TAÌ LIỆU ÔN THI CAO HỌC
CÁC ĐỀ THI + ĐÁP ÁN THƯỜNG GẶP
(CHÚ Ý MỖI EXERCISE LÀ MỘT ĐỀ THI)
Elementary level.
A. Put these words and phrases in the right order to make sentences. The letters in
brackets show the structure of your sentences.
1. a bone / the dog / ate. (S + V + O)
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2. everybody / hard / works. (S + V + A)
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3. the cat / the mouse / caught. (S + V + O)
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4. Children / kittens / love. (S + V + O)
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5. the answer / nobody / knows. (S + V + O)
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6. a new dress / Mary / bought / yesterday. (S + V + O + A)
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7. the film / all of us / last night / enjoyed. (S + V + O + A)
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8. John Black / to the supermarket / went. (S + V + A)
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9. her car / Janet Black / to the airport / drove. (S + V + O + A)
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10.a cup of coffee / Mike / after lunch / drank. (S + V + O + A)
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B. Read the following sentences and write down their structure using the letter S, V,
O, and A.
1. The dog bit Peter very badly. +
2. Bill ran fast. +
3. I ate some fish and chips for supper. +

3. We were playing tennis when the storm started.
4. They are coming as soon as they have finished work.
5. John had seen Mary just twice before.
6. Do you live here or are you just visiting?
7. Do you know each other or haven’t you met before?
8. Will you be coming early or are you arriving late?
9. This cup has been broken.
10.They will have been found by now.
F. Underline the modals.
1. You will get a good seat if you get there early.
2. I’ll ask Fred if he can help.
3. Ken will certainly come if he can find the time.
4. Could you keep quiet while we are trying to listen to the music?
5. I would help you if I could.
6. I suppose you should tell her as soon as you can.
7. They might agree out; on the other hand they might not.
8. I think they may come if they can find the time.
9. You should have known that Jack would try to make trouble.
10.They would probably have done it if they could have found the money.
G. Complete these sentences with a singular or a plural verb.
1. The kitchen ready for school. (is getting / are getting)
2. My brother in the army. (is / are)
3. The cake delicious. (smell / smells)
4. The mice the cheese. (has eaten / have eaten)
5. The books we bought very expensive. (was / were)
6. Did you notice the picture that on the wall? (was hanging / were
hanging)
7. The young man you met to college with my sister. (goes / go)
8. The letters you posted wrongly addressed. (was / were)
9. The woman they were meeting telephoned to say she can’t come.

noun and in the other as an uncount noun. Mark the sentences C for count or U for
uncount.
1. Shakespeare’s language is magnificent. ____ It’s easier to work with someone who
speaks your own language. ____
2. She’s had nine months’ experience as a secretary. _____ The funeral was a painful
experience. ____
3. People spend their lives worrying about money. ____ How’s life? ____
4. Are you in San Francisco for business or pleasure? ____ He set up a small travel
business. ____
5. She never completely gave up hope. ___ Ken has high hopes of a promotion before the
end of the year. ____
6. There was general agreement on the problem. ____ We hope to come to a general
agreement on future action. ____
L. Use these phrases with the and an uncount to complete the sentences which follow.
the news about Bill the furniture in the sitting room the traffic in London the
advice you gave me the information you need the strength to go on
1. I liked . I thought it looked very smart.
2. I’d like to thank you for .
3. I’m tired out. I haven’t got .
4. You can find in any good grammar book.
5. is dreadful - especially in the rush hour.
6. Have you heard ?
M. Use these words and phrases to complete the story which follows.
her her friend it the first student the first student
the second
A student went to first lecture at the university, and mentioned this to a
friend, another student.
“What was about?” asked . “I don’t
know” replied.
“Why not?” asked . “Weren’t you listening?”

9. John and Lucy’s children are very (overdone / harmed / damaged / spoilt) because their
parents give them everything they ask for.
10.I never wear yellow because it doesn’t (match / fit / like / suit) me.
11.You can’t (calculate / count / base / support) on me if you find yourself in trouble.
12.Can you give me a (description / prescription / receipt / recipe) for a fruitcake?
13.He (demanded / suggested / supposed / claimed) the best chess player in the world.
14.See you don’t (loose / lose / loss / loosen) your umbrella again!
15.If I bought a ticket in the lottery, I might (bet / buy / sell / win) $1,000.
16.“What would you like to do at the weekend?” + “(I’d like to do a lot / I can’t stand it /
I’d like to watch a football match / Listen music)”.
17.That man can tell us where (does she live / she lives / she living / does she live).
18.After breakfast, my father usually (leaves / leaves for / goes / reach) work at once.
19.(Where / How / How often / When) do you visit your friends? + Twice or three times
a week.
20.They had only (little / a few / a little / few) sugar.
P. Complete the text with the verbs in the box.
arrive walk work get finish watch
open go (2)
have play practise need live get up
start go out
Peter doesn’t have a very normal routine. He (1)…… ……. in a night club, where he (2)
… …………. the piano in a jazz band. The club (3)………… …… at 11.00 at night, but the
members of the band usually (4)………………… there at 9.00 and they (5)………… ………. for a
couple of hours. The first customers (6)…………………… at about 11.15 and the show (7)………
…………. at midnight. It (8) …… ………………. at 5.00 in the morning. Then Peter and his friends
(9)……… …………… something to eat before they (10)……… ………… home. Peter (11)…
……………… quite close to the club, so he (12)…………… ……… home. He (13)………… …………… to bed
at 8.00, but he only (14)………… ………. about four hours sleep, so he (15)…… ……………. at
midday. In the afternoon he (16)…………… …… TV or he (17)……… …………… .
Instruction as above.

necessary
10.I had only just gone out when the phone rang. +
Hardly
11.Miss Jones is the best teacher in this school. + There is no
better
12.“ Don’t do that! Are you mad?” she said to me. +She
told
13.I’m very sick now. + Never
have
14.The water was so dirty that he could not bathe his eyes. + The water was
not
15.Has anyone told you about it yet? + Have
you ?
16.Though money is a good servant, it is a bad master. + Money
is
17.No other exercise is as healthy as swimming. + Swimming
is
18.A child can’t stay too far away from home. + It is
impossible
Key of Elementary Level
A.
1. The dog ate a bone. 2. Everybody works hard. 3. The cat caught the mouse. 4.
Children love kittens. 5.
Nobody knows the answer. 6. Mary bought a new dress yesterday. 7. All of us enjoyed
the film yesterday. 8. John Black went to the supermarket. 9. Janet Black drove her car
to the airport. 10. Mike drank a cup of coffee after lunch.
B.
1. S-V-O-A 2. S-V-A 3. S-V-O-A 4. S-V-A 5. S-V-O-A 6. S-V-O-A
C.
1. Don’t they live near here? 2. Didn’t you see Jill last Friday? 3. Haven’t they

student
N.
A wealthy man - his bank manager - he - The customer - his car - it - it - the
customer - The curious bank manager - he - the car - the car park - it - the
customer
O.
1. reproached (chæ trích) 2. qualified 3. right (thích hôïp) 4. imaginative (imminent
(adj) saép xaûy ra) 5. denied
6. journey 7. change 8. returns 9. spoilt 10. suit 11. count 12. recipe 13.
claimed 14. lose 15. win
16. I’d like to watch a football match 17. she lives 18. leaves for 19. How often 20. a
little
P.
1. works 2. plays 3. opens 4. get 5. practise 6. arrive 7. finishes 8. begins 9. need
10. go 11. lives
12. walks 13. goes 14. have 15. gets up 16. watches 16. goes out
Instruction as above.
1. every 2. roads 3. caravans 4. understand 5. want 6. security 7. money 8. taxes 9.
should 10. nothing
11. shouldn’t 12. jobs
Key of elementary level, page 2
Q.
1. The doctor suggested that I should have a rest.
2. Only after a twelve-hour wait did the flight leave.
3. They are being made to study hard by their teacher.
4. They certainly lived as well as we had expected.
5. I do not know any Spanish at all.
6. After fighting the fire for a day, the firemen succeeded in putting it out.
7. It looked as if (as though) the room had been unoccupied for years.
8. The teacher shouted to the boy to make less noise.

18.I don’t mind (travel) by coach.
19.If you agree (work) for me, I’ll be very happy.
20.I like (listen) to classical music.
21.Your hair needs (cut) . You’d better (have) it done
tomorrow.
22.She seems (expect) me (do) it.
23.I’m thinking of (go) to Oxford tomorrow on my motorbike.
24.I’d rather (go) by train.
25.After (spend) a week in that place, he decided (come)
back immediately.
26.What about (have) a picnic in Piccadilly Circus?
27.We are looking forward to (see) you.
28.I’m delighted (hear) that you come on Saturday.
29.They made Bob (teach) Janet.
30.He advised me (apply) for that job at once.
31.I saw him (walk) in Ba Trieu street yesterday.
32.There are people who can’t help (laugh) when they see someone
(slip) a banana skin.
33.Bill couldn’t stand (stay) at home all day.
34.He succeeded in (climb) out of the window.
35.Please let me (know) your decision as soon as possible.
36.Are you interested in (compose) poems?
37.He refused (accept) the bribery.
38.Will you help me (move) the bookcase?
39.Did you hear the clock (strike) ?
40.He has admitted (steal) his friend’s car.
41.You’ll never regret (do) a kind action.
42.She told me (look) through the book.
43.He offered (lend) me the money.
44.The children prefer (watch) T.V to (read) .

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8. His doctor / advise / stop / work / hard.
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9. If / you / ever / be / trouble / you should / ask / friends / help.
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10.There / many scientists / conference / last week / some / still very young.
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11.Travelling by plane / cheap / travelling by train / comfortable.
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12.Japanese motorbikes / expensive / but / economical / Thai ones.
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13.He / one / dangerous criminals / the country.
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14.She / not prepare lessons / carefully / classmates.
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15.Yesterday / hot day / the year.
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16.I / never / been / Ho Chi Minh City.
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17.I / like / go / fishing / much but I / not have / time / for it / this week.
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18.Jane / already / done / English exercises / but Kate / not finish / them / yet.
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19.My mother / go / Hanoi / business and she / not return / yet.
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20.The teacher’s son / lose / way / in the city / yesterday. A policeman / take / him /
home / in a car.
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21.If / I / be / you / not buy / that bicycle.

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Ex-1-Hg-1
Key of Exercise 1
I/ 1. to have 2. to listen 3. going 4. to take / to go 5. losing 6. going / to go 7. go 8.
to be paid 9. to leave 10. to call 11. to take 12. asking / to do 13. not to go 14.
talking / seeing 15. raining 16. to persuade 17. pressing 18. travelling 19. to work 20.
listening 21. cutting 22. to expect / to do 23. going 24. go 25. spending / to come 26.
having 27. seeing 28. to hear 29. teach 30. to apply 31. walking 32. laughing / slip
33. staying 34. climbing 35. know 36. composing 37. to accept 38. move (to move)
39. strike 40. stealing / having stolen 41. doing 42. to look 43. to lend 44. watching /
reading 45. phoning / asking / to look 46. to understand / (understanding) 47. drinking
48. borrowing / asking 49. waiting 50. (on) standing 51. will bake 52. had 53. will
make 54. were 55. wouldn’t be 56. would have sent
II/
1. Henry was born at 4 o’clock in the morning on Tuesday, 18 May.
2. The church was designed by Sir Thomas Woolley in the Middle Ages.
3. A year after leaving college, Mona emigrated to Australia.
4. A few months ago there was an accident and three boys were killed.
5. She used to stay with her uncle when she was a child.
6. You had better have your eyes checked again if they do not get better.
7. Neither Mike nor his wife knows what happened outside house last night.
8. His doctor advised him to stop working (so) hard.
9. If you have ever been in trouble, you should ask your friends for help / to help.
10.There were many scientists at the conference last week and some of them (some of
whom) were still very young.
11.Travelling by plane isn’t as cheap as travelling by train but (it is) more comfortable.
12.Japanese motorbikes are more expensive but more economical than Thai ones.
13.He is one of the most dangerous criminals in the (of this) country.
14.She does not (did not) prepare her lessons as carefully as her classmates.

house-grown on
sleepy matter subject like to get professional will same
national cosmopolitan
1. The brakes on my car do not work. It is to drive.
2. Edward usually reads in bed for an hour each night. Reading helps him
and fall asleep.
3. Before Kirin goes shopping at the supermarket she always makes a of the
food she wants to buy.
4. Three hundred and eleven athletes from thirteen countries competed in
many .
5. James is a photographer. He takes pictures for magazines and
newspapers.
6. I don’t make my clothes I buy them.
7. Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are very old . They began thousands of
years ago.
8. All of our vegetables are so they are very fresh.
9. In Amsterdam there are so many people from all over the world. It is even
more than London is.
10.We tried an earlier flight, but it wasn’t possible.
11.I’m just my father. We’re both tall and thin with black hair and brown
eyes.
12.“Did you phone Peter about tonight?” +”No, I forgot. I do it now. What’s
his number?
13.“You’re crying. What’s the ?” + “I’m just a bit sad. That’s all.”
14.I look to hearing from you soon.
15.Everybody in our family loves ice cream, me.
Part two. Use the singular nouns below to complete the sentences which follow.
a bath a go a drink a fight a jog a rest a shower a move a
walk a wash a ride
1. I need some fresh air. I think I’ll go out for .

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5. Why in your opinion do people smoke?
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Ex-2.Hg-1/1
Passage two: It is almost impossible to write of the Arts in Australia without mentioning
the building that first put Australia firmly on the world cultural map - the Sydney Opera
House. Completed in 1973 after 14 years of much heated discussion and at a cost of over
$85 million, it is not only the most well-known Australian building in the world but
perhaps the most famous design of any modern building anywhere.
The Opera House was designed not by an Australian but by a celebrated Danish architect,
Jorn Utzon, whose design won an international competition in the late 1950s. However, it
was not, in fact, completed to its original specifications. Plans for much of the intended
interior design of the building have only recently been discovered. Sadly, the State
Government of the day interfered with Utzon’s plans because of the concerns about the
escalating cost, though this was hardly surprising - the building was originally expected to
cost only $8 million. Utzon left the country before completing the project and in a fit of
anger vowed never to return. The project was eventually paid for by a state-run lottery.
1. When did the Opera House first appear in design?
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2. What was the nationality of the Opera House’s author?
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3. Where did the budget for building the Opera House come from?
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4. What have just recently been discovered?
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5. Why did the State Government interfere with Utzon’s plans?
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Passage three: The food we eat seems to have profound effects on our health. Although
science has made enormous steps in making food more fit to eat, at the same time, made
many foods unfit to eat. Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all

navigators explored the continents and islands in the unknown seas until those lands have
become familiar parts of the world. Routes of traveling and commerce spread out across
the oceans to bring the whole world together. The oceans have come to seem small now
that it only takes seven hours to cross the Atlantic in a commercial jet plane.
1. How did people feel about the oceans five hundred years ago?
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2. What did the Portuguese navigators do?
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3. What happened in 1492?
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4. What did Columbus think? What had he really done?
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5. What did other navigators do from that time on?
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6. What brought the whole world together?
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7. Why do the oceans seem small now?
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Passage 5: There were already people living in the world that Columbus discovered. They
had probably passed over the Arctic bridge of land and ice from Asia many thousands
years before. Then after Columbus, Europeans began to colonize the New World even
while they were still exploring it. In spite of difficulties that the early colonists
encountered, the New World turned out to be a good home for them. In a short time, it
really became just another part of our one world.
1. How had people probably come to the New World before Columbus?
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2. What did Europeans do after Columbus?
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3. What did the New World turn out to be?
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WRITING. Part 1: Construct sentences as guided.
1. I / not see / what / your problem / be.
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2. She / work / quietly / her desk / suddenly / door / open / her daughter / rush in.

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3. Jane / furious / she / oversleep / miss / bus.
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4. traffic / to the airport / so bad / we / miss / plane.
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5. You / not allow / smoke / public places / hospitals / airports
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6. Before / go / holiday / you / should / sure / all / doors and windows / shut / locked.
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7. you / mind / feed / cat / we / away / business?
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8. Smoking / do / lot of / harm / your health.
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9. I / walk / along / street / yesterday / meet / Tom.
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10.It / nice / visit hospital / be so quiet and clean.
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11.She / be / swimmer / who / just / win / gold medal.
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12.book / about / Dennis Thatcher / whose life / be / British prime Minister / 1980.
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13.Statue of liberty / be / one / most famous / monuments / world.
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8. Nobody sent us any tickets. +
We
9. He hasn’t smoked since he was 30. + He
stopped
10.It is optional for final year students to attend lectures. + Final year students
don’t
11.They moved to that house two years ago. + They
have
12.He hasn’t smoked for two months. + He
stopped
13.She likes reading books, listening to pop songs, and shopping. + Her
hobbies
14.I didn’t become a university student until last year. + I
have
15.Someone gave him a lot of money. +
He
16.Susan is the best tennis player in the team. + Susan
plays
17.Because of the rough sea, the ferry couldn’t sail. + The rough
sea
18.It is ages since Alan visited his parents. +
Alan
19.Mr. Mills lost his job because he was late every day. + If Mr.
Mills
20.“You’d better go to the doctor if you’ve got a pain in your back, Anna,” Henry said.
+ Henry
suggested

Part 3: * Translate the following sentences into English.
1. Cô y là ng i nh th nào? ấ ườ ư ế

4. The Americans sometimes find it difficult to accept the more formal Japanese
manners. They prefer to be
casual and more informal.
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5. In France you shouldn’t sit down in a cafe until you’ve shaken hands with everyone
you know. + Ex-2.Hg1/4 - The end -
Key of exercise 2
Reading: Part 1: 1. unsafe 2. relax 3. list 4. events 5. professional 6. myself 7.
religions 8. home-grown (cay nha la vuon); 9. cosmopolitan (toàn thế giới) 10. to get
11. like 12. will 13. matter 14. forward 15. especially
Part 2: 1. a walk 2. a rest 3. a bath / a shower 4. a wash 5. a ride 6. a jog 7.
drink 8. a fight 9. a move (make a move : xuất phát, lên đường) 10. a go (have a go at
doing something : cố gắng)
Part 3:
Passage 1: catch on: trở thành phổ biến; tar (n) nhựa; rate (n) tốc độ, tỉ lệ; 1. The Indians
were the first to smoke. 2. Smoking became popular in Turkey in the 19
th
century. 3.
Because it is the cause of lung cancer and several other deadly diseases. 4. Both of them
affect breathing. 5. It is a bad habit. People smoke to keep calm
Passage 2: heated (adj) soi noi; celebrated (adj) famous, well-known; specification (n) chi
tiết kỹ thuật; escalating (adj) leo thang; escalate (v) leo thang; a fit of anger : trong cơn
giận dữ; vow (v) the; 1. It first appeared in design in 1959. 2. He was Danish. 3. It came
from a State-run lottery. 4. Plans for much of the intended interior design of the building
have just recently discovered. 5. The State Government interfered with Utzon’s plans
because of the concerns about the escalating cost.
Passage 3: profound (adj) sâu sắc; colon (n) ruột; prone (adj) thiên về; contract (v) nhiễm,