Đề thi thử THPT Quốc gia lần 2 môn Tiếng Anh năm 2017 - Mã đề thi: 205 - Trường Đại học Vinh (Kèm đáp án)

TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC VINH
TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN
(Đề thi gồm 4 trang)
ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2017 – LẦN 2
Bài thi: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề
(50 câu hỏi trắc nghiệm)
Mã đề thi 205
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on you answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. opinion	B. powerful	C. accurate	D. comfortable
Question 2: A. completion	B. material	C. understand	D. behavior
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.
Question 3: James: “It was very kind of you to give me a lift home”. Pete: “_________________”
A. As a matter of fact, you’re pretty nice.
B. Oh, don’t do that. I was coming past your house any way.
C. I’m not pleased.
D. Oh, don’t mention it. I was coming past your house any way.
Question 4: Billy and Bobby are in a coffee shop. Billy is asking Bobby for his opinion about the coffee there. 
	Billy: “How’s the coffee here?”	Bobby: “_________________”
A. No, I don’t think so.	B. It’s a little bitter, to tell the truth.
C. It’s a little better now that I’ve got a car.	D. As a matter of fact, I’m not interested.
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.
Question 5: Marie Curie was a famous mathematician and physicist. She also won the Nobel Prize for chemistry.
A. Winning the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Marie Curie became a famous mathematician and physicist.
B. Marie Curie, a famous mathematician and physicist, also won the Nobel Prize for chemistry.
C. Marie Curie was a famous mathematician rather than a physicist although she won the Nobel Prize for chemistry.
D. Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for chemistry so she was a famous mathematician and physicist.
Question 6: Jack was overconfident. Therefore, he ruined our plan completely.
A. It was Jack’s overconfidence ruined our plan completely.
B. It was because Jack’s overconfidence that ruined our plan completely.
C. Jack was overconfident, which ruined our plan completely.
D. That was Jack’s overconfidence ruined our plan completely.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 7: Today, many serious childhood diseases________ by early immunization.
A. prevent	B. can prevent	C. can be prevented	D. are preventing
Question 8: ________ I’ve cleaned it and polished it, it still doesn’t look new.
A. Because	B. in spite of	C. While	D. Although
Question 9: The Beauty Contest is________ start at 8.30 a,m our time tomorrow.
A. due to	B. bound to	C. about to	D. on the point of
Question 10: The picture,________, was beautiful.
A. she was looking	B. at it she was looking
C. at which she was looking	D. at that she was looking
Question 11: In this job, experience accounts for more than paper ________.
A. qualifications	B. certificates	C. quality	D. background
Question 12: Nadine: “I’ve been offered $550 for my stereo. Should I take it or wait for a better one?”
Kitty: “Take the $550._________________________”
A. Actions speak louder than words	B. Kill two birds with one stone
C. The early bird catches the worm	D. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Question 13: Jenny: “What did your grammar teacher want to talk to you about?”
	 Peter: “I did badly on the last test. She________ studied for it.”
A. said why I hadn’t	B. said why hadn’t I	C. asked why I hadn’t	D. asked why hadn’t I
Question 14: ______summer I spent in ______ UK was one of______ best in my life.
A. A/a/the	B. The/the/a	C. The/-/the	D. The/the/the
Question 15: Whenever a problem________, we try to discuss frankly and find solutions as soon as possible.
A. comes by	B. comes off	C. comes up	D. comes in
Question 16: I bought this grammar book _______ I could go over all the things we have studied this year.
A. that	B. with a view to	C. so that	D. in order to
Question 17: If people paid a little more attention to the environment, the Earth ________ greener.
A. would be	B. will be	C. would have been	D. had been
Question 18: Lessons from the ________ developed countries are worth learning to save our time.
A. economically	B. economic	C. economize	D. economical
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 19: I was very busy lately since the project of designing the new collection started.
 A	 B C D
Question 20: There are many different ways of comparing the culture of one nation with those of another. 
 A 	 B C D
Question 21: She only had a twenty-dollars bill with her when she landed at Heathrow airport. 
 A B C D
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option for each of the blanks.
 The Rocky Mountains run almost the length of North America. They start in the north west, but lie only a (22)________ hundred miles from the centre in the more southern areas. Although the Rockies are smaller (23)________ the Alps, they are no less beautiful.
 There are many roads across the Rockies, but the best way to see them is to travel by train. You start from Vancouver, the most attractive of Canada’s big cities. Standing with its feet in the water and its (24)________ in the mountains, this city (25) ________ its residents to ski on slopes just 15 minutes by car from the city centre.
 Thirty passenger trains a day used to (26) ________ off from Vancouver on the cross-continent railway. Now there are just three a week, but the ride is still a great adventure. You sleep on board, which is fun, but travel through some of the best site at night.
Question 22: A. many	B. few	C. lot	D. couple
Question 23: A. from	B. to	C. than	D. as
Question 24: A. ear	B. hand	C. head	D. nose
Question 25: A. lets	B. offers	C. gives	D. allows
Question 26: A. leave	B. set	C. get	D. take
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 questions.
 	The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City. For a long time, it has been the newspaper of record in the United Sates and one of the world’s great newspapers. Its strength is in its editorial excellence; it has never been the largest newspaper in terms of circulation.
	The Times was established in 1851 as a penny paper whose editors wanted to report the news in a restrained and objective fashion. It enjoyed early success as its editors set a pattern for the future by appealing to a cultured, intellectual readership instead of a mass audience. However, in the late nineteenth century, it came into competition with more popular, colorful, if not lurid, newspapers in New York City. Despite price increases, the Times was losing $1,000 a week when Adolph Simon Ochs bought it in 1896.
	Ochs built the Times into an internationally respected daily. He hired Carr Van Anda as editor. Van Anda placed greater stress than ever on full reporting of the news of the day, and his reporters maintained and emphasized existing good coverage of international news. The management of the paper decided to eliminate fiction from the paper, added a Sunday magazine section, and reduced the paper’s price back to a penny. In April 1912, the paper took many risks to report every aspect of the sinking of the Titanic. This greatly enhanced its prestige, and in its coverage of two world wars, the Times continued to enhance its reputation for excellence in world news. 
	In 1971, the Times was given a copy of the so-called “Pentagon Papers”, a secret government study of U.S involvement in the Vietnam War. When it published the report, it became involved in several lawsuits. The U.S Supreme Court found that the publication was protected by the freedom-of- the-press clause in the First Amendment of the U.S Constitution. Later in the 1970s, the paper, under Adolph Ochs’s grandson, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, introduced sweeping changes in the organization of the newspaper and its staff and brought out a national edition transmitted by satellite to regional printing plants.
Question 27: What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The New York Times publishes the best fiction by American writers.
B. The New York Times became highly respected throughout the world.
C. The New York Times broadcasts its news to TV station via satellite.
D. The New York Times lost its prestige after the Vietnam War.
Question 28: It can be inferred from the passage that the circulation of The New York Times is _____.
A. not the best in the world.	B. the smallest in the world.
C. the worst in the world.	D. not the largest in the world.
Question 29: Which phrase is closest in meaning to the word “restrained” in paragraph 2?
A. Put in prison	B. With self-control	C. Without education	D. In handcuffs
Question 30: What word or phrase does the word “his” as used in paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Van Anda	B. Reporters	C. News of the day	D. International news
Question 31: To improve its circulation, the management of the Times did all of the following EXCEPT ____:
A. emphasized good coverage of international news.
B. increased the number of lurid stories, even if they were not true.
C. added a Sunday magazine section.
D. eliminated fiction from the paper.
Question 32: The passage implies that the newspaper’s reputation _______.
A. decreased when it lowered its price to a penny.
B. grew when Adolph Ochs bought it in 1896.
C. decreased because it could not compete with other New York papers.
D. increased because of its coverage of the Titanic sinking.
Question 33: According to the passage, the Times has a national edition that is ________.
A. protected by the Supreme Court.	B. printed in the form of a Sunday magazine.
C. shipped by train and airport daily.	D. transmitted by satellite to regional printing plants.
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.
Question 34: When floodwaters recede, affected areas are often blanketed in silt and mud. The water and landscape can be contaminated with hazardous materials, such as sharp debris, pesticides, fuel and untreated sewage. 
A. to cover completely with thick layer of something B. to expose to the open air comfortably
C. to provide someone with a protective layer	 D. to dig out something hidden for long
Question 35: When you change a sound file to an MP3, the file is compressed.
A. transformed	 B. precise	 C. made bigger	D. made smaller
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.
Question 36: A. tea	B. lead	C. leather	D. leave
Question 37: A. followed	B. jumped	C. rained	D. arrived
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 questions.
	The ideas of John Dewey, philosopher and educator, have influenced American thought for over one hundred years. Dewey was born in Vermont in 1859, and throughout his life, he kept the respect for experience, individuality, and fair play that shaped the character of the nineteenth-century Vermonter. He viewed his own life as a continuously reconstructive process-with experience and knowledge building on each other. 
	By the 1930s, Dewey had simplified his theory of experience to its essence. As the intellectual leader of the progressive schools, he asserted that there was danger in rejecting the old unless the new was rooted in a correct idea of experience. He held that experience is an interaction between what a person already knows and the situation at hand. Previous knowledge interacting with the present environment influences future experience.
	Dewey believed that experience could not be equated with education because all experiences are not necessarily educative. Experience is educative only when it contributes to the growth of the individual, but it can be miseducative if it distorts the growth of further experience. It is the quality of experience that matters. Thus, productive experience is both the means and the goal of education. Furthermore, since education is a social process, truly progressive education involves the participation of the learner in directing the learning experience. 
	During his long life, Dewey lectured and published prolifically. These writings were influential both during his lifetime and after his death at the age of ninety-two. He viewed his whole life as an experiment which would produce knowledge that would lead to further experimentation. The range and diversity of Dewey’s writings and his influence on society place him among American’s great thinkers.
Question 38: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. John Dewey’s theory of experience.	B. the educational methods of John Dewey.
C. John Dewey’s professional growth.	D. the progressive movement in education.
Question 39: The author implies that Dewey’s Vermont background _______.
A. provided him with an excellent education.	B. limited the types of experiences he had as a child.
C. inspired him to become a philosopher.	D. contributed to his philosophy of experience.
Question 40: The word “its” in paragraph 2 refers to ________.
A. progressive education B. theory of experience C. the 1930s D. the old
Question 41: According to John Dewey, the interplay between a person’s previous knowledge and the present situation is________.
A. dangerous	B. a rejection of the old
C. education	D. a correct idea of experience
Question 42: The word "distorts" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. balances	B. deforms	C. mislays	D. stimulates
Question 43: All of the following were part of Dewey’s theory of experience and education EXCEPT ___.
A. present experience affects future experience	B. knowledge and experience interact
C. experience is always educative	D. experience should develop the individual
Question 44: According to Dewey, progressive education should include________.
A. the active participation of the student	B. both positive and negative experiences
C. complete rejection of traditional methods	D. directing new social process
Question 45: The word "prolifically” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. carefully	B. progressively	C. abundantly	D. intellectually
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.
Question 46: We had no sooner got to know our neighbors than they moved away.
A. Soon after we got to know our new neighbors, we stopped having contact with them.
B. If our new neighbors had stayed longer, we would have got to know them better.
C. Once we had got used to our new neighbors, they moved somewhere else.
D. Hardly had we become acquainted with our new neighbors when they went somewhere else to live.
Question 47: There were so many people on the train that Mary couldn’t get a seat.
A. The train was too crowded for Mary not to get a seat.
B. The train was so crowded that there was nowhere for Mary to sit.
C. So crowded the train was that Mary couldn’t get a seat.
D. The crowded train did not prevent Mary from getting a seat.
Question 48: “I’ll speak calmly. I really will!”. He said.
A. He promised to speak calmly.	B. He reminded me to speak calmly.
C. He refused to speak calmly.	D. He offered to speak calmly.
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.
Question 49: Oil is one of the principal sources of energy.
A. most important	B. most difficult	C. most popular	D. most expensive
Question 50: The museum was overrun with tourists, so I decided to go back another day.
A. having no tourists	B. not having enough tourists
C. crowded with tourists	D. having tourists running
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