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TRƯỜNG THPT LƯƠNG THẾ VINH
KIỂM TRA CUỐI HỌC KÌ II – NĂM HỌC 2020 - 2021
MÔN TIẾNG ANH - KHỐI LỚP 12
Thời gian làm bài : 45 Phút
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
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Họ tên : ............................................................... Số báo danh : ...................
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 1: John, could you look after my handbag while I go out for a minute?
A. take part in B. take up C. take care of D. take over
Question 2: Toxic chemicals in the air and land, contaminated water and increased water
temperatures have also made a lot of animals become extinct.
A. polluted B. purified C. salt D. dirty
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines
each pair of sentences in each of the following questions.
Question 3: As he grows older, he becomes increasingly intelligent.
A. The older he grows, the more he becomes intelligent.
B. The older he grows, the more intelligent he becomes.
C. The more old he grows, the more he becomes intelligent.
D. The more he grows old, the more he becomes intelligent.
Question 4: Tom was not at home either. Perhaps he went out with his girlfriend.
A. Tom probably goes out with his girlfriend.
B. Tom might have gone out with his girlfriend.
C. It is sure that Tom went out with his girlfriend.
D. Tom must go out with his girlfriend.
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.
THE HISTORY OF BOOKS
Books have been around for thousands of years. When ancient civilizations first started developing
writing systems, they would write on just about anything from stone to tree bark. Ancient Egyptians
were the first to use paper-like materials, called "papyrus", which they made by pounding flat the
woven stems of the papyrus plant. It was not long before the ancient Egyptians began gluing
together papyrus sheets to form scrolls, which were the first steps toward books as you know.
The birthplace of bookbinding is considered to be India in the 2nd century B.C, where Hindi scribes
would bind palm leaves that were etched with religious texts between two wooden boards using
twine. The technique became popular in the Middle East and Eastern Asia, and spread to the
Romans by the 2nd century A.D. In the mid-15th century, German Johannes Gutenberg invented the
first mechanical printing press. His invention was revolutionary because it enabled mass
production of books for the first time. Before the printing press, a few pages per day could be
produced by hand-copying. Afterward, printing presses could produce as many as 3,600 pages per
day.
Today, modern publishers take advantage of incredible advances in technology to produce books in
many sizes and shapes very quickly. Although there are many types of processes and machines
available, most processes involve similar steps. Printers print the text of a book on large sheets of
paper, sometimes as large as a newspaper page. Working with large volumes of paper allows
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