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KỲ THI TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG QUỐC GIA NĂM 2016
Môn: TIẾNG ANH
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SECTION A (8 points)

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 01: A. challenge.
Question 02: A. composed

B. chance
B. appalled

C. achievement
C. ploughed

D. scholarship
D. noticed

Question 03: A. enjoyment
Question 04: A. apprehensive

Question 05: A. arrangement

B. extension
B. residential
B. temperature

C. fashionable
C. emergency
C. comfortable

D. facilitate
D. resolution
D. envelope

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.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.

Question 06: The government has decided that the new policy on banning cars on narrow roads would be_____ as of May
1st.
A. approximately
B. exact
C. effective
D. acute
Question 07: John lost the _____ bicycle he bought last week and his parents were very angry with him because of his
carelessness.
A. new beautiful blue Japanese
B. Japanese beautiful new blue

C. beautiful new blue Japanese
D. beautiful Japanese blue new
Question 08: Vietnam’s renowned rocker Tran Lap, _____ died of cancer on 17 March 2016, will be honored with a
posthumous medal for his contribution to the country’s music industry
A. that
B. who
C. whom
D. whose
Question 09: _____ the cause of mass fish kill along the country’s central coast has not been determined, scientists have
recommended solutions to quickly identify the source of the problem.
A. Because
B. Despite
C. While
D. As if
Question 10: One of the biggest advantages of living in the town over living in the village is that it’s close to shops, banks,
schools and others _____
A. proprieties
B. services
C. amenities
D. utilities
Question 11: When I got up this morning, the kitchen was spotless. Alex _____it before she went to bed last night.
A. should have tidied
B. needn’t have tidied C. must have tidied
D. mustn’t have tidied
Question 12: When she switched the bathroom light on, she was horrified to_____ glimpse of cockroaches creeping around
A. hold
B. draw
C. catch
D. make
Question 13: The 21st Conference of the Parties has just been _____ in Paris to discuss the global climate change treaty

A. gathered
B. collected
C. assembled
D. convened
Question 14: Many of the employees of the company are worried; they’ve heard a rumor that the company is going to
_____ a number of employees.
A. turn down
B. get over
C. lay off
D. cut out
Question 15: When he returned to his home town after the war, he found it had changed _____ all recognition
A. over
B. beyond
C. further
D. above
Question 16: _____, Miss Universe 2015 host Steve Harvey wrongfully declared Miss Colombia the winner when she was the
first runner-up.
A. Regrettably
B. Fortunately
C. Consequently
D. Accordingly
Question 17: _____ to the Senate than he began to face some of the realities of being a U.S. senator: the heavy work load;
maintaining two households, being away from his family.
A. No sooner had Obama been elected
B. No sooner Obama had been elected
C. No sooner had Obama elected
D. No sooner Obama had elected
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Question 18: Paris prosecutor Francois Molins says there have been six attacks in and around the city, and the death _____
could exceed 120.
A. amount
B. penalty
C. toll
D. number
Question 19: Some substances such as salt (sodium chloride) can conduct electricity when _____ in water.
A. being dissolved
B. dissolving
C. to dissolve
D. dissolved
Question 20: My students' sleepless nights became _____ as the examinations approached and I tried to do my best to
overcome that negative feeling.
A. as frequent
B. more frequent
C. much more frequently
D. far more frequent than
Question 21: The president placed his car _____ as a bonus for my good work.
A. for my use
B. at my disposal
C. for me use
D. at my use
Question 22: One of the most miserable things that millions of families have to suffer from wars is that wars have set
brother _____ brother.
A. against
B. about
C. apart
D. with

Question 23: Ken and Laura are saying goodbye to each other after going to LOTTE Center. And they are going to have a
date with each other later. Choose the most suitable response to fill in the blank in the following exchange.
Laura: “Well, it’s getting late. Maybe we could get together sometime.”
Ken: “_______”
A. Nice to see back you.
C. Sounds good. I’ll give you a call.
B. Take it easy.
D. Yes, I’ve enjoyed it.
Question 24: An old gentleman, who is not sure where to go for the summer holiday, is asking a travel agent for advice.
Choose the most suitable response to fill in the blank in the following exchange.
Gentleman: ”Can you recommend any places for this summer holiday?"
Agent: “__________”
A. A package tour to the Spratly Islands would be perfect, sir
B. I don’t think you could afford a tour to Singapore, sir
C. Yes, please go to other agencies
D. No, you cannot recommend any places

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 25: Many parents may fail to recognize and respond to their children’s needs until frustration explodes into
difficult or uncooperative behavior.
A. slowly reaches the boiling point
B. remains at an unchanged level
C. suddenly becomes uncontrollable
D. stays under pressure
Question 26: The mission statement of the International Movement as formulated in the "Strategy 2010" document of the
Federation is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity.
A. weak and unprotected
B. poor and disabled

C. deaf and mute
D. wealthy and famous
Question 27: Educators have made great strides in recent years in combating the ignorance of the nation’s young about
AIDS.
A. unawareness
B. fearlessness
C. arrogance
D. indoctrination

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 28: Any student who neglects his or her homework is unlikely to do well at school.
A. puts off
B. looks for
C. attends to
D. approves of
Question 29: The Red Cross is an international humanitarian agency dedicated to reducing the sufferings of wounded
soldiers, civilians and prisoners of war.
A. happiness
B. worry and sadness C. pain and sorrow
D. loss

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 30: The population of California more than doubled during the period 1940-1960, creating problems in
A
B
C
road-building and provide water for its arid southern section.
D

Question 31: Although the invention of cars has made transportation much more easily, cars are the greatest contributor of
A
B
C
D
air pollution.

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Question 32: In a microwave oven, radiation penetrates food and is then absorbed primarily by water molecules,
A
B
caused heat to spread through the food.
C
D
Question 33: A liquid that might be a poor conductor when pure is often used to make solutions that readily transmits
A
B
C
D
electricity.
Question 34: It was most nearly impossible for amateurs to realize that the painting was not authentic, though the experts
A
B
C
could judge it quite easily.
D

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 35 to 44.
Environmental Concerns
Earth is the only place we know of in the universe that can support human life. (35) _____ human activities are making
the planet less fit to live on. As the western world (36) _____ on consuming two-thirds of the world's resources while half of
the world's population do so just to stay alive we are rapidly destroying the (37) _____ resource we have by which all people
can survive and prosper. Everywhere fertile soil is (38) _____ built on or washed into the sea. Renewable resources are
exploited so much that they will never be able to recover (39) _____. We discharge pollutants into the atmosphere without
any thought of the consequences. As a (40) _____ the planet's ability to support people is being reduced at the very time
when rising human numbers and consumption are (41) _____ increasingly heavy demands on it.
The Earth's (42) _____ resources are there for us to use. We need food, water, air, energy, medicines, warmth, shelter
and minerals to (43) _____ us fed, comfortable, healthy and active. If we are sensible in how we use the resources, they will
(44) _____ indefinitely. But if we use them wastefully and excessively, they will soon run out and everyone will suffer.
Question 35: A. Although
B. Yet
C. Still
D. Despite
Question 36: A. continues
B. repeats
C. follows
D. carries
Question 37: A. individual
B. alone
C. very
D. solitary
Question 38: A. neither
B. sooner
C. rather
D. either

Question 39: A. utterly
B. completely
C. quite
D. greatly
Question 40: A. result
B. reaction
C. development
D. product
Question 41: A. making
B. doing
C. having
D. taking
Question 42: A. living
B. real
C. natural
D. genuine
Question 43: A. maintain
B. stay
C. hold
D. keep
Question 44: A. remain
B. go
C. last
D. stand

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 45 to 54.

Speed reading is not just a parlor trick you can use to impress your friends and family. For many, it's a necessary tool for
managing time and information in the fast-paced business world; and for many others, specifically students, it's the only way

to get through reading-heavy class loads.
The practiced speed reader can pick up a lengthy document or a thick stack of paper and use their skill to get the meat
of their subject by skimming for the most important details and information. Without developing the ability to speed read, this
time-saving technique is merely flipping through pages fast.
Speed reading, or increasing the rate at which you read text, is linked to increasing the rate at which you understand
what you’re reading. The key to successful speed reading is increasing your understanding of the text as you increase the
rate at which you read the words. This natural step takes training and practice, but don’t be intimidated by the idea of a
challenge. Once you've mastered it, it's a skill that will stick with you for the rest of your life. With continued practice,
common words and sentence structures became more familiar and because your brain was tuned and ready, your eyes
started taking in blocks of words at a time. The difference between average readers and speed readers is in the blocks of
words their eyes take in at one time. The larger the blocks, the faster your eyes move through the text.
Speed reading teaches you how to take your reading and your comprehension to the next level. The techniques used in
teaching speed reading focus on your individual abilities, namely where you are right now and what might be keeping you
from progressing. For example, if you are a slow reader, factors that hold you back may include, but are not limited to,
moving your lips or reading out loud or holding the text too close to your eyes. If you are in the practice of moving your lips,
or speaking or whispering while you read, you're slowing yourself down dramatically.
Your lips can only move so fast. You should be able to read at least two or three times faster than you can speak. In
effect, you’re keeping yourself at that word-by-word stage that children generally grow out of in elementary school.
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Having the ability to speed read can make a significant difference in your life, especially if reading is a strong component
of your work. Implementing some simple techniques can get you reading faster and more efficiently in no lime at all.

Adapted from Understanding Speed Reading by Brandon C.Hall

Question 45: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The practice of speed reading

B. Features of speed reading
C. The use of speed reading in studies
D. Various roles of speed reading
Question 46: According to the passage, why is speed reading useful for students?
A. They have problems collecting information.
B. They can impress their friends.
C. They have difficulty managing their time.
D. They have a lot of reading to do.
Question 47: The word "meat" is closest in meaning to______.
A. core
B. nourishment
C. understanding
D. nutriment
Question 48: According to the passage, what happens if the reader does not develop their capacity to speed read?
A. Readers cannot get the gist of what they have read.
B. Readers cannot increase the rate of understanding what they are reading.
C. Speed reading means flipping pages as fast as possible.
D. Speed reading may prevent them from understanding what you have read.
Question 49: The word "intimidated" is closest in meaning to______.
A. shy
B. angry
C. frightened
D. tired
Question 50: According to the passage, what is the difference between an average reader and a speed reader?
A. The average reader recognizes more familiar words.
B. The average reader understands fewer words at a time.
C. The average reader takes in bigger blocks at one time.
D. The average reader moves faster through the text.
Question 51: According to the passage, what is true about the strategies used in teaching speed reader?
A. They focus on slow readers.

B. They encourage readers to move lips.
C. They centre on readers' personal capabilities.
D. They consider the readers’ schooling ages.
Question 52: The word "dramatically" is closest in meaning to______.
A. quickly
B. ordinarily
C. considerately
D. considerably
Question 53: According to the passage, all of the following statements are true EXCEPT______.
A. You should be able to read at least twice as fast as you talk.
B. Speed reading decreases your understanding of the text because you are skimming.
C. Speed reading plays an important role in student learning.
D. Increasing your understanding of the text should go with increasing your reading rate.
Question 54: Where in the passage does the author give a definition?
A. Lines 1-3
B. Lines 7-8
C. Lines 13-14
D. Lines 20-21

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 55 to 64.

Most of us know a little about how babies learn to talk. From the time infants are born, they hear language because their
parents talk to them all the time. Between the ages of seven and ten months, most infants begin to make sounds. They
repeat the same sounds over and over again. This is called babbling. When babies babble, they are practicing their language.
What happens, though, to children who cannot hear? How do deaf children learn to communicate? Recently, doctors have
learned that deaf babies babble with their hands. Laura Ann Petitto, a psychologist, observed three hearing infants with
English-speaking parents and two deaf infants with deaf parents using American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate. Dr.
Petitto studied the babies three times: at 10, 12, and 14 months. During this time, children really begin to develop their
language skills.

After watching and videotaping the children for several hundred hours, the psychologist and her assistants made many
important observations. For example, they saw that the hearing children made varied motions with their hands. However,
there appeared to be no pattern to these motions. The deaf babies also made different movements with their hands, but
these movements were more consistent and deliberate. The deaf babies seemed to make the same hand movements over
and over again. During the four-month period, the deaf babies' hand motions started to resemble some basic hand-shapes
used in ASL. The children also seemed to prefer certain hand-shapes.
Hearing infants start first with simple syllable babbling, then put more syllables together to sound like real sentences and
questions. Apparently, deaf babies follow this same pattern, too. First, they repeat simple hand-shapes. Next, they form some
simple hand signs and use these movements together to resemble ASL sentences.
Linguists believe that our ability for language is innate. In other words, humans are born with the capacity for language: It
does not matter if we are physically able to speak or not. Language can be expressed in different ways - for instance, by
speech or by sign. Dr. Petitto believes this theory and wants to prove it. She plans to study hearing children who have one
deaf parent and one hearing parent. She wants to see what happens when babies have the opportunity to learn both sign
language and speech. Does the human brain prefer speech? Some of these studies of hearing babies who have one deaf
parent and one hearing parent show that the babies babble equally with their hands and their voices. They also produce their
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first words, both spoken and signed, at about the same time. More studies in the future may prove that the sign system of
the deaf is the physical equivalent of speech.

Adapted from “Issues for Today” by Lorraine C. Smith and Nancy Nici Mare

Question 55: According to paragraph 1, babies begin to babble ______.
A. at their first moment after birth
B. at their first experience of language
C. when they are more than 6 months old
D. when they first hear their parents talk to them

Question 56: The phrase “the babies” in paragraph 2 refers to ______ in the study
A. the hearing infants
B. the deaf infants
C. the hearing and deaf infants
D. the disabled infants
Question 57: The writer mentions “American Sign Language (ASL)” in paragraph 2 as a language ______.
A. used by the deaf to communicate
B. especially formed by infants
C. used among psychologists
D. widely used by American children
Question 58: The word “resemble” in paragraph 3 refers to ______.
A. making initial movements
B. studying funny movements
C. creating strange movements
D. producing similar movements
Question 59: It is stated in paragraph 3 that both the deaf and the hearing children made movements with their hands, but
______.
A. only the hearing children made different movements
B. the deaf children made less consistent hand movements
C. the hearing children only repeated the same hand motions
D. only the deaf children repeated the same hand motions
Question 60: According to paragraph 4, hearing infants learn to talk first by ______
A. hand-shapes
B. babbling
C. hand motions
D. eye movements
Question 61: The word “real” in paragraph 4 mostly means ______.
A. meaningful
B. formal
C. general

D. original
Question 62: It is mentioned in the last paragraph that Dr. Petitto plans to study ______.
A. what happens when babies have the opportunity to learn both speech and sign language
B. whether all children speak and make motions with their hands at the same time
C. the assumption that the human brain prefers sign language to speech
D. whether the sign system of the deaf is the physical equivalent of speech
Question 63: Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the last paragraph?
A. The human brain prefers speech.
B. Humans are innately able for language.
C. Babies produce spoken words before signed ones.
D. Language cannot be expressed in different ways.
Question 64: Which of the following could best serve as the title of the passage?
A. Education for Deaf Children
B. How do Children Master Language?
C. Language: Is It Always Spoken?
D. American Sign Language
SECTION B (2 points)

I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed before
it. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (0.5 points)
Question 1: It's common knowledge that he has been in prison several times.
 He is known ______________________________________________________________________
Question 2: “I hate to be criticized by non-professionals,” the film star said.
 The film star objected _______________________________________________________________
Question 3: She can't get into the habit of studying every evening.
 She can't get used _________________________________________________________________
Question 4: I regret not paying much attention to the lecture.
 I wish ___________________________________________________________________________
Question 5: She never seems to succeed even though she works hard.
 However _________________________________________________________________________

II. In about 140 words, write a paragraph about what factors lead to academic success among high-school
students (1.5 points)
The following prompts might be helpful to you.
 The family support
 The friends' accompany
 The school background

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