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SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC
TRƯỜNG THPT LIỄN SƠN
(ĐỀ LUYỆN 088)
ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015
MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH 
Thời gian: 90 phút
PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM: (2 điểm)
I: Mark A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs in the position of the main stress in the following questions. 
Question 1: 	A. explanation  	B. preparation 	C. considerate      	D. information
Question 2: 	A. appearance  	B. ambitious    	C. performance    	D. telephone
Question 3: 	A. individual    	B. competitive    	C. occupation       	D. documentary
Question 4: 	A. relation          	B. arrange            	C. summary          	D. eliminate
Question 5: 	A. different         	B. important         	C. essential         	D. negation 
II: 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: To solve this problem, it is advisable__________
A. a drastic measure to be adopted            	B. that to adopt a drastic measure 
C. that a drastic measure be adopted          	D. that a drastic measure is adopted
Question 7: John: "Do you think that we should use public transportation to protect our environment?"
      Laura. " _______" A. Yes, it’s an absurd idea           B. There’s no doubt about it
C. Of course not. You bet              	D. Well, that’s very surprising
Question 8: On the second thought, I believe I will go with you to the theater.
A. On reflection           B. For this time only C. After discussing with my wife   	D. For the second time
Question 9: On_____he had won, he jumped for joy.
A. he was told   	B. having told   	C. being told         	D. telling
Question 10: I must take this watch to be repaired; it _____ over 20 minutes a day.
A. gains            	B. accelerates       	C. increases           	D. progresses
Question 11: When a fire broke out in the Louvre, at least twenty ___ paintings were destroyed, including two by Picasso. A. worthless      	B. priceless         	C. valueless             	D. worthy
Question 12: His brother refuses to even listen to anyone else’s point of view. He is very____
A. open-minded 	B. kind-hearted     	C. narrow-minded    	D. absent-minded
Question 13: The story he invented was completely ______ . I don’t believe it.
A. true               	B. truth                	C. truthful                	D. untrue 
Question 14: What chemical is this? It’s_______a horrible smell.
A. giving over      	B. giving off             	C. giving down         	D. giving up
Question 15: In many ways, she _______ me of someone I knew at school.
A. remembers     	B. reminds 	C. recalls            	D. resembles
Question 16: Learning English isn’t so difficult once you_____
A. get down to it    	B. get off it               	C. get on it              	D. get down with it
Question 17: Geogre wouldn’t have met Mary ______ to his brother’s graduation party.
A. had he gone           B. hadn’t he gone C. if he had not gone               	D. if he shouldn’t have gone
Question 18: Nowadays children would prefer history ____ in more practical ways.
A. to be taught      	B. teach               	C. be taught              	D. to teach
Question 19: John has a monthly bank ___ sent to him so that he knows how much there is in his account.
A. statement     	B. overdraft          	C. cheque            	D. balance
Question 20: Can you list the problems ____ poor and ____ countries?
A. facing/ overpopulation  B. facing/overpopulated C. face/ overpopulated      D. facing/overpopulating
Question 21: The sheep were huddled into a ____ to protect them from overnight frosts.
A. cage        	B. pen           	C. kennel         	D. hutch 
Question 22: There is ____ in my bedroom. A. a square wooden old table    B. an old square wooden table
C. a wooden old square table             	D. an old wooden square table
Question 23: There seems to be a large ____ between the number of people employed in service industries and those employed in the primary sectors. A. discrepancy   	B. discretion       C. discriminate           	D. distinguish
Question 24: "I am sorry. I broke the vase". " _____".
A. OK. Go ahead            B. Yes, certainly                C. Don’t worry. Things break      D. I’d rather not.
Question 25: _____, he felt so unhappy and lonely.
A. In spite of his being wealth    B. Rich as was he C. Rich as he was       D. Despite his wealthy
Question 26: Tom: "I’m sorry. I won’t be able to come." Mary. "_____"
A. great    	 B. Oh, that’s annoying	C. Well, never mind         D. Sounds like fun
Question 27: "I understand you don’t like opera. _____, I go at least once a month.”
A. In contrast               B. On contrast C. In the contrast           D. On the contrast
Question 28: If you had taken my advice, you ____ in such difficulties now.
A. wouldn’t have been       B. hadn’t been     	C. wouldn’t be          D. won’t be
Question 29: One’s fingerprints are _____ other person.
A. different from            B. different from any C. differ from any     D. different from those of any
Question 30: Marianne seemed to take ________ at my comments on her work.
A. annoyance       	B. insult          	C. offence         	D. indignation
Question 31: _______, we tried our best to complete it.
A. Difficult as the homework was               	B. Thanks to the difficult homework
C. As though the homework was difficult        	D. Despite the homework was difficult
Question 32: She listened so attentively that not a word______
A. she had missed	B. she missed            	C. she didn’t            	D. did she miss
Question 33: On hearing the news she fainted and it was half an hour  before she came____again.
A. round                 	B. up                         	C. over             	D. forward.
Question 34: The policeman _____ him to appear as a witness.
A. let                   	B. discouraged    	C. made          	D. compelled
Question 35: His new yacht is certainly an ostentatious display of his wealth.
A. showy         	B. expensive        	C. large     	D. ossified
III: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction. 
Question 36: The reason he wants to take a leaving of absence is that he needs a complete rest.
 A B C D
Question 37: His boss has asked him to respond immediately this fax.
 	 A B C D
Question 38: It is the writing English that causes difficulties to foreigners.
 	 A B C D
Question 39: The diameter of the Sun is more than one hundred times greater than the Earth.
 	 A B C D
Question 40: Foreign students who are doing a decision about which school to attend may not know exactly where the choices are located. A B C D
IV: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the one that best completes each sentence.
Question 41: My English is progressing______.
A. odds and ends     B. leaps and bounds     C. bounds and leaps   D. ends and odds
Question 42: Many of the current international problems we are now facing________
A. linguistic incompetencies	B. are the result of misunderstandings
C.  are the result of not understanding themselves D.  lack of the intelligent capabilities of understanding each other      
Question 43: We got on well when we shared a flat,_______
A.  in spite of the different in our old	B. although the difference in our age       
C. in spite that fact that I was much older than her	D. despite her being much older than me
Question 44: Having been selected to present the Association of American Engineers at the International Convention, _____. A. the members applauded him             	B. a speech had to be given by him
C. the members congratulated him         	D. he gave a short acceptance speech
Question 45: When you do something, you should _________.
A. get through to          B. turn over a new leaf 
C. weigh up the pros and cons       D. go down well with
V: 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 following questions from 46 to 54. 
"The economic history of the United States", one scholar has written, "is the history of the rise and development of the capitalistic system". The colonists of the eighteenth century pushed forward what those of the seventeenth century have begun: the expansion and elaboration of an economy born in the great age of capitalist expansion.
Our excellent natural resources paved the way for the development of abundant capital to increase our growth. Capital includes the tools – such as: machines, vehicles, and buildings – that makes the outputs of labor and resources more valuable. But it also includes the funds necessary to buy those tools. If a society had to consume everything it produced just to stay alive, nothing could be put aside to increase future productions. But if a farmer can grow more corn than his family needs to eat, he can use the surplus as seed to increase the next crop, or to feed workers who build tractors. This process of capital accumulation was aided in the American economy by our cultural heritage. Saving played an important role in the European tradition. It contributed to American’s motivation to put something aside today for the tools to buy tomorrow.
The great bulk of the accumulated wealth of America, as distinguished from what was consumed, was derived either directly or indirectly from trade. Though some manufacturing existed, its role in the accumulation of capital was negligible. A merchant class of opulent proportions was already visible in the seaboard cities, its wealth as the obvious consequence of shrewd and resourceful management of the carrying trade. Even the rich planters of tidewater Virginia and the rice coast of South Carolina finally depended for their genteel way of life upon the ships and merchants who sold their tobacco and rice in the markets of Europe. As colonial production rose and trade expanded, a business community emerged in the colonies, linking the provinces by lines of trade and identity of interest.
Question 46: With what subject is this passage mainly concerned?
A. Geography	B.     Finance	C. Economics	D.    Culture              
Question 47: The phrase "paved the way" in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.
A. paid for                 	B. supported   	C. accumulated            D. resembled
Question 48: It can be inferred from the passage that the European ancestors of early Americans ____.
A. sent many tools to America               	B. taught their skills to their offspring
C. were accustomed to saving                  	D. were good farmers
Question 49: The word "funds" in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.
A. money         	B. resource         	C. labour       	D. capital
Question 50: According to the passage, which of the following would lead to accumulating capital?
A. Training workers who produce goods.         	B. Studying the culture history of the country
C. Consuming what is produced                	D. Planting more of a crop than what is needed
Question 51: The word "it" in the third sentence of paragraph 2 refers to____.
A. growth      	B. resource         	C. labour       	D. capital
Question 52: According to the passage, capital includes all of the following EXCEPT____.
A. factories         	B. tractors         	C. money       	D. workers
Question 53: The word "negligible" in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to____.
A. very important      B. not very important       C. necessary to be neglected   D. able to be neglected
Question 54: The phrase "put aside" in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to____.
A. hidden         	B. saved         	C. reviewed       	D. consumed
VI: 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 55 to 64.
The first question we might ask is: What can you learn in college that will help you in being an employee? The school teach a (55) ___ many things of value to the future accountant, doctor or electrician. Do they also teach anything of value to the future employee? Yes, they teach the one thing that it is perhaps most valuable for the future employee to know. But very few students bother (56) ___ it. This basic is the skill ability to organize and express ideas in writing and in speaking. This means that your success as an employee will depend on your ability to communicate with people and to (57) ___ your own thoughts and ideas to them so they will (58) ___ understand what you are driving at and be persuaded.
Of course, skill in expression is not enough (59) ___ itself. You must have something to say in the first place. The effectiveness of your job depends (60) ___ your ability to make other people understand your work as they do on the quality of the work itself.
Expressing one’s thoughts is one skill that the school can (61) ___ teach. The foundations for skill in expression have to (62) ____ early: an interest in and an ear (63) ___ language; experience in organizing ideas and data, in brushing aside the irrelevant, and above all the habit of verbal expression. If you do not lay these foundations (64) ___ your school years, you may never have an opportunity again.
Question 55: A. large     	B. great        	C. far         	D. lost
Question 56: 	A. learning           B. to learn           	C. with learning            D. learn
Question 57: 	A. interpret           B. give out          	C. transfer                    D. present
Question 58: 	A. both                 B. not                  	C. as well                     D. either
Question 59: 	A. on                    B. for                   	C. by                           	D. in
Question 60: 	A. on most            B. most on          	C. much on                  D. on much
Question 61: 	A. quite                B. hardly              	C. truly                         D. really
Question 62: 	A. lied                  B. laid                  	C. lain                          D. lay
Question 63: 	A. by                    B. in                     	C. for                           D. of 
Question 64: 	A. during              B. of                     	C. for                           D. when
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. We didn’t go because it rained. 
 If it hadn’t..
2. I can’t cook as well as my mother does.
 My mother...
3. I don’t suppose you have change for a pound, do you?
 Do you happen
4. He failed to win the race.
 He didn’t.
5. Mary rang hours and hours ago.
 It’s hours.
II. TOPIC: Write to describe your all-time favorite movie.
In life, although I have several hobbies, watching movies is the one I am more interested in. I have watched countless films so far, but BẾN KHÔNG CHỒNG, a product of VFC (Vietnam Film Corporation) in 2001, is the one that has created the biggest impression on me ever since.
	The film is set in the time of our war against the American troops in the South to unify the country and the construction to build a communist country in the North. The ground of the story is in a tranquil poor farming village in the North. The main characters are Mr. Van, a veteran, a secretary of the village’s Communist Youth Union named Hanh, the two widows and the villagers. The story happens right inside the village to the bank of a no-name-river having a namely Khong Chong river five-step-wharf. 
	After serving in the army Van came back to his village in which there were only old villagers together with almost widows, girls and very few disabled men. When Van returned, he was appointed head of the village armed group which consisted of around six armed girls including Hanh – Van’s former sweetheart’s daughter. Van lived under the same roof with a land-lord widow and her 16 year-old son. Van was then admired by all the villagers, so he tried his best to meet the residents’ expectations. Though sometimes the mid-forties man felt lonely, he tried not to do wrong thing especially on sex. Time passed, peace was then established with the unification declaration, the village was still under the misery of the war unhappiness. Hanh married to an Army captain, but had no child for long. Debates and conflicts occurred, which made Hanh left her husband. So disappointed, and hopeless, she entered Van’s hut by a showery night. The two thirsty unhappy persons met, and then Hanh was pregnant. Unable to live with the villagers’ prejudice, Van and Hanh left the homeland, and finally Van killed himself by the river wharf Ben Khong Chong.
	The scenes in the movie are colorful and interesting, typical for a North Vietnam’s rural village. The story is touching and rather mournful. The acting of the main characters is excellent as they are all famous actors and actresses. The film leaves us valuable lessons in life, and helps us know more about the rural life courtesy. I must say that it is one of the best movies I have ever watched in my life.
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