Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined words in each of the following questions.
27. The Mediterranean Sea occupies 1% of the world's water surface, but it is the dumping ground for 50% of all marine pollution.
A. underground B. mountainous C. inland D. aquatic
28. The 1923 earthquake in Japan killed about 200,000 people and left countless injured and homeless.
A. killed B. wounded C. imprisoned D. enriched
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word in each of the following questions.
29. The authorities are giving temporary solutions to this problem.
A. careful B. swift C. permanent D. short-term
30. Because warmer water has less oxygen in it, it can harm fish populations and cause harmful algal blooms.
A. support B. reduce C. contaminate D. illustrate
Identify the underlined word/ phrase (A, B, C, or D) that needs correcting to become a correct one.
31. Fortunately, they learnt how to do in case of an earthquake before it occurred.
A B C D
32. I weren’t informed anything about the wildfire last week.
A B C D
C. READING
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
How can scientists predict earthquakes? Earthquakes are not scattered anywhere but happen in certain areas. They happen in places where pieces of the Earth's surface meet. For example, earthquakes often occur on the west-coast of North and South America, around the Mediterranean Sea, and along the Pacific coast of Asia.
Another way to predict earthquakes is to look for changes in the Earth's surface, like a sudden drop of water level in the ground. Some people say animals can predict earthquakes. Before earthquakes people have seen chickens sitting in trees, fish jumping out of the water, snakes leaving their holes and other animals acting strangely.
After an earthquake happens, people can die from lack of food, water, and medical supplies. The amount of destruction caused by an earthquake depends on where it happens, what time it happens, and how strong it is. It also depends on types of building, soil conditions and population. Of the 6000 earthquakes on the Earth each year, only about fifteen
27. D. aquatic
28. B. wounded
29. C. permanent
30. A. support
31. C. in case of → in case
32. A. weren't → wasn't
33. B. pieces of the Earth's surface meet
34. C. the Pacific coast of Asia
35. A. changes in the Earth's surface
36. A. lack of food
37. D. how to predict earthquakes
38. C. refers39. A. poisons
40. C. ways
41. C. by
42. C. environment
43. D. If this house wasn’t quite expensive, I could buy it.44. C. She has never been to the United Kingdom before.
45. A. Despite the weather was so bad, they decided to go camping.
46. Trees’ leaves are damaged because of acid rain.47. I saw a thief when I was going shopping with my mother yesterday.
48. I didn’t read the news about the storm on newspapers, but I watched it on TV.
49. After he had cleaned his house, his friends came.
50. Since radioactive pollution is very dangerous, it can cause abnormal growth.
27.D. aquatic
28.B. wounded
29.C. permanent
30.A. support
31.C. in case of sửa thành in case
32.A. weren't sửa thành wasn't
Reading
33.B. pieces of the Earth's surface meet
34.C. the Pacific coast of Asia
35.A. changes in the Earth's surface
36.A. lack of food
37.D. how to predict earthquakes
38.C. refers
39.A. poisons
40.C. ways
41.C. by
42.C. environment
Writting
43.D. If this house wasn’t quite expensive, I could buy it.
44.C. She has never been to the United Kingdom before.
45.A. Despite the weather was so bad, they decided to go camping.
46.Trees’ leaves are damaged because of acid rain.
47.I saw a thief when I was going shopping with my mother yesterday.
48.I didn’t read the news about the storm on newspapers, but I watched it on TV.
49.After he had cleaned his house, his friends came.
50.Since radioactive pollution is very dangerous, it can cause abnormal growth.
27 D
28 B
29 C
30 A
31 C
32 A
33 B
34 C
35 A
