Đề thi thử tốt nghiệp THPT môn Anh Văn năm 2017, đề số 4

Part 1 Phonetics
 
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in each group
 
1. A. pretty                    B. get          C. send                 D. well
 
2. A Valentine      B. imagine           C. discipline         D. magazine
 
3. A. chorus                   B. cherish   C. chaos               D. scholar

4. A. house                    B. hour                 C. heat                 D. hand
 
5. A. feat              B. great                C. seat                  D. beat
 
Choose the word whose syllable is stressed differently from the rest in each group  
 
6. A recycled        B. polluted           C. fertilized                    D. preserved
 
7. A. element        B. erosion             C. elephant                    D. quantity
 
8. A. focus            B. attain               C. emit                 D. discard
 
9. A. capture        B. apparent                    C. horrible            D. tolerant
 
6. A. especially     B. comfortably     C. carefully                    D. possibly
 
7. A. importance B. subtraction      C. algebra             D. example
 
8. A. aspect                    B. careful              C. baggy               D. successful
 
9. A. terrific          B. applicant                   C. banking            D. ignorant
 
10. A. recognize   B. challenge          C. symbolize        D. continue
 
10. A. difficulty    B. competition     C. satisfaction      D. adolescent
 
Part 2: Vocabulary - grammar and structures
 
Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D
 
11. If you want to learn something, you had better pay ….. in class.
 
A. care        B. respect             C. attention                    D. notice
 
12. Your voice - reminds me of somebody , but I can’t remember ……..
 
A. it is         B. who is    C. who he is         D. who
 
13. Although he loved his country…….. most of his life abroad.

A. but spent                   B. but he spent     C. he spent           D. so he spent
 
14. ………. the weather forecast, it will rain heavily later this morning.
 
A. On account of           B. According to
C. Because of                 D. Due to
 
15. I don't ………. locking the door.
 
A. remember                  B. forget
C. remind                       D. A & B are correct
 
16. I love this painting of an old man. He has such a beautiful …….. smile.   
 
A childhood         B. childish
C. childless         D. childlike
 
17. I think you’d rather…….. to the mountains for your holiday.
 
A. to go      B. going      C. go                    D. have gone
 
18. I shall do the job to the best of my ………….
 
A. capacity                    B. ability              C. knowledge                 D. talent
 
19. If it’s raining tomorrow, we shall have to put……… the match till Sunday.
 
A. off          B. away      C. in            D. on
 
20. It’s obvious that neither the workers……… to fight the new rules.
 
A. nor the manager intend                B. intend nor the manager
C. nor the manager intends               D. intend nor the manager intends
 
21. She stopped him………. home by hiding the car key.
 
A. not drive                   B. not to drive               C. to drive D. from driving
 
22. When he………. all the letters, he took them to the post office.

A. has written                B. had written
C. wrote                         D. had been writing
 
23. The flat ……. of three rooms, with a kitchen and a bathroom.
 
A. composes                  B. contains           C. includes           D. consists
 
24. After Mary ….. her degree, she intends to work in her father’s company.
 
A. will finish                  B. is finishing
C. finishes                      D. will have finished
 
25. ………… the rise in unemployment, people still seem to be spending more.
 
A. Meanwhile
B. Nevertheless
C. Although
D. Despite
 
Which sentence expresses the same idea as the given one ?
 
26. The thick fog made it impossible for the plane to land
 
A. The plane couldn’t land.
B. We couldn’t control the plane because the fog was thick..
C. We couldn’t control the plane because of the thick fog.
D. The thick fog prevented the plane from landing.
 
27. I never want to see another film about space travel.
 
A. I haven’t seen a film about space travel.
B. I have enjoyed all the film I have seen about space travel
C. I am anxious not to miss the next film about space travel.
D I am tired of seeing films about space travel.
 
28. Whenever she went to Paris she bought a new dress.
 
A. She never went to Paris to buy a new dress.
B. She never went to Paris without buying a new dress
C. She never bought a new dress without going to Paris
D. She never bought a new dress when she went to Pars.
 
29. Despite feeling cold we kept walking.
 
A. In spite of we felt cold, we kept walking.
B. Although we felt cold, we kept walking
C However cold we felt, but we kept walking.
D However we felt cold, we kept walking.
 
30. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't open the door
 
A. Try as hard as I might I couldn’t open the door.
B. Although I try, I couldn’t open the door.
C. It is difficult for me to open the door.
D I could open the door with difficulty.
 
Choose a word or phrase in each sentence that needs correcting.
 
31. She found it hard to concentrating on her book because of the noise.
                           A           B                                 C                      D
 
32. Have you met Bill’s sisters? - I’ve met one. I didn’t know he had other sister
                               A                                B                           C       D
 
33. Customs are different from one region of the country to another.
                              A              B              C                   D
 
34. The job as a booksell helps her to support her family.
             A             B                        C             D
 
35.  It is possible determining that French explorers reached the juncture
          A                B
of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in the seventeenth century.
C                                                D
 
Part 3. Reading
 
Read the passage below and choose the correct answer among A, B, C or D
 

 
He was a music-hall comedian in England before he went to America in 1910. In those days he often ….(36)…. Chaplin. He made his first short film in 1918 but did not  ….(37)…. to establish himself in the competitive…(38)….of the screen comedy. The first film he made with his famous fat ….(39)… was called Putting pants on Philip in 1927. Many critics …..(40)…..that he was the more creative   …..(41)….of the partnership. The humorist Leo McCarey ….(42)…..him a rare comic who was intelligent …..(43)…. to make up his own gaps ….(44)…. , he was remarkably talented, while his partner was  ….(45)…. so and this is the key to understanding their relationship. As a  ….(46)….. throughout their career together he …..(47)….. on being paid twice as much as his friend because he believed he was ….(48)…. twice as much. While he wrote the films and  …..(49)…. part in their creation, his partner was incapable of creating anything at all - it was amazing how he managed to find his ….(50)….. to the studio.
 
36. A. copied        B. followed                    C. resembled        D. liked
 
37. A. succeed      B. reach                C. fail                   D. manage
 
38. A. job             B. field                 C. position           D. place
 
39. A. pair            B. Colleague         C. partner             D. match
 
40. A. persist       B. claim                C. refuse               D. review
 
41. A. person       B. member            C. actor                D. piece
 
42. A. considered           B. said                  C. described         D. saw
 
43. A. even                    B. quite                C. enough             D. also
 
44. A. Although   B. Moreover         C. However                    D. So
 
45. A. less            B. least                 C. little        D. hardly
 
46. A. fact            B. conclusion       C. matter              D. result
 
47. A. persisted    B. insisted            C. kept                 D. demanded

48. A. valued        B. making   C. worth               D. acting
 
49. A. took                    B. made                C. was                  D. had
 
50. A. car             B. road                 C. route                D. review