Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.

Peter didn’t mean to be disrepsectful to his teacher. He just couldn’t control his temper.

A. showing lack of attention 

B. showing impolite behaviour

C. showing lack of trust 

D. showing nervousness

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer of the questions from 13 to 22.

Few men have influenced the development of American English to the extent that Noah Webster did. Born in West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1758, his name has become synonymous with American dictionaries. Graduated from Yale in 1778, he was admitted to the bar in 1781 and thereafter began to practice law in Hartford. Later, when he turned to teaching, he discovered how  inadequate the available schoolbooks were for the children of a new and independent nation.

In response to the need for truly American textbooks, Webster published A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, a three-volume work that consisted of a speller, a grammar, and a reader. The first volume, which was generally known as The American Spelling Book, was so popular that eventually it sold more than 80 million copies and provided him with a considerable income for the rest of his life. While teaching, Webster began work on the Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, which was published in 1806.

In 1807 Noah Webster began his greatest work, An American Dictionary of the English Language. In preparing the manuscript, he devoted ten years to the study of English and its relationship to other languages and seven more years to the writing itself. Published in two volumes in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language has become the recognized authority for usage in the United States. Webster‟s purpose in writing it was to demonstrate that the American language was developing distinct meanings, pronunciation, and spellings from those of British English. He is responsible for advancing simplified spelling forms: develop instead of the British form develope; theater and center instead of theatre and centre; color and honor instead of colour and honour.

In 1840 Webster brought out a second edition of his dictionary, which included 70,000 entries instead of the original 38,000. This edition has served as the basis for many revisions that have been produced under the Webster name.

When was An American Dictionary of the English Language published?

A. 1828 

B. 1817 

C. 1824 

D. 1807 

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 41.

Stars have been significant features in the design of many United States coins and their number has varied from one to forty-eight stars. Most of the coins issued from about 1799 to the early years of the twentieth century bore thirteen stars representing the thirteen original colonies.

Curiously enough, the first American silver coins, issued in 1794, had fifteen stars because by that time Vermont and Kentucky has joined the Union. At that time it was apparently the intention of mint officials to add a star for each new state. Following the admission of Tennessee in 1796, for example, some varieties of half dimes, dimes, and half-dollars were produced with sixteen starts.

As more states were admitted to the Union, however, it quickly became apparent that this scheme would not prove practical and the coins from A798 on were issued with only thirteen stars-one for each of the original colonies. Due to an error at the mint, one variety of the A828 half cent was issued with only twelve stars. There is also a variety of the large cent with only A2 stars, but this is the result of a die break and is not a true error.

What is the main topic of the passage?

A. Stars on American coins

B. The teaching of astronomy in state universities

C. The star as national symbol of the United States

D. Colonial stamps and coins

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Father has been working all day. He must be tired now.

A. Father must work all day and is tired now

B. Father thinks he is tired now because he has been working all day

C. I’m sure that father is tired after working all day

D. I think father was tired after all day working

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

Face-to-face conversation is a two-way process: You speak to me, I reply to you and so on. Two-way (18)_______ depends on having a coding system that is understood by both sender and (19)_______, and an agreed convention about signaling the beginning and end of the message. In speech, the coding system is the language like English or Spanish; the convention that one person speaks at a time may seem too obvious to mention. In fact, the signals (20)_______ in conversation and meetings are often (21)_______. For example, lowering the pitch of the voice may mean the end of a sentence, a sharp intake of breath may signal the desire to interrupt, catching the chairman’s eye may indicate the desire to speak in a formal setting like a debate, a clenched fist may indicate anger. When (22)_______ visual signals are not possible, more formal signals may be needed.

Điền ô số 21

A. Informal

B. non-verbal

C. verbal

D. formal

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pairs of sentences in the following questions.

They were rich; they didn’t have a happy family, though

A. Although they were rich, but they didn’t have a happy family

B. Rich though they were, they didn’t have a happy family

C. They were rich although they didn’t have a happy 

D. However they were rich, they didn’t have a happy family

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

Much as I admire her achievements, I don’t really like her

A. I don’t really like her even though I admire her achievements

B. I don’t really like her because I don’t admire her achievements

C. Whatever her achievements, I don’t really like her

D. I like her achievements, so I admire her