READING HANDOUT 4

READING HANDOUT 4

ĐẠI HỌC QUỐC GIA HÀ NỘI MOCK TEST

TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC NGOẠI NGỮ
TIẾNG ANH B1
Ngày thi: / /201

BÀI THI: ĐỌC HIỂU

Thời gian làm bài: 50 phút

Directions: In this section of the test, you will read THREE different passages, each followed by 10 questions
about it. For question 1-30, you are to choose the best answer A, B, C or D, to each question. Then, on your
answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you
have chosen. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
You have 45 minutes to answer all the questions, including the time to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.

READING PASSAGE 1
You should spend about 15 minutes on Questions 1-10, which are based on Reading Passage 1.

Line Any type of regular, physical activity can improve your fitness and your
health. The most important thing is that you keep moving. Exercise should be a
regular part of your day, like brushing your teeth, eating, and sleeping. It can be in
gym class, joining a sports team, or working out on your own. When you are ready
5 for regular exercise, keep the following tips in mind.
First, a good mental attitude is important, so stay positive and have fun. Let’s
start by finding an activity that you think is fun. You are more likely to keep with it
if you choose something you like. A lot of people find it more fun to exercise with
someone else, so see if you can find a friend or family member to be active with
10 you.
Second, take it one step at a time. Small changes can add up to better
fitness. For example, walk or ride your bike to school or to a friend's house instead
of getting a ride. Get on or off the bus several blocks away and walk the rest of the
way. Use the stairs instead of taking the elevator or escalator.
15 Third, get your heart pumping. Whatever you choose, make sure it includes
aerobic activity that makes you breathe harder and increases your heart rate. This is
the best type of exercise because it increases your fitness level and makes your heart
and lungs work better. It also burns off body fat. Examples of aerobic activities are
basketball, running, or swimming.
20 Last, don't forget to warm up with some easy exercises or mild stretching
before you do any physical activity. This warms your muscles up and may help
protect against injury. Stretching makes your muscles and joints more flexible too. It
is also important to stretch out after you exercise to cool down your muscles.
To conclude, your goal should be to do some type of exercise every day. It is
best to do some kind of aerobic activity without stopping for at least 20 to 30
minutes each time. Do the activity as often as possible, but don't exercise to the
point of pain.
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1. What question does the passage answer?

A. What can I do to get more fit?
B. What is the best type of exercise?
C. Is mental health more important than physical one?
D. How can students balance life and study?
2. According to the passage, the most important thing is that you should ________.
A. do exercise after you brush your teeth
B. do mental exercise such as meditation
C. take exercise as part of your daily routine
D. train yourself with different aerobic activities
3. What is the basis for choosing an activity?
A. Your mood B. Your interest C. A funny friend D. An active sibling
4. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT recommended?
A. Getting a ride B. Cycling C. Going on foot D. Using the stairs
5. What does the word “it” in Line 15 refer to?
A. What you choose B. Aerobic activity C. Your heart D. Your heart rate
6. According to the passage, aerobic activity does NOT increase ________.
A. your fitness level B. your heart rate C. your lung capacity D. your body fat
7. What does the word “this” in line 21 refer to?
A. Forgetting to warm up or stretching the body
B. Warming up with some easy exercises or mild stretching
C. Doing any physical activity including mild stretching
D. Protecting against injury caused by aerobic exercises
8. It is necessary to make gentle movements ________ doing aerobic activities.
A. before B. after C. while D. before and after
9. According to the passage, it is advised to ________.
A. overcome the pain to increase your fitness level
B. stop exercising before you feel painful
C. do easy exercise for less than half an hour
D. rest for a day when you start doing exercise
10. What is the tone of the passage?
A. Encouraging B. Humorous C. Critical D. Disappointing

READING PASSAGE 2
You should spend about 15 minutes on Questions 11-20, which are based on Reading Passage 2

Line Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World
War is the country’s impressive population growth. For every three Canadians in
1945, there were over five in 1966. In September 1966 Canada’s population passed
the 20 million mark. Most of this surging growth came from natural increase. The
5 depression of the 1930s and the war had held back marriages, and the catching-up
process began after 1945. The baby boom continued through the decade of the
1950s, producing a population increase of nearly fifteen percent in the five years
from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been exceeded only once before in
Canada’s history, in the decade before 1911, when the prairies were being settled.
10 Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950s supported a growth in the
population, but the expansion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages
and an increase in the average size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth rate stood
at 28 per thousand, one of the highest in the world.
After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It
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15 continued falling until in 1966 it stood at the lowest level in 25 years. Partly this
decline reflected the low level of births during the depression and the war, but it was
also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school
longer, more women were working; young married couples were buying
automobiles or houses before starting families; rising living standards were cutting
20 down the size of families. It appeared that Canada was once more falling in step
with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western
world since the time of the Industrial Revolution.
Although the growth in Canada’s population had slowed down by 1966 (the
increase in the first half of the 1960s was only nine percent), another large
25 population wave was coming over the horizon. It would be composed of the
children who were born during the period of the high birth rate prior to 1957.

11. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. Educational changes in Canadian society
B. Canada during the Second World War
C. Population trends in post-war Canada
D. Standards of living in Canada
12. The word “five” in line 3 refers to ________.
A. Canadians B. years C. decades D. marriages
13. The word “surging” in line 4 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. new B. extra C. accelerating D. surprising
14. The author suggests that in Canada during the 1950’s ________.
A. the urban population decreased rapidly B. fewer people married
C. economic conditions were poor D. the birth rate was very high
15. The word “trend” in line 11 is closest in meaning to________.
A. Tendency B. aim C. growth D. directive
16. The word “peak” in line 14 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. pointed B. dismal C. mountain D. maximum
17. The author mentions all of the following as causes of declines in population growth after 1957
EXCEPT ________.
A. people being better educated B. people getting married earlier
C. better standards of living D. couples buying houses
18. It can be inferred from the passage that before the Industrial Revolution ________.
A. families were larger B. population statistics were unreliable
C. the population grew steadily D. economic conditions were bad
19. The word “it” in line 25 refers to ________.
A. horizon B. population wave C. nine percent D. first half
20. The phrase “prior to” in line 26 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. behind B. since C. during D. preceding

READING PASSAGE 3
You should spend about 15 minutes on Questions 21-30, which are based on Reading Passage 3

Line The first 35 years of motion picture history are called the silent era, even
though films were accompanied by the music of pianists or organists or small
orchestras of house musicians, because there was no practical means for recording
and playing back recorded dialogue or music in synchronization with the reel of
5 film. Films of this era progressed from very basic to much more elaborate in the
years 1894 to 1928 that booked the era of silent films. The films of this era can quite
logically be divided into three phases: the primitive era (1894- 1907), the
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transitional era (1908- 1917), and the mature era (1918- 1928).
The primitive era began when the Kinetograph and the Kinetoscope,
10 inventions created in Thomas Edison’s New Jersey laboratory in 1892 to film and to
view short sequences respectively, were used to create and present 30-second
vignettes of novelty acts in U.S. and European cities in 1894. (A) An alternative to
Edison’s equipment, the Cinematographe, was developed by Auguste and Louis
Lumiere, the Cinematopgraphe was a camera that was lighter than Edison’s and
15 could be easily converted into a projector, and it was this machine that turned the
motion picture into a worldwide phenomenon. (B) The Lumieres held the first
public screening of their motion pictures in Paris in 1895. (C) For the next few
years, the films created were rather short and primitive, each film consisted of a
single shot from a lone stationary viewpoint. (D)
20 The period from 1908 to 1917 was known as the transitional era. In this era,
motion pictures changed from a primitive form of recreation to a well-respected part
of popular culture. Actors developed in their ability to convey ideas without words,
and creative intertitles provided commentary and narrative between sections of
frames. Filming techniques were developed, with the introduction of such stylistic
25 devices as close-ups and long shots. Films became much longer, and the film topics
expanded considerably from the earlier scenes of real life to include film adaptations
of popular and classic literature plays. During this period, newspapers also began
carrying reviews of films so that audiences would know which films were worth
seeing. By 1917, a major shift in the film industry had occurred. France had been the
30 world’s leading exporter of films prior to World War I, but the war had decimated
the film industry in France. By 1917, the United States had assumed leadership in
the motion picture industry, and the sleepy town of Hollywood, California, which
had been used as a winter shooting site for filmmakers from the East Coast as early
as 1907, had become the seat of the filmmaking industry. By 1920, Hollywood
35 boasted a clique of movie stars with worldwide fame, and, as the decade progressed,
fan magazines and gossip columns devoted to publicizing both the public and
private lives of the stars flourishes. The 1920s were also a time of great expansion of
the Hollywood studios, as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) was created form a
merger to form the largest studio in Hollywood, as Universal, Paramount, and Fox
40 became firmly establishes as studios, and as the small company Warner Brothers,
which was to grow immensely in later decades, introduced a series of films featuring
the canine star Rin Tin Tin.
However, by the end of 1920s, the era of silent films ended abruptly. Edison
and other inventors had introduced technology for creating motion pictures with
45 sound at various times throughout the early decades of the twentieth century, but
those early devices could not ensure good enough sound quality and amplification to
induce studios to try any of them out. Finally, Warner Brothers took a chance with
the 1927 film, The Jazzz Singer, which starred popular recording artist Al Jolson and
featured both singing and talking. When The Jazzz Singer became a tremendous hit,
50 Warner Brothers and Fox immediately converted to producing motion pictures with
sound, the other large studios, believing that talking pictures might be only a passing
fad, continued making silent pictures for one more year. When it became clear that
talking pictures were the future of film rather than a passing fad, the
remaining studios converted to the exclusive production of talking film a year
55 later, by 1929, all of the films produced in Hollywood studios were talking
pictures, and the era of silent films was over.
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21. The phrase “in synchoronization with” in line 4 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. in time with B. in agreement with
C. as many times as D. on top of
22. The author includes the last sentence in paragraph 1 in order to ________.
A. describe events leading up to the events in the following paragraphs
B. provide examples showing that there were many different types of silent films
C. announce the organization of the passage
D. present a concluding idea to summarize paragraph 1
23. It is implied in paragraph 2 that ________.
A. the Kinetoscope was invented some time before the Kinetograph
B. the Kinetoscope was used to view films created with the Kinetograph
C. the Cinematographe could create films but could not be used to view them
D. The cinematographe was used to view films created with the Kinetograph
24. In which space (marked A, B, C or D in the passage), will the following sentence fit?
“They depicted short every scene of people taking part in outdoor activities, laborers working at a
construction site, and travelers scurrying through a train station.”
A. (A) B. (B) C. (C) D. (D)
25. The word “convey” in line 22 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. communicate B. understand C. transport D. contradict
26. It is NOT true according to paragraph 3 that Hollywood ________.
A. was the leading producer of films before World War I
B. was used as a winter site for films early in the twentieth century
C. was a small town prior to the success of the film industry
D. took over the role of leader in the film industry from France.
27. The word “seat” in line 34 could be best replaced by ________.
A. chair B. basis C. center D. success
28. The word “them” in line 47 refers to ________.
A. early decades B. early devices
C. sound quality and amplification D. studios
29. According to paragraph 4, The Jazz Singer ________.
A. was produced by Fox Studios
B. was the last great silent film
C. featured a famous Hollywood movie star
D. was extremely successful
30. In the last paragraph, what best paraphrases the sentence:
When it became clear that talking pictures were the future of film rather than a passing fad, the remaining
studios converted to the exclusive production of talking film a year later, by 1929, all of the films produced in
Hollywood studios were talking pictures, and the era of silent films was over.
A. After studios were sure that pictures with sound were going to be successful, they converted to
talking pictures relatively quickly.
B. The future of film was presented in a series of talking films that were produced in Hollywood for
release in 1929.
C. The era of silent films ended when the exclusive production for making talking pictures was
granted to Hollywood studios.
D. It was clear to studios that talking pictures were only a fad, so they decided not to produce them
until sometimes in the future.
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PHIẾU TRẢ LỜI

MÔN: ĐỌC HIỂU
TRÌNH ĐỘ: TIẾNG ANH B1
Thời gian làm bài: 45 phút

Họ và tên: …………….............................…
Lớp: …………….............................…

1. 16.

2. 17.

3. 18.

4. 19.

5. 20.

6. 21.

7. 22.

8. 23.

9. 24.

10. 25.

11. 26.

12. 27.

13. 28.

14. 29.

15. 30.
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