46 CÂU HỎI
SECTION 1 LISTENING
This is the listening section. There are two parts in this section. You will hear each part twice. After each part, you will have a ten-second pause to do.
Part 1. Listen to 6 recording twice. Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions.
Who has the boy bought the album for?
A. his dad
B. his friend Bob
C. himself
Where will the two friends go?
A. to see a band play
B. to Jack’s cousin’s house
C. to a clothes shop
Why does the boy have a notebook in his hand?
A. He’s directing the play.
B. He’s reviewing the play.
C. If he gets bored, he can draw pictures.
The two speakers ________.
A. have seats in different parts of the theatre.
B. arrived at the theatre together.
C. will change seats.
Why has Julie bought the DVDs?
A. Because they’re expensive.
B. They’re for her mum’s birthday.
C. She likes looking at the pictures on the boxes.
How many tickets will the girl book?
A. one
B. two
C. three
SECTION II: LEXICO – GRAMMAR (7.0 POINTS)
Part 1: Questions from 16 to 35. (3.0 points - 0.15/ each)
Choose the best answer to each question.
Things would have been better ________ to my advice.
A. you not listened B. were you listened C. had you listened D. if you listened
B. were you listened
C. had you listened
D. if you listened
The experts were not fully ________ that the animal was a puma.
A. convinced
B. believed
C. realized
D. discovered
I hope you will take this matter into ________.
A. effect
B. understanding
C. consideration
D. notice
He could not resist the ________ of making a lot of money quickly.
A. introduction
B. temptation
C. invitation
D. trial
What she needs to do now is see a doctor for a ________.
A. check-up
B. set-up
C. make-up
D. build-up
His application was rejected immediately because of his lack of ________.
A. requirements
B. thought
C. quantifiers
D. qualifications
I absolutely ________ of everything that has been said.
A. agree
B. approve
C. admit
D. accepta
Hard work can often bring ________ success.
A. into
B. in
C. about
D. up
________ what you think, learning a foreign language is great fun.
A. Moreover
B. Contrary to
C. Whereas
D. Therefore
–“___________.” –“She’s Australian.”
A. How do you know her?
B. What’s her nationality?
C. Where has she been?
D. What do you think about her?
It is not very easy to study a foreign language by________.
A. oneself
B. himself
C. itself
D. herself
They’ll never________ to get here by six; the roads are quite busy today.
A. manage
B. arrive
C. succeed
D. able
His wife’s death was a terrible shock and it took him a long time to________ it.
A. get round
B. come through
C. go over
D. get over
It’s very ________ of you to offer me your seat, but really I’m quite happy to stand
A. sympathetic
B. considerate
C. grateful
D. appreciative
No matter how loudly you shout to him, he won't hear you. He is as deaf as a ________.
A. bat
B. stump
C. tomb
D. post
When I finish writing this composition, I'm going to ________ and go to bed.
A. make time
B. hit the day
C. hit the big time
D. call it a day
It could have been a lot worse _______ there.
A. when he was not
B. whether or not he had been
C. for he had not been
D. had he not been
After a lengthy debate, the spokesman announced the board had ________ a unanimous conclusion.
A. commited
B. solved
C. reached
D. comproinised
I am very sorry, our shop is now out of ________.
A. stock
B. order
C. date
D. question
The three men were ________ arrest for robbing a bank.
A. in
B. under
C. on
D. of
When manfirst learned how to (56) _______ a fire, he began to use fuel for the first time.
A. generate
B. devise
C. produce
D. make
The first fuel he used was (57) ______ wood
A. perhaps
B. maybe
C. possibly
D. probably
As time (58) _______, man eventually discovered that substances such as coal and oil would burn
A. went
B. spent
C. passed
D. flew
Coal was not used very widely as a source of energy (59) _____ the last century.
A. until
B. for
C. during
D. in
With the coming of the industrial revolution, it was (60) _______ realized that production would double if coal was used instead of wood
A. in time
B. early
C. timely
D. soon
Nowadays, many (61) ______ huge factories
A. of
B. of the
C. among
D. among the
electricity (62) ______ stations would be unable to function if there was no coal.
A. offering
B. making
C. creating
D. generating
In the last twenty or thirty years, however, the use of coal (63) _______ declined. As a result, there have been changes in the coal industry
A. have
B. was
C. is
D. has
It is believed that more people would use coal if oiland gas were not so readily (64) ________.
A. present
B. available
C. in use
D. plenty
There is more than enough coal in the world for man’s (65) ______ for the next two hundred years if our use of coal does not increase.
A. needs
B. necessities
C. requirements
D. requests
Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
A. A definition of jazz
B. Jazz musicians
C. Improvisation in jazz
D. Jazz bands
The new music of jazz was first heard _________.
A. in Europe
B. in Africa
C. in South America
D. in North America
The word “blend” in the passage is closest in meaning to _________.
A. mixture
B. rejection
C. imitation
D. variety
The word “jazz” is considered to have come into regular use in around _____.
A. the first half of the 19th century
B. the second half of the 19th century
C. the first half of the 20th century
D. the second half of the 20th century
The word “premised” is closest in meaning to which of the followings?
A. fixed
B. based
C. created
D. performed
The jazz music originally came from __________.
A. folk and holy songs
B. folk, holy and labor songs
C. a variety of African sources
D. nonmusical activities
It can be inferred from the passage that __________.
A. it is free for jazz musicians to play as they wish around a theme
B. jazz musicians play prewritten music
C. jazz musicians have to improvise their music in group
D. it is necessary to test the improvisation skills before performance
Which of the following year was jazz popular outside the United States?
A. 1900
B. 1915
C. 1925
D. 1940
The best way to preserve jazz is _________.
A. written scores
B. improvising it
C. recordings
D. written scores and recorded performance
All of the following are characteristics of jazz EXCEPT _________?
A. a large number of percussion instruments
B. a printed score for the music
C. a melody played by the trumpet
D. a ragtime piano