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ĐỀ SỐ 3 
SECTION A (8 points) 
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. ozone B. opposition C. oppose D. overdose 
Question 2: A. damaged B. sacrificed C. distinguished D. developed 
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. tremendous B. causality C. fidelity D. digital 
Question 4: A. contact B. concert C. constant D. concern 
Question 5: A. geologically B. obsolete C. picturesque D. refugee 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of 
the following questions. 
Question 6: Patience is a kind of quality – and that’s _______ it takes to do anything well. 
A. what B. that C. which D. why 
Question 7: When I got up this morning, the kitchen was spotless. Alex _______ it before she went 
to bed last night. 
A. should have tidied B. needn’t have tidied C. must have tidied D. mustn’t have tidied 
Question 8: I hesitate to recommend him for the job, because ________ he has a good education, 
he has very little work experience. 
A. notwithstanding B. although C. nevertheless D. however 
Question 9: Sunny, warm weekends have been few and far ________ this summer. 
A. between B. away C. from D. off 
Question 10: Mary went to meet him with an air of ________. 
A. expectancy B. expectant C. expectation D. expect 
Question 11: She wasn’t feeling very well; otherwise, she _________ the meeting so early. 
A. wouldn’t leave B. didn’t leave C. wouldn’t have left D. hadn’t left 
Question 12: Why should she stick her _____ out for them? They never helped her with anything. 
A. hand B. finger C. neck D. eyes 
Questions 13: Many old buildings in this city are _________ to make way for new ones. 
A. cut down B. tracked down C. scaled down D. pulled down 
Question 14: The average wavelength of visible light is 2,000 times _____ the diameter of an atom. 
A. greater than B. as great C. much as D. more than that 
Question 15: We know people are generally more aware of the importance of ________ a healthy 
and active lifestyle than they were. 
A. leading B. taking C. doing D. making 
Question 16: I couldn’t get a wink of sleep last night, so I’m not really on the _____ today. 
A. mark B. fringe C. ball D. weakness 
Question 17: Gymnastics truly is a sport for everyone, _________ age or ability. 
A. in place of B. regardless of C. not mention D. in case of 
Question 18: To prepare for the housewarming party, Joline’s family bought _________ last week. 
A. round small wooden four tables C. four small round wooden tables 
B. four wooden small round tables D. four round wooden small tables 
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Question 19: Avatar ________ the highest-grossing film of all time but, for someone viewers, it’s 
all proving to be a little bit too perfect. 
A. may be B. must be C. can be D. have to be 
Question 20: Air pollution poses a _______ to both human health and our environment. 
A. jeopardy B. difficulty C. problem D. threat 
Question 21: It’s _______ rare to see large sharks in the Mediterranean Sea. 
A. credible B. credibly C. incredible D. incredibly 
Question 22: Almost all economists agree __________ by trading with one another. 
A. nations that are gained C. nations they gain 
B. that nations gain D. gaining nations 
Question 23: Ken and Laura are saying goodbye to each other after going to LOTTE Center. And 
they are going to have a date with each other later. 
Laura: “Well, it’s getting late. Maybe we could get together sometime.” 
Ken: “_______” 
A. Nice to see back you. C. Sounds good. I’ll give you a call. 
B. Take it easy. D. Yes, I’ve enjoyed it. 
Question 24: Today, Minh watches Mai playing badminton in Phu Dong Health Tournament. 
During the break, he meets her and encourages her to play with flying colors. 
Minh: “How well you are playing!” 
Mai: “_______” 
A. Say it again. I like to hear your words. C. Thank you too much. 
B. I think so. I am proud of myself. D. Many thanks. That is a nice compliment. 
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 34. 
Education is more important today than ever before. It helps people acquire the skills they 
need for such everyday (25) _______ as reading a newspaper or managing their money. It also 
gives them the specialized training they may need to (26) _______ for a job or career. For example, 
a person must meet certain educational requirements and obtain a (27) _______ or certificate 
before he can practice law or medicine. Many fields, like computer operation or police work, (28) 
_______ satisfactory completion of special training courses. 
Education is also important (29) _______ it helps people get more out of life. It increases 
their knowledge and understanding of the world. It helps them acquire the skills that make life more 
interesting and enjoyable,(30) _______ the skills needed to participate in a sport, paint a picture, or 
play a musical (31) _______ . Such education becomes (32) _______ important as people gain 
more and more leisure time. 
Education also helps people adjust to change. This habit has become necessary because social 
changes today take place with increasing speed and (33) _______ the lives of more and more 
people. Education can help a person understand these changes and provide him (34) _______ the 
skills for adjusting to them. 
Question 25: A. works B. jobs C. actions D. activities 
Question 26: A. do B. prepare C. make D. work 
Question 27: A. license B. card C. diploma D. paper 
Question 28: A. requires B. requiring C. require D. to require 
Question 29: A. therefore B. despite C. although D. because 
Question 30: A. such as B. for instance C. such that D. for example 
Question 31: A. appliance B. equipment C. instrument D. device 
Question 32: A. increased B. increasing C. increase D. increasingly 
Question 33: A. effect B. affect C. affective D. effective 
Question 34: A. with B. for C. in D. to 
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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 35: Researchers discounted a problem they should have been considering more seriously. 
A. rejected C. disregarded 
B. paid attention to D. disconcerted 
Question 36: Government support will be essential if the project is to succeed. 
A. unavoidable B. extreme C. basic D. unique 
Question 37: The development team needs to pull out all the stops to finish by the deadline. 
A. to come together in close array C. to enhance or obstruct the success 
B. to make every effort to achieve something D. to give up making something more excellent 
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 38: Raising living costs, together with escalating taxes, has proved to be a burden for 
 A B C 
everyone. 
 D 
Question 39: Someone who use a personal computer to perform only such tasks as word 
 A B 
processing and sending e-mail need not buy the most advanced model available on the market. 
 C D 
Question 40: The bridge-building project had problems with funding right from the word begins. 
 A B C D 
Question 41: If there’s a funnier person in the world than him, I don’t know who it will be. 
 A B C D 
Question 42: From the driver’s point of view, the new speed limits enacted by the state were more 
 A B C 
stricter than the old laws. 
 D 
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 52. 
Most people can remember a phone number for up to thirty seconds. When this short amount 
of time elapses, however, the numbers are erased from the memory. How did the information get 
there in the first place? Information that makes its way to the short term memory (STM) does so via 
the sensory storage area. The brain has a filter which only allows stimuli that is of immediate 
interest to pass on to the STM, also known as the working memory. 
There is much debate about the capacity and duration of the short term memory. The most 
accepted theory comes from George A. Miller, a cognitive psychologist who suggested that humans 
can remember approximately seven chunks of information. A chunk is defined as a meaningful unit 
of information, such as a word or name rather than just a letter or number. Modern theorists suggest 
that one can increase the capacity of the short term memory by chunking, or classifying similar 
information together. By organizing information, one can optimize the STM, and improve the 
chances of a memory being passed on to long term storage. 
When making a conscious effort to memorize something, such as information for an exam, 
many people engage in “rote rehearsal”. By repeating something over and over again, one is able to 
keep a memory alive. Unfortunately, this type of memory maintenance only succeeds if there are no 
interruptions. As soon as a person stops rehearsing the information, it has the tendency to disappear. 
When a pen and paper are not handy, people often attempt to remember a phone number by 
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repeating it aloud. If the doorbell rings or the dog barks to come in before a person has the 
opportunity to make a phone call, he will likely forget the number instantly. Therefore, rote 
rehearsal is not an efficient way to pass information from the short term to long term memory. A 
better way is to practice “elaborate rehearsal”. This involves assigning semantic meaning to a piece 
of information so that it can be filed along with other pre-existing long term memories. 
Encoding information semantically also makes it more retrievable. Retrieving information can 
be done by recognition or recall. Humans can easily recall memories that are stored in the long term 
memory and used often; however, if a memory seems to be forgotten, it may eventually be retrieved 
by prompting. The more cues a person is given (such as pictures), the more likely a memory can be 
retrieved. This is why multiple choice tests are often used for subjects that require a lot of 
memorization. 
Question 43: According to the passage, how do memories get transferred to the STM? 
A. They revert from the long term memory. 
B. They are filtered from the sensory storage area. 
C. They get chunked when they enter the brain. 
D. They enter via the nervous system. 
Question 44: The word “elapses” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______. 
A. passes B. adds up C. appears D. continues 
Question 45: All of the following are mentioned as places in which memories are stored EXCEPT 
the _________. 
A. STM B. long term memory C. sensory storage area D. maintenance area 
Question 46: Why does the author mention a dog’s bark? 
A. To give an example of a type of memory 
B. To provide a type of interruption 
C. To prove that dogs have better memories than humans 
D. To compare another sound that is loud like a doorbell 
Question 47: How do theorists believe a person can remember more information in a short time? 
A. By organizing it B. By repeating it C. By giving it a name D. By drawing it 
Question 48: The author believes that rote rotation is ________. 
A. the best way to remember something C. ineffective in the long run 
B. more efficient than chunking D. an unnecessary interruption 
Question 49: The word “it” in the last paragraph refers to _______. 
A. encoding B. STM C. semantics D. information 
Question 50: The word “elaborate” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______. 
A. complex B. efficient C. pretty D. regular 
Question 51: Which of the following is NOT supported by the passage? 
A. The working memory is the same as the short term memory. 
B. A memory is kept alive through constant repetition. 
C. Cues help people to recognize information. 
D. Multiple choice exams are the most difficult. 
Question 52: The word “cues” in the passage is closest in meaning to _______. 
A. questions B. clues C. images D. tests 
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 53: The nominating committee always meets behind closed doors, lest its deliberations 
become known prematurely. 
A. privately B. safely C. publicly D. dangerously 
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Question 54: My only misgiving is that we might not have enough time to do the assigned job 
properly. 
A. worry B. doubt C. apprehension D. assurance 
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 55 to 64. 
Geographers say that what defines a place are four properties: soil, climate, altitude, and 
aspect, or attitude to the Sun. Florida’s ancient scrub demonstrates this principle. Its soil is pure 
silica, so barren it supports only lichens as ground cover. (It does, however, sustain a sand-
swimming lizard that cannot live where there is moisture or plant matter the soil.) Its climate, 
despite more than 50 inches of annual rainfall, is blistering desert plant life it can sustain is only the 
xerophytic, the quintessentially dry. Its altitude is a mere couple of hundred feet, but it is high 
ground on a peninsula elsewhere close to sea level, and its drainage is so critical that a difference of 
inches in elevation can bring major changes in its plant communities. Its aspect is flat, direct, brutal 
– and subtropical. Florida’s surrounding lushness cannot impinge on its desert scrubbiness. 
This does not sound like an attractive place. It does not look much like one either; Shrubby 
little oaks, clumps of scraggly bushes, prickly pear, thorns, and tangles. “It appear Said one early 
naturalist,” to desire to display the result of the misery through which it has Passed and is passing.” 
By our narrow standards, scrub is not beautiful; neither does it meet our selfish utilitarian needs. 
Even the name is an epithet, a synonym for the stunted, the scruffy, the insignificant, what is 
beautiful about such a place? 
The most important remaining patches of scrub lie along the Lake Wales Ridge, a chain of 
paleoislands running for a hundred miles down the center of Florida, in most places less than ten 
miles wide. It is relict seashore, tossed up millions of years ago when ocean levels were higher and 
the rest of the peninsula was submerged. That ancient emergence is precisely what makes Lake 
Wales Ridge so precious: it has remained unsubmerged, its ecosystems essentially undisturbed, 
since the Miocene era. As a result, it has gathered to itself one of the largest collections of rare 
organisms in the world. Only about 75 plant species survive there, but at least 30 of these are found 
nowhere else on Earth. 
Question 55: What does the passage mainly discuss? 
A. How geographers define a place 
B. The characteristics of Florida’s ancient scrub 
C. An early naturalist’s opinion of Florida 
D. The history of the Lake Wales Ridge 
Question 56: The author mentions all of the following as factors that define a place EXCEPT ___. 
A. aspect B. altitude C. soil D. life-forms 
Question 57: It can be inferred from the passage that soil composed of silica _________. 
A. does not hold moisture C. nourishes many kinds of ground cover 
B. is found only in Florida D. provides food for many kinds of lizards 
Question 58: The word “sustain” in line 5 is closets in meaning to _______. 
A. select B. strain C. support D. store 
Question 59: The author mentions the prickly pear (line 11) as an example of ______. 
A. valuable fruit-bearing plants of the scrub area 
B. unattractive plant life of the scrub area 
C. a pant discovered by an early naturalist 
D. plant life that is extremely are 
Question 60: The author suggests that human standards of beauty are _______. 
A. tolerant B. idealistic C. defensible D. limited 
Question 61: The word “insignificant” in line 14 is closest in meaning to A 
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A. unimportant B. undisturbed C. immature D. inappropriate 
Question 62: According to the passage, why is the Lake Wales Ridge valuable? 
A. It was originally submerged in the ocean. 
B. It is less than ten miles wide. 
C. It is located near the seashore. 
D. It has ecosystems that have long remained unchanged. 
Question 63: The word “it” in line 21 refer to ______. 
A. Florida C. the Lake Wales Ridge 
B. the peninsula D. the Miocene era 
Question 64: The passage probably continues with a discussion of _______. 
A. ancient scrub found in other areas of the country 
B. geographers who study Florida’s scrub 
C. the climate of the Lake Wales Ridge 
D. the unique plants found on the Lake Wales Ridge 
SECTION B (2 points) 
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence 
printed before it. Write your answers on your answer sheet. 
Question 1: We worked as hard as we could, but we didn’t manage to finish everything in time. 
Much ________________________________________________________________________. 
Question 2: Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less. 
The reason ____________________________________________________________________. 
Question 3: Buying a daily newspaper seems pointless to me. 
I can’t see _____________________________________________________________________. 
Question 4: I couldn’t reach the shelf. It was too high. 
The shelf ______________________________________________________________________. 
Question 5: “Is this pasta a new experience for you, Carol?” said Peter. 
Peter asked Carol if it ____________________________________________________________. 
II. In about 140 words, write a paragraph about the importance of environmental protection. 
Write your paragraph on your answer sheet. 
The following prompts might be helpful to you. 
- Benefits from the environment. 
- If people didn’t protect the environment, what would happen to the human life? 
- What should we do to protect the environment? 
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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO 
TỔ: TIẾNG ANH 
ĐỀ THI THỬ THÁNG 1 
KỲ THI TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG QUỐC GIA NĂM 2016 
ĐÁP ÁN 
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH 
A. PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM (8,0 điểm) 
1. B 2. A 3. D 4. D 5. B 6. A 7. C 8. B 
9. A 10. A 11. C 12. C 13. D 14. A 15. A 16. C 
17. B 18. C 19. A 20. D 21. D 22. B 23. C 24. D 
25. D 26. B 27. A 28. C 29. D 30. A 31. C 32. D 
33. B 34. A 35. C 36. C 37. B 38. A 39. A 40. D 
41. D 42. C 43. B 44. A 45. D 46. B 47. A 48. C 
49. D 50. A 51. D 52. B 53. C 54. D 55. B 56. D 
57. A 58. C 59. B 60. D 61. A 62. D 63. C 64. D 
B. PHẦN VIẾT (2,0 điểm) 
I. Viết tiếp câu (0,1 điểm x 5 câu = 0,5 điểm) 
Câu 1: Much as we