SỞ GD – ĐT NGHỆ AN KÌ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA LẦN 2 NĂM 2019

TRƯỜNG THPT NGHI LỘC 4 Bài thi: TIẾNG ANH

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Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the words whose underlined part differs from the
other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Câu 1:
A. photographs B. looks C. provides D. likes
Câu 2:
A. endangered B. coughed C. entertained D. destroyed
Câu 3: Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the words that differs from the other three in
the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
A. famous B. purpose C. study D. invite
Câu 4: Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the words that differs from the other three in
the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
A. performance B. optimistic C. competition D. community

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Câu 5: She was sick yesterday, she was absent from school
A. because B. but C. so D. since
Câu 6: You can meet my father now because he has been business in Lon Don
A. in B. on C. at D. for
Câu 7: Toxic chemicals from factories are one of the serious factors that leads wildlife to the ____ of extinction.
A. fence B. verge C. wall D. bridge
Câu 8: The project _____ by the foreign investors will meet the local authorities’ expectation soon.
A. investing B. which has been invested
C. invest D. that invests
Câu 9: People who are _____ always think that life in future will be far better than it is now.
A. strategic B. pessimistic C. tragic D. optimistic
Câu 10: The goverment is building a nuclear power not far from here.
A. works B. industry C. factory D. station
Câu 11: We were quite impressed by the ______ students who came up with the answer to our question almost
instantly.
A. bad-tempered B. big-headed C. quick-witted D. absent-minded
Câu 12: The students had an canoe trip last weekend.
A. excite B. exciting C. excitement D. excited
Câu 13: I_______ an old friend of mine in the street yesterday. We haven’t seen each other for ages.
A. came round B. came over C. ran out D. ran into
Câu 14: If I had known how difficulty the job was , I it
A. won’t take B. wouldn’t take C. wouldn’t have taken D. won’t have taken
Câu 15: The young men are talking about the ______ and the differences between Eastern and Western culture in our
society nowadays.
A. similar B. similarly C. similarity D. similarities
Câu 16:
Is that present Bill gave you for Christmas?
A. a/a B. a/the C. the/the D. the/0
Câu 17: When the students _____ noisily in the classroom, their teacher came in.
A. talked B. had talked C. were talking D. are talking
Câu 18: , he decided to keep the job.
A. he stressed B. Although he feels stressed
C. stressed D. Although stressed
 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.
Câu 19: We really appreciate your help, without which we couldn’t have got our task done in time.
A. require B. feel thankful for C. depreciate D. are proud of
Câu 20: Mr Brown is very generous old man. He has given most of his wealth to charity organization.
A. honest B. kind C mean. D. hospitable
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.
Câu 21: There was a long period without rain in the countryside last year so the harvest was poor
A. famine B. loss C. drought D. flood
Câu 22:
A frightening number of illiterate students are graduating from college.
A. inflexible
B. able to read and write
C. able to enjoy winter sports
D. unable to pass an examination in reading and writing
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the
following exchanges.
Câu 23: Many people think that Steve stole the money.
A. Steve was thought to steal the money.
B. Steve was thought to have stolen the money.
C. It is thought that Steve stole the money.
D. The money is thought to have stolen by Steve.
Câu 24: He decided not to go to university and went to work in a restaurant.
A. Instead of go to university, he went to work in arestaurant.
B. He decided to go to work in a restaurant because he likedit.
C. He went to work in a restaurant instead of going touniversity.
D. Despite of going to university he went to work in arestaurant.
Câu 25: “I’m very pleased at how things have turned out”, she said to her employees.
A. She expressed her satisfaction with the way things had turned out.
B. She complimented her employees for making things turn out.
C. She asked her employees how things had turned out and was pleased to know it.
D. She wanted her employees to tell her how many things had turned out.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Câu 26: Anna: Would you mind closing the window please?
Sarah: _________
A. No, I don’t B. No, not at all. I will close it now
C. Yes I do. You can close it. D. Yes of course you can do it.
Câu 27:
John: Do you have the time please?
David: ________
A. I am busy right now. I am afraid. B. Yes I have some time for you.
C. I am very sorry. I am already late. D. I am sorry I don’t have a watch here.
Combine two sentences in to a new one using the given words in brackets. Do not change the given words in any
ways.
Câu 28: He is very intelligent. He can solve all the proplems in no time
A. He is very intelligent that he can solve all the proplems in no time
B. So intelligent is he that he can solve all the proplems in no time
C. So intelligent a student is he that he can solve all the proplems in no time
D. An intelligent a student is that he can solve all the proplems in no time
Câu 29: The Moon doesn't have the atmosphere. The planet Mars doesn't either.
A. Neither the Moon nor the planet Mars has the atmosphere.
B. Neither the Moon or the planet Mars has the atmosphere.
C. Either the Moon or the planet Mars has the atmosphere.
D. Either the Moon nor the planet Mars has the atmosphere.
 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 30 to 34
The universal symbol of the Internet era communications, the @ sign used in e-mail addresses to signify the
word 'at', is 30 a 500 – year – oldinventionofItalianmerchants, aRomeacademichasrevealed. Giorgio
Stabile, a science professor at La Sapienza University, claims to have stumbled on the earliest known example of the
symbol's use, as a(n) 31 of a measure of weight or volume. He says the signrepresents an amphora, a
measure of capacity based on the terracotta jars used to transport grain and liquid in the ancient Mediterraneanworld.
The professor unearthed toe ancient symbol in the course of research for a visual history of the 20 th century, to
be published by the Treccani Encyclopedia. The first 32 ______instance of its use, hesays, occurred in a letter written
by a Florentine merchant on May 4, 1536. He says the sign made its way along trade routes to northern Europe, where
it came to represent 'at the price of’, its contemporary accountancymeaning.
Professor Stabile believes that Italian banks may possess even earlier documents 33 thesymbol
lyingforgottenintheirarchives. Theoldestexamplecouldbeofgreatvalue. Itcouldbeused 34 publicity purposes and to
enhance the prestige of the institution that owned it, he says. The race is on betweenthe mercantile world and the
banking world to see who has the oldest documentation of@.
Câu 30: A. actually B. essentially C. accurately D. truly
Câu 31: A. evidence B. indication C. sign D. proof
Câu 32: A. knowable B. knowledgeable C. knowing D. known
Câu 33: A. delivering B. taking C. carrying D. bearing
Câu 34: A. for B. on C. by D. with

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 following questions from 35 to 39
Centuries ago, man discovered that removing moisture from food helped to preserve it, and that the easiest way
to do this was to expose the food to sun and wind, In this way the North American Indians produced pemmican (dried
meat ground into powder and made into cakes), the Scandinavians made stockfish and the Arabs dried dates and
“apricot leather”.
All foods contain water – cabbage and other leaf vegetables contain as much as 93% water, potatoes and other root
vegetables 80%, lean meat 75% and fish anything from 80% to 60% depending on how fatty it is. If this water is
removed, the activity of the bacteria which cause food to bad is checked.
Fruit is sun-dried in Asia Minor, Greece, Spain and other Mediterranean countries, and also in California, South
Africa and Australia. The methods used carry, but in general the fruit is spread out on trays in drying yards in the hot
sun. In order to prevent darkening, pears, peaches and apricots are exposed to the fumes of burning sulphur before
drying. Plums for making prunes, and certain varieties of grapes for making raisins and currants, are dipped in an
alkaline solution in order to crack the skins of the fruit slightly and remove their wax coating, so increasing the rate of
drying.
Nowadays most of foods are dried mechanically; the conventional method of such dehydration is to put food in
chambers through which hot air is blown at temperatures of about 1100C at entry to about 450C at exit. This is usual
method for drying such things as vegetables, minced meat, and fish.
Liquids such as milk, coffee, tea, soups and eggs may be dried by pouring them over a heated horizontal steel
cylinder or by spraying them into a chamber through which a current of hot air passes. In the first case, the dried
material is scraped off the roller as a thin film which is then broken up into small, though still relatively coarse flakes.
In the second process it falls to the bottom of the chamber as a fine powder. Where recognizable pieces of meat and
vegetables are required, as in soup, the ingredients are dried separately and then mixed.
Dried foods take up less room and weigh less than the same food packed in cans of frozen, and they do not need to
be stored in special conditions. For these reasons they are invaluable to climbers, explorers and soldiers in battle, who
have little storage space. They are also popular with housewives because it takes so little time to cook them.
From Practical Faster Reading by Gerald Mosback and Vivien Mosback, CUP
Câu 35: What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Different methods of drying foods B. Water: the main component of food.
C. Advantages of dried foods. D. Mechanization of drying foods.
Câu 36: The word “checked” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to .
A. examined carefully B. put a tick
C. reduced considerably D. motivated to develop
Câu 37: The final product of the process of drying liquids that uses the first method will be.
A. small flakes B. recognizable pieces C. fine powder D. dried soup
Câu 38:
According to the passage, dried foods are most useful for ____ .
A. explores who are underweight B. people who are on the move
 C. soldiers who are not in battle D. housewives who have little storage space
Câu 39: This passage is mainly _____ .
A. informative B. argumentative C. analytical D. fictional

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 following questions from 40 to 50
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness and its originality of perspective. Satire itself,
however, rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world
new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem
foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the
values we unquestioningly accept are false.
Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest
Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect
before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of
famine beforeSwift.
It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satiric
method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of
art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with
commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire
rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom
instead of abstractplatitude.
Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent
reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to
prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people
that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is sanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true.
Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image ofit.
Câu 40: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Difficulties of writingsatiricliterature.
B. Popular topics ofsatire.
C. New philosophies emerging fromsatiricliterature.
D. Reasons for the popularity ofsatire.
Câu 41: Don Quixote, Brave New World, and A Modest Proposal are cited by theauthoras .
A. a typical approach tosatire B. good critiques bysatirist
C. classicsatiricworks D. best satirists ofalltimes
Câu 42: What satires fascinates readersishow .
A. realistictheyare B. ideasareexpressed C. plots arecreated D. ideasareorganized
Câu 43: Which of the following can be found in satiric literature?
A. Odd combinations of objects andideas. B. Newlyemergingphilosophies.
C. Wholesome characters who areunselfish D. Abstract discussion of moralsandethics.
Câu 44: According to the passage, there is a need for satire because people needtobe .
A. informed about new scientificdevelopments
B. reminded that popular ideas may often beinaccurate
C. exposed to original philosophies when they areformulated
D. told how they can be of service to theircommunities
Câu 45: The word "refreshing" in the last paragraph is closest inmeaningto .
A. revitalizing B. popular C. awakening D. common
Câu 46:
The word "sanctimonious" may be new to you. It most probablymeans" " in thiscontext.
A. good B. moderate C. exaggerated D. educational
Câu 47: The various purposes of satire include all of thefollowing EXCEPT .
A. introducing readers tounfamiliarsituations B. exposing falsevalues
C. brushing awayillusions D. reminding readers ofthetruth
Mark the letter A,B,C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs corection in each of the following questions.
Câu 48: What I told her a few days ago were not the solution to most of her problems
A. B C D
Câu 49: We are working, that means that we are contributing goods and services to our society.
A B C D
Câu 50: Until the invention of the telephone, skyscrapers were not considervery practical
A B C D
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