THPT NGO GIA TU ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA MÔN TIẾNG ANH 2015

SỞ GIÁO DỤC ĐÀO TẠO TÂY NINH
TRƯỜNG THPT NGÔ GIA TỰ

ĐỀ THI THỬ – KỲ THI THPT QUỐC GIA 2015
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is
pronounced differently from that of the rest ones
1. A. advisedly
B. demanded
C. prevented
D. cured
2. A. become
B. product
C. gloves
D. brother
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.
3. A. preferential
B. calculation
C. conventional
D. apprehension
4. A. different
B. important
C. essential
D. negation
5. A. eliminate
B. compulsory
C. technology
D. academic

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct one to complete each of
the following sentences.
6. I regret_______ that the sightseeing tour has been cancelled because of the bad weather.
A. telling you
B. saying you
C. to say you
D. to tell you
7. I thought about the problem but I couldn’t ________ a solution.
A. come up with
B. come across
C. come out
D. come in for
8. ________ for the fact that he was working abroad, he would willingly have helped with the
project.
A. If it had been
B. Had it not been
C. Had it been
D. Hadn’t it been
9. I thought you said she was going away the next Sunday,_______ ?
A. wasn't it
B. didn't I
C. didn't you
D. wasn't she
10. We bought some _______.
A. old lovely German glasses
B. German lovely old glasses
C. lovely old German glasses
D. German old lovely glasses
11. Jack can speak two languages. One is English. _____ is Vietnamese.
A. Other

B. The other
C. Another
D. Others
12. The girl _____ is my neighbor.
A. talks to the lady over there.
B. is talking to the lady over there
C. was talking to the lady over there
D. talking to the lady over there
13. My daughter often says that she won't get married until she _____ 25 years old.
A. is
B. will be
C. will have been
D. has been
14. - “How lovely your pets are!” – “____________”.
A. I love them, too
B. Thank you, it’s nice of you to say so
C. Can you say that again
D. Really? They are
15. My supervisor is angry with me. I didn’t do all the work that I _______ last week.
A. must have done
B. can have done
C. may have done
D. should have done
16. We should participate in the movement _______ to conserve the natural environment.
A. to organize
B. organizing
C. which organized D. organized
17. The more he tried to explain, ______ we got.
A. the much confused
B. the many confusing

C. the more confusing D. the more confused
18. “How was your dentist appointment?”
“Painless. I ____________ worried.”
A. mustn’t have
B. couldn’t have
C. needn’t have
D. wouldn’t have

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19. ____________, we tried our best to complete it.
A. Despite the homework was difficult
B. Thanks to difficult homework
C. As though the homework was difficult
D. Difficult as the homework was
20. John: "Do you think that we should use public transportation to protect our environment?"
Laura. " _______"
A. Yes, it’s an absurd idea
B. There’s no doubt about it
C. Of course not. You bet
D. Well, that’s very surprising
21. Tom: "I’m sorry. I won’t be able to come."
Mary. "_____"
A. great
B. Oh, that’s annoying
C. Well, never mind D. Sounds like fun
22. We ________________our work before she comes back.
A. will finished
B. will be finishing

C. will finish
D. will have finished
23. No sooner _________the news than she fainted.
A. she heard
B. had she heard
C. as she heard
D. she had heard
24. Within a couple of hours, a very important _____ on the new tax policy will be made.
A. announce
B. announcement
C. announcer
D. announcing
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST
in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
25. Let's wait here for her; I'm sure she’ll turn up before long.
A. enter
B. visit
C. arrive
D. return
26. For a decade, Barzilai has studied centenarians, looking for genes that contribute to longevity.
A. who are vegetarians
B. who want to be fruitarians
C. who are extraordinary
D. who live to be 100 and above
27. He drove so fast that I really felt my life was in danger.
A. at the target
B. in accident
C. at stake
D. in comfort
28. The firefighters fought the blaze while the crowd was looking on it.

A. blowing
B. watering
C. preventing
D. watching
29. I will communicate with you as soon as I have any news.
A. get in touch
B. be related
C. be interested in
D. have connection
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.
30. Because vitamins contained in a wide variety of foods, people seldom lack most of them.
A
B
C
D
31. The proposal has repealed after a thirty-minutes discussion and a number of objections to
A
B
C
its failure to include our district.
D
32. In spite of the tenants’ objections, the apartment manager decided to rise the rent by forty dollars
A
B
C
D
per month.
33. Allowing children to help plan and prepare family meals provide enjoyable learning
A

B
experiences that later encourage them to eat the foods they have prepared.
C
D
34. I can’t go out tonight because I have too many work to do.
A
B
C
D

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Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 35 to 44.
When the word "endangered" is mentioned, people usually think of particular species, like the panda or
whooping crane. However, we would like to encourage you to think about (35) _______ in a broader
context. It is (36) _______, the physical places where species live and interact with one another. Although
the development of special breeding programs, also known as captive conservation, may help some
species in some cases, it is clearly not (37) _______ answer to the global problem. Indeed, (38) _______
we are able to protect natural areas where endangered species actually live, they have no future.
Species become endangered for a wide (39) ________ of reasons. By analyzing and grouping many
individual cases, however, we find the same broad causes (40) _________ again and again. They are
Habitat Destruction, Exotic Species, and Overexploitation. Among other factors threatening particular
species are limited: distribution, disease, and pollution. Limited distributions are often a consequence of
other threats: populations confined to one or a few small areas because of habitat (41) _________, for
example, may be disastrously affected by random factors. Diseases can have severe (42) _________ on
species lacking natural genetic protections against particular pathogens, like the rabies and canine
distemper viruses that are currently devastating carnivore populations in East Africa. Domestic animals
are usually the reservoirs of these and other diseases affecting wild (43) _________, showing once again
that human activities lie at the root of most causes of endangerment. Pollution has seriously done harm

(44) _________ number of terrestrial species, although species living in freshwater and marine
ecosystems are also suffering.
35. A. development
36. A. plants
37. A. a
38. A. so
39. A. variety
40. A. expressing
41. A. benefit
42. A. impact
43. A. needs
44. A. to

B. endangerment
B. conservations
B. an
B. but
B. commerce
B. showing
B. reserve
B. interest
B. populations
B. for

C. pollution
C. habitats
C. the
C. if
C. extinction
C. disappearing

C. loss
C. infection
C. natures
C. with

D. contamination
D. organizations
D. this
D. unless
D. destruction
D. appearing
D. gone
D. absorption
D. medicines
D. at

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 45 to 54.
If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster.
According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which
ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will
fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children.
However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in
a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well – especially if the parents are very supportive of
their child.
Michael Collins is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to
concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice
a week for violin lessons. Michael’s mother knows very little about music, but his father plays the trumpet
in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling.

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Winston Smith, Michael’s friend, however, is not so lucky. Both his parents are successful musicians, and
they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they
enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. Winston is
always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.
45. One of the serious mistakes parents can make is to ______.
A. neglect their child’s education
B. push their child into trying too much
C. help their child to become a genius
D. make their child become a musician
46. Parents’ ambition for their children is not wrong if they ______.
A. understand and help their children sensibly
B. arrange private lessons for their children
C. force their children into achieving success
D. themselves have been very successful
47. Who have criticized the methods of some ambitious parents?
A. Successful musicians.
B. Educational psychologists.
C. Their children.
D. Unrealistic parents.
48. Michael Collins is fortunate in that ______.
A. his parents help him in a sensible way
B. his parents are quite rich
C. his mother knows little about music
D. his father is a musician
49. The phrase "crazy about" in the passage mostly means ______.
A. "completely unaware of"
B. "confused about"

C. "extremely interested in"
D. "surprised at"
50. Winston’s parents push their son so much and he ______.
A. cannot learn much music from them
B. is afraid to disappoint them
C. has won a lot of piano competitions
D. has become a good musician
51. The word "They" in the passage refers to ______.
A. parents in general B. Michael’s parents C. concerts
D. violin lessons
52. All of the following people are musical EXCEPT _____.
A. Winston’s mother B. Michael’s mother C. Winston’s father
D. Michael’s father
53. The word "unwilling" in the passage mostly means ______.
A. " getting ready to do something"
B. "eager to do something"
C. " not objecting to doing anything "
D. " not wanting to do something "
54. The two examples given in the passage illustrate the principle that ______.
A. parents should let the child develop in the way he wants
B. successful parents often have unsuccessful children
C. parents should spend more money on the child’s education
D. successful parents always have intelligent children
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.
Colors and Emotions
Colors are one of the most exciting experiences in life. I love them, and they are just as important
to me as emotions are. Have you ever wondered how the two are so intimately related?
Color directly affects your emotions. Color both reflects the current state of your emotions, and is
something that you can use to improve or change your emotions. The color that you choose to wear either

reflects your current state of being, or reflects the color or emotion that you need.
The colors that you wear affect you much more than they affect the people around you. Of course
they also affect anyone who comes in contract with you, but you are the one saturated with the color all
day ! I even choose items around me based on their color. In the morning, I choose my clothes based on
the color or emotion that I need for the day. So you can consciously use color to control the emotions that
you are exposed to, which can help you to feel better.
Color, sound, and emotions are all vibrations. Emotions are literally energy in motion; they are
meant to move and flow. This is the reason that real feelings are the fastest way to get your energy in

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motion. Also, flowing energy is exactly what creates healthy cells in your body. So, the fastest way to be
healthy is to be open to your real feelings. Alternately, the fastest way to create disease is to inhibit your
emotions.
55. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Colorful clothes can change your mood
B. Emotions and colors are closely related to each other.
C. Colors can help you become healthy.
D. Colors are one of the most exciting.
56. Which of the following can be affected by color?
A. Your need for thrills
B. your friend's feelings
C. your appetite
D. your mood
57. Who is more influenced by colors you wear?
A. The people around you are more influenced
B. neither A nor C
C. You are more influenced
D. Both A and C

58. According to the passage, what do color, sound, and emotion all have in common?
A. They all affect the cells of the body
B. They are all forms of motion
C. They are all related to health
D. none of the above
59. According to this passage, what creates disease?
A. wearing the color black
B. exposing yourself to bright colors
C. being open to your emotions
D. ignoring your emotions
60. The term "intimately" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to
A. clearly
B. closely
C. obviously
D. simply
61. The term "they" in paragraph 3 refers to
A. emotions
B. people
C. colors
D. none of the above
62. Why does the author mention that color and emotions are both vibrations?
A. to show how color can affect energy levels in the body.
B. Because they both affect how we feel.
C. to prove the relationship between emotions and color.
D. Because vibrations make you healthy.
63. The phrase "saturated with" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to
A. bored with
B. in need of C. covered with
D. lacking in
64. What is the purpose of the passage?

A. to persuade the reader that colors can influence emotions and give a person more energy
B. to show that colors are important for a healthy life
C. to give an objective account of how colors affect emotions
D. to prove the relationship between color and emotion

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WRITING
PART II: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence
printed before it.
65. Helen didn’t have enough money for that camera.
If…………………………………………………………………………………….
If Helen had had enough money, she would (could) have bought that camera.
66. I haven’t eaten this kind of food before.
This is the first time……………………………………………
This is the first time I have (ever) eaten this kind of food.
67. People believe he won a lot of money on the lottery.
He……………………………………………………………..
He is believed to have won a lot of money on the lottery
68. “It’s very kind of you to help me, Jane”
Peter thanked………………………………..
Peter thanked Jane for helping him.
69. Your house is bigger than mine.
My house ……………………………………………..
My house is smaller than yours (your house). / My house is not as/so big as yours (your house).
PART II. In about 140 words, write a paragraph about your daily life
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