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Họ và tên thí sinh:……………………………………………………………………. SBD:…………………………
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part
differs from that of the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. click
B. center
C. concert
D. cancer
Question 2: A. wild
B. lively
C. mingle
D. kindly
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the
other three in the position of stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3: A. ancestor
B. family
C. character
D. appearance
Question 4: A. happy
B. canal
C. training
D. royal
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 5: Tom Hank is a very famous American actor. He ______ in Hollywood's films since the
1990s.
A. appears
B. is appearing
C. appeared
D. has appeared
Question 6: Her parents have come back to their home country for years, ______?
A. do they
B. don't they
C. have they
D. haven't they
Question 7: Many people argue that life in the country is ______ than that in the city.
A. peaceful
B. more peaceful
C. more peacefully D. peacefully
Question 8: We've got a new computer in our office. I haven't learnt how ______ it yet.
A. to operate
B. operating
C. operate
D. be operated
Question 9: They were excited about the new game in the beginning, but now they have ______ it.
A. looked after
B. gone off
C. filled in
D. got on
Read the following advertisement/school announcement and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on
your answer sheet to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks
from 10 to 15.
Hanoi, April 05 – April 16, 2017
This school will introduce fundamental notions of Complex Analysis and Geometry.
There are five lectures (10) ______ some interesting topics in Complex Analysis and Geometry.
They will be presented by French, Japanese and Vietnamese mathematicians in these domains.
They are addressed to (11) ______ advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and
young researchers from South East Asian countries. There are also (12) ______ sessions and
discussion.
Website conference: http://math.ac.vn/conference/seams17
(from: http://math.ac.vn/training/index.php?)
Question 10: A. about
B. from
C. around
D. with
Question 11: A. a
B. an
C. the
D. 0 (no article)
Question 12: A. tutor
B. tutoring
C. tutored
D. tutorial
“Dumb Ways to Die” PSA
The McCann Erickson-created “Dumb Ways to Die” song and accompanying video aren't
technically an advertisement. They were a public service announcement which (13) ______ for
Metro Trains Melbourne in 2012.
The original intention of the ad was to draw attention to rail safety in a fun and funny
way. (14) ______, the catchy tune and reckless bean characters quickly took on a life of their own.
The song ended up on the iTunes Top 10 and the YouTube video has been watched by
hundreds of millions of people. Its game and its sequel performed just as well as the song. It
also won two Grand Prix awards at the Cannes Lions Festival.
(from: https://www.wix.com/blog/advertisement)
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Question 13. A. creating
Question 14. A. Moreover
Question 15. A. ended up

B. created
B. However
B. made up

C. was created
C. Because
C. took up

D. be created
D. For instance
D. started up

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct arrangement of the
sentences to make a meaningful paragraph/letter in each of the following questions.
Question 16: a. Next, comfortably reach the steering wheel and pedals.
b. After that, minimize the gap between your shoulder and the seat belt, avoid
reclining your seat more than necessary.
d. Finally, avoid letting your belly touch the steering wheel.
c. Then, keep as much distance as possible between your belly and the steering
wheel.
e. To drive safely, first, adjust your seat to a comfortable, upright position.
A. e-c-a-b-d
B. e-a-c-b-d
C. c-a-b-d-e
D. c-e-a-b-d
Question 17: a. Are there any cheap hotels in your town?
b. I'm going to visit your country next month.
c. We would like to stay somewhere in the centre.
d. I'm going to travel with two friends.
e. We don't know where to stay.
f. Can you help me?
A. b-c-a-e-d-f
B. b-d-e-a-c-f
C. b-a-d-e-c-f
D. b-e-d-a-c-f
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct option that best fits
each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 23.
Depression is more than just feeling sad once in a while. It's like a heavy cloud hanging
over you all the time. (18) ______ in a dark tunnel with no way out. Even many things that used to
make you happy don't seem to bring you joy anymore. You might feel tired all the time, even after
a good night's sleep, (19) ______. It's like your energy has been drained away.
Depression can make (20) ______ anything, and it can make you feel worthless or hopeless
about the future. You might even feel guilty for feeling this way, which only makes things worse.
However, it's important to remember that depression is a real illness, just like diabetes or asthma.
It's not something you can just "snap out of" by thinking positively.
(21) ______ there are ways to feel better. Talking to a therapist or counselor can help you
understand what you're going through and learn healthy ways to cope. Medications can also be
helpful for some people. And there are things you can do (22) ______ to feel better, like getting
regular exercise, eating healthy foods, and spending time with friends and family.
Remember, you're not alone, and there is hope. With the right support and treatment
which are available to help you overcome depression and start (23) ______.
Question 18: A. You might feel like you're stuck B. You can think that you're stuck
C. If you might think you're stuck D. It makes you think that you're stuck
Question 19: A. and you could lose interest in eating or have trouble sleeping
B. since you should lose interest in eating or have trouble sleeping
C. because you must lose interest in eating or have trouble sleeping
D. although you may lose interest in eating or have trouble sleeping
Question 20: A. it hard focusing on
B. it is hard to focus on
C. it will be hard to focus on
D. it hard to focus on
Question 21: A. A good news is that
B. The good news is that
C. The good news is maybe
D. The good news are that
Question 22: A. in your own
B. by your own
C. for your own
D. on your own
Question 23: A. feel like yourself again
B. feeling like itself again
C. feeling like yourself again
D. to be felt like yourself again
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 24 to 28.
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TEENAGERS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
In many countries, there is a widespread perception that teenagers' lives nowadays are
dominated by technology. However, the information (24) ______ was gathered in a recent study of
Australian teenagers' use of and attitudes towards technology suggests that this view doesn't
reflect the reality of their everyday existence. The research by academics from the University of
Canberra in Australia found that, while most teenagers had ready access to home computers,
mobile phones and (25) ______ electronic devices, they generally spent more time on traditional
(26) ______ such technology. Accessing social media and playing computer games ranked as low as
ninth and tenth respectively among the ten most common after-school activities.
Fifteen-year-old Laura Edmonds is one of the teenagers surveyed. She admits to being very
(27) ______ to her smartphone and makes full use of various apps, (28) ______ if she needs to
unwind after a hard day at school, she tends to "hang out with my friends, listen to music or chat
with my mum and dad".
(From Exam Essentials Practice Tests - Cambridge English by Tom Bradbury and Eunice Yeates)
Question 24: A. when
Question 25: A. one
Question 26: A. operations
Question 27: A. enclosed
Question 28: A. nor

B. which
B. every
B. pursuits
B. attached
B. till

C. where
C. other
C. events
C. related
C. like

D. who
D. another
D. incidents
D. conformed
D. but

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 29 to 33.
Unlike life in countryside which is often considered to be simple and traditional, life in the city is
modern and complicated. People, from different regions, move to the cities in the secretaries of having a
better life for them and their children. The inhabitants in city work as office secretaries, merchants,
teachers, government workers, factory workers and even street vendor or construction workers.
The high cost of living requires city-dwellers, especially someone with low income to work
harder or to take a part-time job. For some people, everyday start as usual by getting up in the
early morning to do exercise in public parks, preparing for a full day of working and studying,
then immersing in crowded boulevards or narrow streets filled with motor scooters and
returning home after a busy day. They usually live in large houses, great mansions, and high-rise
apartment blocks or even in a small rental equipped with modern amenities like the internet,
telephone, television, satellite communication facilities and so on.
Industrialization and modernization as well as global integration have big impact on
lifestyle in the cities. The most noticeable impact is the Western style of clothes. The “ Ao Dai”Vietnamese traditional clothes are no longer regularly worn in Vietnamese women daily life.
Instead, jeans, T-shirt and fashionable clothes are widely preferred.
Question 29: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Some facts about the life in cities
C. The impact of modern life on culture
B. Life in cities and countryside
D. The luxurious life in cities
Question 30: Industrialization and modernization may lead to ______.
A. some changes in lifestyles
C. the fact that women no longer wear Ao Dai
B. global integration
D. the disappearance of Western- styled clothes
Question 31: The word “They” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. narrow streets
B. public parks
C. motor scooters
D. city-dwellers
Question 32: The word “impact” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. situation
B. influence
C. force
D. action
Question 33: The most important reason why people move to the city is that ______.
A. to have a busy day
B. to look for a complicated life
C. to look for a better life
D. to take part- time jobs
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 34 to 40.
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One day, a middle-aged man asked a taxi to take him to see Chelsea play Arsenal at football.
He told the driver “Stamford Bridge'', the name of Chelsea's stadium, but he was delivered instead
to the village of Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire. Of course, he missed the match.
What had happened? With the Sat-Nav system in place, the driver in this story felt he did
not need to know where he was going. He confidently outsourced the job of knowing this
information to the Sat-Nav. Using an Internet search engine takes a broadband user less than a
second. And with smartphones at hand, people will be online almost all of the time.
The same could be true of university education. Today, the average student seems not to
value the general knowledge. If asked a factual question, they will usually click on a search engine
without a second thought. Actually knowing the fact and committing it to memory does not seem
to be an issue, it's the case with which we can look it up.
However, general knowledge has never been something that you acquire formally. Instead,
we pick it up from all sorts of sources as we go along, often absorbing facts without realising. The
question remains, then: is the Internet threatening general knowledge? When I put that to Moira
Jones, expert in designing IQ tests, she referred me to the story of the Egyptian god Thoth. It goes
like this: Thoth offers writing as a gift to the king of Egypt, declaring it an “elixir of memory and
wisdom.” But the king is horrified, and tells him: “This invention will induce forgetfulness in the
souls of those who have learned it, because they will not need to exercise their memories, being
able to rely on what is written.”
Who wants to be a millionaire finalist David Swift, responding to the same question,
recognises that there was a problem of young people saying: “I don't need to know that”, but he is
far more excited about the educational potential of the Internet. “There is so much more
information out there, giving people opportunities to boost their general knowledge.”
After all, the Internet might just help us to forget more and more. But meanwhile, the
continuing popularity of quizzes and game-shows shows us that general knowledge is strong
enough to remain.
(Adapted from English Unlimited by Adrian Doff and Ben Goldstein)
Question 34: Which best serves as the title for the passage?
A. The Age of the Robot?
B. Novel App|icalions of the Sat-Nav System
C. The End of General Knowledge?
D. New Perspectives on Tertiary Education
Question 35: Why did the middle-aged man miss the football match?
A. Because the Sat-Nav in his car was out of order
B. Because the taxi driver was over-dependent on technology.
C. Because he did not remember the directions to the stadium.
D. Because the search engine in the taxi failed to work.
Question 36: The word “outsourced'' in paragraph 2 mostly means ______.
A. exchanged
B. assigned
C. submitted
D. imposed
Question 37: The word “that" in paragraph 4 refers to ______.
A. the story
B. the Internet
C. the question
D. general knowledge
Question 38: The word “induce" in paragraph 4 mostly means ______.
A. case
B. limit
C. promote
D. cause
Question 39: Which of the following is TRUE, according to the passage?
A. Young people do not seem to bother themselves with memorising factual information.
В. General knowledge tends to have been mainly acquired through formal schooling.
C. The majority of undergraduates are reluctant to look for answers to factual questions
online.
D. On being offered the gift of writing, the king of Egypt was hopeful about its potential.
Question 40: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Many universities worldwide have switched to virtual platforms for learning and teaching.
B. Moira Jones is not positive about the potential of the Internet in general knowledge acquisition.
C. When it comes to IQ tests, the ability to recall factual information is of little importance.
D. David Swift believes dial informal acquisition of knowledge has been overrated these days.
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