Đề thi thử THPT quốc gia môn Tiếng Anh số 496

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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
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in each group.
1. A. mammal B. material C. saddle D. manage
2. A. table B. lady C. labour D. captain
3. A. cost B. most C. host D. post
4. A. there B. chair C. clear D. hair
5. A. dear B. beard C. beer D. heard
Pick out the word that has the stress pattern different from that of the other words.
6. A. computer B. museum C. important D. visitor
7. A. calculator B. intelligent C. impossible D. American
8. A. compare B. compose C. company D. consist
9. A. artificial B. aristocrat C. arithmetic D. argument
10. A. maintain B. entertain C. fountain D. retain
Choose the most appropriate answer from a, b, c or D.
11. The scientific study of the life and structure of plants and animals is called ______.
A. biology B. philosophy C. geography D. physic
12. The process of finding somebody / something, or learning about something that was not known about
before is called
a /an ______.
A. finding B. experiment C. discovery D. development
13. The science of numbers and shapes is called ______.
A. physics B. mathematics C. biology D. politics
14. When you ______food, you chance it into substances that your body can use.
A. cure B. digest C. invent D. fee
15. A force of attraction that causes objects to move towards each other is called ______.

A. electricity B. Evolution C. gravitation D. invention
16. Christopher Columbus ______ the New Continent quite by chance.
A. invented B. discovered C. experimented D. developed
17. The telephone was ______ by Graham Bell.
A. discovered B. cured C. appointed D. invented
18. Issac Newton had to do many ______ before he could produce an electric lamp.
A. discoveries B. inventions C. experiments D. developments
19. Most of the experiments are carried out in ______ .
A. laboratories B. farms C. fields D. schools
20. Charles Darwin was the father of the ______ of evolution.
A. practice B. project C. theory D. problem
Read the passage and then decide which word (a, b, c or D. best fits each space.
It is estimated (the (21) ______ number is not known that worldwide some 60,000 newspapers exists,
with a (22) ______ circulation of nearly 500 million. However, the number of readers is (23)
______ greater-as many as three times the circulation figure.
This is because newspapers are shared, some are posted, and (24) ______ placed in libraries and other
(25) ______ places. Worldwide, about 8,000 of these newspapers are dailies. About a third of all newspapers
are published in North America, (26) ______ third in Europe, and the (27) ______ third in the rest of the
worlD. Countries with the highest newspaper (28) ______ are Britain, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, and
the United States. Europe has nearly half of the world's total newspaper circulation, North America about a
quarter, and the rest of the world another quarter. Taking the world (29) ______ , the average circulation of
dailies per 1,000 persons is about 100, but there are many parts of the world where the modern newspaper is
(30) ______ ever seen.
21. A. correct B. exact C. right D. precise
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22. A. combined B. connected C. linked D. mixed
23. A. even B. more C. far D. very
24. A. the rest B. another C. the others D. others
25. A. public B. common C. open D. shared
26. A. the next B. the other C. another D. the last

27. A. spare B. extra C. left D. remaining
28. A. readers B. readership C. buyers D. subscribers
29. A. as a whole B. in all C. generally D. on general
30. A. not B. almost C. scarcely D. seldom
Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
31. It's quite a long way, isn't it? We ______ about five miles by the time we get back, I'd say.
A. have walked B. had walked C. will have walked D. would have
walked
32. You can apply for a better job when you ______ more experience
A. have B. had C. have had D. had had
33. ______ I leave home ______ the journey is because the buses aren't so crowdeD.
A. The earlier the easier B. The early the more easy C. The earlier the easy D. The
early the most easy
34. We ______ that game when we were younger.
A. use to play B. used playing C. used to play D. use
to play
35. If Mathew ______ his alarm clock, he wouldn't have overslept.
A. have set B. set C. had set D. was setting
36. I decided to stay at home last night. I would have gone out if I ______ so tireD.
A. wasn't B. weren't C. wouldn’t have been D. hadn’t
been
37. Why did you stay at a hotel when you went to New York? You with ______ BarbarA.
A. can stay B. could stay C. could have stayed D. have
stayed
38. Linda has lost her passport again. It's the second time this ______.
A. has happened B. happens C. happened D. to happen
39. She tried to be serious but she couldn't help ______.
A. laughing B. to laugh C. that she laughed D. laugh
40. 'Do you know where ______?' 'No, he didn't say.'
A. Tom has gone B. has Tom gone C. has gone Tom D. Tom go

41. We gave ______ a meal.
A. at the visitors B. for the visitors C. the visitors D. to the visitor
42. The ______ produced at our factory in ScotlanD.
A. good are B. good is C. goods are d . goods is
43. Is that my key, or is it ______ ?
A. the yours B. you C. have had D. yours
44. She doesn't live here ______.
A. no longer B. some more C. no more D. any longer
45. The young man seems very ______.
A. sensible B. sense C. sensibly D. senses
46. I'm not very good ______ repairing things.
A. at B. for C. in D. with
47. My boys always postpone ______ things.
A. done B. do C. to do D. doing
48. A friend of mine phoned ______ me to a party.
A. for invite B. to invite C. so that inviting D. invited
49. He's lazy. He never does ______ work.
A. some B. any C. no D. none
50. I'll be in London next week. I hope to see Tom ______ there.
A. while I will be B. while I am C. during I will be D. during I am
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Choose the underlined part (a, b, c, or D. that is incorrect.
51. The rain came sudden and everybody got wet because nobody had an umbrellA.
a b c d
52. Children nowadays seem to be more intelligenter than their parents when they were at the same age.
a b c d
53. When I came in, my father was talking to anyone so I went out quietly.
a b c d
54. I want to try on the blue skirt over there. Can you showing me the changing room?
a b c d

55. Can you make me a cup of coffee? No, there are no coffee left.
a b c d
56. Ha Anh can now speak English more well than the last time I met him.
a b c d
57. I am sorry that I could not go to your birthday party. Any problems occurred and I could not go.
a b c d
58. There are many ways to do this exercise but mine is the best good one
a b c d
59. She can sing very beautiful and dance very gracefully but she cannot do any difficult math exercise.
a b c d
60. With this type of exercise, reads the questions first and then read the text to find the correct answer.
a b c d
Read the passage and choose the best answer.
Our demand for water is constantly increasing. Every year there are more and more people in the worlD.
Factories turn out more and more products and need more and more water. We live in a world of water. But
almost all of it - about 97%-is in the oceans. This water is too salty to be used for drinking, farming, and
manufacturing. Only about 3% of the world's water is fresh. Most of this water is not easily available to man
because it is locked in glaciers and icecaps.
There is as much water on earth today as there ever was or will ever be. Most of the water we use finds
its way to the oceans. There, it is evaporated by the sun. It then falls back to the earth as rain. Water is used and
reused over again. It is never used up. Although the world as a whole has plenty of fresh water, some regions
have a water shortage. Rain does not fall evenly over the earth. Some regions are always too dry, and others too
wet. A region that usually gets enough rain may suddenly have a serious dry spell and another region may be
flooded with too much rain.
61. All of the following statements can be inferred from the text EXCEPT
A. We need more and more water. B. The population of the world is increasing every
year.
C. Factories also need more water. D. Most of the world’s water is locked in glaciers
and icecaps.
62. Which of the following is NOT true about the world’s water?

A. The vast majority of the world’s water is ocean (or salty) water.
B. Ocean water is salty enough to be used for drinking, farming, and manufacturing.
C. Most fresh water is locked in glaciers and icecaps.
D. The percentage of fresh water is very small.
63. What can be inferred about water?
A. The amount of water on earth is always the same. B. Water will probably be exhausteD.
C. Water can be used once only. D. Most of the water we use is rain water.
64. The phrasal verb “turn out” in the second line is closest in meaning to.
A. sell B. prove to be C. switch off D. produce
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.
65. She knows a lot more about it than I do.
→
I don't know _________________________________________
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66. Let's go abroad for our holiday this year.
→
Why _________________________________________
67. During dinner, the phone rang.
→
While I _________________________________________
68. Your hair needs cutting.
→
It's time you _________________________________________
69. If you run a lot, you'll become healthy.
→
The _________________________________________
II. Topic: Classes are really good for ones who attend? Discuss your opinion about this matter.
Nowadays, it becomes a heatedly debated topic whether a student should be required to attend classes

or not. Some people hold the opinion that the university students should be required to go to classes. However,
others have a negative attitude. If I were forced to agree with one of the two positions, I would stand behind the
latter. My Arguments for this point are listed as follows. I agree with the statement that going to classes should
be optional for university students without reservation since I believe a student is supposed to attend those
classes he or she is interested in.
Naturally, interest is the mother of study. When attracted by a wonderful class, you will attend it
unforcedly and immediately. Nevertheless, not all classes are so popular in reality and no one has interest in
every class. Consequently, you should select the classes you like to attend for a higher efficiency of studying. It
can be given a good example, in current universities, many excellent students almost have the record of
skipping some boring and undesirable classes.
Another reason that can be seen by everyone is that it contributes to build a university student's ability
of learning by himself or herself. Obviously, by choosing good and meaningful classes, giving up those
undesirable, or studying these classes you cannot attend somehow by yourself, you will learn how to distribute
your study time and acquire the capability of learning by yourself, which is tremendously important to modern
university students. Many celebrities, such as Bill Gates, have such powerful ability by not attending some
classes when they were in university.
Admittedly, being required to attend classes has advantages of disciplining the student, however,
considering most university students can discipline themselves on their own, I believe it is sagacious to agree
with that going to classes should be optional for college or university students.
1B 2D 3A 4C 5D 6D 7A 8C 9D 10C
11A 12C 13B 14B 15C 16B 17D 18C 19A 20C
21B 22A 23C 24D 25A 26C 27D 28B 29A 30C
31B 32A 33A 34C 35C 36D 37C 38A 39A 40A
41C 42C 43D 44D 45A 46A 47D 48B 49B 50B
51A 52B 53C 54D 55D 56C 57C 58D 59A 60A
61D 62B 63A 64D
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