Student’s name: Marks

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TEST GRADE 12
ĐỀ LỚP 12: 40 câu gồm 3 phần:
A. (10 CÂU)
I. Mark the word whose underlined part is different from the others.
1. A. creature B. equal C. league D. menace
2. A. entry B. ready C. comfy D. occupy
3. A. lives B. plays C. works D. buys
4. A. stop B. hope C. slope D. cope
5. A. purse B. nervous C. surprise D. worse
II. Mark the word that has the different stress from the others.
6. A. practical B. secretary C. manager D. immediate
7. A. alternative B. information C. discovery D. discussion
8. A. defrost B. formal C. suspect D. computer
9. A. subordinate B. celebrate C. expand D. escape
10. A. particular B. distinction C. material D. specialize
B. (40 CÂU)
I. Choose the best answers.
1. The new director _______ very harsh rules as soon as he had come to the office
A. settled down B. put down C. laid down D. wrote down
2. “He _______ have prepared so many dishes. There are only three of us for dinner.”
A. couldn’t B. wouldn’t C. needn’t D. oughtn’t
3. There are about 50_______ for each vacancy.
A. competitors B. attendants C. applicants D. interviewers
4. In his official visit to Vietnam a few months ago, President Obama had the
opportunity to try Bún Chả, a traditional_____ hailing from Hanoi.
A. meal B. cuisine C. dish D. course
5. Novels and textbooks _______ around made the school library very untidy.
A. that lie B. laying C. which lied D. lying
6. Hurry up, or they ___ serving meals by the time we get to the restaurant.
A. stopped B. will have stopped C. are stopping D. would stop
7. Ancient Egyptians mummified their dead bodies through the use of chemicals,
______ ancient Peruvians did through natural processes.
A. because B. whereas C. even though D. whether or not
8. Hurricanes move with the large-scale wind currents _______ are imbedded.
A. that they B. which they C. in that they D. in which they
9. Everyone thought he was asleep, but when they looked closely at him, he was
_______
A. wide awake B. wide open C. widely awake D. full awake
10. One of the areas of multimedia that is growing quickly _______ is sound.
A. yet is easily overlooked B. is easily overlooked
C. it is easily overlooked D. that is easily overlooked
11. Half of the children were away from school last week because of ______ of
Covid-19.
A. a break- out B. a breakthrough C. an outburst D. an outbreak
12. Technically, glass is a mineral and______.
A. water so B. water is so C. so is water D. so water is
13. We expected him to ______ the increase during his speech.
A. mention B. refer C. inform D. complain
14. She wondered ______ her father looked like now, after so many years away.
 A. how B. whose C. that D. what
15. We………...use that door. The sign says PRIVATE: DO NOT ENTER.
a. needn’t b. mustn’t c. shouldn’t d. mightn’t
16. She has asked me to ______her sincere thanks to you for what you have done.
A. report B. convey C. transfer D. confide
17. Speed limits on the road ______to protect pedestrians as well as motorists.
A. serve B. prove C. different D. intend
18. I have English classes ______ day - on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
A. all other B. each other C. every other D. this and the other
19. Customer: Can I have a look at that pullover, please?
Saleswoman: _____________________________
A. It's much cheaper. B. Which one? This one?
C. Sorry. It’s already out of stock. D. May I help you?
20. British and Australian people share the same language, but in other respects
they are as different as ______.
A. cats and dogs B. chalk and cheese
C. salt and pepper D. here and there
II. Choose the word that needs correction.
21. A number of the American Indian languages spoken at the time of the
European arrival in the New World in the late fifteen century have become extinct.
A. A number of B. spoken C. time D. fifteen
22. One of the most beautiful botanical gardens in the UK is the wildly and lovely
Mary Gardens near the South.
A. most B. botanical C. wildly D. near
23. Many people found it is moving to see a nine-year-old Japanese boy
desperately searching for his family lost in the quake and tsunami of March 11th,
2011.
 A. it is moving B. nine-year-old C. desperately D. lost
24. A progress has been made towards finding a cure for bird flu.
A. A progress B. has been made C. finding D. for
25. The major source of air pollution vary from city to city.
A. The B. source C. air D. city
III. 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.

26. We witnessed the extraordinary sight of an old lady climbing a tree to rescue her cat.
A. phenomenal B. unacceptable C. conventional D. brilliant
27. These small companies now have their own discrete identity.
A. creditable B. absurd C. extravagant D. distinct
28. It was relatively easy for him to learn baseball because he had been a cricket player.
A. nearly B. essentially C. comparatively D. approximately
29. People in the mountainous areas are still in the habit of destroying forests for
cultivation.
A. planting B. farming C. industry D. wood
30. In most countries, compulsory military service does not apply to women.
A. superior B. mandatory C. beneficial D. constructive
IV. 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.

31. A trial must be fair and impartial.

A. hostile B. biased C. unprejudiced D. apprehensive
32. In a study, more Asian students than American students hold a belief that a husband
is obliged to tell his wife his whereabouts if he comes home late.
A. required B. free C. urged D. suggested
33. Though I persuaded my boss to solve a very serious problem in the new
management system, he just made light of it.
A. completely ignored B. treated as important
C. disagreed with D. discovered by chance
34. You should put yourself on the back for having achieved such a high score in the
graduation exam
A. Criticize yourself B. Wear a backpack
C. Praise yourself D. Check up your back
35. We are now a 24/7 society where shops and services must be available all hours.
A. an active society B. an inactive society
C. a physical society D. a working society
IV. Choose the sentence that has the same meaning as the first sentence.

36. Jane can swim further than I can.

A. I can’t swim as far as Jane B. jane can swim as far as I can

C. I can swim further than jane D. A&C are correct

37. Sue sounds to me as if she has a cold.

A. I think Sue is unwell B. Sue told me she is not well

C. Sue said she has been feeling chilly D. Sue said she has a cold

38. You needn’t have taken so many warm clothes there.

A. It is not necessary for you to take so many warm clothes there.

B. You have taken so many warm clothes that I don’t need.

C. There is no need for you to take so many warm clothes there.

D. You took lots of warm clothes there, but it turned out unnecessary.

39. However hard you work, you will never be promoted here.
A. You will never be promoted here; however, you work hard.

B. No matter how you work, you will be promoted here.

C. Although you work really hard, you will never be promoted here.

D. If you didn’t work hard, you would never be promoted here.

40. Much as he loved her, he didn’t forgive her for what she had done.

A. he didn’t forgive her for what she had done as he loved her.

B. he didn’t forgive her for what she had done because she didn’t love him as much.

C. she didn’t love him as much as he loved her.

D. Although he loved her, he didn’t forgive her for what she had done.

C. READING

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 from 41
to 47.

Have you ever entered a tropical rainforest? It’s a special, dark place completely
different from anywhere else. A rainforest is a place where the trees grow very tall.
Millions of kinds of animals, insects, and plants live in the rainforest. It is hot and
humid in a rainforest. It rains a lot in the rainforest, but sometimes you don’t know it’s
raining. The trees grow so closely together that rain doesn’t always reach the ground.
Rainforests make up only a small part of the Earth’s surface, about six percent. They are
found in tropical parts of the world. The largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon in
South America. The Amazon covers 1.2 billion acres or almost five million square
kilometers. The second-largest rainforest is in Western Africa.
There are also rainforests in Central America, Southeast Asia, Northeastern Australia,
and the Pacific Islands.
Rainforests provide us with many things. In fact, the Amazon Rainforest is called the
“lungs of our planet” because it produces twenty percent of the world’s oxygen. One-
fifth of the world’s freshwater is also found in the Amazon Rainforest. Furthermore,
one-half of the world’s species of animals, plants, and insects live in the Earth’s
rainforests. Eighty percent of the food we eat first grew in the rainforest. For example,
pineapples, bananas, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, and sugar all came
from rainforests. Twenty-five percent of the drugs we take when we are sick are made
of plants that grow only in rainforests. Some of these drugs are even used to fight and
cure cancer. With all the good things we get from rainforests, it’s surprising to find that
we are destroying our rainforests. In fact, 1.5 acres, or 6,000 square meters, of rainforest
disappear every second. The forests are being cut down to make fields for cows, to
harvest the plants, and to clear land for farms. Along with losing countless valuable
species, the destruction of rainforests creates many problems worldwide. Destruction of
rainforests results in more pollution, less rain, and less oxygen for the world.
(Adapted from Reading Challenge 2 by Casey Malarcher and Andrea Janzen)
Question 41: The word “that” in paragraph 3 refer to ______________.
A. plants
B. pineapples, bananas, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, and sugar
C. the drugs
D. rainforests
Question 42: The following are the facts about rainforests, EXCEPT ___________.
A. Rainforests account for about one-sixth of the Earth’s surface.
B. There’s a considerable variety of plants and animals in the rainforests.
C. The rainforest in Western Africa ranks second after the Amazon in South America in
the covered area.
D. The only places to see rainforests are in tropical zones.
Question 43: Why don’t people know it’s raining in the rainforests?
A. Because the trees grow very tall there.
B. Because the branches are too dense for the rain to touch the ground.
C. Because they are the habitats of millions of flora and fauna.
D. Because it hardly rains in the rainforests.
Question 44: What can be inferred from the last passage?
A. People’s economic benefits are more important than environmental problems.
B. The consequences of deforestation were greater than what people can imagine.
C. Everyone is not aware of the significance of the rainforests.
D. The more rainforests are destroyed, the harder people’s life will become.
Question 45: The word “humid” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to
_____________.
A. cloudy
B. dry
C. overwhelmed
D. moist

Question 46: What is the author’s main idea in the passage?

A. To provide factual information about tropical rainforests for readers.
B. To prove that rainforests are indispensable in our lives.
C. To prevent people from damaging tropical rainforests.
D. To explain why people have destroyed a large area of tropical rainforests.
Question 47: The word “countless” in paragraph 3 could be best replaced by
__________.
A. trivial
B. numberless
C. meaningless
D. derisive
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 from 48 to 52.
For many American university students, the weeklong spring break holiday means an
endless party on a sunny beach in Florida or Mexico. In Panama City Beach, Florida, a
city with a permanent population of around 36,000, more than half a million university
students arrive during the month of March to play and party, making it the number one
spring break destination in the United States. A weeklong drinking binge is not for
anyone, however, and a growing number of American university students have found a
way to make spring break matter. For them, joining or leading a group of volunteers to
travel locally or internationally and work to show problems such as poverty,
homelessness, or environmental damage makes spring break a unique learning
experience that university students can feel good about. Students who participate in
alternative spring break projects find them very rewarding. While most university
students have to get their degrees before they can start helping people, student
volunteers are able to help people now. On the other hand, the accommodations are far
from glamorous. Students often sleep on the floor of a school or spend the week
camping in tents. But students only pay around $250 for meals and transportation,
which is much less than some of their peers spend to travel to more traditional spring
break hotspots.
Alternative spring break trips appear to be growing in popularity at universities across
the United States. Students cite a number of reason for participating. Some appreciate
the opportunity to socialize and meet new friends. Others want to exercise their beliefs
about people’s obligation to serve humanity and make the world a better place.
Whatever their reason, these students have discovered something that gives them rich
rewards along with a break from schoolwork.
Question 48: What is the passage mainly about?
A. A traditional approach to spring breaks
B. Students’ alternative spring breaks
C. American students’ social life
D. Students’ travelling preferences
Question 49: How many university students travel to Panama Beach City every March
for spring break?
A. Around 50,000
B. Around 500,000
C. Around 10,000
D. Around 36,000
Question 50: Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a problem that alternative
spring break trips try to help solve?
A. Homelessness
B. Poverty
C. Overpopulation
D. Environment damage
Question 51: The word “them” in paragraph 1 refers to _______.
A. degrees
B. people
C. projects
D. students
Question 52: The word “cite” in paragraph 2 probably means ________.
A. get
B. invent
C. avoid
D. list
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 53 to 59
Until relatively recently, newspapers were our primary source of daily news. They must
now compete, however, with online news, social media, and television in a progressively
digital age. The internet is changing the way people get their news, leaving a dwindling
audience willing to pay for their daily paper. But given that the form first emerged in
early-17th century Europe, it’s probably about time the medium got overhauled.
Newspapers have witnessed an extraordinary era of change: from the evolution of
democratic institutions and political parties to the reshaping of whole countries and
continents.
By the end of the 19th century, newspapers were using a visual template not unlike those
of today and had become the source of not only large profits but also unaccountable
political and social influence for their owners – a trend that has continued to the present
day. Newspapers prospered in this form for more than 150 years, and in many countries,
daily life would have been inconceivable without access to one. But in many places, the
continuing existence of newspapers is under threat.
Circulation figures for all types of newspapers, local, regional and national, bear out the
fact that, in many Western nations at least, sales of printed newspapers had been falling
for many years prior to the emergence of the internet. What is also beyond question,
though, is that the arrival and exponential growth of the World Wide Web, leading to
near-universal coverage, has accelerated this process greatly. Observing the rapidity and
extent of this process around the world provides a fascinating insight into social change.
We now live in an age where speed and convenience have gained precedence over
reliability and quality in most aspects of our existence. Regarding the former, newspapers
only allow getting updated about events some considerable time after they have actually
happened, while online users can access them more or less at the moment at which they
occur. Printed newspapers, therefore, provide a less efficient source of news and,
furthermore, do so in a less environmentally-friendly way than the internet, and at a direct
cost to the consumer. Moreover, with news also available on tap through social media,
consumers are continually bombarded from all sides, and therefore may not wish to have
each story explained in great detail, as is the case in much of the printed media. Social
media sites have also proven to be one of the most effective means of getting information
out rapidly, and on a huge scale: news can now be tweeted before the mainstream media
have even started their coverage.
(Adapted from Exam Booster Advanced by Carole Allsop, Mark Little and Anne
Robinson)
Question 53: The word "they‟ in paragraph 4 refers to .
A. newspapers
B. events
C. readers
D. online users
Question 54: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Social media platforms are able to release news in a much more enjoyable fashion.
B. Twitter is the most favored place for people to access their news today.
C. Readers nowadays take a keen interest in how news is specifically presented.
D. People don’t seem to pay much attention to whether there is any inaccurate news or
not.
Question 55: The word "inconceivable‟ in paragraph 2 mostly means .
A. fairly comprehensible
B. impossible to imagine
C. easy to understand
D. relatively positive
Question 56: According to paragraph 2, what is stated surrounding newspapers?
A. Newspapers look poised to continue the prosperous trend in the next 150 years.
B. The owners of the newspaper have little interest in politics and social affairs.
C. It would have been difficult to imagine life without a newspaper in many countries.
D. The design of newspapers in the 19th century was remarkably contrasting from that
of today.
Question 57: Which best serves as the title for the passage?
A. Why the world went social.
B. The rise and fall of the newspaper.
C. Why people opt for online news?
D. Paper talks – The history of the newspaper.
Question 58: Which of the following is true, according to the passage?
A. The impact the World Wide Web has had on the declination of newspapers remains
minimal.
B. Newspaper circulation figures were decreasing in Asia before the Internet was
launched.
C. People have decided to cancel their subscription to daily newspapers.
D. The shift in terms of how readers access their news speaks volumes about social
change.
Question 59: The word "emerged‟ in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to .
A. changed
B. built
C. appeared
D. wrote