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KỲ THI KIỂM TRA CHUYÊN ĐỀ CHUẨN BỊ CHO
KỲ THI THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2017
Môn: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề
Mã đề thi 002
Họ và tên thí sinh:.......................................................................
Số báo danh:................................................................................
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. opponents 
B. ruins
C. leftovers
D. series
Question 2:
A. complete
B. common
C. command 
D. compare
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. predominant
B. superior 
C. philosopher
D. similarly 
Question 4:
A. portable
B. familiar
C. childbearing
D. parallel 
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: Pewter ranks as one of the oldest known alloys and may have been used as early as 1500 B.C. ago.
A. ranks as
B. known alloys
C. may have
D. ago
Question 6: United States emissions are down about 6 percent over the past five years, largely because of the drop in industry and electricity production caused by the recession.
A. are down
B. largely 
C. industry
D. caused
Question 7: The growth spurt is most often characterized in two years of fast growth, followed by three or more years of slow, steady growth.
A. most
B. characterized 
C. in
D. followed
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: We decided to have the roof insulated ________ it would mean stretching ourselves financially quite a lot.
A. although 
B. as long as
C. therefore
D. because
Question 9: Under UK opportunity laws, an employee _______ against on the grounds of race, religion or gender.
A. didn’t use to discriminate 
B. should not discriminate
C. cannot be discriminated 
D. hasn’t been discriminating
Question 10: Issues from price, place, promotion, and product are ______ of marketing strategies’ planning, despite growing calls to expand the range of issues in today’s more complex world.
A. these that are among the most conventional concerns
B. among the most conventional concerns
C. they are among the most conventional concerns
D. those are among the most conventional concerns
Question 11: A culture in which the citizens share similar religious beliefs and values is more likely to have laws that represent the wishes of its people than is a culture where citizens come from ______ backgrounds.
A. extensive 
B. influential 
C. diverse 
D. identical
Question 12: If it ______ for Judy, Betsy ______ sure she would have left the city.
A. hadn’t been – was 
B. hadn’t been – had been 
C. weren’t – had been 
D. weren’t – were 
Question 13: The biennial event is in fact an opportunity for lawyers to learn how their clients can avoid falling ____ of the law.
A. mistake
B. fault
C. foul 
D. error
Question 14: Women now often work areas ________ medicine, business management and higher education, which would not have been possible 100 years ago.
A. regardless of 
B. due to 
C. in virtue of 
D. such as
Question 15: Nowadays, if people keep away from cigarettes, exercise regularly, and eat enough fruits and veggies, they can ______ 100. 
A. live to be 
B. live up to 
C. live for being 
D. live
Question 16: Donald Trump has suggested he could grant legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants who have not ______ serious crimes in what would be a major policy shift.
A. committed 
B. took
C. served
D. done
Question 17: She was arrested for ______ state secrets to a foreign reporter in return for her son going abroad. 
A. getting away 
B. giving away 
C. breaking away 
D. putting away
Question 18: His health ________ as he ate too little and worked too hard for months on end. 
A. broke up 
B. broke through 
C. broke down 
D. broke off 
Question 19: By _______ in this direction, we can move towards a future of hope and a realization that there are areas of work in which creativity, craftsmanship and human judgment will always be superior to what a machine can do.
A. driving a hard bargain
B. coming into conflict
C. floating our boat
D. flipping the script 
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: Peter is going on vacation next week. Today, he drops in on Tom before he travels to American.
Peter: “Where do you suggest I stay?”
Tom: “___________”
A. Let’s stay at the Hilton!
B. I suggest you to Hilton.
C. I prefer the Hilton.
D. I recommend the Hilton.
Question 21: Sarah and Kathy are talking about bad habits of children.
Sarah: “Children under ten shouldn’t stay up late to play computer games”
Kathy: “__________”
A. You are absolute right.
B. Surely, they shouldn’t.
C. Yes, I share your opinion.
D. I don’t quite agree with you.
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 profuse tropical forests of the Amazon are inhabited by different kinds of animals.
A. wild
B. distant
C. abundant
D. immersed
Question 23: Only the small fry get punished for such social misdemeanours.
A. unimportant people
B. frightened people
C. frivolous people
D. inexperienced people
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: The value of the company’s stock plunged after its chief executive was arrested on charges of embezzlement and fraud.
A. plummeted 
B. increased
C. decreased
D. unchanged
Question 25: Most of his observations were wide of the mark.
A. comprehensive
B. relevant
C. emotional
D. acceptable
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: For all he cared, his parent might have been dead for years.
A. Although concern about his parent, he had been unable to find out if they were alive.
B. He cared for no one except his parents, and it was possible that they had died long before.
C. He did not care whether his parents were alive or had died long before.
D. He cared very much for his parents even though they were dead.
Question 27: Access to the library computer facilities is open to students.
A. Computers in the library are not used for students. 
B. Students can freely assess the library computer service.
C. Students are not allowed to use library computers. 
D. The library computer facilities are accessible to students.
Question 28: They were exposed to biased information, so they didn’t know the true story.
A. If they got unbiased information, they could know the true story.
B. If they had unbiased the information, they could have known the true story.
C. If they had been exposed to unbiased information, they would have known the true story.
D. If they have exposed to the unbiased information, they could have seen the true story.
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: Huge forest areas are destroyed by the fire every year. Fire may occur due to the carelessness of people.
A. Fire which occurs as a result of sheer carelessness of people may help huge forest areas grow every year.
B. Every year, vast forest areas are destroyed by the fire which results from the carelessness of people.
C. The carelessness of people causes fire to occur and many huge forest areas to be destroyed every year.
D. People not only make vast forest areas disappear every year but also carelessly cause fire.
Question 30: Candidates put a lot of time and effort into gaining qualifications. They want to make sure that they will find a good job after graduation.
A. In order to find a good job after graduation, the candidates try to gain qualifications. 
B. After graduation, the candidates make great effort to gain qualifications to find a good job.
C. So that they will find a better job after graduation, the candidates do their best to study well.
D. To find a good job after graduation, candidates gain qualifications as much as possible.
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.
Much (31) _____ about how anti-social the internet and mobile phones are. The truth is however, according to new research, communication technology is bringing people closer together. A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found family members were keeping in regular (32) ______ today more than ever before. And this is all due to e-mail, chat, our cellphones and SMS messaging. It makes sense. Years ago, it took a long time to write a letter, then find an envelope and go to the post office to buy a stamp and post it. Today we write mails (33) ______ we wait for our change in the convenience store and they are sent in an instant. Having free Internet telephone calls also helps us to stay in touch more often and for longer. Everyone is at it, from five-year-olds to tech-savvy grandparents.
According to the Pew survey, technology has a very positive effect on communication (34) ______ families. Researchers asked 2,252 adults whether new technologies had increased the (35) ______ of communication with their family. Fifty-three percent said it increased communication with family members they did not live with, two per cent said technology decreased this. Numbers were similar for those living in the same house as their family. The project director Lee Rainey said: “There’s a new kind of connectedness being built inside of families with these technologies.” Survey co-author Barry Wellman agreed: “It used to be that husbands went off to work, wives went off to a different job or else stayed home and the kids went off to school and not until 5:30, 6 o’clock did they ever connect,” he said. 
(Adapted from “Internet helps families stay more in touch”)
Question 31:
A. have been said
B. has been said
C. had been said
D. has said
Question 32
A. connection
B. relation
C. interact
D. contact 
Question 33:
A. while 
B. although
C. which
D. besides
Question 34:
A. through
B. across
C. along
D. within
Question 35:
A. amount
B. number
C. quality 
D. quantity
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 36 to 42.
All too often, there is deference between what we say and what we think we have said, and between how we feel we have handled people and how they think they have been treated. When such ‘gaps’ occur between the intent and the action, it is often stated that there has been ‘a break-down in communication ’. Sometimes the break-down is allowed to become so serious that the gap becomes a chasm, relatives in family ceasing to speak to one another, managements and trade unions refusing to meet, government recalling ambassadors when relations between states reach a low ebb.
In fact, sometimes when people communicate, either as individual or within groups, problems inevitably occur; instruction maybe impossible to carry out, offence is taken at a particular remark, a directive is ambiguously phrased or people’s attitudes are colored by jealousy, resentment or frustration.
During the past fifty years, industrial, commercial and public service organization have grown prodigiously to meet the needs of advanced technological societies. Sometimes as many as 10,000 people work on one site, or one company employs more than 50,000 people. Clearly, good communications are essential to the efficient operation of any organization, and vital to the fulfillment of all those who commit their working lives to it.
For this reason, management specialist and behavioural scientist have devoted much thought and energy over recent years to analyzing the problems caused by bad communication practices, and creating good communication climate and systems.
As a result of the current structure of societies and economies, most of us spend our working lives in an organization that we become good communicators with social skills.
(Source: https://myschool.com.ng/school/classroom/english-language-comprehension/pg=8)
Question 36: Which of the following titles best sums up the passage?
A. The need for effective communication
B. Break down in communication
C. Communication in technological societies
D. Bad communication practices
Question 37: According to the passage, which of the following are NOT likely to contribute to a break down in communication?
A. People’s attitude and feeling
B. Ambiguously phrased instruction
C. Managements and trade unions
D. Management specialists and behavioural scientists
Question 38: The author’s use of the phrase “reach a low ebb” in paragraph 1 is primarily meant to show that _________.
A. Many countries have delinked the bilateral relations from the peace process.
B. Some countries take advantage of the improved atmosphere in bilateral relation to push for more far-reaching and comprehensive progress in their relationship.
C. When one country’s a PM or a President goes to visit another country, he or she actively promotes the development of relations, which is easily lack of maintainence.
D. The fraught relationship between the countries gets even worse than usual.
Question 39: It can be inferred from the passage that a good communicator needs to ________.
A. Create favourable communication conditions
B. Get the technological systems to work effeciently
C. Call a spade a spade
D. Be able to address 10,000 workers
Question 40: The word “chasm” in paragraph 1 means ________.
A. Serious eruption
B. Disaster
C. Wide difference
D. Disagreement
Question 41: The author of this reading would probably agree that _________.
A. We don’t need to communicate well in our family because social interaction is more important.
B. People should understand their duties towards society to become a good communicator.
C. We can not control all the issues that arise in face-to-face communication. 
D. A good manager who really runs a tight ship in a company should only take on talented employees.
Question 42: The most essential tool of communication not specifically mentioned in this passage is _______.
A. Specificialization
B. Writing 
C. Environment
D. Language
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 43 to 50.
The first two stages in the development of civilized man were probably the invention of primitive weapons and the discovery of fire, although no body knows exactly when he acquired the use of the latter.
The origin of language is also obscure. No doubt it began very gradually. Animals have a few cries that serve as signals, but even the highest apes have not been found able to pronounce words, even with the most intensive professional instruction. The superior brain of man is apparently a necessity for the mastering of speech. When man became sufficiently intelligent, we must suppose that he gradually increased the number of cries for different purposes. It was a great day when he discovered hat speech could be used for narrative. There are those who think in this respect picture language preceded oral language. A man could draw a picture on the wall of his cave to show in which direction he had gone, or what prey he hoped to catch. Probably picture language and oral language developed side by side. I am inclined to think that language has been the most important single factor in the development of man.
Two important stages came not so long before the dawn of written history. The first was the domestication of animals; the second was agriculture. Agriculture was a step in human progress to which subsequently there was nothing comparable until our own machine age. Agriculture made possible an immense increase in the number of the human species in the regions where it could be successfully practiced. These were, at first, only those in which nature fertilized the soil after each harvest. Agriculture met with violent resistance from the pastoral nomads, but the agricultural way of life prevailed in the end because of the physical comforts it provided.
Another fundamental technical advance was writing, which, like spoken language, developed out of pictures, but as soon as it had reached a certain stage, it was possible to keep records and transmit information to people who were not present when the information was given.
These inventions and discoveries - fire, speech, weapons, domestic animals, agriculture, and writing - made the existence of civilized communities possible. From about 3000 B. C. until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution less than two hundred years ago there was no technical advance comparable to these. During this long period man had time to become accustomed to his technique, and to develop the beliefs and political organizations appropriate to it. There was, of course, an immense extension in the area of civilized life. At first it had been confined to the Nile, the Euphrates, the Tigris and the Indus, but at the end of the period in question it covered much the greater part of the inhabitable globe. I do not mean to suggest that there was no technical progress during this long time; there was progress - there were even two inventions of very great importance, namely gunpowder and the mariner’s compass - but neither of these can be compared in their power to such things as speech and writing and agriculture.
(Adapted from “The Development of Human Civilization”)
Question 43: According to the author, which one of the following was first discovered or invented in human civilization?
A. written language
B. oral language
C. fire
D. domestication
Question 44: The author of the passage implies that in the development of man ________.
A. human speech developed along with other human faculties
B. picture language and written language developed side by side
C. oral language preceded the use of fire
D. the ape might be taught to master speech
Question 45: According to the passage picture language was found most useful when _______.
A. people didn’t want to use speech in communication
B. oral language was not fully developed
C. people went hunting or traveling somewhere
D. people were inhabiting in caves
Question 46: The word “it” in paragraph 3 refers to ________.
A. increase 
B. agriculture 
C. number
D. soil 
Question 47: It is the author’s view that in human civilization agriculture ________.
A. is the most important step man has ever made
B. is only less important than the domestication of animals
C. had long been practiced as stated in written history
D. can be ranked in importance with the invention of machines
Question 48: The word “obscure” in paragraph 2 probably means _______.
A. interesting 
B. complex
C. imperfect 
D. unclear
Question 49: The pastoral nomads would not have yielded to the agricultural way of life ________.
A. if it had not been for the benefits brought about by agriculture
B. unless agriculture could provide them with sufficient domesticated animals
C. if agricultu