Đề thi thử Đại học môn Tiếng Anh - Khối D, A1 - Mã đề 334

ĐỀ THI THỬ ĐẠI HỌC MÔN ANH KHỐI D, A1 NĂM 2014 – 
THPT LÊ QUẢNG CHÍ, HÀ TĨNH 
Questions 1 - 5 : Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the
others. Question 1: A. surpass B. moment C. exchange D. persuade 
Question 2: A. magazine B. behavior C. possession D. experience 
Question 3: A. flatter B. character C. element D. ambition 
Question 4: A. success B. conflict C. author D. figure 
Question 5: A. indirectly B. represented C. entertainment D. biography 
Questions 6 - 35 : These are incomplete sentences. Choose one best option to complete each 
sentence. 
Question 6: You may borrow as many books as you like , provided you show them to . is 
at the desk . 
A. whom B. whoever C. who D. which
Question 7: We have had the roof of our house  . 
A. to replace B. replaced C. been replaced D. replace 
Question 8: “Did Peter go downtown by car or by train?” - “He by train because his car 
was in the mechanics.” 
A. must go B. must have gone C. had gone D. has to go 
Question 9: My job is so . ...... .. that I don't think I'll be able to take a summer break. 
A. persisting B. demanding C. tough D. hard 
Question 10: The United . ....................... ... the Shelfield in the football game yesterday. 
A. gained B. beat C. won D. earned 
Question 11: Tom said, “Please tell me about it .. ... if I’ve heard the story before.” 
A. I’ve stopped you B. I’m stopping you C. I’ll stop you D. I stopped you
Question 12: He advised me to take an English course. I .. it 
early. 
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A. may take B. should take C. wken D. should have taken 
Question 13: The football match was televised  from the National Stadium. 
A. living B. live C. alive D. life 
Question 14: Is he . ......... . enough to take on so much responsibility? 
A. ancient B. elderly C. mature D. ripe 
Question 15: Imagine you . a flight, would you have gone by train? 
A. haven’t booked B. don’t book C. hadn’t booked D. won’t book
Question 16: He has just bought a . . 
A. sleeping blue polyester bag B. blue sleeping polyester bag 
C. polyester sleeping blue bag D. blue polyester sleeping bag
Question 17: Jenny is Korean, so she cooks . ....... .. Korean fod 
A. authentic B. original C. artificial D. imitation 
Question 18: Phone me before ten; . I’ll be too busy to talk to you. 
A. otherwise B. unless C. whether D. if 
Question 19: This is valuable . ....................... . chair which dates back to the eighteeth century. 
A. traditional B. antique C. old-fashioned D. ancient 
Question 20: They’ve moved to the city for years but they never . ............ ... their country house. 
A. let B. hire C. rent D. loan Question 
21: You’d better not call your friends .. night. 
A. on B. to C. in D. at 
Question 22: After the accident, he has to wear . teeth. 
A. untrue B. unreal C. false D. artificial
Question 23: I think those bright pants will . ................. ... your new shoes. 
A. suit B. fit C. effect D. match 
Question 24: It's taking me longer to get  the operation than I thought. 
A. over B. up from C. through D. by 
Question 25: By the time we get out of this traffic jam, all the guests .. home. 
A. have gone B. had gone C. will have gone D. will go 
Question 26: I . at the airport so late that my plane had already taken off. 
A. arrived B. got C. reached D. came 
Question 27: “Did you finish the report?”. - :Yes, but I wish I had known .. .” 
A. how hard would it be B. how hard it would be 
C. how would it be hard D. how would it be 
Question 28: In western culture, people often leave a ... for the service they get. 
A. bill B. receipt C. debt D. tip 
Question 29: The police imposed a $200 ........................ .. on the man for not wearing a helmet when 
riding his motorbike. 
A. charge B. fine C. income D. money 
Question 30: In the hotel lobby, the detective caught  of the man whom he had been hired 
to follow. 
A. view B. vision C. glance D. sight Question 
31: She spoke to him so quietly .nobody else could hear a word. 
A. because B. if C. so that D. although 
Question 32: In 1870, , John D. Rockefeller and others created the Standard Oil 
Company. 
A. that oil prices fluctuated B. oil prices were fluctuating 
C. but the oil prices fluctuated D. despite fluctuating oil prices Ques-
tion 33: You’ll have to .. a better idea than that if you want to win. 
A. bring out B. come up with C. get down to D. come in for Question 
34: From now on, we won’t be able to go out as much as we ... . 
A. used to B. had C. will D. were 
Question 35: Never before . such a beautiful waterfall. 
A. have I seen B. do I see C. that I have seen D. I have seen 
Questions 36 - 45 : Read the following passage carefully and then choose the best option to fit each 
space. 
Keeping your distance 
Personal space is a term that refers (36) . the distance we like to keep between ourselves and
other people. When (37) . we do not know well gets too close we usually begin to feel 
uncomfortable. If a business colleague comes close than 1.2 meters, the (38)  common response 
is 
to move (39)  . Some interesting (40) .. have been done in libraries. If strangers come 
too 
close, many people get up and leave the building; others use different methods such as turning their 
back 
on the intruder. Living in cities has (41) ... ... people develop new skills for dealing with situations (42) 
. they are very close to strangers. (43) .. people on crowded trains try not to look at 
strangers; they avoid skin contact, and apologize if hands touch by mistake. People use newspapers (44)
.. a barrier between themselves and other people, and if they do not have one, they stare into the 
distance, (45) . sure they are not looking into anyone’s eyes. 
Question 36: A. about B. from C. to D. for 
Question 37: A. nobody B. anyone C. someone D. people 
Question 38: A. more B. most C. best D. first 
Question 39: A. away B. up C. on D. in 
Question 40: A. studies B. questionnaires C. research D. survey 
Question 41: A. caused B. allowed C. made D. done 
Question 42: A. that B. where C. how D. which 
Question 43: A. Almost B. The most C. Most D. Most of 
Question 44: A. alike B. like C. as D. such as 
Question 45: A. making B. made C. make D. be 
Questions 46 - 50 : In these sentences, each one has four underlined words or phrases marked A, 
B, C, and D. Choose the one word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be 
correct. 
Question 46: The bus was plenty of people who had spent many a happy hour in the stores doing their 
Christmas shopping. 
A
Question 47: Not until I was on my way to the airport that I realized I had left my 
passport at home. 
A B C D 
Question 48: Mrs. Stevens, along with her cousins from New Mexico, are planning to attend the
festivities. A B C D Question 
49: Some of the plants in this store require very little care, but this one needs much more 
A B 
sunlight than the others ones 
C D 
Question 50: Can you explain what the numbers of these animals have become small? 
A B C D 
Questions 51 - 60: Read the following passage carefully and then choose the best answer to each 
question. 
In most discussions of cultural diversity, attention has focused on visible, explicit aspects of culture, 
such as language, dress, food, religion, music, and social rituals. Although they are important, these 
visible expressions of culture, which are taught deliberately and learned consciously, are only the tip of 
the iceberg of culture. Much of culture is taught and learned implicitly, or outside awareness. Thus, 
neither cultural insiders nor cultural outsiders are aware that certain “invisible” aspects of their culture 
exist. 
Invisible elements of culture are important to us. For example, how long we can be late before being 
impolite, what topics we should avoid in a conversation, how we show interest or attention through 
listening behaviour, what we consider beautiful or ugly- these are all aspects of culture that we learn and 
use without being aware of it. When we meet other people whose invisible cultural assumptions differ 
from those we have learned implicitly, we usually do not recognize their behaviour as cultural in origin.
Differences in invisible culture can cause problems in cross-cultural relations. Conflicts may arise when 
we are unable to recognize others’ behavioural differences as cultural rather than personal. We tend to 
misinterpret other people’s behaviour, blame them, or judge their intentions or competence without 
realizing that we are experiencing cultural rather than individual differences. 
Formal organizations and institutions, such as schools, hospitals, workplaces, governments, and the 
legal system are collection sites for invisible cultural differences. If the differences were more visible, 
we might have less misunderstanding. For example, if we met a man in a courthouse who was wearing 
exotic clothes, speaking a language other than ours, and carrying food that looked strange, we would not 
assume that we understood his thoughts and feelings or that he understood ours. Yet when such a man is 
dressed similarly to us, speaks our language, and does not differ from us in other obvious ways, we may 
fail to recognize the invisible cultural differences between us. As a result, mutual misunderstanding may 
arise. 
Question 51: What is the main purpose of the passage? 
A. To point out that much of culture is learned consciously. 
B. To describe cultural diversity. 
C. To explain the importance of invisible aspects of culture. 
D. To explain why cross-cultural conflict occurs. 
Question 52: The word “rituals” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to __________. 
A. assumptions B. formalities C. aspects D. cultures 
Question 53: The phrase “the tip of the iceberg” in paragraph 1 means that ___________. 
A. most aspects of culture cannot be seen 
B. we usually focus on the highest forms of culture 
C. other cultures seem cold to us 
D. visible aspects of culture are learned in formal institutions 
Question 54: Which of the following was NOT mentioned as an example of invisible culture? 
A. How people express interest in what others are saying 
B. How late is considered impolite 
C. What topics to avoid in conversation 
D. What food to eat in a courthouse 
Question 55: The word “those” in paragraph 2 refers to__________. 
A. invisible cultural assumptions B. people from a different culture 
C. topics that should be avoided in conversation D. people who speak a different language 
Question 56: It can be inferred from paragraph 3 that conflict results when ___________. 
A. one culture is more invisible than another culture 
B. people compete with those from other cultures 
C. some people recognize more cultural differences than others 
D. people think cultural differences are personal 
Question 57: The author implies that institutions such as schools and workplaces ________. 
A. reinforce invisible cultural differences 
B. are aware of cultural differences 
C. share a common culture 
D. teach their employees about cultural differences 
Question 58: Which of the following would most likely result in misunderstanding? 
A. Strange behaviour from someone speaking a foreign language 
B. Learning about our own culture in school 
C. Strange behaviour from someone speaking our language 
D. Unusual food being cooked by foreign visitors 
Question 59: The word “exotic” in paragraph 4 could best be replaced by__________. 
A. formal B. expensive C. foreign D. informal 
Question 60: The following sentence can be added to paragraph 2 of the passage. 
Rather, we see them as rude or uncooperative, and we may apply labels to them, such as “passive 
aggressive.” 
Where would it best fit in the paragraph? Choose A, B, C or D 
A. .. Invisible elements of culture are important to us. B.  For example, how long we can be late 
before being impolite, what topics we should avoid in a conversation, how we show interest or attention 
through listening behaviour, what we consider beautiful or ugly- these are all aspects of culture that we 
learn and use without being aware of it. C. .. When we meet other people whose invisible cultural 
assumptions differ from those we have learned implicitly, we usually do not recognize their behaviour
as cultural in origin. D. . 
Questions 61 - 70: Read the following passage carefully and then choose the best answer to each
question. 
The modern comic strip started out as ammunition in a newspaper war between giants of the American
press in the late nineteenth century. The first full-color comic strip appeared in January 1894 in the New
York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer. The first regular weekly full-color comic supplement, similar to
today’s Sunday funnies, appeared two years later, in William Randolph Hearst’s rival New York paper, 
the Morning Journal. 
Both were immensely popular and publishers realized that supplementing the news with comic relief
boosted the sale of papers. The Morning Journal started another feature in 1896, the “Yellow Kid”, the 
first continuous comic character in the United States, whose creator, Richard Outcault, had been lured
away from the World by the ambitious Hearst. The “Yellow Kid” was in many ways a pioneer. Its
comic dialogue was the strictly urban farce that came to characterize later strips, and it introduced the
speech balloon inside the strip, usually placed above the characters’ heads. 
The first strip to incorporate all the elements of later comics was Rudolph Dirks’s “Katzenjammer 
Kids”, based on Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz, a European satire of the nineteenth century. The 
“Kids” strip, first published in 1897, served as the prototype for future American strips. It contained not 
only speech balloons, but a continuous cast of characters, and was divided into small regular panels that
did away with the larger panoramic scenes of earlier comics. 
Newspaper syndication played a major role in spreading the popularity of comic strips throughout the
country. Though weekly colored comics came first, daily black-and-white strips were not far behind.
The first appeared in the Chicago American in 1904. It was followed by many imitators, and by 1915
blackand-white comic strips had become a staple of daily newspapers around the country. 
Question 61: In what order does the author discuss various comic strips in the passage? 
A. In the order in which they were created. 
B. According to the newspaper in which they appeared. 
C. In alphabetical order by title. 
D. From most popular to least popular. 
Question 62: According to the passage, the “Yellow Kid” was the first comic strip to do all of the 
following EXCEPT _______. 
A. characterize city life in a humorous way 
B. include dialogue inside a balloon 
C. feature the same character in each episode 
D. appear in a Chicago newspaper 
Question 63: The word “prototype” is closest in meaning to _______. 
A. humor B. model C. story D. drawing
Question 64: The word “staple” is closest in meaning to _______. 
A. new version 
B. huge success 
C. popular edition 
D. regular feature 
Question 65: The word “incorporate” is closest in meaning to _______. 
A. mention B. create C. combine D. affect 
Question 66: Why does the author mention Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst? 
A. They established New York’s first newspaper. 
B. They published comic strips about the newspaper war. 
C. Their comic strips are still published today. 
D. They owned major competitive newspapers.
Question 67: The word “it” refers to _______. 
A. farce 
B. balloon 
C. the “Yellow Kid” 
D. dialogue 
Question 68: The passage suggests that comic strips were popular for which of the following reasons? 
A. Readers could identify with the characters. 
B. They were about real-life situations. 
C. They provided a break from serious news stories. 
D. Readers enjoyed the unusual drawings. 
Question 69: To say that Richard Outcault had been “lured away from” the World by Hearst means 
which of the following? 
A. Hearst convinced Outcault to leave the World. 
B. Hearst warned Outcault not to leave the World. 
C. Hearst wanted Outcault to work for the World. 
D. Hearst fired Outcault from the World. 
Question 70: What does the passage mainly discuss? 
A. The differences between early and modern comic strips. 
B. A comparison of two popular comic strips. 
C. Features of early comic strips in the United States. 
D. The effects of newspapers on comic strip stories. 
Questions 71 - 80 : After each sentence below, there are four sentences marked A, B, C, and D. 
Choose the sentence that has the same meaning as the original one.
Question 71: I had not expected the journey would be so long. 
A. The journey was as long as I had expected 
B. The journey was not longer than I had expected 
C. The journey was not so long as I had expected 
D. The journey would be longer than I had expected 
Question 72: Their dog was so fierce that nobody would visit them. 
A. They had a such fierce dog that nobody would visit them. 
B. They had so fierce a dog that nobody would visit them. 
C. They had a so fierce dog that nobody would visit them. 
D. Their dog was too fierce to visit. 
Question 73: Tony’s English is much better than it was. 
A. Tony speaks English better now than he did before. 
B. Tony has started to learn English but doesn’t speak it well 
C. Tony has always spoken good English. 
D. Tony’s English was much better than it is now 
Question 74: "If I were you. Bill, I'd buy the house, " Stephen said.
A. Stephen promised Bill that he would buy the house. 
B. Stephen advised Bill to buy the house. 
C. Stephen suggested Bill to buy the house. 
D. Stephen forced Bill to buy the house.
Question 75: Lin’s success took us all by surprise. 
A. We were taken aback by all of Lin’s successes. 
B. Lin was successful, which surprised all of us. 
C. Lin’s success was surprised to all of us. 
D. We took all of Lin’s successes surprisingly. 
Question 76: I travel by bus only when I have no alternative. 
A. Travelling by bus is my only alternative. 
B. It’s my only alternative to travel by bus. 
C. I resort to travel by bus only when I have no alternative. 
D. I travel by bus only as a last resort. 
Question 77: Friendly though he may seem, he's not to be trusted. 
A. He may have friends, but he's not to be trusted. 
B. However he seems friendly, he's not to be trusted. 
C. He's too friendly to be trusted. 
D. However friendly he seems, he's not to be trusted. 
Question 78: Twice as many men as women are insurance agents. 
A. Women are twice as likely as men to have sold insurance. 
B. More men than women have insurance. 
C. Insurance is twice as difficult to sell to women as to men. 
D. Male insurance agents outnumber female agents. 
Question 79: Bill has no business going to Paris next December. 
A. Bill shouldn’t go to Paris next December. 
B. Bill went to Paris in December. 
C. Bill will open a business in Paris next December 
D. Bill runs a business in Paris next December. 
Question 80: Teacher: “ Don’t forget to do your homework” 
A. Teacher reminded whether I not to do my home work 
B. Teacher reminded me to forget my homework 
C. Teacher reminded me to do my homework 
D. Teacher asked me if not to forget my home work 
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