ĐỌC HIỂU
TEST 1: The term weathering refers to all the ways in which rock can be broken down. It
takes place because minerals formed in a particular way (say at high temperatures, in the
case of igneous rocks) are often usable when exposed to various conditions. Weathering
involves the interaction of the lithosphere (the Earth’s crust) with the atmosphere and
hydrosphere (air and water). It occurs at different rates and in different ways, depending on
the climactic and environment conditions. But all kinds of weathering ultimately produce
broken minerals and rock fragments and other products of the decomposition of stone
Soil is the most obvious and, from the human point of view, the most important result of the
weathering process. Soil is the weathered part of the Earth’s crust that is capable of
sustaining plant life. The character of soil depends on the nature of rocks from which it is
formed. It also depends on the climate and on the relative “age” of the soil. Immature soils
are little more than broken rock fragments. Over time, immature soil develops into mature
soil, which contains quantities of human, formed from decayed plant matter. Mature soil is
darker, richer in microscopic life, and more conductive to plant growth
8. The first paragraph primarily describes
_______ (A) the process by which rocks are broken down
_______ (B) the weathering of igneous rocks
_______ (C) gradual changes in the Earth’s weather patterns
9. The main topic of the second paragraph is
_______ (A) a description of immature soil
_______ (B) the growth of plants
_______ (C) gradual changes in the Earth’s weather patterns
10. The main topic of the entire passage is that
_______ (A) weathering breaks down rocks and leads to the development of soil
_______ (B) soils may be classified as mature or immature
_______ (C) the process of soil development is more important to humans than that of
weathering
_______ (D) the earth’s crust is constantly changing
KEY
8. A

C) Thay đổi từng bước trong mô hình thời tiết của Trái Đất.
9. Chủ đề chính của đoạn văn thứ hai là:
A) Mô tả về đất chưa trưởn thành.
Sinh trưởng thực vật.
C) Thay đổi từng bước trong mô hình thời tiết của Trái Đất.
10. Chủ đề chính của toàn bộ đoạn văn là:
A) “Sự phong hóa” phân hủy đất và dẫn đến sự phát triển của đất.
Đất có thể được phân loại theo “trưởng thành” hoặc “chưa trưởng thành”.
C) Quá trình phát triển của đất quan trọng với con người hơn sự phân hóa.
D) Lớp vỏ Trái Đất đang thay đổi liên tục.
TEST 2: Georgia O’Keefe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, in 1887. She studied art in
Chicago and New York from 1904 to 1908. Beginning as an advertising illustrator, she
supported herself until 1918 by teaching in various schools and colleges in Texas. After that
date, she devoted herself entirely to painting. Her paintings were first exhibited in 1916 at
‘291’, an experimental art gallery in New York City owned by Alfred Steiglitz, which was
(frequented) by some of the most influential artists of the time. O’Keefe married Steiglitz in
1924.
O’Keefe’s early paintings were mostly abstract designs. In the 1920s she produced depictions
of flowers and precise cityscapes of New York City. Whether painting flowers or buildings, she
captured their beauty by "intuitively" magnifying their shapes and simplifying their details.
O’Keefe’s style changed dramatically in 1929 during a visit to New Mexico. She was enchanted
by the stark but beautiful landscapes under the bright Southwestern sun, and she then
adpoted her characteristic style. Therafter, she most often painted desrt landscapes, often
with the blanched skull of a longhorn in the foreground.
O’Keefe’s paintings were exhibited annually at several New York galleries until 1946, and she
is represented in the permanent collections of most major American museums. In her later
years, she settled in Taos, New Mexico, becoming the dean of Southwestern painters and one
of the best known of american artists.
1. The author’s main purpose in writing this pasage was to
A. criticize Georgia O’Keefe’s style of painting

A. city scenes
B. desert scenes
C. flowers
D. abstract patterns
Key:
1. D Ý chính của tác giả khi viết bài viết này là:
a. criticize Georgia O’Keefe’s style of painting: phê bình phong cách vẽ tranh của O’Keefe
b. discuss the early career of an important American artisr: bàn luận về năm đầu sự nghiệp
của 1 nghệ sĩ quan trọng của nước Mỹ
c. compare abstract art and landscape art : so sánh tranh trừu tượng và tranh phong cảnh
d. give the highlights of Georgia O’Keefe’s artistic career: đưa ra những điểm nhấn trong cuộc
đời hội họa của Gergia O’Keefe
2. B . Theo bài, nơi Georgia O’Keefe nhận được những hướng dẫn căn bản đầu tiên về hội họa
là
Thông tin ở câu thứ 2 : She studied art in Chicago and New York from 1904 to 1908.
3. D. Từ that date thay thế cho năm 1918 được nhắc đến ngay trong câu văn đứng trước :
Beginning as an advertising illustrator, she supported herself until 1918 by teaching in various
schools and colleges in Texas. After that date,…
4. A. Visted = frequented: ghé thăm
5. C. Instinctively = intuitively: bằng trực giác
6. A Điều gì có ảnh hưởng lớn nhất tới sự thay đổi phong cách vẽ tranh của O’Keefe
Thông tin ở câu đầu đoạn văn thứ 3: O’Keefe’s style changed dramatically in 1929 during a
visit to New Mexico.
7. B Điều gì trở thành đề tài chủ yếu trong những bức vẽ của O’Keefe sau 1912
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TEST 3: TỪ VỰNG
- Dominant /'dɔminənt/: Thống trị, có ảnh
hưởng lớn,chi phối
- Emerge /i'mə:ʤ/ (Nội động từ): Nổi bật
lên,nảy ra( vấn đề, )

banking and diplomacy.
Currently, about 80% of the information stored on computer systems worldwide is English.
Two thirds of the world’s science writing is in English, and English is the main language of
technology, advertising, media, international airports, and air traffic controllers. Today there
are more than 700 million English users in the world, and over half of these are non-native
speakers, consulting the largest number of non-native users than any other language in the
world.
1. What is the main topic of this passage?
a. The number of non-native users of english
b. The French influence on the english
language
c. The expansion of English as an
international language
d. The use of English for science and
technology.
2. Approximately when did English begin to be used beyond England?
a. In 1066
b. Around 1350
c. Before 1600
d. After 1600
3. According to the passage, all of the following contributed to the spread of English around
the world EXCEPT
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a. the slave trade
b. The Norman invasion
c. Missionaries
d. Colonization
4. The word”enclaves” could be best replaced by which of the following?
a. communities
b. organization

quarters for perhaps a thousand people, along with storerooms for grain and other goods.
These buildings were usually put up against cliffs, both to make construction easier and for
defense against enemies. (They) were really villages in themselves, as later Spanish explorers
must have realized since they called them ‘pueblos’, which is Spanish for towns.
The people of the pueblos raised what are called (the three sisters) – corn, beans and squash.
They made excellent pottery and wore marvelous baskets, some so fine that they could hold
water. The Southwest has alsways been a dry country, where water is (scare). The Hopi and
Zuni brought water from streams to their fields and garden through irrigation ditches. Water
was so important that it played a major role in their religion. They developed elaborate
ceremonies and religious rituals to bring rain.
The way of life if less-settle groups was simpler and more strongly influenced by nature. Small
tribes such as the Shoshone Ute wandered the dry and mountainous lands between the Rocky
mountains and the Pacific Ocean. They gathered seeds and hunted small animals such as
rabbits and snakes. In the Far North the ancestors of today’s Inuit hunted seals, walruses,
and great whales. They lived right on the frozen seas in the shelters called igloos built of
blocks of packed snow. When summer came, they fished for salmon and hunted the lordly
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caaribou.
The Cheyenne, Pawnee, and Sioux tribes, known as Plain Indians, lived on the grassland
between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River. They hunted bison, commonly called
buffalo. Its meat was the chief food of these tribes, and its hide was used to make their
clothing and the covering of their tents and tipis.
1. What does the passage mainly dicuss?
A. The architecture of early American Indian buildings
B. The movement of American Indians across North America
C. Ceremoies and rituals of American Indians
D. The way of life of American Indian tribes in early North America
2. According to the passage, the Hopi and Zuni typically built their homes
A. in valleys
B. next to streams

B. The caribou
C. The seal
D. The buffalo
9. Which of the following is not mentioned by the author as a dwelling place of early North
American?
A. Log cabins
B. Adobe house
C. Tipis
D. Igloos
10. The author gave an explanation for all of the following words EXCEPT
A. adobe
B. pueblos
C. caribou
D. bison
1. D Ý chính của bài viết là:
a. The architecture of early American Indian buildings: kiến trúc của những ngôi nhà người Mỹ
da đỏ
b. The movement of American Indians across North America: chuyến di cư của người Mỹ da
đỏ qua vùng Bắc Mỹ
c. Ceremoies and rituals of American Indians: phong tục tập quán của người Mỹ da đỏ
d. The way of life of American Indian tribes in early North America : cuộc sống của những tộc
người Mỹ da đỏ ở Bắc Mỹ.
2. D Thông tin: These buildings were usually put up against cliffs
3. B Ở đây từ they thay thế cho danh từ buildings ở ngay câu trước: . These buildings were
usually put up against cliffs, both to make construction easier and for defense against
enemies. They were really villages in themselves,….
4. C Thông tin: The people of the pueblos raised what are called the three sisters – corn,
beans and squash
5. A. limited = scare : khan hiếm
6. A Thông tin: Small tribes such as the Shoshone Ute wandered the dry and mountainous

+ educational system: nền giáo dục
2.Sentiment /'sentimənt/ (n): cảm nghĩ,ý kiến
3.Grow up (Phrase V): lớn lên
4.Laborer (n): người lao động chân tay đơn giản
5.Set about (PHrase V) : bắt đầu làm
6.Superintendent/sju:prin'tendənt/ (n) : người quản lí,người giám sát
7.Initiate /i'niʃiit/ (Ngoại động từ) : khởi đầu,đề xướng
+Initiation (n) : sự bắt đầu,khởi xưởng
+Initial (a)
8.Institute /'institju:t/ (n): viện, trụ sở hội
(v): thành lập,tiến hành
9.Salary /'sæləri/: tiền lương
10.Awareness (n) : nhận thức
Aware (v) : nhận thấy,nhận thức thấy
-At the begining of: vào đầu
-In need of: needing (something): cần cái gì
-At least: ít nhất,tối thiểu
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-As to:with respect to,concerning: về vấn đề gì

At the beginning of the 19th century, the American educational system was
“desperately” in need of reform. Private schools existed, but only for the very rich. There were
very few public schools because of the strong sentiment that children who would grow up to
be laborers should not “waste” their time on education but should instead prepare themselves
for their life’s work. It was in the face of this public sentiment that educational “reformers” set
about their task. Horace Mann, probably the most famous of the reformers, felt that there was
no excuse in a republic for any “citizen” to be uneducated. As Superintendent of Education in
the state of Massachusetts from 1837 to 1848, he initiated various changes, which were soon
matched in other school districts around the country. He extended the school year from five to
six months and improved the quality of teachers by instituting teacher education and raising

a. a person who lives in a particular city
b. a person who works in a particular place
c. a person who has legal right to belong to a perticular country
d. a person who works, especially one who does a particular kind of work
7. Fro 1837 to 1848, Horace Mann
a. worked as a headmaster in a school in the state of Massachusetts
b. raised money for the educational development in Massachusetts
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c. funded many projects to improve the educational system for Americans
d. manged education in the state of Massachusetts
8. According to the passage, which of the following is a change that Horace Mann instituted?
a. the five-month school year
b. better teacher training
c. increased pay for students
d. the matching of other districts’ policies.
Key:
1. D Tiêu đề phù hợp nhất cho đoạn văn là:
a. A flight for change: Một chuyến bay của sự thay đổi
b. American education in the beginning of the 19th century: Nền giáo dục Mỹ những năm đầu
thế kỉ 19
c. Nineteenth- the century of reform: Thế kỉ 19- thế kỉ của sự cải cách
d. The beginnings of reform in American education. Những bước cải cách đầu tiên trong nền
gd Mỹ
2. C Thông tin: Private schools existed, but only for the very rich.
3. B. urgently = desperately: Cấp bách, khẩn cấp
4. D
Thông tin: Horace Mann, probably the most famous of the reformers, felt that there was no
excuse in a republic for any “citizen” to be uneducated. ( H.Mann, có lẽ là người cải cách nổi
tiếng nhất, cảm thấy ko có lý do gì trong 1 nền cộng hòa mà ng dân ko được giáo dục)
5. C people who try to change things for better = reformers