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age to children. 
 However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are 
ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well – especially if the parents are 
very supportive of their child. 
 Michael Collins is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by 
taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 
50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. Michael’s mother knows very little about music, but his 
father plays the trumpet in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music 
competitions if he is unwilling. 
 Winston Smith, Michael’s friend, however, is not so lucky. Both his parents are successful 
musicians, and they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as 
they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he 
does not win. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems 
quiet and unhappy. 
Question 1: One of the serious mistakes parents can make is to ______. 
A. neglect their child’s education B. push their child into trying too much 
C. help their child to become a genius D. make their child become a musician 
Question 2: Parents’ ambition for their children is not wrong if they ______. 
A. understand and help their children sensibly B. arrange private lessons for their children 
C. force their children into achieving success D. themselves have been very successful 
Question 3: Who have criticized the methods of some ambitious parents? 
A. Successful musicians. B. Unrealistic parents. 
C. Educational psychologists. D. Their children. 
Question 4: Michael Collins is fortunate in that ______. 
A. his parents are quite rich B. his father is a musician 
C. his parents help him in a sensible way D. his mother knows little about music 
Question 5: The phrase "crazy ...ve unsuccessful children 
B. successful parents always have intelligent children 
C. parents should spend more money on the child’s education 
D. parents should let the child develop in the way he wants 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs 
correction. 
Question 11: The better you are at English, more chance you have to get a job with international 
 A B C D 
organizations. 
Question 12: My father used to giving me some good advice whenever I had a problem. 
 A B C D 
Question 13: Society will be having to change radically to keep pace with the technology available. 
 A B C D 
Question 14: The woman of whom the red car is parked in front of the bank is a famous pop star. 
 A B C D 
Question 15: There are differences and similarities between Vietnamese and American culture. 
 A B C D 
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in 
meaning to the original sentence in each of the following questions. 
Question 16: Conan said to me, "If I were you, I would read different types of books in different 
ways." 
A. Conan advised me to read different types of books in different ways. 
B. I said to Conan to read different types of books in different ways to me. 
C. Conan ordered me to read different types of books in different ways. 
D. I read different types of books in different ways to Conan as he told me. 
Question 17: She knows a lot more about it than I do. 
A. I know as much about it as she does. 
B. I do not know as much about it as she does. 
C. She does not know so much about it as I do. 
D. I know much more about it than she does. 
Question 18: The boy was not allowed to have any friends, so he felt lonely. 
A. Having no friends, the boy felt so lonely. 
B. Deprived of friends, the boy felt lonely. 
C. Having a lot of friends, the boy felt lonely. 
D. Not having friends, they made the boy feel lonely. 
Question 19: Unless someone h...t invention that provided power. Exploded in a cylinder, it drove a motor engine. Beyond these 
simple and direct uses, those forms have not much adaptability. 
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 On the other hand, we make use of electricity in thousands of ways. From the powerful 
voltages that drive our electric trains to the tiny current needed to work a simple calculator, and from 
the huge electric magnet in steel works that can lift 10 tons to the tiny electric magnet in a doorbell, 
all are powered by electricity. An electric current can be made with equal ease to heat a huge mass 
of molten metal in a furnace, or to boil a jug for a cup of coffee. 
 Other than atomic energy, which has not as yet been harnessed to the full, electricity is the 
greatest power in the world. It is flexible, and so adaptable for any task for which it is wanted. It 
travels so easily and with incredible speed along wires or conductors that it can be supplied instantly 
over vast distances. 
 To generate electricity, huge turbines or generators must be turned. In Australia they use coal 
or water to drive this machinery. When dams are built, falling water is used to drive the turbines 
without polluting the atmosphere with smoke from coal. 
 Atomic power is used in several countries but there is always the fear of an accident. A 
tragedy once occurred at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, at an atomic power plant used to make electricity. 
The reactor leaked, which caused many deaths through radiation. 
 Now scientists are examining new ways of creating electricity without harmful effects to the 
environment. They may harness the tides as they flow in and out of bays. Most importantly, they 
hope to trap sunlight more efficiently. We do use solar heaters for swimming pools but as yet 
improvement in the capacity of the solar cells to create more current is necessary. When this 
happens, electric cars will be viable and the world will rid itself of the toxic gases given off by t