Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions

A. surrounding

B. sensitive

C. assurance

D. solution

Read the following text then answer the questions that followed by circling its corresponding letter marked A, B, C or D from 43 to 50.

Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man’s inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop. Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not a limited life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist skinned, water-loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found. The giants of the North American desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert country is open, it holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated. Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere else in the world. The secret of their adjustment lies in the combination of behavior and physiology.

None could survive, like mad dogs and Englishmen, if they went out in the midday sun, many would die in a matter of minutes. So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath the ground, emerging to hunt only by night. The surface of the sun-baked desert averages around 150 degrees, but 18 inches down the temperature is only 60 degrees.

According to the passage, one characteristic of animals living in the desert is that ________. 

A. they live in an accommodating environment

B. they can hunt in temperature of 150 degrees

C. they are smaller and fleeter than forest animals

D. they are less healthy than animals living in other places

We arranged to meet at the station, but she didn’t___________.

A. get hrough                 

B. turn up                        

C. walk out                      

D. wait on

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

In the West, cartoons are used chiefly to make people laugh. The important feature of all these cartoons is the joke and the element of surprise which is contained. Even though it is very funny, a good cartoon is always based on close observation of a particular feature of life and usually has a serious purpose.

Cartoons in the West have been associated with political and social matters for many years.  In wartime, for example, they proved to be an excellent way of spreading propaganda. Nowadays cartoons are often used to make short, sharp comments on politics and governments as well as on a variety of social matters. In this way, the modern cartoon has become a very powerful force in influencing people in Europe and the United States.

Unlike most American and European cartoons, however, many Chinese cartoon drawings in the past have also attempted to educate people, especially those who could not read and write. Such cartoons about the lives and sayings of great men in China have proved extremely useful in bringing education to illiterate and semi-literate people throughout China. Confucius, Mencius and Laozi have all appeared in very interesting stories presented in the  form  of  cartoons.  The  cartoons  themselves have thus served to illustrate the teachings of the Chinese sages in a very attractive way.

In this sense, many Chinese cartoons are different from Western cartoons in so far as they do not depend chiefly on telling jokes. Often, there is nothing to laugh at when you see Chinese cartoons. This is not their primary aim. In addition to commenting on serious political and social matters, Chinese cartoons have aimed at spreading the traditional Chinese thoughts and culture as widely as possible among the people.

Today, however, Chinese cartoons have an added part to play in spreading knowledge. They offer a very attractive and useful way of reaching people throughout the world, regardless of the particular country in which they live. Thus, through cartoons, the thoughts and teachings of the old Chinese philosophers and sages can now reach people who live in such countries as Britain, France, America, Japan, Malaysia or Australia and who are unfamiliar with the Chinese culture.

Until recently, the transfer of knowledge and culture has been overwhelmingly from the West to the East and not vice versa. By means of cartoons, however, publishing companies in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore are now having success in correcting this imbalance between the East and the West.

Cartoons can overcome language barriers in all foreign countries. The vast increase in the popularity  of these cartoons serves to illustrate the truth of Confucius’s famous saying “One picture is worth a thousand words.”

The major differences between Chinese cartoons and Western cartoons come from their _________.

A. purposes

B. values

C. nationalities 

D. styles

Mark first________ his wife three years ago when they_________at university

A. met/ have studied                                                

B. met/ were studying

C. has met/ studied                                                  

D. met/ had been studying

Some sciologists believe that the_________family of parents and children is rapidly becoming a thing of the past

A. extended                     

B. joint                             

C. nuclear                        

D. closed

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

Air  pollution  occurs  when  wastes  dirty  the  air.  People  produce  most  of  the  (44)  ______  that  cause  air pollution.  Such  wastes  can  be  in  the  form  of  gases  or  particles  of  solid  or  liquid  matter.  These  substances result chiefly from burning (45) _______ to power motor vehicles and to heat buildings. Industrial processes and the (46) _______ of garbage also contribute to air pollution. Natural pollutants (impurities) include dust, pollen, soil particles, and naturally occurring gases.

     The  rapid  growth  of  population  and  industry  and  the  increasing  use  of  automobiles  and  airplanes  have made air pollution a (47) _______ problem. The air we breathe has become so filled with pollutants that it can cause (48) _______ problems. Polluted air also harms plants, animals, building materials, and fabrics. In addition, it causes damage by altering the earth’s atmosphere.

Điền ô số 47

A. good

B. poison

C. wonderful

D. serious

Any child has the right to an education________of sex, creed, race or nationality.

A. regardless                   

B. providing                    

C. despite                         

D. because