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1 ĐỀ THI THỬĐÁNH GIÁ NĂNG LỰC NGOẠI NGỮ KÌ THI TUYỂN SINH CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN) Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút Tổng số câu hỏi: 62 A. PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM PHẦN 1: CÁCH PHÁT ÂM CỦA ÂM VỊ TRONG TỪ Chọn 01 trong 04 lựa chọn có phần gạch chân có cách phát âm khác với những lựa chọn còn lại 1. A. pagination B. hatred C. agonizing D. algorithmic 2. A. usher B. claqueur C. pronunciation D. discourage 3. A. sceneshifter B. sixteenth C. Yankee D. sesame 4. A. chutzpah B. child-centered C. concerto D. furniture PHẦN 2: TRỌNG ÂM Chọn 01 từ trong 04 từ đã cho có cấu trúc trọng âm khác với các từ còn lại. 5. A. sardonic B. momentous C. oblivious D. comparable 6. A. sanctimonious B. technocratic C. veterinary D. adolescent 7. A. ecumenical B. traumatic C. bilateral D. unprecedented 8. A. apropos B. vis-à-vis C. consortium D. colonoscopy PHẦN 3: TỪ HOẶC CỤM TỪ ĐỒNG NGHĨA Chọn 01 từ/cụm từ trong 04 lựa chọn có nghĩa gần nhất với từ/cụm từ được gạch chân trong câu hỏi. 9. He's somewhat lacking in the looks department. But it doesn’t matter. What matters is whether he is successful and happy with his life or not. A. having poor vision B. not attractive C. alluring D. looking terrible 10. You must put your dog to sleep. He is too old and suffering too much. A. let his sleeping dog lie B. make his dog sleep C. give his dog a resurgence D. kill his dog 11. They're the best songwriters of this century, bar none. A. there are no better songwriters in the other centuries B. no one else is better C. no one is writing better than them D. although they are not the best in the history PHẦN 4: TỪ HOẶC CỤM TỪ TRÁI NGHĨA Chọn 01 từ/cụm từ trong 04 lựa chọn trái nghĩa với từ hoặc cụm từ được gạch chân trong câu hỏi. 12. The problems facing immigrants are accentuations of those facing society in general. A. emphasis B. bewilderment C. nucleus D. fulcrum 13. An accusation of skulduggery, a councillor advised to practise his te reo Māori, and a tip to look at your toes when saying Tauranga. A. candour B. trickery C. razzle-dazzle D. flimflam 14. Her vocal ability is in a class by itself as he has been trained with the best vocalists. A. sterling B. atrocious C. a reprobate D. a vermin PHẦN 5: HOÀN THÀNH CÂU Chọn 01 lựa chọn đúng trong 04 lựa chọn cho sẵn để điền vào chỗ trống trong mỗi câu hỏi. 15. ________ like worms or any insect without bones, are the main diet of these water birds. A. Invertebrates B. Arthropods C. Marsupial D. Beasties 16. Job losses are mainly in the _____ sectors of the industry. A. blue-collar B. read-collar C. stiff-collar D. high-collar 17. Fiona ______ when she was a child. A. used to be often ill B. would be ill-stricken C. used to be ill often D. often had illnesses 18. The speaker is ________. A. very well acquainted with the subject B. recognized as an authority who knows a great deal in terms of the subject
2 C. someone who knows well enough about the subject which he has undertaken to do the speaking D. a person who has close awareness of the subject that he speaks about so much 19. The mayor failed to deliver key promises in his manifesto, but to give him his _______ he tried his best to improve the city's infrastructure. A. account B. view C. owing D.due PHẦN 6: ĐIỀN TỪ Chọn 01 lựa chọn đúng trong 04 lựa chọn cho sẵn để điền vào chỗ trống trong đoạn văn. If you ever get home late from the office and (20) _____ onto the sofa, wondering what happened to your social life, or sit in meetings dreaming about more (21) _____ working hours, you might need an extra job or two. On the (22) _____ of it, that sounds like the last way to redress your work-life balance, but you shouldn’t necessarily reject the idea out of hand, according to Matt Pearson of recruitment group APOS. Here’s how it works. Scaling back time spent on a "main" career gives freedom to develop other strings to your (23) _____, as you spread your well-honed skills across different part-time roles. As Matt says, "Because you're (24) _____ of your own bespoke career, you can structure your work around your lifestyle, taking time out when you need it.” On those terms, a compilation career suddenly sounds pretty appealing. It’s certainly worked for Sarah Dillon, 30. "Traditional careers all seemed to be about specializing yourself into a silo until you could do your job with your eyes closed," says the translator/teacher/event manager/web designer, who swapped office life in London (25) _____ a laptop in Brisbane. "I couldn't get excited about that. There were so many things I was interested in pursuing, and they were all important" For Sarah, taking control of her own (26) ____ career direction has been both challenging and rewarding. "I definitely work harder now, and the hours can be longer, but I have the best possible balance between paying my bills and being fulfilled. I’m glad I didn't wait until I (27) ____, or retired to make the change. 20. A. crumple B. droop C. collapse D. languish 21. A. flex B. flexible C. flexion D. flexuous 22. A. meaning B. matter C. face D. birth 23. A. bow B. nose C. obeisance D. arc 24. A. in a cleft stick B. on the dole C. under the pump D. at the helm 25. A. with B. for C. into D. to 26. A. time-to-time B. day-to-day C. age-to-age D. day-by-day 27. A. bore down B. anted up C. picked at D. burnt out PHẦN 7: BÀI ĐỌC Đọc đoạn văn và trả lời 8 câu hỏi kèm theo. THE ORIGINS OF CETACEANS It should be obvious that cetaceans—whales, porpoises, and dolphins—are mammals. They breathe through lungs, not through gills, and give birth to live young. Their streamlined bodies, the absence of hind legs, and the presence of a fluke1 and blowhole2 cannot disguise their affinities with land-dwelling mammals. However, unlike the cases of sea otters and pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses, whose limbs are functional both on land and at sea), it is not easy to envision what the first whales looked like. Extinct but already fully marine cetaceans are known from the fossil record. [A] How was the gap between a walking mammal and a swimming whale bridged? [B] Missing until recently were fossils clearly intermediate, or transitional, between land mammals and cetaceans. [C] Very exciting discoveries have finally allowed scientists to reconstruct the most likely origins of cetaceans. [D] In 1979, a team looking for fossils in northern Pakistan found what proved to be the oldest fossil whale. The fossil was officially named Pakicetus in honor of the country where the discovery was made. Pakicetus was found embedded in rocks formed from river deposits that were 52 million years old. The river that formed these deposits was actually not far from an ancient ocean known as the Tethys Sea. The fossil consists of a complete skull of an archaeocyte, an extinct group of ancestors of modern cetaceans. Although limited to a skull, the Pakicetus fossil provides precious details on the origins of cetaceans. The skull is cetacean-like but its jawbones lack the enlarged space that is filled with fat or oil and used for receiving underwater sound in modern whales. Pakicetus probably detected sound through the ear opening as in land mammals. The skull also lacks a blowhole, another cetacean adaptation for diving. Other features, however, show experts that Pakicetus
3 is a transitional form between a group of extinct flesh-eating mammals, the mesonychids, and cetaceans. It has been suggested that Pakicetus fed on fish in shallow water and was not yet adapted for life in the open ocean. It probably bred and gave birth on land. Another major discovery was made in Egypt in 1989. Several skeletons of another early whale, Basilosaurus, were found in sediments left by the Tethys Sea and now exposed in the Sahara desert. This whale lived around 40 million years ago, 12 million years after Pakicetus. Many incomplete skeletons were found but they included, for the first time in an archaeocyte, a complete hind leg that features a foot with three tiny toes. Such legs would have been far too small to have supported the 50-foot-long Basilosaurus on land. Basilosaurus was undoubtedly a fully marine whale with possibly nonfunctional, or vestigial, hind legs. An even more exciting find was reported in 1994, also from Pakistan. The now extinct whale Ambulocetus natans (“the walking whale that swam”) lived in the Tethys Sea 49 million years ago. It lived around 3 million years after Pakicetus but 9 million years before Basilosaurus. The fossil luckily includes a good portion of the hind legs. The legs were strong and ended in long feet very much like those of a modern pinniped. The legs were certainly functional both on land and at sea. The whale retained a tail and lacked a fluke, the major means of locomotion in modern cetaceans. The structure of the backbone shows, however, that Ambulocetus swam like modern whales by moving the rear portion of its body up and down, even though a fluke was missing. The large hind legs were used for propulsion in water. On land, where it probably bred and gave birth, Ambulocetus may have moved around very much like a modern sea lion. It was undoubtedly a whale that linked life on land with life at sea. 1. Fluke: The two parts that constitute the large triangular tail of a whale 2. Blowhole: A hole in the top of the head used for breathing 28. In paragraph 1, what does the author say about the presence of a blowhole in cetaceans? A. It clearly indicates that cetaceans are mammals. B. It cannot conceal the fact that cetaceans are mammals. C. It is the main difference between cetaceans and land-dwelling mammals. D. It cannot yield clues about the origins of cetaceans. 29. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 1 about early sea otters? A. It is not difficult to imagine what they looked like. B. There were great numbers of them. C. They lived in the sea only. D. They did not leave many fossil remains. 30. Pakicetus and modern cetaceans have similar _________. A. hearing structures B. adaptations for diving C. skull shapes D. breeding locations 31. The hind leg of Basilosaurus was a significant find because it showed that Basilosaurus _________. A. lived later than ambulocetus natans B. lived at the same time as pakicetus C. was able to swim well D. could not have walked on land 32. Why does the author use the word "luckily" in mentioning that the Ambulocetus natans fossil included hind legs? A. Fossil legs of early whales are a rare find. B. The legs provided important information about the evolution of cetaceans. C. The discovery allowed scientists to reconstruct a complete skeleton of the whale. D. Until that time, only the front legs of early whales had been discovered. 33. The word “propulsion” in the passage is closest in meaning to _________. A. staying afloat B. changing direction C. decreasing weight D. moving forward 34. Look at the four letter [A], [B], [C] and [D] that indicate where the following sentence can be added to the passage. “This is a question that has puzzled scientists for ages.” Where would the sentence best fit? A. [A] B. [B] C. [C] D. [D] 35. The word "precious" in the passage is closest in meaning to _________. A. exact B. scarce C. valuable D. initial PHẦN 8: HOÀN THÀNH HỘI THOẠI
4 Chọn 01 lựa chọn đúng ở mỗi câu hỏi để điền vào chỗ trống. 36. A: “He deserves more severe punishment!” B: “Yes! It would be _____________ for him.” A. an apple of the eyes B. a fly in the amber C. a kick in the pant D. a thorn in the flesh 37. Ruth: "Hey, what's going on here?" Dave: "It's a surprise birthday party for you, Ruth! You're _________!" A. a big fish B. the man of the moment C. a cog in the wheel D. the slap in the face 38. Veronica: “Do you want me to invite some of my friends to the party?” Betty: “_________, the more the merrier!” A. It will be B. Unless it is better C. So much the better D. Even more better 39. Jackson: “I sometimes think I'd be happier teaching in Vietnam.” Johnny: “Oh well, ________!” A. the grass is greener on the other side B. the apple doesn't fall far from the tree C. the fat is in the fire D. the ink is not dry 40. C: “You know what? Sullie had committed suicide and died at the age of 26!” K: “Well, ________” A. all things to all people B. if the worst comes to the worst C. those who live by the sword, die by the sword D. those whom the gods love die young PHẦN 9: SẮP XẾP Chọn 01 lựa chọn là trật tự đúng của các lượt lời trong hội thoại để thành 1 đoạn hội thoại hoàn chỉnh 41. a. Well, hardly - I actually operate under those restrictions every day! b. That's true, of course, we both do - but there's always the added danger that things can go wrong, and the challenge of preparing a top-quality, three course meal for four - which costs no more than £50 - and in front of all those judges! c. Serving more than 200,000 meals a year would be a challenge for any chef, but step up constraints of time, space and a demand for culinary excellence and you have the life of a railway chef. Chris and Jane, the idea of having to cook in cramped surroundings, with limited ingredients and a very tight schedule, as you did in the recent competition, must have been a terrifying prospect ... d. Well, Jane, you were a runner up and Chris came first. I gather you faced some stiff competition from the other finalists. A. a, d, c, b B. c, b, a, d C. c, b, a, d D. c, a, b, d 42. a. That's good to know. I'm usually a night person, but I'm very quiet if my roommate is sleeping. b. I have never been either. I'm very flexible with sleeping times. Anyways, I'm a deep sleeper so a little noise never bothers me. c. No. Is there a cafeteria in the building? d. As long as you don't blast the music while I'm sleeping, I should be fine. Did you eat lunch yet? e. Do you sleep pretty late, or are you a morning person? f. Yeah. I'll show you. A. e, a, b, f, d, c B. e, b, a, d, c, f C. e, f, c, b, a, d D. f, c, b, a, d, e 43. a. What did you do there? b. There is so much to do. It's a big tourist place so there is access to everything. c. Where are you guys going for your honeymoon? d. We decided on Cancun, Mexico. e. That's good. I'm looking forward to our honeymoon. Especially after all the wedding plans I had to do. f. I've been there before. It's a great place. A. c, d, f, a, b, e B. c, f, a, b, d, e C. c, e, d, f, a, b D. c, d, f, b, a, e 44. a. At Bally's. It's pretty close to home so it is convenient. b. That reminds me. I should've hit the gym today. c. How much are you paying?