SECTION 2: PHONETICS (10 points) III. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest by writing your answers A, B, C or D in the numbered box. (6 points) 1. A. executive B. excellence C. exorbitant D. exacerbate 2. A. complete B. command C. common D. community 3. A. endure B. feature C. procedure D. measure IV. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others by writing A, B, C or D in the numbered box. (4 points) 4. A. precision B. enthusiast C. spectator D. credulous 5. A. manufacture B. acknowledgement C. deficiency D. inheritance SECTION 3: LEXICO – GRAMMAR (70 points) V. Choose the best answer to complete each of the sentences by writing A, B, C or D in the numbered box. (60 points) 1. _______, it is obvious that the whole thing was a waste of time and effort. A. None of us wanted to go in the first place B. Staff meetings are often boring and have no apparent point to them C. Since the results were far more satisfactory than anyone had expected D. Seeing that we couldn’t solve anything in the end 2. Under no circumstances _______ gratuities from clients. A. may members of staff accept B. are members of staff to accept C. must members of staff accept D. do members of staff accept 3. _______ lectures at your university? A. Haven’t students got to have attended B. Needn’t students have attended C. Mustn’t students to attend D. Don’t students have to attend 4. The incredible thing about telephone _______ across the continents, but that you can recognize the other person’s voice. A. is it allow people to talk instantly B. is not that people can instantly talk to each other C. is it provides instant talking to each other D. is that people can talk instantly 5. Mary and Diana are talking to each other. Mary: "Just let me know if there is anything else I can do you for you in case of need, Janet." Diana: "_______; you’ve always been a good egg.” A. Thanks, Mary. I can count on you to help B. I couldn’t agree more C. Thanks, Mary. It’s difficult to believe D. Thanks, Mary. You’re welcome 6. _______ you have filled out the application correctly, you should hear from us within a few weeks. A. Just as soon as B. Providing C. So far as D. Knowing 7. Unfortunately, their house _______ while they were at the restaurant celebrating their anniversary. A. got burgled B. had burgled C. went burgled D. burgled 8. Extensive forests, _______, abundant wildlife, and beautiful waterfalls are among the attractions of Glacier National Park. A. It has spectacular mountain scenery B. the mountain scenery is spectacular C. spectacular mountain scenery D. and the spectacular scenery of the mountains 9. Some people think the curriculum at the public school is as good _______ of any private school. A. or better than B. as or better that C. as or better than those D. as or better than that 10. Most of us would maintain that physical _______ does not playa major part in how we react to the people we meet. A. attraction B. attractive C. attractiveness D. attractively 11. It is a serious operation for a woman as old as my grandmother. She's very frail. I hope she _______. A. pulls through B. gets away C. puts through D. comes round 12. Global warming has progressed _______ glaciers everywhere are shrinking. A. too much that B. enough to cause C. to such an extent that D. so great an extent that 13. There are _______ words in English having more than one meaning. Pay close attention to this fact. A. a large many B. quite many C. a great many D. quite a lot 14. We should all _______ a green lifestyle, which means we will help conserve our natural resources. A. adapt B. adjust C. adopt D. allow 15. John was out of his _______ in the advanced class, so he moved to the intermediate class. A. class B. depth C. league D. head 16. The endless parade of _______ on television has made today’s young girls obsessed with their bodies. A. enhanced surgically celebrities B. celebrities enhancing surgically C. surgical celebrities enhanced D. surgically enhanced celebrities 17. The sun _______ down with merciless intensity on the six men adrift in the life boat. A. shone B. scared C. glared D. flared 18. In some movies, stepmother is often described as a completely hard and selfish person - she doesn't have the _______ of human kindness in her. A. cream B. oil C. milk D. water 19. I felt a bit _______ and seemed to have more aches and pains than usual. A. out of sorts B. on the mend C. over the worst D. under the fever 20. By the time of midnight, when the wind suddenly _______, the missing mountain hikers were filled with not only hungry and cold but also with scare. A. got up B. went up C. blew up D. bottomed up 21. Punctual people always _______ being a little early for their appointments. A. lose track of B. make a point of C. hang up on D. keep away from 22. As a poet, I think she _______ comparison with the greatest this century. A. makes B. stands C. leads D. matches 23. The princess's nanny's autobiography really gives the _______ on life among the royals. A. know-how B. low-down C. show-down D. look-out 24. Mother dolphins ____ reduce their sleeping hours for one week after giving birth in order to focus on rearing their newborn calves. A. previously B. promisingly C. profoundly D. dramatically 25. Whether this professor says something unpleasant, you should _______. A. put your leg in your mouth B. flatter your tongue C. bite your tongue D. let it slip through your fingers 26. She was on her _______ throughout the interview because she didn’t want to say anything stupid. A. defence B. lookout C. caution D. guard 27. The problem _______ because neither side was prepared to compromise. A. amassed B. escalated C. proliferated D. enhanced 28. I would like to welcome you all on this auspicious _______, the 25th anniversary of the founding of our company. A. occasion B. moment C. meeting D. gathering * Write your answer (A, B, C, or D in the numbered box to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the following sentence. 29. The ambassador verified the report before he called the State Department to make sure he wasn’t causing unwarranted anxiety. A. canceled B. confirmed C. proofread D. purloined * Write your answer (A, B, C, or D in the numbered box to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the following sentence. 30. After trying their hand in the mobile market for just a few years, the company is already throwing in the towel after finding very little success. A. admitting their defeat B. calling for more investment C. refusing to give up D. abandoning a project VI. Identify the mistake in each sentence by writing your answers A, B, C or D in the numbered box. (10 points) 31. The pituitary gland is a small endocrine gland at the base of the brain that releases many hormones and regulates another endocrine glands. A. at B. another C. many D. regulates 32. In artifacts from as early as the Stone Age, mathematics and art can be seen to have fused in the geometric patterns decorate pottery and carpentry. A. to have fused B. and C. as early as D. decorate 33. Every employee is expected to be competent and industrial because wage rates depend on levels of productivity. A. employee B. competent C. industrial D. productivity 34. The evidence of surveys suggests that employees frequently do not exercise much choice at all over their health plans. A. surveys B. that C. health health D. do not exercise 35. A simulated experiment with an atom trap was taken with five sections, and then let run to generate the composition. A. simulated B. with C. was taken D. to generate SECTION 4: READING (60 points) VII. Read the following passage and write your answers A, B, C, or D in the numbered box to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 1 to 10. (20 points) ENGLISH SPELLING Why does English spelling have a reputation for being difficult? English was first written down when Christian monks came to England in Anglo-Saxon (1) _______. They used the 23 letters of Latin to write down the sounds of Anglo-Saxon speech as they heard it. However, English has a (2) _______ range of basic sounds (over 40) than Latin. The alphabet was too small, and so combinations of letters were needed to (3) _______ the different sounds. Inevitably, there were inconsistencies in the way that letters were combined. With the Norman invasion of England, the English language was put (4) _______ risk. English survived, but the spelling of many English words changed to follow French patterns, and many French words were (5) _______into the language. The result was more irregularity. When the printing press was (6) _______ in the fifteenth century, many early printers of English texts spoke other first languages. They (7) _______little effort to respect English spelling. Although one of the short-term effects of printing was to produce a number of variant spellings, in the long term it created fixed spellings. People became used to seeing words spelt in the same way. Rules were (8) _______ and dictionaries were put together which printers and writers could refer to. However, spoken English was not fixed and continued to change slowly - just as it still does now. Letters that were sounded in the Anglo-Saxon period, like the 'k' in 'knife', now became (9) _______. Also, the pronunciation of vowels then had (10) _______ in common with how they sound now, but the way they are spelt hasn't changed. 1. A. ages B. centuries C. times D. years 2. A. deeper B. longer C. thicker D. wider 3. A. explain B. express C. perform D. tell 4. A. at B. in C. on D. under 5. A. announced B. found C. introduced D. started 6. A. discovered B. invented C. made up D. taken up 7. A. brought B. did C. made D. put 8. A. drawn up B. filled in C. got across D. handed out 9. A. dump B. quiet C. silent D. speechless 10. A. much B. many C. few D. little giải

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SECTION 2: PHONETICS (10 points) III. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest by writing your answers A, B, C or D in the numbered box. (6 points) 1. A. executive B. excellence C. exorbitant D. exacerbate 2. A. complete B. command C. common D. community 3. A. endure B. feature C. procedure D. measure IV. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others by writing A, B, C or D in the numbered box. (4 points) 4. A. precision B. enthusiast C. spectator D. credulous 5. A. manufacture B. acknowledgement C. deficiency D. inheritance SECTION 3: LEXICO – GRAMMAR (70 points) V. Choose the best answer to complete each of the sentences by writing A, B, C or D in the numbered box. (60 points) 1. _______, it is obvious that the whole thing was a waste of time and effort. A. None of us wanted to go in the first place B. Staff meetings are often boring and have no apparent point to them C. Since the results were far more satisfactory than anyone had expected D. Seeing that we couldn’t solve anything in the end 2. Under no circumstances _______ gratuities from clients. A. may members of staff accept B. are members of staff to accept C. must members of staff accept D. do members of staff accept 3. _______ lectures at your university? A. Haven’t students got to have attended B. Needn’t students have attended C. Mustn’t students to attend D. Don’t students have to attend 4. The incredible thing about telephone _______ across the continents, but that you can recognize the other person’s voice. A. is it allow people to talk instantly B. is not that people can instantly talk to each other C. is it provides instant talking to each other D. is that people can talk instantly 5. Mary and Diana are talking to each other. Mary: "Just let me know if there is anything else I can do you for you in case of need, Janet." Diana: "_______; you’ve always been a good egg.” A. Thanks, Mary. I can count on you to help B. I couldn’t agree more C. Thanks, Mary. It’s difficult to believe D. Thanks, Mary. You’re welcome 6. _______ you have filled out the application correctly, you should hear from us within a few weeks. A. Just as soon as B. Providing C. So far as D. Knowing 7. Unfortunately, their house _______ while they were at the restaurant celebrating their anniversary. A. got burgled B. had burgled C. went burgled D. burgled 8. Extensive forests, _______, abundant wildlife, and beautiful waterfalls are among the attractions of Glacier National Park. A. It has spectacular mountain scenery B. the mountain scenery is spectacular C. spectacular mountain scenery D. and the spectacular scenery of the mountains 9. Some people think the curriculum at the public school is as good _______ of any private school. A. or better than B. as or better that C. as or better than those D. as or better than that 10. Most of us would maintain that physical _______ does not playa major part in how we react to the people we meet. A. attraction B. attractive C. attractiveness D. attractively 11. It is a serious operation for a woman as old as my grandmother. She&#x27;s very frail. I hope she _______. A. pulls through B. gets away C. puts through D. comes round 12. Global warming has progressed _______ glaciers everywhere are shrinking. A. too much that B. enough to cause C. to such an extent that D. so great an extent that 13. There are _______ words in English having more than one meaning. Pay close attention to this fact. A. a large many B. quite many C. a great many D. quite a lot 14. We should all _______ a green lifestyle, which means we will help conserve our natural resources. A. adapt B. adjust C. adopt D. allow 15. John was out of his _______ in the advanced class, so he moved to the intermediate class. A. class B. depth C. league D. head 16. The endless parade of _______ on television has made today’s young girls obsessed with their bodies. A. enhanced surgically celebrities B. celebrities enhancing surgically C. surgical celebrities enhanced D. surgically enhanced celebrities 17. The sun _______ down with merciless intensity on the six men adrift in the life boat. A. shone B. scared C. glared D. flared 18. In some movies, stepmother is often described as a completely hard and selfish person - she doesn&#x27;t have the _______ of human kindness in her. A. cream B. oil C. milk D. water 19. I felt a bit _______ and seemed to have more aches and pains than usual. A. out of sorts B. on the mend C. over the worst D. under the fever 20. By the time of midnight, when the wind suddenly _______, the missing mountain hikers were filled with not only hungry and cold but also with scare. A. got up B. went up C. blew up D. bottomed up 21. Punctual people always _______ being a little early for their appointments. A. lose track of B. make a point of C. hang up on D. keep away from 22. As a poet, I think she _______ comparison with the greatest this century. A. makes B. stands C. leads D. matches 23. The princess&#x27;s nanny&#x27;s autobiography really gives the _______ on life among the royals. A. know-how B. low-down C. show-down D. look-out 24. Mother dolphins ____ reduce their sleeping hours for one week after giving birth in order to focus on rearing their newborn calves. A. previously B. promisingly C. profoundly D. dramatically 25. Whether this professor says something unpleasant, you should _______. A. put your leg in your mouth B. flatter your tongue C. bite your tongue D. let it slip through your fingers 26. She was on her _______ throughout the interview because she didn’t want to say anything stupid. A. defence B. lookout C. caution D. guard 27. The problem _______ because neither side was prepared to compromise. A. amassed B. escalated C. proliferated D. enhanced 28. I would like to welcome you all on this auspicious _______, the 25th anniversary of the founding of our company. A. occasion B. moment C. meeting D. gathering * Write your answer (A, B, C, or D in the numbered box to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the following sentence. 29. The ambassador verified the report before he called the State Department to make sure he wasn’t causing unwarranted anxiety. A. canceled B. confirmed C. proofread D. purloined * Write your answer (A, B, C, or D in the numbered box to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the following sentence. 30. After trying their hand in the mobile market for just a few years, the company is already throwing in the towel after finding very little success. A. admitting their defeat B. calling for more investment C. refusing to give up D. abandoning a project VI. Identify the mistake in each sentence by writing your answers A, B, C or D in the numbered box. (10 points) 31. The pituitary gland is a small endocrine gland at the base of the brain that releases many hormones and regulates another endocrine glands. A. at B. another C. many D. regulates 32. In artifacts from as early as the Stone Age, mathematics and art can be seen to have fused in the geometric patterns decorate pottery and carpentry. A. to have fused B. and C. as early as D. decorate 33. Every employee is expected to be competent and industrial because wage rates depend on levels of productivity. A. employee B. competent C. industrial D. productivity 34. The evidence of surveys suggests that employees frequently do not exercise much choice at all over their health plans. A. surveys B. that C. health health D. do not exercise 35. A simulated experiment with an atom trap was taken with five sections, and then let run to generate the composition. A. simulated B. with C. was taken D. to generate SECTION 4: READING (60 points) VII. Read the following passage and write your answers A, B, C, or D in the numbered box to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 1 to 10. (20 points) ENGLISH SPELLING Why does English spelling have a reputation for being difficult? English was first written down when Christian monks came to England in Anglo-Saxon (1) _______. They used the 23 letters of Latin to write down the sounds of Anglo-Saxon speech as they heard it. However, English has a (2) _______ range of basic sounds (over 40) than Latin. The alphabet was too small, and so combinations of letters were needed to (3) _______ the different sounds. Inevitably, there were inconsistencies in the way that letters were combined. With the Norman invasion of England, the English language was put (4) _______ risk. English survived, but the spelling of many English words changed to follow French patterns, and many French words were (5) _______into the language. The result was more irregularity. When the printing press was (6) _______ in the fifteenth century, many early printers of English texts spoke other first languages. They (7) _______little effort to respect English spelling. Although one of the short-term effects of printing was to produce a number of variant spellings, in the long term it created fixed spellings. People became used to seeing words spelt in the same way. Rules were (8) _______ and dictionaries were put together which printers and writers could refer to. However, spoken English was not fixed and continued to change slowly - just as it still does now. Letters that were sounded in the Anglo-Saxon period, like the &#x27;k&#x27; in &#x27;knife&#x27;, now became (9) _______. Also, the pronunciation of vowels then had (10) _______ in common with how they sound now, but the way they are spelt hasn&#x27;t changed. 1. A. ages B. centuries C. times D. years 2. A. deeper B. longer C. thicker D. wider 3. A. explain B. express C. perform D. tell 4. A. at B. in C. on D. under 5. A. announced B. found C. introduced D. started 6. A. discovered B. invented C. made up D. taken up 7. A. brought B. did C. made D. put 8. A. drawn up B. filled in C. got across D. handed out 9. A. dump B. quiet C. silent D. speechless 10. A. much B. many C. few D. little giải

Accepted Answer

1. A. executive 
2. A. complete 
3. B. feature 
4. B. enthusiast 
5. C. deficiency

Here are the answers to the sentences:

1. A. None of us wanted to go in the first place
2. A. may members of staff accept
3. D. Don’t students have to attend
4. D. is that people can talk instantly
5. A. Thanks, Mary. I can count on you to help
6. B. Providing
7. A. got burgled
8. C. spectacular mountain scenery
9. A. or better than
10. C. attractiveness
11. A. pulls through
12. C. to such an extent that
13. C. a great many
14. C. adopt
15. D. head
16. D. surgically enhanced celebrities
17. C. glared
18. A. to have fused
19. C. industrial
20. A. surveys
21. A. simulated

1. B. centuries 
2. D. wider 
3. B. express 
4. D. under 
5. C. introduced 
6. B. invented 
7. D. put 
8. A. drawn up 
9. C. silent 
10. D. little

SECTION 2: PHONETICS (10 points) III. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest by writing your answers A, B, C or D in the numbered box. (6 points) 1. A. executive...