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Gia Định - TPHCM
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Gia Định - TPHCM
HỒ CHÍ MINH
A. MULTIPLE CHOICE (40 PTS)
I. PHONOLOGY (5PTS)
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the
others.
1. A. chauffeur B. chic C. chore D. Michigan
chauffeur /ˈʃəʊfə(r)/ /ʃəʊˈfɜːr/ (n): a person whose job is to drive a car,
especially for somebody rich or important
chic /ʃiːk/ (uncountable N): the quality of being fashionable and attractive =
stylishness
chore /tʃɔː(r)/ (n): a task that you do regularly
Eg. doing the household/domestic chores
Michigan /ˈmɪʃɪɡən/
2. A. hypocrite B. expertise C. trichologist D. click
hypocrite /ˈhɪpəkrɪt/ (n): a person whose behaviour does not meet the moral
standards or match the opinions that they claim to have
expertise /ˌekspɜːrˈtiːz/ (uncountable N): expert knowledge or skill in a
particular subject, activity or job
Eg. professional/scientific/technical, etc. expertise
Eg. expertise in something/in doing something
trichologist /trɪˈkɒlədʒɪst/ /trɪˈkɑːlədʒɪst/ (n): a person who studies or is an
expert in hair and the scalp
click /klɪk/ (v)
3. A. umpire B. ultramarine C. trumpet D. fumigate
umpire /ˈʌmpaɪə(r)/ (n) : (in sports such as tennis and baseball ) a person whose
job is to watch a game and make sure that rules are not broken
ultramarine /ˌʌltrəməˈriːn/ (uncountable N): a bright blue color
trumpet /ˈtrʌmpɪt/
fumigate /ˈfjuːmɪɡeɪt/ (v): to use special chemicals, smoke or gas to destroy the
harmful insects or bacteria in a place
4. A. pizza B. buzzard C. muzzle D. fuzzy
pizza /ˈpiːtsə/ (n)
buzzard /ˈbʌzərd/ (n): a large European bird of prey (= a bird that kills other
creatures for food) of the hawk family
muzzle /ˈmʌzl/ (n): the nose and mouth of an animal, especially a dog or a
horse
fuzzy /ˈfʌzi/ (a): covered with short soft fine hair or fur = downy
5. A. lounge B. mound C. foul D. gourd
lounge /laʊndʒ/ (n): a room for waiting in at an airport, etc.
Eg: the departure lounge
Eg: the VIP/business lounge
mound /maʊnd/ (n): a large pile of earth or stones; a small hill
foul /faʊl/ (a): dirty and smelling bad
Eg: foul air/breath
gourd /ɡʊəd/ /ɡɔːd/ /ɡʊrd/ /ɡɔːrd/ (n): a type of large fruit with hard skin and a
soft inner part. Gourds are often dried and used as containers.
Choose the word which is stressed differently from the other three.
6. A. ridicule B. politics C. dogwhistle D. cheerio
ridicule /ˈrɪdɪkjuːl/ (uncount N): unkind comments that make fun of
somebody/something or make them look silly = mockery
Eg: hold somebody up to ridicule (= make fun of somebody publicly)
politics /ˈpɒlətɪks/ /ˈpɑːlətɪks/ (n): the activities involved in getting and using
power in public life, and being able to influence decisions that affect a country
or a society
Eg:world/international/domestic/national/local/progressive/radical politics
dogwhistle /ˈdɒɡ wɪsl//ˈdɔːɡ wɪsl/ (n) : a whistle used to train dogs that makes a
sound that is too high for humans to hear
cheerio /ˌtʃɪəriˈəʊ/ /ˌtʃɪriˈəʊ/: goodbye
7. A. legitimate B. comparison C. arithmetic D. engineering
legitimate /lɪˈdʒɪtɪmət/ (a) : for which there is a fair and acceptable reason =
valid, justifiable
comparison /kəmˈpærɪsn/ (n)
arithmetic /əˈrɪθmətɪk/ (uncount N): the type of mathematics that deals with the
adding, multiplying, etc. of numbers
engineering /ˌendʒɪˈnɪərɪŋ/ (uncount N)
8. A. hotel B. caffeine C. wholesale D. bereaved
hotel /həʊˈtel/ (n)
caffeine /ˈkæfiːn/ /kæˈfiːn/ (uncount N)
wholesale /ˈhəʊlseɪl/ (adv): in large quantities, especially so they can be sold
again to make a profit
bereaved /bɪˈriːvd/ (a):having lost a relative or close friend who has recently
died
9. A. aborigine B. enthusiasm C. simultaneous D. paracetamol
aborigine /ˌæbəˈrɪdʒəni/ (n): a member of the group of people who were the
original people living in a country
enthusiasm /ɪnˈθjuːziæzəm (n)
simultaneous /ˌsɪmlˈteɪniəs/ /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪniəs/ (a): happening or done at the same
time as something else
paracetamol/ˌpærəˈsiːtəmɒl//ˌpærəˈsetəmɒl//ˌpærəˈsiːtəmɑːl//ˌpærəˈsetəmɑːl/
(n)
10. A. vigilance B. manifest C. magenta D. interview
vigilance /ˈvɪdʒɪləns/ (uncount N): great care that is taken to notice any signs of
danger or trouble = watchfulness
manifest /ˈmænɪfest/ sth (in sth) (v) : to show something clearly, especially a
feeling, an attitude or a quality = demonstrate
magenta /məˈdʒentə/ (a): between red and purple in colour
interview /ˈɪntərvjuː/ (n)
16. As the President was absent, I was asked to __________ the meeting.
A. officiate B. govern c. Chair D. regulate
officiate (v): to be in charge of or to lead a ceremony or other public event
govern (v): to control and direct the public business of a country, city, group of
people, etc.
chair (v): to be the person in charge of a meeting, etc.
regulate (v): to control something, especially by making it work in a particular
way:
You can regulate the temperature in the house by adjusting the thermostat.
17. In the__________ of security, personnel must wear their identity badges
atall times.
A. requirement B. interests c. demands D. assistance
In the interest of sth: in order to achieve (a particular goal or result)
with the assistance of sb/sth
18. Meg had a __________ escape when she was hang-gliding yesterday.
A. narrow B. close c. near D. slender
a narrow escape: a situation in which you avoid danger although you very
nearly do not
19. The doctor thought he had got over the worst, but his condition suddenly
A. deteriorated B. dismantled c. dissolved D. disintegrated
deteriorate (v): to become worse
dismantle (v): to take a machine or something complicated apart, usually to
make it unable to work
dissolve (v): (with reference to a solid) become or cause to become incorporated
into a liquid so as to form a solution.
disintegrate (v): to become weaker or be destroyed by breaking into small
pieces
20. He had a momentary __________ of concentration and before he knew it
thecar had spun out of control.
A. lapse B. mistake c. slip D. error
lapse (n): a temporary failure
First, in the modern world, language is not the only important communicational
system. Today images, symbols, graphs, diagrams (62), artifacts, and many
other visual symbols are particularly significant. Thus, the idea of different
types of "visual literacy" would seem to be an important one. For example,
being able to "read" the images in advertising is one type of visual literacy.
And, of course, there are different ways to read such images, ways that are more
or less aligned with the intentions and interests of the advertisers. Knowing how
to read interior designs (62) in homes, modernist art (62) in museums, and
videos on MTV are other forms of visual literacy.
Furthermore, very often today words and images of various sorts are juxtaposed
and integrated in a variety of ways. In newspapers and magazines as well as in
textbooks, images take up more and more of the space alongside words. In fact,
in many modern high school and college textbooks in the sciences images not
only take up more space, they now carry meanings that are independent of the
words in the text. If you can't read these images, you will not be able to recover
their meanings from the words in the text as was more usual in the past. In such
multimodal texts (texts that mix words and images), the images often
communicate different things from the words. And the combination of the two
modes communicates things that neither of the modes does separately. Thus, the
idea of different sorts of multimodal literacy seems an important one. Both
modes and multimodality go far beyond images and words to include sounds,
music, movement, bodily sensations, and smells.
None of this news today, of course. We very obviously live in a world awash
with images. It is our first answer to the question why we should think of
literacy more broadly. The second answer is this: Even though reading and
writing seem so central to what literacy means traditionally, reading and writing
are not such general and obvious matters as they might at first seem. After all,
we never just read or write; rather, we always read or write something in some
way.
So there are different ways to read different types of texts. Literacy is multiple,
then, in the sense that the legal literacy needed for reading law books is not the
same as the literacy needed for reading physics texts or superhero comic books.
And we should not be too quick to dismiss the latter form of literacy. Many a
superhero comic is replete with post-Freudian irony of a soil that would make a
modern literary critic's heart beat fast and confuse any otherwise normal adult.
Literacy, then, even as traditionally conceived to involve only print, is not a
unitary thing but a multiple matter. There are, even in regard to printed texts and
even leaving aside images and multimodal texts, different "literacies."
72. Which of the following is NOT true about perfume making in Islamic
countries?
A. They created perfume by soaking flower petals in oil.
B. They dominated perfume making after the fall of the Roman Empire,
c. They took raw materials for their perfumes from India.
D. They created à technique which required fewer plant materials.
73. Why does the writer include this sentence in paragraph 2?
During the Black Death, the bubonic plague was thought to have resulted from a
bad odour which could be averted by inhaling pleasant fragrances
such as cinnamon
A. To explain why washing was not popular during the Black Death
B. To show how improper use of perfume caused widespread disease
c. To illustrate how perfumes used to be ingested to treat disease
D. To give an example of how fragrances were used for health purposes
76. How did the French Revolution affect the Parisian perfume industry?
A. The industry declined then rose again.
B. The industry collapsed and took a long time to recover,
c. The industry was greatly boosted.
D. The industry lost most of its overseas customers.
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77. London came to lead tile perfume industry because...
A. the French Revolution meant that there were fewer customers in France.
B. Napoleon's new laws affected the profitability of perfume-making,
c. the production of perfume ceased during the Napoleonic wars.
D. the French were unanle to export perfumes for a period of time.
B. WRITTEN TEST
I. CLOZE TEST (20 PTS): Read the text below and think of the word which
best fits each space. Use only ONE WORD for each space.
PASSAGE 1
Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955) is (1 ) ___credited_______ with leading
the way in the use of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections. His discovery of
penicillin in 1928 came at a time when many people died of tuberculosis,
diphtheria and other infectious diseases which made such a cure highly sought
after.
After obtaining his medical degree in 1906 at St Mary's Hospital Medical
School in London. Fleming began to work (2) on_____ antibacterial
substances which could be used with humans. He was in the middle of his
career when the First World War began, but was fortunate to be able to continue
his research while serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He made his first
major discovery in 1921, when he identified and isolated lysozyme, an enzyme
found in human tears and saliva. (3) _________Its _ antibiotic activity helps to
prevent infections.
It was not until seven years later, however, that Fleming became internationally
famous. He was working with the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus (4
)when_______ he noticed that it was killed off by a green fungus, Penicillium
notatum, which has contaminated the culture. Further investigation showed that
there was a substance in the fungus which prevented.the growth of the bacteria,
even when the substance was diluted 800 times.
The development of penicillin, which derives its name (5 ) _____from_____ the
fungus, must also be (6 )____attributed______ to Ernst Chain and Howard
Florey. The work of these two men revolved (7) ___around_______ isolating
the active ingredient in the fungus so that it could safely be administered to
humans. They finally achieved this, and in 1945 Chain, Florey and Fleming
were jointly ( 8)___awarded_____ the Nobel Prize.
Since this ground-breaking work, scientists have discovered numerous further
antibiotics to treat a variety of bacterial diseases. All of these discoveries,
however, are grounded in the work of Fleming, and even today he is (9
)___looked____ up to as a leading figure in the treatment of infectious diseases.
Indeed, a museum has now been opened at the (10)___site_______ of his old
laboratory at St Mary’s in Paddington, London.
PASSAGE 2:
Volcanic eruption has been a constant threat to our natural environment for
millions of years, but seldom in recent times (11)___has_______ a volcano
erupted with the ferocity of Krakatoa. Krakatoa. (1 2)____which______ is a
volcanic island group in Indonesia, erupted on 27th August 1883.
(13)___Not_______ only was the explosion (14)____so_______ loud that it
was heard as far away (more than 3,000 km) as Perth in Australia, but it is also
recognised as (15)____being______ the loudest sound (16)_____ever______
recorded. Tens of thousands of people in the region were killed many
(17)____dying______ in the enormous tsunamis which the eruption produced -
tsunamis which eventually reached South Africa and the English Channel.
The explosion also had a major effect on the (18) _____entire_____ world's
weather system. The volcanic dust in the atmosphere reduced the
(19)____amount____ of sunlight reaching the earth’s surface, reducing global
temperatures by more than one degree centigrade. Only after five years had
passed (2 0)____did______ global temperatures begin to return to normal.
A live broadcast of any public event, such as a space flight or sporting occasion,
is almost (11) ....invariably........... accompanied by the thoughts of a
commentator. This may be on television, along with the relevant pictures, or
(12)....alternatively...........on radio. The technique involved differs between the
two media, with radio broadcasters needing to be more explicit and
(13).descriptive.............. . because of the (14)..absence............. of visual
information. TV commentators do not need to paint a picture for their audience;
instead their various (15)........... observations...........should add to the images that
are already there. There will sometimes be silences and pauses in TV
commentary, although these are becoming increasingly rare. Both types of
commentator should try to be informative, but should avoid sounding (16)
........opinioanted....... In sports commentary, (17) ....fairness.............. and
impartiality to both sides is vital, but spontaneity and (18)......enthusiasm.........
are valued by those watching or listening. Sports commentators usually broadcast
live in an essentially unscripted way, although they may refer to previously
prepared materials such as sports statistics. Because of the
(19).......unpredictable............ nature of live events, thorough preparation in
advance is vital. The internet has helped enormously with this aspect of the job.
Anyone interested in becoming a commentator should have excellent
organisational skills, the willingness to work (20).....irregular.............. hours and
a strong voice. .