Đề thi thử THPT QG năm 2021 môn Tiếng Anh

The Spanish way of life

The inhabitants of this very varied country have few things in common  (1)_______ for a natural sociability and a zest for living. Spaniards commonly put as  (2)_______  energy into enjoying life as they do into their work. The stereotypical manana (leave everything till tomorrow) is a myth, but time is flexible in Spain and many people bend their work so as to  fit in with the demands of their social life whenever they can, instead of letting themselves be  (3)_______  by the clock. The day is long in Spain and Spanish has a word, madrugada, for the time between midnight and dawn, when city streets are often lively.

Spaniards are highly sociable in  (4)_______  they like nothing better than spending leisure time in the company of others. In many places people still go out in the evening for the paseo, and the streets are crowded with strollers at this time. Eating is invariably communal and big groups often turn up for dinner. Not  (5)_______  Spain has more bars and restaurants per head than any other country.

Câu 1:

(1)....................

A. yet

B. apart

C. except

D. aside

Câu 2:

(2)....................

A. lots

B. much

C. a lot

D. many

Câu 3:

(3)...................

A. ruled

B. authorized

C. managed

D. decided

Câu 4:

(4)...................

A. which

B. what

C. this

D. that

Câu 5:

(5)......................

A. surprising

B. surprise

C. surprised

D. surprisingly

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.

Câu 6:

A. If I knew that you were at home, I would drop in.

B. Not knowing that you were at home, I didn't drop in.

C. Not knowing that you were at home, but I still dropped in.

D. I didn't know you were at home although I didn't drop in.

Câu 7:

I owed Bill a favor. I agreed to help him.

A. Although I owed Bill a favor, I agreed to help him.

B. It was only because I owed Bill a favor that I agreed to help him.

C. I only agreed to help Bill because I owed him some money.

D. If I hadn't owed Bill a favor, I would have agreed to help him.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the following exchanges.

Câu 8:

A. Never mind.

B. I think so. I am proud of myself.

C. Many thanks. That is a nice compliment.

D. Say it again. I like to hear your words.

Câu 9:

Tim: "Let me wash the vegetable while you're preparing the meat."

- Linda: "______."

A. Good idea. I'll do it for you.

B. Yes, please. But I can manage.

C. OK. Thank you very much. 

D. No problem.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Câu 10:

A. were there

B. there have been

C. there were

D. have there been

Câu 11:

They are moving house ______ they can live near their grandparents.

A. in order that

B. before

C. since

D. even though

Câu 12:

Can anyone give me ______ hand, please? I have just fallen over

A. a

B. the

C. x

D. an

Câu 13:

You know the well-established benefits of lifelong learning, ______?

A. aren't you

B. do you

C. don't you

D. are you

Câu 14:

Unfortunately, due to hardware ______, only a limited number of experiments were  performed.

A. interventions

B. evolutions

C. navigations

D. malfunctions

Câu 15:

Personal and family stresses will inevitably interfere ______ work at times.

A. at

B. for

C. with

D. on

Câu 16:

I didn't know how to get to the post office, so I stopped ______ the way.

A. being asked

B. to ask

C. to be asked 

D. asking

Câu 17:

Manufacturers who are at the leading ______ of technology will be among the leaders.

A. verge

B. edge

C. point

D. border

Câu 18:

Beethoven, ______ music you have just been listening to, is one of my favourite composers.

A. whom

B. who

C. which

D. whose

Câu 19:

A recent survey identified the UK as ______ place in Europe to buy a car.

A. the most expensive

B. an expensive as

C. the expensive

D. the more expensive

Câu 20:

No worries! I will have your bicycle ______ before returning it to you.

A. repair

B. to repair

C. repairing

D. repaired

Câu 21:

By the end of next year, George ______ English for ten years.

A. will have learned

B. would learn

C. will learn

D. has learned

Câu 22:

Students who ______ their teachers are regarded as disrespectful.

A. think back on

B. put up with

C. talk back to

D. get on with

Câu 23:

More and more people are having satellite dishes ______ on their roofs.

A. implanted

B. inserted

C. introduced

D. installed

Câu 24:

A. electric

B. encourage

C. potential

D. graduate

Câu 25:

Indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position primary stress: improve, workforce, apply, contain

A. improve

B. workforce

C. apply

D. contain

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

Câu 26:

A. he

B. lifelong

C. achieved

D. were not

Câu 27:

Although the growth of distance education world wide, there are still very few programmes for training teachers in appropriate teaching strategies.

A. Although

B. very few

C. world wide

D. for

Câu 28:

A home application is a device which accomplishes household functions, such as cooking, cleaning or food preservation.

A. application

B. food preservation

C. accomplishes

D. which

 Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

Câu 29:

A. exceptional

B. exclusive

C. common

D. distinctive

Câu 30:

Rock the Ocean's Tortuga Music Festival, in partnership with Live Nation, also raises money for ocean conservation.

A. preservation

B. destruction

C. maintenance

D. navigation

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.

Câu 31:

A. But for such awful weather Joe managed to climb the summit.

B. Due to the worsening weather, Joe had no alternative but to give up his attempt to climb the summit.

C. The weather was so bad that Joe wouldn't be able to climb the summit.

D. Joe wasn't encouraged to try to reach the summit because of the weather, which was extremely bad.

Câu 32:

You should take regular exercises instead of sitting in front of the television all day. 

A. Sitting in front of the television all day and taking exercises are advisable.

B. Sitting in front of the television all day helps you take regular exercises.

C. Taking regular exercises is better than sitting in front of the television all day.

D. Don't take regular exercises, just sit in front of the television all day.

Câu 33:

"Here are the car keys. You'd better wait in the car," he said to her.

A. He got the car keys before advising her to wait in the car.

B. He advised her to wait in the car with the car key

C. He handed her the keys, advising her to wait in the car.

D. He gave the car keys to her who was to wait for him in the car.

Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world's most renowned scientists, has warned that robots and machines with artificial intelligence could one day mean the end of us all. Professor Hawking recently told the BBC in an interview that: "The development of full artificial intelligence (AI) could spell the end of the human race." The famous cosmologist made his warning in response to a question about an update to the app he uses to allow him to communicate. Hawking suffers from motor neuron disease (also known as ALS) and needs a special voice synthesizer to talk. The update will be able to predict words he might want to use based on his previous communication.

Hawking said that AI has given many benefits to many people. He said it is still in its early stages of development, but when it becomes more sophisticated, it could prove a threat to our existence. He said: "It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded." This is not the first time he has issued such a warning. He gave a more chilling warning in April 2014. He said it could control our financial markets, invent things human researchers could not invent, be smarter than human leaders, and develop new weapons.

Câu 34:

The word "sophisticated" in this case can be replaced with _______ .

A. advanced

B. unique

C. vulnerable

D. automated

Câu 35:

According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A. This is the first time Hawking has warned of the threat from A.I.

B. Hawking said A.I would not be better than humans at inventing things.

C. Hawking said AI could be a threat if it becomes more sophisticated.

D. Hawking said AI would evolve at a slower rate than human evolution.

Câu 36:

Which one of professor Hawking's jobs was mentioned in the article?

A. cosmologist

B. lecturer

C. author

D. theoretical physicist

Câu 37:

According to the passage, the word "he" refers to ______.

A. the BBC

B. Stephen Hawking

C. robot

D. the human race

Câu 38:

The word "spell" in this case can be replaced with _______ .

A. unify

B. pronounce

C. explain

D. signify

Câu 39:

A. employ

B. special

C. endanger

D. extinct

Câu 40:

A. followed

B. arrived

C. decided

D. advised

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. 

Câu 41:

A. dangerous

B. serious

C. new

D. dramatic

Câu 42:

After spending hours working on this project, the young student is running out of steam and wants to take a break.

A. in danger

B. hanging out

C. feeling thirsty

D. losing enthusiasm

A lot of advice is available for college leavers heading for their first job. In this article we consider the move to a second job. We are not concerned with those looking for a second temporary position while hunting for a permanent job. Nor are we concerned with those leaving an unsatisfactory job within the first few weeks. Instead, we will be dealing with those of you taking a real step on the career ladder, choosing a job to fit in with your ambitions now that you have learnt your way around, acquired some skills and have some idea of where you want to go.

What sort of job should you look for? Much depends on your long-term aim. You need to ask yourself whether you want to specialize in a particular field, work your way up to higher levels of responsibility or out of your current employment into a broader field.

Whatever you decide, you should choose your second job very carefully. You should be aiming to stay in it for two or three years. This job will be studied very carefully when you send your letter of application for your next job. It should show evidence of serious career planning. Most important, it should extend you, develop you and give you increasing responsibility. Incidentally, if you are interested in traveling, now is the time to pack up and go. You can do temporary work for a while when you return, pick up where you left off and get the second job then. Future potential employers will be relieved to see that you have got it out of your system, and are not likely to go off again.

Juliette Davidson spend her first year after leaving St. Aldate's College working for three lawyers. It was the perfect first job in that " OK ... they were very supportive people. I was gently introduced to the work, learnt my way around an office and improve my word processing skills. However, there was no scope for advancement. One day, I gave my notice, bought an air ticket and traveled for a year."

Juliette now works as a Personal Assistant to Brenda Cleverdon, the Chief Executive of business in the Community. "In two and a half years I have become more able and my job has really grown", she says. " Right from the beginning my boss was very keen to develop me. My job title is the same as it was when I started but the duties have changed. From mainly typing and telephone work, I have progressed to doing most of the correspondence and budgets. I also have to deal with a variety of queries, coming from chairmen of large companies to people wanting to know how to start their own business. Brenda involves me in all her work but also gives me specific projects to do and events to organize."

Câu 43:

The word "advancement" in the passage mostly means ______.

A. temptation

B. advantage

C. promotion

D. flexibility

Câu 44:

What does the phrase "you have got it out of your system" in passage mean?

A. You have learned to look after yourself.

B. You have satisfied your wish to travel.

C. You have planned your career sensibly.

D. You are an experienced traveler.

Câu 45:

According to the writer, why is the choice of your second job important?

A. It will last longer than your first job

B. It will affect your future job prospects.

C. It should give you the opportunity to study.

D. It will be difficult to change if you don't like it.

Câu 46:

In what way is Juliette's current job better than her first job?

A. She is more involve in the community.

B. She has been able to extend her skills.

C. She has a more impressive job title

D. She now know how to start her own business.

Câu 47:

If you have a desire to travel, when does the writer suggest that you do it?

A. straight after you have left college

B. when you are unable to find a permanent job

C. after you have done some temporary work

D. between the first and second job

Câu 48:

How did Juliette Davidson benefit from the experience of her first job?

A. It was good introduction to working in an office

B. It enabled her to earn enough money to travel.

C. She met a variety of interesting people.

D. She learnt how to use a word processor

Câu 49:

Who is intended to benefit from the advice given in the article?

A. those who are interested in establishing a career

B. people who are unhappy with their current job

C. people who change jobs regularly

D. students who have just finished their studies

Câu 50:

"It" in the passage refers to ______.

A. second job

B. application

C. first job

D. career