet
A. fault
A. used
A. Spending
A. convenient

A. recommend
A. defect

B. threaten
B. ago
B. cap
B. faults
B. too
B. throughout
B. ache
B. worried
B. ever
B. error
B. made
B. Doing
B. suitable
B. tell
B. fault

C. offer
C. among
C. helmet
C. problems
C. so
C. always
C. pain
C. scared
C. still
C. defect
C. allowed

C. Making
C. real
C. offer
C. mistake

D. recommend
D. for
D. hood
D. errors
D. such
D. regularly
D. suffering
D. threatened
D. already
D. blame
D. interested
D. Passing
D. right
D. speak
D. blame