ĐỀ THI CCQG C 1. A child's first five years are important as far as learning is a) hit
b) worried
c) touched
d) concerned 2. Many students find it difficult to make meet on their small grants.a) ends
b) circles
c) points
d) edges 3. At parties people to talk about jobs and money.a) habit
b) tend
c) accustom
d) keep 4. He the bank manager that he could repay the loan.

b) quite
c) barely
d) merely 8. He lost all his money through on cards and horses.a) playing
b) risking
c) gambling
d) speculating 9. All the of the dance went on charity.a) results
b) proceeds
c) rewards
d) finances 10. Being a teacher, she shops at stores which offer a to teachers.a) discount
b) subtration
c) subsidy
d) rebate

c) design
d) model 14. His name was on the of my tongue, but I just couldn't remember it.a) end
b) point
c) edge
d) tip 15. An early
typewriter produced letters quickly and neatly; the typist,
couldn't see his work on this machine.

a) however
b) yet
c) therefore
d) although 16. Because of the low ceiling the bookcase was much too to go into the
room.

a) tall
20. She tried to out of the window to see the procession more clearly.a) bend
b) curve
c) bow
d) lean 21. You should be very to your teachers for their help.a) thankful
b) grateful
c) thanking
d) considerate 22. When can the students for next year's evening classes?a) assist
b) join
c) enrol
d) inscribe
26. His new appointment takes from the begining of next month.a) place
b) effect
c) post
d) warned 27. In a low voice, she that someone was moving about upstairs.a) screamed
b) shouted
c) told
d) whispered 28. When he was at school, he won first for good behaviour.a) reward
b) prize
c) present
d) price 29. If you don't mind, I should like to a suggestion.

synthesis of ascorbic acid.

a) was awarded
b) to award
c) awarded
d) awarding 33. thirteen states in the original United States.a) As there were
b) There were
c) Were
d) So were 34. Researchers have recently confirmed pygmies are missing an
insulin-like growth factor.

a) and that
b) so that
c) because
d) that 35. The Order of Elks has been in existence 1868.a) starting in

b) As a result of space
c) Being space
d) Its space 39. Only one mammal, is known to bear routinely four indentical
young.

a) it is the armadillo
b) being the armadillo
c) which the armadillo
d) the armadillo 40. One of the puzzles still mystifying biologists is what to become in
an embryo.

a) how do cells know
b) how know cells
c) how cells know
d) how cells knowing 41. Touch-typing was originally devised as an aid to a) the blinds
b) the blind
c) a blind one
d) blind

45. There are now methods for studying color vision in infants than
there once were.

a) more sophisticated than
b) much more sophisticated
c) much sophisticated
d) sophisticated 46. Economics the science of choice.a) are
b) which is
c) is
d) and 47. yak is taken below 10,000 feet, it is likely to become sick.a) a
b) if a
c) frequently a
d) because of a 48. Juggling at least 5,000 years to the early Egyptians.
a) having shrunk
b) to shrink
c) to have shrunk
d) to be shrinking 52. undergraduate programs, American universities also offer
graduate and professional courses.

a) Except for
b) Moreover
c) Besides
d) As 53. are carcinogens now appears to be beyond dispute.a) If asbestos fibers
b) Asbestos fibers
c) While asbestos fibers
d) That asbestos fibers 54. It is Minnesota popular with outdoorsmen.a) lakes that make it
b) its lakes that make
c) that lakes make it
58. The traditional goal of science is to discover how things are, not how
they ought

a) are
b) be
c) can be
d) to be 59. Though the female has undisputed last word over the acceptability of
a new nest, it is the male weaver bird who must build in entirely

a) on his own
b) on himself
c) for themselves
d) by his own 60. Herbalists recommend the juice of barley plants as a means of
slowing the aging process and also

a) it to cancer patients recommend
b) to cancer partients recommend it
c) recommend it cancer patients
d) recommend it to cancer patients 61. Questions 61-66


Since 1970 Dent Station has been used

a) only for a part of each year
b) only in some years
c) only by local people
d) only be hill walkers 62. Of all the railway routes in Britain the one which passes through
Dent

a) is the most historic
b) passes through the most attractive countryside
c) is the most expensive to maintain
d) carries the greatest number of tourists 63. The most urgent problem for many country railway lines is that of a) rebuilding bridges
b) repairing engines
c) renewing coaches
d) repairing stations 64. The people most affected by the difficulties facing British Rail would
appear to be


being inspected. Several species of small fish (wrasses) are also cleaners,
nearly all of them having appropriate adaptations such as long snouts,
tweezer-like teeth, and bright coloration. Conspicuous coloration
probably communicates that these animals are not prey.

What is the topic of this passage?

a) Marine life
b) Why fish need to be cleaned
c) How certain sea creatures clean other fish
d) How fish are adapted to be cleaners 68. What is the main idea of the passage?

a) Some fish need to be cleaned
b) Cleaning symbiosis is an important aspect of marine life

c) Certain fish are better adapted to be cleaners than others.

d) Cleaner fish are brightly colored 69. What is the best title for the passage?a) Shrimp and Fish
b) Narure's Cleaners of the Deep
c) Protective Coloration for Fish
d) Why Fish Are Cleaners

I wanted $1,500. I'll go somewhere else". You pass the ring back and
they don't go away, just take it from you and turn towards the door.
Then they turn back and say. "Oh, I don't know, I was recommended to
you. I think I'll take the $1,000" And meanwhile they've done a switch
with a cheaper ring. I tell my staff that if an item leaves their hands they
should inspect it again as if it had just arrived'.
How do they know they are not dealing in stolen property? 'After forty-
four years, you get a nose for this kind of thing', says Roy Bragg. 'Most
of us in the trade know each other well. I'm on the Committee of the
National Association: we meet once a month and know if anyone's
having any bother'.

What difference have the new regulations made to the money-lending
business?

a) Interest rates are much more variable
b) Money-lenders cannot operate without a licence.
c) More information has to be given to the government
d) Customers now ask more questions 71. What we learn from Roy Bragg about the amount of capital money-
lenders need?

a) $45,000 is about the right amount
b) They must balance their lending policy and their capital
c) They will need more than they first thought.
d) The Office of Fair Trading sets limits
a) He gets information from the police
b) Experience tells him when something is wrong
c) He can now recognize all the local burglars
d) The National Association sends out warnings 76. Questions 76 - 80
In this world of new technology it is good to know that some of the old
skills and crafts are still practised. One such tradi
tional craft is thatching
- making roofs from straw or reeds - and one of the few remaining
thatched cottages in the Wellington area, Linden Cottage at Westford,
has just been given an attractive new roof.
Walkers using the footway past the cottage will no doubt have noticed
the new roof; which also covers an area over the front door, and the
owner, Mr Dennis Wright and his wife, Pam, say they are delighted with
the end result. 'It's an old craft which can't be rushed'. said Mrs Wright.
'The cottage now looks better than ever'.
The work, which took about six weeks, was carried out by Brian
Whitemore and Robert Webber of Lydeard Saint Lawrence. Until now
the 300-year-old cottage was roofed with wheat straw which lasts on
average for fifteen years but this time Mr and Mrs Wright decided to
have the roof done with water reeds which last for sixty or seventy years
and cost more.
Signs that re-roofing is needed are when straw washes out in heave rain
and the fixings begin to show. The water reeds, which are brought from
Scotland, are thicker and longer than wheat straw but are slightly more
difficult for the craftsmen to use. Water reeds also differ from wheat
straw in that iron hooks are used to keep them in place, whereas with the
old straw roof, wooden pegs were used.
a) eight years
b) fifteen years
c) seventy years
d) three hundred years 78. What was different about how the roof was done this time compared
with the previous time?

a) A cloth lining was installed
b) New wooden pegs were made
c) Iron hooks were used to hold the thatch
d) The wooden frame to the roof was re-designed 79. Because Linden Cottage has now been declared of special historic
interest, the roof

a) has to be finished in a certain way
b) has to be thatched with water reeds
c) must be yellow in colour
d) has to be redone more frequently 80. How many people worked on the new roofing?a) one

food : nobody can have a really worthwhile illness and an appetite. In no
time at all, they are all over you, full of concern and caresses, stroking
your brow and destroying themselves in an attempt to restore you to
health.
Most men are naturally good at this sort of thing, and will exploit a
minor illness to good effect. But men are not hypochondriacs - sufferers
from imaginary illnesses - as most women assert. The fact is that most
men are fully aware that they are perf
orming a valuable social service by
making out that they are more ill than they really are. You see, women
love illness. They do not, on the whole, like to be ill themselves, although
they will occasionally take to their beds on some flimsy pretext, just to
make sure that they are not being taken completely for granted. No, a
wife actually likes her husband to be ill from time to time so that she can
show off her talents as an amateur Florence Nightingale. It is the spirit of
noble self-sacrifice that really fulfils her.
In this she is encouraged by all the television commercials she sees. They
show a calm, caring wife/mother-figure mopping fevered brows,
administering soothing medicines, and generally behaving like a
'ministering angel'. And when she shakes the thermometer and sticks it
into your unprotesting mouth well, you would think that it was a
magic wand, and that she was a fairy godmother !
Still, there is not doubt that we males get the benefit; it can be nice to be
ill once you get the hang of it. If, in addition, you want to make your
loved one even happier, keep her awake night after night with your
moans and groans and your requests for hot drinks and a cool hand on
your brow. There is a bonus for her in all this : when you are better and
back at work, think of the pleasure she will get from telling the
neighbours about the hell she has been through !


c) give you a lot of attention
d) soon get tired of looking after you.
85. If you ask for food when you are ill, they will

a) think that you cannot be very ill after all
b) refuse to give you any because of your illness.
c) give you some because they feel sorry for you
d) start to suspect that you are taking them for granted.
86. The reason that men make a fuss when they are ill is that they

a) always think that their illness is more serious than ot really is.

b) want women to make a fuss of them.
c) cannot stand illness as well as women can.
d) know that women will get a lot of pleasure out of nursing them.
87. If a woman pretends to be ill, it is because she wants to a) make her husband spoil her (make a fuss of her).
b) make her husband aware how much she does for him.

91. Questions 91 - 100
With its radiant color and plantlike shape, the sea anemone looks more
like a flower than an animal. More specifically, the sea anemone is
formed quite like the flower for which it is named, with a body like a
stem and tentacles like petals in brilliant shades of blue, green, pink, and
red. Its diameter varies from about six millimeters in some species to
more than ninety centimeters in the giant varieties of Australia. Like
corals, hydras, and jellyfish, sea anemones are coelenterates. They can
move slowly, more often they attach the lower part of their cylindrical
bodies to rocks, shells, or wharf pilings. The upper end of the sea
anemone has a mouth surrounded by tentacles that the animal uses to
capture its food. Stinging cells in the tentacles throw out tiny poison
threads that paralyze other small sea animals. The tentacles then drag
this prey into the sea anemone's mouth. The food is digested in the large
inner body cavity. When disturbed, a sea anemone retracts its tentacles
and shortens its body so that it resembles a lump on a rock. Anemones
may reproduce by forming eggs, dividing in half, or developing bud
s that
grow and break off as independent animals.

Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?

a) The varieities of ocean life
b) The characteristics of the sea anemone
c) A comparison of land and sea anemones
d) The defenses of coelenterates
95. It can be inferred from the passage that sea anemones are usually
found

a) attached to stationary surfaces
b) hidden inside cylindrical objects
c) floating among underwater flowers
d) searching for food 96. The word 'capture' in line 12 is closest in meaning to a) catch
b) control
c) cover
d) clean 97. The word 'retracts' in line 16 is closest in meaning to a) pulls back
b) relaxes
c) reproduces
d) lifts up