ÔN TẬP THPTQG – ĐỀ 2

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. quiet B. bridge C. plastics D. littered
Question 2: A. washed B. matched C. indented D. walked
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. police B. government C. modern D. consequent
Question 4: A. prediction B. judgment C. intelligent D. compulsion
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 6: Buying clothes are often a very time-consuming practice because those clothes that a person likes
A B C
are rarely the ones that fit him or her.
D
Question 7: After George had returned to his house, he was reading a book.
A B C D
Question 8: The next important question we have to decide is when do we have to submit the proposal.
A B C D
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.
Question 9: The state school system in England has two _______ of education: primary education and
secondary education.
A. levels B. subjects C. terms D. semesters
Question 10: We couldn’t buy anything because _______ of the shops were open.
A. all B. half C. most D. none
Question 11: A great number of people are involved _______ the use of English.
A. in B. on C. at D. to
Question 12: The Asian Games is one of the most important _______ in Asia.
A. incidents B. events C. news D. points
Question 13: Linda has lost her passport again. It’s the second time this _______.
A. has happened B. happens C. happened D. had happened
Question 14: Your money will be refunded if the goods prove to be _______.
A. satisfying B. dissatisfied C. satisfactory D. unsatisfactory
Question 15: Most of the rivers flowing through big cities are _______ with chemical waste factories.
A. polluted B. eroded C. mixed D. flooded
Question 16: It was a nasty memory. Do you remember both of us wearing sunglasses to avoid _______ by the
supervisors?
A. to recognize B. to be recognized C. recognizing D. being recognized
Question 17: We can ________ not only through words but also through body language.
A. communicate B. interpret C. transfer D. talk
Question 18: It is becoming ________ for me to lose weight.
A. the most difficult B. more and more difficult
C. more difficult than D. the more difficult
Question 19: Linda ________ she could improve her test scores, but she did not have enough time to study.
A. knew to B. knew how C. knew how that D. knew how to

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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 talking to Anna about his new house.
- Anna: “What a lovely house you have!”
- Peter: “_____________”
A. I think so B. You’re welcome C. Thank you D. Of course
Question 21: Mary is talking to her friend about her homework.
- Mary: “Why don’t you ask Tom for help?”
- Friend: “___________”
A. That’s a good idea B. Never mind C. I hope so D. Yes, please
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: Southeast Asia is a region of diverse cultures.
A. same B. adopted C. various D. respected
Question 23: You should concentrate on what the interviewer is saying and make a real effort to answer all the
questions.
A. look for B. listen to C. look into D. pay attention to
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 US troops are using much more sophisticated weapons in the Far East.
A. expensive B. complicated C. simple and easy D. difficult to operate
Question 25: My cousin tends to look on the bright side in any circumstance.
A. be optimistic B. be pessimistic C. be confident D. be smart
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: “Please don’t tell anyone what happened,” Ann said to me.
A. Ann said to me please don’t tell anyone what happened.
B. Ann told me didn’t tell anyone what had happened.
C. Ann said me not to tell anyone what happened.
D. Ann told me not to tell anyone what had happened.
Question 27: We didn’t visit the museum because we had no time.
A. If we have time, we will visit the museum.
C. If we had had time, we would have visited the museum.
B. If we had time, we would visit the museum.
D. If we had had time, we will have visited the museum.
Question 28: It is believed that he is the most famous doctor in the city.
A. He was believed to be the most famous doctor in the city.
B. He is believed to be the most famous doctor in the city.
C. He was believed that to be the most famous doctor in the city.
D. They believed that he is the famous doctor in the city.
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: She was very busy. She couldn’t answer the phone.
A. She was very busy that she couldn’t answer the phone.
B. She was too busy to answer the phone.
C. She was too busy not to answer the phone.
D. She was very busy so that she could answer the phone.

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Question 30: I whispered. I didn’t want anyone to hear our conversation.
A. I whispered so that anyone can hear our conversation.
B. I whispered in order that I didn’t hear our conversation.
C. I whispered so as not to hear our conversation.
D. I whispered so that no one could hear our conversation.
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.
LIFE UNDERSEA
Some time ago, scientists began experiments to find out whether it would be possible to set up a “village” under
the sea. A special room was built and lowered (31) ______ the water of Port Sudan in the Red Sea. For 29 days,
five men lived at a depth of 40 feet. At a (32) ______ lower level, another two divers stayed for a week in a
smaller “house”. On returning to the surface, the men said that they had experienced no difficulty in breathing
and had made many interesting scientific observations. The captain of the party, Commander Cousteau, spoke
of the possibility of (33) ______ the seabed. He said that some permanent stations were to be set up under the
sea, and some undersea farms would provide food for the growing population of the world.
The divers in both “houses” spent most of their time (34) ______ the bottom of the sea. On four occasions,
they went down to 360 feet and observed many extraordinary forms of the marine life, some of which had never
been seen before. During their stay, Commander Cousteau and his divers reached a depth of 1,000 feet and
witnessed a gathering of an immense school of crabs which numbered, perhaps, hundreds of millions. They also
found out that it was (35) ______ to move rapidly in the water in a special vessel known as a “diving saucer”.

Question 31: A. underneath B. into C. down D. below

Question 32: A. any B. more C. much D. some
Question 33: A. implanting B. transplanting C. growing D. cultivating
Question 34: A. exploring B. explore C. to explore D. to exploring
Question 35: A. able B. possible C. hardly D. capable
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.
One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual
exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far
from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree.
The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news
we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every
subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication.
When television came along, it proliferated like a population of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000
television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more than a million. Today, it’s not unusual
for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels.
News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day.
What’s more, after the traumatic events of September 11, 2001, live newscasts were paired with
perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the
time. Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound
bytes alluding to disaster (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding
the problem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with scare stories about things
that possibly might threaten our health, safety, finances, relationships, waistline, hairline, or very existence in
the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus
claims of a wrinkle cream that over- promises smooth skin.

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 Are humans meant to be able to process so many traumas – not to mention so much overblown
anticipation of potential traumas – at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode
when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourselves to such input
without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.
Question 36: According to the passage, which of the following has contributed to the intense nature of twenty-
first century stress?
A. The degree to which stress affects our life B. Our inability to control ourselves
C. An overabundance of special news D. Our continual exposure to the media
Question 37: In the past, we had less news of distant people and lands because ______.
A. printing, transportation, and telecommunications were not developed
B. means of communication and transportation were not yet invented
C. most people lived in distant towns and villages
D. the printing press changed the situation too slowly
Question 38: The pronoun “them” in paragraph 2 refers to ______.
A. TV channels B. TV news C. television sets D. cable access
Question 39: The word “traumatic” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. fascinating B. upsetting C. exciting D. boring
Question 40: According to the passage, when there is not enough actual breaking news, broadcasts ______.
A. are full of dangerous diseases such as flu
B. send out live newscasts paired with text across the screen
C. are forced to publicize an alarming increase in crime
D. send out frightening stories about potential dangers
Question 41: Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?
A. The only source of stress in our modern life is the media.
B. Many TV channels supply the public with breaking news.
C. Many people are under stress caused by the media.
D. The news that is reported to us is not good news.
Question 42: What is probably the best title for this passage?
A. Developments in Telecommunications B. The Media – A Major Cause of Stress
C. More Modern Life – More Stress D. Effective Ways to Beat Stress
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.
Smallpox was the first widespread disease to be eliminated by human intervention. In May, 1966, the
World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations was authorized to initiate a global
campaign to eradicate smallpox. The goal was to eliminate the disease in one decade. At the time, the disease
posed a serious threat to people in more than thirty nations. Because similar projects for malaria and yellow
fever had failed, few believed that smallpox could actually be eradicated but eleven years after the initial
organization of the campaign, no cases were reported in the field.
The strategy was not only to provide mass vaccinations but also to isolate patients with active smallpox
in order to contain the spread of the disease and to break the chain of human transmission. Rewards for
reporting smallpox assisted in motivating the public to aid health workers. One by one each smallpox victim
was sought out, removed from contact with others and treated. At the same time, the entire village where the
victim had lived was vaccinated.
By April of 1978 WHO officials announced that they had isolated the last known case of the disease but
health workers continued to search for new cases for additional years to be completely sure. In May, 1980, a
formal statement was made to the global community. Today, smallpox is no longer a threat to humanity.
Routine vaccinations have been stopped worldwide.

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Question 43: Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. Infectious Disease B. The World Health Organization
C. Smallpox Vaccination D. The Eradication of smallpox
Question 44: The word “threat”" in bold in paragraph 1 could best be replaced by________.
A. humiliation B. danger C. debate D. bother
Question 45: What was the goal of the campaign against smallpox?
A. To eliminate smallpox worldwide in ten years.
B. To decrease the spread of smallpox worldwide.
C. To provide mass vaccinations against smallpox worldwide.
D. To initiate worldwide projects for smallpox, malaria and yellow fever at the same time.
Question 46: According to the passage, what was the strategy used to eliminate the smallpox?
A. Isolation of victims and mass vaccinations B. Vaccinations of entire villages
C. Treatment of individual victims D. Extensive reporting of outbreak
Question 47: The word “isolated” in bold in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to ______
A. separated B. attended C. restored D. located
Question 48: How was the public motivated to help the health workers?
A. by rewarding them for reporting cases B. by isolating them from others
C. by educating them D. by giving them vaccinations
Question 49: The word ‘they” in bold in the last paragraph refers to ______
A. cases B. health workers C. victims D. officials
Question 50: When was the former announcement made that smallpox had been eradicated?
A. 1978 B. 1966 C. 1980 D. 1976

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