SỞ GD & ĐT LONG AN KỲ KIỂM TRA KHẢO SÁT LỚP 12 TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG

Bài kiểm tra: NGOẠI NGỮ; Môn kiểm tra: TIẾNG ANH
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ĐỀ GỒM CÓ 50 QUESTION (TỪ QUESTION 1 ĐẾN QUESTION 50)

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. devoted B. considered C. declined D. involved
Question 2: A. sunshine B. oblige C. survive D. service

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. notice B. remove C. cancel D. copy
Question 4: A. position B. opponent C. referee D. importance

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 5: The leader demanded from his members a serious attitude towards work, good
A B C
team spirit, and that they work hard.
D
Question 6: The assumption that smoking has bad effects on our health have been proved.
A B C D
Question 7: That pop star, who’s name is on the everyone’s lips, is organizing a charity concert.
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 8: The organization put me in ________ with other people in a similar position.
A. connection B. respect C. relation D. contact
Question 9: Visitors to the local museum are mostly attracted by _______ rocking chair.
A. a beautiful old European wooden B. an old wooden European beautiful
C. a wooden old beautiful European D. an old beautiful wooden European
Question 10: Women in the past were ______ dependent on their husbands and fathers.
A. finance B. financial C. financially D. financier
Question 11: Two people are reported ______ in the accident yesterday.
A. to have been injured B. to have injured
C. to injure D. to be injured

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Question 12: Some people think that the more people have television, the ______ people
will buy books to read.
A. more B. many C. less D. fewer
Question 13: He told everyone that he had flu, but in fact, he had just _______ a cold.
A. come down with B. gone in for C. kept up with D. stood up for
Question 14: Many countries in the world have ______ different conservation efforts so as
to save endangered species.
A. had B. stayed C. made D. done
Question 15: Books provide the reader _______ so many facts and so much information.
A. on B. for C. with D. at
Question 16: The vacuum tube made an important contribution to _______ early growth of
radio and television.
A. an B. a C. the D. Ø
Question 17: Lan ______ a shower at the moment, so could you call back in about half an hour?
A. is taking B. has been taking C. has taken D. takes
Question 18: He asked me_______ I liked taking part in synchronized swimming.
A. which B. what C. whether D. that
Question 19: It took my father a very long time to ______ the shock of my mother’s death.
A. look after B. go over C. get over D. hold up

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: Thomas and Peter are meeting after a long time.
- Thomas: “How have you been recently?”
- Peter: “_____.”
A. I am working here B. Pretty busy, I think
C. I am going on holiday next week D. By car, usually
Question 21: Sarah and Kathy are talking about bad habits of children.
-Sarah: “Children under ten shouldn’t stay up late to play computer games.”
-Kathy:“_______.”
A. You can say that again B. Surely, we shouldn’t
C. I don’t quite agree with you D. Yes, I share your opinion

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: In many big cities, people have to put up with noise, overcrowding and bad air.
A. look forward to B. take part in C. listen to D. tolerate
Question 23: The competition will commence just after the opening ceremony.
A. restrict B. begin C. devote D. indulge

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: No one knew precisely what would happen to a human being in space.
A. wrongly B. casually C. legally D. formally

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Question 25: Although it’s a long day for us, we are contented with what we do.
A. excited B. dissatisfied C. interested D. shocked

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: He didn’t take his father’s advice so he gets into trouble now.
A. If he had taken his father’s advice, he would not get into trouble now.
B. If he takes his father’s advice, he will not get into trouble now.
C. If he took his father’s advice, he would not get into trouble now.
D. If he had taken his father’s advice, he would not have gotten into trouble now.
Question 27: It’s an issue that is close to my heart, so I can’t stop thinking about it.
A. I can’t stop thinking about the problem related to my heart.
B. It’s a whole-hearted issue that requires a lot of thinking.
C. The issue is so important that I can’t stop thinking about it.
D. The deadline to solve the problem is close so I can’t stop thinking.
Question 28: “Leave my house now or I’ll call the police!” shouted the lady to the man.
A. The lady informed the man that she would call the police if he didn’t leave her house.
B. The lady said that she would call the police if the man didn’t leave her house.
C. The lady threatened to call the police if the man didn’t leave her house.
D. The lady politely told the man that she would call the police if he didn’t leave her house.

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: He was suspected to have stolen credit cards. The police have investigated
him for days.
A. Suspected to have stolen credit cards, he has been investigated for days.
B. Suspecting to have stolen credit cards, he has been investigated for days.
C. He has been investigated for days, suspected to have stolen credit cards.
D. Having suspected to have stolen credit cards, he has been investigated for days.
Question 30: He’s overweight and feels terrible. He continues to eat lots of cakes and biscuits.
A. He’s overweight and feels terrible, or he continues to eat lots of cakes and biscuits.
B. He’s overweight and feels terrible, yet he continues to eat lots of cakes and biscuits.
C. He’s overweight and feels terrible, and he continues to eat lots of cakes and biscuits.
D. He’s overweight and feels terrible, nor does he continue to eat lots of cakes and biscuits.

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

Wild animals (31)______ an important part in the balance of nature and supply us
(32)______ many important products. Birds and small animals help control insects. Wild
animals provide food and recreation, too. (33)______, they make our surroundings more
interesting.
Uncontrolled hunting has destroyed a lot of wild life and people have also harmed
animals such as the passenger pigeon which disappeared completely. Others including the
whooping cranes, the blue whales and the American alligators are in (34)______ of dying
out. Sometimes it is necessary to keep animals from becoming too plentiful. For example,

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rabbits and such rodents as ground squirrels and mice may cause great damage to crops if
they are too (35)______. Predators help hold down the population of their prey.

Question 31: A. make B. play C. let D. take

Question 32: A. with B. for C. in D. on
Question 33: A. Furthermore B. Therefore C. Nevertheless D. However
Question 34: A. dangerous B. endanger C. danger D. endangered
Question 35: A. rare B. adequate C. limited D. abundant

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.

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 fresh water 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.

Question 36: What is the passage mainly about?

A. How much oxygen rainforests make B. Facts about rainforests
C. Kinds of forests D. Where rainforests are located
Question 37: The word “humid” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. rainy B. foggy C. cloudy D. wet

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Question 38: Rainforests provide humans all of the following EXCEPT?
A. oxygen B. fresh water
C. lungs of the world population D. drugs used to fight and cure cancer
Question 39: Why is the Amazon Rainforest called the “lungs of the planet”?
A. It uses much of the world’s oxygen. B. It provides much of our air.
C. It helps circulation. D. It helps us breathe.
Question 40: The world “all” in paragraph 3 refers to _______.
A. food people eat B. rainforests
C. the world’s species D. drugs people use
Question 41: The word “harvest” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. reduce B. gather C. destroy D. create
Question 42: What is the most likely reason why the author is surprised that we are
destroying rainforests?
A. It will be too expensive to replant them.
B. They are necessary for the fight against cancer.
C. It will be too difficult to grow food without them.
D. They are necessary for the health of our planet.

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

The atmosphere that originally surrounded the earth was probably much different from
the air we breathe today. The earth’s first atmosphere (some 4.6 million years ago) was most
likely hydrogen and helium – the two most abundant gasses found in the universe – as well
as hydrogen compounds, such as methane and ammonia. Most scientists feel that this early
atmosphere escaped into space from the earth’s hot surface.
A second, more dense atmosphere, however, gradually enveloped the earth as gasses
from molten rocks within its hot interior escaped through volcanoes and steam vents. We
assume that volcanoes spewed out the same gasses then as they do today: mostly water
vapor (about 80 percent), carbon dioxide (about ten percent), and up to a few percent
nitrogen. These same gasses probably created the earth’s second atmosphere.
As millions of years passed, the constant outpouring of gasses from the hot interior –
known as outgassing – provided a rich supply of water vapor, which formed into clouds.
Rain fell upon the earth for many thousands of years, forming the rivers, lakes, and oceans
of the world. During this time, large amount of carbon dioxide were dissolved in the oceans.
Through chemical and biological processes much of the carbon dioxide became locked up in
carbon sedimentary rocks, such as limestone. With much of the water vapor already
condensed into water and the concentration of carbon dioxide dwindling, the atmosphere
gradually became rich nitrogen.
It appears that oxygen, the second most abundant gas in today’s atmosphere, probably
began an extremely slow increase in concentration as energetic rays from the sun split water
vapor into hydrogen and oxygen during a process called photodissociation. The hydrogen,
being lighter, probably rose and escaped into space, while the oxygen remained in the
atmosphere.

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 This slow increase in oxygen may have provided enough of this gas for primitive plants
to evolve, perhaps two or three billion years ago. Or the plants may have evolved in an
almost oxygen-free (anaerobic) environment. At any rate, plant growth greatly enriched our
atmosphere with oxygen. The reason for this enrichment is that plants, in the presence of
sunlight, process carbon dioxide and water to produce oxygen.
(by C. Donald Abrens – “Meteorology Today – An Introduction to Weather, Climate and
the Environment”)

Question 43: What is the main idea of the passage?

A. The atmosphere on the earth has changed over time.
B. Hot underground gasses created clouds, which formed the earth’s atmosphere.
C. Plant growth depended on oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere.
D. The original atmosphere on the earth was unstable.
Question 44: The word “enveloped” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to
_____.
A. changed B. surrounded C. escaped D. characterized
Question 45: According to the passage, outgassing eventually led to all of the following
EXCEPT ______.
A. increase in the carbon dioxide content of sedimentary rocks
B. the formation of clouds
C. the formation of body of water
D. decrease in the level of nitrogen
Question 46: The word “they” in the second paragraph refers to ______.
A. steam vents B. gasses C. molten rocks D. volcanoes
Question 47: Which gas is ranked second in the large amount?
A. oxygen B. helium C. nitrogen D. hydrogen
Question 48: The passage suggests that oxygen remained in the atmosphere because
_____.
A. it was caused by outgassing
B. hydrogen became trapped in limestone
C. it was heavier than hydrogen
D. sun rays created equal amounts of hydrogen and oxygen
Question 49: The phrase “At any rate” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to
_____.
A. Although unlikely B. Regardless C. Fortunately D. In addition
Question 50: Which of the following does the paragraph mention as necessary for both the
production of oxygen by photodissociation and the production of oxygen by plants?
A. Hydrogen B. Water C. Carbon dioxide D. Nitrogen
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