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TRƯỜNG THPT BÌNH SƠN LỚP 12 – LẦN 1

(Đề thi có 06 trang) Môn: TIẾNG ANH
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A. LISTENING
Part 1. (Questions 1 – 5) You will hear five students who are studying away from home. They are
talking about their accommodation. Choose from the list of letters (A-F) what each speaker says about
their accommodation. Use the letters only once. There is one extra letter that you do not need to use.

1. Speaker 1: ____________ A There were few chances for me to socialize there.

2. Speaker 2: ____________ B I have recommended it to others.
3. Speaker 3: ____________ C I should have thought more about being independent.
4. Speaker 4: ____________ D I got on well with my roommate despite a few
5. Speaker 5: ____________ disagreements.
E I made a mistake there at first.
F I was able to settle into a new area.
Part 2. (Questions 6 – 10) You will hear an interview with someone who has started a magazine for
children. Listen and choose the best answer (A, B, or C).
6. When talking about her job as a primary school teacher, Kate emphasizes
A. how good she was as a teacher.
B. how difficult the children could be.
C. how much effort the job required.
7. What does Kate say about enthusiasm?
A. Children can not maintain it for long.
B. Children respond positively to it.
C. Children experience it more than adults.
8. Kate says that she learned from her research that children
A. don’t like texts that have too much serous content.
B. don’t know some words that she had expected them to know.
C. don’t want to feel that they are being considered inferior.
9. Kate says that the magazine makes use of the Internet because
A. some children prefer using it to learn about subjects.
B. some subjects can not be covered fully in the magazine.
C. It is used a great deal in connection with some school work.
10. Kate says that one of her aims for the magazine is to
A. include subjects that children don’t normally read about.
B. encourage children to choose what they want as an career.
C. create an interest in subjects some children consider boring.
Part 3. (Questions 11 – 14)
Complete the sentences below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
11. The coach is comfortable because it is ............................
12. After all passengers are abroad, the coach will make its first stop at ............................ Island.
13. The ‘tree top walk’ is above a ............................ .
14. Passengers will have a ............................ with the alpacas before boarding the bus for home.
(Questions 15 – 20). Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A
NUMBER for each answer.
DREAMTIME TOURS
Booking at (15). ............................ or Tel: 07 5562 4402
(16). ............................ TOUR
SUNDAY, MONDAY, FRIDAY

FULL-DAY TOUR
COSTS: 280km

DEPARTS:

Adult $37.00 Coolangatta 7:50 a.m.

(17) ............................ $33.00 Bruleigh 8:10 a.m.
Child (4 – 14 years) $10.00 Surfers Paradise (18). ............................
Family (2 Adults, 2 $94.00 Labrador 8:45 a.m.
Children)

Prices include (19). ............................ only*

Free pick-up at your resort, hotel, or motel
*
Not included in the fare: Optional tours, luncheons, morning or afternoon tea (unless otherwise
specified), (20). ............................
Meals and refreshments are available at all stops (at your own cost)

B. LEXICO – GRAMMAR
Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct answer A, B, C or D. Identify your answer
by writing the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.

21. It won’t ________ matter if you arrive a few minutes late.

A. greatly B. largely C. grandly D. considerably
22. All three TV channels provide extensive ________ of sporting events.
A. vision B. coverage C. broadcast D. network
23. Time was running out, so the committee had to make a ________ decision.
A. brief B. snap C. sharp D. curt
24. Because of an unfortunate ________ your order was not dispatched by the date requested.
A. hindrance B. oversight C. negligence D. transgression
25. The completion of the new Town Hall has been ________ owing to a strike.
A. held off B. held down C. held up D. held on
26. People under 21 years old are not ________ to join this club.
A. desirable B. eligible C. advisable D. admissible
27. My secretary was ________ to have typed those letters already.
A. asked B. supposed C. requested D. ordered
28. You may borrow my bicycle ________ you are careful with it.
A. even if B. as long as C. as much as D. expecting
29. If you weren’t satisfied, you ________ have complained to the manager.
A. can B. could C. need D. will
30. Up_________ when it saw its master.
A. jumped the dog B. did the dog jump C. the dog jump D. does the dog jump
31. I can never understand why quite a few city dwellers have no ideas of _________.
A. that their neighbor B. who are their neighbors
C. whose neighbor is D. who their neighbors are
32. _________, the young woman was visibly very happy after the birth of her child.
A. Despite tired B. Though tired
C. Tired although she was D. She was tired
33. Don’t blame me for what I did. __________ differently in my place?
A. Would you have acted B. Would you act C. Would you acted D. Wouldn’t you act
34. Robert will enjoy skiing more the next time he goes to Mt. Hellens _____ he has had skiing lessons.
A. now that B. so that C. before D. and
35. His English teacher recommends that he _______ a regular degree program.
A. begin B. begins C. will begin D. is beginning

C. READING COMPREHENSION
Section 1. Choose the correct answer to complete the following passage by writing the
corresponding letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.
The issues for (36)______ economies are a little straight forward. The desire to build on
undeveloped land is not (37)______ out of desperation or necessity, but is a result of the relentless march
of progress. Cheap labour and a relatively high-skilled workforce make these countries highly competitive
and there is a flood of inward investment, particular from (38)______ looking to take advantage of the
low wages before the cost and standard of living begin to rise. It is factors such as these that are making
many Asian economies extremely attractive when viewed as investment opportunity at the moment.
Similarly, in Africa, the relative (39)______ of precious metals and natural resources tends to attract a lot
of (40)______ companies and a whole sub-industry develops around and is completely dependent on this
foreign-direct investment. It is understandable that countries that are the focus of this sort of attention can
lose sight of the environmental implications of large-scale industrial development, and this can have
devastating consequences for the natural world. And it is a (41)______ circle because the more
industrially active a nation becomes, the greater the demand for and harvesting of natural resources. For
some, the environmental issues, though they can hardly be ignored, are viewed as a (42)______ concern.
Indeed, having an environmental conscience or taking environmental matters into consideration when it
comes to decisions on whether or not to build rubber-tree (43)______ or grow biofuel crops would be
quite (44)______ indeed. For those involved in such schemes it is a pretty black-and-white issue. And, for
vast (45)______ of land in Latin America, for example, it is clear that the welfare of the rainforests
matters little to the local government when vast sums of money can be made from cultivating the land.
36. A. emerging B. emergent C. convergent D. resurgent
37. A. grown B. born C. bred D. arisen
38. A. multinationals B. migrants C. continentals D. intercontinents
 39. A. premonition B. abundance C. amplitude D. accumulation
40. A. exploitation B. exploration C. surveyance D. research
41. A. vacuous B. viscous C. vexatious D. vicious
42. A. parallel B. extrinsic C. peripheral D. exponential
43. A. plantations B. homesteads C. ranches D. holdings
44. A. proscriptive B. prohibitive C. prospective D. imperative
45. A. regions B. plots C. tracts D. sectors

Section 2. Fill in the gap with ONE suitable word.

Early photography
In the early days of photography, a stand or some other firm support for the camera was essential.
This was because photographic materials were so insensitive to light that a typical exposure lasted several
seconds. The camera (46) ___________ have to be held still for this time in order to obtain a sharp
picture. The subjects also had to be still if their images (47) ___________ to register properly on the film.
Some early street scenes include blurred, transparent, ghostlike images of people (48) ___________
wandered past while the scene was in the process of (49) ___________ photographed.
Studio portraits from the late 1800s show people posed rigidly, often leaning against furniture,
(50)___________ helped them to remain motionless. As it was important to keep the head still, a support
was often provided (51) ___________ the neck. Bright studio lights, sometimes produced by
(52)___________fire to a strip of magnesium or a small pile of magnesium powder, helped in reducing
the required exposure time. These burned with an intensely blue flame that gave the necessary amount of
light, although the smoke was unpleasant and (53)__________was also a risk of fire.
The problems associated (54) ___________ long exposure were overcome by the introduction of
faster, more sensitive photographic plates, and later, roll films. The development of smaller cameras led to
photography becoming a popular hobby. Nowadays, digital cameras have further revolutionised
photography, enabling even the (55) ___________ inexperienced of photographers to produce
professional looking pictures.

Section 3. 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.
Jazz has been called “the art of expression set to music”, and “America’s great contribution to
music”. It has functioned as popular art and enjoyed periods of fairly widespread public response, in
the “jazz age” of the 1920s, in the “swing era” of the late 1930s and in the peak popularity of modern
jazz in the late 1950s. The standard legend about Jazz is that it originated around the end of the 19th
century in New Orleans and moved up the Mississippi River to Memphis, St. Louis, and finally to
Chicago. It welded together the elements of Ragtime, marching band music, and the Blues. However,
the influences of what led to those early sounds goes back to tribal African drum beats and European
musical structures. Buddy Bolden, a New Orleans barber and cornet player, is generally considered to
have been the first real Jazz musician, around 1891.
What made Jazz significantly different from the other earlier forms of music was the use of
improvisation. Jazz displayed a break from traditional music where a composer wrote an entire piece
of music on paper, leaving the musicians to break their backs playing exactly what was written on the
score. In a Jazz piece, however, the song is simply a starting point, or sort of skeletal guide for the
Jazz musicians to improvise around. Actually, many of the early Jazz musicians were bad sight
readers and some couldn’t even read music at all. Generally speaking, these early musicians couldn’t
 make very much money and were stuck working menial jobs to make a living. The second wave of
New Orleans Jazz musicians included such memorable players as Joe Oliver, Kid Ory, and Jelly Roll
Morton. These men formed small bands and took the music of earlier musicians, improved its
complexity, and gained greater success. This music is known as “hot Jazz” due to the enormously fast
speeds and rhythmic drive.
A young cornet player by the name of Louis Armstrong was discovered by Joe Oliver in New
Orleans. He soon grew up to become one of the greatest and most successful musicians of all time, and
later one of the biggest stars in the world. The impact of Armstrong and other talented early Jazz
musicians changed the way we look at music.
(Adapted from: A-Collection-of-TOEFL-Reading-Comprehension-Tests)
Question 56. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The reason why Ragtime, marching band music, and the Blues lost popularity.
B. The origins of Jazz and how it differed from other forms of music.
C. The greatest contribution of cornet players to music in the twentieth century.
D. The early Jazz musicians most influenced the development of Blues music.
Question 57. The word “it” in paragraph 1 refers to
A. music B. Jazz C. art D. contribution
Question 58. According to the passage, Jazz originated in
A. Chicago B. St. Louis
C. New Orleans D. along the Mississippi river
Question 59. The word “welded” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to
A. squeezed B. bound C. added D. stirred
Question 60. Which of the following distinguished Jazz as a new form of musical expression?
A. the use of cornets B. “hot Jazz” C. improvisation D. traditional music
Question 61. The word “skeletal” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
A. framework B. musical C. basic D. essential
Question 62. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. many early Jazz musicians had poor sight.
B. there is no slow music in Jazz.
C. many early Jazz musicians had little formal musical training.
D. the cornet is the most common musical instrument used in Jazz.
Question 63. The word “menial” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
A. mental B. attractive C. degrading D. skilled
Question 64. According to the passage, which of the following belonged to the second wave of New
Orleans Jazz musicians?
A. Louis Armstrong B. Buddy Bolden C. St. Louis D. Kid Ory
Question 65. All of the following are true EXCEPT
A. Modern jazz became the most popular in the late 1950s.
B. Louis Armstrong was one of the greatest stars in the world.
C. Jazz has been said to be America’s greatest contribution to music.
D. Joe Oliver is generally considered to be the first real Jazz musician.

D. WRITING
Section 1. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it has a similar meaning to the
original one.
66. I never intended to go to the meeting.
⇨ I never had
67. “Nothing will persuade me to sleep in that haunted house.
⇨ She flatly
68. We will stop off in France on our way to Germany.
⇨ We will break
69. I don’t understand one word of this wretched report.
⇨ I can’t make head
70. We must continue our efforts, whether there are problems or not.
⇨ Regardless

Section 2. Use the word in capitals to rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it
has a similar meaning to the original one. The words given MUST NOT be altered in any way.
71. That man reminds me a lot of my father (BEARS)
That man _____________________my father
72. As soon as they received the information, it was sent to the editor (MINUTE)
The information was _________________ they received it
73. Having finished your studies, you must decide what to do next (FUTURE)
You must _______________finished your studies
74. Bruce said that the situation at work was like a family argument (LIKENED)
Bruce __________________________family argument.
75. He is becoming quite famous as an interviewer. (NAME)
He is _____________________________as an interviewer.

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