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Over the past 600 years, English has grown from a language of (56)_________ speakers to become the dominant language of international communication. English as we know it today (57)_______ around 1350, after having incorporated many elements of French that were introduced following the Norman (58)______ of 1066. Until the 1600s, English was, for the most part, spoken only in England and had not (59)______ even as far as Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. (60)________, during the course of the next two centuries, English began to spread around the globe as a result of exploration, trade (including slave trade), colonization, and missionary (61)________. Thus small enclaves of English speakers became establish work and grew in (62)________ parts of the world. As these communities proliferated, English gradually became the primary language of international business, banking, and diplomacy. Currently, about 80 percent of the information stored (63)________ computer systems worldwide is in English. Two (64)________ 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 (65)________ more than 700 million English users in the world.
56. A. a few B. few C. some D. a lot
57. A. hailed B. frequented C. emerged D. engaged
58. A. invader B. invasion C. invade D. invasive
59. A. experienced B. conferred C. stretched D. extended
60. A. Therefore B. However C. So D. but
61. A. work B. job C. employment D. career
62. A. various B. variety C. varying D. varied
63. A. in B. on C. into D. onto
64. A. third B. thirds C. threes D. three
65. A. have been B. has been C. is D. are
III. Read the following passage and choose the option that indicates the correct answer to each of the following questions. (10 points)
My lawyer, Mr. Turner, is the only man I know who has seen a ghost. He is a quiet even-tempered man whose life is spent in dealing with facts. He is the last person in the world to give way to fantasy. He has a wife and two children of whom he is proud, takes a modest holiday abroad every year and spends his Sundays gardening. He is knowledgeable about art and architecture, though he doesn’t pretend to be an expert by any means. It is, therefore, all the more surprising that he should be so insistent about the ghost. It happened, so he says, like this: He was travelling from London to the north of England by train. It was a misty November evening and the train was half empty. In fact, for the first part of the journey Mr. Turner had the carriage to himself and sat dozing over a newspaper. However, at the first stop a passenger jumped in, slamming the door behind him. He seemed out of his breath as if he had been running. He was a striking looking young man with dark, bushy hair and bright intelligent eyes. He was dressed rather oddly in a long waistcoat with silver buttons, tight trousers and embroidered waistcoat. Mr. Turner didn’t pay much attention to this because people wear all sorts of extravagant clothes these days and he had long grown accustomed to them. Presently, the two men got into conversation, as people do on long journeys. Mr. Turner was interested to discover that the young man was very knowledgeable about art – in particular portraits. His name, he said, was Joseph Hart, and he was on his way to visit an exhibition. It seemed that he worked in a famous London Art Gallery – a picture restorer, perhaps, thought Mr. Turner, he seemed to know a great deal about varnishes and paints, and even more about the subjects of certain portraits. When Mr. Turner asked his opinion of the portrait of a famous judge by an artist he admired, his companion laughed and said: “He’s only a reproduction – a good one I agree but you can’t talk to a reproduction”. He spoke as though the person in the portrait were still living. After a while the carriage got hot and steamy and Mr. Turner dropped off. He woke up just as the train was drawing up at a junction with a grinding of brakes. His companion had disappeared. A few days later, having returned to London, Mr. Turner found himself near the Art Gallery. Moved by some impulse, he went in and inquired for Joseph Hart. The attendant directed him to a room devoted to early nineteenth century portraits of well-known men. There was no one in the room and Mr. Turner looked around him. Without knowing quite how he had got there, he found himself standing in front of a full-length portrait of a young dark man in tight trousers and an embroidered waistcoat. The eyes smiled at him with a hint of amusement. The name-plate at the foot of the picture read: Joseph Hart, Gentleman, 1800-1835.
66. What kind of person was Mr. Turner?
A. Imaginative B. Fantastic C. Sensible D. Insensitive
67. Although he was a lawyer, Mr. Turner_________.
A. pretended to know a lot about art. B. knew something about art C. pretended to take interest in art. D. intended to learn more about art.
68. When the passenger entered Mr. Turner’s department, ________.
A. he was panting B. he was running C. the train was just training D. the carriage was half-empty.
69. The passenger’s clothes didn’t seem strange to Mr. Turner because ________.
A. he was used to wearing strange clothes. B. he liked people who wore strange clothes
C. everyone he knew wore strange clothes. D. he had seen a lot of people in strange clothes
61. Mr. Turner thought the young man might _______.
A. be an art dealer B. be an art expert C. renew old pictures D. paint reproductions of old pictures
62. Why wouldn’t the young man give an opinion on the portrait of the judge?
A. The judge wasn’t alive. B. The judge was still alive. C. The picture was a copy. D. He hadn’t seen it.
63. When did Mr. Turner first realize that the passenger had gone?
A. When the train started. B. After the train had stopped.
C. Just before the train stopped. D. When the train was leaving the station.
64. Why did Mr. Turner go into the Art Gallery?
A. He was walking past there. B. He had never been there before.
C. He has planned to do so D. He suddenly decided to.
65. In the part of the Gallery that Mr. Turner was directed to, ________.
A. there were a lot of pictures of unknown people B. there were a lot of nineteenth century people
C. no one else was looking at the pictures D. he only saw one portrait
66. When Mr. Turner looked the portrait of Joseph Hart, _______.
A. he smiled at it B. he thought it smiled at him C. he didn’t recognize it D. he was amused
I. Fill in each blank with the correct form of the word in brackets.
1. London is famous for historical buildings such as the Houses of Parliament and St Paul's Cathedral ( history )
2. The city is characterised by tall modern buildings in steel and glass. ( character )
3. LonDon continues to top the list of the world's leading financial centers. ( finance )
4. Orchard Road is an ideal location for a boutique. ( locate )
5. I enjoy going to the city center at weekends, though it is always packed with people ( pack )
6. With a population of over 8 million, New York is the most populated city in the United States. ( Populate )
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I. Fill in each blank with the correct form of the word in brackets.
1. London is famous for ....historic....... buildings such as the Houses of Parliament and St Paul's Cathedral ( history )
historic (a): quan trọng, có ý nghĩa lịch sử
historical (a) : có liên quan đến lịch sử
2. The city is .....characterized...... by tall modern buildings in steel and glass. ( character )
3. LonDon continues to top the list of the world's leading .......financial...... centers. ( finance )
4. Orchard Road is an ideal ......location..... for a boutique. ( locate )
5. I enjoy going to the city center at weekends, though it is always ......packed....... with people ( pack )
6. With a .....population...... of over 8 million, New York is the most ........populous........ city in the United States. ( Populate )
Question 2 (10 points). Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√) by the number. If a line has a word which should not be there, write it in ‘Your answers’ part. Number 0 and 00 have been done for you.
WHY AM I LEARNING ENGLISH?
0. English is the most widely spoken language in the world ..........√.............
00.today. It is a quite amazing how the use of English language has ..........a...........
1. become so widespread. The English is not as easy as Esperanto, .........The.............
2. which was especially written for to be as easy as possible ............not.........
3. for people to learn, and yet Esperanto is spoken by very ...........√..........
4. few people around the world. For many people, English is not as ............more...........
5. more beautiful a language as French but it seems too late for ............such..............
6. French to catch up with English as an international language. ............√.............
7. German is the a useful language if you are in business ..........so...............
8. in Europe but it is not half as easy to learn so as English, ............been..........
9. and people say it doesn't sound as if pleasant as English. .........√............
10. English has been become so important that it is becoming the more ..........as...............
and more essential to know it if you want to get a good job
Question 2 (10 points). Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√) by the number. If a line has a word which should not be there, write it in ‘Your answers’ part. Number 0 and 00 have been done for you. Chỉ rỗ chỗ sai rồi sửa hộ mình
WHY AM I LEARNING ENGLISH?
0. English is the most widely spoken language in the world ..........√.............
00.today. It is a quite amazing how the use of English language has ..........a...........
1. become so widespread. The English is not as easy as Esperanto, ........The..............
2. which was especially written for to be as easy as possible .......for..............
3. for people to learn, and yet Esperanto is spoken by very .........√............
4. few people around the world. For many people, English is not as .........√..............
5. more beautiful a language as French but it seems too late for .........more.................
6. French to catch up with English as an international language. .........√.................
7. German is the a useful language if you are in business .........the................
8. in Europe but it is not half as easy to learn so as English, .........so.............
9. and people say it doesn't sound as if pleasant as English. .......if..............
10. English has been become so important that it is becoming the more ........been.................
and more essential to know it if you want to get a good job.
English is the most widely spoken language in the world 0…P…
Today. It is a quite amazing how the use of English has 00…a..
become so widespread. The English is not as easy as Esperato 1. The
which was especially written for to be as easy as possible 2. for
for people to learn, and yet the Esperato is spoken by very 3. the
few people around the world. For many people, English is not as 4. (correct)
more beautiful a language as French but it seems too late for 5. more
French to cach up with English as an international language. 6. (correct)
German is the a useful language if you are in business 7. the
in Europe but it is not half as easy to learn so as English, 8. so
and people say it doesn’t sound as if pleasant as English. 9. if
English has become so important that it is becoming the more 10. the
and more essential to know it if you want to get a good job.
Read the following passage and do the tasks below:
Day after day we hear about how anthropogenic development is causing global warming. According to an increasingly vocal minority, however, we should be asking ourselves how much of this is media hype and how much is based on real evidence. It seems, as so often is the case that it depends on which expert you listen to, or which statistics you study.
Yes, it is true that there is a mass of evidence to indicate that the world is getting warmer, with one of the world's leading weather predictors stating that air temperatures have shown an increase of just under half a degree Celsius since the beginning of the twentieth century. And while this may not sound like anything worth losing sleep over, the international press would have us believe that the consequences could be devastating. Other experts, however, are of the opinion that what we are seeing is just part of a natural upward and downward swing that has always been part of the cycle of global weather. An analysis of the views of major meteorologists in the United States showed that less than 20% of them believed that any change in temperature over the last hundred years was our own fault - the rest attributed it to natural cyclical changes.
There is, of course, no denying that we are still at a very early stage in understanding weather. The effects of such variables as rainfall, cloud formation, the seas and oceans gases such as methane and ozone, or even solar energy are still not really understood, and therefore the predictions that we make using them cannot always be relied on. Dr. James Hansen, in 1988, was predicting that the likely effects of global warming would be a rising of world temperature which would have disastrous consequences for mankind: “a strong cause and effect relationship between the current climate and human alteration of the atmosphere ". He has now gone on record as stating that using artificial models of climate as a way of predicting change is all but impossible. In fact, he now believes that, rather than getting hotter, our planet is getting greener as a result of the carbon dioxide increase, with the prospect of increasing vegetation in areas which in recent history have been frozen wastelands.
In fact, there is some evidence to suggest that as our computer-based weather models have become more sophisticated, the predicted rises in temperature have been cut back. In addition, if we look at the much reported rise in global temperature over the last century, a close analysis reveals that the lion's share of that increase, almost three quarters in total, occurred before man began to "poison" his world with industrial processes and the accompanying greenhouse gas emissions in the second half of the twentieth century.
So should we pay any attention to those stories that scream out at us from billboards and television news headlines, claiming that man, with his inexhaustible dependence on oil-based machinery and ever more sophisticated forms of transport is creating a nightmare level of greenhouse gas emissions, poisoning his environment and ripping open the ozone layer? Doubters point to scientific evidence, which can prove that, of all the greenhouse gases, only two percent come from man-made sources, the rest resulting from natural emissions. Who, then, to believe: the environmentalist exhorting us to leave the car at home, to buy re-usable products packaged in recycled paper and to plant trees in our back yard? Or the skeptics, including, of course, a lot of big businesses who have most to lose, when they tell us that we are making a mountain out of a molehill? And my own opinion? The jury's still out as far as I am concerned!
Question 1-6: Choose the appropriate letters (A, B, C or D), based on the information from the passage.
1. The author ........
A believes that man is causing global warming
B believes that global warming is a natural process
C is sure what the causes of global warming are
D does not say what he believes the causes of global warming are
2. As to the cause of global warming, the author believes that ........
A occasionally the facts depend on who you are talking toB the facts always depend on who you are talking to
C often the facts depend on which expert you listen to
D you should not speak to experts
3. More than 80% of the top meteorologists in the United States are of the opinion that .........
A global warming should make us lose sleep
B global warming is not the result of natural cyclical changes, but man-made
C the consequences of global warming will be devastating
D global warming is not man-made, but the result of natural cyclical changes
4. Our understanding of weather ...........
A leads to reliable predictions
B is variable
C cannot be denied
D is not very developed yet
5. Currently, Dr. James Hansen's beliefs include the fact that .......
A it is nearly impossible to predict weather change using artificial models
B the consequences of global warming would be disastrous for mankind
C there is a significant link between the climate now, and man's changing of the atmosphere
D Earth is getting colder
6. Which of these is the best title for this text?
A Global Warming is for real
B Global warming - media hype or genuine threat?
C Weather changes over the last 100 years
D Global Warming - the greatest threat to mankind
Language is a means of communication so each nation has its own language. However some nations have the same language. According to the speakers' use of language, it is called the first, second or foreign language. Among the languages used by most people in the world is English. This does not mean that English is spoken by greater number of speakers than any other languages, for it is easily outnemberred by Chinese in this respect. However, it is the most international of languages because it provides ready access to the world scholarship and world trade. That is the reason why millions of men and women try to master it.
The comedy character Mr Bean is one of Britain’s most successful exports. The original television show, only half-an-hour (69) ____in_____ length, was first broadcast in 1990. (70) ______Since___ then, the fourteen episodes of the show have been shown on (71) ____more_____ than two hundred TV stations around the world, as (72) ____well_____ as on fifty airlines. The film, Mr Bean’s Holiday was a global smash hit and the character, played (73) __by_______ the actor Rowan Atkinson, is instantly recognizable to millions of people around the world.
So why is Mr Bean so popular? (74) ___ Although/ While______ many people regard Mr Bean as a typically British character, the initial inspiration actually came from a French comic character known (75) ____as_____ Monsieur Hulot, created by the French comedian Jacques Tati.
According to Rowan Atkinson, however, the actual character of Mr Bean is mostly based on his own personality as a nine-year-old. Mr Bean is a man (76) ____who_____ is awkward, self-conscious and accident-prone. He is very selfish and doesn’t really understand very much about the world around him. He is really a child in a man’s body. This, as Atkinson explains, is the basis for a lot of visual comedy and he mentions comedians (77) _____such____ as Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel as other famous examples.