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ĐỀ LUYỆ N 04 (Thời gian làm bài 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề)

Question 1→10. Choose and circle the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.
01. I was passing their house, so I__________ Claire and Michael.
A. dropped in B came up with C. got on with D. run into
02. I don’t really__________ winter sports very much.
A. deal with B. face up to C. go in for D. get round to
03. The attorney told his client that__________.
A. they had little chance of winning the case
B. it was nearly impossible to win him the case
C. the case was of a small chance to win
D. the case had a minimum chance to be won by him
04. One of the professor’s greatest attributes is__________.
A. when he gives lectures B. how in the manner that he lectures
C. the way which give lectures D. his ability to lecture
05. __________ better working conditions.
A. What’s interesting the workers most is B. What’s interested the workers most is
C. What interest the workers most is D. What interests the workers most is
06. The concert was given__________ the auspices of the Y.M.C.A.
A. on B. with C. through D. under
07. Her mother’s illness cast a cloud__________ her wedding day.
A. over B. for C. in D. on
08. She did six hours’ studying a day for her exam
A. solid B. heavy C. strong D. big
09. The weather was fine and everyone was the coast
A. going in for B. making for C. joining in D. seeing about
10. There isn’t any sugar, I’m afraid. You’ll have to
A. run out B. put up with C. do without D. make for
Question 11→20. Replace each italicized verb or phrase with the correct form of a
synonymous phrasal verb.
back down bring up crop up dwell on fall off
get round have on look to make out pick up
run across stand up to take to track down turn out
11. One of the boys from my class objects to taking part in the performance and I don’t really
know how to persuade him. ___________
12. The question was so delicate and problematic that there was nobody willing to mention it.
___________
13. Your report deals too much with the side effects of the venture. Why not write more about its
good points?
14. This automobile manufacture produces about a thousand cars a year, half of which are
exported. ___________
15. Even the extensive advertising campaign hasn’t prevented the demand for our printers from
decreasing. ___________
16. “She says she’s going to be a medicine student”
“Oh, don’t believe her. She’s deceiving you”. ___________
17. I’d had no idea there were jewels hidden in my attic. I just found them completely by chance.
___________
18. Don’t worry, he only pretends that he is such a strict teacher. ___________
19. After two-hour search, the hunters decided to give up following the stags. ___________
20. We were convinced Patrick would get to like the moment he met him. ___________

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Question 21→30. Give the correct form of the words given.
A Musical Genius
For many people Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is the most influential figure in the
history of western classical music. His (21. ORDINARY)________ talent was already clearly evident
as a young man, (22. MERCY)________ surviving a somewhat unconventional (23. BRING)________
during which his eccentric father would often force him to take music lessons in the middle of the
night. The young Beethoven's ability won him the admiration of the leading contemporary
musical figures. Throughout the 1790s he worked hard to secure the interest of wealthy patrons.
Such patronage (24. ABLE)________ him to concentrate on becoming a successful composer.
Whatever his awe- inspiring musical (25. ACHIEVE)________, however, his personal life was
something of a disaster. His day-to-day (26. RELATE)________ with people invariably turned out to
be rather turbulent. Although he apparently fell in love with a number of society women, the
identity of the girl who lay closest to his heart remains (27. ELUDE)________ to this day. However,
just at the point when Beethoven was beginning to reap the rewards of his early endeavours, he
had to come to terms with the crushing (28. REALISE)________ that his increasing deafness was
(29. CURE)_________. From that point on, his music displayed a (30. STRIKE)________ change in style,
becoming both heavier in tone and larger in scale.
Question 31→35. Think of ONE word only which can be used appropriately in all THREE
sentences.
31. - You need to________ all applications before shutting down your computer.
- Should the factory________ down, 100 people will lose their jobs.
- Mike’s had three car accidents, plus a few other pretty________ shaves.
32. - It’s just a________ to them. They don’t care what happens.
- John gave the________ away by laughing when Jim walked in.
- We’ve been in this________ for twenty years.
33. - Susan is not the________ to get annoyed.
- Open up the accounts database, and________ in the amount of each order.
- Your hair________ requires a specific shampoo.
34. - We sat and talked by the________ of the fire.
- They set out at first________ for the summit.
- These discoveries may throw new on the origins of man.
35. - Could you do me a________ and hold the door open while I bring in the shopping?
- All those in________ of the proposal please raise your hand.
- After being out of fashion for years the painter is now in________ with the critics.
Question 36→40. Choose the word in each group that has different stress pattern.
36. A. graduate B. impression C. applicant D. category
37. A. beautify B. geology C. photograph D. enemy
38. A. classify B. humidify C. personify D. solidify
39. A. academic B. fantastic C. terrific D. historic
40. A. sacrifice B. compliment C. nursery D. determine
Question 41→45. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the
rest.
41. A. brown B. down C. now D. shown
42. A. stagnant B. expand C. eventually D. landlord
43. A. compete B. fetch C. separate D. yell
44. A. minute B. muddy C . funny D. number
45. A. died B. continued C. contented D. followed
Question 46→57. Fill in each blank with one suitable word.
Too Good to be True
Some say you can do it in seven days, others promise success in 24 hours, or you may prefer to
take your time and do it in 5 weeks. What are we talking about? Believe it (46)_________ not, these
periods (47)_________ time refer to language learning courses that promise excellent results in less
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time (48)_________ it takes to say 'Bonjour'! However, the advertisements of these companies are
not necessarily (49)_________ best guide and if you don't know what to look for in a good course
you could be left with little (50)_________ than a large bill. A complaint was recently made to a
consumer rights group (51)_________ WhizzLearn Systems, a language school chain, and the
company has been forced to remove its claim that its technique is ten times better than any
(52)_________ method. The Managing Director of WhizLearn Systems said “(53)_________ we still
believe our claim is true, we are willing to change our advert. But the fact remains, if you spend 3
hours (54)_________ day for 5 weeks on our language course you will soon be speaking the
language. What we
(55)_________ have done was to make (56)_________ clearer in the advert. Then we wouldn't
(57)_________ had these annoying complaints"
Question 58→64. Choose the most suitable sentence from the list A-H for each part (58-64) of
the article. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
Career success in the arts
John Prince, famous dancer and choreographer, gives advice on how to succeed in a career
in the arts.
I asked John how he got started and what requirements there are. "Well, to be a
professional dancer it's useful to have had acting lessons or some background in drama. If you
want to succeed in musical theatre you have to have a good singing voice as well. When you
approach an agent you should take a portfolio with your CV, your statistics sheet and some good
photos and reviews of past performances. You'll need dance clothes, ballet shoes, tap shoes, and
even roller skates depending on what kind of show you are going to go for." 58. __________. "Of
course, you need to be extremely fit if you want to be a professional dancer. I dance or move about
for about six hours a day. There are great health benefits to being a dancer. I can eat a lot of pasta
without gaining weight because dancing increases your metabolism so much." 59. __________. John
has a very busy schedule in the next few months. He took time out to speak to me today from the
making of a pop video to promote N-ergy's latest record. "I choreographed the dance routine for
the boys and they only had 2 days in which to learn it! I am going to be working on a video for
another well-known band - but that's top secret. Next month I'll be touring Spain in a production
of a musical that was written by a friend of mine, Michaela Evans. 60. __________. As for the future,
I've come to realize that I would never be content to be just a chorus dancer - I'm too much of an
individual for that. Like all artists I'd love to become a household name by writing and
choreographing my own musicals." John was born in Jamaica to a Jamaican father and a Scottish
mother but the family immigrated to England 20 years ago. "I have a little sister I adore, who is
also training to be a dancer." How does it feel to have someone else following in your footsteps?
61. __________. Has he much more to learn, I wondered. "I've spent an incredible amount of my life
training to get where I am. I went to college for two years in England, I trained for six months in
Paris and about eight months in America. But you never really stop training or learning your art."
62. __________. So, would you say it's been plain sailing? "I feel I've been lucky to a degree; many
people hit problems breaking into the arts. It can be a vicious circle really. You can't become a
member of Equity, which is the actors' and dancers' union, without good contracts and you can't
get good contracts without being a member of Equity. My advice to people who want to get into
the arts would be to go out into the world, and try everything else first. 63. __________. What has a
dance career done for you as a person? "Thanks to dancing, I've visited and performed in 23
countries so far. This has opened my eyes to the world, and I've been able to understand issues
like racism and inequality from a wider perspective. 64. __________. "So all in all I'm really happy to
be a dancer!”
A. It's fine, but I try not to give out too much advice as it gets irritating!
B. And if nothing you like comes out of it, then come back and be an actor or dancer.
C. Without a strict daily timetable like this you find yourself wasting too much time.
D. After that it's back to England to start a new term of dance classes.
E. Hopefully this has enabled me to become a better and more tolerant person as a result.
F. When it comes to coping with stress, I find that exercise helps me to cope with my
problems, so I stay in good shape mentally as well.
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 G. Like any profession where you're always travelling, you tend to acquire something new
almost every day.
H. Being fully equipped with all this stuff beforehand makes it easier when you go for
auditions.
Question 65→79. Choose the appropriate words to complete the following passage.
WHALES
How far would you travel for a good meal? If you were a humpback whale, the answer
would be five thousand miles. These large sea animals travel at least that far from their winter
home off the (65)________ of Columbia to their summer (66)________ areas off Antarctica. The
distance covered by some types of whale is amazing, especially when you (67)________ their
enormous size. The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever (68)________ and it can weigh as
much as thirty elephants. It (69)________ as no surprise, therefore, to hear that ancient folk
legends tell of sailors (70)________ these creatures for islands. The more we (71)________ about
whales, the more wonderful they seem. Some species can (72)________ their breath for more than
an hour and dive to a (73)________ of over 200 metres. They use a system of sounds (74)________ as
echo-location to find the fish they eat and they have further sounds to keep in (75)________ with
each other. The noises they (76)________ can travel hundreds of miles under water. Some species
seem to sing complicated songs which (77)________ of a number of separate themes, sung in a
specific order which can (78)________ up to half an hour or more. If you ever get the (79)________
to see one of these great creatures in the wild, you will understand why they have inspired so
many legends.
65. A. beach B. coast C. seaside D. ground
66. A. feeding B. dining C. eating D. chewing
67. A. view B. think C. consider D. believe
68. A. been B. stayed C. born D. lived
69. A. gets B. comes C. goes D. seems
70. A. supposing B. mixing C. confusing D. mistaking
71. A. find out B. look out C. show up D. turn up
72 A store B keep C. hold D. save
73. A. depth B. length C. width D. breadth
74. A. called B. known C. referred D. named
75. A. reach B. touch C. call D. range
76. A. provide B. propose C process D. produce
77. A. consist B. compose C include D. involve
78. A. long B. last C. play D. give
79. A. break B. choice C. chance D. luck
Question 80→87. You are going to read three different opinions from leading scientists about the
future of fuel. For the questions below, choose from the writers A-C. The writers may be
chosen more than once.
Howard Bloom, Author: Even though most people are convinced that peak oil has already
passed, to me, peak oil is just a hypothesis. There is a theory that carbon molecules can be found
in interstellar gas clouds, comets and in space ice, and if this is the case, our planet could ooze oil
forever. And even if we stay earthbound, those who say we have raped the planet of all its
resources are wrong. There's a huge stock of raw materials we haven't yet learned to use. There
are bacteria two miles beneath our feet which can turn solid granite into food. If bacteria can do it,
surely we creatures with brains can do it better. As far as the near future of energy is concerned, I
believe the most promising alternative fuels are biofuels, such as ethanol. It's an alcohol made
from waste products such as the bark of trees, woodchips, and other 'waste materials'. And that's
not the only waste that can create energy. My friend in the biomass industry is perfecting an
energy-generation plant which can run on human waste. We produce that in vast quantities, and
it's already gathered in centralised locations.
Michael Lardelli, Lecturer in Genetics at The University of Adelaide: Nothing exists on this
planet without energy. It enables flowers and people to grow and we need it to mine minerals,
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extract oil or cut wood and then to process these into finished goods. So the most fundamental
definition of money is as a mechanism to allow the exchange and allocation of different forms of
energy. Recently, people have been using more energy than ever before. Until 2005 it was possible
to expand our energy use to meet this demand. However, since 2005 oil supply has been in
decline, and at the same time, and as a direct result of this, the world's economy has been unable
to expand, leading to global recession. With the world's energy and the profitability of energy
production in decline at the same time, the net energy available to support activities other than
energy procurement will decrease. We could increase energy production by diverting a large
proportion of our remaining oil energy into building nuclear power stations and investing in
renewable forms of energy. However, this is very unlikely to happen in democratic nations,
because it would require huge, voluntary reductions in living standards. Consequently, the world
economy will continue to contract as oil production declines. With energy in decline, it will be
impossible for everyone in the world to become wealthier. One person's increased wealth can
only come at the expense of another person's worsened poverty.
Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell: People are understandably worried
about a future of growing energy shortages, rising prices and international conflict for supplies.
These fears are not without foundation. With continued economic growth, the world's energy
needs could increase by 50% in the next 25 years.
However, I do not believe that the world is running out of energy. Fossil fuels will be able to meet
growing demand for a long time in the future. Taking unconventional resources into account, we
are not even close to peak oil. The priority for oil companies is to improve efficiency, by increasing
the amount of oil recovered from reservoirs. At present, just over a third is recovered. We can also
improve the technology to control reservoir processes and improve oil flow. However, these
projects are costly, complex and technically demanding, and they depend on experienced people,
so it is essential to encourage young people to take up a technical career in the energy industry.
Meanwhile, alternative forms of energy need to be made economically viable. International
energy companies have the capability, the experience and the commercial drive to work towards
solving the energy problem so they will play a key role. But it is not as simple as merely making
scientific advances and developing new tools; the challenge is to deliver the technology to people
worldwide. Companies will need to share knowledge and use their ideas effectively.
Which writer
80. believes oil will be available for many more years ____________
81. believes that from now on, less oil is available ____________
82. believes there are ways to obtain energy that we have not yet discovered ____________
83. sees a great potential in natural fuels ____________
84. believes the fuel crisis will cause the poor to become poorer ____________
85. sees energy and the economy as intrinsically linked ____________
86. believes that better technology can help to maintain oil production levels ____________
87. thinks that oil companies are responsible for developing other types of energy ____________
Question 88→94. Complete the following sentences so that the second sentence has a similar
meaning to the first sentence. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and
five words, including the words given.
88. On business trips, I prefer driving home to staying in a hotel overnight. rather
→ On business trips, I’d_____________ in a hotel overnight.
89. Jack found it difficult to control his skis on the steep slope. under
→ Jack found it difficult to_____________ on the steep slope.
90. My views on this subject are exactly the same as yours. difference
→ There_____________ my views on this subject and yours.
91. They will be selling tickets for the concert during the lunch hour. sale
→ Tickets for the concert will_____________ during the lunch hour.
92. I regret not contacting Brian when I was in Dublin. touch
→ I wish that I_____________ Brian when I was in Dublin.
93. In my opinion, these two kinds of music are completely different from each other.
comparison
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 → In my opinion, there is_____________ these two kinds of music.
94. I arrived late because I missed the 10.30 train. turned
→ If I’d caught the 10.30 train, I_____________ time.
Question 95→100. Complete the following sentences so that the second sentence has a similar
meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given.
95. Nobody expected her to lose, but she did. Against
→ …………………………………………………………………………….
96. Peter always trusts me with his secrets. in
→ Peter…………………………………………………………………….
97. I thought it was marvellous that Jane could jump so high. at
→ I……………………………………………………………………………
98. Danny was asked to leave the school for bad behavior. from
→ Danny was……………………………………………………………..
99. They didn’t punish Karen, only gave her a warning. got
→ Karen…………………………………………………………………….
100. Gary is proud of the fact that he is never late. On
→ Gary prides…………………………………………………………….

__________THE END___________

KEYS
TOTAL: 100 points; 1 point/1 correct answer
01. A. dropped in 02. C. go in for 03. A. they had little chance of
04. D. his ability to lecture 05. D. What interests the workers most is
06. D. under 07. A. over 08. A. solid
09. B. making for 10. C. do without
11. get round 12. bring it up 13. dwells on 14. turns out
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15. falling off 16. having you on 17. ran across 18. makes out
19. tracking down 20. take to
21. extraordinary 22. mercifully 23. upbringing 24. enabled
25. achievement(s) 26. relationships 27. elusive 28. realization
29. incurable 30. striking
31. close 32. game 33. type 34. light 35. favour
36. B. impression 37. B. geology 38. A. classify 39. A. academic 40. D. determine
41. D. shown 42. C. eventually 43. A. compete 44. A. minute 45. C. contented
46 or 47 of 48 than 49 the 50 more
51. against/ about/ concerning 52. other/ similar 53. Although/ While/ Whilst
54. a/ per/ every 55. should/ could 56. it/ this/ things 57. have
58. H 59. F 60. D 61. A 62. G 63. B 64. E
65. B. coast 66. A. feeding 67. C. consider 68. D. lived 69. B. comes
70. D. mistaking 71. A. find out 72. C. hold 73. A. depth 74. B. known
75. B. touch 76. D. produce 77. A. consist 78. B. last 79. C. chance
80. C 81. B 82. A 83. A 84. B 85. B 86. C 87. C
88. rather drive home than stay
89. keep/ get/ have his skis under control
90. is no difference between/ is not any difference between
91 be/ go on sale
92. had been/ got/ kept in touch with
93. no (possible) comparison (at all) between
94. would have turned up on/ in time
95. Against everybody's expectation, she lost.
96. Peter always confides in me
97. I was marveled at Jane’s ability to jump so high
98. Danny was expelled from school for bad behavior
99. Karen got off with a warning
100. Gary prides himself on always being early
_________THE END________

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