Đề thi môn Tiếng Anh - Thi thử THPT Quốc gia năm học 2015-2016 - Đề luyện 117 - Đỗ Bình - Trường THPT Liễn Sơn

SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC
TRƯỜNG THPT LIỄN SƠN
(ĐỀ LUYỆN 117)
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. I gave the waiter a $50 note and waited for my _________.
	A. change 	B. supply	C. cash	D. cost
Question 2. I'm going to stay at university and try to ________ off getting a job for a few years!
	A. stay 	B. put	C. move	D. set
Question 3. People can become very __________ when they are stuck in traffic for a long time.
	A. nervous 	B. bad-tempered	C. stressful 	D. pressed
Question 4. I believe that judges should be independent _________ the government.
	A. to 	B. from	C. with	D. on
Question 5. The MP asked ________ the prime minister was aware of the growing social problem.
	A. that 	B. him 	C. if	D. what
Question 6. Remind Tony about party _________.
	A. incase 	B. unless	C. provided that 	D. except
Question 7. The government should do more for ___________ people.
	A. usual	B. ordinary 	C. everyday	D. typical
Question 8. I know we had an argument, but now I'd quite like to _________.
	A. look down 	B. make up 	C. fall out	D. bring up
Question 9. - I'm going to set up the equipment in a minute. ___________ give you a hand?
	A. Shall we 	B. Will I 	C. Would I 	D. Do I 
Question 10. I think there's a picture of the hotel __________ the first page.
	A. on	B. at	C. in 	D. to
Question 11. I'm saving all my pocket money __________to buy a new PlayStation.
	A. out 	B. down 	C. up 	D. away
Question 12. We usually do go by train, even though the car _________ is a lot quicker.
	A. travel 	B. journey	C. trip 	D. voyage
Question 13. Dogs make very ________ pets. They'll always stay by your side.
	A. mental	B. private	C. loyal	D. digital
Question 14. They ________ have seen the play last night as they went to a football match instead.
	A. could 	B. must	C. might	D. can't
Question 15. I'm sorry, but I've got __________ much work to do to come to the beach today.
	A. so 	B. such	C. enough 	D. too
Question 16. - You must be Jane's sister. Glad to meet you.	 __________
	A. I am, either 	B. So I am. I'm glad 	C. What do you do 	D. Me too
Question 17. The boys ________ that he had had anything to do with the break-in.
	A. refused 	B. denied	C. objected	D. reject
Question 18. - __________ ?	 About tem miles before we met him.
	A. How fast did he drive 	B. How long did he drive
	C. How often did he drive	D. How far did he drive
Question 19. Do you have __________ to take that bicycle?
	A. allowance 	B. exception 	C. willingness	D. permission
Question 20. The sign says that all shoplifters will be ________.
	A. persecuted 	B. disproved 	C. prosecuted 	D. prohibited
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
Question 21. Transplanting organs such hearts and kidneys had proved easier than transplanting muscles.
Question 22. On the floor of the Pacific Ocean is hundreds of flat-tipped mountains more than a mile beneath sea level.
Question 23. No longer satisfied with the emphasis of the Denishawn school, Martha has moved to the staff of the Eastman school in 1925.
Question 24. Not until much later did she realize her long-known partner had been lying her.
Question 25. Justice is often personified as a blindfolded woman to hold a pair of scales.
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 26 to 35.
 The principle of use and disuse states that those parts of organisms' bodies that are used grown larger. Those 	parts that are not tend to wither away. It is an observed fact that when you exercise particular muscles, they 	grow. Those that are never used dimish. By examining a man's body, we can tell which muscles he uses and 	which he doesn't. we may even be able to guess his profession or his reaction. Enthusiasts of the "body- building" cult make use of the principle of use and disuse to "build" their bodies, almost like a piece of sculpture, into whatever unnatural shape is demanded by fashion in this peculiar minority culture. Muscles are not the only parts of the body that respond to use in this kind of way. Walk barefoot and you acquire harder skin on your soles. It is easy to tell a farmer from a bank teller by looking at their hands alone. The farmer's hands are horny, hardened by long exposure to rough work. The teller's hands are relatively soft.
 The principle of use and disuse enables animals to become better at the job of surviving in their world, progressively better during their lifetime as a result of living in that world. Humans, through direct exposure to sunlight, or lack of it, develop a skin color which equips them better to survive in the particular local conditions.
 Too much sunlight is dangerous. Enthusiastic sunbathers with very fair skins are susceptible to skin cancer. Too little sunlight, on the other hand, leads to vitamin-D deficiency and rickets. The brown pigment melanin which is synthesized under the influence of sunlight, makes a screen to protect the underlying tissues from the harmful effects of further sunlight. If a suntanned person moves to a less sunny climate, the melanin disappears, and the body is able to benefit from what little sun there is. This can be represented as an instance of the principle of use 
and disuse: skin goes brown when it is "used", and fades to white when it is not.
Question 26. What does the passage mainly discuss?
	A. How the principles of use and disuse change people's concepts of themselves.
	B. The way in which people change themselves to conform to fashion.
	C. The changes that occur according to the principle of use and disuse.
	D. The effects of the sun on the principle of use and disuse.
Question 27. The phrase "wither away" in line 2 is closest in meaning to____.
	A. split 	B. rot 	C. perish 	D. shrink
Question 28. The word "Those" in line 3 refers to___.
	A. organisms 	B. bodies 	C. parts 	D. muscles
Question 29. According to the passage, men who body build____.
	A. appear like sculptures	B. change their appearance
	C. belong to strange cults	D. are very fashionable
Question 30. From the passage, it can be inferred that author views body building____.
	A. with enthusiasm	B. as an artistic from 	C. with scientific interest D. of doubtful benefic
Question 31. The word "horny" in line 9 is closest in meaning to____.
	A. firm	B. strong 	C. tough 	D. dense 
Question 32. It can be inferred from the passage that the principle of use and disuse enables organisms to____.
	A. change their existence 	B. automatically benefit
	C. survive in any condition	D. improve their lifetime
Question 33. The author suggests that melanin_____.
	A. is necessary for the production of vitamin-D	B. is beneficial in sunless climates
	C. helps protect fair-skinned people	D. is a synthetic product
Question 34. In the second paragraph, the author mentions sun tanning as an example of____.
	A. humans improving their local condition	B. humans surviving in adverse conditions
	C. humans using the principle of use and disuse	D. humans running the risk of skin cancer
Question 35. The word " susceptible" could be best replaced by____.
	A. condemned 	B. vulnerable 	C. allergic 	D. suggestible
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 36. A. recommend 	B. hurricane	 	C. photograph	D. separate
Question 37. A. explain	B. involve	C. purpose	D. control
Question 38. A. furnish	B. reason	C. promise	D. tonight
Question 39. A. specific	B. coincide	C. inventive	D. regardless
Question 40. A. habitable	B. infamously	C. geneticist	D. communes
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 from 41 to 50. THE HISTORY OF WRITING
The development of writing (41) ___ a huge difference to the world and might see it as the beginning of the (42) ____. Pieces of pottery with marks on that are probably numbers have been discovered in China that date from around 4000 BC. Hieroglyphics and other forms of "picture writing" developed in the (43)_____ around Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), where the ancient Sumerian civilization was based, from around 3300 BC onwards. However, the first (44) _____ alphabet was used by the Phoenicians around 1050 BC. Their alphabet had 22 letters and it is estimated that it lasted for 1000 years. The first two signs were called "aleph" and "beth", which in Greek became "alpha" and "beta", which gave us the (45)____ word "alphabet"
The modern European alphabet is based on the Greek and (46) ____ to other European countries under the Romans. A number of changes took place as time passed. The Romans added the letter G, and the letter J and V were (47) ____ to people in Shakespeare's time.
If we (48)____ the history of punctuation, we also find some interesting facts. The Romans used to write quaesto at the end of a sentence in (49) _____ to show that it was a question. they started to write Qo in (50) ____ of the whole word, and then put the Q above the o. In the end, that became the question mark "?"
Question 41. A. did 	B. had 	C. made 	D. took 
Question 42. A. media	B. bulletin 	C. programme 	D. journalism
Question 43. A. distance 	B. area 	C. length 	D. earth
Question 44. A. true 	B. accurate 	C. exact 	D. precise
Question 45. A. new 	B. trendy 	C. modern 	D. fashionable
Question 46. A. spread 	B. appeared 	C. was 	D. occurred
Question 47. A. infamous	B. unpopular	C. unknown	D. hidden
Question 48. A. look into 	B. bring on 	C. make off 	D. hold up
Question 49. A. turn 	B. fact 	C. order 	D. intention
Question 50. A. position 	B. space 	C. spot 	D. place
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 from 51 to 60.
You can usually tell when your friends are happy or angry by the looks on their faces or by their actions. This is useful because reading their emotional expressions helps you to know how to respond to them. Emotions have evolved to help us respond to important situations and to convey our intentions to others. But does raising the eyebrows and rounding the mouth say the same thing in Minneapolis as it does in Madagascar? Much research on emotional expressions has centered on such questions. 
 According to Paul Ekman, the leading researcher in this area, people speak and understand substantially the same “facial language”. Studies by Ekman’s group have demonstrated that humans share a set of universal emotional expressions that testify to the common biological heritage of the human species. Smiles, for example, signal happiness and frowns indicate sadness on the faces of people in such far- flung places as Argentina, Japan, Spain, Hungary, Poland , Sumatra ,the United States, Vietnam, the jungles of New Guinea , and the Eskimo villages north of Artic Circle. Ekman and his colleagues claim that people everywhere can recognize at least seven basic emotions: sadness, fear, anger, disgust, contempt, happiness, and surprise. There are, however, huge differences across cultures in both the context and intensity of emotional displays – the so called display rules. In many Asian cultures, for example, children are taught to control emotional responses – especially negative ones- while many American children are encouraged to express their feelings more openly. Regardless of culture, however, emotions usually show themselves, to some degree , in people’s behavior. From their first days of life, babies produce facial expressions that communicate their feelings. 
 The ability to read facial expressions develops early, too. Very young children pay close attention to facial expressions, and by age five, they nearly equal adults in their skill at reading emotions on people’s faces. This evidence all points to a biological underpinning for our abilities to express and interpret a basic set of human emotions. Moreover, as Charles Darwin pointed out over a century ago, some emotional expressions seem to appear across species boundaries. Cross - cultural psychologists tell us that certain emotional responses carry different meanings in different cultures. For example, what emotion do you suppose might be conveyed by sticking out your tongue? For Americans, this might indicate disgust, while in China it can signify surprise. Likewise, a grin on an American face may indicate joy, while on a Japanese face it may just as easily mean embarrassment. Clearly, culture influences emotional expressions.
Question 51. According to the passage, we respond to others by _________. 
	A. observing their looks 	C. watching their actions 
	B. observing their emotional expressions	D. looking at their faces
Question 52. Many studies on emotional expressions try to answer the question whether __________. 
 A. different cultures have similar emotional expressions. 
 B. eyebrow raising means the same in Minneapolis and Madagascar. 
 C. raising the eyebrows has similar meaning to rounding the mouth. 
rounding the mouth has the same meaning in Minneapolis and Madagascar. 
Question 53. The word “ evolved” in line 3 is closest in meaning to __________. 
	A. reduced	B. increased	C. simplified 	D. developed 
Question 54. Paul Ekman is mentioned in the passage as an example of ____________. 
	A. lacked many main ingredients 	B. researchers on universal language
researchers who can speak and understand many languages
investigators on universal emotional expressions
Question 55. Smiles and frowns __________.	
are universal expressions across cultures 	 C. do not convey the same emotions in various cultures
are not popular everywhere	 D. have different meanings in different cultures 
Question 56. The biggest difference lies in __________.
how long negative emotions are displayed B. how intensive emotions are expressed 
how emotional responses are controlled D. how often positive emotions are shown 
Question 57. Unlike American children, Asian children are encouraged to _______.
	A. control their emotions	C. display their emotions openly
	B. conceal their positive emotions 	D. change their behaviour 
Question 58. Young children _______.
spend a long time learning to read others’ emotions B. are sensitive towards others’ emotions
 C. make amazing progress in controlling their emotions D. take time to control their facial expressions 
Question 59. The phrase “ this evidence” in line 24 refers to _________.
the fact that children are good at recognizing others’ emotions C. human facial expressions 
a biological underpinning for humans to express emotions D. the fact that children can control their feelings 
Question 60. The best title for the passage is ________________.
Cultural universals in emotional expressions C. Ways to control emotional expressions 
C. review of research on emotional expressions D. Human habit of displaying emotions 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best way to complete each of the following sentences.
Question 61. A little farther down the street _________.
	A. is the inn I used to stay at.	B. there is an inn where I used to stay in
	C. the inn is the place where I used to stay	D. is there an inn in which I used to stay
Question 62. He came to Nairobi ____. A. with a view to climb Mt. Kenya	B. so for climbing Mt. Kenya
	C. intended to climb Mt. Kenya	D. with the intention of climbing Mt. Kenya
Question 63. Kate is committed to ____. A. buying goods from that shop 	B. buy goods from that shop
	C. that shop for buying goods	D. that shop to buy goods
Question 64. The children sing loudly _____.
	A. as though they are the winners	B. though they are the winners
	C. as if they were the winners	D. were they the winners
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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