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SƠ GD&ĐT VINH PHUC TRƯƠNG THPT LIÊN SƠN (Đề thi gồm: 05 trang) ĐỀ KTCL ÔN THI THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 20172018 Môn: TIẾNG ANH – ĐÊ SỐ 240 Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề Ho va tên thi sinh:…………………………………………………………………… SBD:………………………… Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions Question 01: A genuine B cathedral C satellite D tragedy Question 02: A prosperou B victorious C enormous D laborious Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions Question 03: The police disturbed a gang of men who were breaking into a chemist’s in Lyford A bother B annoy C worry D interrupt Question 04: The main thing that you have to admire him for is that he doesn't get into trouble and keeps his nose clean A breathes easily B sneezes often C blows his nose a lot D behaves legally Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions Question 05: I thought I saw water in the distance but it must have been an optical _ A illusion B deception C delusion D error Question 06: How you _ these latest instructions? I can't make any sense of them at all A clarify B interpret C deduce D solve Question 07: I like that photo very much Could you make an _ for me? A enlargement B expansion C increase D extension Question 08: He _ some unusual educational beliefs A takes B keeps C holds D carries Question 09: In some nations coffee is the favorite beverage, while _ A I like tea B it has caffeine C tea has caffeine too D in others it is tea Question 10: I don't take _ to being disobeyed That's a warning! A kindly B well C nicely D gently Question 11: I'm becoming increasingly _ Last week I locked myself out of the house twice A absent B forgetful C oblivious D mindless Question 12: Today, many serious childhood diseases _ by early immunization A can prevent B can be prevented C prevent D are preventing Question 13: As darkness fell, there was nothing for it but to _ for the nearest village A stand B make C call D go Question 14: To all intents and _, the matter has been settled A statements B proposals C purposes D reasons Question 15: She _ her daughter's boyfriend up and down, and then asked him in A observed B noticed C watched D obeyed Question 16: No _ water polo player except _ goalie can hold the ball with both hands A a/ the B the/ Ø C the/ a D Ø/ the Question 17: I've tried _ with the knobs on the television but I can't get the picture back A tampering B shuffling C fiddling D juggling 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 from 18 to 22 FINDING NEW SPECIES A group of scientists recently conducted a biodiversity survey of a tropical forest in Suriname, Latin America One day, a local guide caught a large catfish, and was on the (18) _ of cutting it up for cooking when two of the scientists intervened © Đỗ Bình – THPT Liễn Sơn, Lập Thạch, Vĩnh Phúc – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 1/5 They had noticed that the creature had (19) _ long spines, probably to protect it from predators It turned out to be an undiscovered species Unlike any catfish in reference books, the as yet unnamed fish was one of 46 candidates for new species status that the scientists found during their visit In the 1730s, Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (20) _ rules for classifying species, the most basic biological (21) _; since then, scientists have catalogued more than 1.7 million species, but it is thought that there may be as many as 8.7 million on earth Figures for different groups of animals have been complied and most mammal, birds and reptiles are believed to have been discovered Fish, shellfish and spiders, however, are a different story, and literally millions of species of insects (22) _ for future generations to discover Question 18: A border B line C verge D edge Question 19: A utterly B exceptionally C intensely D highly Question 20: A set out B put through C fixed up D laid on Question 21: A section B category C department D version Question 22: A persist B remain C endure D stay Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions Question 23: Some of this nuclear waste will remain active for thousands of years A not functioning B unoccupied C non-existent D passive Question 24: Eventually they paid up, but only after receiving several reminders A pay off B run into debt C overcharge D bargain Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions Question 25: Dinner was not ready when Dad came home from work Mum had been singing on karaoke A Dad came home from work and did not prepare dinner because Mum was singing on karaoke B As soon as Dad came home from work, dinner was not ready even Mum had been singing on karaoke C When Dad came home from work, dinner was not ready because Mum had been singing on karaoke D While Mum had been singing on karaoke, Dad came home from work and dinner was not ready Question 26: They have been in love for three years They’ve decided to separate lately A They’ve decided to separate lately after they have been in love for three years B They have been in love for three years; as a result, they’ve decided to separate lately C In order to separate from each other, they‘ve decided to be in love for three years D They have been in love for three years, but they’ve decided to separate lately 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 questions Question 27: How often you have the opportunity to meet a man as intelligent as him A opportunity to meet B as him C How often D as Question 28: The doctor had Mrs Peterson to take ten pills a day for her heart A a day B to take C for D The Question 29: Please be sure to notify my brother or I when the package arrives A or I B arrives C notify D be sure 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 30 to 36 CAN NOISE POLLUTION AFFECT WILDLIFE? There's no escaping noise pollution, even if you're out in the middle of nowhere The roar of the trucks on the highway or the sound of a plane flying overhead can penetrate the deepest forest; yet it is not only humans that are bothered by the noise © Đỗ Bình – THPT Liễn Sơn, Lập Thạch, Vĩnh Phúc – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 2/5 Bioacoustician Bernie Krause has been studying the effects of noise pollution on wildlife, and has discovered some interesting behaviour, especially among animals that communicate by vocalization, like humans Birds, frogs, and insects use sound to attract mates, defend territory, and alert their kin to danger, but in noisy places, these animals have to shout over the din to be heard Krause cites a study of nightingales carried out in Berlin in 2002 to illustrate his point The birds responded to traffic noise by singing louder and louder until they actually exceeded noise pollution standards in the city In order to belt out their songs, they had to increase their lung pressure fivefold, but scientists maintain that this is not dangerous for the birds themselves Studies show that sudden loud noises can cause some bird species to leave their nests, exposing the young to predators One study also showed that songbirds that nested closer to busy highways produced fewer young than those that nested farther away Mammals, too, are affected A 1992 study showed that nursing caribou respond to plane noise by not producing enough milk to nourish their young Some animals, such as whales and dolphins, are affected by underwater noise Sonar from ships, motors from boats, and machine sounds from oil exploration create so much noise underwater that breeding whales need to make more noise to compensate so they can communicate with their offspring In some cases noise pollution can actually help some animals while harming others Toads and frogs are known to vocalize in synchrony so that no predator can zero in on them Krause found that when planes flew overhead and masked the toads' songs, they lost their synchronicity, and it took them 45 minutes to get it back again That gave Great Horned Owls and coyotes plenty of time to locate individual toads by sound A hundred years ago noise pollution was mainly an urban problem, but it has spread with the advent of the internal combustion engine Krause concludes, "Not only will noise pollution in natural habitats bother wildlife, but it won't help our lives either." Question 30: According to the article, the main source of noise pollution is A construction work B cities C tourism D vehicle motors Question 31: The Berlin nightingales sang louder A by synchronizing their singing B by standing on higher perches C by imitating the noise of the cars D by using their organs to a greater capacity Question 32: Young caribou suffer from aircraft noise because A their mothers often abandon them B they receive less food C they can’t communicate with their mothers D they can’t sleep at night Question 33: Toads and frogs become more vulnerable when A they sing at a different pitch B they sing for longer periods of time C they fail to sing in unison D they sing louder than usual Question 34: Whales and dolphins deal with underwater noise A by producing more offspring B by emitting louder sounds C by keeping away from boats and ships D by communicating less with each other Question 35: Birds, frogs, and insects not use their voices A in mating rituals B to keep predators away C to warn similar species of danger D to trap possible prey Question 36: The idiom “zero in on”is closest in meaning to A take toll on B damage to C direct attention towards D play havoc on 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 37 to 43 MAKING A LIVING It is my opinion that literature is at the same time and at once the most intimate and the most articulate of all the art forms It is impossible for it to impart its effect through the senses or the nerves as can other forms of art; it is beautiful only through the intelligence of both the reader and writer; it is the mind speaking to the mind; until it has been put into absolute terms, of an invariable significance, it does not exist at all It is able to awaken one emotion in one person and a totally different emotion in another; if it fails to convey precisely the meaning of the author, if it © Đỗ Bình – THPT Liễn Sơn, Lập Thạch, Vĩnh Phúc – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 3/5 isn't an expression of him or her, it says nothing, and thus it is nothing So that when a poet has put their heart and soul, more or less, into a poem, and has sold it to a magazine, the scandal is far greater than when a painter has sold a picture to a paying patron, or a sculptor has modelled a statue to order, or a photographer has produced a landscape photograph for a popular magazine These are artists less articulate and less intimate than the scribe; they are more removed from the work they produce; they are often less personally involved in their work; they part with less of themselves That Tennyson, Longfellow and Emerson sold their poems and essays - works in which they had couched the most mystical messages their genius was charged to bequeath to mankind does not, however, diminish the virtuosity of their achievements They submitted to the conditions from which no one can escape, which are nonetheless the conditions of hucksters because they are generally imposed upon poets and writers If it will serve to make my meaning clearer, we will suppose that a poet has been crossed in love, or has suffered some bad fortune or some real sorrow, like the loss of a wife or child He pours out his broken heart in verse that shall bring tears of scared sympathy from his readers, and an editor pays him a hundred pounds for the right of bringing his verse to their notice and for allowing them to print it in their publications It is perfectly true that the real reason that the poem was written was not for the monetary benefit, but it is also perfectly true that it was sold for it The poet is forced into using his emotions to pay his bills; he has no other means of making a living; society does not propose to pay his bills for him, after all, so what choice does he really have? Yet, at the end of the day, the unsophisticated witness finds the transaction ridiculous, repulsive, and, to a great extent, exploitative But deep down they are perfectly aware that if our huckster civilization did not at every moment violate the relationships we undertake in the world, the poet's song wouldn't have been given to it, and the scribe wouldn't have been extolled by the whole of humanity, as any human should be who does the duty that every human owes it The instinctive sense of the dishonour which money brings to art is so strong that sometimes men and women of letters able to pay their bills, to pay their way through other means, refuse money for their work, as Lord Byron did, from a noble conscience But Byron's publisher profited from a generosity which did not reach his readers; and the Countess Tolstoy collects the copyright royalties which her husband forgoes; so that these two instances of protest against business in literature may hardly be said to have shaken the world of commerce in literature to the core of its money basis I know of no others but there may be many that exist of whom I am culpably ignorant Still, I would very much doubt if there are enough to affect the fact that literature has become business as well as art At present, business is the only human solidarity; we are all bound together with that chain, whatever the interests, tastes and principles that otherwise separate us [Source: CPE PRACTICE TESTS, Andrew Betsis, Global ELT, 2011] Question 37: The author implies that writers A are not sufficiently paid for their work B are incompetent in business C are greedy D profit against their will Question 38: What does the author lament about Tennyson, Longfellow and Emerson? A They were prolific poets B They wrote mystical poems C They were not appreciated in their time D They had to sell their poetry and essays Question 39: What does the author say about creators accepting payment for their works of literature? A They are part of the degeneration of the human condition B The works of art can be justified in terms of society's wants and desires C They are writing and painting solely for monetary gain D They share their life experiences with society Question 40: The writer of the article seems to suggest that A writing literature is a good way to get rich quickly B literature causes divisions amongst people C the integrity of works of literature is not greatly undermined by their commercialism D literature is appreciated by businessmen and professionals generally Question 41: According to the author what did Lord Byron do? © Đỗ Bình – THPT Liễn Sơn, Lập Thạch, Vĩnh Phúc – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 4/5 A He copyrighted his work to help his wife B He became well-known in the business community C He didn't financially gain from his literary pursuits D He combined literature with business Question 42: The word “bequeath” is closest in meaning to A give away B invest C hand out D pass down Question 43: What does the author propose that writers and artists should do? A Make the best of a bad situation B Attempt to induce society to change its values C Produce purely commercial, rather than original work D Withhold their work until they gain recognition Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges Question 44: ~ Alex: "What sort of holidays you enjoy?" ~ Boris: " " A Nothing I just stay here and wait B I often bring my own food on holidays C I'd like to make a trip to Kent next summer D I love cycling holidays Question 45: ~ Ann: "Has Milly told you what is she going to at the party?" ~ Barn: " " A No She‘s going to have a trip to Cornwall B Yes I think there will be music and some games C Yes She's got a volley ball net in the garden D Yes She's going to have a barbecue in the garden Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions Question 46: A meadow B create C steady D peasant Question 47: A raid B paid C said D laid 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 Question 48: I envy Jack, as he seems to accomplish everything so effortlessly A I am envious of Jack since he has accomplished so much B Jack makes everything look easy which is not the case for me at all C I wish I could get things done as easily as Jack does D I’m jealous of Jack because he seems to have everything easy Question 49: In spite of feeling confident about her university entrance exams, Jane did very poorly A Jane’s confidence in her ability to pass her university entrance exams was not justified by her results B Jane was sure that she would well when she took her university entrance exams, and indeed her results were quite good C Jane failed her university entrance exams despite being especially well-prepared D Jane should have done better than she actually did on her university entrance exams Question 50: No sooner had Marion begun her new job than she knew she had made a mistake A Since Marion did not like her new job, she began looking for one more suitable to her B As soon as Marion started working, she realized that her decision had not been a good one C Had Morion not just begun a new job, shr would have gone looking for a better one D Just before Marion look up her new post, she realized that she was not suited for it _THE END © Đỗ Bình – THPT Liễn Sơn, Lập Thạch, Vĩnh Phúc – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 5/5 ... Tolstoy collects the copyright royalties which her husband forgoes; so that these two instances of protest against business in literature may hardly be said to have shaken the world of commerce in literature... whatever the interests, tastes and principles that otherwise separate us [Source: CPE PRACTICE TESTS, Andrew Betsis, Global ELT, 2011] Question 37: The author implies that writers A are not