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1 Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau chọn câu trả lời tốt số A, B, C D THE MISANTHROPIST The latest production at the Playhouse is a modern version of Moliere’s great play of 1666, Le Misanthrope As in many of his other comedies, Moliere takes an aspect of human nature and (1) _ it, so creating a rich variety of comic scenes and situations In the past, many directors have (2) _ to stress the serious (3) _ of the play, but here, (4) _ Jack Long has kept the tone light and (5) _ Peter Fowler plays the central character, Alceste He is a man who has no (6) _ of people’s emotions He refuses to (7) _ any of the small (8) _ lies that are necessary in normal society, he doesn’t mind (9) _ people and ends up hurting the (10) _ of almost everyone he meets It would be easy to feel some sympathy for Alceste - after all, his only fault is that he is too (11) _ - but Peter Fowler (12) _ to make him look a rather ridiculous figure There are some excellent performances from other (13) _ The long-suffering Philinte (Sam Kirby) comes across as a very sympathetic character The romantic interest is provided by Celimene (Amanda Carter), although in the end she (14) _ to persuade him to change his ways The Misanthropist is on every night for the next three weeks (15) _ Sundays A increases B grows C expands D exaggerates ‘6 10 11 12 13 14 15 A used A side A direct A fun A knowledge A speak A green A upsetting A sensations A honest A succeeds A casts A fails A apart B selected B angle B directive B pleasant B understanding B say B red B injuring B emotions B true B can B actors B misses B without C tended C view C direction C comic C conscience C tell C grey C wounding C spirits C right C achieves C players C mistakes C unless D leaned D edge D director D amused D thought D talk D white D damaging D feelings D accurate D manages D roles D drops D except Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau chọn câu trả lời tốt số A, B, C D OPERATION STARGATE Operation Stargate was the name of a secret spying operation that was run by the Pentagon in the United States for over 20 years The aim of the operation was to (1) _ the possibility of using mind readers, clairvoyants and astrologers to help with spying operations The Pentagon (2) _ six of these psychic people, and the experiments were held at a secret military base in Maryland Put in special rooms, the psychics were asked to concentrate on particular spying operations By using a technique called “remote viewing”, they were asked to (3) _ solutions to specific problems The team had a limited number of successes They were able to give (4) _ of the layout of the building where American diplomats were held hostage in 1979, and on another occasion they (5) _ Customs officials by describing exactly where a drug dealer could be found When a US diplomat was kidnapped in Italy, they described the town he was in and in (6) _ said exactly what the building looked like (7) _, they had many more failures than successes In the end, the government ordered the CIA to (8) _ the mission The team was then examined by a group of experts, who were not (9) _ by the results They decided that (10) _ the psychics had been right a (11) _ times, this had probably just happened by (12) _ At other times, they were probably repeating information that they had (13) _ in newspapers or magazines The military authorities now have the (14) _ task of explaining to (15) _ they wasted $20 million on the project 10 A look through A employee A come up against A description A assisted A also A But A take over A impressive A despite B look down on B employer B come up with B definition B employed B more B Yet B take up B impressing B although C look up C employed C come across C plan C supervised C addition C Although C take after C impressed C in spite of D look into D employment D come into D details D conducted D else D However D take in D impression D besides1 11 A little B some C few D number 12 A chance B possibility C occasion D opportunity 13 A come into B come round C come across D come up against 14 A embarrassed B embarrassing C embarrassment D embarrass 15 A critical B criticize C criticism D critics Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau chọn câu trả lời tốt số A, B, C D If you’re an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or a snarl It has become a symbol of our wasteful, throw-away society But there seems little (1) _ it is here to say, and the truth is, of course, that plastics have brought enormous (2) _, even environmental ones It’s not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental (3) _ - it’s the way society chooses to use and (4) _ them Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modem plastic are made from oil, gas or coal - non-renewable natural (5) _ We (6) _ well over three million tones of the stuff in Britain each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away A high (7) _ of our annua consumption is in the (8) _ of packaging, and this (9) _ about seven per cent by weight, of our domestic (10) _ Almost all of it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling (11) _ is growing fast The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich - they have a higher calorific (12) _ than coal and one (13) _ of ‘recovery’ strongly (14) _ by the plastic manufacturers is the (15) _ of waste plastic into a fuel 10 11 12 13 14 A evidence A pleasures A poison A dispose A resources A remove A portion A way A takes A refuse A manufacture A degree A measure A desired B concern B benefits B disaster B store B processes B import B amount B kind B makes B goods B plant B value B mechanism B argued C doubt C savings C disadvantage C endanger C products C consign C proportion C form C carries C requirements C factory C demand C method C favoured D likelihood D profits D evil D abuse D fuels D consume D rate D type D constitutes D rubble D industry D effect D medium D presented 15 A conversion B melting C change D replacement Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau chọn câu trả lời tốt số A, B, C D While I was in prison, I spent a lot of time (1) _ about what had gone wrong Obviously the Contessa and I had (2) _ a mistake somewhere, but we had taken a lot of trouble to (3) _ to it that no one would catch us I (4) _ a bad time in prison, but while I was there, I (5) _ a decision that I would find Pilar again when I got out and we would spend the rest of our lives together Just before I was released, I had a visitor It was my lawyer He said he just wanted to (6) _ a word with me about Pilar I hoped he would tell me where she was, but he (7) _ me to stop looking for her and (8) _ me that it would not me any good I explained to him that I had (9) _ a promise to Pilar that I would never forget her It was then that he told me something that finally allowed me to (10) _ through her The police had told him that it had been Pilar who had betrayed me We (11) _ an argument, and of course I (12) him of (13) _ it all up, but somehow I knew that he was telling the truth A few days later I was released I realised that I had (14) _ a terrible mess of my life I started drinking, and (15) _ on drinking until I had lost everything, and ended up on the streets It took me years to recover 10 11 12 13 14 15 A inquiring A done A watch A had A made A speak A urged A avoided A done A look A made A claimed A doing A done A stayed B wondering B made B look B passed B did B have B suggested B warned B had B see B took B charged B saying B taken B kept C demanding C had C see C spent C held C give C indicated C noticed C made C watch C had C blamed C inventing C made G continued D regarding D taken D notice D did D found D say D argued D prevented D taken D notice D did D accused D making D had D remained Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau chọn câu trả lời tốt số A, B, C D HOW THE POP SONGS OF TOMORROW ARE CHOSEN Teenagers in America buy (1) _ of records every year so it is (2) _ surprising that manufacturers find it (3) _ to try out the recordings they have made (4) _ live audiences before (5) _ the records on the market The (6) _ way of doing this is (7) _ employed in Hollywood, where hundreds of (8) _ are (9) _ test records and given dials that measure their response to them electrically (10) _ to the sessions enjoys them, (11) _ they are not paid for their help They think (12) _ an opportunity to (13) _ the manufacturers (14) _ they like They say that there (15) _ be more sessions (16) _ this If there (17) _, the.songs that are published would be better and they (18) _ hear (19) _ rubbish (20) _ the radio A a million B millions C several million D over a million A almost B hardly G even D nearly A being useful B to be useful C useful D that it is useful A at B to C opposite D in front of A put B to put C putting D they are putting A most effective B more effective C effectivest D effectiver A which is B which one is C that is D the one A youngs B young people C the youth D the youths A demanded to listen B demanded to listen to C invited to listen to D invited to listen 10 A Everyone who go B Everyone who goes C All people who go D All people who goes 11 A although B in spite of C however D nevertheless 12 A they are being given B they are given C it is being given them D it is given them 13 A explain B inform C tell D say 14 A what B that C the things that D that things 15 A would B should C shall D ought 16 A as B similar than C like D the same that 17 A are B were C was D had 18 A shouldn’t B mustn’t C wouldn’t have to D ought not to 19 A so many B so much C too many D too much 20 A by B in C through D on Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau chọn câu trả lời tốt số A, B, C D THE RISK OF HORSE-RACING (1) _ is a popular sport in Britain and every year punters (the people (2) _ on the results of the races) spend (3) _ money (4) _ it Of course they know they may lose their money if the horse does not win but there are other risks involved (5) racing that they may not be (6) _ One is that the horse may have been given drugs before the race so it will not run (7) _ usual; (8) _ is that someone (9) _ pay the jockey to ride badly (10) _ where an owner had bought two horses, one good and one bad, because they looked (11) _ and then entered the good horse for a race under the bad (12) _ The reason (13) _ doing this is that the betting profits (14) _ (15) _ worked (16) _ to prevent these illegal practices and - (17) _ to stop most of them but it is (18) _ true that the (19) _ way to be sure that you are never cheated at a racecourse is (20) _ A The horse-racing C The horse-races A which bets B which bet A a lot of B a great lot of A for B to A at B in A knowing of B thinking in A as well as B as good as A other B one other A maybe B can have 10 A It was a case C They have been cases 11 A alike B like 12 A one’s name B one its name 13 A because B of 14 A usually are more great C are usually more great 15 A The policemen has C The police have 16 A hard B hardly 17 A have succeeded 18 A already B still 19 A solitary B singular B Horse-racing D Horse-races C who bets D who bet C very much D very many C in D on C on D to C conscious on D aware of C as fast that D so quickly than C another D some other C may have D might be B There was a case D There have been cases C to be similar D to be the same C ones name D name C why D for B usually greater D are usually greater B The policemen have D The police has C much D extra B have been able C can D could C yet D no longer C only D unique 20 A to not bet B not to bet C not bet I D to not be betting Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau chọn câu trả lời tốt số A, B, C D TAKING RISKS AT SEA One (1) _ last summer, a boy (2) _ took an old tyre from (3) _ garage and went down to the beach to (4) _, although he (5) _ swim and his mother had (6) _ go near the water But he felt (7) _ so he took no notice of her warning Before long the wind blew him out to sea His sister saw him but by this time he was (8) _ far out for anyone to reach him Then someone had the (9) _ up the coastguards (10) _ few minutes a helicopter was (11) _ flying over the boy and he was soon pulled to safety Cases like this happen every day (12) _ summer and sometimes people are not so lucky (13) _ surprises coastguards is that people (14) _ on special clothes and take all kinds of precautions when they go climbing often go out in small boats without (15) _ safety equipment or means of signalling for (16) _ They don’t realise, either, that it is as easy to die of exposure (17) _ sea as (18) _ on top of a mountain, so that (19) _ the coastguards see they are (20) _, it will be too late to save them 10 11 12 13 14 A time B time the A of 10 years B with 10 years A his fathers’ B her fathers’ A bath B bather himself A might not C didn’t know to A told him that didn’t C told him not to A to be hot B hot A so B such A idea to ring C interest to ring A At a B At A even B still A in B on A The thing what C What A who puts B who put C day D day the C of 10 D who had 10 yes C her father’s D his father’s C bathe D bath himself B couldn’t D has not been able to B said him that he didn’t D said him not to C himself to be hot D himself hot C enough D too B idea of ringing D interest of ringing C In D In a C yet D already C at D the B It is what D That which C which puts D which put 15 A taking any B taking no C to take any D to take no 16 A a help B help C the help D helping 17 A from B in C on D at 18 A it is B it’s C there is D there’s 19 A unless B if C even D whether 20 A with troubles B with trouble C in troubles D in trouble Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau chọn câu trả lời tốt số A, B, C D BRITISH WINE It is not surprising that people(1) _ ever (2) _ Britain with wine and in fact it may astonish you to learn that grapes are grown (3) _ in England and nearly 200,000 (4) _ are sold (5) _ very new in (6) _ grapes in Britain, (7) _ the climate The Romans planted the first vines about 300 AD and (8) _ a long time people always drank home-produced wines What destroyed the English wine industry was not (9) _ a change in the climate (10) _ the fact that English king, Henry II, inherited the Bordeaux area of France as part of his dominions (11) _ the twelfth century and the imported wine provided (12) _ of competition The English wine industry did not disappear, however, (13) _ the sixteenth century, when the monks, (14) _ had been the main producers in the meantime, (15) _ by Henry VIII The new owners let the vineyards (16) _ out But now English people, probably (17) _ their memories of holidays by the Mediterranean, (18) _ more wine than (19) _, and the new industry is now developing (20) _ a modest but consistent rate A hardly B almost A associate B associates A broadly B in the open air A wine bottles C of wine bottles A It is anything C There is anything A the growing B growing A however B nevertheless A for B since A enough B such 10 A then B that 11 A on B during C nearly D seldom C is associating D are associating C in the wide D outwards B bottles of wine D of bottles of wine B It is nothing D There is nothing C the being grown D being grown C in spite of D although C from D during C too much D so much C as D like C in D since 12 13 14 15 A much B many C a great deal D a large number A until B while C as far as D as long as A what B which C who D that A had taken away their tastes B had their tastes taken away C were taken away their tastes D took their tastes away 16 A that they died B be dying C to die D die 17 A because of B because C for D due 18 A it drinks B they drink C drinks D drink 19 A always B never C no one D ever 20 A for B on C at D by Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau chọn câu trả lời tốt số A, B, C D SNAKES IN BRITAIN It is very unusual for a snake to bite anyone in Britain but (1) _ much more afraid of them (2) _ of rats and treat them (3) _ if they come across them The three kinds of snakes that (4) _ survive in the country (5) _ to changing conditions since the age of the dinosaurs (6) _ is very large and only one, the adder, which lives off other creatures (7) _ mice, is (8) _ a man The first rule in (9) _ with snakes is to leave them alone and the second is to know (10) _ and which ones are dangerous Even adders are not aggressive and will just go away as (11) _ as people give them the chance to (12) _ The (13) _ way to (14) _ bitten, however, is to wear strong boots and thick socks in the countryside, since (15) _ is quite small If you are lucky enough (16) _ bitten, the important thing (17) _ panic Just go to the nearest hospital or doctor (18) _ as possible without running (19) _ that (20) _ in Britain because they have been stung by bees than from snake bites A most people are C the most of people are A asB even A less well B more badly A still B yet A must adapt C had to adapt A Anyone B None A as the B such as the A capable of killing B most people is D the most of people is C than D that C worst D worse C already D even B must be adapted D have had to adapt C No one D Neither C as D such as B capable to kill D able to be killing A treating B handling 10 A how they are C what they look like 11 A far B long 12 A such B so 13 A more easy B most easy 14 A avoid-to be B avoid being 15 A an adder’s tooth C an adders’ tooth 16 A that you are B for to be 17 A is don’t to B is don’t never 18 A so quick B as quick 19 A The matter is B It is the matter 20 A far more people die C much more people die C able of killing C contacting D dealing B how are they D what they like C much D well C make such D make so C easier D easiest C prevent to be D prevent being B an adder tooth D a tooth of an adder C for being D to be C is not to D it’s not to C so quickly D as quickly C The fact is D It is the fact B far more people are dying D much more people are dying