Đề thi thử THPTQG môn tiếng anh tỉnh Bắc Giang

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BẮC GIANG
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KỲ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2016
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh
Ngày thi: 18/6/2016
Thời gian làm bài 90 phút, không kể phát đề
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Họ và tên thí sinh: .............................................................SBD: ...............................................
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SECTION A (8 points)
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.
Question 1: A. escape
B. replace
C. involve
D. selfish
Question 2: A. dynamic
B. conservative
C. sociable
D. attractive
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions.
Question 3: In this hospital, they have the best staff and equipments in the whole province. It’s really high
standard.
A
B
C
D

Question 4: The more you work, the best you’ll pass your exams.
A
B
C
D
Question 5: He was too exhausted that he couldn’t even stand on his feet.
A
B
C
D
Question 6: Someone who use a personal computer to perform only such tasks as word processing and
A
B
sending e-mail need not buy the most advanced model available on the market.
C
D
Question 7: Helen as well as her friends have never been out of town since they were five years old.
A
B
C
D
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 8: “It’s about time you _______ your homework, Mary.”
A. must do
B. do
C. did
D. will do
Question 9: My student practices ______ English with her friends every day.
A. speak

B. spoke
C. to speak
D. speaking
Question 10: We are going to ______.
A. get our house being redecorated
B. have our house be redecorated
C. have our house to be redecorated
D. have our house redecorated
Question 11: The new song has ______ been selected for Euro 2016.
A. officially
B. official
C. office
D. officer
Question 12: They stayed for hours, ______ my mother was very annoyed about.
A. which
B. whom
C. that
D. this
Question 13: We ______ Dorothy since last Saturday.
A. don't see
B. hadn't seen
C. haven't seen
D. didn't see
Question 14: Nga has just taken her exam. Choose the most suitable response.
Nga: "This exam is the hardest one we've ever had this semester!"
Minh: "______. But I think it's quite easy."
A. You're right
B. I understand what you're saying
C. I couldn't agree more
D. I don't see in that way

Question 15: Doctors do not always have good communication ______.
A. talent
B. skills
C. things
D. means
Question 16: I gave up the job ______ the attractive salary.
A. because
B. because of
C. although
D. despite
Question 17: The four-storey house ______ on that hill is still new.
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A. building
B. built
C. being built
D. be built
Question 18: Tom is moving the table. Choose the most suitable response
Tom: "______"
Mary: "Yes, of course."
A. You won't help me this time.
B. You'd better give me one hand.
C. Could you give me a hand?
D. I don't think I'll need your help.
Question 19: The city center was packed with thousands of tourists of different races and ______.
A. attitudes
B. villages
C. cultures
D. diversities

Question 20: ______ candidates are likely to succeed in job interviews.
A. Nervous
B. Self-conscious
C. Self-doubt
D. Self-confident
Question 21: A ______ knit community is the one in which relationships are very close.
A. actively
B. quickly
C. hardly
D. close
Question 22: Lucy was late for school this morning because the alarm didn’t ______ as usual.
A. ring off
B. get off
C. go off
D. take off
Question 23: I used to have butterflies in my ______ before school tests.
A. chest
B. heart
C. stomach
D. lung
Question 24: Just keep ______ on the dog when I am on holiday, will you?
A. a look
B. an eye
C. a glance
D. a care
Question 25: Do you _____ your new roommate, or do you two argue?
A. keep in touch with B. on good terms with C. get used to
D. get along with
Question 26: It's essential that every student ______ the exam before attending the course.
A. would pass

B. passed
C. pass
D. passes
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is differs
from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 27: A. missed
B. worked
C. watched
D. realized
Question 28: A. honourable
B. historic
C. honesty
D. hour
Question 29: A. mouths
B. shops
C. notes
D. blacksmiths
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 30 to 39.
Telecommuting is some form of computer communication between employees’ homes and offices. For
employees whose job involve sitting at a terminal or word processor entering data or typing reports, the
location of the computer is of no consequence. If the machine can communicate over telephone lines,
when the work is completed, employees can dial the office computer and transmit the material to their
employers. A recent survey in USA Today estimates that there are approximately 8,7 million
telecommuters. But although the numbers are rising annually, the trend does not appear to be as
significant as predicted when Business Week published “The Portable Executive” as its cover story a few
years ago. Why hasn’t telecommuting become more popular?
Clearly, change simply takes time. But in addition, there has been active resistance on the part of many
managers. These executives claim that supervising the telecommuters in a large work force scattered
across the country would be too difficult, or, at least, systems for managing them are not yet developed,

thereby complicating the manager’s responsibilities.
It is also true that employees who are given the option of telecommuting are reluctant to accept the
opportunity. Most people feel that they need regular interaction with a group, and many are concerned
that they will not have the same consideration for advancement if they are not more visible in the office
setting. Some people feel that even when a space in their homes is set aside as a work area, they never
really get away from the office.
Question 30: With which of the following topics is the passage primarily concerned?
A. An overview of telecommuting.
B. A definition of telecommuting.
C. The advantages of telecommuting.
D. The failure of telecommuting.
Question 31: How many Americans are involved in telecommuting?
A. Fewer than last year.
B. Fewer than estimated in USA Today.
C. More than 8 million.
D. More than predicted in Business Week.
Question 32: The phrase “of no consequence” in paragraph 1 means ______.
A. of no use
B. irrelevant
C. unimportant
D. of no good
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Question 33: The author mentions all of the following as concerns of telecommuting EXCEPT ______
A. the opportunities for advancement.
B. the different system of supervision.
C. the lack of interaction with a group.
D. The work place is in the home.
Question 34: The word “executives” in paragraph 2 refers to ______.

A. managers
B. employees
C. most people
D. telecommuters
Question 35: The word “them” in paragraph 2 refers to ______.
A. systems
B. executives
C. telecommuters
D. responsibilities
Question 36: The reason why telecommuting has not become popular is that the employees ______
A. need regular interaction with their families.
B. feel that a work area in their home is away from the office.
C. are ignorant of telecommuting.
D. are worried about the promotion if they are not seen at the office.
Question 37: It can be inferred from the passage that the author is ______.
A. a telecommuter
B. a statistician
C. a reporter
D. the manager
Question 38: The word “reluctant” in paragraph 3 can best be replaced by ______.
A. willing
B. typical
C. hesitate
D. opposite
Question 39: When Business Week published “The Portable Executive”, it implied that ______
A. most telecommuters were satisfied with their work.
B. there was resistance on the part of many managers about telecommuting.
C. the trend for telecommuting was optimistic.
D. systems for managing telecommuters were not effective.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) or phrase(s) SIMILAR in

meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 40: What is the principal distinction between ducks and geese?
A. difference
B. similarity
C. relation
D. characteristic
Question 41: He resembles his father in appearance very much.
A. names after
B. takes after
C. looks after
D. calls after
Question 42: Looking after the children and doing the housework make her occupied all day.
A. comfortable
B. free
C. busy
D. relaxed
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 43 to 52.
The Women’s Liberation movement has become an important social movement (43) ______ much of
the world today. In the past few decades, it has become one of the most important social movement in the
U.S. Women have been (44) ______ for equal rights in the United States since the early 1900s, but it was
really in the 1960s and 1970s that women began to (45) ______ equal rights and treatment in the fields of
politics, education, employment, and the home.
As for the field of politics, today’s politicians are well (46) ______that women have become a
powerful political force in this century. One of the reasons for this is that there are about 70 million
women of voting age. There are, (47) ______, 7 million more women of voting age than there are men of
voting age in the U.S today.
Not only are there more women voting age these days and (48) ______ the political structure of the
country, but more of them are also becoming (49) ______ educated. Today’s young American women is
much more (50) ______ to be a college student than her mother was. In 1950, only 7% of all women

eighteen to twenty-four years old were (51) ______ in college. By 1980, 30% of all women in this age
group were college students. To be sure, this is 2,3 million fewer than the (52) ______ of American men
with college degrees, but the number is growing each year.
Question 43: A. over
Question 44: A. competing
Question 45: A. gain
Question 46: A. amused
Question 47: A. of course
Question 48: A. influencing
Question 49: A. more

B. throughout
B. playing
B. enhance
B. fond
B. in fact
B. obeying
B. better

C. above
C. shooting
C. win
C. worried
C. however
C. promising
C. farther

D. in all
D. fighting
D. maintain

D. aware
D. consequently
D. powering
D. greater
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Question 50: A. equally
Question 51: A. attended
Question 52: A. number

B. hopefully
B. entered
B. sum

C. likely
C. matriculated
C. total

D. brightly
D. enrolled
D. datum

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 53 to 62.
England was a powerful country in the world. It had a lot of colonies. In the American colonies there
was little money. England did not supply the colonies with coins and did not allow the colonies to make
their own coins, except for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which received permission for a short period
in 1652 to make several kinds of silver coins. England wanted to keep money out of America as a means
of controlling trade: America was forced to trade only with England if it did not have the money to buy

products from other countries. The result during this pre-Revolutionary period was that the colonists used
various goods in place of money: beaver pelts, Indian wampum, and tobacco leaves were all commonly
used substitutes for money. The colonists also made use of any foreign coins they could obtain. Dutch,
Spanish, French, and English coins were all in use in the American colonies.
During the Revolutionary War, funds were needed to finance the war, so each of the individual states
and the Continental Congress issued paper money. So much of this paper money was printed that, by the
end of the war, almost no one would accept it. As a result, trade in goods and the use of foreign coins still
flourished during this period.
By the time the Revolutionary War had been won by the American colonists, the monetary system was
in a state of total disarray. To remedy this situation, the new Constitution of the United States, approved
in 1789, allowed Congress to issue money. The individual states could no longer have their own money
supply. A few years later, the Coinage Act of 1792 made the dollar the official currency of the United
States and put the country on a bimetallic standard. In this bimetallic system, both gold and silver were
legal money, and the rate of exchange of silver to gold was fixed by the government at sixteen to one.
Question 53: The passage mainly discusses _____
A. the effect of the Revolution on American money.
B. American money from past to present.
C. the English monetary policies in colonial America.
D. the American monetary system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Question 54: The passage indicates that during the colonial period, money was _____
A. used extensively for trade.
B. scarce.
C. supplied by England.
D. coined by colonists.
Question 55: The Massachusetts Bay Colony was allowed to make coins _____
A. for a short time during one year.
B. throughout the seventeenth century.
C. continuously from the inception of the colony.
D. from 1652 until the Revolutionary War.
Question 56: The expression “a means of” in paragraph 1 could be best replaced by _____.

A. a result of
B. a method of
C. a punishment for
D. an example of
Question 57: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as a substitute for money during
the colonial period?
A. Wampum
B. Cotton
C. Beaver furs
D. Tobacco
Question 58: The pronoun “it” in paragraph 2 refers to which of the following?
A. The Continental Congress
B. Trade in goods
C. The war
D. Paper money
Question 59: It is implied in the passage that at the end of the Revolutionary War, a paper dollar was
worth _____.
A. exactly one dollar
B. just over one dollar
C. just under one dollar
D. almost nothing
Question 60: The word “remedy” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. resolve
B. medicate
C. renew
D. understand
Question 61: How was the monetary system arranged in the Constitution?
A. The US officially went on a bimetallic monetary system.
B. The dollar was made official currency of the US.
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C. Only the US Congress could issue money.
D. Various state governments, including Massachusetts, could issue money.
Question 62: According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about the bimetallic
monetary system?
A. Either gold or silver could be used as official money.
B. It was established in 1792.
C. Gold could be exchanged for silver at the rate of sixteen to one.
D. The monetary system was based on two metals.
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 63: We all looked up to these fire fighters who put out the terrible fire in our town last night.
A. respected
B. looked forward
C. admired
D. looked down on
Question 64: I’d like to pay some money into my bank account.
A. withdraw some money from
B. put some money into
C. give some money out
D. leave some money aside
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.
Question 1: Because there was a late frost, much of the fruit crop was spoiled
The frost which ______________________________________________.
Question 2: I haven't been to a cricket match for years.
It's ________________________________________________________.
Question 3: She just had time to put up her umbrella before the rain came down in torrents.

No sooner __________________________________________________.
Question 4: His briefcase was too full for the zip fastener to close properly.
His briefcase was so __________________________________________.
Question 5: “I'm sorry that I broke the glass,” said Peter.
Peter apologized_____________________________________________.
II. In about 140 words, write a paragraph about measures to protect the environment. Write your
paragraph on your answer sheet.
The following prompts might be useful to you:
- raise people’s awareness
- reduce, reuse, recycle
- use things friendly to the environment
- ……..
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