36 CÂU HỎI
Mark the letter B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
A. breathe
B. lengthen
C. clothe
D. bother
Mark the letter B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
A. deepen
B. committee
C. agree
D. refugee
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
A. appearance
B. ancestor
C. measurement
D. counterpart
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
A. explanatory
B. astronomer
C. voluntary
D. geometry
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
A. overdrive
B. overboard
C. overdraft
D. overload
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
My husband just won't be told. He'll argue about something till he's _____ in the face.
A. blue
B. black
C. red
D. white
Jane's flat affords ______ views over the valley and mountains beyond.
A. widespread
B. alternate
C. sweeping
D. general
She ________ fainted when she heard that her son had died.
A. rather than
B. nothing but
C. near
D. all but
Daniel roamed the supermarket the whole morning just to buy a __________ for his new house.
A. square wooden dining table
B. dining square wooden table
C. square dining wooden table
D. wooden square dining table
At first Tom insisted he was right but then began to back _______.
A. out
B. down
C. off
D. away
It's amazing how Jenny acts as though she and Darren _______ serious problems at the moment.
A. weren't having
B. aren't having
C. hadn’t been having
D. hadn't had
Thanks to her teacher's encouragement, she has made great ________ in her study.
A. contributions
B. strides
C. acquisitions
D. impacts
Last weekend, ________ nothing to watch on TV, we played chess together.
A. there being
B. there having
C. being
D. having had
Due to time ________, we’ll have to end the meeting at three o'clock.
A. functions
B. processes
C. constraints
D. boundaries
These stiff trainers take weeks to ________.
A. break in
B. look through
C. put up with
D. take to
Round and round ___________.
A. the wheels of the engine went
B. went the wheels of the engine
C. going the wheels of the engine
D. did the wheels of the engine go
What makes me so sad about our divorce is that we used to be _______.
A. head over heels
B. here and there
C. in the pink
D. in deep water
The endless parade of _______ on TV has made today's young girls obsessed with their bodies.
A. surgical celebrities enhanced
B. celebrities enhancing surgical
C. enhanced surgically celebrities
D. surgically-enhanced celebrities
Is it necessary that I _______ here tomorrow?
A. would be
B. am being
C. will be
D. be
If Charlie weren't such an absent-minded person, he ______ the house unlocked when going out last night.
A. wouldn't leave
B. wouldn't have left
C. won't leave
D. didn't leave
What is said about fashion in the last paragraph?
A. There has been little development of new trends in the arts.
B. It takes a long time for society to adopt new ways of speaking.
C. Differences in dress codes are becoming more exaggerated.
D. Many people find out about new fashions through music.
The word ‘counter-signaling’ in paragraph 5 is used in this text to refer to _________.
A. the way fashion goes in cycles across groups
B. the way the difference between social groups is maintained
C. the middle group imitating the low group
D. the high group adopting the fashion of the low group
The writer explains that people adopt a certain style as opposed to a fashion because _________.
A. they want to belong to an identifiable group
B. they enjoy the status associated with it
C. they agree with the attitudes and values it represents
D. they wish to create a new image
The word ‘grooming’ in paragraph 3 is CLOSEST in meaning to_____.
A. sprawling
B. ambling
C. preening
D. plunging
Why does the writer give an example from nature?
A. to explain that fashion is not a new phenomenon
B. to imply that humans use fashion to hide their true identity
C. to emphasise the lengths some people go to to follow fashion
D. to question why men are generally less interested in fashion than women
In the fourth paragraph, the writer suggests that copies of famous brands _____.
A. are looked down on by followers of fashion
B. retain much of the quality of the originals
C. fail to deceive true followers of fashion
D. become desirable in their own right
According to the first paragraph, why does fashion change?
A. to increase the choices available to people
B. to reflect developments in society
C. to satisfy business interests
D. to make it hard for outsiders to reproduce it
The word ‘dedicated’ in paragraph 4 is OPPOSITE in meaning to _____.
A. fervent
B. scrupulous
C. staunch
D. fickle
to safely release any (29)________ and anxiety.
A. jealousy
B. inadequacy
C. ignorance
D. frustration
why is such a beneficial activity (30)______ popular only among young children?
A. deeply
B. completely
C. terribly
D. immensely
Although colouring books for adults may (31)______ a few eyebrows, more and more people are seeking
A. raise
B. rise
C. arise
D. arouse
more and more people are seeking them (32)_____ as a way to relax and de-stress.
A. on
B. up
C. by
D. out
such as anxiety and other generally (33)_______ thoughts, are forced out.
A. threatening
B. pessimistic
C. conflicting
D. distressed
or the feeling of being (34)________ when faced with unlimited
A. weighed
B. excessive
C. affected
D. overwhelmed
it (35)_______ on the artist to first decide what to create and then create it to an
A. drains
B. depends
C. relies
D. resolves
make the activity accessible to everyone, regardless of (36)________ artistic ability.
A. inherent
B. integral
C. intangible
D. incompatible