reading gap filling

Major: READING SKILLS

GAP- FILLING (Điền từ)
I. Introduction:
Câu hỏi phần điền từ trong đề thi: Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to choose the word or
phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Trong phần này, các em đọc đoạn văn với độ dài khoảng 200 -250 từ với 10 chỗ trống. Các em đọc kĩ và
tìm lựa chọn thích hợp để điền vào các chỗ trống đó.
Câu hỏi
vocabulary => liên quan đến content
Grammar
Parts of speech (N, Adj, Adv, Pronoun, V)
Structures
Methods (phương pháp):
- Đọc lướt toàn bộ bài đọc để hiểu được ý chính của bài.
- Phân loại xem câu hỏi thuộc loại câu hỏi về từ vựng hay về ngữ pháp.
- Chọn đáp phù hợp sau khi đã phân tích các vấn đề liên quan đến từ vựng, ngữ pháp.
- Nếu cần thiết => Đọc kĩ câu trước và sau chỗ trống.
- Dùng phương pháp loại trừ.
- Không nhất thiết phải làm theo trình tự của bài
II. Practice: Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to choose the word or phrase that best fits
each of the numbered blanks.
Reading 1:
Environmental Concerns
Earth is the only place we know of in the universe that can support human life. (1) _____ human
activities are making the planet less fit to live on. As the western world (2) _____ on consuming two-thirds of
the world's resources while half of the world's population do so just to stay alive we are rapidly destroying the
(3) _____ resource we have by which all people can survive and prosper. Everywhere fertile soil is (4) _____
built on or washed into the sea. Renewable resources are exploited so much that they will never be able to
recover (5) _____. We discharge pollutants into the atmosphere without any thought of the consequences. As a
(6) _____ the planet's ability to support people is being reduced at the very time when rising human numbers

and consumption are (7) _____ increasingly heavy demands on it.
The Earth's (8) _____ resources are there for us to use. We need food, water, air, energy, medicines,
warmth, shelter and minerals to (9) _____ us fed, comfortable, healthy and active. If we are sensible in how we
use the resources, they will (10) _____ indefinitely. But if we use them wastefully and excessively, they will
soon run out and everyone will suffer.
Question 1. A. Although
Question 2. A. continues
Question 3. A. individual
Question 4. A. neither
Question 5. A. utterly
Question 6. A. result
Question 7. A. making
Question 8. A. living
Question 9. A. maintain
Question 10. A. remain

B. Yet
B. repeats
B. alone
B. sooner
B. completely
B. reaction
B. doing
B. real
B. stay
B. go

C. Still
C. follows
C. very

C. rather
C. quite
C. development
C. having
C. natural
C. hold
C. last

D. Despite
D. carries
D. solitary
D. either
D. greatly
D. product
D. taking
D. genuine
D. keep
D. stand

Reading 2:
We are using up the world’s petroleum. We use (1) ______ in our cars and to heat our building in
winter. Farmers use petrochemicals to (2) ____ the soil rich. They use them to kill insects (3) ______ eat
plants. These chemicals go (4) ______ rivers and lakes and kill the fish there. Thousands of pollutants also go
into the air and pollute it. Winds carry this (5) _____ air to other countries and other continents.
Poor farmers use the same land over and (6) _____ The land needs a rest so it will be better next year.
However, the farmers must have food this year. Poor people cut down forests (7) _____ firewood. In some
areas when the trees are gone, the land (8) _____desert. Poor people can’t save the environment for the (9) ___.
This is not a problem for one country or one area of the world. It is a problem for all- humans. The people
and the nations of the world must work together to (10) _______ the world’s resources.
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Question 1.
Question 2.
Question 3.
Question 4.
Question 5.
Question 6.
Question 7.
Question 8.
Question 9.
Question 10.

A. it
A. work
A. what
A. out
A. pollute
A. over
A. of
A. gets
A. future
A. recycle

B. them
B. change
B. who
B. for
B. polluting

B. again
B. for
B. changes
B. time being
B. preserve

C. that
C. make
C. whom
C. at
C. polluted
C. repeatedly
C. with
C. turns
C. times
C. keep

D. those
D. let
D. which
D. into
D. pollution
D. repeating
D. at
D. becomes
D. period
D. reuse

Reading 3:
Why is it that many teenagers have the energy to play computer games until late at night but can’t find the

energy to get out of bed (1) ________ for school? According to a new report, today’s generation of children are
in danger of getting so (2)_______ sleep that they are putting their mental and physical health at (3)_______.
Adults can easily survive on seven to eight hours’ sleep a night, (4)_______teenagers require nine or ten
hours. According to medical experts, one in five youngsters (5)________ anything between two and five hours’
sleep a night less than their parents did at their age.
This (6) _____ serious questions about whether lack of sleep is affecting children’s ability to concentrate at
school. The connection between sleep deprivation and lapses in memory, impaired reaction time and poor
concentration is well (7) _______. Research has shown that losing as little as half an hour’s sleep a night can
have profound effects (8) ______how children perform the next day. A good night’s sleep is also crucial for
teenagers because it is while they are asleep (9)______ they release a hormone that is essential for their
‘growth spurt’ (the period during teenage years when the body grows at a rapid rate). It’s true that they can, to
some (10) ______, catch up on sleep at weekends, but that won’t help them when they are dropping off to
sleep in class on a Friday afternoon.
By Tim Falla and Paul A.Davies, Solutions Advanced. OUP
Question 1: A. behind time
B. about time
C. in time
D. at time
Question 2: A. few
B. less
C. much
D. little
Question 3: A. jeopardy
B. threat
C. risk
D. danger
Question 4: A. or
B. because
C. whereas
D. so

Question 5: A. puts
B. gets
C. brings
D. makes
Question 6: A. raises
B. rises
C. results
D. comes
Question 7: A. organized
B. arranged
C. established
D. acquired
Question 8: A. in
B. on
C. to
D. at
Question 9: A. at which
B. which
C. where
D. that
Question 10: A. rate
B. extent
C. level
D. point
Reading 4:
At 19, Ben Way was already a millionaire, and one of a number of teenagers who_____(1) their fortune
through the Internet._____(2) makes Ben’s story all the more remarkable is that he is dyslexic, and was_____
(3) by teachers at his junior school that he would never be able to read or write properly.” I wanted to prove
them_____ (4)“, says Ben, creator and director of Waysearch engine which can be used to find goods in online
shopping malls.

When he was eight, his local authorities_____(5) him with a PC to help with school work. Although he
was_____ (6)to read the manuals, he had a natural ability with the computer, and encouraged by his father, he
soon began_____(7) people $ 10 an hour for his knowledge and skills. At the age of 15 he _____(8) up his own
computer consultancy, Quad Computer, which he ran from his bedroom, and two years later he left school
to_____(9) all his time to business.
“By this time the company had grown and needed to take_____(10) a couple of employees to help
me”, says Ben. That enabled me to start doing business with bigger companies. It was his ability to consistently
overcome difficult challenges that led him to win the “Young Entrepreneur of the year” award in the same year
that he formed Waysearch.
Question 1: A. taken
B. made
C. put
D. done
Question 2: A. This
B. That
C. Something
D. What
Question 3: A. said
B. told
C. suggested
D. reported
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Question 4: A. wrong
Question 5: A. provided
Question 6: A. imppossible
Question 7: A. owing
Question 8: A. put

Question 9: A. pay
Question 10: A. on

B. false
B. gave
B. incapable
B. charging
B. ran
B. spend
B. up

C. untrue
C. offered
C. disabled
C. lending
C. made
C. devote
C. out

D. unfair
D. got
D. unable
D. borrowing
D. set
D. invest
D. over

Reading 5:
Nearly 200 of the 1500 native plant species in Hawaii are at risk of going extinct in the near future because they
have been (1) ____ to such low numbers. Approximately 90 percent of Hawaii's plants are found nowhere else in

the world but they are (2) ____ by alien invasive species such as feral goats, pigs, rodents and (3) ____ plants.
The Hawaii Rare Plant Restoration Group is striving to (4) ____ the extinction of the 182 rare Hawaiian
plants with fewer than 50 individuals remaining in the (5) ____ . Since 1990, (6) ____ a result of their "Plant
Extinction Prevention Program", sixteen species have been brought into (7) ____ and three species have been
reintroduced. Invasive weeds have been removed in key areas and fencing put up in order to (8) ____ plants in
the wild.
In the future the Hawaii Rare Plant Restoration Program aims (9) ____ collecting genetic material from
the remaining plants in the wild for storage as a safety net for the future. They also aim to manage wild
populations and where possible reintroduce species into (10) _____.
Question 1. A. disappeared
Question 2. A. guarded
Question 3. A. national
Question 4. A. prevent
Question 5. A. wild
Question 6. A. so
Question 7. A. contamination
Question 8. A. derive
Question 9. A. at
Question 10. A. shelters

B. reduced
B. invested
B. native
B. encourage
B. atmosphere
B. due
B. production
B. vary
B. for
B. reserves

C. increased
C. conserved
C. international
C. stimulate
C. hole
C. as
C. cultivation
C. remain
C. with
C. gardens

D. developed
D. threatened
D. non-native
D. influence
D. sky
D. but
D. generation
D. protect
D. on
D. halls

Reading 6:
Health is something we tend to (1) ___ when we have it. When our body is doing well, we are hardly (2) ____
of it. But illness can come, even (3) _____ we are young. In fact, childhood has been a very susceptible time.
Many diseases attack children in particular, and people know very little (4) ______ to cure them once they
struck. The result was that many children died. About a century ago, (5) _________, scientists found out about
germs, and then everything changed. The (6) _____ of many diseases was found, and cures were developed. As
this medical discovery spread, the world became (7) ______ safer for children. The result is that (8) _________

a hundred years ago, the average man lived for 35 years, nowadays, in many areas of the world, people can (9)
______ to live for 75 years. And what do we expect by the year 2020 ? Undoubtedly, medical science will
continue to (10) ______. Some people will be able to avoid medical problems that are unavoidable today.
Question 1: A. forget
B. ignore
Question 2: A. awake
B. keen
Question 3: A. if
B. so
Question 4: A. how
B. what
Question 5: A. therefore
B. however
Question 6: A. reason
B. origin
Question 7: A. more
B. much
Question 8: A. where
B. when
Question 9: A. desire
B. hope
Question 10: A. speed up B. advance

C. give up
C. aware
C. when
C. which
C. although
C. source
C. very

C. why
C. want
C. accelerate

D. throw away
D. concerned
D. while
D. when
D. moreover
D. cause
D. quite
D. whereas
D. expect
D. run

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Reading 7:
Although women now (1)____almost half of all workers in the US, nearly 80 percent of them are employed
in low-paying clerical, sales, service, or factory jobs. Approximately a third of all women workers have clerical
jobs, which pay(2)____average $12,000 or less. Partly as a result, women make only seventy-five cents for
every dollar (3)___by men. (4)_____, men routinely make more money even when education, experience, and
responsibilities are (5)___.
The gap in male-female earning had great significance because more than 16 percent of US households are
(6)_____by women. Low-paying jobs keep many of these households in poverty. Women’s groups such as
National Organization for Women have demanded that equal opportunities and equal pay (7)______to women.
According to women’s (8)_____Maggie Mc. Anany, “It is imperative that the government help to change the
situation (of employment for women). We cannot wait for the companies to (9)_____themselves. Change must

come (10)______the law.”
Question 1. A. made of
B. make up
C. take up
D. take in
Question 2. A. on
B. at
C. in
D. for
Question 3.A. earns
B. earning
C. to earn
D. earned
Question 4. A. Although
B. Whatever
C. Moreover
D. Contrary
Question 5. A. equally
B. equality
C. equal
D. equalizing
Question 6. A. headed
B. hosted
C. carried
D. licensed
Question 7. A. are giving
B. are given
C. is giving
D. be given
Question 8. A. action

B. activity
C. activist
D. active
Question 9. A. restore
B. regain
C. regard
D. reform
Question 10. A. for
B. through
C. at
D. along
Reading 8:
In the past people suffered (1) ____ a disease called scurvy. Their gums bled, their skin became rough, their
wounds did not (2) ____ and their muscles wasted away. The (3) ____ of these symptoms was a lack of vitamin
C; people ate preserved meats and foods and could not get fresh vegetables and fruits.
The best (4)____ of vitamin C are oranges, lemons, grapefruit, cantaloupes, strawberries, and fresh
vegetables. These fruits must be fresh because vitamin C is destroyed by heat, storage, or exposure (5)____ air.
Although today more people (6) ____ vitamin C pills than any other supplement, some people still have
scurvy, (7)____ some of the elderly, alcoholics, and the chronically ill.
Research shows that vitamin C reduces the (8) ____ of colds and can help prevent cancer. There is also
evidence that vitamin C prevents heart disease, (9) ____ wound healing, helps prevent gum disease, and helps
protect us from pollutants such as cigarette smoke. Some recent research also shows that vitamin C has a
positive effect on some mental (10)____ and increases life span.
Question 1. A. from
Question 2. A. close
Question 3. A. reason
Question 4. A. store
Question 5. A. to
Question 6. A. consume
Question 7. A. containing

Question 8. A. severity
Question 9. A. hastens
Question 10. A. chaos

B. with
B. recover
B. cause
B. resources
B. towards
B. drink
B. including
B. seriousness
B. hurries up
B. confusions

C. by
C. heal
C. origin
C. provider
C. in
C. take
C. consisting
C. gravity
C. quickens
C. disorders

D. at
D. get well
D. signs
D. sources

D. by
D. have
D. like
D. importance
D. speeds
D. disturbances

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GAP- FILLING (Điền từ)
I. Introduction:
Câu hỏi phần điền từ trong đề thi: Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to choose the word or
phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Trong phần này, các em đọc đoạn văn với độ dài khoảng 200 -250 từ với 10 chỗ trống. Các em đọc kĩ và
tìm lựa chọn thích hợp để điền vào các chỗ trống đó.
Câu hỏi
vocabulary => liên quan đến content
Grammar
Parts of speech (N, Adj, Adv, Pronoun, V)
Structures
Methods (phương pháp):
- Đọc lướt toàn bộ bài đọc để hiểu được ý chính của bài.
- Phân loại xem câu hỏi thuộc loại câu hỏi về từ vựng hay về ngữ pháp.
- Chọn đáp phù hợp sau khi đã phân tích các vấn đề liên quan đến từ vựng, ngữ pháp.
- Nếu cần thiết => Đọc kĩ câu trước và sau chỗ trống.
- Dùng phương pháp loại trừ.
- Không nhất thiết phải làm theo trình tự của bài

II. Practice: Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to choose the word or phrase that best fits
each of the numbered blanks.
Reading 1:
Environmental Concerns
Earth is the only place we know of in the universe that can support human life. (1) _____ human
activities are making the planet less fit to live on. As the western world (2) _____ on consuming two-thirds of
the world's resources while half of the world's population do so just to stay alive we are rapidly destroying the
(3) _____ resource we have by which all people can survive and prosper. Everywhere fertile soil is (4) _____
built on or washed into the sea. Renewable resources are exploited so much that they will never be able to
recover (5) _____. We discharge pollutants into the atmosphere without any thought of the consequences. As a
(6) _____ the planet's ability to support people is being reduced at the very time when rising human numbers
and consumption are (7) _____ increasingly heavy demands on it.
The Earth's (8) _____ resources are there for us to use. We need food, water, air, energy, medicines,
warmth, shelter and minerals to (9) _____ us fed, comfortable, healthy and active. If we are sensible in how we
use the resources, they will (10) _____ indefinitely. But if we use them wastefully and excessively, they will
soon run out and everyone will suffer.
Question 1. A. Although
Question 2. A. continues
Question 3. A. individual
Question 4. A. neither
Question 5. A. utterly
Question 6. A. result
Question 7. A. making
Question 8. A. living
Question 9. A. maintain
Question 10. A. remain

B. Yet
B. repeats
B. alone

B. sooner
B. completely
B. reaction
B. doing
B. real
B. stay
B. go

C. Still
C. follows
C. very
C. rather
C. quite
C. development
C. having
C. natural
C. hold
C. last

D. Despite
D. carries
D. solitary
D. either
D. greatly
D. product
D. taking
D. genuine
D. keep
D. stand

Reading 2:
We are using up the world’s petroleum. We use (1) ______ in our cars and to heat our building in
winter. Farmers use petrochemicals to (2) ____ the soil rich. They use them to kill insects (3) ______ eat
plants. These chemicals go (4) ______ rivers and lakes and kill the fish there. Thousands of pollutants also go
into the air and pollute it. Winds carry this (5) _____ air to other countries and other continents.
Poor farmers use the same land over and (6) _____ The land needs a rest so it will be better next year.
However, the farmers must have food this year. Poor people cut down forests (7) _____ firewood. In some
areas when the trees are gone, the land (8) ______ desert. Poor people can’t save the environment for the (9)
_____ .
This is not a problem for one country or one area of the world. It is a problem for all- humans. The people
and the nations of the world must work together to (10) _______ the world’s resources.
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Question 1.
Question 2.
Question 3.
Question 4.
Question 5.
Question 6.
Question 7.
Question 8.
Question 9.
Question 10.

A. it
A. work
A. what
A. out

A. pollute
A. over
A. of
A. gets
A. future
A. recycle

B. them
B. change
B. who
B. for
B. polluting
B. again
B. for
B. changes
B. time being
B. preserve

C. that
C. make
C. whom
C. at
C. polluted
C. repeatedly
C. with
C. turns
C. times
C. keep

D. those

D. let
D. which
D. into
D. pollution
D. repeating
D. at
D. becomes
D. period
D. reuse

Reading 3:
Why is it that many teenagers have the energy to play computer games until late at night but can’t find the
energy to get out of bed (1) ______ for school? According to a new report, today’s generation of children are in
danger of getting so (2)_______ sleep that they are putting their mental and physical health at (3)_______.
Adults can easily survive on seven to eight hours’ sleep a night, (4)_______teenagers require nine or ten
hours. According to medical experts, one in five youngsters (5)________ anything between two and five hours’
sleep a night less than their parents did at their age.
This (6) _____ serious questions about whether lack of sleep is affecting children’s ability to concentrate at
school. The connection between sleep deprivation and lapses in memory, impaired reaction time and poor
concentration is well (7) _______. Research has shown that losing as little as half an hour’s sleep a night can
have profound effects (8) ______how children perform the next day. A good night’s sleep is also crucial for
teenagers because it is while they are asleep (9)______ they release a hormone that is essential for their
‘growth spurt’ (the period during teenage years when the body grows at a rapid rate). It’s true that they can, to
some (10) ______, catch up on sleep at weekends, but that won’t help them when they are dropping off to sleep
in class on a Friday afternoon.
By Tim Falla and Paul A.Davies, Solutions Advanced. OUP
Question 1: A. behind time
B. about time
C.in time
D. at time

Question 2: A. few
B. less
C. much
D. little
Question 3: A. jeopardy
B. threat
C. risk
D. danger
Question 4: A. or
B. because
C. whereas
D. so
Question 5: A. puts
B. gets
C. brings
D. makes
Question 6: A. raises
B. rises
C. results
D. comes
Question 7: A. organized
B. arranged
C. established
D. acquired
Question 8: A. in
B. on
C. to
D. at
Question 9: A. at which
B. which

C. where
D. that
Question 10: A. rate
B. extent
C. level
D. point
Reading 4:
At 19, Ben Way was already a millionaire, and one of a number of teenagers who_____(1) their fortune
through the Internet._____(2) makes Ben’s story all the more remarkable is that he is dyslexic, and was_____
(3) by teachers at his junior school that he would never be able to read or write properly.” I wanted to prove
them_____ (4)“, says Ben, creator and director of Waysearch engine which can be used to find goods in online
shopping malls.
When he was eight, his local authorities_____(5) him with a PC to help with school work. Although he
was_____ (6)to read the manuals, he had a natural ability with the computer, and encouraged by his father, he
soon began_____(7) people $ 10 an hour for his knowledge and skills. At the age of 15 he _____(8) up his own
computer consultancy, Quad Computer, which he ran from his bedroom, and two years later he left school
to_____(9) all his time to business.
“By this time the company had grown and needed to take_____(10) a couple of employees to help
me”, says Ben. That enabled me to start doing business with bigger companies. It was his ability to consistently
overcome difficult challenges that led him to win the “Young Entrepreneur of the year” award in the same year
that he formed Waysearch.
Question 1: A. taken
Question 2: A. This

B. made
B. That

C. put
C. Something

D. done
D. What
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Question 3: A. said
Question 4: A. wrong
Question 5: A. provided
Question 6: A. imppossible
Question 7: A. owing
Question 8: A. put
Question 9: A. pay
Question 10: A. on

B. told
B. false
B. gave
B. incapable
B. charging
B. ran
B. spend
B. up

C. suggested
C. untrue
C. offered
C. disabled
C. lending
C. made

C. devote
C. out

D. reported
D. unfair
D. got
D. unable
D. borrowing
D. set
D. invest
D. over

Reading 5:
Nearly 200 of the 1500 native plant species in Hawaii are at risk of going extinct in the near future because they
have been (1) ____ to such low numbers. Approximately 90 percent of Hawaii's plants are found nowhere else in
the world but they are (2) ____ by alien invasive species such as feral goats, pigs, rodents and (3) ____ plants.
The Hawaii Rare Plant Restoration Group is striving to (4) ____ the extinction of the 182 rare Hawaiian
plants with fewer than 50 individuals remaining in the (5) ____ . Since 1990, (6) ____ a result of their "Plant
Extinction Prevention Program", sixteen species have been brought into (7) ____ and three species have been
reintroduced. Invasive weeds have been removed in key areas and fencing put up in order to (8) ____ plants in
the wild.
In the future the Hawaii Rare Plant Restoration Program aims (9) ____ collecting genetic material from
the remaining plants in the wild for storage as a safety net for the future. They also aim to manage wild
populations and where possible reintroduce species into (10) _____.
Question 1. A. disappeared
Question 2. A. guarded
Question 3. A. national
Question 4. A. prevent
Question 5. A. wild
Question 6. A. so

Question 7. A. contamination
Question 8. A. derive
Question 9. A. at
Question 10. A. shelters

B. reduced
B. invested
B. native
B. encourage
B. atmosphere
B. due
B. production
B. vary
B. for
B. reserves

C. increased
C. conserved
C. international
C. stimulate
C. hole
C. as
C. cultivation
C. remain
C. with
C. gardens

D. developed
D. threatened
D. non-native

D. influence
D. sky
D. but
D. generation
D. protect
D. on
D. halls

Reading 6:
Health is something we tend to (1) ___ when we have it. When our body is doing well, we are hardly (2) ____
of it. But illness can come, even (3) _____ we are young. In fact, childhood has been a very susceptible time.
Many diseases attack children in particular, and people know very little (4) ______ to cure them once they
struck. The result was that many children died. About a century ago, (5) _________, scientists found out about
germs, and then everything changed. The (6) _____ of many diseases was found, and cures were developed. As
this medical discovery spread, the world became (7) ______ safer for children. The result is that (8) _________
a hundred years ago, the average man lived for 35 years, nowadays, in many areas of the world, people can (9)
______ to live for 75 years. And what do we expect by the year 2020 ? Undoubtedly, medical science will
continue to (10) ______. Some people will be able to avoid medical problems that are unavoidable today.
Question 1: A. forget
B. ignore
Question 2: A. awake
B. keen
Question 3: A. if
B. so
Question 4: A. how
B. what
Question 5: A. therefore
B. however
Question 6: A. reason
B. origin

Question 7: A. more
B. much
Question 8: A. where
B. when
Question 9: A. desire
B. hope
Question 10: A. speed up B. advance

C. give up
C. aware
C. when
C. which
C. although
C. source
C. very
C. why
C. want
C. accelerate

D. throw away
D. concerned
D. while
D. when
D. moreover
D. cause
D. quite
D. whereas
D. expect
D. run
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Major: READING SKILLS
Reading 7:
Although women now (1)____almost half of all workers in the US, nearly 80 percent of them are employed
in low-paying clerical, sales, service, or factory jobs. Approximately a third of all women workers have clerical
jobs, which pay(2)____average $12,000 or less. Partly as a result, women make only seventy-five cents for
every dollar (3)___by men. (4)_____, men routinely make more money even when education, experience, and
responsibilities are (5)___.
The gap in male-female earning had great significance because more than 16 percent of US households are
(6)_____by women. Low-paying jobs keep many of these households in poverty. Women’s groups such as
National Organization for Women have demanded that equal opportunities and equal pay (7)______to women.
According to women’s (8)_____Maggie Mc. Anany, “It is imperative that the government help to change the
situation (of employment for women). We cannot wait for the companies to (9)_____themselves. Change must
come (10)______the law.”
Question 1. A. made of
Question 2. A. on
Question 3.A. earns
Question 4. A. Although
Question 5. A. equally
Question 6. A. headed
Question 7. A. are giving
Question 8. A. action
Question 9. A. restore
Question 10. A. for

B. make up
B. at
B. earning
B. Whatever

B. equality
B. hosted
B. are given
B. activity
B. regain
B. through

C. take up
C. in
C. to earn
C. Moreover
C. equal
C. carried
C. is giving
C. activist
C. regard
C. at

D. take in
D. for
D. earned
D. Contrary
D. equalizing
D. licensed
D. be given
D. active
D. reform
D. along

Reading 8:

In the past people suffered (1) ____ a disease called scurvy. Their gums bled, their skin became rough, their
wounds did not (2) ____ and their muscles wasted away. The (3) ____ of these symptoms was a lack of vitamin
C; people ate preserved meats and foods and could not get fresh vegetables and fruits.
The best (4)____ of vitamin C are oranges, lemons, grapefruit, cantaloupes, strawberries, and fresh
vegetables. These fruits must be fresh because vitamin C is destroyed by heat, storage, or exposure (5)____ air.
Although today more people (6) ____ vitamin C pills than any other supplement, some people still have
scurvy, (7)____ some of the elderly, alcoholics, and the chronically ill.
Research shows that vitamin C reduces the (8) ____ of colds and can help prevent cancer. There is also
evidence that vitamin C prevents heart disease, (9) ____ wound healing, helps prevent gum disease, and helps
protect us from pollutants such as cigarette smoke. Some recent research also shows that vitamin C has a
positive effect on some mental (10)____ and increases life span.
Question 1. A. from
Question 2. A. close
Question 3. A. reason
Question 4. A. store
Question 5. A. to
Question 6. A. consume
Question 7. A. containing
Question 8. A. severity
Question 9. A. hastens
Question 10. A. chaos

B. with
B. recover
B. cause
B. resources
B. towards
B. drink
B. including
B. seriousness

B. hurries up
B. confusions

C. by
C. heal
C. origin
C. provider
C. in
C. take
C. consisting
C. gravity
C. quickens
C. disorders

D. at
D. get well
D. signs
D. sources
D. by
D. have
D. like
D. importance
D. speeds
D. disturbances

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Major: READING SKILLS
III. Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of

the numbered blanks.
Clean freshwater resources are essential for drinking, bathing, cooking, irrigation, industry, and for
plant and animal (1)____. Unfortunately, the global supply of freshwater is (2)__ __ unevenly. Chronic water
shortages (3)_____ in most of Africa and drought is common over much of the globe. The (4)_____ of most
freshwater supplies - groundwater (water located below the soil surface), reservoirs, and rivers - are under
severe and (5)_____ environmental stress because of overuse, water pollution, and ecosystem degradation.
Over 95 percent of urban sewage in (6)____ countries is (7)_____ untreated into surface waters such as rivers
and harbors. [chronic: lasting for a long time]
About 65 percent of the global freshwater supply is used in (8)_______ and 25 percent is used in
industry. Freshwater (9)_____ therefore requires a reduction in wasteful practices like (10)____. irrigation,
reforms in agriculture and industry, and strict pollution controls worldwide.
1. A. survive
B. survived
C. surviving
D. survival
2. A. delivered
B. distributed
C. provided
D. given
3. A. exist
B. lie
C. show
D. stay
4. A. resources
B. springs
C. sources
D. starting
5. A. increasing
B. growing
C. climbing

D. ascending
6. A. growing
B. miserable
C. poverty
D. developing
7. A. recharged
B. discharged
C. charged
D. discharging
8. A. farming
B. planting
C. agriculture
D. growing
9. A. reservation
B. conservation
C. preservation
D. retention
10. A. ineffective
B. illogical
C. irrational
D. inefficient
IV. Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the
numbered blanks.
Schools exams are, generally speaking, the first kind of tests we take. They find out how much
knowledge we have (1)____. But do they really show how intelligent we are? After all, isn’t it a fact that some
people who are very successful academically don’t have any (2)____ sense?
Intelligence is the speed (3)____ which we can understand and (4)____ to new situations and it’s
usually tested by logic puzzles. Although scientists are now preparing (5)____ computer technology that will
be able to “read” our brains, for the present tests are still the most popular ways of measuring intelligence. A
person’s IQ is their intelligence as it is measured by a special test. The most common IQ tests are (6)____ by

Mensa, an organization that was found in England in 1946. By 1976 it had 1,3000 members in Britain. Today
there are 44,000 in Britain and 100,000 worldwide, (7)____ in the US.
People taking the test are judged in (8)____ to an average score of 100 and those who score over 148
are entitled to join Mensa. This (9)____ at 2% of the population. Anyone from the age of six can take the tests.
All the questions are straightforward and most people can answer them if (10)____ enough time. But that’s the
problem – the whole point of the tests is that they’re against the clock.
Câu 1: A. caught
Câu 2: A. natural
Câu 3: A. in
Câu 4: A. react
Câu 5: A. advanced
Câu 6: A. run
Câu 7: A. considerably
Câu 8: A. regard
Câu 9: A. comes up
Câu 10: A. provided

B. attached
B. bright
B. to
B. alter
B. forward
B. commanded
B. largely
B. relation
B. adds up
B. let

C. gained
C. sharp

C. on
C. accord
C. upper
C. steered
C. highly
C. concern
C. works out
C. allowed

D. fetched
D. common
D. at
D. answer
D. ahead
D. appointed
D. enormously
D. association
D. turns to
D. spared

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Major: READING SKILLS
V. Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the
numbered blanks.
Within the last century the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (26)____ dramatically, largely
(27)____ people burn vast amounts of fossil fuels, coal and petroleum and its derivatives. Average global
temperature also has increased - by about 0.6 Celsius degree within (28)_____ past century.
Atmospheric scientists (29)_____ found that at least half of that temperature increase (30)_____

attributed to human activity. They predict that (31)_____ dramatic action is taken, global temperature will
continue (32)_____ by between 1o C and 3.5o C (between 1.8° and 6.3° F) over the next century. Although
(33)_____ increase may not seem like a great difference, during The Last Ice Age the global temperature
(34)_____ only 2.2 Celsius degrees cooler than it (35)_____presently.
26. A. has risen
B. rose
C. has raised
D. raised
27. A. because of
B. although
C. despite
D. because
28. A. a
B. some
C. the
D. any
29. A. had
B. have
C. are
D. ought to
30. A. should be
B. is being
C. had been
D. can be
31. A. unless
B. if
C. provided
D. as long as
32. A. be rising
B. to rise

C. to be risen
D. to be rising
33. A. so much
B. so
C. such an
D. such
34. A. had been
B. has been
C. is
D. was
35. A. is
B. has been
C. was
D. will be

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