Đề thi thử THPT Quốc gia môn Tiếng Anh - Đề số 16

ĐỀ THI THỬ THPTQG 2017 TRẮC NGHIỆM MÔN TIẾNG ANH
ĐỀ THI THỬ SỐ 16
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. entry
B. ready
C. comfy
D. occupy
Question 2:
A. creature
B. equal
C. league
D. menace
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. conquer
B. award
C. regard
D. control
Question 4:
A. neighbour
B. career
C. colleague
D. classmate
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in the each of following questions.
Question 5: By measuring the (A) color of a star, astronomers can tell (B) how (C) hot is it (D).
Question 6: I get quite depressed (A) when I think about (B) the damage (C) we are making to (D) the environment.
Question 7: Aloha is a (A) Hawaiian word meaning (B) “love”, that (C) can be used to say (D) hello or goodbye.
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: Water volume in rivers in central Vietnam will decline by 30 to 50 percent, potentially leading to a _______ between April and June.
	A. scarcity	B. scarce	C. scarify	D. scarcely
Question 9: The number of working women _______ from 49% in 1980 to nearly 65% in China today.
	A. is increasing	B. has increased	C. have increased	D. has been increased
Question 10: The new manager _______ very strict rules as soon as he had taken over the position.
	A. settled down	B. put down 	C. laid down	D. wrote down
Question 11: Learners of English as a foreign language often fail to_______ between unfamiliar sounds in that language. 
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: “I don’t think I can do this.” – “_______”
	A. Sure, no way!	B. Yeah. It’s not easy. 
	C. Oh, come on! Give it a try! 	D. No, I hope not.
Question 21: Peter: “Is it important?” - Thomas: “_______” 
	A. Not on your life! 	B. It’s matter of life and death! 
	C. No worry, that’s nothing. 	D. It’s ridiculous.
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: I love to ramble through the fields and lanes in this part of the country.
	A. knot	B. confuse	C. wander	D. wonder
Question 23: They fought fearlessly against the invading armies.
	A. powerfully	B. cowardly	C. bravely	D. carefully
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 town is built on a tainted swamp.
	A. sweet	B. odorous	C. ugly	D. delicious
Question 25: There has been a significant shortage of new homes in the region.
	A. lack	B. poverty	C. abundance	D. fall
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: I would rather you wore something more formal to work.
	A. I’d prefer you wearing something more formal to work.
	B. I’d prefer you should wear something more formal to work.
	C. I’d prefer you to wear something more formal to work.
	D. I’d prefer you wear something more formal to work.
Question 27: Diana ran into her former teacher on the way to the stadium yesterday. 
	A. Diana caused an accident to her teacher while she was going to the stadium. 
	B. Diana’s car ran over her teacher on the way to the stadium. 
	C. Diana happened to meet her teacher while she was going to the stadium. 
	D. Diana’s teacher got run over whole she was going to the stadium. 
Question 28: "You’re always making terrible mistakes", said the teacher. 
	A. The teacher asked his students why they always made terrible mistakes. 
	B. The teacher complained about his student making terrible mistakes. 
	C. The teacher realized that his students always made terrible mistakes. 
	D. The teacher made his students not always make terrible mistakes.
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: We chose to find a place for the night. We found the bad weather very inconvenient.
	A. Seeing that the bad weather had set in, we decided to find somewhere to spend the night.
	B. The bad weather prevented us from driving any further. 
	C. Bad weather was approaching, so we started to look for a place to stay. 
	D. Because the climate was so severe, we were worried about what we'd do at night. 
Question 30: It isn't just that the level of education of this school is high. It's that it's also been consistent for years.
	A. The level of education in this school, which is usually quite high, shows only slight variations from year to year. 
	B. The standard of education is not high in this school, but at least all the students are at the same level. 
	C. Not only are the standards of education good in this school, but it has also maintained those standards over the years.
	D. It isn't fair to deny that this school is successful, as it has had the same high standards for many years now.
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.
Magnets
A solid object that has the power to attract iron and some metals is called a magnet. It does this through its magnetic field, a region of force surrounding it. The (1) _______ the magnet, the more intense is the field. 
Objects that are attracted to the magnet feel a force (2) _______ as magnetism when they are inside the magnetic field. This magnetic force can pass through some materials. Even a weak magnet will attract a pin to the other side of a sheet of paper, for example. 
Magnets come in (3) _______ shapes. A familiar one is the curved horseshoes magnet. There are also bar magnets in the form of disc or a stubby cylinder. Every magnet has (4) _______ poles, called north and south, at opposite ends of it: at the two ends of a horseshoes magnet, for example, or on the two sides of a disc. 
Powerful magnets can be made by passing an electric current through wire coiled around a piece of iron. The (5) _______ is called and electromagnet. Magnets are used in many household and everyday devices. They are also commonly used in industrial machinery, usually in the form of electromagnets.
Question 31:
A. smaller
B. stronger
C. weaker
D. thinner
Question 32:
A. mentioned
B. called
C. known
D. said
Question 33:
A. separate
B. different
C. unknown
D. identical
Question 34:
A. many
B. several
C. two
D. one
Question 35:
A. ending
B. result
C. conclusion
D. final
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.
The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill, and it fueled the earliest power stations (which were set up at the end Of the nineteenth century by Edison himself). As more power plants were constructed throughout the country, the reliance on coal increased. Since the First World War, coal-fired power plants have accounted for about half of the electricity produced in the United States each year. In 1986 such plants had a combined generating capacity of 289,000 megawatts and consumed 33 percent of the nearly 900 million tons of coal mined in the country that year. Given the uncertainty in the future growth of nuclear power and in the supply of oil and natural gas, coal-fired power plants could well provide up to 70 percent of the electric power in the United States by the end of the century.
Yet, in spite of the fact that coal has long been a source of electricity and may remain one for many years (coal represents about 80 percent of United States fossil-fuel reserves), it has actually never been the most desirable fossil fuel for power plants. Coal contains less energy per unit of weight than natural gas or oil; it is difficult to transport, and it is associated with a host of environmental issues, among them acid rain. Since the late 1960's problems of emission control and waste disposal have sharply reduced the appeal of coal-fired power plants. The cost of ameliorating these environmental problems, along with the rising cost of building a facility as large and complex as a coal-fired power plant, has also made such plants less attractive from a purely economic perspective.
Changes in the technological base of coal fired power plants could restore their attractiveness, however. Whereas some of these changes are evolutionary and are intended mainly to increase the productivity of existing plants, completely new technologies for burning coal cleanly are also being developed.
Question 36: What is the main idea of the passage?
	A. Coal-fired plants are an important source of electricity in the United States and are likely to remain so.
	B. Generating electricity from coal is comparatively recent in the United States.
	C. Coal is a more economical fuel than either oil or nuclear power.
	D. Coal is a safer and more dependable fossil fuel than oil or gas.
Question 37: Edison's electric light bulb is mentioned in the passage because it _______.
	A. replaced gas as a light source
	B. increased the need for electrical power
	C. was safer than any other method of lighting
	D. could work only with electricity generated from coal
Question 38: It can be inferred from the passage that coal became the principal source of electricity in the United States, because it _______.
	A. required no complicated machinery
	B. was comparatively plentiful and inexpensive
	C. was easy to transport 
	D. burned efficiently
Question 39: In the author's opinion, the importance of coal-generated electricity could increase in the future for which of the following reasons? 
	A. The possible substitutes are too dangerous.
	B. The cost of changing to other fuels is too great.
	C. The future availability of other fuels is uncertain.
	D. Other fuels present too many environmental problems.
Question 40: Acid rain is mentioned in the passage for which of the following reasons?
	A. It reduces the efficiency of coal-fired plants
	B. It increases the difficulty of transporting coal
	C. It is an environmental problem associated with coal use
	D. It contains less energy per unit of weight than coal does
Question 41: According to the passage, which of the following is one of the goals of the new technology in coal-fired plants?
	A. To adapt the plants to other kinds of fuel
	B. To reduce the cost of building more plants
	C. To lengthen the lives of plants already in use
	D. To make the plants already in use more productive
Question 42: Where in the passage is there a reference to the establishment of the first electric power stations?
	A. Lines 2-3	B. Lines 5-7 	C. Lines 9-11 	D. Lines 16-18
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.
Born in 1830 in rural Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson spent her entire life in the household of her parents. Between 1858 and 1862, it was later discovered, she wrote like a person possessed, often producing a poem a day. It was also during this period that her life was transformed into the myth of Amherst.
Withdrawing more and more, keeping to her room sometimes even refusing to see visitors who called, she began to dress only in white - a habit that added to her reputation as an eccentric.
In their determination to read Dickinson's life in terms of a traditional romantic plot, biographers have missed the unique pattern of her life - her struggle to create a female life not yet imagined by the culture in which she lived. Dickinson was not the innocent, lovelorn and emotionally fragile girl sentimentalized by the Dickinson myth and popularized by William Luce’s 1976 play, The BeIle of Amherst. Her decision to shut the door on Amherst society in the 1950's transformed her house into a kind of magical realm in which she was free to engage her poetic genius. Her seclusion was not the result of a failed love affairs but rather a part of a more general pattern of renunciation through which she, in her quest for self – sovereignty, carried on an argument with the Puritan fathers, attacking with wit and irony their cheerless Calvinist doctrine, their stern patriarchal God, and their rigid notions of "true womanhood."
Question 43: What is the author's main purpose in the passage?
	A. To interpret Emily Dickinson’s eccentric behavior
	B. To promote the popular myth of Emily Dickinson
	C. To discuss Emily Dickinson's failed love affair
	D. To describe the religious climate in Emily Dickinson's time
Question 44: According to the passage, the period from 1858 to 1862 was for Emily Dickinson a period of great _______.
	A. tragedy	B. sociability	C. productivity	D. frivolity
Đáp án
1-D
2-D
3-A
4-B
5-D
6-D
7-C
8-A
9-B
10-C
11-A
12-B
13-A
14-C
15-A
16-D
17-C
18-A
19-B
20-C
21-B
22-C
23-C
24-B
25-C
26-C
27-C
28-B
29-A
30-C
31-B
32-C
33-B
34-C
35-B
36-A
37-B
38-B
39-C
40-C
41-D
42-A
43-A
44-C
45-A
46-C
47-A
48-B
49-D
50-A
LỜI GIẢI CHI TIẾT
Question 1: Đáp án D
Entry /ˈentri/ (n): lối vào; sự đi vào, sự gia nhập 
Ready /ˈredi/ (adj): sẵn sàng 
Comfy /ˈkʌmfi/ (adj): tiện lợi, thoải mái 
Occupy /ˈɒkjəpaɪ/ (v): chiếm (địa điểm; tâm trí); ở
Question 2: Đáp án D
Creature /ˈkriːtʃər/ (n): sinh vật sống 
Equal /ˈiːkwəl/ (adj): bằng nhau 
League /liːɡ/ (n): liên minh, liên đoàn 
Menace /ˈmenɪs/ (n): mối đe doạ, hiểm hoạ
Question 3: Đáp án A
Conquer /ˈkɒŋkər/ (v): chinh phục, chế ngự được 
Award /əˈwɔːd/ (n): giải thưởng 
Regard /rɪˈɡɑːd/ (v): về, liên quan tới 
Control /kənˈtrəʊl/ (v): điều khiển
Question 4: Đáp án B
Neighbour /ˈneɪbər/ (n): hàng xóm 
Career /kəˈrɪər/ (n): sự nghiệp 
Colleague /ˈkɒliːɡ/ (n): đồng nghiệp 
Classmate /ˈklɑːsmeɪt/ (n): bạn học cùng lớp
Question 5: Đáp án D
Câu ở thể khẳng định → không đảo trợ động từ lên trước chủ ngữ 
Chữa lỗi: is it → it is 
Dịch: Bằng cách xác định màu sắc của một ngôi sao, các nhà thiên văn có thể cho biết nó nóng đến mức nào.
Question 6: Đáp án D
Với danh từ “damage” → sử dụng động từ “cause”
Chữa lỗi: making to → causing to 
Dịch câu: Tôi cảm thấy khá chán nản khi tôi nghĩ về những sự tàn phá chúng ta đang gây ra cho môi trường.
Question 7: Đáp án C
Với những danh từ xác định hoặc danh từ riêng, ta không dùng “that” để thay thế cho danh từ đó 
Chữa lỗi: that → which 
Dịch câu: Aloha là một từ Hawaii có nghĩa là “yêu”, mà có thể dùng để nói lời chào hay tạm biệt.
Question 8: Đáp án A
Sau mạo từ “a” cần dùng một danh từ → chọn A 
Dịch: Khối lượng nước ở các sông ở miền Trung Việt Nam sẽ giảm từ 30 đến 50 phần trăm, có khả năng dẫn đến một tình trạng khan hiếm giữa tháng Tư và tháng Sáu.
Question 9: Đáp án B
Diễn tả hành động sự việc bắt đầu từ quá khứ, kéo dài đến hiện tại và có thể tiếp tục ở tương lai, dùng thì HTHT 
Chủ ngữ là “the number of” → động từ chia như ngôi thứ ba số ít → chọn B 
Dịch: Số lượng phụ nữ làm việc tăng từ 49% năm 1980 lên gần 65% ở Trung Quốc ngày nay.
Question 10: Đáp án C
Settle down: định cư 
Put down: để xuống 
Lay down: đặt xuống/ chỉ định 
Write down: ghi chép 
Dịch: Người quản lý mới đã chỉ thị những quy tắc rất nghiêm ngặt ngay sau khi ông ấy tiếp quản vị trí này.
Question 11: Đáp án A
Distinguish (v): phân biệt 
Differ (v): khác 
Separate (v): chia tách 
Solve (v): giải quyết 
Dựa vào ngữ nghĩa, chọn A 
Dịch: Những người học tiếng Anh như một ngôn ngữ nước ngoài thường không phân biệt được âm thanh lạ trong ngôn ngữ này.
Question 48: Đáp án B
Dựa vào câu “Her seclusion was not the result of a failed love affairs” → có thể thấy tác giả ngụ ý rằng nhiều người cho rằng sự ẩn dật của Emily Dickinson là do một cuộc tình bị thất bại → chọn B
Question 49: Đáp án D
Tất cả các đáp án A, B, C đều được đề cập trong đoạn văn là lí do cho những hành vi kỳ quặc của Emily Dickinson → chọn D (những lỗ lực để thu hút sự chú ý đến thơ ca của bà ấy)
Question 50: Đáp án A
Dựa vào đoạn cuối “Her seclusion was not the result of a failed love affairs  and their rigid notions of "true womanhood."” → Emily Dickinson sống trong một xã hội được đặc trưng bởi niềm tin Thanh Giáo mạnh mẽ.
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