Câu hỏi:

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

You may have heard that tomatoes and processed tomato product like tomato sauce and canned tomatoes protect (31)______ some types of cancer. The cancer-preventing properties of tomato products have been (32)______ to lycopene. It is a bright red pigment found in tomatoes and other red fruits and is the cause of their red color. Unlike other fruits and vegetables, where nutritional content such as vitamin C is diminished upon cooking, processing of tomatoes increases the concentration of lycopene. Lycopene in tomato paste is four times (33)______ in fresh tomatoes. This is because lycopene is insoluble in water and is tightly bound to vegetable fiber. Thus, (34)______ tomato products such as pasteurized tomato juice, so up, sauce, and ketchup contain the highest concentrations of lycopene. Cooking and crushing tomatoes as in the canning process and serving in oil-rich dishes such as spaghetti sauce or pizza (35)______ increase assimilation from the digestive tract into the bloodstream. Lycopene is a fat-soluble substance, so the oil is said to help absorption to a great extent.

Question 32

A. pressed

B. responsible

C. attributed

D. original

Câu 1:

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.

John said, “You’d better not lend them any money, Daisy.”

A. John asked Daisy if she had lent them any money.

B. John commanded Daisy not to lend them any money.

C. John advised Daisy not to lend them any money.

D. John ordered Daisy not to lend them any money.

Câu 2:

Due to ever more spreading poaching, there ______ a dramatic decline in the number of elephants recently.

A. is

B. had been

C. was

D. has been

Câu 3:

___ that Columbus discovered America.

A. In 1492

B. That was in 1492

C. There was in 1492

D. It was in 1492

Câu 4:

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.

“Get out of my car or I’ll call the police!” Jane shouted to the strange man.

A. Jane politely told the man she would call the police if he didn’t leave her car.

B. Jane plainly said that she would call the police.

C. Jane threatened to call the police if the man didn’t leave her car.

D. Jane informed the strange man that she would call the police.

Câu 5:

He is a very intelligent boy; ______, he sometimes gets bad marks.

A. otherwise

B. so

C. however

D. thus

Câu 6:

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

She tried very hard to pass the driving test. She could hardly pass it.

A. Although she didn‘t try hard to pass the driving test, she could pass it.

B. Despite being able to pass the driving test, she didn‘t pass it.

C. No matter how hard she tried, she could hardly pass the driving test.

D. She tried very hard, so she passed the driving test satisfactorily.