ĐỀ LUYỆN THI THPT QG 2018 150

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.

Question 1: A. together                 B.  though           C. worthy       D. ethnic

Question 2: A. campus    B. relax           C. locate       D. fashion            

  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. adorable             B. ability            C. impossible        D. entertainment

Question 4: A. engineer             B. corporate            C. difficult        D. different

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 5: Not only the athlete but also his wife are going to the party tonight.

                   A   B      C                             D

Question 6: She was anxious about the interview because she failed three interviews before.

                                              A                                        B                C                                           D

Question 7: Hardly had he entered the room than all the lights went out.

                                              A                                    B            C                D           

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

of the following questions.  

Question 8: I passed the test. I______ it without your help.

          A. would not pass        B. had not passed        C. didn't pass       D. wouldn't have passed

Question 9: The more you talk about the matter, ______.

          A. the situation seems the worse            B. the situation seems worse

          C. the worse seems the situation            D. the worse the situation seems

Question 10: Tears contain an antiseptic that helps protect our eyes______ infection.

          A. from bacterial          B. in bacterial             C. bacterial  D. with bacterial

Question 11: By the time we got home, we were______ frozen and exhausted.

          A. exceedingly     B. extremely             C. absolutely     D. very

Question  12:  Everyone _______ what they have to do, don’t they?

          A. know                          B. do know             C. have known D. knows

Question  13: What’s the point______ here if you don’t have anything to tell them?

          A. getting them all come                         B. in getting them all come

          C. to get them all come                                     D. in getting them all to come

Question 14: I wish I______ to him. Now it is too late.

         A. would listen             B. have listened          C. listened        D. had listened

Question 15: Many people believe that violent computer games can have a harmful______ on children.  A. affect                            B. effect                                      C. damage                            D. involvement

Question 16: When students finish the secondary education, they have to take a(n)______ called GCSE.      A. check                                      B. examination              C. interview                                  D. test

Question 17:  Remember to bring with you your school certificate and letters of______ from your teachers or your previous employers when you come to the interview.

        A. assignment              B. invitation        C. recommendation  D. advertisement

Question 18: I like spending my holidays in the mountains, ______ my wife prefers the seaside.

       A. though               B. whereas               C. despite            D. in spite of

Question 19: I______ Tom with me if I had known you and he didn’t get along well with each other.

       A. won’t bring           B. wouldn’t have brought   C. didn’t bring  D. hadn’t brought

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 20: - Daisy: “You must be Jane's sister. Glad to meet you.”     - Mary: “______________“ 

      A. I am, either        B. So I am. I'm glad        C. What do you do D. Me too.

Question 21:   - Anna: “______________?“        - Bob: “About tem miles before we met him.”

      A. How fast did he drive                                     B. How long did he drive

      C. How often did he drive                D. How far did he drive

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 22:  The activists were accused of contaminating the minds of our young people.

    A. providing healthy ideas B. nurturing   C. harming           D. keeping in the dark

Question 23:  To prepare for a job interview, you should jot down your qualifications, work experience as well as some important information about yourself.

   A. what you have experienced                            C. your own qualities in real life          

   B. your bio data and special qualities               D. what you have earned through study 

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 24:  Your experience with oil well fires will be invaluable to the company in cased of trouble.     A. valuable     B. precious                               C. priceless                              D. worthless

Question 25.  Ignoring the danger to himself, Freddie dived into the river to save the puppy.

   A. Neglecting                   B. Overlooking              C. Watching                D. Noticing

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 26:   Sue is too slow to understand what you might say.

      A. So slow is Sue that she can’t understand what you might say.

      B. Sue is not enough quick to understand what you might say.

      C. Sue is so slow to understand what you might say.  

      D. What you might say, Sue can understand slowly.

Question  27:   Had Kathy studied hard, she would have passed the examination.

     A. Kathy knew that she would succeed in the examination.

     B. But for her hard study, Kathy would have succeed in the examination.

     C. Kathy studied very hard but she did not succeed in the examination.

     D. Kathy did not study hard, so she failed.

Question 28:  “When the bell rings take the meat out of the oven,” my sister said.

    A. My sister warned me against taking the meat out of the oven when the bell rang.

    B. My sister said that when the bell rang I was to take the meat out of the oven.

    C. My sister suggested that I should take the meat out of the oven when the bell rang.

    D. My sister asked me that when the bell rang to take the meat out of the oven.

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 29:  Father has been working all day. He must be tired now.

   A. I’m sure that Father is tired after working all day.

   B. Father must work all day and tired now.

   C. I think Father was tired all day working.

   D. Father thinks he is tired now because he has been working all day.

Question 30:   We preserve natural resources. We can use them in the future.

   A.  We preserve natural resources to we can use them in the future

   B.  We preserve natural resources in order to we can use them in the future.

   C.  We preserve natural resources so as to we can use them in the future.

   D.  We preserve natural resources so that we can use them in the future.

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   31    to   35.

     It can take a long time to become successful in your chosen field, however talented you are. One thing you  have to  be (31)_____ of is that you  will face  criticism  along the way.  The  world is full of

people  who would rather  say  something negative than  positive.  If  you‘ve  made  up your (32)_____ to  achieve  a  certain  goal, such as writing a novel, don’t let the negative criticism of others prevent you from reaching your target, and let the constructive criticism have a positive effect on your work. If someone says you‘re  totally in the  (33)_____ of talent, ignore them. That‘s negative  criticism. If , however, someone advises you to revise your work and gives you a good reason for doing so, you should consider their suggestions carefully. There are  many film stars  who were once out of work . There are many famous novelists who made a complete mess of their first novel - or who didn‘t, but had to keep on approaching  hundreds  of  publishers  before   they  could   get  it (34)_____.  Being successful does depend on luck,  to  a  certain extent.  But things are  more likely to (35)_____ well if you persevere and stay positive.

Question 31: A. alert                    B. clever               C. intelligent             D. aware

Question 32: A. mind                    B. brain               C. thought             D. idea

Question 33: A. absentee        B. shortage   C. lack              D. missing

Question 34: A. publish      B. published   C. publishes             D. to publish

Question 35: A. sail through        B. come into   C. deal with             D. turn out

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   36 to  42.

             Culture is a word in common use with complex meanings, and is derived, like the term broadcasting, from the treatment and care of the soil and of what grows on it. It is directly related to cultivation and the adjectives cultural and cultured are part of the same verbal complex. A person of culture has identifiable attributes, among them a knowledge of and interest in the arts, literature, and music. Yet the word culture does not refer solely to such knowledge and interest nor, indeed, to education. At least from the 19th century onwards, under the influence of anthropologists and sociologists, the word culture has come to be used generally both in  the singular and the plural (cultures) to refer to a whole way of life of people, including their customs, laws, conventions, and values

             Distinctions have consequently been drawn between primitive and advanced culture and cultures, between elite and popular culture, between popular and mass culture, and most recently between national and global cultures. Distinctions have been drawn too between culture and civilization; the latter is a word derived not, like culture or agriculture, from the soil, but from the city. The two words are sometimes treated as synonymous. Yet this is misleading. While civilization and barbarism are pitted against each other in what seems to be a perpetual behavioural pattern, the use of the word culture has been strongly influenced by conceptions of evolution in the 19th century and of development in the 20th century. Cultures evolve or develop. They are not static. They have twists and turns. Styles change. So do fashions. There are cultural processes. What, for example, the word  cultured means has changed substantially since the study of classical (that is, Greek and Roman) literature, philosophy, and history ceased in the 20th century to be central to school and university education. No single alternative focus emerged, although with computers has come electronic culture, affecting kinds of study, and most recently digital culture. As cultures express themselves in new forms not everything gets better or more civilized.

            The multiplicity of meanings attached to the word made and will make it difficult to define. There is no single, unproblematic definition, although many attempts have been made to establish one. The only non- problematic definitions go back to agricultural meaning (for example, cereal culture or strawberry culture) and medical meaning (for example, bacterial culture or penicillin culture). Since in anthropology and sociology we also acknowledge culture clashes, culture shock, and counter-culture, the range of reference is extremely wide.

Question 36:  According to the passage, the word culture_______. 

      A.  is related to the preparation and use of land for farming

      B.  develops from Greek and Roman literature and history

      C.  comes from a source that has not been identified

      D.  derives from the same root as civilization does

Question 37:  It is stated in paragraph 1 that a cultured person_______.

     A. has a job related to cultivation                       B. takes care of the soil and what grows on it

     C. has knowledge of arts, literature, and music        D. does a job relevant to education

Question 38:  The author remarks that culture and civilization are the two words that_______.

    A.  share the same word formation pattern                 B. are both related to agriculture and cultivation

    C.  have nearly the same meaning                      D. do not develop from the same meaning

Question 39:  The word “static” in paragraph 2 could best be replaced by “_______.”

    A.  regular                         B. balanced         C. unchanged           D. dense

Question 40:   It is difficult to give the definitions of the word culture EXCEPT for its_______.

    A. agricultural and medical meanings       B. historical and figurative meanings

    C. philosophical and historical meanings        D. sociological and anthropological meanings

Question 41:  Which of the following is NOT true about the word culture?

    A. It is a word that cannot be defined.        B. Its use has been considerably changed.

    C. It differs from the word civilization.     D. It evolves from agriculture.

Question 42:  The passage mainly discusses_______.

    A. the distinction between culture and civilization   B. the figurative meanings of the word culture

    C. the derivatives of the word culture                      D. the multiplicity of meanings of the word culture

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 43 to 50.

           Choosing a career may be one of the hardest jobs you ever have, and it must be done with care. View a career as an opportunity to do something you love, not simply as a way to earn a living. Investing the time and effort to thoroughly explore your options can mean the difference between finding a stimulating and rewarding career and move from job to unsatisfying job in an attempt to find the right one. Work influences virtually every aspect of your life, from your choice of friends to where you live. Here are just a few of the factors to consider.

 Deciding what matters most to you is essential to making the right decision. You may want to begin by assessing your likes, dislikes, strengths, and weaknesses. Think about the classes, hobbies, and surroundings that you find most appealing. Ask yourself questions, such as “Would you like to travel? Do you want to work with children? Are you more suited to solitary or cooperative work?” There are no right or wrong answers; only you know what is important to you. Determine which job features you require, which ones you would prefer, and which ones you cannot accept. Then rank them in order of importance to you.

 The setting of the job is one factor to take into account. You may not want to sit at a desk all day. If not, there are diversity occupation – building inspector, supervisor, real estate agent – that involve a great deal of time away from the office. Geographical location may be a concern, and employment in some fields is concentrated in certain regions. Advertising job can generally be found only in large cities. On the other hand, many industries such as hospitality, law education, and retail sales are found in all regions of the country. If a high salary is important to you, do not judge a career by its starting wages. Many jobs, such as insurance sales, offers relatively low starting salaries; however, pay substantially increases along with your experience, additional training, promotions and commission.

 Don’t rule out any occupation without learning more about it. Some industries evoke positive or negative associations. The traveling life of a flight attendant appears glamorous, while that of a plumber does not. Remember that many jobs are not what they appear to be at first, and may have merits or demerits that are less obvious. Flight attendants must work long, grueling hours without sleeps, whereas plumbers can be as highly paid as some doctors. Another point to consider is that as you get mature, you will likely to develop new interests and skills that may point the way to new opportunities. The choice you make today need not be your final one.

Question  43:  The word “assessing” in paragraph 2 could best be replaced by_______.

       A. discovering         B. considering            C. measuring   D. disposing

Question  44:   According to paragraph 3, which of the following fields is NOT suitable for a person who does not want  to live in a big city?  

       A. plumbing         B. law             C. retail sales   D. advertising

Question  45:  Those are all the factors you should take into account when choosing a job except _______.        A. Your likes and your dislikes                              B. The atmosphere at work

       C. Geographical location              D. Your strengths and weaknesses

Question  46:  The word “that” in paragraph 4 refers to_______.

       A. occupation        B. the traveling life         C. a flight attendant  D. commission 

Question  47:   It can be inferred from the paragraph 3 that_______.

       A. jobs in insurance sales are generally not well-paid.

       B. insurance sales people can earn high salary later in their career.

       C. people should constantly work toward the next promotion.

       D. a starting salary should be an important consideration in choosing a career.

Question  48:   In paragraph 4, the author suggests that_______.

       A. you may want to change careers at some time in the future.

       B. as you get older, your career will probably less fulfilling.

       C. you will be at your job for a lifetime, so choose carefully.

       D. you will probably jobless at some time in the future.

Question  49:  Why does the author mention “long, grueling hours without sleeps” in paragraph 4?

       A. To emphasize the difficulty of working as a plumber.

       B. To contrast the reality of a flight attendant’s job with most people’s perception.

       C. To show that people must work hard for the career they have chosen.

       D. To discourage readers from choosing a career as a flight attendant.

Question  50:  According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

      A. To make a lot of money, you should not take a job with a low starting salary.

      B. To make lots of money, you should rule out all factory jobs.

      C. If you want an easy and glamorous lifestyle, you should consider becoming flight attendant.

      D. Your initial view of certain careers may not be accurate.

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