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TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC VINH
TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN
ĐỀ THI KHẢO SÁT CHẤT LƯỢNG LỚP 12, LẦN II - 2013
Môn: TIẾNG ANH (Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút, 80 câu trắc nghiệm)

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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 1: Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity.
A. cover B. conserve C. presume D. reveal
Question 2: Primary education in the United States is compulsory.
A. selective B. optional C. required D. free of charge

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.

Question 3: A. humane B. honorable C. microwave D. horizon
Question 4: A. intangible B. substance C. latitude D. parasite
Question 5: A. accumulate B. accuracy C. accelerate D. academy
Question 6: A. majority B. machine C. malignant D. magnifier
Question 7: A. inability B. potentially C. territorial D. personality

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 8: Women still cover their heads in some countries. They did so in the past.

Question 13: It takes roughly 4,000 pounds of petals to make a single pound of rose oil.
A. as much as B. more or less C. amazingly D. relatively
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Question 14: Perhaps more than anything else, it was onerous taxes that led to the Peasants’ Revolt in
England in 1381.
A. multiple B. unjust C. burdensome D. infamous
Question 15: Although monkeys occasionally menace their enemies, they are usually not dangerous
unless they are provoked.
A. consume B. threaten C. kill D. pursue

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.

Even before the turn of the century, movies began to develop in two major directions: the realistic and
the formalistic. Realism and formalism are merely general, rather than absolute terms. When used to
suggest a tendency toward either polarity, such labels can be helpful, but in the end they are still just labels.
Few films are exclusively formalist in style, and fewer yet are completely realist. There is also an important
difference between realism and reality, although this distinction is often forgotten. Realism is a particular
style, whereas physical reality is the source of all the raw materials of the film, both realistic and formalistic.
Virtually all movie directors go to the photographable world for their subject matter, but what they do with
this material, how they shape and manipulate it determines their stylistic emphasis.
Generally speaking, realistic films attempt to reproduce the surface of concrete reality with a minimum of
distortion. In photographing objects and events, the filmmaker tries to suggest the copiousness of life itself.
Both realist and formalist film directors must select and hence emphasize certain details from chaotic
sprawl of reality. But the element of selectivity in realistic films is less obvious. Realists, in short, try to
preserve the illusion that their film world is not manipulated, an objective mirror of the actual world.
Formalists, on the other hand, make no such pretense. They deliberately stylize and distort their raw
materials so that only the very naïve would mistake a manipulated image of an object or event for the real

Question 24: The word “tangible” is closest in meaning to
A. various B. comprehensible C. concrete D. complex
Question 25: Which of the following terms is NOT used to describe realism in filmmaking?
A. Exaggerated B. Spontaneous C. Simple D. Self-effacing
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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 26: Many countries share the view that drastic measures must be taken to stop sea pollution.
A. Sea pollution can only be prevented provided that many countries follow the same policy.
B. A lot of countries agree that it is essential to take strong action to put an end to sea pollution.
C. Seas will continue to be polluted unless this agreement is accepted by a majority of the countries.
D. By putting into practice a series of precautions, it is believed that sea pollution will be prevented.
Question 27: The assignment that you’ve been given isn’t as complicated as mine.
A. My assignment isn’t as complex as the one you have been given.
B. Neither of us has been given a simple assignment.
C. The assignment that you’ve got is extremely easy, but mine’s not.
D. Mine is the more complex of the assignments you and I have received.
Question 28: While recycling has caught the public imagination, reducing waste has attracted less attention.
A. It is not generally known that reducing waste is more effective than recycling.
B. People are more interested in recovery and reuse than in creating less rubbish.
C. Using things again is the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish.
D. Recycling is not necessarily the best way of reducing waste, according to the public.
Question 29: “It’s the excessive number of songs that makes my laptop crash.” said Tim.
A. Tim insisted that the songs be deleted from his laptop to avoid crash.
B. Tim blamed the excessive number of songs for the crash of his laptop.
C. Tim advised me not to save so many songs that his laptop crashed.

Question 36: A. combine B. join C. associate D. accompany
Question 37: A. head B. chief C. top D. upper
Question 38: A. amount B. standard C. measure D. average
Question 39: A. taking B. acting C. doing D. seeing
Question 40: A. handed in B. drawn up C. written up D. filled in

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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.

The principal difference between urban growth in Europe and in the North American colonies was the
slow evolution of cities in the former and their rapid growth in the latter. In Europe they grew over a period
of centuries from town economies to their present urban structure. In North America, they started as
wilderness communities and developed to mature urbanism in little more than a century.
In the early colonial days in North America, small cities sprang up along the Atlantic Coastline, mostly in
what are now New England and the Middle Atlantic states in the United States and in the lower Saint
Lawrence valley in Canada. This was natural because these areas were nearest England and France,
particularly England, from which most capital goods were imported. Merchandising establishments were,
accordingly, advantageously located in port cities from which goods could be readily distributed to interior
settlements. Here, too, were the favored locations for processing raw materials prior to export. Boston,
Philadelphia, New York, Montreal, and other cities flourished, and as the colonies grew, these cities
increased in importance.
This was less true in the colonial South, where life centered around large farms, known as plantations,
rather than around towns, as was the case in the areas further north along the Atlantic coastline. The local
isolation and the economic self-sufficiency of the plantations were antagonistic to the development of the
towns. The plantations maintained their independence because they were located on navigable streams
and each had a wharf accessible to the small shipping of that day. In fact, one of the strongest factors in the
selection of plantation land was the desire to have it front on a water highway. When the United States

A. Manufacturing equipment B. Capital goods
C. Consumer goods D. Raw materials
Question 47: According to the passage, all of the following aspects of the plantation system influenced the
growth of southern cities EXCEPT the
A. location of the plantations
B. access of plantation owners to shipping
C. relationships between plantation residents and city residents
D. economic self-sufficiency of the plantations
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Question 48: It can be inferred from the passage that, compared with northern cities, most southern cities were
A. more prosperous
B. smaller
C. less economically self-sufficient
D. tied less closely to England than to France
Question 49: The word "recorded" is closest in meaning to
A. imagined B. discovered C. documented D. planned
Question 50: The passage mentions the period following the Civil War because it was a time of
A. significant obstacles to industrial growth
B. decreased dependence on foreign trade
C. increased number of people leaving employment on farms
D. increased migration from northern states to southern states

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 51: No one knows exactly _______.
A. how did speech begin B. how speech began
C. how the beginning of speech D. of how beginning speech
Question 52: _______ one or more units of living substance called protoplasm.

Sasha: “So long, Linda. And _______.”
A. don’t hurry B. be careful
C. take care D. don’t take it seriously
Question 65: I ______ hope there won’t be a repetition of these unfortunate events.
A. bitterly B. sincerely C. unfailingly D. completely
Question 66: Anna: “In my opinion, children always watch too much TV.”
Tom: “_______.”
A. Completely B. Of course C. Totally D. Absolutely
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Question 67: There was _______ evidence to bring charges against the man.
A. ineffective B. inadvisable C. interior D. insufficient
Question 68: If Michael ______ with his piano playing, he could eventually reach concert standard.
A. perseveres B. maintains C. survives D. sustains
Question 69: After you have finished the _________, restart the computer to get it acquainted to the new
program.
A. installation B. install C. installment D. installing
Question 70: _______ inventions such as video CD Rom and the Internet, it has been difficult for movie
theatres to turn a profit since the early 1970s.
A. Because of recent B. Since recent
C. Recent D. The result of recent
Question 71: You look really tired. You could ______ a week’s holiday, I think.
A. make for B. pass for C. do with D. make with
Question 72: I was going to bring up the issue of my premature retirement but it turned out I _______ it as
everybody had already known my case.
A. needn’t have done B. didn’t need do
C. didn’t need to do D. needn’t to have done
Question 73: When the bombing started, plans were made for an immediate _________ of the city.
A. vacation B. departure C. exodus D. evacuation

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