Đề thi môn Tiếng Anh - Kỳ thi thử Tốt nghiệp THPT Quốc gia - Năm học 2014-2015 - Đề 1 - Dương Mỹ Phương - Trường THPT Long Khánh A

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ĐỀ THI THỬ TỐT NGHIỆP THPT QG NĂM 2014-2015
ĐỀ 1
MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH 
(Đề thi gồm 06 trang)
Thời gian: 90 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề) 
PART A. MULTIPLE CHOICE (8.0 ms)
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the words whose pronunciation is different from the others in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. teacher	B. children	C. charity	D. chemical
Question 2: A. symbol 	B. identify	C. army	D. ecology
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.
Question 3: A. promote	B. maintain	C. confide	D. swallow
Question 4: A. penalty	B. argument	C. determine	D. integral
Question 5: A. anniversary	B. investigate	C. convenient	D. appreciate
Mark the letter A,B,C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 6: Lora: “Do you mind if I turn on the fan?”
	 Maria: “ ____.”
A. Not for me	B. Not at all	C. Never mind	D. Not enough
Question 7: Children seem to have lost their in reading nowadays.
A. enjoy	B. enjoyable	C. enjoyably	D. enjoyment
Question 8: Peter asked me the film called “ Stars War”.
	A. have I seen	B. if I had seen	C. had I seen	D. whether I have seen
Question 9: This room since the last time I here.
 	A. had been painted / was	B. painted / have been 
C. has been painted / was	D. has painted / was
Question 10: I can hardly see the stage well from here.	 - “ ”
A. Neither can’t I	B. Neither can I	C. I can’t, too	D. I can’t neither
Question 11: Because of heavy rain, the game was for a few days.
A. put off	B. taken out	C. set up	D. gotten away
Question 12: People don’t like the way he shows off, ______ ?
	A.don’t they	B. do they	C. does he	D. doesn’t he
Question 13: Someone who is is hopeful about the future or the success of something in particular.
A. powerful	B. optimistic	C. depressed	D. pessimistic
Question 14: _______he got top marks at high school, he never went to university.
A. Despite           	B. Although              C. Meanwhile        	D. Nevertheless
Question 15: When Jack __________me, I__________a letter.
 	A. phoned/ has been writing                 	B. has phoned/ was writing
 	C. phoned/ was writing                          	D. was phoning/ wrote
Question 16: A college is a public institution ____ higher education to young men and women.
A.  providing       	B. which provide    	C. to provide     	D. provided 
Question 17: Many children are under such a high _______ of learning that they do not feel happy at school.
A. recommendation 	B. interview 	C. pressure 	D. concentration
Question 18: Singapore and Vietnam had ________ who were awarded the Most Outstanding Athlete titles in the Swimming and Shooting events.
A. participates	B. participations	C. participants	D. participated
Question 19: “ Could I get you a drink?” “ ______________”
A. No, I don’t.	B. No, thanks.	C. No, you couldn’t	D. No, I couldn’t.
Question 20: The son _____ his mother after she was sent home from the hospital.
A. looked after	B. got over	C. kept on	D. wiped out
Question 21: I have had such important decisions_______for the last three months.
A. to do	B. to make	C.to give	D. to put
Question 22: Larry drove all night to get here for his sister's wedding. He __ exhausted by the time he arrived.
A. must have been	B. could be	C. ought to be	 	D. will have been	
Question 23: You should show the interviewer that you are really keen _______ the job you have applied.
A. in 	B. for 	C. on 	D. over
Question 24: Most of the pupils have studied _____ to pass the examination.
A. enough good	B. well enough	C. good enough	D. too well
Question 25: Mary regrets _____him about her secret yesterday.
A. tell	B. to tell	C. telling	D. being told
Question 26: Peter used to _____ tennis a lot when I was young.
 	A. play	B. played	C. playing	D. be played
Question 27: If I were you, I ______ her with these troubles. 
A. will help	B. would help	
C. would have helped 	D. was helped
Question 28: I found the book ______, so I couldn’t put it down during the holiday.
	 	A. disgusted	B. disgusting	C. fascinated	D. fascinating
Question 29: Not until 2000 across the Mekong River.
	A. My Thuan bridge was built	B. was My Thuan bridge built
C. the first building My Thuan	D. My Thuan building was
Question 30: The longer he waited, _______ impatient he got. 
	A. the more	B. more 	C. better 	D. the better
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word of phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 31: 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 in
Question 32: Professor Berg was very interested in the diversity of cultures all over the world.
A. variety 	B. changes 	C. conservation 	D. number 
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 33: After five days on trial, the court found him innocent of the crime and he was released
A. innovative	B. naive	C. guilty	D. benevolent 
Question 34: Mr Brown is a very generous old man. He has given most of his wealth to a charity organization.
	A. hospitable	B. honest	C kind	D. mean
Mark the letter A,B,C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underline part that needs correction in each of the following questions
Question 35: I have been working hardly for two weeks and now I feel like a rest.
	 A	 B	 C D
Question 36: Many young people lack skills, good education, and financial to settle in
 A	 B
the urban areas where many jobs are found.
	C	 D
Question 37: We are going to visit our grandparents when we will finish our final exams.
	 A	 B	 C	 D
Question 38: Today the Internet is a very fast and convenient way for people to get lots of 
 A B	 C
informations.
	D
Question 39: A novel is a story long enough to fill a complete book, in that the characters and 
	 A	 B	 C
events are usually imaginary.
 D
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 question from 40 to 44.
One of the most urgent environmental problems in the world today is the shortage of clean water. Having clean drinking water is a basic human right. But acid rain, industrial pollution and garbage have made many sources of water undrinkable. Lakes, reservoirs and even entire seas have become vast pools of poison. Lake Baikal in Russia is one of the largest lakes in the world. It contains a rich variety of animals and plants, including 1,300 rare species that do not exist anywhere else in the world. But they are being destroyed by the massive volumes of industrial wastes which pour into the lake every day. Even where law existed, the government did not have the power to enforce them. Most industries simply ignores the regulations. The Mediterranean Sea occupies 1% of the world’s water surface. But it is the dumping ground for 50% of all marine pollution. Almost 16 countries regularly throw industrial wastes a few miles off shore.
	Water is free to everyone. A few years ago people thought that the supply of clean water in the world was limitless. Today, many water supplies have been ruined by pollution and sewage. Clean water is now scarce, and we are at last beginning to respect this precious source. We should do something now.
Question 40: One environmental problem in the world today is ____________.
 	A. acid rain     	B. safe water shortage   
 	C. industrial pollution            	D. population explosion
Question 41: Which of the following is NOT the reason that makes water undrinkable?
 	A. acid rain    	B. garbage     	 
	C. industrial pollution  	D. high cost
Question 42: What is a serious problem of Lake Baikal in Russia?
A. It contains a rich variety of animals and plants
B. It is polluted by massive volumes of industrial wastes discharged into it.
C. It has 1,300 rare species that do not exist anywhere else in the world.
D. The government did not have the power to enforce laws and regulations.
Question 43: How many countries throw industrial wastes into the Mediterranean Sea regularly?
	A. exactly 16  	B. exactly 15  C. nearly 16    	D. less than 15
Question 44: What is the message to the readers?
 A. We should take action to protect our water resources.  
 B. We should take all water resources into account
 C. We should limit the use of water resources. 
 D. We should encourage people to use safe water.
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 45 to 54.
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. One should be wary, 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 specialised readership 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 45: 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 46: The word “commonplace” in the first paragraph mostly means “______”.
A. for everybody’s use 	B. most preferable 	
C. attracting attention 	D. widely used
Question 47: 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 48: 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 49: It can be inferred that the emergence of the mass media and specialised reading materials was an indication of ______. 
A. a decline of standards of literacy 	
B. a change in the readers’ interest
C. an alteration in educationalists’ attitudes 	
D. an improvement of printing techniques
Question 50: The phrase “a specialised 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 51: The phrase “oral reader” in the last paragraph mostly means “a person who ______”.
A. is good at public speaking 	
B. practises reading to an audience
C. takes part in an audition 	
D. is interested in spoken language
Question 52: All might be the factors that affected the continuation of the old shared literacy culture EXCEPT _____.
A. the inappropriate reading skills 	
B. the specialised readership
C. the diversity of reading materials 	
D. the printed mass media
Question 53: 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 54: 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 54 to 64.
Television has changed the lifestyle of people in every industrialized country in the world. In the United States, where sociologists have studied the effects, some interesting observations have been made.
TV, although not essential, has become a(n) (55)______ part of most people’s lives. It has become a baby- sitter, an initiator of conversations, a major transmitter of culture, and a keeper of traditions. Yet when what can be seen on TV in one day is critically analyzed, it becomes evident that TV is not a teacher but a sustainer. The poor (56)______ of programs does not elevate people into greater (57)______, but rather maintains and encourages the status.
The (58)______reason for the lack of quality in American TV is related to both the history of TV programming development and the economics of TV. TV in American began with the radio. Radio companies and their sponsors first experimented with TV. (59)______, the close relationship, which the advertisers had with radio programs become the system for American TV. Sponsors not only pay money for time within programs, but many actually produced the programs. Thus, (60)______ from the capitalistic, profit- oriented sector of American society, TV is primarily (61)______ with reflecting and attracting society (62)______ than innovating and experimenting with new ideas. Advertisers want to attract the largest viewing audience possible; to do so requires that the programs be entertaining rather than challenging.
TV in America today remains, to a large (63)______, with the same organization and standards as it had thirty years ago. The hope for some evolution and true achievement toward improving society will (64)______ a change in the entire system.
Question 55: A. integral 	B. mixed 	C. fractional 	D. superior
Question 56: A. quantity 	B. quality 	C. effect 	D. product
Question 57: A. preconception 	B. knowledge 	C. understanding 	D. feeling
Question 58: A. adequate 	B. unknown 	C. inexplicable	D. primary
Question 59: A. Therefore 	B. Yet 	C. Although 	D. Nevertheless
Question 60: A. going 	B. leaving 	C. coming 	D. getting
Question 61: A. interested 	B. concerned 	C. worried	D. connected
Question 62: A. more 	B. rather 	C. less 	D. better
Question 63: A. extent 	B. degree 	C. size 	D. amount
Question 64: A. collect 	B. rise 	C. require 	D. complete
PART B. WRITING (2.0 ms)
Part I. Finish each of the following sentences in s uch a way that it means the same as the sentence printed before it.(0.5m)
Question 65: People said that he had passed the last exams. 
He 
Question 66: We will go out if it stops raining. 
Unless ..
Question 67: “Would you like to have lunch with me on Sunday?” he said to me.
He invited .
Question 68: The last time I met her was three years ago.
I have .
Question 69: No one in the class is taller than Dave. 
Dave is 
Part II. In about 140 words, write a paragraph about your best friend. (1.5m)
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ANSWER
PART A. MULTIPLE CHOICE (8.0 ms)
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PART B. WRITING (2.0 ms)
Part I.(0.5m)
Question 65: He was said to have passed the last exams (0.1)
Question 66: Unless it stops raining, We won’t go ou. (0.1)
Question 67: He invited me to have lunch with him on Sunday. (0.1)
Question 68: I have not met her for three years. (0.1)
Question 69: Dave is the tallest person in the class. (0.1)
Part II. (1.5m)