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HOC24.VN 1 Đề thi KSCL THPT Yên Lạc - Vĩnh Phúc - Lần 3 - Năm 2018 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. research B. resent C. resemble D. resist Question 2: A. jumped B. traveled C. stared D. seemed Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions. Question 3: A. economy B. presentation C. accompany D. successfully Question 4: A. deliver B. promotion C. average D. essential 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: Drying food by means of solar energy is an ancient process applying wherever climatic conditions make it possible A. means of B. applying C. Drying D. make it possible Question 6: More and 90 percent of the calcium in the human body is in the skeleton. A. the B. human C. is D. and Question 7: Regardless of your teaching method, the objective of any conversation class should be for the students to practice speaking words. A. objective of any B. speaking words C. should be D. Regardless of 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: I regret going to the cinema. I wish I ______. A. hadn’t gone there B. haven’t gone there C. didn’t go there D. would not go there Question 9: He may be quick ______ understanding but he isn't capable ______ remembering anything. A. of/at B. at/of C. on/at D. in/of Question 10: Vitamin D is necessary to aid the ______ of calcium from food. A. absorption B. absorbent C. absorbance D. absorbency Question 11: The ______ were told to fasten their seat belts as the plane began its descent. A. flyers B. customers C. passengers D. riders HOC24.VN 2 Question 12: I get quite depressed when I think about the damage we are ______ to the environment. A. having B. taking C. making D. causing Question 13: Unfortunately, we’ve made ______. A. little progress B. a few progresses C. little progresses D. few progress Question 14: ______, Mozart was an accomplished compose while still a child. A. Remarkable as it seems B. As it seems remarkable C. No matter remarkable it seems D. Remarkable however it seems Question 15: _____ parents of Thomas claimed that he was at _____ the time of _____ robbery A. The-the-the B. X-X-the C. The-X-the D. X-X-a Question 16: Like most marine mammals and land mammals, whales are ______ creatures. A. blood-warmed B. warm-blood C. warm-blooded D. warm-blooding Question 17: We insist that more money ______ in education. A. investing B. invested C. invests D. be invested Question 18: Certainly, man must ______ the future, and find ways of providing for his need. A. look for B. put off C. put on D. look to Question 19: After I ______ from college, I ______ as a teacher. A. had graduated/ worked B. had graduated/ work C. graduate/ work D. graduated/ worked 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: John: “You’re already leaving? The ball is only starting.” Mary: “But it is very late, so ______.” A. it’s great fun B. take care C. goodbye for now D. have a good day Question 21: Daisy: “______?” Mary: “No, that’s about it for now.” A. Nothing to declare B. When can we stop C. Anything else D. What’s on your mind Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. Question 22: Such problems as haste and inexperience are a universal feature of youth. A. marked B. hidden C. shared D. separated Question 23: I stayed there with her for a while before I left. A. in the difficult time B. whenever she needed me C. for relaxation D. for a short period of time HOC24.VN 3 Mark the 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 24: I am glad that we see eye to eye on the matter of the conference location. A. dislike B. agree C. disagree D. approve Question 25: I don’t want to live in this filthy colony. A. dirty B. pretty C. nice D. clean Mark the 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 26: Apart from being conveniently located near the beach, that hotel has nothing about it to make me recommend it to you. A. The only feature of that hotel that I can recommend to you is that it’s close to the beach. B. The hotel I’ve recommended to you is very comfortable as it is near the beach. C. The beach near that hotel doesn’t have anything special that I can recommend to you. D. As regards a hotel, nothing is more important for me than its being close to the beach. Question 27: Although she was very old, she looked very grateful. A. In spite of very old, she looked very grateful. B. Despite she was very old, she looked very grateful. C. Despite her old age, she looked very grateful. D. In spite her being old, she looked very grateful. Question 28: “Why don’t you ask your parents for advice?” said Tom. A. Tom advised me asking my parents for advice. B. Tom said to me to ask my parents for advice. C. Tom wanted to know the reason why I don’t ask my parents for advice. D. Tom suggested that I ask my parents for advice. 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: Farmers depend on meteorologists. They need meteorologists’ accurate forecasts for successful agricultural planning. A. Due to meteorologists’ accurate forecasts, farmers depend on them for successful agricultural planning. B. Farmers depend on meteorologists who need their accurate forecasts for successful agricultural planning. C. Farmers need meteorologists’ accurate forecasts for successful agricultural planning and so they depend on you. HOC24.VN 4 D. Farmers depend on meteorologists, whose accurate forecasts they need for successful agricultural planning. Question 30: Sports clear my mind. They also help me maintain a healthy lifestyle. A. My mind is cleared so is the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle. B. Not only do sports clear my mind, but they also help me maintain a healthy lifestyle. C. Sports clear my mind so that I can maintain a healthy lifestyle. D. All that sports can do is to clear my mind instead of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. 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 31 to 35. Swim, Cycle, and Run For athletes who like to (31)______a variety of endurance sports in a single race, triathlons are a great fit. These competitions (32) ______running, cycling, and swimming into one race, and they take place one after the other in a single continuous timed race. Athletes who participate must be in top physical form and have the skills needed to complete each portion of the race. Training for triathlons means the athletes have to become proficient not only in the sport required in each stage, but they also have to become familiar with what (33) _____from one to the other does to their bodies. Many inexperienced triathletes are surprised to (34) ______hard it can be to switch from swimming to cycling to running, and how tired their muscles can suddenly feel. One thing all triathletes can agree (35) ______is that no one ever told them that running a triathlon would be easy. Question 31: A. compete B. compete in C. contest D. take part Question 32: A. combine B. join C. fasten D. connect Question 33: A. transference B. transition C. transmission D. transport Question 34: A. find what B. find out why C. find out how D. find how Question 35: A. in B. with C. at D. on 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 questions from 36 to 42. Productivity Hacks for Great Success No matter who we are or where we are from, we only have 24 hours each day to get things done. Some people seem to make the most of their time, using it to achieve their goals and dreams. Others feel that life is passing them by and they aren’t accomplishing anything. If you are in the latter group, it is not too late to turn things around. By implementing a few simple hacks, you can start getting better results very quickly. HOC24.VN 5 If you want to become more productive, it pays to learn about the Pareto principle (which is also known as the 80-20 rule). It states that for most tasks, 80 percent of the results we get come from 20 percent of the work we do. For example. 80 percent of the company sales usually come from 20 percent of customers. Therefore, the trick is to focus your efforts on the key 20 percent of actions that truly matter to greatly improve your results. In some cases, people may be busy from morning to night but still seem to get nothing done. In this situation, the problem might be that clear goals haven’t been set. To fix this, set some time aside to list the things you want to achieve in life. Then, select the top three or four that you want to focus on for the next year. Look at your goals every night before bedtime and ask yourself what are the next actions to accomplish each day. Then, promise yourself that you will finish these tasks no matter how busy you get. If possible try completing the tasks first thing in the morning so you are assured of success. Another common mistake regarding productivity is not considering our energy levels. If we try to work around the clock, we will eventually get tired and quit. Everyone needs time to sleep, eat, socialize with friends, and unwind from the stress of the day. To make sure you don’t burn out, be sure to schedule some time for breaks and fun activities into your schedule every day. Finally, no matter how difficult your goals may seem, remember the old saying that “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. Question 36: What is implied in the last sentence of the passage? A. It is best to take a big first step. B. Start moving toward your dreams little by little. C. Think twice before taking any steps. D. People get their best ideas when traveling. Question 37: In order to achieve our goals, we should______. A. select the most important goals for each day and take the priority to achieve them within the day. B. eat a lot to burn enough energy for our daily activities. C. set the goals just before bedtime in order to remember them better. D. set as many goals as possible so that we can achieve some of them or at least 20 percent. Question 38: Which of the following statements does the author support most? A. How difficult our goals may seem, we should take steps to travel a thousand miles to achieve them. B. Reasonable goals and good techniques of time management may help you get great achievements. C. We try to work around the clock and set some time aside to list the things we want to achieve in life. D. We need time to sleep, eat, socialize with friends, and achieve our goals for 20 percent of the day’s time. HOC24.VN 6 Question 39: The word “this” in paragraph 3 refers to______. A. a lack of time B. setting no aims C. clear goals D. failing in business Question 40: he phrase “hacks for” in the title is closest in meaning to______. A. leads to B. cut off C. secretly achieve D. kicks without control Question 41: Which of the following sentences is true? A. No one ever achieves all of their goals. B. Everyone has the same time in a day. C. No one has any spare time these days. D. Everyone manages time the same way. Question 42: What is the Pareto principle? A. If you work hard 80 percent of the time, you can relax for 20 percent. B. You need to do lots of work to increase sales by 20 percent. C. A few important things produce most of the results. D. Companies don’t need to hire more than 80 people. 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 questions from 43 to 50. Carbon dating can be used to estimate the age of any organic natural material; it has been used successfully in archeology to determine the age of ancient artifacts or fossils as well as in a variety of other fields. The principle underlying the use of carbon dating is that carbon is a part of all living things on Earth. Since a radioactive substance such as carbon-14 has a known half-life, the amount of carbon-14 remaining in an object can be used to date that object. Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5,570 years, which means that after that number of years, half of the carbon- 14 atoms have decayed into nitrogen-14. It is the ratio of carbon-14 in that substance that indicates the age of the substance. If, for example, in a particular sample the amount of carbon-14 is roughly equivalent to the amount of nitrogen-14, this indicates that around half of the carbon-14 has decayed into nitrogen-14, and the sample is approximately 5,570 years old. Carbon dating cannot be used effectively in dating objects that are older than 80,000 years. When objects are that old, much of the carbon-14 has already decayed into nitrogen-14, and the molecule amount that is left doesn’t provide a reliable measurement of age. In the case of older objects, other age-dating methods are available, methods which use radioactive atoms with longer half-lives than carbon has. Question 43: This passage is mainly about______. A. archeology and the study of ancient artifacts. B. one method of dating old objects. C. various uses for carbon. D. the differences between carbon-14 and nitrogen-14. HOC24.VN 7 Question 44: Which of the following is NOT true about carbon-14? A. It and nitrogen always exist in equal amounts in any substance. B. Its half-life is more than 5,000 years. C. It can decay into nitrogen-14. D. It is radioactive. Question 45: The word “it” in paragraph 1 refers to______. A. carbon dating B. the age C. any organic natural material D. archeology Question 46: The word “underlying” could best be replaced by______. A. below B. requiring C. serving as a basis for D. being studied through Question 47: The word “roughly” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to______. A. precisely B. Harshly C. approximately D. coarsely Question 48: The paragraph following the passage most probably discusses______. A. what substances are part of all living things. B. how carbon-14 decay intonitrogen.-14 C. why carbon-14 has such a long half-life. D. various other age-dating methods. Question 49: It is implied in the passage that______. A. carbon dating has no known uses outside of archeology. B. fossils cannot be age-dated using carbon-14. C. carbon dating could not be used on an item containing nitrogen. D. carbon-14 does not have the longest known half-life. Question 50: It can be inferred from the passage that if an item contains more carbon-14 than nitrogen-14, then the item is______. A. not as much as 5,570 years old B. too old to be age-dated with carbon-14 C. too radioactive to be used by archeologists D. more than 5.570 years old