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TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN) — mã 508 — 120 phút — 6 trang

Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút

Kết quả

Grammar MCQ (1–15)

Mã 508. Tự giải.

The organs of taste are the ________ that are mainly located on the tongue.

She gave me two mangoes but ________ of them was ripe.

Last year, she earned ________ her brother.

the handwriting was so ________.

No matter ________, Mozart was an accomplished composer while still a child.

She preferred to go out ________ home.

organize housework so as to ________ inefficiency, but not monotony.

the old man was ________.

The players' protest ________ no difference to the referee’s decision at all.

You've got to be ________ certain before you decide.

The doctor gave him ________ examination to discover the cause of his collapse.

I am reading this novel. By the time you come back from work, I ________.

Edward has found a bigger flat and is ________ move into it.

Not much happened, ________?

Many of the jobs … can be directly ________ to tourism.

Stress (16–20)

Tự giải.

Stress (16) · emotional / responsible / sympathetic / indifferent

Stress (17) · economy / advisory / economics / peninsula

Stress (18) · misunderstand / misbehaviour / environmental / characteristic

Stress (19) · pianist / musician / officer / triangle

Stress (20) · computer / horizon / imagine / property

Prepositions (21–30)

Tự giải.

Too many factories dispose ________ their waste by pumping it into rivers and the sea.

he tried very hard to catch ________ his friends at school.

The instructor warned the students ________ swimming alone in the pool.

it presents information ________ an effective way.

The police are going to look ________ the disappearance of the child.

you should be out there looking ________ a job.

Parts of the mountain road have been washed ________ after the floods.

It is interesting to take ________ a new hobby such as collecting stamps or going fishing.

________ the circumstances, I was unable to do anything about it.

it may take him a long time to get ________ the shock.

Error identification (31–40)

Choose the underlined part that needs correction.

Some relatives of mine like staying at their own cabins on Lake Omega every summer holidays.

Gilbert Newton Lewis, a chemist, helped to develop the modern electron theory of valence. The theory explains the forces holding atoms together in molecules.

In the United States, a large amount of the space newspapers is reserved for advertising.

He went up to the baseball park one afternoon to ask that when the game was scheduled to begin.

The Smiths are very proud of that their son always gets high marks in his courses.

Tropical forests exist close to the equator, which both heat and abundant rainfall occur all year round.

If you like water sports your visiting to Lake Eildon will certainly be enjoyable.

The American Indians killed the buffalo only when necessity to obtain food, clothing and shelter.

I sympathize with your complaint but there is nothing I can do for it.

The critics often have so strange taste in films and plays.

Phrasal verbs (41–48)

Tự giải.

I'd be grateful if you could ________ it for me.

Mike ________ sailing after he made friends with Harry.

He only earns enough to ________.

I tried to write the second essay as well, but I ________ time.

the drivers couldn't ________ the traffic signs.

They haven't ________ any plan to deal with rising unemployment.

After you have ________ the costume you like best, it’ll take a week to get it done.

Perhaps we could try and ________ our little misunderstanding.

Cloze — safety fabric (49–58)

Tự giải.

Most fashion designers do not have safety in mind when they pick out material for clothes. But when choosing material for sports clothes, it is very important to be safety (49) ______. This is particularly true with (50) ______ to clothes for extreme sports. Luckily, a team of scientists has recently developed a material that (51) ______ safety concerns into account. This fabric, which (52) ______ a layer of silicone, is now being used to make clothing for (54) ______ in extreme sports because it has a special quality. It (53) ______ soft unless the wearer is immediately involved in an accident of some kind. When this happens, the material hardens to protect the wearer from injury, becoming soft again moments later.
The people developing the material are sure that it will make a major (55) ______ to sports safety in general. In addition, they also (56) ______ that it will be important for other purposes. For example, it could be used for the (57) ______ of workers in the construction industry, protecting them from injury on a building site. Clearly, this new material has raised the (58) ______ for safety performance in clothes. What is more, because it is comfortable and fashionable, soft and flexible, it is easy to make the clothing both.

Pronunciation (59–63)

Tự giải.

Pronunciation (59) · certificate / criteria / interactive / initiate

Pronunciation (60) · ancient / capable / danger / angle

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation.

Reading — He knows too much (64–70)

Tự giải.

Dick Sterling put the phone down. His hands were trembling. He was furious with himself for failing to persuade his boss in Delhi, Keith Lennox, to support him and was disgusted with the mixture of veiled threats and vague promises Lennox had made. “He knows too much” — the words were still ringing in his ears. He wondered just what it was that Vish, the office manager of the factory, knew. How could it be so important that his position as India manager could be threatened by it? It simply didn’t make sense. Dick looked at his watch. Four o’clock. He called for his driver, Gopal, and asked to be driven home. He’d had enough for the day.
Dick sat gloomily in the back of the car, going over in his mind the events which had led up to the present crisis. How had he got himself into this impossible situation? It never should have happened, yet somehow, looking back, it seemed inevitable. Perhaps he was beginning to believe in fate?
He had arrived three years earlier to take over as general manager of Trakton’s factory in Madras, India — of course, only one of the many countries in which Trakton operated. Dick had been transferred to Madras from Nigeria, after a series of other overseas appointments. Each of the overseas factories had a general manager appointed from headquarters to oversee the management of the local workforce. In India this had worked particularly well. The Indian staff was highly-trained and efficient. They were also generally easy to work with; the company’s enlightened industrial relations policy had made sure of that. Salaries were higher than the average; there was a good pension scheme and generous health insurance benefits. Trakton boasted that it had not lost a day in strikes for over fifteen years.
Dick had found his senior Indian colleagues particularly good to work with. They knew their jobs inside out and were clearly committed to the company. Many of them had been with Trakton for the whole of their working lives, starting in the factory and working their way up to become managers. They were a good team.
The only exceptions had been Visvanathan, or “Vish” as he was known, the office manager, and his wife Molly. Molly was in charge of the Personnel Department. For reasons Dick had only gradually understood, Vish and Molly were regarded by the rest of the senior staff as somehow “special”. They behaved as if they had special privileges and expected other staff to defer to them. Dick slowly realised that they controlled other staff members through a combination of threats and promises. Given their positions, they could make life very difficult for anyone who opposed them. Likewise, they could make life easy for those who did what they wanted.
This sort of behaviour happened to varying degrees in every culture. Indeed, in the first few weeks after his arrival, both Vish and Molly had been all smiles and helpfulness. They had invited Dick and his wife to dinner too. Their newly-built house was in the fashionable SMART Colony, close to the sea. Dick had been suitably impressed by the house, which was full of the most modern household equipment. He had half-wondered, innocently, whether Vish had had to borrow money to pay for it all.

What was Dick's reaction to his conversation with Lennox?

When he was in his car, Dick thought that

Before Dick took charge of the Madras factory,

What is meant by “enlightened” in paragraph 3?

A lot of the bosses at Trakton

The word “those” in paragraph 5 refers to

How did Dick feel about the way Vish and Molly treated the other employees?

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