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TRƯỜNG THPT LIỄN SƠN
(ĐỀ LUYỆN 186)
ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015
MễN THI: TIẾNG ANH 
Thời gian: 90 phỳt
PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM: (8 điểm)
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.
 Interpreting the feelings of other people is not always easy, as we all know, and we (1)___ as much on what they seem to be telling us, as on the actual words they say. Facial (2)___ and tone of voice are obvious ways of showing our (3)___ to something, and it may well be that we unconsciously express views that we are trying to hide. The art of being (4)___ lies in picking up these signals, realizing what the other person is trying to say, and acting so that they are not embarrassed in any way. For example, we may understand that they are in fact (5)___ to answer our question, and so we stop pressing them. Body movements in general may also indicate feelings, and interviewers often pay particular attention to the way a candidate for a job walks into the room and sits down. However it is not difficult to present the right kind of appearance, while what many employers want to know relates to the candidate’s character traits, and (6)___ stability. This raises the awkward question of whether job candidates should be asked to complete psychological tests, and the further problem of whether such tests actually produce (7)___ results. For many people, being asked to take part in such a test would be an objectionable (8)___ into their private lives.
 After all, a prospective employer would hardly ask a candidate to run a hundred meters, or expect his or her family doctor to provide (9)___ medical information. Quite apart from this problem, can such tests predict whether a person is likely to be a (10)___ employee or a values colleague?
Question 1:
A. reckon
B. rely
C. trust
D. estimate
Question 2:
A. manner
B. image
C. expression
D. looks
Question 3:
A. notion
B. feeling
C. view
D. reaction
Question 4:
A. successful
B. humble
C. good at
D. tactful
Question 5:
A. hesitant
B. reluctant
C. tending
D. used
Question 6:
A. psychological
B. physical
C. similar
D. relevant
Question 7:
A. reliable
B. predictable
C. faithful
D. regular
Question 8:
A. invasion
B. infringement
C. intrusion
D. interference
Question 9:
A. confidential
B. secretive
C. reticent
D. classified
Question 10:
A. laborious
B. particular
C. thorough
D. conscientious
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined pared that needs correction
Question 11: The first domesticated (A)bird in (B)earth was probably (C)the goose(D).
Question 12: The Concord can fly across (A)the Atlantic without refuelling (B)and carrying (C)11 tons of freight(D)
Question13:Because not food (A)is as nutritious (B)for a baby as (C)its mother’s milk, many women are returning to the practice of breast (D)feeding.
Question 14: The Homestead Act of 1862 granted 160 acres of land for (A)any settler who (B)would (C)spend five years on (D)the land.
Question 15: Despite the appearance (A) of the Mayan empire(B), there are (C)still Mayans in the region that they (D)once inhabited
Question 16: As soon as (A)800 B. C, people (B)began to experiment with(C) methods of helping the sick.(D).
Question 17: All the staff (A)in Tam’s film (B)are expected to do some overtime (C)if the need rises(D)
Question 18: The results of our marketing survey show that (A)there will be (B)quite a demand(C) for electric cars in the ahead (D)years
Question 19: That (A)cats have (B)nine lives (C) have been believed (D)for centuries
Question 20: An organ is(A) a group of tissues(B) capable to perform(C)some special functions, as, for example, the heart, the liver(D)or the lungs.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
Question 21: There’s a lot more to Willie than one would think: still waters run _____
 A. deep	B. deeply	C. deepness	D. depth
Question 22: The idea ____to nothing because I couldn’t afford to do it
 A. went	B. came	C. turned	D. changed
Question 23: The players’ protests_____ no difference to the referee’s decision at all
 A. did	B. made	C. caused	D. created
Question 24: Peter, Harry and Chuck were first, second, and third ______ in the school cross-country race
 A. respectively	B. actively	C. responsively	D. tremendously
Question 25: By using all the lastest technology, the yathchman mananged to cross the Atlantic in ____ time.
 A. record	B. lightning	C. top	D. quickest
Question 26: Why ____ Peter to the party? He is always making trouble
 A. don’t we invite	B. don’t you invite	C. not invite	D. invite
Question 27: The speaker fails to get his message ____ to his audience
 A. around	B. in	C. across	D. out
Question 28: You are under no obligation _____ to accept this offer
 	A. whatsoever	B. Eventually	C. Apart	D. indeed
Question 29: ______ no money would be wasted, we will use energy more efficiently
A. so that	B. in order that	C in order to	D. A and B
Question 30: Interpreting is not a mechanical process of converting a sentence in language A in to a sentence in language B. ____, it is a complex art. A. But	B. In addition	C. Rather	D. However
Question 31: You can always _____Ann to give you sound advice
A. bank of	B. bank for	C. bank at	D. bank on
Question 32: His emotional problems _____from the attitudes he encountered as a child, I think
A. stem	B. flourish	C. root	D. sprout
Question 33:There should be an international law encouraging_____
A. afforestation	B. deforestation	C. forestry	D. reforestation
Question 34: I’m not keen on _____ control of the project to a relatively newcomer
A. undertaking	B. charging	C. entrusting	D. allotting
Question 35: : Unfortunately, the company closed down because it couldn’t keep___with rapidly changing technology
A. speed	B. time	C. fast	D. pace
Question 36. He is not under arrest, nor have the police placed any _____ on his movements
A. obstacle	B. veto	C. restriction	D. regulation
Question 37: He was very taken ___ by her aggressive attitude
A. about	B. aside	C. apart	D. aback
Question 38: Most crimes that are committed are no more than ____theft
A. slight	B. small	C. unimportant	D. petty
Question 39:John was asked to _____ before the judge
A. wit	B. testify	C. execute	D. prejudice
Question 40: She is extremely competent and ______
 	A. industrial	B. industrious	C. industry	D. industrialized
 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 number 41 to 50
Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man’s inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop.
Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. No moist-skinned, water-loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found. The giants of the North American desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert country is open, it holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated. Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere else in the word. 
The secret of their adjustment lies in the combination of behavior and physiology. None could survive if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a matter of minutes. So most of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath the ground, emerging to hunt only by night. The surface of the sun-baked desert averages around 150 degrees, but 18 inches down the temperature is only 60 degrees.
Question 41: The title for this passage could be _____ . 
 A. “Desert Plants” 	B. “Life Underground” 
 C. “Animal Life in a Desert Environment” 	D. “Man’s Life in a Desert Environment” 
Question 42: The word “inexorable” in the passage mostly means _____ . 
 A. relentless	B. full	C. demanding	D. essential
Question 43: Man can hardly understand why many animals live their whole life in the desert, as _____ . 
 A. sources of flowing water are rare in a desert 	B. water is an essential part of his existence 
 C. water composes the greater part of the tissues of living things 	D. very few large animals are found in the desert 
Question 44: The phrase “those forms” in the passage refers to all of the following EXCEPT _____. 
 A. water-loving animals 	B. the coyote and the bobcat 
 C. moist-skinned animals 	D. many large animals 
Question 45: According to the passage, creatures in the desert _____. 
 A. are smaller and fleeter than forest animals C. are more active during the day than those in the tangled forest
 B. live in an accommodating environment 	 D. are not as healthy as those anywhere else in the world 
Question 46: The author mentions all the following as examples of the behavior of desert animals EXCEPT _____. 
 A. they sleep during the day 	B. they dig home underground 
 C. they are noisy and aggressive 	D. they are watchful and quiet 
Question 47: The word “emaciated” in the passage mostly means _____. 
 A. wild	B. cunning	C. unmanageable	D. unhealthy
Question 48: the word “Them” means___.
 A. animals 	B. people	C. water	D. minutes 
Question 49: The word “burrows” in the passage mostly means _____. 
 A. “places where insects or other small creatures live and produce their young” 
 B. “holes or tunnels in the ground made by animals for them to live in” 
 C. “structures made of metal bars in which animals or birds are kept” 
 D. “places where a particular type of animal or plant is normally found” 
Question 50: We can infer from the passage that _____ . 
 A. living things adjust to their environment 	B. water is the basis of desert life 
 C. desert life is colorful and diverse 	D. healthy animals live longer lives 
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 number 51 to 55
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learn all the other things they learn to do without being taught – to talk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle – compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let’s end all this nonsense of grades, exam, marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one’s life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, “But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get on in the world?” Don’t worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.
Question 51: What does the author think is the best way for children to learn things?
A. by copying what other people do	B. by making mistakes and having them corrected
C. by listening to explanations from skilled people	D. by asking a great many questions
Question 52: What does the author think teachers do which they should not do?
A. They give children correct answers	B. They point out children’s mistakes to them
C. They allow children to mark their own work	D. They encourage children to copy from one another
Question 53: The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are____.
A. not really important skills	B. more important than other skills
C. basically different from learning adult skills	D. basically the same as learning other skills
Question 54: Exams, grades and marks should be abolished because children’s progress should only be estimated by__.
A. educated persons	B. the children themselves	C. teachers	D. parents
Question 55: The author fears that children will grow up into adults who are____.
A. too independent of others	B. too critical of themselves	
C. unable to think for themselves	D. unable to use basic skills
From the four words or phrases(A, B, C or D) choose the one that best completes the sentences
Question 56: The first movie- length cartoon, _____ , “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” set the standard for later full length features such as “ The Lion King” and “Pocahotas”
A. that released ever	B. which ever released C. ever released	D. released whatever
Question 57: _____, such as banking and travel, computers are not a convenience: they are a necessity.
A. where some industries	B. there are some industries C. in some industries	D. some industries
Question 58: Only in the Civil war _____killed or wounded.
A. soldiers in America	B. so many American soldiers were
C. many in America	D. were so many American soldiers
Question 59: Studies have shown that the elderly who are pet owners have lower blood pressure than_____ who live without pets. A . do the elderly	B. elderly	C. for the elderly to do	D. to the elderly
Question 60:______, Harry was the thirty – third President of the United States
A. He was born and raised in Missori	B. That he was born and raised in Missori
C. Because he was born and raised in Missouri	D. Born and raised in Missouri
Question 61: ___ the fifth largest among the nine planets that make up our solar system
A. The Earth being	B. The Earth is	C. That the Earth is	D. Being the Earth
Question 62: All the way along the wind street ____
A. he came	B. came he	C. did he came	D. comes he 
Question 63: Both liquids and gases flow freely from a container because they have ____
A. not definite shape	B. none definite shape	C. no definite shape	D. nothing definite shape
Question 64: Environmentalists are earnestly trying to determine ______ of the ozone layer over the poles.
A. what is causing the deterioration	B. what the cause of the deterioration
C. is causing the deterioration	D. the deterioration is causing
PHẦN TỰ LUẬN: (2 điểm)
I. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that the original meaning is exactly the same as the provided one.
1. The decorators have finished our first floor.
đ We have _________________________________________
2. Her hobby is one thing that she does not intend to give up.
đ She has _________________________________________
3. That is the best meal I have ever eaten. 
đ I have never _________________________________________
4. Home computers used to be much more expensive.
đ Home computers aren’t_________________________________________
5. It was a mistake of mine to park outside the police station.
đ I shouldn’t_________________________________________
II. Topic: Good neighbors are as good as relatives. What do you think about this?
Neighbors are the people who live near us, and their behavior influence our daily life. Good neighbors can make us feel comfortable and give us many help, and everyone will benefit from a good relationship among neighbors. In my point of view, these are three conspicuous aspects of the qualities of a good neighbors.
One of the most important characteristic of good neighbors is that they have a good living habit and are friendly to others. A person with bad habit will affect your daily life. For example, children are most likely to be influenced by bad neighbors and carry on bad habits. On the other hand, being friendly is also an important nature of good neighbors. If neighbors are unfriendly, they are hard to approach and difficult to get along with.
Another important aspect of good neighbors is that they should be willing to help others. In our daily life, emergency situations may happen, and we may encounter difficulties which cannot be resolved by ourselves. At this time, the quickest help we can get is probably from our neighbors. To some degree, neighbors are as important as relatives to us, because they could provide the immediate help. In the same way, a neighbor who likes to help others will get help in return. Help each others can form a friendly and harmonious relationship among the neighbors.
All in all, a good neighbor is someone who have a good living habit, is friendly and is willing to help others. Taking into account of all these factors, we may reach the conclusion that a good relationship among neighbors need the maintenance from us.---------------THE END------------------