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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. D. The icing on the cake (idm): sth that makes a good situation even better.
2. A. Blunder (n): a serious mistake, usually caused by not taking care or thinking /
to move in an awkward way.
B. Err (v): to make a mistake or to do something wrong.
C. Mischief (n): behaviour, especially a child's, that is slightly bad but is not intended
to cause serious harm or damage.
D. Transgress (v): to break a law or moral rule.
3. A. eyesore (n): an unpleasant or ugly sight in a public place.
B. gatecrasher (n): someone who goes to a party or other event when they have not
been invited.
C. keystone (n): the middle stone in the top of an arch that has a special shape and
holds all the other stones in position.
D. watershed (n): an event or period that is important because it represents a big
change in how people do or think about something.
4. A. Ill-mannered (adj): rude and unpleasant.
B. Immaterial (adj): not important, or not relating to the subject u r thinking about.
C. Impertinent (adj): rude and not showing respect, especially towards
someone older or in a higher position than you.
D. Inapossite (adj): not suitable and right for the occasion.
5. A. Of no fixeded abode (idm): to not have a permanent home.
6. B. Assent (n): official agreement to or approval of an idea, plan, or request.
C. Consent (n): permission or agreement. / to agree to do something, or to allow
someone to do something.
7. C. Conginitive (adj): connected with thinking or conscious mental processes.
D. Intellectual (adj): relating to your ability to think and understand things,
especially complicated ideas.
8. D. To be without rhyme or reason (idm): to be without any obvious
reasonable explanation.
9. A. Circumspection (n): the quality of being careful not to take risks.
B. Discretion (n): the ability to behave without causing embarrassment or
attracting too much attention, especially by keeping information secret.
C. judiciousness (n): sự đúng đắn.
D. prudence (n): sự cẩn trọng.
10. A. Ensue (v): to happen after something else, especially as a result of it.
B. Eventuate (v): to happen, or lead to something happening.
C. Supervene (v): to happen in the middle of a situation that already exists, and
change that situation.
D. Transpire(v): if it transpires that something has happened, this previously secret
or unknown fact becomes known.
II. PREPOSITIONS AND PHRASAL VERBS
21. A. Hold on: used to tell someone to wait for a short time.
B. Hang out: to spend a lot of time in a place or with someone.
C. Press on: to continue traveling or doing something.
22. C. Play sb/sth off against sb/sth: to encourage one person or group to
compete or argue with another, hoping to gain advantage from this situation.
23. A. Put sth by: to save an amount of money to use later.
B. Put sth in: to fix a large piece of equipment or system into a room or building,
ready to be used.
C. Put sth/sb apart: to separate two things or people.
24. A. Come in for: to receive blame or criticism.
B. Bring sth about: to cause something to happen.
C. Go/come down with: to start to suffer from an infectious disease.
D. Open up: to start to talk more about yourself and your feelings.
25. A. back away: to show that you do not support a plan or idea any longer and do
not want to be involved with it.
B. back down: to admit that you were wrong or that you have been defeated.
C. back out: to decide not to do something that you had said you would do.
D. back up: if traffic backs up, the vehicles have to wait in a long line because there
are too many of them.
26. B. Put sth over: to express an idea clearly so that people understand it.
D. Put sth across: to express your ideas and opinions clearly so that people
understand them easily.
27 A. Admit off: to allow something or make it possible.
D. Own up to: admit that you have done something wrong.
28. A. Take (something) out on (someone): to treat someone badly because one
feels angry, frustrated.
29. B. Stand out to be very noticeable.
30. A. Hang back: to be slow to do something, often because of fear or having
no confidence.
III. IDIOMS AND COLLOCATIONS
31. B. deploring: to say or think that something is very bad.
32. C. pay through the nose (for sth): to pay too much money for sth.
33. B. out of harmony: không hoà hợp với.
34. C. take pity (on sb): to feel sorry for sb, and to do sth that shows this.
35. D. stand sb in good stead: if an experience stands a person in good stead, it is or
will be of great use to them.
36. B. on the brink of: extremely close to or the edge of a cliff or other high area by
and large when everything about a situation is considered together.
37. C. heap sth on sb: to give someone a lot of praise, criticism, etc.
38. D. stoke up on/with sth: to eat a lot of a particular food in order to avoid feeling
hungry or weak later.
39: A. by and large: when everything about a situation is considered together.
40. A. a pig in: a poke a thing that is bought without first being inspected, and thus
of unknown authenticity or quality.
VI. CLOZE TEST
Conduct (v): to organize and perform a particular activity.
(v) to lead someone to a particular place.
(v) if you conduct a tour of a place, you take people around the place and
show it to them.
(v) to allow electricity or heat to go through.
(v) to direct the performance of musicians or a piece of music.
Breakaway (n): an act of separating from a group, especially because of
disagreement. / independent after leaving another group.