Đề thi thử THPTQG môn tiếng anh tỉnh Bắc giang năm 2016

KÌ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA
Năm học 2015 - 2016
Môn: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút
Mã đề thi 356
MULTIPLE CHOICE (8 points)
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose bold part differs from
the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions
Question 1: A. against
B. awful
C. award
D. ahead
Question 2: A. opposite
B. business
C. tourism
D. domestic
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions
Question 3: Mr. Thomas does not allow us _____ in his office.
A. smoked
B. smoke
C. smoking
D. to smoke
Question 4: Where did you buy that _____ handbag?
A. funny leather purple
B. leather funny purple
C. purple funny leather
D. funny purple leather
Question 5: It was very good _____ you to give up so much of your time.
A. for
B. of

C. to
D. with
Question 6: He read the Old Man and The Sea, a novel _____ by Ernest Hemingway.
A. that wrote
B. writing
C. written
D. which written
Question 7: _____ over long distances is a fact.
A. That electricity
B. That electricity transmitting
C. That electricity can be transmitted
D. That can be transmitted
Question 8: _____ that Marie was able to retire at the age of 50.
A. Her business was successful
B. So was her successful business
C. So successful her business was
D. So successful was her business
Question 9: Peter:“I’ve been awarded a scholarship to study in America.”
Kate: “Uh, really? _____!”
A. Take care of yourself
B. Congratulations
C. Lucky as you are
D. You are always lucky
Question 10: She _____ the flowers. If she had, they wouldn’t have died.
A. shouldn’t have watered
B. can’t have watered
C. may not have watered
D. might not have watered
Question 11: “Thank you for taking the time to come here in person.” “_____”
A. Do you have time for some gossip?

B. I’d love to come. What time?
C. I don’t know what time that person comes. D. It’s my pleasure.
Question 12: The Red Cross organizes and leads relief assistance missions after ______, such as
natural disasters, man-made disasters, and epidemics.
A. emergencies
B. emergently
C. emergence
D. emergent
Question 13: Thuy Hien deserved the gold medal with such a(n) _____ performance.
A. delighted
B. typical
C. oustanding
D. over standing
Question 14: We have never experienced such harsh weather. Animals and plants may not _______ the
winter
A. live
B. pass
C. survive
D. go up
Question 15: Most doctors and nurses have to work on a _____ once or twice a week at the hospital.
A. solution
B. night shift
C. household chores
D. special dishes
Question 16: The government is expected to take _____ against the level of unemployment.
A. actor
B. actively
C. activity
D. action
Question 17: Quite soon, the world is going to _____ energy resources.

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A. run out of
B. get into
C. keep up with
D. come up against
Question 18: In many big cities, people have to ______ up with noise, overcrowding and bad air.
A. catch
B. keep
C. put
D. face
Question 19: Everyone can join our club, ______ age and sex.
A. in case of
B. regardless of
C. in place of
D. not mention
Question 20: _____ hard I tried, I couldn’t help being tempted to play games.
A. However
B. Although
C. Inspite of
D. Despite
Question 21: The Vietnamese _____ hard-working and brave.
A. be
B. is
C. are
D. being
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
Football became the game we know today during the reign of Queen Victoria in the nineteenth

century. So many different (22)________ of the game were being played in Britain at that time, that in
1863 the Football Association was formed in order to draw up and agree the (23)________ of the game.
Throughout the country, new football (24)________ were built and the development of the
railways (25)________ that football teams and their fans could travel to matches. In 1888, the Football
League was (26)________ up with twelve clubs, and football became a national sport, (27)________ to
rugby by many people as the more popular game of the two.
Sometimes people played the game in just a field. In one town, Burnley, in the north of England,
the field had river (28)________ along the side of it in which player baths after matches. People stood
on banks (29)________ from earth and it was not until the early 1900s that (30)________ stands were
built. The players would have two wooden posts for the goals with tapes across the top instead of a cross
bars and nets were not (31) ________until 1891.
Question 22: A. ways
B. forms
C. conditions
D. methods
Question 23: A. rules
B. lines
C. techniques
D. laws
Question 24: A. places
B. lands
C. courses
D. grounds
Question 25: A. intended
B. said
C. helped
D. meant
Question 26: A. got
B. made
C. put

D. set
Question 27: A. favoured
B. liked
C. wanted
D. preferred
Question 28: A. moving
B. lying
C. causing
D. running
Question 29: A. made
B. produced
C. consisted
D. worked
Question 30: A. accurate
B. correct
C. right
D. proper
Question 31: A. completed
B. invented
C. composed
D. presented
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 the primary stress in each of the following questions 32 to 34.
Question 32: A. period
B. perform
C. attract
D. arrive
Question 33: A. engineering B. preferential
C. institution
D. identity

Question 34: A. minority
B. celebration
C. independent
D. optimistic
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 bold part in each of the following questions 35 to 36.
Question 35: Although it’s a long day for us, we feel we are contented with what we do.
A. excited
B. shocked
C. dissatisfied
D. interested
Question 36: I can’t stand people who treat animals cruelly.
A. reasonably
B. brutally
C. gently
D. cleverly
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
Bees, classified into over 10.000 species, are insects found in almost every part of the world except
the northernmost and southernmost regions. One commonly known species is the honeybee, the only
bee that produces honey and wax. Humans use the wax in making candles, lipsticks, and other products,
and they use the honey as a food. While gathering the nectar and pollen with which they make honey,
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bees are simultaneously helping to fertilize the flowers on which they land. Many fruits and vegetables
would not survive if bees did not carry the pollen from blossom to blossom.
Bees live in a structured environment and social structure within a hive, which is a nest with storage
space for the honey. The different types of bees each perform a unique function. The worker bee carries
nectar to the hive in a special stomach called a honey stomach. Other workers make beeswax and shape

it into a honeycomb, which is a waterproof mass of six-sided compartments, or cells. The queen lays
eggs in completed cells. As the workers build more cells, the queen lays more eggs.
All workers, like the queen, are female, but the workers are smaller than the queen. The male
honeybees are called drones; they do no work and cannot sting. They are developed from unfertilized
eggs, and their only job is to impregnate a queen. The queen must be fertilized in order to lay worker
eggs. During the season when less honey is available and the drone is of no further use, the workers
block the drones from eating the honey so that they will starve to death.
Question 37: Which of the following is the best title for this reading?
A. The Honeybee - Its Characteristics and Usefulness
B. Making Honey
C. The Many Species of Bees
D. The Useless Drone
Question 38: The word species in the first sentence is closest in meaning to _______
A. varieties
B. killers
C. mates
D. enemies
Question 39: The word which in the fourth sentence refers to _______
A. honey
B. fertilizer
C. bees
D. flowers
Question 40: According to the passage, a hive is _______
A. a type of honey
B. a storage space
C. a nest
D. a type of bee
Question 41: According to the passage, the drone _______
A. comes from eggs fertilized by other drones. B. collects less honey than workers.
C. mates with the queen and has no other purpose.

D. can be male or female.
Question 42: The author implies that _______
A. bees are unnecessary in the food chain.
B. drones are completely dispensable.
C. drones are never females.
D. the queen can be a worker.
Question 43: According to the passage, honey is carried to the hive in a honey stomach by the _____
A. workers
B. drones
C. males
D. queens
Question 44: In what way does the reading imply that bees are useful in nature?
A. They create storage spaces.
B. They kill the dangerous drones.
C. They make marvelous creations from wax. D. They pollinate fruit and vegetable plants.
Question 45: All of the following are characteristic of a honeycomb EXCEPT _______
A. it contains hexagonal sections.
B. it is made of honey.
C. it is made of wax.
D. it is impermeable.
Question 46: The passage implies that bees can be found in each of the following parts of the world
EXCEPT
A. Antarctica
B. Europe
C. China
D. Africa
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 atmosphere that originally surrounded Earth was probably much different from the air we
breathe today. Earth's first atmosphere (some 4.6 billion years ago) was most likely hydrogen and

helium - the two most abundant gasses found in the universe - as well as hydrogen compounds such as
methane and ammonia. Most scientists feel that this early atmosphere escaped into space from the
Earth's hot surface.
A second, more dense atmosphere, however, gradually enveloped the Earth as gasses from molten
rocks within its hot interior escaped through volcanoes and steam vents. We assume that volcanoes
spewed out the same gasses then as they do today: mostly water vapor (about 80 percent), carbon
dioxide (about ten percent), and up to a few percent nitrogen. These same gasses probably created
Earth's second atmosphere.
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As millions of years passed, the constant outpouring of gasses from the hot interior - known as
outgassing - provided a rich supply of water vapor, which formed into clouds. Rain fell upon Earth for
many thousands of years, forming the rivers, lakes, and oceans of the world. During this time, large
amounts of carbon dioxide were dissolved in the oceans. Through chemical and biological processes,
much of the carbon dioxide became locked up in carbon sedimentary rocks, such as limestone. With
much of the water vapor already condensed into water and the concentration of carbon dioxide
dwindling, the atmosphere gradually became rich in nitrogen.
It appears that oxygen, the second most abundant gas in today's atmosphere, probably began an
extremely slow increase in concentration as energetic rays from the Sun split water vapor into hydrogen
and oxygen during a process called photo dissociation. The hydrogen, being lighter, probably rose and
escaped into space, while the oxygen remained in the atmosphere.
This slow increase in oxygen may have provided enough of this gas for primitive plants to evolve,
perhaps two to three billion years ago. Or the plants may have evolved in an almost oxygen-free
(anaerobic) environment. At any rate, plant growth greatly enriched our atmosphere with oxygen. The
reason for this enrichment is that plants, in the presence of sunlight, process carbon dioxide and water to
produce oxygen.
Question 47: What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The original atmosphere on Earth was unstable.
B. The atmosphere on Earth has changed over time.

C. Hot underground gasses created clouds, which formed the Earth's atmosphere.
D. Plant growth depended on oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
Question 48: The word "enveloped" is closest in meaning to___________
.
A. surrounded
B. changed
C. escaped
D. characterized
Question 49: The word "they” refers to____________.
A. gasses
B. volcanoes
C. steam vents
D. rocks
Question 50: According to the passage, outgassing eventually led to all of the following EXCEPT
__________.
A. increases in the carbon dioxide content of sedimentary rocks
B. the formation of bodies of water
C. decreases in the level of nitrogen
D. the formation of clouds
Question 51: The word "gradually" is closest in meaning to_________.
A. accidentally
B. quickly
C. by degrees
D. in the end
Question 52: The passage suggests that oxygen remained in the atmosphere because_____.
A. it was caused by outgassing
B. it was heavier than hydrogen
C. hydrogen became trapped in limestone
D. rays from the sun created equal amounts of hydrogen and oxygen
Question 53: The author uses the word "Or" to__________.

A. criticize the previous suggestion
B. provide unrelated information
C. propose a similar idea
D. suggest an alternative
Question 54: The phase "At any rate" is closest in meaning to________.
A. regardless
B. in addition
C. although unlikely
D. fortunately
Question 55: The Earth's atmosphere is described in terms of the________.
A. role of volcanoes in its formation
B. order in which changes occurred
C. time it took for the Earth's surface to cool and nitrogen to appear
D. chemical and physical features of gasses
Question 56: Which of the following does the passage mention as necessary for both the production of
oxygen by photo dissociation and the production of oxygen by plants?
A. Water
B. Hydrogen
C. Carbon dioxide
D. Nitrogen

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Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) SIMILAR in
meaning to the bold word(s) in each of the following questions
Question 57: Usually the eggs are attached to a tree with a sticky type of glue.
A. come
B. broken
C. stuck

D. remained
Question 58: Besides helping his team to great victories, Messi achieved amazing things for himself.
A. games
B. wins
C. championships
D. goals
Question 59: Beginning December 15th , all mall customers spending at least $50 at any shop are
eligible for free gift wrapping during this holiday season.
A. entitled
B. responsible
C. required
D. forbidden
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 60: Bad polluted air can cause illness and even death to many people.
A
B
C
D
Question 61: It announced today that an enquiry would be held into the collapse of a high-rise
A
B
C
apartment block in Kuala Lumpur last week.
D
Question 62:Chemical engineering is based on the principles of physics, chemists, and mathematics.
A
B
C
D

Question 63:A galaxy, where may include billions of stars, is held together by gravitation attraction.
A
B
C
D
Question 64: Neither of the men arresting as terrorists would reveal information about his group.
A
B
C
D
WRITING (2 points)
Part I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence
printed before it.
Question 65: It was supposed that the train arrived at 11.30
The train ___________________________________________________.
Question 66: “Don’t forget to prune the rose,” said my aunt.
My aunt reminded ____________________________________________.
Question 67: The boy was punished because he broke the class window.
If the boy ___________________________________________________.
Question 68: They spent more money, they had to work harder.
The more ___________________________________________________.
Question 69: Shirley didn’t begin to read until she was eight.
Not until ____________________________________________________.
Part II. In about 140 words, write a paragraph about your favorite type of movie.
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