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ĐỀ THI THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015
MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian: 90 phút
SECTION A: MULTIPLE CHOICES
I. PRONUNCIATION AND STRESS
A. Which word is stressed differently from the others?
1. A. irrigate B. limousine C. tremendous D. telescope
2. A. forbid B. technique C. permit D. mattress
3. A. preparation B. encouragement C. ridiculous D. appreciative
4. A. decompress B. location C. embankment D. suspension
5. A. prefabricated B. dictatorial C. appreciation D.
recommendation
B. Which underlined part is pronounced differently?
6. A. oasis B. capture C. compact D. span
7. A. engine B. rely C. suspend D. tremendous
8. A. nuisance B. upscale C. resist D. utensil
9. A. official B. flip C. fitness D. flier
10. A. utensil B. upscale C. rub D. club
II. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURE
A. Choose the word (A, B, C, or D) that best completes each sentence.
11. “Why didn’t you attend the concert?” “I would have gone if I ______ time”.
A. have had B. have C. would have D. had had
12. I did not see you last night. I wish I ______ you last night.
A. met B. could meet C. could have met D. have met
13. It is no use ______ to school if you ______ to work hard.
A. going … do not ready B. to go … do not ready C. going … are not ready D. go … are not ready
14. Fred was a really silly boy when we were in high school. I still remember ______ very stupid questions.
A. his asking B. asking him C. him to ask D. his being asked

15. “Would you like some entertainment?” “I wouldn’t mind having ______.”
A. little B. a few C. a little D. few
16. “That will be too late because we ______ by that hour”.
A. have gone B. will have gone C. will go D. went
17. For a while, we consider not ______ with them.
A. to go B. going C. go D. be going
18. The ceremony has just started. Look! The flag is ________ now.
A. being raised B. being rose C. risen D. raising
19. I can’t stand ________ to his complaints any longer.
A. listen B. to listen C. listened D. listening
20. John said that no other car could go ________.
A. so fast like his car B. as fast like the car of him C. as fast like his car D. as fast as his car
21. I had two copies of it originally, but I can’t find ________ one now.
A. another B. the other C. the others D. other
22. “I was late again this morning.” “Well, I think you had better ________ on time.”
A. to start to be B. start being C. started being D. to be
23. He ________ in this city for exactly two years by next Monday.
A. will live B. will have lived C. will be living D. has lived
24. Don’t leave your clothes ________ about on the bedroom floor.
A. lie B. lay C. lying D. laying
25. She told me her address, ________ I wrote down on a piece of paper.
A. that B. which C. whose D. A and B are correct
26. Tom: “Under what condition will he go?” Bob: “As far as I know, he won’t go unless Jean ________.”
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A. will go B. went C. goes D. would go
27. John’s score in the test is the highest in the class. He ________ last night.
A. should study B. should have studied C. must have studied D. must study
28. He told me that he ________ me at the airport the next time I came.
A. saw B. sees C. had seen D. would see
29. I am going to ___________ .

A. have tested my eyes B. have my eyes testing C. have my eyes test D.
have my eyes tested
30. The little boy ___________ with his ball in the garden when he suddenly
__________ it and lost his balance.
A. played / kicked B. was played / kicked C. was playing / kicked D.
played / was kicking
B. Identify one underlined word or phrase that is incorrect.
31. The natives, who were used to get most of their living from the sea, seldom if ever ventured inland to
search for food. A B C
D

32. Each year, tourists from all over the world travel to Poland to visit a birthplace of Frederic Chopin.
A B C D
33. Sheep have been domesticated for over 5,000 years ago.
A B C D
34. One of the most beautiful botanical gardens in the United States is the wildly
A B C
and lovely Magnolia Gardens near Charleston, South Carolina.
D
35. Studies reveal that people who eat the great amount of salt suffer the most from hypertension.
A B C D
36. Mr. Harris will be divided the biology class into two sections to prevent overcrowding in his classroom.
A B C D
37. Too many polished rice in one’s diet could cause beriberi, a painful new disease.
A B C D
38. The cabin is certainly not luxuriously, but it is very practical and comfortable.
A B C D
39. The letter was sent by special delivery must be important.
A B C D
40. People tend to become irritate and short-tempered whenever they get overtired.

A B C D
III. CLOZE PASSAGE
Read the following passage and then choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best completes each blank.
The Great Pyramid of Giza, a monument of wisdom and prophecy, was built as a tomb for Pharaoh
Cheops in 2720 B.C. (41)________ its antiquity, certain (42)________ of its construction make it one of the
truly great wonders of the world. The four sides of the pyramid are (43)________ almost on exactly true
north, south, east and west – an incredible engineering feat. The ancient Egyptians were sun worshippers and
great astronomers, so computations for the Great Pyramid were (44)________ on astronomical observations.
Explorations and detailed examinations on the base of the structure (45)________ many intersecting
lines. Further scientific (46)________ indicates that these (47)________ a type of time line of events – past,
present, and future. Many of the events have been interpreted and found to (48)________ with known facts
of the past. Others are prophesied for future generations and are presently under (49)________.
Was this superstructure made by ordinary beings, or (50)___ built by a race far superior to any known
today?
41. A. Though B. In spite C. By D. Despite
42. A. tenets B. relics C. aspects D. properties
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43. A. lined B. aligned C. assigned D. fathomed
44. A. set B. based C. fitted D. founded
45. A. reveal B. testify C. impose D. reset
46. A. volume B. trial C. study D. text
47. A. front B. represent C. repose D. forward
48. A. tangle B. consort C. resort D. coincide
49. A. inspection B. introduction C. recommendation D. investigation
50. A. that B. which C. such D. one
IV. COMPREHENSION READING
Read the following passage. For questions 51 – 55, you are to choose one best answer (A, B, C or D) to
each question.
Computer programmer David Jones earns £35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he
cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a cheque card. Instead he has been told to wait another two years

until he is 18.
The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of
his age is finding a job. David’s firm releases two new games for the expanding home computer market each
month.
But David’s biggest headache is what to do with his money. Despite his salary, earned by inventing
new programs within tight schedules, with bonus payments and profit-sharing, he cannot drive a car, take out
a mortgage or obtain credit cards.
He lives with his parents in their council house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus-driver. His
company has to pay £150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because
David cannot drive.
David got his job with the Liverpool-based company four months ago, a year after leaving school
with six O-levels and working for a time in a computer shop. “I got the job because the people who run the
firm knew I had already written some programs,” he said.
“I suppose £35,000 sounds a lot but actually that’s being pessimistic. I hope it will come to more than
that this year”. He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother £20 a week. But
most of his spare time spent working.
“Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school,” he said. “but I had been studied it in
books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered
staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young anyway.”
David added: “I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never
know when the market might disappear.”
51. Why is David different from other young people of his age?
A. He earns an extremely high salary. B. He is not unemployed.
C. He does not go out much. D. He lives at home with his parents.
52. David’s greatest problem is ________.
A. making the banks treat him as an adult. B. inventing computer games.
C. spending his salary. D. learning to drive.
53. He was employed by the company because ________.
A. he had worked in a computer shop. B. he had written some computer programs.
C. he works very hard. D. he had learnt to use computers at school.

54. He left school after taking O-levels because ________.
A. he did not enjoy school. B. he wanted to work with computers and staying at school did not help
him.
C. he was afraid of getting too old to start computing. D. he wanted to earn a lot of money.
55. Why does David think he may retire early?
A. You have to be young to write computer programs. B. He wants to stop working when he is a
millionaire.
C. He thinks computer games might not always sell well. D. He thinks his firm may go bankrupt.
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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 80
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost nothing was written about the contributions
of women during the colonial period and the early history of the newly formed United States. Lacking the
right to vote and absent from the seats of power, women were not considered an important force in history.
Anne Bradstreet wrote some significant poetry in the seventeenth century, Mercy Otis Warren produced the
best contemporary history of the American Revolution, and Abigail Adams penned important letters
showing she exercised great political influence over her husband, John, the second President of the United
States. But little or no notice was taken of these contributions. During these centuries, women remained
invisible in history books.
Throughout the nineteenth century, this lack of visibility continued, despite the efforts of female
authors writing about women. These writers, like most of their male counterparts, were amateur historians.
Their writings were celebratory in nature, and they were uncritical in their selection and use of sources.
During the nineteenth century, however, certain feminists showed a keen sense of history by keeping
records of activities in which women were engaged. National, regional, and local women’s organizations
compiled accounts of their doings. Personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, and souvenirs were saved
and stored. These sources from the core of the two greatest collections of women’s history in the United
States one at the Elizabeth and Arthur Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, and the other the Sophia
Smith Collection at Smith College. Such sources have provided valuable materials for later Generations of
historians.
Despite the gathering of more information about ordinary women during the nineteenth Century, most

of the writing about women conformed to the “great women” theory of History, just as much of mainstream
American history concentrated on “great men.” To demonstrate that women were making significant
contributions to American life, female authors singled out women leaders and wrote biographies, or else
important women produced their autobiographies. Most of these leaders were involved in public life as
reformers, activists working for women’s right to vote, or authors, and were not representative at all of the
great of ordinary woman. The lives of ordinary people continued, generally, to be untold in the American
histories being published.
56: What does the passage mainly discuss? A. The role of literature in early American histories
B. The place of American women in written histories C. The keen sense of history shown by American
women
D.The “great women” approach to history used by American historians
57: The word “contemporary” in the 1
st
paragraph means that the history was____.
A. informative B. thoughtful C. written at that time D. faultfinding
58: In the first paragraph, Bradstreet, Warren, and Adams are mentioned to show that ________
A. a woman’s status was changed by marriage B. even the contributions of outstanding women were
ignored
C. only three women were able to get their writing published
D. poetry produced by women was more readily accepted than other writing by women
59: The word “celebratory” in the 2
nd
paragraph means that the writings referred to ________
A. related to parties B. religious C. serious D. full of praise
60: The word “they” in the 2
nd
paragraph refers to________
A. efforts B. authors C. counterparts D. sources
61: In the 2
nd

paragraph, what weakness in nineteenth-century histories does the author point out?
A. They put too much emphasis on daily activities B. They left out discussion of the influence of money
on politics.
C. The sources of the information they were based on were not necessarily accurate.
D. They were printed on poor-quality paper.
62: On the basis of information in the third paragraph, which of the following would most likely have been
collected by nineteenth-century feminist organizations? A. Newspaper accounts of presidential election
results
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B. Biographies of John Adams C. Letters from a mother to a daughter advising her how to handle a
family problem
D. Books about famous graduates of the country’s first college
63: In the last paragraph, the author mentions all of the following as possible roles of nineteenth-century
“great women” EXCEPT ____. A. authors B. reformers C. activists for women’s rights D.
politicians
64: The word “representative” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _________
A. typical B. satisfied C. supportive D. distinctive
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. Mr. Holton only operated because he knew the rumour was malignant
→ Mr. Holton wouldn't_________________________________________
66. All that stood between John and a gold medal was Jim's greater speed
→ But for _________________________________________
67. Immediately after their arrival, things went wrong.
→ No sooner_________________________________________
68. He was so tired that he fell asleep before the end of the film
→ He was too_________________________________________
69. Hearing that an earthquake had occurred was a great shock to us.
→ We were _________________________________________

II. Topic: Discuss the role of teachers in one’s life
Most of us can learn how to do something simple on our own with just a set of instructions. However,
to learn about something more complex, it's always best to have a teacher. Teachers bring with them varied
and useful backgrounds. They've been trained to teach individuals in different ways depending on their style.
For instance, some students learn better by discussing a topic. Others learn more by writing about it.
Teachers can help students learn in the way that's best for each student. A textbook or a manual can only
give you one way of learning something. Plus they're only as helpful as your ability to understand them. A
good teacher can
adapt her teaching to your needs.
Teachers help you focus on what you're learning. If you're learning something by yourself, it's easy to
become distracted and go on to other activities. Teachers keep your attention on the subject. They also
approach a subject logically, taking it one step at a time. On your own, it's tempting to skip parts of the
learning process you think you don't need. That can hinder your ability to really understand the subject.
Learning a subject on your own is a very narrow way of learning. You can only use the information
you get from the textbook. With a teacher, you get the information in the written materials as well as the
teacher's own knowledge of the topic. Teachers can also provide extra materials to broaden the scope of
what you're learning.
There's nothing wrong with studying on your own, and a learner can always benefit from some quiet
study. For the best possible learning, though, a good teacher is the biggest help you can have.
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