THI TỐT NGHIỆP QUỐC GIA
TEST 1
TRƯƠNG VĂN ÁNH
TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC SÀI GÒN

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the word that differs from the other three in the
position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. wonderful B. educate C. destruction D.
popular
Question 2: A. maintain B. beauty C. decide D. receive
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the
following exchanges.
Question 3: Christina and John are in the English evening
class.
Christina: “Why do you think the most people learn English?”
John: “……………………………………………………….”
A. Very often it‟s to get a better job B. All of them are
C. Because I like it D. I heard it was very good

Question 4: John and Mary are having dinner at her house.
John: “This dish is really delicious!”
Mary: “……………. . It‟s called Yakitori, and it‟s made with
chicken livers.”
A. I guess you‟re right. B. It‟s my pleasure.
C. Sure, I‟ll be glad to. D. I‟m glad you like it.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the
other three in pronunciation in each of the following
questions.
Question 5: A. approached B. noticed C. supported D.
finished
Question 6: A. them B. threaten C. through D. thunder

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 7: The proposal seemed like a good idea. The manager refused
it.
A. The manager didn't like to proposal because it didn't seem a good idea
B. Since the proposal seemed like a good idea, the manager refused it.
C. The manager refused the proposal although it seemed like a good idea.
D. The proposal didn't seem like a good idea, so the manager didn't
accept it.
Question 8: Sports clear my mind. They also help me maintain a healthy
lifestyle.
A. Not only do sports clear my mind, but they also help me maintain a
healthy lifestyle.
B. Neither do sports clear my mind nor help me maintain a healthy
lifestyle.
C. Sports clear my mind so that I can maintain a healthy lifestyle.
D. All that sports can do is to clear my mind instead of maintaining a

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the word whose underlined part differs from the other three
in pronunciation in each of the following questions from 9 to
10:
Question 9: A. knowledge B. careful C. arrive D. happen
Question 10: A. solidarity
B. determination C.
organization D. consideration
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct sentence with the same meaning as the one
printed before it.
Question 11. They got success since they took my advice.
A. If they did not take my advice, they would not get success.
B. They took my advice, and failed.
C. But for my advice, they would not have got success.
D. My advice stopped them from getting success.

Question 12. He last had his eyes tested ten months ago.
A. He had not tested his eyes for ten months then.
B. He hasn't had his eyes tested for ten months.
C. He had tested his eyes ten months ago.
D. He didn't have any test on his eyes in ten months
Question 13. "I'll call you as soon as I arrive at the airport,"
he said to me.
A. He reminded me to call him as soon as he arrived at the
airport.
B. He promised to call me as soon as he arrived at the
airport.
C. He objected to calling me as soon as he arrived at the
airport.
D. He denied calling me as soon as he arrived at the airport.

Blacken the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.
Question 14: Do you know that ________ longest river in
________ world is ________ Nile?
A. the/the/the B. a/the/the C. x/the/a D. the/the/x
Question 15: Lightweight luggage enables you to manage
easily even when fully ________.
A. crowded B. loaded C. carried D. packed
Question 16: The revolving door remained ________
because Posey was pushing on it the wrong way.
A. station B. stationed C. stationary D. stationery

Question 17: ________ at the airport more early, he would
have met his friend.
A. Then he arrived B. Had he arrived C. When he arrived D.
He has arrived
Question 18: You
must have forgotten to send the email, ________ there's
nothing in my inbox.
A. because of B. for C. due to D. owning to
Question 19: The wine had made him a little ________ and
couldn't control his movement.
A. light-headed B. narrow-minded C. light-hearted D. lightfooted
Question 20: My little girl is tired now because she
________ all day.
A. studies B. studied C. has been studying D. has studied

Question 21: It is of great ________ to show your interest
and politeness when you are having a job interview.
A. important B. importance C. importantly D. unimportant
Question 22: I looked the word up in the dictionary to
refresh my ________ of its exact meaning.
A. brain B. mind C. thoughts D. memory
Question 23: If ________ access to education, children
living in poverty will have a brighter future.
A. providing B. are provided C. having provided D. provided
Question 24: Andrew is a very disciplined employee. He
________ great importance to coming to work in time.
A. affixes B. attaches C. admits D. attributes

Question 25: Jane never gives her mother a hand in
housework _________ she has a lot of free time.
A. although B. since C. in spite of D. because of
Question 26: Rita is not _________ of doing this work - she
should change her class.
A. capable B. possible C. suitable D. habitual
Question 27: If you eat too much, you _________ the price
by putting on weight.
A. will pay B. paid C. would pay D. were paying

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to
identify the underlined part that is not correct.
Question 28: Even though the extremely bad weather in the
mountains, the climbers decided not to cancel their climb.
A. not to cancel B. their climb C. extremely D. Even though
Question 29: Food prices have raised so rapidly in the past
few months that some families have been forced to alter
their
eating habits.
A. have raised B. rapidly C. that D. their eating habits
Question 30: Having finished his term paper before the
deadline, it was delivered to the professor before the class.
A. it was delivered B. before C. before the D. Having
finished

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your
answer sheer to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
from 31 to 35.
In the past, technology and progress was very slow. People “invented”
farming 12,000 years ago but it took 8,000 years for the idea to go
around the world. Then, about 3,500 years ago, people called
“potters” used round wheels to turn and make plates. But it took
hundreds of years before some clever person thought, if we join two
wheels together and make them bigger, we can use them to move
things.
In the last few centuries, things have begun to move faster. Take a
20th-century invention like the aeroplane, forexample. The first
acroplane flight on 17 December 1903 only lasted 12 seconds, and
the plane only went 37metres. It can't have been very exciting to
watch, but that flight changed the world. Sixteen years later, the
firstplane flew across the Atlantic, and only fifty years after that, men
walked on the moon. Technology is nowchanging our world faster and
faster. So what will the future bring?

One of the first changes will be the materials we use.
Scientists have just invented an amazing new materialcalled
graphene, and soon we will use it to do lots of things. With
graphene batteries in your mobile, it will take afew seconds
to charge your phone or download a thousand gigabytes of
information! Today, we make mostproducts in factories, but
in the future, scientists will invent living materials. Then we
won't make things like carsand furniture in factories - we
will grow them!
Thirty years ago, people couldn't have imagined social
media like Twitter and Facebook. Now we can't live without
them. But this is only the start. Right now, scientists are
putting microchips in some disabled people's brains, to help
them see, hear and communicate better. In the future, we
may all use these technologies. We won't need

smartphones to use social media or search the
internet because the internet will be in our heads!
More people will go into space in the future, too.
Space tourism has already begun, and a hundred
years from now, there may be many hotels in space.
One day, we may get most of our energy from space
too. In 1941, the
writer Isaac Asimov wrote about a solar power
station in space. People laughed at his idea then, but
we should have listened to him. Today, many people
are trying to develop a space solar power station.
After all, the sun always shines above the clouds!

Question 31: The writer says that in the past .
A. most inventions were to do with farming B. people didn't
want to use wheels
C. it took time for new ideas to change things D. people
didn't invent many things
Question 32: Why does the writer use the example of the
aeroplane?
A. Because he thinks it's the most important invention
inhistory.
B. To show how an invention developed quickly.
C. To explain how space travel started.
D. To explain why transport changed in the 20th century.

Question 33: What does the writer say about the future of
communication?
A. We can't know what the most popular social media will
be. B. Microchips will become faster.
C. We won't need devices like smartphones. D. We won't
use the internet as much.
Question 34: What does the writer say about space solar
power?
A. It's much easier to build a solar power station in space
than on Earth.
B. It's a science fiction idea, and nobody really thinks it will
work.
C. People tried it in 1941, but they didn'tsucceed.
D. It's an old idea, but people are only starting to develop it
now.

Question 35: The best title for the article would be .
A. Man in space B. Progress now and then
C. Will computers rule the world? D. More and more
inventions
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 36: Her style of dress was conservative. She never
wears items that are too tight, short or low-cut.
A. high-fashion B. up to date C. traditional D. trendy
Question 37: There has been a hot debate among the
scientists relating to the pros and cons of using robotic
probes to study distant objects in space.
A. problems and solutions B. causes and effects
C. solutions and limitations D. advantages and
disadvantages

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 38: Telomeres are the tiny caps on the ends of
chromosomes that protect our DNA from damage during
cell division.
A. guard B. shape C. attack D. save
Question 39: If you say bad things about the person who
give a job you bite the hand that feeds you.
A. be unfriendly B. be ungrateful C. be thankful D. be
devoted

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or
D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions from 40 to 46.
The Internet started out as a limited network called the
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). It
was a network of computers that allowed communication
even if computer became non- functioning.
It was the academic and scientific community that adopted
Internet, using a protocol called TCP/IP. TCP/IP allows a
number of different network computers to be connected
together. This is called the Internet. The Internet allows the
creation the World Wide Web or the Web for short. The
Web consists of Internet sites that allow data to be shared
by others. Aside from making the Web possible, the
Internet also makes e-mail, chat rom and filesharing and

telephoning possible. It even allows people to watch media
and play games.
The Web can be read in a browser. A browser is simply a
software program that uses HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer
Protocol) data transmission. This will allow you to view Web
pages. HTTP let you browser read the text, graphics,
animation, video and music that are on the Web page. It also
enables you to click on a link on the page using the mouse.
The links on a Web page that guide you to go from one Web
page to another are called hyperlinks. A Web page usually
contains many hyperlinks so that you can “browse” the
Internet. It is much like reading a book. You can go from page
to page and get new information. One example of a browser
is Internet Explorer. In the address box of your browser, you
can type in an address called a URL for “uniform resource
locator”.

To be able to use the Internet, you must have a computer
with an Internet connection and software that lets you view
that Web pages. Internet connection is called a dial-up
connection. It needs the use of your telephone to connect
your computer to an Internet service. A faster type of
connection is called broadband. This requires a cable or some
other equipment. If you turn on the computer with a
broadband connection, it connects you the Internet at a time.
Question 40: What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The Internet Explorer can be used to browse the Web.
B. The most popular Internet programs are e-mail, chatting
and games.
C. Equipment is needed to allow a computer to connect to the
Internet.
D. The Internet is an invention that makes sending and
receiving data possible.

Question 41: The word “adopted” in paragraph 1 is closet
in meaning to _____.
A. changed B. approved C. fostered D. chose
Question 42: According to paragraph 1, which of the
following is true of the Web?
A. It consists of sites on which information can be enjoyed
by others.
B. It allows data to be shared but not for media or games.
C. It makes the receiving and sending of e-mail possible.
D. It is limited to a certain number of computers connected
to the Internet.
Question 43: The word “It” in paragraph 1 refer to .
A. data B. the Internet C. media D. Web

Question 44: All of the following are true of the Web page
EXCEPT.
A. each Web page has its own Internet site
B. the Web cannot be read without software
C. every Web page has a uniform resource locater
D. Web pages contain hyperlinks that bring you to other pages
Question 45: Why does the author mention a book in
paragraph 2?
A. to note a reason why the World Wide Web was created
B. to compare browsing to turning the pages of a book
C. to suggest that reading a book is better than browsing the
Web
D. to provide an example of information that can be viewed
on the Web

Question 46: What can be inferred about broadband
connections in paragraph 3?
A. They do not require an Internet service provider.
B. They are the faster type of connection available.
C. They are more convenient than dial-up connections.
D. They require more equipment than dial-up connections.
Read the following passage and choose the correct word
or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
The warming of the Pacific Ocean has created weather
patterns (47) _________ strongly affect the
world. When the water is warm, the (48)_______of rainfall
in Indonesia and the surrounding regions
decreases. Australia could even experience a drought in
many parts. On the other hand, Chile

(which borders the Pacific Ocean) is preparing for severe
rainstorms. In Pakistan and northwestern India, the weather
pattern makes the rainy season weaker and makes the area
much drier. This happening is called El Nino and is used by
weather forecasters to make long-range weather predictions.
They also know that El Nino will (49)_______unusually heavy
rains to the southwestern part of the United States and make
the central part of the country drier at the same time.
According to research, weather forecasters (used to know
about the coming weather with certainty. Now everything has
become (50)_____different. El Nino itself used to be
incredible. It would occur every two to seven years. But now,
this weather pattern is becoming more frequent. We cannot
say when and how often tornadoes or cyclones occur.
Scientists are unsure of the reason for this change on a global
scale either.

47. A. what B. when C. whether D. that
48. A. amount B. deal C. figure D. number
49. A. fetch B. bring C. take D. cars
50. A. complete B. completely C. completed D. completing
Good luck!