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Ho va tên thi sinh:……………………………………………………………………. SBD:…………………………
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other
three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 01: A. prepared
B. organized
C. impressed
D. involved
Question 02: A. surround
B. source
C. account
D. plough
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the
position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 03: A. risky
B. conserve
C. liquid
D. forest
Question 04: A. certificate
B. apartment
C. individual
D. biology
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of

the following questions.
Question 05: Sugars like glucose is made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms.
A. like
B. is
C. made
D. up of
Question 06: A 1971 U.S. government policy not only put warnings on cigarette packs but also
banning television advertising of cigarettes.
A. government
B. packs
C. banning
D. advertising
Question 07: Most of the Earth's ice is found either in the two great ice caps of Antarctica and
Greenland and on the tall mountains of the world.
A. Most
B. found
C. caps
D. and
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 08: I________ Tom with me if I had known you and he didn’t get along well with each other.
A. didn't bring
B. won't bring
C. hadn't brought
D. wouldn't have brought
Question 09: This project________ by the end of this month.
A. will have been finished B. will be finishing C. will finished D. will have finished
Question 10: Let’s do something to protect the environment, ________ we?
A. needn’t
B. must

C. shall
D. will
Question 11: We are having our wedding invitations________ in London
A. to print
B. print
C. printed
D. printing
Question 12: He________ the plants. If he had, they wouldn't have died.
A. needn't have watered
B. can't have watered C. shouldn't water D. couldn't water
Question 13: Henry has come in his raincoat and boots, ________ for rain.
A. preparing
B. to prepare
C. prepares
D. prepared
Question 14: Her first novel has been________ acclaimed as a masterpiece.
A. nation
B. national
C. international
D. internationally
Question 15: The audience showed their________ by giving the world-famous orchestra a big round
of applause.
A. intention
B. admiration
C. consideration
D. sympathy
Question 16: People have used coal and oil to ________ electricity for a long time.
A. cultivate
B. breed
C. raise

D. generate
Question 17: As the clouds drifted away, the pattern of the fields was clearly________ from a height.
A. apparent
B. visible
C. foreseeable
D. evident
Question 18: The manager________ his temper with the employees and shouted at them.
A. had
B. lost
C. took
D. kept
Question 19: The teacher asked a difficult question, but finally Ted________ a good answer.
A. keep pace with
B. put up with
C. came up with
D. made way for


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 20: One of the main goals of WHO is conducting research on medical development and
health care.
A. going by
B. giving away
C. carrying out
D. looking up
Question 21: Because their birthdays occurred in the same month, they shared a birthday party
A. celebrated
B. spared
C. merited

D.experienced together
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 22: Researchers have discovered that elephants are most extraordinary creatures with
habits unlike those of any other animal.
A. unusual
B. dangerous
C. normal
D. special
Question 23: This product is hazardous to the eyes and should be kept out of reach of children.
A. dangerous
B. useful
C. safe
D. interesting
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the
following exchanges.
Question 24: Joyce and Bill are talking about pets.
~ Joyce: "Oh! What a beautiful cat. What do you think?"
~ Alice: "___________. Dogs are more loyal than cats."
A. That’s right
B. I think I’d rather get a dog.
C. I can’t agree with you more
D. Thank you. That’s really encouraging
Question 25: Shannon and Elena are talking about the dancing show they have just watched.
~Shannon: "What a fantastic performance! Thank you for inviting me to the musical."
~ Elena: "_________ I’m happy you enjoyed the show.”
A. You are welcome.
B. Thanks. That’s why I didn’t like
dancing
C. Are you kidding

D. No way
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
Shopping centres have become a (26)_______ more than just places to shop and look for
bargains. They are places of entertainment where people meet and have fun. Some modern
shopping centres are so big they can takes days to (27)_______ properly. For example, the Cehavir
Shopping and Entertaiment Centre in Istanbul covers 420,000 square metres and is considered to
be the largest shopping centre in Europe. It has around 350 shops and 50 restaurants to choose
from. And if you fancy (28)______ your friends in the evening, there are 12 cinemas, a bowling alley
and even a roller coaster ride.
Another huge shopping centre is the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai. As (29)_______ as around
700 shops and restaurants, you can go to Magic Planet, which is a mini theme park, or watch a film
in one of the fourteen cinemas. And if that isn’t enough , (30)_______ about visiting Ski-Dubai, the
world-famous indoor ski slope? Some people want to have a more cultural experience. This is easy
at the Mall of the Emirates. There is a Commumity Theatre ans Arts Centre on the second floor of
the building with a theatre, art galleries, a music school and a library.
(Source: Pre-intermediate Solutions by Tim Falla and Paul A Davies)
Question 26: A. much
B. lot
C. few
D. many
Question 27: A. invent
B. explore
C. find
D. search
Question 28: A. meet
B. to be met
C. to meet
D. meeting
Question 29: A. soon

B. long
C. well
D. good
Question 30: A. how
B. where
C. when
D. which
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 31: "You should have finished the report by now," John told his secretary.
A. John reminded his secretary of finishing the report on time.


B. John said that his secretary had not finished the report.
C. John scolded his secretary for not having finished the report.
D. John reproached his secretary for not having finished the report
Question 32: Without my tutor’s help, I couldn’t have made such a good speech.
A. Had my tutor not helped me, I couldn’t make such a good speech.
B. If my tutor didn’t help me, I couldn’t make such a good speech.
C. If it hadn’t been for my tutor’s help, I couldn’t have made such a good speech.
D. If my tutor hadn’t helped me, I could have made such a good speech.
Question 33: It is acknowledged that Vietnam had a complete control over SARS from a very early
stage of the epidemic.
A. Vietnam is acknowledged to have a complete control over SARS from a very early stage
of the epidemic.
B. Vietnam is acknowledged to have completely controlled SARS from a very early stage of
the epidemic.
C. Vietnam is acknowledged to have controlled SARS from a very early stage of the
epidemic.
D. Vietnam was acknowledged to have had a complete control over SARS from a very early

stage of the epidemic.
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 34: We arrived at the conference. We realized our reports were still at home.
A. Not until we arrived at the conference, did we realize that our reports were still at home
B. We arrived at the conference and realized that our reports are still at home.
C. Not until had we arrived at the conference, we realized our reports were still at home.
D. It was until we arrived at the conference that we realize our reports were still at home.
Question 35: Henry tasted the pleasures of modern city life. Then he found life in his village hard and
unattractive.
A. Having tasted the pleasures of modern city life, Henry found life in his village hard and
unattractive.
B. After Henry found life in his village hard and unattractive, he tasted the pleasures of
modern city life.
C. If Henry had tasted the pleasures of modern city life, he would have found life in his
village hard and unattractive.
D. Although Henry tasted the pleasures of modern city life, he found life in his village hard
and unattractive.
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
The iPhone was released in 2007. E-books reached the mainstream in the late 1990s.
Printed books have been around since the 1450s. But how did writing move around before then?
After all, a book - electronic or not - is simply a mechanism for making written information
portable. And our ancestors were as eager to take their reading on the go as we are. Here are some
ways that people used to record information and carry it around.
In Mesopotamia, in the 3rd millennium BCE, various ancient peoples began scribbling on
small tablets that were several inches long. Scribes used a stylus to make marks on wet clay
tablets, which were then dried outside or baked so as to make them long-lasting. Some
particularly important texts ran across multiple tablets. The type of writing used by these scribes
was cuneiform, and it sustained the production of these tablets for some 2,000 years.

The Chinese also created tablets that were made from bamboo or wood and were lashed
together with the equivalent of rope. Records suggest that these may have emerged by 1300 BCE,
if not before, but many simply rotted away or otherwise decayed. The emperor Shihuangdi also
didn’t help in 213 BCE when he ordered that most books not in his possession be burned. During
roughly the same time, the Chinese also created scrolls made of silk, though these scrolls were not
always rolled into a cylindrical form; some of the documents written on silk that were found, for
example, at Mawangdui, an archaeological site in southeastern China that dates to the 2nd century


BCE, were found folded into rectangles. The texts on these tablets and scrolls covered a wide
range of topics, from medicine to poetry to philosophy.
Wax tablets were a riff on the ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets, courtesy of the ancient
Greeks and Romans. Clay tablets could be awkward to work with; papyrus could be a pain to
prepare and store. But filling a wooden block with hot wax that, after it cooled, provided a smooth
soft writing surface? Simple. And cheap too. Permanence was a bit of a problem, but it was also an
advantage: the wax could be remelted or scraped smooth, and the tablet was ready for use again.
The Greeks and the Romans, and medieval Europeans after them, used these tablets for some
important legal documentation, but their primary advantage was flexibility—very much like a
paper (or electronic) tablet today.
(Source:
)
Question 36: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Ways people sent their information to others
B. Different kinds of ancient people’s books
C. Tablet as the most important material in making e-books.
D. Ways people Took Their Reading on the Go
Question 37: According paragraph 1, a book is simply defined as________.
A. a system for making written information transportable
B. an electronic mechanism for making written information portable
C. a mechanism for recording important information long-lasting

D. a way of recording information.
Question 38: The word “them” in paragraph 2 refers to________.
A. ancient peoples B. scribes
C. clay tablets
D. important texts
Question 39: The word “emerged” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to________.
A. appeared
B. invented
C. discovered
D. found
Question 40: According the passage, Chinese people________.
A. created bamboo tablets and silk scrolls almost simultaneously
B. created bamboo tablets before they used silk scrolls
C. created silk scrolls very roughly before they used bamboo tablets
D. didn’t use silk scrolls until they created bamboo tablets
Question 41: The word “roughly” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to________.
A. violently
B. harshly
C. approximately
D. severely
Question 42: Which of the following material is considerably similar to a paper people write on
today?
A. clay tablets
B. bamboo tablets
C. wood tablets
D. wax tablets
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
Non-verbal communication is a wordless form of communication. It is mainly a silent form
of communication that does not involve speech or words. Non-verbal communication is done

through eye contact, hand movement, touch, facial expressions, bodily postures and non-lexical
components, etc. At times, silence is said to the best form of non-verbal communication.
One example of non-verbal communication is dancing. When we dance, we can express so
many different emotions. From passion to religious devotion, dancing either alone, with another
person as part of a couple or in a synchronized group, can communicate so much. Dancing is
something that many of us engage in from childhood and it becomes an important way of
socializing and expressing ourselves at the same time.
Body language including bodily movement and postures is a language all of its own. Our
posture, and the way that we lean forward or back or cross or uncross our legs can speak volumes
about us. Very often, we are not even aware that we are communication our thoughts via our body
language. That is the reason why, in job interviews and other situations in which we are under
scrutiny, it is a good idea to pay attention to our body language. For example, leaning forward can
be a sign of positivity, whilst sitting with our arms folded can make us look closed off – as if we
have something to hide.
What we wear can often communicate things. For example, if we dress up in academic
robes, it is clear that we want to communicate to everyone who sees us that we have attained a


certain level of academic achievement. We should never judge people by what they wear –
however, some types of official garments (such as a judge’s wig, a scholar’s gown or a soldier’s
medal) are designed to communicate something about the wearer.
Silence is also a type of non-verbal communication. Sometimes, staying silent can
communicate much more than words can. Silence can be powerful, sad, happy or it can simply
communicate to other people that we do not want to engage with them. Good communicators are
able to listen, and to use comfortable silences, to connect with other people. There is no need to
think that communication is all about words!
Effective communication, as is abundantly clear from the discussion above, involves not
just listening to other people’s words and expressing ourselves in words. It also means picking up
on other people’s non-verbal cues. Why not go through the list above and think about which forms
of non-verbal communication you are adept at understanding. Are there any ways in which you

might improve your non-verbal communication skills? We could all benefit from a little
improvement in this area, as it enables us to enjoy deeper and more meaningful connections with
other people.
(Source: )
Question 43: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Some types of wordless form of communication
B. Some types of effective form of communication
C. Communication and its effective forms.
D. Non-verbal communication and its benefits
Question 44: The word “engage” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to________.
A. attract
B. participate
C. occupy
D. employ
Question 45: The word “them” in paragraph 5 refers to________.
A. words
B. silences
C. good communicators
D. other people
Question 46: Which of the following is considered as a positive sign of body language at a job
interview?
A. uncrossing legs
B. paying attention to volumes
C. leaning forward
D. sitting with folded arms
Question 47: Which of the following is NOT mentioned as types of official clothes?
A. a judge’s wig
B. a scholar’s dress
C. a trooper’s medal D. a doll’s gown
Question 48: Which of the following statement is TRUE about silence according to paragraph 5?

A. Silent communication is always much more effective than speech.
B. Silence can have more than one meaning.
C. Silence is one of the ways people use to communicate to others.
D. Good communicators are able to use comfortable silences to contact with other people.
Question 49: The word “picking up on” in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to________.
A. understanding
B. giving attention to
C. improving
D. increasing
Question 50: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Body language is the most useful form of communication.
B. When people can not speak, they can use non-verbal communication.
C. It’s impossible to think that communication is all about words.
D. Communication is done through not only words but also non-verbal cues.
______THE END______
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đề

Ho va tên thi sinh:……………………………………………………………………. SBD:…………………………
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other
three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.


Question 01: A. prepared

Question 02: A. surround

B. organized
B. source

C. impressed
C. account

D. involved
D. plough

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the
position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 03: A. risky
B. conserve
C. liquid
D. forest
Question 04: A. certificate
B. apartment
C. individual
D. biology
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of
the following questions.
Question 05: Sugars like glucose is made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms.
A. like
B. is
C. made
D. up of
Question 06: A 1971 U.S. government policy not only put warnings on cigarette packs but also
banning television advertising of cigarettes.

A. government
B. packs
C. banning
D. advertising
Question 07: Most of the Earth's ice is found either in the two great ice caps of Antarctica and
Greenland and on the tall mountains of the world.
A. Most
B. found
C. caps
D. and
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 08: I________ Tom with me if I had known you and he didn’t get along well with each other.
A. didn't bring
B. won't bring
C. hadn't brought
D. wouldn't have brought
Question 09: This project________ by the end of this month.
A. will have been finished B. will be finishing C. will finished D. will have finished
Question 10: Let’s do something to protect the environment, ________ we?
A. needn’t
B. must
C. shall
D. will
Question 11: We are having our wedding invitations________ in London
A. to print
B. print
C. printed
D. printing
Question 12: He________ the plants. If he had, they wouldn't have died.

A. needn't have watered
B. can't have watered C. shouldn't water D. couldn't water
Question 13: Henry has come in his raincoat and boots, ________ for rain.
A. preparing
B. to prepare
C. prepares
D. prepared
Question 14: Her first novel has been________ acclaimed as a masterpiece.
A. nation
B. national
C. international
D. internationally
Question 15: The audience showed their________ by giving the world-famous orchestra a big round
of applause.
A. intention
B. admiration
C. consideration
D. sympathy
Question 16: People have used coal and oil to ________ electricity for a long time.
A. cultivate
B. breed
C. raise
D. generate
Question 17: As the clouds drifted away, the pattern of the fields was clearly________ from a height.
A. apparent
B. visible
C. foreseeable
D. evident
Question 18: The manager________ his temper with the employees and shouted at them.
A. had

B. lost
C. took
D. kept
Question 19: The teacher asked a difficult question, but finally Ted________ a good answer.
A. keep pace with
B. put up with
C. came up with
D. made way for
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 20: One of the main goals of WHO is conducting research on medical development and
health care.
A. going by
B. giving away
C. carrying out
D. looking up
Question 21: Because their birthdays occurred in the same month, they shared a birthday party
A. celebrated
B. spared
C. merited
D.experienced together
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined part in each of the following questions.


Question 22: Researchers have discovered that elephants are most extraordinary creatures with
habits unlike those of any other animal.
A. unusual
B. dangerous
C. normal

D. special
Question 23: This product is hazardous to the eyes and should be kept out of reach of children.
A. dangerous
B. useful
C. safe
D. interesting
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the
following exchanges.
Question 24: Joyce and Bill are talking about pets.
~ Joyce: "Oh! What a beautiful cat. What do you think?"
~ Alice: "___________. Dogs are more loyal than cats."
A. That’s right
B. I think I’d rather get a dog.
C. I can’t agree with you more
D. Thank you. That’s really encouraging
Question 25: Shannon and Elena are talking about the dancing show they have just watched.
~Shannon: "What a fantastic performance! Thank you for inviting me to the musical."
~ Elena: "_________ I’m happy you enjoyed the show.”
A. You are welcome.
B. Thanks. That’s why I didn’t like
dancing
C. Are you kidding
D. No way
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
Shopping centres have become a (26)_______ more than just places to shop and look for
bargains. They are places of entertainment where people meet and have fun. Some modern
shopping centres are so big they can takes days to (27)_______ properly. For example, the Cehavir
Shopping and Entertaiment Centre in Istanbul covers 420,000 square metres and is considered to
be the largest shopping centre in Europe. It has around 350 shops and 50 restaurants to choose

from. And if you fancy (28)______ your friends in the evening, there are 12 cinemas, a bowling alley
and even a roller coaster ride.
Another huge shopping centre is the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai. As (29)_______ as around
700 shops and restaurants, you can go to Magic Planet, which is a mini theme park, or watch a film
in one of the fourteen cinemas. And if that isn’t enough , (30)_______ about visiting Ski-Dubai, the
world-famous indoor ski slope? Some people want to have a more cultural experience. This is easy
at the Mall of the Emirates. There is a Commumity Theatre ans Arts Centre on the second floor of
the building with a theatre, art galleries, a music school and a library.
(Source: Pre-intermediate Solutions by Tim Falla and Paul A Davies)
Question 26: A. much
B. lot
C. few
D. many
Question 27: A. invent
B. explore
C. find
D. search
Question 28: A. meet
B. to be met
C. to meet
D. meeting
Question 29: A. soon
B. long
C. well
D. good
Question 30: A. how
B. where
C. when
D. which
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 31: "You should have finished the report by now," John told his secretary.
A. John reminded his secretary of finishing the report on time.
B. John said that his secretary had not finished the report.
C. John scolded his secretary for not having finished the report.
D. John reproached his secretary for not having finished the report
Question 32: Without my tutor’s help, I couldn’t have made such a good speech.
A. Had my tutor not helped me, I couldn’t make such a good speech.
B. If my tutor didn’t help me, I couldn’t make such a good speech.
C. If it hadn’t been for my tutor’s help, I couldn’t have made such a good speech.
D. If my tutor hadn’t helped me, I could have made such a good speech.
Question 33: It is acknowledged that Vietnam had a complete control over SARS from a very early
stage of the epidemic.


A. Vietnam is acknowledged to have a complete control over SARS from a very early stage
of the epidemic.
B. Vietnam is acknowledged to have completely controlled SARS from a very early stage of
the epidemic.
C. Vietnam is acknowledged to have controlled SARS from a very early stage of the
epidemic.
D. Vietnam was acknowledged to have had a complete control over SARS from a very early
stage of the epidemic.
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 34: We arrived at the conference. We realized our reports were still at home.
A. Not until we arrived at the conference, did we realize that our reports were still at home
B. We arrived at the conference and realized that our reports are still at home.
C. Not until had we arrived at the conference, we realized our reports were still at home.
D. It was until we arrived at the conference that we realize our reports were still at home.

Question 35: Henry tasted the pleasures of modern city life. Then he found life in his village hard and
unattractive.
A. Having tasted the pleasures of modern city life, Henry found life in his village hard and
unattractive.
B. After Henry found life in his village hard and unattractive, he tasted the pleasures of
modern city life.
C. If Henry had tasted the pleasures of modern city life, he would have found life in his
village hard and unattractive.
D. Although Henry tasted the pleasures of modern city life, he found life in his village hard
and unattractive.
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
The iPhone was released in 2007. E-books reached the mainstream in the late 1990s.
Printed books have been around since the 1450s. But how did writing move around before then?
After all, a book - electronic or not - is simply a mechanism for making written information
portable. And our ancestors were as eager to take their reading on the go as we are. Here are some
ways that people used to record information and carry it around.
In Mesopotamia, in the 3rd millennium BCE, various ancient peoples began scribbling on
small tablets that were several inches long. Scribes used a stylus to make marks on wet clay
tablets, which were then dried outside or baked so as to make them long-lasting. Some
particularly important texts ran across multiple tablets. The type of writing used by these scribes
was cuneiform, and it sustained the production of these tablets for some 2,000 years.
The Chinese also created tablets that were made from bamboo or wood and were lashed
together with the equivalent of rope. Records suggest that these may have emerged by 1300 BCE,
if not before, but many simply rotted away or otherwise decayed. The emperor Shihuangdi also
didn’t help in 213 BCE when he ordered that most books not in his possession be burned. During
roughly the same time, the Chinese also created scrolls made of silk, though these scrolls were not
always rolled into a cylindrical form; some of the documents written on silk that were found, for
example, at Mawangdui, an archaeological site in southeastern China that dates to the 2nd century
BCE, were found folded into rectangles. The texts on these tablets and scrolls covered a wide

range of topics, from medicine to poetry to philosophy.
Wax tablets were a riff on the ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets, courtesy of the ancient
Greeks and Romans. Clay tablets could be awkward to work with; papyrus could be a pain to
prepare and store. But filling a wooden block with hot wax that, after it cooled, provided a smooth
soft writing surface? Simple. And cheap too. Permanence was a bit of a problem, but it was also an
advantage: the wax could be remelted or scraped smooth, and the tablet was ready for use again.
The Greeks and the Romans, and medieval Europeans after them, used these tablets for some
important legal documentation, but their primary advantage was flexibility—very much like a


paper (or electronic) tablet today.
(Source:
)
Question 36: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Ways people sent their information to others
B. Different kinds of ancient people’s books
C. Tablet as the most important material in making e-books.
D. Ways people Took Their Reading on the Go
Question 37: According paragraph 1, a book is simply defined as________.
A. a system for making written information transportable
B. an electronic mechanism for making written information portable
C. a mechanism for recording important information long-lasting
D. a way of recording information.
Question 38: The word “them” in paragraph 2 refers to________.
A. ancient peoples B. scribes
C. clay tablets
D. important texts
Question 39: The word “emerged” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to________.
A. appeared
B. invented

C. discovered
D. found
Question 40: According the passage, Chinese people________.
A. created bamboo tablets and silk scrolls almost simultaneously
B. created bamboo tablets before they used silk scrolls
C. created silk scrolls very roughly before they used bamboo tablets
D. didn’t use silk scrolls until they created bamboo tablets
Question 41: The word “roughly” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to________.
A. violently
B. harshly
C. approximately
D. severely
Question 42: Which of the following material is considerably similar to a paper people write on
today?
A. clay tablets
B. bamboo tablets
C. wood tablets
D. wax tablets
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
Non-verbal communication is a wordless form of communication. It is mainly a silent form
of communication that does not involve speech or words. Non-verbal communication is done
through eye contact, hand movement, touch, facial expressions, bodily postures and non-lexical
components, etc. At times, silence is said to the best form of non-verbal communication.
One example of non-verbal communication is dancing. When we dance, we can express so
many different emotions. From passion to religious devotion, dancing either alone, with another
person as part of a couple or in a synchronized group, can communicate so much. Dancing is
something that many of us engage in from childhood and it becomes an important way of
socializing and expressing ourselves at the same time.
Body language including bodily movement and postures is a language all of its own. Our

posture, and the way that we lean forward or back or cross or uncross our legs can speak volumes
about us. Very often, we are not even aware that we are communication our thoughts via our body
language. That is the reason why, in job interviews and other situations in which we are under
scrutiny, it is a good idea to pay attention to our body language. For example, leaning forward can
be a sign of positivity, whilst sitting with our arms folded can make us look closed off – as if we
have something to hide.
What we wear can often communicate things. For example, if we dress up in academic
robes, it is clear that we want to communicate to everyone who sees us that we have attained a
certain level of academic achievement. We should never judge people by what they wear –
however, some types of official garments (such as a judge’s wig, a scholar’s gown or a soldier’s
medal) are designed to communicate something about the wearer.
Silence is also a type of non-verbal communication. Sometimes, staying silent can
communicate much more than words can. Silence can be powerful, sad, happy or it can simply
communicate to other people that we do not want to engage with them. Good communicators are
able to listen, and to use comfortable silences, to connect with other people. There is no need to
think that communication is all about words!


Effective communication, as is abundantly clear from the discussion above, involves not
just listening to other people’s words and expressing ourselves in words. It also means picking up
on other people’s non-verbal cues. Why not go through the list above and think about which forms
of non-verbal communication you are adept at understanding. Are there any ways in which you
might improve your non-verbal communication skills? We could all benefit from a little
improvement in this area, as it enables us to enjoy deeper and more meaningful connections with
other people.
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Question 43: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Some types of wordless form of communication
B. Some types of effective form of communication
C. Communication and its effective forms.

D. Non-verbal communication and its benefits
Question 44: The word “engage” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to________.
A. attract
B. participate
C. occupy
D. employ
Question 45: The word “them” in paragraph 5 refers to________.
A. words
B. silences
C. good communicators
D. other people
Question 46: Which of the following is considered as a positive sign of body language at a job
interview?
A. uncrossing legs
B. paying attention to volumes
C. leaning forward
D. sitting with folded arms
Question 47: Which of the following is NOT mentioned as types of official clothes?
A. a judge’s wig
B. a scholar’s dress
C. a trooper’s medal D. a doll’s gown
Question 48: Which of the following statement is TRUE about silence according to paragraph 5?
A. Silent communication is always much more effective than speech.
B. Silence can have more than one meaning.
C. Silence is one of the ways people use to communicate to others.
D. Good communicators are able to use comfortable silences to contact with other people.
Question 49: The word “picking up on” in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to________.
A. understanding
B. giving attention to
C. improving

D. increasing
Question 50: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Body language is the most useful form of communication.
B. When people can not speak, they can use non-verbal communication.
C. It’s impossible to think that communication is all about words.
D. Communication is done through not only words but also non-verbal cues.
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