GCSE 270

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ĐỀ KSCL ÔN THI THPT QG NĂM HỌC 2019-2020
BÀI THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 270
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Ho va tên thi sinh:……………………………………………………………………. SBD:…………………………
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other
three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 01. A. opened
B. laughed
C. scratched
D. washed
Question 02. A. said
B. trait
C. maid
D. faith
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the
position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 03. A attend
B. visit
C. apply
D. appear
Question 04. A creation
B. electronic
C. alarming
D. musician
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the answer that best fits the blank in each of the
following questions.

Question 05. The travel agent gave me_________ useful information.
A. an
B. any
C. the
D. some
Question 06 I would go to the seaside if the weather_________ good.
A. were
B. is
C. has been
D. will be
Question 07. While the builders were repairing the roof they_________ the bathroom window.
A. break
B. broke
C. have broken
D. was broken
Question 08. They promised to write, _________ we never heard from them again.
A. but
B. except
C. although
D. because
Question 09. Beware of the people who appear to be enthusiastic_________ your success.
A. of
B. with
C. about
D. of
Question 10. _________ they didn’t want to watch the film.
A. On knowing its ending
B. To have known its ending
C. As soon as they know its ending
D. Having known its ending

Question 11. When_________ by the new coach, the football team won five successive matches.
A. are led
B. having led
C. led
D. leading
Question 12. Peter regretted_________ the proposal to work for a company in Hanoi.
A. to be accepted
B. being accepted
C. to have accepted D. having accepted
Question 13. Before the invention of refrigeration, the_________ of fish and meat was a problem.
A. preserve
B. preservation
C. preservant
D. preservance
Question 14. The bus_________ from High Street to the Station Road is 30p.
A. cost
B. fare
C. payment
D. charge
Question 15. Many of the jobs which have been created in this area can be directly_________ to tourism.
A. supported
B. dedicated
C. attracted
D. attributed
Question 16. They all take too much_________ of his kindness and generosity.
A. profit
B. advantage
C. benefit
D. use
Question 17. It was terrible. One passenger was killed, and the other was_________ injured.

A. hardly
B. completely
C. severely
D. fiercely
Question 18. Their accounts were completely phony. They had been cooking the_________ for years.
A. spinner
B. books
C. trade
D. killing
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 19. The memorandum sent to all departments stressed how urgent the action was.
A. late
B. unusual
C. important
D. hurried
Question 20. The driver of the car was liable for the damages caused to the passenger.
A. arrested
B. liberated
C. legally responsible D. proposed
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 21. One of our group's main goals is to discourage the use of chemical fertilizers.
A. prevent
B. encourage
C. avoiding
D. expect
Question 22. If you are at a loose end this weekend, I will show you round the city.

A. confident
B. free
C. occupied
D. reluctant
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 23: ~ Bill: "Let’s stop for a drink."
~ Bruce: "__________________"
A. Long time no see.
B. Nice to meet you.
C. Sony, we’ve got little time.
D. You’re welcome.
Question 24. ~ Jack: "I’m going to take a five-day trip to Rome." ~ Jill: "__________________"
A. No, of course not. B. Have a good time.
C. The same to you. D. Yes, let's.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or
phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
GOING ON A DIET
A typical person needs about 1,800 calories per day to stay running. They keep your organs
operating (25)________ and your brain running. They also keep your body warm. A person gains weight
because he or she consumes more calories per day than necessary. The only way to lose fat is to
reduce the number of calories that you consume per day. This is the basic principle (26)________ going
on a diet.
Unfortunately, diets don’t work for most people. They do lose weight but then go off the diet
and put it back. Building a sensible diet and exercise plan is the key to maintaining a consistent
weight. You need to figure out how many calories you need in a day and how many you actually
(27)________. The next step is to add exercise so that you can raise the number of calories you can
consume per day.
Burning 250 or 500 calories per day can make a big (28)________. You can ride an exercise bike
while you are watching television or you can take the stairs instead of the elevator. Find an exercise

partner. Exercises can be a lot easier if there is someone to talk to. It’s a good idea to wear firm
fitting clothes if you are (29)________ tight clothing acts as a reminder of what you are trying to
accomplish.
Question 25. A. proper
B. properly
C. improper
D. improperly
Question 26. A. behind
B. beside
C. inside
D. outside
Question 27. A. take off
B. take in
C. take up
D. take away
Question 28. A. sense
B. mistake
C. impression D. difference
Question 29. A. on a holiday
B. on a balance
C. on either side
D. on a diet
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each
of the questions.
It's often said that we learn things at the wrong time. University students frequently do the
minimum of work because they're crazy about a good social life instead. Children often scream before
their piano practice because it's so boring. They have to be given gold stars and medals to be persuaded
to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. But the story is different when you're older.
Over the years, I've done my share of adult learning. At 30, I went to a college and did courses
in History and English. It was an amazing experience. For starters, I was paying, so there was no

reason to be late – I was the one frowning and drumming my fingers if the tutor was late, not the other
way round. Indeed, if I could persuade him to linger for an extra five minutes, it was a bonus, not a
nuisance. I wasn't frightened to ask questions, and homework was a pleasure not a pain. When I
passed an exam, I had passed it for me and me alone, not for my parents or my teachers. The
satisfaction I got was entirely personal.
Some people fear going back to school because they worry that their brains have got rusty. But
the joy is that, although some parts have rusted up, your brain has learnt all kinds of other things since
you were young. It has learnt to think independently and flexibly and is much better at relating one thing
to another. What you lose in the rust department, you gain in the maturity department.
In some ways, age is a positive plus. For instance, when you're older, you get less frustrated.
Experience has told you that, if you're calm and simply do something carefully again and again, eventually
you'll get the hang of it. The confidence you have in other areas – from being able to drive a car, perhaps –
means that if you can't, say, build a chair instantly, you don't, like a child, want to destroy your first pathetic
attempts. Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get there.
I hated piano lessons at school, but I was good at music. And coming back to it, with a teacher
who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical concepts that, at the age of ten,
I could never grasp, was magical. Initially, I did feel a bit strange, thumping out a piece that I'd played


for my school exams, with just as little comprehension of what the composer intended as I'd had all
those years before. But soon, complex emotions that I never knew poured out from my fingers, and
suddenly I could understand why practice makes perfect.
Question 30. It is implied in the paragraph 1 that_________.
A. parents should encourage young learners to study more
B. young learners are usually lazy in their class
C. young learners often lack a good motivation for learning
D. teachers should give young learners less homework
Question 31. While doing some adult learning courses at a college, the writer was surprised_________.
A. to have more time to learn
B. to be able to learn more quickly

C. to feel learning more enjoyable
D. to get on better with the tutor
Question 32. What is the writer's main purpose in the passage?
A. To show how fast adult learning is.
B. To encourage adult learning.
C. To describe adult learning methods.
D. To explain reasons for learning.
Question 33. The word “rusty” in the third paragraph means_________.
A. staying alive and becoming more active
B. covered with rust and not as good as it used to be
C. impatient because of having nothing to do
D. not as good as it used to be through lack of practice
Question 34. It is implied in the last paragraph that when you learn later in life, you_________.
A. should expect to take longer to learn than when you were younger
B. find that you can recall a lot of things you learnt when younger
C. are not able to concentrate as well as when you were younger
D. can sometimes understand more than when you were younger
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each
of the questions.
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 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 sensory-motor delight rather than the route to prosaic meaning that it often is for adults.
Question 35. The passage mentions all of the followings as the ways adults modify their speech when
talking to babies EXCEPT_________.
A. using meaningless sounds
B. speaking more loudly than normal
C. giving all words equal emphasis
D. speaking with shorter sentences
Question 36. The word "diverse" is closest in meaning to_________.
A. different
B. surrounding
C. divided
D. stimulating
Question 37. The word "They" refers to_________.
A. babies
B. investigators
C. words
D. mothers

Question 38. Why does the author mention "a bell or the sound of a rattle"?
A. To give examples of sounds that will cause a baby to cry
B. To explain how babies distinguish between different nonhuman sounds
C. To give examples of typical toys that babies do not like
D. To contrast the reactions of babies to human and nonhuman sounds
Question 39. The word "emphasize" is closest in meaning to_________.
A. repeat
B. leave out
C. stress
D. explain
Question 40. What point does the author make to illustrate that babies are born with the ability to
acquire language?
A. Babies notice even minor differences between speech sounds.
B. Babies are more sensitive to sounds than are adults.
C. Babies begin to understand words in songs.
D. Babies exaggerate their own sounds and expressions.
Question 41. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. How babies differentiate between the sound of the human voice and other sounds
B. How babies perceive and respond to the human voice in earliest stages of language development
C. The response of babies to sounds other than the human voice
D. The differences between a baby's and an adult's ability to comprehend language
Question 42. According to the author, why do babies listen to songs and stories, even though they
cannot understand them?
A. They enjoy the sound.
C. They focus on the meaning of their parents' word.
B. They understand the rhythm.
D. They can remember them easily.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions.

Question 43. Almost all the students were boring because Ms. Kelly’s explanation was unclear.
A. Almost
B. the
C. boring
D. unclear
Question 44. If it is carefully doing, the experiment will be successful.
A. is
B. doing
C. will
D. successful
Question 45. Last night’s storm was terrible; the thunder and the lightning kept me wakeful for hours.
A. storm
B. the
C. lightning
D. wakeful
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the
following questions.
Question 46. He last had his eyes tested ten months ago.
A. He had tested his eyes ten months before. B. He hasn't had his eyes tested for ten months.
C. He had not tested his eyes for ten months then.
D. He didn't have any test on his eyes from ten months
Question 47. "Why don't you participate in the volunteer work in summer?" said Sophie.
A. Sophie suggested me to participate in the volunteer work in summer.
B. Sophie asked me why not participate in the volunteer work in summer.
C. Sophie suggested that I should participate in the volunteer work in summer.
D. Sophie made me participate in the volunteer work in summer.
Question 48. You can try as hard as you like but you won’t succeed.
A. However hard you try, you won’t succeed. B. You won’t succeed because you can’t try as hard.
B. You can hardly try as you like, but you won’t succeed
D. Although you won’t succeed, you can try as hard as you like.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in
the following questions.
Question 49. We didn't want to spend a lot of money. We stayed in a cheap hotel.
A. Rather than spending a lot of money, we stayed in a cheap hotel.
B. In spite of spending a lot of money, we stayed in a cheap hotel.
C. We stayed in a cheap hotel, but we had to spend a lot of money.
D. We didn’t stay in a cheap hotel as we had a lot of money to spend.
Question 50. We should quickly find the solution to the problem. Otherwise, its impact on those
concerned will increase.
A. If we can solve this problem soon, we’ll lower the impact on all of our concerns.
B. By the time we solve this problem, the impact on those concerned will have been lowered.
C. If all those concerned lower their impact, the problem will be better solved.
D. The sooner we find the solution to the problem, the lower the impact it has on those concerned.


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