SỞ GD- ĐT VĨNH PHÚC TRƯỜNG THPT LIỄN SƠN ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC ĐỀ THI THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015 MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian: 90 phút SECTION A: MULTIPLE CHOICES Mark the letter A.B.C or D on your
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MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian: 90 phút SECTION A: MULTIPLE CHOICES
Mark the letter A.B.C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other in each of following questions
1 A favour B harbor C flour D vapor
2 A hurry B study C bury D multiply
3 A bull B dull C full D put
4 A cheap B leap C keep D meant
5 A cut B flood C flute D hut
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following sentences
6 A surprise B intelligent C education D competitive
7 A predict B surgeon C salary D perfect
8 A population B capability C interactive D disaster
9 A consequence B television C benefit D facility
10 A cultural B advantage C priority D occurrence
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction
11 The local economy which once used to be in crisis now depends to a great extent on menial jobs provided
by the recent development of ecotourism
A once used to be B in crisis C depends to D provided
12 The teacher decided to fail the student with the grounds of his poor performance in tests and too slow progress
13.Included in the series are “ The Enchanted Horses”, among other famous children’s stories
14 Jim has three sisters, both of whom are at high school
15.You will get a good grade on the exam provided you studied
Read the following passage and mark the letter A,B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blank.
What we know about music and the brain Work on the human brain has indicated how different parts are centres of activity for different skills, feelings, perceptions and so on It has also been shown that the left and right halves, or hemispheres, of the brain are (16) _ for different functions While language is processed in the left, or analytical hemisphere, music is processed in the right, or emotional hemisphere (17) _ of music like tone, pitch and melody are all probably processed in different parts of the brain Some features of musical experience are processed not just in the (18) _ parts of the brain, but in the visual ones We don’t yet fully understand the (19) _ of this The tempo of music seems to be (20) _ related to its emotional impact, with fast music often (21) _ as happier and slower music as sadder It is the same with the major (22) _ rhythm of the body: our heart (23) _ quickens when we’re happy, but slows when we’re sad Military music may have (24) _ from attempts to get us ready for (25) _ by using fast drumming to (26) _ our hearts into beating faster Music is perhaps one of the most complex experiences the brain (27) _ with and it has become an absolutely (28) _ part of our rituals and ceremonies It has power (29) _ language to (30) _ mood and co-ordinate our emotional states
16 A amenable B dependable C responsible D reliable
17 A views B aspects C factors D pieces
18 A hearing B olfactory C auditory D sensory
19 A expectations B implications C assumptions D propositions
Trang 220 A surely B plainly C evidently D directly
21 A felt B endured C encountered D touched
22 A biology B biological C music D musical
24 A evolved B extended C advanced D elevated
26 A activate B motivate C stimulate D animate
27 A manages B copes C bears D holds
28 A vital B important C compulsory D dominant
30 A notify B report C associate D communicate
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that has that same meaning as the original one
31 Nora went to the gas station to have her tank filled
A Nora’s car is being repaired at the gas station
B Nora is going to the gas station to pick up her car
C Nora had her gas tank filled with gasoline
D Nora is going to the gas station to pick up her tank
32 No one but the seven-year-old boy saw the accident
A Only the seven-year-old boy saw the accident
B No one at all saw the seven-year-old’s accident
C The seven-year-old boy saw no one in the accident
D No one in the accident saw the seven-year-old boy
33 You won’t have a seat unless you book in advance
A You may have a seat if you book in advance
B You won’t have a seat because you didn’t book in advance
C You will have a seat if you keep your book in front of you
D You can’t have a seat although you book in advance
34 Jane exchanged the shoes for a different pair
A Jane returned the shoes and took some pants instead
B Jane took the shoes back to the store and got some different ones
C One of Jane’s shoes didn’t fit properly so she returned them both
D Because of a problem with the heel of her shoes,Jane returned them
35.Monica is done with finding the solutions to the problems that affect her husband
A Monica’s husband doesn’t want her to get involved in his troubles from now on
B Monica doesn’t intend to solve her husband’s problem for him anymore
C In the end,Monica found a way to sort out the troubles that her husband had
D Monica has always worked out solutions to get rid of her husband’s problems
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
THE NEW COUNTRY The first real sign of the United States was a close-packed archipelago of buoys marking lobster pots and fishing traps but this was just a prelude to the moment the throng on the deck had been waiting for The exaggerated sense of occasion that this moment was expected to inspire was heightened by the scowling splendour of the city illuminated in the storm, the racing clouds bathing Liberty
in a hideous light The immigrants, shoving and straining, must have felt that all the reports and letters home had understated the awful truth about New York The real thing was even taller and more intimidating than the tallest story So you looked out, numbed by the gigantism of the city, asking the immigrant’s single overriding question: is there really a place there for me? In New York at last, the promised city, the immigrants found themselves in a cacophonic bazaar So many things! The streets were awash with commodities undreamed of back home – new foods, smart clothes, mechanical novelties Your own berth in New York might be no more than a patch of floor in a dumb-bell tenement on the Lower East Side, yet no building was so squalid than its tenants were entirely excluded from the bounty of American life In the midst
Trang 3of rack-rent poverty, in conditions as impoverished as anything they had suffered in the old country, the immigrants would be surrounded by symbols of extravagant wealth There were ice-cream parlours, candy stores, beef-steaks and fat cigars In New York ordinary people, wage-earners, dined out in restaurants; they had Victrola machines on which they played ‘jass’ music and by the standards of Europe they were dressed like royalty You had new names assigned to you at Ellis island by immigration officers too busy to bother with the unpronounceable consonant clusters in your old one (Gold, because that’s what the streets were supposed to be paved with, was a favourite stand-by) There were new clothes too You might be able to call upon only a word or two of English, but you could still parade as a suave, fashion-conscious New Yorker
Identity in Europe wasn’t a matter of individual fancy Even with the money for the raw materials, you couldn’t dress up as an aristocrat simply because you liked the look of the noble’s style If you were Jewish, you couldn’t pass yourself off as a gentile without incurring a legal punishment Every European was the product of a complicated equation involving the factors of lineage, property, education, speech and religion The terms were subtle and could be juggled: even the most rigid class system has some play in it But once your personal formula had been worked out by the ruling mathematicians, the result was precise and not open to negotiation For anyone brought up in such a system, New York must have induced a dizzying sense of social weightlessness Here identity was not fixed by society’s invisible secret police The equation had been simplified down to a single factor – dollars The windows of department stores were theatres They showed American lives as yet unlived in, with vacant possession When your nose was pressed hard against the glass, it was almost yours, the other life that lay in wait for you with its silverware and brocade So you were a presser in a shirtwaist factory on Division Street, making a paltry $12.50 a week – so what? The owner of the factory was your landsman, practically a cousin; he had the start on you by just
a few years and already he lived in a brownstone, uptown on 84th Success in this city was tangible and proximate; it was all around you, and even the poorest could smell it in the wind The distance between slum and mansion was less than a mile; hard work… a lucky break… and you could roam through Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s buying up the life you dreamed of leading Alice’s apartment, which I would be sub-renting – courtesy of a brown envelope and the doorman’s blind eye, was in a relatively quiet corner, yet even here one could feel New York trembling under one’s feet In place of bird-song there was the continuous angry warble of ambulances, patrols, fire-trucks It was the sound of heart-attacks and heart-break, of car crashes, hold-ups, hit-and-run, fight and pursuit If you were going to learn to live here, you’d have to tune out the sound of New York and set up house in the silent bubble of your own preoccupations …
36 According to the writer, when New York came into view the immigrants felt _
A a sense of anticlimax B disappointment at its ugliness
C overwhelmed by the sight of it D the stories they’d heard had been exaggerated
37 The word ‘prelude’ in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _
38 The word ‘intimidating” in paragraph 1 can be best replaced by _
A prodigious B browbeating C deteriorating D devastating
39 What distinguished immigrants’ homes in America from the ones they had left was _
A that they were of a much higher standard B that they could be rented more cheaply
C their spaciousness D the neighbourhoods they were in
40 The writer implies that immigrants received new names _
A as a matter of policy B in a random fashion
C when they spoke no English D because they wanted English-sounding names
41 The writer implies that immigrants _
A were forced to deny who they were B longed for the social certainties of Europe
C could free themselves of their past lives D felt the need to hide the truth about their backgrounds
42 The writer suggests that the dream of achieving wealth _
A conflicted with the realities of the workplace
B was soon abandoned once immigrants were settled
C was only possible by exploiting your fellow countrymen
D was fostered by the unique social circumstances of New York
43 The word ‘suave’ in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _
Trang 4A smooth B patronizing C awkward D spruce
44 The writer suggests that the arrangement for the flat was possible because _
A the owner was a friend B he knew the doorman
C the landlord didn’t know D they deceived the doorman
45 According to the writer, people who live in New York _
A must feel constantly threatened B survive by developing ways of ignoring what’s going on
C all become caught up in the rush of activity
D only cope by not allowing themselves time to think
Choose the word or phrase that best completes each of the following sentences
46 Don’t take any of Mike- he’s always rude to everyone
A notice B view C attention D sight
47 the phone rang later that night did I remember the appointment
A No sooner B Not until C Only D Just before
48 It looked dark and heavy it was going to rain
A although B unless C as if D whereas
49 The amount she earned was on how much she sold
A related B connected C dependent D secured
50 often serve as places of public entertaiment and festivals,they can also be places where people can find peace and solitude
A Even though city parks B City parks C City parks that D There are city parks which
51 Just as we _the house it began to rain
A left B were leaving C had left D would have
52 The room was _ of strangers
A.full B complete C.replete D filled
53 The nurse was on _ in the hospital all night
A work B duty C service D alarmed
54 She _ them of lying to her
A threatened B blamed C criticized D.accused
55 Do you know _?
A who how many people go on Sundays to church
B who go to church on Sundays how many people
C how many people who go on Sundays to church
D how many people who go to church on Sundays
56 We watch the cat _the tree
57 If we had known your new address, we _ to see you
58 You may borrow as many books as you like, provided you show them to _ is at the desk
59 He looked forward to _ his first pay packet
A receive B have received C be receiving D receiving
60 Carol refused; _, her answer was “no”
A in other words B otherwise C words for words D however
61 If you see Tom _ you mind _ him to get in touch with me?
A will / reminding B will / to remind C would / reminding D would / to remind
62 _ I hear that song, I think of you
63 “Let’s go dancing _?” – “Yes, let’s.”
64 I wish I _ all about this matter a week ago
A knew B know C had known D B & C are correct
PHẦN TỰ LUẬN: (2 điểm)
Trang 5I Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that the original meaning is exactly the same as the provided one.
65 I haven’t seen that man here before
It’s _
66 The furniture was so expensive that I didn’t buy it
The furniture was too _
67 The robbers made the bank manager hand over on the money
The bank manager _
68 Tom learned to drive when he was nineteen
Tom has _
69 She had never been so unhappy before
She was unhappier _
II TOPIC: Write about a sporting event you saw recently.
Last Sunday at our school football field, a friendly football match was held Our school Female Students’ Football Team played against the neighboring school’s one.
It was a really nice Sunday morning then The football field where the match took place was previously well-decorated Red flags could be seen along the roads from our school gate passing the school play-ground to the gym then to the football ground, together with numerous slogans, posters, and of course pictures of the two teams and individual players Then came the most important moment of the day when the two teams entered the field from the changing rooms, following the two headmasters of the two schools, and the referees Spectators all burst into applauses to welcome the players As soon as the game began, spectators started cheering and shouting for one side or the other Others sang and danced, some even called out the players’ names with love and pride The crowd kept discussing and commentating happily On the first half, our team played much better to score two goal to lead the guest The football field seemed to be filled with applauses and bravos when the first and then the second goal were scored by the two different home strikers The players of the two teams played so well that it made spectators forget the time as the referee blew his whistle to finish the first half When the second half came the guest players played much better and scored a goal The players still played enthusiastically but no more goal was scored The match ended with the winning score of 2-1 for the home team.
It was a very happy weekend day for us all and it was, in my opinion, the best game I have ever watched We all agreed that such sporting event brought us closer together, made us feel relaxed and we very much felt confident and proud of our school
-THE END -ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ THI THỬ SÔ 5-KÌ THI TUYỂN SINH QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015 1.C 2.C 3.B 4.D 5.C 6.C 7.A 8.D 9.D 10.B 11.A 12.B 13.B 14.B 15.D 16.C 17.B 18.C 19.B 20.D 21.A 22.B 23.D 24.A 25.A 26.C 27.B 28.A 29.C 30.D 31.C 32.A 33.A 34.B 35.C 36.C 37.C 38.B 39.D 40.B 41.C 42.D 43.A 44.C 45.B 46.A 47.B 48.C 49.C 50.C 51.B 52.A 53.B 54.D 55.D 56.B 57.D 58.A 59.D 60.A 61.C 62.C 63.D 64.C