Kỳ thi thử THPT Quốc gia năm 2017 môn thi Tiếng Anh

 SỞ GD-ĐT HÀ TĨNH	KỲ THI THỬ THPTQG NĂM 2017
TRƯỜNG THPT HỒNG LĨNH	 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
	 (Đề thi gồm 04 trang, 50 câu. Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút)
MÃ ĐỀ 01 00101
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounciated differently from the others’:
1. A. boxes	B. classes	C. potatoes	D. finishes
2. A. heir	B. exhausted	C. honorable 	D. heat
Choose the word whose stressed position is different from the others’:
3. A. prepare	B. happy	C. begin	D. release
4. A. especially	 B. comfortably	 C. carefully D. possibly
Choose the option among A, B, C, D which needs correcting to make the following sentences complete:
5. No sooner had they returned home from the holiday when Tony had to leave for a business trip.
 A B C D
6. We were short of money; therefore we decided to not eat out that weekend.
 A B C D
7. During the Middle Ages, handwriting notices kept groups of nobles informed of important events.
 A B C D
Choose the best response among A, B, C, D for each sentence below
8. “ I have a terrible headache.” “ ___________”
A. Maybe I’m not going to the doctor’s.	B. Not very well. Thanks. 
C. Maybe you should take a rest. 	D. Not bad. I’m not going to the doctor’s.
9. “Your boss looks like the aggressive type.” “__________”
A. You can say that again	B. Yes, he’s quite gentle. 
C. Really? I’ve never seen him lie. 	D. Right. He ‘s so quiet. 
Choose the word among A, B, C, D which best replaces the bold-underlined word in each sentence below:
10. Nearly all weather occurs in the troposphere, the lowest layer of the earths atmosphere.
A.Closely to	B. Barely	C. Almost	D. After
11. The ancient Egyptians viewed cats as sacred and honored them in art forms.
A. holy	B. pure	C. intact	D. haughty
Choose the word among A, B, C, D which has the OPPOSITE meaning with the bold-underlined word in each sentence below:
12. I clearly remember talking to him in a chance meeting last summer.
A.   unplanned            B.   deliberate             	C.   accidental             D. unintentional
13.  There has been no discernible improvement in the noise levels since lorries were banned.
A.   recognizable         B.   obvious                 	C.   perceivable           D. insignificant
Choose the best option among A, B, C, D to complete each sentence below:
14. One of the houses	 destroyed by fire three days ago.
	A. were	 B. are	 C. was	 	D. is
15. Can you find any.................... equipment in this department?
A. electric	B. electrified	C. electrical	D. electricity
16. Manchester United Team played much better than their opponents; they almost___ the match. 
	 A. dominated 	 B. eliminated	 C. activated	D. terminated
17. He wants to know____________________.
	A. what time the film began	B. what time the film began
	C. what time the film begins	D. what time does the film begin
18. She sat there saying nothing at all, but during all that time she was getting__________________. 
 Finally she exploded. 
	A. more and more angry B. the more angry	C. angrier and angrier D. the most angry
19. On the island _______ the only presentation of the Indian’ handicraft.
Trang 1-MĐ 01
 	A. remains	 B. does it remain	 C. did it remain	D. remain it
20. I like to keep the windows open at night no matter how cold it gets. My wife, ______, prefers a warm 
 bedroom with all windows tightly shut.
 A. in addition 	B. consequently	C. on the other hand	D. moreover
21. Damage to the building resulted________ an usual high wind.
	A. from	B. in	C. about	D. for
22. They share the same language, yet in other respects they are_______________from each other.
	A. worlds apart	B. miles apart	C. a lifetime apart	D. distances away
23. It was adviseable that he________________ there alone. It was too dangerous.
	A. didn’t go	B. not go	C. doesn’t go	D. hadn’t gone
24. At first she didn’t agree to give us a hand with that, yet actually I managed to ______________.
	A. bring her round	B. bring her up	C. bring her away	D. bring her over
25. Never__________________ until tomorrow what you can do today
	A. put up	B. put on 	C. put over	D. put off
Choose the best option among A, B, C, D which has the SAME meaning with the original sentence in 
each below:
26. He didn’t want to make a fuss with his wife at the public place, so he just kept silent
	 A. Although he didn’t want to make a fuss with his wife at the public place, he just kept silent	 
 B. He didn’t want to make a fuss with his wife at the public place, nevertheless he just kept silent
 C. So as not to make a fuss with his wife at the public place, he just kept silent	
 D. Due to not making a fuss with his wife at the public place, he just kept silent
27. The boy didn’t prepare for the test today; therefore he can’t finish it on time. 
	 A. If the boy had prepared for the test today, he could have finished it on time.
	 B. If the boy prepared for the test today, he could finish it on time.
 C. If the boy prepared for the test today, he could have finished it on time.
 D. If the boy had prepared for the test today, he could finish it on time.
28. People say that he was put into jail once for committing murder.
	 A. It was said that he was put into jail once for committing murder.
 B. He is said to be put into jail once for committing murder.
 C. He is said to have been put into jail once for committing murder.
 D. It is said him to have been put into jail once for committing murder. 
Choose the best option among A, B, C, D which best joins each pair of sentences below:
29. . She wrote the text. She selected the illustration as well. 
A. In order to select the illustration, she had to write the text. 
B. The text she wrote was not as goodas the illustration she selected. 
C. She not only wrote the text but also selected the illustration. 
D. If she had written the text, she would have selected the illustration 
30. She looked through the hotel advertisements. She stopped only when taking a fancy to one piece. 
A. She stopped looking through the hotel advertisements only when she had found another piece. 
B. She took so great a fancy to the hotel advertisements that she could not stop reading them. 
C. Only when one of the hotel advertisements caught her fancy did she stop reading them . 
D. She found the hotel advertisements so interesting that she could hardly turn away from them.
Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.
	To many people, their friends are the most important in their life. Really good friends always share joys and sorrows with you and never turn their (31)__________on you. Your best friend may be someone you have known all your life or someone you have grown up with.
Trang 2-MĐ 01
	There are all sorts of things that can bring (32)__________this special relationship. It may be the result of enjoying the same activities and sharing experiences. Most of us have met someone that we have immediately felt relaxed with (33)__________we had known them for ages. However, it really (34)__________you years to get to know someone well enough to consider your best friend.
	To the majority of us, this is someone we trust completely and who understands us better than anyone else. It’s the person you can tell him or her your most (35)__________secrets.
	31.A. hands	B. faces	C. backs	D. heads
	32.A. about	B. up	C. in	D. with
	33.A. even if	B. even now	C. even so	D. as if
	34.A. spends	B. takes	C. loses	D. gets
35.A. irritate	 B. imitate	 C. intimate	 D. initiate
Read the passage below carefully, then choose the correct answers (36-42).
Today, I’d like to begin a discussion on the problem of the heating up of the earth. First, we’ll touch on the relationship between fluorocarbons and the ozone layer. You probably remember that the ozone layer is the protective shield around the earth. It is important to all life, because it filters out harmful ultraviolet light from the sun. Ozone itself, a form of oxygen, is regularly made by the action of the sun in the upper atmosphere. It is also regularly destroyed by natural chemical processes.
 	The problem now is that too much of the ozone layer is being destroyed. Scientists suspect that certain chemicals, such as fluorocarbons, are contributing to the depletion of the ozone layer. And how do we use fluorocarbons? The most common uses are in spray cans and cooling systems. The chemical pollution from these fluorocarbons can account for some of the ozone losses that have been reported. There are, however, new studies linking the sun itself to the depletion of the ozone layer. We’ll go into that new study more next time. 
36. Who is the most likely speaker? 
A. A professor. 	B. A doctor. 	C. A mechanic. D. A chemist.	
37. The speaker’s main topic is ______.
A. ultraviolet light B. the use of spray cans 
C. air-conditioning systems D. fluorocarbons and the ozone layer
38. What does the word “filters out” in paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. separates	B. stops	C. prevents	D. keeps
39. What is the most important purpose of the ozone layer?
A. Providing fluorocarbons. B. Shielding the sun.
C. Protecting the earth. D. Destroying chemicals.	
40. What is the ozone layer made of?
A. Fluorocarbons. B. Oxygen. C. Shields. D. Ultraviolet light.
41. What does the word “depletion” in paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. deployment	B. deletion	C. destruction	D. departure
42. What will the speaker probably discuss next?
A. How to make air conditioners with fluorocarbons.B. The sun as a cause of ozone layer depletion.	
C. The make-up of the ozone layer. 	D. Harmful effects of ultraviolet light.
Read the passage below carefully, then choose the correct answers (43-50).
 In 1972, a century after the first national park in the United States was established at Yellowstone, legislation was passed to create the National Marine Sanctuaries Program.
The intent of this legislation was to provide protection to selected coastal habitats similar to that 
existing for land areas designated as national parks. The designation of an areas a marine sanctuary indicates that it is a protected area, just as a national park is. People are permitted to visit and observe there, but living organisms and their environments may not be harmed or removed.
 The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a branch of the United States Department of Commerce.
Trang 3-MĐ 01
Initially, 70 sites were proposed as candidates for sanctuary status. Two and a half decades later, only fifteen sanctuaries had been designated, with half of these established after 1978. They range in size 
from the very small (less than 1 square kilometer) Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California, extending over 15,744 square kilometers.
The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is a crucial part of new management practices in which whole communities of species, and not just individual species, are offered some degree of protection from habitat degradation and overexploitation. Only in this way can a reasonable degree of marine species diversity be maintained in a setting that also maintains the natural interrelationships that exist among these species.
Several other types of marine protected areas exist in the United States and other countries. The National Estuarine Research Reserve System, managed by the United States government, includes 23 designated and protected estuaries. Outside the United States, marine protected-area programs exist as marine parks, reserves, and preserves.
Over 100 designated areas exist around the periphery of the Caribbean Sea. Others range from the well-known Australian Great Barrer Reef Marine Park to lesser-known parks in countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, where tourism is placing growing pressures on fragile coral reef systems. As state, national, and international agencies come to recognize the importance of conserving marine biodiversity, marine projected areas. whether as sanctuaries, parks, or estuarine reserves, will play an increasingly important role in preserving that diversity.
43. What does the passage mainly discuss? 
 A. Differences among marine parks, sanctuaries, and reserves
 B. Various marine conservation programs C. International agreements on coastal protection 
 D. Similarities between land and sea protected environments 
44. The word “intent” in line 3 is closest in meaning to 
 A. repetition 	B. approval	C. goal	D. revision 
45. The word “these” in line 10 refers to 
 A. sites 	B. candidates 	C. decades 	D. sanctuaries 
46. The passage mentions the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (line 12) as an example of a sanctuary that 
 A. is not well know 	B. covers a large area 
 C. is smaller than the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary 
 D. was not originally proposed for sanctuary status 
47. According to the passage, when was the National Marine Sanctuaries Program established? 
 A. Before 1972	B. After 1987 
 C. One hundred years before national parks were established 
 D. One hundred years after Yellowstone National Park was established 
48. According to the passage, all of the following are achievements of the National Marine Sanctuaries 
 Program EXCEPT
 A. the discovery of several new marine organisms 
 B. the preservation of connections between individual marine species 
 C. the protection of coastal habitats 
 D. the establishment of areas where the public can observe marine life 
49. The word “periphery” in line 22 is closest in meaning to 
 A. depth 	B. landmass 	C. warm habitat 	D. outer edge 
50. The passage mentions which of the following as a threat to marine areas outside the United States? 
 A. Limitations in financial support 	B. The use of marine species as food 
 C. Variability of the climate 	D. Increases in tourism 
 ============ THE END ============
Trang 4-MĐ 01
 SỞ GD-ĐT HÀ TĨNH	KỲ THI THỬ THPTQG NĂM 2017
TRƯỜNG THPT HỒNG LĨNH	 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
	 (Đề thi gồm 04 trang, 50 câu. Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút)
MÃ ĐỀ 02 00101
Choose the word among A, B, C, D which best replaces the bold-underlined word in each sentence below:
1. Nearly all weather occurs in the troposphere, the lowest layer of the earths atmosphere.
A.Closely to	B. Barely	C. Almost	D. After
2. The ancient Egyptians viewed cats as sacred and honored them in art forms.
A. holy	B. pure	C. intact	D. haughty
Choose the word among A, B, C, D which has the OPPOSITE meaning with the bold-underlined word in each sentence below:
3.  There has been no discernible improvement in the noise levels since lorries were banned.
A.   recognizable         B.   obvious                 	C.   perceivable           D. insignificant
4. I clearly remember talking to him in a chance meeting last summer.
A.   unplanned            B.   deliberate             	C.   accidental             D. unintentional
Choose the best option among A, B, C, D to complete each sentence below:
5. On the island _______ the only presentation of the Indian’ handicraft.
	 A. remains	 B. does it remain	 C. did it remain	D. remain it
6. I like to keep the windows open at night no matter how cold it gets. My wife, ______, prefers a warm 
 bedroom with all windows tightly shut.
 A. in addition 	B. consequently	C. on the other hand	D. moreover
7. Damage to the building resulted________ an usual high wind.
	A. from	B. in	C. about	D. for
8. They share the same language, yet in other respects they are_______________from each other.
	A. worlds apart	B. miles apart	C. a lifetime apart	D. distances away
9. It was adviseable that he________________ there alone. It was too dangerous.
	A. didn’t go	B. not go	C. doesn’t go	D. hadn’t gone
10. At first she didn’t agree to give us a hand with that, yet actually I managed to ______________.
	A. bring her round	B. bring her up	C. bring her away	D. bring her over
11. Never__________________ until tomorrow what you can do today
	A. put up	B. put on 	C. put over	D. put off
12. One of the houses	 destroyed by fire three days ago.
	A. were	 B. are	 C. was	 	D. is
13. Can you find any.................... equipment in this department?
A. electric	B. electrified	C. electrical	D. electricity
14. Manchester United Team played much better than their opponents; they almost___ the match. 
	 A. dominated 	 B. eliminated	 C. activated	D. terminated
15. He wants to know____________________.
	A. what time the film began	B. what time the film began
	C. what time the film begins	D. what time does the film begin
16. She sat there saying nothing at all, but during all that time she was getting__________________. 
 Finally she exploded. 
	A. more and more angry B. the more angry	C. angrier and angrier D. the most angry
Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.
	To many people, their friends are the most important in their life. Really good friends always share joys and sorrows with you and never turn their (17)__________on you. Your best friend may be someone you have known all your life or someone you have grown up with.
Trang 1-MĐ 02
	There are all sorts of things that can bring (18)__________this special relationship. It may be the 
result of enjoying the same activities and sharing experiences. Most of us have met someone that we have immediately felt relaxed with (19)__________we had known them for ages. However, it really (20)__________you years to get to know someone well enough to consider your best friend.
	To the majority of us, this is someone we trust completely and who understands us better than anyone else. It’s the person you can tell him or her your most (21)__________secrets.
	17. A. hands	B. faces	C. backs	D. heads
	18. A. about	B. up	C. in	D. with
	19. A. even if	B. even now	C. even so	D. as if
	20. A. spends	B. takes	C. loses	D. gets
21. A. irritate	 B. imitate	 C. intimate	 D. initiate
Choose the best option among A, B, C, D which has the SAME meaning with the original sentence in 
each below:
22. He didn’t want to make a fuss with his wife at the public place, so he just kept silent
	 A. Although he didn’t want to make a fuss with his wife at the public place, he just kept silent	 
 B. He didn’t want to make a fuss with his wife at the public place, nevertheless he just kept silent
 C. So as not to make a fuss with his wife at the public place, he just kept silent	
 D. Due to not making a fuss with his wife at the public place, he just kept silent
23. The boy didn’t prepare for the test today; therefore he can’t finish it on time. 
	 A. If the boy had prepared for the test today, he could have finished it on time.
	 B. If the boy prepared for the test today, he could finish it on time.
 C. If the boy prepared for the test today, he could have finished it on time.
 D. If the boy had prepared for the test today, he could finish it on time.
24. People say that he was put into jail once for committing murder.
	 A. It was said that he was put into jail once for committing murder.
 B. He is said to be put into jail once for committing murder.
 C. He is said to have been put into jail once for committing murder.
 D. It is said him to have been put into jail once for committing murder. 
Choose the best option among A, B, C, D which best joins each pair of sentences below:
25. She wrote the text. She selected the illustration as well. 
A. In order to select the illustration, she had to write the text. 
B. The text she wrote was not as goodas the illustration she selected. 
C. She not only wrote the text but also selected the illustration. 
D. If she had written the text, she would have selected the illustration 
26. She looked through the hotel advertisements. She stopped only when taking a fancy to one piece. 
A. She stopped looking through the hotel advertisements only when she had found another piece. 
B. She took so great a fancy to the hotel advertisements that she could not stop reading them. 
C. Only when one of the hotel advertisements caught her fancy did she stop reading them . 
D. She found the hotel advertisements so interesting that she could hardly turn away from them.
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounciated differently from the others’:
27. A. boxes	B. classes	C. potatoes	D. finishes
28. A. heir	B. exhausted	C. honorable 	D. heat
Choose the word whose stressed position is different from the others’:
29. A. prepare	B. happy	C. begin	D. release
30. A. especially	 B. comfortably	 C. carefully D. possibly
Choose the option among A, B, C, D which needs correcting to make the following sentences complete:
31. No sooner had they returned home from the holiday when Tony had to leave for a business trip.
 A B C D
Trang 2-MĐ 02
32. We were short of money; therefore we decided to not eat out that weekend.
 A B C D
33. During the Middle Ages, handwriting notices kept groups of nobles informed of important events.
 A B C D
Choose the best response among A, B, C, D for each sentence below
34. “ I have a terrible headache.” “ ___________”
A. Maybe I’m not going to the doctor’s.	B. Not very well. Thanks. 
C. Maybe you should take a rest. 	D. Not bad. I’m not going to the doctor’s.
35. “Your boss looks like the aggressive type.” “__________”
A. You can say that again	B. Yes, he’s quite gentle. 
C. Really? I’ve never seen him lie. 	D. Right. He ‘s so quiet. 
Read the passage below carefully, then choose the correct answers (36-43).
 In 1972, a century after the first national park in the United States was established at Yellowstone, legislation was passed to create the National Marine Sanctuaries Program.
The intent of this legislation was to provide protection to selected coastal habitats similar to that 
existing for land areas designated as national parks. The designation of an areas a marine sanctuary indicates that it is a protected area, just as a national park is. People are permitted to visit and observe there, but living organisms and their environments may not be harmed or removed.
 The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a branch of the United States Department of Commerce.
Initially, 70 sites were proposed as candidates for sanctuary status. Two and a half decades later, only fifteen sanctuaries had been designated, with half of these established after 1978. They range in size from the very small (less than 1 square kilometer) Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California, extending over 15,744 square kilometers.
The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is a crucial part of new management practices in which whole communities of species, and not just individual species, are offered some degree of protection from habitat degradation and overexploitation. Only in this way can a reasonable degree of marine species diversity be maintained in a setting that also maintains the natural interrelationships that exist among these species.
Several other types of marine protected areas exist in the United States and other countries. The National Estuarine Research Reserve System, managed by the United States government, includes 23 designated and protected estuaries. Outside the United States, marine protected-area programs exist as marine parks, reserves, and preserves.
Over 100 designated areas exist around the periphery of the Caribbean Sea. Others range from the well-known Australian Great Barrer Reef Marine Park to lesser-known parks in countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, where tourism is placing growing pressures on fragile coral reef systems. As state, national, and international agencies come to recognize the importance of conserving marine biodiversity, marine projected areas. whether as sanctuaries, parks, or estuarine reserves, will play an increasingly important role in preserving that diversity.
36. What does the passage mainly discuss? 
 A. Differences among marine parks, sanctuaries, and reserves
 B. Various marine conservation programs C. International agreements on coastal protection 
 D. Similarities between land and sea protected environments 
37. The word “intent” in line 3 is closest in meaning to 
 A. repetition 	B. approval	C. goal	D. revision 
38. The word “these” in line 10 refers to 
 A. sites 	B. candidates 	C. decades 	D. sanctuaries 
39. The passage mentions the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (line 12) as an example of a
Trang 3-MĐ 02
 sanctuary that 
 A. is not well know 	B. covers a large area 
 C. is smaller than the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary 
 D. was not originally proposed for sanctuary status 
40. According to the passage, when was the National Marine Sanctuaries Program established? 
 A. Before 1972	B. After 1987 
 C. One hundred years before national parks were established 
 D. One hundred years after Yellowstone National Park was established 
41. According to the passage, all of the following are achievements of the National Marine Sanctuaries 
 Program EXCEPT
 A. the discovery of several new marine organisms 
 B. the preservation of connections between individual marine species 
 C. the protection of coastal habitats 
 D. the establishment of areas where the public can observe marine life 
42. The word “periphery” in line 22 is closest in meaning to 
 A. depth 	B. landmass 	C. warm habitat 	D. outer edge 
43. The passage mentions which of the following as a threat to marine areas outside the United States? 
 A. Limitations in financial support 	B. The use of marine species as food 
 C. Variability of the climate 	D. Increases in tourism 
Read the passage below carefully, then choose the correct answers (44-50).
Today, I’d like to begin a discussion on the problem of the heating up of the earth. First, we’ll touch on the relationship between fluorocarbons and the ozone layer. You probably remember that the ozone layer is the protective shield around the earth. It is important to all life, because it filters out harmful ultraviolet light from the sun. Ozone itself, a form of oxygen, is regularly made by the action of the sun in the upper atmosphere. It is also regularly destroyed by natural chemical processes.
 	The problem now is that too much of the ozone layer is being destroyed. Scientists suspect that certain chemicals, such as fluorocarbons, are contributing to the depletion of the ozone layer. And how do we use fluorocarbons? The most common uses are in spray cans and cooling systems. The chemical pollution from these fluorocarbons can account for some of the ozone losses that have been reported. There are, however, new studies linking the sun itself to the depletion of the ozone layer. We’ll go into that new study more next time. 
44. Who is the most likely speaker? 
A. A professor. 	B. A doctor. 	C. A mechanic. D. A chemist.	
45. The speaker’s main topic is ______.
A. ultraviolet light B. the use of spray cans 
C. air-conditioning systems D. fluorocarbons and the ozone layer
46. What does the word “filters out” in paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. separates	B. stops	C. prevents	D. keeps
47. What is the most important purpose of the ozone layer?
A. Providing fluorocarbons. B. Shielding the sun.
C. Protecting the earth. D. Destroying chemicals.	
48. What is the ozone layer made of?
A. Fluorocarbons. B. Oxygen. C. Shields. D. Ultraviolet light.
49. What does the word “depletion” in paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. deployment	B. deletion	C. destruction	D. departure
50. What will the speaker probably discuss next?
A. How to make air conditioners with fluorocarbons.B. The sun as a cause of ozone layer depletion.	
C. The make-up of the ozone layer. 	D. Harmful effects of ultraviolet light.
Trang 4-MĐ 02
 ============ THE END ============
 SỞ GD-ĐT HÀ TĨNH	KỲ THI THỬ THPTQG NĂM 2017
TRƯỜNG THPT HỒNG LĨNH	 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
	 (Đề thi gồm 04 trang, 50 câu. Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút)
MÃ ĐỀ 03 00101
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounciated differently from the others’:
1. A. potatoes	B. classes	C. boxes	D. finishes
2. A. heir	B. heat	C. honorable 	D. exhausted
Choose the word whose stressed position is different from the others’:
3. A. prepare	B. release	C. begin	D. happy	
4. A. carefully 	 B. comfortably	 C. especially D. possibly
Choose the option among A, B, C, D which needs correcting to make the following sentences complete:
5. We were short of money; therefore we decided to not eat out that weekend.
 A B C D
6. No sooner had they returned home from the holiday when Tony had to leave for a business trip.
 A B C D
7. During the Middle Ages, handwriting notices kept groups of nobles informed of important events.
 A B C D
Choose the best response among A, B, C, D for each sentence below
8. “ I have a terrible headache.” “ ___________”
A. Maybe I’m not going to the doctor’s.	B. Maybe you should take a rest.. 
C. Not very well. Thanks	D. Not bad. I’m not going to the doctor’s.
9. “Your boss looks like the aggressive type.” “__________”
A. Right. He ‘s so quiet.	B. Yes, he’s quite gentle. 
C. Really? I’ve never seen him lie. 	D. You can say that again	 
Choose the word among A, B, C, D which best replaces the bold-underlined word in each sentence below:
10. Nearly all weather occurs in the troposphere, the lowest layer of the earths atmosphere.
A. Almost	B. Barely	C. Closely to	D. After
11. The ancient Egyptians viewed cats as sacred and honored them in art forms.
A. pure	B. holy	C. intact	D. haughty
Choose the word among A, B, C, D which has the OPPOSITE meaning with the bold-underlined word in each sentence below:
12. I clearly remember talking to him in a chance meeting last summer.
A.   unplanned            B. unintentional           	C.   accidental