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Created by Tran Ho Quoc Khanh – Viet Bac high school

PRACTICE TEST 2

I. Choose the most suitable word for each space. (Đề thi hsg quốc gia năm 2007)

SECRETARIES

What’s in a name? In the case of the secretary, it can be something rather surprising. The dictionary calls a secretary

“anyone who (0)___B____correspondence, keeps records and does clerical work for others”. But while this particular job

(1)_______looks a bit (2)_______, the word’s original meaning is a hundred times more exotic and perhaps more

(3)_______. The word itself has been with us since the 14th century and comes from the medieval Latin word secretaries

meaning “something hidden”. Secretaries started out as those members of staff with knowledge hidden from others, the

silent ones mysteriously (4)_______the secret machinery of organizations.

A few years ago “something hidden” probably meant (5)_______out of sight, tucked away with all the other secretaries and

typists. A good secretary was an unremarkable one, efficiently (6)_______orders, and then returning mouse-like to his or

her station behind the typewriter, but, with the (7)_______of new technology, the job (8)_______upgraded itself and the role

has changed to one closer to the original meaning. The skills required are more (9)_______and more technical. Companies

are (10)_______that secretarial staff should already be (11)______trained in, or at least familiar with, a (12)_______of word

processing packages. In addition to this, they need the management skills to take on some administration, some personnel

work and some research. The professionals in the (13)_______business see all these developments as (14)_______the jobs

which secretaries are being asked to do.

It may also encourage a dramatic (15)_______in office practice. In the past it was usual to regard the secretary as almost

dehumanized, to be seen and not heard.

0. orders handles runs controls

1. explanation detail definition characteristic

2. elderly unfashionable outdated aged

3. A. characteristic B. related C. likely D. appropriate

4. operating pushing vibrating effecting

5. kept covered packed held

6. satisfying obeying completing minding

7. advent approach entrance opening

8. truly validly correctly effectively

9. thorough demanding severe critical

10. insisting ordering claiming pressing

11. considerably highly vastly supremely

12. group collection cluster range

13. appointment hiring recruitment engagement

14. improving intensifying advancing heightening

15. turn change switch swing

1-C 2-C 3-D 4-A 5-A 6-B 7-A 8-D 9-B 10-A 11-B 12-D 13-C 14-A 15-B

II. Choose the most suitable word for each space. (Đề thi thử ĐH-CĐ)

Have you ever asked yourself what you are working for? If you have ever had the time to consider this taboo question,

or put it to others in moments of weakness or confidentiality, you (1)_________well have heard some or all of the

(2)_________. It's the money, of course, some say with a smile, as if explaining something to a child. Or it's the satisfaction

of a task well-done, the sense of achievement behind the clinching of an important (3)_________. I worked as a bus

conductor once, and I can't say I (4)_________ the same as I staggered along the swaying gangway trying to (5)_________

out tickets without falling over to someone's lap. It's the company of other people perhaps, but if that is the (6)_________,

what about farmers? Is it the conversation in the farmyard that keeps them captivated by the job? Work is power and sense

of status say those (7)_________ have either attained these elusive goals, or feel aggrieved that nobody has yet recognized

their leadership qualities. Or we can blame it all on someone else, the family or the taxman, I suspect, and I say this under

my breath, that most of us work rather as Mr. Micawber lived, hoping for something to (8)_________ up. We'll win the

pools, and tell the boss what we really think. We'll scrape together the (9)_________ and open that little shop we have

always dreamed of, or go round the world, or spend more time in the garden. One day, we'll get that (10)_________ we

deserve, but until then at least we have something to do. And we are so busy doing it that we won't have time to wonder

why.

1. A. might B. can C. will D. should

2. A. below B. rest C. following D. latter

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