Đề luyện thi Chuyên Anh - Test 4

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I. LEXICO - GRAMMAR:

Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D that best completes these following sentences:

1. ______________ , which is very unlikely, I would travel around the world and visit many different
countries and cultures.

A. If I win the lottery B. Had I won the lottery

C. Were I won the lottery D. Were I to win the lottery

2. The new government hopes to ___________ some positive changes in the country, such as reducing
poverty and improving education.

A. turn down B. bring about C. abide by D. run into

3. She had always dreamed of becoming a writer, and when she finally published her first novel, she felt
___________ happy and proud of herself.

A. cheerfully B. smilingly C. laughingly D. blissfully

4. Opportunities are a dime a ___________ , so don’t worry about losing a job and focus on improving your
skills and qualifications.

A. penny B. dozen C. coin D. pair

5. In his review of the book, he ___________ the author’s main argument that technology has both positive
and negative impacts on society, and he provided some examples from his own experience.

A. reverberated B. disagreed C. stated D. echoed

6. She bought ___________ for her daughter’s birthday.

A. a lovely oval silver B. an oval lovely silver

C. a silver lovely oval D. a lovely oval silver

7. By the time you receive this letter, I ___________ across Europe with my friends, exploring different
cultures and having fun.

A. will travel B. travel C. will be traveling D. had traveled

8. She spent hours ___________ her old car with new paint, stickers, and accessories, hoping to impress her
date.

A. making up B. cranking up C. gussying up D. curdling up

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9. Ever since he read that article about climate change, he has had a ___________ in his bonnet about
reducing his carbon footprint and living more sustainably.

A. cat B. bee C. butterfly D. cow

10. She was surprised to receive a ___________ copy of the contract in the mail, as she had already signed
and scanned the original document online.

A. back B. fair C. hard D. carbon

11. ___________ of investing in the stock market that many people prefer to save their money in the bank.

A. It were such the risks B. Such are the risks

C. Were it such a risks D. The risks are such

12. ___________ , we decided to head back to the camp and make a fire to warm ourselves.

A. The sun sets behind the mountains B. Setting the sun behind the mountains

C. The sun setting behind the mountains D. They set the sun behind the mountains

13. ___________ you have completed all the assignments and met all the requirements, you will receive
your certificate at the end of the course.

A. Provided that B. Assuming that C. In case D. Supposing that

14. He vowed to never forsake his wife, even though she had ___________ him for another man.

A. abandoned B. concluded C. forsaken D. squashed

15. He casually suggested that we ___________ to the latest movies tonight, but I had completely different
plans.

A. went B. go C. are going D. will go

16. It’s ___________ that they will get married soon, as they have been dating for a long time and they are
very much in love.

A. a crying shame B. not rocket science C. a fair crop D. a safe bet

17. It took him a long time to ___________ to the fact that she was lying to him, but when he finally did, he
was furious.

A. cotton on B. rear above C. centre around D. sit under

18. Although ___________ compared to other options, the dress was worth buying for the occasion, as it
made her look stunning and elegant.

A. it looked quite expensive B. it were quite expensive

C. quite expensive D. it seemed quite expensive

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19. He had spent years making ___________ attempts to break into the music industry, but he never got a
record deal or a loyal fan base.

A. arid B. abortive C. crowning D. stillborn

20. He always got ___________ her skin with his sarcastic remarks, but she secretly admired his wit and
intelligence.

A. on B. into C. under D. onto

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

II. WORD FORMATION:

Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets:

21. The author ________________ the essence of his philosophy into a few memorable quotes. (STILL)

22. She wore a/an ________________ dress that did not flatter her figure at all. (BECOME)

23. The king issued a ________________ declaring war on the neighboring country. (CLAIM)

24. The detective realized that the clue was a red ________________ that had nothing to do with the murder.
(HER)

25. He had a ________________ nightmare that haunted him every night. (CURE)

26. She had a ________________ mole removed from her skin before it could turn into melanoma.
(CANCER)

27. The ________________ might find the game too complex and confusing to play. (INITIATIVE)

28. He ________________ spilled coffee on his laptop and ruined it. (ADVERT)

29. She was a/an ________________ of justice and human rights, always fighting for the oppressed and
marginalized. (HOLD)

30. He tried to ________________ the truth by questioning the witnesses and examining the evidence.
(CERTAIN)

21. 26.

22. 27.

23. 28.

24. 29.

25. 30.

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III. READING:

Part 1: Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to fill in the gaps in this following passage:

After England’s World Cup semi-final defeat of Australia, a grinning Millie Bright approached Sarina
Wiegman with arms (31) __________ . The manager said something while shaking hands with Australia’s
goalkeeper, Mackenzie Arnold, that made her captain pause before she waved Bright back in. Bright obliged,
putting her arms round Wiegman and lifting her into the air. It wasn’t the first time Bright had lifted
(32) __________ a grinning Wiegman and it likely won’t be the last. It has become (33) __________ –
perhaps there is now some superstition involved – and cameras wait for the much-loved manager’s
(34) __________ with her captain.

Bright’s hug is not just hers any more, it is the hug of a nation. Wiegman has achieved what no manager of
the men’s or women’s team has done since 1966 and (35) __________ an England senior side to a World
Cup final. Even more (36) __________ , she has done it one year after she (37) __________ a first major
tournament victory for her team, at a home European Championship, (38) __________ the same with the
Netherlands in 2017.

The Dutchwoman has been (39) __________ , and lost one game at a major tournament, the 2019 World
Cup final against the USA with the Netherlands, and been beaten once in two years with England, in a
friendly against Australia. She is a serial winner and, (40) __________ she take her Lionesses past Spain on
Sunday, she will have won everything there is to win with England.

31. A. outdistanced B. outdated C. outstretched D. outreach

32. A. aloft B. adrift C. afoot D. aglow

33. A. damnedest B. devilish C. enigmatic D. ritualistic

34. A. embrace B. hold C. clasp D. purchase

35. A. diverted B. directed C. piloted D. navigated

36. A. impressionably B. apparently C. impressively D. reportedly

37. A. delivered B. brought C. fetched D. ferried

38. A. did B. having done C. does D. will do

39. A. road B. pieces C. cleaner’s D. heart

40. A. should B. if C. were D. had

31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

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Part 2: Fill in each gaps below with only ONE word:

“Please can you help me with finding a way to (41) __________ my daughter that her driving is
dangerous? She drives incredibly close to the back of the vehicle in front. It is difficult to judge, but it
sometimes feels like we are (42) __________ more than a couple of meters away, while we are driving very
fast.

We live near lots of (43) __________ roads and motorways, so trips will usually involve this type of road. I
am not a nervous driver/passenger and if it wasn’t so (44) __________ close, I’d possibly be able to live with
it. She has two young children and a husband whose driving she thinks is bad, as he is so fast.

I (45) __________ occasionally say I think she is a bit close and she (46) __________ and pulls back, but
within five minutes she is right up behind them. No one likes having their driving (47) __________ and I
don’t want to fall (48) __________ over it.

Often when we have something difficult to say we look for ways to get the message (49) __________ that
won’t require disagreement. Having to say “I think X” is so squirm-inducing and so difficult, that we kind of
hope we might stumble (50) __________ a way of implanting “X” directly in their head without having to
announce that it’s our view.”

41. 46.

42. 47.

43. 48.

44. 49.

45. 50.

Part 3: Read the passage carefully and answer questions from 51 to 63:

THE DEVELOPING WORLD

A. ____ capitalist world nor to the industrialised former communist

bloc. The expression ’third world’ was used at the 1955
THE DEVELOPING WORLD - the economically conference of Afro-Asian countries held in Bandung,
underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin Indonesia. In 1956 a group of social sci- entists associated
America - is considered as an entity with common with Sauvy's National Institute of Demographic Studies, in
characteristics, such as poverty, high biKh rates, and Paris, published a book called ‘Le Tiers-Monde’. Three years
economic dependence on the advanced countries. Until later, the French economist Francois Perroux launched a new
recently, the developing world was known as ’the third journal, on problems of underdevelopment, with the same
world’. The French demographer Alfred Sauvy coined the title. By the end of the I 9S0s the term was frequently
expression (in French) in 1952 by analogy with the ’third employed in the French media to refer to the underdeveloped
estate’ - the commoners of France before and during the countries of Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin America.
French Revolution - as opposed to priests and nobles, Present-day politicians and social commentators, however,
comprising the first and second estates respectively. ‘Like the now use the term ‘developing world' in a politically correct
third estate’, wrote Sauvy, ‘the third world is nothing, and it effort to dispel the negative connotations of ‘third world’.
wants to be something’. The term therefore implies that the
third world is exploited, much as the third estate was
exploited and that, like the third estate, its destiny is a
revolutionary one. It conveys as well a second idea, also
discussed by Sauvy — that of non-alignment, for the
developing world belongs neither to the industrialised

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B. ____ foreign firms. The prices of developing world products are
usually determined by large buyers in the economically
Countries in the developing world have a number of common dominant countries of the West, and trade with the West
traits: distorted and highly dependent economies devoted to provides almost all the developing world's income.
producing primary products for the developed world; Throughout the colonial period, outright exploitation
traditional, rural social structures; high population growth severely limited the accumulation of capital within the
and widespread poverty. Nevertheless, the developing world foreign-dominated countries. Even after decolonisation (in
is sharply differentiated, for it includes countries on various the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s), the economies of the
levels of economic develop- ment. And despite the poverty of developing world grew slowly, or not at all, owing largely to
the countryside and the urban shanty towns, the ruling elites the deterioration of the ’terms of trade’ — the relationship
of most third world countries are wealthy. between the cost of the goods a nation must import from
abroad and its income from the exports it sends to foreign
C. ____ countries. Terms of trade are said to deteriorate when the cost
of imports rises faster than income from exports. Since
This combination of conditions in Asia, Africa, Oceania and
buyers in the industrialised countries determined the prices of
Latin America is linked to the absorp- tion of the developing
most products involved in international trade, the worsening
world into the international capitalist economy, by way of
position of the developing world was scarcely surpris- ing.
conquest or indirect domination. The main economic
Only the oil-producing countries — after 1973 — succeeded
consequence of Western domination was the creation, (or the
in escaping the effects of Western domination of the world
first time in history, of a world market. By setting up sub-
economy.
economies linked to the West throughout the developing
world, and by introducing other mod- ern institutions, E. ____
industrial capitalism disrupted traditional economies and,
indeed, societies. This disruption led to underdevelopment. No study of the developing world could hope to assess its
future prospects without taking into account population
D. ____ growth. While the mortality rate from poverty-related
diseases continues to cause international concern, the birth
Because the economies of underdeveloped coun- tries have
rate continues to rise at unprecedented levels. This
been geared to the needs of industrialised countries, they
population explosion in the developing world will surely
often comprise only a few modern economic activities, such
prevent any substantial improvements in living standards, as
as mining or the cultivation of plantation crops. Control over
well as threaten people in stagnant economies with
these activities has often remained in the hands of large
worsening poverty and starvation levels

Question 51 - 55: Match the appropriate paragraph A - F with the most suitable heading i - ix:

LIST OF HEADINGS:

i. The great divide between rich and poor.

ii. The status and destiny of the developing world follows a European precedent.

iii. Economic progress in the developing world slowed down by political unrest.

iv. More people, less food.

v. Western countries refuse to acknowledge their history of colonisation.

vi. Open trade is the main reason these countries become impoverished.

vii. Rivalry in the developing world capitalist and former communist bloc countries.

viii. Prices and conditions set by outsiders.

Question 56 - 59: Do the following statements agree with the information given in the Reading Passage?

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YES if the statement is true
NO if the statement is false
NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage

56. Agriculture still plays a role in the economy of developing countries.

57. The population of the developing world increases at such a fast rate because they constantly need to
renew the labour force.

58. Countries that spend more on imports than they earn from exports can experience problems.

59. Like the developing world, oil-rich countries are also victims of dominance by Western powers.

Question 60 - 63: Complete each sentence with the correct ending A - F below.

60. Countries in the developing world _____

61. The term ‘the third world’ implies _____

62. One factor that is prevalent in the developing world is _____

63. One consequence of terms of trade was _____

51. A - 52. B - 53. C - 54. D - 55. E -

56. 57. 58. 59. 60.

61. 62. 63.

Part 4: You are going to read an article about one young English person's experience of a 'gap year', a
year spent overseas, in China, between leaving school and going to university. For questions 64 - 70,
choose the correct answer A, B, e ar D.

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Question 64: What does the use of the word ‘jury’ suggest about the writer's feelings in line 2?

A. He thinks he has committed a crime.

B. The students already find him boring.

C. He cannot understand their behaviour.

D. He knows they want to see what he is like.

Question 65: What does the word ‘decision' in line 16 refer to?

A. going to university

B. returning home

C. going abroad

D. contacting friends

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Question 66: Which phrase best sums up the writer's feelings about his job?

A. concerned and nervous

B. tired but fulfilled

C. enthusiastic but worried

D. successful and excited

Question 67: How do the 'hundreds of people’ react to the writer? (line 29)

A. They were Suspicious of him.

B. They were amused by him.

C. They were sociable to him.

D. They were puzzled by him.

Question 68: What does the writer suggest by saying ‘fun takes on different forms’ in line 43?

A. He was surprised at his enjoyment of simple things.

B. He got more fun from learning than teaching.

C. He missed Western forms of entertainment.

D. He enjoyed meeting his students outside lessons.

Question 69: The children w8nted the writer to sign their clothes because he was:

A. famous.

B. unusual.

C. popular.

D. funny.

Question 70: What does the writer conclude about his gap year?

A. It enabled him to learn Chinese.

B. He learnt how to control a class.

C. He learnt to cope with foreigners.

D. It helped him become more mature.

65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70.

IV. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION:

Rewrite these followings using the given words in brackets without changing their meanings:

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71. He decided to celebrate by booking a trip to Hawaii with his family as soon as he had received the news
of his promotion.

→ No sooner ___________________________________________________________________________.

72. They are not going to travel abroad this year because of the pandemic situation. (POINT)

→ They are not _________________________________________________________________________.

73. She decided to run a marathon in memory of her late husband and raise awareness about the rare disease
that took his life. (RATCHET)

→ She decided to run a marathon in memory of her late husband and ______________________________.

74. By showing convincing arguments and evidence, they were able to get the jury to acquit their client.
(STRENGTH)

→ They managed to persuade ______________________________________________________________.

75. Although she is young, she has a lot of experience and skills that make her a valuable asset to the
company.

→ Young ______________________________________________________________________________.

76. He would have become a famous writer if he had not given up on his dreams.

→ Had ________________________________________________________________________________.

77. He enjoys listening to classical and jazz music, although he is a successful rock star who plays loud and
energetic songs.

→ Much _______________________________________________________________________________.

78. She was determined to become a doctor, even though her parents wanted her to be a lawyer. (SET)

→ She was set __________________________________________________________________________.

79. She was on the verge of a mental breakdown after working without any break for long hours.
(TEETERING)

→ She was _____________________________________________________________________________.

80. She waited anxiously to hear what would transpire at the court. (CAME)

→ She ________________________________________________________________________________.

Keys & Explanation - Test 4

I. LEXICO GRAMMAR: 2. B - bring about: cause sth to happen

1. D - “if” clause type 2 used in form of inversion: 3. D - blissfully happy: be very happy
Were + S + to V0, S + would + V0
4. B - a dime a dozen: be common or of little value

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5. D - echo(v): repeat details that are similar to, and 25. recurring (adj): happening many times, or
make you think of, sth else happening again

6. A - OSASCOMP 26. precancerous (adj): (especially of cells) showing

signs of developing into a cancer
O-opinion: lovely → S-size → A-age → S-shape: oval
→ C-Color → O-origin → M-material: silver → P- 27. uninitiated (n): people who are without knowledge
or experience of a particular subject or activity
purpose
28. inadvertently (adv): not intentionally
7. C - the future continuous: S + will be + Ving
29. upholder (n): a person or organization that upholds
8. C - make sb or sth look more attractive or impressive
a law, a principle, or a decision that has been made
9. B - have a bee in one’s bonnet (about sth): keep
30. ascertain (v): discover sth
talking about sth again and again because you think it
is very important

10. D - a carbon copy (of): a person or thing that is III. READING:

very similar to or exactly like another person or thing
Part 1:
11. B - inversion with “such”: Such + be + N that S +
V… 31. C - outstretched(adj): reaching out as far as
possible
12. C - absolute structure: S + Ving/having V3_ed + O,
… 32. A - aloft(adv): in the air or in a higher position

13. A - provided that: if, or only if 33. D - ritualistic(adj): relating to or characteristic of

rituals followed as part of a religious or solemn
14. C - forsake: stop doing or having sth ceremony

15. B - subjunctive mood: S + suggest/cite/ 34. A - embrace(n): the act of holding sb tightly with
both arms to express love, liking or sympathy, or when
16. D - it’s a safe bet: be sth that you are certain will
greeting or leaving sb
happen
35. D - navigate(v): find a way to pass over or along a
17. A - cotton on to sth: begin to understand a situation
route, which can also mean to direct or manage
or fact
something skillfully.
18. C - although + Adj, S + V… (Adj belongs to S)
→ In this context, it implies that Wiegman
19. B - abortive attempt: an attempt or action that is has guided England through a challenging path to
unsuccessful and has to be stopped reach the final, overcoming various obstacles and
opponents.
20. C - get under one’s skin: annoy sb

II. WORD FORMATION: 36. D - impressively(adv): in a way that people admire

or respect
21. distils (v): get or show only the most important
information part of sth 37. A - deliver(v): achieve or produce sth that has been
promised
22. unbecoming (adj): describe clothes that do not look
attractive on a particular person 38. B - having done: a perfect participle that expresses
an action that happened before another action in the
23. proclamation (n): an official announcement past.

24. herring - red herring (n): a fact, idea, or subject that 39. C - take sb to the cleaner’s: defeat sb by a very
takes people’s attention away from the central point large amount
being considered

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40. A - inversion with “if” clause type 1: Should + S + 56. YES - ‘highly dependent economies devoted to
V0, S + will + V0 producing primary products for the developed world;
traditional, rural social structures’.
Part 2:
57. NOT GIVEN - paragraph E discusses population
41. tell growth but makes no mention of why it is occuring.

42. no 58. YES - paragraph D states: ‘terms of trade are said

to deteriorate when the cost of imports rises faster than
43. main/major - main/major road: a road that is
income from exports..’.
commonly used and that goes through the main part of
a city, town, etc 59. NO - as ‘only the oil-producing countries - after
1973 - succeeded in escaping the effects of Western
44. dangerously
domination of the world economy’.
45. do - S + do + V0: to emphasize sth
60. D - The developing world…is considered as an
46. tuts: make a disapproving sound or speak in a entity with common characteristics’.
disapproving way
61.. F - ‘The third world is nothing and it wants to be
47. criticized - causative structure: S + have + O + something’.
V3_ed or S + get + O + V3_ed
62.. A - ‘economic dependence on the advanced
48. out - fall out over: argue with sb and stop being countries’.
friendly with them
63. E - ‘The economies of the developing world grew
49. across - get sth across: manage to make sb slowly or not at all.
understand or believe sth
Part 4:
50. across/on/upon - stumble across/on/upon sb/sth:
64. C - ‘disliked having a clever young boss’, ‘two
discover sth by chance. or meet sb by chance
years’ and ‘first year’.
Part 3:
65. D - ‘conditions for animals’ and ‘heating in the
51. ii - as the paragraph describes how ‘third world’ animal houses’.
countries are following the same path that European
66. A ‘heating’, ‘the keepers went on strike’ and
countries did when they were developing into the states
‘leaving all the heating turned on’.
that they are today.
67. E ‘the zoo’s animal hospital’ and ‘he was at last in
52. i - ‘And despite the poverty of the countryside and
charge of a proper clinic’.
the urban shanty towns, the ruling elites of most third
world countries are wealthy.’ 68. B ‘safari parks’, ‘cages’ and ‘to be fair to London
Zoo’
53. vi - ‘This combination of conditions in Asia,
Africa, Oceania and Latin America is linked to the 69. F ‘cars’ and ‘they can go to the country’.
absorption of the developing world into the
international capitalist economy…the creation…of a 70. I ‘he actually lived in the zoo grounds’ and ‘he had
world market…led to underdevelopment’. a flat’.

54. viii - ‘The prices of developing world products are IV. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION:
usually determined by large buyers in the economically
dominant countries of the West’. 71. … had he received the news of his promotion than
he decided to celebrate by booking a trip to Hawaii
55. iv - as the paragraph outlines how the ‘birth rate with his family.
continues to rise at unprecedented levels’ and that there
are ‘worsening poverty and starvation levels’. + inversion: No sooner + had + S + V3_ed than
S + V...

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72. … on the point of traveling abroad this year
because of the pandemic situation.

+ on the point of: be going to do sth very soon

73. … ratchet up awareness about the rare disease that

took his life.

+ ratchet up: increase sth over a period of time

74. … the jury to acquit their client on the strength of

their convincing arguments and evidence,

+ on the strength of sth: on the basis or with the

justification of

75. … as she is, she has a lot of experience and skills

that make her a valuable asset to the company.

+ Adj + as/though + S + be/seem, S + V…

76. … he not given up on his dreams, he would have

become a famous writer.

+ inversion with “if” clause type 3: Had + S +

(not) V3_ed, S + would have + V3_ed

77. …as he is a successful rock star who plays loud and

energetic songs…

+ Much as=although

78. …upon/on becoming a doctor, even though her

parents wanted her to be a lawyer.

+ be set upon/on sth: be determined to do sth

79. …teetering on the brink/edge of a mental

breakdown after working without any break for long
hours.

+ teeter on the brink/edge of sth: be very close

to a difficult or dangerous situation.

80. …waited anxiously to hear what came up at the

court.

+ come up: to happen

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