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Câu 1. British painter Peter Edwards has a painting portraits of notable figures from a variety of different
fields. These characteristic works include his esteemed portraits of poet Seamus Heaney and casting director
Ruth Lambert.
Which choice completes the text with most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. reputation for B. requirement for C. complaint about D. question about
Câu 2. Jil Jiang’s book Red Kite, Blue Kite has earned alot of praise. In fact, the book the Asian/Pacific
American Award for Literature.
Which choice completes the text with most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. guesed B. blamed C. received D. forgot
Câu 3. The equipment from the Apollo Moon landings (1969-1972), such as solar wind sensors and seismic
sensors, these missions remains were there mostly to this inaccessible day, but the data from these missions
were mostly inaccessible until a recent data-transfer project made them ___. This project has allowed
researcher Renee Weber to make use of the information in investigating tectonic activity on the Moon.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. compicated B. representative C. available D. predictable
Câu 4. One way to_____ the importance of a scholar’s research is to track how often other scholars refer to
that research. For example, University of CaliforniaBerkeley economist Ulrike Malmendier, who studies
behavioral economics, is among the world’s most frequently cited researchers in her field, indicating that her
work has been quite significant.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. assess B. utilize C. influence D. undermine
Câu 5. Horizontal gene transfer involves the exchange of genetic material between organisms not ina parent -
offspring relationship. It is common among prokaryotes (single-celled organisms, such as the bacteria
Carnobacterium viridans and Lactococcus lactis). The process can have the effect of increasing bacterial
resistance to antibiotics; as such, an understanding of how to prevent horizontal gene transfer might result in
the mitigation of dangerous pathogens (organisms that cause disease).
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
A. It provides a history of research into a biological process and suggests a direction for further
investigation.
B. It explains why an organism poses a threat and then suggests how that threat might be avoided.
C. It depicts two organisms and presents their similarities and differences.
D. It describes a biological process and explains why researching it is important.
Câu 6. Text 1
In 2019 Bergamo, Italy, was named a City of Gastronomy by UNESCO in recognition of the city’s unique
food culture. The honor is well known among both residents of the city and tourists who visit. It’s obvious that
the selection of Bergamo by UNESCO has brought awareness to local recipes, cooking practices, and chefs
and has provided a boost to the city’s tourism industry.
Text 2
Many residents of Bergamo hoped that food tourism would increase after the city was chosen as aCity of
Gastronomy in 2019. However, as researcher Eerang Park and colleagues argue, cities must still create
effective marketing strategies to benefit fully from being named a City of Gastronomy. Without an intentional
effort to promote the city’s food scene, many current and potential visitors to Bergamo may not even be aware
that it’s home to uniquely delicious food.
Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the underlined claim(The honor is
well known among both residents of the city and tourists who visit) in Text 1?
A. By arguing that UNESCO’s recognition of Bergamo was well deserved because of the city’s delicious
food
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 C. By noting that there are other benefits to being named a City of Gastronomy besides increased tourism
D. By claiming that Bergamo’s chefs were mainly responsible for the city’s recognition by UNESCO
Câu 7. Known for the albums Quiet Nights and Milestones, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis collaborated several
times with pianist Gil Evans. Their 1958 adaption of George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess bears little
resemblance to the 1935 original. Davis and Evans felt no desire to please listeners expecting an exact
duplication of the opera. They omitted parts, such as the aria “I got Plenty of Nuthin’,” and sometims made
only brief gestures toward Gershwin’s melodies.But Davis and Evans’s willingness to recompose Gershwin’s
work led to one of the most enduring albums in Davis’s catalog.
According to the text, what is true about the aria “I Got Plenty of Nuthin’”?
A. It appears in the Gershwin opera Porgy Bess but not in the adaptation by Davis Evans
B. A brief quotation from it appears in Davis Evans’s adaptation of Porgy and Bess
C. Listeners familiar with Gershwin’s body of work generally disliked it.
D. It was adapted by Davis in a recording that appears on his album Milestones.
Câu 8. The following text is adapted from Daniel Defoe’s 1704 A nonfiction book The Storm. The sermon is
a sound of words spoken to the ear, and prepared only for present meditation, and extends no father than the
strength of memory can convey it; a book printed is a record, remaining in every man’s possession, always
ready to renew its acquaintance with his memory, and always ready to be produced as an authority or voucher
to any reports he makes out of it, and conveys its contents for ages to come, to the eternity of mortal time,
when the author is forgotten in his grave.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
A. Words committed to print have a greater permanence than messages that are merely spoken aloud
B. People are less likely to forget a message when they hear it spoken aloud than they are when they read
it in print.
C. Unless a spoken message is delivered by an expert, it can be safely ignored.
D. Most authors have little hope of being remembered well past their lifetimes.
Câu 9.

Scientists collected information about brown bears in Katmai National Park in Alaska, This information
weight, included The each bear bear's with sex, age, and approximate weight. The bear with the lowest
approximate weight shown in the table was a ____
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?
A. female that was 13 years old. B. female that was 6 years old.
C. male that was 10 years old. D. male that was 3years old.
Câu 10.

Lin-Tai Ho and colleagues tracked fish populations in three tide pool-monitoring stations in Taiwan from 1999
to 2018. The streaky rockskipper was especially common at station 3; there, the researchers counted _____
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the assertion?
A. 90 streaky rockskippers. B. 610 streaky rockskippers
C. 125 streaky rockskippers. D. 249 streaky rockskippers.
Câu 11. Cane is a 1923 novel by Jean Toomer. In one portion of the novel, Toomer uses figurative language
to connect the narrator’s urban environment of Washington, DC, and the rural South of the narrator’s past,
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Which quotation from Cane most effectively illustrates the claim?
A. “And when the wind is from the South, soil of 1 my homeland falls like a fertile shower upon L the lean
streets of [Washington, DC].”
B. “The young trees had not outgrown their [planter] boxes then. V Street [in Washington, DC] was lined
with them.”
C. “The Capitol dome looked like a gray ghost ship drifting in from sea.”
D. “The [train] engines of this valley have a whistle, the echoes of which sound like iterated gasps and
sobs. I always think of them as crude music.”
Câu 12. A student is writing a research paper on the history of irrigation in the southwestern United States,
situating the development of Lake Sabrina (a man-made body of water created in Inyo County, California, in
1908) in a larger historical context. In order to emphasize irrigation’s importance, the student claims that
irrigation is humanity’s principal use of water.
Which quotation from a study of irrigation best supports the student’s claim?
A. “The first known irrigation system was built in the 7th century CE by the Hohokam people, a Native
population in the American Southwest that inhabited central Arizona.”
B. “Roughly 70% of the world’s water withdrawals, from sources such as rivers, lakes, and aquifers, is for
irrigation water used to meet various agricultural demands.”
C. “Today, many areas of the southwestern United States utilize sprinkler irrigation systems, which require
machinery that can spray water in all directions.”
D. “The irrigation system developed by the { Hohokam people in the 7th century CE in what is now known
as central Arizona was simple but applied hydraulic engineering design features that are still used today.”
Câu 13. The Arapaho language of the Plains region in the United States has 16 vowel and consonant sounds.
In contrast, the Hadza language of eastern Africa has 70. Why would languages differ in this way? One
researcher has hypothesized that when modern humans arose in Africa, they spoke a single language, but as
humans gradually spread throughout Africa and then around the globe, that language developed into new
languages. Those developed into still more languages as small bands of humans spread even farther, with each
new language retaining fewer sounds from humanity’s original language.
Which researcher’s finding, hypothesis? if true, would best support the researcher’s hypothesis?
A. Languages that emerged in northwestern North America tend to have more sounds than languages that
emerged in East Asia do, even though northwestern North America is farther away from Africa than East Asia
is.
B. Languages that emerged in Eastern Europe tend to have more sounds than languages that emerged in
East Asia do, and Eastern Europe is b closer to Africa than East Asia is.
C. Languages that emerged in Western Europe tend to have fewer sounds than languages that emerged in
East Asia do, and Western Europe is closer to Africa than East Asia is.
D. Languages that emerged in Southeast Asia tend to have more sounds than languages that emerged in
East Asia do, even though the two regions are roughly the same distance from Africa.
Câu 14. In 2014, actor Keith David voiced the character Old Buzzard in the film Birds of Paradise. Davis has
acted in everything from commercials to Broadway musicals, but his voice acting work is why ___
Which choice completes the text so that It conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. has he become such a celebrated talent? B. has he become such a celebrated talent.
C. he hasbecome such a celebrated talent? D. he has become such a celebrated talent.
Câu 15. Ann Greely of Maine___ a fierce advocate of women’s voting rights in the late 1800s. The dedication
of Greely and her fellow activists was rewarded in 1920, when the Nineteenth Amendment to the US
Constitution guaranteed American women the right to vote.
Which choice completes the text so that It conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. was B. have been C. are D. were
Câu 16. The city of Quito in Ecuador_____ one of the rare places in the world located almost directly on the
equator.
Which choice completes the text so that It conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. is B. have been C. are D. are being
Câu 17. On February 1,2018, Florida-based researchers Martha A. Scholl, Maoya Bassiouni, and Angel
J.Torres-Sanchez compiled climate data from several sites in Puerto Rico’s Luquillo Mountains. At CC1, the

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site with the highest elevation, the air temperature fluctuated slightly throughout the day, ____ 11:00 a.m. to
16.2 oC at 7:00p.m.
Which choice completes the text so that It conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. from,18.4°C at B. from,18.4°C at, C. from18.4°C at D. from:18.4°C at,
Câu 18. To study the ultrafast movements of atoms, chemist Ahmed Zewail had to devise a novel spectroscopy
technique capable of measuring chemical reactions _____within molecules at a quadrillionth of a second.
Ultimately, Zewail succeeded and was eventually honored with the Robert A.Welch Award and the Albert
Einstein World Award of Science for this groundbreaking achievement
Which choice completes the text so that It conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. occurred B. occuring C. occur D. will occur
Câu 19. Many experts, like lawyer and cycling advocate Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez, have proposed bike travel
as one possible way to alleviate congestion on the busy roadways of Los Angeles County, California. Indeed,
local bicycle paths like the Harbor Park bicycle____ have become an increasingly popular means of travel for
commuter and recreational trips alike
Which choice completes the text so that It conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A. path, which is about 0.38 miles long B. path which is about 0.38 miles long
C. path which is about 0.38 miles long, D. path, which is about 0.38 miles long,
Câu 20. When using hairy coneflower for dyeing cloth, textile artists first soak it in water to release its color.
Next, they add the cloth to the dye bath and simmer it for hours, perhaps even days___ they remove the cloth
from the dyebath, revealing that the cloth has turned a vibrant blue color.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Finally, B. However, C. Therefore, D. Actually,
Câu 21. Though Middle English was widely spoken in fourteenth-century England, the English language was
rarely employed in literature until poet Geo ffrey Chaucer pioneered its literary use____ his manuscripts
contain the first documented uses of over 2,000 English words—like the word “conspiracy” in his 1386 poem
“The Monk’s Tale”—which led a contemporary to dub him “the first finder of our fair language.”
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Besides, B. However, C. On the contrary, D. In fact,
Câu 22. Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737) made about 1,000 violins in his lifetime.
Musicians prize his Stradivarius violins for their famed sound quality.
Many of the 500 or so that exist today are named for a previous owner.
The Leonora Jackson Stradivarius is named for Leonora Gianpaolo Jackson, an American violinist
Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize why Stradivarius
violins are prized by musicians?
A. Many Stradivarius violins, like the Leonora } L Jackson, get their name from a former owner.
B. Among musicians, violins made by Antonio Stradivari are renowned for their sound quality.
C. Antonio Stradivari, a famous violin maker, lived from 1644 to 1737.
D. Leonora Jackson was an American violinist who once owned a Stradivarius violin.
Câu 23. Gianpaolo Bellini is an Italian particle physicist.
Particle physicists study subatomic particles.
Neutrinos are some of the least understood subatomic particles.
Neutrinos were first discovered in the mid-twentieth century.
Bellini is known for his research on solar and geoneutrinos.
Which the given choice sentences most effectively to specify Bellini’s uses information role in neutrino
research?
A. Particle physicist Gianpaolo Bellini has worked to advance the scientific understanding of neutrinos
through his research on solar and geoneutrinos.
B. Neutrinos are a type of subatomic particle that particle physicists are still trying to understand.
C. First discovered in the mid-twentieth century, neutrinos are a type of subatomic particle.
D. Gianpaolo Bellini is recognized for his particle physics research.
Câu 24. While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
Hina Hanta is an online archive curated by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

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 It features images of cultural artifacts relevant to the history of the Choctaw people.
It features a spoon (ivpish ishtimpa in Choctaw) made of buffalo horn.
The spoon was made in 1800.
Hina Hanta features a purse (shukcha in Choctaw) made of beaded leather.
The purse was made in 1949.
The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two artifacts. Which choice most effectively uses
relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A. The buffalo horn spoon (ivpish ishtimpa in Choctaw) is featured in the Hina Hanta archive.
B. Featured in the Hina Hanta archive, the buffalo horn spoon and the beaded leather purse are both cultural
artifacts relevant to the history of the Choctaw people.
C. Not all artifacts in the Hina Hanta archive are from the 1800s; indeed, the beaded leather purse is from
1949.
D. There are more recent artifacts in the Hina Hanta archive than the buffalo horn spoon from 1800.
Câu 25. At London and New York Fashion Weeks, fashion designers debut new clothing collections.
Color consultants create trend reports on the popular colors at a given Fashion Week.
A report on 2018 London Fashion Week noted the popularity of an imaginative purple shade that was cool
in tone and bright in intensity.
A report on 2019 New York Fashion Week noted the popularity of a deep red shade that was warm in tone
and rich in intensity
Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to explain the role of color
consultants at Fashion Week?
A. A shade of imaginative purple was an on-trend addition to one color consultant’s report on 2018 London
Fashion Week.
B. A color consultant report on 2019 New York Fashion Week highlighted the popularity of a deep red
shade.
C. At Fashion Weeks in 2018 and 2019, shades favored by designers included an imaginative purple and a
deep red
D. Each Fashion Week, color consultants compile reports on the shades that have proved popular with
fashion designers.
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