Đề thi thử đại học lần 2 năm 2009 môn Tiếng Anh - Mã đề thi 168

 SỞ GD & DT BẮC GIANG 	 ĐỀ THI THỬ ĐẠI HỌC NĂM 2009- (Lần 2)
TRƯỜNG THPT LẠNG GIANG SỐ 2 Môn thi: Tiếng Anh 
Mã đề thi 168
Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút: 80 câu trắc nghiệm (đề thi có 5 trang)
“Thí sinh không được sử dụng bất cứ tài liệu gì, kể cả từ điển”
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 1: 	A. enterprise	B. prevention	C. fertilize	D. implement
Question 2: 	A. challenge	B. eventually	C. resign	D. disease
Question 3: 	A. politics	B. impolite	C. advantageous	D. occupation
Question 4: 	A. sincere	B. portable	C. element	D. fortunate
Question 5: 	A. comprehend	B. spectacle	C. individual	D. unexpected
Choose the one word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) that best completes each sentence. Then mark your choice on the answer sheet.
Question 6: Do not use mobile phones during ______ and landing.
	A. flight off	B. take-off	C. lift off	D. mounting
Question 7: He thought that if he admitted he was afraid of swimming, he would lose _____ with his friends.
	A. weight	B. nerve	C. face	D. regard
Question 8: Once the air warms up. The snow should start to _____.
	A. dissolve	B. defrost	C. liquefy	D. thaw
Question 9: I have been working _____ quite a lot of pressure lately.
	A. in	B. with	C. on	D. under
Question 10: I was so tired that I _____ asleep in the chair.
	A. dropped	B. fell	C. went	D. became
Question 11: The shirt I was wearing today was torn, but I don’t think anyone _____.
	A. watched	B. remarked	C. mentioned	D. noticed
Question 12: They were really _____ about my idea of joining them in London.
	A. enthusiastic	B. keen	C. interested	D. willing
Question 13: When he was hit on the head, he _____ consciousness.
	A. lost	B. fell	C. missed	D. dropped
Question 14: No one was capable of breaking the _____ silence following the news.
	A. harsh	B. thick	C. stunned	D. punched
Question 15: The signal was extremely difficult to _____ .
	A. settle	B. decipher	C. capture	D. fix
Question 16: Everyone congratulated the T.V service on its excellent documentary _____.
	A. serials	B. series	C. sequels	D. soap operas
Question 17: ______ it not been for the torrential rain, we would have gone out.
	A. But	B. If	C. Had	D. Should
Question 18: When she first started work, she little thought she would _____ such difficulties.
	A. come up against	B. come into	C. come in for	D. come up with
Question 19: Some criminals are tally devoid of ______. 
	A. consciousness	B. consideration	C. conscience	D. conscientiousness
Question 20: Every delicacy Miss Cook produced is done _____.
	A. there and then	B. at will	C. to a turn	D. sooner or later
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following question.
Question 21:	A. clean	B. head	C. beat	D. teach
Question 22:	A. promise	B. devise	C. surprise	D. realise
Question 23:	A. delay	B. quay	C. play	D. break
Question 24:	A. caught	B. naught	C. fall	D. laugh
Question 25:	A. cattle	B. match	C. cater	D. dash
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
Question 26: One of the primary cause of road accidents is driving after drinking
	A	 B C D
Question 27: Of the much factors that contributed to the growth of international tourism in the 1950’s, one 
	A	B	 C	of the most important was the advent of jet travel in 1958.
	D
Question 28: California has more land under irrigation than any another state.
	 A	 B	 C D
Question 29: By the mid-nineteenth century, land was such expensive in large city that architects began to 
	 A	B	
conserve space by designing skyscrapers.
	 C D
Question 30: By studying the fossils of pollen, which extremely resistant to decay, researchers can gain 
	 A	 B	C
 	useful information about the vegetation of the past.
	 D
Choose the one word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) that best completes each sentence. Then mark your choice on the answer sheet.
Question 31: You are very quiet today. What have you got on your ______? 
	A. spirit	B. attention	C. mind	D. brain
Question 32: Instead of doing their own painting and papering, they hired a firm of ______ decorators.
	A. inside	B. inward	C. internal	D. interior
Question 33: - “More coffee? Anybody?” -“ _______”
	A. I don’t agree, I’m afraid	B. I’d love to
	C. Yes, please	D. It’s right, I think
Question 34: -“Do you like the weather here?” - “I wish it _______.”
	A. doesn’t rain	B. didn’t rain	C. won’t rain	D. hadn’t rain
Question 35: - “Oh, I’m really sorry”	- “_____”
	A. It was a pleasure.	B. That all right.	C. Thanks.	D. Yes, why?
Question 36: They made the fried chicken by mixing _____ flour with water, then flouring chicken.
	A. few	B. a few	C. little	D. a little
Question 37: You _____ the washing-up. I could have done it for you.
	A. needn’t have done	B. hadn’t to do	C. couldn’t have done	D. mustn’t have done
Question 38: _______ of the shop, my friend came in.
	A. Coming out	B. On coming out	C. When coming out	D. As I came out
Question 39: “Never say that again, _____?”
	A. won’t you	B. do you	C. don’t you	D. will you
Question 40: Widespread forest destruction _____ in this particular area.
	A. must have seen	B. ought to see	C. could have seen	D. can be seen
Question 41: _____ anything suspicious arises, please let me know at once.
	A. Should	B. Would	C. Can	D. did
Question 42: In some countries, on moral _____ that education shouldn’t be taxed, there is no tax on books.
	A. principle	B. idea	C. concept	D. reason
Question 43: Students are often advised to look at the first and last _____ of a book before attempting to read it in detail.
	A. paragraphs	B. headings	C. chapters	D. titles
Question 44: He traveled _____ for 20 years and then he decided to return home.
	A. farther away	B. far and wide	C. far from it	D. farthest of all
Question 45: I _____ several musicians around the time.
	A. came up with	B. made friends to	C. got back to	D. made acquaintance of
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Following each sentence are four statements or sentences (A, B, C, or D). Choose the sentence which is closest in meaning to the one in italics. Mark your choice on the answer sheet.
Question 46: If Janet had checked her purse, she wouldn’t have forgotten her license at home.
Janet forgot her purse and her license.
Janet forgot her license but not her purse.
Janet forgot her purse but not her license.
Janet forgot neither her license nor her purse.
Question 47: She reminded her daughters of their table manners.
She wanted her daughters to be more polite while eating.
She wanted her daughters to leave the dinner table.
She wanted her daughters to eat a little more slowly.
She wanted her daughters to remember all meal time.
Question 48: We hoped Rick would tell us what his new house was like.
We wanted to know the directions to Rick’s new house.
We wanted Rick to describe his new house for us.
We wanted Rick to tell us if he liked his new house.
We wanted Rick to tell us the price of his new house
Question 49: Look out for those falling rocks!
Let’s look for falling rocks
Don’t let those falling rocks hit you.
Look for these falling rocks.
Look out the window at those falling rocks.
Question 50: For this condition, a patient has a choice of treatments: Pills or shots.
A patient must take pills for this condition.
A patient should have an inoculation for this condition.
A patient needs neither pills or shots.
A patient can choose either pills or shots for this condition.
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 65.
 A life with birds
For nearly 17 years David Cope has worked as one of the Tower of London’s Yeoman Warders, (51) _____ known to tourists as Beefeaters. David, 64, lives in a three-bedroomed flat right at the (52) _____ of the Byward Tower, one of the gatehouses. “(53) ______ our bedroom we have a marvellous view of Tower Bridge and the Thames” says David.
The Tower of London is famous (54) _____ its ravens, the large black birds which have lived there for over three centuries. David immediately fascinated by the birds and when he was (55) _____ the post of Raven Master eight years ago he had no (56) ______ in accepting it. “The birds have become my life and I’m always (57) _____ of the fact that I am (58) ______ a tradition. The legend says that if the ravens leave the Tower, England will fall to enemies, and it’s my job to ( 59) ______ sure this doesn’t happen!”
David (60)_____ about four hours a day to the care of the ravens. He has grown to love them and the (61) _____ that he lives right next to them ideal. “I can (62) _____ a close eye on them all the time, and not just when I’m working.” (63) ______, David’s wife Mo was not (64) _____ on the idea of life in the Tower, but she too will be sad to leave when he retires next year. “When we look out of our windows we see history (65) _____ around us, and we are taking it in and storing it up for our future memories.”
Question 51:	A. more	B. better	C. sooner	D. very
Question 52:	A. height	B. summit	C. peak	D. top
Question 53:	A. Since	B. Out	C. From	D. Through
Question 54:	A. for	B. because	C. of	D. by
Question 55:	A. award	B. applied	C. presented	D. offered
Question 56:	A. regret	B. delay	C. hesitation	D. choice
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Question 57:	A. aware	B. knowing	C. pleased	D. delighted
Question 58:	A. holding	B. maintaining	C. surviving	D. lasting
Question 59:	A. take	B. make	C. have	D. keep
Question 60:	A. devotes	B. spends	C. passes	D. provides
Question 61:	A. reason	B. chance	C. opportunity	D. fact
Question 62:	A. hold	B. have	C. keep	D. put
Question 63:	A. Firstly	B. First of all	C. At first	D. First
Question 64:	A. interested	B. keen	C. fond	D. happy
Question 65:	A. every	B. all	C. much	D. so
Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) that the best completes each sentence. Then mark your choice on the answer sheet.
Question 66: Adult eagles let their offspring _____ near their original nesting area.
	A. build nests	B. builds nests	C. building nest	D. to build nest
Question 67: _____ are hot is a common misconception.
	A. All deserts	B. All deserts which	C. Of all deserts	D. That all deserts
Question 68: Only twenty years ago, most doctors agreed _____ truthful with their terminally ill patients, a trend that has reserved itself in modern medical practice.
	A. don’t be	B. not to be	C. we shouldn’t been	D. be not to
Question 69: _____ is enjoyable.
	A. Play cards	B. Playing cards	C. Cards	D. Cards play
Question 70: The vegetation in temperate zones all around the world is _____.
	A. similar	B. same as	C. like	D. resemble
Question 71: People with exceptionally high intelligence quotients may not be the best employees since they _____ is constantly changing.	
become bored of their work unless the job
are becoming boring in work unless the job
become bored with their work unless the job
work becoming bored unless the job
Question 72: The largest hotel on earth, _____.
the MGM Grand has 91 elevators and 5005 rooms
there are 91 elevators and 5005 rooms in the MGM Grand
91 elevators and 5005 rooms are in the MGM Grand
it is the MGM Grand that has 91 elevators and 5005 room
Question 73: A lodestone is _____.
an occurring naturally magnet
a magnet naturally occurring
naturally a magnet occurring
a naturally occurring magnet
Question 74: After 116 million dollars had been spent, the Supreme Court stopped construction of the dam because of a little fish, _____.
the famous endangered snail darter
it was the famous endangered snail darter
being the famous endangered snail darter
which the famous endangered snail darter
Question 75: _____ since the death of her father.
The ancestral home of my mother abandoned
My mother’s ancestral home standing abandoned
My mother’s ancestral home has stood abandoned
My mother’s ancestral home which has stood abandoned
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Read the passage and choose one the best answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the questions. Then mark your choice on the answer sheet.
	Memory is a vital characteristic of the human species. Organisms evolve to adapt to their environments in many different ways. There are, however, two broad classes of adaptation. The first of these involves preprogramming the organism to cope with its environment so that it is born with all the necessary instincts and equipment to operate efficiently and effectively with virtually no learning. This is clearly a very successful means of adaptation and has enabled an enormous range of organisms, from plants, bacteria, and insects to (simple) vertebrates, to continue to flourish for millions of years. Such organisms have their mode of adaptation “wired in” and, such, have minimal need for learning or memory.
	The school involves the production of an organism which is adaptable. Here, there is much less preprogramming, and the organism is left to modify its behavior in response to its environment. This allows for considerably greater complexity and variability of behavior. It also demands a larger brain and is heavily dependent on the capacity to learn and remember. The human race is the obvious example of this from of evolution – our ability to learn and remember has allow us to develop tools and language, technologies which in turn vastly increased our ability to store and communicate yet more information through writing, and subsequently films, videos, and computers, all of which can be regarded as an extension of the memory. However, without the individual’s memory, the vast storage of information in the libraries all over the world would be incomprehensible. Accordingly, the ability to learn and remember, allowing as it does for the development of language, is perhaps out most crucial characteristic.
Question 76: The author mentions all of the following in connection with the first class of adaptation EXCEPT
Ability to deal with the environment.
State of being programmed in advance.
Process of being wired into equipment.
Possession of the requisite instincts.
Question 77: According to the passage, many organisms have existed for millions of years because they
have inbuilt resources.
continually adapt to the environment.
have no memory.
are unable to learn.
Question 78: According to the passage, the organism of the second class
changes the behavior constantly.
relies upon its memory.
modifies the environment.
learns very quickly.
Question 79: The author suggests that a human being’s memory is
partly responsible for the growth of the language.
a tool used for understanding.
supported by technological advances.
dependent upon the storage of writing.
Question 80: It can be inferred from the passage that man’s most important characteristic is
the ability to speak.
the capacity to remember.
the skill of storing information.
an aptitude for writing.
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