Hanoi department of education and KỲ THI TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG QUỐC GIA NĂM 2017

training
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
DƯƠNG XÁ HIGH SCHOOL
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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.
1. A. washed B. studied C. missed D. helped
2. A. centre B. discuss C. instance D. police
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.
3. A. appointment B. examine C. September D. concentrate
4. A. pressure B. create C. experience D. impression
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.
5. The boss laughed when the secretary has told him that she really needed a pay rise.
A B C D
6. Two prisoners were hang this morning by Taliban.
A B C D
7. They asked me that I could do the shopping for them.
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.
8. This morning I bought a newspaper and a magazine. ______ newspaper is in my bag but I don't know
where______ magazine is.
A. A/ a B. A/ the C. The / the D. The / a
9. I_____ all of the questions correctly since I began this grammar exercise on verb tenses.
A. am answering B. answer C. have answered D. answered
10. We avoid_______ our environment.
A. polluting B. to pollute C. pollute D polluted
11. He has worked so hard recently; _______ he is in bad health.
A. however B. and C. but D. therefore
12. This student expected_______ the first winner of the Grand Prix.
A. be B. being C. to be D. will be
13. Many plant and animal species are now in danger of ________.
A. extinct B. extinction C. extinguishing D. disappearance
14. If you inherited a million pounds, what______ with the money?
A. do you do B. will you do C. would you do D. are you going to do
15. I was passing their house, so I ______ Claire and Michael.
A. dropped in B. came up with C. got on with D. ran into
16. The other day I came ______ a really beautiful old house in the back streets of Birmingham.
A. across B. over C. by D. down
17. He apologized ________ able to finish the project on time.
A. his colleagues not being B. his colleagues for not being
C. his colleagues not to be D. to his colleagues for not being
18. His doctor suggested that he _________ a short leave of absence.
A. take B. will take C. took D. would take
19. They quickly read the questions and tried to find out the answers.
A. complete B. discover C. guess D. offer
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.
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20. " Can I help you?" "______"
A. Yes, you can. B. No, you can't.
C. Yes, I'm looking for a jumper. D. Yes, here's lovely one.
21. "Peter's gone to the States for a month." "______"
A. He's twenty years old. B. Oh, thanks.
C. He's studying English. D. Oh! Holiday?
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.
22. Hypertension is one of the most widespread and potential dangerous diseases
A. colossal B. popular C. common D. scattered
23. The sales of drugs is controlled by law in most of countries
A. permitted B. restricted C. illegal D. binding
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.
24. We ought to keep these proposals secret from the chairman for the time being.
A. revealed B. frequented C. accessible D. lively
25. They protested about the inhumane treatment of the prisoners.
A. curious B. warmhearted C. callous D. coldblooded
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.
26. People believe that 13 is an unlucky number.
A. It was believed that 13 is an unlucky number.
B. That 13 is an unlucky number is believed.
C. 13 is believed an unlucky number.
D. It is believed that 13 is an unlucky number.
27. The last time I played football was in 1991.
A. I haven’t played football in 1991. B. I haven’t played football since 1991
C. I didn’t play football in 1991. D. I last played football since 1991.
28. He drives more carelessly than he used to.
A. He doesn’t drive as carefully as he used to.
B. He doesn’t drive carefully than he used to.
C. He doesn’t drive as carefully than he used to.
D. He doesn’t drive as carefully as he does.
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.
29. Mr. Pike is a farmer. I bought his land last year.
A. Mr. Pike, whom I bought his land last year, is a farmer.
B. Mr. Pike, who is a farmer, whose land I bought last year.
C. Mr. Pike, whose land I bought last year, is a farmer.
D. Mr. Pike, whose land I bought, is a farmer last year.
30. The car is more modern. It runs faster.
A. The more modern the car is, the more faster it runs.
B. The moderner the car is, the faster it runs.
C. The more modern the car is, it runs faster.
D. The more modern the car is, the faster it runs.
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.
Although most families in the United States enjoy a high living standard, many American women have to
work hard at home and in their offices. Despite their husbands’ (31)____ of the housework, women have to
do most of the housekeeping tasks. In single-parent families, the mothers may not have (32)____children
to take care of, but they have to (33)_____ their families alone and have to provide for all the
housekeeping money. Therefore, the single mothers have to work very hard to earn their (34) ____.
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Moreover, in spite of the fact that the single mothers have all the (35)___ conveniences at their homes,
they find that bringing up their teenage children alone is not easy.
31. A. need B. share C. refusal D. support
32. A. few B. much C. lot D. many
33. A. raise B. earn for C. keep D. nurse
34. A. life B. lives C. living D. lived
35. A. comfortable B. saving C. expensive D. modern

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.
If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a
disaster. According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which
ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail.
Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children.
However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are
ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well – especially if the parents are very
supportive of their child. Michael Collins is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a
lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him
50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. Michael’s mother knows very little about music, but his father
plays the trumpet in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is
unwilling. Winston Smith, Michael’s friend, however, is not so lucky. Both his parents are successful
musicians, and they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they
are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win.
Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.
36. One of the serious mistakes parents can make is to __________.
A. push their child into trying too much
B. help their child to become a genius
C. make their child become a musician
D. neglect their child’s education
37. Parents’ ambition for their children is not wrong if they __________.
A. force their children into achieving success
B. themselves have been very successful
C. understand and help their children sensibly
D. arrange private lessons for their children
38. Who have criticized the methods of some ambitious parents?
A. Successful musicians. B. Unrealistic parents.
C. Their children. D. Educational psychologists.
39. The phrase "crazy about" in the passage mostly means __________.
A. "surprised at" B. "extremely interested in"
C. "completely unaware of" D. "confused about"
40. Winston’s parents push their son so much and he __________.
A. has won a lot of piano competitions
B. cannot learn much music from them
C. has become a good musician
D. is afraid to disappoint them
41. The word "unwilling" in the passage mostly means __________.
A. "getting ready to do something" B. "eager to do something"
C. "not objecting to doing anything" D. "not wanting to do something"
42. The two examples given in the passage illustrate the principle that __________.
A. successful parents always have intelligent children
B. successful parents often have unsuccessful children
C. parents should let the child develop in the way he wants
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 D. parents should spend more money on the child’s education
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.
Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical
and medieval worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term “reading” undoubtedly meant reading
aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace.
One should be wary, however, of assuming that silent reading came about simply because reading
aloud was a distraction to others. Examinations of factors related to the historical development of silent
reading have revealed that it became the usual mode of reading for most adults mainly because the tasks
themselves changed in character.
The last century saw a steady gradual increase in literacy and thus in the number of readers. As the
number of readers increased, the number of potential listeners declined and thus there was some
reduction in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the
flourishing of reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and
offices, where reading aloud would cause distraction to other readers.
Towards the end of the century, there was still considerable argument over whether books should
be used for information or treated respectfully and over whether the reading of materials such as
newspapers was in some way mentally weakening. Indeed, this argument remains with us still in
education. However, whatever its virtues, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by
the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and periodicals for a specialised readership on the
other.
By the end of the twentieth century, students were being recommended to adopt attitudes to books
and to use reading skills which were inappropriate, if not impossible, for the oral reader. The social,
cultural and technological changes in the century had greatly altered what the term “reading” implied.

43. Reading aloud was more common in the medieval world because .
A. people relied on reading for entertainment
B. silent reading had not been discovered
C. there were few places available for private reading
D. few people could read to themselves
44. The word “commonplace” in the first paragraph mostly means “_____”.
A. for everybody’s use B. most preferable
C. attracting attention D. widely used
45. Silent reading, especially in public places, flourished mainly because of .
A. the decreasing need to read aloud B. the development of libraries
C. the increase in literacy D. the decreasing number of listeners
46. It can be inferred that the emergence of the mass media and specialised reading materials was
an indication of .
A. a decline of standards of literacy
B. a change in the readers’ interest
C. an alteration in educationalists’ attitudes
D. an improvement of printing techniques
47. The phrase “a specialised readership” in paragraph 4 mostly means “____ ”.
A. a requirement for readers in a particular area of knowledge
B. a limited number of readers in a particular area of knowledge
C. a reading volume for particular professionals
D. a status for readers specialised in mass media
48. All of the following might be the factors that affected the continuation of the old shared literacy
culture EXCEPT ______.
A. the inappropriate reading skills B. the specialised readership
C. the diversity of reading materials D. the printed mass media

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49. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A. Reading aloud was more common in the past than it is today.
B. Not all printed mass media was appropriate for reading aloud.
C. The decline of reading aloud was wholly due to its distracting effect.
D. The change in reading habits was partly due to the social, cultural and technological changes.
50. The writer of this passage is attempting to _____.
A. explain how reading habits have developed
B. change people’s attitudes to reading
C. show how reading methods have improved
D. encourage the growth of reading

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