Read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each of the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

           The weather is not beautiful all the time. Perhaps you can remember a day when bad weather made you afraid. One kind bad weather scares many people is called thunderstorm. This is what happens when there is a thunderstorm. First you see a sudden flash of bright light, and the loud sound is called thunder. Lighting is colorful, but it can cause serious problems. Lighting is electricity that is moving very rapidly. It may be moving between a cloud and the ground, between two clouds, between two parts of the same cloud. The lighting heats the air around it. This hot air expands, or get bigger, and it causes the air to move in waves. The air waves pass you in a series, one after another. For this reason, you may hear many rumbles and not just one sound.

29. The weather…….        

        A. is always beautiful                           B. is not always fine

       C. gets more beautiful                            D. is very nice everyday

30. A thunderstorm is one kind of bad weather that……..

       A. doesn’t scare anybody                        B. nobody is scared of

       C. makes may people scared                   D. had no sound at all

31. Which statement is NOT TRUE?

       A. Lighting is electricity that is moving very rapidly

       B. A thunderstorm is one kind of bad weather.

       C. People are afraid of thunderstorms.

       D. The lighting always comes after the thunder.

32. You may hear many rumbles because………

       A. lighting moves very slowly                 B. lighting is colorful

       C. the weather is bad                                D. the air waves pass you in a series, one after another

33. On the whole, the passage is about…….

       A. The nice weather                                  B. The thunderstorm

       C. The lighting                                          D. The loud sound

Read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each of the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

When your mobile phone runs out of battery power, all you have to do to get it working again is to charge it up. Imagine if you could do the same thing with your car. Researchers at car companies are developing cars that plug into electric sockets. These vehicles might become the cars of the future.

The cars are called plug-in hybrids and they get most of their power from electricity, just like other electrical devices like mobile phones and laptops. This technology would significantly reduce the amount of petrol that people use. For countries that depend on other oil producing countries for their petrol supply this could be a great advantage.

Presently, most cars use petrol. Unfortunately, burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide gas, and when a large amount of this gas and other greenhouse gases are trapped in the Earth's atmosphere, they cause global warming. Hybrid vehicles have already been developed and are being driven. These cars get their power from both petrol and electricity; they are able to travel longer distances with less petrol. Plug-in hybrids will be even more advanced as they are designed to be powered mainly by electricity and use only a small amount of petrol. It might be some time before the cars will become available to the public but if they do, it will be a major breakthrough for transport.

31. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Cars of the future.                                                 B. I low to reduce gas.

C. Cars running on petrol.                                                                                    D. How to develop hydrid cars.

32. According to the passage, researchers are developing ______.

A. cars that never run out of battery power                 B. electric cars whose battery can be recharged

C. cars that do not need a battery                                 D. electric car that don't need to be charged

33. According to the passage, this new technology would be a great advantage for ______.

A. countries which do not produce oil                      B. people who don't use much petrol

C. companies which produce cars                             D. oil producing countries

34. According to the passage, hybrid cars ______.

A. have not been developed                                                                              B. use a combination of electricity and petrol

C. get their energy only from electricity                       D. use more petrol than cars running on petrol

35. The word "they" in line 13 refers to ______.

A. greenhouse gases          B. fossil fuels                  C. distances                     D. cars

Read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each of the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

LITTER ON MOUNT EVEREST

Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. It is also the highest trash pile in the world. About 400 people try to reach the top every year. Having many climbers means a lot of trash. It is very dangerous to climb Mt. Everest. The air is very thin and cold. Most people carry bottles of oxygen; they could die without it. When the oxygen bottles are empty, people throw them on the ground. When strong winds rip their tents, people leave them behind. They don’t have the energy to take the trash away. They only have enough energy to go down the mountain safely. Trash is a terrible problem. Since people first began to climb Mt. Everest, they have left 50,000 kilos of trash on the mountain. Several groups have climbed the mountain just to pick up the trash. When people plan to climb the mountain, they have to plan to take away their trash.

29. What is the passage written about?

A. Wind on the mountain                                        B. A problem with path

C. A problem with trash                                          D. Climbing safely

30.  How much trash has been left on the mountain?

A. Four hundred kilos                                                         B. Four thousand kilos

C. Five thousand kilos                                             D. Fifty thousand kilos

31. Which of the following sentences is NOT fasle?

A. Climbers on Mount Everest carry bottles of oxygen because they are thirsty.

B. Climbers on Mount Everest carry bottles of oxygen because the air is very thin.

C. Climbers on Mount Everest carry bottles of oxygen because climbing makes them tired. 

D. Climbers on Mount Everest carry bottles of oxygen because the weather is not cold.

32.  In line 4, the sentence: “people throw them on the ground”, what does the word them refer to?

A. Tents                     B. Oxygen bottles                  C. Strong winds       D. Other climbers

33. Why do climbers leave their trash on the mountain?

A. Special groups will pick it up.                           B. The wind will blow it away.

C. They don’t have the energy to take it away.    D. Other climbers will use it later.

Read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each of the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

Each locality in Việt Nam has its own specialty. Hải Dương has its Bánh Đậu Xanh (green bean cake) and Cao Bằng has its Bánh Khảo (sweet short cake made of roast glutinous rice flour). In Hà Tĩnh, the specialty is Kẹo Cu Đơ , a candy made of roasted peanuts and molasses and covered with rice pancakes. “The name Cu Đơ appeared long ago in Hà Tĩnh’s Hương Sơn region”, said 90-year-old Hồ Vinh. Kẹo Cu Đơ is known far and wide for its quality – not too soft and not too hard. Although Cu Đơ first came from Hương Sơn, Đại Nài Village (locally known as Cu Đơ village) is more famous for the candy because most households there make it. Hà Tĩnh people, consider our Cu Đơ candy our native land’s soul for its simplicity, austerity and sweetness,” Mr.Khánh-the president of Hà Tĩnh province said. “It inspires us with emotions to remember to our barren land and our long live customs”.

1. Which of the following is Cao Bằng’s speciality?

    A. Bánh Khảo                  B. Bánh Đậu Xanh               C. Kẹo Cu Đơ            D. All of them

2. Which one is NOT the ingredient to make Cu Đơ?

   A. molasses                        B. peanuts                           C. green bean               D. rice pancakes         

3. Where did Cu Đơ first appear?

    A. Hương Sơn   B. Hải Dương                                C. Đại Nài                    D. Cao Bằng

4. Why is Đại Nài known as Cu Đơ village?

   A. Most people there eat Cu Đơ a lot.                   C. Most people there buy Cu Đơ a lot.

   B. Most households there make Cu Đơ                 D. Cu Đơ was first made there

5. Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

A. Hồ Vinh is the man who first made Cu Đơ.          

B. Mr Khánh is a president of a Cu Đơ making village.      

C. Cu Đơ candy is too soft and expensive.

D. Hà Tĩnh people consider Cu Đơ as their native land’s soul. 

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.

According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Humans have difficult choices to make about saving endangered species.

B. The existence of humans is at the expense of some other species.

C. No other species can threaten the survival of humans on Earth.

D. Some animals and plants cannot survive without human help.

II. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions that follow.

    Write your answer (A, B, C, or D) in the space given on the right. (5 pts)

Choosing the right career is very important. Most of us spend a great part of our lives at our jobs. For that reason, we should try to find out what our talents are and how we can use them. We can do this through aptitude tests, interviews with specialists and study of books in our field of interest. There are many careers open to catch of us. Perhaps we like science, then we might prepare ourselves to be chemists, physicists or biologists. Maybe our interests take us into the business world and  such work as accounting, personnel management or public relations. Many people find their place in government service, teaching, newspaper work, medicine, engineering. These and many other fields offer fascinating careers to persons with talent and training.

1.       It is important to find the right career because _____                                                                                          

A. It’s very easy to lose the job.                B. Most of us  spend a great part of our lives at our jobs.

C. We need money.                                  D. It’s difficult to find a job.

2.       We can find the right career by _____                                                  

A. asking for some useful advice.             B. finding out what our talents are and how we can use them.

C. travelling wherever we can.                 D. learning some foreign languages.

3.       We can find out what our talents are and how we use through _____

A. interviews with specialists.                   B. all are correct.

C. aptitude tests.                                      D. study of books in our field of interest.

4.       Careers found in the scientific world are _____                                                  

A. Biologists, chemists, physicists.           B. Physicists, biologists, accountants.

C. Businessmen, teachers, doctors.         D. Chemists, mathematicians, c.

5.       The theme of the passage is _____                                                  

A. Jobs in the society nowadays.              B. good jobs.

C. unemployment.                                    D. How  to find a right job nowadays.

Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to complete each of the following sentences. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

6. Have you checked the weather ______ today?

A. forecast                           B. guess                            C. expectation                D. prediction

7. Last year, she gave up politics and ______to focus on charity work.

A. decides                             B. decided                        C. was deciding              D. will decide

8. You didn’t go to Lan's party yesterday, ______?

A. don’t you                         B. didn't you                   C. do you                         D. did you

9. The children did the job ______, so they could go to the party.

A. economy                          B. economically             C. economic                    D. economical

10. I am very tired and sleepy now _______ I stayed up late last night.

A. therefore                         B. because of                   C. so                                  D. because

11. I was hoping the sunny weather would last, but unfortunately it was only ______.

A. temporary                      B. complimentary          C. obligatory                  D. contemporary

12. They forgot to ______ the light before going out, which was careless of them.

A. turn on                             B. turn down                   C. turn off                       D. turn up

13. Many tourists enjoy ______ on the beach in summer.

A. to sunbathe                     B. sunbathe                     C. to sunbathing             D. sunbathing

14. Tim said that he ______ his work the next day.

A. would finish                    B. has finished                C. will finish                    D. doesn’t finish

15. You ______ park your car here. It's not allowed.

A. must                                 B. needn't                        C. need                             D. mustn’t

16. If we reuse bottles and cans, we ______ a large amount of garbage.

A. will reduce                      B. would have reduced C. would reduce              D.wouldn’t reduce

17. I can never touch lobster because I am ______ to the shellfish.

A. sensible                            B. detrimental                C. allergic                       D. infected

18. Paris, ______ is the capital of  France, is a very nice city.

A. that                                   B. who                              C. whose                          D. which

19. Nam: “That's a beautiful picture you have drawn, Mai”.

      Mai: “______”

A. Are you sure?                B. It's kind of you to say so. C.  You are welcome.      D. Never mind

Read the following passage and write the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

The festival of Diwali is one of the most important religious festivals in India. It lasts for five days around the end of October. It is the festival of Lakshimi, the Goddest who, in the Hindu religion, brings peace and properity.

Preparations for the festival begin several weeks before the festival. People clean and decorate their homes, prepare special food and buy new clothes and jewelry to welcome the Goddess in their homes. All over India, people light up their homes with oil lamps and colourful lights.

The celebrations take place on the darkest night of the lunar month, Amavasya. In the evening, fireworks fill the sky to make Diwali a true “Festival of Light

Question 29: Where is Diwali celebrated?

A. In the USA                       B. In Britain              C. In India                 D. In Viet Nam

Question 30: When is the festival held?

A. In June                              B. In September        C. In October            D. In November

Question 31: What do people light up their homes in the festival?

A. with candles                                                        B. with colourful lights      

C. with oil lamps                                                   D. B and C are correct

Question 32: What fill the sky to make Diwali a true “Festival of Light”?

A. fireworks                          B. lights                     C. candles                             D. matches

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.

The author mentions all of the following as requirements for slang expressions to be created EXCEPT

A. new situations

B. a new generation

C. interaction among diverse groups

D. a number of linguists