<span class='text_page_counter'>(1)</span><div class='page_container' data-page=1>

TR

ƯỜ

NG THPT HUỲNH THÚC KHÁNG

ð

Ề CHÍNH THỨC

(ð

ề thi có 05 trang)

ð

Ề

THI TH

Ử

TUY

Ể

N SINH ð

Ạ

I H

Ọ

C L

Ầ

N 2 NĂM 2012

Môn thi: TI

ẾN

G ANH

Th

ờ

i gian làm bài: 90 phút

Mă đ

ề

thi

152

Họ, tên thí sinh: __________________________ SBD: __________

ðỀ THI GỒM 80 CÂU (TỪ QUESTION 1 ðẾN QUESTION 80)

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: “We have ______!” said the controller, as the rocket rose into the air.

A. uplift B. getaway C. take-off D. liftoff
Question 2: When a compound is insoluble it means that only a _______ amount of it dissolves.

A. change B. detail C. minute D. second
Question 3: A rise in the cost of stamps has _______ after weeks of stockpiling by some consumers.

A. notified B. come into force C. released D. entered existence
Question 4: Good ________ is very important for a new business.

A. publicity B. spaceship C. entrepreneur D. graduate

Question 5: Thomas Arnold had a ________ and lasting effect on the development of public school education in
England.

A. life up B. inspiration C. profound D. impression

Question 6: In 1886, with financial _______ from the Northern Pacific, the Yellowstone Association was formed.
A. banking B. saving C. backing D. granting

Question 7: Susan got ________ for damaging his bicycle.

A. ticked off B. frightened off C. bitten off D. fall off
Question 8: The teacher felt ________ that her student wasn't able to pass the exam.

A. badly B. bad C. badder D. badder than

Question 9: “Harry typically vacations in Tahoe. Two years ago, Harry spent his vacation in Madrid.” In relation to
the first sentence, what does the second sentence do ?

A. It clarifies an assumption B. It draws a conclusion
C. It adds emphasis D. It notes an exception

Question 10: Uncovering Tokyo's hidden order requires more than a(n) ______ glance at a map.
A. offhand B. shallow C. transient D. cursory
Question 11: “_______” is a method used by software publishers to market their products.

A. Scareware B. Shareware C. Firmware D. Freeware

Question 12: As school populations decline, more and more schools will have to be closed. Then the empty
buildings will pose a problem to their immediate neighborhoods. __________.

A. Perhaps the school population is declining because the size of the average family is declining.
B. Therefore, no single neighborhood should be held responsible for what it cannot avoid.
C. We should all realize that nothing is so important as the education of our children.

D. It would therefore be wise to begin planning as soon as possible for the best future use of these buildings.
Question 13: Even a drive that is considered to be unable to back drive ________ under certain circumstances of
load and vibration.

A. can do so B. so can do C. so do can D. do can so

Question 14: What happened next was something even more _______, if there could be any further degrees of
wonder possible for the utterly baffled young scientist.

A. terrifying B. displeasing C. amazing D. astounding
Question 15: - Have you got the time ?

- ________

A. About half past ten. B. Sorry, I’m busy right now?
C.Yeah, help yourself. D.Next Tuesday.

Question 16: Each person will do 3-5 minutes practice. _______ , each person could get some immediate
feedback and then have an opportunity to run it a second time.

A. Ideally B. besides C. similarly D. In fact
Question 17: Our operation and the ______of the damage by earthquake

A. amount B. extent C. quality D. range
Question 18: Excuse me, can you tell me which ________ to get to the shopping mall ?

</div>
<span class='text_page_counter'>(2)</span><div class='page_container' data-page=2>

Trang 2/6 - Mã ñề thi 152

Question 19: I slept badly last night and am feeling particularly _______ this morning.

A. refused B. slow-witted C. off-hand D. top-heavy
Question 20: The water looked fine for swimming but, in fact, the currents in the river were _______.

A. treacherous B. soothing C. unnoticeable D. contaminated
Question 21: _______, this is an example of breaking a lease.

A. You move out of an apartment before the contract expires
B. Moving out of an apartment before the contract expires

C. The fact that you move out of an apartment before the contract expires
D. When you move out of an apartment before the contract expires

Question 22: Everyday we offer high _______ for unbeatable bargains. Buy now !

A. reasonable B. vouchers C. coupons D. discounts

Question 23: In contrast to Hearn, Diosy became ________ as a Japanese expert a few years after first arriving in
Japan in 1899.

A. expanded B. celebrated C. popularity D. amazing

Question 24. The creation of a purchase order creates a ________ contract which cannot be changed without the
consent of both parties.

A. legal bind B. legally bind C. legally binding D. legal binding
Question 25. - _________ is your car ?

- A honda.

A. What kind B. How C. What trade D. What make
Question 26. Which noun does NOT go with the adjective “mild”

A. mild cheese B. mild tea C. mild cigarette D. mild weather

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined part in each of the following questions.

Question 27: Researchers have discovered that numerous animals are able to mimic human speech.
A. comprehend B. produce C. imitate D. hear

Question 28: Do you need to make a pit stop before we get there ?

A. make a phone call. B. empty the trash C. get some money D. go to the bathroom
Question 29: The smallest thing, like seeing a rainbow or finding a colorful rock, can make a child ecstatic

A. sleepy B. joyful C. worried D. amazing

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 or indicate the correct answer to each of them.

Question 30: The journey will be about nine hours, whichever route you take.
A. It doesn’t matter which route you take, the journey will be about nine hours.
B. No matter which means you take, it will take about nine hours.

C. The journey will not last nine hours no matter which route you take.
D. You can take the route you like, and it doesn’t take as long as nine hours.

Question 31: Yesterday the President announced that he would retire from political life, to amazed reporters.
A. Yesterday the President announced that he would retire from political life, to amazed reporters.
B. Yesterday the President announced that he would retire from political life, amazing reporters.

C. The President, to the amazement of reporters, announced that he would retire from political life yesterday.
D. Yesterday the President announced to amazed reporters that he would retire from political life.

Question 32: In the attic, Jack found a quilt that his great grandmother had made.

A. While cleaning, Jack found a quilt in the attic that his great grandmother had made.
B. While cleaning, Jack found a quilt in the attic that his great grandmother had sewn.
C. While cleaning, Jack found a quilt that his great grandmother had made in the attic
D. While cleaning, Jack found a quilt that his great grandmother had made.

Question 33: Chris heard no unusual noises when he listened in the park.
A. Listening in the park, no unusual noises could be heard.

B. Listening in the park, then Chris heard no unusual noises.
C. Listening in the park, and hearing no unusual noises.
D. Listening in the park, Chris heard no unusual noises.

Question 34: High levels of sugar can cause hyperactivity in fruit juices that preschoolers consume.
A. High levels of sugar can cause hyperactivity in fruit juices that preschoolers consume.

B. High levels of sugar in fruit juices consumed by preschoolers can cause them to be hyperactive.
C. High levels of sugar for preschoolers in fruit juices that they consume can cause hyperactivity.

</div>
<span class='text_page_counter'>(3)</span><div class='page_container' data-page=3>

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined part in each of the following questions.

Question 35: Now that the flood water has receded, people are slowly making their ways back to their homes.
A. approached B. escalated C. dominated D. inclined

Question 36: I found there was very little information, which suggested that it was an obscure expression.
A. reason B. unclear C. obvious D. poor

Question 37: Jennifer watched a cardinal alight upon the bench outside her window
A. rocket B. descend C. land D. start

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 38: Many insects have no vocal apparatus in their throats. However, they make sounds.
A. Many insects make sounds so that they have no vocal apparatus in their throats.

B. The reason why many insects make sounds is that they have no vocal apparatus in their throats.
C. Since many insects can make sounds, they have no vocal apparatus in their throats.

D. Many insects make sounds despite having no vocal apparatus in their throats.

Question 39: We know that animals need vitamins for growth and development. Plants need them, too.
A. Plants are known to need the same vitamins for growth and development as do animals.

B. In order to grow and develop, plants are known to need the vitamins that are produced by animals.
C. Animals need vitamins to grow and develop whereas plants need its growth and development.
D. What we know is that both animals and plants can produced vitamins for growth and development.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for
each of the numbered blanks.

Religious Holidays in Schools

While 1950s British parents would have thought discussing whether or not to share Christmas in schools a rather
absurd (40)_______, it is (41)_______ a question which gives great pause to many today. Post-WWII Britain has
(42)_______ several waves of immigration from the 1950s Caribbean, India and Pakistan immigrants under the
British Nationality Act of 1948 to Irish immigrants throughout the century looking for employment to Eastern
European refugees (43)_______ Communist regimes to even some German prisoners of war. This has given rise to
the increasing amount of ethnic (44)_______ in most metropolitan areas and even in many rural districts. While
Protestant Britain remains the (45)_______, the UK Ministry of Education has set up guidelines to encourage greater
(46)_______ of different religions. The goal is to teach students about the world's religions and religious festivities in
the hopes that this will (47)_______ understanding in today's mixed communities. So today, December and January
become a (48)_______ point for classroom discussion about the world's many religions. The Christianholiday of
Christmas can be (49)_______ alongside the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, the Hindu holiday of Makar Sankrant, the
Sikh celebration of the birthday of Guru Gobind Singh, the Muslim celebration of Eid-Ul-Adha and many others. So
rather than just celebrating one point of view to the exclusion of some students, everyone gets (50)_______ a
potluck of different world views.

Question 40: A. assumption B. expression C. belief D. notion
Question 41: A. not actually B. in fact C. legally D. unwillingly
Question 42: A. included B. experienced. C. dealt D. shown
Question 43: A. escaping B. evading C. running D. confronting
Question 44: A. diversity B. distinction C. divergence D. dissimilarity
Question 45: A. most B. superiority C. opposition D. majority
Question 46: A. cooperation B. tolerance C. hope D. equality
Question 47: A. pacify B. make C. foster D. educate
Question 48: A. focus B. setting C. focal D. pin
Question 49: A. discussed B. conversed C. talked D. spoken
Question 50: A. to join B. to enjoy C. join D. enjoying

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the
main stress in each of the following questions. deuteranope

</div>
<span class='text_page_counter'>(4)</span><div class='page_container' data-page=4>

Trang 4/6 - Mã ñề thi 152

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.

(5)

(10)

(15)

(20)

(25)

(30)

(35)

Captain MacWhirr, of the steamer Nan-Shan, had a physiognomy that, in the order of material
appearances, was the exact counterpart of his mind: it presented no marked characteristics of
firmness or stupidity; it had no pronounced characteristics whatever; it was simply ordinary,
irresponsive, and unruffled...

Having just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day, and no more, he
was tranquilly sure of himself; and from the very same cause he was not in the least conceited. It is
your imaginative superior who is touchy, overbearing, and difficult to please; but every ship
Captain MacWhirr commanded was the floating abode of harmony and peace. It was, in truth, as
impossible for him to take a flight of fancy as it would be for a watchmaker to put together a
chronometer with nothing except a two-pound hammer and a whipsaw in the way of tools. Yet
the uninteresting lives of men so entirely given to the actuality of the bare existence have their
mysterious side. It was impossible in Captain MacWhirr’s case, for instance, to understand what
under heaven could have induced that perfectly satisfactory son of a petty grocer in Belfast to run
away to sea. And yet he had done that very thing at the age of fifteen. It was enough, when you
thought it over, to give you the idea of an immense, potent, and invisible hand thrust into the
ant-heap of the earth, laying hold of shoulders, knocking heads together, and setting the unconscious
faces of the multitude towards inconceivable goals and in undreamt-of directions.

His father never really forgave him for this undutiful stupidity. “We could have got on without
him,” he used to say later on, “but there’s the business. And he an only son, too!” His mother wept
very much after his disappearance. As it had never occurred to him to leave word behind, he was
mourned over for dead till, after eight months, his first letter arrived from Talcahuano. It was short,
and contained the statement: “We had very fine weather on our passage out.” But evidently, in
the writer’s mind, the only important intelligence was to the effect that his captain had, on the very
day of writing, entered him regularly on the ship’s articles as Ordinary Seaman. “Because I can do
the work,” he explained. The mother again wept copiously, while the remark, “Tom’s an ass,”
expressed the emotions of the father. He was a corpulent man, with a gift for sly chaffing, which to
the end of his life he exercised in his intercourse with his son, a little pityingly, as if upon a half-witted
person.

MacWhirr’s visits to his home were necessarily rare, and in the course of years he dispatched
other letters to his parents, informing them of his successive promotions and of his movements upon
the vast earth. In these missives could be found sentences like this: “The heat here is very great.” Or:
“On Christmas day at 4 p.m. we fell in with some icebergs.” The old people ultimately became

acquainted with a good many names of ships, and with the names of the skippers who
commanded them with the names of Scots and English shipowners with the names of seas,
oceans, straits, promontories with outlandish names of lumberports, of rice-ports, of cotton-ports
with the names of islands with the name of their son’s young woman. She was called Lucy. It did
not suggest itself to him to mention whether he thought the name pretty. And then they died.
Question 56: The word “physiognomy” in line 1 can be best defined as

A. personality B. currently C. temperament D. face
Question 57: In line 18, the word “undutiful” may be best defined as

A. extreme B. disobedient C. unexpected D. unusual
Question 59: The passage represents the young MacWhirr’s decision to go to sea as

A. youthful rebelliousness. B. a search for adventure.
C. an unexplainable action. D. personal ambition.

Question 60: MacWhirr does not comment on the prettiness of the name Lucy in his letters to his parents because
A. he has not thought about it himself.

B. such a comment would be effeminate.

C. such a comment would suggest that her face was not pretty.
D. he wants them to know only the external events of his life.

Question 61: Of the following phrases, which has the effect of reducing your feelings of sympathy for MacWhirr’s
parents?

I. “but there’s the business. And he an only son, too!” (line 19)
II. “His mother wept very much after his disappearance.” (lines 19-20)
III. “Tom’s an ass,” (line 25)

A. I only B. II and III only C. I and III only D. I, II and III
Question 62: MacWhirr’s prose style is best characterized as

A. episodic B. metaphorical C. factual D. baroque
Question 63: The word “names” is repeated six times in the last paragraph to

</div>
<span class='text_page_counter'>(5)</span><div class='page_container' data-page=5>

C. enhance the poetic quality of the prose.

D. contrast with the single repetition of the singular “name.”.

Question 64: In the last sentence of the passage, the antecedent of “they” is probably

A. Scots ship owners B. English ship owners C. skippers D. the old people
Question 65: All of the following words accurately describe Captain MacWhirr EXCEPT

A. confident B. fanciful C. serious D. ordinary

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.

(5)

(10)

(15)

(20)

(25)

Leisure is gone-gone where the spinningwheels are gone, and the pack horses, and the
slow waggons, and the pedlars, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create
leisure for mankind. Do not believe them: it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.
Even idleness is eager now-eager for amusement: prone to excursion-trains, artmuseums,
periodical literature, and exciting novels: prone even to scientific theorising, and cursory peeps
through microscopes. Old Leisure was quite a different personage: he only read one
newspaper, innocent of leaders, and was free from that periodicity of sensations which we call
post-time.

He was a contemplative, rather stout gentleman, of excellent digestion-of quiet
perceptions, undiseased by hypothesis: happy in his inability to know the causes of things,
preferring the things themselves. He lived chiefly in the country, among pleasant seats and
homesteads, and was fond of sauntering by the fruit-tree wall, and scenting the apricots when
they were warmed by the morning sunshine, or of sheltering himself under the orchard boughs
at noon, when the summer pears were falling. He knew nothing of weekday services, and
thoughtnone the worse of the Sunday sermon if it allowed him to sleep from the text to the
blessing-liking the afternoon service best, because the prayers were the shortest, and not
ashamed to say so; for he had an easy, jolly conscience, broad-backed like himself, and able
to carry a great deal of beer or port-wine, not being made squeamish by doubts and qualms
and lofty aspirations. Life was not a task to him, but a sinecure: he fingered the guineas in his
pocket, and ate his dinners, and slept the sleep of the irresponsible; for had he not kept up his
charter by going to church on the Sunday afternoons?

Fine old Leisure! Do not be severe upon him, and judge him by our modern standard: he
never went to Exeter Hall, or heard a popular preacher, or read Tracts for the Times or Sartor
Resartus.

Question 66: The phrase “innocent of leaders” can be best said to mean

A. guiltless of ambition. B. ignorant of competition.
C. pure as a commander. D. free of editorials.
Question 67: The word “sinecure” can be best defined as

A. a paid vacation. B. an irresponsible indulgence in pleasure.
C. a well-rewarded but undemanding position. D. an assuming of responsibility for the wellbeing
Question 68: The phrase “he had an easy, jolly conscience, broad-backed like himself” employs

A. one metaphor and two simile. B. two similes.

C. only one simile. D. two metaphors and one simile.

Question 69: Old Leisure has not been “made squeamish by doubts and qualms and lofty aspirations” because
A. he has no reason to feel guilty. B. his honesty protects him against doubt.

C. he has fulfilled his charter by attending church. D. he never thinks about doubt or aspiration.
Question 70: Of the following techniques, which is the most important in the presentation of old Leisure?

A. Personification B. Simile C. Paradox D. Apostrophe
Question 71: According to the passage, all of the following are the activities of the present EXCEPT

A. railway excursions. B. amateur biology. C. restoring antiques. D. reading fiction.
Question 72: Old Leisure’s observance of his religious obligations may be best described as

A. perfunctory. B. hypocritical. C. ardent. D. grudging.

Question 73: The phrases “Even idleness is eager now-eager for amusement” exemplify which of the following

devices ?

I. Metaphor II. Personification III. Paradox

A. I, II, and III B. II and III only C. I and III only D. I and II only
Question 74: From the whole passage, the reader can infer that the narrator feels

I. some nostalgia for the leisure of the past.

</div>
<span class='text_page_counter'>(6)</span><div class='page_container' data-page=6>

Trang 6/6 - Mã ñề thi 152

A. II only B. I, II, and III C. I and III only D. I only

Question 75: The tone of the passage is best described as

A. coolly objective B. gently satirical C. mawkishly sentimental D. cheerfully optimistic
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.

Question 76: Having enjoyed the scenery, the steamer next took us to Bird Isle, an island whose history was hardly
A B C D
known until 1900.

Question 77: The air that surrounds our planet is both ordourless, colourless, and invisible.
A B C D

Question 78: Though well he does at school, he never seems to be satisfied with the results
A B C D
Question 79: The aircraft is traveling 50 times faster than the speed of a pistol bullet.

A B C D

Question 80: The three-week Caribbean cruise will allow passengers to relax, to find romance and they can visit
A B C D

exotic places

</div>

<!--links-->