Đề thi Trung học Phổ thông Quốc gia môn Tiếng Anh - Mã đề 415 - Năm học 2019-2020 - Trường THPT Thủ Đức

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1. TRƯỜNG THPT THỦ ĐỨC KỲ THI TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG QUỐC GIA MÃ ĐỀ Năm học 2019-2020 415 Họ, tên thí sinh: Lớp: Số báo danh: 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. 1: Attempts must be made to break down the barriers of fear and hostility which divide the two communities. A. clear up B. feel down C. damage D. fail 2: The WTO’s goal is to promote “a more prosperous, peaceful and accountable economic world” A. halt B. cease C. accelerate D. hinder Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable sentence to complete each of the following exchanges. 3: PERRY: My most difficult course this semester is chemistry. – ISABELLA: ___. A. Chemistry is interesting B. I took a physics course last semester C. I did have the same trouble last year D. By contrast, I agree with you 4: – MASHA: ___ – WOZNIACKI: All right then, if you insist. A. She did it right then. B. Are you sure you won’t come for a drink with us? C. Everything was all right at the party, wasn’t it? D. What seems to be the trouble? Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. 5: Hillary Clinton ___.her life to politics, spending years fighting for women's rights and equality A. appreciated B. devoted C. sent D. promoted 6: Rarely have I visited ___ Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. A. as a beautiful city as B. as beautiful as the city C. such beautiful city as D. as beautiful a city as 7: I hope Alice ___ for me when I retire in six years’ time. A. is still working B. will still work C. will still be working D. is still working 8: How can I pull myself together when it is not ___a challenge. A. worth worrying for B. more a worry than C. as worrying as D. so much a worry as 9: She’s taking over from one of the tenants on the estate, ___ farms about forty hectares. A. who B. where C. whose D. which 10: It is very easy for undereducated to be ___ by slick- talking salesmen. A. taken in B. put up C. taken away D. put aside 11: Hillary Clinton ___.her life to politics, spending years fighting for women's rights and equality A. promoted B. devoted C. appreciated D. sent 12: No matter ___, Mozart was an accomplished composer while still a child. A. how remarkably it seems B. what remarkable it seems C. it seems remarkable how D. how remarkable it seems 13: One of the Health Care organization’s aims is to ___ information about the disease to the public. A. withhold B. extract C. disseminate D. reflect 14: ___amusing in parts, this book is unlikely to be a best seller. 1
2. A. In spite of B. Regardless of C. As though D. Although 15: How can I pull myself together when it is not ___a challenge. A. worth worrying for B. more a worry than C. so much a worry as D. as worrying as 16: Our teacher gave us ___ problem to solve. A. an extremely impossible B. a quite impossible C. a very impossible D. an absolutely impossible 17: Had they arrived at the sale early, they ___ a better selection. A. would have found B. will have found C. must have found D. would find 18: ___that she burst into tears. A. Her anger was so B. So angry was she C. Such her angry D. She was so anger 19: She must have been sleepless last night. Otherwise, her eyes ___ so bloody now. A. wouldn’t have looked B. won’t look C. wouldn’t look D. looked Write the letter A, B, C or D on the top of the first page to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions. 20: You must read the instructions. You won’t know how to use this machine without reading them. A. You will know how to use this machine unless you read the instructions B. Without reading the instructions, the use of this machine won’t be known. C. Reading the instructions, so you will know how to use this machine. D. Unless you read the instructions, you won’t know how to use this machine. 21: The basketball team knew they lost the match. They soon started to blame each other. A. Not only did the basketball team lose the match but they blamed each other as well. B. No sooner had the basketball team started to blame each other than they knew they lost the match. C. As soon as they blamed each other, the basketball team knew they lost the match. D. Hardly had the basketball team known they lost the match when they started to blame each other. 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. 22: Under no circumstances should you press both buttons at once. A. Neither of the buttons shouldn’t be pressed at once under any circumstances. B. Pressing both buttons at once should be performed under any circumstances. C. Both buttons shouldn’t be pressed at once under no circumstances. D. You should not press both buttons at once under any circumstances. 23: He behaved so recklessly, so he would be disqualified from keeping his last job. A. He didn’t quit his job because he knew that he had behaved so recklessly. B. Had he not behaved so recklessly, he wouldn’t have been fired from his last job. C. Without his reckless behavior, he would have lost his last job. D. If he hadn’t behaved so recklessly, he hadn’t quit his last job. 24: Lucy always reminds me of my youngest sister. A. Whenever I see Lucy, I think of my youngest sister. B. I always think of Lucy, my youngest sister. C. It is Lucy who is my youngest sister. D. My youngest sister’s name is Lucy. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions. 25: A. support B. defend C. title D. improve 2
3. 26: A. social B. vary C. carry D. deny Read the following passage and write the letter A, B, C or D on the top of the first page to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions. Founded after World War II by 51 "peace-loving states" combined to oppose future aggression, the United Nations now counts 192 member nations, (27)___ its newest members, Nauru, Kiribati, and Tonga in 1999, Tuvalu and Yugoslavia in 2000, Switzerland and East Timor in 2002, and Montenegro in 2006. United Nations Day has been (28)___ on October 24 since 1948 and celebrates the objectives and accomplishments of the organization, which was established on October 24, 1945. The UN (29)___in peacekeeping and humanitarian missions across the globe. Though some say its (30)___ has declined in recent decades, the United Nations still plays a tremendous role in world politics. In 2001 the United Nations and Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the UN, won the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." Since 1948 there have been 63 UN peacekeeping operations that are currently under way. Thus far, close to 130 nations have contributed personnel (31)___ various times; 119 are currently providing peacekeepers. As of August 31, 2008, there were 16 peacekeeping operations underway with a total of 88,230 personnel. The small island nation of Fiji has taken part in virtually every UN peacekeeping operation, as has Canada. (Source: December 10th, 2017) 27: A. possibly B. especially C. limiting D. including 28: A. watched B. examined C. monitored D. celebrated 29: A. looks down B. makes use C. takes part D. puts off 30: A. meaninglessness B. consequence C. awareness D. influence 31: A. at B. on C. in D. by 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. Successful students often do the followings while studying. First, they have an overview before reading. Next, they look for important information and pay greater attention to it (which often needs jumping forward or backward to process information). They also relate important points to one another. Also, they activate and use their prior knowledge. When they realize that their understanding is not good, they do not wait to change strategies. Last, they can monitor understanding and take action to correct or “fix up” mistakes in comprehension. Conversely, students with low academic achievement often demonstrate ineffective study skills. They tend to assume a passive role, in learning and rely on others (e.g., teachers, parents) to monitor their studying, for example, low-achieving students often do not monitor their understanding of content; they may not be aware of the purpose of studying; and they show little evidence of looking back, or employing “fix-up” strategies to fix understanding problems. Students who struggle with learning new information seem to be unaware that they must extent effort beyond simply reading the content to understand and remember it. Children with learning disabilities do not plan and judge the quality of their studying. Their studying may be disorganized. Students with learning problems face challenges with personal organization as well. They often have difficulty keeping track of materials and assignments, following directions, and completing work on time. Unlike good studiers who employ a variety of study skills in a flexible yet purposeful manner, low-achieving students use a restricted range of study skills. They cannot explain why good study strategies are important for learning; and they tend to use the same, often ineffective study approach for all learning tasks, ignoring task content, structure or difficulty. (Source: Adapted from Study Skills: Managing Your Learning — NUI Galway) 3
4. 32: What is the topic of the passage? A. Successful learners and their learning strategies. B. Effective and ineffective ways of learning. C. Study skills for high school students. D. Successful and low-academic achieving students. 33: According to the passage, to learn new information, low-achieving students do NOT___? A. read it B. just understand it C. relate it to what they have known D. simply remember it 34: The word “prior” in the first paragraph is closest meaning to ___? A. good B. earlier C. important D. forward 35: In compared with low-achieving students, successful students use ___. . A. inflexible study ways B. aimless study techniques C. various study skills D. restricted strategies 36: The underlined pronoun “They” in the last sentence refers to . ___. . A. good studiers B. low-achieving students C. study strategies D. study skills 37: According to the passage, what can be learnt about passive students? A. They depend on other people to organize their learning. B. They are slow in their studying C. They monitor their understanding D. They know the purpose of studying 38: Which of the followings is NOT an evidence of monitoring studying? A. difference being aware of the purpose of studying B. looking at their backs C. monitoring their understanding of content D. fixing up mistakes in understanding Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions 39: A. famine B. wild C. disaster D. victim 40: A. present B. position C. disaster D. society 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. You can usually tell when your friends are happy or angry by the looks on their faces or by their actions. This is useful because reading their emotional expressions helps you to know how to respond to them. Emotions have evolved to help us respond to important situations and to convey our intentions to others. But does raising the eyebrows and rounding the mouth say the same thing in Minneapolis as it does in Madagascar? Much research on emotional expressions has centered on such questions. According to Paul Ekman, the leading researcher in this area, people speak and understand substantially the same "facial language". Studies by Ekman's group have demonstrated that humans share a set of universal emotional expressions that testify to the common biological heritage of the human species. Smiles, for example, signal happiness and frowns indicate sadness on the faces of people in such far- flung places as Argentina, Japan, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Sumatra ,the United States, Vietnam, the jungles of New Guinea , and the Eskimo villages north of Artic Circle. Ekman and his colleagues claim that people everywhere can recognize at least seven basic emotions: sadness, fear, anger, disgust, contempt, happiness, and surprise. There are, however, huge differences across cultures in both the context and intensity of emotional displays - the so called display rules. In many Asian cultures, for example, children are taught to control emotional responses - especially negative ones- 4
5. while many American children are encouraged to express their feelings more openly. Regardless of culture, however, emotions usually show themselves, to some degree, in people's behavior. From their first days of life, babies produce facial expressions that communicate their feelings. The ability to read facial expressions develops early, too. Very young children pay close attention to facial expressions, and by age five, they nearly equal adults in their skill at reading emotions on people's faces. This evidence all points to a biological underpinning for our abilities to express and interpret a basic set of human emotions. Moreover, as Charles Darwin pointed out over a century ago, some emotional expressions seem to appear across species boundaries. Cross - cultural psychologists tell us that certain emotional responses carry different meanings in different cultures. For example, what emotion do you suppose might be conveyed by sticking out your tongue? For Americans, this might indicate disgust, while in China it can signify surprise. Likewise, a grin on an American face may indicate joy, while on a Japanese face it may just as easily mean embarrassment. Clearly, culture influences emotional expressions. 41: Many studies on emotional expressions try to answer the question whether ___. A. rounding the mouth has the same meaning in Minneapolis and Madagascar. B. different cultures have similar emotional expressions. C. raising the eyebrows has similar meaning to rounding the mouth. D. eyebrow raising means the same in Minneapolis and Madagascar. 42: According to the passage, we respond to others by ___. A. looking at their faces B. observing their emotional expressions C. watching their actions D. observing their looks 43: The word ‘evolved’ in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to___ A. developed B. reduced C. increased D. simplified 44: Unlike American children, Asian children are encouraged to ___. A. conceal their positive emotions B. change their behavior C. control their emotions D. display their emotions openly 45: The best title for the passage is ___.? A. Ways to control emotional expressions B. Human habit of displaying emotions C. Cultural universals in emotional expressions D. Review of research on emotional expressions Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions. 46: For thousands of years, man has created sweet-smelling (B) substances from wood, herbs, and flowers and using them for perfume or medicine. A. man B. using them C. sweet-smelling D. or 47: Should I lose this competition, they would think I am just a loser and I will never be able to live it down. A. live it down B. lose C. would D. a 48: The grass needs cutting, so let us have one of the men to take lawn mower and do it. A. to take B. the C. it D. cutting 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. 49: Peter is the black sheep of the family, so he is never welcomed there. A. a beloved member B. a bad and embarrassing member C. the only child D. the eldest child 50: The government is being widely criticized in the media for falling to limit air pollution. A. attracted B. praised C. approved D. blamed 5