TRIAL TEST (10TH SEPTEMBER 2024)

BY LUU THI TAM- LDK

Part 1: Listen to the conversation between two members of the University Hiking Club and complete
the advert for the notice board.

Part 2: You will hear a radio program, decide whether these following statements are True (T) or False
(F). (5 pts)
6. When his father left, Matt lived with five other members of his family. T/F
7. Matt's mother encouraged her sons to be creative. T/F
8. As a Child, Matt loved to pretend he was someone else. T/F
9. His first success came when he met Ben Affleck. T/F
10. Matt doesn't devote all his time and energy to acting. T/F

Part 3: You will hear a teacher, or other school staff member, talking to students. Each talk is followed
by one question. Choose the answer A, B, C or D which fits best according to what you hear. (5 pts)
11. What does the principal want the students to do?
A. Take their books with them B. Buy another ticket for the concert
C. Get to the gathering place before 3:00 D. Get everything ready for the rehearsal
12. What is the purpose of the talk?
A. To introduce the second-person perspective
B. To illustrate what are singular and plural forms
C. To introduce writing with three different perspectives
D. To stress that the second person perspective and the third person perspective are much more
important than the first-person perspective
13. What is the teacher explaining?
A. The function of the Dutch Boy Co.
B. The truth that the boy is an Irish American instead of a Dutch
C. The origin of a trademark
D. The method for creating paint
14. What is the purpose of the talk?
A. To let the students know poetry is nearer to truth
B. To teach the students how to accomplish an art assignment
C. To teach the students how to interpret primary- source content
D. To teach the students how to retell a story from their own perspective
15. What is the purpose of the talk?
A. To inform students what they are going to discuss
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 B. To gather shoe prints and dirt
C. To find the materials required by the principal
D. To assist the principal to investigate the crime in person
Part 4. Listen to the recording twice. Then answer the following questions( you can use short
answers)
16. What thing caused a mess in the dryer?
………………………………………………………………………………………..
17. What clothing did the woman have in the dryer?
………………………………………………………………………………………..
18. Who does the man need to call?
………………………………………………………………………………………..
19. Where is the man going to get new clothes for his wife?
………………………………………………………………………………………..
20. What happens at the end of the conversation?
………………………………………………………………………………………..
SECTION B: PHONETICS (5 pts)
Question I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in the same
line. Write the answers on your answer sheet. (3pts)
21. A- zone B- zodiac C- amazing D- azure
22. A- plough B- tough C- bought D- freight
23. A- echo B- matchmaker C- chronically D- headache
Question II. Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three words in each
question. Write the answers on your answer sheet. (2pts)
24. A- magazine B- souvenir C- feudalism D- comprehend
25. A- surrounding B- visible C- arrival D- appreciate
SECTION C: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)
Question I. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence. Write the answers on
your answer sheet. (10 pts)
26. Such relaxed days were few and far _________ in her hectic life.
A- between B- beyond C- off D- out
27. Art critics do not all agree on what __________ a painting great.
A- qualities to make B- are the qualilties for making
C- do the qualities that make D- qualities make
28. The photocopier in our office needs a complete _________ . These copies are terrible.
A- maintenance B- repair C- overhaul D- renovation
29. Mr. Nixon refused to answer the questions on the _______ that the matter was confidential.
A- reasons B- excuses C- grounds D- foundations
30. I think we should see the rest of the exhibition as quickly as we can, _______ that it closes in half an
hour.
A- granted B- assuming C- knowing D- given
31. We’re rather short of people to organise the trip, so do you think you could ________?
A- help out B- fix up C- join up D- take on
32. Some intriguing new facts __________ to light during the course of the investigation.
A- came B- brought C- turned D- made
33. He is a tough politician-he knows how to ____ the storm.
A- ride out B- run down C- keep up D- push back
34. Tamara has set her __________ on becoming a ballet-dancer.
A- feet B- brain C- head D- heart
35.I wish to travel to Saigon this summer,...................?
A- Can I? B- Do I? C- May I? D- Am I not?
Question II. Put each verb in brackets into an appropriate form. Write the answers on your answer
sheet. (8pts)
36. The girl got into a lot of trouble. She (not tell) __________ a lie.
37. It is very important that we (notify) as soon as there’s a change in the patient’s condition.
38. What a dangerous thing to do! You (kill) .
39. Unfortunately tomorrow's match _______ (call off).
40. (Not surprise) ________ when you see how thin Martin is. He has been extremely ill.
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41. His (take) _____ ill last night made me surprised .
42. (Award) a scholarship, I entered the unknown territory of private education.
43. It gets on my nerves that way that Carol forever (boast) _________ about her job.
Question III. Complete the sentences using the correct form of the word in bracket. (7pts)
44. Flowers are often ________by bees as they gather nectar. FERTILE
45. The workers who were _________during the recession badly need help from the government.
SIZE
46. The monument was erected in of the soldiers who fell for posterity. REMEMBER
47. Such blocks are frequently left _________ and, the prices go up, they increase in value.
OCCUPY
48. I am going to bed and you’d be advised to do__________. LIKE
49. He achieved _______ for failing a drugs test after winning an Olympic final. NOTORIOUS
50. She gave a solemn ____________ to respect their decision. TAKE
Question IV. The passage below contains 5 mistakes (from 46 to 50). Recognise the mistakes and write
their correct forms in your answer sheet. (5 pts)
Line 1 It is sometimes very difficult to decide which career to be chosen
2 when you leave school. British students are helped by career teachers, who
3 inform them about other careers, the qualifications needed and try to help
4 them make up their minds. Mr. Hemmings, a career teacher for around five
5 years and, on the whole, I’ve found it a rewarding experience. Our students
6 have career lessons once a week for the fourth and the fifth years (15 and
7 16 years old). My task consists of explaining as accurate as possible the
8 qualifications required for each job, as well as the type of work and
9 personal skills involved. To advise teenagers can be rather difficult- some
10 youngsters have no idea at all about what they want to do, or of what the
11 real world outside school really is.
51….52……53……54…..55……..
SECTION D: READING COMPREHENSION (30 pts)
Question I. Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word to complete the text below. (10 pts)
The Internet is made ___(56)__ of millions of computers linked together around the world in
___(57)___ a way that information can be sent from any computer to any other 24 hours a day. These
__(58)___ can be in homes, schools, universities, government departments, or businesses. The Internet is
often described as a network of networks ___(59)___ all the smaller networks of organizations are linked
together into the giant network ___(60)___the Internet. All computers are pretty much equal once
connected to the Internet, the __(61)__ difference will be the speed of the connection ___(62)___ is
dependent on your Internet Service Provider and your own modem.
___(63)__ are many things you can do and participate in once connected to the Internet. They
include using a range of services ___(64)___communicate and share information and things quickly and
inexpensively with millions of people, ___(65)__ young and old and from diverse cultures around the
world.
Question II. Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word or phrase for each
space. (10pts)
HOW TO CONCENTRATE
Concentration is good in exams, bad in orange juice. Concentration happens when you manage to
focus on one thing to the (66) ___________ of all others, and concentrating on that one thing (67)
____________ you to stop worrying about a lot of other things. Sometimes, of course, your mind
concentrates when you don’t want it to. Maybe you can’t get something out of your head, such as a
problem you have to (68) _____________ up to, or an embarrassing situation you’ve been in. That’s why
collecting things as hohbby is popular; it (69) ___________ your mind off other things, indeed, some
people seem to prefer looking after and cataloguing their collections to actually doing anything with
them, because this is when the (70) __________, single-minded concentration happens.
The natural span for concentration is 45 minutes. That’s why half an hour for a television programme
seems too short whilst an hour seems too long. But many people’s lives are (71)_____________ of
concentration. Modern culture is served up in small, (72) ____________ digestible chunks that require
only a short (73) ____________ span- although young people can concentrate on computer games for
days at a (74) _____________.

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 Sticking out the tongue can aid concentration. This is because you can’t (75) _____________
yourself with talking at the same time and other people won’t dare to interrupt your thoughts, because you
look like an idiot!
66- A- removal B- exclusion C- omission D- rejection
67- A- lets B- means C- makes D- allows
68- A- face B- confront C- tackle D- meet
69- A- brings B- puts C- holds D- takes
70- A- arresting B- gripping C- absorbing D- enthralling
71- A- absent B- devoid C- lacking D- deficient
72- A- gently B- plainly C- surely D- easily
73- A- attention B- application C- consideration D- contemplation
74- A- length B- stroke C- time D- sequence
75- A- sidestep B- distract C- sidetrack D- disturb
Question III. Read the passage and choose the best answers to questions below. (10 pts)
Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special attention to the speech they hear around
them. Within the first month of their lives, babies’ responses to the sound of the human voice will be
different from their responses to other sorts of auditory stimuli. They will stop crying when they hear a
person talking, but not if they hear a bell or the sound of a rattle. At first, the sounds that an infant notices
might be only those words that receive the heaviest emphasis and that often occur at the ends of
utterances. By the time they are six or seven weeks old, babies can detect the difference between syllables
pronounced with rising and falling inflections. Very soon, these differences in adult stress and intonation
can influence babies’ emotional states and behaviour. Long before they develop actual language
comprehension, babies can sense when an adult is playful or angry, attempting to initiate or terminate
new behavior, and so on, merely on the basis of cues such as the rate, volume, and melody of adult
speech.
Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to pick up a language by exaggerating such cues.
One researcher observed babies and their mothers used simplified diverse cultures and found that, in all
six languages, the mothers used simplified syntax, short utterances and nonsense sounds, and transformed
certain sounds into baby talk. Other investigators have noted that when mothers talk to babies who are
only a few months old, they exaggerate the pitch, loudness, and intensity of their words. They also
exaggerate their facial expressions, hold vowels longer, and emphasize certain words.
More significant for language development than their response to general information is
observation that tiny babies can make relatively fine distinctions between speech sounds. In other words,
babies enter the world with the ability to make precisely those perceptual discriminations that are
necessary if they are to acquire aural language.
Babies obviously derive pleasure from sound input, too: even as young as nine months they will
listen to songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their understanding. For babies,
language is a sensory- motor delight rather than the route to prosaic meaning that it often is for adults.
76. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A- How babies differentiate between the sound of the human voice and other sounds.
B- The differences between a baby’s and an adult’s ability to comprehend language
C- How babies perceive and respond to the human voice in their earliest stages of language
D- The response of babies to sounds other than the human voice.
77. Why does the author mention a bell and a rattle?
A- To contrast the reactions of babies to human and nonhuman sounds
B- To give examples of sounds that will cause a baby to cry
C- To explain how babies distinguish between different nonhuman sounds
D- To give examples of typical toys that babies do not like
78. Why does the author mention syllables pronounced with rising and falling inflections?
A- To demonstrate how difficult it is for babies to interpret emotions
B- To illustrate that a six-week-old baby can already distinguish some language differences
C- To provide an example of ways adults speak to babies
D- To give a reason for babies’ difficult in distinguishing one adult from another

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79. The word “noted” in line 18 is closest in meaning to ______________.
A- theorized B- requested C- disagreed D- observed
80. The word “they” refers to _____________.
A- mothers B- investigators C- babies D- words
81. The passage mentions all of the following as ways adults modify their speech when talking to babies
EXCEPT ______________.
A- giving all words equal emphasis B- speaking with shorter sentences
C- speaking more loudly than normal D- using meaningless sounds
82. The word “emphasize” is closest in meaning to ____________.
A- stress B- repeat C- explain D- leave out
83. Which of the following can be inferred about the findings described in paragraph 2?
A- Babies who are exposed to more than one language can speak earlier than babies exposed to a
single language.
B- Mothers from different cultures speak to their babies in similar ways.
C- Babies ignore facial expressions in comprehending aural language.
D- The mothers observed by the researchers were consciously teaching their babies to speak
84. What point does the author make to illustrate that babies are born with the ability to acquire language?
A- Babies begin to understand words in songs.
B- Babies exaggerate their own sounds and expressions.
C- Babies are more sensitive to sounds than are adults.
D- Babies notice even minor differences between speech sounds
85. According to the author, why do babies listen to songs and stories , even though they can not
understand them?
A- They understand the rhythm. B- They enjoy the sound.
C- They can remember them easily. D- They focus on the meaning of their parents’ words.
SECTION D: WRITING (20 pts)
Question I- Finish each of the sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence
given. (5pts)
86. He is said to be a very good pianist.
→ He ______________________________________________________________.
87. His mood began to improve as soon as he drank a glass of wine.
→ Scarcely __________________________________________________________.
88. You're under no obligation to accept their offer.
→ You can please _____________________________________________________.
89. You can do jogging anytime whatever the weather is like.
→ Come rain ________________________________________________________.
90. We must do something about the problem even if it costs a lot.
→Costly _____________________________________________________________.
Question II: Do not change the given word, use it to rewrite each of the following sentences so that
each has as a similar meaning as the original one.(5pts)
91. The number of people out of work has been going down little by little.(GRADUAL)
→ _________________________________________________________________.
92. The prime Minister is unlikely to call an early general election. (LIKELIHOOD)
→ _________________________________________________________________.
93. Nobody could possibly believe the story he told us. (BEYOND)
→ _________________________________________________________________.
94. Local residents said they were against the new traffic scheme. (DISAPPROVAL)
→ _________________________________________________________________.
95. Bill changed his ways when he came out of prison. (LEAF)
→ _________________________________________________________________.

Question III. Nowadays, the earth is being affected seriously by the pollution which man causes.
Therefore, protecting the earth is an urgent problem. What can we do to protect the earth? Write an
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essay of about 180 - 200 words to express your point of view.