SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC KỲ KHẢO SÁT CHẤT LƯỢNG LỚP 12 NĂM HỌC 2019 – 2020

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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.
Câu 1: A. change B. graduate C. happy D. casual
Câu 2: A. separates B. alarms C. politics D. attacks
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the
position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Câu 3: A. interview B. together C. achievement D. italic
Câu 4: A. doctor B. scholar C. between D. action
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each
of the following questions
Câu 5: The vertical distortion of the curve must not be so great that there is a very sensitive difference between
the length of the arc and its chord.
A. its B. so C. between nhạy cảm D. sensitive sensible
Câu 6: The lion has long been a symbol of strength, powerful and cruelty.
A. symbol B. powerful power C. long been D. strength
Câu 7: The flight crossing the Atlantic Ocean took three times as much as it often take today to cross the
Atlantic.
A. crossing B. take C. times D. the
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Câu 8: ________ so many of the team members were ill, it’s not surprising that we lost the match.
A. Since = because B. Due to do = because of C. Nonetheless tuy nhiên D. In contrast ngược lại
Câu 9: I hope the New Year will bring you ________, health, and prosperity. thịnh vượng
A. successful B. succeed C. success D. successfully
Câu 10: So far, Michael _________ three novels on the problems teenagers have to cope with in the new world.
A. wrote B. writes C. has written D. is writing
Câu 11: Mr. Thiago doesn’t allow me_________ in his drawing-room.
A. smoked B. smoking C. to smoke D. smoke
Câu 12: Tuan insisted that he________ a trip to the mountain with his friends when he finished his course.
A. took B. take C. takes D. had taken
Câu 13: The noise of the airplanes which _______from the airport over my house was unbearable at times.
A. took off cất cánh B. turned off C. showed off D. gave off
Câu 14: ___________, I will reply to you at once. thì quá khứ ko đứng cùng tương lai trong 1 câu unbearable không thể chịu
đựng được
A. Until I received your message B. When I was receiving your message
C. As soon as I receive your message D. After I had received your message
Câu 15: Angela took__________of her meeting with the President to argue her case.
A. advantage tận dụng B. effect C. opportunity D. chance
Câu 16: If he comes late, we __________ without him.
A. would go B. would have gone C. will go D. went
Câu 17: The plague, otherwise known as the Black Death, was a _______ disease.
A. congenial B. contiguous C. contingent D. contagious
Câu 18: Jack doesn’t want to sell his car but he will as a last________ if he can't pay his bills.
A. resort B. page C. reaction D. stand
Câu 19: In ________ future, maybe all cars that run on petrol will be replaced by solar cars.
A. the B. a C. an D. Ø
Câu 20: We are all too dependent _______ our cars and should be encouraged to leave them at home.
A. of B. on C. to D. in
Câu 21: I can’t stand seeing animals in ________.
A. packaging B. protection C. captivity D. reserve
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Câu 22: You are going to come to the party, _______?
A. will you B. do you C. won’t you D. aren’t you
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of
the following exchanges.
Câu 23: Tuan Anh: “Do you feel like going to the café this evening?” – Thu Phuong: “__________”
A. That would be great. B. I feel very bored.
C. I don’t agree. I’m afraid. D. You’re welcome.
Câu 24: David: “What a nice dress!”
Katherine: “________”
A. Why dare you say so? B. Thanks. My father bought it for me!
C. But do you know how much it costs? D. Oh, what a pity.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Câu 25: Until about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor was completely inaccessible, hidden beneath waters
averaging over 3,600 meters deep.
A. unreachable B. unusable C. unrecognizable D. unsafe
Câu 26: He implemented his plan although all his friends advised him to abandon it.
A. insulated B. exterminated C. cancelled D. fulfilled
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Câu 27: Was this money a bolt from the blue or did you know you were going to get it?
A. something happened as expected B. something happens unexpectedly
C. something happened suddenly D. something happened simultaneously
Câu 28: The Internet has become an indispensable business tool, which helped bring the world closer.
A. essential B. fundamental C. vital D. insignificant
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to
each of the following questions.
Câu 29: Diana is the most intelligent woman I have ever met.
A. Diana is not as intelligent as the women I have ever met.
B. I have never met a more intelligent woman than Diana.
C. Diana is more intelligent than I am.
D. I have ever met such an intelligent woman.
Câu 30: Robbins said to Ann, “My father bought me this bike last year”.
A. Robbins told Ann that his father had bought him this bike the following year.
B. Robbins told Ann that his father had bought him that bike the previous year.
C. Robbins told Ann that her father bought her this bike last year.
D. Robbins said Ann that my father bought her that bike the previous year.
Câu 31: It was essential to persuade him to change his mind but you didn’t.
A. You could have persuaded hime to change his mind.
B. You didn’t persuade him to change because of his mind.
C. You must have persuaded him to change his mind.
D. You should have persuaded him to change his mind.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of
sentences in the following questions.
Câu 32: I did not know what Kate would say. I did not care what Kate would say.
A. I neither knew nor cared for what Kate would say.
B. I do not know or care what Kate would say either.
C. What Kate would say should neither have been known nor cared.
D. What Kate would say I neither know nor care.
Câu 33: Ronald Reagan suffered an assassination attempt. He was elected in 1980.
A. Ronald Reagan, elected in 1980, suffered an assassination attempt.
B. Ronald Reagan, who elected in 1980, suffered an assassination attempt.
C. Ronald Reagan, electing in 1980, suffered an assassination attempt.
D. Ronald Reagan, that elected in 1980, suffered an assassination attempt.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word
or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 34 to 38
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 SCIENCE FLYING IN THE FACE OF GRAVITY
It looked just like (34) _______ aircraft from the outside. The pilot told his young passengers that it was
built in 1964, a Boeing KC-135 refueling tanker, based on the 707. But appearances were deceptive, and the
thirteen students from Europe and the USA (35) _______ boarded the aircraft were in for the flight of their lives.
Inside, the area that normally had seats had become a long white tunnel. Heavily padded from floor to ceiling, it
looked a bit like a lunatic asylum. There were almost no windows, (36) _______ lights along the padded walls
eerily illuminated it. Most of the seats had been taken out, apart from a few at the back, where the young scientists
quickly (37) _______ their places with a look of apprehension.
For twelve months, science students from across the continents had competed to win a place on the flight
at the invitation of the European Space Agency. The challenge had been to suggest imaginative experiments to be
(38) _______in weightless conditions. For the next two hours the Boeing's flight resembled that of an enormous
bird which had lost its reason, shooting upwards. The aircraft took off smoothly enough, but any feelings that I
and the young scientists had that we were on anything like a scheduled passenger service were quickly dismissed
when the pilot put the plane in to a forty-degree climb which lasted around twenty seconds.
Câu 34: A. every B. the other C. others D. another
Câu 35: A. whose B. which C. who D. where
Câu 36: A. however B. so C. therefore D. but
Câu 37: A. had B. put C. made D. took
Câu 38: A. made B. accomplished C. planned D. conducted
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C and D to indicate the correct answer to each of the
questions from 39 to 43
The Celtic languages are a group of languages of northern Europe that are descendants of the Indo-
European family of languages. These languages developed from the language of the Celts, a warlike civilization
originating in the eastern part of central Europe, in the northern Alps, and along the Danube during the Bronze
Age. The Celts reached the height of the civilization during the Iron Age, the last five centuries B.C., and then
fanned out from their original homeland into many parts of continental Europe and across the channel and into the
British Isles. Celtic languages were spoken in much of western Europe during Pre-Roman and Roman times.
Place names of Celtic origin can be found today all over the British Isles and France, in northern Spain and Italy,
and in Switzerland and parts of Germany.
Rather than one language, the Celtic languages consist of two distinct clusters: the Gaelic group and the
Brythonic group. These two clusters of languages most likely developed from dialects of the same language, the
language of the Celts in their original homeland. These two dialects were most likely mutually intelligible to
some degree as late as the fourth century. The Gaelic group of Celtic languages consists of Irish, Scottish, and
Manx, the language of the Isle of Man. The Brythonic group of Celtic languages includes Welsh, Cornish, Breton,
and Gaulish, the language of Gaul prior to the days of the Roman Empire, with its Latin-speaking population.
Many, though not all, of the Celtic languages are either or are in the process of becoming extinct. Gaulish
apparently disappeared around 600 A.D. Cornish and Manx both actually became extinct, the former in the
nineteenth century and the latter just a few decades ago, but both are being revived and are now taught in a few
schools each. Scottish, Irish, and Breton are all declining in use.
Câu 39: The author’s purpose in the passage is to ________.
A. list the major characteristics of Celtic languages
B. describe the past and present of a related set of languages
C. outline the major achievements of the Celts
D. explain how languages manage to survive without changing
Câu 40: According to the passage, the Celtic languages did NOT________.
A. develop from the Indo-European language family B. provide any Italian place names
C. exist before the time of the Roman Empire D. originate in the British Isles
Câu 41: The word “intelligible” in paragraph 2 could be best replaced by________.
A. confusing B. ambiguous C. easily understood D. very smart
Câu 42: The word “both” in paragraph 2 refers to________.
A. Scottish and Irish B. Celtic and Welsh
C. Cornish and Manx D. Gualish and Breton
Câu 43: It is implied in the passage that Gaulish________.
A. is declining in us B. has been revived in the last century
C. was replaced by Latin D. first surfaced after the Roman Empire
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C and D to indicate the correct answer to each of the
questions from 44 to 50.
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 Television has transformed politics by changing the way in which information is disseminated, by altering
political campaigns, and by changing citizen’s patterns of response to politics. By giving citizens independent
access to the candidates, television diminished the role of the political party in the selection of the major party
candidates. By centering politics on the person of the candidate, television accelerated the citizen’s focus on
character rather than issues.
Television has altered the forms of political communication as well. The messages on which most of us rely
are briefer than they once were. The stump speech, a political speech given by traveling politicians and lasting
3/2 to 2 hours, which characterized nineteenth century political discourse, has given way to the 30-second
advertisement and the ten-second “sound bite” in broadcast news. Increasingly, the audience for speeches is not
that standing in front of the politician but rather the viewing audience who will hear and see a snippet of the
speech on the news.
In these abbreviated forms, much of what constituted the traditional political discourse of earlier ages has been
lost. In 15 or 30 seconds, a speaker cannot establish the historical context that shaped the issue in question, cannot
detail the probable causes of the problem, and cannot examine alternative proposals to argue that one is preferable
to others. In snippets, politicians assert but do not argue.
Because television is an intimate medium, speaking through it require a changed political style that was more
conversational, personal, and visual than that of the old style stump speech. Reliance on television means that
increasingly our political world contains memorable pictures rather than memorable words. Schools teach US to
analyze words and print. However, in a world in which politics is increasingly visual, informed citizenship
requires a new set of skills.
Recognizing the power of television’s pictures, politicians craft staged events, called pseudo-event, designed to
attract media coverage. Much of the political activity we see on television news has been crafted by politicians,
their speechwriters, and their public relation advisers for televised consumption. Sound bites in news and answers
to questions in debates increasingly sound like advertisements.
Câu 44: The main point of the passage is that________.
A. citizens in the United States prefer to see politicians on television instead of in person
B. politics in the United States has become significantly more controversial since the introduction of television
C. citizens in the United States are now more informed about political issues because of television coverage
D. politics in the United States has been significantly changed by television
Câu 45: The author mentions the “stump speech” in paragraph 2 as an example of________.
A. a style of speech common to televised political events
B. political presentation typical of the 19th century
C. an interactive discussion between two politicians
D. an event created by politicians to attract media attention
Câu 46: The phrase “given way to” in paragraph 2 can be best replaced by________.
A. been replaced by B. added interest to C. modified D. imitated
Câu 47: The word “that” in paragraph 2 refers to________.
A. advertisement B. politician C. audience D. broadcast news
Câu 48: According to the passage, traditional political discourse was more successful than televised speeches
because it________.
A. allows news coverage of political candidates
B. places political issues within a historical context
C. provides detailed information about a candidate’s private behavior
D. makes politics seem more intimate to citizens
Câu 49: According to paragraph 5, staged political events are created so that politicians can________.
A. spend more time talking to citizens in person B. obtain more television coverage for themselves
C. create more time to discuss political issues D. engage in debates with their opponents
Câu 50: The passage supports the statement that________.
A. political presentations today are more like advertisements than in the past
B. politicians today tends to be more familiar with the views of citizens than in the past
C. political speeches today focus more on details about issues than in the past
D. citizens today are less informed about a politician’s character than in the past
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