Đề cương Tiếng Anh thi nâng bậc 2008 - 5

e to his house. When I had had enough rest, I asked 
him to take me to the road and he did. After the, I found a car which took me 
to the city to get help. I had one day to get back to my uncle and cousin. 
When I got back to them, they were so happy because I had gotten help and 
they were able to see me again. Eventually, I learned a lesson from this 
story, which was that the desert is very dangerous. Next time, when we go 
hunting, we must go in groups with two or more cars. If we go together, we 
can keep each other safe. We know the desert is dangerous, but we will 
never quit hunting. 
1. Which of the following is Not true? 
A. The writer’s uncle was over 70 years old 
B. Three males went hunting 
C. The writer was younger than his uncle and his cousin 
D. Winter is the hunting season, so they went hunting in January 
2. Choose the correct answer 
A. the range rover had front – wheel drive 
B. after resting, they fixed their tent. 
C. The group left for the hunting trip at 2.15 P.M 
D. During the first two hours, the group found animals to hunt 
3. Which happened last? 
A. On their way back to camp, saeed’s cousin saw a rabbit 
B. They ate delicious food and drank Arabic coffee 
C. The group sat around the fire talking 
D. The falcon flew up and down and caught the rabbit 
4. Which is not true about the Bedouin man? 
A. He was riding a camel 
B. He took the writer to his house 
C. He took the writer to get help 
D. He allowed the writer to rest 
5. What lesson did the writer learn from his experience? 
A. Hunting is dangerous and he will not hunt again 
B. When hunting in the desert, people should go in groups with two or more 
cars 
C. When hunting, the writer will use a fifferent type of car 
D. Bedouins are not helpful to strangers in the desert 
II. …Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty – that always helps when. I’m 
angry And I am. It’s my neighbour, Bonzo, He’s the wilsons’ pet and he’s 
terrible. He’s a dog, of cours. I’m a cat. My name is fred, and, listen 
everybody, let me tell you something about Bonzo: - For example, when 
peter calls Bonzo, he runs away – And when mrs Wilson takes him for a 
walk in the park, he always gets lost. – When I want to go to bed, he barks 
and he sometimes wakes me up in the middle of the day. – And when the 
children ride away on their bikes, he runs after them. Typical – And, let’s 
see, people, what day is it today? Monday? No. Tuesday? Wednesday, No, 
Thursday. OK, on Thursday and on Friday he watches TV of course – And 
he can’t stand on the garden wall like this. I’m the best. Oh no, here he is 
now. Not another picnic behind the house. He’s eating Cornflakes again. 
One, two, three, four, five… 
1. Who tells the story? 
A. Peter tells the story. 
B. Bonzo tells the story 
C. Fred tells the story 
D. The dog tells the story 
2. Who is terrible? 
A. Peter is terrible 
B. Bonzo is terrible 
C. Fred is terrible 
D. Mrs Wilson is terrible 
3. What does Bonzo do when peter calls him? 
A. he goes for a walk 
B. he runs away 
C. he always gets lost 
D. He runs after the bikes 
4. When does Bonzo get lost? 
A. He gets when Mrs Wilson takes him for a walk 
B. He gets lost when Mrs Wilson calls him 
C. He never gets lost 
C. Not Bonzo but Mrs Wilson gets lost 
5. When does Bonzo watch TV? 
A. On Thursday 
B. On Monday 
C. On Sunday and Monday 
D. On Thursday and Friday 
III. Having reached the highest point of our route according to plan, we 
discovered something the map had not told us. It was impossible to climb 
down into the Kingo valley. The riverlay deep between mountain sides that 
were almost vertical. We couldn’t find any animal tracks, which asually 
show the best way across country, and the slopes were covered so thickly 
with bushes that we could not see the nature of the ground. We had 
somehow to break through to the rirver which would give us our direction 
out of the mountains into the inhabited lowlands. Our guide cut a narrow 
path through the bushes with his long knife and we followed in single file. 
Progress was slow. Then, When we thought we had really reached the river, 
we fornd ourselves instead on the adge of a cliff with a straight drop of 
1,000 feed to the water belew. We climbed back up the slope and began to 
look for another way down. We climbed, slipped, sweated and scratched our 
hands to pieces and finally arrived at the river. Happily we strode downhill 
along its bank without having to cut our way. However, after a few miles the 
river entered a steep – sided gap beween rocks and suddenly propped thirty – 
five feet over a waterfall. There was no path alongside it and no way round 
it. Then one of the guides saw a way of overcoming the difficulty. There was 
a fallen tree lying upside down over the waterfall with its leafy top resting 
on the opposite bank below the falls. Without hesitation he climbed down 
the slipperty trunk to show us how easy it was. Having got to the fork of the 
tree, he moved hand over hand along a branch for four or five feet with his 
legs hanging in space, then he dropped onto the flat bank the other side, 
throwing his arms in the air like a footbller who has scored a goal, and 
cheerfully waving us on 
1. Having reached the highest point on their route, the travellers 
expected to be able to 
A. track animals to the river 
B. put away the maps they had been using 
C. approach the river from a different direction 
D. Get down to the river without much difficulty 
2. The traivellers wanted to get to the river because……… 
A. it would lead them to the waterfall 
B. it would show them which way to go 
C. is was the only possible route out of the mountains 
D. it was a quicker router than going over the mountains 
Now elephants are protected by special laws. There are two kinds of 
elephants: the African elephant and the Indian elephant. Afrrican elephants 
can be identified by the larger ears. The African elephant grows up to 10 feet 
tall and weighs as much as 12,000 pounds. The Indian elephant grows up to 
9 feet tall, and weighs up to 8000 pounds. It’s easier to identify because of 
its smaller ears. Most circus elephants are Indian elephants. Another name 
for the Indian elephants are Indian elephants. Unfortunately, there is a 
growing conflict between elephants and humans as more of the elephants 
habitat is developed. Elephants can destroy the crops of an entire village in a 
single night, and this also causes conflict. At the moment, there are about 
600,000 elephants remaining in Africa. The greatest threat to elephants is the 
ivory trade. Most commercial ivory comes from elephant’s tusks. From 1979 
to 1989 was a bad time for African elephants. About 70,000 wild elephants 
were killed for ivory each year. In 1989 an international treaty limited the 
trade in ivory, decreasing the number or elephants killed, but elephants are 
still being killed for ivory. Please don’t ever buy anything made from ivory! 
1. How much does a bady elephant weigh at brith? 
A. 300 pounds 
B. 200 pounds 
C. 70 pounds 
D. 1200 pounds 
2. Hunters made umbrella holders out of……………. 
A. Elephants’ feet 
B. Elephants’ tails 
C. Elephants’ trunks 
D. Elephants’ teeth 
3. An Indian Elephant has…………..than the African Elephant. 
A. smaller ears 
B. a stronger trunk 
C. a longer tail 
D. bigger teeth 
4. What part of an elephant’s body is used to cool the elephant? 
A. The feet 
B. the trunk 
C. the tail 
D. the ears 
5. What animal is the most dangerous to an elephant? 
A. lions 
B. Snakes 
C. Human beings 
D. Zebras 
V. Our demand for water is constantly in creasing. Every year there are more 
and more people in the world. Faconries turn out more and more products 
and need more and more water. We line in a world of water. But almost all 
of it – about 97% - is in the oceans. This water is too salty to be used for 
drinking, farming, and manufacturing. Only about 3% of the world’s water 
is fresh. Most of this water is not easily available to man because it is locked 
in glaciers and icecaps. There is as much water on earth today as there ever 
or will ever be. Most of the water we use finds its way to the oceans. There, 
it is evaporated by the sun. It then falls back to the earth as rain. Water is 
used and reused over and over again. Is is never used up. Although the world 
as a whole has plenty of fresh water, some regions have a water shortage. 
Some regions are always too dry, and others too wet. A region that usually 
gets enough rain may suddenly have a serious dry spell and another region 
may be flooded with too much rain. 
1. All of the following statements can be inferred from the text 
EXCEPT. 
A. We need more and more water 
B. The population of the world is increasiong everky year 
C. Most of the world’s water is locked in glaciers and icecaps 
D. Factories also need more water 
2. Which of the following is NOT true about the world’s water? 
A. The vast majority of the world’s water is ocean (or salty) water 
B. Ocean water is salty enough to be used for drinking, farming, and 
manufacturing 
C. Most fresh water is locked in glaciers and icecaps 
D. The percentage of fresh water is very small 
3. What can be inferred about water? 
A. The amount of water on earth is always the same 
B. Water will probably be exhausted 
C. Water can be used once only 
D. Most of the water we use is rain water 
4. It can be inferred from the text that…………… 
A. No region in the world suffers from a lack of fresh water 
B. Rain does not fall equally everywhere on earth 
C. The world has plenty of fresh water in comparison with salty water 
D. A region that usually gets enough rain hardly ever has a dry spell 
5. The phrasal verb “turn out” in the second line is closest in meaning 
to…………. 
A. Sell 
B. Prove to be 
C. Switch off 
D. Produce