ĐỀ THAM KHẢO TỐT NGHIỆP NĂM 2011 - TEST 10
Questions 1 - 4: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently. Mark your choice on the
answer sheet.
1. A. research B. resent C. resemble D. resist
2. A. breather B. feather C. heather D. leather
3. A. pursuit B. suitable C. recruit D. guilty
4. A. ache B. orchestra C. charity D. chorus
Question 5 – 8: Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others by circling the
corresponding letter A, B, C or D. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
5. A. exception B. linguistics C. paragraph D. specific
6. A. around B. legend C. question D. special
7. A. delicate B. promotion C. volcanic D. resources
8. A. satellite B. astronaut C. deliver D.applicant
Questions 9 - 24: These are incomplete sentences. Choose one best option to complete each sentence by
circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
9. The number of people receiving reading and writing lesson _______over 4,500 by 2001.
A. came B. went C. arrived D. reached
10. John reminded me _______his motorbike by 8 o'clock.
A. please return B. not forget to return C. remember to return D. to return
11. You won’t pass the examination________ you study more.
A. unless B. as long as C. if D. whether
12. ______the door, he was very surprised at what he saw.
A. Have opened B. When opened C. Opening D. To opening
13. _______for a job for a long time before you got it?
A. Were you looking B. Have you looked C. Have you been looking D. Had you looked
14. Not a word ______since the exam started.
A. she wrote B. she had written C. had she written D. she has written
15. It was ______that everyone answered it correctly.
A. so simple question B. such a simple question C. too simple question D. a more simple question
16. We managed ______over the wall without _______
A. to climb; being seen B. climbing; being seen C. to climb; seeing D. to be climbed; seeing

the number of illiterate people in the remote and mountainous areas is ______(32) decreasing. It is hoped that
illiteracy will soon be ___( 33) in our country as more and more people are taking part in the _______(34)
against it.

25. A. began B. had C. started D. managed
26. A. national B. ethnic C. racial D. religious
27. A. home B. own C. remote D. house
28. A. control B. care C. part D. interest
29. A. ranged B. grew C. rose D. reached
30. A. in B. against C. towards D. of
31. A. enlarge B. widen C. expand D. expend
32. A. gradually B. constantly C. dramatically D. mainly
33. A. limited B. eradicated C. completed D. prevented
34. A. area B. war C. challenge D. struggle

Questions 35 - 39: Read the following passage and then choose the best answer to the questions by
circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.

Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
The origins of baseball probably stretch back to 1839 when Abler Doubleday, a civil engineer student,
laid out a diamond-shaped field at Cooperstown, New York, and attempted to standardize the rules governing
the playing of such games as town ball and four old cats, the ancestor of baseball. By the end of the Civil War,
interest in the game had grown rapidly. Over 200 teams or clubs existed, some of which toured the country
playing rivals; they belonged to a national association of "Baseball Players" that had proclaimed a set of
standard rules. These teams are amateurs or semi-professionals, but as the game waxed in popularity, it
offered opportunities for profit, and the first professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, appeared in
1869. Other cities soon fielded professional teams, and in 1876 the present National League was organized
chiefly by Albert Spalding. Soon a rival league appeared, the American Association. Competition between the
two was intense, and in 1883 they played a post-season contest, the first "world's series". The American
Association eventually collapsed, but in

Questions 40 - 44: In these sentences, each one has four underlined words
Or
phrases marked A, B, C,
and D. Choose the one word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be
correct by circling letter A, B, C,
Or
D. Mark your answer in the answer sheet.
40. Having achieved highest score, our team was rewarded the first prize.
A B C D
41. The amount of books in the library of Congress is more than 58 million volumes.
A B C D
42. Tom says this work is much more comfortable than other.
A B C D
43. We object to people to make private calls on the office phone.
A B C D
44. These televisions are all too expensive for we to buy at this time.
A B C D
Questions 45 - 47: Choose the correct sentence that has been completed from the given word cues by
circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
45. he / promise / give / the book / back / me / next day.
A. He promised give the book back to me the next day.
B.He promised give the book back for me the next day.
C.He promised to give the book back to me next day.
D.He promised to give the book back to me the next day.
46. she / ask her sister / lend / her / some / money.
A.She asked her sister lend her some money.
B.She asked her sister to lend her some money.
C.She asked her sister lending her some money.
D.She asked her sister to lend to her some money.
47. provide / your handwriting / legible / test scorer / accept / your answer.