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NĂM HỌC 2017- 2018
MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 774
Thời gian: 60 phút - không tính thời gian giao đề
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 01 to 07.
THE SIXTH SENSE
Have you ever had the feeling of being watched - and turned round to find someone staring at you? Have you found yourself
staring with idle curiosity at someone until they turn their heads to see who is watching them? Have you ever picked up the
ringing phone to find it is someone you have just been thinking about?
The answer to all these questions is most likely to be 'yes'. These are common, everyday sorts of experiences but ones which
have never been investigated scientifically until now, because orthodox science doesn't have the faintest idea how to explain
them. So it ignores them or calls them 'pure coincidence' and 'superstition'. Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist who has
pioneered work in this area, believes that not only can they be explained and that another sense does exist - but that the
explanations are perfectly simple. In his book, The Sense Of Being Stared At, he writes about his experiments on staring and
telephone telepathy. He believes they prove the existence of this other sense which tells us when we are being stared at or
who is phoning us and gives us other vital information through telepathy and premonition. He says that this is not in anyway
'paranormal'.
It is a normal part of our basic nature that we share with animals. Sheldrake uses members of the public in his experiments
and has a data base of 5,000 experiments. One set of experiments involved groups of friends and school mates. One person
was blindfolded and sat in front of a 'looker'. The person had to guess when the 'looker' was staring at him. The results were
60% successful - much more than chance would allow Sheldrake's surveys also showed that 80% of people had had the 'I am
being stared at' experience. The great majority of starers turned out to be strangers.
'This must go back to the times when our ancestors were hunted by predators, who of course were strangers,' says Sheldrake.
'This obviously helped survival.' Hunters today also report how animals often show acute awareness they are being stalked
even from far away.
Similar to this power of attention is the power of intention which seems to be the cause of telephone telepathy. What is it that

tells us that a particular person is going to call us unexpectedly?
Sheldrake believes that before we call we think about it first and this intention reaches out to the person. This is the
commonest form of telepathic experience. Over 90% of people in the survey say they have experienced it. Sometimes people
find that their calls overlap and the number they are calling is engaged - calling them!
One of the more extraordinary things Dr Sheldrake discorered is that some pets seem to know when someone important to
them is about to telephone. Some cats and dogs will go to the phone before it starts to ring. Animal telepathy is a well-known
phenomenon between social animals who are members of packs, herds, flocks of birds or schools of fish. Obviously, a
communicable sense of danger helps them survive predators, keeps them together and allows them to act as one. And when it
comes to premonitions - animals beat us hands down! Earthquakes, avalanches and other natural disasters all set off advance
fear behaviour in animals, both wild and domestic.
Sheldrake believes this sort of telepathy is a result of mental fields which extend beyond the brain and interact with other
people's mental fields. We may be on the edge of a great step forward by understanding how our minds can reach out and
touch others at a distance.
Question 1: Scientists haven't researched the subject because......
A. they though they couldn't prove coincidence.
B. theyhaven't had the time.
C. they haven't been able to understand it.
D. they believed it was unorthodox.
Question 2: Dr Sheldrake believes this ability goes back to early man's need......
A. to find others.
B. to be aware of being hunted.
C. to see the hunter's eyes.
D. to hunt.
Question 3: Groups of animals......
A. have one which acts as the leader.
B. pass on a sense of danger to each other.
C. follow each other to avoid danger.
D. communicate with the hunter.
Question 4: Dr Sheldrake's survey shows that:
A. some people can 'see' the other person intending to call them.

B. sometimes people phone each other at the same time.
C. two phone calls sometimes happen immediately after each other.
D. people tell each other their intention to phone.
Question 5: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved......
A. someone staring at another person's back.
B. people saying when someone was staring at them.
C. one person with his eyes closed.
D. people staring at each other.
Question 6: According to the text, Dr Sheldrake, .....
A. lost his job because of this research.
B. had to travel widely in his research
C. was the first to do work on this subject.
D. only investigates this subject.
Question 7: Which is closest in meaning to “beat us hands down”?
A. overcome
B. kill off
C. win easily
D. conquer


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 from 08 to 13.
SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT STATUS?
In recent decades, there has been ...(8)... evidence that an individual's well-being is significantly affected by that person's
place in the social pecking ...(9).... In other words, given that the world is ...(10)... up of winners and losers, counting
ourselves amongst the latter can open up an uncomfortable gap between the way things are and the way we'd like them to be.
Frequently, we think the solution lies in achieving more: if we managed to ...(11)... a better salary, house, body or whatever,
we'd be able to drop the competing game and feel contented.
But this ...(12)... risks landing us on a treadmill from which it is impossible to step off. There will always be people who, to
our mind, have achieved more than us and we'd constantly be running to try and catch up with them. Instead of slavishly

following our instincts, however, we would do better to use our ...(13)... for reflection to help us decide for ourselves what
gives meaning to our life and is therefore worth doing.
Question 8:A. piling
B. rising
C. mounting
D. building
Question 9:A. structure
B. layer
C. strata
D. order
Question 10:A. made
B. composed
C. comprised
D. done
Question 11:A. secure
B. confirm
C. fulfil
D. effect
Question 12:A. strategy
B. device
C. policy
D. scheme
Question 13:A. ability
B. expertise
C. competence
D. capacity
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 14: Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa beans which must
be ground and mixed with sugar.

A. blending
B. must be
C. mixed
D. complexity
Question 15: Ripe fruit is often stored in a place there contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too
rapidly.
A. rapidly
B. Ripe
C. there
D. stored
Question 16: How the Earth is in the shadow of the moon, we see an eclipse of the sun.
A. How
B. an
C. the
D. in the shadow
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 17 to 23.
THE WHOLE ROTTEN BUSINESS OF RUBBISH
Visitors to New York are often shocked when they first encounter its powerful summertime stink of rotting garbage.
Breathing in the miasmic odours and observing the mountainous piles of refuse that line the streets each night, newcomers are
apt to reach the conclusion that New York is rather relaxed and devil-may-care about matters of refuse and refuse collection.
But nothing could be further from the truth. The city may look and smell like a compost heap a lot of the time, but it is home
to some of the most draconian garbage rules and regulations known to modern man.
Every neighbourhood in New York has three designated garbage pick-up days a week and residents are allowed to put their
refuse out no earlier than 5p.m. on the eve of each pick-up day. If you live in a smaller apartment building with no garbage
storage in the basement, your pick-up days take on quite disproportionate significance. Miss a day, and you have to live with
your festering garbage bags in your apartment until the next scheduled pick-up. Once or twice, over the years, I have become
so desperate to get rid of some rancid piece of chicken, or left-over Indian take-away, that I have crept out under cover of
night and illicitly dumped the bags in another neighbourhood where pick-up was due the next morning.
Then there are the elaborate and fiercely policed recycling protocols. Plastic and glass and metal go in a blue bag, paper and

cardboard in a transparent bag, and everything else in a black bag. Black bags can go out on any of the three days, but the
recyclables can only be put out on Friday. Failure to observe these - and a whole raft of infinitely more subtle particulars results in heavy fines. When I first moved to the city, and had not yet been initiated into the mysteries of the garbage laws, I
was constantly being busted for improperly wrapped or sorted refuse. And as if that wasn't sufficiently galling in itself, the
fines were then issued to my building superintendent, who would then post them on my front door, like a plague sign, for all
my neighbours to see. Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - 'Two
bottles found in black bag' or 'Newspapers improperly tied' - together with a demand for a hundred bucks.
One day, in a bolshy mood, I asked the superintendent how the garbage police could be so sure that the delinquent bottles
and inadequately tied newspapers were mine and not someone else's. He trudged down to the basement and came back
brandishing an empty bottle of prescription drugs with my name on it. 'They found this in the bag,' he said. Knowing that
one's garbage stands a strong chance of being gone through, piece by piece, by a pofaced enforcement agent does tend to
encourage compliance. It also produces a certain amount of paranoia. Over the past years, I have spent more time than I am
happy to admit standing over my recycling bins, cutting up receipts and scribbling over labels to obscure evidence of my
dodgier self-medication habits and lingerie purchases.
I deeply resent all this. It's not just that the economics of the city's recycling are highly questionable - which they are - or
even that an estimated 40 percent of New York's recyclable stuff winds up in landfills, anyway - which it does: there's
something maddening about the elevated status that recycling enjoys - as if it were an absolute good. To question its
worthiness is to put yourself beyond the pale of common civic values. One recent Friday night, as my children and I were
hauling garbage bags down to the street, we met a neighbour in the elevator. Observing my untidy bag of unflattened
cardboard boxes, he offered to give me some packing tips. 'We do all our sorting and packing as a family on Thursday nights.


It's kind of fun and the kids love it.' I smiled and nodded. 'Mom thinks recycling is crap,' my daughter piped up. 'She wishes
we could go back to landfills.' The neighbour's eyes grew watery with anguish , or perhaps suppressed rage. 'Well, I'm sorry
she feels that way,' he murmured. He has cut me dead ever since.
[Source: Pearson - Module 2, Proficiency Expert, 2015]

Question 17: What did the writer find particularly irritating about the fines she received?
A. the way she was informed of them
B. the amount which was levied
C. the reaction of her neighbours to them

D. the triviality of some of the offences
Question 18: In the final paragraph, the writer admits to being most resentful of......
A. the public money that is wasted on recycling projects.
B. the attitude of her fellow citizens towards recycling.
C. the attempts of her neighbours to advise her about recycling.
D. the fact that recycling schemes do not always achieve their aims.
Question 19: The word “maddening” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to......
A. infuriating
B. furious
C. smart
D. angry
Question 20: In the second paragraph, the writer is emphasising......
A. the need to develop strategies to get round the system.
B. the inconvenience of the timing of rubbish collections.
C. the impact that rubbish collections have on the rest of her life.
D. the shortcomings of the arrangements at her own accommodation.
Question 21: On hearing about how her infringements of the rules had been uncovered, the writer......
A. resolved to avoid putting certain items into her rubbish.
B. decided to pay more attention to the detailed instructions.
C. became worried about what else her garbage revealed.
D. realised she had no choice but to comply in future.
Question 22: The writer says that visitors to New York often gain the erroneous impression that......
A. it smells of rubbish despite having a highly effective refuse collection system.
B. it takes refuse collection more seriously than other cities.
C. its refuse collection policies aren't implemented rigorously.
D. its citizens fail to comply with its refuse collection regulations.
Question 23: In the text as a whole, the writer's tone is......
A. politely tentative.
B. righteously indignant.
C. light-hearted and ironic.

D. restrained and reasonable.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 24: ~ A: “Why are children less interested in outdoor activities nowadays?” ~ B: “Well,............”
A. They prefer high-tech gadgets like computers, iPads, or iPhones.
B. Don’t ask. Just give them a ring home.
C. Because the weather is too cold for them.
D. I don’t know why, but they may be too strong-minded.
Question 25: ~ A: "Have you done any part-time jobs?" ~ B: ".............."
A. Yes. I often help Mum with the cooking and cleaning-up
B. Yes. I've been out of work for three months.
C. Sometimes. Doing shopping, going to spa or something like that.
D. Never. I' m so busy with the typing all the week.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 26: She was over the moon with her new bike.
A. furtive
B. discontented
C. forlorn
D. cheerful
Question 27: Several companies have disclosed profits of over £200 million.
A. stashed
B. made known
C. publicize
D. renounce
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 28:A. blown
B. flown
C. frown

D. grown
Question 29:A. eight
B. height
C. vein
D. weight
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 30:A. reduce
B. dominant
C. mutual
D. competent
Question 31:A. catholic
B. lunatic
C. symbolic
D. atomic
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 32: Clive flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker.
A. praises himself
B. shows up
C. boasts
D. is confident
Question 33: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the collar.


A. become angry
B. be frightened
C. get scared
D. feel sympathetic
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Question 34: Harry.......along the landing, trying not. to make any-noise.
A. filed
B. strode
C. tiptoed
D. trudged
Question 35: In many parts of the world, crop failure means......which leads to the death of many people each year.
A. drought
B. famine
C. shortcoming
D. desert
Question 36: The peace of the public library was.......by the sound of a transistor radio.
A. demolished
B. shattered
C. fractured
D. smashed
Question 37: Anticipating renewed rioting, the authorities erected.....to block off certain streets.
A. dykes
B. ditches
C. barricades
D. barrages
Question 38: Four people drowned when the yacht.......in a sudden storm.
A. overflowed
B. inverted
C. upset
D. capsized
Question 39: I know David Fletcher.......sight, but I've never been introduced him.
A. at
B. on
C. in
D. by

Question 40: The politician gave a press conference to deny the charges that had been.......at him.
A. blamed
B. targeted
C. levelled
D. accused
Question 41: I hope there are enough glasses to.......round.
A. lay
B. go
C. set
D. drink
Question 42: No sooner had we left the house.......it started raining.
A. that
B. when
C. and
D. than
Question 43: Before any new drug is marketed, it is essential that extensive tests are.......
A. carried forward
B. carried out
C. carried on
D. carried through
Question 44: The theatre lights were slowly.......as the curtain rose on the first act.
A. deadened
B. dulled
C. dimmed
D. dampened
Question 45: This spray is suitable for dealing with all garden.......
A. plagues
B. pests
C. swarms
D. outbreaks

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 46: French is the only language other than English spoken on five continents.
A. French and English are the only languages that are spoken on five continents.
B. Before English, French was the only language spoken on five continents.
C. French and English are spoken widely in official and commercial circles.
D. Unlike French, English is spoken on five continents.
Question 47: From time to time there are things we do even though we think they are wrong.
A. Sometimes we might do things that are considered wrong.
B. We can never be sure if all the things we do are right.
C. Although we feel that the things we sometimes do are not right, we nevertheless do them.
D. We often do things because we think they are the right things to do at the time.
Question 48: Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less.
A. Since adults have less time playing games, they don't laugh as much as children.
B. Unlike adults children laugh more while playing games.
C. The reason why adults laugh less than children might be that they play less.
D. No matter how much adults play, they can't laugh more than children.
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 49: All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months. When he
went there, the server was quite rude.
A. Because all his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months, the server
was quite rude when he went there.
B. Despite the high quality praised for months, the server in the new coffee shop was quite rude when we went there.
C. All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless, when
he went there, the server was quite rude.
D. However rude the server was, we went to the new coffee shop because all his friends have been praising its high
quality.
Question 50: Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years. Its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.

A. Despite the fact that its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping
in recent years.
B. Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years because its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
C. Since enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years, its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
D. Due to its facilites being lacked proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years.


The End


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(Đề gồm có 04 trang)

ÔN THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG
NĂM HỌC 2017- 2018
MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 536
Thời gian: 60 phút - không tính thời gian giao đề
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 1: ~ A: “Why are children less interested in outdoor activities nowadays?” ~ B: “Well,............”
A. I don’t know why, but they may be too strong-minded.
B. They prefer high-tech gadgets like computers, iPads, or iPhones.
C. Don’t ask. Just give them a ring home.
D. Because the weather is too cold for them.
Question 2: ~ A: "Have you done any part-time jobs?" ~ B: ".............."
A. Sometimes. Doing shopping, going to spa or something like that.
B. Yes. I've been out of work for three months.

C. Yes. I often help Mum with the cooking and cleaning-up
D. Never. I' m so busy with the typing all the week.
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 03 to 09.
THE WHOLE ROTTEN BUSINESS OF RUBBISH
Visitors to New York are often shocked when they first encounter its powerful summertime stink of rotting garbage.
Breathing in the miasmic odours and observing the mountainous piles of refuse that line the streets each night, newcomers are
apt to reach the conclusion that New York is rather relaxed and devil-may-care about matters of refuse and refuse collection.
But nothing could be further from the truth. The city may look and smell like a compost heap a lot of the time, but it is home
to some of the most draconian garbage rules and regulations known to modern man.
Every neighbourhood in New York has three designated garbage pick-up days a week and residents are allowed to put their
refuse out no earlier than 5p.m. on the eve of each pick-up day. If you live in a smaller apartment building with no garbage
storage in the basement, your pick-up days take on quite disproportionate significance. Miss a day, and you have to live with
your festering garbage bags in your apartment until the next scheduled pick-up. Once or twice, over the years, I have become
so desperate to get rid of some rancid piece of chicken, or left-over Indian take-away, that I have crept out under cover of
night and illicitly dumped the bags in another neighbourhood where pick-up was due the next morning.
Then there are the elaborate and fiercely policed recycling protocols. Plastic and glass and metal go in a blue bag, paper and
cardboard in a transparent bag, and everything else in a black bag. Black bags can go out on any of the three days, but the
recyclables can only be put out on Friday. Failure to observe these - and a whole raft of infinitely more subtle particulars results in heavy fines. When I first moved to the city, and had not yet been initiated into the mysteries of the garbage laws, I
was constantly being busted for improperly wrapped or sorted refuse. And as if that wasn't sufficiently galling in itself, the
fines were then issued to my building superintendent, who would then post them on my front door, like a plague sign, for all
my neighbours to see. Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - 'Two
bottles found in black bag' or 'Newspapers improperly tied' - together with a demand for a hundred bucks.
One day, in a bolshy mood, I asked the superintendent how the garbage police could be so sure that the delinquent bottles
and inadequately tied newspapers were mine and not someone else's. He trudged down to the basement and came back
brandishing an empty bottle of prescription drugs with my name on it. 'They found this in the bag,' he said. Knowing that
one's garbage stands a strong chance of being gone through, piece by piece, by a pofaced enforcement agent does tend to
encourage compliance. It also produces a certain amount of paranoia. Over the past years, I have spent more time than I am
happy to admit standing over my recycling bins, cutting up receipts and scribbling over labels to obscure evidence of my
dodgier self-medication habits and lingerie purchases.

I deeply resent all this. It's not just that the economics of the city's recycling are highly questionable - which they are - or
even that an estimated 40 percent of New York's recyclable stuff winds up in landfills, anyway - which it does: there's
something maddening about the elevated status that recycling enjoys - as if it were an absolute good. To question its
worthiness is to put yourself beyond the pale of common civic values. One recent Friday night, as my children and I were
hauling garbage bags down to the street, we met a neighbour in the elevator. Observing my untidy bag of unflattened
cardboard boxes, he offered to give me some packing tips. 'We do all our sorting and packing as a family on Thursday nights.
It's kind of fun and the kids love it.' I smiled and nodded. 'Mom thinks recycling is crap,' my daughter piped up. 'She wishes
we could go back to landfills.' The neighbour's eyes grew watery with anguish , or perhaps suppressed rage. 'Well, I'm sorry
she feels that way,' he murmured. He has cut me dead ever since.
[Source: Pearson - Module 2, Proficiency Expert, 2015]
Question 3: The writer says that visitors to New York often gain the erroneous impression that......
A. it smells of rubbish despite having a highly effective refuse collection system.
B. its refuse collection policies aren't implemented rigorously.
C. its citizens fail to comply with its refuse collection regulations.
D. it takes refuse collection more seriously than other cities.
Question 4: What did the writer find particularly irritating about the fines she received?
A. the reaction of her neighbours to them
B. the triviality of some of the offences
C. the way she was informed of them
D. the amount which was levied


Question 5: In the final paragraph, the writer admits to being most resentful of......
A. the attempts of her neighbours to advise her about recycling.
B. the attitude of her fellow citizens towards recycling.
C. the public money that is wasted on recycling projects.
D. the fact that recycling schemes do not always achieve their aims.
Question 6: In the text as a whole, the writer's tone is......
A. righteously indignant.
B. politely tentative.

C. restrained and reasonable.
D. light-hearted and ironic.
Question 7: The word “maddening” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to......
A. infuriating
B. furious
C. smart
D. angry
Question 8: In the second paragraph, the writer is emphasising......
A. the impact that rubbish collections have on the rest of her life.
B. the inconvenience of the timing of rubbish collections.
C. the need to develop strategies to get round the system.
D. the shortcomings of the arrangements at her own accommodation.
Question 9: On hearing about how her infringements of the rules had been uncovered, the writer......
A. resolved to avoid putting certain items into her rubbish.
B. became worried about what else her garbage revealed.
C. realised she had no choice but to comply in future.
D. decided to pay more attention to the detailed instructions.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 10: Four people drowned when the yacht.......in a sudden storm.
A. upset
B. overflowed
C. inverted
D. capsized
Question 11: The peace of the public library was.......by the sound of a transistor radio.
A. smashed
B. demolished
C. shattered
D. fractured
Question 12: I hope there are enough glasses to.......round.
A. drink

B. lay
C. go
D. set
Question 13: In many parts of the world, crop failure means......which leads to the death of many people each year.
A. desert
B. famine
C. shortcoming
D. drought
Question 14: Anticipating renewed rioting, the authorities erected.....to block off certain streets.
A. barricades
B. dykes
C. barrages
D. ditches
Question 15: The politician gave a press conference to deny the charges that had been.......at him.
A. levelled
B. accused
C. targeted
D. blamed
Question 16: Harry.......along the landing, trying not. to make any-noise.
A. strode
B. trudged
C. filed
D. tiptoed
Question 17: Before any new drug is marketed, it is essential that extensive tests are.......
A. carried through
B. carried forward
C. carried out
D. carried on
Question 18: No sooner had we left the house.......it started raining.
A. and

B. than
C. that
D. when
Question 19: I know David Fletcher.......sight, but I've never been introduced him.
A. in
B. at
C. by
D. on
Question 20: This spray is suitable for dealing with all garden.......
A. outbreaks
B. plagues
C. swarms
D. pests
Question 21: The theatre lights were slowly.......as the curtain rose on the first act.
A. dulled
B. dimmed
C. dampened
D. deadened
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 22:A. catholic
B. lunatic
C. atomic
D. symbolic
Question 23:A. competent B. reduce
C. mutual
D. dominant
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 24: Several companies have disclosed profits of over £200 million.

A. stashed
B. renounce
C. made known
D. publicize
Question 25: She was over the moon with her new bike.
A. furtive
B. forlorn
C. discontented
D. cheerful
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 26: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the collar.
A. become angry
B. be frightened
C. get scared
D. feel sympathetic
Question 27: Clive flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker.
A. boasts
B. praises himself
C. is confident
D. shows up
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 from 28 to 33.


SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT STATUS?
In recent decades, there has been ...(28)... evidence that an individual's well-being is significantly affected by that person's
place in the social pecking ...(29).... In other words, given that the world is ...(30)... up of winners and losers, counting
ourselves amongst the latter can open up an uncomfortable gap between the way things are and the way we'd like them to be.
Frequently, we think the solution lies in achieving more: if we managed to ...(31)... a better salary, house, body or whatever,

we'd be able to drop the competing game and feel contented.
But this ...(32)... risks landing us on a treadmill from which it is impossible to step off. There will always be people who, to
our mind, have achieved more than us and we'd constantly be running to try and catch up with them. Instead of slavishly
following our instincts, however, we would do better to use our ...(33)... for reflection to help us decide for ourselves what
gives meaning to our life and is therefore worth doing.
Question 28:A. rising
B. mounting
C. piling
D. building
Question 29:A. structure
B. strata
C. order
D. layer
Question 30:A. done
B. made
C. comprised
D. composed
Question 31:A. confirm
B. fulfil
C. secure
D. effect
Question 32:A. strategy
B. policy
C. scheme
D. device
Question 33:A. expertise B. ability
C. competence
D. capacity
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 34: French is the only language other than English spoken on five continents.
A. French and English are the only languages that are spoken on five continents.
B. French and English are spoken widely in official and commercial circles.
C. Before English, French was the only language spoken on five continents.
D. Unlike French, English is spoken on five continents.
Question 35: From time to time there are things we do even though we think they are wrong.
A. We can never be sure if all the things we do are right.
B. Although we feel that the things we sometimes do are not right, we nevertheless do them.
C. We often do things because we think they are the right things to do at the time.
D. Sometimes we might do things that are considered wrong.
Question 36: Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less.
A. Unlike adults children laugh more while playing games.
B. No matter how much adults play, they can't laugh more than children.
C. The reason why adults laugh less than children might be that they play less.
D. Since adults have less time playing games, they don't laugh as much as children.
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 37 to 43.
THE SIXTH SENSE
Have you ever had the feeling of being watched - and turned round to find someone staring at you? Have you found yourself
staring with idle curiosity at someone until they turn their heads to see who is watching them? Have you ever picked up the
ringing phone to find it is someone you have just been thinking about?
The answer to all these questions is most likely to be 'yes'. These are common, everyday sorts of experiences but ones which
have never been investigated scientifically until now, because orthodox science doesn't have the faintest idea how to explain
them. So it ignores them or calls them 'pure coincidence' and 'superstition'. Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist who has
pioneered work in this area, believes that not only can they be explained and that another sense does exist - but that the
explanations are perfectly simple. In his book, The Sense Of Being Stared At, he writes about his experiments on staring and
telephone telepathy. He believes they prove the existence of this other sense which tells us when we are being stared at or
who is phoning us and gives us other vital information through telepathy and premonition. He says that this is not in anyway
'paranormal'.
It is a normal part of our basic nature that we share with animals. Sheldrake uses members of the public in his experiments

and has a data base of 5,000 experiments. One set of experiments involved groups of friends and school mates. One person
was blindfolded and sat in front of a 'looker'. The person had to guess when the 'looker' was staring at him. The results were
60% successful - much more than chance would allow Sheldrake's surveys also showed that 80% of people had had the 'I am
being stared at' experience. The great majority of starers turned out to be strangers.
'This must go back to the times when our ancestors were hunted by predators, who of course were strangers,' says Sheldrake.
'This obviously helped survival.' Hunters today also report how animals often show acute awareness they are being stalked
even from far away.
Similar to this power of attention is the power of intention which seems to be the cause of telephone telepathy. What is it that
tells us that a particular person is going to call us unexpectedly?
Sheldrake believes that before we call we think about it first and this intention reaches out to the person. This is the
commonest form of telepathic experience. Over 90% of people in the survey say they have experienced it. Sometimes people
find that their calls overlap and the number they are calling is engaged - calling them!
One of the more extraordinary things Dr Sheldrake discorered is that some pets seem to know when someone important to
them is about to telephone. Some cats and dogs will go to the phone before it starts to ring. Animal telepathy is a well-known
phenomenon between social animals who are members of packs, herds, flocks of birds or schools of fish. Obviously, a


communicable sense of danger helps them survive predators, keeps them together and allows them to act as one. And when it
comes to premonitions - animals beat us hands down! Earthquakes, avalanches and other natural disasters all set off advance
fear behaviour in animals, both wild and domestic.
Sheldrake believes this sort of telepathy is a result of mental fields which extend beyond the brain and interact with other
people's mental fields. We may be on the edge of a great step forward by understanding how our minds can reach out and
touch others at a distance.
Question 37: Groups of animals......
A. pass on a sense of danger to each other.
B. communicate with the hunter.
C. follow each other to avoid danger.
D. have one which acts as the leader.
Question 38: Dr Sheldrake believes this ability goes back to early man's need......
A. to find others.

B. to see the hunter's eyes.
C. to be aware of being hunted.
D. to hunt.
Question 39: According to the text, Dr Sheldrake, .....
A. only investigates this subject.
B. had to travel widely in his research
C. lost his job because of this research.
D. was the first to do work on this subject.
Question 40: Which is closest in meaning to “beat us hands down”?
A. win easily
B. overcome
C. kill off
D. conquer
Question 41: Scientists haven't researched the subject because......
A. they haven't been able to understand it.
B. theyhaven't had the time.
C. they though they couldn't prove coincidence.
D. they believed it was unorthodox.
Question 42: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved......
A. people saying when someone was staring at them.
B. one person with his eyes closed.
C. someone staring at another person's back.
D. people staring at each other.
Question 43: Dr Sheldrake's survey shows that:
A. sometimes people phone each other at the same time.
B. some people can 'see' the other person intending to call them.
C. two phone calls sometimes happen immediately after each other.
D. people tell each other their intention to phone.
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 44: Ripe fruit is often stored in a place there contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too
rapidly.
A. Ripe
B. stored
C. there
D. rapidly
Question 45: How the Earth is in the shadow of the moon, we see an eclipse of the sun.
A. in the shadow
B. an
C. How
D. the
Question 46: Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa beans which must
be ground and mixed with sugar.
A. blending
B. must be
C. mixed
D. complexity
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 47:A. weight
B. vein
C. height
D. eight
Question 48:A. grown
B. frown
C. blown
D. flown
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 49: Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years. Its facilites have been lacking proper

maintenance.
A. Despite the fact that its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping
in recent years.
B. Since enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years, its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
C. Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years because its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
D. Due to its facilites being lacked proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years.
Question 50: All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months. When he
went there, the server was quite rude.
A. Despite the high quality praised for months, the server in the new coffee shop was quite rude when we went there.
B. All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless, when
he went there, the server was quite rude.
C. Because all his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months, the server
was quite rude when he went there.
D. However rude the server was, we went to the new coffee shop because all his friends have been praising its high
quality.


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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 1: How the Earth is in the shadow of the moon, we see an eclipse of the sun.
A. an
B. the
C. How
D. in the shadow
Question 2: Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa beans which must be
ground and mixed with sugar.
A. must be
B. complexity
C. blending
D. mixed
Question 3: Ripe fruit is often stored in a place there contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too
rapidly.
A. stored
B. there
C. rapidly
D. Ripe
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 4: Several companies have disclosed profits of over £200 million.
A. publicize
B. made known
C. renounce
D. stashed
Question 5: She was over the moon with her new bike.
A. forlorn
B. cheerful
C. furtive

D. discontented
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 6: No sooner had we left the house.......it started raining.
A. than
B. and
C. when
D. that
Question 7: In many parts of the world, crop failure means......which leads to the death of many people each year.
A. drought
B. shortcoming
C. desert
D. famine
Question 8: The politician gave a press conference to deny the charges that had been.......at him.
A. accused
B. targeted
C. levelled
D. blamed
Question 9: Harry.......along the landing, trying not. to make any-noise.
A. trudged
B. strode
C. tiptoed
D. filed
Question 10: The theatre lights were slowly.......as the curtain rose on the first act.
A. deadened
B. dampened
C. dimmed
D. dulled
Question 11: I hope there are enough glasses to.......round.
A. lay
B. set

C. drink
D. go
Question 12: This spray is suitable for dealing with all garden.......
A. pests
B. outbreaks
C. plagues
D. swarms
Question 13: Before any new drug is marketed, it is essential that extensive tests are.......
A. carried on
B. carried through
C. carried out
D. carried forward
Question 14: I know David Fletcher.......sight, but I've never been introduced him.
A. in
B. on
C. by
D. at
Question 15: The peace of the public library was.......by the sound of a transistor radio.
A. fractured
B. smashed
C. demolished
D. shattered
Question 16: Anticipating renewed rioting, the authorities erected.....to block off certain streets.
A. barricades
B. barrages
C. dykes
D. ditches
Question 17: Four people drowned when the yacht.......in a sudden storm.
A. capsized
B. inverted

C. overflowed
D. upset
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 18: From time to time there are things we do even though we think they are wrong.
A. We can never be sure if all the things we do are right.
B. We often do things because we think they are the right things to do at the time.
C. Sometimes we might do things that are considered wrong.
D. Although we feel that the things we sometimes do are not right, we nevertheless do them.
Question 19: Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less.
A. Unlike adults children laugh more while playing games.
B. No matter how much adults play, they can't laugh more than children.
C. Since adults have less time playing games, they don't laugh as much as children.
D. The reason why adults laugh less than children might be that they play less.
Question 20: French is the only language other than English spoken on five continents.
A. Unlike French, English is spoken on five continents.
B. French and English are the only languages that are spoken on five continents.
C. Before English, French was the only language spoken on five continents.
D. French and English are spoken widely in official and commercial circles.


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 21:A. grown
B. blown
C. frown
D. flown
Question 22:A. weight
B. eight
C. vein

D. height
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 23: ~ A: "Have you done any part-time jobs?" ~ B: ".............."
A. Never. I' m so busy with the typing all the week.
B. Yes. I often help Mum with the cooking and cleaning-up
C. Sometimes. Doing shopping, going to spa or something like that.
D. Yes. I've been out of work for three months.
Question 24: ~ A: “Why are children less interested in outdoor activities nowadays?” ~ B: “Well,............”
A. They prefer high-tech gadgets like computers, iPads, or iPhones.
B. I don’t know why, but they may be too strong-minded.
C. Don’t ask. Just give them a ring home.
D. Because the weather is too cold for them.
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 from 25 to 30.
SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT STATUS?
In recent decades, there has been ...(25)... evidence that an individual's well-being is significantly affected by that person's
place in the social pecking ...(26).... In other words, given that the world is ...(27)... up of winners and losers, counting
ourselves amongst the latter can open up an uncomfortable gap between the way things are and the way we'd like them to be.
Frequently, we think the solution lies in achieving more: if we managed to ...(28)... a better salary, house, body or whatever,
we'd be able to drop the competing game and feel contented.
But this ...(29)... risks landing us on a treadmill from which it is impossible to step off. There will always be people who, to
our mind, have achieved more than us and we'd constantly be running to try and catch up with them. Instead of slavishly
following our instincts, however, we would do better to use our ...(30)... for reflection to help us decide for ourselves what
gives meaning to our life and is therefore worth doing.
Question 25:A. mounting B. building
C. piling
D. rising
Question 26:A. layer
B. order

C. strata
D. structure
Question 27:A. composed B. done
C. comprised
D. made
Question 28:A. secure
B. confirm
C. fulfil
D. effect
Question 29:A. policy
B. device
C. strategy
D. scheme
Question 30:A. ability
B. capacity
C. expertise
D. competence
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 31 to 37.
THE WHOLE ROTTEN BUSINESS OF RUBBISH
Visitors to New York are often shocked when they first encounter its powerful summertime stink of rotting garbage.
Breathing in the miasmic odours and observing the mountainous piles of refuse that line the streets each night, newcomers are
apt to reach the conclusion that New York is rather relaxed and devil-may-care about matters of refuse and refuse collection.
But nothing could be further from the truth. The city may look and smell like a compost heap a lot of the time, but it is home
to some of the most draconian garbage rules and regulations known to modern man.
Every neighbourhood in New York has three designated garbage pick-up days a week and residents are allowed to put their
refuse out no earlier than 5p.m. on the eve of each pick-up day. If you live in a smaller apartment building with no garbage
storage in the basement, your pick-up days take on quite disproportionate significance. Miss a day, and you have to live with
your festering garbage bags in your apartment until the next scheduled pick-up. Once or twice, over the years, I have become
so desperate to get rid of some rancid piece of chicken, or left-over Indian take-away, that I have crept out under cover of

night and illicitly dumped the bags in another neighbourhood where pick-up was due the next morning.
Then there are the elaborate and fiercely policed recycling protocols. Plastic and glass and metal go in a blue bag, paper and
cardboard in a transparent bag, and everything else in a black bag. Black bags can go out on any of the three days, but the
recyclables can only be put out on Friday. Failure to observe these - and a whole raft of infinitely more subtle particulars results in heavy fines. When I first moved to the city, and had not yet been initiated into the mysteries of the garbage laws, I
was constantly being busted for improperly wrapped or sorted refuse. And as if that wasn't sufficiently galling in itself, the
fines were then issued to my building superintendent, who would then post them on my front door, like a plague sign, for all
my neighbours to see. Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - 'Two
bottles found in black bag' or 'Newspapers improperly tied' - together with a demand for a hundred bucks.
One day, in a bolshy mood, I asked the superintendent how the garbage police could be so sure that the delinquent bottles
and inadequately tied newspapers were mine and not someone else's. He trudged down to the basement and came back
brandishing an empty bottle of prescription drugs with my name on it. 'They found this in the bag,' he said. Knowing that
one's garbage stands a strong chance of being gone through, piece by piece, by a pofaced enforcement agent does tend to
encourage compliance. It also produces a certain amount of paranoia. Over the past years, I have spent more time than I am
happy to admit standing over my recycling bins, cutting up receipts and scribbling over labels to obscure evidence of my
dodgier self-medication habits and lingerie purchases.


I deeply resent all this. It's not just that the economics of the city's recycling are highly questionable - which they are - or
even that an estimated 40 percent of New York's recyclable stuff winds up in landfills, anyway - which it does: there's
something maddening about the elevated status that recycling enjoys - as if it were an absolute good. To question its
worthiness is to put yourself beyond the pale of common civic values. One recent Friday night, as my children and I were
hauling garbage bags down to the street, we met a neighbour in the elevator. Observing my untidy bag of unflattened
cardboard boxes, he offered to give me some packing tips. 'We do all our sorting and packing as a family on Thursday nights.
It's kind of fun and the kids love it.' I smiled and nodded. 'Mom thinks recycling is crap,' my daughter piped up. 'She wishes
we could go back to landfills.' The neighbour's eyes grew watery with anguish , or perhaps suppressed rage. 'Well, I'm sorry
she feels that way,' he murmured. He has cut me dead ever since.
[Source: Pearson - Module 2, Proficiency Expert, 2015]

Question 31: The writer says that visitors to New York often gain the erroneous impression that......
A. its citizens fail to comply with its refuse collection regulations.

B. its refuse collection policies aren't implemented rigorously.
C. it smells of rubbish despite having a highly effective refuse collection system.
D. it takes refuse collection more seriously than other cities.
Question 32: In the text as a whole, the writer's tone is......
A. light-hearted and ironic.
B. righteously indignant.
C. politely tentative.
D. restrained and reasonable.
Question 33: In the second paragraph, the writer is emphasising......
A. the need to develop strategies to get round the system.
B. the inconvenience of the timing of rubbish collections.
C. the impact that rubbish collections have on the rest of her life.
D. the shortcomings of the arrangements at her own accommodation.
Question 34: In the final paragraph, the writer admits to being most resentful of......
A. the attitude of her fellow citizens towards recycling.
B. the public money that is wasted on recycling projects.
C. the attempts of her neighbours to advise her about recycling.
D. the fact that recycling schemes do not always achieve their aims.
Question 35: What did the writer find particularly irritating about the fines she received?
A. the amount which was levied
B. the reaction of her neighbours to them
C. the triviality of some of the offences
D. the way she was informed of them
Question 36: The word “maddening” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to......
A. smart
B. infuriating
C. furious
D. angry
Question 37: On hearing about how her infringements of the rules had been uncovered, the writer......
A. realised she had no choice but to comply in future.

B. resolved to avoid putting certain items into her rubbish.
C. became worried about what else her garbage revealed.
D. decided to pay more attention to the detailed instructions.
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 38:A. atomic
B. catholic
C. symbolic
D. lunatic
Question 39:A. competent B. dominant
C. reduce
D. mutual
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 40 to 46.
THE SIXTH SENSE
Have you ever had the feeling of being watched - and turned round to find someone staring at you? Have you found yourself
staring with idle curiosity at someone until they turn their heads to see who is watching them? Have you ever picked up the
ringing phone to find it is someone you have just been thinking about?
The answer to all these questions is most likely to be 'yes'. These are common, everyday sorts of experiences but ones which
have never been investigated scientifically until now, because orthodox science doesn't have the faintest idea how to explain
them. So it ignores them or calls them 'pure coincidence' and 'superstition'. Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist who has
pioneered work in this area, believes that not only can they be explained and that another sense does exist - but that the
explanations are perfectly simple. In his book, The Sense Of Being Stared At, he writes about his experiments on staring and
telephone telepathy. He believes they prove the existence of this other sense which tells us when we are being stared at or
who is phoning us and gives us other vital information through telepathy and premonition. He says that this is not in anyway
'paranormal'.
It is a normal part of our basic nature that we share with animals. Sheldrake uses members of the public in his experiments
and has a data base of 5,000 experiments. One set of experiments involved groups of friends and school mates. One person
was blindfolded and sat in front of a 'looker'. The person had to guess when the 'looker' was staring at him. The results were
60% successful - much more than chance would allow Sheldrake's surveys also showed that 80% of people had had the 'I am

being stared at' experience. The great majority of starers turned out to be strangers.
'This must go back to the times when our ancestors were hunted by predators, who of course were strangers,' says Sheldrake.
'This obviously helped survival.' Hunters today also report how animals often show acute awareness they are being stalked


even from far away.
Similar to this power of attention is the power of intention which seems to be the cause of telephone telepathy. What is it that
tells us that a particular person is going to call us unexpectedly?
Sheldrake believes that before we call we think about it first and this intention reaches out to the person. This is the
commonest form of telepathic experience. Over 90% of people in the survey say they have experienced it. Sometimes people
find that their calls overlap and the number they are calling is engaged - calling them!
One of the more extraordinary things Dr Sheldrake discorered is that some pets seem to know when someone important to
them is about to telephone. Some cats and dogs will go to the phone before it starts to ring. Animal telepathy is a well-known
phenomenon between social animals who are members of packs, herds, flocks of birds or schools of fish. Obviously, a
communicable sense of danger helps them survive predators, keeps them together and allows them to act as one. And when it
comes to premonitions - animals beat us hands down! Earthquakes, avalanches and other natural disasters all set off advance
fear behaviour in animals, both wild and domestic.
Sheldrake believes this sort of telepathy is a result of mental fields which extend beyond the brain and interact with other
people's mental fields. We may be on the edge of a great step forward by understanding how our minds can reach out and
touch others at a distance.
Question 40: Dr Sheldrake's survey shows that:
A. sometimes people phone each other at the same time.
B. some people can 'see' the other person intending to call them.
C. two phone calls sometimes happen immediately after each other.
D. people tell each other their intention to phone.
Question 41: According to the text, Dr Sheldrake, .....
A. lost his job because of this research.
B. was the first to do work on this subject.
C. only investigates this subject.
D. had to travel widely in his research

Question 42: Scientists haven't researched the subject because......
A. they haven't been able to understand it.
B. theyhaven't had the time.
C. they believed it was unorthodox.
D. they though they couldn't prove coincidence.
Question 43: Groups of animals......
A. have one which acts as the leader.
B. communicate with the hunter.
C. follow each other to avoid danger.
D. pass on a sense of danger to each other.
Question 44: Which is closest in meaning to “beat us hands down”?
A. conquer
B. kill off
C. win easily
D. overcome
Question 45: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved......
A. someone staring at another person's back.
B. people saying when someone was staring at them.
C. people staring at each other.
D. one person with his eyes closed.
Question 46: Dr Sheldrake believes this ability goes back to early man's need......
A. to see the hunter's eyes.
B. to find others.
C. to be aware of being hunted.
D. to hunt.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 47: Clive flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker.
A. praises himself
B. boasts

C. shows up
D. is confident
Question 48: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the collar.
A. be frightened
B. feel sympathetic
C. become angry
D. get scared
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 49: Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years. Its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
A. Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years because its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
B. Due to its facilites being lacked proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years.
C. Since enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years, its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
D. Despite the fact that its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping
in recent years.
Question 50: All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months. When he
went there, the server was quite rude.
A. Because all his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months, the server
was quite rude when he went there.
B. However rude the server was, we went to the new coffee shop because all his friends have been praising its high
quality.
C. Despite the high quality praised for months, the server in the new coffee shop was quite rude when we went there.
D. All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless, when
he went there, the server was quite rude.


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MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 545
Thời gian: 60 phút - không tính thời gian giao đề
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 from 01 to 06.
SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT STATUS?
In recent decades, there has been ...(1)... evidence that an individual's well-being is significantly affected by that person's
place in the social pecking ...(2).... In other words, given that the world is ...(3)... up of winners and losers, counting ourselves
amongst the latter can open up an uncomfortable gap between the way things are and the way we'd like them to be.
Frequently, we think the solution lies in achieving more: if we managed to ...(4)... a better salary, house, body or whatever,
we'd be able to drop the competing game and feel contented.
But this ...(5)... risks landing us on a treadmill from which it is impossible to step off. There will always be people who, to
our mind, have achieved more than us and we'd constantly be running to try and catch up with them. Instead of slavishly
following our instincts, however, we would do better to use our ...(6)... for reflection to help us decide for ourselves what
gives meaning to our life and is therefore worth doing.
Question 1:A. rising
B. mounting
C. building
D. piling
Question 2:A. structure
B. strata
C. order
D. layer
Question 3:A. done
B. composed
C. made

D. comprised
Question 4:A. confirm
B. fulfil
C. secure
D. effect
Question 5:A. policy
B. device
C. scheme
D. strategy
Question 6:A. capacity
B. ability
C. competence
D. expertise
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 7: ~ A: “Why are children less interested in outdoor activities nowadays?” ~ B: “Well,............”
A. I don’t know why, but they may be too strong-minded.
B. Don’t ask. Just give them a ring home.
C. Because the weather is too cold for them.
D. They prefer high-tech gadgets like computers, iPads, or iPhones.
Question 8: ~ A: "Have you done any part-time jobs?" ~ B: ".............."
A. Sometimes. Doing shopping, going to spa or something like that.
B. Never. I' m so busy with the typing all the week.
C. Yes. I often help Mum with the cooking and cleaning-up
D. Yes. I've been out of work for three months.
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 09 to 15.
THE SIXTH SENSE
Have you ever had the feeling of being watched - and turned round to find someone staring at you? Have you found yourself
staring with idle curiosity at someone until they turn their heads to see who is watching them? Have you ever picked up the

ringing phone to find it is someone you have just been thinking about?
The answer to all these questions is most likely to be 'yes'. These are common, everyday sorts of experiences but ones which
have never been investigated scientifically until now, because orthodox science doesn't have the faintest idea how to explain
them. So it ignores them or calls them 'pure coincidence' and 'superstition'. Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist who has
pioneered work in this area, believes that not only can they be explained and that another sense does exist - but that the
explanations are perfectly simple. In his book, The Sense Of Being Stared At, he writes about his experiments on staring and
telephone telepathy. He believes they prove the existence of this other sense which tells us when we are being stared at or
who is phoning us and gives us other vital information through telepathy and premonition. He says that this is not in anyway
'paranormal'.
It is a normal part of our basic nature that we share with animals. Sheldrake uses members of the public in his experiments
and has a data base of 5,000 experiments. One set of experiments involved groups of friends and school mates. One person
was blindfolded and sat in front of a 'looker'. The person had to guess when the 'looker' was staring at him. The results were
60% successful - much more than chance would allow Sheldrake's surveys also showed that 80% of people had had the 'I am
being stared at' experience. The great majority of starers turned out to be strangers.
'This must go back to the times when our ancestors were hunted by predators, who of course were strangers,' says Sheldrake.
'This obviously helped survival.' Hunters today also report how animals often show acute awareness they are being stalked
even from far away.
Similar to this power of attention is the power of intention which seems to be the cause of telephone telepathy. What is it that
tells us that a particular person is going to call us unexpectedly?
Sheldrake believes that before we call we think about it first and this intention reaches out to the person. This is the
commonest form of telepathic experience. Over 90% of people in the survey say they have experienced it. Sometimes people
find that their calls overlap and the number they are calling is engaged - calling them!
One of the more extraordinary things Dr Sheldrake discorered is that some pets seem to know when someone important to
them is about to telephone. Some cats and dogs will go to the phone before it starts to ring. Animal telepathy is a well-known


phenomenon between social animals who are members of packs, herds, flocks of birds or schools of fish. Obviously, a
communicable sense of danger helps them survive predators, keeps them together and allows them to act as one. And when it
comes to premonitions - animals beat us hands down! Earthquakes, avalanches and other natural disasters all set off advance
fear behaviour in animals, both wild and domestic.

Sheldrake believes this sort of telepathy is a result of mental fields which extend beyond the brain and interact with other
people's mental fields. We may be on the edge of a great step forward by understanding how our minds can reach out and
touch others at a distance.
Question 9: Scientists haven't researched the subject because......
A. they though they couldn't prove coincidence.
B. theyhaven't had the time.
C. they believed it was unorthodox.
D. they haven't been able to understand it.
Question 10: Groups of animals......
A. follow each other to avoid danger.
B. have one which acts as the leader.
C. communicate with the hunter.
D. pass on a sense of danger to each other.
Question 11: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved......
A. one person with his eyes closed.
B. people staring at each other.
C. people saying when someone was staring at them.
D. someone staring at another person's back.
Question 12: Which is closest in meaning to “beat us hands down”?
A. kill off
B. conquer
C. win easily
D. overcome
Question 13: Dr Sheldrake's survey shows that:
A. two phone calls sometimes happen immediately after each other.
B. sometimes people phone each other at the same time.
C. some people can 'see' the other person intending to call them.
D. people tell each other their intention to phone.
Question 14: According to the text, Dr Sheldrake, .....
A. only investigates this subject.

B. had to travel widely in his research
C. lost his job because of this research.
D. was the first to do work on this subject.
Question 15: Dr Sheldrake believes this ability goes back to early man's need......
A. to see the hunter's eyes.
B. to find others.
C. to hunt.
D. to be aware of being hunted.
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 16: Ripe fruit is often stored in a place there contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too
rapidly.
A. Ripe
B. stored
C. rapidly
D. there
Question 17: How the Earth is in the shadow of the moon, we see an eclipse of the sun.
A. in the shadow
B. an
C. the
D. How
Question 18: Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa beans which must
be ground and mixed with sugar.
A. mixed
B. must be
C. complexity
D. blending
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 19: Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years. Its facilites have been lacking proper

maintenance.
A. Due to its facilites being lacked proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years.
B. Despite the fact that its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping
in recent years.
C. Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years because its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
D. Since enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years, its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
Question 20: All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months. When he
went there, the server was quite rude.
A. All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless, when
he went there, the server was quite rude.
B. Because all his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months, the server
was quite rude when he went there.
C. However rude the server was, we went to the new coffee shop because all his friends have been praising its high
quality.
D. Despite the high quality praised for months, the server in the new coffee shop was quite rude when we went there.
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 21:A. grown
B. flown
C. blown
D. frown
Question 22:A. vein
B. eight
C. weight
D. height


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 23:A. competent B. dominant
C. reduce
D. mutual
Question 24:A. atomic
B. catholic
C. symbolic
D. lunatic
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 25 to 31.
THE WHOLE ROTTEN BUSINESS OF RUBBISH
Visitors to New York are often shocked when they first encounter its powerful summertime stink of rotting garbage.
Breathing in the miasmic odours and observing the mountainous piles of refuse that line the streets each night, newcomers are
apt to reach the conclusion that New York is rather relaxed and devil-may-care about matters of refuse and refuse collection.
But nothing could be further from the truth. The city may look and smell like a compost heap a lot of the time, but it is home
to some of the most draconian garbage rules and regulations known to modern man.
Every neighbourhood in New York has three designated garbage pick-up days a week and residents are allowed to put their
refuse out no earlier than 5p.m. on the eve of each pick-up day. If you live in a smaller apartment building with no garbage
storage in the basement, your pick-up days take on quite disproportionate significance. Miss a day, and you have to live with
your festering garbage bags in your apartment until the next scheduled pick-up. Once or twice, over the years, I have become
so desperate to get rid of some rancid piece of chicken, or left-over Indian take-away, that I have crept out under cover of
night and illicitly dumped the bags in another neighbourhood where pick-up was due the next morning.
Then there are the elaborate and fiercely policed recycling protocols. Plastic and glass and metal go in a blue bag, paper and
cardboard in a transparent bag, and everything else in a black bag. Black bags can go out on any of the three days, but the
recyclables can only be put out on Friday. Failure to observe these - and a whole raft of infinitely more subtle particulars results in heavy fines. When I first moved to the city, and had not yet been initiated into the mysteries of the garbage laws, I
was constantly being busted for improperly wrapped or sorted refuse. And as if that wasn't sufficiently galling in itself, the
fines were then issued to my building superintendent, who would then post them on my front door, like a plague sign, for all
my neighbours to see. Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - 'Two
bottles found in black bag' or 'Newspapers improperly tied' - together with a demand for a hundred bucks.
One day, in a bolshy mood, I asked the superintendent how the garbage police could be so sure that the delinquent bottles

and inadequately tied newspapers were mine and not someone else's. He trudged down to the basement and came back
brandishing an empty bottle of prescription drugs with my name on it. 'They found this in the bag,' he said. Knowing that
one's garbage stands a strong chance of being gone through, piece by piece, by a pofaced enforcement agent does tend to
encourage compliance. It also produces a certain amount of paranoia. Over the past years, I have spent more time than I am
happy to admit standing over my recycling bins, cutting up receipts and scribbling over labels to obscure evidence of my
dodgier self-medication habits and lingerie purchases.
I deeply resent all this. It's not just that the economics of the city's recycling are highly questionable - which they are - or
even that an estimated 40 percent of New York's recyclable stuff winds up in landfills, anyway - which it does: there's
something maddening about the elevated status that recycling enjoys - as if it were an absolute good. To question its
worthiness is to put yourself beyond the pale of common civic values. One recent Friday night, as my children and I were
hauling garbage bags down to the street, we met a neighbour in the elevator. Observing my untidy bag of unflattened
cardboard boxes, he offered to give me some packing tips. 'We do all our sorting and packing as a family on Thursday nights.
It's kind of fun and the kids love it.' I smiled and nodded. 'Mom thinks recycling is crap,' my daughter piped up. 'She wishes
we could go back to landfills.' The neighbour's eyes grew watery with anguish , or perhaps suppressed rage. 'Well, I'm sorry
she feels that way,' he murmured. He has cut me dead ever since.
[Source: Pearson - Module 2, Proficiency Expert, 2015]

Question 25: In the second paragraph, the writer is emphasising......
A. the inconvenience of the timing of rubbish collections.
B. the need to develop strategies to get round the system.
C. the impact that rubbish collections have on the rest of her life.
D. the shortcomings of the arrangements at her own accommodation.
Question 26: What did the writer find particularly irritating about the fines she received?
A. the reaction of her neighbours to them
B. the way she was informed of them
C. the amount which was levied
D. the triviality of some of the offences
Question 27: The writer says that visitors to New York often gain the erroneous impression that......
A. its citizens fail to comply with its refuse collection regulations.
B. it takes refuse collection more seriously than other cities.

C. its refuse collection policies aren't implemented rigorously.
D. it smells of rubbish despite having a highly effective refuse collection system.
Question 28: On hearing about how her infringements of the rules had been uncovered, the writer......
A. realised she had no choice but to comply in future.
B. became worried about what else her garbage revealed.
C. decided to pay more attention to the detailed instructions.
D. resolved to avoid putting certain items into her rubbish.
Question 29: In the final paragraph, the writer admits to being most resentful of......
A. the attitude of her fellow citizens towards recycling.


B. the attempts of her neighbours to advise her about recycling.
C. the public money that is wasted on recycling projects.
D. the fact that recycling schemes do not always achieve their aims.
Question 30: The word “maddening” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to......
A. smart
B. infuriating
C. angry
D. furious
Question 31: In the text as a whole, the writer's tone is......
A. light-hearted and ironic.
B. righteously indignant.
C. restrained and reasonable.
D. politely tentative.
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 32: French is the only language other than English spoken on five continents.
A. Unlike French, English is spoken on five continents.
B. French and English are spoken widely in official and commercial circles.
C. Before English, French was the only language spoken on five continents.

D. French and English are the only languages that are spoken on five continents.
Question 33: From time to time there are things we do even though we think they are wrong.
A. Although we feel that the things we sometimes do are not right, we nevertheless do them.
B. We often do things because we think they are the right things to do at the time.
C. We can never be sure if all the things we do are right.
D. Sometimes we might do things that are considered wrong.
Question 34: Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less.
A. Unlike adults children laugh more while playing games.
B. No matter how much adults play, they can't laugh more than children.
C. The reason why adults laugh less than children might be that they play less.
D. Since adults have less time playing games, they don't laugh as much as children.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 35: Clive flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker.
A. boasts
B. is confident
C. shows up
D. praises himself
Question 36: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the collar.
A. feel sympathetic
B. get scared
C. be frightened
D. become angry
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 37: Harry.......along the landing, trying not. to make any-noise.
A. strode
B. filed
C. tiptoed
D. trudged
Question 38: Four people drowned when the yacht.......in a sudden storm.

A. capsized
B. overflowed
C. upset
D. inverted
Question 39: The politician gave a press conference to deny the charges that had been.......at him.
A. targeted
B. accused
C. levelled
D. blamed
Question 40: Anticipating renewed rioting, the authorities erected.....to block off certain streets.
A. barrages
B. barricades
C. dykes
D. ditches
Question 41: The peace of the public library was.......by the sound of a transistor radio.
A. fractured
B. demolished
C. shattered
D. smashed
Question 42: This spray is suitable for dealing with all garden.......
A. outbreaks
B. plagues
C. pests
D. swarms
Question 43: In many parts of the world, crop failure means......which leads to the death of many people each year.
A. desert
B. drought
C. shortcoming
D. famine
Question 44: I hope there are enough glasses to.......round.

A. go
B. drink
C. lay
D. set
Question 45: Before any new drug is marketed, it is essential that extensive tests are.......
A. carried through
B. carried on
C. carried forward
D. carried out
Question 46: I know David Fletcher.......sight, but I've never been introduced him.
A. on
B. at
C. in
D. by
Question 47: The theatre lights were slowly.......as the curtain rose on the first act.
A. deadened
B. dimmed
C. dulled
D. dampened
Question 48: No sooner had we left the house.......it started raining.
A. that
B. and
C. than
D. when
XII. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 49: Several companies have disclosed profits of over £200 million.
A. renounce
B. stashed
C. publicize

D. made known
Question 50: She was over the moon with her new bike.
A. cheerful
B. discontented
C. furtive
D. forlorn


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NĂM HỌC 2017- 2018
MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 377
Thời gian: 60 phút - không tính thời gian giao đề
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 1:A. competent B. mutual
C. dominant
D. reduce
Question 2:A. symbolic
B. atomic
C. catholic
D. lunatic
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 3: Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years. Its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
A. Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years because its facilites have been lacking proper

maintenance.
B. Despite the fact that its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping
in recent years.
C. Since enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years, its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
D. Due to its facilites being lacked proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years.
Question 4: All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months. When he went
there, the server was quite rude.
A. Despite the high quality praised for months, the server in the new coffee shop was quite rude when we went there.
B. However rude the server was, we went to the new coffee shop because all his friends have been praising its high
quality.
C. Because all his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months, the server
was quite rude when he went there.
D. All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless, when
he went there, the server was quite rude.
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 from 05 to 10.
SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT STATUS?
In recent decades, there has been ...(5)... evidence that an individual's well-being is significantly affected by that person's
place in the social pecking ...(6).... In other words, given that the world is ...(7)... up of winners and losers, counting ourselves
amongst the latter can open up an uncomfortable gap between the way things are and the way we'd like them to be.
Frequently, we think the solution lies in achieving more: if we managed to ...(8)... a better salary, house, body or whatever,
we'd be able to drop the competing game and feel contented.
But this ...(9)... risks landing us on a treadmill from which it is impossible to step off. There will always be people who, to
our mind, have achieved more than us and we'd constantly be running to try and catch up with them. Instead of slavishly
following our instincts, however, we would do better to use our ...(10)... for reflection to help us decide for ourselves what
gives meaning to our life and is therefore worth doing.
Question 5:A. building
B. piling
C. mounting

D. rising
Question 6:A. strata
B. structure
C. layer
D. order
Question 7:A. composed B. made
C. done
D. comprised
Question 8:A. confirm
B. secure
C. effect
D. fulfil
Question 9:A. strategy
B. scheme
C. device
D. policy
Question 10:A. competence B. ability
C. capacity
D. expertise
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 11: Ripe fruit is often stored in a place there contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too
rapidly.
A. Ripe
B. rapidly
C. stored
D. there
Question 12: How the Earth is in the shadow of the moon, we see an eclipse of the sun.
A. an
B. the

C. in the shadow
D. How
Question 13: Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa beans which must
be ground and mixed with sugar.
A. must be
B. mixed
C. complexity
D. blending
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 14: She was over the moon with her new bike.
A. furtive
B. cheerful
C. discontented
D. forlorn
Question 15: Several companies have disclosed profits of over £200 million.
A. publicize
B. stashed
C. renounce
D. made known
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.


Question 16: I hope there are enough glasses to.......round.
A. set
B. lay
C. go
D. drink
Question 17: I know David Fletcher.......sight, but I've never been introduced him.
A. on

B. in
C. at
D. by
Question 18: Four people drowned when the yacht.......in a sudden storm.
A. inverted
B. upset
C. overflowed
D. capsized
Question 19: The peace of the public library was.......by the sound of a transistor radio.
A. fractured
B. demolished
C. shattered
D. smashed
Question 20: The theatre lights were slowly.......as the curtain rose on the first act.
A. dulled
B. dampened
C. dimmed
D. deadened
Question 21: Anticipating renewed rioting, the authorities erected.....to block off certain streets.
A. dykes
B. barrages
C. ditches
D. barricades
Question 22: Harry.......along the landing, trying not. to make any-noise.
A. filed
B. tiptoed
C. strode
D. trudged
Question 23: No sooner had we left the house.......it started raining.
A. and

B. when
C. that
D. than
Question 24: The politician gave a press conference to deny the charges that had been.......at him.
A. accused
B. levelled
C. targeted
D. blamed
Question 25: Before any new drug is marketed, it is essential that extensive tests are.......
A. carried through
B. carried forward
C. carried on
D. carried out
Question 26: In many parts of the world, crop failure means......which leads to the death of many people each year.
A. drought
B. famine
C. shortcoming
D. desert
Question 27: This spray is suitable for dealing with all garden.......
A. outbreaks
B. swarms
C. plagues
D. pests
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 28: Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less.
A. Since adults have less time playing games, they don't laugh as much as children.
B. Unlike adults children laugh more while playing games.
C. The reason why adults laugh less than children might be that they play less.
D. No matter how much adults play, they can't laugh more than children.

Question 29: From time to time there are things we do even though we think they are wrong.
A. We often do things because we think they are the right things to do at the time.
B. We can never be sure if all the things we do are right.
C. Although we feel that the things we sometimes do are not right, we nevertheless do them.
D. Sometimes we might do things that are considered wrong.
Question 30: French is the only language other than English spoken on five continents.
A. French and English are the only languages that are spoken on five continents.
B. Before English, French was the only language spoken on five continents.
C. French and English are spoken widely in official and commercial circles.
D. Unlike French, English is spoken on five continents.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 31: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the collar.
A. feel sympathetic
B. become angry
C. be frightened
D. get scared
Question 32: Clive flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker.
A. is confident
B. boasts
C. praises himself
D. shows up
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 33 to 39.
THE SIXTH SENSE
Have you ever had the feeling of being watched - and turned round to find someone staring at you? Have you found yourself
staring with idle curiosity at someone until they turn their heads to see who is watching them? Have you ever picked up the
ringing phone to find it is someone you have just been thinking about?
The answer to all these questions is most likely to be 'yes'. These are common, everyday sorts of experiences but ones which
have never been investigated scientifically until now, because orthodox science doesn't have the faintest idea how to explain

them. So it ignores them or calls them 'pure coincidence' and 'superstition'. Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist who has
pioneered work in this area, believes that not only can they be explained and that another sense does exist - but that the
explanations are perfectly simple. In his book, The Sense Of Being Stared At, he writes about his experiments on staring and
telephone telepathy. He believes they prove the existence of this other sense which tells us when we are being stared at or
who is phoning us and gives us other vital information through telepathy and premonition. He says that this is not in anyway
'paranormal'.
It is a normal part of our basic nature that we share with animals. Sheldrake uses members of the public in his experiments
and has a data base of 5,000 experiments. One set of experiments involved groups of friends and school mates. One person


was blindfolded and sat in front of a 'looker'. The person had to guess when the 'looker' was staring at him. The results were
60% successful - much more than chance would allow Sheldrake's surveys also showed that 80% of people had had the 'I am
being stared at' experience. The great majority of starers turned out to be strangers.
'This must go back to the times when our ancestors were hunted by predators, who of course were strangers,' says Sheldrake.
'This obviously helped survival.' Hunters today also report how animals often show acute awareness they are being stalked
even from far away.
Similar to this power of attention is the power of intention which seems to be the cause of telephone telepathy. What is it that
tells us that a particular person is going to call us unexpectedly?
Sheldrake believes that before we call we think about it first and this intention reaches out to the person. This is the
commonest form of telepathic experience. Over 90% of people in the survey say they have experienced it. Sometimes people
find that their calls overlap and the number they are calling is engaged - calling them!
One of the more extraordinary things Dr Sheldrake discorered is that some pets seem to know when someone important to
them is about to telephone. Some cats and dogs will go to the phone before it starts to ring. Animal telepathy is a well-known
phenomenon between social animals who are members of packs, herds, flocks of birds or schools of fish. Obviously, a
communicable sense of danger helps them survive predators, keeps them together and allows them to act as one. And when it
comes to premonitions - animals beat us hands down! Earthquakes, avalanches and other natural disasters all set off advance
fear behaviour in animals, both wild and domestic.
Sheldrake believes this sort of telepathy is a result of mental fields which extend beyond the brain and interact with other
people's mental fields. We may be on the edge of a great step forward by understanding how our minds can reach out and
touch others at a distance.

Question 33: Scientists haven't researched the subject because......
A. theyhaven't had the time.
B. they though they couldn't prove coincidence.
C. they haven't been able to understand it.
D. they believed it was unorthodox.
Question 34: Groups of animals......
A. follow each other to avoid danger.
B. pass on a sense of danger to each other.
C. have one which acts as the leader.
D. communicate with the hunter.
Question 35: Which is closest in meaning to “beat us hands down”?
A. conquer
B. win easily
C. kill off
D. overcome
Question 36: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved......
A. people saying when someone was staring at them.
B. someone staring at another person's back.
C. one person with his eyes closed.
D. people staring at each other.
Question 37: According to the text, Dr Sheldrake, .....
A. had to travel widely in his research
B. lost his job because of this research.
C. only investigates this subject.
D. was the first to do work on this subject.
Question 38: Dr Sheldrake's survey shows that:
A. two phone calls sometimes happen immediately after each other.
B. people tell each other their intention to phone.
C. sometimes people phone each other at the same time.
D. some people can 'see' the other person intending to call them.

Question 39: Dr Sheldrake believes this ability goes back to early man's need......
A. to see the hunter's eyes.
B. to hunt.
C. to be aware of being hunted.
D. to find others.
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 40 to 46.
THE WHOLE ROTTEN BUSINESS OF RUBBISH
Visitors to New York are often shocked when they first encounter its powerful summertime stink of rotting garbage.
Breathing in the miasmic odours and observing the mountainous piles of refuse that line the streets each night, newcomers are
apt to reach the conclusion that New York is rather relaxed and devil-may-care about matters of refuse and refuse collection.
But nothing could be further from the truth. The city may look and smell like a compost heap a lot of the time, but it is home
to some of the most draconian garbage rules and regulations known to modern man.
Every neighbourhood in New York has three designated garbage pick-up days a week and residents are allowed to put their
refuse out no earlier than 5p.m. on the eve of each pick-up day. If you live in a smaller apartment building with no garbage
storage in the basement, your pick-up days take on quite disproportionate significance. Miss a day, and you have to live with
your festering garbage bags in your apartment until the next scheduled pick-up. Once or twice, over the years, I have become
so desperate to get rid of some rancid piece of chicken, or left-over Indian take-away, that I have crept out under cover of
night and illicitly dumped the bags in another neighbourhood where pick-up was due the next morning.
Then there are the elaborate and fiercely policed recycling protocols. Plastic and glass and metal go in a blue bag, paper and
cardboard in a transparent bag, and everything else in a black bag. Black bags can go out on any of the three days, but the
recyclables can only be put out on Friday. Failure to observe these - and a whole raft of infinitely more subtle particulars results in heavy fines. When I first moved to the city, and had not yet been initiated into the mysteries of the garbage laws, I
was constantly being busted for improperly wrapped or sorted refuse. And as if that wasn't sufficiently galling in itself, the
fines were then issued to my building superintendent, who would then post them on my front door, like a plague sign, for all


my neighbours to see. Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - 'Two
bottles found in black bag' or 'Newspapers improperly tied' - together with a demand for a hundred bucks.
One day, in a bolshy mood, I asked the superintendent how the garbage police could be so sure that the delinquent bottles
and inadequately tied newspapers were mine and not someone else's. He trudged down to the basement and came back

brandishing an empty bottle of prescription drugs with my name on it. 'They found this in the bag,' he said. Knowing that
one's garbage stands a strong chance of being gone through, piece by piece, by a pofaced enforcement agent does tend to
encourage compliance. It also produces a certain amount of paranoia. Over the past years, I have spent more time than I am
happy to admit standing over my recycling bins, cutting up receipts and scribbling over labels to obscure evidence of my
dodgier self-medication habits and lingerie purchases.
I deeply resent all this. It's not just that the economics of the city's recycling are highly questionable - which they are - or
even that an estimated 40 percent of New York's recyclable stuff winds up in landfills, anyway - which it does: there's
something maddening about the elevated status that recycling enjoys - as if it were an absolute good. To question its
worthiness is to put yourself beyond the pale of common civic values. One recent Friday night, as my children and I were
hauling garbage bags down to the street, we met a neighbour in the elevator. Observing my untidy bag of unflattened
cardboard boxes, he offered to give me some packing tips. 'We do all our sorting and packing as a family on Thursday nights.
It's kind of fun and the kids love it.' I smiled and nodded. 'Mom thinks recycling is crap,' my daughter piped up. 'She wishes
we could go back to landfills.' The neighbour's eyes grew watery with anguish , or perhaps suppressed rage. 'Well, I'm sorry
she feels that way,' he murmured. He has cut me dead ever since.
[Source: Pearson - Module 2, Proficiency Expert, 2015]
Question 40: On hearing about how her infringements of the rules had been uncovered, the writer......
A. decided to pay more attention to the detailed instructions.
B. resolved to avoid putting certain items into her rubbish.
C. became worried about what else her garbage revealed.
D. realised she had no choice but to comply in future.
Question 41: In the second paragraph, the writer is emphasising......
A. the shortcomings of the arrangements at her own accommodation.
B. the inconvenience of the timing of rubbish collections.
C. the impact that rubbish collections have on the rest of her life.
D. the need to develop strategies to get round the system.
Question 42: What did the writer find particularly irritating about the fines she received?
A. the way she was informed of them
B. the reaction of her neighbours to them
C. the triviality of some of the offences
D. the amount which was levied

Question 43: In the final paragraph, the writer admits to being most resentful of......
A. the attempts of her neighbours to advise her about recycling.
B. the fact that recycling schemes do not always achieve their aims.
C. the attitude of her fellow citizens towards recycling.
D. the public money that is wasted on recycling projects.
Question 44: The word “maddening” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to......
A. infuriating
B. angry
C. furious
D. smart
Question 45: In the text as a whole, the writer's tone is......
A. politely tentative.
B. righteously indignant.
C. light-hearted and ironic.
D. restrained and reasonable.
Question 46: The writer says that visitors to New York often gain the erroneous impression that......
A. its refuse collection policies aren't implemented rigorously.
B. it takes refuse collection more seriously than other cities.
C. its citizens fail to comply with its refuse collection regulations.
D. it smells of rubbish despite having a highly effective refuse collection system.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 47: ~ A: “Why are children less interested in outdoor activities nowadays?” ~ B: “Well,............”
A. Because the weather is too cold for them.
B. They prefer high-tech gadgets like computers, iPads, or iPhones.
C. I don’t know why, but they may be too strong-minded.
D. Don’t ask. Just give them a ring home.
Question 48: ~ A: "Have you done any part-time jobs?" ~ B: ".............."
A. Sometimes. Doing shopping, going to spa or something like that.
B. Yes. I've been out of work for three months.

C. Never. I' m so busy with the typing all the week.
D. Yes. I often help Mum with the cooking and cleaning-up
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 49:A. vein
B. eight
C. height
D. weight
Question 50:A. grown
B. frown
C. flown
D. blown


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ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
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ÔN THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG
NĂM HỌC 2017- 2018
MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 165
Thời gian: 60 phút - không tính thời gian giao đề
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 1:A. mutual
B. dominant
C. reduce
D. competent
Question 2:A. lunatic
B. symbolic

C. catholic
D. atomic
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 3: All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months. When he went
there, the server was quite rude.
A. Because all his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months, the server
was quite rude when he went there.
B. All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless, when
he went there, the server was quite rude.
C. Despite the high quality praised for months, the server in the new coffee shop was quite rude when we went there.
D. However rude the server was, we went to the new coffee shop because all his friends have been praising its high
quality.
Question 4: Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years. Its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
A. Due to its facilites being lacked proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years.
B. Despite the fact that its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping
in recent years.
C. Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years because its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
D. Since enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years, its facilites have been lacking proper
maintenance.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 5: The politician gave a press conference to deny the charges that had been.......at him.
A. levelled
B. accused
C. blamed
D. targeted
Question 6: In many parts of the world, crop failure means......which leads to the death of many people each year.
A. famine

B. drought
C. shortcoming
D. desert
Question 7: The theatre lights were slowly.......as the curtain rose on the first act.
A. deadened
B. dulled
C. dimmed
D. dampened
Question 8: Anticipating renewed rioting, the authorities erected.....to block off certain streets.
A. dykes
B. barrages
C. ditches
D. barricades
Question 9: I hope there are enough glasses to.......round.
A. set
B. lay
C. drink
D. go
Question 10: The peace of the public library was.......by the sound of a transistor radio.
A. fractured
B. smashed
C. demolished
D. shattered
Question 11: This spray is suitable for dealing with all garden.......
A. swarms
B. plagues
C. outbreaks
D. pests
Question 12: Four people drowned when the yacht.......in a sudden storm.
A. inverted

B. upset
C. overflowed
D. capsized
Question 13: No sooner had we left the house.......it started raining.
A. than
B. and
C. that
D. when
Question 14: I know David Fletcher.......sight, but I've never been introduced him.
A. on
B. by
C. in
D. at
Question 15: Harry.......along the landing, trying not. to make any-noise.
A. strode
B. tiptoed
C. filed
D. trudged
Question 16: Before any new drug is marketed, it is essential that extensive tests are.......
A. carried out
B. carried on
C. carried through
D. carried forward
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 17: Clive flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker.
A. shows up
B. praises himself
C. is confident
D. boasts

Question 18: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the collar.
A. feel sympathetic
B. get scared
C. be frightened
D. become angry
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 19: Several companies have disclosed profits of over £200 million.
A. made known
B. renounce
C. stashed
D. publicize


Question 20: She was over the moon with her new bike.
A. cheerful
B. furtive
C. forlorn
D. discontented
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 21:A. flown
B. grown
C. frown
D. blown
Question 22:A. eight
B. height
C. weight
D. vein
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 from 23 to 28.
SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT STATUS?
In recent decades, there has been ...(23)... evidence that an individual's well-being is significantly affected by that person's
place in the social pecking ...(24).... In other words, given that the world is ...(25)... up of winners and losers, counting
ourselves amongst the latter can open up an uncomfortable gap between the way things are and the way we'd like them to be.
Frequently, we think the solution lies in achieving more: if we managed to ...(26)... a better salary, house, body or whatever,
we'd be able to drop the competing game and feel contented.
But this ...(27)... risks landing us on a treadmill from which it is impossible to step off. There will always be people who, to
our mind, have achieved more than us and we'd constantly be running to try and catch up with them. Instead of slavishly
following our instincts, however, we would do better to use our ...(28)... for reflection to help us decide for ourselves what
gives meaning to our life and is therefore worth doing.
Question 23:A. building
B. mounting
C. piling
D. rising
Question 24:A. structure
B. order
C. strata
D. layer
Question 25:A. comprised B. composed
C. made
D. done
Question 26:A. confirm
B. effect
C. fulfil
D. secure
Question 27:A. strategy
B. policy
C. scheme
D. device

Question 28:A. competence B. ability
C. expertise
D. capacity
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 29: Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less.
A. Since adults have less time playing games, they don't laugh as much as children.
B. The reason why adults laugh less than children might be that they play less.
C. Unlike adults children laugh more while playing games.
D. No matter how much adults play, they can't laugh more than children.
Question 30: French is the only language other than English spoken on five continents.
A. Unlike French, English is spoken on five continents.
B. Before English, French was the only language spoken on five continents.
C. French and English are the only languages that are spoken on five continents.
D. French and English are spoken widely in official and commercial circles.
Question 31: From time to time there are things we do even though we think they are wrong.
A. We often do things because we think they are the right things to do at the time.
B. We can never be sure if all the things we do are right.
C. Although we feel that the things we sometimes do are not right, we nevertheless do them.
D. Sometimes we might do things that are considered wrong.
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 32 to 38.
THE WHOLE ROTTEN BUSINESS OF RUBBISH
Visitors to New York are often shocked when they first encounter its powerful summertime stink of rotting garbage.
Breathing in the miasmic odours and observing the mountainous piles of refuse that line the streets each night, newcomers are
apt to reach the conclusion that New York is rather relaxed and devil-may-care about matters of refuse and refuse collection.
But nothing could be further from the truth. The city may look and smell like a compost heap a lot of the time, but it is home
to some of the most draconian garbage rules and regulations known to modern man.
Every neighbourhood in New York has three designated garbage pick-up days a week and residents are allowed to put their
refuse out no earlier than 5p.m. on the eve of each pick-up day. If you live in a smaller apartment building with no garbage

storage in the basement, your pick-up days take on quite disproportionate significance. Miss a day, and you have to live with
your festering garbage bags in your apartment until the next scheduled pick-up. Once or twice, over the years, I have become
so desperate to get rid of some rancid piece of chicken, or left-over Indian take-away, that I have crept out under cover of
night and illicitly dumped the bags in another neighbourhood where pick-up was due the next morning.
Then there are the elaborate and fiercely policed recycling protocols. Plastic and glass and metal go in a blue bag, paper and
cardboard in a transparent bag, and everything else in a black bag. Black bags can go out on any of the three days, but the
recyclables can only be put out on Friday. Failure to observe these - and a whole raft of infinitely more subtle particulars results in heavy fines. When I first moved to the city, and had not yet been initiated into the mysteries of the garbage laws, I
was constantly being busted for improperly wrapped or sorted refuse. And as if that wasn't sufficiently galling in itself, the
fines were then issued to my building superintendent, who would then post them on my front door, like a plague sign, for all
my neighbours to see. Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - 'Two
bottles found in black bag' or 'Newspapers improperly tied' - together with a demand for a hundred bucks.


One day, in a bolshy mood, I asked the superintendent how the garbage police could be so sure that the delinquent bottles
and inadequately tied newspapers were mine and not someone else's. He trudged down to the basement and came back
brandishing an empty bottle of prescription drugs with my name on it. 'They found this in the bag,' he said. Knowing that
one's garbage stands a strong chance of being gone through, piece by piece, by a pofaced enforcement agent does tend to
encourage compliance. It also produces a certain amount of paranoia. Over the past years, I have spent more time than I am
happy to admit standing over my recycling bins, cutting up receipts and scribbling over labels to obscure evidence of my
dodgier self-medication habits and lingerie purchases.
I deeply resent all this. It's not just that the economics of the city's recycling are highly questionable - which they are - or
even that an estimated 40 percent of New York's recyclable stuff winds up in landfills, anyway - which it does: there's
something maddening about the elevated status that recycling enjoys - as if it were an absolute good. To question its
worthiness is to put yourself beyond the pale of common civic values. One recent Friday night, as my children and I were
hauling garbage bags down to the street, we met a neighbour in the elevator. Observing my untidy bag of unflattened
cardboard boxes, he offered to give me some packing tips. 'We do all our sorting and packing as a family on Thursday nights.
It's kind of fun and the kids love it.' I smiled and nodded. 'Mom thinks recycling is crap,' my daughter piped up. 'She wishes
we could go back to landfills.' The neighbour's eyes grew watery with anguish , or perhaps suppressed rage. 'Well, I'm sorry
she feels that way,' he murmured. He has cut me dead ever since.
[Source: Pearson - Module 2, Proficiency Expert, 2015]

Question 32: The word “maddening” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to......
A. infuriating
B. smart
C. furious
D. angry
Question 33: On hearing about how her infringements of the rules had been uncovered, the writer......
A. decided to pay more attention to the detailed instructions.
B. resolved to avoid putting certain items into her rubbish.
C. realised she had no choice but to comply in future.
D. became worried about what else her garbage revealed.
Question 34: What did the writer find particularly irritating about the fines she received?
A. the triviality of some of the offences
B. the way she was informed of them
C. the reaction of her neighbours to them
D. the amount which was levied
Question 35: In the text as a whole, the writer's tone is......
A. light-hearted and ironic.
B. restrained and reasonable.
C. politely tentative.
D. righteously indignant.
Question 36: In the final paragraph, the writer admits to being most resentful of......
A. the public money that is wasted on recycling projects.
B. the fact that recycling schemes do not always achieve their aims.
C. the attempts of her neighbours to advise her about recycling.
D. the attitude of her fellow citizens towards recycling.
Question 37: In the second paragraph, the writer is emphasising......
A. the inconvenience of the timing of rubbish collections.
B. the need to develop strategies to get round the system.
C. the shortcomings of the arrangements at her own accommodation.
D. the impact that rubbish collections have on the rest of her life.

Question 38: The writer says that visitors to New York often gain the erroneous impression that......
A. its citizens fail to comply with its refuse collection regulations.
B. it takes refuse collection more seriously than other cities.
C. it smells of rubbish despite having a highly effective refuse collection system.
D. its refuse collection policies aren't implemented rigorously.
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 39: Ripe fruit is often stored in a place there contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too
rapidly.
A. rapidly
B. Ripe
C. stored
D. there
Question 40: How the Earth is in the shadow of the moon, we see an eclipse of the sun.
A. the
B. an
C. How
D. in the shadow
Question 41: Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa beans which must
be ground and mixed with sugar.
A. blending
B. mixed
C. must be
D. complexity
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 42: ~ A: “Why are children less interested in outdoor activities nowadays?” ~ B: “Well,............”
A. I don’t know why, but they may be too strong-minded.
B. They prefer high-tech gadgets like computers, iPads, or iPhones.
C. Don’t ask. Just give them a ring home.

D. Because the weather is too cold for them.
Question 43: ~ A: "Have you done any part-time jobs?" ~ B: ".............."