Đề thi thử THPT quốc gia môn Tiếng Anh số 508

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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 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.
A. to fail B. with C. in D. too slow
13.Included in the series are “ The Enchanted Horses”, among other famous children’s stories.
A. included B. are C. among D. children’s
14. Jim has three sisters, both of whom are at high school.

A. has B. both C. whom D. at high school
15.You will get a good grade on the exam provided you studied.
A. a B. grade C. provided D. 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
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20. 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
23. A. pulse B. speed C. pace D. rate
24. A. evolved B. extended C. advanced D. elevated
25. A. battle B. fight C. quarrel D. struggle
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
29. A. with B. above C. beyond D. over
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
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of 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 _______.
A. premiere B. foreword C. preamble D. prologue
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 _______.
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A. 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.
A. climbed B. climb C. had climbed D. was climbing
57. If we had known your new address, we _________ to see you.
A. came B. will come C. would come D. would have come
58. You may borrow as many books as you like, provided you show them to _________ is at the desk.
A. whoever B. who C. whom D. which
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.
A. Whatever B. Forever C. Whenever D. However
63. “Let’s go dancing_________?” – “Yes, let’s.”
A. will we B. don’t we C. do we D. shall we
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)
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I. 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
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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
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