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Môn: ANH VĂN
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút ( không kể thời gian giao đề )
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PART I: LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Question 1: Listen to the two counseling interviews. Write what each student wants to be.
(an example has been done for you)
|Students Wants to be Strengths Weaknesses
Jenny Tan
architect
Julie Morris
Question 2: Listen and check (√) the words used to describe each person.
Alan Tracy
sensitive serious angry ambitious
generous. intelligent friendly humorous
Jenny Greg
caring calm energetic original
wise angry creative talented
PART II: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
Question 3: Pick out ONE best option (A, B, C or D) to complete each sentence.
1. The coast was……………distinguishable in the mist.
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A. none B. no
C. neither D. barely

4. Scott was sentenced to five years’…………for his part in the armed robbery. (prison)
5. ……………books have been written on the subject. (number)
6…………… or not, his father should pay some of the costs of repairing the damage. (blame)
7. Solving this alone could be very…………. (problem)
8. He has recorded the………..for the production. (narrative)
Question 5: There are 8 errors in the passage below. Read the passage, find out these
errors then correct them. The number (()) is an example.
Health food addicts have at last gained the support of the National Academy of Sciences in the
argument (0.for -> about) the relationship from diet and cancer. The National Academy has issued a 500
– pages report called “Diet, Nutrition and Cancer” that recommend dietary strategies for protect yourself
from cancer. For example, they advise you reducing your consumption of fat, as in pork and butter, and
increase your intake vitamin C, as grapefruit and cabbage. More beta – carotene, a type of vitamin A in
yellow and green vegetables, should be added your diet as well.
Question 6: Choose ONE option (A, B, C or D) corresponding to the best sentence which is made
up from the given cue words.
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1. / important / it / stop / brother / your / drink / once/ wine /.
A. It’s important that your brother should stop drinking wine at once.
B. It’s important that your brother stopped drinking wine at once.
C. It’s important that your brother drinks smoking at once.
D. It’s important that your brother may stop smoking at once.
2. / use / be / singer/ singing/ national / Thanh Tam / the best / of / club /.
A. Thanh Tam used being the best singer of the national singing club.
B. Thanh Tam used to be the best singer of the national singing club.
C. Thanh Tam used to being the best singer of the national singing club.
D. Thanh Tam uses to be the best singer of the national singing club.
3. / hurt / she /without/ boyfriend / anything / learn / leave / say /.
A. She was hurt when learning that had her boyfriend left her without saying anything.
B. She was hurt that when learning that had her boyfriend left her without saying anything.
C. She hurt was when learning that had her boyfriend left her without saying anything.

James O’Neill, a famous actor of the time, O’Neill attended Princeton University briefly before leaving
school and taking on a variety of jobs. In 1910 he became a seaman, sailing to places such as South Africa
and South America, where he observed the plight of the less fortunate. In 1912 he contracted tuberculosis
and entered a sanatorium. It was during this period of recuperation that O’Neill decided to become a
playwright.
O’Neill was the first American dramatist to devote his talent to writing tragedy. Prior to O’Neill,
most successful plays were sentimental comedies or melodramas. O’Neill based many of his plays on his
experiences at sea, which had led him towards a pessimistic view of humanity. Most of O’Neill’s
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characters are seeking meaning in their lives, having been robbed of faith by the cold statements of
science. In “The Iceman Cometh” (1939), his most cynical play, the characters in a saloon have ruined
their lives and try to find meaning in their illusions which, when taken away, leave them in complete
despair.
Several of O’Neill‘s stage plays won Pulitzer Prizes – Beyond the Horizon (1920); Anna Christie
(1922); Strange Interlude (1928); and Long Day‘s Journey Into Night (1957), awarded after his death.
O’Neill won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936. Most of his plays had been written before he started
suffering from Parkinson’s disease, which hampered efforts to write. O’Neill died in November 1953.
1. What is the best title for this passage?
A. America’s Greatest Playwrights.
B. The Life and Works of Eugene O’Neill.
C. Dramatic Stage Plays.
D. A Famous Actor.
2. It can be inferred from the passage that O’Neill…………
A. became an actor as well as playwright.
B. was a seaman for more than a decade.
C. did not care much for academic studies.
D. did not see his father very often.
3. According to the passage, when did O’Neill decide to become a playwright?
A. While attending Princeton University.
B. During his sailing days.

the imbalance between the rights of men and women worked hard to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
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As women became more independent and took on new roles, a new law was considered necessary to
reflect that change.
Both laws and manners are important to society. (9)…………seek to prevent injustice and protect
the rights of citizens. A nation without laws would be unstable; all citizens would need to actively distrust
everyone. While laws protect us from one another, the “unofficial” rules of etiquette help us to show
friendliness and kindness toward each other. (10)…………laws and manners help a society run smoothly.
Question 9: The article below is not complete and logical. Eight paragraphs have been removed
from it. Find out one of the suitable paragraphs (A- H ), then insert it into the gaps (1- 6) where it
should be to make the article a good one.
Every woman desires to be beautiful; if she is not born so, she tries to make herself look beautiful by
plucking her eyebrows and painting her lips and powdering her face. However, beauty does not just stop
at the face.
Her mother realized this could spoil her beauty, so she bound Tan Ki’s feet with cloth, narrowing them to
a point. She then made Tan Ki wear small feet and shoes caused quite a sensation, and she was chosen to
enter the Emperor’s court.First, they doubled up the girl’s four small toes and folded them under the sole, leaving the big toe intact.
This gave the foot an overall pointed appearance. To make the foot even smaller, the arch of the foot was
pushed inwards, bringing the heel as near as possible to the large toe.
The bandages were changed once a week when the feet were bathed in warm water and dusted with
powder. Then the feet were bandaged again but this time a little tighter. After eight years of constant
restriction the feet would be daintily pointed and soles flat; however, a deep groove would remain
underneath the girl’s soles.
Another of the Home’s “grand old ladies” who had her feet bound is Mrs. Rose Tong. Born in Hunan,
where her father dealt in the sale of shoes, she said that in those days it was unusual to see a woman
without bound feet.
Eighty – four – year – old Mrs. Au Yong Yuet Ping recalled that every girl had her own wardrobe of tiny