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Question 28: Listening is the most difficult language ______ for me to master. 
A. way B. skill C. one D. job 
Question 29: Chemistry is my ______ subject at school. 
A. favourite B. liking C. wanted D. popular 
Question 30: The new director of the company seems to be an intelligent and ______ man. 
A. well-educate B. well-educated C. well-education D. well-educational 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs 
correction. 
Question 31: There are differences and similarities between Vietnamese and American culture. 
 A B C D 
Question 32: Society will be having to change radically to keep pace with the technology available. 
 A B C D 
Question 33: The woman of whom the red car is parked in front of the bank is a famous pop star. 
 A B C D 
Question 34: The better you are at English, more chance you have to get a job with international 
 A B C D 
organizations. 
Question 35: My father used to giving me some good advice whenever I had a problem. 
 A B C D 
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate 
the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 45. 
 If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a 
disaster. According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes 
which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, 
and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children. 
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 However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are 
ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well – especially if the parents are 
very supportive of their child. 
 Michael Collins is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by 
taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 
50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. Michael’s mother knows very little about music, but his 
father plays the trumpet in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music 
competitions if he is unwilling. 
 Winston Smith, Michael’s friend, however, is not so lucky. Both his parents are successful 
musicians, and they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as 
they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he 
does not win. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems 
quiet and unhappy. 
Question 36: One of the serious mistakes parents can make is to ______. 
A. push their child into trying too much B. help their child to become a genius 
C. neglect their child’s education D. make their child become a musician 
Question 37: Parents’ ambition for their children is not wrong if they ______. 
A. force their children into achieving success B. arrange private lessons for their children 
C. themselves have been very successful D. understand and help their children sensibly 
Question 38: Who have criticized the methods of some ambitious parents? 
A. Educational psychologists. B. Unrealistic parents. 
C. Successful musicians. D. Their children. 
Question 39: Michael Collins is fortunate in that ______. 
A. his parents help him in a sensible way B. his mother knows little about music 
C. his father is a musician D. his parents are quite rich 
Question 40: The phrase "crazy about" in the passage mostly means ______. 
A. "extremely interested in" B. "surprised at" 
C. "completely unaware of" D. "confused about" 
Question 41: Winston’s parents push their son so much and he ______. 
A. has won a lot of piano competitions B. is afraid to disappoint them 
C. has become a good musician D. cannot learn much music from them 
Question 42: The word "They" in the passage refers to ______. 
A. violin lessons B. concerts C. Michael’s parents D. parents in general 
Question 43: All of the following people are musical EXCEPT _____. 
A. Michael’s father B. Michael’s mother C. Winston’s father D. Winston’s mother 
Question 44: The word "unwilling" in the passage mostly means ______. 
A. "eager to do something" B. "getting ready to do something" 
C. "not wanting to do something" D. "not objecting to doing anything" 
Question 45: The two examples given in the passage illustrate the principle that ______. 
A. successful parents often have unsuccessful children 
B. parents should let the child develop in the way he wants 
C. parents should spend more money on the child’s education 
D. successful parents always have intelligent children 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part 
is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions. 
Question 46: A. educate B. strange C. ancient D. address 
Question 47: A. mounting B. account C. astound D. country 
Question 48: A. exist B. expand C. explorer D. extinct 
Question 49: A. desert B. reserve C. conserve D. observant 
Question 50: A. eliminate B. eternal C. energy D. eradicate 
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of 
the following questions. 
Question 51: Hillary changed her major from linguistics to business, ______. 
A. with the hope for being able finding a better job 
B. with hopes to be able easier to get employment 
C. hoping she can easier get a job 
D. hoping to find a job more easily 
Question 52: ______, many animals can still survive and thrive there. 
A. Being severe weather conditions in the desert 
B. Although the weather conditions in the desert are severe 
C. Even though the weather conditions in the desert severe 
D. The weather conditions in the desert to be severe 
Question 53: An excellent hairstylist can make a man seem to have more hair ______. 
A. as is it actually B. than he actually has 
C. than it actually is D. as has actually he 
Question 54: The Vietnamese students have to take an entrance exam ______. 
A. for going to a college and university 
B. so that they can go to a college or university 
C. so as go to a college or university 
D. in order that they should go to a college or university 
Question 55: Successful salespeople know their products thoroughly ______. 
A. understanding the needs of the market 
B. and understand the needs of the market properly 
C. but the needs of the market are understood properly 
D. and the needs of the market understood 
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate 
the correct word(s) for each of the blanks from 56 to 65. 
 In the United States and Canada, it is very important to (56)______ a person directly in the 
eyes when you are having a conversation (57)______ him or her. If you look down or to the side 
when the (58)______ person is talking, that person will think that you are not interested in 
(59)______ he or she is saying. This, (60)______, is not polite. If you look down or to the side when 
you are talking, it might (61)______ that you are not honest. 
 However, people who are speaking will sometimes look away for (62)______ seconds when 
they are thinking or (63)______ to find the right word. But they always turn immediately (64)______ 
to look the listener directly in the eyes. These social "rules" are (65)______ for two men, two women, 
a man and a woman, or an adult and a child. 
Question 56: A. talk B. get C. notice D. look 
Question 57: A. with B. for C. to D. about 
Question 58: A. another B. others C. other D. one 
Question 59: A. where B. that C. which D. what 
Question 60: A. although B. in addition C. yet D. of course 
Question 61: A. come B. become C. seem D. turn 
Question 62: A. a few B. little C. few D. a little 
Question 63: A. looking B. managing C. trying D. achieving 
Question 64: A. up B. down C. over D. back 
Question 65: A. likely B. the same C. like D. such as 
Read the following passage and 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 75. 
 Today we take electricity for granted and perhaps we do not realize just how useful this 
discovery has been. Steam was the first invention that replaced wind power. It was used to drive 
engines and was passed through pipes and radiators to warm rooms. Petrol mixed with air was the 
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next invention that provided power. Exploded in a cylinder, it drove a motor engine. Beyond these 
simple and direct uses, those forms have not much adaptability. 
 On the other hand, we make use of electricity in thousands of ways. From the powerful 
voltages that drive our electric trains to the tiny current needed to work a simple calculator, and from 
the huge electric magnet in steel works that can lift 10 tons to the tiny electric magnet in a doorbell, 
all are powered by electricity. An electric current can be made with equal ease to heat a huge mass 
of molten metal in a furnace, or to boil a jug for a cup of coffee. 
 Other than atomic energy, which has not as yet been harnessed to the full, electricity is the 
greatest power in the world. It is flexible, and so adaptable for any task for which it is wanted. It 
travels so easily and with incredible speed along wires or conductors that it can be supplied instantly 
over vast distances. 
 To generate electricity, huge turbines or generators must be turned. In Australia they use coal 
or water to drive this machinery. When dams are built, falling water is used to drive the turbines 
without polluting the atmosphere with smoke from coal. 
 Atomic power is used in several countries but there is always the fear of an accident.