Đề thi thử THPT Quốc gia môn Tiếng Anh năm 2016 trường THPT Lý Thái Tổ, Bắc Ninh

Đề thi thử THPT Quốc gia môn Tiếng Anh năm 2016  THPT Lý Thái Tổ
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 1: _____ that Marie was able to retire at the age of 50.
Question 2: – “Can I carry these suitcases into the room for you?” – “______”
Question 3: My mother ______ me against staying late night after night to prepare for exams.
Question 4: She must have been sleepless last night. Otherwise, her eyes _______ so bloody now.
Question 5: I’ve never really enjoyed going to the ballet or the opera; they’re not really my ______.
Question 6: After we each had been assigned an installment part of the project, we came back to our _______ section.
Question 7: Before you start cooking, you should gather together all the necessary _________.
Question 8: The last person _____ will have to turn off the lights.
Question 9: This shirt is ______ that one.
Question 10: My friend bought ___________ from a shop on Tran Phu street.
Question 11: The new manager found the situation so complicated that he couldn’t see the wood for the _________.
Question 12: A: I think it is a good idea to have three or four generations living under one roof. B: _________ Family members can help each other a lot.
Question 13: Ann: How well you are playing, Peter! Peter: _________.
Question 14: The teacher as well as his students____________ at the school meeting yet.
Question 15: “Why wasn’t your boyfriend at the party last night?” – “He ______ the lecture at Shaw Hall. I know he very much wanted to hear the speaker.”
Question 16: “We’d better __________ if we want to get there in time”
Question 17: Nowadays, most students use _______ calculators in their studies and examinations.
Question 18: It is essential that Alice __________ about his responsibilities in the meeting tomorrow.
Question 19: The use of computers aids in teaching, __________ the role of teachers is still very important.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) SIMILAR in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 20:
Within a week on display at the exhibition, the painting was hailed as a masterpiece.
Question 21:

Deer like figures made from willow shoots are the oldest evidence of human habitation in the Grand Canyon.

Question 22:

He drives me to the edge because he never stops talking.

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I think we can safely say now that we have got our money back, we are home and dry.

Question 24:

Roget’s Thesaurus, a collection of English words and phrases, was originally arranged by the ideas they express rather than by alphabetical order.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Question 27:

The longest mountain range, the Mid-Atlantic Range, is not hardly visible because most of it lies under the ocean.

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Establishing in 1984 for students who wanted to study art and music subjects, LaGuardia was the first public school of its kind.

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The abilities to work hard, follow directions, and thinking independently are some of the criteria for success in the workplace.

Question 30:
The old woman cannot remember the place which she kept her savings
Question 31:
I think she will be suitable for the work because she has been working like a teacher for a long time.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the question below.

We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming pupils. It does not take into account the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright child. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top grade!

Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their intellectual ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We are concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their academic ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.

In our classroom, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups; this gives them the opportunity to learn to co-operate, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to cope with the personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze and evaluate, to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teachers.

Sometimes the pupils work in pairs; sometimes the work on individual tasks and assignments, they can do this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is appropriate. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this effectively. An advanced pupil can do advanced works; it does not matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to attain this goal.
Question 32: In the passage, the author’s attitude towards “mixed-ability teaching” is ________.
Question 33: The phrase “held back” in paragraph 1 means ______.
Question 34: The author argues that a teacher’s chief concern should be the development of the pupils’ _________.
Question 35: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
Question 36: The author’s purpose of writing this passage is to _________.
Question 37: According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
Question 38: According to the passage, which of the following is an advantage of mixed-ability teaching?
Question 39: Which of the following statements can best summarize the main idea of the passage?
Question 40: According to the passage, “streaming pupils” ______.
Question 41: According to the author, mixed-ability teaching is more preferable because _______.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Throughout history people have always communicated with one another, not only by speech but also by movements of the hands and body. It is, however, only (42) ______ the last few years that these aspects of communication have been studied at all widely. This type of communication is known as body language or non-verbal communication.

People sometimes wonder (43) ______ you can learn how body language works. It is of course possible to read books on the subject but you also need to (44) ______ time observing people’s movements. A railway station is a particular good place for such observation, as here people can be seen openly expressing eagerness, sorrow, delight, impatience and many other human emotions by (45) _____ of movement.

If you turn down the sound on your television set and try to understand (46) _____ is happening simply by watching the picture you will learn even more about communication (47) _____ words. By turning the sound back up every five (48) ______ or so, it is possible to check how accurate your (49) ______ is.
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Long before they can actually speak, babies pay special attention to the speech they hear around them. Within the first month of their lives, babies’ responses to the sound of the human voice will be different from their responses to other sorts of auditory stimuli. They will stop crying when they hear a person talking, but not if they hear a bell or the sound of a rattle. At first, the sounds that an infant notices might be only those words that receive the heaviest emphasis and that often occur at the ends of utterances. By the time they are six or seven weeks old, babies can detect the difference between syllables pronounced with rising and falling inflections. Very soon, these differences in adult stress and intonation can influence babies’ emotional states and behavior. Long before they develop actual language comprehension, babies can sense when an adult is playful or angry, attempting to initiate or terminate new behavior, and so on, merely on the basis of cues such as the rate, volume, and melody of adult speech.

Adults make it as easy as they can for babies to pick up a language by exaggerating such cues. One researcher observed babies and their mothers in six diverse cultures and found that, in all six languages, the mothers used simplified syntax, short utterances and nonsense sounds, and transformed certain sounds into baby talk. Other investigators have noted that when mothers talk to babies who are only a few months old, they exaggerate the pitch, loudness, and intensity of their words. They also exaggerate their facial expressions, hold vowels longer, and emphasizecertain words.

More significant for language development than their response to general intonation is observation that tiny babies can make relatively fine distinctions between speech sounds. In other words, babies enter the world with the ability to make precisely those perceptual discriminations that are necessary if they are to acquire aural language.

Babies obviously derive pleasure from sound input, too: even as young as nine months they will listen to songs or stories, although the words themselves are beyond their understanding. For babies, language is a sensory-motor delight rather than the route to prosaic meaning that it often is for adults.
Question 52: Which of the following can be inferred about the findings described in paragraph 2?
Question 53: According to the author, why do babies listen to songs and stories, even though they cannot understand them?
Question 54: The passage mentions all of the followings as the ways adults modify their speech when talking to babies EXCEPT ______________.
Question 55: The word “diverse” is closest in meaning to ______________.
Question 56: The word “They” refers to ______________.
Question 57: Why does the author mention “a bell and a rattle”?
Question 58: What does the passage mainly discuss?
Question 59: The word “emphasize” is closest in meaning to ______________.
Question 60: What point does the author make to illustrate that babies are born with the ability to acquire language?
Question 61: The word “noted” is closest in meaning to______________.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
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WRITING
Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed before it.
Question 65: He was very sorry that he didn’t see Andrey on her trip to London.

He greatly regretted ______________________________________.

  • not seeing Andrey on her trip to London
Question 66: The plane had hardly left the airport when the accident happened.

No sooner _______________________________________________.

  • had the plane left the airport than the accident happened
Question 67: Although she said that she would come, I don’t think she ever will.

Despite _________________________________________________.

  • her saying that she would come, I don’t think she ever will
  • the fact that she said that she would come, I don’t think she ever will
Question 68: Most people think Nigel is the best racing driver in the world.

Nigel is considered ________________________________________.

  • to be the best racing driver in the world
Question 69: “Unless I receive her letter tomorrow, I’ll phone her,” said Nam.

Nam said that if ___________________________________________.

  • he didn’t receive her letter the next day, he would phone her
  • he didn’t receive her letter the following day, he would phone her

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