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1 BỘ ĐỀ THI NÂNG CAO B2-C2 ĐỀ THI THỬ SỐ 20 (Đề thi có 7 trang) KỲ THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài: 50 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề Họ, tên thí sinh: …………………………………………… Số báo danh: ………………………………………………. Mã đề: 1126 Read the following article and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 6. As carriers revisit their risk calculus, some regulators have urged blanket prohibitions on portable power sources; yet most airlines prefer calibrated controls that keep devices visible to cabin crew. Vietnam Airlines, for its part, has instituted declarations at checkin and requires passengers to position batteries for swift inspection. The policy responds to (1) _______ incidents worldwide in which damaged cells entered thermal runaway midair. The carrier has complemented procedures with certified containment kits and training drills that (2) _______ crew competence rather than rely on adhoc improvisation. Since the guidance (3) _______ in early summer, audit teams have monitored compliance logs and nearmiss reports, refining checklists accordingly. While some travellers decry inconvenience, safety managers argue that (4) _______ safeguards are indispensable when failure cascades are nonlinear. The framework, (5) _______ provisions align with ICAO and IATA advisories, also coordinates with airport authorities to tighten landside screening. Looking ahead, the operator intends to (6) _______ highrisk peripherals from cabin spaces during peak seasons should alert thresholds be exceeded. (Adapted from Viet Nam News, “Vietnam Airlines bans use of lithium batteries during flight”) Question 1. A. a handful of B. a spate of C. a modicum of D. a paucity of Question 2. A. empower B. empowerment C. empowering D. empowered Question 3. A. has been formalising B. was formalised C. has been formalised D. had formalised Question 4. A. permissive B. perfunctory C. provisional D. stringent Question 5. A. whose B. where C. which D. when Question 6. A. phase in B. phase out C. rule over D. ward off Read the following article and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 7 to 12. Quảng Ninh’s stone sea crab noodle soup – bún cù kỳ – has moved from fishermen’s fare to a culinary emblem marketed to discerning travellers. (7) ________, vendors still prepare the broth the old way: tomatoes simmered down with fermented grains and pulverised crab bodies, then brightened with herbs. The claws are steamed; the roe, sautéed with shallots until it turns lacquered and fragrant. Bowls arrive crowned with tofu and taro stem, while condiments vary (8) ________ district and season: pungent bamboo shoots in the wet months, chillilemon dips when the seas run warm. Tourists take (9) ________ photographs as baskets of black and red cù kỳ come ashore, prices climbing toward late August. Cooks pride themselves on a (10) ________ broth that stays clear yet deeply savoury, letting the crab’s sweetness speak without heaviness. For locals, the dish is a (11) ________ marker of place – comforting yet bracing, rustic yet meticulous – and stalls near the ferry terminals fill with (12) ________ from dawn. (Adapted from Viet Nam News, “Crabby delight serves up a souper taste of Quảng Ninh”)

3 e. To operationalise this, we will publish supplier scorecards, escalate chronic noncompliance, and ringfence funds for remedy where harms are substantiated. (Adapted from Forbes (Business Council), “Corporate Social Responsibility: A Strategic Imperative for Modern Businesses”) A. a – b – c – d – e B. a – c – b – e – d C. a – c – b – d – e D. a – b – e – d – c Question 17. a. In this view, transparency about purposes and limits, plus periodic reevaluation as skills evolve, tempers the risk that scores ossify opportunity. b. Yet opponents note the instruments’ cultural loading, error bands, and historical entanglements with exclusionary policy, warning against technocratic gatekeeping. c. A more defensible practice, when results are triangulated with classroom artefacts and adaptive tasks, would minimise misclassification while preserving diagnostic utility. d. The ethics debate thus turns on procedure: who gets tested, how consent is obtained, and whether labels travel beyond the context in which they were earned. e. Proponents argue IQ tests, when paired with qualitative profiles, can guide support for twiceexceptional learners without hardening hierarchies into destinies. (Adapted from Explorable, “The Ethics of IQ Testing and the Advent of ‘Intelligent Testing’”) A. e – a – d – c – b B. e – b – d – c – a C. e – b – d – a – c D. e – d – b – c – a Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22. Across the digital transformation of publishing, the familiar sequence of acquisition–editing–distribution has been rethreaded through platforms, analytics, and automated supply chains. Legacy houses still profess to prize editorial judgment, yet the tempo of decision- making is increasingly set by dashboards and A/B tests. Even when new tools are adopted, they are bolted onto older logics, (18) _______. This layered change makes it tempting to mistake “reach” for “relevance”; (19) _______. Meanwhile, the reader – once imagined as a stable demographic – is now mapped as a moving cluster of behaviors; personalization systems, (20) _______. In this ecology, success metrics do not merely reflect reception; they recursively shape it, as recommendation loops privilege the familiar while seeming neutral. Hence a paradox: (21) _______. Yet scarcely (22) _______; procurement cycles, union rules, and rights management introduce lags that no amount of iteration can erase. For that reason, strategy that treats data as counsel rather than command – while investing in editorial breadth – best reconciles scalability with cultural stewardship. (Adapted from Brian R. Calfano, “The Impact of Digital Transformation on Publishing”) Question 18. A. pre-dating the very ecosystems on which they depends B. that itself predates the very ecosystems it now depend on C. which themselves predate the very ecosystems they now depend on D. which had themselves been predating the very ecosystems they depend Question 19. A. so pervasively is the dashboard’s cadence that editorial choices appear data- driven without becoming data-determined B. so pervasive it is the dashboard’s cadence that editorial choices appear data- driven without becoming data-determined C. such pervasiveness is the dashboard’s cadence that editorial choices appear data-driven without becoming data-determined D. so pervasive is the dashboard’s cadence that editorial choices appear data- driven without becoming data-determined Question 20. A. that themselves are training by granular data, push backlist titles into unexpected afterlives and foreground “long-tail” revenue that previously went unnoticed