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ĐỀ KIỂM TRA HỌC KỲ 2 NĂM HỌC 2017-2018<br /> Môn TIẾNG ANH- KHỐI 12<br /> Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề<br /> <br /> Mã đề thi 121<br /> <br /> Họ và tên thí sinh:......................................................Lớp: ………….<br /> Số báo danh:......................................................................................<br /> SECTION A ( 8 points )<br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs<br /> from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.<br /> Question 1. A. prepared<br /> Question 2. A. justice<br /> <br /> B. organized<br /> B.public<br /> <br /> C. impressed<br /> C. culture<br /> <br /> D. proposed<br /> D. industry<br /> <br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other<br /> three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.<br /> Question 3. A. survive<br /> Question 4. A. domestic<br /> <br /> B. struggle<br /> B. physical<br /> <br /> C. advance<br /> C.voluntary<br /> <br /> D. commit<br /> D. possible<br /> <br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs<br /> correction in each of the following questions.<br /> Question 5.The number of students attending English courses at our university are increasing.<br /> A<br /> B<br /> C<br /> D<br /> Question 6. Working as a doctor would give me a chance taking care of people’s health.<br /> A<br /> B<br /> C<br /> D<br /> Question 7. Since poaching is becoming more seriously, the government has imposed stricter laws to<br /> A<br /> B<br /> C<br /> prevent it.<br /> D<br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the<br /> following questions.<br /> Question 8. There has been little rain in this area for months, _________?<br /> A. has it<br /> B. has there<br /> C. hasn’t it<br /> D. hasn’t there<br /> Question 9. In our hospital , patients ________ every morning.<br /> A. are examined<br /> B. were examining<br /> C. have examined<br /> D. can examine<br /> Question 10. The more you practise speaking English, ________.<br /> A. the more fluently you can speak it<br /> B. the more fluent you can speak it.<br /> C. the more you can speak it fluently<br /> D. the most fluently you can speak it<br /> Question 11.To prepare for the 22nd SEA Games, Vietnam _________an intensive programme for its<br /> athletes.<br /> A. made up<br /> B. carried out<br /> C. tried out<br /> D. took up<br /> Question 12. Many rare and precious species are now __________ the verge of extinction.<br /> A. in<br /> B. from<br /> C. on<br /> D. by<br /> Question 13. Throughout much of the history of human civilization, _________cultural beliefs allowed<br /> women only limited roles in society.<br /> A. short-cut<br /> B. deep-seated<br /> C. long-held<br /> D. far-rooted<br /> Question 14. It is generally believed that “men build_________and women make it home”.<br /> <br /> A. the house<br /> B. a house<br /> C. house<br /> D. an house<br /> Question 15. Susan's doctor insists _________ for a few days.<br /> A. her to rest<br /> B. that she rest<br /> C. her resting<br /> D. that she is resting<br /> Question 16. The Champion successfully ________his title against the American challenger.<br /> A. protected<br /> B. defeated<br /> C. defended<br /> D. won<br /> Question 17. Without your help, I ________the technical problem with my computer the other day.<br /> A. wouldn’t solve<br /> B. couldn’t have solved<br /> C. could solve<br /> D. can’t solve<br /> Question 18. You_________take more than two of these pills at once. Three might be fatal.<br /> A. mustn’t<br /> B. needn’t<br /> C. oughtn’t<br /> D. must<br /> Question 19. The initiative for founding the Red Cross came from a Swiss man________Jean Henri<br /> Dunant.<br /> A. calling<br /> B. to call<br /> C. called<br /> D. who called<br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to<br /> complete each of the following exchanges.<br /> Question 20. Mr. Black is talking to a shop assistant.<br /> - Mr. Black: “I'd like to try on these shoes, please”<br /> - Salesgirl: “________”<br /> A. Why not?<br /> B. By all means, sir.<br /> C. That's right, sir.<br /> Question 21. Tom and Christy are having dinner at home.<br /> - Tom: “Can I have another cup of tea?”<br /> - Christy: “_________.”<br /> A. Be yourself<br /> B. Do it yourself<br /> C. Help yourself<br /> <br /> D. I'd love to.<br /> <br /> D. Allow yourself<br /> <br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to<br /> the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.<br /> Question 22. Ann’s dedication to her work has always been examplary.<br /> A. intention<br /> B. devotion<br /> C. attitude<br /> Question 23. The cyclone has resulted in many thousands of deaths.<br /> A. stopped<br /> B. lessened<br /> C. caused<br /> <br /> D. drawback<br /> D. overcame<br /> <br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to<br /> the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.<br /> Question 24. I think my grandson doesn’t love me anymore; he comes to visit me once in a blue moon.<br /> A. very blue<br /> B. very often<br /> C. not usually<br /> D. very moony<br /> Question 25. Vietnam's admission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) has promoted its trade<br /> relations with other countries.<br /> A. boosted<br /> B. expanded<br /> C. restricted<br /> D. balanced<br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in<br /> meaning to each of the following questions.<br /> Question 26. The candidate was offered the job because of his excellent answers.<br /> A. The job was offered to the candidate although he couldn’t answer the questions.<br /> B. If it hadn’t been for the candidate’s excellent answers, he couldn’t have got the job.<br /> C. The candidate answered the questions so excellently that he might get the job.<br /> D. Because it was such a good job, the candidate tried to answer the questions excellently.<br /> Question 27. "If you don't pay the ransom, we'll kill your boy," the kidnappers told us.<br /> A. The kidnappers pledged to kill our boy if we did not pay the ransom.<br /> B. The kidnappers threatened to kill our boy if we refused to pay the ransom.<br /> C. The kidnappers ordered to kill our boy if we did not pay the ransom.<br /> D. The kidnappers promised to kill our boy if we refused to pay the ransom.<br /> Question 28. My uncle didn’t recognize me until I spoke.<br /> A. My uncle recognized me not until I spoke.<br /> B. Only when my uncle recognized me did I speak.<br /> C. Not until I spoke did my uncle recognize me.<br /> D. When I spoke, my uncle didn’t recognize me.<br /> <br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each<br /> pair of sentences in the following questions<br /> Question 29.The young girl has great experience of nursing. She has worked as a hospital volunteer for<br /> years.<br /> A. Before she worked as a hospital volunteer for years, the young girl has great experience of nursing.<br /> B. Much as she has worked as a hospital volunteer for years, the young girl has great experience of<br /> nursing.<br /> C. With great experience of nursing, the young girl has worked as a hospital volunteer for years.<br /> D. Having worked as a hospital volunteer for years, the young girl has great experience of nursing.<br /> Question 30. Peter told us about his leaving the school. He did it on his arrival at the meeting.<br /> A. Hardly had Peter informed us about his leaving the school when he arrived at the meeting.<br /> B. No soonner had Peter arrived at the meeting than he told us about his leaving the school.<br /> C. Only after his leaving the school did Peter inform us of his arrival at the meeting.<br /> D. Not until Peter told us that he would leave the school did he arrive at the meeting.<br /> Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the<br /> correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks<br /> It is difficult to know how many elephants once lived in the continent, but there may have been at<br /> least 3-5 million elephants in Africa in the (31)_________part of the twentieth century. People have<br /> always hunted elephants for meat, hides and ivory. As the human population grew and weapons became<br /> more advanced, elephants were under greater (32)________. In the late 1970s and early 1980s there<br /> was a huge decline in the number of elephants due to the increase in poaching. It is estimated that<br /> there are now about 500,000 elephants and they are living in a small number of countries. A ban was<br /> given (33)_________all international trade in ivory in 1989, and many governments started to give<br /> poachers severe punishments. Thanks to such (34)________ actions, some elephant populations,<br /> especially those in southern Africa, have recovered over the last decade. (35)________, numerous<br /> threats remain for Africa’s elephants.<br /> Question 31. A. soon<br /> Question 32. A. risk<br /> Question 33. A. on<br /> Question 34. A. hourly<br /> Question 35. A. However<br /> <br /> B. early<br /> B. danger<br /> B. about<br /> B. daily<br /> B. Therefore<br /> <br /> C. lately<br /> C. threat<br /> C. for<br /> C. yearly<br /> C. Moreover<br /> <br /> D. newly<br /> D. stake<br /> D. against<br /> D. timely<br /> D. But<br /> <br /> Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the<br /> correct answer to each of the questions.<br /> Until recently, most American entrepreneurs were men. Discrimination against women in business,<br /> the demands of caring for families, and lack of business training had kept the number of women<br /> entrepreneurs small. Now, however, businesses owned by women account for more than $40 billion in<br /> annual revenues, and this figure is likely to continue rising throughout the 1990s. As Carolyn Doppelt<br /> Gray, an official of the Small Business Administration, has noted, "The 1970s was the decade of women<br /> entering management, and the 1980s turned out to be the decade of the woman entrepreneur". What are<br /> some of the factors behind this trend? For one thing, as more women earn advanced degrees in business<br /> and enter the corporate world, they are finding obstacles. Women are still excluded from most executive<br /> suites. Charlotte Taylor, a management consultant, had noted, "In the 1970s women believed if they got<br /> an MBA and worked hard they could become chairman of the board. Now they've found out that isn't going<br /> to happen, so they go out on their own".<br /> In the past, most women entrepreneurs worked in "women's" fields: cosmetics and clothing, for<br /> example. But this is changing. Consider ASK Computer Systems, a $22-million-a-year computer software<br /> business. It was founded in 1973 by Sandra Kurtzig, who was then a housewife with degrees in math and<br /> engineering. When Kurtzig founded the business, her first product was software that let weekly<br /> newspapers keep tabs on their newspaper carriers-and her office was a bedroom at home, with a<br /> shoebox under the bed to hold the company's cash. After she succeeded with the newspaper software<br /> system, she hired several bright computer-science graduates to develop additional programs. When these<br /> <br /> were marketed and sold, ASK began to grow. It now has 200 employees, and Sandra Kurtzig owns $66.9<br /> million of stock.<br /> Of course, many women who start their own businesses fail, just as men often do. They still face<br /> hurdles in the business world, especially problems in raising money; the banking and finance world is still<br /> dominated by men, and old attitudes die hard. Most businesses owned by women are still quite small. But<br /> the situation is changing; there are likely to be many more Sandra Kurtzigs in the years ahead.<br /> Question 36. What is the main idea of this passage?<br /> A. Women today are better educated than in the past.<br /> B. The computer is especially lucrative for women today.<br /> C. Women are better at small businesses than men are.<br /> D. Women today are opening more businesses of their own.<br /> Question 37. All of the following were mentioned in the passage as detriments to women in the business<br /> world EXCEPT________.<br /> A. women were required to stay at home with their families<br /> B. women lacked ability to work in business<br /> C. women faced discrimination in business<br /> D. women were not trained in business<br /> Question 38. According to the passage, Charlotte Taylor believes that women in the 1970s_______.<br /> A. were unrealistic about their opportunities in business management<br /> B. were still more interested in education than business opportunities<br /> C. had fewer obstacles in business than they do today<br /> D. were unable to work hard enough to succeed in business<br /> Question 39. The author mentions the "shoebox under the bed" in the second paragraph in order<br /> to_____.<br /> A. show the frugality of women in business<br /> B. show the resourcefulness of Sandra Kurtzig<br /> C. point out that initially the financial resources of Sandra Kurtzig's business were limited<br /> D. suggest that the company needed to expand<br /> Question 40. It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes that businesses operated by<br /> women are small because_______.<br /> A. women prefer a small intimate setting<br /> B. women can't deal with money<br /> C. women are not able to borrow money easily<br /> D. many women fail at large businesses<br /> <br /> SECTION B ( 2 points )<br /> Give the right form of the word given in barackets to complete each of the following sentences<br /> Question 41. A professor of economics and history at our university developed a new theory of the<br /> relationship between historical events and financial crises. (economic)<br /> Question 42. The twentieth century saw a rapid rise in life expectancy due to improvements in public<br /> health, nutrition and medicine.(expect)<br /> Question 43. Each channel consists of a keyboard and receiver both electrically connected to certain<br /> parts of the distributor. (electricity)<br /> Question 44. Different conservation efforts have been made to save endangered species from being extinct.<br /> (danger)<br /> Question 45. The International Committee of the Red Cross is a private humanitarian institution<br /> founded in 1863 in Geneva, Switzerland. (human)<br /> II. Complete each of the following sentences so that it has closest meaning to the given one.<br /> Question 46. They say that more than ten victims died in the storm last week.<br />  More than ten victims are said to have died in the storm last week.<br /> Question 47. It was wrong of you to leave the house without locking it.<br /> You should not have left the house without locking it.<br /> Question 48. Thanks to modern technology,our lives have changed dramatically.<br /> Had it not been for modern technology, our lives would not have changed dramatically.<br /> Question 49. I haven’t visited my hometown for a few years.<br /> I last visited my hometown was a few years ago.<br /> Question 50. “I’m sorry, I didn’t phone you earlier,” said Ms. White to John.<br />  Ms. White apologised (to John) for not phoning him/ John earlier.<br /> <br />