Đề thi thử THPT quốc gia môn: Tiếng anh - Đề 12

 your (29) ______ computer, and ask for the foreign news. The screen is immediately (30) ______ with news from (31) ______ the world. 
 	Computers have (32) ______ an information “superhighway”. Today, computers can work together - they can network with (33) ______. The worldwide computer (34) ______ is called the Internet. (35) ______ the Internet, you can find all kinds of information and news from people and countries around the world.
Question 26:	A. Despite	B. In fact	C. Because	D. Although
Question 27:	A. little	B. many	C. few	D. a lot
Question 28:	A. ever	B. already	C. at all	D. nothing
Question 29:	A. person	B. personified	C. personally	D. personal
Question 30:	A. filled	B. full	C. made	D. taken
Question 31:	A. in	B. on	C. all above	D. all over
Question 32:	A. written	B. created	C. composed	D. invented
Question 33:	A. itself	B. themselves	C. each other 	D. together
Question 34:	A. keyboard	B. laptop	C. CPU	D. network
Question 35:	A. Use	B. Using	C. Used	D. To using
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 from 36 to 45.
 	Under the Medicare insurance policy, people approaching 65 may enroll during the seven-month period that includes three months before the sixty-fifth birthday, the month in which the birthday falls, and three months after the birthday. However, if they wish the insurance coverage to begin when they reach 65, they must enroll three month s before their birthday. People who do not enroll within their first enrollment period may enroll later, during the first three months of each year. Those people, however, must pay 10% additional for each twelve-month period that elapsed since they first could have enrolled. The monthly premium is deducted from social security payments, railroad retirement or civil service retirement benefits.
Question 36: The author’s purpose is to _______.
 	A. describe the benefits of Medicare 	B. stimulate enrollment in Medicare
 	C. advertise Medicare	D. tell people when they may enroll in Medicare
Question 37: People would pay 10% more for their insurance if they _______.
 	A. were under 65	B. applied seven months before their sixty-fifth birthday
 	C. enrolled after their sixty-fifth birthday	D. enrolled in a private plan
Question 38: To start coverage by Medicare on their sixty-fifth birthday, people must apply ________.
 	A. seven months before their birthday	B. four months before their birthday
 	C. three months before their birthday	D. the month in which their birthday occurs	
Question 39: The word “deducted” in the passage can be replaced by _______
	A. taken away	B. protected	C. subtracted	D. escaped
Question 40: The seven-month period described in this passage includes _______.
 	A. seven months before the subscriber’s birthday	B. seven months after the subscriber’s birthday
 	C. seven months since the subscriber’s birthday
 	D. three months before, three months after, and the month during which the subscriber’s birthday occurs
Question 41: The word “elapsed” in the passage most closely means _______.
 	A. passed	B. finished 	C. ended	D. expired
Question 42: The period after the sixty-fifth birthday during which people may apply for Medicare is _______.
 	A. a quarter of a year	B. seven months 	C. one month	D. January 1 to March 31 yearly
Question 43: Medicare subscriber’s premiums _______.
 	A. are due the first of every month	B. are taken out of their salaries
 	C. are subtracted from their pension	D. come from the government
Question 44: The word “civil service” in this passage is relating to _______.
 	A. the government workers	B. the citizens of a country	C. the office workers	D. the factory workers
Question 45: You can infer that people over 65 who enroll two years after they could have enrolled pay 10% more for 
 two years and then could _______. 	A. continue to pay more than people who enrolled before they were 65
 	B. pay less than people who enrolled before 65	C. pay the same as people who enrolled before 65
 	D. be excluded from the Medicare plan completely
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
Question 46: Almost all the students were confusing because Ms. Kelly’s explanation was unclear. → confused 	 A	 B	 	C	 D
Question 47: Many news story which deal with TV and film personalities are often exaggerated. → news stories 	 	A	 B	 	C	 D
Question 48: A secretary told me an important file had left in the lunch room just the other day. → had been left. 	 	 A	 	 B	 	 C D
Question 49: Approximately one-fifth of a worker’s income to pay in taxes and social security. → is paid
 	 	 A	B	 C	 D	
Question 50: With the victory over Germany in the final match, Brazil became the first team won the trophy five times.	 	A	 	 B	→ that won/to win C	 D
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 blanks from 51 to 60.
 	April 1 is April Fools’ Day. May people like to play jokes or tricks on this day. The jokes are (51) ______ only. They are not harmful or mean. (52) ______ example, children may (53) ______ their parents by putting salt in the sugar jar.
 	Sometimes you can (54) ______ April Fools’ Day jokes on the radio or television. Newspapers often have silly stories on April 1, too. (55) ______ you believe the jokes on the radio, TV, or in the newspaper, you are an “April Fool”.
 	Nobody knows where or when April Fools’ Day started. Some people believe it started in France (56) ______. Some people think it started long ago in Italy. Other people believe it started in India. Some people think April Fools’ Day started (57) ______ the spring weather. In the spring, the weather changes every day. The spring weather tricks people. But people in Mexico (58) ______ Fools’ Day in winter, on December 28.
 	It doesn’t (59) ______ where and when April Fools’ Day began. People like it because they can play jokes (60) ______ friends and relatives. 
Question 51:	A. of interest	B. for fun	C. by fun	D. in interest
Question 52:	A. To	B. With	C. By	D. For
Question 53:	A. trick	B. play	C. respect	D. observe
Question 54:	A. watch	B. listen	C. read	D. hear
Question 55:	A. Because	B. Although	C. If	D. Since
Question 56:	A. in 1500s	B. in some 1500s	C. in the 1500	D. in the 1500s
Question 57:	A. in spite of	B. because	C. because of	D. since
Question 58:	A. enjoy	B. celebrate	C. organize	D. renew
Question 59:	A. matter	B. problem	C. concern	D. worry
Question 60:	A. about	B. with	C. on	D. for
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 61: He suggested _______ to a holiday camp.
 	A. Mary that she should go B. Mary should go	C. Mary to go 	D. Mary going 
Question 62: John said that no other car could go _______.
 	A. so fast like his car 	B. as fast like the car of him 	C. as fast like his car 	D. as fast as his car
Question 63: I’m looking for a _______ for my bedside table.
 	A. cheap white Taiwanese clock radio. 	B. white cheap Taiwanese clock radio.
 	C. Taiwanese cheap white clock radio. 	D. Taiwanese white cheap clock radio 
Question 64: In Suicide, Durkheim studied the reasons _______. 
 	A. why do individuals commit suicide	B. why individuals commit suicide
 	C. why commit individuals suicide	D. why commit suicide individuals 
PHẦN TỰ LUẬN: (2 điểm)
I. Rewrite the following sentences using the words given so that it means exactly the same as the first sentence. 
1. People all over the country have helped the poor people in the flood region.
® The poor people_________________________________________________
2. It’s cold in the morning, so the children go to school in heavy clothes.
® Because of_________________________________________________
3. David has read a lot of books, however, he cannot find a good solution.
® Although_________________________________________________
4. It isn't necessary to finish the work today.
® You don't _____________________________________________________
5. Hai finally managed to get a job
® Hai finally succeeded____________________________________________
II. Topic: What are the factors to enable a longer life?
With the development of human society, people are living longer now. Many factors interacting together enable the longer life. There are three most important causes: the quality of food has been greatly improved; people could have medical services; more and more people realize that regular sports benefit their health.
The improving quality of our food is the most important factor of the longer life. We could have not only enough food as we want, but also the healthier food. When we preparing food, we no longer consider the cost, but pay more attention to the nutritions of the food. With the development of transportation systems, inland people now could also enjoy seafood and tropical fruit.
Furthermore, governments are paying more and more money on medical establishments. Citizens could have medical services more easily. Because of the convenient medical service more illnesses could be detected at an earlier stage. Also, many illnesses that had been considered fatal could be cured today. The better detection and cures enable people's longer life.
Last but not least important is that people care more for their own health. Every morning you could see people doing sports outside. More and more people have realized the saying "life is locomotion". Regular sports build up a strong body. Naturally, people with stronger body could resist more diseases.
To sum up, the development of our society causes the longer life of people. People have better food and better medical services. And people spend more time on sports to build up stronger bodies. As we could predict, people are going to live even longer.
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