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TRƯỜNG PHỔ THÔNG NĂNG KHIẾU Năm Học 2018-2019

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Read the text about homework and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 10.
A study of the impact of homework in different countries claims that the pressure of homework causes (1)
......between children and parents. According to the study, this pressure is most evident in families where parents
are (2) ......for their children to succeed at school.
The recently released study is a review of research over 75 years, which (3) ......the impact of homework in the
United Kingdom, the United States, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. It claims (4) ......homework can become
a source of tension, particularly when parents try to (5) ......too much control.
The study states that parents have the most positive influence when they offer moral support, make appropriate
resources available and discuss general issues, adding that parents should only offer their help when their children
(6) ......ask them to. The report also backs the effectiveness of homework clubs, which have recently (7) ......popular
in many schools. These provide a quiet (8) ......where children can study after formal lessons finish, with a teacher
(9) ......available to help them. Children feel that these clubs (10) ......homework enjoyable and give them a better
chance of passing exams.
Question 1: A. disaster B. friction C. interest D. impact
Question 2: A. interested B. intense C. encouraging D. keen
Question 3: A. proves B. revises C. examines D. suggests
Question 4: A. how B. what C. when D. that
Question 5: A. hold B. bear C. take D. give
Question 6: A. certianly B. specially C. critically D. specifically
Question 7: A. become B. seemed C. been D. deemed
Question 8: A. point B. time C. period D. place
Question 9: A. is B. whose C. often D. seemingly
Question 10: A. give B. make C. have D. do

Read four texts on the next page. There are ten questions about the texts. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your
answer sheet to indicate which text tells you the answer to the question. The same text may be used more than
twice.
In which text does the writer
Question 11: answer the questions?
Question 12: promotes the book?
Question 13: define something?
Question 14: address students?
Question 15: claim that time management is good for people who procastinate?
Which text is saying the following?
Question 16: They can accurately track how you use your time.
Question 17: Certain insights can improve your effectiveness.
Question 18: Time cannot be managed.
Question 19: You need to know your priorities
Question 20: It‟s easy to tell when you are not working on the computer.
A B
Advantages of Time Management What Is RescueTime?
Gains time, motivates and initiates, RescueTime is a web-based time management tool that allows you
reduces avaoidance, promotes review to easily understand how you spend your time. You install a
of work, eliminates cramming for program on your computer and we magically track all your time
exams reduces anxiety usage.
Keys To Successfully I always have a lot of different applications and sites open at any
Time Management given time. How does RescueTime handle that?
* Self-knowledge and goals: In order RescueTime doesn‟t really care which applications you have open,
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 to manage your time sucessfully, but rather pays attention to which application or site is currently “in
having an awareness of what your focus”. In other words, we‟re measuring what‟s what you are paying
goals are will assist you in prioritising attention to, not what you have open.
* Developing and maintaining a What about when I get up from my computer?
personal, flexible schedule: Time How are you going to measure that?
management provides you with the Why would you ever want to do that? Seriously, though –
opportunity to create a schedule that RescueTime has an idle timeout that will stop the data collection
works for you, not for others. This process if there hasn‟t been mouse or keyboard activity for a certain
personal attention gives you the period of time.
flexibility to include the things that How accurate is RescueTime?
are most important to you. We like to say that RescueTime is about 95% accurate. Because of
idle detection, RescueTime sometimes over-report by a few seconds
here and there. We‟re constantly working to improve accuracy.
C D
Have you ever been trying to improve your time Time management is commonly defined
management skills or overall personal effectiveness? Do you as the various means by which people
feel like you are still missing some key details? If so, we‟ve effectively use their time and other closely
got something for you. related resources in order to make the most
This personal time management guide and the out of it. It refers to principles and systems
accompanying newsletter are dedicated to building a stronger that individuals use to make conscious
foundation for your success. One skill at a time. decisions about the activities that occupy
Each section of the guide is an important building block you their time.
can put into your foundation right now. Take one of the pages However it has been said that you can‟t
and read it: you will gain the key insights and practical tips manage time, time just is. So “time
for one of the core areas of higher personal effectiveness. management” is a mislabeled problem. What
Take another page and do the same. Each article will move you really manage is your activity during
you one step forward in something that could be limiting your time.
success level today.

Read the text about oil spill and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word
that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 21 to 30.
On an ecologist‟s list of mightmares, this (21) ......looked like an easy member of the Top Five. An Ecuadorian
fuel tanker, the Jessica, ran aground in the Galapagos archipelago and slowly spilled its (22) ......of 240,000 gallons
of oil into the surrounding ocean. The disaster threatened to choke a unique and delicate (23) ......; the island whose
giant tortoises and 15 related species of finch inspired Charles Darwin‟s „The orgini of Species‟ in 1859.
The emergancy began when the captain of the Jessica, a 30-year-old boat, (24) ......a buoy for a lighthouse and
ran aground off the shore of San Cristobal Island. The ship‟s cargo was 65% diesel oil (25) ...... for Baltra Island
and 35% bunker fuel, a heavier form of oil used by tour boats. Rescue teams from the Ecuadorian navy and the
state-owned company began (26) ......fuel from the damaged vessel, but after three days of battering by waves up to
2 meters in (27) ......, the Jessica began leaking oil into the sea and would (28) ......pour out over 180,000 gallons.
One week later, the government declared a state of (29) ...... in the Galapagos archipelago, setting (30) ......an
initial $2 miilion for cleanup operation.
Question 21: A. one B. only C. was D. had
Question 22: A. load B. cargo C. produce D. transport
Question 23: A.wildlife B. habitat C. nature D. vicinity
Question 24: A. mistook B. noticed C. confused D. observed
Question 25: A. headed B. directed C. aimed D. sent
Question 26: A. climinating B. removing C. subtracting D. exporting
Question 27: A. length B. range C. height D. strength
Question 28: A. eventually B. explicitly C. totally D. barely
Question 28: A. alarm B. disaster C. emergency D. tragedy
Question 30: A.down B. up C. off D. aside

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from
31 to 45.
Question 31: The English spoken in Canada is similar......the United States.
A. to those in B. with that of C. with that in D. to that of
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Question 32: After the eruption, lava......out of the volcano and poured down the mountainside.
A. has spewed B. was spewed C. spewing D. spewed
Question 33: This prestigious university......just over $2 million to nanotechnology research recently.
A. syas to allocate B. said to have allocated
C. is said to have allocated D. is said that they allocated
Question 34: According to the investication, he died not from a blow to the head...... .
A. but of a heart attack B. but his heart failed him
C. only of a heart attack D. instead of his heart attack
Question 35: “Did Celine ever graduate from university?” ~ No, ......at university for 18 months, she dropped out
to find work.
A. she had been B. after having been C. while being D. since she was
Question 36: ......Keith made in his attempt to catch the dog that he strained his back.
A. Such a great effort B. Such was the effort C. So was the effort that D. So great effort
Question 37: The examinee couldn‟t understand the question, so he asked......from the supervisor.
A. for clarification B. to clarify C. for clarifying D. to be clarified
Question 38: With the increase in international crime, it is logical to......searched at customs nowadays.
A. assuming that you are B. assume to be C. assume you will be D. assume being
Question 39: Democrats would have done better in the midterms......they run as the peace party.
A. had B. if C. unless D. were
Question 40: Human Rights Watch documented that thousands of orphans and abandoned children......each year.
A. are vanished in B. vanish C. have been vanished D. get vanished
Question 41: “He needs to go on strict diet.” ~ “I agree. He does eat......much.”
A. too much B. that C. much too D. too very
Question 42: “Didn‟t you hear the door bell?” ~ “No, I......fast asleep.”
A. had to be B. must be C. should have been D. must have been
Question 43: There seemed to be a consensus that the new proposal......at the meeting.
A. has rejected B. be rejected C. should reject D. was rejected
Question 44: Christine has never......to anybody about anything in her life.
A. lain B. laid C. lied D. lay
Question 45: Medical researchers have recently disvovered what......to be a new starin of the killer virus.
A. appears B. is appearing C. was appeared D. appears as if
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from other three in the
position of primary stress in each of the questions from 46 to 50.
Question 46: A. compulsory B. federation C. parabolic D. mausoleum
Question 47: A. meteorite B. consequently C. preferable D. certificate
Question 48: A. carol B. garnish C. simmer D. promote
Question 49: A. nominate B. compromise C. ultimate D. embroider
Question 50: A. minimize B. applicant C. satellite D. bilingual
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the
other three in pronunciation in each of the questions from 51 to 55.
Question 51: A. chain B. chapter C. chateau D. charm
Question 52: A. cretaceous B. gorgeous C. gaseous D. courageous
Question 53: A. tough B. cough C. rough D. hiccough
Question 54: A. genre B. together C. genitive D. generation
Question 55: A. dolphin B. shepherh C. asphalt D. orphan
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each
of the questions from 56 to 65.
Question 56: Nowadays, (A) despite heir parents' efforts to keep them innocent, children (B) are growing up much
(C) more quickly than they (D) did a generation ago.
Qunllon 57: In (A) those countries where public health care is available, (B) less unnecessary medical procedures
(C) occur and lawyers are rarely (D) involved in settling disputes.
Question 58: The existence of the Mozart sonatas. (A) unlike his operas, was (B) wholly (C) unsuspected (D) until
about the early twentieth century.
Question 59: Julia (A) has discovered that she can express her opinions more freely (B) through her (C) diary (D)
and not in her letters.
Question 60: In the 18th century, careers in medicine and law (A) were prestigious, but (B) it (C) did not require
practitioners (D) to hold college degrees.
Question 61: The director‟s second movie it (A) quite different from his first and, in continuity (B) at least, is (C)
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more superior to (D) it.
Question 62: Human population, far (A) from being (B) randomly scattered across the continents, (C) appeared
(D) to be distributed in circular patterns.
Question 63: Eduard Graves (A) was one of a handful of people who (B) committed (C) his life (D) to preserve the
pristine wilderness of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Question 64: (A) When rumors of a secret wedding (B) begun to spread, (C) neither of the movie stars (D) were
available for comment.
Question 65: The main rule of the stables (A) is clearly posted and (B) reads as follows: anyone who has not (C)
rode a horse before must be accompanied on the trail (D) by an experienced guide.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from
66 to 85.
Question 66: Renewable forms of energy are now quite cost.......
A. productive B. ignorant C. successful D. effective
Question 67: Don't panic; your key will probably.......when you least expect it.
A. put down B. come across C. turn up D. run up against
Question 68: "Have you taken everything into account?" ~ "Yes. I think I've made.......for just about everything.
A.deficits B. allowances C. acknowledgements D. remedies
Question 69: Thus you convince them that this piece is...... so no one will attack us outside in an attempt to steal it.
A. invaluable B. valueless C. unworthy D. priceless
Question 70: The retiring firemen received a commemorative gift.....a set of pens and pencils.
A. involving B. consisting C. comprising D. composing
Question 71: Economists claim that restricting the free flow of goods will cause global economic.....and decline.
A. capitalization B. boom C. stagnation D. regimen
Question 72: John's never happy. He's always.....about one thing or another.
A. grumbling B. considering C. finding fault D. criticizing
Question 73: Sports journalists are saying thai the home side is.....to win the championship much tomorrow.
A. resolute B. feasible C. probable D. bound
Question 74: Rising temperatures are said to be.....the habitats and feeding patterns of penguins.
A. shifting B. altering C. dotting D. marring
Question 75: Experts have discovered a fossil that has been so exceptionally well preserved that even its tissue
is......
A. inaudible B. intact C. indiscreet D. inflated
Question 76: The President had to.....her vacation after hearing about the natural disaster.
A. curtail B. restrict C. restrain D. desert
Question 77: Recently Tawfig Al-Sudairi, the deputy mimister of Islamic Affairs in Saudi Arabia, .....his
disapproval of the political interpretation of Islam.
A. said B. voiced C. told D. spoke
Question 78: Stop shoulingJYoure.....attention lo yourself
A. accumulating B. drawing C. paying D. accepting
Question 79: Many children in state schools have expressed frustration at having to.....with values they don't share.
A. comprise B. conceive C. comply D. corroborate
Question 80: Sally.....when she heard that her sister was on the hijacked plane.
A. took aback B. fell out C. broke down D. put off
Question 81: Children were taught at home long before public schools were even.....
A. in principle B. on the whole C. at liberty D. in existence
Question 82: The horrific plane crash was.....pilot error.
A. attributed to B. admonished by C. resulted in D. inflicted by
Question 83: Then I lay there wide.....until after midnight, thinking about nothing else.
A. awake B. woken C awoke D. waking
Question 84: I'll be back one.of these days, and we'll have a.....meal together.
A. slap-bang B. slap-up C. slapdash D. slap down
Question 85: Don't forget to plug in the.....cable before turning the printer on.
A. connection B. inspection C. retention D. detection

While searching for information on road safety for a school assignment, you find this post on a weblog. Read
the post carefully and answer the questions that follow.
The origins of jaywalking, the illegal crossing of a roadway by a pedestrian, lie in a propaganda campaign by the
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motor industry in the early 1900s. The word 'jaywalker‟ was first used to describe someone from the countryside
who wasnt accustomed to the rules of the read for pedestrians in the city, so would attempt to cross the streets
anywhere. In 1913, a department store in New York hired a Santa Claus, who stood on Ihe sidewalk bellowing at
people who didn't cross the street properly and calling them jaywalkers.
The idea of being fined for crossing the road at undesignated areas or without regard for traffic regulations can
confuse foreign visitors to the US. The UK, Norway and France are among the many developed countries where
jaywalking is not an offence, but their rates of pedestrian injuries are lower than those of the US, However, a
handful of countries have followed the lead of the US and imposed anti-jaywalking measures. Police in China, for
example, began fining jaywalkers in 2013, and in Singapore, jaywalking can lead to a S1,000 fine or a three-month
jail term.
In the US, jaywalking can result in a fine ranging from $190 to $250. As in most countries with ami-jaywalking
legislation, enforcement of the law here is sporadic, often only triggered by repeated complaints from drivers m
certain areas. But jaywalking has been illegal in the US for many decades. According to Jacob Rath, a history
professor at the University of Virginia, a key moment was in 1929 when a petition was signed by the citizens of
Cincinnati to limit the top speed of cars to 25mph. Though the petition failed, car makers scrambled to shift the
blame for pedestrian casualties from motorists to pedestrians. Soon, he adds, they also started influencing school
safety education by stressing that "streets are for cars, not for children". As a result, anti-jaywalking laws were
adopted in many cities and had become the norm by the end of the 1930s.
In the decades that folowed, the overriding goal of the city planners and engineers was to allow traffic to
circulate unhindered. For years, pedestrians were essentially written out of equation when it came to desiging
streets,” says Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic – Why We Drive the Way We Do. “They didn‟t even appear in early
computer models, and when they did, it was largely for their role in blocking vehicle traffic. This has made US
cities unusually hostile to pedestrians,” syas Vanderbilt. Jaywalking has become an “often misunderstood umbrella
term”, covering many situations in which the pedestrian should, in effect, have the right of way.
In the US, resistance lo atiti-jay-walking legislation is growing. When the Los Angeles Police Department
recently advertised an anti-jaywalking campaign on its Facebook page, respondents accused police of simply
seeking an easy source of revenue. And in New York, in its effort to crack down on jaywalking, the mayor‟s office
has come up against opposition from voters and polive officers. Advocates of jaywalking say careless drivers, not
pedestrians, are most often to blame for motorist-pedestrian accidents, pedestrian deaths and injuries, and that there
is no evidence to prove that anti-jaywalking campaigns are effective. They believe that there is too little
experimentation with projects that aim to make US cities more pedestrain-frindly, such as increasing motorists‟
awareness of pedestrians reducing traffic speeds in urban areas.
Leave your comments:
Very interesting facts about jaywalking, but your post is wrong when it states that “it is not offence in the
UK”. Jaywalking is an offence in Northern ireland (part of the UK), although, fortunately, traffic officers
rarely enforce the law. But if and when they do, it can result, in either a written warning or a £30 fine.
Ian McInnes, Belfast
Question 86: Which of the following is closest in meaning to 'bellowing' in paragraph 1?
A. yelling B. smiling C. staring D. waving
Question 87: Who would most likely be fined for jaywalking in the United States?
A. a person from the countryside who crosses the road at a crosswalk
B. someone who hurriedly crosses the road near a crosswalk
C. pedestan standing on the sidewalk outside a department store
D. a motorist who is unaware of the rules of the road for pedestrians
Question 88: What does the author imply in the second paragraph?
A. More countries have anti-jaywalking measures than those that don‟t.
B. Anti-jaywalking measures don't guarantee low pedcstnan injury rales.
C. Traffic regulations in the US are confusing for foreign visitors.
D. Jaywalking should not be an offence in any developed country.
Question 89: Who campaigned for the introduction of anti-jaywalking legislation?
A. the auto industry B. the citizens of Cincinnati C. educationalists D. motorists
Question 90: Which of the following is closest in meaning to 'written out of the equation' in paragraph 4?
A. frustrated B. reprimanded C. deceived D. disregarded
Question 91: How did early city planners view pedestrians?
A. They thought that they made the roads unsafe for moiorisu.
B. Mley regarded them as being vital elements in road design.
C. They considered them to be traffic obstructions.
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D. They believed they should have the right of way on the streets.
Question 92: What can be inferred about traffic officers in the US?
A. They want to abolish anti-jaywalking legislation.
B. They would like to see a limit on the top speed of cars.
C. They believe that the fine for jaywalking is loo high.
D. They don‟t consider fining jaywalkers a top priority.
Question 93:: What do people who oppose anti-jaywalking laws believe?
A. The laws help reduce the number of motorist -pedestrian accidents.
B. Jaywalking fines are a necessary source of income for cities.
C. Motorists are unaware of what jaywalking actually is.
D. Pedestrian-friendly projects should be implemented.
Question 94: Why has Ian McInnes left a comment on the weblog?
A. to stress that the fine for jaywalking in his country is avoidable
B. to point out that Northern Ireland is part of the UK.
C. to correct information in Mike Bruberg's post
D. to argue for the rights of pedestrians
Question 95: What best describes the style of Mike Bruberg’s post?
A. a public complaint against jaywalking B. an informative analysis of jaywalking
C. a subjective opinion of jaywalking D. a sentimental defence of jaywalking
Choose the sentence A, B, C, or D which is closest in meaning to the first sentence in each of the questions from
96 to 100.
Question 96: Cathy had better slop eating so much chocolate.
A. Cathy wishes she could give up eating chocolate.
B. Cathy would prefer to stop eating so much chocolate.
C. Cathy ought to stop eating so much chocolate.
D. Cathy may have given up eating so much chocolate.
Question 97: "You have spoilt my party," she told her brother.
A. She accused her brother of spoiling her party.
B. She apologized for spoiling her brother's party.
C. She threatened to spoil her brother's party.
D. She has asked her brother to spoil her party.
Queilfon 98: Bill should have arrived by now.
A. Bill has just arrived. B. I think Bill should be here very soon.
C. I expected Bill to have arrived before. D. Bill is going to arrive any minute.
Question 99: Without his help, she would not have managed to solve the problem.
A. She managed to solve the problem on her own.
B. She's unable to solve the problem without his help.
C. If he hadn't helped her, she wouldn't have been able to solve the problem.
D. If he helps her, she'll be able to solve the problem.
Question 100: She had never been to such a boring party before.
A. Never before had she been so bored at a party. B. She avoids going to boring parties.
C. Rarely does she go to boring parties. D. She shouldn't have been so bored at the party.

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ANSWER KEY

1. B 2. D 3. C 4. D 5. C 6. D 7. A 8. B 9. C 10. B
11. B 12. C 13. D 14. A 15. A 16. B 17. C18. D 19. A 20. B
21. A 22. B 23. B 24. A 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. A 29. C 30. D
31. D 32. D 33. C 34. A 35. B 36. B 37. A 38. C 39. A40. B
41. B 42. D 43. B 44. C 45. A 46. A 47. D 48. D 49. D 50. D
51. C 52. C 53. D 54. B 55. B 56. B 57. B 58. A 59. D 60. B
61. C 62. C63. D 64. D 65. C 66. D 67. C 68. B 69. B 70. C
71. C 72. A 73. D 74. B 75. B 76. A 77. B 78. B 79. C80. C
81. D 82. A 83. A 84. B 85. A 86. A 87. B 88. B 89. A 90. D
91. C 92. B 93. D 94. C 95. B 96. C 97. A 98. C 99. C 100. A

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