DE THI THPT DUONG MINH CHAU ON THI TN 2015 MÔN TIẾNG ANH

ĐỀ THI THỬ - KỲ THI THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015
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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 1: A. advanced
B. enjoyed
C. delivered
D. removed
Question 2: A. recent
B. electronic
C. complete
D. equal
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 3: A. environmental B. consideration
C. demonstration D. responsibility
Question 4: A. cultural
B. advantage
C. occurrence
D. priority
Question 5: A. opposition
B. universal
C. extinction
D. individual
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 6: He was very disappointed _____ his application for the job was turned down.
A. how
B. when
C. before

D. while
Question 7: The worst thing is to get stuck in traffic jam when you are _____ hurry.
A. on
B. in a
C. go
D. with
Question 8: As the secretary _____ the meeting room, she dropped the minute.
A. is leaving
B. had been leaving
C. was left
D. was leaving
Question 9: It is just an informal meeting, so you just need to dress _____.
A. casually
B. formally
C. smartly
D. informal
Question 10: By _____ this document, you accept all the terms and conditions.
A. sign
B. signing
C. a signature
D. a signal
Question 11: I often _____ mom a hand when she does the cooking.
A. borrow
B. take
C. give
D. help
Question 12: If I had a lot of money, I would put it into an account to get a high _____ rate.
A. interests
B. interesting
C. interest

D. interested
Question 13: It’s _____ we both found jobs that paid better. It always seems to be in depth these
days.
A. soon
B. nice
C. time
D. suggested
Question 14: If you have too _____ luggage, you should check in early at the airport.
A. few
B. many
C. little
D. much
Question 15: “You should have flown with the earlier flight.” – “ ______.”
A. Thank you very much.
B. Yes, I did.
C. Oh dear, I’m sorry to hear that.
D. It was fully booked.
Question 16: A child _____ to talk does not learn by being correct all the time.
A. learning
B. learn
C. to learn
D. learns
Question 17: _____ home schooling is apparently very successful, many people still believe in the
benefits of traditional schooling.
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A. Despite that
B. Because
C. Even though

D. In spite of
Question 18: One thing I love about you is you always _____ at my jokes.
A. shout
B. look
C. stay
D. laugh
Question 19: The new beverage company offers a wide _____ of flavors in their drinks.
A. list
B. menu
C. rank
D. choice
Question 20: I think you may find your mobile phone in the bathroom. That’s _____ you often leave
it.
A. place
B. where
C. when
D. house
Question 21: Anthony was named _____ his uncle.
A. after
B. for
C. like
D. from
Question 22: The school principal _____ that all students hand in their mobile phones to teachers
during school hours.
A. strongly advised B. urgently asked C. firmly told
D. firmly insisted
Question 23: The youth of today are better off than we _____.
A. did before
B. used to be
C. had been

D. would be
Question 24: Stricter anti-pollution laws can _____ higher prices for consumers.
A. make
B. result from
C. be due to
D. lead to
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) SIMILAR in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 25: In certain types of poisoning, immediately give large quantities of soapy or salty water
in order to induce vomiting.
A. control
B. clean
C. cause
D. stop
Question 26: Relaxation therapy teaches one not to fret over small problems.
A. worry about
B. get angry about C. get involved in
D. look for
Question 27: Primary education in the United States is compulsory.
A. free of charge
B. required
C. excellent
D. easy
Question 28: Jan took many snapshots while on vacation in Europe.
A. notes
B. gifts
C. photos
D. clothes
Question 29: He was asked to account for his presence at the scene of crime.
A. complain

B. exchange
C. explain
D. arrange
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: Susan tried the appetizers on the table. She then found that when the dinner arrived,
A
B
C
her appetite went.
D
Question 31: I made resolutions to study more, to lose weight, and watching less TV.
A
B
C
D
Question 32: In order to do a profit the new leisure center needs at least 2,000 visitors a month.
A
B
C
D
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Question 33: Had the teacher realized that the students couldn’t understand him, he would speak
A
B
C
louder.
D

Question 34: Would you rather came home in the morning or the afternoon?
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 word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
A thousand years ago (35) _____ lived two Chinese brothers. One was very wealthy but
miserly. The other was poor but generous. The wealthy brother, whose name was Kim, (36) _____ all
of his time figuring out how to increase his wealth. The poor brother, (37) _____ name was Cho,
shared with his neighbors what little he had.
By and by came a time when it rained for many days. The rice in Cho’s little paddy would not
grow, for it was at the bottom of the hill. Kim, who raised silkworms, was not (38) _____. Cho climbed
the hill to ask his brother for help. Kim had many silkworms, whose thread he sold at a large profit.
Kim did not want to give his brother (39) _____ valuable, but only to appear to be helping him. Kim
gave Cho a box of worms (40) _____ he thought were nearly dead. Cho thanked him and took them
home.
Cho fed the worms (41) _____ with mulberry leaves and they grew fat and healthy. Soon Cho
had silk to sell. When Kim heard of this, he became enraged at his brother’s good fortune. One night
he sneaked down the hill and cut all Cho’s worms in half. Instead of dying, each of Cho’s worms
regenerated, so he had twice as (42) _____ as before. Upon hearing this, Kim became more enraged.
He went out into his own collection and cut all his (43) _____ worms in half. But, Kim’s worms died
and he lost his fortune. Cho knew what his brother had done or why. He just took him into his modest
home and cared for Kim for the (44) _____ of his life.
Question 35: A. here
Question 36: A. spent
Question 37: A. called
Question 38: A. effect
Question 39: A. everything
Question 40: A. when

Question 41: A. very generous
Question 42: A. a few
Question 43: A. own
Question 44: A. sake

B. there
B. gave
B. with
B. affected
B. anything
B. that
B. generously
B. lots
B. owned
B. rest

C. who
C. did
C. whose
C. caused
C. many things
C. who
C. in general
C. much
C. himself
C. history

D. when
D. devoted
D. that

D. effective
D. some things
D. Ø
D. general
D. many
D. his
D. existence

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.

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One of the most popular foods around the world today is pizza. Pizza restaurants are popular
everywhere from Beijing to Moscow to Rio, and even in the United States, the home of the
hamburger, there are more pizza restaurants than hamburger places. This worldwide love for pizza is
a fairly recent phenomenon. Before the 1950s, pizza was a purely Italian food, with a long history in
southern Italy. The origins of pizza are somewhat uncertain, though they may go back to the Greeks
(pita bread) or even earlier. Under the Roman Empire, Italians often ate flat circles of bread, which
they may have flavored with olive oil, cheese, and herbs. By about the year 1000 A.D. in the area
around Naples, this bread had a name: picea. This early kind of pizza lacked one of the main
ingredients we associate with pizza: the tomato. In fact, tomatoes did not exist in Europe until the
sixteenth century, when Spanish explorers brought them back from South America. The Spanish
showed little interest in tomatoes, but southern Italians soon began to cultivate them and use them
in cooking. At home point in the 1600s, Neapolitan tomatoes were added to pizza, as it was known by
then.
The next development in pizza making came about, according to legend, in June 1889, when a
Neapolitan pizza maker was asked to make pizza for the king and queen. To show his patriotism, he
decided to make it green, white, and red, like the Italian flag, using basil leaves, mozzarella, and

tomato. He named his pizza “Margherita”, after the queen, and that is what this classic kind of pizza is
still called today. In Italy, pizza remained a specialty of Naples and other areas of the south until well
into the twentieth century. Then, in the 1950s and 60s, when many southerners moved to the north
to work in the new factories, pizzerias opened up in many northern Italian cities. By the 1880s, they
could be found all over the country and pizza had become a part of the Italian way of life.
Today, pizza has become so common in so many countries that its Italian origins are often
forgotten. Indeed, the global versions of pizza made with all kinds of ingredients have little in
common with the Neapolitan originals, as anyone knows who has tasted a pizza in Naples.
Question 45: The information that pizza restaurants can be found everywhere from Beijing to
Moscow, to Rio and in the United States is given in the passage to _____.
A. illustrate the popularity of pizza
B. show the limit market of pizza
C. emphasize the dominance of pizza over hamburger
D. indicate the hamburger market has been reduced
Question 46: The author says that the love for pizza _____.
A. just started a few decades ago
B. has along history
C. a quite new
D. started first in Rome
Question 47: The origin of pizza is _____.
A. confirmed
B. thought to begin in the 1950s
C. well-known
D. uncertain
Question 48: The early version of pizza in Naples _____.
A. did not have a name
B. had a Greek name
C. did not have tomato
D. lacked many main ingredients
Question 49: The Spanish at first _____.

A. were not much keen on tomatoes
B. knew tomatoes from Europe
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C. grew tomatoes in farms
D. added tomatoes to pizza in the 1960s
Question 50: The vent in June 1889 is _____.
A. well documented in the history
B. told from mouth to mouth
C. very popular nowadays
D. known by just a few people
Question 51: According to the passage, the pizza maker made the pizza colorful to _____.
A. make it look delicious
B. give it an interesting look
C. catch the king and queen’s attention
D. show he loved his country
Question 52: In the 1950s and 1960s, pizza _____.
A. makers moved to the north of Italy
B. was sold in the north of Italy
C. lovers could only buy pizza in the south of Italy
D. was not sold in the south of Italy
Question 53: Nowadays, there is _____ similarity between global versions of pizza and its original
version.
A. no
B. not much
C. much
D. not
Question 54: The best title of the passage is ______.
A. The history of pizza

B. The reason why pizza becomes so popular
C. The main ingredients of pizza
D. The globalization of pizza
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.
Language and Languages
A language is a system of sounds, gestures, or characters used by humans to communicate
their ideas and feelings. There are about 4,000 spoken languages in the world. Some are spoken by
millions of people. Other languages have only a few speakers.
All languages have rules for forming and for ordering those words in meaningful sentences. In
written languages, meaning is expressed through a system of characters and rules for combining
those characters. In spoken languages, meaning is expressed through a system of sounds and rules for
combining those sounds. Many deaf people use sign languages, in which gestures do the work of the
sound system of spoken languages.
Word order is more important in English than it is in some other languages, such as Russian.
The sound system is very important in Chinese and in many languages spoken in West Africa.
Languages are always changing, but they change very slowly. People invent new words for
their language, borrow words from other languages, and change the meanings of words as needed.
For example, the English word byte was invented by computer specialists in 1959. The English word
was borrowed from Nahuatl, an American Indian language spoken in Mexico. The English word meat
once referred to food in general.
There are several major language families in the world. The languages in each family are
related, and scientists think they came from the same family contains at least 500 languages,
including Pilipino, Malay, and Maori. The Basque language, spoken in northern Spain is the only
member of its language family.
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The Indo-European language family contains 55 languages, including English. German, Spanish,
Russian, and Hindi are also Indo-European languages.

Another language family is Sino-Tibetan, which includes Chinese, Burmese, and Tibetan. The
Afro-Asiastic family includes Arabic, Hebrew, and Amharic. There are about 150 American Indian
languages spoken today. These languages have many differences among them and have been divided
into more than 50 language families.
People learn languages by listening, copying what they hear, and using the language. Most
children learn their first language easily – and sometimes other languages as well. Adults often must
work harder at learning a second language.
Question 55: In the world there are about four thousand ______.
A. small language families
B. spoken languages
C. rules for dividing languages into families
D. languages spoken by millions of people
Question 56: According to the passage, all languages have ______.
A. a system of gestures
B. rules for forming words and ordering words in sentences
C. rules for communicating ideas and feelings
D. a system of written characters
Question 57: A system of sounds and rules for combining sounds are needed to express meaning in
______.
A. spoken languages
B. written languages
C. sign languages
D. languages used by disabled people
Question 58: According to the passage, the sound system is ______.
A. not important in English
B. more important in Chinese than in any other languages
C. of great importance in many spoken languages in West Africa
D. less important than word order
Question 59: Scientists say that there are several ______.
A. small language families

B. animal languages
C. different groups of the English language
D. major language families
Question 60: It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A. the word byte was invented in the 19th century
B. the word tomato was originally not an English word
C. the meanings of words tend to change over time
D. computer specialists often borrow words from other languages
Question 61: American Indian languages are not all in the same language family because ______.
A. there are about 150 of them
B. no one has studied them
C. some of them have only a few speakers
D. there are many differences among them
Question 62: A language changes when people _____.
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A. invent new words
B. borrow words from other languages
C. change the meanings of words
D. All the above are correct.
Question 63: The Austronesian language family contains ______.
A. fifty-five languages
B. Chinese, Burmese, and Tibetan
C. at least five hundred languages
D. Arabic, Hebrew, and Amharic
Question 64: All of the following statements are true EXCEPT ______.
A. All languages have rules.
B. Spoken and written languages are the same.
C. Languages are always changing, but the change slowly.

D. Some language families are bigger than others
WRITING
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 last rained three weeks ago.
IT IS _________________________________________________.
Question 66: I’m sorry I didn’t phone him yesterday.
I WISH _______________________________________________.
Question 67: I didn’t spend as much money as my friend did.
MY FRIEND ____________________________________________.
Question 68: We didn’t have enough money, so we didn’t go on holiday.
IF __________________________________________________.
Question 69: The test was too difficult for the pupils to do.
THE TEST _____________________________________________.
Part II. In about 140 words, write a paragraph about your hobbies.
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ĐÁP ÁN
PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM
1A

23 B
2B
24 D
3C
25 C
4A
26 A
5C
27 B
6B
28 C
7B
29 C
8D
30 D
9A
31 C
10 B
32 A
11 C
33 C
12 B
34 C
13 C
35 B
14 D
36 A
15 D
37 C
16 A

38 B
17 C
39 B
18 D
40 B
19 D
41 B
20 B
42 C
21 A
43 A
22 D
44 B

45 A
46 C
47 D
48 C
49 A
50 B
51 D
52 B
53 B
54 A
55 B
56 B
57 A
58 C
59 D
60 B

61 D
62 D
63 C
64 B

PHẦN VIẾT
Câu 65: It is three weeks since it last rained.
Câu 66: I wish I had phoned him yesterday.
Câu 67: My friend spent more money than me / than I did.
Câu 68: If we had had enough money, we would have gone on holiday.
Hoặc: Had we had enough money, we would have gone on holiday.
Câu 69: The test was so difficult that the pupils couldn’t do it.

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