Đề khảo sát chất lượng lớp 12 học kì I môn Tiếng Anh - Năm học 2018-2019

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ĐỀ KHẢO SÁT CHẤT LƯỢNG LỚP 12 HỌC KÌ I NĂM HỌC 2018-2019
Môn: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút; Đề gồm 04 trang
Mã đề: 401
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that has different pronunciation from the rest in each of the followings.
Question 1: 	A. pronounced	B. relaxed	C. approached	D. preceded
Question 2: 	A. shower	B. flower	C. narrow	D. breakdown
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the followings.
Question 3: 	A. listen	B. prevent	C. expect	D. invite
Question 4: 	A. environment	B. fundamental	C. compulsory	D. technology
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the followings.
Question 5: Birth ______is an official document that shows when and where a person was born.
A. degree	B. certificate	C. permit	D. paper
Question 6: Luckily, she appeared to save a little girl ______falling into the water.
A. against	B. for	C. from	D. about
Question 7: If you pay attention to the teacher, you ______ how to do this kind of exercise.
A. have known	B. would know	C. will know	D. know
Question 8: I'll never forget ______this piece of music for the first time.
A. have heard	B. to hear	C. hearing	D. to be heard
Question 9: When he lived in the countryside, he ______ walk along the port to watch the ships up and down the river.
A. got used to	B. was used to	C. used to	D. uses to
Question 10: We were proud that Mr. Smith was ______ educated for the position of the corporation.
A. highly	B. lately	C. probably	D. reluctantly
Question 11: Fortunately, I arrived at the hall just ______ to attend the conference.
A. at times	B. by the time	C. on time	D. in time
Question 12: It was boring there. There was no TV or radio so we had to make our ______ for ourselves.
A. entertainment	B. entertain	C. entertaining	D. entertainingly
Question 13: People should willingly ______a hand with saving the environment before it becomes too bad to live in.
A. do	B. have	C. give	D. put
Question 14: Laura feels a strong ______of responsibility towards her employees.
A. emotion	B. feeling	C. sense	D. sentiment
Question 15: When he was a schoolboy, he had to study by the light of ______ moon.
A. an	B. some	C. a	D. the
Question 16: ______ by a dog when she was small, Mary is afraid of all of them.
A. Bitten	B. Biting	C. Having bitten	D. Be bitten
Question 17: ______ staff shortages, we are unable to offer a full buffet service on this train.
A. In spite of	B. Because	C. Because of	D. Even though
Question 18: He came across the photograph of his great- grandfather while he ______ up the attic.
A. cleans	B. is cleaning	C. was cleaning	D. cleaned
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 19: I couldn't hide my eagerness to get back home. It’s a long time since I last came back.
A. willingness	B. requirements	C. determination	D. keenness
Question 20: Actually, immigrants have contributed to British culture in many ways.
A. influenced	B. blamed	C. sponsored	D. donated
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 21: He is optimistic about his chance to find the job because everything seems smooth.
A. pessimistic	B. economic	C. unable	D. disagreeable
Question 22: Wholesale is connected with goods that are bought and sold in large quantities, especially so they can be sold again to make a profit
A. Business	B. Retail	C. Trade	D. Commerce
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
Question 23: These exercises look easily, but they are relatively difficult for us.
A. easily	B. relatively	C. for	D. These exercises
Question 24: In some parts of India, inter-caste marriages were thoroughly dissaproved about.
A. marriages	B. thoroughly	C. about	D. some parts
Question 25: Thomas has trouble to make friends with other students at his new school.
A. students	B. school	C. friends	D. to make
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to the original sentence in each of the following questions.
Question 26: It was his lack of confidence that surprised me.
A. That he lacked of confidence surprised me.	B. That his lack of confidence surprised me.
C. He surprised me by his lack of confidence.	D. What surprised me was his lack of confidence.
Question 27: The Minister said: “I didn’t do anything improper”
A. The Minister denied doing anything improper.
B. The Minister denied that he would do anything improper.
C. The Minister refused to have done anything improper.
D. The Minister refused to do anything improper.
Question 28: She would have sung if he had asked her.
A. She was going to sing but then changed her mind.	B. He didn’t ask her to sing, and she didn’t sing.
C. He asked her to sing but she refused.	D. She sang although he didn’t ask her.
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.
Question 29: Sue is very slow. She can’t understand what you might say.
A. What you might say, Sue can’t understand slowly.
B. Sue is so slow that she can’t understand what you might say.
C. Sue is so slow to understand what you might say.
D. Sue is not enough quick to understand what you might say.
Question 30: Tom’s joke was very funny. We couldn’t help laughing.
A. Tom’s joke couldn’t help us laugh.	B. Tom’s joke couldn’t make us laugh.
C. We laughed because Tom’s joke wasn’t funny enough.	D. We couldn’t help laughing at Tom’s joke.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks from 31 to 35.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Winston Churchill was a politician who is remembered as one of Britain's greatest statesmen. ___(31)___a young man he served as a soldier in India and Egypt, and as a journalist in South Africa. He was a ___(32)___ of Parliament from 1900 to 1965, for five different constituencies. Between 1906 and 1929 he held many important positions in government. In 1940, Churchill became Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. His radio speeches during World War II gave the British people a strong ___(33)___to win the war. The Conservative Party, led by Churchill, lost the election of 1945, but he became Prime Minister again from 1951 to 1955 when he retired, aged 80. He was made a knight in 1953, the same year ___(34)___ he won the Nobel Prize for literature. Churchill was also a skilled painter. He was famous for smoking a large cigar, and ___(35)___ a V-sign for 'victory'. He was often referred to simply as 'Winnie' and is remembered with great affection in both Britain and the US. 
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 9th edition © Oxford University Press, 2015
Question 31: 	A. Same	B. Like	C. Alike	D. As
Question 32: 	A. Officer	B. Member	C. Competitor	D. Attendant
Question 33: 	A. determine	B. determining	C. determined	D. determination
Question 34: 	A. where	B. that	C. why	D. when
Question 35: 	A. to make	B. making	C. made	D. make
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 36 to 40. 	 
 Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is primarily a result of mankind's burning of fuels, is thought to act like the glass of a greenhouse. It absorbs heat radiation from the earth and its atmosphere, heats that otherwise would dissipate into space. The possibility that the greenhouse effect could alter the earth's temperature has been debated for many years. Scientists have agreed that carbon dioxide is increasing but there has been uncertainty about whether temperatures are also increasing. The major difficulty in accepting the greenhouse effect has been the absence of observed warming coincident with the historic carbon dioxide increase.
Question 36: Doubts about the greenhouse effect seem to center on the fact that ______.
A. past increase in carbon dioxide volume and global temperatures have often not corresponded.
B. it is difficult to locate and identify carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
C. growing produce in greenhouses has been only marginally profitable.
D. the earth is steadily cooling down.
Question 37: The principal consequence of the greenhouse effect is assumed to be an increase in ______.
A. global temperatures.	B. the building of fossil fuels.
C. the sun's radiation reaching earth.	D. the building of greenhouse.
Question 38: What does the word It refer to?
A. Heat radiation	B. The glass of a greenhouse
C. A result of mankind's burning of fuels	D. Atmosphere
Question 39: The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is believed to produce the greenhouse effect by ______.
A. dissipation into outer space
B. being widely used for agricultural purposes in greenhouse
C. being burned on the ground
D. preventing heat radiation from escaping the earth's atmosphere
Question 40: One thing that all atmospheric scientists apparently agree about is that ______.
A. greenhouse affects the earth's temperature significantly.
B. global temperatures are never rising.
C. the glass of greenhouses has reduced the need to burn fuel.
D. the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 41 to 48. 	 
Have you ever thought about the names of the months? Why are “January” and “February” not called “Primo” or “Secondo”? Is it because the original names were created in ancient times? Or is it because the originators preferred odd words?
Take February, for example. Say it aloud a few minutes and you start to wonder. Most people don’t know who developed these names. However, a little research reveals that the names of the months came mostly from a combination of the names of Roman gods and goddesses, important festivals, and the original numbers of the months.
Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory XIII change the calendar to make it more exact. Caesar developed a new calendar of 364 and a quarter days, the time it takes the earth to orbit the sun from one spring season to the next. The Pope’s astronomers refined the calendar regarding leap years; they determined that there should be no leap year in years ending in 00- unless they were divisible by 400; the years 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2100 would not be considered leap years, while the years 1600 and 2000 would be. This new Gregorian calendar was so accurate that today, scientists need only add leap seconds every few years to the clock in order to keep the calendar matching the Earth’s cycles.
Question 41: Which of the following is true of the Gregorian calendar?
A. It needs major improvements.
B. It was so well designed, it needs little adjusting today.
C. It is changed of all time.
D. It copied the Roman calendar’s formula of leap years.
Question 42: What is the topic of the passage?
A. How the months were named
B. How the modern calendar was named and developed
C. How accurate the modern day is calendar
D. How the leap year system was developed
Question 43: Which of the following will be a leap year?
A. 2500	B. 2300	C. 2400	D. 2200
Question 44: The word “accurate” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ____________.
A. informative	B. interesting	C. correct	D. simple
Question 45: In what order is the information in the passage presented?
A. Names of months, Caesar’s calendar, the Gregorian calendar
B. Caesar’s calendar, the Gregorian calendar, the modern calendar
C. Roman Gods, important festivals, original numbers of months
D. January, February
Question 46: The word “they” in paragraph 3 refers to ______________.
A. years	B. astronomers	C. days	D. calendars
Question 47: Why is Caesar important in calendar making?
A. He altered the number of days in the year.	B. He changed the length of the year.
C. He has a month named for him.	D. He extended summer.
Question 48: The word “refined” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ____________.
A. left	B. lessened	C. observed	D. improved
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.
Question 49: John is late for class and enters the classroom while the teacher is explaining the lesson.
	John: “I’m sorry, I’m late.”	
	Teacher: “______.”
A. Come in, please	B. Needless to say	
C. Me too	D. You’re very kind to say so
Question 50: Harry and Kate are talking about Kate’s dress.
	Harry: "______" 	
	Kate: “Thanks for your complement.”
A. I’ve never seen such a nice dress on you before.
B. You’re always wearing nice dresses.
C. Why don’t you take me to the shop to buy the dress like yours?
D. Your dress must be bought online.
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