Đề thi thử tốt nghiệp THPT Quốc gia năm 2016 môn: Tiếng anh – lần 01

fies the effect of everyday doses of chocolate found in regular foods such as hot chocolate or chocolate bars. This differs from previous studies which have examined the effects of eating unrealistic doses of flavonoids, equivalent to several pounds of chocolate a day.
"Eating a little bit of chocolate or having a drink of hot cocoa as part of a regular diet is probably good for personal health, so long as people don't eat too much of it, and too much of the kind with lots of butter and sugar," said Becker.
In the study, 139 chocolate offenders were disqualified from a larger experiment which aimed to examine the effects of aspirin on blood clotting. Before the study began, all participants were instructed to follow a strict exercise and diet regimen and to refrain from smoking or using foods and drinks known to affect blood-clotting activity, like caffeinated drinks, wine, grapefruit juice and, of course, chocolate.
Platelet samples from both groups (offenders and non-offenders) were run through a mechanical blood vessel system designed to time how long it takes for platelets to clump together. Chocolate lovers' samples were found to clot more slowly, on average taking 130 seconds to block the system. Platelets from those who stayed away from chocolate clotted faster, taking an average of 123 seconds.
Question 45: According to the findings, what helps lower blood pressure?
A. The most important ingredient in chocolate.	B. The most common chemicals in dark chocolate.
C. The chemical reaction in dark chocolate.	D. The tiny particles in white chocolate. 
Question 46: The word "offenders" in paragraph 3 refers to the ____.
A. people who violate laws	B. trouble makers
C. people who produce chocolate 	D. people who ate chocolate
Question 47: What has been found about the relation between aspirin and the chemical in cocoa beans?
A. Similarity 	B. Difference	C. Irrelevance D. Interdependence
Question 48: The kind of chocolate that can help the heart is identified as _____ chocolate.
A. mixed	B. dark 	C. white D. hot
Question 49: How does chocolate help the heart and the vascular system?
A. It widens the blood vessels. 	B. It helps the heart pumps better.
C. It helps blood flow more easily. 	D. It prevents harmful bacteria. 
Question 50: Too much of chocolate ____ is not very good for health.
A. with a lot of butter and sugar 	B. containing a lot of milk
C. with lots of sugar and cocoa 	D. made with artificial sugar 
Question 51: The word "abstinence" can be interpreted as ______.
A. eating some chocolate B. not eating chocolate C. not smoking 	D. doing exercise
Question 52: An experiment has found out that the forming of blood clots is ____ in chocolate lovers. 
A. stopped	B. moderate C. faster D. slower
Question 53: The word "indulge" in this case is closest in meaning to "____".
 	A. become much interested in 	B. give up oneself totally
 C. abandon oneself	 	D. get heavily involved in
Question 54: The article has probably taken from ____.
A. ads of medicine B. a science journal C. a doctor's prescription	D. a book of instructions
Read the following passage adapted from MS Encarta 2008 and choose the correct answer (corresponding to A, B, C, or D) to each of the questions that follow.
The work of women has been economically vital since prehistory, although their contributions have varied according to the structure, needs, customs, and attitudes of society.
In prehistoric times, women and men participated almost equally in hunting and gathering activities to obtain food. With the development of agricultural communities, women's work revolved more around the home. As urban centres developed, women sold or traded goods in the marketplace.	
From ancient to modern times, four generalizations can be made about women's paid work. (1) Women have worked because of economic necessity; poor women in particular worked outside the home whether they were unmarried or married, and especially if their husbands were unable to sustain the family solely through their own work. (2) Women's indentured work has often been similar to their work at home. (3) Women have maintained the primary responsibility for raising children, regardless of their paid work. (4) Women have historically been paid less than men and have been allocated lower-status work.
Some major changes are now occurring in industrial nations, including the steadily increasing proportion of women in the labour force; decreasing family responsibilities (due to both smaller family size and technological innovation in the home); higher levels of education for women; and more middle and upper-income women working for pay or for job satisfaction. Statistically, they have not yet achieved parity of pay or senior appointments in the workplace in any nation
Artisans working in their own homes not infrequently used the labour of their families. This custom was so prevalent during the Middle Ages, craft guilds of the period, including some that otherwise excluded women, often admitted to membership the widows of guild members, providing they met professional requirements. Dressmaking and lacemaking guilds were composed exclusively of women.	
Gradually, the guilds were replaced by the putting-out system, whereby tools and materials were distributed to workers by merchants; the workers then produced articles on a piecework basis in their homes.
During the 18th and early 19th centuries, as the Industrial Revolution developed, the putting-out system slowly declined. Goods that had been produced by hand in the home were manufactured by machine under the factory system. Women competed more with men for some jobs, but were concentrated primarily in textile mills and clothing factories. Manufacturers often favoured women employees because of relevant skills and lower wages, and also because early trade union organization tended to occur first among men. Employees in sweatshops were also preponderantly women. The result was to institutionalize systems of low pay, poor working conditions, long hours, and other abuses, which along with child labour presented some of the worst examples of worker exploitation in early industrial capitalism. Minimum wage legislation and other protective laws, when introduced, concentrated particularly on the alleviation of these abuses of working women.
Women workers in business and the professions, the so-called white-collar occupations, suffered less from poor conditions of work and exploitative labour, but were denied equality of pay and opportunity. The growing use of the typewriter and the telephone after the 1870s created two new employment niches for women, as typists and telephonists, but in both fields the result was again to institutionalize a permanent category of low-paid, low-status women's work.
revolved (circled, rotated) more around the home 
- sustain: withstand, tolerate
allocated: to be paid, assigned	
have not yet achieved parity (equality, equivalence) of pay
prevalent: widespread, predominant
exploitation : khai thác 	- niches: positions, roles
Question 55: When the farming communities developed, women worked __
A. less at home	 B. more at home 	C. more outside D. in groups
Question 56: With the development of urban centres, women ____. 
A. traded cattle in the marketplace 	B. stayed at home to take care of their children 
C. worked more in the marketplace 	D. sold cloth in the marketplace 
Question 57: The word "indentured" in this context may mostly means
 	A. outside the home 	B. in the kitchen 	C. outside the kitchen 	D. inside the home
Question 58: With better education and less family burden, women ____.
 A. have been respected at home and in the workplace	B. have enjoyed equal status in the workplace 
 C. have not yet achieved high status in the workplace	D. have become more influential in their companies 
Question 59: Although women cannot avoid the task of bringing up children, _ 
A. they have to work to feed their men 	B. they have to amuse their men
C. are the mainstay of their families 	D. they can be breadwinners (employees, workers) as men
Question 60: The word "sweatshops" suggests ____.
A. workshop	B. factory work	C. hard work D. harmful work
Question 61: Under the "putting-out system", the workers ____.
A. are provided with tools to produce goods at home	 B. bought materials to manufacture goods
C. provide their factories with raw materials	 D. turn their homes into factories 
Question 62: Manufacturers tended to employ women because _ 
A. women demanded less than men 	B. they did not have to pay for high insurance
C. they could cheat them more easily 	D. they did not have to pay high wages
Question 63: During the time of Industrial Revolution, women were dominant in ___.
A. sex industry	B. Broidery	C. textile industry D. bakery
Question 64: What women have done for the economic development have changed over time due to ____.	
 	A. their role in the home 	B. their marital status and their husbands
	C. the different factors of the society 	D. the Industrial Revolution
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 65. Despite his early retirement, he found no peace in life.
Early as he retired, he found no peace in life.
Question 66. It’s the nicest dress I’ve ever seen.
	I’ve never seen such a nice dress.
Question 67. It's a shame we didn't apologise to Mary for all that mess.
 We should have apologised to Mary for all that mess.
Question 68. The newspaper reports that James was awarded the first prize.
James is reported to have been awarded the first prize.
Question 69. The boy didn’t tell the truth until his father threatened to punish him.
Not until his father threatened to punished him did the boy tell the truth.
Part II. In about 140 words, write a paragraph about the benefits of learning English
Write the paragraph on your answer sheet.