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Nm hc: 2011-2012
Mn thi: Ting Anh
Ngy thi: 04-4-2012
Thi gian lm bi: 150pht
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I. Phonetics (1,2 pts)
a. Cirele the best option A, B, C or D that has the underlined part pronounced
differently from the others.
1. A. south
B. southern
C. scout
D. drought
2. A. allow
B. follow
C. hollow
D. fellow
3. A. cable
B. station
C. transfer
D. relate
b. Circle the best option A, B, C, or D whose stress pattern is different from the others.
4. A. champagne
B. institute
C. purpose
D. viable
5. A. effciency
B. govemment
C. opinion
D. conclusive
6. A. spacecraft
B. gemstone
C. highlands
D. well-qualified
II. Vocabulary and Grammar (7,6 pts)
a. Circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete tbe sentenccs.
7. Next well have the___________news.
A. latest
B. newest
C. later
D. newer
8. This programme will be read by the very pretty_________ Penlly Lane.
A. newsdealer
B. newscaster
C. news bringer D. newspaper
9. In Britain the_____________ are all painted red.
A. letter boxes
B. letters boxes C. letters boxes D. letters boxes
10. Mike: Im taking my driving test tomorrow.
- Jane: __________
A. Good fortune
B. Good luck
C. Good outcome D. Good success
11. Jimmy: I could give you a lift to the station.
- Mary:__________
A. Theres no requirement
B. Theres no practicality
C. Theres no aim
D. Theres no need
12. Jill: Ive waited 3 hours for a bus now.
- Frank: ____________
A. What a bore!
B. What a boring! C. What bores!
D. What boring!
13. I looked for George and Mike but l saw___________ of them.
A. all
B. none
C. neither
D. both
14. I________ what you are saying but that still doesnt make me want to change my
mind one little bit.
A. listen
B. hear
C. am listening
D. heard
15. The car to __________ you are referring happens to be mine!
A. that
B. whom
C. which
D. who
l6. Students in the United States often support themselves by babysitting, working in
restaurants, or___________taxicabs.
A. they drive
B. to drive
C. driving
D. drive
17. She viewed the _________of a week alone in the house without much enthusiasm.

A. prospect
B. prospects
C. prospector
D. prospective
18. Farmers 1ook forward to ___________ the county fairs every summer.
A. participating in
B. participate in
C. be participating to
D. have participated to
19. Most comets have two kinds of tails, 0ne made up of dust, _________made up of
electrically charged particles called plasma.
A. one another
B. the ther
C. other ones
D. the others
20. By 1820, there were over sixty steamboats on the Mississippi river,_________ were
quite luxurious.
A. many ofthem
B. which many
C. many of which D. many that
b. Complete the passage using the correct verbs. The first letter ofeach verb is
provided
Richard was very pessimistic about my plans to ride my bike from the very north of France
to the south. He was (21) c_________ the project was doomed to failure despite all my
attempts to persuade him that I would be able to (22) c___________ it off. He said I
would never be able to (23) p__________ in so many miles in the short period of time I
had at my disposal. I knew Id be unlikely to (24) s__________ through the trip without
any problems but I made a great effort to (25) r_________ above all his negative
comments. I am so glad I did? It wasnt an easy ride, and my French isnt great, but I
managed to (26)g__________by using gestures and a phrasebook. My determination (27)
p___________ me through and in the end I (28)s__________in reaching my destination
just one day later than planned. Im glad to say Richard was there to congratulate me.
c. Choose the verbs in column A with prepositions in column B to make phrasal verbs
to complete the passage in the correct forms. Some prepositions can be used more
than once.
A

burst
listen
do
trail
for
down
on
Shut
grate
go
die
out
off
up
Hi Pat,
Interesting to hear about your new flat. Im sony to know that the noise (29)__________
you so much. Im attaching an ad for some ear-plugs which claim to help you (30)_____
anything___________!
I moved into a new flat a month or so ago, too. Its next to the football stadium. I cant see
the matches but I can follow whats (31)_____________ from the sounds I hear. A cheer
goes up whenever the home team shoots. But the sound quickly (32)__________if the ball
doesnt go in. Every time theres a match, I find myself (33)________________
the cheers. When I told my girlfriend that I wanted to stay at home to listen to the sounds
of a football match she (34)________________ laughing, thinking I was ioking, and
started talking about how we could (35)________ the flat________ When another cheer
went up from the staium, though, her voice (36)___________________ and she rushed to
the window in excitement. Then she stayed in the flat with me and spent all aftemoon at
the window watching spectators going in and out of the stadium.
Love,
John
d. Give the correct forms of the words given to complete the passage.

For some inexplicable reason, university students have always had an image of being (37utter)____________ irresponsible young people who play their music at (38deaf)______________volumes at all times of the day and night, hardly ever do any real
work and spend every night attending (39-drunk)____________ parties until the small
hours of the morning. Personally, I think this portrayal of students as such totally (40grossness)______________ parasites is repulsive unfair, not least because living such an
excessive lifestyle continually would be (41-practise)____________ impossible when
combined with the absolutely (42-mass)__________workloads of modem degree courses.
It simply isnt possible on a modern degree course in the UK to get up some time at around
lunchtime. Students that I know seem to have lectures almost every day and spend the rest
of their time working (43-awe)____________hard indeed. They may let off some steam
once every month or so and it is probably these (44-relate)___________rare occasions
that have given undergraduates their fearsome reputation.
III. Reading (6,2 pts)
a. Fill in the gap one suitable preposition to complete the conversation.
Clothes
A: Mum, can I go to the wedding dressed like this?
B: No! Youve wom those jeans (45)________ Theres a hole in the knee. Why dont you
put (46)__________ those nice trousers I bought you 1ast year?
A: Theyre too small. I cant do them (47)________
B: Well, youve got lots of clothes. Im sure you can find something nice. You have to dress
(48)_________for a wedding! Oh! And take those old trainers (49)________too!
b. Circle the best option A. B, C or D to fill in each gap to complete the passage.
Scandal has haunted the Olympic Games in modem times. At the very first Games, an
Englishman called Flack (50)________off briskly in front of the (51)_______in the
marathon. He was (52)________by his butler on a bicycle. When they neared Athens, he
(53)________ the butler back to (54)________who was behind him. The butler went back
about a mile but found nobody. He rode back to Flack and said, Theres nobody. You
can win this thing on your head. Then soon after, (55)________ ran one Greek. then
another, and another, and another. They were full of running. Perhaps Flack took a long
(56)__________round? At the next Marathon, in 1900, in Paris, the winner was a
Frenchman who worked as a bakers roundsman. It was (57)_________ suspected that he
was able to take numerous short (58)__________because ofhis experience delivering
bread in the area. Four years later, the Games were held in St Louis, in the USA. This
(59)_________suspicions were proved. The American runner who finished first in the
marathon was discovered to have accepted a (60)_________ from a car. He was
disqualified. It is not so much the scandals and disputes of recent years that have
(61)_______the Games. It is their sheer (62)________, their excessive cost, their
indulgence of national pride. One very sensible suggestion is that future Games should be
restricted to individual (63)__________in which one person clearly wins. All team games
would go, and no one would feel any loss at the disappearance of Olympic soccer, a
pale (64)__________ of the more professional game.

50. A. paced

B. made

C. ambled

D. set

51. A. group B. participants C. crowd

D. field
52. A. served B. serviced C. accompanied D. allied
53. A. sent
B. fetched C. brought D. requested
54. A. view B. scan
C. 1ook
D. see
55. A. up
B. round
C. by
D. to
56. A. path
B. road
C. way
D. distance
57. A. heaviiy B. seriously C. strongly D. greatly
58. A. ways B. cuts C. routes
D. sets
59. A. time
B. occasion C. event D. meeting
60. A. lift
B. help C. ride D. push
61. A. threatened B. attacked C. discouraged D. 1oomed over
62. A. grossness B. enormity C. obesitv D. 1argesse
63. A. happenings B. events C. circumstances D. fields
64. A. weakness B. shadow C. image D. effigy
c. Read the passage and do the following tasks.
The History of Early Cinema
Although French, German, American and British pioneers have all been credited with the
invention of cinema, the British and the German played a relatively small role in its
worldwide exploitation. It was above all the French, followed closely by the American,
who were the most passionate exporters of the new invention, helping to start cinema in
China, Japan, Latin America and Russia. In terms of artistic development it was again the
French and the American who took the lead, though in the years before the First World
War, Italy, Denmark and Russia also played a part. In the end, it was the United States
that was to become, and remain, the largest single market for films. By protecting their
own market and pursuing a vigorous export policy, the American achieved a dominant
position on the world market by the start of the First World War. The centre of filmmaking had moved westwards, to Hollywood, and it was films from these new Hollywood
studios that flooded onto the worlds film markets in the years after the First World War,
and have done so ever since. Faced with total Hollywood domination, few film industries
proved competitive. The Italian industry, which had pioneered the feature film with
spectacular films like Quo vadis? (1913) and Cabiria (1914), almost collapsed. In
Scandinavia, the Swedish cinema had a brief period of glory, notably with powerful epic
films and comedies. Even the French cinema found itself in a difficult position. In Europe,
only Germany proved industrially capable, while in the new Soviet Union and in Japan
the development of the cinema took place in conditions of commercial isolation. Hollywood
took the lead artistically as well as industrially. Hollywood films appealed because they
had better-constructed narratives, their special effects were more impressive, and the star
system added a new dimension to screen acting. If Hollywood did not have enough of its
own resources, it had a great deal of money to buy up artists and technical innovations
from Europe to ensure its continued dominance over present or future competition.
The zest of the world survived partly by leaming from Hollywood and partly becaue
audiences continued to exist for a product which corresponded to needs which Hollywood
could not supply. As well as popular audiences, there were also increasing audiences for
films which were artistically more adventurous or which dealt with the issues in the outer
world. None of this would have happened without technology, and cinema is in fact unique

as an art form. In the early years, this art form was quite primitive, similar to the original
French idea of using a lantem and slides back in the seventeenth century. Early cinema
programmes were a mixture of items. combining comic sketches, free-standing narratives,
serial episodes and the occasional trick or animated film. With the arrival of the feature
length narrative as the main attraction, other types of films became less important. The
making of cartoons became a separate branch of film-making, generally practised
outside the major studios, and the same was true of serials. Together with newsreels, they
tended to be shown as short items in a programme which led to the feature. From early
cinema, it was only American slapstick comedy that successfully developed in both short
and feature format. However, during this Silent Film era, animation, comedy, serials and
dramatic features continued to thrive, along with factual films or documentaries, which
acquired an increasing distinctiveness as the period proglessed. It was also at this time
that the avant-garde film first achieved commercial success, this time thanks almost
exclusively to the French and the occasional Gemlan film. Of the countries which
developed and maintained distinctive national cinemas in the silent period, the most
important were France, Gennany and the Soviet Union. Of these, the French displayed the
most continuity, in spite of the war and post-war economic uncertainties. The German
cinema, relatively insignificant in the pre-war years, exploded on to the world scene after
1919. Yet even they were both overshadowed by the Soviets after the 1917 Revolution.
They tumed their back on the past, leaving the style of the pre-war Russian cinema to the
emigrants who fled westwards to escape the Revolution.
The other countries whose cinemas changed dramatically are: Britain, which had an
interesting but undistinguished history in the silent period; Italy, which had a brief moment
of intemational fame just before the war; the Scandinavian countries, particularly
Denmark, which played a role in the development of silent cinema quite out of proportion
to their small population; and Japan, where a cinema developed based primarily on
traditional theatrical and, to a lesser extent, other art forms and only gradually adapted
to westem influence.
65. Circle THREE possible reasons for American dominance of the film industry are given
in the text.
A. plenty of capital to purchase what it didnt have B. making films dealing with serious
issues
C. being first to produce a feature film
D. well-written nanatives
E. the effect of the First World War
F. excellent special effects
* Answer the questions below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage
for each answer.
66. Which TWO types of film were not generally made in major
studios?....................................
67. Which type of film did America develop in both short and feature
films?...............................
68. Which type of film started to become profitable in the silent
period?...................................
Look at the following statements and the list of countries below. Match each statement with
the correct country.
* Write the correct letter A-J next to the number. You may use any lener more than once.

List of Countries: A. France

B. Germany
C. USA
F. Japan
G. Soviet Union H. Italy I. Britain

D. Denmark
J. China

E. Sweden

69.__________It helped other countries

develop their own film industry.
73.___________It made the most money
70.__________It was the biggest producer from avant-garde films.
of films.
74.___________It made movies based more
71.__________It was first to develop the
on its own culture than outside influences.
feature film.
75.___________It had a great infiuence on
72.__________It was responsible for
silent movies, despite its size.
creating stars.
IV. Writing (5,0pts)
a. There are 5 mistakes in the passage, underline and correct them.
Have you ever tried a strawberry pizza? If you went to Oxnard, the
Strawberry Capital of California, in May, you could! Oxnard is in
Southern California and this part of the state takes its strawberries
76.___________
very seriously. At the two-day Califomia Strawberry Festival you can
sample strawberries prepared of different ways. In addition to
traditional treats such as strawberry shortcake, strawbeny jam,
strawberry tarts and strawberries dipped in chocolate, there is
strawberry pizzar! This dessert pizza is topped by strawberries, sour
77____________
cream, cream cheese and whipped cream on a sweet bread baked
like a pizza. Strawberry kabobs dipped in powdered sugar are
another delicacy. And drinks alike a strawberry smoothie can wash it
78____________
all down.
Strawberries are big business in Oxnard. Twenty-four companies
harvest and cool nearly 16 million trays of berries, which are
shipped throughout North America as long as to Germany and
79____________
Japan. The festival, which attracts more than 85,000 visitors, features
three stages with musical entertainment, 335 arts and crafts exhibits,
strolled musicians, clown artists face-painting, contests, and a
80____________
Strawbenyland for children with puppets, magicians, musicians, and
a petting zoo.
b. Rewrite the sentence using the word given so that it has a similar meaning to the
first sentence. Do not change the word given in any way.
81. Why do you want to 1earn English? Jack asked Helen. (wondered)
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82. They managed to finish the project in time for the presentation. (succeeded)
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83. One other thing before I forget jack is coming to visit you next weekend. (By)
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84. Jacks daughter continued to cry until he could not be seen any longe. (sight)
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85. All I know about the plan is that they are going to sing the song together. (As)

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c. 86-100. Write bout 200 words inside this space to give opinions about the effects of
the movies and television on young people nowadays. (Dont ask for any more paper)
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