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2023
Bài thi. NGOẠI NGỮ; Môn thi. TIẾNG ANH 017
Thời gian làm bài. 60 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề

Họ và tên thí sinh:……………………………………………………………………. SBD:…………………………
Mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part
differs from the other three in each of the following questions.
Question 01: A. horse
B. hatch
C. humor
D. honor
Question 02: A. birth
B. slice
C. file
D. time
Mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the
other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 03: A. order
B. demand
C. explore
D. invite
Question 04: A. volunteer B. invention
C. phonetics
D. computer
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning
to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 05: There is an increase in the prevalence of electronic books as more people are
turning to digitalised reading materials.
A. deficiency
B. intensity
C. popularity
D. scarcity
Question 06: On Saturday wearing uniforms is optional so I often choose T-shirt and shorts.
A. compulsory
B. voluntary
C. uncomfortable
D. acceptable
Mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 07: I'd like you to give me ______ honest answer about this matter.
A. a
B. an
C. the
D. 0 (no article)
Question 08: She sat there quietly, but during all that time she was getting ______. Finally, she
exploded.
A. more angry
B. the more angry C. the most angry
D. angrier and angrier
Question 09: Only a few of the guests are really keen ______ the drinks served at the party.
A. in
B. on
C. at
D. with
Question 10: The tap ______ yesterday was replaced with a new one.
A. broken
B. breaking
C. having broken
D. was broken
Question 11: ______ it was raining heavily, he went out without a raincoat.
A. Because
B. Because of
C. Despite
D. Although
Question 12: She ran in a marathon last week but ______ after ten kilometers.
A. dropped out
B. closed down
C. broke up
D. made up
Question 13: If you ______ to my advice, you wouldn't be in this situation now.
A. listened
B. had listened
C. listen
D. were listening
Question 14: They eventually realize that reckless ______ of the earth's resources can lead only to
eventual global disaster.
A. exploit
B. exploitable
C. exploitation
D. exploitative
Question 15: Vi-Dam singing, two kinds of folk music from Nghe An and Ha Tinh province, has
been ______ to generations and is still very much alive today.
A. handed down
B. landed on
C. passed by
D. taken over
Question 16: The pointless war between the two countries left thousands of people dead and
seriously ______.
A. injured
B. wounded
C. spoilt
D. damaged
Question 17: The sight of his pale face brought ______ to me how ill he really was.
A. place
B. house
C. life
D. home
Question 18: Neither of them will be treated preferentially, ______?
A. will them
B. won't them
C. will they
D. won't they
Question 19: These T-shirts and jeans ______ in the U.S. in 1900.
A. have made
B. made
C. were made
D. make
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Question 20: Our new classmate, John is a bit of a rough ______ but I think I'm going to like him
once I get used to him.
A. stone
B. rock
C. diamond
D. pearl
Question 21: As soon as Linda ______ her degree, she will work in her father's company.
A. had finished
B. has finished
C. finished
D. was finished
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in
meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 22: The research findings were reliable since modern technology was used to increase
the precision of the sampling procedure.
A. inaccuracy
B. exactness
C. insecurity
D. flexibility
Question 23: I'm all in favor of ambition but I think when he says he'll be a millionaire by the time
he's 25, he's simply crying for the moon.
A. longing for what is within the reach
B. regretting for the moon
C. crying a lot and for a long time
D. doing something with vigorous intensity
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best complete
each of the following exchanges.
Question 24: Linda is thanking Daniel for his birthday present.
- Linda. “Thanks for the book. I've been looking it for months.” - Daniel. “__________”
A. Thank you for looking for it.
B. You can say that again.
C. I'm glad you like it.
D. I like reading books.
Question 25: Lucy and Jack are talking about their school days.
- Lucy. "I think school days are the best time of our lives."
- Jack. "__________. We had sweet memories together then."
A. Absolutely
B. That's nonsense C. I'm afraid so
D. I doubt it
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Many groups worldwide are trying to develop vaccines that protect against a wide range of
coronaviruses and prevent (26) ______ pandemic. These efforts have now been boosted by the
discovery that some healthcare workers had pre-existing immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus
during the first wave of the pandemic. During the first half of 2020, around 700 healthcare
workers in the UK were tested weekly as part of a crowd-funded study (27) ______ Covid Sortium.
Most of these people, who wore protective equipment, never tested positive for covid-19 in PCR
tests or developed covid-19 antibodies - proteins that bind to the outside of viruses, preventing
cells from being infected. (28) ______, when Leo Swadling and Mala Maini at University College
London and their colleagues looked more closely, they found some of those (29) ______ tested
negative had a protein in their blood that is linked to covid-19 infection, as well as T cell
responses to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. T cells are (30) ______ of the immune system.
(Adapted from https://www. new scientist, com/)
Question 26: A. other
B. another
C. many
D. much
Question 27: A. called
B. caller
C. call
D. calling
Question 28: A. Therefore B. Moreover
C. However
D. Because
Question 29: A. where
B. whose
C. whom
D. who
Question 30: A. part
B. piece
C. slice
D. lot
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 Amazing Race (TAR) is a popular reality TV show. Elise Doganieri and Bertram van
Munster created it in 2001 and since then it has won many awards. In the show, teams travel
around the world to different places. They try to arrive first, or at least not come last and they also
try to win prizes on their journey.
Every year, between 10 and 12 teams play on the show. There are two people in each team
and they must know each other before they come on the game. For example, they can be husband
and wife, parents and children, friends, etc. They have to travel to different countries and work
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together on the journey. The teams get some money at the beginning of the race and they use it to
buy food, tickets, etc. They can use planes, trains, bikes or even skis to travel.
The teams explore places they've never been to before and have games or “challenges”.
These challenges have some connection to the country they are in and can be things like riding a
camel, solving puzzles or eating a lot of food, for example. The teams often have to face extreme
weather conditions during their journey. Many times they are outside in the rain or snow or in
storms and get cold and wet. It's all part of the experience, though.
Each week, one team leaves the show, and in the end there are only four teams. The first
team to get to the last city on the journey wins the game. TAR is a very hard game and the teams
become really stressed, but it's an amazing experience. (Adapted from https://meaww.com/ )
Question 31: Which best serves as the title for the passage?
A. Tips for teams to win the race.
B. A hard race for all teams to win.
C. Places for teams to arrive.
D. A successful reality show.
Question 32: The word “created” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. watched
B. played
C. made
D. decorated
Question 33: According to the passage, how many players are there on the show?
A. 10 and 12
B. 20 and 24
C. 22
D. 44
Question 34: What does the word “They” in the second paragraph refer to ______?
A. tickets
B. trains
C. teams
D. countries
Question 35: Which of the following difficulties does the writer mention?
A. wild animals
B. bad weather
C. strange food
D. late trains
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs
correction in each of the following questions.
Question 36: Yesterday morning, it takes me two hours to repaint my bedroom and decorate the
living room.
A. morning
B. takes
C. repaint
D. decorate
Question 37: Either you or the headmaster are handing the prizes to these gifted students at the
meeting.
A. Either
B. are
C. to
D. gifted
Question 38: Transgender people are denied the ability to join the armed forces due to
discriminating policies implemented by the government.
A. Transgender
B. are denied
C. armed forces
D. discriminating
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in
meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 39: The last time I visited that village was 7 years ago.
A. I have visited that village for 7 years. B. I have visited that village for 7 years ago.
C. I didn't visit that village 7 years ago
D. I haven't visited that village for 7 years.
Question 40: "I'm sorry I forgot your birthday," he told me.
A. He refused to go to my birthday party. B. He complained that I forgot his birthday.
C. He begged me to forget my birthday.
D. He apologized for having forgotten my birthday.
Question 41: “Did they accept your application for the job?” I asked her.
A. I asked her had they accepted her application for the job.
B. I asked her if had they accepted her application for the job.
C. I asked her if they accepted her application for the job.
D. I asked her if they had accepted her application for the job.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines
each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 42: Disabled people can contribute to our community. Non-disabled people can also
contribute to our community.
A. Neither disabled people nor non-disabled ones can contribute to our community.
B. Only disabled people not non-disabled ones can contribute to our community.
C. Both disabled people and non-disabled ones can contribute to our community.
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D. Either disabled people or non-disabled ones can contribute to our community.
Question 43: We arrived at the conference. Then we realized that our reports were still at home.
A. No sooner had we realized that our reports were at home than we arrived at the conference.
B. Only after we arrived at the conference did we realize that our reports were still at home.
C. Not until we arrived at the conference that we realized that our reports were still at home.
D. Hardly had we arrived at the conference that we realized that our reports were still at
home.
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 pain of a migraine headache can virtually disable a person who suffers from it. Millions
and millions of people suffer from migraines, although many of them do not migraine is different
from a regular headache. A migraine is not at all the same as a headache, and it seems to have a
very physical cause.
One symptom of a migraine is a precursor, which is a visual aura before an attack. Yet only
about a third of patients actually experience that, and it is, therefore, not a requirement in the
diagnosis. Other symptoms include increased pain when a person moves, nausea, and sensitivity
to light and sound.
Scientists now believe that migraines are caused, not by abnormal blood vessels as
previously believed, but instead by a unique electrical disorder of brain cells. Physicians used to
treat migraines with medicine to constrict blood vessels because of the belief that dilated blood
vessels were the cause. The new research has been enhanced by imaging devices that allow
scientists to watch patients' brains during an attack. The results show that sufferers have
abnormally excitable neurons, or brain nerve cells. Prior to the attack, the neurons suddenly fire
off electrical pulses at the back of the brain, which ripple like waves on a lake after a stone hits the
water. They ripple across the top and then the back of the brain, ultimately affecting the brain
stem where the pain centers are located. The pain then generates possibly from the brain stem
itself or from blood vessels inflamed by the rapidly changing blood flow, or perhaps from both.
Scientists have experimented by applying a powerful magnet to stimulate the neurons and
discovered that some people's brains react differently than others'. When stimulation was applied
to the brains of people who had suffered migraines, they saw the initial aura, and some actually
suffered migraines. When the same stimulation was applied to the brains of people who had never
suffered migraines, they realized no effect and the neurons showed no change. Scientists and
doctors continue to work on the research in an attempt to find the perfect treatment. It is
considered important to treat migraines because it is believed that prolonged untreated attacks
could cause physical changes in the brain leading to chronic pain.
Question 44: What is the best title for this passage?
A. New Treatments for Migraines
B. New Evidence of How Migraines Are Formed
C. How Migraines and Headaches are Different
D. Imaging As a Means of Studying Migraine
Question 45: The word "stimulate" in paragraph 3 could best replaced by ______.
A. dedicate
B. penetrate
C. motivate
D. concentrate
Question 46: The word "it" in paragraph 1 refers to ______.
A. pain
B. person
C. migraine
D. suffering
Question 47: The prior treatment for migraines included medicine that ______.
A. eliminated stress
B. Tightened blood vessels
C. eliminated the aura
D. eliminated any pain
Question 48: Scientists have recently learned more about the cause of migraines from ______.
A. using imaging devices that allow one to watch the neurons
B. asking patients to describe the symptoms
C. giving patients aspirin and watching for results
D. taking blood tests
Question 49: Scientists have caused neurons to react by applying ______.
A. a magnetic field B. imaging
C. drugs
D. electric charges
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Question 50: The word "prolonged" in paragraph 3 mostly means ______.
A. loosened
B. lengthened
C. shortened
D. condensed
_____HẾT_____

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