Đề thi thử môn Tiếng Anh THPT Quốc gia 2017

TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC NGOẠI THƯƠNG 
VIỆN KINH TẾ & THƯƠNG MẠI 
QUỐC TẾ 
 ĐỀ THI THỬ TIẾNG ANH THPT QUỐC GIA 2017 
Thời gian làm bài 60 phút, không kế thời gian phát đề 
Kỳ thi ngày 16/04 
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part 
differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions. 
Question 1: A. massage B. garage C. collage D. message 
Question 2: A. cantaloupe B. catastrophe C. recipe D. apostrophe 
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part 
differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions. 
Question 3: A. assistance B. consider C. politely D. compliment 
Question 4: A. prevent B. depend C. mayhem D. condemn 
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs 
correction in each of the following questions. 
Question 5: To eliminate any delays on handover, we would remember you to bring all the 
 A B C 
necessary documentation. 
 D 
Question 6: If the water level had raised a little higher, the dam would probably have broken. 
 A B C D 
Question 7: The nitrogen makes up over 78 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere, the gaseous mass 
 A B C 
surrounding the planet. 
 D 
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the 
following questions. 
Question 8: When the electricity failed, he ______ a match to find the candles. 
 A. rubbed B. scratched C. struck D. started 
Question 9: Doctors advise people who are deficient ______ Vitamin C to eat fruits and vegetables. 
 A. from B. of C. in D. for 
Question 10: Going on this diet has really ______ me good. I’ve lost weight and I feel fantastic! 
 A. done B. taken C. made D. had 
Question 11: Once again poor Colin has been _____ for promotion. 
 A. stood by B. passed over C. locked out D. struck off 
Question 12: Life expectancy in the third world is relatively short, ______ in the western world it 
has increased substantially. 
 A. whereas B. unlike C. however D. contrary 
Question 13: I have told her that I am not going to go ahead with my plans ______ she may think. 
 A. whether B. whatever C. however D. despite 
Question 14: The best way of writting a composition in a foreign language is to try and write 
______ thinking in your own language. 
 A. unless B. except C. without D. apart from 
Question 15: It is time every student ______ harder for the coming exam. 
 A. works B. should work C. work D. worked 
Question 16: It’s no use ______ a language if you don’t try to speak it too. 
 A. to learn B. learned C. learning D. learn 
Question 17: She ______ her neighbor’s children for the broken window. 
 A. blamed B. complained C. accused D. denied 
Question 18: This ring is only made of plastic, so it’s quite ______. 
 A. valuable B. invaluable C. worthless D. priceless 
Question 19: I recommended that she ___________ reduce her expenditure. 
 A. should B. must C. need D. would 
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to 
complete each of the following exchanges. 
Question 20: "How do you spell "accustomed"?" "_____" 
 A. It's a difficult word. B. It's a long word, isn't it? 
 C. I always have a dictionary. D. I'm not sure. I'll look it up for you. 
Question 21: "Do you mean he was fired?" "_____" 
 A. How should I know? B. Why should I care? 
 C. He's not very mean, I think. D. That's what Miriam told me. 
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase CLOSEST in 
meaning to the underlined word or phrase in each of the following questions. 
Question 22: During the recession, many small companies were eradicated. 
 A. taken over B. wiped out C. run on D. set up 
Question 23: For calculating a calendar, it is convenient to use the tropical solar year. 
 A. practical B. critical C. necessary D. appropriate 
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase OPPOSITE in 
meaning to the underlined word or phrase in each of the following questions. 
Question 24: The young are now far more materialistic than their precedents years ago. 
A. monetary B. greedy C. spiritual D. object-oriented 
Question 25: This shouldn’t be too taxing for you. 
 A. comfortable B. demanding C. easy D. relaxing 
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSET in 
meaning to each of the following questions. 
Question 26: A drug may affect several functions, even though it’s targeted at only one. 
 A. Despite various other uses, a drug usually has a function for a special effect. 
 B. The functions expected of a drug are various even if it is used for a specific disease. 
 C. However effective a drug may be, its functions have to be several. 
 D. A drug is taken for a specific purpose, but it may have a range of other effects. 
Question 27: Although he was able to do the job, he wasn’t given the position. 
 A. He was given neither the job nor the position. 
 B. Because he couldn’t do the job, he wasn’t given the position. 
 C. He got the position despite being unable to do the job. 
 D. The position wasn’t given to him in spite of his ability to do the job. 
Question 28: Due to the fact that the demand for tea was very high in the 19th century, its price 
increased much. 
 A. It was not until the 19th century that the demand for tea started to increase. 
 B. It was its price which decreased the demand for tea in the 19th century. 
 C. In the 19th century the price for tea didn’t increase despite the demand. 
 D. The demand for tea was so high in the 19th century that its price increased much 
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 29: The driver in front stopped so suddenly. Therefore, the accident happened. 
 A. If the driver in front didn’t stop so suddenly, the accident wouldn’t happen. 
 B. If the driver in front hadn’t stopped so suddenly, the accident wouldn’t have happened. 
 C. If the driver in front hadn’t stopped so suddenly, the accident would have happened. 
 D. If the driver in front had stopped so suddenly, the accident would have happened 
Question 30: The students may be intelligent. They will not get used to dealing with practical 
situations. 
 A. Intelligent as may be the students, they will get used to dealing with practical situations. 
 B. The students may be too intelligent to get used to dealing with practical situations. 
 C. The students will get used to dealing with practical situations although they are intelligent. 
 D. Intelligent as they may be, the students will not get used to dealing with practical situations. 
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 benefits each of the number blanks from 31 to 35. 
 When Hotmail was set up in 1996, it was not the huge success that it is today. But on every 
email sent via Hotmail, there was a line at the bottom saying, ‘Get your private, free e-mail at 
hotmail.com,’ providing them with a free advertisement. This simple idea soon paid (31) ______ and 
Hotmail went from strength to power. ICQ, which stands for ‘I seek you’, is an instant messaging 
service that (32)______ off in a similar way and made a (33)______. The popularity of ICQ spread 
because users recommended it to their friends so that they could have people to chat to online. The 
vast majority of Internet users tried it and it was eventually taken over by Netscape so as to control 
their competition. These are examples of what is known as “viral” communication – so called because 
the message spreads like a virus. It used to be said that Roll Royce never needed to advertise – despite 
(34)______ high cost of the luxury cars – because owners were more than happy to tell their friends 
and neighbors how satisfied they were. Nowadays, if you are (35) ____________ to the Internet, the 
word can be spread in half a second and, within a day; you might have indirectly communicated with 
millions of people. 
Question 31: A. up B. back C. off D. for 
Question 32: A. let B. set C. took D. gave 
Question 33: A. fortune B. treasure C. wealth D. prosperity 
Question 34: A. very B. its C. the D. a 
Question 35: A. associated B. joined C. downloaded D. connected 
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 following questions from 36 to 42. 
 Fish that live on the sea bottom benefit by being flat and hugging the contours. There are two 
very different types of flatfish and they have evolved in very separate ways. The skates and rays, 
relatives of the sharks, have become flat in what might be called the obvious way. Their bodies have 
grown out sideways to form great “wings”. They look as though they have been flattened but have 
remained symmetrical and “the right way up”. Conversely, fish such as plaice, sole, and halibut have 
become flat in a different way. There are bony fish which have a marked tendency to be flattened in a 
vertical direction; they are much “taller” than they are wide. They use their whole, vertically flattened 
bodies as swimming surfaces, which undulate through the water as they move. Therefore, when their 
ancestors migrated to the seabed, they lay on one side than on their bellies. However, this raises the 
problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively useless. In evolution 
this problem was solved by the lower eye “moving” around the other side. We see this process of 
moving around enacted in the development of every young bony flatfish. It starts life swimming near 
the surface, and is symmetrical and vertically flattened , but then the skull starts to grow in a strange 
asymmetrical twisted fashion, so that one eye, for instance the left, moves over the top of the head 
upwards, an old Picasso - like vision. Incidentally, some species of 20 flatfish settle on the right side, 
others on the left, and others on either side. 
Question 36: The passage is mainly concerned with ______. 
 A. symmetrical fish B. bony flatfish 
 C. evolution of flatfish D. different types of flatfish 
Question 37: The phrase “hugging the contours” means ______. 
 A. swimming to the seabed B. hiding in the sand at the bottom of the sea 
 C. floating just below the surface D. lying still on the sea bottom 
Question 38: It can be inferred from the passage that horizontal symmetrical fish ______. 
 A. have one eye each side of the head B. have one eye underneath the head 
 C. have two eyes on top of the head D. have eyes that move around the head 
Question 39: According to the passage, fish such as plaice ______. 
 A. have difficulties in swimming B. live near the surface 
 C. have poor eyesight D. have distorted head 
Question 40: The word “this” refers to ______. 
A. the migration of the ancestors 
B. the practice of lying on one side 
C. the problem of the one eye looking downwards 
D. the difficulty of the only one eye being use 
Quesion 41: According to the passage, the ability of a bony flatfish to move its eyes around is ______. 
 A. average B. weak C. excellent D. variable 
Question 42: It can be inferred from the passage that the early life of a flatfish is ______. 
 A. often confusing B. pretty normal C. very difficult D. full of danger 
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 following questions from 43 to 50. 
 The Beatles became the most popular group in rock music history. This quartet of 
extraordinarily talented musicians generated a phenomenal number of pieces that won gold records. 
They inspired a frenzy that transcended countries and economic strata. While all of them sang, John 
Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the majority of their songs. Originally, Lennon and five others 
formed a group called the Qurrymen in 1956 with Paul McCartney joining them later that year. George 
Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney, together with Stuart Sutcliffe, who played the bass guitar, 
and Pete Best on the drums, performed together in several bands for a few years, until they finally 
settled on the Silver Beatles in 1960. American rock musicians, such as Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley, 
influenced Lennon’s and McCartney’s music, whose first hits consisted of simple tunes and lyrics 
about young love, “Love me Do” and “Please, Please me”. The Beatles’ US tour propelled them to 
stardom and led to two movies “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help” filmed in 1964 and 1965. The so-
called British invasion of the United States was in full swing when they took the top five spots on the 
single chart, followed by the release of their first film. 
 During the 1960s, their music matured and acquired a sense of melody. The lyrics of their songs 
became deeper and gained in both imagination and meaning. Their popularity continued to grow as 
the Beatles turned their attention to social problems and political issues in “Nowhere Man” and 
“Eleanor Rigby”. Loneliness and nostalgia come through in their ballads “Michelle” and “Yesterday”, 
which fully displayed the group’s professional development and sophistication. Lennon’s sardonic 
music with lyric written in the first person, and Paul McCartney’s songs that created scenarios 
encouraged individuals to contribute to the character of the music produced by the group. In addition 
to their music, the Beatles set a social trend that popularized long hair, Indian music, and mod dress. 
 For a variety of reasons, the musicians began to drift apart, and their last concert took place in 
San Francisco in 1966. The newspaper and tabloids publicized their quarrels and lawsuits, and the 
much idolized group finally disbanded in 1970. However, their albums had outsold those of any other 
band in history. Although all of the Beatles continued to perform solo or form new rock groups alone, 
none could achieve the recognition and success that they had been to win together. 
Question 43: What does the passage mainly discuss? 
 A. The history and music of the Beatles 
 B. The history and milestones of rock music 
 C. The fashion and music popular in the 1960s 
 D. The creation and history of a music group 
Question 44: According to the passage, which of the Beatles had the greatest of musical talent? 
 A. John Lennon and Paul McCartney 
 B. George Harrison and John Lennon 
 C. Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best 
 D. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison 
Question 45: The author of the passage implied that the Beatles ______. 
 A. competed with American musicians B. wrote their music as a group 
 C. became popular relatively quickly D. were active in social movements 
Question 46: According to the passage, the Beatles’ fame grew as a result of ______. 
 A. Chucky Berry’s involment B. their American tour 
 C. two movies made in the US D. their first two hits 
Question 47: The author of the passage implied that over time, the music and lyrics by the Beatles 
______. 
 A. became more complex than at the beginning of their career 
 B. declined in quality and political significance 
 C. were dedicated to women named Eleanor and Michelle 
 D. made them the richest musicians in the world 
Question 48: According to the passage, when did the Beatles experience their greatest success? 
 A. In the lates 1950s B. After their break-up in 1970 
 C. During the early and mid-1960s D. Throughout their lifetime 
Question 49: The word “scerianos” is closest in meaning to ______. 
 A. sceneries B. situations C. life stories D. love themes 
Question 50: According to the passage, how did Lennon and McCartney enhance the music of the 
group? 
 A. They struggled to reach stardom in the U.S 
 B. They composed lyrics to scornful songs and ballads 
 C. Their music added distinctiveness to the Beatles’ repertoire 
 D. Their loneliness and sadness made their music popular