Đề thi thử Tiếng Anh THPT Quốc gia số 6 ( cô Vũ Mai Phương )

ented
C. taught
D. checked
Question 33: A. only
B. so
C. just
D. also
Question 34: A. make
B. do
C. test
D. obtain
Question 35: A. sort
B. type
C. variety
D. form
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.
A small but growing group of scholars, evolutionary psychologists, are being to sketch
the contours of the human mind as designed by natural selection. Some of
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them even anticipate the coming of a field called "mismatch theory", which would
study maladies resulting from contrasts between the modern environment and the
"ancestral environment". The one we were designed for. There is no shortage of

such maladies to study. Rates of depression have been doubling in some industrial
countries roughly every 10 years. Suicide is the third most common cause of death
among young adults, after car wrecks and homicides.
Evolutionary psychology is a long way from explaining all this with precision,
but it is already shedding enough light to challenge some conventional wisdom. It
suggests for example, that the nostalgia for the nuclear family of the 1950s is in
some way misguided-that the model family of husband at work and wife at home
is hardly a "natural" and the healthful living arrangement, especially for the wives.
Moreover, the bygone lifestyles that do look fairly by commercialism. Perhaps the
biggest surprise from evolutionary psychology is it depiction of the "animal" in us.
Freud, and various thinkers since, saw "civilization" as an oppressive force that
thwarts basic animal instincts and urges and transmutes them into psychopathology.
However, evolutionary psychology suggests that a large threat to mental health
may be the way civilization thwarts civility. There is a gentler, kinder side of human
nature, and it seems increasingly to be a victim of repression in modern society.
Question 36: Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
A. How evolutionary psychology manages modern society
B. The problems of illness caused by modern society
C. The importance of ancestral environment
D. Evolutionary psychologists' views on the nuclear family.
Question 37: The word "contours" is closest in meaning to
A. actions
B. limits
C. structures
D. outlines
Question 38: According to the passage, the death of many young people in industrial countries is mainly caused
by
A. murder B. traffic accidents C. suicide D. depression
Question 39: The word "one" refers to the
A. mismatch theory

B. field
C. modern environment
D. ancestral environment
Question 40: The word "by gone" could be replaced by
A. overlooked
B. forgotten
C. past
D. original
Question 41: In the passage, evolutionary psychologists suggest that in modern society
A. victims are always punished
B. people's better natures are denied
C. repressed people are kind and gentle
D. people suffer from repression
Question 42: Where in the passage does the author suggest a conflict between the way of living?
A.line 1−4
B. line 10−14
C. line 16−18
D. line 18−20
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.
Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special attention to the speech they hear around them.
Within the first month of their lives, babies' responses to the sound of the human voice will be different from their
responses to other sorts of auditory stimuli. They will stop crying when they hear a person talking, but not if they
hear a bell or the sound of a rattle. At first, the sounds that an infant notices might be only those words that
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receive the heaviest emphasis and that often occur at the ends of utterances. By the time they are six or seven
weeks old, babies can detect the difference between syllables pronounced with rising and falling inflections. Very
soon, these differences in adult stress and intonation can influence babies' emotional states and behavior. Long
before they develop actual language comprehension, babies can sense when an adult is playful or angry,
attempting to initiate or terminate new behavior, and so on, merely on the basis of cues such as the rate, volume,
and melody of adult speech.
Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to pick up a language by exaggerating such cues. One
researcher observed babies and their mothers in six diverse cultures and found that, in all six languages, the
mothers used simplified syntax, short utterances and nonsense sounds, and transformed certain sounds into baby
talk. Other investigators have noted that when mothers talk to babies who are only a few months old, they
exaggerate the pitch, loudness, and intensity of their words. They also exaggerate their facial expressions, hold
vowels longer, and emphasize certain words.
More significant for language development than their response to general intonation is observation that tiny
babies can make relatively fine distinctions between speech sounds. In other words, babies enter the world with the
ability to make precisely those perceptual discriminations that are necessary if they are to acquire aural language.
Babies obviously derive pleasure from sound input, too: even as young as nine months they will listen to
songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their understanding. For babies, language is a sensorymotor delight rather than the route to prosaic meaning that it often is for adults.
Question 43: Which of the following can be inferred about the findings described in paragraph 2?
A. Babies ignore facial expressions in comprehending aural language.
B. Mothers from different cultures speak to their babies in similar ways.
C. Babies who are exposed to more than one language can speak earlier than babies exposed to a single language.
D. The mothers observed by the researchers were consciously teaching their babies to speak.
Question 44: According to the author, why do babies listen to songs and stories, even though they cannot
understand them?
A. They can remember them easily.
C. They enjoy the sound.

B. They focus on the meaning of their parents' word.
D. They understand the rhythm.

Question 45: The passage mentions all of the followings as the ways adults modify their speech when talking to
babies EXCEPT ______________.
A. speaking with shorter sentences

B. giving all words equal emphasis

C. using meaningless sounds
D. speaking more loudly than normal
Question 46: The word "diverse" is closest in meaning to ______________.
A. different

B. surrounding

C. stimulating

D. divided

Question 47: The word "They" refers to ______________.
A. words

B. mothers

C. investigators

D. babies

Question 48: What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The differences between a baby's and an adult's ability to comprehend language
B. How babies perceive and respond to the human voice in their earliest stages of language development
C. The response of babies to sounds other than the human voice
D. How babies differentiate between the sound of the human voice and other sounds
Question 49: The word "emphasize" is closest in meaning to ______________.
A. stress

B. leave out

C. explain

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Question 50: What point does the author make to illustrate that babies are born with the ability to acquire
language?
A. Babies exaggerate their own sounds and expressions.
B. Babies begin to understand words in songs.
C. Babies notice even minor differences between speech sounds.
D. Babies are more sensitive to sounds than are adults.
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