Đề thi học kỳ 1 môn tiếng Anh lớp 12 trường THPT Hàn Thuyên, Bắc Ninh năm học 2016 - 2017 có đáp án

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SỞ GD & ĐT BẮC NINH
TRƯỜNG THPT HÀN THUYÊN
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ĐỀ KIỂM TRA CHẤT LƯỢNG HỌC KÌ I
NĂM HỌC: 2016 – 2017
MÔN: Tiếng Anh lớp 12
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)
Ngày thi:…………………………..

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. warned
B. sacred
C. decided
D. hatred
Question 2: A pens
B. books
C. tables
D. walls
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.
Question 3: A. determine
B. vulnerable
C. marvelous
D. compliment
Question 4: A. individual
B. academic
C. compulsory
D. documentary

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 5: Although I didn’t personally see who was responsible for this mess, but I think I can make a
A
B
C
D
guess.
Question 6 Today was such beautiful day that I couldn’t bring myself to complete all my chores.
A
B
C
D
Question 7: For thousands of years, man has created sweet-smelling substances from wood, herbs, and
A
B
flowers and using them for perfume or medicine.
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:
someone's attention so that we might speak to that person, we can use either verbal or
non-verbal forms of communication.
A. To look for
B. To keep an eye on
C. To pay
D. To attract
Question 9: Can you list the problems
poor and

countries?
A. facing/ overpopulation
B. facing/overpopulated
C. face/ overpopulated
D. facing/overpopulating
Question 10: It is considered to be
to interrupt others while they are talking.
A. discourteous
B. polite
C. tolerant
D. arrogant
Question 11: You will have to
early if you want to avoid all the traffic.
A. come out
B. set off
C. put off
D. keep pace with
Question 12: He
in me on the understanding that I wouldn’t tell anyone else.
A. confined
B. disclosed
C. confessed
D. confided
Question 13: It was
he was 40 that he started to learn English.
A. not before
B. not until
C. only when
D. not after
Question 14: George wouldn’t have met Mary _

to his brother’s graduation party.
A. had he gone
B. hadn’t he gone
C. if he had not gone D. if he shouldn’t have gone
Question 15: I would never forget
home by that stranger when I got lost at the age of three.
A. taking
B. being taken
C. to take
D. to be taken
Question 16: I don’t really like wearing jeans and
A. my sister doesn’t, too
B. my sister the same C. neither does my sister D. my sisterdoes neither.
Question 17: What do you want to do this summer? I think we should go somewhere
has plenty
of sun and sand.
A. who
B. where
C. when
D. that
Question 18: We don't allow...................in the classroom.
A. people smoke
B. smoke
C. people to smoke D. to smoking
Question 19: In Vietnam’s school education system, a school year,
into two terms, lasts for 9

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months or 35 weeks.

A. is divided
B. that is divided
C. which is divided
D. divided
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete
each of the following exchanges.
Question 20: “Today’s my 20th birthday.” - “
”
A. Take care!
B. Many happy returns!
C. Have a good time!
D. I don’t understand.
Question 21: Laura: “What a lovely house you have!” Maria: “
.”
A. Thank you. Hope you will drop in
B. I think so
C. I feel very excited
D. Of course not, it’s not costly
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 22: I’m a bit wary of giving people my address when I don’t know them very well.
A. cautious
B. upset
C. willing
D. capable
Question 23: The international fair served diverse foods, as the visitors were from 15 different countries.
A. various
B. multiple
C. plentiful
D. common

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 24: The device is very sophisticated and should only be operated by someone who is familiar with
it.
A. intricate
B. complex
C. fragile
D. easy to use
Question 25: There have been significant changes in women’s lives since the women’s liberation movement.
A. unimportant B. great
C. political
D. disagreeable
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning
to each of the following questions.
Question 26: It is widely believed that hard work makes success.
A. Many people believe that if you want to succeed, you should work hard.
B. People think that success is when you work hard.
C. Believers of success think that we should work hard.
D. Many people think that success at work is hard
Question 27: The teacher: “You must take the graduation test this summer”
A. The teacher said that we must take the graduation test that summer.
B. The teacher said that we had to take the graduation test that summer.
C. The teacher said that we could take the graduation test that summer.
D. The teacher said that we were going to take the graduation test that summer.
Question 28: If it hadn’t been for his carelessness, we would have finished the work.
A. He was careless because he hadn’t finished the work.
B. If her were careful, we would finish the work.
C. If he had been more careful, we would have completed the work.
D. Because he wasn’t careless, we didn’t finish the work
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each

pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 29: Jim is my best friend. I borrowed his car yesterday.
A. Jim, whose car I lent yesterday, is my best friend.
B. Jim, whose car I borrowed yesterday, is my best friend.
C. Jim, who is my best friend, borrowed my car yesterday.
D. Jim, his car I borrowed yesterday, is my best friend
Question 30: She gets up early to prepare breakfast. She wants her children to be able to come to school on
time.
A. Despite her getting up early to prepare breakfast, her children cannot come to school on time.
B. Because she wants her children to come to school on time, she gets up early to prepare breakfast.
C. If she does not get up early to prepare breakfast, her children will not come to school on time.
D. Unless she gets up early to prepare breakfast, her children will not come to school on time.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the

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correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.
There are many superstitions in Britain, but one of the most (31) held is that it is unlucky to walk under
a ladder even if it means stepping off the pavement into a busy street! If you must pass under a ladder, you
can avoid bad luck by crossing your fingers and keeping them crossed until you have seen a dog.
(32)
, you may lick your finger and make a cross on the toe of your shoe, and not look again at the shoe
until the mark has dried.
Another common superstition is that it is unlucky to open an umbrella in the house - it will either
bring (33) to the person who opened it or to the whole household. Anyone opening an umbrella in the fine
weather is unpopular, as it inevitably brings rain!
The number 13 is said to be unlucky for some, and when the 13th day of the month falls on a Friday,
anyone wishing to avoid a bad event had better stay indoors. The worst misfortune that can happen to a
person is caused by breaking a mirror, as it brings seven years of bad luck! The superstition is supposed to
(34)

in ancient times, when mirrors were considered to be tools of the gods.
Black cats are generally considered lucky in Britain, even though they are associated with witchcraft.
It is especially lucky if a black cat crosses your path – although in America the exact opposite belief prevails.
Finally, a commonly held superstition is that of touching wood (35) luck. This measure is most
often taken if you think you have said something that is tempting fate, such as “My car has never broken
down, touch wood?”
Question 31: A. broadly
B. widely
C. quickly
D. speedily
Question 32: A. Consequently B. However
C. Comparatively D. Alternatively
Question 33: A. difficulty
B. tragedy
C. loss
D. misfortune
Question 34: A. be originated B. be originating
C. have originated D. originate
Question 35: A. as
B. in
C. for
D. of
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 36 to 42.
Harvard University, today recognized as part of the top echelon of the world’s universities, came from very
inauspicious and humble beginning.
This oldest of American universities was founded in 1636, just sixteen years after the Pilgrims landed at
Plymouth. Included in the puritan emigrants to the Massachusetts colony during this period were more than
100 graduates of England’s prestigious Oxford and Cambridge universities, and these universities graduates
in the New Word were determined that their sons would have the same educational opportunities that they

themselves had had, Because of this support in the colony for an institution of higher learning, the General
Court of Massachusetts appropriated 400 pounds for a college in October of 1636 and early the following
year decided on a parcel of land for the school; this land was in an area called Newetowne, which was later
renamed Cambridge after its English cousin and is the site of the present-day university.
When a young minister named John Harvard, who came from the neighboring town of Charlestowne, died
from tuberculosis in 1638, he willed half of his estate of 1,700 pounds to the fledgling college. In spite of the
fact that only half of the bequest was actually paid, the General Court named the college after the minister in
appreciation for what he had done. The amount of the bequest may not have been large, particularly by
today’s standard, but it was more than the General Court had found it necessary to appropriate in order to
open the college.
Henry Dunster was appointed the first president of Harvard in 1640, and it should be noted that in addition to
serving as president, he was also the entire faculty, with an entering freshmen class of four students. Although
the staff did expand somewhat, for the first century of its existence the entire teaching staff consisted of the
president and three or four tutors.
Question 36: The main idea of this passage is that
.
A. Harvard is one of the world’s most prestigious universities.
B. What is today a great university started out small
C. John Harvard was key to the development of a great university
D. Harvard University developed under the auspices of the General Court of Massachusetts
Question 37: It can be inferred from the passage that the Puritans who traveled to the Massachusetts colony

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were
.
A. Rather well educated
B. rather rich
C. rather supportive of the English government
D. rather undemocratic

Question 38: The pronoun “they” in the second paragraph refers to
.
A. Oxford and Cambridge universities
B. university graduates
C. sons
D. educational opportunities
Question 39: Which of the following is NOT mentioned about John Harvard?
A. What he died of
B. Where he came from
C. Where he was buried
D. How much he bequeathed to Harvard
Question 40: The word “somewhat” in the last paragraph could best be replaced by
.
A. Back and forth
B. to and pro
C. side by side
D. more or less
Question 41: The word “fledgling” in the third paragraph could be best replaced by which of the following?
A. Newborn
B. flying
C. winged
D. established
Question42: The passage implies that
.
A. Henry Dunster was an ineffective president
B. Someone else really served as president of Harvard before Henry Dunster
C. Henry Dunster spent much of his time as president managing the Harvard faculty
D. The position of president of Harvard was not merely an administrative position in the early ears 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 43 to 50.

Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country’s impressive
population growth. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over five in 1966. In September 1966
Canada’s population passed the 20 million mark. Most of this surging growth came from natural increase.
The depression of the 1930s and the war had held back marriages, and the catching-up process began after
1945. The baby boom continued through the decade of the 1950s, producing a population increase of nearly
fifteen percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been exceeded only once before
in Canada’s history, in the decade before 1911, when the prairies were being settled. Undoubtedly, the good
economic conditions of the 1950s supported a growth in the population, but the expansion also derived from
a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth
rate stood at 28 per thousand, one of the highest in the world.
After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It continued falling until in 1966 it
stood at the lowest level in 25 years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of births during the depression
and the war, but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school
longer, more women were working; young married couples were buying automobiles or houses before
starting families; rising living standards were cutting down the size of families. It appeared that Canada was
once more falling in step with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western
world since the time of the Industrial Revolution. Although the growth in Canada’s population had slowed
down by 1966 (the increase in the first half of the 1960s was only nine percent), another large population
wave was coming over the horizon. It would be composed of the children who were born during the period of
the high birth rate prior to 1957.
Question 43: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Educational changes in Canadian society
B. Canada during the Second World War
C. Population trends in postwar Canada
D. Standards of living in Canada
Question 44: The word “five” in bold refers to
A. Canadians
B. years
C. decades
D. marriages

Question 45: The word “surging” in bold is closest in meaning to
A. new
B. extra
C. accelerating
D. surprising
Question 46: The author suggests that in Canada during the 1950’s
A. the urban population decreased rapidly
B. fewer people married
C. economic conditions were poor
D. the birth rate was very high
Question 47: The word “peak” in bold is closest in meaning to
A. pointed
B. dismal
C. mountain
D. maximum
Question 48: The author mention all of the following as causes of declines in population growth after 1957

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EXCEPT
A. people being better educated
B. people getting married earlier
C. better standards of living
D. couples buying houses
Question 49: It can be inferred from the passage that before the Industrial Revolution
A. families were larger
B. population statistics were unreliable
C. the population grew steadily
D. economic conditions were bad
Question 50: The word “it” in bold refers to