SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC TRƯỜNG THPT LIỄN SƠN (ĐỀ LUYỆN 267 ) ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015 MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian: 90 phút PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM: (8 điểm) Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. Câu 1: Suppose I _____ half the money I owe you. Would that satisfy you? A. will pay B. would pay C. pay D. paid Câu 2: In the US, _____ the states but Hawaii is an island. A. neither of B. none of C. not any D. all of Câu 3: The policeman _____ me off with a warning as it was Christmas. A. sent B. gave C. let D. set Câu 4: Good health enables people to enjoy life and have the _____ to achieve their goals. A. opportunity B. occasion C. chance D. situation Câu 5: Up _____ when it saw its master. A. did the dog jump B. jumped the dog C. the dog jumped D. does the dog jump Câu 6: _____ anything suspicious arise; please let me know at once. A. Should B. Would C. Can D. Did Câu 7: It is _____ who _____ wrong. A. me/ is B. I/ am C. me/ am D. I/ is Câu 8: What I actually earn bears no _____ to all my needs. A. connection B. association C. relation D. link Câu 9: I was in a quandary _____ what to say. A. owing to B. of C. as to D. for Câu 10: It won’t _____ matter if you arrive a few minutes late. A. greatly B. grandly C. considerably D. largely Câu 11: This computer game is really out of the _____. A. normal B. usual C. average D. ordinary Câu 12: They said that the blue cheese was very tasty, but the smell put me _____. A. of B. in C. to D. off Câu 13: Once you have started something, you ought to see it _____ to the end. A. to B. through C. for D. in Câu 14: The curriculum at the public school is as good _____ of any private school. A. as or better than that B. or better than C. as or better than D. as or better that Câu 15: Alone in a deserted house, he was so busy with his research work that he felt _____ lonely. A. nothing but B. everything but C. anything but D. all but Câu 16: When he realized the police had spotted him, the man _____ the exit as quickly as possible. A. made up B. made out C. made off D. made for Câu 17: Traffic is being _____ from the High Street while the water main is under repair. A. subverted B. averted C. diverted D. perverted Câu 18: Either you or Daisy _____ the vase. There is no one else in the room. A. has been broken B. have been broken C. has broken D. have broken Câu 19: Old Mr. Brown’s condition looks very serious and it is doubtful if he will _____. A. pull up B. pull back C. pull through D. pull out Câu 20: When __ a European, we should stick to the last name unless he suggests that we use his first name. A. talking B. speaking C. discussing D. addressing Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. Câu 21: Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other three. A. locality B. newspaper C. influence D. prejudice Câu 22: Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other three. A. popularity B. beneficial C. continental D. preparatory Câu 23: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other three. A. layer B. betrayer C. sprayer D. prayer Câu 24: Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other three. PREPARED BY ĐỖ BÌNH – THPT LIỄN SƠN, LẬP THẠCH, VĨNH PHÚC – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 A. amateurish B. bureaucracy C. amplifier D. humanism Câu 25: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other three. A. occasion B. confusion C. dimension D. conclusion Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction. Câu 26: The little boy was lost and spoke in an afraid voice. A B C D Câu 27: Both sides have at last agreed with a United Nations plan to end the fighting. A B C D Câu 28: Pupils sometimes suffer in a test when the questions are written in a language which is not his mother tongue. A B C D Câu 29: The country’s chief export s is oil and gas. A B C D Câu 30: Jim is very good ness with his hands. A B C D 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 blanks from 31 to 40. SPORT PHOTOGRAPHY Sport as a spectacle and photography as a way of recording action have developed together. At the turn of the 20th century, Edward Muybridge was experimenting with photographs of movement. His pictures of a runner (31)_____ in every history of photography. Another milestone was when the scientist and photographer Harold Edgerton (32)_____ the limits of photographic technology with his study of a (33)_____ of milk hitting the surface of a dish. Another advance was the development of miniature cameras in the late 1920s, which made it possible for sports photographers to (34)_____ their cumbersome cameras behind. The arrival of television was a significant development in the transmission of sport. Paradoxically, it was of benefit to still photographers. People who watched a sports event on TV, with all its movement and action, (35)_____ the still image as a reminder of the game. Looking back, we can see how (36)_____ sports photography has changed. (37)_____ sports photographers were as interested in the stories behind the sport as in the sport itself. Contemporarysports photography (38)_____ the glamour of sport, the colour and the action. But the best sports photographers today do more than simply tell the story of the event, or make a (39)_____ of it. They (40)_____ in a single dramatic moment the real emotions of the participants emotions with which people looking at the photographs can identify Câu 31: A. feature B. exhibit C. demonstrate D. show Câu 32: A. enlarged B. prolonged C. extended D. spread Câu 33: A. drip B. drop C. splash D. dash Câu 34: A. keep B. leave C. lay D. put Câu 35: A. chose B. pointed C. valued D. cheered Câu 36: A. extremely B. severely C. highly D. radically Câu 37: A. First B. Early C. Initial D. Primary Câu 38: A. outlines B. emphasizes C. forms D. signals Câu 39: A. store B. preservation C. record D. mark Câu 40: A. capture B. seize C. grasp D. secure Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions. Câu 41: It won’t be long before her husband comes back. A. There’s likelihood that her husband won’t return soon. B. Possibly, her husband won’t come back as soon as he wants. C. Her husband will come back later than planned. D. Her husband will be returning quite soon. Câu 42: The president was reported to have been a heart attack. A. The president was reported to suffer a heart attack. B. People say that the president had suffered a heart attack. C. It was reported that the president had suffered a heart attack. D. People reported the President to suffer a heart attack. Câu 43: Impressed as we were by the new cinema, we found it rather expensive. A. We were very impressed by the new cinema, but found it rather expensive. B. The new cinema was more expensive than we expected, PREPARED BY ĐỖ BÌNH – THPT LIỄN SƠN, LẬP THẠCH, VĨNH PHÚC – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 C. We weren’t as much impressed by the new cinema’s look as its coast. D. We were not impressed by the new cinema at all because it looked rather expensive. Câu 44: Their chances of success are small. A. It’s very likely that they will succeed. B. They won’t have any chance of being successful. C. They will definitely be successful. D. It’s not very likely that they will succeed. Câu 45: At no time did the two sides look likely to reach an agreement. A. If the two sides had had time, they would have reached an agreement. B. The two sides never look like each other. C. The two sides never looked likely to reach an agreement. D. The two sides had no time to reach an agreement. Câu 46: She locked the door so as not to be disturbed. A. She locked the door so that not to be disturbed. B. She locked the door in order that she wouldn’t be disturbed. C. She locked the door to be not disturbed. D. She locked the door for her not to be disturbed. Câu 47: They don’t know much knowledge of the jobs of their choice. A. They have little knowledge of the jobs of their choice. B. They have a few knowledge about the jobs of their choice. C. They have few knowledge of the jobs of their choice. D. They don’t have much knowledge of the jobs of their choice. Câu 48: Hardly are appeals allowed against the council’s decisions. A. It’s too hard for the council to allow appeals against its decisions. B. The council always allows appeals against its decisions. C. Allowing appeals against its decisions is not good. D. The council rarely allows appeals against its decision. Câu 49: He talked about nothing except the weather. A. He said he had no interest in the weather. B. He talked about everything including the weather. C. He had nothing to say about the weather. D. His sole topic of conversation was the weather. Câu 50: When the unemployment rate is high, the crime rate is usually also high. A. The unemployment rate is as high as the crime rate. B. The higher the unemployment rate is, the higher the crime rate is. C. The unemployment rate and the crime rate are both higher D. The high rate of unemployment depends on the high rate of crime. 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 blanks from 51 to 60. THE OLDEST BUILDING On a hillside at Chichibu, north of Tokyo, Japanese archeologists have uncovered the remains of what is believed to be the world’s oldest (51)____ structure. The structure was discovered during the construction of a park. The site has been dated to half a million years ago, ( 52)___ to a report in a scientific magazine. The structure consists of w hat appear to be 10 post holes, which form two (53)___ pentagons. These could be the remains of two huts. A (54)___ of stone tools were also found (55)___ around the site. It is believed that the shelter was built by an (56)___ ancestor of humans, Homo erectus, who is known to have used stone tools. The remains of these huts could help to (57)___ how Homo erectus lived and hunted. What is not known is whether these structures were temporary or more permanent shelters. But they do (58)___ us that hominids could conceive of using technology to organize things. They had the idea of actually making a structure -a place where they could sleep. It (60)___ the mental capacity to distinguish between inside and outside. Before this new discovery the ol dest remains of a structure were those at Terra Amata in France, from around 200,000 to 400.000 years ago. Câu 51: A. unnatural B. fake C. synthetic D. artificial Câu 52: A. saying B. mentioning C. following D. according Câu 53: A. shapeless B. uneven C. irregular D. odd Câu 54: A. sum B. figure C. few D. number Câu 55: A. splashed B. extended C. scattered D. thrown Câu 56: A. ancient B. old C. elderly D. antique Câu 57: A. explain B. argue C. inform D. answer Câu 58: A. show B. illustrate C. display D. demonstrate Câu 59: A. means B. symbolizes C. stands for D. represents 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 from 71 to 75. It was a Devonshire farmer called Ben Jesty, who lived more than two hundred years ago, who began PREPARED BY ĐỖ BÌNH – THPT LIỄN SƠN, LẬP THẠCH, VĨNH PHÚC – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 the development of vaccination as a method of protecting people against many diseases. In 1774 there was a severe outbreak of the disease smallpox in his local village. He already knew of the traditional belief that an attack of cowpox gave people protection against smallpox and he saw proof of this at this time. Two of his farm workers had previously developed cowpox sores on their hands through milking infected cows and had then nursed their own families through the smallpox outbreak without catching the disease themselves. Jesty had already had cowpox, but his wife and their two young children had not. Concerned for their safety, he scratched their arms with a large needle and then put fluid from the cowpox sores on an infected cow into these scratches. Although the Jesty family were criticized by local people who thought that this experiment' was morally wrong, they never caught smallpox . But the real breakthrough came some twenty years later in 1796 when Edward Jenner, an English country doctor, made the first scientific approaches to the subject of protection against disease by vaccination methods. His experiments proved the value of vaccination with material from cowpox sores, and he also found that using material from an infected human on another human produced only a small sore at the spot where the treatment had been carried out and very few other signs of the disease. It was at about this time, too, that the now familiar name 'vaccine' for the material used in the process of 'vaccination' - from the Latin name for cowpox, 'vaccinia' (the Latin 'Vacca' means ‘cow'! -came into use. Tenner's vaccination techniques spread across the world faster than the disease itself. Napoleon had his troops vaccinated and in Russia the first child to be vaccinated was given the name 'Vaccinof'. President Jefferson of the United States said in a letter to Tenner, 'Future nations will know by history only that the terrible disease of smallpox existed and that it has been destroyed by you.' Forward -looking words indeed! In 1980, the World Health Assembly officially declared that smallpox had completely disappeared from the world. Câu 60: What important thing did Ben Jesty realize? A. Cows did not catch smallpox. B. There was no difference between cowpox and smallpox. C. Farm workers often caught cowpox. D. people who had had cowpox did not catch smallpox. Câu 61: The local people thought that what Jesty did was_____. A. sensible. B. foolish. C. scientific. D. wicked. Câu 62: Why did Edward Jenner become famous? A. He started the development of vaccination. B. He proved that vaccination worked. C. He travelled round the world vaccinating people. D. He persuaded most people in Europe to be vaccinated. Câu 63: Jenner's techniques were_____. A. adopted very rapidly throughout the world. B. successful in getting rid of smallpox in his lifetime. C. too advanced for people to accept at the time. D. neglected for almost two hundred years. Câu 64: Why did the word 'vaccine' come into use? A. 'Vaccine' was the traditional country name for smallpox. B. The earliest 'vaccine' was used to protect cows. C. The first child to be treated with a 'vaccine' was called Vaccinof. D. The Latin name for cowpox was 'vaccinia'. PHẦN TỰ LUẬN: (2 điểm) I. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that the original meaning is exactly the same as the provided one. 1. The children couldn’t go swimming because the sea was rough. => The sea was too_________________________________________ 2. The mechanic serviced my car last week => I_________________________________________ 3. I’m always nervous when I travel by air. => Travelling_________________________________________ 4. He couldn’t afford to buy the car, => The car_________________________________________ 5. “Why don’t you put your luggage under the seat?” he asked => He suggested_________________________________________ II. Topic: Factories in residential areas produce both positive and negative effects to people’s lives. Do you agree or disagree? If a large factory is going to be built near your community, is it good or bad? It’s a quite difficult question to answer. Because there are many aspects to take into your consideration - the advantages and the disadvantages. Let’s talk about that. PREPARED BY ĐỖ BÌNH – THPT LIỄN SƠN, LẬP THẠCH, VĨNH PHÚC – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 First, a large factory, especially a large chemical factory is quite harmful to our environment when it is built near our community. It will affect our daily life a lot. All the chemical factories will produce a lot of waste and most of the wastes are harmful to the environment, including poisonous gas and liquid. Some of them cannot be entirely broken down. If they are released into the air or the river, it will affect our health. And also the factory may produce a lot of noise. The environment we want to live in is a quiet and peaceful one, so the noise will be quite boring. And yes, noise also affects our health. Still one thing, a factory can be very dangerous. Because a fire or a explosion may break out in the factory. If it’s very near our home, it’s quite dangerous. But in other hand, a factory may be a good news to us. It can provide more jobs for us, especially for the young people in our community. Since the factory is near, it’s so convenient to go to work, and the factory will get more chances to our area. It will help to develop our area. So if the factory can bring us a lot of chances, we will agree to build one. But the most important things are: 1. Build the factory in a safe distance from our community, not too near. 2. Make sure that the factory can deal with the waste properly. Do not release the poisonous gas into the air, and not release the waste water into the river nearby. 3. Make sure the security guard in the factory works very well. HẾT PREPARED BY ĐỖ BÌNH – THPT LIỄN SƠN, LẬP THẠCH, VĨNH PHÚC – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 . SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC TRƯỜNG THPT LIỄN SƠN (ĐỀ LUYỆN 267 ) ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015 MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian: 90 phút PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM: (8 điểm) Mark the letter. deserted house, he was so busy with his research work that he felt _____ lonely. A. nothing but B. everything but C. anything but D. all but Câu 16: When he realized the police had spotted him, the man. decision. Câu 49: He talked about nothing except the weather. A. He said he had no interest in the weather. B. He talked about everything including the weather. C. He had nothing to say about the weather.