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ĐỀ THI THỬ SỐ 9

Môn: TIẾNG ANH

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MULTIPLE CHOICE
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined
part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. village
Question 2: A. sodium

B. passage
B. solid

C. message
C. solitude

D. massage

D. solvent

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from
the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3: A. elephant
Question 4: A. preservative

B. dinosaur
B. preferential

C. buffalo
C. congratulate

D. mosquito
D. development

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that
needs correction in each of the following questions.
Question 5: When a lion gets hungry, its manner changes and it becomes threatened.
A. its manner
B. When
C. threatened
D. and
Question 6: All of the students in this course will be accessed according to their attendance,
performance, and they work hard.
A. they work hard
B. according to
C. All of
D. performance
Question 7: Experts in climatology and other scientists are becoming extreme concerned about the

chages to our climate which are taking place.
A. are
B. about
C. extreme
D. in

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each
of the following questions.
Question 8: Books and magazines _____ around made his room very untidy.
A. that lie
B. laying
C. which lied
D. lying
Question 9: Everyone here has been to London, _____?
A. haven’t they
B. hasn’t he
C. hasn’t they
D. has he
Question 10: She’d rather _____ a hot beverage during a meal.
A. me not to have
B. me did not have
C. I did not have
Question 11: William is an authority _____ medieval tapestries.
A. on
B. with
C. about
Question 12: _____ migrate long distances is well documented.
A. That it is birds
B. That birds
C. Birds that

Question 13: She often wears _____.
A. modern wonderful Italian sports shoes
C. wonderful modern Italian sports shoes

D. I do not have
D. in
D. It is that birds

B. modern Italian wonderful sports shoes
D. wonderful Italian modern sports shoes

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Question 14: Learners of English as a foreign language often fail to _____ between unfamiliar
sounds in that language.
A. distinguish
B. differ
C. separate
D. solve
Question 15: If you hadn’t watched that late movie last night, you _____ sleepy now.
A. wouldn’t have been
B. wouldn’t be
C. might not have been
D. wouldn’t have been being
Question 16: The new manager _____ very strict rules as soon as he had taken over the position.
A. settle down
B. put down

C. laid down
D. wrote down
Question 17: The number of working women _____ from 49% in 1980 to nearly 65% in China
today.
A. is increasing
B. has increased
C. have increased
D. has been increased
Question 18: Money appears temporarily to be in plentiful _____.
A. excess
B. amount
C. quantity
D. supply
Question 19: Water volume in rivers in central Vietnam will decline by 30 to 50 percent, potentially
leading to a _____ between April and June.
A. scarcity
B. scarce
C. scarify
D. scarcely

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response
to complete each of the following exchanges.
Question 20: Two friends Peter and Linda are talking about pet.
- Peter: “Well, cats are very good at catching mice around the house.”
- Linda: “_____”
A. Nothing more to say.
B. You can say that again.
C. Yes, I hope so.
D. No, dogs are very good, too.
Question 21: David is talking about Mr. West’s early retirement.

- David: “Mr. West is going to retire next month.”
- Kathy: “_____.”
A. Oh, I have no idea.
B. You don’t say!
C. Right, you’d probably be the next.
D. Congratulations!

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that is CLOSEST in
meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 22: They had to refuse the dinner invitation because of a prior engagement.
A. successful
B. later
C. earlier
D. important
Question 23: In astronomy, a scale of magnitude from one to six denotes the brightness of a star.
A. predicts
B. examines
C. contrasts
D. signifies

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that is OPPOSITE
in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 24: I’m sorry, madam. This is the fixed price and there is no discount.
A. negotiable
B. changeable
C. unchanged
D. discussed
Question 25: We are ready to be answerable to the manager for anything that goes wrong.
A. irresponsible
B. accountable

C. responsible
D. dutiful

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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest
in meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 26: If he behaved so recklessly, he would be disqualified from keeping his last job.
A. If he hadn’t behaved so recklessly, he hadn’t quit his last job.
B. Without his reckless behavior, he would have lost his last job.
C. Had he not behaved so recklessly, he wouldn’t have been fired from his last job.
D. He didn’t quit his job because he knew that he had behaved so recklessly.
Question 27: I can’t stand his talking foolishly when everybody talks about something in a serious
way.
A. Everybody talks seriously when he talks foolishly.
B. I don’t mind his talking foolishly when everybody talks seriously.
C. I can’t understand what he talks when people talk foolishly.
D. I hate him talking foolishly when people talk seriously.
Question 28: “If I were you, I wouldn’t read the job advertisement and position description
carelessly.” Helen said.
A. Helen recommended that I take no notice of the job advertisement and position description.
B. Helen advised me on reading the job advertisement and position description carelessly.
C. Helen advised me against reading the job advertisement and position description carelessly.
D. I was blamed for not reading the job advertisement and position description carefully by
Helen.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best

combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 29: The holiday was so expensive. We could only afford five days.
A. It was such an expensive holiday that we could only afford five days.
B. The holiday was dirt cheap, so we could afford more than five days.
C. So expensive was a five-day holiday that we could hardly afford it.
D. A five-day holiday wasn’t cheap, so we couldn’t afford it.
Question 30: The basketball team knew they lost the match. They soon started to blame each other.
A. As soon as they blamed each other, the basketball team knew they lost the match.
B. No sooner had the basketball team started to blame each other than they knew they lost the
match.
C. Not only did the basketball team lose the match but they blamed each other as well.
D. Hardly had the basketball team known they lost the match when they started to blame each
other.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
If you are an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or snarl. It has
become a symbol of our wasteful, throw-away society. But there seems little (31)_____ it is here to
stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastics have brought enormous benefits, even environmental
ones. It’s not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental evil – it’s the way society
chooses to use abuse them.
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastics are made from oil, gas, or coal-nonrenewable natural (32)_____. We import well over three million tons of the stuff in Britain each year
and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. A high (33)_____ of our annual consumption is in the
form of packaging, and this constitutes about seven per cent by weight, of our domestic (34)_____.
Almost all of it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling industry is growing
fast.

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The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich. They have a higher caloric value than coal and
one method of “recovery” strongly favored by the plastic manufacturers is the (35)_____ of waste
plastic into fuel.
Question 31:
Question 32:
Question 33:
Question 34:
Question 35:

A. doubt
A. processes
A. proportion
A. goods
A. melting

B. evidence
B. products
B. portion
B. refuse
B. change

C. concern
C. fuels
C. amount
C. rubble
C. conversion

D. likelihood

D. resources
D. rate
D. requirements
D. replacement

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 42.
William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote under the pseudonym of O. Henry, was born in
North Carolina. His only formal education was to attend his Aunt Lina’s school until the age of fifteen,
where he developed his lifelong love of books. By 1881 he was a licensed pharmacist. However,
within a year, on the recommendation of a medical colleague of his Father’s, Porter moved to La Salle
County in Texas for two years herding sheep. During this time, Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary was
his constant companion, and Porter gained a knowledge of ranch life that he later incorporated into
many of his short stories. He then moved to Austin for three years, and during this time the first
recorded use of his pseudonym appeared, allegedly derived from his habit of calling “Oh, Henry” to a
family cat. In 1887, Porter married Athol Estes. He worked as a draftsman, then as a bank teller for
the First National Bank.
In 1894 Porter founded his own humor weekly, the “Rolling Stone”, a venture that failed within a
year, and later wrote a column for the Houston Daily Post. In the meantime, the First National Bank
was examined, and the subsequent indictment of 1886 stated that Porter had embezzled funds.
Porter then fled to New Orleans, and later to Honduras, leaving his wife and child in Austin. He
returned in 1897 because of his wife’s continued ill-health, however she died six months later. Then,
in 1898 Porter was found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment in Ohio. At the age of thirty
five, he entered prison as a defeated man; he had lost his job, his home, his wife, and finally his
freedom. He emerged from prison three years later, reborn as O. Henry, the pseudonym he now used
to hide his true identity. He wrote at least twelve stories in jail, and after re-gaining his freedom, went
to New York City, where he published more than 300 stories and gained fame as America’s favorite
short Story writer. Porter married again in 1907, but after months of poor health, he died in New York
City at the age of forty-eight in 1910. O. Henry’s stories have been translated all over the world.
Question 36: Why did the author write the passage?

A. because it is a tragic story of a gifted writer
B. to outline the career of a famous American
C. because of his fame as America’s favorite short story writer
D. to outline the influences on O. Henry’s writing
Question 37: According to the passage, Porter’s father was _____.
A. responsible for his move to La Salle County in Texas
B. the person who gave him a life-long love of books
C. a medical doctor
D. a licensed pharmacist
Question 38: The word “allegedly” is closest in meaning to _____.
A. supposedly
B. reportedly
C. wrongly
Question 39: Which of the following is true, according to the passage?
A. both of Porter’s wives died before he died
B. Porter left school at 15 to become a pharmacist

D. mistakenly

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C. Porter wrote a column for the Houston Daily Post called “Rolling Stone”
D. the first recorded use of his pseudonym was in Austin
Question 40: The word “subsequent” is closest in meaning to _____.
A. resulting
B. police
C. alleged

D. official
Question 41: Porter lost all of the following when he went to prison EXCEPT his _____.
A. home
B. wife
C. job
D. books
Question 42: The author implies which of the following is true?
A. Porter would probably have written less stories if he had not been in prison for three years
B. Porter was in poor health throughout his life
C. O. Henry is as popular in many other countries as he is in America
D. Porter’s wife might have lived longer if he had not left her in Austin when he fled.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.
The development of genetically modified (GM) plants and animals had led to a huge global
controversy. Opponents say that GM “Frankenfoods” are a threat to our well-being, and proponents
say that the risks are minimal. There is one aspect of the war over GM that is often overlooked.
Anyone who wears a cotton shirt these days is using a GM crop. Cotton is the only major non-food GM
crop at present, but others are coming.
GM cotton plants that is not food has not stopped the most passionate GM opponents from
objecting. If GM cotton is grown in a field next to fields of non-GM cotton, they argue, then how to
keep genes from being transferred from field to field. This danger, however, is not as compelling to
the public as possible health hazards in food, so there is no great fury over GM cotton.
GM cotton seeds produce higher yields, and they do without the need for pesticides. Planting of
GM cotton has increased fivefold since 1997; three-quarter of cotton in America, and over half in
China, is now GM. Farmers like it because it increases their profits.
Other options for non-food GM include new variety of flowers with different colors or scents,
tougher grasses for lawns, and plants designed to soak up pollutants from the soil. The paper
industry provides another example of potential for GM to help produce better and cheaper products.
Paper is made from pulp, and pulp is generally made from trees. Researchers in New Zealand and

Chile have been working on insect-resistant pines, and a Japanese firm has combined carrot genes
with tree genes to make them grow better in poor soil.
Another interesting case is that of tobacco. It is not food crop, but it is consumed, and GM
tobacco plants with both more and less nicotine have been created. The tobacco plant, however, is an
ideal target for GM, since its genetics are very well understood and it produces a lot of leaves. The
value of the drugs that could be produced by GM tobacco is so high, many farmers could switch from
growing tobacco for cigarettes to growing it for medicine. Since medical cost is rising, consumers
would also be happy to use drugs produced in bulk by GM tobacco.
Question 43: Why does the author mention a cotton shirt in paragraph 1?
A. To show that cotton is one of the most popular materials for clothing.
B. To give an example of a common GM product that is not a food.
C. To give an example of a controversy surrounding GM products.
D. To show that the risk of GM products are minimal.
Question 44: The word “that” in line 3 refers to _____.
A. war
B. aspect
C. GM
Question 45: The word “compelling” in line 10 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. interesting
B. annoying
C. dangerous

D. risk
D. obvious

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Question 46: Which of the following is TRUE, according to the passage?
A. GM cotton is less controversial than other GM products.
B. There are several major non-food GM products at present.
C. There have been no objection to GM cotton.
D. GM cotton has no significant advantage over controversial cotton.
Question 47: According to the passage, why are researchers developing GM trees?
A. To improve or make paper less expensive.
B. To produce more fruit.
C. To find a way to make paper without pulp.
D. To replace trees cut down for paper.
Question 48: It can be inferred from the passage that GM tobacco _____.
A. is already in the market.
B. produces drugs that are very expensive.
C. makes cigarettes harmless to smokers.
D. can have lower or higher levels of nicotine.
Question 49: What is the topic of the paragraph?
A. Controversial GM products.
B. The hazards of GM products.
C. Non-food GM products.
D. GM cotton and tobacco.
Question 50: The word ”switch” in the last paragraph can best be replaced by
A. select
B. plant
C. change
D. replace
______THE END______

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