Đề thi thử Đại học môn Tiếng Anh sô 9

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I. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete the
sentences.
1. In his cheerful nature, Jim ____ after his father rather than
his mother.
A takes
B looks
C goes
D
longs
2. It was not his ____ to ask his parents for things.
A custom
B habit
C behaviour
D
conduct
3. She was very ____ her mother's confidence in her.
A worth of

B faithful to

C proud of

D

strict with
4. At first he opposed to the marriage but

____ he gave his

consent.
A in the end

B on the contrary

C on second thoughts
D against his will
5. Most children have an___friend when they are young.
A. imaginary
B. imaginative C. imagining
D.
imagination
6. Many tourists cannot tell the difference between
authentic Indian craftwork and imported ____ .
A. imitation
B. imitations
C. imitated
D. imitate
7. The rent for the flat is $300 ____ of telephone, heat and
electricity.

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A. inclusive
B. inclusively
C. including
D. included
8.There is a direct link between ____ pollution and certain
respiratory illnesses.
A. industry
B. industrial
C. industries D.
industrialized
9. Don't scratch your mosquito bites or they could get ____ .
A. infection
B. infecting
C. infectious
D. infected
10. I'm afraid you've been__. Mr. Harris no longer works for us.
A. misinformed
B. informed
C. misinforming
D.
informing
11. The lecture was so ____ that almost everyone fell asleep.
A. bored
B. dull
C. exhausted
D. tired

12. Prof. Rush was speaking so quickly that I couldn’t ____
what he said.
A. accept
B. catch
C. listen
D. take
13. I absolutely ____ with everything that has been said.
A. accept
B. admit
C. agree
D. approve
14. If he had invested in that business, he ____ have made a lot
of profit.
A. must
D. would
15. Hard ____
family.
A. like

B. should

C. can't

he works, he can not earn money to support his
B. as

C. as if

D. as though
16. He talked to me as if he ____ my boss.

A. was

B. had been

C. were

D. is
17. They profit ____ buying and selling waste glass and duck
feather.
A. for
B. of
C. from
D. in

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18. Payment for imports and exports is made through a system
____ foreign exchange.
A. call

B. to call

C. called

D. calling

19. In transactions of international trade, actual money does not
usually change ____ .
A. banks

B. bands
C. accounts
D. hands
20. Paper money is obviously easier to

and much more

convenient in the modern world.
A. use

B. sell

C. handle

D.

buy
21. ____ ._Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, Singapore is one
of the Four
Asian Tigers.
A. Along to
C. Along with

B. With
D. Together

with
22. You want to know the price of something, so you say:
A. “ How much is it?”
B. “How much the

price?”
C. “What it costs?”
D. “How many is
it?”
23. When buying something by weight, you may like to know
how much it is ____ .
A. a kilo
B. per the kilo
C. for the kilo
D. every kilo
24. I knocked timidly at the door and heard someone shout”
____ “.
A. Enter
B. Come in
C. Go in
D. Come, please
25. Take the bus, and ____ at Oxford Circus.
A. get out
B. get off
C. get down
D. get away
26. You look really silly! Your pullover is ____ .
A. upside down
B. inside out
C. round and round
D. side by side
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27. The Hawaiian alphabet, introduced by missionaries in the

1820's, ____ and only seven consonants.
A. the five vowels consist of
B. consisting of five vowels
C. that consists of five vowels
D. consists of five vowels
28. The first building to employ steel skeleton construction
____ .
A. Chicago, Illinois, the home of the Home Insurance
Company Building completed in 1885
B. the Home Insurance Company Building in Chieago,
Illinois, was completed in 1885
C. because the Home Insurance Company Building in
Chieago, Illinois, was completed in 1885
D. the Home Insurance Company Building in Chicago,
Illinois, in 1885
29. Associated with the Denishawn company from 1916 until
1923, Martha Graham developed a powerful, ____ that was
integral to the foundations of modern dance.
A. expressively stylish
B. a style expressive
C. stylishly expressive
D. expressive style
30. Washington, D.C., ____ broad tree-shaded thoroughfares,
has many imposing buildings.
A. its
B. with its
C. to have its
D. has
I. Choose the word in each group that has the
underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.

31 A.
B. ab ove
C. handb all D. climb ing
overb oard
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32 A. post
B. island
C. sprint
D. aspect
II. Choose a word in each line that has different stress
pattern.
33. A. canoeing B. opponent
C.
D. defensive
windsurfing
34. A.
B. publicity
C.
D. individual
participant
competitive
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A. interfere B. memory
C. personal D. vertical
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V. Read the passage and answer the questions below
Many of the most damaging and life-threatening types of
weather-torrential rains, severe thunderstorms, and tornadoes

begin quickly, strike suddenly, dissipate rapidly, devastating
small regions while leaving neighboring areas untouched. One
such event, a tornado, struck the northeastern section of
Edmonton, Alberta, in July 1987. Total damages from the
tornado exceeded
$ 250 million, the highest ever for any Canadian storm.
Conventional computer models of the atmosphere have limited
value in predicting short-lived local storms like the Edmonton
tornado, because the available weather data are generally not
detailed enough to allow computers to discern the subtle
atmospheric changes that precede these storms. In most
nations, for example, weather-balloon observations are taken
just once every twelve hours at locations typically separated by
hundreds of miles. With such limited data, conventional
forecasting models do a much better job predicting general
weather conditions over large regions than they do forecasting
specific local events.
Until recently, the observation-intensive approach needed
for accurate, very short-range forecasts, or "Nowcasts,. " was
not feasible. The cost of equipping and operating many
thousands of conventional weather stations was prohibitively
high, and the difficulties involved in rapidly collecting and
processing the raw weather d ata from such a networ k
were
insurmountable.
Fortunately,
scientific
and
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technological advances have overcome most of these
problems.
Radar
systems,
automated
weather
instruments, and satellites are all capable of making
detailed, nearly continuous observations over large
regions at a relatively low cost. Communications satellites
can transmit data around the world cheaply and
instantaneously, and modern computers can q uickl y
c ompi le and ana lyze th is larg e vol ume of weather
information. Meteorologists and computer scientists now
work together to design computer programs and video
equipment capable of transforming raw weather data
into words, symbols, and vivid graphic displays that
forecasters can interpret easily and
quickly.
As
meteorologists
have
begun
using
these
new
technologies
in
weather
forecasting

offi ces,
Nowcasting is becoming a reality.
36. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Computers and weather.
B. Dangerous storms.
C. Weather forecasting.
D. Satellites.
37. Why does the author mention the tornado in Edmonton,
Canada?
A. To indicate that tornadoes are common in the summer.
B. To give an example of a damaging storm.
C. To explain different types of weather.
D. To show that tornadoes occur frequently in Canada.
38. The word "subtle" in line 9 is closest in meaning to ____
.____________________________________________
A. complex

B. regular

C. imagined

D. slight
39. Why does the author state in line11 that observations are
taken "just once every twelve hours?''

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A. To indicate that the observations are timely.
B. To show why the observations are of limited value.

C. To compare data from balloons and computers.
D. To give an example of international cooperation.
4 0 . The word "they'' in line 14 refers to ____ .
A. models

B. conditions

C. regions

D. events
41. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an
advance in short-range weather forecasting?
A. Weather balloons.
B. Radar systems.
C. Automated instruments.
D. Satellites.
42. The word "compile" in line 26 is closest in meaning to
__________________________________________________ .
A. put together

B. look up

C. pile high

D. work over
43. With Nowcasting, it first became possible to provide
information about
A. short-lived local storms
B. radar networks
C. long-range weather forecasts

D. general weather conditions
44. With which of the following statements is the author most
likely to agree?
A. Communications satellites can predict severe weather.
B. Meteorologists should standardize computer programs.
C. The observation-intensive approach is no longer useful.
D. Weather predictions are becoming more accurate.
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45. Which of the following would best illustrate Noweasting?
A. A five-day forecast.
B. A warning about a severe thunderstorm on the radio.
C. The average rainfall for each month.
D. A list of temperatures in major cities.
VI. Read the passage and answer the questions below
Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films
made before 1927 as "silent, " the film has never been, in
the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning,
music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment;
when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film
exhibition in the Unite States in February 1896, they
were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular
tunes. At first, the music played bore no special relationship
to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was suffi cient.
Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of
playing lively music to a solemn film became apparent,
and film pianists began to take some care in matching their
pieces to the mood of the film.
As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a

violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the
pianist in certain cases, and in the larger movie theaters
small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the
selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the
hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very
often the principal qualification for holding such a
position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of
a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor
seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be
shown (if, indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see
them then), the musical arrangement was normally
improvised in the greatest hurry.
To help meet this diffi culty, film distributing companies
started the practice of publishing suggestions for
musical accompaniments. In 1909, for example, the
Edison Company began issuing with their fi lms such
indications of mood as "pleasant, " "sad, ""lively. " The
suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the
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musical cue sheet containing indications of mood, the titles
of suitable pieces of music, and precise directions to show
where one piece led into the next.
Certain films had music especially composed for them.
The most famous of these early special scores was that
composed and arranged for D.W. Griffith’s fi lm Birth of a
Nation, which was released in 1915.
46. The passage mainly discusses music that was .
A. performed before the showing of a film

B. played during silent films
C. specifically composed for certain movie theaters
D. recorded during film exhibitions
47. What can be inferred from the passage about the
majority of films made after 1927?
A. They were truly "silent."
B. They were accompanied by symphonic orchestras.
C. They incorporated the sound of the actors' voices.
D. They corresponded to specific musical compositions.
48. The word "solemn" in line 9 is closest in meaning to
A. simple
B. serious
C. short
D. silent
49. It can be inferred that orchestra conductors who
worked in movie theaters needed to ____ .
A. be able to play many instruments
B. have pleasant voices
C. be familiar with a wide variety of music
D. be able to compose original music
50. The word "them" in line 20 refers to
A. years
B. hands
C. pieces
D. films
51. According to the passage, what kind of business was the
Edison Company?
A. It produced electricity.
B. It distributed films.
C. It published musical arrangements.

D. It made musical instruments.

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52. It may be inferred from the passage that the first musical
cue sheets appeared around ____ .
A. 1896
B. 1909
C. 1915
D. 1927
53. Which of the following notations is most likely to have been
included on a musical cue sheet of the early 1900's?
A. "Calm, peaceful"
B. "Piano, violin"
C. "Key of C major"
D. "Directed by D. W. Griffith"
54. The word "composed" in line 29 is closest in meaning to ____
.
A. selected
B. combined
C. played
D. created
55. The passage probably continues with a discussion of ____ .
A. famous composers of the early twentieth century
B. other films directed by D. W. Griffith
C. silent films by other directors
D. the music in Birth of a Nation
IV. Circle A, B, C, or D to choose the most suitable word
or phrase for each blank to complete the following

passage.
Many parents believe that they should begin to teach their
children to read when they are scarcely more than toddlers.
This is fine if the child show a real interest but (56) ____ a child
could be counter-productive if she isn't ready. Wise parents will
have a (57) ____ attitude and take the lead from their child.
What they should provide is a selection of (58) ____ toys, books
and other activities. Nowadays there is plenty of good (59)
____ available for young children, and of course, seeing plenty
of books in use about the house will also (60) ____ them to
read.
Of course, books are no longer the only source of stories
and information. There is also a huge range of videos, which
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can found and extend the pleasure a child finds in a book and
are (61) ____ valuable in helping to increase vocabulary and
concentration. Television gets a bad (62) ____ as far as children
are concerned, mainly because too many spend too much time
watching programmes not intended for their age group. Too
many television programmes attract

an incurious, uncritical

attitude that is going to make learning much more difficult.
However, (63) ____viewing of programmes designed for young
children can be useful. Just as adults enjoy reading a book after
seeing it (64) ____ on television, so children will pounce on
books which (65) ____ their favourite television characters, and

videos can add a new dimension to a story known from a book.
56. A
insisting
57. A
cheerful
58.
A bright
59. A
material
60.
A
61. A
62. A review
63. A
64. A
serialized
65.
A

B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B

forcing
contented
thrilling
sense
encourage
worthily
press
choice
transferred
extend

C making
C relaxed
C energetic
C produce
C provide
C perfectly
C criticism
C approved
C revised
C feature

D
D
D
D
D
D
D
D

D
D

starting
hopeful
stimulating
amusement
attract
equally
result
visualized
possess

VII. Choose A,B,C or D to identify the word or phrase
that is incorrect in each line to complete the passage
66. Many of the trees native to (A) the state of Maine yield (B)
useful (C) woods, a number of which are of tall (D) market
value.
67. The novels (A) of Richard W r i g h t still serve as (B) a
yardstick in which (C) Black novelists of the United States are
measured (D) .
68. American sign language has its own (A) distinct
grammatical structure, which (B) must be mastered in the
same way (C) as that of another (D) languages.
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69. The density (A) of a substance is calculus (B) by dividing (C)
its mass (D) by its volume.
70. Recently in the automobile industry, multinational

companies have developed (A) to the point where such few (B)
cars can be described as having been made (C) entirely (D) in
one country.
IX.Make sentences from the suggested words. Choose A,
B, C or D for the correct sentences.
71. Although/ there/ be/ tremendous revolution/ biological
sciences/ past twenty years,/ there/ be/ still/ great deal/ that/
remain/ discover.
A. Although there is a tremendous revolution in the
biological sciences in the past twenty years, there is still a
great deal that remains to be discovered.
B. Although there has been a tremendous revolution in the
biological sciences in the past twenty years, there is still a
great deal that remains to be discovered.
C. Although there had been a tremendous revolution in the
biological sciences in the past twenty years, there is still a
great deal that remains to be discovered.
D. Although there has been a tremendous revolution in the
biological sciences in the past twenty years, there is still a
great deal that remains to discover.
72. OPEC's influence/ market/ negatively/ criticize.
A. OPEC's influence in the market has been negatively
criticized.
B. OPEC's influence on the market is negatively criticized.
C. OPEC's influence on the market has been negatively
criticized.
D. OPEC's influence in the market has been negatively
criticized.

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73. OPEC's ability/ control/ price/ oil/ diminish/ recently,/
due/ the subsequent discovery/ development/ large oil
reserves/ places/ and/ market modernization.
A. OPEC's ability to control the price of oil has diminished
recently, due to the subsequent discovery and
development of large oil reserves in some places, and
market modernization.
B. OPEC's ability of controlling the price of oil has
diminished recently, due to the subsequent discovery and
development in large oil reserves of some places, and
market modernization.
C. OPEC's ability to control price of oil diminished
recently, due the subsequent discovery and development
of large oil reserves in some places, and market
modernization.
D. OPEC's ability for controlling the price of oil has been
diminished recently, due to the subsequent discovery
and development of large oil reserves in some places,
and. market modernization.
74. Police/ investigate/ death/ 26-year-old man/ Bridgend,/
where/ 20 young people/ die/ apparent suicides/ since/ last
spring.
A. Police investigate the death of a 26-year-old man in
Bridgend, where 20 young people have died in apparent
suicides since the last spring.
B. Police has investigated the death of a 26-year-old man in
Bridgend, where 20 young people died in apparent suicides
since the last spring.

C. Police are investigating the death of a 26-year-old
man in Bridgend, where 20 young people have died in
apparent suicides since last spring.
D. Police are investigating the death of a 26-year-old
man in Bridgend, where 20 young people had died in
apparent suicides since the last spring.
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75. Five years ago/ when I/ conduct/ survey/ reasons/ couples/
enter/ counseling/ money problems/ rank/ sixth.
A. Five years ago when I conducted a survey on
reasons why couples entered counseling, money problems
ranked sixth.
B. Five years ago when I conducted a survey into the
reasons couples entered counseling, money problems
ranked sixth.
C. Five years ago when I was conducting a survey into the
reasons couples entered counseling, money problems
ranked sixth.
D. Five years ago when I was conducting a survey on
reasons why couples entered counseling, money problems
had ranked sixth.
VIII. Read the part in bold type. Then choose the most
suitable answer –A,B,C, or D.
76. People swimming here do so at their own risk.
This sentence means that
A. people may swim here without fear or risk.
B. people should realise that it is dangerous to swim here.
C. swimming is so risky here that it is forbidden.

D. swimmers will not be blamed if anything happens to
them here.
77. As soon as he waved his hand, she turned away.
This sentence means that
A. he saw her turn away and he waved his hand.
B. he waved his hand at the same time as she did.
C. he waved his hand and at once she turned away.
D. she turned away because he waved his hand too soon.
78. It would have been kind of William to help Janet with
her homework.
We understand from this sentence that
A. William didn't help Janet with her homework.

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B. Janet needed help and William was kind enough to give
it.
C. William politely offered to help, but Janet refused the
offer.
D. William helped Janet although he didn't want to do so.
79. Tom would sooner do without a car than pay all that
money for one.
We know from this sentence that
A. Tom is soon going to buy a car.
B. Tom thinks the price is right, but he can't afford it.
C. Tom would never buy a car that costs so much.
D. Tom thinks the price is too high, but he must have the
car.
80. The news of her marriage caused us no little

surprise.
This means that
A. we were not surprised when she married.
B. we knew she had married but were still surprised.
C. her marriage did surprise us a little.
D. we were greatly surprised when we heard she had
married.

THE END

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