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BÀI THI: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề) (50 câu trắc nghiệm) Mã đề thi 319

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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions from 1 to 2. Question 1: I prefer secure jobs because I don’t like keeping on moving and changing all the time.

A. challenging B. stable C. safe D. demanding Question 2: When he passes the entrance exam, his parents will be walking on air.

A. feeling extremely unhappy B. feeling extremely airy C. extremely happy D. extremely light

Choose the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions from 3 to 4. Question 3: They finished one project. They started working on the next.

A. Not until did they start working on the next project then they finished one B. Hardly had they finished one project when they started working on the next. C. Only if they had finished one project did they start working on the next. D. Had they finished one project, they would have started working on the next. Question 4: The proposal seemed like a good idea. The manager refused it.

A. Since the proposal seemed like a good idea, the manager refused it. B. The manager refused the proposal though it seemed like a good idea. C. The proposal didn’t seem like a good idea, so the manager didn’t accept it. D. The manager didn’t like to proposal because it didn't seem a good idea.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 5 to 12.

Newspapers can be traced back to 16th century Venice. In 1566, handwritten news sheets - called 'avis' or ‘gazette' - filled with information on wars and politics in Europe were distributed weekly in Venice. Similar news sheets soon started to appear in other European countries. By 1615, Germany and Austria were publishing weeklies. And in 1621, the first news sheets appeared in England.

At first, these news sheets only printed news which came from outside the country in which they were printed. Discussion of local or national issues was avoided. Europe’s governments did not tolerate anything negative being said about them as it could lead to national unrest.

Such censorship slowed the development of newspapers. Nevertheless, a belief in the importance of a 'free press’ slowly began to take hold in Europe. England was among the first countries to escape government control of the press. This occurred during the reign of King Charles I in the 17th century, when, during a period of breakdown in the king's authority, people began to publish what they wanted.

Eventually, free press had the right to criticize government and voice other ideas freely. In the middle of the 18th century, Sweden became the first country to make press freedom a part of its law.

In the 19th century, the newspaper industry was transformed by the invention of the telegraph. The telegraph was a communication system that allowed messages to be sent over long distances in a matter of minutes. It wasn’t long before newspapers became society's primary means of spreading and receiving information. In 1880, the first photographs appeared in newspapers and, by the end of the century, all the basic technical tools for the modern newspaper were in place.

The story of newspapers in the 20th century was one of adaptation to changing consumer and media markets. The invention of radio, TV, and later the Internet, repeatedly drove newspapers to reinvent themselves. Also, during the 20th century, mass-market advertising increased profitability for newspapers. This attracted large, publicly-owned corporations who began …