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Đề Kiểm Tra Chất Lượng Cuối Năm 2020
I. Listening
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Question 1: I haven't seen my childhood best friend in years. I wonder what became
……….. her.
become of something/somebody: to happen to or be a result for something or
someone.
Question 2: My idea of a holiday is to stay in a five-star hotel and just wallow ……….. luxury
for a week.
wallow in something: to allow yourself to enjoy something completely.
Question 3: She was rooted ………... the spot with fear.
be rooted to the spot: be unable to move.
Question 4: For Tony, owning a big car was a badge ………… success.
be a badge of sth: to be something that shows that you have achieved a particular
thing.
Question 5: He wrestled………... the decisionfor several weeks, wonderingwhat he should
do.
wrestle with sth: to try very hard to deal with a problem or to make a difficult decision.
Question 6: The soldiers were accused of fraternizing …………. the enemy.
fraternize with somebody: to meet someone socially, especially someone who
belongs to an opposing army or team, or has a different social position.
Question 7: How could you stand ……………. and watched him beat the children like that ?
stand by: to allow something unpleasant to happen without doing anything to stop it.
Question 8: The murderer has been condemned …………….. death.
condemn somebody to something: to make someone suffer in a particular way.
Question 9: You can't just sit…………. and wait for job offers to come to you.
sit back: to wait for something to happen without making any effort to do anything
yourself.
Question 10: I like to think that our love of reading will rub ………..…. on our children.
rub off on somebody: to become part of someone because that person has been in a
place where it was present: lan truyền, tác động đến ai.
IV. READING
A. Cloze Test
Cressida Cowell is the author of the widely-praised How to Train your Dragon series
of children’s books. She spent her own childhood holidays on a remote island, where she
was left very much to her own (1)________. As a result, she became an avid reader,
entertaining (2)________ with books and developing a fervent imagination. She even
(3)________ up her own secret languages. Cowell believes that today’s children still have a
real (4)________ for language, even though their attention(5)________ may not be as great
as in her day, (6)________ them less tolerant of descriptive passages in stories. Her books
are outlandish and exciting, with vivid imagery, cliffhangers and eye-catching illustrations.
Dragons seem to (7)________ to children of all nationalities, who also seem to(8)________
with her 203 protagonist, Hiccup, quite easily. Hiccup is a boy who battles his way through
life problems, often against the(9)________ . Cowell is currently planning an illustrated book
for teenagers. In her own words, she enjoys breaking the (10)________ and finds that kids
are open-minded enough to accept this.
1. leave sb to their own devices: to allow someone to make their own decisions about
what to do.
2. entertain oneself with something.
3. dream up something: to invent something new by using a lot of imagination.
4. have an ear for something: if someone has an ear for music or languages, they are
good at hearing, repeating, and understanding these sounds.
5. attention span: the length of time that someone can keep their thoughts and
interest fixed on something.
6. make somebody/something adjective.
7. appeal to somebody: to attract somebody.
8. identify with something: to feel you are like someone and understand the way that
person thinks.
9. against (all) the odds: although there were a lot of problems. (bất chấp khó khăn)
10. break the mould/mold: to be new and different.
Fear of Flying
Fear of flying is among the most understandable and prevalent of phobias. One
person in four suffers (1) ….. anxiety at the idea of boarding a plane - as a pet(2) ….. it
ranks alongside fear of snakes - and one in 10 refuses to fly under any circumstances. The
agony is not just being five miles high with no visible (3) ….. of support, but having
absolutely no control. Risks aren't the problem, but fear. The argument that we are in greater
(4) ….. in a car, or boiling an egg, is irrelevant. The phobia cuts sufferers off from friends and
families, and can damage careers.
But most will overcome their fear (even if they will never leap aboard planes with a
(5) ….. heart) by understanding more about how and why an aircraft flies, and learning how
to cope with anxiety. Every six weeks, two experienced British Airways captains, Douglas
Ord and Peter Hughes, persuade two planeloads of nervous and often terrified passengers
into the sky. About 95 per cent of them are then "cured" (6) ….. the extent that they can
board a plane without feeling overwhelming panic.
1. A. severe B. harsh C. austere D. stern
2. A. disgust B. distaste C. hate D. horror
3. A. grounds B. resource C. means D. resort
4. A. hazard B. peril C. menace D. threat
5. A. soft B. gentle C. bright D. light
6. A. to B. with C. by D. in
A Private Man
7. B. deflect someone (from something): causes them to turn their attention away
from what they are doing or concentrating on.
8. B. blind subservience: automatic, unquestioning obedience.
9. A. safeguard: to protect something
10. A. deny oneself something: to decide not to have something that you would like.
11. C. your/somebody’s due: something that they deserve or something that they
have a right to have.
12. D. on one’s own terms: in the manner that one prefers.
V. Word Form
B. Use the correct form of the word in the box to fit each gap.
There are a myriad of lifestyle issues affecting the youth of today. Such is the
pressure heaped on many school-goers to achieve academic excellence by their parents
that these (9) _______ (REAL) expectations are causing children to become hopelessly
depressed. Indeed, some, in their (10) _______ (DESPAIR) to escape and their sense of
guilt at being unable reach the levels of success demanded of them by their (11) _______
(PUSH) parents, either rebel in what is (12) _______ (AMOUNT) to a cry for help, or, worse
still, engage in (13) _______ (HARM). It is no coincidence that suicide rates, expecially
amongst young males, have been rising steadily for some time now. These are tough times
to be a teen. Then there are those who get hooked on the internet; the 14 _______
(VIRTUE) world becomes their reality. For these teens, their social circle shrinks (15)
_______ (DRAMA) until, at last, their friendship sphere is limited solely to their online
(16)_______ (BUD). Not alone do they commonly suffer from sleep(17) _______
(PRIVATE) on account of their destructive addiction to game play and net-surfing, their
behaviour may become so (18) _______ (ERR) and peculiar over time as to be considered
(19) _______ (SOCIAL) . And while they sit at their computer screens hidden away in
splendid isolation from the real world, such is the lack of exercise they get that their calorie
intake far exceeds what is necessary for them to maintain a stable weight. In essence, due
to their sedentary lifestyle, their weight20 _______ (ROCKET) until such time as they
become morbidly obese.
VI. Writing
A. For questions 1-5, finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it
means exactly the sentences printed before it.
B. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first
sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use
between three and six words, including the word given.
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