Đề thi thử THPT QG môn tiếng Anh năm 2018-2019 lần 1 - Sở GD&ĐT Ninh Bình - Mã đề 024

SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO<br /> TỈNH NINH BÌNH<br /> ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC<br /> <br /> ĐỀ THI THỬ TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG QUỐC GIA<br /> LẦN THỨ I - NĂM HỌC 2018-2019<br /> Môn: TIẾNG ANH<br /> Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề<br /> Mã đề thi 024<br /> <br /> (Đề thi gồm có 04 trang)<br /> Họ tên thí sinh:............................................................; Số báo danh:.................................................<br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the words whose pronunciation is different<br /> from the others in each of the following questions.<br /> Question 1: A. ready<br /> B. study<br /> C. occupy<br /> D. puppy<br /> Question 2: A. faced<br /> B. recorded<br /> C. mended<br /> D. objected<br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, o r D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the<br /> position of the main stress in each of the following questions.<br /> Question 3: A. similar<br /> B. marvelous<br /> C. ancestor<br /> D. historic<br /> Question 4: A. unique<br /> B. extreme<br /> C. royal<br /> D. remote<br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following<br /> questions.<br /> Question 5: The government has ______ different measures to protect and improve the quality of environment<br /> and abate environmental pollution.<br /> A. taken<br /> B. listed<br /> C. made<br /> D. done<br /> Question 6: Tet is the most important and popular holiday in Vietnam. It marks the ______ of spring based on the<br /> Lunar calendar.<br /> A. arrived<br /> B. arrivals<br /> C. arrive<br /> D. arrival<br /> Question 7: ______ on February 14, Valentine's Day is a festival of romantic love and many people give roses<br /> and chocolate to their spouse or partner.<br /> A. Is celebrated<br /> B. Celebrating<br /> C. Having celebrated<br /> D. Celebrated<br /> Question 8: ______ her lack of confidence, she failed a job interview to work for VinFast.<br /> A. Even though<br /> B. As<br /> C. Because of<br /> D. Because<br /> Question 9: As soon as it ______ raining, we will leave.<br /> A. stops<br /> B. stopped<br /> C. will stop<br /> D. has stopped<br /> Question 10: ______ in 1451, the University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English speaking<br /> world.<br /> A. Founded<br /> B. Having founded<br /> C. Founding<br /> D. Found<br /> Question 11: Vietnam ______ to the quarterfinals of the AFC Asian Cup 2019 with pride after a breath-taking<br /> shootout with Jordan on January 20th in the United Arab Emirates.<br /> A. was advancing<br /> B. advanced<br /> C. advances<br /> D. had advanced<br /> Question 12: Washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and dish washers are labor ______ devices which help us do<br /> housework easily and quickly.<br /> A. improving<br /> B. employing<br /> C. saving<br /> D. making<br /> Question 13: A video lab is ______ useful means for language learning.<br /> A. no article<br /> B. a<br /> C. the<br /> D. an<br /> Question 14: She succeeded in gaining ______ to the university of her choice.<br /> A. permission<br /> B. permit<br /> C. admission<br /> D. admittance<br /> Question 15: If you press that button what ______?<br /> A. would have happened<br /> B. will happen<br /> C. happens<br /> D. would happen<br /> Question 16: Some days of rest may help to ______ the pressure of work.<br /> A. chop<br /> B. crease<br /> C. reduce<br /> D. lower<br /> Question 17: Remember to bring with you your certificates and letters of ______ from your teachers or previous<br /> employers when you come to the interview.<br /> A. invitation<br /> B. advertisement<br /> C. recommendation<br /> D. assignment<br /> <br /> Trang 1/4 - Mã đề: 024<br /> <br /> Question 18: I felt uncomfortably full on this Tet Holiday, as I was not accustomed ______ eating so much.<br /> A. on<br /> B. about<br /> C. with<br /> D. to<br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, o r D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete<br /> each of the following exchanges.<br /> Question 19: Ken and Laura are saying goodbye to each other after going to LOTTE Center.<br /> Laura: “Well, it’s getting late. Maybe we could get together sometime.”<br /> Ken: “______”<br /> A. Take it easy.<br /> B. Nice to see back you.<br /> C. Yes, I’ve enjoyed it.<br /> D. Sounds good. I’ll give you a call.<br /> Question 20: Katy and Sunny are talking about Ted’s accident last week.<br /> Katy: “A motor bike knocked Ted down”.<br /> Sunny: “______”<br /> A. How terrific!<br /> B. Where it is now?<br /> <br /> C. What a motor bike!<br /> <br /> D. Poor Ted!<br /> <br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the<br /> underlined part in each of the following questions.<br /> Question 21: He may be shy now, but he’ll soon come out of his shell when he meets the right girl.<br /> A. hole<br /> B. become shy<br /> C. become confident<br /> D. shed<br /> Question 22: When two people get married, it is with the assumption that their feelings for each other are<br /> immutable and will never alter.<br /> A. Everlasting<br /> B. unchangeable<br /> C. alterable<br /> D. constantly<br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the<br /> underlined part in each of the following questions.<br /> Question 23: Most counselors are trained in order to be able to reassure and console students who have<br /> academic or personal problems<br /> A. please<br /> B. argue<br /> C. satisfy<br /> D. discourage<br /> Question 24: If you are at a loose end this weekend, I will show you around the city.<br /> A. reluctant<br /> B. confident<br /> C. free<br /> D. occupied<br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to<br /> each of the following questions.<br /> Question 25: Unless you try to work hard, you will fail the exam.<br /> A. Only if you try to work hard will you pass the exam.<br /> B. Should you try to work hard you will fail the exam.<br /> C. Had you not tried to work hard, you wouldn’t have passed the exam.<br /> D. Not until you tried to work hard did you pass the exam.<br /> Question 26: "How long have you been working as a sale manager at FPT Shop?" she asked.<br /> A. She asked me how long I had been working as a sale manager at FPT Shop.<br /> B. She asked me how long you had been working as a sale manager at FPT Shop.<br /> C. She asked me how long had I been working as a sale manager at FPT Shop.<br /> D. She asked me how long had you been working as a sale manager at FPT Shop.<br /> Question 27: I've never met any more dependable person than George.<br /> A. I am not such a dependable person as George.<br /> B. George is the most dependable person of all.<br /> C. George is the most dependable person I've ever met.<br /> D. George is more dependable than anyone else I know well.<br /> Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines the pair of<br /> sentences given in each of the following questions.<br /> Question 28: The blouse is too loose. You'd better ask your tailor to take it in.<br /> A. Your tailor is asked to take your blouse in a little.<br /> B. You'd better have the blouse taken in as it is too loose.<br /> C. The blouse is lost as you didn't ask your tailor to take it in.<br /> D. The blouse is little as you asked your tailor to take it in.<br /> <br /> Trang 2/4 - Mã đề: 024<br /> <br /> Question 29: She heard the news of the death of her mother. She fainted.<br /> A. She fainted and then she heard the news of the death of her mother.<br /> B. She fainted so she heard the news of the death of her mother.<br /> C. On hearing the news of her dead mother, she fainted.<br /> D. On hearing the news of her mother’s death, she fainted.<br /> Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct<br /> word for each of the numbered blanks from 30 to 34.<br /> After a busy day of work and play, the body needs to rest. Sleep is necessary for good health. During this time,<br /> the body recovers from the (30) ______ of the previous day. The rest that you get while sleeping enables your<br /> body to prepare itself for the next day.<br /> There are four levels of sleep, each being a little deeper than the one before. (31) ______ you sleep, your<br /> muscles relax little by little. Your heart beats more slowly, and your brain slows down. After you (32) ______ the<br /> fourth level, your body shifts back and forth from one level of sleep to the other. Although your mind slows down,<br /> you will dream from time to time. Scientists (33) ______ study sleep state that when dreaming occurs, your<br /> eyeballs begin to move more quickly. This stage of sleep is called REM, which stands for Rapid Eye Movement.<br /> If you have trouble falling asleep, some people recommend breathing very slowly and deeply. Other people<br /> believe that drinking warm milk will make you (34) ______. There is also an old suggestion that counting sheep<br /> will put you to sleep!<br /> Question 30: A. acts<br /> B. activities<br /> C. activeness<br /> D. actions<br /> Question 31: A. Though<br /> B. As<br /> C. Thus<br /> D. Because<br /> Question 32: A. reach<br /> B. attain<br /> C. arrive<br /> D. achieve<br /> Question 33: A. whose<br /> B. who<br /> C. when<br /> D. which<br /> Question 34: A. awake<br /> B. dizzy<br /> C. tired<br /> D. drowsy<br /> Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct<br /> answer to each of the questions from 35 to 39.<br /> Since water is the basis of life, composing the greater part of the tissues of all living things, the crucial problem<br /> of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water are rare. And since man’s inexorable<br /> necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many<br /> creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop.<br /> Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its<br /> desiccating effects. No moist- skinned, water-loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found. The<br /> giants of the North American desert are the deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert country is open, it<br /> holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its population is largely nocturnal,<br /> silent, filled with reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated.<br /> Having adapted to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere else in the word. The secret<br /> of their adjustment lies in the combination of behavior and physiology. None could survive if, like mad dogs and<br /> Englishmen, they went out in the midday sun; many would die in a matter of minutes. So most of them pass the<br /> burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath the ground, emerging to hunt only by night. The surface of the<br /> sun-baked desert averages around 150 degrees, but 18 inches down the temperature is only 60 degrees.<br /> Question 35: Man can hardly understand why many animals live their whole life in the desert, as ______.<br /> A. very few large animals are found in the desert<br /> B. water is an essential part of his existence<br /> C. water composes the greater part of the tissues of living things<br /> D. sources of flowing water are rare in a desert<br /> Question 36: The word “austere” in paragraph 3 mostly means ______.<br /> A. changing<br /> B. favorable<br /> C. harsh<br /> D. forest<br /> Question 37: The word “its” in paragraph 2 refers to ______.<br /> A. water<br /> B. desert<br /> C. life<br /> D. water scarcity<br /> Question 38: The title for this passage could be ______.<br /> A. “Man’s Life in a Desert Environment”<br /> B. “Animal Life in a Desert Environment”<br /> C. “Desert Plants”<br /> D. “Life Underground”<br /> Question 39: The author mentions all the following as examples of the behavior of desert animals EXCEPT<br /> ______.<br /> A. they are noisy and aggressive<br /> B. they sleep during the day<br /> C. they dig home underground<br /> D. they are watchful and quiet<br /> Trang 3/4 - Mã đề: 024<br /> <br /> Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.<br /> Question 40: It is believed (A) that in the near future (B), robots will use to do (C) things such as (D) cooking.<br /> Question 41: The wooden (A) fence surrounded (B) the factory is beginning (C) to fall down because of (D) the<br /> rain.<br /> Question 42: In China, Japan and other (A) Oriental countries, where (B) tea is the national drink, people<br /> almost (C) add never (D) sugar to their tea.<br /> Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct<br /> answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.<br /> Smart cards and mobile phones are becoming an increasingly popular way to make all sorts of payments.<br /> Even now, in Japan thousands of transactions, from paying rail tickets to picking up the groceries, take place<br /> every day with customers passing their handsets across a small flat-screen device. And predictions in the<br /> world of finance reckon that payments using mobile phones will have risen to more than $50 billion in the very<br /> near future.<br /> What's the appeal of e-cash? Compared to cheques or credit cards, it offers the speed of cash, but more so. It<br /> takes just one tenth of a second to complete most transactions and as no change is required, errors in counting<br /> are eliminated. Fraud and theft are also reduced and for the retailer, it reduces the cost of handling money.<br /> Sony's vision of having a chip embedded in computers, TVs and games consoles means that films, music and<br /> games can be paid for easily without having to input credit card details.<br /> And what about the future of the banks? Within their grip on the market, banks and credit-card firms want to be<br /> in a position to collect most of the fees from the users of mobile and contactless-payment systems. But the new<br /> system could prove to be a "disruptive technology" as far as the banks are concerned. If payments for a few<br /> coffees, a train ticket and a newspaper are made every day by a commuter with a mobile, this will not appear on<br /> their monthly credit card statements but on their mobile phone statements. And having spent fortunes on<br /> branding, credit-card companies and banks do not want to see other payment systems gaining popularity. It's too<br /> early to say whether banks will miss out and if so, by how much. However, quite a few American bankers are<br /> optimistic. They feel there is reason to be suspicious of those who predict that high-street banks may be a thing of<br /> the past. They point out that Internet banking did not result in the closure of their high-street branches as was<br /> predicted. On the contrary, more Americans than ever are using local branches. So, whether we'll become a<br /> totally cash-free society remains open to contention.<br /> Question 43: The author mentions the case of commuters in the third paragraph to illustrate______.<br /> A. the banks' cooperation with credit-card companies<br /> B. the modern technology of the e-cash system<br /> C. the transferability of the system<br /> D. a possible drawback of the system<br /> Question 44: What is the main idea of the first paragraph?<br /> A. The increasing popularity of new payment methods.<br /> B. The absence of traditional payment methods.<br /> C. Predictions of future payment methods.<br /> D. Japan's advanced forms of payment.<br /> Question 45: How does the writer seem to feel about the future of banks?<br /> A. uncertain<br /> B. pessimistic<br /> C. optimistic<br /> D. neutral<br /> Question 46: Why does the author mention "a small flat-screen device" in the first paragraph?<br /> A. to exemplify the e-cash system<br /> B. to praise the e-cash system<br /> C. to inform the e-cash system<br /> D. to criticize the e-cash system<br /> Question 47: The word "embedded” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.<br /> A. manufactured<br /> B. isolated<br /> C. generated<br /> D. integrated<br /> Question 48: The word “grip” in the third paragraph is closet in meaning to______.<br /> A. wealth<br /> B. success<br /> C. range of branches<br /> D. power<br /> Question 49: The word "their” in the third paragraph refers to ______.<br /> A. high-street hanks<br /> B. Internet banking<br /> C. American bankers<br /> D. credit cards<br /> Question 50: Which of the following is NOT true about the strong point of e-cash?<br /> A. fewer mistakes<br /> B. no fraud<br /> C. faster speed<br /> D. reduced cost<br /> --------------------------------------------------------- The End ----------<br /> <br /> Trang 4/4 - Mã đề: 024<br /> <br />