Đề thi môn Anh Văn - Thi tuyển sinh Đại học - Năm học 2015-2016 - Lê Thanh Lưu

ĐỀ THI TUYỂN SINH ĐẠI HỌC NĂM 2015
MÔN THI: ANH VĂN
Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề
PART I. MULTIPLE CHOICE.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
“________.” 	– “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.
The more I tried my best to help her, _______ she became.
A. less lazy	B. the lazier	C. the more lazy	D. lazier
Many young men prefer scuba- diving to water polo because it is _______ 
	A. adventure	B. adventurous	C. adventurously	D. adventurer
To Americans, it is impolite to ask someone about age, _______ and salary.
 	A. marry	B. married	 	C. marriage	D. marrying
John: “May I come in?”	 Peter: “________”	
 	A. Feel free	B. Yes, no problem	C. You’re welcome	D. Sorry, let’s wait
She is looking _______ a new place to live because she does not want to depend _______ her parents any more. 
	A. for / on 	B. after / with 	C. up / forward 	D. at / into
Bill seems unhappy in his job because he doesn’t get _______ his boss.
	A. up to	B. on for	C. on well with	D. in with
Sound is carried from the eardrum to the nerves _______ we can hear it.
	A. so as to	B. in order that 	C. to 	 	D. so as not to
Remember to _______ your shoes when you are in a Japanese house.
	A. take care 	B. take on	C. take over	D. take off
According to the_______ of the contract, tenants must give six months notice if they intend to leave.
	A. laws 	B. rules 	C. terms 	D. details
The shortage of clean water _______ in serious diseases and epidemics
	A. brings	B. causes 	C. results 	D. leads
Ben: “Could you tell me how to get to the nearest post office?” 
	Lan: “________”
 	A. Sorry for this inconvenience	B. I have no clue 
	C. Not at all	 	D. Sorry, I’m a new comer here 
I’d rather ___ in the field than ___ home.
	A. to work- to stay	B. work – stay	C. working – staying	D. worked- stayed
Some workers are so poor that they don’t want to quit their job _______ they are ill- treated
	A. as though	B. since	C. although	D. if
I have _______ , but I don’t have time.
	A. a vacation for a enough money	B. money enough for vacation
	C. enough money for vacation	D. enough money for vacation
The artist _______ name I couldn’t remember was one of the best I had ever seen.
	A. who 	B. whose 	C. that D. A & C are correct
Andrew told me that they _______ fish two _______ days.
	A. have not eaten / ago 	B. had not eaten / previous	
	C. did not eat / before 	D. would not eat / last
_______ then what I know today, I would have saved myself a lot of time and trouble over the years.
	A. Had I known	B. Did I know	C. If I know	D. If I would know
The preparation_______ by the time the guest_______ 
	A. had been finished- arrived	B. have finished- arrived
	C. had finished-were arriving	D. have been finished- were arrived
When I came to visit her last night, she _______ a bath.
 	A. is having 	B. was having 	C. has 	D. had
He never takes you to school, _______ ?	
	A. doesn’t he	B. isn’t he	C. does he	D. won’t he
Did you read _______ book I lent you _______ last week.
	A. a / the	B. the / the	C. the / X	D. X / X
Tom with his parents _______ a tour of London.	
	A. makes 	B. make 	C. have made 	D. making
Never _______ such a sight!
	A. I did see	B. have been I	C. I saw	D. have I seen
Frank never _______ on time for a meeting.
	A. stands for	B. turns up	C. passes away	D. takes after
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.
I do not want to live in this filthy colony. 
	A. Nice	B. clean	C. dirty	D. pretty
The Red Cross is an international humanitarian agency dedicated to reducing the sufferings of wounded soldiers, civilians and prisoners of war.
	A. happiness	B. worry and sadness	C. pain and sorrow	D. loss
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.
When being interviewed, you should concentrate on what the interviewer is saying or asking you.
	A. be related to 	B. be interested in	C. pay all attention to 	D. express interest to
After many year of unsuccessfully endeavoring to form his own orchestra, Glenn Miller finally achieved world fame in 1939 as a big band leader.
	A. requesting	B. trying	C. offering	D. deciding
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
Assessment instruments in nursery schools they feature items and other materials 
	A 	 B 
different from those on elementary school tests.
 	 C D
If Robert Kennedy would have lived a little longer, he probably would have won the election.
 A B C D
We are working, that means that we are contributing goods and services to our city.
	 A B C D
Education and training are an important steps in getting the kind of job that you would like to have. 
 A B C D 
Last week Mark told me that he got very bored with his present job and
	 A B 
 is looking for a new one. 
 C D
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 following questions.
A. experience 	B. maternal 	C. simplify 	D. physician
A. residential 	B. repetition 	C. mountaineer 	D. television
A. questionable 	B. inferior 	C. criticize 	D. miserable
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each of the following questions.
A. scholarship	B. Christ	C. school	D. chicken
A. head	B. ready	C. mean	D. weather
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.
	University Entrance Examination is very important in Vietnamese students. High school graduates have to take it and get high results to be admitted to universities. The pressure on the candidates remains very high despite the measures that have been taken to reduce the heat around these exams, since securing a place in a state university is considered a major step towards a successful career for young people, especially those from rural areas or disadvantaged families. In the year 2004, it was estimated that nearly 1 million Vietnamese students took the University Entrance Examination, but on average only 1 out of 5 candidates succeeded. Normally, candidates take 3 exam subjects, and each lasts; 180 minutes for the fixed group of subjects they choose. There are 4 fixed groups of subjects: Group A: Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry; Group B: Mathematics, Biology, and Chemistry; Group C: Literature, History, and Geography; Group D: Literature, Foreign Language, and Mathematics.
	In addition to universities, there are community colleges, art and technology institutes; professional secondary schools, and vocational schools which offer degrees or certificates from a-few-month to 2-year courses. 
	According to Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training, there are currently 23 non-public universities, accounting for 11% of the total number of universities. These non-public universities are currently training 119,464 students, or 11.7% of the total number of students. The government is planning to increase the number of non-public universities to 30% by 2007.
University Entrance Examination in Vietnamese is very _______.
	A. interesting	 	B. stressful 	C. free 	D. easy
The word those refers to _______.
	A. exam subjects 	B. young people 	C. universities 	D. examinations
In 2004, the proportion of the students who got success in University Entrance Examination was about _______ percent. 
	A. 5 	B. 10 	C. 20 	D. 50
Which sentence refers to the University Entrance Examination in Vietnam?
	A. Students find it easy to get success in the University Entrance Examination. 
	B. Math is compulsory in the University Entrance Examination. 
	C. Students are not allowed to choose their exam subjects.
	D. There are four fixed groups of exam subjects for students to choose.
According to the passage, _______.
	A. the Vietnamese government will close all non-public universities by next year.
	B. the Vietnamese government does not appreciate non-public universities
	C. the Vietnamese government encourages the establishing of non-public universities.
	D. Vietnamese students have no alternative to continue their higher study besides universities.
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.
 	There are very few big adventures left and very few heroes. Children’s stories used to specialize in them - courageous explorers with sun-burnt, leathery skin and eyes narrowed by straining to see into far horizons on their journeys into the unknown. These days you no longer find such people in fiction, let alone in real life. Or so I thought until I met Charles Blackmore. Blakemore’s great adventure consisted of leading an expedition across one of the last unexplored places on earth, the Taklimakan Desert in western China. Its name means “once entered you never come out”, but local people call it the Desert of Death. He recalled the dangers and exhilaration of that amazing trek, in the calm atmosphere of his family home. 
The team he led was composed of four Britons (one of them the party’s medical officer), an American photographer, four Chinese (all experts on the area), 30 camels and six camel handlers. It later turned out that the camel handlers had never worked with camels before, but were long-distance lorry drivers: a misunderstanding that could have cost everyone their lives and certainly jeopardized the expedition’s success. This mixed bunch set out to cross 1,200 kilometres of the world’s least hospitable desert and Charles Blackmore has written a mesmerizing account of their journey. 
 	At the time, he was about to leave the Army after 14 happy years. He launched the expedition for fun, to fill a gap in his life, to prove something. “I had always assumed I’d spend my whole life in the Army. I had been offered promotion but suddenly I felt I wanted to see who Charles Blackmore really was, outside all that. It was a tremendous gamble. Tina, my wife, was very worried that I wouldn’t come back as nobody had ever done that route; we went into it blind. In the event, it took 59 days to cross from west to east, and the desert was very kind to us.” 
 Anyone reading his extraordinary account of that crossing will wonder at the use of the word “kind”. The team suffered unspeakable hardships: dysentery; extremes of temperature; severe thirst and dehydration; the loss of part of their precious water supply. But, Blackmore explains, when we were at the limits of our own endurance and the camels had gone without water for seven days, we managed to find some. We didn’t experience the Taklimakan’s legendary sandstorms. And we never hit the raw, biting desert cold that would have totally immobilized us. That's not to say that we weren’t fighting against hurdles the whole time. The fine sand got into everything, especially blisters and wounds. The high dunes were torture to climb, for us and for the heavily laden camels, which often rolled over onto us. What drove me on more than anything else was the need to survive. We had no contingency plan. Neither our budget nor time allowed one. No aircraft ever flew over us. 
 Once we got into the sand hills we were completely on our own. “I knew I had the mental stamina for the trip but I was very scared of my physical ability to do it. I remember day one - we sat at the edge of the desert and it was such an inferno that you couldn’t breathe. I thought, "We’ve got to do it now!" At that moment I was a very scared man.” 
 If it was like that at the beginning, how did they feel towards the end? “When you’ve walked for 1,000 kilometres you’re not going to duck out. You’ve endured so much; you’ve got so much behind you. We were very thin, but very muscular and sinewy despite our physical exhaustion. My body was well-toned and my legs were like pistons. I could walk over anything.” 
 Midway through the book, Blackmore went on to describe lying in the desert gazing up at a full moon, thinking of his family. How conscious was he of the ordeal it must have been for them? Inside me there's someone trying to find peace with himself. When I have doubts about myself now, I go back to the image of the desert and think, well, we managed to pull that together. As a personal achievement, I feel prouder of that expedition than of anything else I’ve done. Yet in terms of a lifetime’s achievement, I think of my family and the happiness we share - against that yardstick, the desert does not measure up, does not compare. 
 Has Charles Blackmore found peace? “I yearn for the challenge - for the open spaces - the resolve of it all. We were buoyed up by the sense of purpose. I find it difficult now to be part of the uniformity of modem life.” 
Meeting Charles Blackmore changed the writer’s opinion about____.
 	A. the content of children’s fiction. 	B. the nature of desert exploration. 
 	C. the existence of traditional heroes. 	D. the activities of explorers. 
When the expedition members set off, some of the group ____.
 	A. posed an unexpected risk. 	B. disagreed with each other. 
 	C. were doubtful of success. 	D. went on ahead of the others. 
Blackmore had decided to set up the expedition because 
 	A. he was certain he could complete. 	B. he wanted to write a book. 
 	C. his aims in life had changed. 	D. his self-confidence was low. 
Which of the following best describes the team’s experience of the desert? 
 	A. They were not able to have enough rest. 	
	B. It presented continual difficulties. 
 	C. They sometimes could not make any progress at all. 	
	D. It was worse than they had expected. 
Which of the following did Blackmore experience during the trip? 
 	A. frustration at the lack of funding 	
	B. regret about the lack of planning 
 	C. realization that they would receive no help 	
	D. fear that he would let his companions down 
According to Blackmore, what enabled him to finish the expedition? 
 	A. his strength of will 
	B. his physical preparation 
	C. his closeness to his family 
	D. his understanding of the desert 
What put the expedition's success in jeopardy was____.
 	A. Charles Blackmore’s underestimating the danger level of the adventure
 	B. His destination was of the world's least hospitable deserts
 	C. Charles Blackmore mistook long- distance lorry drivers for camel handlers 
 	D. Charles Blackmore’s mesmerizing account of their journey. 
After 14 happy years in the army, before leaving it; Charles Blackmore launched the expedition with the purpose____. 
	A. to find something of exhilaration 	
	B. to assert himself 
 	C. to prove some meaning of his life 	
	D. to fulfill some empty moments in his life
The word inferno in the passage is in the closest meaning to____.
 	A. heaven B. bottomless pit C. hell D. overworld 
By saying ‘We were buoyed up by the sense of purpose.’ Charles Blackmore implies that____.
 	A. They were saved from despair by their purpose 
	B. They were rescued from drowning by the sense of purpose
 	C. They were defended by the sense of purpose 
 	D. the sense of purpose is something for them to cling on to find something out of ordinary
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. 
	 In the western customs (55) _____ hands is the customary form of greeting, but in China a nod of the head or (56) _____ bow is sufficient. Hugging and kissing when greeting are uncommon. Business cards are often (57) _____ and yours should be printed in your own language and in Chinese. Also, it is more respectful to present your card or a gift or any other article using (58) _____ hands. The Chinese are (59) _____ applauders. You may be greeted with group clapping, even by small children. When a person is applauded in this practice it is the custom for that person to return the applause or a "thank you". When walking in public places, direct eye (60) _____ and staring is uncommon in the larger cities, especially in those areas accustomed to foreign visitors. (61) _____, in smaller communities, visitors may be the subject of much curiosity and therefore you may notice some stares. (62) _____ speaking, the Chinese are not a touch-oriented society, especially true for visitors. So, avoid (63) _____ or any prolonged form of body contact. Public displays of affection are very rare. On the other hand, you may note people of the same sex walking hand-in-hand, which is simply a gesture of friendship. Do not worry about a bit of pushing and shoving in stores or when groups board public buses or trains. In this case, (64) _____ are neither offered or expected. The Chinese will stand much closer than Westerners.
A. taking 	B. shaking 	C. grasping 	D. hugging
A. small 	B. bit 	C. slight 	D. light
A. exchanged 	B. changed 	C. transferred 	D. converted
A. pair 	B. couple 	C. double 	D. both
A. enthusiast 	B. enthusiastic 	C. enthusiasm 	D. enthusiastically 
A. contact 	B. look 	C. stare 	D. watch
A. Moreover 	B. Furthermore 	C. However 	D. Whatever
A. Generally 	B. Successfully 	C. Fortunately 	D. Expectedly
A. touch 	B. to touch 	C. touched 	D. touching
A. Contacts 	B. Apologies 	C. Gestures 	D. Saying goodbye
PART II: WRITING
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed before it. 
The last time I went swimming was when I was in France.
à I haven’t gone swimming since I was in France.
He doesn’t believe the truth until he opens the letter
à Not until he opens the letter does he believe the truth
Because she is absent her from school, she can’t solve the exercises.
à Because of her absence from school, she can’t solve the exercises.
Without your help, I wouldn’t pass the exam.
à If you didn’t help, I wouldn’t pass the exam.
There isn’t anybody as kind-hearted as your mother. 
à Your mother is more kind-hearted than anyone. 
II. In about 140 words, write a paragraph about one of your friends you like best. 
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GIÁO VIÊN RA ĐỀ: 
LÊ THANH LƯU – THPT LAI VUNG 2
KEYS:
PART I.
1C
9D
17B
25B
33B
41B
49C
57A
2B
10C
18A
26B
34C
42C
50A
58D
3B
11C
19A
27A
35C
43D
51C
59B
4C
12D
20B
28C
36D
44C
52D
60A
5A
13B
21C
29B
37B
45C
53C
61C
6A
14C
22C
30A
38D
46A
54D
62A
7C
15D
23A
31A
39C
47C
55B
63D
8B
16B
24D
32A
40B
48B
56C
64A
PART II
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed before it. 
1. à I haven’t gone swimming since I was in France.
2. à Not until he opens the letter does he believe the truth
3. à Because of her absence from school, she can’t solve the exercises.
4. à If you didn’t help, I wouldn’t pass the exam.
5. à Your mother is more kind-hearted than anyone.