Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 33 to 37.

Earthquakes are destructive events in nature. The damage depends on the size or magnitude of the quake. There have never been so many people living in cities in quake zones, and so the worse the damage can be from a big quake, bringing fires, tsunamis, and the loss of life, property, and maybe an entire city.

We understand how earthquakes happen but not exactly where or when they will occur. Until recently, quakes seemed to occur at random. In Japan, government research is now showing that quakes can be predicted. At the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Koshun Yamaoka says earthquakes do follow a pattern—pressure builds in a zone and must be released. But a colleague, Naoyuki Kato, adds that laboratory experiments indicate that a fault slips a little before it breaks. If this is true, predictions can be made based on the detection of slips.

Research in the U.S. may support Kato’s theory. In Parkfield, California earthquakes occur about every 22 years on the San Andreas fault. In the 1980s, scientists drilled into the fault and set up equipment to record activity to look for warning signs. When an earthquake hit again, it was years off schedule. At first the event seemed random but scientists drilled deeper. By 2005 they reached the bottom of the fault, two miles down, and found something. Data from two quakes reported in 2008 show there were two “slips’—places where the plates widened—before the fault line broke and the quakes occurred.

We are learning more about these destructive events every day. In the future we may be able to track earthquakes and design an early-warning system. So if the next great earthquake does happen in Tokai, about 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, as some scientists think, the citizens of Tokai may have advance warning.

(Adapted from Reading Explorer 3, Nancy Douglas et al., 2010)

Câu 33: What is the main idea of the passage?

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.

An astronaut living in space begins a day in much the same way as he would on earth. The astronaut is able to brush his teeth and use the toilet in space. It is, however, rather challenging as the water droplets will (28)__________ around. The astronaut will also have to make to do with sponge baths.

There is a special plan for the astronaut on (29)____________a spaceship which includes beverages and food items. The astronaut is allowed to have a maximum of three main meals a day. The meal varies each day until the sixth day. On that day, the menu is (30)_____________and the astronaut eats the meals he had on the first day. The food (31) ________ is brought on a shuttle mission can be dehydrated, in natural form for fresh. Sometimes, they are kept in thermostabilised cans or sealed pouches. It takes only thirty minutes to cook a delicious meal for a crew of up to seven people on a space mission.(32)_________, astronauts have to eat slowly and carefully or the food will float away.

Because of her conservative views, the professor never accepts anything not related to traditional values and the status.

Among all the changes resulting from the___________entry of women into the workforce, the transformation that has occurred in the women themselves is not the least important.

Câu 5: ______ committee is expected to reach ______ decision this evening.

As a conductor of heat and electricity, aluminum exceeds all metals except silver, copper and gold.

The new airport was constructed in the _______ of fierce opposition.

From bones found in the United States, we have learned that many animals which existed no longer in the world once made their homes there.

The series became so popular that it was moved to the _______ time spot of 8 pm.

Over a third of the population was estimated to have no __________ to the health service.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

My mother ________ for a computer company, but she ___________ at home today.

Companies spend millions of dollars on advertisings and commercials trying to persuade the public to buy their products.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following question

She said to me that she had just read an interesting book which had a new approach Shakespeare.

_________, she spent nearly an hour walking all around the neighborhood looking for her car.

My father told me that If we wanted to catch the 6.30 train, that would mean _________the house at 6.00.