Đề thi thử đại học lần 2 môn Tiếng Anh - Năm học 2017-2018 - Trường THPT Đoàn Thượng

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ĐỀ THI THỬ ĐẠI HỌC LẦN 2
NĂM HỌC 2017-2018
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút – 50 questions
Mã đề thi 149
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 sentence.
 Question 1. They were exposed to biased information, so they didn't know the true story.
	A. If they have exposed to the unbiased information, they could have seen the true story.
	B. If they got unbiased information, they could know the true story.
	C. If they had been exposed to unbiased information, they would have known the true story.
	D. If they had biased the information, they could have known the true story.
 Question 2. The staff couldn't have worked any harder, but they could not finish the order all the week.
	A. The staff, who couldn't finish the order, could not have worked as hard as they claimed they did.
	B. Throughout the week, the staff could not finish the order, which how they did not work as hard as they should have.
	C. Had the staff worked a little harder, they might have finished all the order by the end of the week.
	D. Throughout the week, less than the amount ordered could be produced, although the staff worked as hard as they could.
 Question 3. "If I were in your shoes, I would take her home after the party," he told me.
	A. He isn't wearing my shoes, so he can't take her home after the party.
	B. He suggested that I should take her home after the party.
	C. He would like to be me and take her home after the party.
	D. He advised me to put on my shoes and take her home after the party.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
 Question 4. The announcement was made. Everyone started to cheer.
	A. Everyone started to cheer, then the announcement was made.
	B. No sooner had everyone started cheering than the announcement was made.
	C. Everyone started to cheer, so the announcement was made.
	D. As soon as the announcement was made, everyone started to cheer.
 Question 5. Li-fi is quite a new technology. It uses common household LED light bulbs to enable data transfer. 
	A. Li-fi is quite a new technology, that uses common household LED light bulbs to enable data transfer.
	B. Li-fi is quite a new technology using common household LED light bulbs to enable data transfer.
	C. Li-fi is quite a new technology, which uses common household LED light bulbs to enable data transfer.
	D. Li-fi which is quite a new technology, uses common household LED light bulbs to enable data transfer.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
 Question 6. Training for the Olympics requires an enormous amount of work; athletes who want to compete must work extremely hard.
	A. really common	B. very large	C. hardly enough	D. quite unusual
 Question 7. Cao Cao, who was a Chinese warlord of the Eastern Han dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, is known as a very incredulous person.
	A. unimaginable	B. skeptical	C. excellent	D. incredible
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in the same group
 Question 8. A. struggles	B. areas	C. discriminates	D. pioneers
 Question 9. A. thoroughly	B. astronaut	C. compete	D. atmosphere
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
 Question 10. Fortunately, no one was injured in the accident as the motorist crashed into a stationary van.
	A. damaged	B. loaded	C. large	D. moving
 Question 11. Many great artists had never been acknowledged until after they were starved and dead.
	A. known	B. neglected	C. denied	D. abandoned
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the answer that best completes each of the following questions
 Question 12. Meghan Markle, who is to become a member of British Royal Family upon her ____ to Prince Harry on May 19th, 2018, is an American actress and humanitarian.
	A. marrying	B. marriage	C. marry	D. married
 Question 13. There are many researches _____ that various species of animals have been extinct.
	A. showing	B. shown	C. which shows	D. show
 Question 14. The match was _____ until an hour later because of the heavy snow.
	A. looked up	B. held up	C. turned up	D. called up
 Question 15. Researchers from Britain and the USA _____ an enzyme that could eat plastic while they _____ the structure of a natural enzyme evolving in a waste recycling center in Japan.
	A. were discovering, were examining	B. discovered, were examining
	C. discovered, examined	D. were discovering, examined
 Question 16. Rihanna, known for her hit songs and fearless spirit, is popular among Saudi women. Many are expected ____ her new makeup, called "Fenty".
	A. to buy	B. buy	C. buying	D. to buying
 Question 17. Smartphone technology can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it sends us unlimited amounts of information. On the other hand, this immediate ____ to information may become an addiction. 
	A. tendency	B. approach	C. access	D. trend
 Question 18. A workaholic is someone ____ works a lot of time and finds it difficult not to work.
	A. whom	B. whose	C. who	D. which
 Question 19. Children are especially _____ to food poisoning.
	A. open	B. affected	C. infectious	D. vulnerable
 Question 20. Life would be much better if there ____ no wars on earth.
	A. had	B. are	C. were	D. would be
 Question 21. John and Joanne will never know the truth, _____?
	A. won't they	B. won't they	C. will he	D. will they
 Question 22. I went to his house but didn't meet him yesterday. He ____ on business.
	A. must go	B. should have gone	C. must have gone	D. should go
 Question 23. He is the black _____ of his family. He was expelled from school and has been in prison twice.
	A. bird	B. dog	C. sheep	D. horse
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks
There are several key technologies which will, without doubt, (24)_______ the nature of work in the twenty first century, one of which is virtual reality. Appealing to several of your senses at once, this marvel of science presents images that respond instantaneously (25)_______ your movements. It allows people to behave as if they were somewhere completely different; this could be a place which existed hundreds of years ago, or a completely fictional one. At present, you need to wear bizarre-looking goggles to receive the images. (26)_______, as computers become smarter these will be replaced by more lightweight ones, which will be able to superimpose synthesized images onto the real world.
As software evolves, complex systems may be simplified into models which are (27)_______ longer beyond human comprehension. New ranks of specialists will clearly be needed to enable both expert (28)_______ amateur alike to access such applications. Clearly, the job opportunities this created for those trained in virtual reality will be immense.
(Adapted from New Proficiency Reading - Longman Exam Skills - Mary Stephens)
 Question 24. A. effect	B. account for	C. affect	D. influence on
 Question 25. A. on	B. for	C. with	D. to
 Question 26. A. Besides	B. Although	C. However	D. Therefore
 Question 27. A. much	B. any	C. not	D. no
 Question 28. A. also	B. and	C. as well	D. or
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
People are often surprised to learn just how long some varieties of trees can live. If asked to estimate the age of the oldest living trees on Earth, they often come up with guesses in the neighborhood of two or perhaps three hundred years. The real answer is considerably larger than that, more than five thousand years.
The tree that wins the prize for its considerable maturity is the bristlecone pine of California. This venerable pine predates wonders of the ancient world such as the pyramids of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and the Colossus of Rhodes. It is not nearly as tall as the giant redwood that is also found in California, and in fact it is actually not very tall compared with many other trees, often little more than five meters in height. This relatively short height may be one of the factors that aid the bristlecone pine living to a ripe old age-high winds and inclement weather cannot easily reach the shorter trees and cause damage. An additional factor that contributes to the long life of the bristlecone pine is that this type of tree has a high percentage of resin, which prevents rot from developing in the tree trunk and branches.
(TOEFL Reading)
 Question 29. What is the best title for the reading passage?
	A. The wonders of the ancient world	B. Three-hundred-year-old-forests
	C. The size of the bristlecone pine	D. An amazingly enduring tree
 Question 30. The expression "in the neighborhood of" in paragraph 1 could best be replaced by____.
	A. on the same block as	B. of approximately	C. located close to	D. with the friendliness of
 Question 31. It can be inferred from the passage that most people______.
	A. are quite accurate in their estimates of the ages of trees
	B. do not really have any idea how old the oldest trees on Earth are
	C. have two to three hundred trees in their neighborhoods
	D. can name some three-hundred-year-old-trees
 Question 32. According to the passage, approximately how old are the oldest living trees on Earth?
	A. Three hundred thousand years old	B. Five hundred years old
	C. Two hundred years old	D. Five thousand years old
 Question 33. The word "venerable" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
	A. unrecognizable	B. incredible	C. towering	D. ancient
 Question 34. The author mentions the Egyptian pyramids as an example of something that is____.
	A. extremely tall	B. believed to be strong	C. known to be old	D. far away
 Question 35. Which of the following is true about the bristlecone pine?
	A. It can be two to three hundred feet tall.	B. It is never more than five meters in height.
	C. It is as tall as the great pyramids.	D. It is short in comparison to many other trees.
 Question 36. The passage states that resin____.
	A. is found only in the bristlecone pine	B. helps stop rot from starting
	C. assists the tree trunks to develop	D. flows from the branches to the tree trunk
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
Saturn is huge - more than 700 times the size of Earth. However, it's extremely light - if you could find a big enough ocean to put it in, it would float! That's because Saturn is mostly made of gases, including helium, the gases that make balloons float. But it's the rings around Saturn that give the planet its unique look. And for hundreds of years, it's those rings that people have found so attractive.
At first, Saturn looks like it has just one large ring. However, it actually has seven major rings, and each is made up of thousands of smaller ones. In total, the rings are more than 250,000 kilometers across - that's over two-thirds of the distance from Earth to our moon! In spite of this, the rings are quite thin. In fact, on average, they're less than 50 meters thick.
From Earth, the rings look like they are solid, with clear edges. However, this is deceptive. They are actually made from billions of particles of rock and ice. Some particles are as small as a grain of sand. Others are the size of mountains.
Scientists now know a lot about Saturn, but it still holds many mysteries. Because of this, 17 countries worked together to build a spacecraft, called Cassini. Launched in October 1997, Cassini started sending information from Saturn to Earth in 2004. Its images and videos have been extremely valuable. For example, in 2008, scientists found evidence that one of Saturn's moons might contain basic life forms.
All these years later, Cassini still sends daily information back to Earth. Using this data, scientists will continue to make exciting new discoveries for many years to come.
(From Reading Adventure 3)
 Question 37. According to the passage, which is NOT TRUE about Saturn?
	A. Saturn is a huge but light planet.	B. Saturn is 700 times the size of Earth.
	C. Saturn has a large ocean, just like Earth. D. One of the things that make up Saturn is helium.
 Question 38. In total, Saturn has _____ ring(s).
	A. seven hundred	B. thousands of	C. a thousand	D. one
 Question 39. It can be inferred from the passage that_____
	A. Earth is bigger than Saturn.
	B. It is more than 250,000 kilometers from Earth to Earth's moon.
	C. What people have known about Saturn's rings is not true.
	D. There are mountains on Saturn's rings.
 Question 40. Why is Saturn a unique planet in the Solar system?
	A. It has rings.	B. It is mostly made of gases.
	C. It is a huge planet.	D. It looks like a balloon.
 Question 41. As used in paragraph 3, the word deceptive can be replaced by______.
	A. unreliable 	B. illusive	C. unbelievable	D. dishonest
 Question 42. Which is NOT an example of the data that Cassini sends back to Earth?
	A. videos	B. life forms	C. pictures	D. information
 Question 43. Which of the following is TRUE about Cassini spacecraft?
	A. Some of the videos from Cassini show life forms.
	B. Many countries had to work together to build Cassini because it was so expensive.
	C. Cassini has sent information about Saturn back to Earth since 1997.
	D. Cassini sends data everyday.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the most suitable response to each of the following exchanges.
 Question 44. Two guests who don't know each other well are at the same party.
Guest 1: "Would you mind closing the window? It's quite cold here."	Guest 2: "________."
	A. Yes, very soon	B. Not at all	C. Go ahead	D. Yes, certainly
 Question 45. Two students are talking about gender equality.
Duong: "From my point of view, husbands and wives should share the household chores equally."
Mai: "__________________."
	A. There's no doubt about it	B. It's a breathtaking view
	C. But you're right	D. You lied to me
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
 Question 46. A. between	B. signal	C. status	D. entrance
 Question 47. A. eradicate	B. politics	C. photography	D. musician
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correcting
 Question 48. Beside the ages of nine and fifteen, almost all young people undergo a rapid series of 
A	B	 C	D
physiological changes.	
 Question 49. Not everyone realizes that the most largest organ of the human body is the skin.
	A	B	C	 D
 Question 50. The governor, with his wife and children, are at home watching the election results on TV.
	 A	 B	C	 D
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