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1 MỤC LỤC PHẦN I. HỆ THỐNG ĐỀ ÔN LUYỆN A. Đề thi theo cấu trúc của Trường THPT Chuyên Ngoại Ngữ Đề số 01 2 Đề số 02 10 Đề số 03 18
4 just a few main countries, for example, the USA. Some will be able to (21) ……………their aims and gain status as legal residents of the country they have moved to. These people are technically called (22) ……………although this term is most commonly used by people from English-speaking nations to describe people from more developed nations living permanently abroad. Migrants who (23) ……………their native countries to escape danger or persecution may also be looking for a permanent new home. Until they have (24) ……………asylumand their claims have been accepted, they will be classified as refugees. In some cases of mass flight, when thousands of people escape across a border, they are immediately granted this status. Looking for a job, a better income or perhaps just an experience, other migrants arc admitted to countries as contract workers. They are allowed to stay in their destination country on the (25) ……… that it is for a specific period. Some are seasonal employees. Others will stay in the new country for a year or more. These include employees of multinational corporations who are moved around from country to country. These people are often professionals with expertise in their (26) ……………. Some migrants overstay their visas or work whilst in the country on tourist visas. When this (27)…, they become illegal immigrant in the eyes of the officials. They may also try to enter an ’immigration country’, often endangering their own lives, by being smuggled in by people they have paid for this service. (Adapted from Grammar and Vocabulary for Advanced) 20. A. set B. move C. head D. rally 21. A. fulfil B. pursue C. further D. state 22. A. foreigners B. diplomats C. ambassadors D. expatriates 23. A. withdraw B. flee C. vanish D. desert 24. A. applied B. searched C. obtained D. sought 25. A. understanding B. perception C. grasp D. appreciation 26. A. scope B. territory C. field D. pasture 27. A. raises B. arises C. exacerbates D. confronts PHẦN 7: BÀI ĐỌC Đọc đoạn văn và trả lời 08 câu hỏi kèm theo. In recent years, Americans living in parts of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico have had to get acclimatized to ever more frequent summer days with temperatures in excess of 38 0 Celsius; and most years now, long hot dry summers are leading to the destruction by fire of millions of acres of Western forests. Slowly, but noticeably, the West is already returning to desert; it is a trend that seems liable to continue. No one should really be very surprised about this, even without the additional problems due to global warming. Back to 1878, John Wesley Powell, one of the early explorers of the deserts of the Southwest, warned of the dangers of settling the new lands to the west of the 100th meridian. Powell submitted a warning to Congress to this effect ten years later, but as often happens, short-term economic interests meant that Powell's warning was not heeded In those days, the area now known as the "Great Plains" was more commonly referred to as the Great Desert. From the Rio Grande to the Canadian border, large parts of this region were almost uninhabited and uninhabitable. Moving sand dunes were a common feature of the landscape, particularly in years of low rainfall. Yet despite the inhospitality of the terrain, from the mid nineteenth century onwards, the area was progressively colonized by settlers who made use of any water course possible, to establish farms and homesteads, using irrigation and groundwater to make up for the dryness of the land, or growing plants which did not require too much rainfall. Gradually, the taming of the desert began. In the twentieth century, a massive dam building programme was set in motion. In many cases, the dam building was on an enormous scale: on the Columbia River alone, 55 dams were built, including the Grand Coulee dam. Although a few early