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ĐỀ THI THỬ KỲ THI THPT QUỐC GIA LẦN 1<br />
Năm học 2017 - 2018<br />
Bài thi Tiếng Anh12<br />
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề)<br />
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or<br />
phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.<br />
In Germany, it's important to be serious in a work situation. They don't mix work and play so you shouldn't<br />
make jokes (1) _____ you do in the UK and USA when you first meet people. They work in a very<br />
organized way and prefer to do one thing at a time. They don't like·interruptions or<br />
(2)_______ changes of schedule. Punctuality is very important so you should arrive on time for appointments.<br />
At meeting, it's important to follow the agenda and not interrupt (3) _______ speaker. If you give a presentation, you<br />
should focus (4) _______ facts and technical information and the quality of your company's products. You should<br />
also prepare well, as they may ask a lot of questions. Colleagues normally use the family names, and title - for<br />
example 'Doctor' or 'Professor', so you shouldn't use first names (5) _______ a person asks you to.<br />
Question1: A. while<br />
B. as if<br />
C. such as<br />
D. as<br />
Question2: A. sudden<br />
B. suddenly<br />
C. abruptly<br />
D. promptly<br />
Question3: A. other<br />
B. others<br />
C. another<br />
D. the other<br />
Question4: A. on<br />
B. to<br />
C. at<br />
D. in<br />
Question5: A. if only<br />
B. as<br />
C. unless<br />
D. since<br />
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.<br />
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Question6: My mother asked me _____<br />
A. which tertiary institution did I choose<br />
B. which tertiary institution I choose<br />
C. which tertiary institution I would choose<br />
D. which tertiary institution will I choose<br />
Question7: It is imperative that your facebook password ________ confidential.<br />
A. need keeping<br />
B. need to keep<br />
C. needs to be kept<br />
D. needed keeping<br />
Question8: When Carol called last night, I ___________ my favourite show on TV.<br />
A.watched<br />
B. am watching<br />
C. was watching<br />
D. have watched<br />
Question9: I would be very rich now ________ working long ago.<br />
A. if I gave up<br />
B. if I wouldn’t give up C. were I to give up D. had I not given up<br />
Question10: For Americans, it is impolite to ask someone about age, __________and salary.<br />
A. marriage<br />
B. Marry<br />
C. married<br />
D. marrying<br />
Question11: Peter usually helps his mother with ______________.<br />
A. housework<br />
B. homework<br />
C. chores<br />
D. household<br />
Question12: Bill Gate’s _____ in donating large sums of money towards welfare activities is remarkable.<br />
A. polite<br />
B. generosity<br />
C. wealth<br />
D. talent<br />
Question13: ______non-verbal language is ______ important aspect of interpersonal communication.<br />
A. Ø / an<br />
B. A / the<br />
C. The / Ø<br />
D. The / a<br />
Question14: A good friend is______will stand by you when you are in trouble.<br />
A. who<br />
B. a person that<br />
C. people who<br />
D. the one who<br />
Question15: : I ______ very well with my roommate now. We never have arguments.<br />
A. carry on<br />
B. go on<br />
C. put on<br />
D. get on<br />
Question16: Which sentence is correct?<br />
A. Not only is she stupid but also lazy.<br />
B. She not only is stupid but also lazy.<br />
C. Not only is she stupid but she is also lazy. D. Not only is she stupid but she also works hard.<br />
Question17: He was wearing a ________ shirt.<br />
A. dirty old flannel<br />
B. flannel old dirty<br />
C. old dirty flannel<br />
D. dirty flannel old<br />
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the<br />
following questions.<br />
Question18: - Kate: “How lovely your cats are!” - David: “ ____________.”<br />
A. Really? They are<br />
B. Thank you, it is nice of you to say so<br />
C. Can you say it again<br />
D. I love them, too<br />
Question19: - Nam : “ I don’t think English is too hard to study ” - Huy : “ ______ “ .<br />
A. I do too<br />
B. I don’t neither<br />
C. Neither do I<br />
D. I do either<br />
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Mark the letter A,B,C or D on your sheet to indicate the word(s) SIMILAR in meaning to the underlined words in<br />
each of the following sentences.<br />
Question20: To prepare for a job interview, you should jot down your qualifications, work experience as well as<br />
some important information about yourself.<br />
A. what you have experienced<br />
C. your own qualities in real life<br />
B. your bio data and special qualities<br />
D. what you have earned through study<br />
Question21: We can use either verbal or non – verbal forms of communication.<br />
A. using gesture<br />
B. using speech<br />
C. using verbs<br />
D. using facial expressions<br />
Mark the letter A,B,C or D on your sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined words<br />
in each of the following sentences.<br />
Question22: “That is a well-behaved boy whose behaviour has nothing to complain about”<br />
A. good behavior<br />
B. behaving improprely<br />
C. behaving nice<br />
D. behaving cleverly<br />
Question23: Nonfat milk has slightly less fat than low fat<br />
A. a little<br />
B. a few<br />
C. much<br />
D. Small<br />
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of the<br />
following questions.<br />
Question24: Educated in the UK, his abilities are widely recognized in the world of professionals<br />
A<br />
B<br />
C<br />
D<br />
Question25: In my opinion, I think that this book is more interested than the other one.<br />
A<br />
B<br />
C<br />
D<br />
Question26: When he was a college student, he learned to play tennis, to ski, and swimming.<br />
A<br />
B<br />
C<br />
D<br />
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to<br />
each of the questions from .<br />
FAMILY LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES<br />
Family life in the United States is changing. Fifty or sixty years ago, the wife was called a “housewife”.<br />
She cleaned, cooked, and cared for the children. The husband earned the money for the family. He was usually out<br />
working all day. He came home tired in the evening, so he did not do much housework. And he did not see the<br />
children very much, except on weekends.<br />
These days, however, more and more women work outside the home. They cannot stay with the children all<br />
day. They, too, come home tired in the evening. They do not want to spend the evening cooking dinner and cleaning<br />
up. They do not have time to clean the house and do the laundry. So who is going to do the housework now? Who<br />
is going to take care of the children?<br />
Many families solve the problem of housework by sharing it. In these families, the husband and wife agree<br />
to do different jobs around the house, or they take turns doing each job. For example, the husband always cooks<br />
dinner and the wife always does the laundry. Or the wife cooks dinner on some nights and the husband cooks dinner<br />
on other nights.<br />
Then there is the question of the children. In the past, many families got help with child care from<br />
grandparents. Now families usually do not live near their relatives. The grandparents are often too far away to help in<br />
a regular way. More often, parents have to pay for child care help. The help may be a babysitter or a day-care center.<br />
The problem with this kind of help is the high cost. It is possible only for couples with jobs that pay well.<br />
Parents may get another kind of help form the companies they work for. Many companies now let people<br />
with children work part-time. That way, parents can spend more time with their children. Some husbands may even<br />
stop working for a while to stay with the children. For these men there is a new word: they are called<br />
“househusbands”. In the USA more and more men are becoming househusbands every year.<br />
These changes in the home mean changes in the family. Fathers can learn to understand their children better,<br />
and the children can get to know their fathers better. Husbands and wives may also find changes in their marriage.<br />
They, too, may have a better understanding of each other.<br />
Question27: Sixty years ago, most women ____________<br />
A. were housewives<br />
B. went out to work<br />
C. did not do much housework<br />
D. had no children<br />
Question28: Nowadays, there are __________.<br />
A. more work outside the home than before<br />
B.more and more women staying with the children all day<br />
C. more housewives than before<br />
D. more women going out to work than before<br />
Question29: The word “laundry” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ___________<br />
A. cooking and washing up<br />
B. tidying up<br />
C. washing and ironing<br />
D. shopping<br />
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Question30: It can be inferred from paragraph 4 that__________.<br />
all couples with jobs can pay for help from a babysitter or a day-care center<br />
couples with low-paid jobs can’t afford the cost of a babysitter or a day-care center<br />
in the past, grandparents did not help the couples with child care<br />
grandparents can help care the children in a regular way<br />
Question31: The word “they” in paragraph 5 refers to _______________<br />
A. children who spend more time with fathers than mothers<br />
B. parents who work part-time<br />
C. husbands who stop working to stay with the children<br />
D. fathers who spend more time with their children<br />
Question32: The changes in the American home mentioned in this passage may ___________<br />
A. help families<br />
B. not change the children at all<br />
C. not happen<br />
D. cause problems for a marriage<br />
Question33: This article is about ________<br />
A. American men as househusbands<br />
B. housewives in America<br />
C. how more American women are working<br />
D. how family life in America is changing<br />
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B.<br />
C.<br />
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Mark the letter A, B C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences<br />
in the following questions<br />
Question34: The student was very bright. He could solve all the math problems.<br />
A. He was such bright student that he could solve all the math problems.<br />
B. The student was very bright that he could solve all the math problems.<br />
C. He was so bright a student that he could solve all the math problems.<br />
D. Such bright was the student that he could solve all the math problems.<br />
Question35: John was not here yesterday. Perhaps he was ill.<br />
A. John needn't be here yesterday because he was ill.<br />
B. Because of his illness, John should have been here yesterday.<br />
C. John might have been ill yesterday, so he was not here.<br />
D. John must have been ill yesterday, so he was not here.<br />
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<br />
following questions.<br />
Question36: We cut down many forests. The Earth becomes hot.<br />
A. The more forests we cut down, the hotter the Earth becomes.<br />
B. The more we cut down forests, the hotter the Earth becomes.<br />
C. The more forests we cut down, the Earth becomes hotter.<br />
D. The more we cut down forests, the Earth becomes hotter.<br />
Question37: We bought two bicycles. Neither of them worked well.<br />
A. We bought two bicycles, of which neither worked well.<br />
B. We bought two bicycles which neither of worked well.<br />
C. We bought two bicycles neither of which worked well.<br />
D. We bought two bicycles, neither of which worked well.<br />
Question38: It is unlikely that results of the elections will be made public before tomorrow morning.<br />
A. Before tomorrow morning we will probably know the result of the elections.<br />
B. Tomorrow morning is probably the earliest that anyone will know the result of the selection.<br />
C. The results of the elections will most likely be made known before tomorrow morning.<br />
D. We will probably not be told the results of the elections tomorrow morning.<br />
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to<br />
each of the questions.<br />
You can usually tell when your friends are happy or angry by the looks on their faces or by their actions.<br />
This is useful because reading their emotional expressions helps you to know how to respond to them. Emotions have<br />
evolved to help us respond to important situations and to convey our intentions to others. But does raising the<br />
eyebrows and rounding the mouth say the same thing in Minneapolis as it does in Madagascar? Much research on<br />
emotional expressions has centered on such questions.<br />
According to Paul Ekman, the leading researcher in this area, people speak and understand substantially the<br />
same “facial language”. Studies by Ekman’s group have demonstrated that humans share a set of universal emotional<br />
expressions that testify to the common biological heritage of the human species. Smiles, for example, signal happiness<br />
and frowns indicate sadness on the faces of people in such far- flung places as Argentina, Japan, Spain, Hungary,<br />
Poland , Sumatra ,the United States, Vietnam, the jungles of New Guinea , and the Eskimo villages north of Artic<br />
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Circle. Ekman and his colleagues claim that people everywhere can recognize at least seven basic emotions: sadness,<br />
fear, anger, disgust, contempt, happiness, and surprise. There are, however, huge differences across cultures in both<br />
the context and intensity of emotional displays – the so called display rules. In many Asian cultures, for example,<br />
children are taught to control emotional responses – especially negative ones- while many American children are<br />
encouraged to express their feelings more openly. Regardless of culture, however, emotions usually show themselves,<br />
to some degree , in people’s behavior. From their first days of life, babies produce facial expressions that<br />
communicate their feelings.<br />
The ability to read facial expressions develops early, too. Very young children pay close attention to facial<br />
expressions, and by age five, they nearly equal adults in their skill at reading emotions on people’s faces. This<br />
evidence all points to a biological underpinning for our abilities to express and interpret a basic set of human<br />
emotions. Moreover, as Charles Darwin pointed out over a century ago, some emotional expressions seem to appear<br />
across species boundaries. Cross - cultural psychologists tell us that certain emotional responses carry different<br />
meanings in different cultures. For example, what emotion do you suppose might be conveyed by sticking out your<br />
tongue? For Americans, this might indicate disgust, while in China it can signify surprise. Likewise, a grin on an<br />
American face may indicate joy, while on a Japanese face it may just as easily mean embarrassment. Clearly, culture<br />
influences emotional expressions.<br />
Question39: According to the passage, we respond to others by _________.<br />
A. observing their looks<br />
B. watching their actions<br />
C. observing their emotional expressions<br />
D. looking at their faces<br />
Question40: Many studies on emotional expressions try to answer the question whether __________.<br />
A. different cultures have similar emotional expressions.<br />
B. eyebrow raising means the same in Minneapolis and Madagascar.<br />
C. raising the eyebrows has similar meaning to rounding the mouth.<br />
D. rounding the mouth has the same meaning in Minneapolis and Madagascar.<br />
Question41: The word “ evolved” in line 3 is closest in meaning to __________.<br />
A. reduced<br />
B. increased<br />
C. simplified<br />
D. developed<br />
Question42: Paul Ekman is mentioned in the passage as an example of ____________.<br />
A. lacked many main ingredients<br />
B. researchers on universal language<br />
C. researchers who can speak and understand many languages<br />
D. investigators on universal emotional expressions<br />
Question43: The biggest difference lies in __________.<br />
A. how long negative emotions are displayed B. how intensive emotions are expressed<br />
C. how emotional responses are controlled<br />
D. how often positive emotions are shown<br />
Question44: Unlike American children, Asian children are encouraged to _______.<br />
A. control their emotions<br />
B. display their emotions openly<br />
C. conceal their positive emotions<br />
D. change their behaviour<br />
Question45: The phrase “ this evidence” in line 21 refers to _________.<br />
A. the fact that children are good at recognizing others’ emotions<br />
B. human facial expressions<br />
C. a biological underpinning for humans to express emotions<br />
D. the fact that children can control their feelings<br />
Question46: The best title for the passage is ________________.<br />
A. Cultural universals in emotional expressions<br />
B. Ways to control emotional expressions<br />
C. review of research on emotional expressions<br />
D. Human habit of displaying emotions<br />
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other<br />
three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.<br />
B.occasions<br />
C.associates<br />
D. others<br />
Question47: A. hands<br />
B. laughs<br />
C. drops<br />
D. imports<br />
Question48: A. maintains<br />
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress<br />
in each of the following questions.<br />
B. curriculum<br />
C. nursery<br />
D. certificate<br />
Question49: A. compulsory<br />
Question50: A. applicant<br />
B. character<br />
C. maximum<br />
D. inflation<br />
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