Đề thi thử tốt nghiệp THPT môn Anh Văn năm 2017, đề số 9

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in each group
 
1. A. food             B. blood        C. boots      D. booth

2. A. promote       B. promise           C. proper         D. profit
 
3. A. legal             B. petal                C. pedal                D. level
 
4. A. conceal        B. pizza                C. zoo                   D. success
 
5. A. item             B. idiom               C. idle                   D. ideal
 
Choose the word whose syllable is stressed differently from the rest in each group
 
6. A. era      B. Japan               C. April      D. laser
 
7. A. divisible       B. holiday   C       . dynamo    D. surgery
 
8. A. indent            B. remove         C. function           D. attach
 
9. A. manager       B. feudalism         C. telephone         D. foundation
 
10. A Germany    B. gradually         C. pavement         D. reception
 
Choose the best answer among A. B, C or D
 
11. I regret…….. my friend to my party.
 
A. not to invite     B. inviting not      C. I didn't invite   D. not inviting
 
12. Surgeons use a…….. to perform an operation.
 
A. scalpel    B. razor blade       C. sword     D. knife
 
13. We set off early…… we wouldn't stuck in the traffic
 
A. because B. so that    C. although                    D. in case
 
14. On arriving home I found that she …… just a few minutes before.
 
 A. left        B. was leaving      C. leaves     D. had left
 
15. She is accustomed …….. I getting up early.
 
 A. at                    B. in            C. with                 D. to
 
16. He has been ………  from school very often recently.
 
 A. absent   B. present             C. different           D. safe
 
17. The hotel ……… we stayed wasn't very comfortable.
 
 A. which    B. where     C. that        D. who
 
18. He always wears clothes ……… are too small for him.
 
 A. which              B. what                C. why                 D. where
 
19. The people ………  live next door to us are very nice.
 
 A. which              B. whom              C. who        D. whose
 
20. He is always busy. He has ……. time to relax.
 
 A much               B. a little              C. little        D. a lot of
 
21. Would you like to………  to the United States?
 
 A. trip        B. voyage             C. travel      D. went
 
22. Most people at some stage have a feeling ………
 
A. responsible                B. responsibility
C. of responsibility        D. to be responsible
 
23. This stadium can hold ……….
 
A. much audience                    B. a large audience
C. much audiences         D. many audiences
 
24. When the mountain forests ……… , there can be large forest fires.
A. become dry               B. becoming dry
C. become drying                    D. drying
 
25. ’’What kind of work are you doing for that company?”
“I’m ………as an administrator.”
 
A. worked            B. occupied                    C. hired                D. employed
 
Which sentence expresses the same idea as the given one?
 
26. The garden is too small to play football in.
 
A. The garden is so small not to play football in.
B. The garden is small enough to play football in.
C. The garden isn’t big enough to play football in.
D. The garden is such small that they can’t play football in.
 
27. Mary didn’t wear the raincoat, so she got a cold.
 
A. If Mary wore the raincoat, she wouldn’t get cold.
B. If Mary had worn the raincoat, she didn’t get a cold.
C. If Mary had worn the raincoat, she wouldn’t have got a cold.
D. If Mary had worn the raincoat, she wouldn’t get a cold.
 
28.I am always nervous when I travel by air.
 
A. Travel by air always makes me nervous.
B. Traveling by air always makes me nervous.
C. I never travel by air because I sometimes feel nervous
D. I am always nervous, so I never travel by air.
 
29. We couldn’t go out because the weather was so bad.
 
A. It was so bad a weather that we couldn’t go out.
B. It was such a bad weather that we couldn’t go out.
C. It was so bad weather that we couldn’t go out.
D. It was such bad weather that we couldn’t go out.
 
30. They understand more than we do.

A. we don’t understand as much as they do.
B. we don’t understand anything at all.
C. they don’t understand everything inside out.
D. they are very intelligent.
 
Choose a word or phrase in each sentence that needs correcting.
 
31. I went to the library to get as many information as I could.
               A                     B       C                          D
 
32. When it is possible, I will help you later today.
          A   B                    C                   D
 
33. No matter what happens, he will not let me to borrow his computer.
      A                                        B                        C       D
 
34. I think it is a spend of money to buy cigarettes.
               A       B           C                          D
 
35. Tonight I'm going to stay at home with myself.
        A                B            C            D
 
Read the passages below and choose the correct answer among A, B, C or D
   
Rebecca Stevens was the first woman to climb Mount Everest. Before she went up the highest mountain in the world, she was a journalist and lived in a small flat in south London.
 
In 1993, Rebecca left her job and her family and travelled to Asia with some other climbers. She found that life on Everest is hard. You must carry everything on your back, she explained, so you can only take things that you will need. You can't wash on the mountain, and in the end I didn’t even take a toothbrush. I am usually a clean person but there is no water, only snow. Water is very heavy so you only take enough to drink!.
 
When Rebecca reached the top of Mount Everest on May 17 1993, it was the best moment of her life. Suddenly she became famous.
Now she has written a book about the trip and people often ask her to talk about it. She has a new job too, on a science programme on television.
 
Rebecca is well-known today and she has more money, but she still lives in the little flat in south London among her pictures and books about mountains!
 
36. Before Rebecca climbed Everest, she worked for
 
A. a factory.
B. a newspaper.
C. a travel agent.
D. a bookshop.
 
37. Rebecca went to Everest
 
A. with her family.
B. without anyone.
C. with a climbing group.
D. with her close friends.
 
38. Rebecca didn’t take much luggage because she
 
A. didn’t have many things
B. had a bad back.
C didn’t like.
D. had to carry it herself.
 
39. Rebecca didn’t wash on Everest because
 
A it was too cold.
B there was not enough water
C. she is a dirty person.
D. she was not permitted.
 
40. Rebecca became famous when she
 
A . got to the highest place in the world.
C. was on a television programme.
B. wrote a book about her trip.
D. retied and lived in the little flat in London
   
 ….(41)….. show beyond doubt that cigarette smoking can ..(42).. the health, yet a surprising large number of people continue to smoke ..(43) .. all warnings. By doing so they are not just shortening their own lives, they are also affecting the health of ..(44).. around them. It is time that non-smokers fought back.
 
Personally, I think smoking should  ..(45)… be banned in public places. In the first place, it is very unpleasant …(46)… in a smoked-filled room, such as a restaurant or cinema, if you do not yourself smoke ..(47)… to this, smoking can be serious fire risk, especially in crowded places  ..(48).. discos. Finally, in my opinion, nobody should be asked to risk his health just because of another person’s bad habits.
 
Smokers may …(49)… that they should be free to do as they like. They say that we already have no-smoking areas in public places, and that this should be enough. To my mind, however, non- smokers should also be free - free to go anywhere they choose without risking their health.
 
Smoking is harmful not just to smokers but to non-smokers, too If some people are foolish enough to continue this dangerous habit, it seems to me that they should at least be prevented ....(50)… doing so in public.
 
41. A. Surveys     B. Conducts         C. Statistics                   D. Evidence
 
42. A. damage      B. destroy   C. spoil                D. hurt
 
43. A. thanks to   B. in spite of        C. because of        D. due to
 
44. A. they           B. these                C. those                D. things
 
45. A. definite      B. indefinite          C. indefinitely       D. definitely
 
46. A. sit              B. to sit                C. sitting              D. sat
 
47. A. Add           B. Adding             C. To add             D. Added
 
48. A. for             B. as                     C. like         D. such
 
49. A. protest       B. object     C. refuse     D. deserve
 
50. A. for         B. at              C. from                   D. in