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GIA NĂM 2017 Môn: TIẾNG ANH – THI

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LẦN 4 (16/4/2017)
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút, không kể thời gian
phát đề

Họ và tên:………………………………………………………
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. massage

B. garage

C. collage

D. message

Question 2: A. cantaloupe

B. catastrophe

C. recipe

D. apostropheap

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three
inthepositionofprimarystressineachofthefollowingquestions.
Question 3: A. assistance

B. consider

C. politely

D. compliment

Question 4: A. prevent

B. depend

C. mayhem

D. condemn

Mark the letter A, B, C or Don your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in
each of the followingquestions.
Question 5: To eliminate any delays on handover, we would remember you to bring all the necessary
documentation.
A

B

C

D

Question 6: If the water level had raised a little higher, the dam would probably have broken.
A

B

C

D

Question 7: The nitrogen makes up over 78 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere, the gaseous mass
surrounding
A

B

C

D

the planet.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
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questions.
Question 8: When the electricity failed, he
A. rubbed

a match to find the candles.

B. scratched

C. struck

Question 9: Doctors advise people who are deficient

D. started

Vitamin C to eat fruits and

vegetables.
A. from

B. of

C. in

Question 10: Going on this diet has really
A. done

D. for

me good. I’ve lost weight and I feel fantastic!

B. taken

C. made

D. had

Question 11: Once again poor Colin has been

for promotion.

A. stood by

C. locked out

B. passed over

D. struck

off Question 12: Life expectancy in the third world is relatively short, in the western
world it has increased substantially.
A. whereas

B. unlike

C. however

D. contrary

Question 13: I have told her thatI am not going to go ahead with my plans

she may think.

A. whether

D.

B. whatever

C. however

despite Question 14: The best way of writing a composition in a foreign language is to try
and write
A. unless

thinking in your own language.
B. except

Question 15: It is time every student
A. works

Question 17: She
A. blamed

C. work

B. learned

C. learning

D. learn

her neighbor’s children for the broken window.
B. complained

C. accused

B. invaluable

Question 19: I recommended that she
A. should

D. worked

a language if you don’t try to speak it too.

Question 18: This ring is only made of plastic, so it’s quite
A. valuable

D. apart from

harder for the coming exam.

B. should work

Question 16: It’s no use
A. to learn

C. without

D. denied
.

C. worthless

D. priceless

reduce her expenditure.

B. must

C. need

D. would

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each
of the followingexchanges.
Question 20: "How do you spell "accustomed"?" "

"

A. It's a difficult word.
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B. It's a long word, isn't it?
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C. I always have a dictionary.

D. I'm notsure. I'll look it up for you.

Question 21: "Do you mean he was fired?" "

"

A. How should I know?

B. Why should I care?

C. He's not very mean, I think.

D. That's what Miriam told me.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase CLOSEST in meaning
totheunderlinedwordorphraseineachofthefollowingquestions.
Question 22: During the recession, many small companies were eradicated.
A. taken over

B. wiped out

C. run on

D. set up

Question 23: For calculating a calendar, it is convenient to use the tropical solar year.

A. practical

B. critical

C. necessary

D. appropriate

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase OPPOSITE in
meaning to the underlined word or phrase in each of the following questions.
Question 24: The young are now far more materialistic than their precedents years ago.
A. monetary

B. greedy

C. spiritual

D.

C. easy

D. relaxing

object-oriented
Question 25: This shouldn’t be too taxing for you.
A. comfortable

B. demanding

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSET in meaning

to each of the following questions.
Question 26: A drug may affect several functions, even though it’s targeted at only one.
A.

Despite various other uses, a drug usually has a function for a special effect.

B.

The functions expected of a drug are various even if it is used for a specific disease.

C.

However effective a drug may be, its functions have to be several.

D.

A drug is taken for a specific purpose, but it may have a range of other effects.

Question 27: Although he was able to do the job, he wasn’t given the position.
A.

He was given neither the job nor the position.

B.

Because he couldn’t do the job, he wasn’t given the position.

C.

He got the position despite being unable to do the job.

D. The position wasn’t
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given to him in spite of his ability to do the job.
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Question 28: Due to the fact that the demand for tea was very high in the 19th century, its price increased
much.
A.

It was not until the 19th century that the demand for tea started to increase.

B.

It was its price which decreased the demand for tea in the 19th century.

C.

In the 19th century the price for tea didn’t increase despite the demand.

D.

The demand for tea was so high in the 19th century that its price increased much

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 driver in front stopped so suddenly. Therefore, the accident happened.
A.

If the driver in front didn’t stop so suddenly, the accident wouldn’t happen.

B.

If the driver in front hadn’t stopped so suddenly, the accident wouldn’t have happened.

C.

If the driver in front hadn’t stopped so suddenly, the accident would have happened.

D.

If the driver in front had stopped so suddenly, the accident would have happened

Question 30: The students may be intelligent. They will not get used to dealing with practical
situations.
A.

Intelligent as may be the students, they will get used to dealing with practical situations.

B.

The students may be too intelligent to get used to dealing with practical situations.

C.

The students will get used to dealing with practical situations although they are intelligent.

D.

Intelligent as they may be, the students will not get used to dealing with practical situations.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or Don your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word or phrasethatbenefits eachof thenumber blanksfrom31 to 35.
When Hotmail was set up in 1996, it was not huge success that it is today. But on every
e-mail sent via Hotmail, there was a tine at the bottom saying, ‘Get your private, free e-mail at
hotmail.com’, providing them with a free advertisement. This simple idea soon paid (31) and
Hotmail went from strength to power ICQ, which stands for ‘I seek you’, an instant messaging
service that (32)

off in a similar wayand made a (33)

spread because users recommended is to their friends so

. The popularity of ICQ
that they could have people to chat

to online. The vast majority of Internet users tried it and it was eventual taken over by
Netscape so as to control their competition. These are example of what is known as “viral”
communication – so called because the message spreads like a virus. It used to be said that Roll
Royce never needed to advertise – despite (34)
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high cost of the luxury
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cars – because owners were more than happy to tell their friends and neighbors how satisfied
they were. Nowadays, if you are (35)

to the Internet, the word

can be spread in half a second and, within a day; you might have indirectly communicated with
millions of people.
Question 31: A. up

B. back

C. off

D. for

Question 32: A. let

B. set

C. took

D. gave

Question 33: A. fortune

B. treasure

C. wealth

D. prosperity

Question 34: A. very

B. its

C. the

D. a

Question 35: A. associated

B. joined

C. downloaded

D. connected

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
answerto eachofthefollowing questionsfrom36 to42.
Fish that live on the sea bottom benefit by being flat and hugging the contours. There are
two very different types of flatfish and they have evolved in very separate ways. The skates and
rays, relatives of the sharks, have become flat in what might be called the obvious way. Their
bodies have grown out sideways to form great “wings”. They look as though they have been
flattened but have remained symmetrical and “the right way up”. Conversely, fish such as plaice,
sole, and halibut have become flat in a different way. There are bony fish which have a marked
tendency to be flattened in a vertical direction; they are much “taller” than they are wide. They

use their whole, vertically flattened bodies as swimming surfaces, which undulate through the
water as they move. Therefore, when their ancestors migrated to the seabed, they lay on one side
than on their bellies. However, this raises the problem that one eye was always looking down
into the sand and was effectively useless. In evolution this problem was solved by the lower
eye “moving” around the other side. We see this process of moving around enacted in the
development of every young bony flatfish. It starts life swimming near the surface, and is
symmetrical and vertically flattened, but then the skull starts to grow in a strange asymmetrical
twisted fashion, so that one eye, for instance the left, moves over the top of the head upwards,
an old Picasso - like vision. Incidentally, some species of 20 flatfish settle on the right side,
others on the left, and others on either side.
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Question 36: The passage is mainly concerned with
A. symmetrical fish

B. bony flatfish

.

C. evolution of flatfish

D. different types of

flatfish

Question 37: The phrase “hugging the contours” means

.

A. swimming to the seabed

B. hiding in the sand at the bottom of the sea

C. floating just below the surface

D. lying still on the seabottom

Question 38: It can be inferred from the passage that horizontal symmetrical fish

.

A. have one eye each side of the head

B. have one eye underneath thehead

C. have two eyes on top of the head

D. have eyes that move around thehead

Question 39: According to the passage, fish such as plaice

.

A. have difficulties in swimming

B. live near the surface

C. have poor eyesight

D. have distorted head

Question 40: The word “this” refers to
A. the migration of the ancestors

.
B. the practice of lying on one side

C. the problem of the one eye looking downwards

D. the difficulty of the only one eye being

use
Question 41: According to the passage, the ability of a bony flatfish to move its eyes around is
.
A. average

B. weak

C. excellent

D. variable

Question 42: It can be inferred from the passage that the early life of a flatfish is
A. often confusing

B. pretty normal

C. very difficult

.

D. full of danger

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
answerto eachofthefollowing questionsfrom43 to50.
The Beatles became the most popular group in rock music history. This quartet of extraordinarily
talented musicians generated a phenomenal number of pieces that won gold records. They inspired a
frenzy that transcended countries and economic strata. While all of them sang, John Lennon and
Paul McCartney wrote the majority of their songs. Originally, Lennon and five others formed a
group called the Quarrymen in 1956 with Paul McCartney joining them later that year. George
Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney, together with Stuart Sutcliffe, who played the bass
guitar, and Pete Best on the drums, performed together in several bands for a few years, until they
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finally settled on the Silver Beatles in 1960. American rock musicians, such as Chuck Berry and
Elvis Presley, influenced Lennon’s and McCartney’s music, whose first hits consisted of simple
tunes and lyrics about young love, “Love me Do” and “Please, Please me”. The Beatles’ US tour
propelled them to stardom and led to two movies “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help” filmed in
1964 and 1965. The so- called British invasion of the United States was in full swing when they

took the top five spots on the single chart, followed by the release of their first film.
During the 1960s, their music matured and acquired a sense of melody. The lyrics of their
songs became deeper and gained in both imagination and meaning. Their popularity continued to
grow as the Beatles turned their attention to social problems and political issues in “Nowhere
Man” and “Eleanor Rigby”. Loneliness and nostalgia come through in their ballads “Michelle”
and “Yesterday”, which fully displayed the group’s professional development and
sophistication. Lennon’s sardonic music with lyric written in the first person, and Paul
McCartney’s songs that created scenarios encouraged individuals to contribute to the character
of the music produced by the group. In addition to their music, the Beatles set a social trend that
popularized long hair, Indian music, and mod dress.
For a variety of reasons, the musicians began to drift apart, and their last concert took place in
San Francisco in 1966. The newspaper and tabloids publicized their quarrels and lawsuits, and
the much idolized group finally disbanded in 1970. However, their albums had outsold those of
any other band in history. Although all of the Beatles continued to perform solo or form new rock
groups alone, none could achieve the recognition and success that they had been to win together.
Question 43: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The history and music of the Beatles

B. The history and milestones of rock music

C. The fashion and music popular in the 1960s D. The creation and history of a music group
Question 44: According to the passage, which of the Beatles had the greatest of musical talent?
A. John Lennon and Paul McCartney
C.

Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best

B. George Harrison and John Lennon
D. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison

Question 45: The author of the passage implied that the Beatles
A.

competed with American musicians

C. became popular relatively quickly

.

B. wrote their music as agroup
D. were active in social movements

Question 46: According to the passage, the Beatles’ fame grew as a result of
A. Chucky Berry’s involvement

B. their American tour

C. two movies made in the US

D. their first two hits

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Question 47: The author of the passage implied that over time, the music and lyrics by the
Beatles
.
A.

became more complex than at the beginning of their career

B.

declined in quality and political significance

C.

were dedicated to women named Eleanor and Michelle

D.

made them the richest musicians in the world

Question 48: According to the passage, when did the Beatles experience their greatest success?
A. In the late 1950s

B. After their break-up in 1970

C. During the early and mid-1960s

D. Throughout their lifetime

Question 49: The word “scenarios” is closest in meaning to

A. sceneries

B. situations

C. life stories

.
D. love themes

Question 50: According to the passage, how did Lennon and McCartney enhance the music of
the group?
A.

They struggled to reach stardom in the U.S

B.

They composed lyrics to scornful songs and ballads

C.

Their music added distinctiveness to the Beatles’ repertoire

D.

Their loneliness and sadness made their music popular

THE END

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