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Ho va tên thi sinh:……………………………………………………………………. SBD:…………………………
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 01: This hat does fit my hair. I’ll take it back to the shop.
A. Because this hat does not fit my hair, I’ll take it back to the shop.
B. The hat is so unfit to my hair that I’ll change it at the shop.
C. This hat is not suitable for my hair, so I’ll shop it back.
D. Not finding the hat beautiful on my hair, I’ll exchange it with the shop.
Question 02: Her lecture was so elaborately worded. It was difficult to make it out.
A. We can’t make head nor tail about her elaboratedly-worded lecture.
B. Her lecture was given in an elaborate way and it was difficult to make it out.
C. Her lecture was such an elaborate one, so we can’t make it out.
D. Her lecture was very elaborately worded to make out.
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 03: I think Mike must be soft on Betty - he keeps sending her flowers and cards.
A. easy with
B. lovelorn with
C. abhorent to
D. hard on
Question 04: By this time all the wells had run dry.
A. filled up

B. flooded
C. moistened
D. wetted
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 05: In his first game for Newcastle, Keegan_________ a goal after 58 minutes.
A. gained
B. earned
C. scored
D. won
Question 06: She has a lot of spare time and wants to know how best to_________ it.
A. spend
B. waste
C. save
D. make
Question 07: The manager will reply to all letters_________ are sent to him.
A. when
B. who
C. that
D. if
Question 08: I couldn't decide between the two records, so I bought_________ of them.
A. both
B. each
C. either
D. all
Question 09: It_________ a lot of patience to be a nurse.
A. takes
B. costs
C. uses
D. spends

Question 10: He doesn't_________ to take a holiday this summer.
A. suggest
B. suppose
C. determine
D. plan
Question 11: People still haven't_________ how dangerous pollution can be.
A. minded
B. realised
C. remarked
D. noted
Question 12: After I_________ finished working, I switched off the machine.
A. to have
B. had
C. was
D. have
Question 13: Since he was a boy, one of his_________ has been stamp-collecting.
A. sports
B. cares
C. hobbies
D. professions
Question 14: He hated his job; as a_________ of fact he has now given it up.
A. condition
B. type
C. matter
D. nature
Question 15: Shy people often find it difficult to_________ group discussions.
A. take place in
B. take part in
C. get on with
D. get in touch with

Question 16: How many players are there in_________ water polo team?
A. a
B. an
C. the
D. Ø
Question 17: She's_________ interrupting me while I'm talking.
A. just
B. sometimes
C. always
D. never


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 18: Sorry, Miss. Go easy with the roast beef - I haven't had any yet.
A. Help yourself
B. Eat it slowly C. Do not use too much D. Be careful not to be choked
Question 19: I am skeptical about his chances of winning.
A. extraordinary
B. credulous
C. curious
D. doubtful
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 20: ~ Arthur: “The company I've been working for will close down next month and I've
got to find something else to do.”
~ Boris: “_______________”
A. Well, so much the better.
B. Count me on. I’ll pay for it.
C. No wonder. It’s been flourishing.

D. Oh, dear. Poor you!
Question 21: ~ Arnol: “_______________”
~ Bobby: “Tom promised to pick me up but I can’t reach him on the phone.”
A. Why looking so miserable, Anna?
B. Why not using my iPhone?
C. Are you having a running bowel?
D. What’s the matter with you, Alice?
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 22: We insist on you leaving the meeting before any further outburts take place.
A. leaving
B. further outburts
C. you
D. before
Question 23: After much consideration, the committee decided to leave him find out the truth by
himself.
A. by himself
B. much
C. the
D. him find
Question 24: Whom do you think will be ready on time?
A. Whom
B. on time
C. will
D. you
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 29.
Princess Diana was bom Diana Spencer in 1961 in Norfolk, England. She was the daughter
of an aristocratic family. Her parents (25)________ divorced when she was very young. Then the
Spencer children lived with their father. Diana went to a private girls’ school in Switzerland. She

returned to England and worked as a kindergarten teacher. Soon after, she started to (26)________
Prince Charles, who was a friend of the Spencer family.
Prince Charles and Diana became engaged, and in 1981, they got married. Hundreds of
millions of people around the world watched the wedding on television. They had two sons,
William and Harry. Princess Diana became the most popular member of the royal family.
Wherever she went, (27)________ press photographed her. She was tall, beautiful, and stylish.
Women wanted to look like Princess Diana. She became the most photographed woman in the
world.
By 1992, the marriage had difficulties. Princess Diana and Prince Charles (28)_________. In
1995, Diana gave a famous television interview. She talked about her personal life and why she
was unhappy. The royal family never talked about personal problems. The interview was unusual,
but people liked the princess’s honesty. In 1996, Princess Diana and Prince Charles divorced.
After the divorce, Diana continued her work to help people. She worked with the poor, with
people who had AIDS, and with people who had drug (29)_________. Everyone loved her.
In 1997, Diana had a romance with Dodi al-Fayed, an Egyptian millionaire. One evening
they were in Paris. Photographers followed their car. The car was going very fast, and it crashed.
Diana and Dodi died in the accident. It was August 31, 1997.
Question 25: A. made
B. got
C. set
D. left
Question 26: A. marry
B. date
C. invite
D. know
Question 27: A. one
B. the
C. Ø
D. a
Question 28: A. departed

B. separated
C. left
D. missed
Question 29: A. issues
B. matters
C. affaris
D. problems


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 30 to 36.
NO TIME LIKE THE LAST MINUTE - FAMILY LIFE (by Mary Killen)
As I boarded the train at Paddington Station one night, I was delighted by the unexpected
sight of three friends also boarding. ‘Hurray!’ we cried as we bagged a table for four in the dining
car and settled down to the prospect of a delicious meal and stimulating conversation. But with
about three minutes to departure, I looked through the window to see one of our party wandering
along the platform. 'Where’s Rupert going?’ I asked his wife. ‘Oh, probably going to get a
newspaper or something,’ she shrugged. ‘He likes to give himself these little thrills. He never
actually boards a train until the whistle has actually blown.’ Three agonizing minutes after the
train had started rolling down the tracks, Rupert came gasping back to the table, having just
managed to get into the last carriage and walked all the way through the train.
Our friend Lucy’s husband, John, derives a similar thrill from not arriving at airports at the
stated latest check-in time. ‘Even when we are there,’ says Lucy, he carries on shopping after the
flight is called and says, “Don’t worry”.
Once you have checked in, it’s OK. They always call out your actual name ’Rupert and John’s
penchant for ‘competing’ against time is unfortunately a vice I share. The thrill of ‘just making' a
train is addictive, and what is more depressing than hanging around a railway station or sitting in
a motionless train? With life racing by so quickly, one wants to maximize every moment’s
potential. Yet this is not the whole story. As a child 1 always walked through the school gate at the
exact moment before I would be punished for being late, and experienced the thrill of triumph at

having ‘made it’.
Now, in adult life, I find that each day holds the potential for a whole galaxy of bogus
achievements of this nature. I never start packing for a holiday until an hour before we are due to
set off. I never get my clothes ready for a party until twenty minutes before I have to leave home. I
never send off my tax return until the last post on the day before it is due, even though it requires
a thirty-minute drive to the nearest 7 p.m. collection box, when I could have posted it in my own
village at 3.13 p.m.
Looking back, I realize the habit probably set in during adolescence, when I noted that my
mother was always ready at least half an hour before she went out. On Tuesday nights when she
set off to see friends, she used to be collected by car at 7.30 p.m. From 7 p.m., she would be pacing
the garden. If she was giving a dinner party, she would have the table laid with cutlers the day
before.
Once she even said she could not see a long-lost cousin who wanted to drop in on
December 9th because she would be too busy in the run-up to Christmas’. We like to prove we can
do things better than our parents, and therefore I stupidly window-shop in Oxford Street so that I
have to take a taxi rather than a bus to Paddington Station, and arrive with my heart thumping. I
cut it so fine when going to catch a train that, when I leave from home, I regularly have to finish
getting dressed in the car on the way to the station.
Old habits die hard but I’m beginning to see the advantages that might accrue from being
ready in time. Think how much money I could save on taxis if I took buses in plenty of time
instead. Think how much less panicky I would be at every party if I weren't doing up my buttons
as I walked through the door. Think how much less anxious I would be if only I could be ready on
time. One might even live longer without the stress of constantly competing against time.
With any luck my two little daughters will want to prove that they can do things better than
I can and will take precisely the opposite line, deriving a thrill from being well-prepared, like both
their grandmothers.
[From FAST TRACK TO CAE, Workbook, Pearson, 2002]
Question 30: When the writer saw her friends getting on the train, she__________
A. hoped they would find a table for four. B. was worried that someone was missing.
C. looked forward to a good trip.

D. wondered why they were late.
Question 31: Why did Rupert leave the train?
A. He had changed his mind about the trip.
B. He had forgotten something important.
C. His wife had asked him to get something.
D. It was what he usually did.
Question 32: When thinking about Rupert and John, the writer__________
A. is depressed by their behaviour.
B. is determined to make better use of her time.


C. appreciates why they act as they do. D. realizes the potential dangers of their behaviour.
Question 33: What does the writer hope for her own daughters?
A. They will have better lives than her.
B. They will not follow her example.
C. They will not be influenced by family members.
D. They will trust to luck.
Question 34: The idiom “cut it fine” is closest in meaning to__________
A. arrive in time
B. get on early enough C. waste much time D. allow very little time
Question 35: The writer considers that her mother__________
A. provided a model to react against.
B. was inhospitable to relatives.
C. controlled her own anxiety.
D. set a bad example.
Question 36: The writer considers her ‘achievements’ to be__________
A. childish.
B. a sign of boredom.
C. illusory.
D. worthwhile.

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.
Although the "lie detectors" are being used by governments, police departments, and
businesses that all want guaranteed ways of detecting the truth, the results are not always
accurate. Lie detectors are properly called emotion detectors, for their aim is to measure bodily
changes that contradict what a person says. The polygraph machine records changes in heart rate,
breathing, blood pressure, and the electrical activity of the skin (galvanic skin response, or GSR). In
the first part of the polygraph test, you are electronically connected to the machine and asked a
few neutral questions ("What is your name?", "Where do you live?"). Your physical reactions serve
as the standard (baseline) for evaluating what comes next. Then you are asked a few critical
questions among the neutral ones ("When did you rob the bank?"). The assumption is that if you
are guilty, your body will reveal the truth, even if you try to deny it. Your heart rate, respiration,
and GSR will change abruptly as you respond to the incriminating questions.
That is the theory; but psychologists have found that lie detectors are simply not reliable.
Since most physical changes are the same across all emotions, machines cannot tell whether you
are feeling guilty, angry, nervous, thrilled, or revved up form an exciting day. Innocent people may
be tense and nervous about the whole procedure. They may react physiologically to a certain word
("bank") not because they robbed it, but because they recently bounced a check. In either case the
machine will record a "lie". The reverse mistake is also common. Some practiced liars can lie
without flinching, and others learn to beat the machine by tensing muscles or thinking about an
exciting experience during neutral questions.
Question 37: The word "It" in paragraph 1 refers to__________.
A. the truth
B. the question
C. the assumption D. your body
Question 38: This passage was probably written by a specialist in__________.
A. criminal psychology
B. sociology
C. anthropology
D. mind reading

Question 39: The word "ones" in paragraph 1 refers to__________.
A. standards
B. evaluations
C. reactions
D. questions
Question 40: What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Lie detectors make innocent people nervous
B. How the detectors are used and their reliability
C. Lie detectors distinguish different emotions
D. Physical reaction reveal guilty
Question 41: According to the test, polygraph__________.
A. measure a person's thoughts
B. always reveal the truth about a person
C. make guilty people angry
D. record a person's physical reactions
Question 42: The word "assumption" in paragraph 1 could best be replaced with__________.
A. imagining
B. statement
C. belief
D. faith
Question 43: According to the passage, what kind of questions is asked on the first part of the
polygraph test?
A. unimportant
B. emotional
C. critical
D. incriminating
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 44: A. anchor
B. ancestor

C. anchovy
D. ancient


Question 45: A. crouch

B. shroud

C. through

D. proud

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: I remembered his face when I ran into him, but his name escaped me.
A. When I saw him, he tried to escape.
B. His face seemed unfamiliar to me when I saw him.
C. As soon as I saw him, I remembered his name.
D. When I saw him, I couldn’t recall his name.
Question 47: Being an attentive listener during the lectures will enable you to understand them
easily.
A. If you listened more carefully during the lectures, you wouldn’t find them too difficult to
understand.
B. You won’t have any difficulty understanding the lectures if you listen to them carefully.
C. Since you do not attend the lectures regularly, you will always find them difficult to
understand.
D. Only by listening to the lectures carefully will you be able to understand them.
Question 48: Unfortunately, I didn't remember to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way
home. A. I really don’t remember telling him to collect the kid at the crèche on his way home.
B. I was going to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home, but

unfortunately, I forgot.
C. Regrettably, I forgot to remind him to collect the kid at the crèche as be was coming
home.
D. I tried not to forget to tell him that he should pick up the kid at the crèche as he was
coming home.
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 49: A. contents
B. continue
C. continent
D. constancy
Question 50: A. mature
B. machine
C. majority
D. majesty
________THE END_______
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đề

Ho va tên thi sinh:……………………………………………………………………. SBD:…………………………
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 01: This hat does fit my hair. I’ll take it back to the shop.
A. Because this hat does not fit my hair, I’ll take it back to the shop.

B. The hat is so unfit to my hair that I’ll change it at the shop.
C. This hat is not suitable for my hair, so I’ll shop it back.
D. Not finding the hat beautiful on my hair, I’ll exchange it with the shop.
Question 02: Her lecture was so elaborately worded. It was difficult to make it out.
A. We can’t make head nor tail about her elaboratedly-worded lecture.
B. Her lecture was given in an elaborate way and it was difficult to make it out.
C. Her lecture was such an elaborate one, so we can’t make it out.
D. Her lecture was very elaborately worded to make out.
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 03: I think Mike must be soft on Betty - he keeps sending her flowers and cards.
A. easy with
B. lovelorn with
C. abhorent to
D. hard on


Question 04: By this time all the wells had run dry.
A. filled up
B. flooded

C. moistened

D. wetted

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 05: In his first game for Newcastle, Keegan_________ a goal after 58 minutes.
A. gained
B. earned

C. scored
D. won
Question 06: She has a lot of spare time and wants to know how best to_________ it.
A. spend
B. waste
C. save
D. make
Question 07: The manager will reply to all letters_________ are sent to him.
A. when
B. who
C. that
D. if
Question 08: I couldn't decide between the two records, so I bought_________ of them.
A. both
B. each
C. either
D. all
Question 09: It_________ a lot of patience to be a nurse.
A. takes
B. costs
C. uses
D. spends
Question 10: He doesn't_________ to take a holiday this summer.
A. suggest
B. suppose
C. determine
D. plan
Question 11: People still haven't_________ how dangerous pollution can be.
A. minded
B. realised

C. remarked
D. noted
Question 12: After I_________ finished working, I switched off the machine.
A. to have
B. had
C. was
D. have
Question 13: Since he was a boy, one of his_________ has been stamp-collecting.
A. sports
B. cares
C. hobbies
D. professions
Question 14: He hated his job; as a_________ of fact he has now given it up.
A. condition
B. type
C. matter
D. nature
Question 15: Shy people often find it difficult to_________ group discussions.
A. take place in
B. take part in
C. get on with
D. get in touch with
Question 16: How many players are there in_________ water polo team?
A. a
B. an
C. the
D. Ø
Question 17: She's_________ interrupting me while I'm talking.
A. just
B. sometimes

C. always
D. never
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 18: Sorry, Miss. Go easy with the roast beef - I haven't had any yet.
A. Help yourself
B. Eat it slowly C. Do not use too much D. Be careful not to be choked
Question 19: I am skeptical about his chances of winning.
A. extraordinary
B. credulous
C. curious
D. doubtful
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 20: ~ Arthur: “The company I've been working for will close down next month and I've
got to find something else to do.”
~ Boris: “_______________”
A. Well, so much the better.
B. Count me on. I’ll pay for it.
C. No wonder. It’s been flourishing.
D. Oh, dear. Poor you!
Question 21: ~ Arnol: “_______________”
~ Bobby: “Tom promised to pick me up but I can’t reach him on the phone.”
A. Why looking so miserable, Anna?
B. Why not using my iPhone?
C. Are you having a running bowel?
D. What’s the matter with you, Alice?
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 22: We insist on you leaving the meeting before any further outburts take place.

A. leaving
B. further outburts
C. you
D. before
Question 23: After much consideration, the committee decided to leave him find out the truth by
himself.


A. by himself
B. much
C. the
Question 24: Whom do you think will be ready on time?
A. Whom
B. on time
C. will

D. him find
D. you

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 29.
Princess Diana was bom Diana Spencer in 1961 in Norfolk, England. She was the daughter
of an aristocratic family. Her parents (25)________ divorced when she was very young. Then the
Spencer children lived with their father. Diana went to a private girls’ school in Switzerland. She
returned to England and worked as a kindergarten teacher. Soon after, she started to (26)________
Prince Charles, who was a friend of the Spencer family.
Prince Charles and Diana became engaged, and in 1981, they got married. Hundreds of
millions of people around the world watched the wedding on television. They had two sons,
William and Harry. Princess Diana became the most popular member of the royal family.
Wherever she went, (27)________ press photographed her. She was tall, beautiful, and stylish.

Women wanted to look like Princess Diana. She became the most photographed woman in the
world.
By 1992, the marriage had difficulties. Princess Diana and Prince Charles (28)_________. In
1995, Diana gave a famous television interview. She talked about her personal life and why she
was unhappy. The royal family never talked about personal problems. The interview was unusual,
but people liked the princess’s honesty. In 1996, Princess Diana and Prince Charles divorced.
After the divorce, Diana continued her work to help people. She worked with the poor, with
people who had AIDS, and with people who had drug (29)_________. Everyone loved her.
In 1997, Diana had a romance with Dodi al-Fayed, an Egyptian millionaire. One evening
they were in Paris. Photographers followed their car. The car was going very fast, and it crashed.
Diana and Dodi died in the accident. It was August 31, 1997.
Question 25: A. made
B. got
C. set
D. left
Question 26: A. marry
B. date
C. invite
D. know
Question 27: A. one
B. the
C. Ø
D. a
Question 28: A. departed
B. separated
C. left
D. missed
Question 29: A. issues
B. matters
C. affaris

D. problems
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 30 to 36.
NO TIME LIKE THE LAST MINUTE - FAMILY LIFE (by Mary Killen)
As I boarded the train at Paddington Station one night, I was delighted by the unexpected
sight of three friends also boarding. ‘Hurray!’ we cried as we bagged a table for four in the dining
car and settled down to the prospect of a delicious meal and stimulating conversation. But with
about three minutes to departure, I looked through the window to see one of our party wandering
along the platform. 'Where’s Rupert going?’ I asked his wife. ‘Oh, probably going to get a
newspaper or something,’ she shrugged. ‘He likes to give himself these little thrills. He never
actually boards a train until the whistle has actually blown.’ Three agonizing minutes after the
train had started rolling down the tracks, Rupert came gasping back to the table, having just
managed to get into the last carriage and walked all the way through the train.
Our friend Lucy’s husband, John, derives a similar thrill from not arriving at airports at the
stated latest check-in time. ‘Even when we are there,’ says Lucy, he carries on shopping after the
flight is called and says, “Don’t worry”.
Once you have checked in, it’s OK. They always call out your actual name ’Rupert and John’s
penchant for ‘competing’ against time is unfortunately a vice I share. The thrill of ‘just making' a
train is addictive, and what is more depressing than hanging around a railway station or sitting in
a motionless train? With life racing by so quickly, one wants to maximize every moment’s
potential. Yet this is not the whole story. As a child 1 always walked through the school gate at the
exact moment before I would be punished for being late, and experienced the thrill of triumph at
having ‘made it’.
Now, in adult life, I find that each day holds the potential for a whole galaxy of bogus
achievements of this nature. I never start packing for a holiday until an hour before we are due to


set off. I never get my clothes ready for a party until twenty minutes before I have to leave home. I
never send off my tax return until the last post on the day before it is due, even though it requires
a thirty-minute drive to the nearest 7 p.m. collection box, when I could have posted it in my own

village at 3.13 p.m.
Looking back, I realize the habit probably set in during adolescence, when I noted that my
mother was always ready at least half an hour before she went out. On Tuesday nights when she
set off to see friends, she used to be collected by car at 7.30 p.m. From 7 p.m., she would be pacing
the garden. If she was giving a dinner party, she would have the table laid with cutlers the day
before.
Once she even said she could not see a long-lost cousin who wanted to drop in on
December 9th because she would be too busy in the run-up to Christmas’. We like to prove we can
do things better than our parents, and therefore I stupidly window-shop in Oxford Street so that I
have to take a taxi rather than a bus to Paddington Station, and arrive with my heart thumping. I
cut it so fine when going to catch a train that, when I leave from home, I regularly have to finish
getting dressed in the car on the way to the station.
Old habits die hard but I’m beginning to see the advantages that might accrue from being
ready in time. Think how much money I could save on taxis if I took buses in plenty of time
instead. Think how much less panicky I would be at every party if I weren't doing up my buttons
as I walked through the door. Think how much less anxious I would be if only I could be ready on
time. One might even live longer without the stress of constantly competing against time.
With any luck my two little daughters will want to prove that they can do things better than
I can and will take precisely the opposite line, deriving a thrill from being well-prepared, like both
their grandmothers.
[From FAST TRACK TO CAE, Workbook, Pearson, 2002]
Question 30: When the writer saw her friends getting on the train, she__________
A. hoped they would find a table for four. B. was worried that someone was missing.
C. looked forward to a good trip.
D. wondered why they were late.
Question 31: Why did Rupert leave the train?
A. He had changed his mind about the trip.
B. He had forgotten something important.
C. His wife had asked him to get something.
D. It was what he usually did.

Question 32: When thinking about Rupert and John, the writer__________
A. is depressed by their behaviour.
B. is determined to make better use of her time.
C. appreciates why they act as they do. D. realizes the potential dangers of their behaviour.
Question 33: What does the writer hope for her own daughters?
A. They will have better lives than her.
B. They will not follow her example.
C. They will not be influenced by family members.
D. They will trust to luck.
Question 34: The idiom “cut it fine” is closest in meaning to__________
A. arrive in time
B. get on early enough C. waste much time D. allow very little time
Question 35: The writer considers that her mother__________
A. provided a model to react against.
B. was inhospitable to relatives.
C. controlled her own anxiety.
D. set a bad example.
Question 36: The writer considers her ‘achievements’ to be__________
A. childish.
B. a sign of boredom.
C. illusory.
D. worthwhile.
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.
Although the "lie detectors" are being used by governments, police departments, and
businesses that all want guaranteed ways of detecting the truth, the results are not always
accurate. Lie detectors are properly called emotion detectors, for their aim is to measure bodily
changes that contradict what a person says. The polygraph machine records changes in heart rate,
breathing, blood pressure, and the electrical activity of the skin (galvanic skin response, or GSR). In
the first part of the polygraph test, you are electronically connected to the machine and asked a

few neutral questions ("What is your name?", "Where do you live?"). Your physical reactions serve
as the standard (baseline) for evaluating what comes next. Then you are asked a few critical
questions among the neutral ones ("When did you rob the bank?"). The assumption is that if you


are guilty, your body will reveal the truth, even if you try to deny it. Your heart rate, respiration,
and GSR will change abruptly as you respond to the incriminating questions.
That is the theory; but psychologists have found that lie detectors are simply not reliable.
Since most physical changes are the same across all emotions, machines cannot tell whether you
are feeling guilty, angry, nervous, thrilled, or revved up form an exciting day. Innocent people may
be tense and nervous about the whole procedure. They may react physiologically to a certain word
("bank") not because they robbed it, but because they recently bounced a check. In either case the
machine will record a "lie". The reverse mistake is also common. Some practiced liars can lie
without flinching, and others learn to beat the machine by tensing muscles or thinking about an
exciting experience during neutral questions.
Question 37: The word "It" in paragraph 1 refers to__________.
A. the truth
B. the question
C. the assumption D. your body
Question 38: This passage was probably written by a specialist in__________.
A. criminal psychology
B. sociology
C. anthropology
D. mind reading
Question 39: The word "ones" in paragraph 1 refers to__________.
A. standards
B. evaluations
C. reactions
D. questions
Question 40: What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Lie detectors make innocent people nervous
B. How the detectors are used and their reliability
C. Lie detectors distinguish different emotions
D. Physical reaction reveal guilty
Question 41: According to the test, polygraph__________.
A. measure a person's thoughts
B. always reveal the truth about a person
C. make guilty people angry
D. record a person's physical reactions
Question 42: The word "assumption" in paragraph 1 could best be replaced with__________.
A. imagining
B. statement
C. belief
D. faith
Question 43: According to the passage, what kind of questions is asked on the first part of the
polygraph test?
A. unimportant
B. emotional
C. critical
D. incriminating
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 44: A. anchor
B. ancestor
C. anchovy
D. ancient
Question 45: A. crouch
B. shroud
C. through
D. proud

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: I remembered his face when I ran into him, but his name escaped me.
A. When I saw him, he tried to escape.
B. His face seemed unfamiliar to me when I saw him.
C. As soon as I saw him, I remembered his name.
D. When I saw him, I couldn’t recall his name.
Question 47: Being an attentive listener during the lectures will enable you to understand them
easily.
A. If you listened more carefully during the lectures, you wouldn’t find them too difficult to
understand.
B. You won’t have any difficulty understanding the lectures if you listen to them carefully.
C. Since you do not attend the lectures regularly, you will always find them difficult to
understand.
D. Only by listening to the lectures carefully will you be able to understand them.
Question 48: Unfortunately, I didn't remember to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way
home. A. I really don’t remember telling him to collect the kid at the crèche on his way home.
B. I was going to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home, but
unfortunately, I forgot.
C. Regrettably, I forgot to remind him to collect the kid at the crèche as be was coming
home.


D. I tried not to forget to tell him that he should pick up the kid at the crèche as he was
coming home.
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 49: A. contents
B. continue
C. continent

D. constancy
Question 50: A. mature
B. machine
C. majority
D. majesty
________THE END_______