TRƯỜNG THPT NÔNG CỐNG I ĐỀ THI THỬ ĐẠI HỌC LẦN I
TỔ TIẾNG ANH NĂM HỌC: 2013- 2014
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH- Khối D, A1
(Đề thi gồm 04 trang) Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the following questions.
Question 1: My supervisor is angry with me. I didn't do all the work I ______ last
week.
A. should have done B. may have done C. need to have done D. must have
done
Question 2: Anyone ________to another country needs special papers
A. travelled B. is travelled C. travelling D. is travelling
Question 3: Half of the children were away from school last week because
of______of influenza.
A. a breakthrough B. an outbreak C. a break- out D. an outburst
Question 4: Andrew’s children are very___________because their parents give them
everything they ask for.
A. overdone B. harmed C. spoilt D. damaged
Question 5: Please cut my hair _____the style in this magazine.
A. the same length asB. the same long as C. the same length like D. the same
long like
Question 6: Because of ______weather conditions, California has an advantage in
the production of fruits and vegetables.
A. favour B. favourably C. favourite D. favourable
Question 7: A. “I would like to invite you to our wedding anniversary this Saturday
morning.” - B. “__________”
A. Thank you for your request, but I’m sorry I can’t really come.
B. I would love to come but I have prior commitments. I’m sorry.
C. I am sorry. Can you come to my place?
D. How about going to the cinema?
Question 8: Our landlord had the broken window ________ before winter.
A. fix B. fixing C. fixed D. to fix
Question 9: I am afraid a rise in salary is _____________just now.
A .out of sight B. out of control C. out of date D. out of question
Question 10: Different cultures ______dreams in different ways.
A. interpret B. associate C. express D. interfere
Question 11: - "This grammar test is the hardest one we’ve ever had this semester!"
- "________. But I think it’s quite easy."
A. I understand what you’re saying B. I couldn’t agree more
C. I don’t see in that way D. You’re right
Mã đề thi: A103
Question 12: ________ global solidarity, the world would not be better prepared for
the influenza H1N1 pandemic
A. But for B. On account of C. Thanks to D. If not
Question 13: I recommend that the student ________ his composition as soon as
possible.
A. finishes writing B. should finish the writing C. finished writing
D. finish writing
Question 14: "I've got two tickets for the exhibition." " ____________ "
A. Oh, let's go and get the tickets. B. That's great. When is it?
C. Oh, anything else? D. Thanks. I can't afford
the tickets.
Question 15: I didn’t see any sign of the money, but I ____ a small notebook and a
pencil which ______ when the door opened suddenly.
A. have found / probably dropped C. found / had probably dropped
B. found / have probably dropped D. find / probably drop
Question 16: The movie is ______ Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a number of ways.
A. like to B. alike with C. similar to D. same as
Question 17: He objected to ____________.
A. his mistakes being laughed at B. laughing his mistakes at
C. his mistakes laughing at D. his mistakes at laughing
Question 18: “ Could I speak to Susie May, please ?” “Yes,________.”
A. Answering B. Talking C. Saying D. Speaking
Question 19: If you had taken my advice, you _______ in such difficulties now.
A. wouldn't have been B. hadn't been C. wouldn't be D.
won't be
Question 20: That is a _______________.
A. French stamp valuable B. valuable stamp of France C.
French valuable stamp D. valuable French stamp
Question 21: Today, women are increasingly involved ________ the politics.
A. of B. in C. with D. from
Question 22: A. “If only I hadn’t said that to her”. - B. “_________________”
A. Ah, well, that is life. B. Yes, you mustn’t have done like that
C. No worry, that’s nothing . D. No, you’ve done a very good job
Question 23: ________I love you, I can’t let you do whatever you like.
A. Whatever B. Whether C. Despite D. Much as
Question 24: I can’t go with you today; I have_________.things to do
A. a great deal B. many a great C. great many D. a great many
Question 25: My cousin obviously didn't ______ much of an impression on you if
you can't remember meeting her.
A. create B. build C. do D. make
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase
that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following
questions.
Question 26: We have been out of touch him since he moved to London.
A. kept contact with B. made a call to C. contacted with D.written to
Question 27: As an executive director of a big company, she is a woman of
extraordinary intelligence.
A.remarkable B. moderate C. little D. sufficient
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word of phrase
that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following
questions.
Question 28: Married couples can get a divorce if they find they are not compatible .
A. able to budget their money B. capable of having children
C. capable of living harmoniously D. able to share an apartment or a
house
Question 29: No matter how hard we try, there is no way to circumvent taxes.
A. pay in installments B. get around C. travel
around D. round up
Question 30: Dr. Jones suggested that final examinations be discontinued, an
innovation I heartily support.
A. entrance B. change C. inner part D. test
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 blanks.
The traditional definition of literacy is considered to be the ability to read and
write, or the ability to use language to read, write, listen, and speak. In modern
contexts, the word refers to reading and writing at a level (71) _____ for
communication, or at a level that lets one understand and communicate ideas in a
literate society,' so as to take (72)_____ in that society. The United Nations,
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has drafted the
following definition: “Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create,
communicate and compute, using printed and written' materials (73) _____ with
varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning to enable an Individual to
achieve his or her goals, to develop his, or her (74) _____ and potential, and to
participate fully in the wider society."
Many policy analysts consider literacy rates a crucial measure of a region's
human capital. This claim is made on the (75) _____ that literate people can be
trained less expensively than illiterate people, generally have a higher socio-
economic (76) _____ and enjoy better health and employment prospects. Policy
makers also argue that literacy increases job opportunities and access to higher
education. In Kerala, India, for example, female and child mortality rates declined
(77) _____ in the 1960s, when girls who were educated in the education reforms after
1948 began to raise families. Recent researchers, (78)_____, argue that correlations
such as, the one listed above may have more to do with the effects of schooling rather
than literacy in general. Regardless, the (79) _____ of educational systems worldwide
includes a basic (80) _____ around communication through test and print, which is
the foundation of most definitions of literacy.
Question 31: A. adaptable B. suitable C. adequate D. important
Question 32: A. comfort B. control C. part D. honor
Question 33: A. associated B. worked C. appropriated D. related
Question 34: A. ability B. knowledge C. performance D. behavior
Question 35: A. foundations B. ways C. grounds D.
basics
Question 36: A. condition B. request C. state D. status
Question 37: A. dramatically B. extremely C. actually D.
accurately
Question 38: A. additionally B. however C. therefore D.
consequently
Question 39: A. focus B. demand C. majority D. main
Question 40: A. content B. concept C. contact D. context
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that has
underlined part is pronounced differently from the rests.
Question 41: A. debris B. deny C. deter
D. demand
Question 42: A. likes B. tightens C. heaps D. fuss
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 questions.
Question 43: A. property B. surgery C. furthermore D. nitrogen
Question 44: A. belong B. indeed C. private D. emit
Question 45: A. nervousness B. confidence C. creative D.
creature
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that
needs correction in each of the following questions
Question 46: The influence of the nation’s literature, art, and science have captured widespread
attention.
A B C D
Question 47: Society uses such human emotions as proud, shame, guilt, and fear to maintain itself.
A B C D
Question 48: Chicago’s Sears Tower, now the tallest building in the world, rises 1,522 feet from the
ground to the top of it Antenn.
A B C
D
Question 49: My brother has a French elegant clock which he considers his property.
A B C D
Question 50: Because there are less members present tonight than there were last night, we must
wait until the next meeting to vote.
A B C
D
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.
Prehistoric horses were far removed from the horses that Christopher Columbus
brought on his ships during his second voyage to the New World. Although fossil
remains of “dawn horses” have been excavated in several sites in Wyoming and New
Mexico, these animal, which were biologically different from contemporary horses,
had been extinct several millennia before onset of the Indian era. Although
moviegoers visualize an Indian as a horse rider, Indians were not familiar with horses
until the Spanish brought them to Mexico, New Mexico, Florida, and the West Indies
in 1519. Those that escaped from the conquerors or were left behind became the
ancestors of the wild horses that still roam the southwestern regions of the country.
The Indian tribe scattered in the western plains began to breed horse about 1600.
The arrival of the horse produced a ripple effect throughout the Great Plains as the
Indians living there were not nomadic and engaged in rudimentary farming and
grazing land hunting. Tracking stampeding herds of buffalo and elk on foot was not
the best way to stock quantities of meat to adequately feed the entire tribe during the
winter. However, mounted on horses, the hunting team could cover ground within a
substantial distance from their camps and transport their game back to be roasted,
dried into jerky, or smoke for preservation. The hunters responsible for tribe
provisions stayed on the move almost continuously, replacing their earth-and-sod
lodges with tepees. Horses carried not only their riders but also their possessions and
booty. The Blackfoot Indians of the Canadian plains turned almost exclusive hunters,
and the Crow split off from the mainstream Indian farming in favor of hunting. In
fact, some of the Apache splinter groups abandoned agricultural cultivation
altogether.
The horse also drastically altered Indian warfare by allowing rapid maneuvering
before, during, and after skirmishes. With the advent of the horse, the Apache,
Arapahoe, and Cheyenne established themselves as territorial monopoly in the Plains.
Because Indians did not have the wheel and had dragged their belongings from one
settlement to another, horse also enabled them to become more mobile and expedient
during tribal migration. In fact, the Cheyenne abolished the custom of discarding
belongings and tepee skins simply because there were no means to transport them
Question 51: The word “excavated” is closest in meaning to________
A. exasperated B. extinguished C. hunted
down D. dug up
Question 52: According to the passage, how many genetic species of horses are
known today?
A. Two. B. One C. Four D. Three.
Question 53: The word “Those” refers to________
A. Indians B. The Spanish C. horses D. West
Indies
Question 54: According to the passage, American Indians________
A. farmed with horses in the 1500s. B. tamed horses in the early
1500s.
C. were exposed to horses in the 1500s. D. have ridden horses since
prehistoric times
Question 55: The author of the passage probably believes that the popular image of
American Indians before the arrival of Europeans_________
A. is not historically accurate. B. is not theoretically viable.
C. cannot be discussed briefly. D. cannot be realistically
described.
Question 56: According to the passage, after the arrival of Europeans, the Indian
tribes inhabiting the Great Plains________
A. herded undomesticated buffalo. B. had sedentary and tranquil life-
styles.
C. improved their hunting techniques. D. played communicated hunting
games.
Question 57: The word “provisions” is closest in meaning to________
A. attire B. weapons C. supplies
D. health
Question 58: According to the passage, American Indians invented various methods
for________
A. dislocating their traps. B. conducting their hostile
excursions.
C. keeping their possessions. D. communicating over great
distances.
Question 59: It can be inferred from the passage that Indians did NOT________
A. assign sustenance tasks B. accrue tribal wealth. C.
pursue stampedes D. use covered wagons.
Question 60: It can be inferred from the passage that the arrival of horses in the
Americas________
A. made the Indian tribes relinquish their territorial monopolies. B. altered the
future course of the Indian way of life
C. shattered the advancement of the Indian culture. D. led to the
dispersal of the Indian tribes throughout the continent
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on you answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best
combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 61: People say he won a lot of money on the lottery.
A. He was said to win a lot of money on the lottery. B. He is said
that he won a lot of money on the lottery.
C. He is said to have won a lot of money on the lottery. D. He won a
lot of money on the lottery, it is said
Question 62: You’d be welcome to join us if you changed your mind.
A. You didn’t change your mind, so we weren’t welcome to join you.
B. If it were not for your mind, you had been welcome to join us.
C. We are welcome to join you unless you change your mind.
D. Were you to change your mind, you would be welcome to join us
Question 63: He now goes to work on his bicycle instead of by car.
A. He has now stopped driving to work and goes by bicycle. B. He still
goes to work by car but more often on his bicycle.
C. Since he bought the car, he has never used the bicycle to go to work.
D. He has never gone to work in his car but always on his bicycle.
Question 64: He is very intelligent. He can solve all the problems in no time.
A. So intelligent is he that he can solve all the problems in no time.
B. He is very intelligent that he can solve all the problems in no time.
C. An intelligent student is he that he can solve all the problems in no time.
D. So intelligent a student is he that he can solve all the problems in no time.
Question 65: We cut down many forests. The Earth becomes hot.
A. The more forests we cut down, the hotter the Earth becomes. B. The more
we cut down forests, the hotter the Earth becomes.
C. The more forests we cut down, the Earth becomes hotter. D. The more we cut
down forests, the Earth becomes hotter.
Question 66: Her living conditions were difficult. However, she studied very well.
A. Difficult as her living conditions, she studied very well.
B. She studied very well thanks to the fact that she lived in difficult conditions.
C. She studied very well in spite of her difficult living conditions.
D. Although she lived in difficult conditions, but she studied very well.
Question 67: “Make good use of your time. You won’t get such an opportunity
again” said he to me.
A. He ordered me to make use of my time saying that I wouldn’t get an
opportunity again
B. He offered me such an opportunity so that I could make good use of my time.
C. He let me make use of my time because I wouldn’t get an opportunity again.
D. He advised me to make use of my time as I wouldn’t get an opportunity again.
Question 68: You should have persuaded him to change his mind.
A. You should persuade him to change his mind. B. You
persuaded him to change his mind but he didn't listen.
C. It was essential to persuade him to change his mind but you didn't.
D. You didn't persuade him to change because of his mind
Question 69: No sooner had he been appointed to the post than the new director fell
ill.
A. Immediately after his appointment to the post, the new director fell ill.
B. The new director had no sooner been appointed to the post when he fell ill.
C. After the new director fell ill, he had been appointed to the new post.
D. Because he had been appointed to the post, the new director fell ill.
Question 70: I had an irresistible urge to buy the painting because it was very
impressive.
A. The painting was too impressive for me to buy it.
B. It was so impressive a painting that I had an irresistible urge to buy it.
C. So impressive was the painting that I had an irresistible urge to buy.
D. It was such an impressive painting that I had an irresistible urge to buy.
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.
Are organically grown foods the best choices ? The advantages claimed for such
foods over conventionally grown
and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates of organic foods –
a term whose meaning varies greatly – frequently proclaim that such products are
safer and more nutritious than others.
The growing interest of consumers in the safety and more nutritional
quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development . However,
much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims that the food supply is
unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs. Although most of these claims
are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material
advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to separate fact
from fiction. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting entirely of
organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to
health have become widely publicized and form the basis for folklore.
Almost daily the public is besieged by claims for “no-aging” diets, new
vitamins, and other wonder foods. There are numerous unsubstantiated reports
that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are
nutritionally superior to fertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than
fumigated grains and the like. One thing that most organically grown food
products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally
grown foods. But in many cases consumers are misled if they believe organic
foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than
conventionally grown foods. So there is real cause for concern if consumers,
particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food and buy only
expensive organic foods instead
Question 71: The word “Advocates” is closest in meaning to which of the following
?
A. Proponents B. Inspectors C. Consumers D. Merchants
Question 72: In the first paragraph, the word “other” refers to ___.
A. advocates B. products C. advantages D. organic foods
Question 73: The “ welcome development” mentioned is an increase in___.
A. the amount of health food grown in North American
B. interest in food safety and nutritional quality of the typical North American diet
C. the number of consumers in North American
D. the nutritional quality of the typical North American diet
Question 74: According to the first paragraph , which of the following is true about
the terms “ organic foods” ?
A. It has been used only in recent years. B. It is seldom used by consumers.
C. It has no fixed meaning. D. It is accepted by most nutritionists .
Question 75: The word “unsubstantiated” is closest in meaning to ___.
A. uncontested B. unbelievable C. unverified D. unpopular
Question 76: The word “maintain” is closest in meaning to ___.
A. preserve B. retire C. improve D. monitor
Question 77: Who does the author think should NOT buy organic foods ?
A. Advocated of organic food B. Wealthy people C. Concerned
consumers D. Low income consumers
Question 78: The author implies that there is cause for concern if consumers with
limited incomes buy organic foods
instead of conventionally grown foods because ___.
A. too many farmers will stop using conventional method to grow food crops
B. many organic foods are actually less nutritious than similar conventionally
grown foods
C. conventionally grown foods are more readily available than organic foods
D. organic foods can be more expensive but are often no better than conventionally grown
foods
Question 79: According to the last paragraph, consumers who believe that organic
foods are better than conventionally grown
foods are often ___.
A. wealthy B. mistaken C. thrifty D. careless
Question 80: What is the author’s attitude toward the claims made by advocates of
health foods?
A. Very enthusiastic B. Neutral C. Skeptical D. Somewhat
favorable
