ĐỀ THI MẪU ÔN THI TN-THPT NĂM 2011 – ĐỀ 15 Question 1: Fill the most suitable word in each numbered blank of the passage. All over the world, forests are safeguarding the health of the planet itself. They do this by protecting the soil, providing water and regulating the climate. Trees bind soil to mountain-sides. Hills where the trees 1 been felled lose 500 times as 2 soil a year as those with trees. Trees catch and store rainwater. Their leaves break the impact 3 the rains,robbing 4 of their destructive power. The roots of the trees allow the water 5 go into the soil, which gradually releases 6 to flow down rivers and refill ground-water reserves.Where 7 are no trees, the rains run in sheets of water off the land, carrying the soil with them. Land covered with trees and other plants absorb 20 times 8 rainwater than bare earth.As.9 grow,trees absorb carbon dioxide, the main cause of the “greenhouse effect”, 10 threatens irreversibly 11 change the world’s climate. Together, the world’s trees, plants and soils contain three times as much carbon as there 12 in the atmosphere. The world’s forests contain 13 vast majority of its animal and plant species. The tropical rainforests alone have well 14 half of them, 15 though they cover only about 6 % of the earth’s land surface. Question 2:Rewrite these sentences, beginning as shown. 1,She prefers reading to watching TV. / She would………………………………………………………………… 2,The south of England is drier than the north. / There is not……………………………………………………… 3,The book interested me more than the film. / I thought………………………………………………………… 4,The teacher did not allow the class to leave before 4.30. / The teacher made……………………………… 5,Although he is intelligent, he doesn’t do well at school. / In……………………………………………………. 6,If he doesn’t apologize I will never invite him here again. / Unless…………………………………………… 7,You must water the plants at least once a week. / The plants………………………………………………… 8,I advise you not to say anything like that again. / You’d…………………………………………………………. 9,She couldn’t get to work because of the heavy snow. / The heavy snow……………………………………… 10,I had expected the weather to be worse. / The weather was not………………………………………………. Question 3:Supply the correct form of the verb given in brackets. 1,The house ( paint ) since I ( be ) there. 2,We ( sit ) down for a rest while the shoes ( repair ). 3,It is she or I who ( be ) to go. 4,You ( remember ) my name or you ( forget ) it ? 5,There ( be ) a lot of great changes since computers ( invent ). 6,Your hair looks different. You ( have ) a hair cut ? 7,Birds ( build ) their nests in summer and ( fly ) to the south in winter. 8,It’s no use ( ask ) children ( keep ) quiet. They can’t help ( make ) a noise. 9,I ( keep ) looking at her, wondering where I (see ) her. 10, The meat ( taste ) better if it ( not cook ) so long. Question 4:Supply the correct form of the words given in brackets. 1,I’m very tired of your…….behaviour. (child ) 2,The…… is that the plan will fail. ( conclude ) 3,I am sorry about my… but I hate being kept waiting.(patient ) 4,There is no……between the two.(compare) 5-He never walks to work………( hurry ) 6,I want to know if the……here are good or not.(serve) 7,Thank you for your…….( kind ) 8,There is a saying in English, “…… speak louder than words.” (act ) 9,Although he is not a………,he regularly writes…….for our newspaper.( poetry ) 10,It was… of you to phone me while I was ill. ( think ) Question 5:Complete these sentences with the correct adverb or preposition. 1,He put the plates…….the cupboard. 2,I took the chicken……the refrigerator, made myself a couple of sandwiches, and then I put the rest of the chicken…… the refrigerator. 3,I usually sit… the sofa, and my husband sits…….an armchair. 4,I finished looking… the newspaper, so I turned……the television. 5,You normally bake it…….the oven for about forty minutes. 6,I took the butter… ……the refrigerator and put it … the table. 7,I left my briefcase…… work. 8,There are usually a lot of parties……New Year’s Eve. 9,Tom doesn’t see his parents very often these days-usually … Christmas and sometimes……the summer for a few days. 10,I’m just going out to do some shopping. I’ll be back… half an hour. 11,Carol got married……17,which is rather young to get married. 12,Ann works……during the week, so she likes to relax…… week-ends. Question 6: Read the reading passage and then choose the best answer a, b, c or d. Because writing has become so important in our culture, we sometimes think of it as more real than speech. A little thought, however, will show why speech is primary and writing secondary to language. Human beings have been writing (as far as we can tell from surviving evidence ) for at least 500 years; but they have been talking for much longer, doubtless ever since there have been human beings. When writing did develop, it was derived from and represented speech, although imperfectly. Even today there are spoken languages that have no writing from. Furthermore, we all learn to talk well before we learn to write; any human child who is not severely handicapped physically or mentally will learn to talk : a normal human being cannot be prevented from doing so. On the other hand, it takes a special effort to learn to write : in the past many intelligent and useful members of society did not acquire the skill, and even today many who speak languages with writing systems never learn to read or write, while some who learn the rudiments of those skills do so imperfectly. To affirm the primacy of speech over writing is not, however, to say that the latter is of little importance. One advantage writing has over speech is that it is more permanent and makes possible the records that any civilization must have. Thus, speaking makes us human, writing makes us civilized. 1,The author of the passage argues that a-writing has become too important in today’s society. b-speech is more basis to language than writing. c-everyone who learns to speak must learn to write. d-all languages must have a written form. 2,According to the passage, writing a-is imperfect, but less so than speech. b-represents speech, but not perfectly. c-developed from imperfect speech. d-is represented perfectly by speech. 3,In the author’s judgement a-writing has more advantages than speech. b-speech is essential but writing has important benefits. c-speech conveys ideas less accurately than writing does. d-writing is more real than speech. 4,In order to show that learning to write requires effort, the author gives the example of a-people who learn the rudiments of speech. b-people who speak many languages. c-intelligent people who could not write. d-severely handicapped children. 5,According to the author, one mark of civilized society is that it a-affirms the primacy of speech over writing. b-affirms the primacy of writing over speech. c-teaches its children to speak perfectly. d-keeps written records. Question 7: Choose the best answer a, b, c or d to complete the reading passage below. The world’s largest weather 1 is over the Pacific Ocean. There is a high-pressure system 2 the Eastern Pacific.This 3 winds to blow toward the wet low-pressure system over Indonesia. All of this causes the ocean 4 to move 5 the west. These currents cause warm water to 6 up in the Western Pacific.(If you blow 7 the top of a cup of coffee, the coffee piles up on the opposite side of the cup. The same thing happens with the ocean currents.) Every four to ten years,something 8 to this weather system. Everything changes, and scientists don’t understand why. The low-pressure area moves toward the east, the high-pressure area is very weak, the wind lows toward the east. A great pile of warm 9 water moves toward South America. People 10 this EL Nino. It usually happens at Christmas time, and EL Nino is the Spanish name for the baby Jesus. 1,a-center b-region c-system d-area 2,a-on b-in c-at d-over 3,a-causes b-makes c-forces d-does 4,a-water b-currents c-flows d-direction 5,a-toward b-over c-to d-along 6,a-come b-pile c-push d-turn 7,a-over b-by c-across d-above 8,a-appears b-changes d-affects d-happens 9,a-clean b-surface d-fresh d-salt 10,a-call b-say d-talk d-tell The end ! 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Question 3: 1-has been painted / was 2-sat / were being repaired 3-am 4-Do you remember / have.forgotten 5-have been / were invented 6-Have you had 7-build / fly 8-asking / to keep 9-kept / had seen 10- would have tasted / hadnt been cooked Question 4: 1-childish 2-conclusion 3-impatience 4-comparison 5-hurriedly 6-services 7-kindness 8-actions 9-poet / poems 10-thoughtful Question 5: 1-in 2-out / of / back 3-on / in 4-at (through ) / on 5-in 6-out / of / on 7-at 8-on 9-at / in 10-in 11-at 12-hard / at Question 6: 1-b 2-b 3-b 4-c 5-d Convey truyền đạt rudiments [ru:dimnt] nguyên lý cơ bản, khái niệm bớc đầu Handicap [hổndikổp] gây bất lợi, gây cản trở affirm Question 7 1-c 2-d 3-a 4-b 5-a 6-b 7-c 8-d 9-b 10-a Pacific Ocean [pə'sifik'ou∫n] Th¸i B×nh D¬ng Pile up: chång chÊt, chÊt ®èng . ĐỀ THI MẪU ÔN THI TN-THPT NĂM 2011 – ĐỀ 15 Question 1: Fill the most suitable word in each numbered blank of the passage on the opposite side of the cup. The same thing happens with the ocean currents.) Every four to ten years,something 8 to this weather system. Everything changes, and scientists don’t understand. Ocean. There is a high-pressure system 2 the Eastern Pacific.This 3 winds to blow toward the wet low-pressure system over Indonesia. All of this causes the ocean 4 to move 5 the west. These currents