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ĐỀ THI TUYỂN
SINH ĐẠI HỌC NĂM 2012
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ĐỀ THI GỒM 80 CÂU (TỪ QUESTION 1 ĐẾN QUESTION 80)
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.
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Question 1: A.
facility
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B. characterise
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C. irrational
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D. variety
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Question 2: A.
agreement
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B. elephant
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C. mineral
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D. violent
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Question 3: A.
professor
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B. typical
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C. accountant
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D. develop
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Question 4: A.
electrician
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B. majority
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C. appropriate
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D. traditional
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Question 5: A.
decay
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B. vanish
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C. attack
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D. depend
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs
correction in each of the following
questions.
Question 6: Most greetings cards are folding and have a picture on the front and a message inside.
A B C D Question 7: Aloha is a Hawaiian word meaning ‘love’, that
can be used to say
hello or goodbye.
A B C D
Question 8: The Oxford English Dictionary is well known for
including many different meanings
of
A
B
C
words and to give real examples.
D
Question 9: It was
disappointing that almost of the guests left
the wedding too early.
A B C D
Question 10: When you are writing or speaking English
it is important to use language that includes
A B C
both men and women equally
the same.
D
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 11: The recent heavy rains have helped to ease the water .
A. plenty B.
poverty C.
shortage D.
abundance
Question 12: In a formal
interview, it is essential to maintain good eye with
the interviewers.
A. link B.
connection C.
touch D.
contact
Question 13: As a(n) girl, she found it difficult to socialise with other students in the class.
A. reserved B.
ashamed C. dynamic D.
industrious
Question 14: He is coming a cold after
a night out in the rain.
A. down with B.
up with C.
away from D.
across with
Question 15: It is interesting to take a new
hobby such as collecting stamps or
going fishing.
A. up B.
in C.
over D.
on
Question 16: The bad weather caused serious damage to the crop. If only it warmer.
A. were B.
had been C.
has been D. was
Question 17: Before going to bed, he wanted some tea but there was left.
A. nothing B.
no C.
any D.
a few
Question 18: You should look up the meaning of new words in the dictionary misuse them.
A. so that not
to B. so not to C.
so that not D.
so as not to
Question 19: Television can make things memorable for the reason that it presents information
an effective
way.
A. on B.
in C.
with D.
over
Question 20: It was so kind of her to put me
while I was on a business
trip in her town.
A. down B.
off C.
up D.
in
Question 21: He didn’t know or stay until the end of the festival.
A. if to go B. if that he should go C. to go D.
whether to go
Question 22:
smoking
is a causative factor of many diseases, there is no ban on tobacco
advertising.
A. However B.
Therefore C.
Although D.
In spite of
Question
23: Mary: “I will never go mountaineering again.” Linda: “Me .”
A. so B.
too C.
neither D.
either
Question 24: When Peter was a child, there a cinema
near his house.
A. used to be B. used to have
C. used to be being D. used to have been Question 25: Working as a volunteer gives her a chance to develop her interpersonal skills, promote
friendship, and her own talent.
A. discover
B. discovered C.
discovering D. to discover
Question 26: Mary: “Thanks a lot for
your help.” John: “ .”
A. My
happiness B.
My excitement
C. My delight D. My pleasure
Question 27: My mother
had to work 12 hours a day in a factory just to .
A. make ends meet B. call it a day C.
break the ice D. tighten the
belt
Question 28: The team
were eager to make the
loss of the previous match.
A. off with B.
up with C.
up for D.
away with
Question 29: After the car crash last night, all the
injured to the
hospital in an ambulance.
A. was rushing
B. were rushed C. was rushed D. were rushing
Question 30: It has been suggested that Mary
a computer course in preparation for a steady job.
A. take B.
have been taken C. would have taken D. was taken
Question 31: Tom: “When
are we leaving for the concert?” Kyle
: “
.”
A. No
problem B.
Certainly C. That’s right D. Straight
away
Question 32: Scientists have a lot of research into renewable energy
sources.
A. done
B. solved C.
carried D. made
Question 33: New machinery
has enhanced the company’s
productivity and .
A. competition B. competitor C.
competitive D.
competitiveness
Question 34: The restaurants on the island are expensive, so it’s worth a packed lunch.
A. taken
B. taking C. to take D.
take
Question 35: The struggle for women’s rights began in the 18th century
during a period as the Age of Enlightenment.
A. known
B. is knowing C.
that knew D.
knew
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST
in
meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 36: The repeated commercials on TV distract
many viewers from watching their favourite
films.
A. businesses B.
advertisements C. economics D.
contests
Question 37: As tourism is more developed,
people worry about the damage to the flora and fauna of the island.
A. flowers and trees B.
plants and animals
C. mountains and forests D.
fruits and vegetables
Question 38: It is such a prestigious university that only excellent
students are entitled to a full scholarship each year.
A. have the right to refuse B.
are refused the right to
C. are given the right to D.
have the obligation to
Mark the
letter A, B,
C, or D
on your answer sheet to
indicate the word
or phrase that
is
OPPOSITE in meaning
to the underlined part in each of the following
questions.
Question 39: After five days on trial, the court found
him innocent of the crime and he was released.
A. guilty B.
naive C.
innovative D. benevolent
Question 40: Affluent families
find it easier to support their children financially.
A. Privileged B.
Impoverished C. Well-off D. Wealthy
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that
best combines each pair of sentences in the
following questions.
Question 41: Mike graduated with a good degree.
However, he joined the ranks of the unemployed.
A. Mike joined the ranks of the unemployed because he graduated with a good degree.
B. If Mike graduated with a good degree, he
would join the ranks of the unemployed.
C. Although Mike graduated with a good
degree, he joined the ranks of the
unemployed.
D. That Mike graduated with a good degree helped him
join the ranks of the unemployed.
Question 42: Ann always keeps up with the latest
fashions. She works for a famous
fashion house.
A. Ann always keeps up with the latest
fashions so as not to work for a famous fashion house.
B. Ann works
for a famous fashion house, so she
always keeps up with the latest fashions.
C. Not working for a famous fashion house,
Ann always keeps up with the latest
fashions.
D. Despite working for a famous
fashion house, Ann hardly keeps up with the latest
fashions.
Question 43: They drove fifteen miles off the main road. Also, they had nothing to eat for the
day.
A. Not only did they drive fifteen miles off the main road, they also had nothing to eat for the day.
B. Driving fifteen miles
off the main road, they eventually
had something to eat for the day.
C. They neither drove fifteen
miles off the main road nor had
anything to eat for the day.
D. They drove fifteen miles off the main road
until they had something
to eat for the day.
Question 44: Put your coat on. You will get cold.
A. You will not get cold unless you put
your coat on.
B. Put
your coat on, otherwise you will get
cold.
C. It is not until you put your
coat on that you will get cold.
D. You not only put your coat on but also get
cold.
Question 45: Everyone was watching the little dog. They
were greatly amused at it.
A. Everyone felt great and amused when
the little dog was watching them.
B. The little dog was watching everyone with great amusement.
C. Everyone was greatly amused at the little dog they were watching.
D. The little dog was greatly amused by the way everyone was watching it.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST
in meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 46: “We
lost the last game because
of the referee,” said the team captain.
A. The team captain said that without the
referee, they might have lost the last game.
B. The team captain admitted to the referee
that they had lost the last game.
C. The team captain refused to tell the referee
about their loss in the last game.
D. The team captain blamed the referee for their loss in the last game.
Question
47: I was astonished that
he knew a lot about Vietnamese food.
A. I was astonished at his poor knowledge of
Vietnamese food.
B. It surprised me that Vietnamese food
was what he liked most.
C. I knew very little about Vietnamese food, which astonished him.
D. That he knew a lot about Vietnamese food amazed me.
Question 48: Martin missed his flight because he had not been informed of the change in flight schedule.
A. Not having been informed of the change in flight schedule,
Martin missed his flight.
B. Not having missed his flight,
Martin was informed of the change in
flight schedule.
C. Martin missed his flight, though he had been informed
of the change in flight schedule.
D. Martin had been informed of his flight delay, which was due to the change in flight schedule.
Question 49: “If I were you, I would not choose to write about such a sensitive topic,” the teacher said.
A. The teacher advised me
against writing about such a sensitive topic.
B. The teacher
advised me on writing about such a sensitive
topic.
C. I was ordered by the teacher not to
write about such a sensitive topic.
D. I was
blamed for writing about such a sensitive topic by the teacher.
Question
50: The man wore gloves in order not to leave any
fingerprints.
A. The man wore gloves
in order that his fingerprints would be taken.
B. His fingerprints would not be left unless
the man wore gloves.
C. In order to leave some fingerprints the man took off his gloves.
D. The man
wore gloves so that he would not leave any fingerprints.
Read the following
passage on native Americans, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase for each of the blanks from
51 to 60.
The first American immigrants,
beginning more than 20,000 years ago, were intercontinental wanderers: hunters and their families following animal (51) from Asia to America, across
a land bridge where the Bering Strait is today. (52) Spain’s Christopher Columbus “discovered”
the New World in 1492, about 1.5
million Native Americans
lived in what is now the continental United States, although estimates of the number (53) greatly. Mistaking
the place where
he
landed – San Salvador in the Bahamas – (54) Americans
“Indians.”
the Indies, Columbus called the Native
During the next 200 years, people from
several European countries
followed Columbus across the
Atlantic Ocean to explore America and (55) up trading posts and colonies. Native Americans suffered (56) from the influx of Europeans. The transfer of land from Indian to European –
and later American
–
hands
(57)_
accomplished
through treaties,
wars, and coercion, with
Indians constantly giving (58)
as the newcomers
moved west.
In
the
19th
century,
the
government’s preferred
solution to the Indian “problem” was to force tribes to inhabit specific
plots of land called
reservations. Some tribes
fought to keep from (59) land they had traditionally used. In many cases the reservation land was (60) poor quality, and Indians came to depend on government assistance. Poverty and
joblessness among Native Americans
still exist today.
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(Extracted from InfoUSA –
CD Version)
Read the following
passage on commuting, and
mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet
to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 61 to 70.
Commuting
is the practice of travelling a long distance to a town or city to work each
day, and then travelling home again in the evening. The word commuting comes from
commutation ticket, a US rail
ticket for repeated journeys, called
a
season
ticket in
Britain. Regular
travellers are
called
commuters.
The US has many commuters. A few, mostly on the East Coast, commute by train or subway,
but most depend on the car. Some leave home very early to avoid
the traffic jams, and sleep in their
cars until their office opens. Many people accept a long trip to work so that they can live in quiet bedroom
communities away from the city, but another reason is ‘white flight’.
In the 1960s most cities began to
desegregate their schools,
so that there were no longer separate schools
for white and black
children. Many white families did not want to send their
children to desegregated schools, so they moved to the suburbs,
which have their own schools, and where, for various reasons,
few black people live.
Millions of people in Britain commute by car or train. Some spend two or three hours a day travelling, so that they and their families can live in suburbia
or in the countryside. Cities are
surrounded by commuter belts. Part of the commuter belt around London
is called the stockbroker
belt because it contains houses where
rich business people live. Some
places are becoming dormitory towns, because people sleep
there but take little part in local activities.
Most
commuters travel to and from work at the
same
time, causing the morning
and evening rush hours, when buses and trains are crowded and there are traffic
jams on the roads.
Commuters on trains rarely talk to each other and
spend their journey reading, sleeping or using their mobile phones, though this is not popular with other passengers. Increasing numbers of people now work at home some days of the week, linked to their offices by computer, a
practice called telecommuting.
Cities in both Britain and the US are trying to reduce the number of cars
coming into town each day.
Some companies encourage car pooling (called
car sharing in Britain), an arrangement for
people who live and work near each other to travel together.
Some US cities have a public service that helps such people to contact each other, and traffic lanes are reserved for car-pool vehicles.
But cars and petrol/gas are cheap in the US, and many people prefer to drive alone because it gives
them more freedom.
In Britain many cities have park-and-ride schemes, car parks on the edge of the city
from which buses take drivers into
the centre.
(Extracted from Oxford Guide to British and American Culture, Oxford University Press, 2000) Question 61: Which of the following
definitions of commuting would the author of this passage most
probably agree with?
A. Travelling for hours from
a town or city to work in the
countryside every day.
B. Travelling to
work and then home again in a day within a rural district.
C. Using a commutation
ticket for special journeys in all seasons of the year.
D. Regularly travelling a long distance between one’s place of work and one’s home.
Question
62: The word “repeated” in paragraph 1 most probably means .
A. buying a season ticket again B.
doing something once again
C. saying something
again D.
happening again and again
Question 63: The passage mentions that many Americans
are willing to travel a long distance
to work in order to be able to live in .
A. comfortable bedrooms B.
quiet neighbourhoods
C. city centres
D. noisy communities
Question
64: Which of the
following is true according
to the passage?
A. Britain has
considerably more commuters than the US.
B. The US has considerably more
commuters than Britain.
C. Both the US and Britain have a great number of commuters.
D. Commuting helps people
in the US and Britain save a lot of time.
Question
65: Which of the
following is NOT true about the London
commuter belt?
A. It is home to some wealthy business people. B. It is like “bedroom communities” in the US.
C. It is in central London. D.
It surrounds London.
Question 66: It can be inferred
from the passage that dormitory towns
in Britain are places where
people .
A. contribute
to the local community B.
are employed locally
C. take part
in local activities D.
stay for the night
Question
67: As mentioned in the passage, commuters
usually .
A. talk to each other during train
journeys B.
cause traffic congestion
on the roads
C. go home
from work at different hours D. go to work at different hours
Question
68: The phrase “linked to” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to .
A. satisfied with B. connected to C. shared with D. related to
Question 69: All of the following are measures to reduce the number of cars coming into town each day in the US and/or Britain EXCEPT .
A. car pooling/sharing B.
traffic lanes for car
pooling
C. park-and-ride schemes D.
free car parks in the city centre
Question
70: The word “it”
in the last paragraph refers to .
A. car pool B.
travelling together C. driving alone D. petrol/gas
Read the following passage
on learning by Mazur, James E, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the questions
from 71 to 80.
Learning means
acquiring
knowledge or developing the ability to perform new behaviors.
It
is
common to think of learning as something that takes place in school, but much of human
learning occurs outside the classroom,
and people continue to learn
throughout their lives.
Even before they enter school, young children
learn to walk, to talk, and to use their hands to manipulate toys, food, and other objects.
They use all of their senses to learn about the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells in their environments. They learn how to interact with their parents, siblings, friends, and other people important to their world. When they enter
school, children learn basic academic subjects
such as reading, writing, and mathematics. They also continue to learn a great deal outside the classroom. They learn which behaviors
are likely to be rewarded and which are likely to
be punished. They learn social skills for interacting with other children. After
they finish school, people must learn to adapt to the many major changes that affect their lives, such as getting married, raising
children, and finding and keeping a job.
Because learning continues throughout our lives and affects almost everything we do, the study of
learning is important in many different fields. Teachers need to understand the best ways to educate children. Psychologists, social
workers, criminologists, and other human-service workers need to understand how
certain experiences
change people’s behaviors.
Employers, politicians,
and advertisers make use of the principles of learning to influence
the behavior of workers, voters,
and consumers.
Learning is closely related to memory,
which
is
the
storage
of
information
in
the
brain.
Psychologists who study memory are interested in how the brain stores knowledge, where this
storage takes place, and how the brain later retrieves knowledge when we need it. In contrast, psychologists who study learning are more interested in behavior and how behavior changes
as a result of a person’s experiences.
There are many forms
of learning, ranging from simple to complex. Simple forms of learning
involve a single stimulus. A stimulus
is anything perceptible to the
senses, such as a sight, sound, smell, touch, or taste. In a form of learning known as classical
conditioning, people learn to associate two stimuli that occur in sequence, such as lightning followed by
thunder. In operant conditioning, people learn by forming an association between a behavior and
its consequences (reward or punishment).
People and animals can also learn by
observation - that is, by watching
others perform behaviors. More complex forms of learning include learning languages,
concepts, and motor skills.
(Extracted from Microsoft® Student
2009 – DVD Version)
Question 71: According to the passage,
which of the following
is learning in broad view comprised of?
A. Acquisition of social and behavioural
skills
B. Knowledge acquisition and ability development
C. Acquisition of academic knowledge
D. Knowledge acquisition outside the
classroom
Question 72: According to the passage, what are
children NOT usually taught outside
the classroom?
A. literacy
and calculation B.
life skills
C. interpersonal communication D.
right from wrong
Question 73: Getting married,
raising children, and finding and keeping
a job are mentioned
in paragraph 2 as examples of .
A. the situations
in which people cannot teach themselves
B. the areas of learning which affect people’s lives
C. the changes to which people have to orient
themselves
D. the ways people’s lives are influenced by
education
Question 74: Which of the
following can be inferred about the
learning process from the passage?
A. It is more
interesting and effective
in school than that in life.
B.
It becomes less
challenging and complicated when
people grow older. C.
It plays a crucial part
in improving the learner’s motivation
in school. D. It takes place more
frequently in real life than in academic
institutions.
Question 75: According to the passage,
the study of learning is important in many fields due to
.
A. the great influence of the on-going learning process
B. the influence of various behaviours in the
learning process
C. the exploration
of the best teaching methods
D. the need for certain experiences in various areas
Question 76: It can be inferred from the passage that social
workers, employers, and politicians
concern themselves with the study of
learning because they need to .
A. change the behaviours of the objects
of their interest towards learning
B. make the objects of
their interest more aware of the importance of learning
C. understand how a stimulus relates to the senses
of the objects of their interest
D. thoroughly understand the behaviours of the objects of their interest
Question 77: The word “retrieves ” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to .
A. generates B.
recovers C.
creates D.
gains
Question 78: Which of the
following statements is NOT true according to
the passage?
A. Psychologists studying memory are concerned with how the stored knowledge is used. B.
Psychologists studying memory are concerned with the brain’s storage
of knowledge. C. Psychologists are all interested in memory as much as
behaviours.
D. Psychologists studying learning are interested in human behaviours.
Question 79: According to the passage, the stimulus in
simple
forms of learning .
A. makes associations
between behaviours B.
is created by the senses
C. is associated with natural phenomena D. bears relation to perception
Question 80: The passage mainly discusses .
A. simple
forms of learning
B. practical examples of learning inside
the classroom
C. application of learning principles to formal education
D. general principles of learning
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