ĐỀ TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN LÊ HỒNG PHONG

A. MULTIPLE CHOICE
I. WORD CHOICE:
1. A. Gruelingly: in a way that makes you tired and demands great effort and
determination.
B. Severally: separately, rather than as a member of a group.
C. Expensively: in an expensive way.
D. Brusquely: in a way that is quick and slightly rude.
2. A. Meanwhile: until sth expected happens, or while sth else is happening.
B. Heretofore: before this point in time.
C. Whence: (from) where.
D. Indefintely: for a period of time with no fixed end.
3. A. Prudent: careful and avoiding risks. / showing good judgment in avoiding
risks and uncertainties; careful.
C. Profound: felt or experienced very strongly or in an extreme way. / showing
clear and deel understanding of serious matters.
D. Stern: severe, or showing disapproval.
4. A. Boisterous: noisy, energetic and rough.
B. Tentative: (of a plan or idea) not certain or agreed, or (of a suggestion or action)
said or done in a careful but uncertain way bc you do not know if you are right.
C. Creative: producing or using original and unusual ideas.
D. Precarious: in a dangerous state because of not being safe of not being held in
place firmly.
5. Intimate: detailed, and obtained from a lot of studying or experience.
A. Formal: public or official.
B. Unusual: different from others of the same type in a way that
is surprising, interesting, or attractive.
C. Mutual: (of two or more people or groups) feeling the same emotion, or doing
the same thing to or for each other.
D. Cozy: comfortable, pleasant, and inviting, esp (room or building) because
small and warm.
6. Procure: to get or obtain sth, esp after an effort
A. Obscure: to prevent something from being seen or heard.
B. Conceal: to prevent something from being seen or known about.
C. Consume: to use fuel, energy, or time, especially in large amounts
D. Obtain: to get something, especially by asking for it, buying it, working
 for it, or producing it from something else.
7. A. Modest: not usually talking about or making obvious your own abilities and
achievements.
B. Positve: full of hope and confidence, or giving cause for hope and confidence.
C. Earnest: serious and determined, especially too serious and unable to find
your own actions funny.
D. Mutual: (of two or more people or groups) feeling the same emotion, or doing
the same thing to or for each other.
8. A. Furrow: a long line or hollow that is formed or cut into the surface of
something.
B. Duplicate: to make an exact copy of something.
C. Amble: to walk in a slow and relaxed way.
D. Mutter: to speak quietly and in a low voice that is not easy to hear, often when
you are worried or complaining about something.
9. A. Varied: containing or changing between several different things or types
B. Conspicuous: very noticeable or attracting attention, often in a way that is
not wanted.
C. Invisible: impossible to see.
D. Negative: A negative sentence or phrase is one that contains a word such as
"not", "no", "never", or "nothing".
10. A. Balefulness: threatening to do something bad or to hurt someone.
B. Succession: a number of similar events or people that happen, exist, etc. after
each other.
C. Righteousness: morally correct behaviour, or a feeling that you
are behaving in a morally correct way.
D. Resemblance: the fact that two people or things look like each other or
are similar in some other way.
II. STRUCTURES AND GRAMMAR
1. There being: theo câu độc lập, N + V-ing => active (mang nghĩa chủ động)
N + PP => passive (mang nghĩa bị động)
2. Lest: in order to prevent any possibility that something will happen.
6. In that: He was nice in that he helped me with the report.
= Anh ấy tử tế ở chỗ anh ấy đã giúp tôi làm báo cáo.
III. PREPOSITIONS AND PHRASAL VERBS:
1. A. Give out: if a machine or part of your body gives out, it stops working.
to complain about something.
 B. Get away: to leave or escape from a person or place, often when it is difficult
to do this.
C. Go away: to leave a place / to disappear.
D. Hold off: to not do something immediately.
2. A. Dish out: to give or say things to people without thinking about them carefully
B. Rub up: to polish.
C. Stir up: to cause an unpleasant emotion or problem to begin or grow.
D. Spark out: completely asleep / unconcious.
3. A. Snowed under: having too much to do.
B. Pile up: to increase in amount.
C. Messed up: unhappy and emotionally confused.
D. Knock off: to stop working, usually at the end of the day.
4. A. Bring sth raining down on sb: to make something bad happen to someone,
especially to yourself or to people connected with you.
5. A. Pile up: to increase in quantity or amount, in a way that is difficult to manage
B. Bring off: to succeed in doing something difficult.
C. Come off: to become removed from something.
D. Catch on: to become popular and fashionable / to begin to understand or
realize something.
6. A. Put it past: used to say that you would not be surprised if someone did
something bad or unusual because it is typical of them to do that type of thing.
B. Think sth through: to carefully consider the possible results of doing sth.
C. Pass over sb: if you are passed over for a job, someone else who is younger or
lower in the organization than you is chosen for it.
D. Rub up: to polish.
7. A. Blurt out: to say something suddenly and without thinking, usually because
you are nervous or excited.
8. C. Lap up: to enjoy something without worrying about whether it is good, true.
9. A. Poke around: to try to find out information about other people’s private
lives, business etc, in a way that annoys them.
B. Dig up: to find hidden or forgotten information by careful searching.
C. Pry sth out of sb/sth: to get money or information from sb with lot of difficulty.
D. Spy on sb: to watch sb secretly in order to find out what they are doing.
10. A. Set up: to make the arrangements that are necessary for sth to happen.
B. Set off: to make something start happening, especially when you do not
intend to do so.
C. Set forth: (formal) to explain ideas, facts, or opinions in a clearly organized
way in writing or in a speech.
IV. COLLOCATION AND IDIOMS
2. A. Mumbo jumbo: words or activities that seem complicated or mysterious
but have no real meaning.
C. Abracadabra: said by someone who is performing a magic trick, in order to
help perform it successfully.
D. Okey-doke: (informal) ok.
3. A. Upped the ante: to increase your demands or the risks in a situation.
D. Hit the jackpot: to achieve financial success.
4. B. Laughing stock: someone or something that seems stupid or silly,
especially by trying to be serious or important and not succeeding.
D. Laughing gas: nitrous oxide specialized: a type of gas that is used as an
anaesthetic (= a substance that stops pain).
5. A. hook, line and sinker: if someone believes something hook, line, and sinker,
they believe a lie completely.
B. Lock, stock and barrel: including every part of something.
D. Every nook and cranny: every part of a place.
6. D. Milling around: if a group of people mill around, they move around with no
particular purpose or in no particular direction, sometimes while waiting for sb.
7. A. Be in full swing: if an event or process is in full swing, it has reached its
highest level of activity.
B. Be up in the air: if sth is up in the air, no decision has been made about it yet.
C. Be over the moon: very happy.
8. B. Be on the rocks: (informal) a relationship or business that is on the rocks is
having a lot of problems and is likely to fail soon.
9. A. a pack of lies: (informal) to be completely untrue. [(formal): a tissue of lies]
10. C. have eyes like a hawk: to notice every small detail or everything that
is happening, and therefore be very difficult to deceive.
VI. GUIDED CLOZE
GUIDED CLOZE 1:
1. A. Track record: all the achievements or failures that someone or something has
had in the past.
2. A. Stand to do sth: be in situation or state making something likely.
3. A. Ferment (v): If food or drink ferments or if you ferment it, the sugar in
it changes into alcohol because of a chemical process (usual go with “into”).
4. A. Take place: to happen.
B. hold forth: to talk about a particular subject for a long time, often in a way
that other people find boring.
 C. carry on: to behave in an excited or anxious way that is not controlled.
D. keep up: to be able to understand or deal with something that is happening or
changing very fast.
6. A. driven (v): Someone who is driven is so determined to achieve something
or be successful that all of their behaviour is directed towards this aim.
B. stemming (v): to stop something unwanted from spreading or increasing.
C. drawn (v): to move in a particular direction, especially in a vehicle.
D. arising (v): to happen.
7. A. endorsement (n): An endorsement is also a public statement, esp. by someone
who is famous, that the person uses or likes a particular product.
B. credential (n): a piece of information that is sent from one computer to
another to check that a user is who they claim to be or to allow someone
to see information.
C. testament (n): proof of something.
D. referral (n): the act of directing someone to a different place or person for
infor, help, or action, often to a person or group with more knowledge or power.
8. C. run on sth: if a machine runs on a particular type or supply of power, it uses
that power to work.
10. A. occupied (v): to fill, use, or exist in a place or a time.
B. applied (v): relating to a subject of study, especially a science, that has a
practical use.
C. consigned (v): to send something to someone.
D. devoted (v): to use a space, area, time, etc. for a particular purpose.
GUIDED CLOZE TEST 2
1. D. Pictorial form: shown in the form of a picture or photograph.
3. A. prominently (adv): in a way that is important; to a large extent.
B. strongly (adv): in a way or form that is difficult to break.
C. powerfully (adv): in a way that has a lot of strength or force.
D. sufficiently (adv): enough.
5. A. disowned (v): to make it known that you no longer have any connection with
someone that you were closely connected with.
B. dispersed (v): to spread across or move away over a large area, or to make
something do this.
C. disgraced (v): having lost people's respect because of bad behaviour that has
been made public.
D. discounted (v): cheaper than usual.
6. A. normally (adv): usually or regularly.
B. strictly (adv): completely or entirely.
C. truly (adv): sincerely.
D. sincerely (adv): honestly and without pretending or lying.
7. A. color (n): red, blue, green, yellow, etc.
B. shadows (n): an area of darkness, caused by light being blocked by sth.
C. shades (n): a type or degree of a colour.
D. varieties (n): the characteristic of often changing and being different.
8. A. once (adv): in the past, but not now.
9. A. Enduring testimony: lời khai lâu dài.
10. A. segment (n): part of a circle that is divided from the rest by a line,
or part of a sphere that is divided from the rest by two planes.
D. portion (n): a part or share of something larger.
B. WRITTEN TEST
OPEN CLOZE TEST 1
2. make it easy for sb to do sth: make/help sb do sth more easily.
3. look into sth: to examine the facts about a problem or situation.
5. mistake sb/sth for sb/sth: to confuse sb or sth with different person or thing.
9. so long as: only if.
OPEN CLOZE TEST 2
1. kick off: if a game of football kicks off, it starts.
6. spring from: to come from or be a result of something.
10. engraved with: to cut words, pictures, or patterns into the surface of metal, etc.
II. WORD FORM
WORD FORM 1:
1. Vehicle (n) phương tiện.
 vehicular (a) relating to a vehicle or vehicles.
2. Upended (v) to push or move something so that the part that usually touches the
ground is not touching the ground any more.
3. Depress (v) to cause someone to feel unhappy and without hope.
 anti-depressant (n) drug used to reduce feelings of sadness and worry.
4. Housebound (a) unable to leave your home, especially because you are ill.
5. Colony (n) thuộc địa.
 decolonization (n) sự trao nền độc lập cho thuộc địa
6. Ex-directory (a) used to refer to a phone number that is not made public by the
phone company.
 go ex-directory
7. far/further afield: a long/longer distance away.
8. misnomer (n) sự nhầm tên.
9. crowd-pleaser (n) sb or sth that people enjoy watching or listening to.
10. interspecies (a) existing or occurring between species.
WORD FROM 2:
1. regulate (v) điều chỉnh.
 self-regulatory (a) making certain yourself that you or your employees obey rules,
rather than having laws or another organization to do it.
2. evaluate (v) đánh giá.
3. backup (n) someone or something that provides) support or help, or something
that you have arranged in case your main plans, equipment, etc. go wrong.
4. spoon-feeding: to feed a baby or other person using a spoon.
5. cognitive (a) liên quan đến nhận thức.
 metacognition (n) knowledge and understanding of your own thinking.
6. over-direct (v) to direct the activities, performance, or course of (someone or
something) in an excessive or overbearing manner.
10. know-how (n) practical knowledge and ability.
IV. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION
1. The school prestige is believed to have increased beyond measure in…
Beyond measure = very large and great
2. It is advised that he (should) return home by 11 at the latest.
It is advised that S should V bare
3. Had Jimmy not reacted so aggressively on impulse, his wife would not have…
On (an) impulse: bc you suddenly want to, although you have not planted for.
4. If only Tony hadn’t poured scorn on his friend’s business plan.
Pour scorn on sb/sth: to say a person or thing is stupid and not worth anything.
5. Not until the lady moved forward into the light did it dawn on H who she was.
Dawn on sb: if a fact dawns on you, you understand it after a period of not
understanding it.
6. From start to finish, the whole affair has been a chapter of accidents.
Be a chapter of accidents: to be a series of unpleasant events.
7. You should not have viewed what happened in negative light.
 View sth in positive/negative light
8. No matter what happens, you should keep your chin up.
(keep your) chin up: something you say to someone in a difficult situation in
order to encourage them to be brave and try not to be sad.
9. It’s still in the balance whether the scheme’ll get/be given the green light or not.
Give sth a/the green light: to give someone permission to do something.