Đề luyện thi Tốt nghiệp và Đại học Năm 2011 – Đề 12 Exercise 1. Chọn từ có phần gạch dưới có cách phát âm khác với từ còn lại. 1. a. nose b. seen c. useful d. bus 2. a. walls b. forks c. bags d. ways 3. a. carrots b. apples c. peas d. raisins 4. a. pleasing b. pleasant c. pleasure d. please 5. a. houses b. faces c. horses d. places Exercise 2. Chọn một từ / nhóm từ thích hợp cho mỗi chỗ trống trong những câu sau. 1. Weatherman can ________ the weather correctly most of the time. a. plan for b. accept c. forbid d. predict 2. When the railroad tracks are raised, the danger of crossing will be ________. a. perceived b. wiped out c. understood d. disappeared 3. Einstein’s ________ is really too difficult for the average people to understand. a. explanation b. knowledge c. experiment d. theory 4. After studying the ________ we were able to finish our report. a. data b. facility c. equipment d. media 5. The wind became colder, the men began to ________. a. soar b. vanish c. shiver d. shake 6. How did you learn to drive ? - _________ strict obedience to my tutor. a. To give b. Give c. By giving d. Giving 7. My boss is angry with me. I didn’t do all the work that I ________ last week. a. should do b. should have done c. must have done d. might have done 8. As he was dying, the old man said: “ I _______ a lot of mistakes in my life but I don’t regret any of them”. a. may make b. might make c. would have made d. might have made 9. Would you be so good as ________ the phone when it rings. a. to answer b. answer c. answering d. answer 10. There was a short silence and then footsteps were heard _______ from the direction of the library. a. come b. to come c. comes d. came Exercise 3. Xác định dạng thích hợp của những từ cho sẵn trong ngoặc 1. The teacher punished the child for ( 1 – OBEY ) __________. 2. Librarians spend a lot of their time ( 2 – CLASS ) _________ books. 3. I don’t care if you’d had too much to drink. Your behaviour last night was quite (3-DEFEND)__. 4. If you think I’m going to marry you, then I’m afraid you’re very much ( 4 – MISTAKE ) ______. 5. The man was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to three years ( 5 – PRISON ) _________. 6. Despite the star – studded cast, the film was only ( 6 – PART ) _________ successful. 7. He won the discus event at the Olympic Games but was later ( 7 – QUALITY ) _______ when a medical check proved that he had been taking drugs. 8. The recent hurricane caused ( 8 – WIDE ) _________ damage. 9. Industrial robots work with far greater ( 9 – PRECISE ) _________ than most men. 10. I’ve tried to advise my daughter against hitch – hiking around Europe alone, but she won’t listen to me. She’s so ( 10 – HEAD ) __________. Exercise 4. Tìm một từ thích hợp cho mỗi chỗ trống dưới đây. A – Most plants live (1) _______ sunshine, water and minerals from the soil. Some plants, (2) ______ , also eat meat. They are (3) ______ carnivorous plants. Carnivorous means meat – eating. Carnovorous covered with many kind of tiny hairs. These hairs have sticky juice (4) _______ them, so the leaves shine (5) ___ the sunlight. The light attracts insects (6) ______ the plant. The insects touch the juice and immediately stick to the (7) ________. The hairs bend over the (8) _________ and push them against one leaf. The plants then pours the special juice on them and degest them. B – The big tree at my gate was old and beautiful. I was saddened when it blew (1) _______ in a winter storm. After the storm I sawed (2) ________ the remains of the tree to level (3) ______ the ground. Some of the wood was rotten. Pieces came away in my (4) _______. But a good part of the wood was alive and strong. I did not dig (5) ______ the roots of the tree. I (6) _______ them in the ground. Three months (7) _______ , in spring, the old tree began to grow again. It grew strong and beautiful, straight up (8) _______ the side of the sawn – off part. The colour and smell of its heart – shape (9) ____ were exactly the same as (10) _______ of the old tree. I felt very happy. C – When they get (1) ______, most animals move about and search for food. They fly, crawl, swim, hop, walk or run. Some animals are (2) _______ to move about and therefore must wait for food to come to them. If an animal (3) ________ get food, it will die. Most plants cannot move about to search for food. They cannot fly, crawl, swim, hop, walk or run. Their (4) __ hold them firmly in the soil. Yet they are (5) ____ to keep growing and seem to have plenty of food. For a long time people believed that plants (6) _____ only soil for food. A (7) _______ thoughful people noticed that plants (8) _______ grew in pots did not seem to use up the soil. No matter (9) ______ large such plants became, the amount of soil in the pots remained about the (10) _____. This was very puzzling. At last, a man thought of an experiment to find out (11) ______ plants use soil for food. He placed a pot of soil in the oven. He heated it until the water was driven off and the soil was very (12) ______. Then he weighed the pot of soil very carefully and wrote down its exact (13) _______. Next he (14) _______ some seeds in the soil, and gave them plenty water. When the seeds had (15) _____ into large plants, he removed these plants, roots and all, (16) ______ the pot. He dried the pot of soil again and weighed it. It weighed only a very little less than it had before. The plants had gained a great deal (17) ______ weight, but the soil had (18) _______ only a very little in weight. Exercise 5. Đọc đoạn văn dưới đây rồi chọn đáp án đúng hoặc sai. Noah Webster’s goal in life was to promote the adoption of an American language. He wanted to free Americans from British English as they had freed themselves from the British crown. To this end he published a series of three textbooks: a speller in 1783, a grammar in 1784, and a reader in 1785. Webster objected to the way certain words had been borrowed from other languages but had not been respelled. The results, he claimed, was a confusing mixture of letters, many of which were not pronounced the way they looked, and other of which were not pronounced at all. Webster urged Americans to simplify their spelling. For example, he argued that “head” should be spelled / hed / and “ bread” should be spelled / bred /. Most of Webster’s suggestions did not catch on, but his textbooks sold millions of copies. 1. Which of the following is the best title for the passage ? a. The three books of Noah Webster b. Noah Webster and the Adoption of an American language. c. Simplication of spelling. d. Noah Webster and the British Crown. 2. According to Webster, Americans should a. avoid reading his three books. b. be ruled from England c. simplify their spelling d. not borrow words from other languages. 3. In the last paragraph, the phrase “ did not catch on” means a. were not appreciated b. did not become popular c. did not please anyone d. were not intelligent 4. Webster complained that the words borrowed from other languages had not been a. freely adopted by the American people b. made more confusing c. respelled d. pronounced correctly. 5. Webster’s books were very innovative, specially when we consider that they were written in the a. late eighteenth century b. early eighteenth century c. mid – seventeenth century d. late seventeenth century Exercise 6. Viết lại câu sao cho nghĩa câu không thay đổi, bắt đầu bằng các từ cho sẵn 1. The little boy crossed the street although the traffic was heavy. In spite ___________________________________________ 2. We should always obey our parents. Never ____________________________________________ 3. It is said that the earth was originally part of the sun. The earth _________________________________________ 4. Man could lengthen his sight with the help of a telescope. It was ____________________________________________ 5. The workers must own the factories and the land must belong to the tillers. That is only right. It is _____________________________________________ . Đề luyện thi Tốt nghiệp và Đại học Năm 2011 – Đề 12 Exercise 1. Chọn từ có phần gạch dưới có cách phát âm khác với từ còn. (3-DEFEND)__. 4. If you think I’m going to marry you, then I’m afraid you’re very much ( 4 – MISTAKE ) ______. 5. The man was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to three years ( 5 – PRISON ) _________ _________. 6. Despite the star – studded cast, the film was only ( 6 – PART ) _________ successful. 7. He won the discus event at the Olympic Games but was later ( 7 – QUALITY ) _______ when a medical