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TRƯỜNG THPT LIỄN SƠN
(ĐỀ LUYỆN 218)
ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015
MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH 
Thời gian: 90 phút
PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM: (8 điểm)
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 1: After seeing the film Gone with the wind, _____________________
the book was read by many people. 	B. the book made many people want to see it. 
C. many people want to read the book. 	D. the reading of the book interested people.
Question 2: “Did you stay home last night?” 	“Yes, but I ___________ dancing.”
A. would rather go 	B. would rather have gone C. would go 	D. would rather be going
Question 3: The newsreader reported the ________ information about the election.
last	 	 	B. late 	C. latest 	D. newest
Question 4: No sooner had we left the house, _______ it started snowing. 
	A. then 	B. than 	C. when	 	D. that 
Question 5: Remember to come at eight, _______ you?
A. haven’t 	B. don’t 	C. aren’t 	D. won’t
Question 6: Several cars, _______ owners had parked them under the trees, were damaged. 
	A. their 	B. of which 	C. whom 	D. whose
Question 7:- “Have you decided which you like best- the round table or the square table?”	
 - “Of the two, the round one is ____________.”
A. the nicest	B. the nicer 	C. nicer 	D. a nice one 
Question 8: Ann: “Make yourself at home!”	 John: “____________”
 	A. Thanks. Same to you.	B. That’s very kind. Thank you. 	
C. Not at all. Don’t mention it.	D. Yes, Can I help you?
Question 9: It was important that they __________ before the curtain went up last night. 
A. arrive 	B. have arrived	C. must arrive 	D. had arrived 
Question 10: Sea levels are expected to __________considerably in the next few decades.
	A. rise 	B. raise 	C. arise 	D. lift
Question 11: - “________ detective stories?”	- “In my opinion, they are very good for teenagers.”
A. What do you think about B. Are you fond of C. How about 	D. What do people feel about
Question 12: In multiple-choice exercise, it is sometimes easier to ___ the wrong answer before choosing the right one.
	A. eliminate 	B. exclude 	C. give 	D. omit
Question 13: _______ you should do first is to make a list of all the things you have to do. 
	A. That 	B. What 	C. As 	D. If
Question 14: That’s precisely what I meant. You’ve hit the ________ on the head.
	A. idea	B. point 	C. pin 	D. nail 
Question 15: I would rather you ____________ just at the moment.
A. leave	B. didn’t leave 	C. leaving 	D. to leave 
Question 16: Havy: “Thanks for your help, Judy.” Judy: “______.”
A. With all my heart B. Never remind me C. It’s my pleasure 	D. Wish you
Question 17: _______ its busy nightlife, Amsterdam also offers great shops and many interesting museums
A. As well 	B. More than C. Apart 	D. In addition to
Question 18: World War II _________ millions of were killed ended in 1945.
A. when 	B. in which	C. during that 	D. which
Question 19: Anne persisted ______ her search for the truth about what had happened.
A. at 	 B. about 	 C. on 	D. in
Question 20: If she ______ sick, she would have gone out with me to the party.
A. wasn’t 	B. hadn’t been C. hasn’t been 	D. weren’t
Question 21: - “Would you mind lending me your bike?” - “ ______ .”
A. Yes. Here it is B. Not at all 	C. Great 	D. Yes, let’s
Question 22: They have just had their room ________.
A. clean B. cleans 	C. cleaned 	D. very clean
Question 23: Don’t worry. He’ll do the job as _______ as possible.
A. economizing 	B. economic 	C. uneconomically 	D. economically
Question 24: ______ entering the hall, he found everyone waiting for him.
A. With 	B. On 	C. At 	D. During
Question 25: - “Has an announcement been made about the eight o’clock flight to Paris?” - “ _______.”
A. Not yet 	B. Yes, it was 	C. I don’t think that 	D. Sorry, I don’t
Question 26: “What are you going to do with your old typewriter?” “I don’t know yet, but _____ away seems wasteful.”
A. throw 	B. throwing it 	C. thrown 	D. throw it
Question 27: I find the times of English meals very strange – I’m not used _____ dinner at 6pm.
	A. balance	B. to have	C. to having	D. have
Question 28: Staying in a hotel costs _______renting a room in a dormitory for a week.
A. twice more than	B. twice as much as	C. as much twice as	D. as much as twice
Question 29: One difference between math and language is that math is precise_______.
A. while language is not	B. but language not	C. language is not	D. while is language
Question 30. Out of sight, out of________________.” Do you remember this proverb?
memory 	B. mind	C. heart 	D. head
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 blank.
 	Did you know that on (31) average we take home 150 plastic bags annually? In other words, that means a global figure of one million plastic bags taken home every minute. We are sure that you’ll agree this is a truly shocking statistic.	Plastic bags cannot be simply (32) disposed of along with your domestic rubbish- they can blow off landfill sites and become highly (33) visible litter which can remain in the environment for a number of years. They are not only an eyesore but they are a (34) danger to the environment, too. For example, plastics bags almost dammed the Buriganga river in Bangladesh, and they are widely (35) held responsible for causing devastating flood there on two separate (36) occasions. They also (37) pose – ĐỀ RA a particular threat to wildlife. More and more (38) frequently dead turtles and whales are discovered washed up on beaches, killed by swallowing plastic bags. To marine life, a plastic bag closely (39) resembles a jellyfish. These are the (40) reasons why you should reuse plastic bags you already have or take a small rucksack on trips to the supermarket. Why not take (41) actions now and show how much you care about the environment by taking this small step. 
Question 31: A. example	B. normal 	C. average 	D. ratio
Question 32: A. thrown 	B. disposed 	C. finished 	D. used
Question 33: A. evident 	B. observable 	C. marked 	D. visible
Question 34: A. risk	 	B. difficulty 	C. danger 	D. problem
Question 35: A. held 	B. shown 	C. made 	D. taken
Question 36: A. activities	 	B. occasions 	C. incidents	 	D. episodes
Question 37: A. pose 	B. set	C. model 	D. generate
Question 38: A. repeatedly 	B. frequently 	C. usually 	D. generally
Question 39: A. equates 	B. reminds 	C. resembles 	D. appears
Question 40: A. motives 	B. causes 	C. sources 	D. reasons
Question 41: A. actions 	B. advantages 	C. against 	D. account
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.
Native Americans from the southeastern part of what is now the United States believed that the universe in which they lived was made up of three separate, but related, worlds, the Upper World, the Lower World, and This World. In the last there lived humans, most animals, and all plants.
This World, a round island resting on the surface of waters, was suspended from the sky by four cords – ĐƯỜNG NỐI attached to the island at the four cardinal- CHÍNH points of the compass. Lines drawn to connect the opposite points of the compass, from north to south and from east to west, intersected This World to divide it into four wedge - shaped segments. Thus a symbolic representation of the human world was a cross within a circle, the cross representing the intersecting lines and the circle the shape of This World.
Each segment of This World was identified by its own color. According to Cherokee doctrine- HỌC THUYẾT, east was associated with the color red because it was the direction of the Sun, the greatest deity of all. Red was also the color of fire, believed to be directly connected with the Sun, with blood, and therefore with life. Finally, red was the color of success. The west was the Moon segment; it provided no warmth and was not life - giving as the Sun was. So its color was black. North was the direction of cold, and so its color was blue sometimes purple, and it represented trouble and defeat. South was the direction of warmth, its color, white, was associated with peace and happiness.
The southeastern Native Americans' universe was one in which opposites were constantly at war with each other, red against black, blue against white. This World hovered somewhere between the perfect order and predictability of the Upper World and the total disorder and instability of the Lower World. The goal was to find some kind of halfway path, or balance, between those other worlds.
Question 42. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. One Civilization's View of the Universe B. The Changing of the Seasons in the Southeast
C. The Painting of Territorial Maps by Southeastern Native Americans
D. The War Between Two Native American Civilizations
Question 43. In line 3, the phrase "the last" refers to_____.
A. all plants	B. This World C. the universe 	D. the Upper World
Question 44. The author implies that This World was located_____.
A. inside the Upper World B. inside the Lower World
C. above the Upper World D. between the Upper World and Lower World
Question 45. According to the passage, southeastern Native Americans compared This World to_____.
A. waters	B. the sky	C. an animal	D. an island
Question 46. According to the passage, lines divided This World into how many segments?
A. Two	B. Three	C. Four	D. Five
Question 47. According to the passage, southeastern Native Americans associated red with all of the following EXCEPT__.
A. fire 	B. trouble 	C. blood 	D. success
Question 48. According to the passage, which of the following colors represented the west for southeastern Native Americans? A. Blue 	B. White 	C. Black 	 D. Purple
Question 49. The shape of This World is closest to that of which of the following?
A. A circle	B. A triangle	C. A square	D. A cube
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction
Question 50: Publishing in the U.K, the book has won a number of awards in the recent regional book fairs. 
	 A	 B	 C D 
Question 51: Below are some pieces of advice that can help you reduce the feeling of pressure and creating a good impression on your interview.	A	 B	 C D 
Question 52: According to The World Health Organization, the deadly measles outbreak in Vietnam could have been prevented through a more effectively vaccination program. A B	 C 	D
Question 53: Anti-smoking measures have saved eight millions American lives since 1964, but cigarette smoking still kills about 443,000 Americans every year.	 A	 B 	 C D
Question 54:  VTV has licensed all rights of production, exploitations and use of the images of World Cup 2014 in TV and radio systems of Vietnam territory.	 A	 B	 C	 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 questions.
Music can bring us to tears or to our feet, drive us into battle or lull us to sleep. Music is indeed remarkable in its power over all humankind, and perhaps for that very reason, no human culture on earth has ever lived without it. From discoveries made in France and Slovenia even Neanderthal man, as long as 53,000 years ago, had developed surprisingly sophisticated, sweet-sounding flutes carved from animal bones. It is perhaps then, no accident that music should strike such a chord with the limbic system – an ancient part of our brain, evolutionarily speaking, and one that we share with much of the animal kingdom. Some researchers even propose that music came into this world long before the human race ever did. For example, the fact that whale and human music have so much in common even though our evolutionary paths have not intersected for nearly 60 million years suggests that music may predate humans. They assert that rather than being the inventors of music, we are latecomers to the musical scene.
 Humpback -GÙ whale composers employ many of the same tricks that human songwriters do. In addition to using similar rhythms, humpbacks keep musical phrases to a few seconds, creating themes out of several phrases before singing the next one. Whale songs in general are no longer than symphony movements, perhaps because they have a similar attention span. Even though they can sing over a range of seven octaves, the whales typically sing in key, spreading adjacent notes no farther apart than a scale. They mix percussive and pure tones in pretty much the same ratios as human composers – and follow their ABA form, in which a theme is presented, elaborated on and then revisited in a slightly modified form. Perhaps most amazing, humpback whale songs include repeating refrains that rhyme. It has been suggested that whales might use rhymes for exactly the same reasons that we do: as devices to help them remember. Whale songs can also be rather catchy. When a few humpbacks from the Indian Ocean strayed into the Pacific, some of the whales they met there quickly changed their tunes – singing the new whales’ songs within three short years. Some scientists are even tempted to speculate that a universal music awaits discovery.
Question 55. Why did the author write the passage? A. To describe the music for some animals, including humans
B. To illustrate the importance of music to whales C. To show that music is not a human or even modern invention
D. To suggest that music is independent of life forms that use it______.
Question 56. The word “sophisticated” in line 5 is closest in meaning to ____.
A. complex	B. intricate	C. well-developed 	D. entangled
Question 57. The word “one” in line 7 can be replaced by ______.
A. the chord	B. the left brain	C. the right brain	D. the limbic system
Question 58. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE of humpback whales______.
A. their tunes are distinctively different from human tunes B. they can sing over a range of seven octaves
C. they do not use rhyme, unlike humans D. whale songs of a particular group cannot be learned by other whales
Question 59. The word “they” in line 18 refers to ______.
A. human composers	B. whole songs	C. octaves	D. whales
Question 60. Which of the following is NOT true about humpback whale music?
A. It uses similar patterns to human songs	B. It’s comparative in length to symphony movements
C. It’s easy to learn by other whales D. It’s in a form of creating a theme, elaborating and revisiting in rhyming refrains
Question 61. The word “refrains” in line 22 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. tunes	B. notes	C. musical phrases	D. sounds
Question 62. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. The earliest human beings came from France and Slovenia B. Music helped to shape the whale brain
C. Humpback whales imitate the way human composers in creating their own music
D. The research of musical brain will lead to a discovery of a universal music
Question 63. Where in the passage does the author first mention whales?
A. Lines 5-9	B. Lines 10-14	C. Lines 15-19	D. Lines 20-24
Question 64. The word ‘their’ in line 24 refers to ______.
A. Indian Ocean humpbacks B. Pacific Ocean humpbacks C. all whales	D. whale songs 
PHẦN TỰ LUẬN: (2 điểm)
I. Rewrite the following sentences using the words given so that it means exactly the same as the first sentence. 
11. It’s a pity I can’t go to the game next Saturday. (wish)	
à I _________________________________________
12. Do I have to fill in any forms? (necessary)
à Is _________________________________________
13. I only found out the truth because I heard the two of them talking. (found)	
à If I _________________________________________
14. It is necessary that I post this letter tonight. (need)
à I _________________________________________
15. This food is so good that I’m going to have some more.	(such)	
à This _________________________________________
II. Topic: Do we really need to have a good boss?
Even though job situations can be very different, there are several qualities that all good supervisors have in common. A good boss treats all her employees fairly. She doesn't single out one employee for better (or worse) treatment than the others. A poor supervisor has favorites.
Sometimes she'll even use her favorites to spy on other employees. She expects them to tell her what the others are saying about her. This can cause a lot of bad feelings among employees. A good supervisor gives clear and understandable directions, She doesn't constantly change her mind about what she wants employees to do. She also doesn't get angry with an employee who is confused and needs her to explain the directions again or more fully. Delegating authority well is another quality of a good supervisor. She knows how to use the skills of her employees to best advantage. A poor supervisor insists on doing everything herself. She is unwilling to give any authority to others.
A good boss evaluates her employees on a reasonable set of criteria, not on how she feels about them personally. And she lets the employees know what those criteria are, so they have a fair chance of meeting them. She gives both praise and criticism in a straightforward manner. She also offers guidance when needed. A poor supervisor will criticize without giving any suggestions on how to improve. Most importantly, a good supervisor sets the standards for her employees by her own behavior. She works hard and treats employees like valuable assets to the company. This promotes good morale among her workers, and this is of great benefit to her business.
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