Câu hỏi trắc nghiệm (50 câu):
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Câu 1: Mã câu hỏi: 203043
Indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation: occasion, explosion, provision, promotion
- A. occasion
- B. explosion
- C. provision
- D. promotion
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Câu 2: Mã câu hỏi: 203046
Indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation: thereupon, thrill, through, throne
- A. thereupon
- B. thrill
- C. through
- D. throne
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Câu 3: Mã câu hỏi: 203048
Indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position primary stress: interview, intellectual, similarity, engineer
- A. interview
- B. intellectual
- C. similarity
- D. engineer
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Câu 4: Mã câu hỏi: 203049
Indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position primary stress: capture, picture, ensure, pleasure
- A. capture
- B. picture
- C. ensure
- D. pleasure
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Câu 5: Mã câu hỏi: 203051
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
When the Titanic started sinking, the passengers were _____.
- A. horrifying
- B. apprehensive
- C. panic-stricken
- D. weather-beaten
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Câu 6: Mã câu hỏi: 203054
Everybody is tired of watching the same commercials on TV every night, _____?
- A. are they
- B. haven't they
- C. aren't they
- D. don't they
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Câu 7: Mã câu hỏi: 203055
I've never really enjoyed going to the ballet or the opera; they're not really my _ ____.
- A. piece of cake
- B. sweets and candy
- C. biscuit
- D. cup of tea
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Câu 8: Mã câu hỏi: 203058
I regret going to the cinema. I wish I _____.
- A. hadn't gone there
- B. haven't gone there
- C. didn't go there
- D. would not go there
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Câu 9: Mã câu hỏi: 203063
She spent _____ her free time watching TV.
- A. a few
- B. most of
- C. a lot
- D. most
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Câu 10: Mã câu hỏi: 203064
You should take regular exercise _____ sitting in front of the television all day.
- A. in spite of
- B. instead of
- C. without
- D. even
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Câu 11: Mã câu hỏi: 203065
Italian TV has .............a young composer to write an opera for the TV's thirtieth anniversary.
- A. appointed
- B. ordered
- C. consulted
- D. commissioned
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Câu 12: Mã câu hỏi: 203066
I used to................reading comics, but now I’ve grown out of it.
- A. take a fancy to
- B. keep an eye on
- C. get a kick out of
- D. kick up a fuss about
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Câu 13: Mã câu hỏi: 203067
Silence ________the theatre as the audience awaited the opening curtain with expectation and excitement.
- A. fell in with
- B. came between
- C. hung over
- D. dropped out of
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Câu 14: Mã câu hỏi: 203068
They asked me whether I was working _____.
- A. next day afternoon
- B. the afternoon followed
- C. the following afternoon
- D. tomorrow afternoon
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Câu 15: Mã câu hỏi: 203069
If you are not Japanese, so what _____ are you?
- A. nationalized
- B. nation
- C. nationality
- D. national
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Câu 16: Mã câu hỏi: 203071
She played............... confidently, but her timing was not good.
- A. a piano
- B. piano
- C. the piano
- D. an piano
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Câu 17: Mã câu hỏi: 203072
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word (5) in each of the following questions.
The high mountain climate is cold and inhospitable.
- A. uninviting
- B. rainy
- C. dull
- D. stormy
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Câu 18: Mã câu hỏi: 203076
The train departed the railway station at 8 o'clock.
- A. arrived
- B. stopped
- C. waited
- D. left
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Câu 19: Mã câu hỏi: 203078
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
My uncle, who is an accomplished guitarist, taught me how to play.
- A. ill-educated
- B. qualified
- C. unskilled
- D. unimpaired
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Câu 20: Mã câu hỏi: 203079
She's an introvert. She tends to think a lot and not to say a lot
- A. a thinker
- B. a researcher
- C. a wrongdoer
- D. an extrovert
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Câu 21: Mã câu hỏi: 203082
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges.
Interviewer: "What sort of job are you looking for?” - Curtis: “______."
- A. No, I don't think so. I'd really prefer something outdoors.
- B. Oh, for me the most important is job satisfaction and I can have some work experience.
- C. As a student, the most interesting thing about the job is working with people.
- D. Well, I'm still in school, so I want something either in the evening or on the weekend.
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Câu 22: Mã câu hỏi: 203084
Peter: "Hi, David, do you think it's possible for you to have a talk sometime today?"
David: “......................”.
- A. I'd love to, but I've got a pretty tight schedule today.
- B. No more time for me. I have to work with my boss.
- C. I wish I had been free yesterday to have time with you.
- D. Excuse me; however, I'm so busy all day from morning.
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Câu 23: Mã câu hỏi: 203085
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 23 to 27.
YOGA
Yoga is one of the most ancient forms of exercise, originating in India 5000 years ago. Yoga has taken several years to become recognised world-wide, although recently, much more attention has been (23) __________ to it because of the ways in which it can benefit health. Yoga can be practised by anyone, at any age, in any physical condition, depending on physical needs. For example, athletes and dancers can practise it to (24) their energy and to improve stamina; executives to give a much needed (25) to their overworked minds; children to improve their memory and concentration. It's a good idea to (26)_________ with a doctor first if you've suffered from any type of injury. None of the exercises should (27)_________ you any pain, but it's best to start slowly at first. The best time to practise is either in the morning or in the evening. Beginners find it easier in the evening when the body is more supple.
(23)..................
- A. put
- B. paid
- C. allowed
- D. provided
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Câu 24: Mã câu hỏi: 203088
(24)..................
- A. receive
- B. return
- C. realize
- D. restore
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Câu 25: Mã câu hỏi: 203089
(25).....................
- A. interruption
- B. pause
- C. interval
- D. break
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Câu 26: Mã câu hỏi: 203091
(26).....................
- A. see
- B. check
- C. control
- D. call
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Câu 27: Mã câu hỏi: 203092
(27)......................
- A. make
- B. do
- C. cause
- D. result
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Câu 28: Mã câu hỏi: 203093
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 28 to 35.
How is the news different from entertainment? Most people would answer that news is real but entertainment is fiction. However, if we think more carefully about the news, it becomes clear that the news is not always real. The news does not show us all the events of the day, but stories from a small number of chosen events. The creation of news stories is subject to specific constraints, much like the creation of works of fiction. There are many constraints, but three of the most important ones are: commercialism, story formulas, and sources.
Newspapers, radio, and TV stations are businesses, all of which are rivals for audiences and advertising revenue. The amount of time that the average TV station spends on news broadcasts has grown steadily over the last fifty years - largely because news is relatively cheap to produce, yet sells plenty of advertising. Some news broadcasts are themselves becoming advertisements. For example, during one week in 1996 when the American CBS network was airing a movie about the sinking of the Titanic, CBS news ran nine stories about that event (which had happened 84 years before). The ABC network is owned by Disney Studios, and frequently runs news stories about Mickey Mouse. Furthermore, the profit motive drives news organizations to pay more attention to stories likely to generate a large audience, and to shy away from stories that may be important but dull. This pressure to be entertaining has produced shorter, simpler stories: more focus on celebrities than people of substance, more focus on gossip than on news, and more focus on dramatic events than on nuanced issues.
As busy people under relentless pressure to produce, journalists cannot spend days agonizing over the best way to present stories. Instead, they depend upon certain story formulas, which they can reuse again and again. One example is known as the inverted pyramid. In this formula, the journalist puts the most important information at the beginning of the story, than adds the next most important, and so on. The inverted pyramid originates from the age of the telegraph, the idea being that if the line went dead halfway through the story, the journalist would know that the most crucial information had at least been relayed. Modern journalists still value the formula for a similar reason. Their editors will cut stories if they are too long. Another formula involves reducing a complicated story into a simple conflict. The best example is "horse race" election coverage. Thorough explication of the issues and the candidates' views is forbiddingly complex. Journalists therefore concentrate more on who is winning in the opinion polls, and whether the underdog can catch up in the numbers than on politicians' campaign goals.
Sources are another constraint on what journalists cover and how they cover it. The dominant sources for news are public information officers in businesses and government offices. The majority of such officers try to establish themselves as experts who are qualified to feed information to journalists. How do journalists know who is an expert? In general, they don't. They use sources not on the basis of actual expertise, but on the appearance of expertise and the willingness to share it. All the major news organizations use some of the same sources (many of them anonymous), so the same types of stories always receive attention. Over time, the journalists may even become close friends with their sources, and they stop searching for alternative points of view. The result tends to be narrow, homogenized coverage of the same kind.
It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that the author of the passage thinks _____.
- A. that watching or reading the news is extremely boring
- B. that most news stories are false
- C. that most people don't realize how different news is from reality
- D. that most people don't pay enough attention to the news
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Câu 29: Mã câu hỏi: 203138
According to paragraph 2, which of the following is true?
- A. One effect of commercialism is news stories with more complex content.
- B. The ABC network owns Disney Studios.
- C. Some news broadcasts are shown without advertisements.
- D. More time is devoted to news on TV now than 50 years ago.
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Câu 30: Mã câu hỏi: 203139
Why does the author mention Mickey Mouse in paragraph 2?
- A. To indicate that ABC shows entertaining news stories
- B. To give an example of news stories that are also advertisements
- C. To contrast ABC's style with that of CBS
- D. To give an example of news content that is not serious
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Câu 31: Mã câu hỏi: 203140
According to paragraph 3, an advantage of the inverted pyramid formula for journalists is that _____.
- A. if a story is cut by the editor, only the less crucial information will be lost
- B. it makes a story more likely to be cut by the editor
- C. it makes a story more likely to attract the attention of the audience
- D. it makes a story simpler and easier to understand
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Câu 32: Mã câu hỏi: 203141
The word relayed in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
- A. chosen
- B. known
- C. gathered
- D. sent
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Câu 33: Mã câu hỏi: 203142
According to the passage, which of the following tends to lead to homogenized coverage?
- A. Journalists' use of experts as sources
- B. Journalists' becoming friends with their sources
- C. Journalists' search for alternative points of view
- D. Journalists' using government officials as sources
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Câu 34: Mã câu hỏi: 203143
The word "them" in paragraph 4 refers to _____.
- A. journalists
- B. organizations
- C. experts
- D. sources
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Câu 35: Mã câu hỏi: 203144
Which of the following best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentences "Thorough explication of the issues .... than on politicians' campaign goals. " in the passage?
- A. Journalists focus on poll numbers instead of campaign issues because it is easier.
- B. Journalists are more interested in issues and candidates' views, but viewers are more interested in who is winning.
- C. During an election campaign, journalists mainly concentrate on "horse race" coverage.
- D. Candidates' views and how they are explained by journalists can have a big effect on poll numbers.
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Câu 36: Mã câu hỏi: 203145
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 36 to 42.
The Internet is very much like television, in which it takes time away from other pursuits, provides entertainment and information, but in no way can compare with the warm, personal experience of reading a good book. This is not the only reason why the Internet will never replace books, for books provide the in-depth knowledge of a subject that sitting in front of a computer monitor cannot provide. We can download text from an Internet source, but the aesthetic quality of sheets of downloaded text leave much to be desired. A well-designed book enhances the reading experience.
The book is still the most compact and inexpensive means of conveying a dense amount of knowledge in a convenient package. The easy portability of the book is what makes it the most user-friendly format for knowledge ever invented. The idea that one can carry in one's pocket a play by Shakespeare, a novel by Charles Dickens or Tom Clancy, Plato's Dialogues, or the Bible in a small paperback edition is mind-boggling. We take such uncommon convenience for granted, not realizing that the book itself has undergone quite an evolution since the production of the Gutenberg Bible in 1455 and Shakespeare's First Folio in 1623, just three years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth to colonize the New World.
Not only has the art and craft of printing and book manufacturing been greatly improved over the centuries, but the great variety of subject matter now available in books is astounding, to say the least. In fact, the Internet requires the constant input of authors and their books to provide it with the information that makes it a useful tool for exploration and learning.
Another important reason why the Internet will never replace books is because those who wish to become writers want to see their works permanently published as books - something you can hold, see, feel, skim through, and read at one's leisure without the need for an electric current apart from a lamp. The writer may use a word processor instead of a typewriter or a pen and pad, but the finished product must eventually end up as a book if it is to have value to the reading public. The writer may use the Internet in the course of researching a subject just as he may use a library for that purpose, but the end product will still be a book.
What is the author's main idea in the passage?
- A. The Internet distracts people from other pursuits.
- B. Books have been improved in both appearance and content.
- C. The Internet and books will replace each other.
- D. Books will not be replaced by the Internet.
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Câu 37: Mã câu hỏi: 203146
What does the word "this" in the first paragraph refer to?
- A. a good book
- B. the Internet
- C. the warm, personal experience of reading a good book
- D. entertainment and information
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Câu 38: Mã câu hỏi: 203147
The word “aesthete” is closest in meaning to ______
- A. artistic
- B. usual
- C. print
- D. invisible
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Câu 39: Mã câu hỏi: 203148
Which of the following is mentioned as the advantage of books in paragraph 2?
- A. expensive, moderate and portable
- B. compact, cheap and convenient
- C. luxurious, enormous and flexible
- D. uncommon, inexpensive and knowledgeable
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Câu 40: Mã câu hỏi: 203149
The word "astounding" in paragraph 3 could be best replaced by _____.
- A. astonishing
- B. unsurprising
- C. astringent
- D. accelerating
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Câu 41: Mã câu hỏi: 203150
The author mentioned the Internet in the last paragraph as a tool that
- A. will replace books if the writers don't want to publish their works.
- B. requires more equipment to use than books.
- C. provides the writers information about the subject they are finding for their books.
- D. cannot be held, seen or felt in our hands.
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Câu 42: Mã câu hỏi: 203151
According to the passage, which sentence is NOT true about books?
- A. Whenever books are still useful for our society, they cannot be replaced.
- B. A well-designed book is more effective for reading than a download text.
- C. There has been no book evolution because of its uncommon convenience.
- D. Over many centuries, the appearance of books has been upgraded.
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Câu 43: Mã câu hỏi: 203152
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.
According to (A) Mehrabian in1971, only 7% (B) of the information we communicate to others (C)depends upon the words saying (D); 93% of that depends on nonverbal communication.
- A. According to
- B. only 7%
- C. to others
- D. saying
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Câu 44: Mã câu hỏi: 203153
Statistics are (A) now compulsory (B) for all students taking (C) a course in engineering (D).
- A. are
- B. compulsory
- C. taking
- D. engineering
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Câu 45: Mã câu hỏi: 203154
Students suppose (A) to read all the questions (B) carefully and find out (C) the answer to them (D).
- A. suppose
- B. all the questions
- C. out
- D. them
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Câu 46: Mã câu hỏi: 203156
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.
As television programmes become more popular, they seem to get worse.
- A. The more popular television programmes become, the worse they seem.
- B. The most popular television programmes become, the worse they seem.
- C. The popular television programmes, the worse they seem.
- D. The more popular become television programmes, the worse they seem.
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Câu 47: Mã câu hỏi: 203157
It is English pronunciation that puzzles me most.
- A. Pronouncing English is not complicated.
- B. I was not quick at English pronunciation at school.
- C. Puzzling me most is how to pronounce English.
- D. English pronunciation is difficult for me.
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Câu 48: Mã câu hỏi: 203159
"l will give you the answer by the end of the lesson.". Tom said to Jane
- A. Tom offered to give Jane the answer by the end of the lesson.
- B. Tom suggested giving Jane the answer by the end of the lesson.
- C. Tom insisted on giving Jane the answer by the end of the lesson.
- D. Tom promised to give Jane the answer by the end of the lesson.
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Câu 49: Mã câu hỏi: 203160
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each of sentences in the following questions
Vietnam defeated Qatar in AFC U23 Championship semifinal. It marked a new episode in Vietnam's football history.
- A. Vietnam defeated Qatar in AFC U23 Championship semifinal and marked a new episode in Vietnam's football history.
- B. Vietnam defeated Qatar in AFC U23 Championship semifinal that it marked a new episode in Vietnam's football history.
- C. Vietnam defeated Qatar in AFC U23 Championship semifinal then it marked a new episode in Vietnam's football history.
- D. Vietnam defeated Qatar in AFC U23 Championship semifinal, which marked a new episode in Vietnam's football history.
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Câu 50: Mã câu hỏi: 203162
The college was closed for a month. It was the summer holidays.
- A. The college was closed for a month as a result of the summer holidays.
- B. The college was closed for a month as a result of that it was the summer holidays
- C. The college was closed for a month owing the fact of the summer holidays.
- D. The college was closed for a month because the summer holidays.
