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SƠ GD&ĐT VINH PHUC TRƯƠNG THPT LIÊN SƠN (Đề thi gồm: 06 trang) ĐỀ KTCL ÔN THI THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 20172018 Môn: TIẾNG ANH – ĐÊ SỐ 215 Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề Ho va tên thi sinh:…………………………………………………………………… SBD:………………………… 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 01 to 07 THE SIXTH SENSE Have you ever had the feeling of being watched - and turned round to find someone staring at you? Have you found yourself staring with idle curiosity at someone until they turn their heads to see who is watching them? Have you ever picked up the ringing phone to find it is someone you have just been thinking about? The answer to all these questions is most likely to be 'yes' These are common, everyday sorts of experiences but ones which have never been investigated scientifically until now, because orthodox science doesn't have the faintest idea how to explain them So it ignores them or calls them 'pure coincidence' and 'superstition' Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist who has pioneered work in this area, believes that not only can they be explained and that another sense does exist but that the explanations are perfectly simple In his book, The Sense Of Being Stared At, he writes about his experiments on staring and telephone telepathy He believes they prove the existence of this other sense which tells us when we are being stared at or who is phoning us and gives us other vital information through telepathy and premonition He says that this is not in anyway 'paranormal' It is a normal part of our basic nature that we share with animals Sheldrake uses members of the public in his experiments and has a data base of 5,000 experiments One set of experiments involved groups of friends and school mates One person was blindfolded and sat in front of a 'looker' The person had to guess when the 'looker' was staring at him The results were 60% successful - much more than chance would allow Sheldrake's surveys also showed that 80% of people had had the 'I am being stared at' experience The great majority of starers turned out to be strangers 'This must go back to the times when our ancestors were hunted by predators, who of course were strangers,' says Sheldrake 'This obviously helped survival.' Hunters today also report how animals often show acute awareness they are being stalked even from far away Similar to this power of attention is the power of intention which seems to be the cause of telephone telepathy What is it that tells us that a particular person is going to call us unexpectedly? Sheldrake believes that before we call we think about it first and this intention reaches out to the person This is the commonest form of telepathic experience Over 90% of people in the survey say they have experienced it Sometimes people find that their calls overlap and the number they are calling is engaged - calling them! One of the more extraordinary things Dr Sheldrake discorered is that some pets seem to know when someone important to them is about to telephone Some cats and dogs will go to the phone before it starts to ring Animal telepathy is a well-known phenomenon between social animals who are members of packs, herds, flocks of birds or schools of fish Obviously, a communicable sense of danger helps them survive predators, keeps them together and allows them to act as one And when it comes to premonitions - animals beat us hands down! Earthquakes, avalanches and other natural disasters all set off advance fear behaviour in animals, both wild and domestic Sheldrake believes this sort of telepathy is a result of mental fields which extend beyond the brain and interact with other people's mental fields We may be on the edge of a great step forward by understanding how our minds can reach out and touch others at a distance Question 01: Scientists haven't researched the subject because A they though they couldn't prove coincidence B theyhaven't had the time C they haven't been able to understand it D they believed it was unorthodox © Đỗ Bình – THPT Liễn Sơn, Lập Thạch, Vĩnh Phúc – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 1/6 Question 02: Dr Sheldrake believes this ability goes back to early man's need A to find others B to be aware of being hunted C to see the hunter's eyes D to hunt Question 03: Groups of animals A have one which acts as the leader B pass on a sense of danger to each other C follow each other to avoid danger D communicate with the hunter Question 04: Dr Sheldrake's survey shows that A some people can 'see' the other person intending to call them B sometimes people phone each other at the same time C two phone calls sometimes happen immediately after each other D people tell each other their intention to phone Question 05: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved A someone staring at another person's back C one person with his eyes closed B people saying when someone was staring at them D people staring at each other Question 06: According to the text, Dr Sheldrake, A lost his job because of this research B had to travel widely in his research C was the first to work on this subject D only investigates this subject Question 07: Which is closest in meaning to “beat us hands down”? A overcome B kill off C win easily D conquer 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 08 to 12 SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT STATUS? In recent decades, there has been (08) _ evidence that an individual's well-being is significantly affected by that person's place in the social pecking order In other words, given that the world is (10) _ up of winners and losers, counting ourselves amongst the latter can open up an uncomfortable gap between the way things are and the way we'd like them to be Frequently, we think the solution lies in achieving more: if we managed to (11) _ a better salary, house, body or whatever, we'd be able to drop the competing game and feel contented But this (12) _ risks landing us on a treadmill from which it is impossible to step off There will always be people who, to our mind, have achieved more than us and we'd constantly be running to try and catch up with them Instead of slavishly following our instincts, however, we would better to use our (13) _ for reflection to help us decide for ourselves what gives meaning to our life and is therefore worth doing Question 08: A piling B rising C mounting D building Question 09: A made B composed C comprised D done Question 10: A secure B confirm C fulfil D effect Question 11: A strategy B device C policy D scheme Question 12: A ability B expertise C competence D capacity 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 13: How the Earth is in the shadow of the moon, we see an eclipse of the sun A How B an C the D in the shadow Question 14: Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa beans which must be ground and mixed with sugar A blending B must be C mixed D complexity Question 15: Ripe fruit is often stored in a place there contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too rapidly A rapidly B Ripe C there D stored 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 16 to 22 THE WHOLE ROTTEN BUSINESS OF RUBBISH Visitors to New York are often shocked when they first encounter its powerful summertime stink of rotting garbage Breathing in the miasmic odours and observing the mountainous piles of © Đỗ Bình – THPT Liễn Sơn, Lập Thạch, Vĩnh Phúc – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 2/6 refuse that line the streets each night, newcomers are apt to reach the conclusion that New York is rather relaxed and devil-may-care about matters of refuse and refuse collection But nothing could be further from the truth The city may look and smell like a compost heap a lot of the time, but it is home to some of the most draconian garbage rules and regulations known to modern man Every neighbourhood in New York has three designated garbage pick-up days a week and residents are allowed to put their refuse out no earlier than 5p.m on the eve of each pick-up day If you live in a smaller apartment building with no garbage storage in the basement, your pick-up days take on quite disproportionate significance Miss a day, and you have to live with your festering garbage bags in your apartment until the next scheduled pick-up Once or twice, over the years, I have become so desperate to get rid of some rancid piece of chicken, or left-over Indian take-away, that I have crept out under cover of night and illicitly dumped the bags in another neighbourhood where pick-up was due the next morning Then there are the elaborate and fiercely policed recycling protocols Plastic and glass and metal go in a blue bag, paper and cardboard in a transparent bag, and everything else in a black bag Black bags can go out on any of the three days, but the recyclables can only be put out on Friday Failure to observe these - and a whole raft of infinitely more subtle particulars - results in heavy fines When I first moved to the city, and had not yet been initiated into the mysteries of the garbage laws, I was constantly being busted for improperly wrapped or sorted refuse And as if that wasn't sufficiently galling in itself, the fines were then issued to my building superintendent, who would then post them on my front door, like a plague sign, for all my neighbours to see Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - 'Two bottles found in black bag' or 'Newspapers improperly tied' - together with a demand for a hundred bucks One day, in a bolshy mood, I asked the superintendent how the garbage police could be so sure that the delinquent bottles and inadequately tied newspapers were mine and not someone else's He trudged down to the basement and came back brandishing an empty bottle of prescription drugs with my name on it 'They found this in the bag,' he said Knowing that one's garbage stands a strong chance of being gone through, piece by piece, by a pofaced enforcement agent does tend to encourage compliance It also produces a certain amount of paranoia Over the past years, I have spent more time than I am happy to admit standing over my recycling bins, cutting up receipts and scribbling over labels to obscure evidence of my dodgier self-medication habits and lingerie purchases I deeply resent all this It's not just that the economics of the city's recycling are highly questionable - which they are - or even that an estimated 40 percent of New York's recyclable stuff winds up in landfills, anyway - which it does: there's something maddening about the elevated status that recycling enjoys - as if it were an absolute good To question its worthiness is to put yourself beyond the pale of common civic values One recent Friday night, as my children and I were hauling garbage bags down to the street, we met a neighbour in the elevator Observing my untidy bag of unflattened cardboard boxes, he offered to give me some packing tips 'We all our sorting and packing as a family on Thursday nights It's kind of fun and the kids love it.' I smiled and nodded 'Mom thinks recycling is crap,' my daughter piped up 'She wishes we could go back to landfills.' The neighbour's eyes grew watery with anguish, or perhaps suppressed rage 'Well, I'm sorry she feels that way,' he murmured He has cut me dead ever since [Source: Pearson - Module 2, Proficiency Expert, 2015] Question 16: In the text as a whole, the writer's tone is _ A politely tentative B righteously indignant C light-hearted and ironic D restrained and reasonable Question 17: What did the writer find particularly irritating about the fines she received? A the way she was informed of them B the amount which was levied C the reaction of her neighbours to them D the triviality of some of the offences Question 18: In the final paragraph, the writer admits to being most resentful of _ A the public money that is wasted on recycling projects B the attitude of her fellow citizens towards recycling C the attempts of her neighbours to advise her about recycling D the fact that recycling schemes not always achieve their aims © Đỗ Bình – THPT Liễn Sơn, Lập Thạch, Vĩnh Phúc – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 3/6 Question 19: The word “maddening” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _ A infuriating B furious C smart D angry Question 20: In the second paragraph, the writer is emphasising _ A the need to develop strategies to get round the system B the inconvenience of the timing of rubbish collections C the impact that rubbish collections have on the rest of her life D the shortcomings of the arrangements at her own accommodation Question 21: On hearing about how her infringements of the rules had been uncovered, the writer _ A resolved to avoid putting certain items into her rubbish B decided to pay more attention to the detailed instructions C became worried about what else her garbage revealed D realised she had no choice but to comply in future Question 22: The writer says that visitors to New York often gain the erroneous impression that _ A it smells of rubbish despite having a highly effective refuse collection system B it takes refuse collection more seriously than other cities C its refuse collection policies aren't implemented rigorously D its citizens fail to comply with its refuse collection regulations 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 23: ~ A: “Why are children less interested in outdoor activities nowadays?” ~ B: “Well, ” A They prefer high-tech gadgets like computers, iPads, or iPhones B Don’t ask Just give them a ring home C Because the weather is too cold for them D I don’t know why, but they may be too strong-minded Question 24: ~ A: "Have you done any part-time jobs?" ~ B: " " A Yes I often help Mum with the cooking and cleaning-up B Yes I've been out of work for three months C Sometimes Doing shopping, going to spa or something like that D Never I' m so busy with the typing all the week 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 25: She was over the moon with her new bike A furtive B discontented C forlorn D cheerful Question 26: Several companies have disclosed profits of over £200 million A stashed B made known C publicize D renounce 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 27: A blown B flown C frown D grown Question 28: A eight B height C vein D weight 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 29: A reduce B dominant C mutual D competent Question 30: A catholic B lunatic C symbolic D atomic 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 31: Clive flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker A praises himself B shows up C boasts D is confident Question 32: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the collar A become angry B be frightened C get scared D feel sympathetic © Đỗ Bình – THPT Liễn Sơn, Lập Thạch, Vĩnh Phúc – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 4/6 Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions Question 33 The Simpson Desert is in _ north of _ Lake Eyre A Ø/ Ø B the/ the C a/ the D the/ Ø Question 34: Harry _ along the landing, trying not to make any-noise A filed B strode C tiptoed D trudged Question 35: In many parts of the world, crop failure means _ which leads to the death of many people each year A drought B famine C shortcoming D desert Question 36: The peace of the public library was _ by the sound of a transistor radio A demolished B shattered C fractured D smashed Question 37: Anticipating renewed rioting, the authorities erected _ to block off certain streets A dykes B ditches C barricades D barrages Question 38: Four people drowned when the yacht _ in a sudden storm A overflowed B inverted C upset D capsized Question 39: I know David Fletcher _ sight, but I've never been introduced him A at B on C in D by Question 40: The politician gave a press conference to deny the charges that had been _ at him A blamed B targeted C levelled D accused Question 41: I hope there are enough glasses to _ round A lay B go C set D drink Question 42: No sooner had we left the house _ it started raining A that B when C and D than Question 43: Before any new drug is marketed, it is essential that extensive tests are _ A carried forward B carried out C carried on D carried through Question 44: The theatre lights were slowly _ as the curtain rose on the first act A deadened B dulled C dimmed D dampened Question 45: This spray is suitable for dealing with all garden _ A plagues B pests C swarms D outbreaks 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 46: French is the only language other than English spoken on five continents A French and English are the only languages that are spoken on five continents B Before English, French was the only language spoken on five continents C French and English are spoken widely in official and commercial circles D Unlike French, English is spoken on five continents Question 47: From time to time there are things we even though we think they are wrong A Sometimes we might things that are considered wrong B We can never be sure if all the things we are right C Although we feel that the things we sometimes are not right, we nevertheless them D We often things because we think they are the right things to at the time Question 48: Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less A Since adults have less time playing games, they don't laugh as much as children B Unlike adults children laugh more while playing games C The reason why adults laugh less than children might be that they play less D No matter how much adults play, they can't laugh more than children 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 49: All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months When he went there, the server was quite rude © Đỗ Bình – THPT Liễn Sơn, Lập Thạch, Vĩnh Phúc – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 5/6 A Because all his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months, the server was quite rude when he went there B Despite the high quality praised for months, the server in the new coffee shop was quite rude when we went there C All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless, when he went there, the server was quite rude D However rude the server was, we went to the new coffee shop because all his friends have been praising its high quality Question 50: Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years Its facilities have been lacking proper maintenance A Despite the fact that its facilities have been lacking proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years B Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years because its facilities have been lacking proper maintenance C Since enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years, its facilities have been lacking proper maintenance D Due to its facilities being lacked proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years THE END © Đỗ Bình – THPT Liễn Sơn, Lập Thạch, Vĩnh Phúc – www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 6/6 ... each other D people tell each other their intention to phone Question 05: One of Dr Sheldrake''s tests involved A someone staring at another person''s back C one person with his eyes closed... my neighbours to see Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - ''Two bottles found in black bag'' or ''Newspapers improperly tied'' - together with... when C and D than Question 43: Before any new drug is marketed, it is essential that extensive tests are _ A carried forward B carried out C carried on D carried through Question 44: The theatre