Name: ___________________________________ Date:

08/07/2021
EXTRA PRACTICE
VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
Task 1: Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
1. You can buy goods on the Internet with a credit card, but there is a danger of _____ if someone else obtains the
number.
A. corruption B. fraud:lừa gạt C. embezzlement D. disruption
2. Few people can do creative work unless they are in the right _____ of mind.
A. frame : in a good mood B. trend C. attitude D. tendency
3. The party was already _____ by the time we arrived. Everyone was singing and dancing.
A. in full swing: sôi động B. up in the air C. in the red D. under a
cloud
4. Hats like this may have been fashionable in the 60’s, but now they are _____ the times.
A. beneath B. under C. over D. behind
5. Suppose she ______ that outrageous story circulating around the office, she'd be furious!
A. has heard B. heard C. would hear D. had heard
6. It was mindless of you to _____ Sam in the face. You should never have done it if you expect him to love you.
A. slam B. clap C. slap D. clasp
7. The main cause of the strike was the management’s refusal to give further consideration to the question of pay ________.
A. differences B. differentials: lương C. subsides subsidy: trợ cấp D. dissimilarities
8. Fiona’s offered to help you. Don’t ask why – never look a gift _____ in the mouth.
A. horse: từ chối B. cow C. deer D. dog
9. Sandra’s unpleasant _____ suggested that she knew about Amanda’s terrible secret.
A. grimace:nhăn nhó (đau,ghê tởm) B. smirk: cười khinh C. wince: nhăn mặt(tức)
D. snort(khịt mũi,chê bai)
10. A lot of people who have had a ___________ deal in life will show surprising cheerfulness.
A. bad B. rough C. raw D. clean
11. If you want to be sure of receiving a copy of the magazine, I suggest you ________ an annual subscription.
A. put down : đặt xuống B. take outnhận đc từ coongty or sắp xếp để trsr tiền
C. write off: chiuj maatf tiền D. send up chế nhạo = cách nhại lại
12. ______ they couldn’t have told us all that we were likely to lose our jobs because the business was
failing is beyond me.
A. When B. Why C. How D. Whether
13. You say that this small spare part cost you $100? I am sure you paid through the _____ for it.
A. eye B. nose trả giá C. ear D. lips
14. Thousands of refugees are camping at the ______ between the two countries, hoping to find asylum.
A. boundary B. brim C. border D. rim
15. It is possible to ______ out of the pension scheme if you do not wish to participate.
A. back B. charge C. opt D. break
16. Joe’s health has gotten ______ worse over the last few months.
A. chronologically B. consecutively C. serially D. progressively từ
từ
17. Greg has, to all intents and ______, finished his degree course, with the exception of his final
dissertation.
A. reasons B. aims C. purposes almost completely D.
proposals
18. She has done things she ought not to have done and ______ undone things she ought to have done.
A. leaving B. will leave C. left D. leave
19. Don't mention work to Ray, as it's a sore ______ with him at the moment.
A. finger B. point C. place D. arm

11DT_HSGTinh_CompiledByTrangNhung_HighSchoolforGiftedStudents_VinhUn
i
Cell: 0974258596
20. He’s such a hard man to ______ as he’s always flitting from one site to another.
A. pin in B. lock in C. narrow down D. nail down
Task 2: Read the passage below which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and correct.
a) In an age which-when technology is developed-developing faster than ever before, many people are being
attracted by the idea of looking back into the past. One way they can make-do this is by investigating their own family
history. They can try to find out more about what-where their families came from and what they did. This is now a
fast-growing hobby, especially in countries with a fairly short history, alike-like Australia and the United States.
It is one thing to spend some time going through a book on family history and to take the decision to investigate
your own family’s past. It is quite another to carry out the research work successfully. It is easy to set about it in a
disorganizing-disorganized way and cause yourself many problems that could have+been avoided with a little
forward planning.
If your own family stories say-tell you that you are connected with a famous character, whether hero or criminal,
not to- to not let this idea take over your research. Just treat it as an interesting possibility. A simple system for
collecting and storing your information will be adequate to start with; a more complex one may only get in your way.
The most important thing, though, is to get starting-started. Who knows what you might find?

b) Having a roof over your head is a basic human need, but there are 1.2 billion people in the world with-without
adequate housing. This may change thanks for-to a revolutionary, low-cost use of 3D printers to construct houses.
With 3D printing, materials are joined together or reinforcing-reinforced by using a computer-controlled device to
create a three-dimensional object. Two companies have joined forces to try and ease homeless+ness around the
world by building affording-affordable homes using 3D printing. Tech company ICON has developed a method for
printing a one-floor, 60-square-meter house out of cement in a day for just $10,000. This is a fraction for-of both the
time and cost needed to build a similar construction using conventional methods.
ICON has teamed up with the non-profit, internationally housing organization New Story. Together, they will start
building homes in developing countries. Their joint venture will see 100 new homes constructing-ed in El Salvador
next year. New Story's co-founder Alexandria Lafci acknowledged that the 100 homes were just a drop in the ocean.
She said: "There are over 100 million people living in slum conditions, in what we call survive mode." She also saw
possibilities for 3D-printed houses to become regular-common in richer countries in years to come. However, she said
that for the moment: "The tech is ready now to print very high-quality, safe homes in the places we're building."
READING
Task 1: Choose the best answer to complete the passage below.
a) Researchers have been perplexed by the increasing prevalence of allergies in children. While many (1)______ appear
to contribute to the (2) ______ of allergies, sensitization to common allergens has been shown to reduce the risk of
allergies persisting from childhood into adulthood. For example, one recent study shows that exposure early in life to
cats and dogs may protect children against allergies (3) ______ pets, dust mites, ragweed, and grass, among other
things. Some allergists had (4) ______ thought that repeated exposure to pets in infancy would (5) ______ the
likelihood of developing pet allergies.
(6)______, it is now believed that endotoxins, substances (7) ______ in the mouths of cats and dogs, may (8) ______
help to prevent allergies. When a pet licks a child during play, endotoxins are transferred from the animal’s tongue to
the child. Endotoxins are (9) ______ to help the human immune system (10)______ resistance towards some allergens
in the environment. The bottom line is that living too clean a life may contribute to the increasing number of children
with allergies.
1. A. ideas B. factors C. issues D. concerns
11DT_HSGTinh_CompiledByTrangNhung_HighSchoolforGiftedStudents_VinhUn
i
Cell: 0974258596
2. A. development B. sickness C. resistance D. evolution
3. A. of B. by C. with D. towards
4. A. previously B. already C. usually D. later
5. A. improve B. increase C. enrich D. assist
6. A. However B. Furthermore C. Moreover D.
Nevertheless
7. A. placed B. developed C. introduced D. found
8. A. also B. actually C. not D. finally
9. A. determined B. analyzed C. assumed D. thought
10. A. destroy B. maintain C. produce D. contribute
b) Why did you decide to read this, and will you keep reading to the end? Do you expect to understand every (1)__
part of it and will you remember anything about it in a fortnight’s time. Common sense (2)___ that the answers to
these questions depend on “readability” – whether the (3)____ matter is interesting, the argument clear and the (4)___
attractive. But psychologists are discovering that to determine why people read –and often don’t read –technical
information, they have to (5)___ not so much the writing as the reader.
Even the most technically confident people often (6)__instructions for the video or home computer in favour of
hands-on experience. And people frequently take little notice of consumer information, whether on nutritional labels or
in the small print of contracts.
Psychologists researching reading tend to assume that both beginners and (7) ___ readers read everything put in
front of them from start to finish. There are (8)___ among them about the role of the eyes, memory and brain during
the process. Some believe that fluent readers take (9)____ every letter or word they see; other insist that readers rely
on memory or context to carry them from one phrase to another. But they have always assumed that the reading
process is the same: reading starts, comprehension (10)___, then reading stops.
1 A absolute B one C single D unique
2 A suggests B transmits C advises D informs
3 A subject B topic C content D text
4 A pattern B formation C layout D assembly
5 A examine B inquire C trace D calculate
6 A miss B omit C pass D ignore
7 A competent B sufficient C considerable D valid
8 A objections B arguments C contests D separations
9 A up B over C out D in
10 A sets B occurs C issues D establishes
Task 2: Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word
a) Population growth increased significantly as the Industrial Revolution gathered pace (1) __from_ 1700 onwards. The
last 50 years have seen a yet (2) _more__ rapid increase in the (3) _rate_ of population growth due to medical
advances and substantial increases (4) _in_ agricultural productivity, particularly beginning in the 1960s, made by the
Green Revolution. In 2007 the United Nations Population Division projected that the world's population will likely
surpass 10 billion in 2055. In the future, world population has been expected to (5) __reach_ a peak of growth, from
there it will decline due to economic reasons, health concerns, land (6) _exhaustion__ and environmental hazards.
According to one report, it is very likely that the world's population will stop growing before the end of the 21st century.

11DT_HSGTinh_CompiledByTrangNhung_HighSchoolforGiftedStudents_VinhUn
i
Cell: 0974258596
Further, there is some likelihood that population will actually decline before 2100. Population has already declined in the
last decade or two in Eastern Europe, the Baltics and in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The population (7) _pattern_ of less-developed regions of the world in recent years has been marked by gradually
declining birth rates following an earlier sharp reduction in death rates. This transition from high birth and death rates
to (8) __low_ birth and death rates is often (9) _referred_ to (10) _the__ the demographic transition.
b) Perhaps the greatest value of biodiversity is (1)_yet__ unknown. Scientists have discovered and named only 1.75
million species — less than 20 percent of those estimated to exist. And of those identified, only a (2) fraction____ has
been examined for potential medicinal, agricultural or (3) _industrial_ value. Much of Earth’s great biodiversity is (4)
________ disappearing, even before we know what is missing. Most biologists agree that life on Earth now is (5)
_faced_ with the most severe extinction episode since the event that (6) __drove_ the dinosaurs to extinction 65
million years ago. Species of plants, animals, fungi and microscopic organisms such as (7) _bacteria___ are being lost
at alarming rates – so many, in fact, that biologists estimate that three (8) ___ go extinct every hour. Scientists around
the (9) ___world__ are cataloging and studying global biodiversity in hopes that they might (10) _better_ understand it,
or at least slow the rate of loss.
Task 3: Read the following passage and do the tasks that follows.
JUST RELAX
A. Hypnosis is an intriguing and fascinating process. a trance-like mental state is induced in one person by another,
who appears to have the power to command that person to obey instructions without question. Hypnotic experiences
were described by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, while references to deep sleep and anesthesia have been found in
the Bible and the Jewish Talmud. In the mid-1700s Franz Mesmer, an Australian physician, developed his theory of
‘animal magnetism’, which was the belief that the cause of disease was the ‘improper distribution of the invisible
magnetic fluid’. Mesmer used water tubs and magnetic wands to direct these supposed fluids to his patients. In 1784, a
French commission studied. Mesmer’s claims, and concluded that these cues were only imagined by patients. However,
people continued to believe in this process of ‘mesmerism’ and it was soon realized that successful results could be
achieved, but without the need for magnets and water.

B. The term hypnotism was first used by James Braid, a British physician who studied suggestion and hypnosis in the
mid- 1800s. He demonstrated that hypnosis differed from sleep, that it was a physiological response and not a result of
secret powers. During the same period, James Esdaile, a Scottish doctor working in India, used hypnotism instead of
anesthetic in over 200 major surgical operations, including leg amputations. Later that century a French neurologist,
Jean Chrcot, successfully experimented with hypnosis in his clinic for nervous disorders.
C. Since then, scientists have shown that the state of hypnosis is a natural human behavior, which can affect
psychological, social and/ or physical experiences. The effects of hypnotism depend on the ability, willingness and
motivation of the person hypnotized. Although hypnosis has been compared to dreaming and sleepwalking, it is not
actually related to sleep. It involves a more active and intensive mental concentration of the person being hypnotized.
Hypnotized people can talk, write and walk about and they are usually fully aware of what is being said and done.
D. There are various techniques used to induce hypnosis. The best known is a series of simple suggestions repeated
continuously in the same tone of voice. The subject is instructed to focus their attention on an object of fixed point,
while being told to relax, breathe deeply, and allow the eyelids to grow heavy and close. As the person responds, their
state of attention changes, and this altered state often leads to other changes. For example, the person may experience
different levels of awareness, consciousness, imagination, memory and reasoning or becoming responsive to
suggestions. Additional phenomenon may be produced or eliminated such as blushing, sweating, paralysis, muscle
tension or anaesthesia. Although these changes can occur with hypnosis, none of these experiences is unique to it.
People who are very responsive to hypnosis are also more responsive to suggestions when they are hypnotized. This
responsiveness increases during hypnotism. This explains why hypnosis takes only a few seconds for some, whilst other
people cannot easily hypnotized.
E. It is a common misunderstanding that hypnotists are able to force people to perform criminal or any other acts
against their will. In fact, subjects can resist suggestions, and they retain their ability to distinguish right from wrong.
This misunderstanding is often the result of public performances where subjects perform ridiculous or highly
embarrassing actions at the command of the hypnotist. These people are usually instructed not to recall their behavior
11DT_HSGTinh_CompiledByTrangNhung_HighSchoolforGiftedStudents_VinhUn
i
Cell: 0974258596
after re-emerging from the hypnotic state, so it appears that they were powerless while hypnotized. The point to
remember, however, is that these individuals chose to participate, and the success of hypnotism depends on the
willingness of a person to be hypnotized.
F. Interestingly, there are different levels of hypnosis achievable. Thus deep hypnosis can be induces to allow
anaesthesia or surgery, childbirth or dentistry. This contrasts to a lighter state of hypnosis, which deeply relaxes the
patient who will then follow simple directions. This latter state may be used to treat mental health problems, as it allow
patients to feel calm while simultaneously thinking about distressing feelings or painful memories. Thus patients can
learn new responses to situations or come up with solutions to problems. This can help recovery from psychological
conditions such as anxiety, depression or phobias. Sometime after traumatic incidents, memory of the incidents may be
blocked. For example, some soldiers develop amnesia (loss of memory) as a result of their experiences during wartime.
Through hypnosis these repressed memories can be retrieved and treated. A variation of this treatment involves age
regression, when the hypnotist take the patient back to a specific age. In this way patients may remember events and
feelings from that time, which may be affecting their current well-being.
G. Physicians also have made use of the ability of a hypnotized person to remain in a given position for long periods of
time. In one case, doctors had to graft skin onto a patient’s badly damaged foot. First, skin from the person’s abdomen
was grafted onto his arm; then the graft was transferred to his foot. With hypnosis, the patient held his arm tightly in
position over his abdomen for three weeks, then over his foot for four weeks. Even though these positions were
unusual, the patient at no time left uncomfortable.
Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-G from the list of headings below.
List of Headings
i. Use of hypnotism in criminal cases vii. Hypnosis and free will
ii. The body posture and hypnosis viii. Difference between mesmerism and hypnotism
iii. Early medical experiments with hypnotism ix. Therapeutic uses of hypnosis
iv. Early association of hypnotists with psychology x. Origins of hypnosis
v. Dangers of hypnotism xi. The normality of hypnotized subjects’ behavior
vi. How to hypnotise
Example Answer
Paragraph A x
1. Paragraph B iii 2. Paragraph Cii 3. Paragraph D iv
4. Paragraph Evii 5. Paragraph Fix 6. Paragraph G
Questions 7-10: Complete the summary of the history of hypnosis. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS from the passage for each answer. Write your answer in the space provided.
References to hypnotism can be found both in the Talmud and the (7) ____  Bible ___. Even when Mesmer’s
(8) _____ magnets and water __ were not used, successful results occurred without them. Braid identified hypnosis
as a natural (9) ______ mental) concentration __ response, rather than magical or mystical. Early psychological
studies showed the difference between sleep and hypnosis. Successful hypnosis requires the subject’s active (10) _
fully) aware ___. Consequently subjects can speak or move around and are aware of their surroundings.
WRITING
Rewrite the following sentences using the words given.
1. He realised how much he cared for her only when she had been away for a long time. (HOME)
Her prolonged absence made him realise how much he cared for her.
2. So that she would be able to leave the room quickly, Kathy stood by the door. (POSITIONED)
Kathy positioned herself by the door so as to be able to leave the room quickly.
3. This essay shows a slight improvement on the last. (MARGINALLY)
This essay is marginally better than the last.
4. My boss says I can use his car whenever I want to, so long as I'm careful. (DISPOSAL)
My boss says I can have his car at my disposal as long as I'm careful.
5. Karen's bad mood is totally unconnected with the matter in hand. (BEARING)
The matter in hand has no bearing on Karens's bad mood.
6. The staff hated his new policies intensely and so went on strike. (HATRED)
So intense was the hatred for Frank's new policies that the staff went on strike.
7. Unless we can obtain more information, we can't process your claim. (FORTHCOMING)
Unless further information is forthcomin, we can't process your claim.

11DT_HSGTinh_CompiledByTrangNhung_HighSchoolforGiftedStudents_VinhUn
i
Cell: 0974258596
8. Our teacher thinks it would be better to get on as quickly as possible. (MUCH)
Our teacher would prefer us ________________________________.
9. No one could stand in for Bob when the proposal was drafted. (INSTRUMENTAL)
Bob _______________________________________________.
10. I tried as hard as I could to make sure that this problem would not arise. (POWER)
I did ________________________________________________________.

11DT_HSGTinh_CompiledByTrangNhung_HighSchoolforGiftedStudents_VinhUn
i
Cell: 0974258596