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ĐỀ HSG 56
 I/Circle the letter before the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from those of the others. (5 points)
1. 	A. float 	B. broad 	C. goat 	D. coat
2. 	A. office 	B. promise 	C. service 	D. expertise
3. 	A. physical 	B. mythology 	C. rhythmic 	D. psychological
4. 	A. danger 	B. angel 	C. anger 	D. magic
5. 	A. black 	B. blade 	C. blab 	D. Play
II/ Choose the best option: (a), (b), (c) or (d). (24 points)
1. Alex didn't come to see the film last night because he _______ it before.
(a) saw 	(b) had seen 	(c) has seen 	(d) was seen
2. A cold wind _______ for the last three days.
(a) has been blowing 	(b) blows	(c) is blowing	 (d) blew
3. I wish I _______ younger.
(a) had been 	(b) would be 	(c) were 	(d) have been
4. She said she _______ to me, but she didn't.
(a) would have written 	(b) will have written	(c) would write 	(d) will write
5. She told him that if he _______ his promise, she _______ speak to him again.
(a) break-would never 	(b) break - will never (c) broke - will never (d) broke-would never
6. I'll see you in August when I _______ back.
(a) will come 	(b) came 	(c) will have come 	(d) come
7. We were very pleased _______ the service.
(a) with 	(b) on 	(c) at 	(d) from
8. He mumbled throughout his speech so I could _______ understand a single word.
(a) really 	(b) fully 	(c) hardly 	(d) hard
9. I have _______ told her not to do that and yet she always does.
(a) admittedly 	(b) repeatedly 	(c) wholeheartedly 	(d)frankly
10. It was a very long day but we _______ arrived in time for tea.
(a) eventfully 	(b) unusually 	(c) dully 	(d) eventually
11. What would you like to eat for lunch? _______ I don't mind.
(a) Nothing 	(b) Something 	(c) Everything 	(d) Anything
12. I asked if _______ wanted an ice cream.
(a) anyone 	(b) someone 	(c) everyone 	(d) no one
13. The steamer Mongolia was built _______ iron.
(a) from 	(b) by 	(c) with 	(d) of
14. Two men were walking up and down the dock at Suez _______ the crowd of natives.
(a) within 	(b) among 	(c) in 	(d) between
15. "You say, consul," Fix asked for the twentieth time, "that this steamer is never _______ schedule?"
(a) behind 	(b) before 	(c) after 	(d) off
16. ____ from Bill, all the students said they would go.
(a) Except 	(b) Only 	(c) Apart 	(d) Separate
17. If only he _______ told us the truth in the first place, things wouldn't have gone so wrong.
(a) had 	(b) has 	(c) would have 	(d) should have
18. You may think that this is a _______ job for someone who is applying for a marketing post.
(a) peculiar 	(b) stranger 	(c) usual 	(d) typical
19. Suddenly _______ hungry, he stopped to buy a bar of chocolate.
(a) felt 	(b) having felt 	(c) feeling 	(d) feels
20. Everyone thought she would accept the offer. _______, she turned it down.
(a) However 	(b) So 	(c) Too 	(d) Moreover
21. I am sure I could very easily _______ all the requirements
(a) complete 	(b) fulfil 	(c) commit 	(d) finish
22. He says he will pay ; I don’t think he will, _______.
(a) though 	(b) even though 	(c) in case 	(d) but
23. Safety should come first. _______ lives shouldn’t be put at risk.
(a) People 	(b) Peoples 	(c) People’s 	(d) Peoples’
24. Would you be _______ my letters while I am away ?
(a) too good as to forward 	(b) as good as forward
(c) so good as to forward 	(d) so good as forwarding
III/ Identify the one underlined word or phrase that would not be appropriate in standard written English. Supply the right one. (7 points)
1. Today the number of people which enjoy winter sports is almost double that of twenty years ago.
 A B C D
2. He couldn't find the dictionary because it was packing in the case ready for sending .
 A B C D
3. The athlete really surprised to hear that he had won the race after all .
 A B C D
4. He sounded his horn sudden when he saw the really old man step carelessly off the sidewalk.
 A B C D
5. Your friends became very angrily over a seemingly little problem.
 A B C D
6. The coal is the world's most abundant fossil fuel .
 A B C D
7. A traveller can reach some of the village along the Amazon only by riverboat 
 A B C D
IV/The word in capital letters at the end of each of the following sentences can be used to form a word that fits suitably in the blank space. Fill in the blank in this way. (10 points)
 Some recent research into (1) ______________ (CONVERSE) between men and women has produced results which will surprise few women. Men are always interrupting women when they talk. One (2) _____________ (RESEARCH) feels that men regard female talk as a kind of conversational (3) ______________ (HOUSE). They expect women to play a (4) ______________ (SUPPORT) role. So a man interrupts in a display of dominance or control. Men also have a much more (5) ______________ (PLEASANT) listening style. Whereas a woman uses gestures or say: "mm", a man will say such thing as "right" or "okay" thus settle the stage for an (6) ______________ (INTERRUPT). Conversation of this kind, then, hardly has (7) ______________ (MEAN) communication. Male talk is often (8) _____________ (ARGUE) while women are more tentative, asking more questions and tending to build up their replies on what the other person had said. The research would indicate that women are better (9) ______________ (LISTEN) than men. Yet, listening secretly to conversation between groups of women, one has the (10) ______________ (IMPRESS) of several simultaneous monologues into which no man would be able to get a chance to speak.

 V/Read the following paragraph about the education in Britain. Write true (T) or false (F) for each of the sentences below, according to the information given. If the information is not in the paragraph write no information (NI). (10 points)
 In Britain most schools are financed by the state and, for the children attending these schools, they are free. However; about 5 per cent of the school population attend private schools, and these are financed from pupils' fees. The general pattern of schooling in Britain is as follows.
 All the children must start school at the age of five. Many have previously attended play schools or nursery schools, but these are not compulsory. Primary education, whether state or private, seeks to develop all aspects of the child: physical and emotional, as well as intellectual and cultural.
 Roughly at the age of 11 (but often somewhat. later, especially in the case of private education), children move to different schools. These are called secondary schools, and nowadays most of them are comprehensive, that is to say, children of all abilities go to the same
school. Within some comprehensive schools children are put into different classes according to their intellectual ability; in others, children of different abilities are all kept together in the same class.
 In the first four or five years at a secondary school, the pupils have a set timetable of subjects, such as History, English and a foreign language, as well as science subjects and sports. At the end of this period most pupils take one or two public examinations, though these do not normally include all the subjects that the students have studied. In fact, a pupil may take the exam in as many, or as few, subjects as is thought suitable.
 After these exams, i.e. at the age of 16 or so, most pupils at state schools leave. Only about 30 per cent continue at school, compared with about 90 per cent in the small private sector. For those
that stay on, in either type of school, the next two or three years are spent concentrating on a small number of subjects, and at the end of these years of concentrated preparation, the pupils usually take a public school-leaving examination in their three specialist subjects. Their results in these exams will largely determine whether they now start to work, or whether they can continue with higher education at a university or college.
Answers : T, F or NI(No ìnormation)
____ 1. School education in Britain is free of charge.
____ 2. School education is compulsory in Britain.
____ 3. School education in Britain is mainly free of charge.
____ 4. Most children in Britain attend private schools.
____ 5. Most children in Britain attend state schools.
____ 6. Comprehensive secondary schools are for pupils of different abilities.
____ 7. Pupils of the same abilities must attend comprehensive secondary schools.
____ 8. After four or five years at secondary schools, all pupils take one or two public examinations.
____ 9. In Britain state schools are better than those of the private sector.
____ 10. At the age of 16 or so, about 70 per cent pupils at state schools leave.

VI/Read the following passage then answer the questions below (8 points)
 A healthful lifestyle leads to a longer, happier, healthier life. Staying healthy means eating well-balanced diet, getting regular exercise, avoiding things that are bad for the body and mind.
 Nutrition plays a key role in maintaining good health and preventing many diseases. In spite of all the information available about diets, scientists still believe that good nutrition can be simple.
There are several basic rules to follow. Keep fat intake low. Eat foods high in carbohydrates. which are the starches in grains, legumes, (beans, and peas),vegetables, and some fruits. Avoid too much sugar. Limit salt. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables. which are high in vitamins.
 A healthy lifestyle is an active lifestyle. Lack of proper physical exercise can cause tiredness, irritability, and poor general health. Physical fitness requires both aerobic exercise, such as running, bicycle riding , and swimming, and muscle- strengthening exercise, such as weight-- lifting. Finally, good health is acquired saying no to bad habits such as smoking, drinking, and over-eating and by avoiding
situations that are constantly stressful. People can take their lives and happiness into their own hands. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the first step.

Questions:
1. What are the three kinds of food that you should avoiding having too much of ?
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2. Three problems that lack of physical exercise can cause are
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3. What kinds of exercise does physical fitness require?
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4. Three kinds of aerobic exercise mentioned in the passage are
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5. What exercise is good for muscle-strengthening?
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6. Grains, legumes, vegetables, and some fruits all contain
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7. Fruits and vegetables contain a lot of
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8. What is the main idea of the whole passage?
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VII/ Rewrite these sentences in such a way that they mean the same as the first, using the word in brackets at the end of each sentence. DO NOT CHANGE THE FORM OF THE GIVEN WORD. (10 points)
Example: Opera doesn't interest David. (INTERESTED)
à David isn’t interested in Opera.
1. "Did you speak to the headmaster, Mom" I asked. (SHE)
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2. There is no point in seeing that film. (WORTH)
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3. It's good thing you brought your cheque book or we wouldn't have been able to buy the car. (YOU)
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4. The flight to London was cheaper than I had thought it would be. (AS)
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5. I expect you were tired after the match. (BEEN)
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6. You ought to go to the dentist's immediately. (BETTER)
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7. It snowed so they cancelled the flight. (OWING)
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8. Maria and Philip are getting married, despite not having very much money. (ALTHOUGH)
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9. The last time I ate Chinese food was 4 years ago. (YEARS)
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10. I am happy to go anywhere you like. (MIND)
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VIII/ Sentence building. Complete the dialogue below. (10 points)
A: Hello / John! Nice / see / you /. you / have / comfortable / journey?
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B: Yes / thanks. / I / came up / yesterday / the 10 a.m / King's Cross.
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A: you / found / good / hotel? Where / you / stay?
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B: At / Queen's / Princess Street. / I / booked / few / ago / I / no trouble / at all.
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A: Good. / That / one / best / city. / How long / you / stay?
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B: three / days.
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A: you / know / Edinburgh / at all?
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B: No. / I / haven't / here / many / years. / I / think / I / spend / afternoons / looking / Edinburgh.
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A: I / not / busy / afternoon. / If / like / take / afternoon / off show / round.
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B: Thanks / very much. / That / very / pleasant.
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ĐÁP ÁN 56

I/ 1. B 	2. D 	3. D 	4. C 	5. B
II/ 1. b 	2. a 	3. c 	4. c 	5. d 	6. d 	7. a	 8. c
 9. b 	10. d 	11. d 	12. a 	13. d 	14. b 	15. a 	16. c 
 17. a 	18. a 	19. c 	20. a 	21. b 	22. a 	23. c 	24. c
III/ 1. B » who 	2. B » packed	3. B » was really surprised	4. A » suddenly
 5. B » angry	6. A » coal	7. B » the villages
IV/ 1. conversation 2. researcher	 3. housework 	 4. supporting	5. unpleasant 
 6. interruption	 7. meaningful 	 8. argumentative	 9. listeners 	10. impression
V/ 	1. F 	2. T 	3. T 	4. F 	5. T
 	6. T 	7. F 	8. F 	9. NI 	10. T
VI/
1. fat, sugar and salt.
2. tiredness, irritability, poor general health.
3. aerobic exercise and muscle- strengthening exercise
4. running, bicycle riding, swimming
5. weight-lifting
6. carbohydrates
7. vitamins
8. The main idea of the passage is how to lead a healthy life.
VII/
1. I asked my mother if / whether she had spoken to the headmaster.
2. That film isn't worth seeing.
3. We wouldn't have been able to buy the car if you hadn’t bought your cheque book.
4. The flight to London was not as expensive as I had thought it would be.
5. You must have been tired after the match.
6. You had better go the dentist's immediately.
7. The flight was cencelled owing to the snow.
8. Maria and Philip are getting married, although they haven’t got/do not have very much money.
9. It‘s 4 years since I last ate Chinese food.
10. I don’t mind anywhere we go.
VIII/
A: Hello, John. Nice to see you. Did you have a comfortable journey?
B: Yes, thanks. I came up here yesterday on the 10 a.m. (train) from King's Cross.
A: Have you found a good hotel? Where are you staying?
B: At the Queen's in Princess Street. I booked a few days ago so I had no trouble at all.
A: Good. That's one of the best in the city. How long are you staying?
B: For three days. .
A: Do you know Edinburgh at all?
B: No. I haven't been here for many years. I think I'll spend the afternoons looking round Edinburgh.
A: I shan't be very busy this afternoon. If you like, I'll take the afternoon off and show you round.
B: Thanks very much. That'll be very pleasant.
















ĐỀ HSG 57

A. GRAMMAR-VOCABULARY. (8 MARKS)
I. Choose the best answer to complete the sentences (2 marks).
1. I _______ a letter to my friends
A. posted 	B. isussed 	C. collected 	D.published
2. We can’t go camping today. The weather is _______.
A. fine 	B. warm 	C. snowy	 D. sunny.
3. The prupose of the examination was to _______ the students’ knowledge of the subject.
A. try 	B. inspect 	C. prove 	D. test
4. She asked me _______ I like tiked eating chocolates.
A. if 	B. and 	C. that 	D. but
5. He used to walk a long way to work. Now he _______ to work.
A. still walks 	B. no longer walks 	C. walks 	D. did not walk
6. This is the place where the car turned _______.
A. on 	B. off 	C. up 	D. over.
7. Tom’s _______ finished his homework.
A. just 	B. frequently 	C. often 	D. usually
8. The children _______ to the zoo.
A. were enjoyed to take 	B. enjoyed being taken
C. were enjoyed talking 	D. enjoy taking.
9. Let’s go, _______ we?
A. don’t 	B. shall 	C. will 	D. do
10. The synonym of the verb “deny” is _______.
A. permit 	B. refuse 	C. allow 	D. admit

II. There are 5 mistakes in the passage below. Write out the mstakes and
correct them (1 mark).
 	In 1783, two French brothers built the first balloon to take people into the air. One hundred and twenty years lately, in 1903, the Wright brothers built the first plane with an engine and flew in it. This was in the United States.
Then, in 1918, the US Post Office begun the first airmail service. Aeroplanes changed a much in the next thirty years. Then, in 1950s, aeroplanes became much faster because they had jet engines. In1976,Concorde was build in the UK and France. It is the fastest passenger plane in the world and it can fly at 2500 kilometers an hour, so the journey in London to New York is only four hours. Today millions of people travel on aeroplane, and it is difficult to think of a world without them.
Mistakes
Correct words
Ex: 00. lately 
Later
01

02

03

04

05


III. Supply correct form of the verbs in brackets (2 marks). 
I had two accidents last month. First, my friend and I were riding on our bicycles and it (1)______________ (rain). We (2) ______________ (ride)fast because we (3) ______________ (want) to get home. I (4)______________ (turn) the corner when suddenly, a cat (5)______________ (run) in front of my bike. I tried (6) ______________ (stop), but I fell and (7) ______________ (break) my arm. Then a few days after that, I (8) ______________ (walk) up the stairs in my apartment when I (9)______________ (hurt) my ankle. Fortunately, I (10) ______________ (not break) it, but it wasn’t a good month.
IV. Fill in the blanks with correct form of the words given in brackets. (2 marks)
 	The families in our street are slowly being driven mad by the (1)__________ (refuse) of the inhabitants of No 13 to have any form of (2)__________ (communicate) with them. The trouble started over what is known as noise (3) __________ (pollute). Every evening the (4)__________ (think) neighbors used to turned up the volume on the TV so loud that no one in the (5) __________ (neighbor) was able to hear anything else. Not knowing what (6) __________ (act) to take, local residents held a meeting to see if anyone had any (7) __________ (suggest) as to how to deal with the problem. A (8) __________ (decide) was made to send a number of people to talk to the family in No 13 and ask them (9) __________(polite) to turn their music down after six in the evening. (10) __________(Fortunately), the visit did not turn out to be successful,as the habitants of No13 refused to talk to them, so on the advice of local police, the matter is now in the hands of the court.

V. Complete each sentence with a suitable preposition. (1 mark)
1. I get tired _______ doing the same thing everyday.
2. Many Vietnamese women like wearing morden clothing _______ work.
3. When the Jones arrived _______ London. It was very cold.
4. Are you busy _______ your homework?
5. I couldn’t meet Mrs. Chi because she’s _______.

C. READING COMPREHENSION. (4 MARKS)
Passage 1.
 	Finish-born botanist William Nylander taught at the university of Hesinkifor a number of years and later moved to Paris, where he lived until his death at the end of the nineteenth century. During the second half of the last century, he became a prominent figure in the field of lichenology. Botanists from all over the world sent samples to his laboratory to be analyzed and classified. It can be said without exaggeration that four of five lichens bear his name.
 	He was the first to realize the importance of using chemical reagents in the taxomony of lichens. He selected the most common reagents used by the chemists of his time. Lichenologists all over the world still use these reagents, including tincture of odine and hypochorite in their laboratories. During the first half of the nienteenth century, a Japanese named Abahima added only one chemical product- Phenol diamines. Nylander was also responsible for discovering that atmosphere of big cities hindered the lichens’s development and cause them to disappear. Now they are used to detect atmospheric pollution. Nevertheless, he considered lichens to be simple plants and vehemently opposed the widely accepted modern theories that lichens are compound species formed by two discordant elements: algae and fungi.

I. Write T (true) or F (false) (1 mark).
_____ 01. Nylander was born in Paris.
_____ 02. He used to work at a university
_____ 03. He died in late 1990s
_____ 04. He was a doctor.
_____ 05. He was a vey well-known man.
II. Choose the best answer (1 mark).
1. Internationally renowed scientists sent lichens samples to Nylander because	_______________
A. he considered them to be simple plants
B. he used reagents to deternine their use.
C. he analyzed and classified them.
D. he collected and preserved them.
2. Which of the following is not true?
A. Nylander accepted his coleagues’ theories on the composition of lichens.
B. Eighty percent of lichens bear his name.
C. Today lichens are used to detect atmospheric pollution.
D. Most of botanists consider lichens to be a compound specie.
3. All of the following are true except:
A. he was the first to use chemical reagents in taxonomy of lichens
B. he believed that lichens were simple plants.
C. he was an esteemed lichenologist.
D. he taught botany at a university in Paris.
4. According to the nineteenth -century theories, which elements form the composition of lichens?
A. odine and chemical reagents 	B. algae and fungi
C. hypochlorite and odine	D. chemical reagents and atmospheric chemicals.
5. How could william Nylander best described?
A. degenerate	 B. dormineering. 	C. ingenious 	D. anxous.	


Passage 2.
A WELSH FESTIVAL
 Wales has a population of about three million. English is the main language and only twenty per cent speak both Welsh and English. Every year, (1) ………… August there is a Welsh-speaking festival. It (2) ………… place in a different town each year so everyone has a chance for it to be near them. Local people (3) _______ years making plans for when the festival will be in (4) _______ town. Each festival is (5) _______ by about 160.000 people. They travel not only from nearby towns and villages (6) _______ also from the rest of the British Isles and (7) _______ from abroad. There are concerts, plays and (8) _______ to find the best singers, poets, writers and so on. Shops sell Welsh music,