Đề thi tham khảo môn Tiếng Anh - Kỳ thi THPT Quốc gia năm học 2015-2016 - Bài số 1 - Trường THPT Hoàng Thái Hiếu

Hoang Thai Hieu High School
ĐỀ THAM KHẢO - KỲ THI THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2016
PRACTICE TEST 1
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. safe B. staff C. base D. basic
Question 2: A. discussion B. revision C. attention D. admission
Question 3: A. killed 	B. enjoyed C. described D. digested 
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word that differs from the others in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 4: A. maintain B. attitude 	C. determinate D. develop
Question 5: A. obedient B. confidence C. mischievous D. reference
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: After three days lost in the mountains, all the climbers arrived home .......................
 A. safe and good B. clear and sound C. safe and sound D. safe and well
Question 7: Television can make things memorable for the reason that it presents information ______ an effective way. 
A. with 	B. in 	C. on 	D. over 
Question 8: In my company, the director deputy usually........ the responsibility for organizing meetings and conferences.
 A. makes B. gets C. takes D. becomes
Question 9: It is interesting to take ______ a new hobby such as collecting stamps or going fishing. 
A. on 	B. in 	C. up 	D. over 
Question 10: Secondary education in Hong Kong is largely based on the British education _______.
 A. level 	B. work 	C. base 	D. system
Question 11: You should look up the meaning of new words in the dictionary ______ misuse them. 
A. so that not to 	B. so as not to 	C. so that not 	D. so not to 
Question 12:  get tired of answering the same questions every day?
 A. Have you ever B. Had you ever C. Do you ever D. Are you ever 
Question 13: The restaurants on the island are expensive, so it’s worth ______ a packed lunch. 
A. take 	B. to take 	C. taken 	D. taking 
Question 14: Due to ever more spreading poaching, there ______ a dramatic decline in the number of elephants over the last decade.
 A.has been	B. is	C. was	D. had been
Question 15: People don’t like the way he shows off, ______ ?
 A.don’t they	B. do they	C. does he	D. doesn’t he
Question 16: ______ that Columbus discovered America.
In 1492	B. There was in 1492	C. That was in 1492	D. It was in 1492
Question 17: The Americans are much more concerned than the Indians and the Chinese with physical _______.
 A. attraction	B. attractive	C. attractively	D. attractiveness 
Question 18: He is a very intelligent boy; _______, he sometimes gets bad marks.
 A.so	B. thus	C. otherwise	D. however
Question 19: She passed the National High School Graduation Exam with ________ colours.
 A.bright	B. flying	C. red	D. true
Question 20: Ann: “Do you need any help?”
	 Kate: “ _____.”
 A.That’s fine by me	B. No, thanks. I can manage
 C. I haven’t got a clue	D. That’s all for now.
Question 21: – How well you are playing! 
 A. Say it again. I like to hear your words 	B. Thank you too much
 C. Many thanks. That is a nice compliment	D. I think so. I am proud of myself 
Question 22: The more expensive a car is, ______ it is.
 A. the comfortabler	B. the most comfortable	
 C. the more comfortable	D. the more and more comfortable
Question 23: ______, he would have been able to pass the exam. 	
 	A. If he studied more 	B. If he were studying more
	C. Studying more 	D. Had he studied more
Question 24: The Titanic, ______, was supposed to be unsinkable.
	A. that sinking in 1922	B. which sank in 1922	
	C. sink in 1922	D. that sank in 1922
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) SIMILAR in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 25: What makes computer a miraculous device?
 A. strange	B. powerful	C. magical	D. excellent	
Question 26: It took women a long time to struggle for the right to vote.
 A. beat	B. fight	C. defeat	D. conquer
Question 27: Help and supports are rapidly sent to wherever there are victims of catastrophe.
 A. disorder	B. destruction	 	C. dismay	D. disaster
Question 28: Before the interview, you have to send a letter of application and your curriculum vitae.
 A. a letter of recommendation	
 B. a school report 
 C. a photocopy of academic certificate.	
 D. a short written record of someone’s education and previous jobs.	
Question 29: Hopefully more diseases will be eradicated in the near future.
 A. wiped out	B. cleared up	C. reduced	D. extinguished
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions
Question 30: I shouldn’t have tell her my big secret. Everybody knows about it now.
 A B C D
Question 31: The more we have babies listen to classical music, the intelligent they are.
 A B C D
Question 32: Helen likes to listen to music, to go to the cinema, to chat on the phone and going shopping.
 A B C D
Question 33: The man whom sons are in our class is leading a very hard life after his wife left him
 A B C D
Question 34: Hardly he had got downstairs when the phone stopped ringing.
 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 word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
      Environmental Concerns
	Earth is the only place we know of in the universe that can support human life. (35) _____ human activities are making the planet less fit to live on. As the western world (36) _____ on consuming two-thirds of the world's resources while half of the world's population do so just to stay alive we are rapidly destroying the (37) _____ resource we have by which all people can survive and prosper. Everywhere fertile soil is (38) _____ built on or washed into the sea. Renewable resources are exploited so much that they will never be able to recover (39) _____. We discharge pollutants into the atmosphere without any thought of the consequences. As a (40) _____ the planet's ability to support people is being reduced at the very time when rising human numbers and consumption are (41) _____ increasingly heavy demands on it. 
	The Earth's (42) _____ resources are there for us to use. We need food, water, air, energy, medicines, warmth, shelter and minerals to (43) _____ us fed, comfortable, healthy and active. If we are sensible in how we use the resources, they will (44) _____ indefinitely. But if we use them wastefully and excessively, they will soon run out and everyone will suffer.
Question 35: A. Although 	B. Yet 	C. Still 	D. Despite 
Question 36: A. continues 	B. repeats 	C. follows	D. carries 
Question 37: A. individual 	B. alone 	C. very 	D. solitary 
Question 38: A. neither 	B. sooner 	C. rather	D. either 
Question 39: A. utterly 	B. completely	C. quite 	D. greatly
Question 40: A. result 	B. reaction 	C. development 	D. product 
Question 41: A. making 	B. doing 	C. having 	D. taking 
Question 42: A. living 	B. real 	C. natural 	D. genuine 
Question 43: A. maintain	B. stay 	C. hold 	D. keep 
Question 44: A. remain 	B. go 	C. last 	D. stand 
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the answer to each of the questions from 45 to 54.
	During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost nothing was written about the contributions 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 from 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 of ordinary woman. The lives of ordinary people continued, generally, to be untold in the American histories being published.
Question 45: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The role of literature in early American histories
B. The place of American women in written histories
C. The keen sense of history shown by American women
D.The “great women” approach to history used by American historians
Question 46: The word “contemporary” in the 1st paragraph means that the history was
A. informative	B. thoughtful 	C. written at that time	 D. faultfinding
Question 47: In the first paragraph, Bradstreet, Warren, and Adams are mentioned to show that _______
A. a woman’s status was changed by marriage
B. even the contributions of outstanding women were ignored
C. only three women were able to get their writing published
D. poetry produced by women was more readily accepted than other writing by women
Question 48: The word “celebratory” in the 2nd paragraph means that the writings referred to ________
A. related to parties	B. religious	C. serious	D. full of praise
Question 49: The word “they” in the 2nd paragraph refers to________
A. efforts	B. authors	C. counterparts	D. sources
Question 50: In the 2nd paragraph, what weakness in nineteenth-century histories does the author point out?
A. They put too much emphasis on daily activities
B. They left out discussion of the influence of money on politics.
C. The sources of the information they were based on were not necessarily accurate.
D. They were printed on poor-quality paper.
Question 51: 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. Biographies of John Adams
C. Letters from a mother to a daughter advising her how to handle a family problem
D. Books about famous graduates of the country’s first college
Question 52: What use was made of the nineteenth-century women’s history materials in the Schlesinger Library and the Sophia Smith Collection?
A. They were combined and published in a multivolume encyclopedia
B. They formed the basis of college courses in the nineteenth century.
C. They provided valuable information for twentieth- century historical researchers.
D. They were shared among women’s colleges throughout the United States.
Question 53: In the last paragraph, the author mentions all of the following as possible roles of nineteenth-century “great women” EXCEPT ________
A. authors	B. reformers	
C. activists for women’s rights	D. politicians
Question 54: The word “representative” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _________
A. typical	B. satisfied	 C. supportive	D. distinctive
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the answer to each of the questions from 55 to 64.
Millions of people are using cell phones today. In many places, it is actually considered unusual not to use one. In many countries, cell phones are very popular with young people. They find that the phones are more than a means of communication - having a mobile phone shows that they are cool and connected. 
	The explosion in mobile phone use around the world has made some health professionals worried. Some doctors are concerned that in the future many people may suffer health problems from the use of mobile phones. In England, there has been a serious debate about this issue. Mobile phone companies are worried about the negative publicity of such ideas. They say that there is no proof that mobile phones are bad for your health.
	On the other hand, medical studies have shown changes in the brain cells of some people who use mobile phones. Signs of change in the tissues of the brain and head can be detected with modern scanning equipment. In one case, a traveling salesman had to retire at young age because of serious memory loss. He couldn't remember even simple tasks. He would often forget the name of his own son. This man used to talk on his mobile phone for about six hours a day, every day of his working week, for a couple of years. His family doctor blamed his mobile phone use, but his employer's doctor didn't agree.
	What is it that makes mobile phones potentially harmful? The answer is radiation. High-tech machines can detect very small amounts of radiation from mobile phones. Mobile phone companies agree that there is some radiation, but they say the amount is too small to worry about.
	As the discussion about their safety continues, it appears that it's best to use mobile phones less often. Use your regular phone if you want to talk for a long time. Use your mobile phone only when you really need it. Mobile phones can be very useful and convenient, especially in emergencies. In the future, mobile phones may have a warning label that says they are bad for your health. So for now, it's wise not to use your mobile phone too often	
Question 55: According to the passage, cell phones are especially popular with young people because __________ .
	A. they make them look more stylish.
	B. they keep the users alert all the time.
	C. they cannot be replaced by regular phones.
	D. they are indispensable in everyday communications.
Question 56: The word "means" in the passage most closely means ________ .
A. meanings	B. expression	C. transmission	D. method
Question 57: Doctors have tentatively concluded that cell phones may _________ .
A. cause some mental malfunction	B. change their users’ temperament.
C. change their users’ social behaviors.	D. damage their users’ emotions.
Question 58: "Negative publicity" in the passage most likely means _________ .
	A. widespread opinion about bad effects of cell phones.
	B. information on the lethal effects of cell phones.
	C. the negative public use of cell phones. 
	D. poor ideas about the effects of cell phones.
Question 59: The changes possibly caused by the cell phones are mainly concerned with ______ .
A. the smallest units of the brain.	B. the mobility of the mind and the body.
C. the resident memory. 	D. the arteries of the brain.
Question 60: The man mentioned in the passage, who used his cell phone too often, ________ .
A. had a problem with memory.	B. abandoned his family.
C. suffered serious loss of mental ability.	D. could no longer think lucidly.
Question 61: The word "potentially" in the passage most closely means _________ .
A. certainly	B. obviously	C. privately	D. possibly
Question 62: According to the passage, what makes mobile phones potentially harmful is ________ .
A. their radiant light.	 B. their raiding power.
C. their power of attraction.	D. their invisible rays.
Question 63: According to the writer, people should __________ .
	A. keep off mobile phones regularly. 	
	B. never use mobile phones in all cases.
	C. only use mobile phones in medical emergencies. 
	D. only use mobile phones in urgent cases.
Question 64: The most suitable title for the passage could be __________ .
	A. Technological Innovations and Their Price. 
	B. The Way Mobile Phones Work.
	C. The Reasons Why Mobile Phones Are Popular. 
	D. Mobile Phones: A Must of Our Time
WRITING:
Part I: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed before it.
Question 65: We have to widen the streets to help decrease traffic jam.
 The streets
 The streets have to be widened to help decrease traffic jam.
Question 66: I had just climbed to the first branch of the tree before I fell down
 Hardly.
	Hardly had I just climbed to the first branch of the tree when I fell down 
Question 67: It is against the rules to park your car here.
	You are ____________________________________________________________________
	You are not allowed to park your car here.
Question 68: She regretted not having invited him to her birthday party.
	She wished _________________________________________________________________
	She wished (that) she had invited him to her birthday party.
Question 69: The fire will go out if someone doesn’t put some more coal on.
	Unless _____________________________________________________________________
	Unless someone puts some more coal on, the fire will go out.
Part II: Write a paragraph to describe a job that you would like to do in the future. 
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GUIDELINES:
1. Which job would you like to do in the future / after graduation?
2. What attracts you to this job?
3. Where do you want to work?
4. What qualification do you need?
5. What are you doing to prepare for that job?
6. Why do you want to have that job?
7. What is the most important factor in choosing a job? (salary, interesting job, career promotion )
8. What do you think of the job that you are going to have?
The end