Đề thi b1 đợt 1 2017 (giống 80%)

READING (ĐỌC HIỂU)
Read the following passages and choose the best answer to the
questions
(đọc và chọn đáp án phù hợp nhất)
Passage 1: (đoạn văn 1)
In the 1960s, The Beatles were probably the most famous pop group in
the whole world. Since then, there have been a great many groups that have
achieved enormous fame, so it is perhaps difficult now to imagine how
sensational The Beatles were at that time. They were four boys from the
north of England and none of them had any training in music. They started by
performing and recording songs by black Americans and they had some
success with these songs. Then they started writing their own songs and that
was when they became really popular. The Beatles changed pop music. They
were the first pop group to achieve great success from songs they had written
themselves. After that it became common for groups and singers to write
their own songs. The Beatles did not have a long career. Their first hit record
was in 1963 and they split up in 1970. They stopped doing live performances
in 1966 because it had become too dangerous for them – their fans were so
excited that they surrounded them and tried to take their clothes as souvenirs!
However, today some of their songs remain as famous as they were when
they first came out. Throughout the world many people can sing part of a
Beatles song if you ask them.
1. The passage is mainly about
A.

How the Beatles became more successful than other groups


B.

Why the Beatles split up after 7 years

C.

The Beatles’ fame and success

D.

Many people’s ability to sing a Beatles song
2. The four boys of the Beatles

A.

Came from the same family

B.

Were at the same age

C.

Came from a town in the north of EnglandD

D.

Received good training in music

3. The word “sensational” is closest in meaning to
A.

Notorious

B.

Bad

C.

Shocking

D.

Popular
4. The first songs of the Beatles were


A.

Written by themselves

B.

Broadcast on the radio

C.

Paid a lot of money

D.

Written by black Americans

5. What is not true about the Beatles?

A.

The members had no training in music

B.

They had a long stable career

C.

They became famous when they wrote their own songs

D.

They were afraid of being hurt by fans
6. The Beatles stopped their live performances because

A.

They had earned enough money

B.

They did not want to work with each other

C.

They spent more time writing their own songs

D.

They were afraid of being hurt by fans.
7. The year 1970 was the time when

A.

They split up


B.

They changed pop music

C.

They started their career

D.

They stopped singing live
8. What the fans of the Beatles often did was

A.

Sing together with them

B.

Take their clothes as souvenirs

C.

Ask them to write more songs

D.

Ask them why they should separate
9. Some songs of the Beatles now

A.

Are still famous as they used to be

B.

Became too old to sing

C.

Are sung by crazy fans

D.

Are the most famous
10. The tone of the passage is that of

A.

Admiration

B.

Criticism


C.

Neutral

D.

Sarcasm
Passage 2: (đoạn văn 2)
Rachel Carson was born in 1907 in Springsdale, Pennsylvania. She
studied biology at college and zoology at Johns Hopkins University, where
she received her master’s degree in 1933. In 1936, she was hired by the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, where she worked most of her life.
Carson’s first book, Under the Sea Wind, was published in 1941. It
received excellent reviews, but sales were poor until it was reissued in 1952.
In that year she published The Sea Around Us, which provided a fascinating
look beneath the ocean’s surface, emphasizing human history as well as
geology and marine biology. Her imagery and language had a poetic quality.
Carson consulted no less than 1,000 printed sources. She had voluminous
correspondence and frequent discussions with experts in the field. However,
she always realized the limitations of her nontechnical readers.
In 1962, Carson published Silent Spring, a book that sparked
considerable controversy. It proved how much harm was done by the
uncontrolled, reckless use of insecticides. She detailed how they poison the

food supply of animals, kill birds and fish, and contaminate human food. At
the time, spokesmen for the chemical industry mounted personal attacks
against Carson and issued propaganda to indicate that her findings


were flawed. However, her work was proved by a 1963 report of the
President’s Science Advisory Committee.
11 . The passage mainly discusses Rachel Carson’s work
A.
B.
C.
D.

as a researcher
at college
at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
as a writer
12 . According to the passage, what did Carson primarily study at Johns
Hopkins University?

A.
B.
C.
D.

oceanography
zoology
literature
history
13 . When she published her first book, Carson was closest to the age

of

A.
B.
C.
D.

26
29
34
45
14 . It can be inferred from the passage that in 1952, Carson’s
book Under the Sea Wind

A.
B.
C.
D.

was outdated
became more popular than her other books
was praised by critics
sold many copies
15 . Which of the following was NOT mentioned in the passage as a
source of information for The Sea Around Us?

A.
B.

printed matter

talks with experts


C.
D.

a research expedition
letters from scientists
16 . Which of the following words or phrases is LEAST accurate in
describing The Sea Around Us?

A.
B.
C.
D.

highly technical
poetic
fascinating
well-researched
17 . The word “reckless” is closest in meaning to

A.
B.
C.
D.

unnecessary
limited
continuous

irresponsible
18 . According to the passage, Silent Spring is primarily

A.
B.
C.
D.

an attack on the use of chemical preservatives in food
a discussion of the hazards insects pose to the food supply
a warning about the dangers of misusing insecticides
an illustration of the benefits of the chemical industry
19 . The word “flawed” in line 14 is closest in meaning to

A.
B.
C.
D.

faulty
deceptive
logical
offensive
20 . Why does the author of the passage mention the report of the
President’s Science Advisory Committee ?

A.
B.
C.
D.

To provide an example of government propaganda.
To support Carson’s ideas.
To indicate a growing government concern with the environment.
To validate the chemical industry’s claims.


Passage 3: (đoạn văn 3)
In the world today, particularly in the two most industrialized areas,
North America and Europe, recycling is big news. People are talking about it,
practicing it, and discovering new ways to be sensitive to the environment.
Recycling means finding ways to use products a second time. The motto of
the recycling movement is "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle".
The first step is to reduce garbage. In stores, a shopper has to buy
products in blister packs, boxes and expensive plastic wrappings. A
hamburger from a fast food restaurant comes in lots of packaging: usually
paper, a box, and a bag. All that packaging is wasted resources. People
should try to buy things that are wrapped simply, and to reuse cups and
utensils. Another way to reduce waste is to buy high-quality products. When
low quality appliances break, many customers throw them away and buy new
ones - a loss of more resources and more energy. For example, if a customer
buys a high-quality appliance that can be easily repaired, the manufacturer
receives an important message. In the same way, if a customer chooses a
product with less packaging, that customer sends an important message to the
manufacturers. To reduce garbage, the throwaway must stop.
The second step is to reuse. It is better to buy juices and soft drinks in
returnable bottles. After customers empty the bottles, they return them to the
store. The manufacturers of the drinks collect the bottles, wash them, and
then fill them again. The energy that is necessary to make new bottles is
saved. In some parts of the world, returning bottles for money is a common

practice. In those places, the garbage dumps have relatively little glass and
plastic from throwaway bottles.
The third step is being environmentally sensitive is to recycle. Spent
motor oil can be cleaned and used again. Aluminum cans are expensive to
make. It takes the same amount of energy to make one aluminum can as it
does to run a color TV set for three hours. When people collect and recycle
aluminum (for new cans), they help save one of the world's precious
resources.
21: What is the main topic of the passage?
A.
B.
C.
D.

how to reduce garbage disposal
what people often understand about the term 'recycle'
what is involved in the recycling movement
how to live sensitively to the environment.
22. What does the word “sensitive” in the phrase “sensitive to the
environment” mean?

A.
B.
C.
D.

responding
friendly

cautious
logical
23. Why is it a waste when customers buy low-quality products?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Because they produce less energy.
Because they have to be repaired many times.
Because customers change their ideas all the time.
Because people will soon throw them away.
24. What does it mean “Customers can vote with their wallets”?

A.
B.

they can choose the cheapest products
they can ask people to choose products with less packaging


C.

they can tell the producers which products are good for environment by

D.

buying them.
they can cast a lot to praise a producer.

25. The word “motto” is closest in meaning to_________

A.
B.
C.
D.

belief
value
meaning
reference
26. What best describes the process of reuse?

A.
B.
C.
D.

The bottles are washed, retuned, filled again and collected.
The bottles are collected, washed, returned and filled again
The bottles are filled again after being returned, collected and washed.
The bottles are collected, returned, filled again and washed.
27. The word “practice” is closest in meaning to_________

A.
B.
C.
D.

deed

drill
belief
exercise
28. What are the two things mentioned as examples of recycling?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Hamburger wrappings and spent motor oil.
Aluminum cans and plastic wrappings.
Aluminum cans and spent motor oil.
TV sets and aluminum cans.
29. People can do the following to reduce waste EXCEPT ____.

A.
B.
C.
D.

buy simply-wrapped things
buy high-quality product
reuse cups
buy fewer hamburgers
30: The word “precious” is closest in meaning to_________

A.
B.

invaluable
substantial


C.
D.

natural
first

Passage 4: (đoạn văn 4)
Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before,
including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer
Edgard Varese (1883-1965) called thus the "liberation of sound...the right to
make music with any and all sounds." Electronic music, for example—made
with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments—may
include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.
Environmental sounds, such as thunder, and electronically generated hisses
and blips can be recorded, manipulated, and then incorporated into a musical
composition. But composers also draw novel sounds from voices and
nonelectronic instruments. Singers may be asked to scream, laugh, groan,
sneeze, or to sing phonetic sounds rather than words. Wind and string players
may lap or scrape their instruments. A brass or woodwind player may hum
while playing, to produce two pitches at once;a pianist may reach inside the
piano to pluck a string and then run a metal blade along it. In the music of the
Western world, the greatest expansion and experimentation have involved
percussion instruments, which outnumber strings and winds in many recent
compositions. Traditional percussion instruments are struck with new types

of beaters; and instruments that used to be couriered unconvennonal in
Western music—tom-toms, bongos, slapsticks, maracas—are widelv used.
In the search for novel sounds, increased use has been made in Western
music of Microtones. Non-Western music typically divides and interval
between two pitches more finely than Western music does, thereby
producing a greter number of distinct tones, or micro tones, within the same
interval. Composers such as Krzysztof Pmderecki create sound that borders
on electronic noise through tone clusters—closely spaced tones played
together and heard as a mass, block, or band of sound. The directional aspect
of sound has taken on new importance as well Loudspeakers or groups of
instruments may be placed at opposite ends of the stage, in the balcony, or at
the back and sides of the auditorium. Because standard music notation makes
no provision for many of these innovations, recent music scores may contain
graphlike diagrams, new note shapes and symbols, and novel ways of
arranging notation on the page.
31. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A.
B.
C.
D.

The use of nontraditional sounds in contemporary music
How sounds are produced electronically
How standard musical notation has beer, adapted for nontraditional sounds
Several composers who have experimented with the electronic production of
sound

32. The word "wider” is closest in meaning to _____.

A.
B.
C.
D.

More impressive
More distinctive
More controversial
More extensive
33. The passage suggests that Edgard Varese is an example of a
composer who _____

A.
B.
C.
D.

criticized electronic music as too noiselike
modified sonic of the electronic instruments he used in his music
believed that any sound could be used in music
wrote music with environmental themes
34. The word "it" refers to ________.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Piano
String

Blade
Music
35. According to the passage, which of the following types of
instruments has played a role in much of the innovation in Western music?

A.
B.
C.
D.

String
Percussion
Woodwind
Brass
36. The word “unconventional” could be best replaced by _______

A.
B.
C.
D.

Nontraditional
Controversial
Illogical
Irregular
37. The word "thereby” is closest in meaning to ________.

A.
B.
C.

in return for
in spite of
by the way


D.

by that means

38. According to the passage, Krzysztof Penderecki is known for which
of the following practices?
A.
B.
C.
D.

Using tones that are clumped together
Combining traditional and non-traditional instruments
Seating musicians in unusual areas of an auditorium
Playing Western music for non-Western audiences
39. According to the passage, which of the followings would be
considered traditional elements of Western music?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Microtones

Tom-toms and bongos
Pianos
Hisses
40. In paragraph 3, the author mentions diagrams as an example of a
new way to ________.

A.
B.
C.
D.

chart the history of innovation in musical notation
explain the logic of standard musical notation
design and develop electronic instruments
in dicate how particular sounds should be produced
LISTENING (PHẦN NGHE)
Part 1 : You’ll hear people talking in three different situations, each
with 1 question. For each question, choose the answer which you think it’s
best according to what you hear.


(Bạn sẽ được nghe 3 tình huống giao tiếp khác nhau. Với mỗi câu hỏi
hãy chọn câu trả lời phù nhất sau khi nghe nội dung từng tình huống)
1. Francesca Meyer must :
A.
B.
C.

go to gate 23 right away.
take a different flight

board her plane in five minutes’ time.
2. Someone is talking about travelling abroad.
Which option did he choose?

A.
B.
C.

The most convenient option
The quickest option
The cheapest option

3. A teacher talking to a student.
Why is the teacher talking to the student?
A.
B.
C.

To give a warning
To make a suggestion
To correct a mistake
Part 2 : You are going to listen to four short conversations, each with 3
questions. For each question, choose the answer which you think fits best
according to what you hear.
(Bạn sẽ nghe 4 đoạn trò chuyện ngắn, mỗi đoạn tương ứng với 3 câu
hỏi. Mỗi câu với bạn hãy tìm ra câu trả lời đúng với nội dung từng đoạn trò
chuyện)
Conversation 1 :
1 Where is the woman calling?

A.
B.

an office
a garage


C.

a doctor’s surgery
2 What information does that man ask for?

A.
B.
C.

the woman’s name
the registration number of the bike
the make of the bike
3 What is the man going to do?

A.
B.
C.

telephone the suppliers
call the woman back
order a new part
Conversation 2 :
4 Where are they?

A.
B.
C.

in a shop
in a college
in the street
5 Where is the manager’s office?

A.
B.
C.

on the second floor
near the restaurant
next to the changing rooms
6 What is on the lower ground floor?

A.
B.
C.

the household goods department
the staff kitchen
the restaurant
Conversation 3 :
7 Where did the woman go at the weekend?

A.

B.
C.

to a city
to the beach
to the countryside
8 What was the weather like at the weekend?


A.
B.
C.

sunny
cloudy
rainy
9 What did the man do at the weekend?

A.
B.
C.

he got married
he had a party
he prepared for his wedding
Conversation 4 :
10 What does the man need?

A.
B.

C.

red pens
blue pens
black pens
11 The man thought that stationery was kept...

A.
B.
C.

in a drawer
in a desk
in a cupboard
12 The man wants to order some equipment to...

A.
B.
C.

make corrections
hold documents together
print out documents
Part 3 : You will hear an interview with Pamela Green, a young
fashion designer.
For questions 13-19, choose the best answer (A, B or C).
(Bạn sẽ nghe 1 bài phỏng vấn và chọn câu trả lời đúng)
13 What helped Pamela to decide to become a fashion designer?

A.

working as an assistant in a fashion shop


B.

doing research into the fashion industry

C.

attending a course on fashion design

14 What does Pamela say about having a degree in fashion?
A.
B.
C.

It's essential for promotion.
It's evidence of your ability.
It guarantees you a better income.

15 Pamela says that when starting your own fashion label, it's most
important to
A.

enjoy the creative process.

B.

contact shops that might sell it

C.

have a business plan.

16 Where does Pamela usually find inspiration for her fashion designs?
A.

in the work of other designers

B.

in the styles of other countries


C.

in the clothes her friends wear

17 What aspect of her work does Pamela find most difficult to deal
with?
A.

the pressure to meet deadlines

B.

the failure of some of her designs

C.

the need to attend fashion shows

18 According to Pamela, successful designers need to be able to
A.

predict future fashions.

B.

recognise all past styles.

C.

get their designs published.


19 What advice does Pamela have for people who want a career in
fashion?
A.

Be aware of the options available.

B.

Don't be afraid of sudden fame.

C.

Learn from your own errors.

Part 4 : You will hear a radio interview with a ghost hunter called
Carlene Belfort. For questions 20-26, choose the best answer.
(Bạn nghe một bài phỏng vấn trên radio và chọn câu trả lời đúng)
20. How did Carlene become a ghost hunter?

A.

she wanted to contact her dead grandmother

B.

she grew up in a haunted house

C.

her parents encouraged her
21. What, according to Carlene, do ghost hunters need most?

A.

a special gift

B.

equipment

C.

an adventurous mind
22. Who does Carlene mostly work for?

A.
B.
C.

people who want reassurance
people who want to contact loved ones
people who want to find a ghost
23. How does Carlene detect when ghosts are present?

A.

She feels cold.

B.

She gets evidence from her equipment.

C.

She feels them touching her hair.

24. When is Carlene most afraid?
A.

when her equipment breaks

B.

when things move on their own

C.

when bad spirits are nearby
25. What does Carlene think about people who don’t believe her?

A.

She doesn’t understand why they think that.

B.

She thinks they don’t have enough evidence.


C.

She wants them to experience it for themselves.
26. What does Carlene feel about her business?

A.

She realises she is taking advantage of customers.

B.

She feels she is providing a service.

C.

She wants to expand and make more money.
WRITING (PHẦN VIẾT)
Part 1: Viết thư
Đề thi đợt vừa rồi:
One of your friends is planning to visit your country and asking you for
some information. Write a letter to him/her and say
- When the best period to visit your country is
- suggest a plan for the travel
- recommend places to visit in your country

•

Một người bạn ghé thăm Việt Nam và hỏi một vài thông tin, hãy viết một bức

•

thư cho anh ấy/ cơ ấy với những nội dung chính là:
Khi nào là thời điểm tuyệt vời nhất để thăm quốc gia bạn
Đề xuất một kế hoạch đi chơi thăm thú đây đó
Gợi ý một vài địa điểm để thăm quan
Chú ý: Đây là phần khá dễ nên em phải tập trung làm tốt, phần sau là viết
luận khó hơn nhiều. Làm được phần này thì khả năng qua Phần thi viết rất
cao
Part 2 : are zoos necessary for education?


Write an essay to give your opinion.
Đây là phần viết luận, em phải nêu được ý kiến của mình về một chủ đề
được đưa ra.

SPEAKING (PHẦN NĨI)
Phần thi nói em hãy ơn trong quyển Speaking, phần nói khơng hề q
khó vượt qua. Em chỉ cần phát âm tương đối chuẩn, tự tin giới thiệu được bản
thân và miêu tả được một vài chủ đề là có thể qua được. Quan trọng là vui vẻ,
tự tin để thầy cơ có thiện cảm với mình, đây là phần thi diễn ra nhanh nhất.
10-20’