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A. MULTIPLE CHOICE (40 pts)


I. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURES: Choose the best options to complete the following
sentences. (5 pts)
Câu 1: __________ the book again and again, I finally understood what the author meant.
A. Have been reading B. Have been read
C. Have read D. Having read
Câu 2: It was only _____ he told me his surname that I realized that we had been to the same
school .
A. then B. until C. as soon as D. when
Câu 3: _____________a language family is a group of languages with a common origin and
similar vocabulary, grammar, and sound systems.
A. Linguists call it B. It is called by linguists
C. What linguists call D. What do linguists call
Câu 4: By the time he _____ for New York, the contract will have completed.
A. has left B. will leave C. leaves D. left
Câu 5: ___________ your new address, we would have come to see you.
A. If we know B. If we have known C. Had we known D. Have we known
Câu 6: I am writing in connection with the volunteer opportunities __________ on 10
November.
A. appeared B. were appearing C. appearing D. to appear
Câu 7: The picking of fruit, _________, takes about a week.
A. whose work they receive no money B. they receive no money for that work
C. for which work they receive no money D. they receive no money for it
Câu 8: Some young artists don't have the chance __________ to the music industry and most
importantly there is no platform for them to showcase their real talents.
A. to exposing B. to expose C. to be exposed D. be exposed
Câu 9: Anna and Peter never came to class late _____________.
A. So did we B. Neither did we C. We did either D. Neither we did
Câu 10: Never ______ such a sight.
A. I did see B. have seen I C. I saw D. have I seen
II. PHRASAL VERBS AND PREPOSITIONS: Choose the best options to complete the
following sentences. (5 pts)
Câu 11: The politician went _______ his speech before the important presentation.
A. on B. off C. over D. away
Câu 12: Every morning the company workers have time _______ for a coffee break.
A. in B. out C. off D. over
Câu 13: The old ship will be towed into harbour and broken ______________ .
A. up B. down C. in D. off
Câu 14: I was so tired that I just __________ in the armchair.
A. flaked out B. broke up C. dropped out D. fell over
Câu 15: She's been promising to pay back the money for six months, but she is forgetful
__________ the promise she has made.
A. at B. with C. to D. of
Câu 16: When attacked by his opponents, the general _________with strong justification for
his policy.
A. hit back B. struck up C. leapt up D. pushed forward
Câu 17: Learning English isn’t so difficult once you ___________.
A. get off it B. get down to it C. get on it D. get down with it
Câu 18: I ran into an unknown in the gap-filling exercise, but I didn’t try and _______ the
gap.
A. held on B. hang out C. press on D. stuck at
Câu 19: To get his proposal accepted, the Finance Manager had to ________ heavy pressure
from colleagues.
A. fend off B. laugh off C. send off D. push off
Câu 20: Guy was _______.The conspiracy because of his friendship with the conspirators
A. caught in B. taken in C. drawn into D. pulled by
III. VOCABULARY: Choose the best options to complete the following sentences. (10
pts)
Câu 21: The police have been ordered not to __________ if the students attack them.
A. combat B. rebuff C. retaliate D. challenge
Câu 22: From time to time he _________himself to a weekend in a five-star hotel.
A. craves B. indulges C. treats D. benefits
Câu 23: Women’s participation _________ in the workforce was lower in the countries
which had less-developed economies.
A. scale B. speed C. velocity D. rate
Câu 24: I’ve been doing my best to reduce the backlog but I must admit that I’ve hardly put
___________ in the problem so far.
A. a dent B. a foot C. a brave face D. damper
Câu 25: Although the patient received intensive treatment, there was no __________
improvement in her condition.
A. decipherable B. legible C. discernible D. intelligible
Câu 26: After his long illness, the old man appeared so thin and_______that a gust of wind
might have blown him away.
A. flimsy B. faint C. withered D. frail
Câu 27: The train service has been a ___________ since they introduced the new schedules.
A. shambles B. rumpus C. chaos D. fracas
Câu 28: Fiona’s offered to help you. Don’t ask why – never look a gift ________ in the
mouth.
A. horse B. cow C. deer D. dog
Câu 29: We had to pay for our food but not for the drinks. They were on the ________.
A. house B. cafe C. compliment D. consumption
Câu 30: That window needs a new ______________of glass.
A. pane B. slice C. mirror D. portion
Câu 31: Employees who have a ___________ are encouraged to discuss it with the
management.
A. hindrance B. grievance C. disadvantage D. disturbance
Câu 32: The reason why he gets into trouble so often is that he has a _________temper.
A. fast B. rapid C. speedily D. quick
Câu 33: David has a(n)_____________to fainting at the sight of blood.
A. inclination B. predilection C. predisposition D. penchant
Câu 34: Poor management brought village shops to teeter ___________ of collapse although
community-owned shops, Internet retailing and home delivery schemes were becoming more
popular.
A. in the teeth B. on the brink
C. on the razor’s edge D. on the threshold
Câu 35: Should you fail, the sacrifices made by your family would be meaningless and reside
___________
A. on your conscience B. at your wits’ end
C. off your own boat D. under your thumb
Câu 36: The modification has been the _________ on the cake for both of us, for a lot of
hard work has gone into the design and development of the course.
A. chilling B. cooling C. freezing D. icing
Câu 37: I don't think Paul will ever get married — he's the stereotypical
__________bachelor.
A. settled B. confirmed C. fixed D. determined
Câu 38: When I got stuck in the elevator, I was scared out of my __________.
A. brains B. head C. wits D. nerves
Câu 39: Although he acts tough, ______________________________. .
A. his bark is worse than his bite B. he’s a tough nut to crack
C. he’s learned the hard way D. he isn’t up to scratch
Câu 40: People can make themselves walk on nails or through fire. It’s a question of mind
over _____________.
A. body B. material C. matter D. facts
IV. GUIDED CLOZE: Read the text below and decide which answer best fits each
space. (10 pts)
The knowledge and eloquence that people gain through travelling is usually perceived as the
best fulfilment in life. It is the inquisitive human nature that (41) _________ people to seek
thrilling experiences and to set out on an exploration trip. Those who travel frequently and to
(42) ________ places benefit from establishing new relationships and (43) ________ a better
knowledge about other cultures and lifestyles. However, there is a (44) _______ of truth in the
assumption that people are prone to (45) __________ clichés and unfounded prejudices about
other nations and their characteristics. Sometimes, it is only the first-hand encounter that can
help change the approach towards the so-called “inferior communities”. This direct contact
with different civilization enables travelers to (46) _______ their baseless assumption and get
acquainted with the real concept of life in all four corners of the globe. (47) ________
question, travelling (48) ________ friendship and makes it easier for many individuals to
acknowledge the true value of different traditions and customs. Yet, it does not always mean
enjoyment. It may also (49) _______ coming close with the atrocities of real existence as well
as becoming aware of the challenges and hardships that other people have to struggle with.
Hence, a true voyage is the one with a good deal of experience to (50) ________ about, very
often combined with exposure to abhorrent sights and incredible ordeals. The learning to be
complete, thus, requires an ability to observe and analyze the surroundings, both their
glamour and brutality.
41. A. impels B. involves C. entails D. pursue
42. A. reverse B. averse C. diverse D. converse
43. A. acquiring B. educating C. learning D. exacting
44. A. speck B. grain C. scrap D. tip
45. A. persevering B. persisting C. indulging D. cherishing
46. A. drop B. cease C. fail D. quit
47. A. Apart B. Beyond C. Unfailing D. Beneath
48. A. incites B. affords C. elicits D. facilitates
49. A. involve B. derive C. consist D. enclose
50. A. commemorate B. resemble C. reminisce D. remind

V. READING COMPREHENSION: Read the text and choose the best answer A, B, C
or D. (10 pts)
It's often said that we learn things at the wrong time. University students frequently
do the minimum of work because they're crazy about a good social life instead. Children
often scream before their piano practice because it's so boring. They have to be given gold
stars and medals to be persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. But the story is
different when you're older.
Over the years, I've done my share of adult learning. At 30, I went to a college and did
courses in History and English. It was an amazing experience. For starters, I was paying, so
there was no reason to be late - I was the one frowning and drumming my fingers if the tutor
was late, not the other way round. Indeed, if I could persuade him to linger for an extra five
minutes, it was a bonus, not a nuisance. I wasn't frightened to ask questions, and homework was
a pleasure not a pain. When I passed an exam, I had passed it for me and me alone, not for my
parents or my teachers. The satisfaction I got was entirely personal.
Some people fear going back to school because they worry that their brains have got
rusty. But the joy is that, although some parts have rusted up, your brain has learnt all kinds
of other things since you were young. It has learnt to think independently and flexibly and is
much better at relating one thing to another. What you lose in the rust department, you gain in
the maturity department.
In some ways, age is a positive plus. For instance, when you're older, you get less
frustrated. Experience has told you that, if you're calm and simply do something carefully
again and again, eventually you'll get the hang of it. The confidence you have in other areas -
from being able to drive a car, perhaps - means that if you can't, say, build a chair instantly, you
don't, like a child, want to destroy your first pathetic attempts. Maturity tells you that you will,
with application, eventually get there.
I hated piano lessons at school, but I was good at music. And coming back to it, with a
teacher who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical concepts that, at
the age of ten, I could never grasp, was magical. Initially, I did feel a bit strange, thumping out
a piece that I'd played for my school exams, with just as little comprehension of what the
composer intended as I'd had all those years before. But soon, complex emotions that I never
knew poured out from my fingers, and suddenly I could understand why practice makes
perfect.
51. What is the writer’s main purpose in the passage?
A. To show the best time for learning. B. To describe his learning process.
C. To encourage adult learning. D. To explain his attitude to learning.
52. In paragraph 2, the phrase “For starters” means ……
A. For the new learners. B. At the beginning.
C. First and foremost. D. At the first time.
53. What can be inferred about young learners from the first paragraph of the passage?
A. They are usually lazy in their class.
B. They shouldn’t be given less homework.
C. They often lack a good motivation for learning.
D. They should be encouraged to study more by their parents.
54. According to the passage, young people ____________ .
A. consider homework as a pleasure.
B. are indifferent to social activities.
C. are more frightened to ask questions than adults.
D. Learn new knowledge easier than adult learners.
55. In paragraph 2, what is the writer’s attitude towards learning?
A. sympathetic B. pessimistic C. optimistic D. energetic
56. The word “rusty” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to “____________”?
A. impatient because it’s too difficult to do
B. covered with rust and become useless
C. become worse because of lack of practice
D. not as good as it used to be because of frequent use
57. In paragraph 4, the phrase “get there” means “____________”?
A. reach your goal with hard work B. have the certificate of your abilities
C. go to the place you have long desired D. receive an acceptance from someone
58. The word “it” in the first line of the last paragraph refers to ____________ .
A. piano lesson B. music C. school D. exercise
59. Which is TRUE according to the pasage?
A. Adults think more dependently flexibly than young people.
B. can learn from their experience in doing other things.
C. Young people usually feel less patient than adults.
D. Adult leaners have fewer advantages than young leaners.
60. According to the passage, when you learn later in life, you ____________ .
A. should expect to take longer to learn than when you were younger.
B. find that you can recall a lot of things you learnt when younger.
C. can sometimes understand more than when you were younger.
D. are not able to concentrate as well as when you were younger.

B. WRITTEN TEST: (60 pts)


I. READING: (30 pts)
Part 1: Cloze test (10 pts)
Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ONE WORD
for each space.
Sad as it is, a social misperception of the disabled is still (61) ___________ in many
communities. It is only in a few (62) _______ civilized states where the problems and needs
of people with physical or mental incapacities are given the proper consideration. In the
remaining countries, the discrimination against the disabled is still practiced in many areas of
social life. (63) _______ in the past, they are ignored, denounced and forced to stay away
from the normal community which, (64) ________, isn’t capable of making any provisions
for its less fit members. For decades, the hale and hearty part of (65) _______ society has
stripped the disabled of their fundamental rights as their job applications have been turned
down, their active participation in business life has on most occasions been disallowed and
there has been little concern for their convenience in access to public transport. Equally little
effort has been made to help the disabled fully (66) ______ with the able-bodied thus (67)
________ foundations for greater community awareness of the drawbacks that the
handicapped have to wrestle with daily. There’s an urgent need to offer the disabled (68)
_______ adequate assistance and support in their struggle for putting their basic rights into
operation. The key principle is that the stereotyped approach towards the impaired individuals
ought to be exchanged for a more considerate one. (69) _____ pressing matter is that the
disabled shouldn’t be appraised on the basis of their handicap, but society should rather focus
on providing them with complete acceptance irrespective of any imperfections (70) ______
treating them as fully-fledged citizens.

Part 2: In the passage below, five paragraphs have been removed. For questions 71-77,
read the passage and choose from the paragraphs A-F the one which fits each gap.
There are one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. (7 pts)
THE ROBOTS ARE COMING - OR ARE THEY?
What is the current state of play in Artificial Intelligence?
Can robots advance so far that they become the ultimate threat to our existence? Some
scientists say no, and dismiss the very idea of Artificial Intelligence. The human brain, they
argue, is the most complicated system ever created, and any machine designed to reproduce
human thought is bound to fail. Physicist Roger Penrose of Oxford University and others
believe that machines are physically incapable of human thought.
71. ____________
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is different from most technologies in that scientists still
understand very little about how intelligence works. Physicists have a good understanding of
Newtonian mechanics and the quantum theory of atoms and molecules, whereas the basic
laws of intelligence remain a mystery. But a sizeable number of mathematicians and computer
scientists, who are specialists in the area, are optimistic about the possibilities.
72. ____________
In the 1950s and 1960s great progress was made, but the shortcomings of these prototype
robots soon became clear. They were huge and took hours to navigate across a room.
Meanwhile, a fruit fly, with a brain containing only a fraction of the computing power, can
effortlessly navigate in three dimensions.
73. ____________
The second problem is robots' lack of common sense. Humans know that water is wet and that
mothers are older than their daughters. But there is no mathematics that can express these
truths. 74. ____________
Because of the limitations of the top-down approach to Artificial Intelligence, attempts have
been made to use a 'bottom-up' approach instead - that is, to try to imitate evolution and the
way a baby learns. Rodney Brooks was the director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence laboratory,
famous for its lumbering 'topdown' walking robots. He changed the course of research when
he explored the unorthodox idea of tiny 'insectoid' robots that learned to walk by bumping
into things instead of computing mathematically the precise position of their feet. Today
many of the descendants of Brooks' insectoid robots are on Mars gathering data for NASA
(The National Aeronautics and Space Administration), running across the dusty landscape of
the planet. For all their successes in mimicking the behaviour of insects, however, robots
using neural networks have performed miserably when their programmers have tried to
duplicate in them the behaviour of higher organisms such as mammals.
75. ____________
There are people who believe that eventually there will be a combination between the top-
down and bottom-up, which may provide the key to Artificial Intelligence. As adults, we
blend the two approaches. It has been suggested that our emotions represent the quality that
most distinguishes us as human, that it is impossible for machines ever to have emotions.
Computer expert Hans Moravec thinks that in the future robots will be programmed with
emotions such as fear to protect themselves so that they can signal to humans when their
batteries are running low, for example. Emotions are vital in decision-making. People who
have suffered a certain kind of brain injury lose the ability to experience emotions and
become unable to make decisions.
76. ____________
There is no universal consensus as to whether machines can be conscious, or even, in human
terms, what consciousness means. Minsky suggests the thinking process in our brain is not
localised but spread out, with different centres competing with one another at any given time.
Consciousness may then be viewed as a sequence of thoughts and images issuing from these
different, smaller 'minds', each one competing for our attention. Robots might eventually
attain a 'silicon consciousness',
77. ____________

A. To them it is only a matter of time before a thinking machine walks out of the laboratory.
Over the years, various problems have impeded all efforts to create robots. To attack these
difficulties, researchers tried to use the 'top-down approach', using a computer in an attempt to
program all the essential rules onto a single disc. By inserting this into a machine, it would
then become self-aware and attain human-like intelligence.
B. MIT's Marvin Minsky summarises the problems of AI: 'The history of AI is sort of funny
because the first real accomplishments were beautiful things, like a machine that could do
well in a maths course. But then we started to try to make machines that could answer
questions about simple children's stories. There's no machine today that can do that.'
C. Robots, in fact, might one day embody an architecture for thinking and processing
information that is different from ours - but also indistinguishable. If that happens, the
question of whether they really 'understand' becomes largely irrelevant. A robot that has
perfect mastery of syntax, for all practical purposes, understands what is being said.
D. Colin McGinn of Rutgers University backs this up when he says that Artificial Intelligence
is like sheep trying to do complicated psychoanalysis. They just don't have the conceptual
equipment they need in their limited brains'.
E. Children learn the intuitive laws of biology and physics by interacting with the real world.
Robots know only what has been programmed into them.
F. Without emotions to guide them, they debate endlessly over their options. Moravec points
out that as robots become more intelligent and are able to make choices, they could likewise
become paralysed with indecision. To aid them, robots of the future might need to have
emotions hardwired into their brains.
G. Dr Stella Pachidi from Cambridge Judge Business School believes that some of the most
fundamental changes are happening as a result of the ‘algorithmication’ of jobs that are
dependent on data rather than on production – the so-called knowledge economy. Algorithms
are capable of learning from data to undertake tasks that previously needed human judgement,
such as reading legal contracts, analysing medical scans and gathering market intelligence.
H. Our brains, like the fruit fly's, unconsciously recognise what we see by performing
countless calculations. This unconscious awareness of patterns is exactly what computers are
missing.

Part 3:
What is personality?
A We are all familiar with the idea that different people have different personalities,
but what does this actually mean? It implies that different people behave in
different ways, but it must be more than that. After all, different people find
themselves in different circumstances, and much of their behaviour follows from
this fact. However, our common experience reveals that different people respond
in quite remarkably different ways even when faced with roughly the same
circumstances. Alan might be happy to live alone in a quiet and orderly cottage, go
out once a week, and stay in the same job for thirty years, whilst Beth likes
nothing better than exotic travel and being surrounded by vivacious friends and
loud music.
B In cases like these, we feel that it cannot be just the situation which is producing
the differences in behaviour. Something about the way the person is ‘wired up’
seems to be at work, determining how they react to situations, and, more than that,
the kind of situations they get themselves into in the first place. This is why
personality seems to become stronger as we get older; when we are young, our
situation reflects external factors such as the social and family environment we
were born into. As we grow older, we are more and more affected by the
consequences of our own choices (doing jobs that we were drawn to, surrounded
by people like us whom we have sought out). Thus, personality differences that
might have been very slight at birth become dramatic in later adulthood.
C Personality, then, seems to be the set of enduring and stable dispositions that
characterise a person. These dispositions come partly from the expression of
inherent features of the nervous system, and partly from learning. Researchers
sometimes distinguish between temperament, which refers exclusively to
characteristics that are inborn or directly caused by biological factors, and
personality, which also includes social and cultural learning. Nervousness, for
example, might be a factor of temperament, but religious piety is an aspect of
personality.
D The discovery that temperamental differences are real is one of the major findings
of contemporary psychology. It could easily have been the case that there were no
intrinsic differences between people in temperament, so that given the same
learning history, the same dilemmas, they would all respond in much the same
way. Yet we now know that this is not the case.
E Personality measures turn out to be good predictors of your health, how happy you
typically are - even your taste in paintings. Personality is a much better predictor
of these things than social class or age. The origin of these differences is in part
innate. That is to say, when people are adopted at birth and brought up by new
families, their personalities are more similar to those of their blood relatives than
to the ones they grew up with.
F Personality differences tend to manifest themselves through the quick, gut-feeling,
intuitive and emotional systems of the human mind. The slower, rational,
deliberate systems show less variation in output from person to person. Deliberate
rational strategies can be used to override intuitive patterns of response, and this is
how people wishing to change their personalities or feelings have to go about it.
As human beings, we have the unique ability to look in at our personality from the
outside and decide what we want to do with it.
G So what are the major ways personalities can differ? The dominant approach is to
think of the space of possible personalities as being defined by a number of
dimensions. Each person can be given a location in the space by their scores on all
the different dimensions. Virtually all theories agree on two of the main
dimensions, neuroticism (or negative emotionality) and extroversion (or positive
emotionality). However they differ on how many additional ones they recognise.
Among the most influential proposals are openness, conscientiousness and
agreeableness. In the next section I shall examine these five dimensions.

The passage has seven paragraphs. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from
the list of headings below. Write the correct answer, i-x, in boxes 78-83 on your answer
sheet. There are three extra headings which you do not need to use.
List of Headings
i. A degree of control
ii. Where research has been carried out into the effects of family on
personality
iii. Categorising personality features according to their origin
iv. A variety of reactions in similar situations
v. A link between personality and aspects of our lives that aren’t chosen
vi. A possible theory that cannot be true
vii. Measuring personality
viii. Potentially harmful effects of emotions
ix. How our lives can reinforce our personalities
x. Differences between men's and women's personalities

Example: Paragraph A iv....


78. Paragraph B _______ 81. Paragraph E _______
79. Paragraph C _______ 82. Paragraph F _______
80. Paragraph D _______ 83. Paragraph G _______

Questions 84-90
Do the following statements reflect the claims of the
writer?
Write
YES if the statement reflects the claims of the writer
NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
84. Alan and Beth illustrate contrasting behaviour in similar situations.
85. As we grow older, we become more able to analyse our personalities.
86. Nervousness is an example of a learned characteristic.
87. The discovery of differences in temperament has changed the course of psychological
research.
88. Adopted children provide evidence that we inherit more of our personality than we
acquire.
89. The rational behaviour of different people shows greater similarity than their emotional
behaviour.
90. Most psychologists agree on the five major dimensions of personality.

II. WORD FORMATION: (10 pts)


Part 1. Complete each sentence, using the correct form of the word in parentheses. (5
pts)
Câu 91: Guy was greedy, ________, obsessed with power and self-gratification. (MORAL)
Câu 92: A portion of the proceeds will be ________ for providing school fees for poor
children for the coming academic year. (MARK)
Câu 93: While learning has changed for students in this new century, we are ________ by the
boundless opportunity presented in our lifetime. (BOLD)
Câu 94: Together they forged a(n) ________ intellectual climate that has profoundly shaped
my career. (VIGOR)
Câu 95: Most ________ or totalitarian regimes are nonconstitutional. (AUTHORITY)
Câu 96: A conservation focuses on preserving ecosystems not only saves large numbers of
species (including __________ species that do not receive public support) but also preserves
the support systems that maintain life. (CHARISMA)
Câu 97: people are generally most familiar with _________ organisms such as plants and
animals. (CELL)
Câu 98: Photographs and ________ that cover the walls and fill several display cases
chronicle the foods this area is famous for. (MEMORY)
Câu 98: All points on a circle are ________ from the center. (DISTANT)
Câu 100: In the US, a school ________ is in charge of the schools in a particular area.
(INTEND)
Part 2. Complete the passage with appropriate forms from the words given in the box. (5
pts)

MAGNIFY ANATOMY SIGNIFY SEDUCE SUBSTANCE


SUSPECT ESTIMATE NOTICABLE FULFIL ADHERE

There is little to disagree about in the notion that a good voice, whether in opera or rock
music, is one which moves its audience and brings a sense of release and (101) __________
to the singer. But contemporary pop and rock music have come about due to (102)
____________ advances in technology. Here, the impact of the microphone should not be
(103) _________ , as it has enabled the (104) _________ of quiet, intimate sounds. This, in
turn, allows the singer to experiment with the emphasis on mood rather than on strict (105)
__________ to proper breathing and voice control. Donna Soto-Morettin, a rock and jazz
vocal trainer, feels that (106) _________ reasons may account for the raspy sound produced
by certain rock singers. Her (107) ________ is that swollen vocal cords, which do not close
properly, may allow singers to produce deeper notes. She does not, however, regard this as
detracting (108) __________ produced. Singing, she maintains, has an almost (109)
_________from the value of the sound quality and so our response to it has more (110)
________ than its technical qualities.

III. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20 PTS)


Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in
meaning to the sentence printed before it.
Câu 111: If we wait long enough, we’ll get what we want.
It’s just.................................................................................................................................
Câu 112: There is no situation in which we will allow the management to lower wages..
Under...................................................................................................................................the
management to lower wages.
Câu 113: Nobody expected Natalia to resign.
Natalia’s ..............................................................................................................................
Câu 114: Considering that she’s only just started, she’s doing very well.
Bearing.................................................................................................................................
Câu 115: You can walk to the station easily from the hotel.
The station is within ...........................................................................................................
Rewrite the following sentences, using the given words without changing the original
meaning; do not change these words.
Câu 116: Trudy was quite relieved when she found out the truth. (RELIEF)
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Câu 117: The Prime Minister felt it appropriate to make a statement. (FIT)
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Câu 118: I promised him that the situation would not be repeated in the future. (WORD)
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Câu 119: He lost his job because he was inefficient. (GROUNDS)
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Câu 120: Could you ask them to hurry up? (GET)
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