For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org SECTION TWO: Structure and Written Expression (1) 1. Among the last groups of people to accept the new model----, who still clung to the idea that the earth was the centre of the universe. (A) were religious groups (B) religious groups were (C) religious groups (D) and religious groups 2. Altruism is characterized by a deep sympathy for those less fortunate,----that the aim of life should be to contribute more to society than you take. (A) belief rooted in (B) in the belief rooted (C) rooted in the belief (D) the rooted belief in 3. Geologists discovered that S waves----only through solid matter, while P waves can be bound traveling through solids or liquids. (A) traveling (B) to travel (C) that travel (D) travel 4. Carbon Dioxide may be absorbed by trees or water bodies, or it may stay in the atmosphere when----, while it is only in the atmosphere that chlorofluorocarbons find their home. (A) by releasing emissions from cars (B) emissions are released by cars (C) cars that release emissions (D) releasing from car emissions 5. Issues of price, place, promotion, and product are----of marketing strategic planning, despite growing calls to expand the range of issues in today’s more complex world. (A) these that are among the most conventional concerns (B) among the most conventional concerns (C) they are among the most conventional concerns (D) those are among the most conventional concerns 6. ---- they sometimes hunt alone, wolves usually hunt in small packs, usually numbering from 3- 4, but sometimes larger. (A) Even (B) Since (C) Nevertheless (D) Although 7. ---- plays an important role in defining the cultural values, trends and stereotypes of American popular culture. (A) Because Hollywood (B) Hollywood and (C) Hollywood For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org (D) Hollywood which 8. Taconite, a ---- rock most common in the northern forests of Minnesota, has a wide variety of commercial uses. (A) shaped like a flint (B) flint-shapes (C) shape of a flint (D) flint-shaped 9. “Letters from the Earth” is actually ---- of essays, written from 1910 until his death in 1937. (A) a collection unpublished (B) an unpublished collection (C) unpublished collection (D) in which an unpublished collection 10. ---- inventions such as videos CD Rom and the Internet, it has been difficult for movie theatres to turn a profit since the early 1970s. (A) Since recent (B) Because of recent (C) Recent (D) The result of recent 11. The terms of the Treaty of Versailles included ---- that would effectively force Germany to compensate for the loss inflicted on Allied powers during World War 1. (A) terms were punitive (B) punitive terms (C) punitive and terms (D) in punitive terms 12. The Kyoto Protocol has strongly sought reductions----. (A) of fuels high of pollutants. (B) in fuel high of pollutants. (C) in fuel highly of pollutants. (D) of pollutants high in fuel. 13. ---- the amount of advertising dollars they are willing to spend on print media by looking at their market reach and the print number. (A) Advertisers estimating (B) Advertiser estimate (C) Advertiser estimating how much (D) Whenever advertisers estimate 14. Although Wild Aid has been trying to stop the slaughter of sharks for their fins, current regulations rarely curtail ---- to the degree needed to restore shark populations. (A) sharks are hunted (B) to hunt sharks (C) the hunting of sharks (D) sharks For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org 15. The ability to communicate ideas and instructions was ---- for the incredible development of the frontal brain lobe in human beings (A) necessary all that (B) all that was necessary (C) all the necessities that (E) such that all the necessities 16. The Pulitzer Prize has became the most cherished and sought after annual award for quality (A) (B) works in the field of journalism and literature. (C) (D) 17. Doctors now recommend that a balance in various activities, such as sleeping, working, eat, (A) (B) (C) (D) and socializing. 18. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote her own specially but controversial column from 1935 until shortly (A) (B) (C) before her death in 1962. (D) 19. The Otis Elevator company is now the largest elevator company on earth, with its 66000 (A) (B) (C) employees in 1700 difference offices. (D) 20. One of the earliest form of a jigsaw puzzle was created in 1762 by a London mapmaker (A) (B) named John Spilsbury, who glued a few of his maps onto thin wooden panels. (C) (D) 21. The deregulation of the Savings and Loans banks in 1982 gave their powers they needed to (A) (B) give loans to almost anyone they wanted. (C) (D) 22. An environment favorable for the growth and preservation of organisms allows for the (A) (B) (C) occurring of fossils. (D) 23. By the time Spanish explorers arrived, they found that Aztec irrigation canals, as well as (A) (B) apartment structures, had already been created, like found those existing in Europe. (C) (D) 24. The 1940 discover of magnetron led to the later development of microwaves, as did the (A) (B) (C) ingenuity of an innovative engineer by the name of Percy Spenser. For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org (D) 25. The use of the torch lighting ceremony at the Olympics is new relatively to the history of the (A) (B) games, and it was surprisingly invented by the Nazis in the 1936 Olympic games. (C) (D) 26. With the ability destroy the earth with a stone no bigger than a shopping centre, asteroids (A) (B) (C) pose a serious threat to our future. (D) 27. Only the inner core of many tropical rainforest trees is hauled away by loggers, which (A) (B) (C) they use it to make planks and chopsticks in Japan. (D) 28. Compared with another spiders, tarantulas actually have very little poison, and some have no (A) (B) (C) poison at all. (D) 29. Fruit and vegetable juices are high in concentrated nutrients, which they are ideal for keeping (A) (B) (C) your immunity high and fighting off colds. (D) 30. In many cities, unless you travel late at night, or in the wee early hours of the morning, there (A) (B) are not means of avoiding a traffic jam. (C) (D) 31. Some companies provide other organisations with core list of their clients whose products (A) (B) may be of interest to them. (C) (D) 32. Many silversmiths flocked to the bigger cities in America during the 1800s, which they (A) (B) found a growing merchant class ready to buy their wares. (C) (D) 33. While the term originates to mean “a woman spinner”, any older woman that devoted herself (A) (B) (C) to work by not choosing to get married was given this term in the 17 th century. (D) For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org 34. In the engineering field, f ew companies hired woman, but that all changed during (A) (B) (C) World War 2, when such shortages of labor began to appear. (D) 35. Too much exposure to UV radiation can cause a various of skin cancers and destroy (A) (B) tiny plants at the beginning of the food chain. (C) (D) 36. The reason automobiles travel on left side in Japan has little to do with Britain and a (A) (B) lot to do with the way ancient soldiers used to carry their swords. (C) (D) 37. Most 911 ambulances can arrive at the scene of an accident within minutes of their (A) (B) occurrence, depending on the precision of the address description given to them by phone. (C) (D) 38. After a 1980 recommendation for preventing heart attacks, aspirin used for a number of (A) (B) (C) other illnesses such as cataracts, diabetes and numerous other forms of cancers. (D) 39. Eli Whitney, born in Westborough, Massachusetts in 1765, was always interested in (A) machines , working in his father’s shop, taking apart a watch and putting them back together. (B) (C) (D) 40. To reach a target of spending a billion dollars in a lifetime, a human being would have to (A) (B) (C) spend money at rate of more than 50,000 dollars per day. (D) For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org Answer Keys 1. A 2. A 3. D 4. D 5. B 6. D 7. C 8. D 9. B 10. B 11. B 12. B 13. B 14. C 15. B 16. A 17. D 18. A 19. D 20. A 21. A 22. A 23. D 24. A 25. B 26. B 27. D 28. B 29. B 30. C 31. A 32. B 33. D 34. C 35. A 36. A 37. B 38. C 39. B 40. D . For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org SECTION TWO: Structure and Written Expression (1) 1. Among the last. cultural values, trends and stereotypes of American popular culture. (A) Because Hollywood (B) Hollywood and (C) Hollywood For more material and information,