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ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QG NĂM HỌC 2020 Môn: Tiếng anh Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề

 

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. sugar                         B. season                       C. serious                      D. secret

Question 2.         A. armchair                   B. kitchen                     C. catch                        D. anchor

 

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. academic                  B. inorganic                  C. understanding          D. uncertainty

Question 4.         A. disappear                  B. arrangement             C. opponent                  D. contractual

 

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Question 5. He lifted the phone receiver, __________ slightly.

   A. his hands trembling                                                B. his hands were trembling

   C. his hands trembled                                                 D. with his hands trembling

Question 6. Many young people in rural areas don’t want to spend their lives on the farm like their  __________ parents. Therefore, they decide to leave their home villages to find well-paid jobs in the fast-growing industrial zones.

   A. long-term                      B. up-to-date                     C. weather-beaten             D. wide-ranging

Question 7. What does global warming have __________ overpopulation?

   A. to do                             B. to do with                     C. made                            D. made up

Question 8. __________ his good work and manners, he didn’t get a promotion.

   A. Because of                   B. In spite of                     C. Even though                 D. As a result of

Question 9. Can you tell me who is responsible __________ checking passports?

   A. to                                  B. in                                  C. for                                D. about

Question 10. The fireworks festival is __________ event that we all want to watch it.

   A. such wonderful an                                                 B. so wonderful an

   C. a very wonderful                                                    D. a too wonderful

Question 11. I gave the waitress a $50 note and waited for my __________ .

   A. change                          B. supply                           C. cash                              D. cost

Question 12. Neither Bill nor his brothers __________ willing to help their mother with the housework.

   A. is                                   B. was                               C. are                                D. has been

Question 13. You must always have a good breakfast every morning __________ late you are.

   A. even if                          B. no matter                      C. whatever                      D. however

Question 14. You should concentrate on __________ the teacher is saying.

   A. what                             B. which                            C. that                               D. whom

Question 15. Lenses, __________, are used to correct imperfections in eyesight.

   A. are the forms of glasses and contact lenses

   B. in the form of glasses and contact lenses

   C. glasses and contact lenses which form

   D. glasses and contact lenses may be formed

Question 16. My grandmother __________ her whole life to looking after her children.

   A. paying                          B. using                             C. spending                       D. devoting

Question 17. Making mistakes is all __________ of growing up.

   A. bits and bobs                B. chalk and cheese          C. part and parcel             D. from top to bottom

Question 18. Our new classmate, John is a bit of a rough __________ but I think I’m going to like

him once I get used to him.

   A. stone                             B. rock                              C. diamond                       D. pearl

 

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 19. Each year about fifty hundred species of plants and animals are already being eliminated.

   A. dropped                        B. removed                       C. kicked                          D. tossed

Question 20. It is such a prestigious university that only good students are entitled to a full scholarship each year.

   A. have the right to refuse                                                                                    B. are given the right to

   C. are refused the right to                                           D. have the obligation to

 

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 21. My grandfather is becoming absent-minded. He often forgets things or does not pay attention to what is happening near him.

   A. retentive                       B. forgetful                       C. old-fashioned               D. easy-going

Question 22. The situation in the country has remained relatively stable for a few months now.

   A. constant                        B. changeable                    C. objective                       D. ignorant

 

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the following exchanges.

Question 23. - Nam: “Would you like to join us for dinner after work?”

- Lan: “_______________”

   A. Thanks. You can cook dinner.

   B. I’d love to, but I have to finish my presentation for tomorrow.

   C. Thanks for your help, but I can cook dinner myself.

   D. What’s wrong with you?

Question 24. - Peter : “My father’s much better now.”

- Tom : “_________________”

   A. Oh, I’m pleased to hear it.                                     B. Oh, really? The doctor must be very famous.

   C. Good news for you.                                               D. Wonderful. Congratulations!

 

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29.

The warming of the Pacific Ocean has created weather pattern (25)__________ strongly affect the world. When the water is warm, the amount of rainfall in Indonesia and the surrounding regions decreases. Australia could (26) __________ experience a drought in many parts. On the other hand, Chile (which borders the Pacific Ocean) is preparing for severe rainstorms. In Pakistan and northwestern India, the weather pattern makes the rainy season weaker and makes the area much drier.

This happening is called El Nino and is used (27)__________ weather forecasters to make long-range weather predictions. They also know that El Nino will bring unusually rain to the southwestern part of the United States and make the central part of the country drier at the same time.

According to research, weather forecasters (28)__________ know about the coming weather with certainty. Now everything has become completely different.

El Nino itself used to be predictable. It would occur every two to seven years. But now this weather pattern is becoming more frequent. We cannot say when and how often tornadoes or cyclones occur. Scientists are unsure of the reason for this (29)__________ on the global scale either.

Question 25.       A. what                         B. when                        C. that                           D. whether

Question 26.       A. even                          B. ever                          C. nevertheless             D. however

Question 27.       A. on                             B. by                             C. to                              D. at

Question 28.       A. used to                     B. get used to               C. are used to               D. used to be

Question 29.       A. change                      B. transfer                     C. transformation         D. shift

 

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 30 to 34.

Why is it that flying to New York from London will leave you feeling less tired than flying to London from New York? The answer may be a clear case of biology not being able to keep up with technology. Deep inside the brain there is a “clock” that governs every aspect of the body’s functioning: sleep and wake cycles, levels of alertness, performance, mood, hormone levels, digestion, body temperature and so on. It regulates all of these functions on a 24-hour basis and is called the circadian clock (from the Latin, circa “about” + dies “day”).

This body clock programmes us to be sleepy twice a day, between 3-5 a.m and again between 3-5 p.m. Afternoon tea and siesta times are all cultural responses to our natural biological sleepiness in the afternoon. One of the major causes of the travelers’ malady known as jet lag is the non-alignment of a person’s internal body clock with clocks in the external world. Crossing different time zones confuses the circadian clock, which then has to adjust to the new time and patterns of light and activity. To make matters more complex, not all internal body functions adjust at the same rate. So your sleep/wake may adjust to a new time zone at one rate, while your temperature adjusts at a different pace. Your digestion may be on a different schedule altogether.

Though we live in a 24-hour day, the natural tendency of the body clock is to extend our day beyond 24 hours. It is contrary to our biological programming to shrink our day. That is why travelling in a westward direction is more body-clock friendly than flying east. NASA studies of long haul pilots showed that westward travel was associated with significantly better sleep quantity and quality than eastward flights. When flying west, you are “extending” your day, thus travelling in the natural direction of your internal clock. Flying eastward will involve “shrinking” or reducing your day and is in direct opposition to your internal clock’s natural tendency.

One of the more common complaints of travelers is that their sleep becomes disrupted. There are many reasons for this: Changing time zones and schedules, changing light and activity levels, trying to sleep when your body clock is programmed to be awake, disruption of the internal circadian clock and working longer hours. Sleep loss, jet lag and fatigue can seriously affect our ability to function well. Judgment and decision-making can be reduced by 50%, attention by 75 percent, memory by 20 percent and communication by 30 percent. It is often suggested that you adjust your watch as soon as you board a plane, supposedly to try to help you adjust to your destination’s schedule as soon as you arrive. But it can take the body clock several days to several weeks to fully adjust to a new time zone.

Question 30. The main function of the body clock is to ______________.

   A. govern all the body’s responses                             B. regulate the body’s functions

   C. help us sleep                                                           D. help us adapt to a 24-hour cycle

Question 31. Jet lag ______________.

   A. makes our body clock operate badly                     B. causes our body clock to change

   C. extends the hours of our body clock                     D. upsets our body’s rhythms

Question 32. The word “malady” is closest in meaning to ______________

   A. illness                           B. bore                              C. thought                         D. feeling

Question 33. According to the article, ______________.

   A. various factors stop us sleeping when we fly.

   B. travelers complain about the negative effects of flying.

   C. flying seriously affects your judgment and decision-making.

   D. jet lag can affect different abilities differently.

Question 34. On the subject of avoiding jet lag the article ______________.

   A. makes no suggestions.                                            B. says there is nothing you can do.

   C. proposes gradually adjusting your body clock.     D. suggests changing the time on your watch.

 

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 35 to 42.

It may seem as if the art of music by its nature would not lend itself to the exploration and expression of reality characteristic of Romanticism, but that is not so. True, music does not tell stories or paint pictures, but it stirs feelings and evokes moods, through both of which various kinds of reality can be suggested or expressed. It was in the rationalist 18^th century that musicians rather mechanically attempted to reproduce stories and subjects in sound. These literal renderings naturally failed, and the Romanticists profited from the error. Their discovery of new realms of experience proved communicable in the first place because they were in touch with the spirit of renovation, particularly through poetry. What Goethe meant to Beethoven and Berlioz and what German folk tales and contemporary lyricists meant to Weber, Schumann, and Schubert are familiar to all who are acquainted with the music of these men.

There is, of course, no way to demonstrate that Beethoven’s Egmont music or, indeed, its overture alone corresponds to Goethe’s drama and thereby enlarges the hearer’s consciousness of it; but it cannot be an accident or an aberration that the greatest composers of the period employed the resources of their art for the creation of works expressly related to such lyrical and dramatic subjects. Similarly, the love of nature stirred Beethoven, Weber, and Berlioz, and here too the correspondence is felt and persuades the fit listener that his own experience is being expanded. The words of the creators themselves record this new comprehensiveness. Beethoven referred to his activity of mingled contemplation and composition as dichten, making a poem; and Berlioz tells in his Memoires of the impetus given to his genius by the music of Beethoven and Weber, by the poetry of Goethe and Shakespeare, and not least by the spectacle of nature. Nor did the public that ultimately understood their works gainsay their claims.

It must be added that the Romantic musicians including Chopin, Mendelssohn, Glinka, and Liszt had at their disposal greatly improved instruments. The beginning of the 19^th century produced the modem piano, of greater range and dynamics than there fore, and made all wind instruments more exact and powerful by the use of keys and valves. The modem full orchestra was the result. Berlioz, whose classic treatise on instrumentation and orchestration helped to give it definitive form, was also the first to exploit its resources to the full, in the Symphonic fantastique of 1830. This work, besides its technical significance just mentioned, can also be regarded as uniting the characteristics of Romanticism in music, it is both lyrical and dramatic, and, although it makes use of a “story,” that use is not to describe the scenes but to connect them; its slow movement is a “nature poem” in the Beethovenian manner; the second, fourth, and fifth movements include “realistic” detail of the most vivid kind; and the opening one is an introspective reverie.

Question 35. Music can suggest or express various kinds of reality by ______________.

   A. telling stories or minting pictures                           B. stirring feelings and evoking moods

   C. exploring and expressing reality                            D. depicting nature and reality

Question 36. The word “error” in paragraph 1 refers to ______________.

   A. the feelings and moods of the Romanticist musicians

   B. the exploration and expression of reality of Romanticism

   C. the works of the Romanticist musicians in the 18^th century

   D. musicians’ mechanical reproduction of stories and subjects

Question 37. It is stated in the passage that the Romanticists were influenced by ______________.

   A. the works of the rationalist musicians in the 18^th century

   B. Goethe, German folk tales and contemporary lyricists

   C. the thoughts of Beethoven, Weber, and Berlioz

   D. the art of music by the rationalist musicians

Question 38. The passage indicates that the Romanticist composers were inspired not only by lyrical and dramatic subjects but also by ______________.

   A. the rationalists                                                        B. the creation of works

   C. the love of nature                                                   D. the poetry of Goethe

Question 39. The Romantic musicians also made use of modern technologies such as _______________.

   A. improved wind instruments                                   B. powerful keys and valves

   C. greater range and dynamics                                   D. instrumenation and orchestration

Question 40. Romanticism in music is characterized as being ______________.

   A. exact and powerful      B. realistic and vivid         C. great and dynamic       D. lyrical and dramatic

Question 41. All of the following are true about the Symphonic fantastique EXCEPT ______________.

   A. It is both lyrical and dramatic.                               B. It was composed by Beethoven.

   C. It was issued in 1830.                                            D. It unites the characteristics of Romanticism.

Question 42. According to the passage, Romanticism in music extended over ______________.

   A. the 18^th and 19^th centuries                                      B. the late 18^th century

   C. the early 19^th century                                             D. the beginning of the 20^th century

 

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 43. Your trip (A) to Ho Chi Minh City (B) sounds absolutely (C) fascinated. I’d love to go (D) there.

Question 44. The (A) wooden fence (B) surrounded the factory is beginning (C) to fall down because of (D) the rain.

Question 45. Men and women in the Peace Corps (A) work with people in the (B) developing countries to help them (C) improving their (D) living conditions.

 

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 46. She had only just begun to speak when people started interrupting.

   A. She hardly had begun to speak when people started interrupting.

   B. Hardly she had begun to speak when people started interrupting.

   C. Hardly had she begun to speak when people started interrupting.

   D. She hadn’t begun to speak when people started interrupting.

Question 47. Although he was very tired, he agreed to help me with my homework.

   A. Tired as he was, he agreed to help me with my homework.

   B. Despite being very tired, but he agreed to help me with my homework.

   C. Tired though he was, but he agreed to help me with my homework.

   D. As tired as was he, he agreed to help me with my homework.

Question 48. If you practise harder, you will have better results.

   A. The harder you practise, the best results you will have.

   B. The more hardly you practise, the better results you will have.

   C. The hardest you practise, the most results you will have.

   D. The harder you practise, the better results you will have.

 

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 49. We chose to find a place for the night. We found the bad weather very inconvenient.

   A. Bad weather was approaching, so we started to look for a place to stay.

   B. The bad weather prevented us from driving any further.

   C. Seeing that the bad weather had set in, we decided to find somewhere to spend the night.

   D. Because the climate was so severe, we were worried about what we’d do at night.

Question 50. The teacher has done his best to help all students. However, none of them made any effort on their part.

   A. The teacher has done his best to help all student, or none of them made any effort on their part.

   B. Although the teacher has done his best to help all students, none of them made any effort on their part.

   C. Because the teacher has done his best to help all students, none of them made any effort on their part.

   D. When the teacher has done his best to help all students, none of them made any effort on their part.

 

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31-B	32-A	33-D	34-A	35-B	36-D	37-B	38-C	39-A	40-D
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