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A. Travelling abroad has some specific negative effects on your feelings due to culture shock.

B. It is believed that every expat is certain to encounter culture shock during the overseas trip.

C. There are always some things one can do to get over anger and confusion when traveling abroad.

B. Most of the countries have unusual habits as one characteristic to help building up culture shock.

C. More research should be carried out before the trip so as to avoid understanding unusual habits in a new country.

D. People should be open-minded since what they are going to experience will not have much difference to that in their country.

A. fantastic B. upsetting C. unavoidable D. resembling

A. Buy a book called Culture Shock Thailand to learn more about the trouble.

B. Try to talk to them about the problem in order to clear the air.

C. Clean up yourself and continue to walk down the street so as not to have any trouble with them.

D. Give them a smile and be tolerant of the situation.

Question 60. What does the writer advise people to do when they arrive in a new country?

A. People should arrange a short trip a few days earlier in order to get accustomed to restaurants, hotels and bars in the new place.

C. People should make their own judgements right before the trip.

D. People should understand the new place a little by staying away from expats because of their negative points.

Question 61. What does the word “it” in the sixth paragraph refer to?

A. culture shock B. difference C. classes D. language

A. Shelters should be first considered when people have plans to travel to a country.

B. Being aware of the situation in which you live and other services is essential for people’s abroad relocation.

C. As soon as people are relocated by their company, they should ask themselves some necessary questions in order to prepare for culture shock.

D. People should look down on the offers from the company for the relocation since all questions have already been dealt with.

A. become involved B. feel the similarity C. control feelings D. see the point

B. The waitress in the restaurant was shocked at her colleague’s screaming.

C. A lack of understanding is a cause to culture shock. D. His anxiety was built up during the trip.

Question 65. In the last paragraph, what does the writer mean by saying “you will have more difficulty believe it or not, returning "home" than you imagined especially the longer you stay away”?

A. Once people underwent culture shock, they would find it hard to leave the destination country due to its extreme annoyance.

B. People would like to stay longer to understand more about the culture shock since they think it is more interesting than annoying.

C. Culture shock is inevitable and may cause people to want to return home since the longer people stay the more trouble they have.

A. The captain urged that John should train harder in order not to drop out.

C. John was reminded to train harder so as not to dropping from the team.

D. The captain promised to drop John from the team in case he trains harder.

Question 72. “I would like to invite you to attend our conference on environmental issues tomorrow, sir”, said the student to his professor yesterday.

A. The students invited his professor to our conference on environmental issues the following day.

B. The professor was told to attend the conference on environmental issues tomorrow.

C. The student invited his professor to their today’s conference on environmental issues.

B. The man said that he actually has told the manager about Mary’s irresponsibility the previous week.

C. The man criticized Mary for her irresponsibility that the manager had not known the previous week.

D. The man blamed the manager for Mary’s irresponsibility the previous week.

C. The woman complained that she did not see any point in that movie owing to the terrible story and soundtrack.

D. The woman admitted not seeing the movie well since the story was as bad as the soundtrack.

Question 75. “Thank you very much for your invitation but I am going away to Japan on Saturday this week”, said the boss to Karl yesterday.

A. The boss showed his gratitude toward Karl for his invitation as he was going away to Japan this Saturday.

B. Karl felt sorry for his boss’s leaving for Japan on Saturday that week though he thanked him for the invitation.

C. The boss said that he was going away to Japan on Saturday that week, so he could not come to Karl’s party.

D. The boss refused Karl’s invitation for the party since he had planned to go to Japan this Saturday.

A. mysteriously B. occasionally C. constantly D. interestingly

A. associate B. separate C. cooperate D. assemble

A. get rid of B. indicate C. distinguish D. create

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ĐỀ THI THỬ THQG NĂM 2015 MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH – ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ 140 Thời gian: 90 phút

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

Question 1: She was the first woman in the Philippines. She was elected as the president of the country.

A. She was the first woman to be elected as the president of the Philippines.

B. She was the first woman who is elected as the president of the Philippines.

C. She was the first woman being elected as the president of the Philippines.

D. She was the first woman elected as the president of the Philippines.

Question 2: I’ve _____ what the problem is with the exam.

A. got on B. found out C. looked up D. put up

Question 3: Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.

A. eliminate B. accelerate C. renovation D. stability

Question 4: I can’t hear. Please ___. A. tear up B. eat up C. count up D. speak up

Question 5: Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the antonym of the underlined word in the following question. Our victory in this Olympic Games was hard won.

A. softly B. actively C. lightly D. weakly

Question 6: Founded in 1967 in Bangkok, _____.

A. the ASEAN success in promoting peace and stability gained

B. the peace and stability in the region has been successfully promoted by the ASEAN

C. the ASEAN’s promotion of peace and stability has been successful

D. the ASEAN has successfully promoted peace and stability in the region

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the questions from 7 to 16

Canadian English is a regional variety of North American English that spans almost the entire continent. Canadian English became a separate variety of North American English after the American Revolution, when thousands of Loyalists, people who had supported the British, left the United States and fled north to Canada. Many Loyalists settled in southern Ontario in the 1780s, and their speech became the basis for what is called General Canadian, a definition based on the norms of urban middle-class speech.

Modern Canadian English is usually defined by the ways in which it resembles and differs from American or British English. Canadian English has a great deal in common with the English spoken in the United States, yet many Americans identify a Canadian accent as British. Many American visitors to Canada think the Canadian vocabulary sounds British – for example, they notice the British “tap” and “braces” instead of the American “faucet” and “suspenders”. On the other hand, many British people identify a Canadian accent as American, and British visitors think the Canadians have become Americanized, saying “gas” and “truck” for “petrol” and “lorry”.

People who live outside North America often find it difficult to hear the differences between Canadian and American English. There are many similarities between the two varieties, yet they are far from identical. Canadian English is instantly recognizable to other Canadians, and one Canadian in a crowded room will easily spot the other Canadian among the North Americans.

There is no distinctive Canadian grammar. The differences are mainly in pronunciation, vocabulary, and idioms. Canadian pronunciation reflects the experience of a people struggling for national identity against two strong influences. About 75 per cent of Canadians use the English “zed” rather than the American “zee” for the name of the last letter of the alphabet. On the other hand, 75 per cent of Canadians use the American pronunciation of “schedule”, “tomato”, and “missile”. The most obvious and distinctive feature of Canadian speech is probably its vowel sound, the diphthong “/ou/”. In Canada, “out” is pronounced like “oat” in nearby U.S. accents. There are other identifying features of Canadian vowels: for example, “cot” is pronounced the same as “caught” and “collar” the same as “caller”.

An important characteristic of the vocabulary of Canadian English is the use of many words and phrases originating in Canada itself, such as “kerosene” and “chesterfield” (“sofa”). Several words are borrowed from North American Indian languages, for example, “kayak”, “caribou”, “parka”, and “skookum” (“strong”). The name of the country itself has an Indian origin; the Iroquois word “kanata” originally meant “village”. A number of terms for ice hockey – “face-off”, “blue-line”, and “puck” – have become part of World Standard English.

Some features of Canadian English seem to be unique and are often deliberately identified with Canadian speakers in such contexts as dramatic and literary characterizations. Among the original Canadian idioms, perhaps the most famous is the almost universal use of “eh?” as a tag question, as in “That’s a good movie, eh?” “Eh” is also used as a filler during a narrative, as in “I’m walking home from work, eh, and I’m thinking about dinner. I finally get home, eh, and the refrigerator is empty.”

The traditional view holds that there are no dialects in Canadian English and that Canadians cannot tell where other Canadians are from just by listening to them. The linguists of today disagree with this view. While there is a greater degree of homogeneity in Canadian English compared with American English, several dialect areas do exist across Canada. Linguists have identified distinct dialects for the Maritime Provinces, Newfoundland, the Ottawa Valley, southern Ontario, the Prairie Provinces, the Arctic North, and the West.

Every culture has its own (19)____ list of behavior that is acceptable. Every society (20)____ has its taboos, or types of behavior that are considered a violation of (21)_____ manners. If you travel to (22)____ country, on business or vacation, it is really (23)____ to learn some of that country’s customs so that you (24)____ insult the local people there. The word “taboo” comes from the Tongan language and is used in (25)____ English to describe verbal and non-verbal behavior that is forbidden or to be (26)____. In spite of people’s common thought, taboos are not universal and they tend to be (27____ to a certain culture or country, and usually form around a community’s values and beliefs. (28____, what is considered acceptable behavior in one country may be a serious taboo in another.