May Module 1 Version 1

Câu 1. The following text is from John Matheus’s 1925

novel Fog. The story happens in a city where heavy fog has
set in.

The little conductor stood on tiptoe in an effort to keep one

hand on the signal rope, craning his neck in a vain and
dissatisfied endeavor to pierce the miasma of the fog. The
motormanchafed in his box, thinking of the drudging lot of
the laboring man. He registered discontent.

As used in the text, what does the word “registered” most

nearly mean?
A. enrolled
B. valued
C. disregarded
D. displayed

Câu 2.
The Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, is a massive
mosque that can accommodate
approximately 200,000 people at once, making it an _______
sight to behold.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and
precise word or phrase?
A. idealized
B. intricate
C. imposing
D. illusory

Câu 3.
Although fewer companies trade their stocks on the Tehran
Stock Exchange in Tehran, Iran,
than on the stock exchanges in London, Mumbai, or Tokyo,
the Tehran Stock Exchange has the
advantage of focusing on local companies and thus reflecting
economic circumstances that are
________ Iran. This sensitivity to unique, rapidly evolving
local conditions benefits the
companies and investors alike.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and
precise word or phrase?
A. irrelevant to
B. prohibitive in
C. distinctive to
D. unchanging in

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Câu 4.
In a study by Mika R. Moran, Daniel A. Rodriguez, and
colleagues, residents of Caracas, Venezuela, and of
Fortaleza, Brazil, were surveyed about parks in their cities.
Of the 1,043 respondents from Caracas, 44.7% indicated that
they use the city’s parks, and of the 938 respondents from
Fortaleza, 35.7% indicated using city parks. It may be
tempting to assume the difference is due to different levels of
access to parks: however, given that the percentage of
Caracas respondents who reported living within a 10-minute
walk of a park was much lower than that reported by
Fortaleza respondents, greater proximity alone can’t explain
the difference in park use.

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined

portion in the text(It may be tempting to assume the
difference is due to different levels of access to parks) as a
whole?
A. It introduces a counterexample to the scenario described
earlier in the text.
B. It provides context to help understand the scope of the
researchers, survey.
C. It marks a shift from a discussion of the researchers’
conclusion to a discussion of their
methods.
D. It presents a potential explanation for the team’s findings
that the text goes on to refute.

Câu 5.
The following text is adapted from Anton Chekhov’s 1899
play Uncle Vanya.
Professor Serebrakoff retires and moves to his country estate,
which Vanya manages with the help of Sonia, the professor’s
daughter from a previous marriage. Chekhov portrays the
professor as being someone adjusting to living at the country
estate, as is evident when ________

Which quotation from Uncle Vanya most effectively

illustrates the claim?
A. Professor Serebrakoff says, “I am a book-worm and a
scholar, and am unfamiliar with
practical affairs. I cannot, I find, dispense with the help of
well-informed people.”
B. Professor Serebrakoff says to Helena, “My darling, don’t
leave me alone with [Vanya]. He
will begin to lecture me.”
C. Professor Serebrakoff says to Helena, “I am used to, my
library and the lecture hall and to
the esteem and admiration of my colleagues. Now I suddenly
find myself plunged into this

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wilderness (the cottage), condemned to see the same stupid
people from morning till night
and listen to their futile conversations.”
D. Vanya says to Professor Serebrakoff, “You write on art
without knowing anything about it.
Those books of yours which I used to admire are not worth
one copper kopeck. You are a hoax!”

Câu 6. The following text is from Jerome K. Jerom’s 1889

novel Three Men in a Boat.

We are creatures of the sun, we men and women. We love

light and life. That is why we crowd into die towns and
cities, and the country grows more and more deserted every
year. In the sunlight-in the daytime, when Nature is alive and
busy all around us, we like the open hillsides and the deep
woods well enough: but in the night, when our Mother Earth
has gone to sleep, and left us waking, oh! the world seems so
lonesome, and we get frightened, like children in a silent
house. Then we sit and sob, and long for the gas-lit streets,
and the sound of human voices, and the answering throb of
human life.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

A. To indicate that crowded areas can cause people to feel as
though they are children again
B. To caution people not to be so quick to dismiss the natural
beauty that can be found in rural areas
C. To address common traits that motivates many people to
choose to live in urban environments
D. To illustrate the idea that most people tend to prefer
hillsides in the country to certain aspects of towns and cities

Câu 7.
Falcons and horses can see in three dimensions (3D), which
helps them perceive distance and
depth. Octopuses and squid thought to lack 3D version.
Many researchers once though the
same about cuttlefish, but Trevor Wardill and his team
wanted to test whether this assumption
was true. The team studied how cuttlefish wearing 3D
glasses reacted to 3D images of shrimp
(a favorite prey) projected on a tank wall. Cuttlefish changed
their striking position to match
the 3D images, suggesting that their vision is more like that
of falcons and horses than that of
octopuses or squid.

Which choice best describes the main idea of the text?

A. cuttlefish eyes are much more complex than those of
falcons or horses.
B. Wardill’s team designed 3D glasses for cuttlefish.

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C. Before completing their study, Wardill’ team thought that
cuttlefish have 3D vision, but horses may not.
D. The finding of Wardill’s teams study suggest like falcons
and horses, cuttlefishes may also have 3D vision.

Câu 8.
President Richard Nixon is most famous for his participation
on in the 1970s Watergate political scandal, a convoluted
tale of criminality and eroded ethics involving a constellation
of associates such as White House Counsel Chuck Colson
and White House Counsel John Dean. But Nixon’s legacy is
complex: he has been praised for his role in creating the
Environmental Protection Agency, and he once made an
attempt at reforming United States heath care policy
that is arguably a precursor to the Affordable Care Act,
which became law during the Barack Obama administration.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

A. Chuck Colson and John Dean were significant figures in
the presidency of Richard Nixon.
B. Richard Nixon is commonly linked with an infamous
historical event, but this overshadows some of his notable
achievements.
C. Some of Richard Nixon’s policies influenced the policies
of later presidential administrations.
D. Richard Nixon’s reputation is primarily due to the actions
of his associates.

Câu 9.
Cane is a 1923 novel by Jean Toomer. In one portion of the
novel, Toomer uses figurative language to connect the
narrator’s urban environment of Washington, DC, and the
rural South of the narrator’s past, writing ________

Which quotation from Cane most effectively illustrate the

claim?
A. “The [train] engines of this valley have a whistle, the
echoes of which sound like iterated
gasps and sobs. I always think of them as crude music.”
B. “And when the wind is from the South, soil of my
homeland falls like a fertile shower upon
the lean streets of [Washington, DC]”
C. “I sang, with a strange quiver in my voice, a promise-
song.”
D. “The young trees had not outgrown their boxes then. V
Street [in Washington, DC] was lined
with them.”

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Câu 10.
Many believe that lullabies, characterized by their less steady
beat, contain some acoustic features that are universally
calming to infants. In a study, Constance M. Bainbridge and
colleagues played both a lullaby sung in the Western Nahuatl
language and a non-lullaby sung in the Serbian language to a
group of infants. The researchers also measured the infants’
heart rates, as a reduced heart rate is considered a measure of
relaxation. They claim that the lullaby did indeed relax the
infants.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support

Bainbridge and colleagues claim?
A. The heart fates of infants in the study were more irregular
during the lullabies than during non-lullabies.
B. Parents of infants in the study chose the lullaby over the
non-lullaby when asked which song they would use to calm
their child.
C. Infants’ heart rates were substantially lower during the
lullaby than during the non-lullaby.
D. Both the song in Western Nahuatl and the song in Serbian
were sung by a female singer.

Câu 11.

The Cherokee Nation, the Seminole Nation, and the more

than thirty other tribes in Oklahoma
operate numerous businesses and collectively generate
billions of dollars in revenue. In fact,
when the tribes’ activity is regarded as a single industry, its
contribution to the Oklahoma
economy in 2017 ________

Which choice uses data from the table to most effectively

complete the comparison?
A. surpassed the contribution made by administration/waste
but fell short of that made byreal estate.
B. exceeded the contribution made by both
administration/waste and real estate.
C. was greater than the contribution made by real estate but
equal to that made by administration/waste.
D. was lower than the contribution made by either
administration/waste or real estate.

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Câu 12.
Water flowing around an obstruction creates vortices
(patterns of swirls) of varying size; by detecting the vortices,
fish can determine the size and position of the obstruction.
Testing by Yuzo R. Yanagisuru, Otar Akanyeti, and James
C. Liao using models of three head shapes— narrow (low
ratio of width to length), intermediate, and wide (high ratio
of width to length) —showed that for large vortices, fish
with intermediate heads would be better able than narrow-
headed fish to distinguish between vortices and general
turbulence in the water. A second research team has
therefore hypothesized that in low-visibility conditions,
intermediate-headed fish will be more likely than narrow-
headed fish to detect obstructions
that create large vortices.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support the

second research team’s hypothesis?
A. A study using obstructions that created large vortices in
low-visibility conditions found that the narrow-headed lake
sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) bumped into obstructions
more often than the intermediate-headed dusky smooth-
hound (Mustelus canis) did.
B. A study using obstructions that created large vortices in
low-visibility conditions found that the lake sturgeon
(Acipenser fulvescens), which has a relatively narrow head,
bumped into more than half of the obstructions.
C. A study using obstructions that created large vortices in
low-visibility conditions found that some specimens of the
intermediate-headed dusky smooth-hound (Mustelus canis)
bumped into the obstructions more often than other
specimens of the same fish did.
D. A study using obstructions that created large vortices in
low-visibility conditions found that the intermediate-headed
dusky smooth-hound (Mustelus canis) avoided more than
half of the obstructions.

Câu 13.
In a college course on urban affairs, a student asserts, that
increased traffic congestion in the 1990s in the United States
was present both in very large cities such as New York City,
New York, and smaller areas such as Albuquerque, New
Mexico, Jacksonville, Florida, and Boise, Idaho; though
those smaller area may have been less affected by traffic
congestion than very large cities, this congestion also
worsened in them over time.

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Which choice best describes data from the graph that support
the students claim?
A. In at least one of the four urban areas shown, the amount
of traffic delay was less than 20 hours per commuter per year
at one point between 1990 and 2000.
B. While the annual number of hours of traffic delay per
commuter was always lower in the
Boise, Idaho, area than in the New York City, New York,
area for each year between 1990
and 2000, the amount of traffic delay rose in both areas
during this period.
C. Even though the amount of traffic delay per commuter per
year was greater in the
Albuquerque, New Mexico, area than in the New York City,
New York, area throughout the
period from 1990 to 2000, the amounts were nearly identical
in 1996.
D. In 1992, the amount of traffic delay in the New York
City, New York, area was less than 30
hours per commuter per year.

Câu 14.
Esther Sanye-Mengual, Kathrin Specht, and their team
surveyed three groups of people in Bologna, Italy—leaders
of urban agriculture projects, stakeholders in urban
agriculture (e.g., food researchers and urban farming
associations), and the general public—to compare their
views about the extent to which urban agriculture contributes
to 25 social or ecological services that the team identified.
The researchers used these ratings to rank the services for
each group, with a conclusion that both stakeholders and
general public regard the improvement of attitudes and
outlooks as important benefit of urban agriculture.

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Which choice best describes data in the table that Support
the city planer’s conclusion?
A. The improvement of physical health was ranked lower for
the general public than it was for
project leaders.
B. The provision of raw materials was ranked higher for the
general public than was the
improvement of attitudes and outlooks.
C. The improvement of attitudes and outlooks was ranked
higher for stakeholders than it was
for the general public.
D. The improvement of attitudes and outlooks was ranked
higher for the general public than
were the other four services.

Câu 15.
Like many other fruit-eating birds on the Hawaiian and of
Oahu, the red-whiskered bulbul helps forest plants spread by
dropping seeds from the plants’ fruits in different spots (a
process called seed dispersal). Ecologists have found that
fruit-eating birds disperse some seeds from native plants at
risk of extinction in the wild, such as the lapalapa tree.
However, the birds disperse a higher number of seeds from
night-blooming jessamine shrubs and other non-native plants
with large populations, likely because there are so many
more of those plants for them to choose from Therefore, it
isn’t surprising that ________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A. on Oahu, the rate of population increase is higher for non-
native plants than it is for vulnerable native forest plants, like
lapalapa trees.
B. night-blooming jessamine shrubs and other non-native
forest plants only recently began outnumber native forest
plants in the wild.
C. on Oahu, native plants, such as the lapalapa tree, are
already growing in most of the spots where red-whiskered
bulbuls would be likely to drop plant seeds on Oahu.
D. the lapalapa tree and the night-blooming jessamine shrub
are the plant species most in danger of going extinct in the
wild.

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Câu 16.
Cut, bent, and welded from discarded metal materials, the
sculptures of London-based Nigerian artist Sokari Douglas
Camp are meant to challenge viewers to consider their own
relationships to material ________ her thought-provoking
works in the 1993 exhibition Steel Clothes and
Ornamentation at the Redfern Gallery in London were no
different.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A. wastes; B. wastes and to
C. wastes, D. wastes

Câu 17.
A recipient of the Othmer Gold Medal and the Davy Medal
from the Royal Society, ________known as femtochemistry
when he devised an optical spectroscopy technique that
allowed researchers to study ultrafast chemical reactions
occurring within molecules.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the

conventions of Standard English?
A. the result of chemist Ahmed Zewail’s expansion of the
limits of measurability was the introduction of a new
scientific discipline
B. the introduction of a new scientific discipline by chemist
Ahmed Zewail led to the expansion of the limits of
measurability
C. the limits of measurability were expanded by chemist
Ahmed Zewail who introduced a new scientific discipline
D. chemist Ahmed Zewail expanded the limits of
measurability and introduced a new scientific discipline

Câu 18.
The Amur River, which is 2,714 miles long, ____________
into the Sea of Okhotsk.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the

conventions of Standard English?
A. flow B. flows
C. have flowed D. are flowing

Câu 19.
What is the origin of the word “pessimism”? Interestingly,
____________. It first appears in a letter by English author
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A. it was invented by an author.
B. it was invented by an author?
C. wasn’t it invented by an author.
D. was it invented by an author.

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Câu 20.
After much debate, ___________ finally made a decision:
the judges for the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature would
award Eyvind Johnson of Sweden with that year’s prize “for
a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of
freedom.”
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A. you B. it
C. anyone D. they

Câu 21.
Today, the Michelin Guide is widely known as the arbiter of
fine dining, with its coveted 3-star rating being awarded to
top restaurants like Xin Rong Ji in Beijing. However, few
know the guide started as a marketing gimmick in 1900,
when brothers Andre and Edouard Michelin sought to
increase profits for their tire company by encouraging their
customers to _________ their cars across France, visiting the
guide’s recommended hotels and restaurants along the way.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A. drive. B. drive
C. drive: D. drive;

Câu 22.
Pinon Chapter is one of the 110 chapters of the Navajo
Nation (Naabeeho Bincihdsdzo). Te chapter, known as
Be'ek'id Bas Ahoodzdni in the Navajo language (Dine
Bizaad), was the subject of a profile __________ in the
Navajo Times on December 12, 2013.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A. appearing B. appears
C. has appeared D. appeared

Câu 23.
In 1931, scientists first isolated a sample of the steroid
hormone androsterone, which they knew existed in
animals—and, they assumed, only in animals.
__________researchers would find androsterone in Swiss
cheese plants (Monstera deliciosa), but this discovery
wouldn't come until decades later.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition?
A. For example, B. Eventually,
C. In other words, D. Earlier,

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Câu 24. The first documented use of the English word
“muzzle” is attributed to poet Geofrey Chaucer’s 1385 work
“The Knight's Tale.” However, Chaucer didn't write in
Modern English; ___________ he wrote in what we now call
Middle English, which was commonly used during the
period.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition?
A. as a result, B. similarly,
C. rather, D. fnally,

Câu 25. The moon Leda orbits Jupiter in the same direction
that the planet rotates. _________ Leda’s orbit is described
as prograde. Ananke, another of Jupiter’s moons, orbits in
the opposite direction, so its orbit is described with the
opposite term: retrograde.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition?
A. In reality, B. Nevertheless,
C. Hence, D. Next,

Câu 26.
⚫ Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who
produced more than two thousand
drawings and paintings.
⚫ His work Thin in the Old was completed in 1986 and sold
at auction in 2020.
⚫Thin in the Old is composed of acrylic, oil, and paper
collage on wood and measures 3,028
square inches in area.
⚫ His work Victor was completed in 1987 and sold at
auction in 2017.
⚫Victor is composed of acrylic, oil stick, and crayon on
canvas and measures 9,432 square
inches in area.

Which choice most effectively uses information from the

given sentences to emphasize how
the two works are similar?
A. Composed by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1986 and
1987, respectively, both Thin in the Old and Victor use
acrylic paint as a medium.
B. Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat completed Thin in the Old in
1986, and Victor followed in 1987.
C. Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work Thin in the Old is
composed of acrylic, oil, and paper collage, while Victor is
composed of acrylic, oil stick, and crayon.
D. Between artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s works Victor and
Thin in the Old, the former is the larger of the two.

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Câu 27. While researching a topic, a student has taken the
following notes:
⚫ The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a ten-point scale
that orders minerals by hardness
based on their ability to scratch other minerals.
⚫ Minerals with larger numbers are harder than minerals
with 1 smaller numbers and can
leave visible scratches on them.
⚫ Minerals with smaller numbers are softer than minerals
with larger numbers and cannot
leave visible scratches on them.
⚫ The mineral talc has a Mohs scale number of 1.
⚫ The mineral fluorite has a Mohs scale number of 4.
⚫ The mineral topaz has a Mohs scale number of 8.

The student wants to compare the hardness of talc and topaz.

Which choice most effectively uses relevant information
from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A. Topaz can leave visible scratches on fluorite, which is
why topaz has a higher number than
fluorite on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.
B. The Mohs scale of mineral hardness can be used to order
fluorite, talc, and topaz by their
ability to scratch other minerals.
C. A mineral with a Mohs number of 4, like fluorite, is
harder than one with a Mohs number of 1, like talc.
D. Topaz can leave visible scratches on talc, which means
that topaz is harder than talc.

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 May Module 2 Version 1

Câu 1. Sarah Marquis, who walked 16,000 kilometers across

Asia, Siberia, and Australia, undoubtedly accomplished
much, but to ________ a lasting historical legacy for oneself,
almost nothing is more effective than being the first to do
something. For example, people will always remember
that Anésia Pinheiro Machado was the first female pilot in
Brazil to carry passengers and the first to make stunt flights.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and
precise word or phrase?
A. recognize
B. undermine
C. constrain
D. establish

Câu 2.
Based on the appearance of some of Los Angeles roof tiles,
it can be seen that Mexican touches are____. The
architecture in other areas of Los Angeles also proves the
influence of Mexican styleon Los Angeles architecture.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and
precise word or phrase?
A. palpable
B. corroborate
C. distinctive
D. convoluted

Câu 3. The following text is from Rainer Maria Rilke’s

poem “Evening.”

Evening
Rainer Maria Rilke
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
thou watch: and the lands grow distant in thou sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;
and leave thou, not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion
of what becomes a star each night, and rises;
and leave thou (inexpressibly to unravel)

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thou life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in thy and star.

As used in the text, what does the word “bounded” most

nearly mean?
A. phrased
B. circumscribed
C. forced
D. involved

Câu 4. Despite encountering quite a few _____ toward his

work in his early days, author Richard Wright
ultimately established himself within the realm of literature.
For example, his influential work
Native Son found inclusion in middle school language
textbooks and various anthologies of novels,
thus underscoring his eventual embrace by the literary
community.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and
precise word or phrase?
A. precursors
B. detractors
C. imitators
D. protractors

Câu 5.
In 1637, mathematician Pierre de Fermat first proposed a
conjecture, known as Fermat’s LastTheorem, that no three
positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation a^n + b^n =
c^n for any integer value of n greater than 2. Mathematicians
were _____ by it until Andrew Wiles, in 1994,provided a
verified proof for the theorem, making the mathematical
community agree with this conjecture.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and
precise word or phrase?
A. indoctrinated
B. confounded
C. appeased
D. disregarded

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Câu 6.
Text 1
The poet Audre Lorde once claimed that poetry is the most
inexpensive of art forms to practice. While people who
pursue other art forms—sculpture, architecture, long-form
prose—require large blocks of uninterrupted time as well as
money to complete their work, poets can write, as Lorde
said, “between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway,
and on scraps of surplus paper.” So poets can make
worthwhile art even if they must earn their living in another
way.

Text 2
Any assessment of the state of contemporary poetry must
reckon with the professionalization
of the field. While it is possible in theory for anyone to
publish in Virginia Quarterly Review,
Kenyon Review, or a similar major poetry outlet, many
people who do so have professional
training in poetry and extensive practice writing it, which
requires time not often available to
those who must also work full-time jobs. Thus, financial
security indirectly affects which
people become poets.

Based on the texts, how would Lorde (Text 1) most likely

respond to the argument presented in Text 2?
A. By indicating that those poets who publish in major
poetry journals are most likely to be able to earn a living by
writing poetry
B. By pointing out that people can produce valuable poetry
in other circumstances than those described by the author of
Text 2
C. By suggesting that those artists who specialize in more
financially rewarding artistic forms are unlikely to also be
successful as poets
D. By asserting that people often work full-time jobs in order
to afford the professional training described in Text 2

Câu 7.
The Yellow Admiral, first published in 1996, is a novel in
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series, which includes
twenty books plus an unfinished fragment of a twenty-first.
Like the rest of the books in the series, The Yellow Admiral
has a rather abrupt ending, but the following book,The
Hundred Days, picks up neatly where The Yellow Admiral
leaves off. Thus, the sudden ending is only an issue if one
considers the books as independent texts—the
Aubrey/Maturin series is best thought of as a single
incredibly long work, similar to other multivolume stories,
such as Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.

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Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
A. Over time, the Aubrey/Maturin series has acquired the
same eminence among critics as works like In Search of Lost
Time that have similar structures.
B. A certain understanding of the structures of the novels in
the Aubrey/Maturin series is helpful if one wishes to
appreciate the series.
C. Many readers find the Aubrey/Maturin novels to be
remarkably entertaining despite flaws in the novels’
structures.
D. The Yellow Admiral and The Hundred Days are two of
the most complex of O’Brian’s novels due in part to their
unconventional structures.

Câu 8.
The following text is from Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel
Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, who narrates this portion
of text, describes the state of scientific knowledge as he
began his own study of the natural world.
The untaught peasant beheld the elements around him and
was acquainted with their practical uses. The most learned
philosopher knew little more. He had partially unveiled the
face of Nature, but her immortal lineaments were still a
wonder and a mystery. He might dissect, anatomise, and give
names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their
secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him. I
had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that
seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of
nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.

Which choice best describes the main idea of the text?

A. Victor became disappointed in science when he realized
that the practical knowledge laypeople have of nature is
often deeper than the scientific understanding.
B. Victor was impressed by the layperson’s practical
understanding of nature but thought science provided a
clearer understanding.
C. Victor was immediately impressed by the advantages of
the scientific approach to understanding natural phenomena.
D. Victor thinks that conventional scientific approaches to
understanding natural phenomena
will not yield the answers he seeks.

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Câu 9.
Some scientists have suggested that as ocean temperatures
rise, many fish and corals found in the shallow zone (less
than 30 meters below the surface) could take refuge in the
cooler, darker mesophotic zone (30 to 150 meters below the
surface). However, it isn’t dear that all such species will be
able to tolerate mesophotic conditions. In 2018, Luiz Rocha
and colleagues studied stony corals in the two zones in
Caribbean and Indo-Pacific waters. Based on the depths at
which those corals are now found, the species that seems
least suited to a full migration to the mesophotic zone is
________

Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to

complete the statement?
A. Agaricia undata, because its minimum depth of 20 meters
is in the shallow zone.
B. Plerogyra discus, because its maximum depth of 15
meters is furthest from the mesophotic zone.
C. Acropora echinata, because its maximum depth of 25
meters is close to but doesn’t reach the mesophotic zone.
D. Psammocora albopicta, because its minimum depth of 1
meter is the shallowest of those listed.

Câu 10. The Harlem Renaissance, which gave us great

literary works like May Miller’s play The Bog Guide and
nonliterary works like James Van Der Zee’s photograph
Couple, Harlem, is often said to have ended in the 1930s
shortly after the Great Depression began. But some scholars
argue that the Harlem Renaissance never really ended
because it continues to shape culture in the United States
today. These scholars therefore suggest that ________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A. if a cultural movement has both literary and nonliterary
innovations, then it is likely to be influential.
B. if a cultural movement is very innovative, then it is
unlikely to be able to sustain itself for long.
C. if the literary works of a cultural movement are
influential, then it doesn’t matter whether the nonliterary
works are.
D. if the influence of a cultural movement continues, then in
some sense the movement itself continues.

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Câu 11.
Architects looking for inspiration may examine photographs
of iconic buildings such as the Forbidden City in Beijing. A
two-dimensional photograph, however, cannot capture how a
building interacts with its surroundings, whether by
complementing, blending in with, or perhaps even clashing
with sights and activities nearby. An image of the Forbidden
City thus________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A. serves to exaggerate the building’s historical importance.
B. fails to convey the full impact of the building’s design and
structure.
C. misrepresents how the building is perceived by people
who have never visited Beijing.
D. conceals the subtle deterioration of the building’s
materials.

Câu 12.
Some studies can be done well with relatively little money.
For example, a marketing study simply tying to identify the
average amount Customers spend per transaction at an online
retailer has a straightforward central question that doesn't
require many years of data collection. But it is much more
expensive to conduct a longitudinal study like the
Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia
Survey (HILDA), which looks at data for 25,000 people in
Australia to find trends in economic well-being that can take
a long time to develop. This requires lots of funding because
________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

A. marketing studies are not likely to require data from very
many individuals.
B. data from 25,000 people may not be enough to reveal
significant trends in economic well-being.
C. long term trends in economic well-being are hard to find
without collecting data over many years.
D. long-term trends in marketing can be found without
examining many years of data.

Câu 13.
Annie is a musical, whose original Broadway production
opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years, setting a record
for the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon Theatre). It
spawned numerous productions in many countries, as well as
national tours, and won seven Tony Awards, including for
Best Musical. While theaters in New York are eager to
produce an established classic like Annie, most would be
hesitant to stage a work from a relatively unknown
playwright.Therefore, ________

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Which choice most logically completes the text?
A. The works produced by those unknown playwrights
cannot possibly outperform Annie.
B. When considering which plays and musicals to produce,
theaters in New York often favor keeping audiences happy
over taking risks.
C. Annie sets an extremely high standard for the later
playwrights who may find it hard for them to make theaters
trust them.
D. Theaters only prioritize their economic benefits over the
quality of a work.

Câu 14.
It has already been established by scientists that octopuses
and crabs see things in three dimensions just like human,
while tortoises and soft-shelled turtles perceive the world in
two dimensions. To investigate whether cuttlefish also
possess tridimensional visual perception, Trevor Wardill and
colleagues affixed specially designed 3D glasses, with one
red lens and one blue lens,to one group of cuttlefish, while
maintaining another group as a control without the
glasses.Positioned at the front of the cuttlefish tank, a screen
projected videos of shrimp, one of cuttlefish’s favorite
snacks. Ultimately, the researchers concluded that cuttlefish
indeed perceive
their environment in three dimensions.

Which finding, if true, would most strongly support the

conclusion of the experiment?
A. After wearing 3D glasses, the cuttlefish attacked the prey
the same way as those who did not wear glasses.
B. The cuttlefish with 3D glasses ignored the shrimp played
on the screen during the experiment.
C. Two of the animals in the experimental group removed
the 3D glasses when they were put back in the tank, while
the others tolerated them.
D. The cuttlefish in the control group made several attempts
to attack the shrimp.

Câu 15.
A Pair of Silk Stockings is a novel written by American
author Kate Chopin in 1897. Within the novel, a passage
delineates an individual who experiences an enhanced sense
of self-positivity upon putting on an item of clothing.

Which quotation from A Pair of Silk Stockings most

effectively illustrates the claim?
A. Then she replaced her shoes, rolled the cotton stockings
together and thrust them into her bag.After doing this she
crossed straight over to the shoe department and took her
seat to be fitted.
B. Her stockings and boots and well fitting gloves had
worked marvels in her bearing—had given her a feeling of
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assurance, a sense of belonging to the well-dressed
multitude.
C. It was a long time since Mrs. Sommers had been fitted
with gloves. On rare occasions when she had bought a pair
they were always “bargains,” so cheap that it would have
been preposterous and unreasonable to have expected them
to be fitted to the hand.
D. Now she rested her elbow on the cushion of the glove
counter, and a pretty, pleasant young creature, delicate and
deft of touch, drew a long-wristed “kid” over Mrs. Sommers’
hand.

Câu 16.
The Amur River, which is 2,714 miles long, ________ into
the Sea of Okhotsk
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A. flow B. flows
C. have flowed D. are flowing

Câu 17.
What is the origin of the word “pessimism”? Interestingly,
________. It first appears in a letter by
English author Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A. it was invented by an author.
B. it was invented by an author?
C. wasn’t it invented by an author.
D. was it invented by an author.

Câu 18.
After much debate, ________ finally made a decision: the
judges for the 1974 Nobel Prize in
Literature would award Eyvind Johnson of Sweden with that
year’s prize “for a narrative art,
far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.”
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A. you B. it
C. anyone D. they

Câu 19.
Today, the Michelin Guide is widely known as the arbiter of
fine dining, with its coveted 3-star rating being awarded to
top restaurants like Xin Rong Ji in Beijing. However, few
know the guide started as a marketing gimmick in 1900,
when brothers Andre and Edouard Michelin sought to
increase profits for their tire company by encouraging their
customers to ________their cars across France, visiting the
guides recommended hotels and restaurants along the way.

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Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the
conventions of Standard English?
A. drive. B. drive
C. drive: D. drive;

Câu 20.
Pinon Chapter is one of the 110 chapters of the Navajo
Nation (Naabeehó Bináhásdzo). The chapter, known as
Be’ek’id Bas Ahoodzáni in the Navajo language (Diné
Bizaad), was the subject of a profile ________ in the Navajo
Times on December 12, 2013.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to die
conventions of Standard English?
A. appearing B. appears
C. has appeared D. appeared

Câu 21.
Writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s love of short fiction began
when she read a collection of Edgar Allan Poe stories as a
child, and she later would become a prolific short story
writer herself, publishing pieces like “In the Details” (2015)
and “To-See Pedro Infante” (2014). Yet she’s best________
especially sincerer 2020 novel Mexican Gothic reached the
New York Times Best Sellers list—as a novelist.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the

conventions of Standard English?
A. known B. known:
C. known— D. known;

Câu 22. In 1931, scientists first isolated a sample of the

steroid hormone androsterone, which they knew existed in
animals—and, they assumed, only in animals. ________
researchers would find androsterone in Swiss cheese plants
(Monstera deliciosa), but this discovery wouldn’t come
until decades later.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition?
A. For example, B. Eventually,
C. In other words, D. Earlier,

Câu 23. The first documented use of the English word

“muzzle” is attributed to poet Geoffrey Chaucer’s
1385 work. “The Knight’s Tale.” However, Chaucer didn’t
write in Modem English; ________ he wrote in whim we
now call Middle English, which was commonly used during
the period.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition?
A. as a result, B. similarly,
C. rather, D. finally,

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Câu 24. The moon Leda orbits Jupiter in the same direction
that the planet rotates. ________ Leda’s orbit is described as
prograde. Ananke, another of Jupiter’s moons, orbits in the
opposite direction, so its orbit is described with the opposite
term: retrograde.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition?
A. In reality, B. Nevertheless,
C. Hence, D. Next,

Câu 25. As part of a study, participants were asked to list

animals they thought of as “charismatic,” which defined as
“attractive, fascinating, or appealing.” Researchers compiled
the responses into a single list and found that the cheetah and
the blue whale both landed in the top twenty.________ no
animal outranked the tiger.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition?
A. In other words, B. As a result,
C. Still D. For example,

Câu 26. Shonte Tucker has worked at NASA’s famed Jet

Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), one of the world’s leading
facilities for robotic space exploration. ________ Tucker
worked as a systems engineer on the JPL’s Mars 2020
Perseverance rover team, which improved upon the 2011
Curiosity rover design by adding a coring drill to the robot
that could collect rock samples for later analysis.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical
transition?
A. Converse, B. Specifically,
C. Finally, D. Nevertheless,

Câu 27. While researching a topic, a student has taken the

following notes:
·Meow Wolf is an arts and entertainment company based in
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
·The company was founded in 2008 by a group of artists.
·Meow Wolf is known for its immersive art installations,
which blend art, architecture, and technology.
·Its first permanent installation, "House of Eternal Return,"
opened in 2016.
·Meow Wolf has announced plans to expand to other cities,
including Denver and Las Vegas.

The student wants to introduce Meow Wolf to an audience

unfamiliar with the company. Which choice most effectively
uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this
goal?

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 A. Founded in 2008, Meow Wolf is a Sante Fe-based arts
and entertainment company that creates immersive art
installations.
B. Meow Wolf is based in Santa Fe, but plans to expand to
other cities, including Denver and Las Vegas.
C. Meow Wolf's first permanent installation, "House of
Eternal Return," opened in 2016, and the company has plans
to expand to other cities.
D. Since its founding in 2008, Meow Wolf has become
known for blending art, architecture, and technology.

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I met him only once

=> only once did I meet him

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