THI TH TUYN SINH LP 10

Nm hc 2015 - 2016
Mn thi: TING ANH
Thi gian lm bi:120 pht
Khng c xem ti liu. Khng trao i trong lc lm bi.
I. Choose the correct answer to fill in the blank (30pts)
1. Ellen has been out of ________ for 6 months.
A. practice

B. job

C. custom

D. exposition

2. In my opinion, he is ________ the best tennis player now.

A. by far

B. vastly

C. a long way

D. extensively

3. The objective of the research is to gain a better ________ into the labour market processes.
A. knowledge

B. know-how

C. insight

D. awareness

4. The army is ________ to ensuring the independence of the country.

A. used

B. committed

C. adjusted

D. contributed

5. Recently, there has been a fairly ________ rise in the cost of living.
A. pointed

B. full

C. sharp

D. shot

6. His whole life seemed to fall _______ when he lost his job.
A. through

B. apart

C. away

D. out

7. To forget her problem, she __________ herself with work.

A. devoted

B. occupied

C. exception

D. issue

8. Harry isnt fact. __________, he is quite skinny.

A. In any case

B. By rights

C. In practice

D. On the contrary

9. A huge crowd __________ in the pouring rain to cheer the famous singer.
A. turned out

B. held up

C. saw off

D. dropped in

10. Derek was _______ from military service for health grounds.
A. ejected

B. barred

C. earmarked

D. exempted

C. by no means

D. into consideration

11. There were no tickets left _______.

A. all in all

B. whatsoever

12. Its possible that the last person __________ didnt lock the door.
A. leaving

B. who leave

C. for leaving

D. to leave

13. My friend gave me a surprise party, _______ was good of them.

A. that

B. this

C. which

D. it

C. How

D. As

14. _________ you should do now is take a holiday.

A. What

B. That

15. Theres a letter pinned on the door. The mailman ______ it there.
A. could leave

B. can have left

C. must have left

D. should have left

C. of which all

D. all that

16. I told you a lot of things, _________ was true.

A. several of which

B. all of which

17. It is _______ that the plan will fail.

A. likelier

B. more than likely

C. all likelihood

D. more likely than

C. wasnt feeling

D. havent been feeling

18. I ____________ very well lately

A. dont feel

B. didnt feel

19. He didnt understand what I was saying so I had to ________ out to him every simple terms.
A. figure

B. clear

C. stand

D. spell

20. Do you think Vietnam can win the championship this SEAGAMES? _________________./
A. True enough!

B. Not a chance!

C. Nothing but the truth

D. Really? It is.

21. The racing driver handled the corner with ______ skill.
A. consummate

B. comprehensive

C. confirmed

D. compulsive

22. It was ______ clear to me what they meant by their cold manner.
A. blatantly

B. acutely

C. fully

D. abundantly

23. Any involvement in the accident was ______ denied by all the children.
A. seriously

B. conspicuously

C. blatantly

D. strenuously

24. The _______-and-file supporters of the party were cheered by the election result.
A. ordinary

B. rank

C. division

D. lowly

25. _______________ that people queued day and night.

A. So much the demand for tickets was

C. There was the demand for tickets

B. Such was the demand for tickets

D. It was the ticket demand

26. What a nuisance! I have done everything possible but the cooker _________.
A. isnt worked

B. does not work

C. didnt work

D. wont work

27. Its quite out of _________ for Paul to behave so terribly.

A. temperament

B. personality

C. nature

D. character

28. I took _______ with him on a number of his comments, which I thought was unfair.
A. challenge

B. offence

C. exception

D. issue

C. offer

D. take

29. I decided to _______ a visit at his office.

A. pay

B. give

30. The buffet _______ of several different Indian dishes.

A. consisted

B. compounded

C. made

D. formed

II. Choose the word or phrase that best fits each space in the following passage (10pts)
So much sentimentality is attached to the rose in (31) ___________ culture that it is difficult to separate the
original mythological and folkloric beliefs from the emotional excess that (32) ____________ the flower.
Yet if we look into the beliefs, we find that the rose is much more than the mere (33) __________ of
romantic love invoked by every minor poet and painter. One of the roses most common (34) ________ in
folklore is with death. The Romans often decked the tombs of the dead with roses; in fact, Roman wills
frequently (35) _________ that roses were to be planted on the grave. To this day, in Switzerland,
cemeteries are known as rose gardens. The Saxons (36) _________ the rose with life, and they believed
that when a child died, the figure of death could be seen plucking a rose outside the house.
The rose has a long association with female beauty. Shakespeare mentions the rose more frequently than
(37) __________ flower, often using it as a token of all that is lovely and good. For the Arabs, (38)
__________, the rose was a symbol not of feminine but of masculine beauty.

Later the rose became a sign of secrecy and silence. The expression sub rosa, un the rose, is (39)
_______ to a Romans belief. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it was common (40)
________ to carve or paint roses on the ceilings of council chambers to emphasize the intention of secrecy.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.

A. famous
A. gathers
A. trace
A. relations
A. specified
A. equalized
A. a
A. for lack of
A. traced
A. function

B. popular
B. covers
B. sign
B. connections
B. showed
B. equated
B. other
B. nevertheless
B. originated
B. usage

C. diverse
C. surrounds
C. tail
C. associations
C. required
C. leveled
C. any other
C. therefore
C. based
C. practice

D. outdated
D. embraces
D. symbol
D. combinations
D. expressed
D. considered
D. the
D. in fact
D. contributed
D. standard

III. Identify the mistake in each sentence (10pts)

41. The growth rate (A) of the Pacific Rim countries is twice faster than (B) other comparable (C) areas
during (D) the Industrial Revolution.
42. Ponds are noted (A) for their rich and varied types of (B) plant and animal life, all maintain (C) in a
delicate ecological balance (D).
43. Mostly (A) none of my students (B) enjoys reading (C) his detective stories.
44. Peoples minds are just as (A) tense muscles that (B) need to be freed up (C) and the potential unlocked
(D).
45. When he met (A) us, he offered (B) that we could (C) meet them at (D) the airport.
46. Lest complications associated with traditional open-heart surgery is irreducible (A), and with a view to
shortening (B) recovery time, the surgical method of inserting the value including (C) making a small
incision between the ribs is carried out (D).
47. The singular (A) way to reduce (B) pollution in the city is ban cars (C) from downtown (D).
48. When hypothesizing about (A) the traits that all humans have come to share, (B) scientists must be
acutely aware that (C) these traits have been evolving (D) by an aggregate of 25% over thousands of
generations.
49. Much to (A) Professor Mocans morally opposed capital punishment, (B) he has also discovered a
great deal of (C) evidence suggesting that they deterred (D) violent crimes.
50. Roger could not catch (A) what the conductor was saying seeing as (B) he did not have a good skill
(C) of French, nor, of course, did (D) his sisters.

IV. Supply the appropriate forms of words in the brackets. (10 pts)
51. The ___________________ of one or several species may result in the loss of biodiversity. (APPEAR)
52. The government has done everything possible for the protection of ______________ animals.
(DANGEROUS)
53. There was a ______________ belief that women were inferior to men. (SPREAD)
54. Distinguished ______________ were invited to the discussion.
55. Elephant losing their habitat is the direct result from _________________. (URBANIZATION)
56. Although the gained fame for creating the lead role in Thoroughly Modern Miles, Sutton Foster got her
first Broadway credits in the early 1990s as a(n) ________________ in Les Miserables.(STUDY)
57. Reading books help ______________ your knowledge. (RICH)

58. We are grateful for the ______________ help that you offered. (VALUE)
59. _____________________, she wasnt hurt in the car crash. (REMARK)
60. Studies show that if a working environment is pleasant, ________________ increases. (PRODUCE)

V. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with one suitable word (10 pts)
What are the potential impacts of an enhanced greenhouse effect? (61) _____________ to estimates by an
international committee, North American climatic zones could shift northward by as much as 550
kilometers (340 miles). Such a change in (62) ____________ would likely affect all sectors of society. In
some areas, heat and moisture stress would cut (63) ___________ yields, and traditional farming practice
would (64) _______ to change. For (65) _____________, in the North American grain belt, higher
temperature and more frequent drought during the growing (66) ____________ might require farmers to
switch from corn to wheat and to use more water for (67) _______________.
Global warming may also cause a (68) ________ in sea level by melting polar ice caps. A rise in sea level
would accelerate coastal erosion and inundate islands and low-lying coastal plains, some of (69)
_________ are densely populated. Millions of acres of coastal farmlands would be covered by water.
Furthermore, the warming of seawater will cause the water to expand, thus adding (70) ______ the
potential danger.

VI. Reading comprehension (10 pts)

Because writing has become so important in our culture, we sometimes think of it as more real than speech.
A little thought, however, will show why speech is primary and writing is secondary to language. Human
beings have been writing (as far as we can tell from surviving evidence) for at least 5000 years, but they
have been talking for much longer, doubtless ever since there have been human beings.
When writing did develop, it was derived from and represented speech, although imperfectly. Even today,
there are spoken languages that have no written form. Further more, we all learn to talk well before we
learn to write; any human child who is not severely handicapped physically or mentally will learn to talk; a
normal human being cannot be prevented from doing so. On the other hand, it takes a special effort to learn
to write; in the past many intelligent and useful members of society did not acquire the skill, and even
today many who speak languages with writing systems never learn to read or write, while some who learn
the rudiments of those skills do so imperfectly.
To affirm the primacy of speech over writing is not, however, to disparage the latter. One advantage writing
has over speech is that it is more permanent and makes possible the records that any civilization must have.
Thus, if speaking makes us human, writing makes us civilized.
71. The author of the passage argues that ____________.
A. writing has become too important in todays society
B. speech is more basic to human than writing
C. everyone who learns to speak must learn to write
D. all languages should have a written form
72. According to the passage, speech began to exist in our life _______.
A. just when human beings appeared

B. at least 5000 years ago

C. when human beings were able to communicate

D. when writing became important

73. The word doubtless in the passage mostly means ___________.

A. almost certainly

B. almost uncertainly

C. almost impossibly

D. almost doubtfully

74. According to the passage, writing ____________.

A. is imperfect, but less so than speech

B. is represented perfectly by speech

C. represents speech, but not perfectly

D. developed from imperfect speech

75. The following statements are true EXCEPT _______.

A. writing was derived from speech

B. we can talk well before we can write

C. every spoken language has written form

D. men have been writing for at least 5000 years.

76. The word acquire in the passage mostly means ______.

A. become aware of something by hearing about it
B. gain something by your own efforts or ability
C. help somebody learn something by giving information about it
D. develop a natural ability or quality so that it improves
77. In the passage, the author judges that ____________.
A. writing has more advantages than speech
B. speech is essential but writing has important benefits
C. speech conveys ideas less accurately than writing does
D. writing is more real than speech
78. In order to show that learning to write requires effort, the author gives the example of _______.
A. intelligent people who could not write

B. people who learn the rudiments of speech

C. people who speak many languages

D. severely handicapped children

79. The word disparage in the passage mostly means _____.

A. suggest that something is not important or valuable

B. make something seem more important

C. think that something is not important

D. think about something carefully

80. According to the author, one mark of civilized society is that it _______.
A. affirms the primacy of speech over writing

B. affirms that primacy of writing over speech

C. teaches its children to speak perfectly

D. keeps written records

VII. Rewrite the following sentences without changing the meaning, using the word given.
The word must not be altered in any way. (10 pts)
81. Sam tried extremely hard to convince her, but it was no use. BRING
Hard .............................................................................................................................................

82. Looking back, I really believe I did everything I could to stop her. HINDSIGHT
I can honestly say, .......................................................................................................................
83. I must say goodbye to Peter at the airport, said Helen. OFF
Helen insisted ..............................................................................................................................
84. They tried but didnt succeed in redeeming their sins. COMPENSATE
In vain...........................................................................................................................................
85. Though it has been one year since her death, he still does not accept the fact that she had passed away.
TERMS
She died last year and ....................................................................................................................

VIII. Rewrite the following sentences without changing the meaning (10 pts)
86. Ive only had to have this car repaired once.
On only ...........................................................................................................................................
87. All the other guests were embarrassed when he told a disgusting joke.
To all ...............................................................................................................................................
88. She was definitely displeased when I told her about what happened.
She was anything .............................................................................................................................
89. You waste time if you copy your work out again.
Dont waste ......................................................................................................................................
90. The meeting is likely to be cancelled.
In all .................................................................................................................................................
91. I intend to discover the truth somehow or other.
In one ...............................................................................................................................................
92. This problem cannot be solved instantly.
There is .............................................................................................................................................
93. We moved into the house 30 years ago today.
It has ..................................................................................................................................................
94. The only reason for his success is his fathers support.
Had ....................................................................................................................................................
95. Henry smashed the window and damaged the TV set too.
Not .....................................................................................................................................................
This is the end of the test.