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TRƯỜNG THPT LIỄN SƠN
(ĐỀ LUYỆN 262)
ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015
MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH 
Thời gian: 90 phút
PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM: (8 điểm)
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.
 	Imagine you are studying English at a small college in the Midwestern United States. The local newspaper rarely has news about your native country. (26) _____, it prints very (27) _____ foreign news, but this does not bother you (28) _____. You sit comfortably in your apartment, turn on your (29) ______ computer, and ask for the foreign news. The screen is immediately (30) _____ with news from (31) _____ the world. 
 	Computers have (32) ____ an information “superhighway”. Today, computers can work together - they can network with (33) _____. The worldwide computer (34) ____ is called the Internet. (35) _____ the Internet, you can find all kinds of information and news from people and countries around the world.
Question 1:	A. Despite	B. In fact	C. Because	D. Although
Question 2:	A. little	B. many	C. few	D. a lot
Question 3:	A. ever	B. already	C. at all	D. nothing
Question 4:	A. person	B. personified	C. personally	D. personal
Question 5:	A. filled	B. full	C. made	D. taken
Question 6:	A. in	B. on	C. all above	D. all over
Question 7:	A. written	B. created	C. composed	D. invented
Question 8:	A. itself	B. themselves	C. each other 	D. together
Question 9:	A. keyboard	B. laptop	C. CPU	D. network
Question 10:	A. Use	B. Using	C. Used	D. To using
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.
	May 7, 1840, was the birthday of one of the most famous Russian composers of the nineteenth century Peter Illich Tchaikovsky. The son of a mining inspector, Tchaikovsky studied music as a child and later studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. His greatest period of productivity occurred between 1876 and 1890, during which time he enjoyed the patronage of Madame von Meck, a woman he never met, who gave him a living stipend of about $1,000.00 a year. Madame von Meck later terminated her friendship with Tchaikovsky, as well as his living allowance, when she, herself, was facing financial difficulties. It was during the time of Madame von Meck's patronage, however, that Tchaikovsky created the music for which he is most famous, including the music for the ballets of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. 
	Tchaikovsky's music, well known for its rich melodic and sometimes melancholy passages, was one of the first that brought serious dramatic music to dance. Before this, little attention had been given to the music behind the dance. Tchaikovsky died on November 6, 1893, ostensibly of cholera, though there are now some scholars who argue that he committed suicide.
Question 11: With what topic is the passage primarily concerned?
	A. the life and music of Tchaikovsky	B. development of Tchaikovsky's music for ballets	
 	C. Tchaikovsky's relationship with Madame Von Meck	 	D. the cause of Tchaikovsky's death
Question 12: Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word "productivity"?
	A. fertility	B. affinity	C. creativity	D. maturity
Question 13: The phrase "enjoyed the patronage of" probably means _________
 	 A. liked the company of 	B. was mentally attached to 
C. solicited the advice of 	D. was financially dependent upon
Question 14: Which of the following could best replace the word "terminated"?
	A. discontinued	B. resolved	C. exploited	D. hated
Question 15: According to the passage, all of the following describe Madame von Meck EXCEPT _________
	A. She had economic troubles.	B. She was generous.	
 	C. She enjoyed Tchaikovsky's music. 	D. She was never introduced to Tchaikovsky.	
Question 16: It is known that before Tchaikovsky, _______ .
A. the music behind the dance had been taken seriously 
B. serous dramatic music had been already brought to dance
 	C. the music behind the dance had been given very little attention.
 	D. music had been famous for its rich melodic passages
Question 17: According to the passage, for what is Tchaikovsky's music most well known?
	A. its repetitive and monotonous tones	B. the ballet-like quality of the music	
 	C. its lively, capricious melodies 	D. the richness and melodic drama of the music	
Question 18: According to the passage, "Swan Lake" and "The Sleeping Beauty" are _________
 	A. dances	B. songs	C. operas	D. plays
Question 19: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
 A. Tchaikovsky's influence on ballet music	B. Tchaikovsky's unhappiness leading to suicide
 C. the patronage of Madame von Meck	D. Tchaikovsky's productivity in composing
Question 20: Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word "behind"?
A. supporting	B. in back of	C. going beyond	D. concealing
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: According to the doctor, there's absolutely nothing the ________ with you.	
	A. wrong	B. problem	C. matter	D. illness
Question 22: ________ my opinion, French cheese is better than English cheese.
	A. For	B. To	C. By	D. In	
Question 23: It was ________ simple a question that everyone answered it correctly.
 	A. so	B. such	C. very	D. too
Question 24: My mother is _________ a busy woman that she really needs a helper.
 	A. so	B. very	C. such	D. with
Question 25: I’m glad I _________ my plane! I’ve just heard that it’s been hijacked 
 	A. refused	B. altered	C. lost	D. missed	
Question 26: The building was badly _________ in the fire. 	
 	A. damaged	B. wounded	C. injured	D. hurt
Question 27: Mr. Bond wasn’t in his own car, he was driving ________ car. 
	A. someone’s else 	B. someone else's 	C. someone else 	D. someone’s else’s
Question 28: He ________ on the bed staring at the ceiling, wondering what to do next. 
 	A. lay 	B. laid 	C. lain	 	D. lied
Question 29: You will have to ________ your holiday if you are too ill to travel.	
	A. call off	B. cut down	C. back out	D. put aside
Question 30: Don't worry about trying to catch last train home, as we can easily ________ you up for the night.
	A. take	B. put	C. keep	D. set
Question 31: The farmer was very angry ________ the dogs chasing his sheep.
	A. for	B. with	C. because	D. about
Question 32: Throw away that old vase. It is ________.
 	A. value  	B. valuable  	C. invaluable  	D. valueless
Question 33: Our car is very old, but I can't ________ to buy a new one. 
 	A. afford	B. achieve	C. reach	D. succeed
Question 34: It was terrible. One passenger was killed, and the other was ________ injured.
	A. hardly	B. completely	C. severely	D. unusually
Question 35: The bank manager ________ me to open a deposit account as soon as possible.
	A. warned	B. advised	C. suggested	D. approved
Question 36: ________ he had no money for a bus, he had to walk all the way home.
	A. If	B. Thus	C. So 	D. As
Question 37: He ________ the plants. If he had, they wouldn't have died.
 	A. needn't have watered  B. can't have watered C. shouldn't water  D. couldn't water
Question 38: A few months ago I moved into a very small flat after ________ for years with my parents.
 	A. be living  	B. being lived  	C. having lived	D. have living 
Question 39: His performance in King Lear was most ________.
 	A. impressed  	B. impressing  	C. impression 	D. impressive
Question 40: “Shall we wait a little longer?” 	 -“_________”
	 	A. No, we don’t. B. No, I’d rather not. C. No, it’s still early. D. Yes, it’s very late now. 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 41: The singer has given up performing live.
 	A. The singer is accustomed to performing live. 	B. The singer used to perform live.
 	C. The singer's live performance has been cancelled. D. The singers got used to performing live.
Question 42: Had the advertisement for our product been better, more people would have bought it.
  	A. Not many people bought our product because it was so bad. 
  	B. Our product was of better quality so that more people would buy it. 
  	C. Fewer people bought our product due to its bad quality. 
  	D. Since our advertisement for our product was so bad, fewer people bought it. 
Question 43: My father likes nothing better than playing chess in his free time.
  	A. My father doesn't like playing chess in his free time.
  	B. My father would prefer playing chess rather than doing nothing in his free time.
  	C. Playing chess is my father's favourite enjoyment in his free time.
  	D. My father prefers doing nothing to playing chess in his free time.
Question 44: You didn't listen to my advice in the first place, so you are in the mess now. 
 	A. You wouldn’t be in the mess now if you listened to my advice in the first place.
 	B. If you could listen to my advice in the first place, you aren't in the mess now.
 	C. Unless you listened to my advice in the first place, you weren't in the mess now.
 	D. If you had listened to my advice in the first place, you wouldn’t be in the mess now.
Question 45: He is such a slow speaker that his students get bored.
A. He speaks so slowly that his students get bored.	B. His students got bored because he spoke so slowly.
 	C. If he hadn't spoken so slowly, his students wouldn't got bored
 	D. When the speaker is slow, his students get bored.
Each of the following sentences has four underlined words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the word or phrase which must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.
Question 46: Dr. Marti Luther King, clergyman and civil rights leader, won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his work toward racially equality in the United States. A	 B	 C D
Question 47: Douglas was driving along the dirt road when his car broke down in the middle of the road.
	 A 	 B C 	 D
Question 48: The librarian said to her that the book she was looking for should be returned the previous day.
	 A 	 	B 	 C 	 D.
Question 49: A lot of information on the Internet are not reliable.	 
	 A	 B C D
Question 50: The midnight sun is a phenomenon in which the Sun visible remains in the sky for twenty-four hours or longer. A B C	 D
Question 51: Lawrence Robert Klein received the 1980 Nobel Prize in economics for pioneering the useful of computers to forecast economic activities. A	 B C 	D
Question 52: Jay, together with his parents, have visited California twice before.
 	 A B C D
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow
	Marianne Moore (1887-1972) once said that her writing could be called poetry only because there was no other name for it. Indeed her poems appear to be extremely compressed essays that happen to be printed in jagged lines on the page. Her subject was varied: animals, laborers, artists, and the craft of poetry. From her general reading came quotations that she found striking or insightful. She included these in her poems, scrupulously enclosed in quotation marks, and sometimes identified in footnotes. Of this practice, she wrote, " 'Why many quotation marks?' I am asked ... When a thing has been so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence, my writing is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber." Close observation and concentration on detail and the methods of her poetry.
	Marianne Moore grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri, near St. Lois.  After graduation from Bryn Mawr College in 1909, she taught commercial subjects at the Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  Later she became a librarian in New York City. During the 1920’s she was editor of The Dial, an important literary magazine of the period. She lived quietly all her life, mostly in Brooklyn, New York. She spent a lot of time at the Bronx Zoo, fascinated by animals. Her admiration of the Brooklyn Dodgers-before the team moved to Los Angeles-was widely known.
	Her first book of poems was published in London in 1921 by a group of friends associated with the Imagist movement. From that time on her poetry has been read with interest by succeeding generations of poets and readers. In 1952 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Poems. She wrote that she did not write poetry "for money or fame. To earn a living is needful, but it can be done in routine ways. One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
Question 53. What is the passage mainly about?
	A. The influence of the imagists on Marianne Moore.  B. Essayists and poets of the 1920's.
	C. The use of quotations in poetry.	 D. Marianne Moore's life and work.
Question 54. Which of the following can be inferred about Moore's poems? 
	A. They are better known in Europe than the USA. 	B. They do not use traditional verse forms.
	C. They were all published in The Dial.	D. They tend to be abstract.
Question 55. According to the passage Moore wrote about all of the following EXCEPT
	A. artists	 B. animals	C. fossils	D. workers
Question 56. What does Moore refer to as "flies in amber" (line 9)?
	A. A common image in her poetry.	B. Poetry in the twentieth-century. 
	C. Concentration on detail.	D. Quotations within her poetry.
Question 57. The author mentions all of the following as jobs held by Moore EXCEPT
	A. commercial artist 	B. teacher	 C. magazine editor 	D. librarian
Question 58. The word "period"  is closest in meaning to _____.
	A. movement	B. school	C. region	D. time
Question 59. The word "succeeding" in line 19 is closest to_____.
	A. inheriting 	 B. prospering 	C. diverse 	D. later
Question 60. The word "it" in line 22 refers to_____.
	A. writing poetry 	B. becoming famous 	C. earning a living D. attracting readers
Choose the word whose stress pattern is different
Question 61. A. necessary	B. benefit	C. vulnerable	D. parade
Question 62. A. relationship	B. equipment	C. customer	D. deliver
Question 63. A. concentrate	B. eventual	C. character	D. optimism
Question 64. A. intimate	B. literature	C. participate	D. powerful
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. My boyfriend is very short-tempered.
 My boyfriend loses_________________________________________
2. You can use it as long as you like, and it won’t wear out.
 No matter_________________________________________
3. If the work is finished by lunchtime you can go home.
 Get_________________________________________
4. How have you been getting on with your enquiries?
 How much_________________________________________?
5. I gave Ted the massage, but he already knew about it
 I needn’t_________________________________________
II. Topic: In Vietnam, a university diploma seems to guarantee one’s social status. What are your points of view about this?
Why do people need to attend colleges or universities? Different people have different answers to this question. I believe that the three most common reasons are to prepare for a career, to have new experiences, and to increase their knowledge of themselves and the world around them.
Career preparation is becoming more and more important to young people. For many, this is the primary reason to go to college. They know that the job market is competitive. At college, they can learn new skill for careers with a lot of opportunities. This means careers, such as information technology, that are expected to need a large workforce in the coming years.
Also, students go to colleges and universities to have new experiences. This often means having the opportunity to meet people different from those in their hometowns. For most students, going to college is the first time they've been away from home by themselves. In addition, this is the first time they've bad to make decisions on their own. Making these decisions increases their knowledge of themselves.
Besides looking for self-knowledge, people also attend a university or college to expand their knowledge in subjects they find interesting. For many, this will he their last chance for a long time to learn about something that doesn't relate to their career.
I would recommend that people not be so focused on a career. They should go to college to have new experiences and learn about themselves and the world they live in.
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