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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.

        It is commonly believed that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The difference between schooling and education implied by this remark is important.

         Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no limits. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or on the job, whether in the kitchen or on the tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in school and the whole universe of informal learning. The agent (doer) of education can vary from respected grandparents to the people arguing about politics on the radio , from a child to a famous scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions. People receive education from infancy on. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term; it is a lifelong process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be a necessary part of one’s entire life.

         Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at about the same time, take the assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, and so on. The pieces of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the workings of governments, have been limited by the subjects being taught. For example, high school students know that they are not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their society or what the newest filmmarkers are experimenting with. There are clear and undoubted conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.

This passage is mainly aimed at _____.

A. telling the difference between the meaning of two related words “schooling” and “education”

B. telling a story about execellent teachers

C. listing and discussing several educational problems

D. giving examples of different schools

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 from 28 to 34.

A large number of inventions require years of arduous research and development before they are perfected. For instance, Thomas Edison had to make more than 1,000 attempts to invent the incandescent light bulb before he finally succeeded. History is replete with numerous other examples of people trying, yet failing to make inventions before they eventually succeeded. Yet some inventions have come about not through hard work but simply by accident. In most cases, when someone unintentionally invented something, the inventor was attempting to create something else. For example, in the 1930s, chemist Roy Plunkett was attempting to make a new substance that could be used to refrigerate items. He mixed some chemicals together. Then, he put them into a pressurized container and cooled the mixture. By the time his experiment was complete, he had a new invention. It was not a new substance that could be used for refrigeration though. Instead, he had invented Teflon, which is today most commonly used to make nonstick pots and pans. Similarly, decades earlier, John Pemberton was a pharmacist in Atlanta, Georgia. He was attempting to create a tonic that people could use whenever they had headaches. While he was not successful in that endeavor, he managed to invent Coca - Cola, the world - famous carbonated soft drink.

Scientists have also made crucial discoveries by accident when they were conducting experiments. In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, an antibiotic, in this manner. He discovered some mold growing in a dish with some bacteria. He noticed that the bacteria seemed to be avoiding the mold. When he investigated further, he determined some of the many useful properties of penicillin, which has saved millions of lives over the past few decades. Likewise, in 1946, scientist Percy Spencer was conducting an experiment with microwaves. He had a candy bar in his pocket, and he noticed that it suddenly melted. He investigated and learned the reason why that had happened. Soon afterward, he built a device that could utilize microwaves to heat food: the microwave oven.

In paragraph 1, the word arduous is closest in meaning to _______.

A. detailed

B. tough

C. specific

D. constant

Những chính sách cai trị của nhà hán đối với nhân dân ta là:

+Đặt ra hàng trăm thứ thuế như (thuế muối, thuế sắt,..)

+ Bắt nhân dân phải nộm những sản vật quý như (ngà voi, sừng tê,..)

+ Phải thực hiện chính sách đồng hóa dân tộc

Những chính sách cai trị đó đều nhằm mục đích bóc lột nhân dân ta.

This winter wasn’t_______ as difficult as last winter.

A. almost

B. nearly

C. closely

D. just

Choose the answer among A,B,C,D to complete each of the sentences below:

Not until my mother got home________________that she had left the purse at the office.

A. that she realized

B. she realized

C.  did she realize

D. did she realized

Hạt kín là nhóm thực vật có hoa. Chúng có một số đặc điểm, chung như sau :

Cơ quan sinh dưỡng phát triển đa dạng (rễ cọc, rễ chùm, thân gỗ, thân cỏ, lá đơn, lá kép,...), trong thân có mạch dẫn hoàn thiện.

Có hoa, quả. Hạt nằm trong quả (trước đó là noãn nằm trong bầu) là một ưu thế của các cây hạt kín, vì nó được bảo vệ tốt hơn. Hoa và quả có rất nhiều dạng khác nhau.

Môi trường sống đa dạng. Đây là nhóm thực vật tỉến hóa hơn cả.

Hạt kín là nhóm thực vật có hoa, có đặc điểm chung là:
+ Cơ quan sinh dưỡng phát triển đa dạng
+ Cơ quan sinh sản gồm hoa, quả, hạt, hạt được­ vỏ quả bao bọc kín
+ Có môi tr­ường sống đa dạng, là nhóm thực vật tiến hoá nhất

Neil Armstrong was the first man _______ on the moon.

A. walking

B. has walked

C. to walk

D. walked