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HOC24.VN 1 ĐẠI HỌC VINH TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA LẦN 2 - NĂM 2017 Môn: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút Mark a letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges. Question 1: James :” It was very kind of you to give me a lift home”. Pete: “___” A. As a matter of fact, you’re pretty nice B. Oh, don’t do that. I was coming past your house any way. C. I’m not pleased. D. Oh, don’t mention it. I was coming past your house any way. Question 2: Billy and Bobby are in a coffee shop. Billy is asking Bobby for his opinion about the coffee there. Billy: “How’s the coffee here?” Bobby. “____________” A. No, I don’t think so B. It’s a little bitter, to tell the truth C. It’s a little better now that I’ve got a car D. As a matter of fact, I’m not interested Question 3: Today many serious childhood diseases ____ by early immunization. A. prevent B. can prevent C. can be prevented D. are preventing Question 4: _____ I’ve cleaned it and polish it, it still doesn’t look now. A. Because B. In spite of C. While D. Although Question 5: They Beauty Contest is ____ start at 8:30 am our time tomorrow. A. due to B. bound to C. about to D. on the point Question 6: The picture, ____ was beautiful. A. she was looking B. at it she was looking C. at which she was looking D. at that she was looking Question 7: In this job, experience accounts for more than paper_____ A. background B. certificates C. quality D. qualifications Question 8: Nadine “ I’ve been offered $550 for my stereo. Should I take it or wait a better one?”Kitty: “Take the $550____”. A. Actions speak louder than words B. Kill two birds with one stone C. The early bird catches the worm D. bird in the hand is worth two in the bush Question 9: Jenny: “What did your grammar book ____ I could go over all the things we have studied this year.Peter: “I did badly on the last test. She ____ studied for it”. A. said why I hadn’t B. said why hadn’t I C. asked why I hadn’t D. asked why hadn’t I Question 10: ____ summer I spent in _____ UK was one of ___ best in my life. A. At/a/the B. The/the/a C. The/-/the D. The/the/the Question 11: Whenever a problem ___, we try to discuss frankly and find the solutions as soon as possible. A. comes by B. come off C. comes up D. comes in HOC24.VN 2 Question 12: I bought this grammar book ____ I could go over all the things we have studied this year. A. that B. with a view to C. so that D. in order to Question 13: If people paid a little more attention to the environment, the Earth ___ greener. A. would be B. will be C. would have been D. had been Question 14: Lessons from the ___ developed countries are worth learning to save our time. A. economically B. economic C. economize D. economical Mark a letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence the is closest in meaning to each of the following questions. Question 15: We had no sooner got to know our neighbors than they moved away. A. Soon after we got to know our neighbors, we stopped having contact with them. B. If our new neighbors had stayed longer, we would have got to know them better. C. Once we had got used to our new neighbors, they moved somewhere else. D. Hardly had we become acquainted with our new neighbors when they went somewhere else to live. Question 16: There were so many people on the train that Mary couldn’t get a seat. A. The train was too crowded for Mary no to get a seat B. The train was so crowded that there was nowhere for Mary to sit C. So crowded the train was that Mary couldn’t get a seat D. The crowded train did not prevent Mary from getting a seat Question 17: “I’ll speak calmly. I really will!”, he said. A. He promised to speak calmly B. He remind me to speak calmly C. He refused to speak calmly D. He offered to speak calmly Mark a letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair sentences in the following questions. Question 18: Jack was overconfident. Therefore, he ruined our plan completely. A. That was Jack’s overconfidence ruined our plan completely B. Jack was overconfident, which ruined our plan completely C. It was because Jack’s overconfidence that ruined our plan completely D. It was Jack’s overconfidence ruined our plan completely Question 19: Marie Curie was a famous mathematician and physicist. She also won the Nobel Prize for chemistry. A. Winning the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Marie Curie became a famous mathematician and physicist. B. Marie Curie was a famous mathematician rather than physicist although she won the Nobel Prize for chemistry C. Marie Curie, a famous mathematician and physicist, also won the Nobel Prize for chemistry HOC24.VN 3 D. Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for chemistry so she was a famous mathematician and physicist. Mark a letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. Question 20: When you change a sound file to an MP3, the file is compressed. A. transformed B. precise C. made bigger D. made smaller Question 21: When floodwaters recede affected areas are often blanketed in silt and mud. The water and landscape can be contaminated with hazardous materials, such as sharp debris pesticides, fuel and untreated sewage. A. to cover completely with thick layer of some thing B. to expose to open air comfortably C. to provide someone with a protective layer D. to dig out something hidden for long Mark a letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the offer three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions. Question 22: A. comfortable B. powerful C. opinion D. accurate Question 23: A. completion B. understand C. material D. behavior Mark a letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the offer three in pronunciation in each of the following questions. Question 24: A. rained B. jumped C. arrived D. followed Question 25: A. tea B. leather C. leave D. lead Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option for each of blanks. The Rocky Mountains run almost the length of North America. They start in the North-west, but lie only a (26)_______ hundred miles from the center in more southern areas. Although the Rockies are smaller (27)_______ the Alps, they are no less wonderful. There are many roads across the Rockies, but the best way to see them is to travel by train. You start from Vancouver, the most attractive of Canada's big cities. Standing with its feet in the water and its (28)______ in the mountains, this city (29)_______ its residents to ski on slopes just 15 minutes by car from the city centre. Thirty passenger trains a day used to (30)_____ off from Vancouver on the cross-continent railway. Now there are just three a week, but the ride is still a great adventure. You sleep on board, which is fun, travel through some of the best scenery at night. Question 26: A. few B. many C. couple D. lot Question 27: A. from B. to C. as D. than Question 28: A. ear B. head C. hand D. nose Question 29: A. lets B. allows C. gives D. offers Question 30: A. set B. get C. leave D. take HOC24.VN 4 Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each questions. The ideas of John Dewey, philosopher and educator, have influenced American thought for over one hundred years. Dewey was born in Vermont in 1859, and throughout hi life he kept the respect for experience, individuality, and fair play that shaped the character of the nineteenth century Vermonter. He viewed his own life as a continuously reconstructive process with experience and knowledge building on each other. By the 1930s, Dewey had simplified his theory of experience to its essence. As the intellectual leader of the progressive schools, he asserted that there was danger in rejecting the old unless the new was rooted in a connect idea of experience. He held that experience is an interaction between what a person already knows and the situation at hand. Previous knowledge interacting with the present environment influences future experience. Dewey be1ieved that experience could not be equated with education because all experiences as not necessarily educative. Experience is educative only when it contributes to the growth of the individual, but it can be miseducative if it distorts the growth of further experience. It is the quality of experience that matters. Thus, productive experience is both the means and the goal of education. Furthermore, since education is a social process, truly progressive education involves the participation of the learner in directing the learning experience.During his long life, Dewey lectured and published prolifically. These writings were influential both during his lifetime and after his death at the age of ninety-two. He viewed his whole life as an experiment which would produce knowledge that would lead to further experimentation. The range and diversity of Dewey’s writings and his influence on society place him among American’s great thinkers. Question 31: What does the passage mainly discuss ? A. John Dewey’s professional growth B. John Dewey’s theory of experience C. the progressive movement in education D. the educational methods of John Dewey Question 32: The author implies that Dewey’s Vermont background_____. A. inspired him to become a philosopher B. limited the type of experiences he had as a child C. the progressive movement in education D. provided him with an excellent education Question 33: The word “its” in paragraph 2 refers to____. A. the 1930s B. progressive education C. theory of experience D. the old Question 34: According to John Dewey, the interplay between a person’s previous knowledge and the present situation is_____. A. dangerous B. a correct idea of experience C. education D. a rejection of the old Question 35: The word “distorts” in paragraph 3 refers to____. A. deforms B. balances C. stimulates D. mislays Question 36: All of the following were part of Dewey’s theory of experience and education EXCEPT___ A. knowledge and experience interact B. experience should develop the individual C. experience is always educative D. present experience affects future experience HOC24.VN 5 Question 37: According to Dewey, progressive education should include____. A. both positive and negative experience B. directing new social processes C. complete rejection of traditional methods D. the active participation of the student Question 38: The word “prolifically” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to____. A. carefully B. progressively C. intellectually D. abundantly Mark a letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to each of the following questions. Question 39: Oil is one of the principal sources of energy. A. most important B. most difficult C. most popular D. most experience Question 40: The museum was overrun with tourists so I decided to go back another day. A. having no tourists B. not having enough tourists C. crowded with tourists D. having tourists running Mark a letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions. Question 41: There are many different ways of comparing the culture of one nation with those of another. A. There are B. of comparing C. those D. another Question 42: She only had a twenty-dollars bill with her when she landed at Heathrow airport. A. had B. twenty-dollars bill C. when D. at Question 43: I was very busy lately since the project of designing the new collection started A. was B. since C. the project D. the new collection Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each questions. The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City. For a long time, it has been a newspaper of record in the United State and one of the world’s great newspapers. Its strength is in its editorial excellence; it has never been the largest newspaper in terms of circulation. The Times was established in 1851 as a penny paper whose editors wanted to report the news in a restrained and objective fashion. It enjoyed early success as its editors set a pattern for the future by appealing to a cultured, intellectual readership instead of a mass audience. However, in the late nineteenth century, it came into competition with more popular, colorful, if not lurid, newspapers in New York City. Their publishers ran sensational stories, not because they were true, but because they sold newspapers. Despite price increases, the time was losing £1,000 a week when Adolph Simon Ochs bought it in 1896.Ochs built the Times into an internationally respected daily. He hired Carr Van Anda as editor. Van Anda placed greater stress than ever on full reporting of the news of the day, and his reporters maintained and emphasized existing good coverage of international news. The management of the paper decided to eliminate fiction from the paper, added a Sunday magazine section, and reduced the paper’s price back to a penny.In April 1912, the paper took many risks to report every aspect of the sinking of the Titanic. This greatly enhanced its prestige, and in its coverage of two world wars, the Times continued to enhance its reputation for excellence in world news.In 1971, the Times was given a copy of the so-called “Pentagon Papers,” a secret government study of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war. When it published the report, it became involved in several lawsuits. The U.S. Supreme Court found that the publication was protected by the freedom-of-the- HOC24.VN 6 press clause in the First Amendment of the U.S Constitution. Later in the 1970s, the paper, under Adolph Ochs’s grandson, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, introduced sweeping changes in the organization of the newspaper and its staff and brought out a national edition transmitted by satellite to regional printing plants. Question 44: What is the main idea of the passage? A. The New York Times publishes the best fiction by American writers. B. The New York Times became highly respected throughout the world. C. The New York Times lost its prestige after the Vietnam War. D. The New York Times broadcasts its news to TV stations via satellite. Question 45: It can be inferred from the passage that the circulation of the New York Times is_______. A. not the largest in the world B. the worst in the world C. not the best in the world D. the smallest in the world Question 46: Which phrase is closest in meaning to the word “restrained” in paragraph 2? A. With self-control. B. Put in prison. C. Without education. D. In handcuffs. Question 47: What word or phrase does the word “his” in paragraph 3 refer to? A. Van Anda. B. News of the day. C. Reporters D. International news Question 48: To improve its circulation, the management of the Times did all the following EXCEPT:_____ A. increased the number of lurid stories, even if they were not true. B. added a Sunday magazine section. C. emphasized good coverage of international news. D. eliminated fiction from the paper. Question 49: The passage implies that the newspaper’s reputation_____ A. decreased when it lowered its price to a penny. B. grew because Adolph Ochs bought it in 1896. C. decreased because it could not compete with other New York papers. D. increased because of its coverage of the Titanic’s sinking. Question 50: According to the passage, the Times has a national edition that is____ A. shipped by train and air transport daily. B. protected by the Supreme Court C. printed in the form of a Sunday magazine. D. transmitted by satellite to regional printing plants.