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Môn: ANH VĂN
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
(ĐÒ gåm 6 trang)

PART I : LISTENING COMPREHENSION: ( 2.0 pts )
Question 1: Listen to the conversations in the tape twice then pick out ONE best option (A,B,C
or D) in each question.
1. The car needs replacing
A. the front tyre on the driver’s side. B. the front tyre on the passenger’s side.
C. both of the front tyres. D. both of the rear tyres.
2. Finally, the tourist decides to book a wake-up call at
A. 6.30 o’clock B. 7.00 o’clock C. 7.15 o’clock D. 6.45 o’clock
3. The patient goes to see the doctor because she has got
A. a headache B. a stomachache C. a toothache D. a backache
4. The doctor tells the patient
A. to stay in bed for some days. B. to take some medicines.
C. to stop reading and watching telly. D. to have her eyes tested.
Question 2 : Listen to the conversations in the tape twice then pick out the information to
complete these sentences.
1. The boarding time for the flight to Manchester will be at_____________.
2. On the flight to Barcelona, the passenger may take on board__________piece(s) of hand baggage.

(convenience)
4. All those foreign visitors can speak Vietnamese very well. There will be a big……………….to have
a translator here. (useful)
5. The natural disasters have……………… seriously the life of all people there. (effect)
6. Look at the doctor’s………………… carefully before you take these tablets. (prescribe)

Đề chính thức
7. The behaviour of the woman is very………………The guard of the supermarket is having a look on
her. (suspect)
8. Finally, the proposal of the students was……….……….yesterday. (admission)
Question 5: There are 8 errors in the passage below. Read the passage, find out these errors
then correct them.The number (o) is an example
Social engagements follow rather definite rules of etiquette, but there are varying (o. degree-> degrees)
of formality and informality. Invitations for formal parties and dinners and to such important occasions
as weddings and graduations, is usually made in writing on formal printed or engraved cards. Quite
often the invitation will indicate the type of cloth to be worn, but if this is not clear, it is perfectly
permissible to telephone the host or hostess to inquire about this.If the native costume of foreign visitors
is different with the usual local style of dress, it is always correct to wear the costume one would wear
at home for an occasion of comparable formality.
The person invited should never reply, as promptly as possible, to let the hostess know whether or not
he or she can accept the guests. Usually the hostess must plan for a specific number of guests and any
time in that number will also require changes in the sitting arrangements, or in the amount of food to be
prepared.
Before attending a social function to which he or she has been invited by a written invitation , the guest
may send a thank – you card to the hostess.
Question 6: Choose ONE option ( A,B,C or D ) corresponding to the best sentence which is
made up from the given cue words.
1. keep / she / rain / wait / minutes / night / I / ten / last /
A. She kept me to wait in the rain for ten minutes last night.
B. She kept me wait in the rain foe ten minutes last night.

C. We won’t survive unless we start working on cleaner, safer sources of energy.
D. We won’t survive otherwise we start working on cleaner, safer sources of energy.
8. grateful / I / me / kindness / visit / last month / your factory /
A. I’m grateful for your kindness to me when I visited your factory last month.
B. I’m grateful with your kindness to me when I visited your factory last month.
C. I’m grateful of your kindness to me when I visited your factory last month.
D. I’m grateful at your kindness to me when I visited your factory last month.

PART III: READING ( 6.0 pts )
Question 7: Read the passage below then pick out ONE best option ( A,B,C or D ) in each
question
I left school at fifteen. I was an academically bright lad who was urged by some of his teachers not to
leave, but I wanted out, to see life, and I didn’t want to reach beyond the expectation of the friends who
left school with me. I worked for a year in a laundry, as a van-boy delivering dry cleaning.
On turning sixteen I applied to be, and eventually began working as, a trainee heating engineer with a
medium-sized company in East Belfast. The first months were boring. The work was not demanding but
I found the environment of the factory annoying. I remember my first week .I left the factory to meet up
with a friend and I realized that I had forgotten to collect my wages. My friend thought I was an idiot.
After many months working in the factory, I was sent off to college to study for my Certificate in
Heating Engineering. I found the classroom routine unpleasant and I remember feeling a sense of
limitation. Five years of this- to end up as a heating engineer and continue with that for the foreseeable
future was not an exciting thought.
Although I had left school against the advice of my teachers I had, without telling anyone, tried to
continue my studies in literature at evening classes. It was a boring walk from one end of the city to
another and to sit amongst adults was confusing. I was the youngest in the class, so the companionship I
knew at school was absent. I put up with it for a short period. It was too long a walk on cold winter’s
nights and it was hard to concentrate on Shakespeare with wet shoes and soaking trousers. So I carried
on reading books and started writing poetry at home.
By chance, I won some prizes and literary awards in national competitions. A young woman from a TV
company came to the college one day. She told me in the quiet of the corridor that I had won a national

D. His parents wanted him to return to the college.
7. How did the writer’s parents react to his decision to return to school?
A. They argued with him. B. They pointed out how it would affect his future.
C. They told him he was making a mistake. D. They hid their real thoughts from him.
8. What would be the most suitable title for this extract?
A. A change of direction B. Great expectations C. An unlucky beginning D. Pressures of fame

Question 8: Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word to complete the passage below
New drivers could be asked to play a sophisticated video game as part of their training and driving test,
under proposals to be announced by transport ministers next week. The Department of Transport has
been considering a test devised by researchers which tests people’s “ hazard and perception(1)…….…”,
that is how quickly they are aware of a dangerous situation and how quickly they react to it.This is a
particular weak point of new and learner drivers.
Dr Frank McKenna, the psychologist heading the £200,000 research project, says: ‘(2)………………
people, despite popular belief and, particularly their own estimation of their driving, do not have faster
reaction times than older drivers. Although they may be slightly quicker once they notice something
dangerous, they are much(3)………….…at spotting a possible crisis.
Dr McKenna says that the video is a much better tool for training and testing than written
questionnaires, which were an alternative suggestion put forward in a consultation paper by the
department last August:”(4) …may be cheaper, though they are quite expensive to mark, but there is
no relationship between being good at answering the questions and being good at avoiding accidents.”
Rather than developing a(5)……programme involving high technology, Dr McKenna has concentrated
on a scheme that could be carried out quickly and cheaply.” There will be no excuse for not
implementing this test.”
Drivers being assessed watch a ten-minute video and push a button as soon as they see a dangerous(6)
…………….While some of the situations on the video were acted by the research team, several were
not, including a dangerously wobbly cyclist who cuts across traffic to go along the white line in the
middle of the road, and a woman stepping out into the traffic from a bus stop.
Dr McKenna is working on research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council on how
drivers judge their own driving skills. His preliminary work suggests that people usually think that their

plane is at all times. Together they try it out on the runway, taking half-steps at different corners and turning at angles to be
followed in the sky later on.
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Pepsi-Cola certainly agrees. Fourteen years ago the soft drink company, searching for someone to carry
on a tradition begun in the early 1930s, looked through some 3,000 applicants for a skywriter, and chose
a 21-year-old woman pilot from Oregon. She says that when you are two miles away from your audience, you forget how big an impression it
makes on the people below. Kids stop playing ball and traffic comes to a complete standstill. You can’t
actually see while she ‘s writing, of course. But during the descent and on landing she can look back

to detail, and they’re less likely to depart from procedure.”
I. The art began almost eighty years ago in the skies over Europe during the First World War, when a
British pilot squirted some light oil into his plane’s exhaust system to make a mid-air spot of smoke
above an enemy position.

PART IV: WRITING (4.0 pts)
Question 10: For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in
meaning to the original one, but using the word given.This word must not be altered in any way

Example: ( o ) There was no conclusion at the end of the workshop.
Conclude…………………………………………………….
They did not conclude anything at the end of the workshop.

1. We cannot see animals in a vast area after the forest fire.
Absence…………………………………………………………………………………………………….
2. Our environment is polluted seriously.
Pollution…………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. We cannot make any comparison with her sacrifice.
Compare……………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. A huge investment has been put into the field of hydro-electricity.
Invest……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
5. They speak English in a high proficiency.
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Proficiently………………………………………………………………………………………………
6. He tried his best but he couldn’t succeed.

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Comparison on birthrates in some countries
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1. Management 2. unfortunate
3. inconvenient 4. uselessness
5. affected 6. prescription
7. suspicious 8. admitted
Câu hỏi 5: Tìm chổ sai trong đoạn văn và sửa lại cho đúng : 2.0 điểm, mỗi chổ sai tìm được
và sữa đúng : 0.25 đ
1. for -> to 2. is -> are 3. cloth -> clothing / clothes
4. with -> from 5. never -> always 6. guests -> invitation
7. time -> change 8. before -> after
Câu hỏi 6: Chọn câu có ý nghĩa gần nhất với câu được xây dựng từ các từ khóa cho sẳn : 2.0
điểm, mỗi câu chọn đúng : 0.25 đ
1. D 2. A 3. B 4. D
5. A 6. C 7. C 8. A
PHẦN III : ĐỌC HIỂU : 6.0 điểm
Câu hỏi 7: Đọc bài văn, chọn câu trả lời thích hợp : 2.0 điểm, mỗi câu chọn đúng: 0.25 đ
1. D 2. C 3. C 4. D
5. B 6. C 7. B 8. A
Câu hỏi 8: Điền khuyết, hoàn chỉnh bài văn bằng từ thích hợp: 2.0 điểm, mỗi từ điền đúng:
0.25 đ
1. skills 2. young 3. slower 4. questionnaires
5. complicated 6. situation 7. similar 8. caused
Câu hỏi 9: Chèn mệnh đề / cụm từ vào đoạn văn : 2.0 điểm, mỗi chổ chèn đúng: 0.25 đ
1. I 2. C 3. G 4. A
5. H 6. B 7. E 8. D
PHẦN IV: VIẾT : 4.0 điểm
Câu hỏi 10: Viết chuyển đổi câu, dùng từ cho sẳn: 2.0 điểm, mỗi câu viết đúng: 0.25 đ
1. There is an absence of animals in a vast area after the forest fire.
2. There is a serious pollution in our environment .
3. Nothing can be compared with her sacrifice. / We can compare nothing else with her sacrifice.
4. They invest a big fund / sum of money into the field of hydro electricity.