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BÀI KIỂM TRA GIỮA KỲ I NĂM 2022 - 2023

( Đề thi gồm có 3 trang) MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Lớp 12– Chương trình chuẩn
Thời gian làm bài: 45 phút

I. Listening
A. Choose the best option to complete the sentences.
1. Thanks to the process of urbanisation, people from rural areas have access to ….. Jobs, education and health
care
A. better-paid B. badly paid C. prestigious
2. After moving to cities, rural people become less……..
A. Traditional B. conservative C. progressive
3. Many people benefit from urbanisation, but not everyone has the opportunity to ……….
A. receive a good education B. get a high-paying salary C. find stable employment
4. The shortage of accommodation in big cities can result in ……. with no sanitation or clean water.
A. low-cost houses
B. development of high-cost housing
C. creation of very poor areas
5. The shift of workers from agriculture to industries can lead to …… in food production.
A. a fall B. a rise C. a fluctuation
B. Listen and fill in the blank with one word you hear

Cindy: Welcome to our talk show with guest speaker Mr Andy Lewis, a sociologist. Mr Lewis...

Andy: Please call me Andy. I don't want to be too formal.

Cindy: No problem, Andy. These days, our audience seem to be (6)…………………………

overwhelmed with stories in the newspapers or on the Internet - stories about celebrities, political
figures, or even ordinary people around us.

Andy: You mean we're living in a world of stories and (7)…………………….scandals?

Cindy: Right. As a sociologist, do you have any advice for our audience?

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 Andy: I think there're two sides to this issue. We need some life skills to protect ourselves. First, we
don't want other people to take advantage of our stories. They may use our private lives for blackmail
or (8)………………………….slander... in order to harm our reputation or just for fun.

Cindy: For whatever purpose, it could be extremely damaging.

Andy: Exactly. So we should not reveal too much of our private life on social networking sites.

Cindy: I agree. But how about the stories of other people? Should we read or (9)
…………………..follow these stories?

Andy: That's the second point I want to discuss. Another life skill is learning from other people's
lives. Everyone's life story is like a book that can teach us something. So we should open that book
and read it (10)…………………………critically.

II. Language
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary
stress in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. reliable B. independent C. responsible D. decisiveness
Question 2: A. difficult B. confident C. critical D. important
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in
pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 3: A. definite B. demand C. present D. content
Question 4: A. fixed B. provided C. related D. naked
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Question 5: Parents today want their kids spending time on things that can bring them success, _______
we've stopped doing one thing that's actually been a proven predictor of success and that’s household chores.
A. automatically B. spontaneously C. ironically D. immediately
Question 6: A family can be two or more people who share goals and values, have long-term _______ to one
another, and usually live in the same house.
A. commit B. commitments C. committed D. commutative
Question 7.There was no food in the refrigerator, so she had to visit the grocery store to ________ their
supply.
A. replace B. make full C. fulfill D. replenish
Question 8. Cutting back on red meat consumption can reduce your intake of fat, sodium and sugar, ________
can cause obesity, heart disease, and cancer.
A. that B. which C. what D. it
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 9: This is a fascinating and thought-provoking book, laced with genuine wit and elegantly written.
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A. boring B. absorbing C. tedious D. exhausting
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 10: They are not down-to-earth people who are willing to lower themselves
to see the reality of poor people’s lives.
A. practical B. reasonable C. sensible D. unrealistic
Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

The oceans of the world are precious because of (11) _______ they do for all life on the Earth. They help
regulate the temperature of the planet, and they are home to a myriad of sea creatures - many of which we
depend on (12) _______ sources of food. However, due to our consumption and improper disposal of plastic
items, human beings have created a swirling (13) _______ of garbage. The one located in the Pacific is now
known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and it is not a pretty sight.
We all use little pieces of plastic on a daily basic. and most of the time we don’t even notice that we are
doing it. Any time you walk into a(n) (14) _______ store and buy a bottled or canned drink, the clerk will
offer you a straw to drink with it. We happily sip drinks out of plastic bottles with our plastic straws, and then
(15) _______ of the container and the straw when we are finished.
Question 11. A. which B. that C. how D. what
Question 12. A. as B. like C. for D. with
Question 13. A. dirt B. untidiness C. mess D. problem
Question 14. A. convenient B. convenience C. business D. open
Question 15. A. throw B. approve C. dispose D. discharge

Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American city in three fundamental
ways. It catalyzed physical expansion, it sorted out people and land uses, and it accelerated the inherent
instability of urban life. By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for residential expansion, the omnibuses,
horse railways, commuter trains, and electric trolleys pulled settled regions outward two to four times more
distant from city centers than they were in the pre- modern era. In 1850, for example, the borders of Boston
lay scarcely two miles from the old business district; by the turn of the century the radius extended ten miles.
Now those who (10) could afford it could live far removed from the old city center and still commute there for
work, shopping, and entertainment. The new accessibility of land around the periphery of almost every major
city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl. Between
1890 and 1920, for example, some 250,000 new residential lots were recorded within the borders of Chicago,
most of them located in outlying areas. Over the same period, another 550,000 were plotted outside the city
limits but within the metropolitan area. Anxious to take advantage of the possibilities of commuting, real
estate developers added 800,000 potential building sites to the Chicago region in just thirty years – lots that
could have housed five to six million people.
Of course, many were never occupied; there was always a huge surplus of subdivided, but vacant, land
around Chicago and other cities. These excesses underscore a feature of residential expansion related to the
growth of mass transportation: urban sprawl was essentially unplanned. It was carried out by thousands of
small investors who paid little heed to coordinated land use or to future land users. Those who purchased and
prepared land for residential purposes, particularly land near or outside city borders where transit lines and

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middle-class inhabitants were anticipated, did so to create demand as much as to respond to it. Chicago is a
prime example of this process. Real estate subdivision there proceeded much faster than population growth.

Question 16. With which of the following subjects is the passage mainly concerned?
A. Types of mass transportation. B. Instability of urban life.
C. How supply and demand determine land use. D. The effects of mass transportation on urban expansion.
Question 17. The word "vast" in line 3 is closest in meaning to…………….
A. large B. basic C. new D.urban
Question 18. Why does the author mention both Boston and Chicago?
A. To demonstrate positive and negative effects of growth.
B. To show that mass transit changed many cities.
C. To exemplify cities with and without mass transportation.

D. To contrast their rates of growth

Question 19. The word "many" refers to……..
A. people B. lots C. years D. developers
Question 20. According to the passage, what was one disadvantage of residential expansion?
A. It was expensive. B. It happened too slowly.
C. It was unplanned. D. It created a demand for public transportation.
Writing:Choose the correct sentence among A, B, C or D which has the same meaning as the given one.
1. Eight years ago we started writing to each other.
A. We have rarely written to each other for eight years.
B. Eight years is a long time for us to write to each other.
C. We wrote to each other eight years ago.
D. We have been writing to each other for eight years.
2. “Would you like to go to the cinema with me tonight?” he said.
A. He invited me to go to the cinema with him that night.
B. He offered me to go to the cinema with him tonight.
C. He asked me if I'd like to go to the cinema with him tonight.
D. He would like me to go to the cinema with him this night.

Connect each pair of sentences with an appropriate conjunction in the box to make new sentences.

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3. LED bulbs save even more energy and have longer lifespans. They are considerably more expensive and
take years to get back our investment. ( but)
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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4.You make a building more energy efficient. You can save money and increase the value of the building.
( When)
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………

5. By making the building more energy efficient, you save money. You also increase the value of the
building.( not only….but also)
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