Đề thi thử lần 1 năm học 2012 - 2013 môn Tiếng anh - Mã đề thi 308

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Question 13: The projects Oxfam funds are _________.
A. relatively cheap but very effective	B. relatively dear but less effective
C. dear but quite effective	D. cheap and less effective
Question 14: Oxfam’s projects involve all of the following EXCEPT __________.
A. giving money to the needy	B. feeding starving children
C. rebuilding people’s own lives	D. providing educationfor disadvantaged children
Question 15: The word "starving" in the passage is closest meaning to "________".
A. very tiring	B. very hungry	C. very miserable	D. very exhausting
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks, from 16 to 25
Most people are unaware they possess a quite remarkable skill, which is usually overlooked because it is (16)______ daily, and in the most ordinary of contexts. But without it, our lives would be unfulfilled and empty. It is the (17)______ to relate to others, to engage them in conversation, to operate as social and sociable individuals and to develop both short-term and long-term relationships which lies at the heart of our very existence as human beings. We are not (18)______ with this ability. There is nothing wired into the human brain that provides us with (19)______ responses to social situations. To perform effectively in a world that relies so heavily on social (20)______, encounters and relationships, we have to learn what to do.
Small babies, as any parents will remember, are among the least sociable beings that you could imagine. They are totally demanding, utterly selfish and scream with rage if their every whim is not (21)______ satisfied. Somehow this unlikely raw material is (22)______ over the years into a being which relies for survival on being able to form reciprocal bonds with other and to follow complex rules that (23)______ every aspect of its social life. The monstrous infant becomes the caring, responsible adult whose life experiences revolve around both the joys and pains, and the (24)______ and receiving, of friendship and other relationships. It is this remarkable transformation which is the central characteristics of being (25)______.
Question 16: A. done	B. exercised	C. rubbed	D. polished
Question 17: A. proficiency	B. competence	C. capacity	D. ability
Question 18: A. delivered	B. educated	C. born	D. trained
Question 19: A. molded	B. formed	C. set	D. remained
Question 20: A. reaction	B. intersection	C. conversation	D. interaction
Question 21: A. immediately	B. soon	C. now	D. then
Question 22: A. altered	B. transformed	C. changed	D. switched
Question 23: A. determine	B. form	C. decide	D. govern
Question 24: A. giving	B. offering	C. distributing	D. handing
Question 25: A. men	B. human	C. humane	D. person
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction, from 26 to 30
Question 26: That man was an easy recognized figure with his long, white beard and wide brimmed hat.
 A B C D
Question 27: In order for our targets to set and meet, we require that the youths be at the forefront of the fight against AIDS.
 A B C D
Question 28: Of the two cars that the Smiths have, the Plymouth is, without any questions, the cheapest to run.
 A B C D
Question 29: Though television is the dominant media for United States households, Garrison Keillor’s Saturday night radio show of 
 A B C 
	folk songs and stories is heard by millions of people.
 D
Question 30: Educated in the UK, his qualifications are widely recognized in the world of professionals.
 A B C D
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions, from 31 to 33
Question 31: The increase of amount of money in circulation caused the prices to rise.
A. evaluation	B. calculation	C. investment	D. inflation
Question 32: In public parks there are long seats made of wood or of stones.
A. parking seats	B. park seats	C. benches	D. bunches
Question 33: The notice was declared such a long time ago that it can't be seen now.
A. is unnoticed	B. is unvisible	C. is invisible	D. is blind
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 34 to 38
The diseases connected to smoking are a big problem. Doctors think that the annual medical cost for lung cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses connected to smoking is between 12 and 35 million pounds.
And smoking costs society money in other ways. Between 27 and 61 billion pounds are spent each year on sick days when people don’t go to work, on wages that you don’t get when you don’t go to work, and on work lost at the company when you are sick.
This money counts the wages from people who die of cancer at young age and stop paying taxes. This does not count fire started by cigarettes, which kill fifteen hundred people yearly and injure another four thousand. Smoking costs every man, woman and child in the UK from one hundred and ten to two hundred and fifty pounds each year in the lost work and wages. When you add another fifty to one hundred and fifty pounds yearly in insurance cost, that come to one hundred and sixty to four hundred and ten pounds. If everyone stopped smoking, a family of four could have up to one thousand six hundred and forty pounds a year more.
Smoking will also cause other problems. People who don’t smoke will live longer, and so they will take money from the government when they are older. But they will also work for more years and pay more taxes.
In the end, the value of a non-smoking nation is not in pounds. The good health of the people is the true value for us all.
Question 34: If everyone stopped smoking, all the United Kingdom _______.
A. would live longer	B. would have more money
C. would have no more problems	D. would have less money
Question 35: Every year companies lose ________ because of the disease.
A. wages	B. time	C. money	D. work
Question 36: If everyone stopped smoking, a family of four could have _______ more each year.
A. from 110 pounds to 260 pounds	B. from 1,340 pounds to 1,430 pounds
C. from 160 pounds to 410 pounds	D. 1, 640 pounds
Question 37: The true value for the UK of not smoking is ________.
A. good health	B. more taxes	C. more working	D. more money
Question 38: This text is about __________.
A. how much the UK gets if everyone stopped smoking	B. diseases that smokers get
C. how much smoking costs the UK	D. taxes which are not paid by smokers
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following words, from 39 to 43
Question 39: A. referee	B. committee	C. employee	D. refugee
Question 40: A. commentate	B. procedure	C. chemical	D. alcohol
Question 41: A. atmosphere	B. customer	C. company	D. employment
Question 42: A. preferential	B. conventional	C. calculation	D. apprehension
Question 43: A. generously	B. military	C. generator	D. satisfactory
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions, from 44 to 45
Question 44: In daily lives, one should have more advocates to help in case of need.
A. friends	B. colleages	C. enemies	D. allies
Question 45: He asked for a leave of absence of another week because of his own business.
A. turn-up	B. turn-out	C. turn-on	D. turn-off
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 46 to 50
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learning to do all the other things they learn to do without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter or right answer, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should our teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can't find the way to get the right answer. Let’s end all this nonsense of grades, exams, marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must some days learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one’s life is nonsense in a world as complicated as rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, but suppose they fail to learn something essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.
Question 46: What does the author think is the best way for children to learn things?
A. by listening to explanations from skilled people	B.