Đề thi thử THPT Quốc gia lần II môn Anh Văn - Năm học 2021-2022

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TRƯỜNG THPT NGUYỄN TRÃI
ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA LẦN II
NĂM HỌC 2021 – 2022
MÔN ANH VĂN
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút
Mã đề thi 
Họ, tên thí sinh:..........................................................................
Số báo danh:...............................................................................
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.
1. 	A. capture 	B. venture	C. lecture	D. mature
2. 	A. wicked 	B. shocked	C. naked 	D. legged 
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.
3. 	A. follow	B. repeat	C. design	D. suppose
4. 	A. supervisor	B. convenience	C. diversity	D. ability
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. 
5. The heads of school departments ______ particular responsibilities for the curriculum. 
A. bear	B. make	C. put	D. go
6. I _________ Alan for hours but he just doesn’t answer his mobile. I hope nothing’s wrong.
A. call	B. am calling	C. called	D. have been calling
7. The new Arts Centre seems to have been _________ construction for quite some time.
A. in	B. under	C. on	D. below
8. _________ there happen to be any reason for late delivery, please inform our Accounts Department.
A. Might	B. Could	C. Would	D. Should
9. You are going to apply for the job, and then you decided not to. So what _______?
A. Put you out	B. put you off 	C. turned you away	D. turned you off
10. Luckily, only _________ of the medicine got spilt.
A. little	B. a little	C. few	D. a few
11. It was _________ a victory that even Smith’s fans couldn’t believe it.
A. such surprising	B. so surprising 	C. too surprising	D. surprising enough
12. The computer has had an enormous _________ on the way we work.
A. impression	B. influence	C. change	D. alteration
13. The firm was found guilty of publishing a misleading and ______ advertisement
A. incentive	B. deceptive	C. complimentary	D. informative 
14. You know you can _________ in me at any time, don’t you?
A. confide	B. confirm	C. convey	D. disclose
15. We shouldn’t worry about paying for that advert. The cost is a _________ in the ocean in terms of the whole marketing budget.
A. drop	B. pin	C. seed	D. sand
16. Results show that relatively well nourished patients respond equally well to elemental diet as those with a poor ________ state.
A. nutritious	B. nutritional	C. nutrients	D. nutritiously 
17. He recently married a ________ woman.
 A. young beautiful Greek	B. beautiful young Greek	
C. Greek young beautiful	D. beautiful Greek young
18. The musicians delivered a rousing performance ______ they had rehearsed often. 
 A. though	B. as	C. once	D. yet
19. ______ five months for the fridge to be delivered, I decided to cancel the order.
 A. Having waited	B. Waiting	C. To wait 	D. Waited
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct response to each of the following exchanges. 
20. 	Peter: “Will you be able to come to the conference?
	Henry: “_________”
A. Of course, you will.	B. I’m afraid not.	
C. I’m sorry not.	D. You must be kidding.
21. 	Tourist: “Excuse me, where’s Darwin Road, please?”
	Harry: “_________”
A. I think you’re right.	B. Yes, that’s correct.	
C. Over there, I think.	D. OK, so long.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) SIMILAR in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. 
22. I’m sure we’ll all look back on this holiday with great pleasure. 
A. repeat	B. remember	C. overlook	D. ignore
23. The police were authorized to shoot whenever the kidnappers took action.
A. widely spoken	B. instantly disliked	
C. constantly followed	D. officially permitted
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
24. We'd better keep on our toes while we're walking along the dark portions of this street .
A. cautious	B. alert 	C. careless	D. thoughtful
25. We hope that sponsors will make a large donation to the next week’s fund.
A. those who agree to take money	B. those who take part in the fund
C. those who give money to the fund	D. those who watch the fund on TV
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions. 
26. Tony had such little money that he couldn’t buy a train ticket.
A. such little	B. couldn’t	C. buy	D. train ticket
27. It is common knowledge that the Earth is one of the eight planets to orbit the sun.
A. knowledge	B. the	C. one of	D. to orbit
28. From our points of view, we do not see how these changes will be beneficent to the company.
A. From	B. see	C. will	D. beneficent
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks. 
We know that there is no life on Mars. The Viking robot missions to the Red Planet proved that. The mission was (29) ______ to one man for the most part. Percival Lowell, a rich American businessman, suggested that Mars contained life. He was fascinated by Mars. He spent 23 years studying it. He was so (30) ______ involved in the search for Martian life that he built his own laboratory. It housed a huge telescope. At 7,000 feet (2.13km) (31) ______ sea level in a dry climate, it was a perfect site to view Mars. Lowell believed that he saw a network of lines (32) ______Mars. He also thought that the lines were built by intelligent life. There was also the chance that water was on the planet. He drew many maps in his notebooks. His idea (33) ______ the public's attention. People soon believed that life on Mars could exist.
29. A. instead	B. due	C. because	D. except
30. A. deeply	B. deepen	C. deep	D. depth
31. A. above	B. up	C. over	D. on
32. A. cross	B. crossing	C. to cross	D. crossed
33. A. achieved	B. made	C. absorbed	D. drew
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions. 
Earth Day
We celebrated Earth Day in my city last week. The idea of this special day began in the 1960s when life was very different. Few people talked, or even thought, about the environment. Most people had no idea how dirty our air and water were. This attitude bothered Gaylord Nelson, who was a senator in the US government, and he had an idea. If people around the world knew the planet was in danger, they might work harder to save it, so he just needed to get their attention. The first Earth Day was just in the United States but it led to events every year all around the world on April 22 or the nearest weekend, depending on where you are.
In my town, last Saturday afternoon lots of people rode their bikes from the park, around the town together and back to the park, taking as much time as they possibly could, so that the cars had to wait. Then we talked to all the drivers in cars which just had one person in them, to explain how wasteful that is and how much pollution it causes. The idea was to make people think about how much they use their cars. In other places, people collected plastic bags for a week and then made a pile of them in the town square. You can do anything as long as it makes people of all ages come together for a few hours and talk about the environment. Last year we had a big music event for young people. Some people said it was a waste of time, but there was information for people to read and announcements between the bands about how to help protect the environment.
34. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To encourage people to take part in this year's Earth Day.
B. To explain why Earth Day happens every year.
C. To compare the success of different events on Earth Day.
D. To offer advice to people arranging an Earth Day event.
35. According to the passage, Earth Day began because _______.
A. people had started to worry about damage to the environment
B. different governments decided it was a good idea
C. one man wanted people to know about the planet's problems
D. people were working hard to make the air and water cleaner
36. What happened on Earth Day this year in the writer's city?
A. Cars were not allowed in the city centre.
B. People cycled slowly through the streets.
C. There was a talk about the pollution made by cars.
D. Cars had to have more than one person in them.
37. What does the word “them” refer to?
A. cars	B. bags	C. people	D. drivers
38. What does the writer think is the most important thing about Earth Day events?
A. That people should become involved in them.
B. That they should attract young people.
C. That there should be some music.
D. That they should last all day.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions. 
What unusual or unique biological train led to the remarkable diversification and unchallenged success of the ants for ever 50 million years? The answer appears to be that they were the first group of predatory eusocial insects that both lived and foraged primarily in the soil and in rotting vegetation on the ground. Eusocial refers to a form of insect society characterized by specialization of tasks and cooperative care of the young; it is rare among insects. Richly organized colonies of the land made possible by eusociality enjoy several key advantages over solitary individuals.
Under most circumstances groups of workers are better able to forage for food and defend the nest, because they can switch from individual to group response and back again swiftly and according to need. When a food object or nest intruder is too large for one individual to handle, nestmates can be quickly assembled by alarm or recruitment signals. Equally important is the fact that the execution of multiple-step tasks is accomplished in a series-parallel sequence. That is, individual ants can specialize in particular steps, moving from one object (such as a larva to be fed) to another (a second larva to be fed). They do not need to carry each task to completion from start to finish – for example, to check the larva first, then collect the food, then feed the larva. Hence, if each link in the chain has many workers in attendance, a sense directed at any particular object is less likely to fail. Moreover, ants specializing in particular labor categories typically constitute a caste specialized by age or body form or both. There has been some documentation of the superiority in performance and net energetic yield of various castes for their modal tasks, although careful experimental studies are still relatively few. What makes ants unusual in the company of eusocial insects is the fact that they are the only eusocial predators (predators are animals that capture and feed on other animals) occupying the soil and ground litter. The eusocial termites live in the same places as ants and also have wingless workers, but they feed almost exclusively on dead vegetation.
38. Which of the following questions does the passage primarily answer?
A. How do individual ants adapt to specialized tasks?
B. What are the differences between social and solitary insects?
C. Why are ants predators?
D. Why have ants been able to thrive for such a long time?
39. The word "rotting" is closest in meaning to ______.
A. decaying	B. collected	C. expanding	D. cultivated
41. According to the passage, one thing eusocial insects can do is rapidly switch from ______.
A. one type of food consumption to another	
B. one environment to another	
C. a solitary task to a group task 	
D. a defensive to an offensive stance
42.	The task of feeding larvae is mentioned in the passage to demonstrate ______.
A. the advantages of specialization
B. the type of food that larvae are fed
C. the ways ant colonies train their young for adult tasks
D. the different stages of ant development
43. The author uses the word "Hence" to indicate ______.
A. a logical conclusion	
B. the next step in a sense of steps
C. a reason for further study	
D. the relationship among ants
44. All of the following terms are defined in the passage EXCEPT ______.
A. eusocial 	B. series-parallel sequence 	C. caste 	D. predators 
45. It can be inferred from the passage that one main difference between termites and ants is that termites ______.
A. live above ground	B. are eusocial
C. protect their nests	D. eat almost no animal substances
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to each of the following questions. 
46. Everyone was surprised that the singer had very little money when he died. 
A.	That the singer had very little money when he died was surprised to everyone.
b. The singer had very little money when he died, which was a surprise to everyone.
C. It came as no surprise to everyone to that the singer had very little money when he died.
D. It is surprising to everyone that the singer had very little money when he died.
47. She gets the job because she is qualified enough.
A. But for her job, she wouldn’t be qualified enough.
B. Were she qualified enough, she could get the job.
C. She couldn’t get the job unless she were qualified enough.
D. Had she been qualified enough, she couldn’t have been able to get the job.
48. Lucy thought the woman in front of her was her aunt. 
A. Lucy took up the woman in front of her as her aunt.
B. It was believed that Lucy’s aunt was sitting in front of her. 
C. The woman sitting in front of Lucy can’t have been her aunt.
D. Lucy took the woman in front of her for her aunt.
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.
49. I like these trees. I usually sit under their big branches to review the lessons. 
A. I like these trees, which I usually sit under to review the lessons.
B. I like these trees, under big branches of which I usually sit to review the lessons.
C. I like these trees, under whose big branches I usually sit to review the lessons.
D. I like these trees under the big branches of which I usually sit to review the lessons.
50. What a pity that the TV packed up. We cannot watch the world news now.
A. Had the TV not packed up, we could have watched the world news now.
B. If the TV had not packed up, we could watch the world news now.
C. If the TV didn’t pack up we could watch the world news now.
D. If it hadn’t been for the TV packed up, we could watch the world news now.