ĐỀ LUYỆN THI THPT QG 2017

Họ và tên thí sinh:……………………………………………………………………. SBD:…………………………

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.

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.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the ITALIC word(s) in each of the following questions.

Question 5: I wanted to prove to my family that I could make something of myself.

Question 6: The students have to sift through all the journals in the library to find the information their professor want them to find.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the ITALIC word(s) in each of the following questions.

Question 7: In just four short years, his company has made phenomenal progress in delivering great market success. 

Question 8: Because we know nothing, in this view, we should treat all things with indifference and make no judgments.

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 9: According to classical musical tradition, the term “sonata” is given to those works are written for solo piano or for a solo wind or stringed instrument.

A. classical musical B. works are   C. a    D. stringed instrument

Question 10: Although assemblage has been a part of art for centuries, its appearance in the West as a serious art form is quite fairly recent.

 A. has been   B. a part of         C. its appearance D. quite fairly 

Question 11: If she can’t keep up payments she risks to lose her home, as thousands of families have done.   A. keep up              B. to lose                                   C. as thousands                   D. have done

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

Question 12: The number of people traveling by air has been growing_________.

Question 13: Salt is manufactured in quantities that exceed those of most, ________, other commercial chemicals.

Question 14: The boss told the workers that he would try his best to continue running the company and promised not to_________ any employees during the economic recession.

Question 15: The accident is said _______ the driver’s careless driving and the thick fog.

Question 16: I can’t do whatever I want because I am still financially_________ on my parents.

Question 17: This book was so interesting that I could hardly_________ it.

Question 18: The harder you study, the more questions you will think of _________ .

Question 19: The previous negotiations did not go anywhere, and we intend to start them again next week with a_________ slate.

Question 20: Many young people in the West are expected to leave_________ could be life’s most important decision - marriage - almost entirely up to luck.

Question 21: _____ to caring for the poor, Mother Teresa is greatly respected throughout the world.

Question 22: Since drinking water is a________ resource, we should let children know how precious it is, and teach them to conserve it.

Question 23: When disaster________, organisations such as Oxfarm quickly provide help.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.

Question 24: Peter: “My mother’s much better now.” – Kyle: “______________”.

Question 25: Tom: “Can I bring a friend to your party?” – Mary: “________________”.

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.

One of the most difficult questions to answer is how much a job is worth. We naturally expect that a doctor’s salary will be higher than a bus conductor’s wage. But the question becomes much more difficult to answer when we compare, say, a miner with an engineer, or an unskilled man working on an oil-rig in the North Sea with a teacher in a secondary school. What the doctor, the engineer and teacher have is many years of training in order to obtain the necessary qualifications for their professions. We feel instinctively that these skills and these years, when they were studying instead of earning money, should be rewarded. At the same time we recognize that the work of the miner and the oil-rig laborer is both hard and dangerous, and that they must be highly paid for the risks they take.

Another factor we must take into consideration is how socially useful a man’s work is, regardless of the talents he may bring to it. Most people would agree that looking after the sick or teaching children is more important than, say, selling secondhand cars or improving the taste of toothpaste by adding a red stripe to it. Yet it is almost certain that the used car salesman earns more than the nurse, and that research chemist earns more than the school teacher.

Indeed, this whole question of just rewards can be turned on its head. You can argue that a man who does a job which brings him personal satisfaction is already receiving part of his reward in the form of a so-called “psychic wage”, and that it is the man with the boring, repetitive job who needs more money to make up for the soul-destroying monotony of his work. It is significant that that those jobs which are traditionally regarded as “vocations” - nursing, teaching and the Church, for example - continue to be poorly paid, while others, such as those in the world of sport or entertainment, carry financial rewards out of all proportion to their social worth.

Although the amount of money that people earn is in reality largely determined by market forces, this should not prevent us from seeking some way to decide what is the right pay for the job. A starting point for such an investigation would be to try to decide the ratio which ought to exist between the highest and the lowest paid. The picture is made more complicate by two factors: firstly by the “social wage”, i.e, the welfare benefits which every citizen receives; and secondly, by the taxation system, which is often used as an instrument of social justice by taxing high incomes at a very high rate indeed. Allowing for these two things, most countries now regard a ratio of 7:1 as socially acceptable. If it is less, the highly-qualified people carrying heavy responsibilities become disillusioned, and might even end up by emigration (the so-called “brain-drain” is an evidence that this can happen). If it is more, the gap between rich and poor will be so great that it will lead social tensions and ultimately to violence.                                      (Adapted from: How much is job worth?)

Question 26: According to the passage, the professional man, such as the doctor, should be well paid because__________.

Question 27: As far as rewarding people for their work is concerned, the writer, believes that ______.

Question 28: The argument of the “psychic wage” is used to explain why__________.

Question 29: In Paragraph 2 and 3, the author indicates that__________.

Question 30: It can be inferred from the passage that a man who does a boring, repetitive job ______.

Question 31: The word “disillusioned” in the passage is closest in meaning to__________.

Question 32: The author mentions “brain-drain” as an evidence to show that__________.

Question 33: Which of the following statements would the author agree?

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.

The growth of population has its problems as we shall see. As there are more and more mouths (34)______, there comes a great strain (35)_______ the resources of a country; this is real in the case of developing countries with the result they are unable to push ahead economically. As food is not sufficient there is chronic malnutrition in these countries especially in women and children resulting in weaker population (36)_______ would only economically be a drain on the country as their productive years will be short. As health and education are the State's (37)_______, they affect the country's finances. So in developing countries health and illiteracy continue to be the problem. The unwieldy growth of population leads to the problem of housing and sanitation. In many countries the slums are a (38)_______ to the eyes. Slums grow round big cities and are found with all the drawbacks. These are the areas of disease, filth and crime.

(Adapted from: The problem of over population)