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Vietnam's National Exam Practice
Vietnam's National Exam Practice
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
Question 5: She’s very strong-willed and if she's decided to drop out of school, nothing will stop her.
Question 6: Our teacher tends to skate over certain subjects which she finds difficult to talk about.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to
Question 7: The jury has to give an impartial verdict after listening to all of the evidence.
Question 8: It’s freezing today, and you’re not going to wear a coat? Have you gone around the
bend?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete
Question 9: Jack is talking to Adam after having not seen for months.
C. My son studies well, thanks! D. We haven’t met for 9 months. It’s been a long time.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 11: They’ve both had knee injuries, but the two friends make _____ light of their
weaknesses.
A. an B. ∅ C. the D. a
Question 12: I would feel less worried about Michael if he ______ more interest in his school work.
Question 13: Mei ______ her money on the bus since she was forgetful.
Question 14: She ______ fainted when she heard her son had died.
Question 15: The department store took ______ more staff over the busy Christmas period.
A. on B. away C. off D. in
Question 16: Determining the mineral content of soil samples is an exacting process, ______ experts
Question 18: It pays _______ some professional advice before you make a decision.
Question 19: The chemical injected into the body will attach itself ______ to cancer cells.
Question 20: I thought it was time to come ______ with everybody about what I’d been doing.
Question 22: Since the accident, Tom has walked with a _______.
Question 24: When his manager went on a business trip, Jack stepped into the ______ and chaired
the meeting.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs
Question 25: Different fourteen crops were grown 8,600 years ago by some of the world’s earliest
farmers.
C. some of D. farmers
Question 26: Although there were a lot of opposition initially, many people now accept that infertile
Reading 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.
Sylvia Earle, a (28) ________ botanist and one of the (29) ________ deep-sea explorers, has spent
over 6,000 hours, more than seven months, underwater. From her earliest years, Earle took her first
plunge into the open sea as a teenager. In the years since then she has taken part in a number of
landmark underwater projects, from exploratory expeditions around the world to her celebrated “Jim
dive” in 1978, which was the deepest solo dive (30) ________ made without cable connecting the
Clothed in a Jim suit, a futuristic suit of plastic and metal armor, which was secured (31)
________ a manned submarine, Sylvia Earle plunged vertically into the Pacific Ocean, at times at the
speed of 100 feet per minute. On reaching the ocean floor, she was released from the submarine and
from that point her only connection to the sub was an 18-foot tether. For the next 2½ hours, Earle (32)
________ the seabed taking notes, collecting specimens, and planting a U.S. flag. Consumed by a
desire to descend deeper still, in 1981 she became involved in the design and manufacture of 20 deep-
sea submersibles, one of which took her to a depth of 3,000 feet. This did not end Sylvia Earle’s
accomplishments.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the
crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare.
And since man’s inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he
can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single
drop.
Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to
withstand its desiccating effects. No moist- skinned, water-loving animals can exist there. Few large
animals are found. The giants of the North American desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat.
Since desert country is open, it holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the
tangled forest. Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth.
Yet they are not emaciate d. Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as
The secret of their adjustment lies in the combination of behaviour and physiology. None could
survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a
matter of minutes. So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows
underneath the ground, emerging to hunt only by night. The surface of the sun-baked desert
averages around 150 degrees, but 18 inches down the temperature is only 60 degrees.
Question 34: The phrase “those forms” refers to all the following EXCEPT _________.
Question 36: The author states that one characteristic of animals living in the desert is that they
_________.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
Sigmund Freud was not a literary theorist. However, he did contribute to critical theory through
both his theories and his use of art to show that the application of psychology can extend to the
highest forms of cultures. Freud was always interested in literature, and he drew some of the best
Freud saw the unconscious as the impetus of both cultural and psychic activity. Therefore, the
same principles operated in both, and that the same mechanisms – such as displacement and
symbolization – applied. While Freud was not the first to note the importance of the unconscious
mind, he was the first to attempt a coherent theory of its operation and function. He argued that the
unconscious operates according to universal law, and is crucial to all aspects of mental life that
involve fantasy, or diversion from reality. From this point of view, it is natural to apply Freudian
principles to imaginative literature. Writers transform individual, unconscious fantasy into universal
art – a kind of formal fantasy halfway between a reality that denies wishes and a world of
In focusing on the unconscious origins for literature, Freud was in a sense reviving the traditional
idea of divine inspiration. Philosophers and art theorists have often turned to such a theory of the
imagination to explain multiple meanings, repetition, and any apparent disorder in art. Similarly,
psychoanalysis uses the theory of the unconscious to explain examples of “disorder’ in consciousness,
such as dreams.
This analogy allowed Freud to suggest that fantasies called art could be interpreted in the same
way as dreams. Writers, as Freud noted, have always seen great significance in dreams. In his view,
portrayals of dreams in works of literature supported his own theories about their structures,
mechanisms, and interpretation. For example, the mechanisms of displacement and symbolization
Critics of Freud have objected that the non-logical processes of the unconscious do not resemble
the conscious effort that results in work of literature. Freud would reply that while conscious thought
conscious activity merely obscures what is truly important in art. What interested Freud were the
deep unconscious structures literature shares with myth and religion, as well as with dreams. The
A. The best way to understand the creation of literature is through Freud’s theory of
psychoanalysis.
B. Freud argued convincingly that both psychic phenomena and literature can be interpreted
D. Freud’s theories explain why both dreams and literature contain various forms of disorder.
Question 39: According to the passage, which of the following is true of Freud?
Question 41: The author uses the phrase “formal fantasy” in paragraph 2 in order to _________.
Question 43: What possible objection to the passage’s main idea does the author discuss in the last
paragraph?
A. Freud emphasized the unconscious, but writing results from conscious thought.
B. Freud claimed that art is created logically, but it really has unconscious origins.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closet in meaning to
Question 46: “You should have finished the report by now” John told his secretary.
A. John reproached his secretary for not having finished the report.
B. John said that his secretary had not finished the report.
D. John scolded his secretary for not having finished the report
B. If they did not take my advice, they would not get success.
C. But for taking my advice, they would not have got success.
Question 48: I am very interested in the book you lent me last week.
C. The book which you lent me last week is too interesting to read.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each
Question 49: This house was built years ago. It is still in very good shape.
A. This house, which built years ago, is still in very good shape.
D. This house, which was built years ago is still in very good shape.
A. John nor David doesn’t play tennis. B. Neither John nor David play tennis.
C. Neither John nor David plays tennis. D. Either John or David plays tennis.
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