A. LISTENING (2pts) Part I. Listen to the news report and choose the correct answer. (1pt) 1. When did the typhoon start? A. 7 p.m B. 9 p.m C. 10 p.m D. 11 p.m 2. Hundreds of people were made_________ after the storm? A. homeless B. injured C. killed D. dead 3. What caused extensive damage to property, including homes and businesses? A. a tornado B. severe winds C. a volcano D. an earthquake 4. What has the goverment already sent to Nghe An? A. rescue equipment B. food and medical supplies C. rescue equipment and medical supplies D. food, medical supplies and rescue equipment 5. What has the weather bureau issued for Nghe An and nearby provinces? A. strong winds B. heavy rain C. flood warnings D. storms Part II. People are talking about their jobs. Listen and choose the correct answer. (1 pt) 1. He___________ A. does not have a lot of experience. B. has been working there awhile. C. works at a theater. 2. He___________ A. works in the manager’s office. B. meets interesting people. C. hates the work. 3. He____________ A. sees the TV producer every day. B. helps with movie productions. C. doesn't know how to drive. 4. She ______________. A. thinks the salary is good B. is looking for another job C. likes her co-workers 5. He___________. A. works for a magazine B. writes about sports news C. isn’t famous B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (2pts) Part I. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the others. (0.4 pt) 1. A. positive B. competitive C. ability D. discover 2. A. explore B. groundwater C. eruption D. volcano Part II. Choose the correct option (A, B, C, D) to complete the sentences. (1.6 pt) 1. Several tropical storms ___________ our country recently. A. struck B. have struck C. are striking D. strike 2. What would you do to help the environment if you __________ the president? A. were B. had been C. are D. was 3. So many people nowadays are ___________ computers and mobile phones. They use them a lot. A. addicted to B. bored with C. worried about D. afraid of 4. Eating too much sugar can __________ to health problems. Page 2 A. cause B. lead C. make D. do 5. Which TV programme __________ at 9 p.m tomorrow? A. were you watching B. will you watch C. did you watch D. will you be watching 6. The volunteers have to work much ___________ usual to save the dying animals from the forest fire. A. as hard as B. more hard than C. harder than D. the hardest 7. We’ve decided ____________ in Ho Chi Minh City for three more days. A. stay B. staying C. stayed D. to stay 8. If the teacher were here now, we’d ask him the difference __________ ʻscienceʼ and ʻtechnologyʼ. A. among B. of C. between D. for C. READING (2pts) Part I. Read the text below and choose the correct answer. (1pt) HURRICANE KATRINA New Orleans, in Louisiana, is known as the most unique city in the United States with distinctive architecture, cross-cultural heritage and annual music festivals. However, due to its location along the Mississippi River with lakes on the other side, and nearly half of the city below sea level, the city faces the danger of flooding. So, a levee system and drainage canals were built to protect the city. Early on the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, the most destructive natural disaster in the history of New Orleans, struck the city. The storm brought strong winds and heavy rains for several days. As a result, water from the river and lakes rose, breaking the levees and poured directly into the city. Soon 80 percent of the city was under the water. People scrambled to rooftops for safety, desperate for food and drinking water. The winds were so strong that even beds in Hyatt Hotel were seen flying out of the hotel windows. The loss was tremendous. Most of the major roads and bridges were destroyed, and houses collapsed. Nearly 2,000 people were killed. After the storm, several natural grounds for the breeding and migrating of different species of animals and birds were permanently lost. 1. New Orleans is famous for ___________. A. its modern architecture B. its cross-cultural heritage C. its Mississippi River D. its location 2. Which statement is NOT correct about New Orleans? A. It lies between the Mississippi River and lakes. B. Most of the city is below sea level. C. One of its attractions is its annual music festivals D. The city is surrounded by water. 3. Which one is NOT mentioned as being damaged by Hurricane Katrina? A. Distinctive architecture B. The levee system C. Major roads D. Houses 4. The word ‘tremendous’ means ___________. A. puzzling B. unique C. huge D. legendary 5. The word ‘permanently’ is similar to ___________. A. temporarily B. partially C. rarely D. forever Part II. Read the passage and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to complete the text. (1pt) The moon Long ago a lot of people (1)___________ the moon was a god. Other people thought it was just a light in the sky. And other thought it was a big ball of cheese. Then telescopes were made. And men saw that the moon was really another world. They wondered (2) ___________it was like. They dreamed of going there. On July 20th, 1969, that dream came Page 3 true. Two American men landed on the moon. (3) ___________names were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin. The first thing the men found was that the moon is covered with dust. The dust is so thick that the men left footprints where they walked. Those were the first marks a living thing had ever made on the moon. And they could (4) ___________there for years and years. There is no wind or rain to wipe them off. The two men picked up rocks to bring back to the earth to study. They drug up dirt to bring back. They set up machines to find out things people want to know, then they were off their long trip (5) ___________ earth 1. A. thought B. guessed C. told D. said 2. A. how B. which C. that D. what 3. A. His B. Their C. Its D. Theirs 4. A. stay B. do C. have D. all are correct 5. A. back to B. from to C. into D. onto D. WRITING (2pts) Part I. Choose one sentence that has the same meaning as the root one or choose the correct answer to complete the following sentences. (1 pt) 1. Every day I spend 30 minutes watering the flowers. A. Every day it takes me 30 minutes water the flowers. B. Every day it takes me 30 minutes to water the flowers. C. Every day it took me 30 minutes water the flowers. D. Every day it took me 30 minutes to water the flowers. 2.“Where are you going to stay when you are in Hue?” Lan asked me A. Lan asked me where was I going to stay when I was in Hue. B. Lan asked me where I was going to stay when I was in Hue. C. Lan asked me where I am going to stay when I am in Hue. D. Lan asked me where am I going to stay when I am in Hue 3. John is fat because he eats so many chips. A. If John didn’t eat so many chips, he wouldn’t be fat. B. If John doesn’t eat so many chips, he won’t be fat. C. If John hadn’t eaten so many chips, he wouldn’t have been fat. D. A & B are correct. 4. The last time I wrote to him was in 1996. A. I haven’t written to him in 1996. B. I haven’t written to him was in 1996. C. I haven’t written to him since 1996. D. I haven’t written to him was since 1996. Part II. Use the word in brackets to rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the original one. (1 pt) 1. I’m not you, but I think you should recycle these plastic carrier bags.  If I ........................... 2. Noise pollution happens. There is a change in animals’ living pattern.  Noise pollution causes............................................................................... 3. ʻI think residents from Venus have very big eyes and round faces,ʼ Sally said.  Sally thought ........................................................................................... 4. Volunteers have given out food and blankets to homeless people.  Food and blankets...........  

IX)-Read the passage carefully, and then answer the questions below.

Neptune, like the other gas giants in our solar system, doesn’t have much of a solid surface to live on. However, the planet’s largest moon, Triton, might make an interesting place to set up a space colony.

So far, only a spaceship has ever flown flew by Neptune and its system, and was able to photograph the southern hemisphere of the moon.

Images show that Triton's surface is mostly made up of rock and nitrogen ice, and there are smooth areas next to volcanos. The smooth areas are formed by clouds of dust and nitrogen gas which erupt from the volcanos.

62. What is Triton?

___________________________________________________________

63. What is the interesting thing about Triton?

___________________________________________

64. How many spaceships have ever flown past Triton?

____________________________________________________

65. What can we see on the surface of the moon?

____________________________________________________

66. How are the smooth areas formed?

_______________________________________________________

X)-Rewrite the sentences in reported speech.

67. Dr. Nelson: The heat from its sun made Kepler-452b lose its oceans.

       Dr. Nelson said _____________________________________

68. Mai: How old is Kepler-452b - the Earth's cousin?

       Mai asked __________________________________________________

69. Nick: The recycling system of the ISS supply 4 liters of water a day.

       Nick said ___________________________________________

70. Duong: How can the astronauts wash their hair, Mi?

       Duong asked Mi ____________________________________

71. Mi: They use no-rinse shampoo and a towel to wash their hair.

       Mi said _______________________________________________

72. Phong: Many thousand people saw a UFO hovering around the International Space Station last year.

       Phong said ____________________________________________

Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tenses.

34. The four planets closest to the sun – Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars - (be) ____________called the terrestrial planets because they have solid, rocky surfaces.

35. Our grandparents (come)____________ to stay with us next weekend.

36. People (wonder)  ____________ for ages whether we are alone in the universe.

37. This time next week, we (take)___________ an English test.

38. By the end of this year, I (learn) ____________ English for 6 years.

39. By the end of this century, scientists (discover) ___________ intelligent life.

40. Beagle 2 - the first British spaceship to Mars - (look for)_____________signs of aliens this time next month.

41. Astronauts (travel) _____________ to planets outside our solar system by 2050.

42. I expect your English (improve)      __________ a lot by the time you got back from England.

43. NASA (develop)___________ new aircraft to replace space shuttles by the end of this decade.

I)-Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.

II)-Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete the sentences.

llI)-Fill in each blank in the following sentences with words ending in -ful or -less.

16. Bob is full of hope. He is ____________ of receiving a job offer.

17. Water is ___________.It has no colour.

18. He lost everything, and finally he sold his house. He became ______________.

19. Mary’s arm is full of dirty clothes. Mary brought in a/an _____________of dirty clothes.

20. We ate a/an ____________ meal in the new Japanese restaurant. It was full of wonder.

21. Without a thought, Mi really hurt Duong's feeling with that comment. She is sometimes ____________________.

IV)-Rearrange the sentences in order to make a meaningful conversation, writing the letter (A-J) in each blank. Then practise it with your classmate.

22. ____________A. Mai: If we are lucky, we may live on another planet like Kepler-452b in the near future.

23. ____________B. Mai: And the greenhouse effect might indicate life on it.

24. ____________C. Nick: Mai, recently scientists from NASA have announced the discovery of Kepler-452b, the most Earthlike planet.

25. ____________D. Nick: I think so. Scientists may have to invent a special spaceship to travel over 1,400 light years - to take people from the Earth to this new planet.

26. ___________ E. Nick: Kepler-452b is about 60 percent larger than the Earth. The orbit is nearly the same, and its year is about 20 days longer than the Earth’s.

27. ____________F. Nick: Yes, there are. The heat from its sun might cause the new planet to lose its oceans, but there might be lakes, pools and rivers left. Scientists think that the new planet might soon experience a greenhouse effect.

28. ____________G. Mai: Really? Are you kidding? Does it have the same size as the Earth?

29. ____________H. Nick: The planet is 5 percent farther from its parent star Kepler-452 than Earth is from the Sun. So it is a little bit hotter on the new planet

30. ____________I. Mai: How about its temperatures? Is it too hot or too cold to live on the new planet?

31. ____________J. Mai: Maybe the temperatures are OK. Are there any signs of life on it Nick?

V)-Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

Long ago a lot of people (32) ________ the moon was a god. Other people thought it was just a light in the sky. And others thought it was a big (33) __________ of cheese!

The telescopes were made, and men saw that the moon was really another world. They Wondered (34)__________it was like. They dreamed of going there. On July 20, 1969, that dream came (35) _________. Two American astronauts landed on the moon. (36) ___________names were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin.

The first thing the men found was that the moon is covered (37) ___________ dust. The dust is so thick that the men left (38) _______________where they walked. Those were the first marks a living thing had ever made on the moon. And they could (39) __________there for years and years. There is no wind or rain to wipe them off. The two men (40) _________ rocks to bring back to Earth for study. They dug up dirt to bring back. They set up machines to find out things people wanted to know. Then they were off on their long trip (41) _____________ the earth.

VI)-Read the following passage carefully, then write True (T) or False (F) for each statement.

People have been talked about UFOs for ages. Millions of normal people keep saying that they were caught and taken into UFOs.

The first case was in the 1950s when George Adamski said a UFO had taken him to the far side of the moon. Another case took place in 1961, when an American couple, Betty and Barley Hill, were chased by a UFO while they were driving home one night in New Hampshire. The couple stopped to observe the UFO through binoculars. To escape from it, they took the back roads and arrived home two hours later.

Fourteen years later, in 1975, one of the most shocking events happened in a small town in Arizona, when a woodcutter called Travis Walton disappeared with a blue-green light from a flying saucer under his teammates' eyes. Five days later, the missing woodcutter returned home and said, “I woke up on the UFO and found myself among strangers with no hair and half-formed face. They put a mask over my face and I fell asleep again. I remembered nothing else until I awoke in the forest where I had been caught.”

VII)-Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.

Lunar Roving Vehicle

In the late 1960s, NASA began a series of missions to the moon. On the (47) ______________ three missions the astronauts explored on foot only a few hundred meters around their spacecraft, but on the last three missions, they used a small electric car which allowed them to see and do much more on their short visits.

The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was an electric car which bad a top (48) _____________ of 8 mph, and allowed the astronauts to visit sites five miles away from their landing, and to (49) ___________ samples from a much wider area to help scientists get a better (50) __________ of the moon’s surface.

The LRV had to be (51) __________ to the moon in the bottom part of the spacecraft. A camera was set up in the LRV so that NASA could control remotely (52) ___________ the Earth, allowing them to (53) ___________the astronauts as they explored the moon’s surface in the LRV.

NASA plans to go (54) _____________ to the moon in the year 2020. This time they aim to explore thousands of miles of the surface, staying for months at a time. Right now NASA is working on new ideas for moon cars in which astronauts can live and (55) ______________for up to two weeks. They will be able to deep in the cab, and there is a separate compartment where they can put on the space (56) ___________ to go exploring on foot

VIII)-Choose the item among A, B, C or D that best answers the question about the passage.

A UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) is any object flying in the sky which cannot be identified by the person who sees it. Sometimes the object is investigated. If people cannot figure out what the object is after an investigation, it is called a UFO. If they figure out what the object is, it can no longer be called a UFO because it has been identified.

Even though UFOs can be anything, people can use the word UFO when they are talking about alien spacecraft. Flying saucer is another word that is often used to describe an identified flying object.

Studies estimate that 50-90% of all reported sightings are identified later. Usually 10 - 20% are never identified. Studies also show that very few UFO sightings are hoaxes (people trying to trick other people). Most UFOs are actually natural or man-made objects that looked strange. 80-90% of UFOs are identified as one of three different things: (a) astronomical causes (for example: planets, stars, or meteors); (b) aircraft; and (c) balloons. 10-20% of UFOs are other causes, such as birds, clouds, mirages, searchlights, etc.

Câu 14:

a. Vùng biển Việt Nam mang tính chất nhiệt đới gió mùa, em hãy chứng minh điều đó thông qua các yếu tố khí hậu trên biển ?

b. Muốn khai thác bền lâu và bảo vệ tốt môi trường biển Việt Nam chúng ta cần phải làm gì?

    Câu 15: Nêu đặc điểm chung của địa hình Việt Nam ?

    Câu 16: Tại sao nói “đồi núi là bộ phận quan trọng nhất của cấu trúc địa hình Việt Nam ’’ ?

a. Đặc điểm chung của sông ngòi nước ta ? Nêu giá trị của sông ngòi ?

 b. Thực trạng môi trường sông ngòi nước ta hiện nay như thế nào ? Chúng ta cần phải làm gì ?