Đề 1
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.
1. A. resort B. season C. excursion D. reasonable
2. A. hacker B. automated C. application D. navigate
3. A. endangered B. destroyed C. damaged D. provided
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.
4. A. prioritise B. energetic C. communicate D. responsible
5. A. business B. intention C. endangered D. extinction
6. A. observatory B. historical C. activity D. vulnerable
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
7. By the time you finish cooking they ____ their homework.
A. will have done B. are doing
C. have been doing D. have done
8. Illegal hunting in Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana, puts African elephants ____ of extinction.
A. in the verge B. on the verge
C. on brink D. in brink
9. ____ we finish the project, ____ we can start the next one.
A. The soonest/ the sooner
B. The sooner/ the most soon
C. The sooner/ the sooner
D. The soonest/ the soonest
10. Current extinction rates are at least 100 to 1,000 times higher than ____ rates found in the fossil record.
A. nature B. natural C. naturally D. naturalness
11. Do you have a newspaper ____ to your home?
A. deliver B. delivered C. to deliver D. delivering
12. Robots can act as 24/7 ____ to children with disabilities or the elderly.
A. equipment B. devices C. aids D. contribution
13. The students got the librarian ____ books for them.
A. buy B. buying C. bought D. to buy
14. Intelligent robots carry out many different tasks such as ____ delivery in a factory, pipe inspection, and
exploration of dangerous environments.
A. independent B. automatic C. automating D. automated
15. A CV is a concise document which summarizes your past existing professional skills, proficiency and ____.
A. experience B. qualifications
C. reputations D. feelings
16. Could you please tell me ____?
A. It is how far to the nearest bus stop
B. how far is it to the nearest bus stop
C. how far to the nearest bus stop is it
D. how far it is to the nearest bus stop
17. She was ____ after three years with the company.
A. promoted B. risen C. elevating D. advanced
18. She may claim ____ a PhD but nobody's ever actually seen the certificate.
A. having B. to have C. for having D. if she has
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
19. We were disappointed when the receptionist tells that the hotel was fully booked that week.
A. were disappointed B. tells
C. fully booked D. that week
20. The warmer the weather get around the world, the faster the polar ice caps will melt.
A. The warmer B. get around the world
C. the faster D. will melt
21. According to the futurist Ray Kurzweil, humans could have tiny computerized machines or nanobots invent thanks to future medical advances.
A. could B. computerized
C. invent D. thanks to
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.
22. A.I. algorithms can also help to detect faces and other features in photo sent to social networking sites and automatically organize them.
A. categorize B. connect C. recognize D. remind
23. She's doing well so she was promoted last year. Now she's in charge of a small team of four people.
A. controls B. supervises C. takes over D. rules
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.
24. To become a librarian, you need to be really well-organized.
A. in order B. neat and tidy
C. compassionate D. messy
25. Most, not to say all of the employers want to look for candidates with punctuality, so make sure you make a positive impression on them by showing up on time for the interview.
A. good time management B. ability to meet deadlines
C. being late D. being in time
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Nearly 200 of the 1500 native plant species in Hawaii are at risk of going extinct in the near future because they have been (26) ____ to such low numbers. Approximately 90 percent of Hawaii's plants are found nowhere else in the world but they are threatened by alien invasive species such as feral goats, pigs, rodents and non- (27) ____ plants.
The Hawaii Rare Plant Restoration Group is striving to prevent the extinction of the 182 rare Hawaiian plants with fewer than 50 individuals remaining in the wild. Since 1990, (28) ____ a result of their ‘Plant Extinction Prevention Program’, sixteen species have been brought into cultivation and three species have been reintroduced. Invasive weeds have been removed in key areas and fencing put up in order to (29) ____ plants in the wild.
In the future the Hawaii Rare Plant Restoration Program aims (30) ____ collecting genetic material from the remaining plants in the wild for storage as a safety net for the future. They also aim to manage wild populations and where possible reintroduce species into reserves.
26. A. disappeared B. reduced C. increased D. developed
27. A. nation B. native C. national D. nationally
28. A. so B. due C. as D. but
29. A. derive B. vary C. remain D. protect
30. A. at B. for C. with D. on