GCSE MOCK TESTS

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Môn: TIẾNG ANH – ĐÊ SỐ 97
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút, không kể thời gian phát
đề

Ho va tên thi sinh:……………………………………………………………………. SBD:…………………………
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. agreed
B. missed
C. liked
D. watched
Question 2: A. educate
B. eliminate
C. certificate
D. dedicate
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. religious
B. performance
C. miserable
D. including
Question 4: A. decoration B. temperament
C. opportunity
D. expectation
Choose A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase CLOSEST in meaning
to the italic part in each of the following questions.

Question 5: Biogas can be utilized for electricity production, cooking, space heating, water
heating, and process heating.
A. reformation
B. sparing
C. increase
D. generation
Question 6: American children customarily go trick-or-treating on Halloween.
A. inevitably
B. readily
C. happily
D. traditionally
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) that is OPPOSITE in
meaning to the italic part in each of the following questions.
Question 7: For most male spiders courtship is a perilous procedure, for they may be eaten
byfemales.
A. complicated
B. dangerous
C. safe
D. peculiar
Question 8: Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity.
A. reveal
B. conserve
C. presume
D. cover
Choose A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
Question 9: Manufacturers may use food additives for preserving, to colour, or to flavour, or to
fortify foods. A. to flavour
B. fortify foods
C. for preserving
D. many use

Question 10: Computer science which is considered by some scientists to have a much closer
relationship with mathematics than many scientific disciplines.
A. much closer
B. than many
C. which is considered
D. some scientists
Question 11: If one type of manufacturing expands, it is like that another type will shrink
considerably.
A. expands
B. like
C. another
D. considerably
Question 12: The Pullman strike of 1894 occurred took place during the era of rapid
industrialization.
A. place during
B. occurred took
C. era of rapid
D. industrialization
Mark the letter A, B, c, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 14: I don’t think Peter will come with us, ________?
A. do I
B. don't I
C. won't he
D. will he
Question 13: ________ the issue was debated, the more people became involved.
A. The more longer B. The longer
C. The longest
D. The long
Question 15: When it started to snow, he________ his overcoat.

A. took out
B. put off
C. took off
D. put on
Question 16: He was determined to choose that university because of________.
A. its reputation is fine
B. its fine reputation
C. it is fine
D. it has a fine reputation
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Question 17: ________, no one was absent from the farewell party last night.
A. Heavily as it rained
B. As it rained heavily
C. Though it rains heavily
D. In spite of the heavily rain
Question 18: The spy admitted________ some highly secret information to enemy agents.
A. to have given
B. having been given
C. to have been given
D. having given
Question 19: I was in a quandary________ what to say.
A. owing to
B. of
C. about
D. for
Question 20: It won't________ matter if you arrive a few minutes late.
A. greatly
B. grandly

C. considerably
D. largely
Question 21: This computer game is really out of the________.
A. normal
B. usual
C. average
D. ordinary
Question 22: John: "I've passed my final exam." Tom: "________________"
A. That’s a good idea.
B. Good luck.
C. It’s nice of you to say so.
D. Congratulations!
Question 23: Mike: "________________ " Maria: "Thank you. We are proud of him."
A. Your kid is naughty.
B. Can we ask your child to take a photo?
C. Your child is just adorable!
D. I can give your kid a lift to school.
Question 24: When he retires at sixty, he'll get a very good________.
A. pay
B. salary
C. wage
D. pension
Question 25: It has been conclusively________ that smoking causes many diseases.
A. admitted
B. established
C. declared
D. approved.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, Cnor D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The warming of the Pacific Ocean has created weather patterns (26)_______ strongly affect

the world. When the water is warm, the (27)_______ of rainfall in Indonesia and the surrounding
regions decreases. Australia could (28)_______ experience a drought in many parts. On (29)_______
hand, Chile (which borders the Pacific Ocean) is preparing for (30)_______ rainstorms. In Pakistan
and northwestern India, the weather pattern makes the rainy season weaker and makes the area
much drier. This happening is called El Nino and is used (31)_______ weather forecasters to make
long-range weather predictions. They also know that El Nino will (32)_______ unusually heavy rains
to the southwestern part of the United States and make the central part of the country drier at the
same time. According to research, weather forecasters (33)_______ know about the coming weather
with certainty. Now everything has become completely different. El Nino itself used to be
(34)_______. It would occur every two to seven years. But now, this weather pattern is becoming
more frequent. We cannot say when and how often tornadoes or cyclones occur. Scientists are
unsure of the reason for this (35)_______ on a global scale either.
Question 26: A. that
Question 27: A. amount
Question 28: A. ever
Question 29: A. others
Question 30: A. severe
Question 31: A. on
Question 32: A. carry
Question 33: A. get used to
Question 34: A. notable
Question 35: A. change

B. what
B. figure
B. even
B. other
B. cruel
B. at
B. fetch

B. used to
B. remarkable
B. transfer

C. when
C. number
C. nevertheless
C. the other
C. strict
C. to
C. bring
C. are used to
C. predictable
C. transformation

D. whether
D. deal
D. however
D. another
D. angry
D. by
D. take
D. used to be
D. incredible
D. shift

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.
For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming back
to an empty house. Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hide. But all of them

have something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called “latchkey
children". They are children who look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad
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condition has become a subject of concern. Lynette Long was once the principal of an elementary
school. She said, "We had a school rule against wearing jewelry. A lot of kids had chains around
their necks with keys attached. I was constantly telling them to put the keys inside shirts. There
were so many keys; it never came to my mind what they meant." Slowly, she learned that they
were house keys. She and her husband began talking to the children who had keys. They learned
of the effect working couples and single parents were having on their children. Fear was the
biggest problem faced by children at home alone. One in three latchkey children the Longs talked
to reported being frightened. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safety. The
most common way latchkey children deal with their fears is by hiding. They may hide in a shower
stall, under a bed or in a closet. The second is TV. They often turn the volume up. It’s hard to get
statistics on latchkey children, the Longs have learned. Most parents are slow to admit that they
leave their children alone.
Question 36: The phrase “an empty house" in the passage mostly means________.
A. a house with no people inside
B. a house with no furniture
C. a house with nothing inside
D. a house with too much space
Question 37: One thing that the children in the passage share is that________.
A. they all watch TV
B. they spend part of each day alone
C. they are from single-parent families
D. they all wear jewelry
Question 38: The phrase “latchkey children" in the passage means children who________.
A. close doors with keys and watch TV by themselves
B. like to carry latches and keys with them everywhere

C. are locked inside houses with latches and keys
D. look after themselves while their parents are not at home
Question 39: The main problem of latchkey children is that they________.
A. are also found in middle-class families B. watch too much television during the day
C. suffer a lot from being left alone
D. are growing in numbers
Question 40: What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
A. How kids spend free time.
B. Why kids hate going home.
C. Bad condition of latchkey children.
D. Children's activities at home.
Question 41: Why did a lot of kids have chains around their necks with keys attached?
A. They had to use the keys to open school doors.
B. Schools didn't allow them to wear jewelry, so they wore keys instead,
C. They were fully grown and had become independent.
D. They would use the keys to enter their houses when they came home.
Question 42: What do latchkey children suffer most from when they are at home alone?
A. Fear.
B. Tiredness.
C. Boredom.
D. Loneliness.
Question 43: Lynette Long learned of latchkey children's problems by________.
A. visiting their homes
B. delivering questionnaires
C. interviewing their parents
D. talking to them
Question 44: What is the most common way for latchkey children to deal with fears?
A. Hiding somewhere.
B. Talking to the Longs.
C. Having a shower.

D. Lying under a TV.
Question 45: It's difficult to find out the number of latchkey children because________.
A. most parents are reluctant to admit that they leave their children alone
B. they do not give information about themselves for safety reasons
C. they hide themselves in shower stalls or under beds
D. there are too many of them in the whole country
Read the following sentences and mark the letter A, B, Cor D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct answer to each of the questions.
Question 46: It won't be long before her husband comes back.
A. There’s likelihood that her husband won't return soon.
B. Possibly, her husband won't come back as soon as he wants.
C. Her husband will come back later than planned.
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D. Her husband will be returning quite soon.
Question 47: The president was reported to have had a heart attack.
A. The president was reported to suffer a heart attack.
B. People say that the president had suffered a heart attack.
C. It was reported that the president had suffered a heart attack.
D. People reported the President to suffer a heart attack.
Question 48: Impressed as we were by the new cinema, we found it rather expensive.
A. We were very impressed by the new cinema, but found it rather expensive.
B. The new cinema was more expensive than we expected.
C. We weren’t as much impressed by the new cinema’s look as its coast.
D. We were not impressed by the new cinema at all because it looked rather expensive.
Question 49: Their chances o f success are small.
A. It’s very likely that they will succeed. B. They won’t have any chance of being
successful.
C. They will definitely be successful.

D. It's not very likely that they will succeed.
Question 50: At no time did the two sides look likely to reach an agreement.
A. If the two sides had had time, they would have reached an agreement.
B. The two sides never look like each other.
C. The two sides never looked likely to reach an agreement.
D. The two sides had no time to reach an agreement.
______THE END______
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Môn: TIẾNG ANH – ĐÊ SỐ 97
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút, không kể thời gian phát
đề

Ho va tên thi sinh:……………………………………………………………………. SBD:…………………………
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. agreed
B. missed
C. liked
D. watched
Question 2: A. educate
B. eliminate
C. certificate
D. dedicate
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. religious

B. performance
C. miserable
D. including
Question 4: A. decoration B. temperament
C. opportunity
D. expectation
Choose A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase CLOSEST in meaning
to the italic part in each of the following questions.
Question 5: Biogas can be utilized for electricity production, cooking, space heating, water
heating, and process heating.
A. reformation
B. sparing
C. increase
D. generation
Question 6: American children customarily go trick-or-treating on Halloween.
A. inevitably
B. readily
C. happily
D. traditionally
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) that is OPPOSITE in
meaning to the italic part in each of the following questions.
Question 7: For most male spiders courtship is a perilous procedure, for they may be eaten
byfemales.
A. complicated
B. dangerous
C. safe
D. peculiar
Question 8: Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity.
A. reveal
B. conserve

C. presume
D. cover
Choose A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
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Question 9: Manufacturers may use food additives for preserving, to colour, or to flavour, or to
fortify foods. A. to flavour
B. fortify foods
C. for preserving
D. many use
Question 10: Computer science which is considered by some scientists to have a much closer
relationship with mathematics than many scientific disciplines.
A. much closer
B. than many
C. which is considered
D. some scientists
Question 11: If one type of manufacturing expands, it is like that another type will shrink
considerably.
A. expands
B. like
C. another
D. considerably
Question 12: The Pullman strike of 1894 occurred took place during the era of rapid
industrialization.
A. place during
B. occurred took
C. era of rapid
D. industrialization
Mark the letter A, B, c, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the

following questions.
Question 14: I don’t think Peter will come with us, ________?
A. do I
B. don't I
C. won't he
D. will he
Question 13: ________ the issue was debated, the more people became involved.
A. The more longer B. The longer
C. The longest
D. The long
Question 15: When it started to snow, he________ his overcoat.
A. took out
B. put off
C. took off
D. put on
Question 16: He was determined to choose that university because of________.
A. its reputation is fine
B. its fine reputation
C. it is fine
D. it has a fine reputation
Question 17: ________, no one was absent from the farewell party last night.
A. Heavily as it rained
B. As it rained heavily
C. Though it rains heavily
D. In spite of the heavily rain
Question 18: The spy admitted________ some highly secret information to enemy agents.
A. to have given
B. having been given
C. to have been given
D. having given

Question 19: I was in a quandary________ what to say.
A. owing to
B. of
C. about
D. for
Question 20: It won't________ matter if you arrive a few minutes late.
A. greatly
B. grandly
C. considerably
D. largely
Question 21: This computer game is really out of the________.
A. normal
B. usual
C. average
D. ordinary
Question 22: John: "I've passed my final exam." Tom: "________________"
A. That’s a good idea.
B. Good luck.
C. It’s nice of you to say so.
D. Congratulations!
Question 23: Mike: "________________ " Maria: "Thank you. We are proud of him."
A. Your kid is naughty.
B. Can we ask your child to take a photo?
C. Your child is just adorable!
D. I can give your kid a lift to school.
Question 24: When he retires at sixty, he'll get a very good________.
A. pay
B. salary
C. wage
D. pension

Question 25: It has been conclusively________ that smoking causes many diseases.
A. admitted
B. established
C. declared
D. approved.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, Cnor D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The warming of the Pacific Ocean has created weather patterns (26)_______ strongly affect
the world. When the water is warm, the (27)_______ of rainfall in Indonesia and the surrounding
regions decreases. Australia could (28)_______ experience a drought in many parts. On (29)_______
hand, Chile (which borders the Pacific Ocean) is preparing for (30)_______ rainstorms. In Pakistan
and northwestern India, the weather pattern makes the rainy season weaker and makes the area
much drier. This happening is called El Nino and is used (31)_______ weather forecasters to make
long-range weather predictions. They also know that El Nino will (32)_______ unusually heavy rains
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to the southwestern part of the United States and make the central part of the country drier at the
same time. According to research, weather forecasters (33)_______ know about the coming weather
with certainty. Now everything has become completely different. El Nino itself used to be
(34)_______. It would occur every two to seven years. But now, this weather pattern is becoming
more frequent. We cannot say when and how often tornadoes or cyclones occur. Scientists are
unsure of the reason for this (35)_______ on a global scale either.
Question 26: A. that
Question 27: A. amount
Question 28: A. ever
Question 29: A. others
Question 30: A. severe
Question 31: A. on
Question 32: A. carry

Question 33: A. get used to
Question 34: A. notable
Question 35: A. change

B. what
B. figure
B. even
B. other
B. cruel
B. at
B. fetch
B. used to
B. remarkable
B. transfer

C. when
C. number
C. nevertheless
C. the other
C. strict
C. to
C. bring
C. are used to
C. predictable
C. transformation

D. whether
D. deal
D. however
D. another

D. angry
D. by
D. take
D. used to be
D. incredible
D. shift

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.
For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming back
to an empty house. Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hide. But all of them
have something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called “latchkey
children". They are children who look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad
condition has become a subject of concern. Lynette Long was once the principal of an elementary
school. She said, "We had a school rule against wearing jewelry. A lot of kids had chains around
their necks with keys attached. I was constantly telling them to put the keys inside shirts. There
were so many keys; it never came to my mind what they meant." Slowly, she learned that they
were house keys. She and her husband began talking to the children who had keys. They learned
of the effect working couples and single parents were having on their children. Fear was the
biggest problem faced by children at home alone. One in three latchkey children the Longs talked
to reported being frightened. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safety. The
most common way latchkey children deal with their fears is by hiding. They may hide in a shower
stall, under a bed or in a closet. The second is TV. They often turn the volume up. It’s hard to get
statistics on latchkey children, the Longs have learned. Most parents are slow to admit that they
leave their children alone.
Question 36: The phrase “an empty house" in the passage mostly means________.
A. a house with no people inside
B. a house with no furniture
C. a house with nothing inside
D. a house with too much space

Question 37: One thing that the children in the passage share is that________.
A. they all watch TV
B. they spend part of each day alone
C. they are from single-parent families
D. they all wear jewelry
Question 38: The phrase “latchkey children" in the passage means children who________.
A. close doors with keys and watch TV by themselves
B. like to carry latches and keys with them everywhere
C. are locked inside houses with latches and keys
D. look after themselves while their parents are not at home
Question 39: The main problem of latchkey children is that they________.
A. are also found in middle-class families B. watch too much television during the day
C. suffer a lot from being left alone
D. are growing in numbers
Question 40: What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
A. How kids spend free time.
B. Why kids hate going home.
C. Bad condition of latchkey children.
D. Children's activities at home.
Question 41: Why did a lot of kids have chains around their necks with keys attached?
A. They had to use the keys to open school doors.
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B. Schools didn't allow them to wear jewelry, so they wore keys instead,
C. They were fully grown and had become independent.
D. They would use the keys to enter their houses when they came home.
Question 42: What do latchkey children suffer most from when they are at home alone?
A. Fear.
B. Tiredness.

C. Boredom.
D. Loneliness.
Question 43: Lynette Long learned of latchkey children's problems by________.
A. visiting their homes
B. delivering questionnaires
C. interviewing their parents
D. talking to them
Question 44: What is the most common way for latchkey children to deal with fears?
A. Hiding somewhere.
B. Talking to the Longs.
C. Having a shower.
D. Lying under a TV.
Question 45: It's difficult to find out the number of latchkey children because________.
A. most parents are reluctant to admit that they leave their children alone
B. they do not give information about themselves for safety reasons
C. they hide themselves in shower stalls or under beds
D. there are too many of them in the whole country
Read the following sentences and mark the letter A, B, Cor D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct answer to each of the questions.
Question 46: It won't be long before her husband comes back.
A. There’s likelihood that her husband won't return soon.
B. Possibly, her husband won't come back as soon as he wants.
C. Her husband will come back later than planned.
D. Her husband will be returning quite soon.
Question 47: The president was reported to have had a heart attack.
A. The president was reported to suffer a heart attack.
B. People say that the president had suffered a heart attack.
C. It was reported that the president had suffered a heart attack.
D. People reported the President to suffer a heart attack.
Question 48: Impressed as we were by the new cinema, we found it rather expensive.

A. We were very impressed by the new cinema, but found it rather expensive.
B. The new cinema was more expensive than we expected.
C. We weren’t as much impressed by the new cinema’s look as its coast.
D. We were not impressed by the new cinema at all because it looked rather expensive.
Question 49: Their chances o f success are small.
A. It’s very likely that they will succeed. B. They won’t have any chance of being
successful.
C. They will definitely be successful.
D. It's not very likely that they will succeed.
Question 50: At no time did the two sides look likely to reach an agreement.
A. If the two sides had had time, they would have reached an agreement.
B. The two sides never look like each other.
C. The two sides never looked likely to reach an agreement.
D. The two sides had no time to reach an agreement.
______THE END______

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