Đề thi môn Tiếng Anh - Thi thử THPT Quốc gia năm học 2015-2016 - Mã đề 109 - Trường THPT Nguyễn Trãi

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ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2016
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 
Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút
Mã đề thi 109
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MULTIPLE CHOICE (8 points)
I. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following sentences. 
Question 1: A. adopted	B. created	C. planned	D. included
Question 2: A. culture	B. society	C. civilization	D. century
II. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in the position of the main stress in each of the following sentences. 
Question 3: A. difficulty	B. information	C. understanding	D. entertainment
Question 4: A. maximum	B. certificate	C. inhabitant	D. investment
Question 5: A. maintain	B. expand	C. comment	D. approach
III. 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: You need to eat more fruits to stay .
A. healthy	B. health	C. healthiness	D. heathily
Question 7: I wish everything so expensive.
A. wouldn’t be	B. would be	C. weren’t	D. could be
Question 8: Tom: “Can I have another cup of tea?” 
 Christy: “______.”
A. Be yourself	B. Allow yourself	C. Do it yourself	D. Help yourself
Question 9: I ______ with my aunt when I am on holiday in Ho Chi Minh City next month.
A. will be staying	B. will have been staying
C. stay	D. will have stayed
Question 10: Staying in a hotel costs _______ renting a room in a dormitory for a week.
A. twice more than	B. twice as much as	C. twice as	D. as much as twice
Question 11: The success of the 22nd SEA Games had a great contribution of many _____volunteers.
A. supportive	B. supportively	C. support	D. supporter
Question 12: The man _____ a black suit is a football referee.
A. to wear	B. wearing	C. wears	D. who wear
Question 13: My sister and I look _______ but our personalities are quite different.
A. alike	B. like	C. Same	D. similar to
Question 14: Don’t spend time _______ about things that may never happen.
A. and worry	B. worried	C. to worry	D. worrying
Question 15: He got an excellent grade in his exam, _______ the fact that he had not worked very hard.
A. because of	B. in spite of	C. on account of	D. instead of
Question 16: _______ is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.
A. Bodybuilding	B. Badminton	C. Wrestling	D. Weightlifting
Question 17: I applied for the job but was _______.
A. got over	B. turned down	C. turned off	D. taken away
Question 18: According to the Red Cross 1998 had been _______ worst year for natural disasters in modern times.
A. Ø	B. an	C. the	D. a
Question 19: One's fingerprints are _______ other person.
A. different from any	B. differ from any
C. different from those of any	D. different from
Question 20: When a fire broke out in the Louvre, at least twenty _______ paintings were destroyed, including two by Picasso.
A. valueless	B. worthless	C. worthy	D. priceless
Question 21: I thought you said she was going away the next Sunday,_______ ?
A. didn't you	B. wasn't she	C. wasn't it	D. didn't I
Question 22: It was in 1989_________ the Berlin Wall collapsed.
A. which	B. that	C. what	D. when
Question 23: I asked her _________she understood what I was saying.
A. if	B. even if	C. if not	D. if only
Question 24: The museum is open to everybody. It ________ between 9am and 5pm.
A. can visit	B. visited	C. can be visited	D. visits
IV. 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. 
The first question we might ask is: What can you learn in college that will help you in being an employee? The schools teach (25) _______ 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 (26) _______. But very few students bother to learn it. This basic skill is the 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 (27) _______ your own thoughts and ideas to them so they will (28) _______ understand what you are driving and be persuaded.
 Of course, skill in expression is not enough (29) _______ itself. You must have something to say in the first place. The effectiveness of your job depends (30) _______ 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 (31) _______ teach. The foundations for skill in expression have to be (32) _______ early: an interest in and an ear (33) _______ 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 (34) _______ your school years, you may never have an opportunity again.
Question 25: A. great	B. a large	C. large	D. a great
Question 26: A. of knowing	B. how to know	C. knowing	D. to know
Question 27: A. present	B. represent	C. transfer	D. interpret
Question 28: A. as well	B. not	C. either	D. both
Question 29: A. on	B. in	C. for	D. by
Question 30: A. most on	B. on much	C. much on	D. on most
Question 31: A. hardly	B. quite	C. really	D. truly
Question 32: A. laid	B. lay	C. lain	D. lied
Question 33: A. in	B. for	C. if	D. by
Question 34: A. when	B. of	C. for	D. during
V. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. 
Today’s cars are smaller, safer, cleaner, and more economical than their predecessors, but the car of the future will be far more pollution-free than those on the road today. Several new types of automobile engines have already been developed than run on alternative sources of power, such as electricity, compressed natural gas, methanol, steam, hydrogen, and propane. Electricity, however, is the only zero-emission option presently available.
Although electric vehicles will not be truly practical until a powerful, compact battery or other dependable source of current is available, transport experts foresee a new assortment of electric vehicles entering everyday life: shorter-range commuter electric cars, three-wheeled neighborhood cars, electric delivery vans, bikes and trolleys.
As automakers work to develop practical electrical vehicles, urban planners and utility engineers are focusing on infrastructure systems to support and make the best use of the new cars. Public charging facilities will need to be as common as today’s gas stations. Public parking spots on the street or in commercial lots will need to be equipped with devices that allow drivers to charge their batteries while they stop, dine, or attend a concert. To encourage the use of electric vehicles, the most convenient parking in transportation centers might be reserved for electric cars.
Planners foresee electric shuttle buses, trains, buses and neighborhood vehicles all meeting at transit centers that would have facilities for charging and renting. Commuters will be able to rent a variety of electric cars to suit their needs: light trucks, one-person three-wheelers, small cars, or electric/gasoline hybrid cars for longer trips, which will no doubt take place on automated freeways capable of handling five times the number of vehicles that can be carried by freeway today.
Question 35: The following electrical vehicles are all mentioned in the passage EXCEPT
A. vans	B. trolleys	C. trains	D. planes
Question 36: The author’s purpose in the passage is to
A. narrate a story about alternative energy vehicles
B. support the invention of electric cars
C. criticize conventional vehicles
D. describe the possibilities for transportation in the future
Question 37: The passage would most likely be followed by details about
A. pollution restrictions in the future	B. automated freeways
C. electric shuttle buses	D. the neighborhood of the future
Question 38: The word “compact” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to
A. inexpensive	B. concentrated	C. squared	D. long-range
Question 39: In the second paragraph, the author implies that
A. a dependable source of electric energy will eventually be developed.
B. everyday life will stay much the same in the future.
C. a single electric vehicle will eventually replace several modes of transportation
D. electric vehicles are not practical for the future
Question 40: According to the passage, public parking lots of the future will be
A. as common as today’s gas stations	B. equipped with charging devices
C. more convenient than they are today	D. much larger than they are today
Question 41: The word “charging” in this passage refers to
A. credit cards	B. lightning	C. aggression	D. electricity
Question 42: The word “foresee” in this passage could best be replaced with
A. rely on	B. imagine	C. count on	D. invent
Question 43: The word “commuters” in paragraph 4 refers to
A. shoppers	B. cab drivers	C. daily travelers	D. visitors
Question 44: The word “hybrid” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to
A. hazardous	B. futuristic	C. automated	D. combination
VI. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction. 
Question 45: Many places of history, scientific, cultural, or scenic importance have been designated national monuments.
A. history	B. have been	C. cultural	D. national
Question 46: They were all looking forward to spend their holiday at the seaside the following year.
A. at	B. the following year	C. They were all	D. to spend
Question 47: Species become extinct or endangerment for a number of reasons, but the primary cause is the destruction of habitat by human activities.
A. by human activities	B. endangerment	C. reason	D. destruction
Question 48: Although species evolve differently, most of them adapt to a specific habitat or environment that best meets their survive needs.
A. that	B. Although	C. adapt	D. survive
Question 49: Without the particularly habitat, the species could not survive.
A. survive	B. particularly	C. Without	D. could
VII. 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. 
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost nothing was written about the contribution of women during the colonial period and the early history of the newly formed United States. Lacking the right to vote and absent from the seats of power, women were not considered an important force in history. Anne Bradstreet wrote some significant poetry in the seventeenth century, Mercy Otis Warren produced the best contemporary history of the American Revolution, and Abigail Adams penned important letters showing she exercised great political influence over her husband, John, the second President of the United States. But little or no notice was taken of these contributions. During these centuries, women remained invisible in history books. 
Throughout the nineteenth century, this lack of visibility continued, despite the efforts of female authors writing about women. These writers, like most of their male counterparts, were amateur historians. Their writings were celebratory in nature, and they were uncritical in their selection and use of sources.
During the nineteenth century, however, certain feminists showed a keen sense of history by keeping records of activities in which women were engaged. National, regional, and local women’s organizations compiled accounts of their doings. Personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, and souvenirs were saved and stored. These sources form the core of the two greatest collections of women’s history in the United States – one at the Elizabeth and Arthur Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, and the other the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. Such sources have provided valuable materials for later generations of historians.
Despite the gathering of more information about ordinary women during the nineteenth century, most of the writing about women conformed to the “great women” theory of history, just as much of mainstream American history concentrated on “great men”. To demonstrate that women were making significant contributions to American life, female authors singled out women leaders and wrote biographies, or else important women produced their autobiographies. Most of these leaders were involved in public life as reformers, activists working for women’s right to vote, or authors, and were not representative at all of the great mass of ordinary women. The lives of ordinary people continued, generally, to be untold in the American histories being published.
Question 50: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The keen sense of history shown by American women.
B. The “great women” approach to history used by American historians.
C. The place of American women in written histories.
D. The role of literature in early American histories.
Question 51: The word “contemporary” in the passage is closest in meaning to _______.
A. temporary	B. written at that time
C. belonging to the present time	D. past
Question 52: In the first paragraph, Bradstreet, Warren, and Adams are mentioned to show that _______.
A. a woman’s status was changed by marriage
B. poetry produced by women was more readily accepted than other writing by women
C. only three women were able to get their writing published
D. even the contributions of outstanding women were ignored
Question 53: The word “celebratory” in the passage means that the writings referred to were _______.
A. religious	B. serious	C. related to parties	D. full of praise
Question 54: The word “they” in the passage refers to _______.
A. authors	B. efforts	C. counterparts	D. sources
Question 55: In the second paragraph, what weakness in nineteenth-century histories does the author point out?
A. The sources of the information they were based on were not necessarily accurate.
B. They left out discussion of the influence on money on politics.
C. They were printed on poor quality paper.
D. They put too much emphasis on daily activities.
Question 56: On the basis of information in the third paragraph, which of the following would most likely have been collected by nineteenth-century feminist organizations?
A. Newspaper accounts of presidential election results.
B. Letters from a mother to a daughter advising her how to handle a family problem.
C. Biographies of John Adams.
D. Books about famous graduates of the country’s first college.
Question 57: What use was made of the nineteenth-century women’s history materials in the Schlesinger Library and the Sophia Smith Collection?
A. They formed the basis of college courses in the nineteenth-century.
B. They provided valuable information for twentieth century historical researchers.
C. They were combined and published in a multivolume encyclopedia about women.
D. They were shared among women’s colleges throughout the United States.
Question 58: In the last paragraph, the author mentions all of the following as possible roles of nineteenth-century “great women” EXCEPT _______.
A. activists for women’s rights	B. authors
C. reformers	D. politicians
Question 59: The word “representative” in the passage is closest in meaning to _______.
A. supportive	B. satisfied	C. distinctive	D. typical
VIII. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. 
Question 60: The emergence of supersonic travel opened new horizon for the military, tourism, and commerce.
A. profitable	B. urgency	C. explosion	D. appearance
Question 61: Many political radicals advocated that women should not be discriminated on the basic of their sex.
A. openly criticized	B. publicly supported	C. rightly claimed	D. publicly said
IX. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. 
Question 62: If you are at a loose end this weekend, I will show you round the city.
A. confident	B. free	C. reluctant.	D. occupied
Question 63: In some societies, language is associated with social class and education. People judge one’s level in society by the kind of language used.
A. not allowed by	B. dissimilar to	C. connected with	D. separated from
Question 64: Some animals make identical sounds when they sense danger. Thus, they appear to be communicating to each other.
A. loud	B. different	C. similar	D. frightening
WRITING (2 points)
Part I. (0.5 points) Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed before it. 
Question 65: Fiona has been typing the report for an hour. 
It is an hour________________________________________.
Question 66: Walking on the grass in the park is not permitted. 
We must___________________________________________.
Question 67: Mr. Smith spent four hours repairing his house.
It took ___________________________________________. 
Question 68: She asked John how he liked her new dress.
She asked John: “How _______________________________?”
Question 69: She prefers going to the library to staying at home. 
She would rather____________________________________.
Part II: (1.5 points). In about 140 words, write a paragraph about the following topic:
“Which international organization would you like to work for? And give the reasons to support your choice.”
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Part I. (0.5 points) Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed before it. 
Question 65: Fiona has been typing the report for an hour. 
It is an hour________________________________________.
It is an hour since Fiona started typing the report.
Question 66: Walking on the grass in the park is not permitted. 
We must___________________________________________.
We must not walk on the grass in the park. 
Question 67: Mr. Smith spent four hours repairing his house.
It took ___________________________________________. 
It took Mr. Smith four hours to repair his house.
Question 68: She asked John how he liked her new dress.
She asked John: “How _______________________________?”
She asked John: “How do you like my new dress?”
Question 69: She prefers going to the library to staying at home. 
She would rather____________________________________.
She would rather go to the library than stay at home.