Đề thi thử tốt nghiệp THPT môn Anh Văn năm 2017, đề số 31

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in each group.
 
1. A. hour   B. sour                 C. four                  D. flour
 
2. A. show B. blow                 C. cow                  D. how
 
3. A. tango B. mango              C. tomorrow        D. longer
 
4. A. sing    B. month              C. hunger             D. think
 
5. A. curriculum    B. news      C. usual      D. future
 
Choose the word whose syllable is stressed differently from the rest in each group.
 
6. A. oxygen         B. energy    C. nitrogen           D. rotation
 
7. A. electric         B. radius     C. hydrogen                   D. astronaut
 
8. A. technical      B. personal                    C. national           D. financial
 
9. A. angry           B. sarcastic                    C. witty                D. famous
 
10. A. frightened            B. terrified            C. fascinated        D. tired
 
Choose the best answer among A, B, C, or  D
 
11. ………..  of the visitors were strangers to me.
 
A. Mostly   B. Almost   C. Most      D. The most
 
12. All the furniture in the house ……….  old-fashioned.
 
A. is            B. are          C. have       D. have been
 
13. Tim ……. go fishing with his father when he was young.
 
A. used to             B. is used to
C. has used to      D. was used to
 
14. I haven’t seen much of you lately. We ………. three months ago.
 
A. last meet                             B. last met
C. have last                             D. have last met
 
15. He asked her ………………….
 
A. what day was it.                 B. what day it was
C. it was what day                            D. what was the day.
 
16.  When the headmaster ……………  the room, all the pupils stood up.
 
A. came      B. arrived   C. appeared                   D. entered
 
17. I couldn’t go to the party because of a ……….. cold.
 
A. quick      B. surprising        C. sudden   D. hurried
 
18. I like these shoes but they don’t …….. me very well.
 
A. meet       B. fit           C. agree                D. reach
 
19. This is the material which ………. I for my new dress.
A. bought it                   B. have bought it
C. bought             D. bought them
 
20.  You should always ………   your food well before you swallow it.
 
A. drink      B. grind                C. chew       D. suck
 
21. I like ……….. of sports.
 
A. any kinds         B. kinds      C. all kind            D. all kinds
 
22. We ………… to get the news.
 
A. were surprised                    B. were surprise
C. were surprising                   D. surprised
 
23.  Ann refused to take ………. in the preparations for the school concert.
 
A. place      B. notice     C. leave       D. part
 
24.  Dickens is my ……….. English novelist.
 
A. favorable         B. preferable        C. likeable            D. favourite
 
25. That desk ………. several times this year.
 
A. has been repaired                B. has repaired
C. is repaired                           D. repaired
 
Which sentence expresses the same idea as the given one?
 
26. Although he got more votes, he did not become president.
 
A. Despite getting more votes, he did not become president.
B. Despite he got more votes, he did not become president.
C. If he got more votes, he would become president
D. He needed more votes to become president.
 
27. I'm never going to do this again.
A. I want to do this again.
B. I have never done this before.
C. This is the last time I am going to do this.
D. This is the first time I have done this.
 
28. I have arranged to play tennis with Harry tomorrow
 
A. Harry and I are playing tennis tomorrow.
B Harry is playing tennis tomorrow but I am not.
C. I refused to play tennis with Harry tomorrow.
D. I am playing tennis tomorrow but Harry is not.
 
29. I didn’t understand what he was saying because I hadn’t read his book.
 
A His book was too difficult to understand.
B. If I had read his book I would have understood what he was saying.
C. What he was saying in his book was too difficult to understand
D. I had read his book but I didn't understand what he was saying.
 
30. They were still playing tennis after three hours.
 
A. They had been playing tennis for three hours.
B. They played tennis for three hours
C. They were playing tennis for three hours.
D. They have been playing tennis since three hours.
 
Choose a word or phrase in each sentence that needs correcting
 
31. On their very first evening he told his wife he was just going out for a
                    A                                                                B
short walking but it was really to buy her some flowers.
            C                          D
 
32. He found a shop quickly and brought the flowers but he couldn't
            A                        B              C
remember how to get back to the hotel.
                              D
 
33. I ate too many of those greasy bacon pies, and now I feel sickly.
      A                 B                                    C                            D
 
34. He was upset last Monday morning by her bad attitudes.
           A                                                  B     C          D
 
35. My brother is not old enough for driving a car.
       A               B             C               D
 
Read the passages below and choose the correct answer among A, B, C or D
   
In most animals, dental decay is a rare problem. In man, and especially in the affluent West, the disease has reached epidemic proportions.
 
The cause of tooth decay in human beings is a bacterium that feeds on the sugar in our food. It digests the sugar more easily by converting it into an acid. The acid then dissolves the enamel, the outer coating of the teeth and finally attacks the living nerve within. The result is the agonizing pain we know as toothache.
 
36. According to the passage how common are it for animals to suffer from tooth decay?
 
A. They never suffer from it.
B. They seldom suffer from it.
C. They suffer from it as commonly as people do
D. They suffer from it more commonly than people do.
 
37. What does the passage say about the problem of tooth decay in the rich Western country?
 
A. It is steadily decreasing each year.
B. It has remained unchanged for a long time.
C. It has been increasing slowly for years.
D. It is now virtually out of control.
 
38. Human teeth decay when they are attacked by a kind of ………..
 
A. sugar.              B. acid.
C. nerve.               D. food.
 
39. Decay cannot begin until the bacterium produces ………….
 
A. food from sugar.       B. sugar from food.
C. acid from sugar.        D. sugar from acid
 
40. The term “tooth decay” refers to the ……………..
 
A. digestion of the food.                   B. conversion of the sugar.
C. Production of the acid.                  D. dissolution of the enamel.
 
Table tennis
 
People first played table tennis …(41)…  the 19th century. It really started as a children’s game, which was played …(42)… home. But now it ..(43)… an adult sport, and there are many international competitions. Sometimes more ...(44)…  10,000 people watch an important table tennis game.
 
A table tennis table is 2.7 metres long and 1.5 metres wide and there is a net …(45)… the middle. Players hit a light plastic ball over ….(46)…. net with a small wooden bat.
 
Many people  ….(47)….  that table tennis is an easy sport, but  …(48)…  isn’t true. Players have to …(49)…. very fast because the ball can …(50)… at over 100 kilometres an hour!
 
41. A. in     B. on                    C. at            D. to
 
42. A. to     B. at            C. in            D. for
 
43. A. is      B. was        C. has         D. be
 
44. A. then B. that        C. than        D. this
 
45. A. in     B. across     C. by                    D. on
 
46. A. is      B. a             C. it            D. the
 
47. A. thinks        B. thought            C. to think D. think
 
48. A. those                   B. this                  C. there       D. these
 
49. A. walk                    B. be                     C. speak     D. go
 
50. A. throw         B. go                              C. hit                    D. move