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ĐỀ THI THPT QUỐC GIA SỐ 1 - 2018
(Time allowance: 60 minutes)
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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 from 1 to 2.
Question 1: A. favour
B. harbor
C. flour
D. vapor
Question 2: A. bull
B. dull
C. full
D. put
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 from 3 to 4.
Question 3: A. agree
B. garden
C. propose
D. supply
Question 4: A. answer
B. correct
C. promote
D. tonight
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 from 5 to 7.
Question 5: However small, the sitting room is well designed and nicely decorated.
A
B
C
D

Question 6: In my opinion, I think this book is more interesting than the other one.
A
B
C
D
Question 7: He is the man that his novel won the Pulitzer prize last year.
A
B whose
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 from 8 to 19.
Question 8: ______, he felt so unhappy and lonely.
A. Despite of his wealth
B. Rich as was he
C. Rich as he was
D. Despite he was so rich
Question 9: Peter asked me ______.
A. what time does the film start
B. what time the film starts
C. what time the film started
D. what time did the film start
Question 10: She will be ill ______.
A. unless she takes a few days’ rest
B. provided she takes a few days’ rest
C. in case she takes a few days’ rest D. if she takes a few days’ rest
Question 11: ______ as taste is really a composite sense made up of both taste and smell.
A. That we refer to it B. What we refer to C. To which we refer D. What do we refer to
Question 12: Never before ______ as accelerated as they are now during the technological age.
A. have historical changes been

B. have been historical changes
C. historical changes have been
D. historical have changes been
Question 13: Is that the man _______ has been stolen?
A. the car of whom
B. the car of his
C. whose car
D. the car of who
Question 14: Despite _______ a terrible headache, Jane managed to finish the exam.
A. she had
B. to have
C. having
D. of
Question 15: The children playing on the beach are _______ to hear me shout.
A. too far away
B. too far
C. so distant
D. so far away a
Question 16: Her dress is different from yours; it has a belt _______.
A. in the waist B. on a waist
C. around the waist D. through the waist
Question 17: Over the last few months garages _______the price of petrol three times
A. have risen
B. have put up
C. raised
D. have gone up
Question 18: We ______on our close friend on the way here. That’s why we are a bit late.
A. visited
B. dropped in
C. paid a visit

D. came across
Question 19: It was so foggy that the drivers couldn’t ______the traffic signs.
A. make out
B. break out
C. keep out
D. take out
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 from 20 to 21.
Question 20: David: “ You’ve got a beautiful dress.” – Hellen: “______”
A. I do
B. Thank you
C. You, too
D. Okay
Question 21: “ Your kids are very cute.” – “______”


A. Aren’t they?

B. I don’t think so, either C. Do you think so? Thanks

D. No problems

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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 from 22 to 23.

Question 22: A fundamental premise of a free-enterprise economic system is that all small
businesses face difficult competition.
A. confront
B. mock
C. lose
D. appreciate
Question 23: He never knew he suffered from claustrophobia until he was trapped in an elevator for three
hours.
A. allergy
B. hunger
C. fear
D. loneliness
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 from 24 to 25.
Question 24: The horse must be properly restrained in a location where it would not hurt itself.
A. controled
B. liberated
C. maintained
D. distracted
Question 25: Clouds rolled in and the lake took on a bleak and sombre apprearance.
A. desperate
B. dreary
C. bright
D. fond
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 from 26 to 28.
Question 26: It's the first time I've been to a flower show.


A. I haven't been to a flower show for years.

C. I haven't been to a flower show before.
Question 27: His comment bears little relation to the topic.
A. His comment is close to the topic.
C. His comment and the topic are not the same.
Question 28: Tom used to smoke when he was young.
A. Tom got used to smoking when he was young.
C. Tom has stopped smoking.

B. It's the first time I've seen so many flowers.
D. This is the first flower show I know.
B. His comment is directly to the point.
D. What he said is irrelevant to the topic.
B. Tom smoked a lot when he was young.
D. Tom doesn't smoke no longer.

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 from 29 to 30.
Question 29: No one but the experts was able to realize that the painting was an imitation. It greatly
resembled the original.
A. It was obvious that only a person with great talent could fake a painting so successfully.
B. It was hard for ordinary people to judge between the fake painting and the real one, but not for the
experts.
C. It was almost impossible for amateurs to realize that the painting was not authentic, though the
experts could judge it quite easily.
D. The painting looked so much like the authentic one that only the experts could tell it
wasn't genuine.
Question 30: Marion started working. She realized that her decision had not been a good one.
A. No sooner had Marion begun her new job than she knew she had made a mistake.
B. Had Marion not just begun a new job, she would have gone looking for a better one.
C. Just before Marion took up her new post, she realized that she was not suited for it.

D. Since Marion did not like her new job, she began looking for one more suitable to her.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.
There were three farming families: the Smith, the Brown and the Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Smith had a
triangle of land which they wanted to divide in such a way that each of their offspring would have a piece of
land (31) _____ the same size and shape.
Down the road, the Browns had four children. The parents wanted to divide their land an L-shaped plot
which (32) _______ like a square with one of its quarters taken out - into four equal pieces for their offspring.
Again, each piece of land had to be the same shape.
In the (33) _______ village, meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Jones had a piece of farmland in a perfect square.
They had five children. As with the Smiths and the Browns, they were eager to make sure that each child
should have a single piece of land identical in size and shape: The square had to be divided into five.
The three families called in the local surveyor, Theo D. Lite, to ask his (34) _______. Mr. Lite looked at
the Smiths' triangle of land and quickly drew a sketch of how to divide the land into three. At the Browns'
house, he thought a little longer; then he (35) _______ up with a plan which would give each of the four
children an L-shaped piece of land. Finally, he turned his attention to the Jones' problem and, after a little
thought came up with a solution.
Question 31: A. utterly
B. totally
C. completely
D. exactly
Question 32: A. seemed
B. appeared
C. looked
D. showed
Question 33: A. near
B. close
C. neighbouring
D. next-door
Question 34: A. suggestion B. advice

C. thought
D. idea
Question 35: A. came
B. went
C. thought
D. decided
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.
Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical
and medieval worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term “reading” undoubtedly meant reading aloud.
Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace (phổ biến). One should be wary
(thận trọng), however, of assuming that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud was a
distraction to others. Examinations of factors related to the historical development of silent reading have
revealed that it became the usual mode of reading for most adults mainly because the tasks themselves
changed in character. The last century saw a steady gradual increase in literacy and thus in the number of
readers.
As the number of readers increased, the number of potential listeners declined and thus there was
some reduction in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came


the flourishing of reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and offices,
where reading aloud would cause distraction to other readers. Towards the end of the century, there was still
considerable argument over whether books should be used for information or treated respectfully and over
whether the reading of materials such as newspapers was in some way mentally weakening.
Indeed, this argument remains with us still in education. However, whatever its virtues, the old
shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books
and periodicals for a specialized readership (độc giả đặc biệt) on the other. By the end of the twentieth
century, students were being recommended to adopt attitudes to books and to use reading skills which were
inappropriate, if not impossible, for the oral reader. The social, cultural and technological changes in the
century had greatly altered what the term “reading” implied.

Question 36: Reading aloud was more common in the medieval world because ______.
A. people relied on reading for entertainment
B. silent reading had not been discovered
C. there were few places available for private reading D. few people could read to themselves
Question 37: The word “commonplace” in the first paragraph mostly means “______”.
A. for everybody’s use
B. most preferable
C. attracting attention
D. widely used
Question 38: The development of silent reading during the last century indicated ______.
A. an increase in the average age of readers
B. an increase in the number of books
C. a change in the nature of reading
D. a change in the status of literate people
Question 39: Silent reading, especially in public places, flourished mainly because of ______.
A. the decreasing need to read aloud
B. the development of libraries
C. the increase in literacy
D. the decreasing number of listeners
Question 40: The phrase “a specialized readership” in paragraph 4 mostly means “______”.
A. a requirement for readers in a particular area of knowledge
B. a limited number of readers in a particular area of knowledge
C. a reading volume for particular professionals
D. a status for readers specialised in mass media
Question 41: Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A. Reading aloud was more common in the past than it is today.
B. Not all printed mass media was appropriate for reading aloud.
C. The decline of reading aloud was wholly due to its distracting effect.
D. The change in reading habits was partly due to the social, cultural and technological changes.
Question 42: The writer of this passage is attempting to ______.

A. explain how reading habits have developed B. change people’s attitudes to reading
C. show how reading methods have improved
D. encourage the growth of reading

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
The Sun today is a yellow dwarf (lùn) star. It is fueled by thermonuclear (hạt nhân nóng) reactions
near its center that convert hydrogen to helium. The Sun has existed in its present state for about four billion
six hundred million years and is thousands of times larger than the Earth. By studying other stars, astronomers
can predict what the rest of the Sun’s life will be like. About five billion years from now, the core of the Sun will
shrink (co lại) and become hotter. The surface temperature will fall. The higher temperature of the center will
increase the rate of thermonuclear reactions. The outer regions of the Sun will expand approximately 35
million miles, about the distance to Mercury, which is the closest planet to the Sun.
The Sun will then be a red giant star. Temperatures on the Earth will become too high for life to exist.
Once the Sun has used up its thermonuclear energy as a red giant, it will begin to shrink. After it shrinks to the
size of the Earth, it will become a white dwarf star. The Sun may throw off huge amounts of gases in violent
eruptions called nova explosions as it changes from a red giant to a white dwarf. After billions of years as a
white dwarf, the Sun will have used up all its fuel and will have lost its heat. Such a star is called a black dwarf.
After the Sun has become a black dwarf, the Earth will be dark and cold. If any atmosphere remains there, it
will have frozen over the Earth’s surface.
Question 43: It can be inferred from the passage that the Sun ______.
A. is approximately halfway through its life as a yellow dwarf
B. will continue to be a yellow dwarf for another 10 billion years
C. has been in existence for 10 billion years
D. is rapidly changing in size and brightness
Question 44: What will probably be the first stage of change for the Sun to become a red giant?
A. Its surface will become hotter and shrink.
B. It will throw off huge amounts of gases.
C. Its central part will grow smaller and hotter. D. Its core will cool off and use less fuel.
Question 45: When the Sun becomes a red giant, what will the atmosphere be like on the Earth?

A. It will be enveloped in the expanding surface of the sun.
B. It will become too hot for life to exist.
C. It will be almost destroyed by nova explosions.
D. It will freeze and become solid.
Question 46: As a white dwarf, the Sun will be ______.
A. the same size as the planet Mercury
B. around 35 million miles in diameter
C. a cool and habitable planet
D. thousands of times smaller than it is today
Question 47: The Sun will become a black dwarf when ______.
A. the Sun moves nearer to the Earth
B. it has used up all its fuel as a white dwarf
C. the core of the Sun becomes hotter
D. the outer regions of the Sun expand
Question 48: The word “there” in the last sentence of paragraph 4 refers to ______.
A. the planet Mercury
B. the core of a black dwarf
C. our own planet
D. the outer surface of the Sun
Question 49: This passage is intended to ______.
A. describe the changes that the Sun will go through
B. present a theory about red giant stars
C. alert people to the dangers posed by the Sun
D. discuss conditions on the Earth in the far future
Question 50: The passage has probably been taken from ______.
A. a scientific journal
B. a news report
C. a work of science fiction

D. a scientific chronicle