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ĐỀ THI THỬ SỐ 29
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:
Question 2:

A. foreword
A. character

B. preface
B. procedure

C. index
C. sophomore

D. mature
D. plagiarize

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 3.
Question 4.

A. mammal
A. tidal

B. manuscript
B. final

C. manage
C. signal

D. material.
D. horizon

Blacken the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.
Question 5: Workers who do not obey the safety regulations will be
immediately.
A. refused
B. rejected
C. disapproved
D. dismissed
Question 6: He drove fast and arrived an hour
of schedule.
A. in advance
B. ahead
C. in front
D. on account
Question 7: The area was
by that storm, wasn’t it ?
A. attacked
B. struck
C. beaten
D. infected
Question 8: An architect planning a new should always
in mind his client’s needs.
A. carry
B. bear

C. remember
D. take
Question 9: The train was
by a heavy snowfall.
A. held off
B. held out
C. held back
D. held up
Question 10: I’m sorry, teacher. I’ve
_ my homework on the bus.
A. forgotten
B. let
C. missed
D. left
Question 11: TOEFL stands for
.
A. Teaching of English like a Foreign Language
B. Testing of English as a Foreign Language
C. Teaching of English as a Foreign Language
D. Test of English as a Foreign Language
Question 12:
is not clear to researchers.
A. Why did dinosaurs become extinct
B. Why dinosaurs became extinct
C. Did dinosaurs become extinct
D. Dinosaurs became extinct
Question 13: Drinking water
excessive amounts of fluorides may leave a stained or mottled effect on
the enamel of teeth.
A. containing

B. including
C. made up of
D. composed of
Question14: Harry’s new jacket doesn’t seem to fit him very well. He
it on before he bought it.
A. must have tried
B. should have tried
C. needn’t have tried D. might have tried
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Question 15: Today all five species of rhinos are perilously close
extinction.
A. with
B. to
C. of
D. for
Question 16. My neighbor is
; he is always showing that he never cares about his bad behavior.
A. barefaced
B. grim-faced
C. faceless
D. face-saving

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of
the following exchanges.
Question 17: Jack: “Many happy returns, Jill.”
Jill: “
”

A. Thank you.
B. Good luck!

C. Really? When?

Question 18: Smith: “I’m afraid I can’t come with you.”
John: “
”
A. What a shame!
B. It’s shameful!
C. Thank you

D. Thanks. The same to you!

D. I don’t think so

Blacken the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.

Question 19: The exam to become a lawyer is on far the most difficult he has taken.
A
B
C
D
Question 20: Mrs. Stevens, along with her cousins from New Mexico, are planning to attend the festivities.
A

B

C

D

Question 21: At the end of a three-hours discussion, it was decided that the company was not yet strong enough
A

B

C

D

to open branches.
Blacken 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 22: I remember someone giving me a rubber doll on my 10th birthday.
A. Someone is remembered giving me a rubber doll on my 10th birthday.
B. I am given a rubber doll on my 10th birthday by someone I remember.
C. On my 10th birthday, a rubber doll is remembered by someone giving me.
D. I remember being given a rubber doll on my 10th birthday.
Question 23: You should not keep bad company under any circumstances.
A. In no circumstances should you be friends with bad people.
B. Under no circumstances should you not keep bad company.
C. Under any circumstances shouldn’t you make friends with bad people.
D. In no circumstances should you keep your company because it is bad.
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D. We weren’t as much impressed by the new album’s look as its price.
Question 24: The onset of the disease is shown by a feeling of faintness.

A. One feels faint if the disease is over.
B. A feeling of faintness signals the final stage of the disease.
C. The first sign of the disease is a feeling of faintness.
D. Faintness causes the disease.
Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
answer to each of the questions.
It takes a long time to raise a family of owlets, so the great horned owl begins early in the year. In January and
February, or as late as March in the North, the male calls to the female with a resonant hoot. The female is
larger than the male. She sometimes reaches a body length of twenty-two to twenty-four inches, with a
wingspread up to fifty inches. To impress her, the male does a strange courtship dance. He bobs. He bows. He
ruffles his feathers and hops around with an important air. He flutters from limb to limb and makes flying
sorties into the air. Sometimes he returns with an offering of food. They share the repast, after which she joins
the dance, hopping and bobbing about as though keeping time to the beat of an inner drum. Owls are poor home
builders. They prefer to nest in a large hollow in a tree or even to occupy the deserted nest of a hawk or crow.
These structures are large and rough, built of sticks and bark and lined with leaves and feathers. Sometimes
owls nest on a rocky ledge, or even on the bare ground. even to occupy the deserted nest of a hawk or crow.
These structures are large and rough, built of sticks and bark and lined with leaves and feathers. Sometimes
owls nest on a rocky ledge, or even on the bare ground. The mother lays two or three round, dull white eggs.
Then she stoically settles herself on the nest and spreads her feather skirts about her to protect her precious
charges from snow and cold. It is five weeks before the first downy white owlet pecks its way out of the shell.
As the young birds feather out, they look like wise old men with their wide eyes and quizzical expressions.
They clamor for food and keep the parents busy supplying mice, squirrels, rabbits, crayfish, and beetles. Later
in the season baby crows are taken. Migrating songsters, waterfowl, and game birds all fall prey to the hungry
family. It is nearly ten weeks before fledglings leave the nest to search for their own food. The parent birds
weary of family life by November and drive the young owls away to establish hunting ranges of their own
Question 25: What is the topic of this passage?
A. Mating rituals of great horned owls
B. Raising a family of great horned owls
C. Habits of young great horned owls
D. Nest building of great horned owls

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Question 26: The phrase "a resonant hoot" is closest in meaning to
A. a sound
B. an offering of food
C. an instrument

D. a movement

Question 27: It can be inferred from the passage that the courtship of great horned owls
A. happens in the fall
B. takes place on the ground
C. involves the male alone
D. is an active process
Question 28: According to the passage, which of the following is the mother owl's job?
A. To build the nest
B. To initiate the courtship ritual
C. To sit on the nest
D. To feed the young
Question 29: The phrase "precious charges" refers to
A. the hawks and crows
B. other nesting owls
C. the nest
D. the eggs
Question 30: The word "they" refers to
A. the adult birds
B. the wise old men

C. the prey

D. the young birds

Question 31: What can be inferred from the passage about the adult parents of the young great horned owls?
A. They are lazy and careless about feeding the small owlets.
B. They probably don't see their young after November.
C. They don't eat while they are feeding their young.
D. They are sorry to see their young leave home.
Question 32: The phrase "weary of" is closest in meaning to
A. become sad about B. support
C. are attracted to

D. tire of

Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word for each of the blanks
LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
Do you ever wish you were more optimistic, some one who always expected to be successful? Having
some one around who always fears the worst isn’t really a lot of (33)

we all know someone who sees a

single cloud on a sunny day and says: “It looks like rain.” But if you catch yourself thinking such things, it’s
important to do something about it. You can change your view of life, according to psychologists, it only takes a
little effort, and you’ll find life more rewarding as a (34)
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respect and confidence, but it’s also a more positive way of looking at life and all it has to offer . Optimists are
more (35)

to start new projects and generally more prepared to take risks.

Upbringing is obviously very important in forming your (36)

to the world. Some people are

brought up to depend too much on others and grow up forever blaming other people when anything goes wrong.
Most optimists, on the other hand, have been brought up not to regard failure as the end of the world-they just
(37) with their lives.
Câu 33:
Câu 34:
Câu 35:
Câu 36:
Câu 37:

A. fun
A. product
A. possible
A. position
A. get on

B. play
B. purpose
B. hopeful
B. opinion

B. get out

C. enjoyment
C. reason
C. likely
C. attitude
C. get up

D. musement
D. result
D. welcome
D. view
D. get over

Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
answer to each of the questions.
In most of the earliest books for children, illustrations were an afterthought. But in the
Caldecott “toy books”, which first appeared in 1878, they were almost as important as the lines of
text, and occupied far more space in the book. One can almost read the story from the
dramatic action in the pictures.
Since then, thousands of successful picture books have been published in the United States
and around the world. In the best, the words and illustrations seem to complement each other perfectly.
Often a single person, is responsible for both writing and illustrating the book. One of the greatest, and
certainly one of the most successful, illustrator-authors was Dr. Seuss, whose real name was Theodor
Geisel. His first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, hit the market in 1937,
and the world of children’s literature was changed forever. Seuss’s playful drawings were a perfect
complement to his engaging stories and unforgettable characters. In 1957, Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat
became the first book in Random House’s best -selling series, Beginner Books, written by Seuss and
several other authors. These combine outrageous illustrations of people, creatures, and plants, and
playful stories written in very simple language.

Dr. Seuss is not the only well-known author-illustrator, of course. There is Max Sendak, who
wrote and illustrated Where the Wild Things Are, the story of a little boy named Max, who becomes
king of the fierce ( but funny) creatures that live in the Land of the Wilds Things. Robert McCloskey
produced both the richly textured illustrations and delightful story of a family of ducks living
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in downtown Boston, Make Ways for Ducklings. Some books are produced by a collaborative author
artist team. Author Margaret Wise Brown combined with illustrator Clement Hurd to produce two
delightful books loved by very young children, Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Another
example is the husband-and-wife team of writer Audrey Wood and illustrator Don Wood, who were
responsible for King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub and The Napping House.
Wordless and nearly wordless picture books have become popular. With a little help, threeand fouryear-olds can follow the sequence of events, and they can understand the stories suggested in them.
The marvel of books with few or no words is that they allow children and their parents the
opportunity to tell and retell the same stories over and over in their own words. One of the most
charming examples of a wordless book is Jan Omerod’sSunshine. Barbara Berger’s Grandfather
Twilight and David Weisner’s Tuesday are examples of books containing only a few words.
U.S. publishers have also drawn on illustrators from other countries whose original, imaginative
works have brought their different visions to American children’s books. Among them are Leo
Lionni from Italy, Feodor Rojankovsky from Russia, and Taro Yashimi from Japan.
Question 38. The phrase “the best” in paragraph 2 refers to the best .
A. picture books

B. illustrations

C. authors

D. words

Question 39. According to the passage, pictures help make children’s books
A. sell better

B. unforgettable

C. more successful

.

D. more original

Question 40. According to the passage, when was the world of children’s literature changed?
A. Before Seuss’s first children’s book hit the market.
B. Before Seuss’s made playful drawings.
C. After Seuss’s first children’s book hit the market.
D. After Seuss’s book became Random House’s best-seller.
Question 41. “Sunshine” is given in the passage as an example of a book that .
A. is very charming

B. is only for children

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C. contains only pictures

D. contains only a few words

Question 42. The word “original” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to .

A. in the first place

B. of the first source

C. imaginary and beautiful

D. new and creative

Question 43. Leo Lionni, Feodor Rojankovsky, and Taro Yashimi are mentioned in the passage to
show that

.

A. there are talented authors in different countries.
B. U.S. publishers attract good artists from other countries.
C. illustrators from other countries want to work for U.S. publishers.
D. illustrators from other countries have different visions to U.S. publishers.
Question 44. What is the main idea of the reading passage?
A. Dr. Seuss was one of the most successful illustrator-authors.
B. Husband-and-wife teams can become successful in producing books.
C. Only wordless and nearly wordless picture books have become popular.
D. Pictures are very important in books for children.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined words.
Question 45: Now I understand why you moved out of that house.
A. I am surprised

B. it frustrates me

C. I am intrigued

D. it makes sense to me

Question 46: After a long lunch hour, business resumes as usual.
A. continues

B. resurfaces

C. delays

D. responds

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 47: I was glum because I couldn't reach my goals.
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A. cheerful

B. sour

C. gloomy

D. blue

Question 48: The merry wedding ceremony took place outdoors. It was beautiful and picturesque!
A. ugly

B. scenic

C. pretty

D. aesthetic

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of
sentence in the following questions.
Question 49. The traffic is so heavy. It will take us at least an hour to get there.
A. Unless the traffic is so heavy, it will take us at least an hour to get there.
B. As the traffic is so heavy, it will take us at least an hour to get there.
C. The traffic was so heavy that it took us an hour to get there.
D. We will spend more than an hour to get there to avoid heavy traffic.
Question 50. There were no poor performances. Moreover that of the Russian dancers was certainly the best.
A. The best performance was the one of the Russians while some of the others were poor.
B. The Russians dancer were well-worth watching but the others weren’t.
C. All the dancers but the Russian performed poorly.
D. They all danced well, but the Russian did the best.

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