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BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO 
ĐỀ THI THỬ SỐ 13 
(Đề thi gồm có 6 trang – 50 câu) 
ĐỀ THI THỬ KỲ THI THPT QUỐC GIA 2017 
Môn: TIẾNG ANH 
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề 
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Họ, tên thí sinh:...................................................................................... Số báo danh: ......................... 
MULTIPLE CHOICE 
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. managed B. threatened C. passed D. cleared 
Question 2: A. island B. especial C. escape D. isolate 
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. argumentative B. psychological C. hypersensitive D. contributory 
Question 4: A. vacancy B. family C. consider D. furniture 
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: The rapid growth of the world’s population over the past 100 years have led to a great 
increase in the acreage of land under cultivation. 
 A. under cultivation B. have C. to a D. increase 
Question 6: Food prices have raised so rapidly in the past few months that some families have been 
forced to alter their eating habits. 
 A. so rapidly B. eating habits C. that D. raised 
Question 7: Experts in climatology and other scientists are becoming extreme concerned about the 
changes to our climate which are taking place. 
 A. extreme B. are C. about D. in 
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: _____ be needed, the water basin would need to be dammed. 
 A. Should hydroelectric power B. When hydroelectric power 
 C. Hydroelectric power D. Hydroelectric power should 
Question 9: Simple sails were made from canvas _____ over a frame. 
 A. stretched B. was stretched C. a stretch D. it was stretched 
Question 10: Deborah is going to take extra lessons to _____ what she missed while she was away. 
 A. cut down on B. catch up on C. put up with D. take up with 
Question 11: It is important that he ______ a gallon of water with him if he wants to hike to the 
bottom of the Grand Canyon. 
 A. taking B. takes C. took D. take 
Question 12: Some people prefer to watch a film first, and then read the _____ in the paper. 
 A. revue B. review C. criticism D. critic 
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Question 13: Helen is allergic _____ seafood, so she never tries these delicious dishes. 
 A. down B. up C. to D. on 
Question 14: A molecule of water is _____ of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. 
 A. created B. composed C. included D. consisted 
Question 15: During the height of the season, tourists arrive in _____ to see Shakespeare's 
birthplace. 
 A. loads B. shoals C. droves D. flocks 
Question 16: 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 17: Nowadays, most students use _____ calculators in their studies and examinations. 
 A. electronic B. electricity C. electrical D. electric 
Question 18: Peter has been studying for almost three years and he will have his degree and return 
to his country in _____ six months. 
 A. others B. another C. other D. the other 
Question 19: She often wears _____. 
 A. modern wonderful Italian sports shoes B. modern Italian wonderful sports shoes 
 C. wonderful modern Italian sports shoes D. wonderful Italian modern sports shoes 
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: Two friends Peter and Linda are talking about pet. 
 - Peter: “Well, cats are very good at catching mice around the house.” 
- Linda: “_____” 
 A. Nothing more to say. B. Yes, I hope so. 
 C. You can say that again. D. No, dogs are very good, too. 
Question 21: Two friends John and Mary have just finished their dinner at a restaurant. 
 - John: “Would you like me to get a taxi?” 
- Mary: “_____” 
 A. That would be delightful. Thanks. B. Yes, please, if it’s no bother. 
 C. Yes, I see. D. Well, let’s see. 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is 
CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions. 
Question 22: Early sailing ships had some disadvantages. 
 A. losses B. damages C. discomforts D. drawbacks 
Question 23: In rural Midwestern towns of the USA, the decisions that affect most residents are 
made at general assemblies in schools and churches. 
 A. concerts B. public libraries C. gatherings D. prayer services 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that is OPPOSITE 
in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions. 
Question 24: Perhaps more than anything else, it was onerous taxes that led to 'the Peasants' 
Revolt in England in 1381. 
 A. burdensome B. heavy C. difficult D. light 
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Question 25: Most of the school-leavers are sanguine about the idea of going to work and earning 
money. 
 A. optimistic B. expected C. excited D. fearsome 
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: What you have been saying is beside the point. 
A. You was honest to have said about the point like that. 
B. What you have been saying is quite irrelevant. 
C. You have been talking too much about the point. 
D. What you have been saying is beyond my expectation. 
Question 27: “If I were you, I wouldn’t read the job advertisement and position 
description carelessly.” Helen said. 
A. Helen recommended that I take no notice of the job advertisement and position description. 
B. Helen advised me on reading the job advertisement and position description carelessly. 
C. Helen advised me against reading the job advertisement and position description carelessly. 
D. I was blamed for not reading the job advertisement and position description carefully by 
Helen. 
Question 28: Impressed as we were by the new cinema, we found it rather expensive. 
A. The new cinema was more expensive than we expected. 
B. We were not impressed by the new cinema at all because it looked rather expensive. 
C. We weren't as much impressed by the new cinema's look as its cost. 
D. We were very impressed by the new cinema, but found it rather expensive. 
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: He got held up in traffic jam. He missed his first job interview. 
A. He missed his first job interview so that he was held up in traffic jam. 
B. When he got held up in traffic jam, he missed his first job interview. 
C. So as to miss his first job interview, he got held up in traffic jam. 
D. Because he got held up in traffic jam, he missed his first job interview. 
Question 30: He joined the army in 1998. He was soon after promoted to the rank of 
captain. 
A. He was promoted to the rank of captain in 1998 and joined the army. 
B. Joining the army in 1998, he was soon promoted to the rank of captain. 
C. He worked as a captain in the army and had a promotion in 1998. 
D. Promoted to the rank of captain in 1998, he joined the army soon later. 
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. 
If you are an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or snarl. It has 
become a symbol of our wasteful, throw-away society. But there seems little (31)_____ it is here to 
stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastics have brought enormous benefits, even environmental 
ones. It’s not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental evil – it’s the way society 
chooses to use abuse them. 
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastics are made from oil, gas, or coal-non-
renewable natural (32)_____. We import well over three million tons of the stuff in Britain each year 
and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. A high (33)_____ of our annual consumption is in the 
form of packaging, and this constitutes about seven per cent by weight, of our domestic (34)_____. 
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Almost all of it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling industry is growing 
fast. 
The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich. They have a higher caloric value than coal and 
one method of “recovery” strongly favored by the plastic manufacturers is the (35)_____ of waste 
plastic into fuel. 
Question 31: A. doubt B. evidence C. concern D. likelihood 
Question 32: A. processes B. products C. fuels D. resources 
Question 33: A. proportion B. portion C. amount D. rate 
Question 34: A. goods B. refuse C. rubble D. requirements 
Question 35: A. melting B. change C. conversion D. replacement 
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. 
PANDEMIC DISEASES 
Diseases are a natural part of life on earth. If there were no diseases, the population would 
grow too quickly, and there would not be enough food or other resources, so in a way, diseases are 
natural ways of keeping the Earth in balance. But sometimes they spread very quickly and kill large 
numbers of people. For example, in 1918, an outbreak of the flu spread across the world, killing over 
25 million people in only six months. Such terrible outbreaks of a disease are called pandemics. 
Pandemics happen when a disease changes in a way that our bodies are not prepared to fight. 
In 1918, a new type of flu virus appeared. Our bodies had no way to fight this new flu virus, and 
so it spread very quickly and killed large numbers of people. While there have been many different 
pandemic diseases throughout history, all of them have a new thing in common. 
First, all pandemic diseases spread from one person to another very easily. 
Second, while they may kill many people, they generally do not kill people very quickly. A good 
example of this would be the Marburg virus. The Marburg virus is an extremely infectious disease. In 
addition, it is deadly. About 70 -80% of all people who get the Marburg virus died from the disease. 
However, the Marburg virus has not become a pandemic because most people die within three days 
of getting the disease. This means that the virus does not have enough time to spread a large number 
of people. The flu virus of 1918, on the other hand, generally took about a week to ten days to kill its 
victims, so it had more time to spread. 
While we may never be able to completely stop pandemics, we can make them less common. 
Doctors carefully monitor new diseases that they fear could become pandemics. For example, in 
2002, and 2003, doctors carefully watched SARS. Their health warnings may have prevented SARS 
from becoming a pandemic. 
(Source: TOEFL Reading) 
Question 36: According to paragraph 1, how are diseases a natural part of life on Earth? 
A. They prevent pandemics B. They help control the population 
C. They led the world grow quickly D. They kill too many people 
Question 37: Based on the information in the passage the term “pandemics” can be explained as 
_____. 
A. diseases with no cure 
B. a deadly kind of flu 
C. diseases that spread quickly and kill large numbers of people 
D. new disease like SARS or the Marburg virus 
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Question 38: According to the passage, all of the following are true of the 1918 flu pandemic 
EXCEPT that _____. 
A. it involved a new kind of flu virus B. it killed over 25 million people 
C. it was the last pandemic in history D. it took a little over a week to kill its victims 
Question 39: The word “it” in the passage refers to _____. 
A. disease B. flu virus C. pandemics D. bodies 
Question 40: Which of the following is mentioned as a common feature of all pandemic diseases? 
A. They spread from people to people very quickly 
B. It kill many people very quickly 
C. They do not kill people very quickly 
D. They kill all the victims 
Question 41: According to paragraph 3, why hasn’t Marburg virus become a pandemic? 
A. It is not a deadly disease 
B. It does not spread from person to person easily 
C. Doctors have prevented it from becoming a pandemic 
D. It kills people too quickly 
Question 42: The author mentions SARS in order to _____. 
 A. give an example of a highly dangerous disease 
B. suggest that SARS will never become a pandemic 
C. give an example of the successful prevention of a pandemic 
D. suggest that there may be a new pandemic soon 
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. 
Music can bring us to tears or to our feet, drive us into battle or lull us to sleep. Music is 
indeed remarkable in its power over all humankind, and perhaps for that very reason, no human 
culture on earth has ever lived without it. From discoveries made in France and Slovenia even 
Neanderthal man, as long as 53,000 years ago, had developed surprisingly sophisticated, sweet-
sounding flutes carved from animal bones. It is perhaps then, no accident that music should strike 
such a chord with the limbic system – an ancient part of our brain, evolutionarily speaking, 
and one that we share with much of the animal kingdom. Some researchers even propose that music 
came into this world long before the human race ever did. For example, the fact that whale and 
human music have so much in common even though our evolutionary paths have not intersected for 
nearly 60 million years suggests that music may predate humans. They assert that rather than being 
the inventors of music, we are latecomers to the musical scene. 
Humpback whale composers employ many of the same tricks that human songwriters do. In 
addition to using similar rhythms, humpbacks keep musical phrases to a few seconds, creating themes 
out of several phrases before singing the next one. Whale songs in general are no longer than 
symphony movements, perhaps because they have a similar attention span. Even though they can 
sing over a range of seven octaves, the whales typically sing in key, spreading adjacent notes no 
farther apart than a scale. They mix percussive and pure tones in pretty much the same ratios as 
human composers – and follow their ABA form, in which a theme is presented, elaborated on and 
then revisited in a slightly modified form. Perhaps most amazing, humpback whale songs include 
repeating refrains that rhyme. It has been suggested that whales might use rhymes for exactly the 
same reasons that we do: as devices to help them remember. Whale songs can also be 
rather catchy. When a few humpbacks from the Indian Ocean strayed into the Pacific, some of the 
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whales they met there quickly changed their tunes – singing the new whales’ songs within three 
short years. Some scientists are even tempted to speculate that a universal music awaits discovery. 
Question 43: Why did the author write the passage? 
A. To describe the music for some animals, including humans 
B. To illustrate the importance of music to whales 
C. To show that music is not a human or even modern invention 
D. To suggest that music is independent of life forms that use it 
Question 44: The word “sophisticated” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _____. 
A. compound B. attractive C. well-developed D. beautiful 
Question 45: The word “one” in paragraph 1 can be replaced by _____. 
A. the chord B. the left brain C. the right brain D. the limbic system 
Question 46: According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE of humpback whales? 
 A. their tunes are distinctively different from human tunes 
 B. they can sing over a range of seven octaves 
 C. they do not use rhyme, unlike humans 
 D. whale songs of a particular group cannot be learned by other whales 
Question 47: Which of the following is NOT true about humpback whale music? 
 A. It uses similar patterns to human songs 
B. It’s comparative in length to symphony movements 
 C. It’s easy to learn by other whales 
D. It’s in a form of creating a theme, elaborating and revisiting in rhyming refrains 
Question 48: The word “catchy” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _____. 
A. easy to catch B. easy to remember C. easy to read D. easy to think 
Question 49: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage? 
A. The earliest human beings came from France and Slovenia 
B. Music helped to shape the whale brain 
C. Humpback whales imitate the way human composers in creating their own music 
D. The research of musical brain will lead to a discovery of a universal music 
Question 50: The word “their” in paragraph 2 refers to _____. 
A. Indian Ocean humpbacks B. Pacific Ocean humpbacks 
C. all whales D. whale songs 
______THE END______