Đề luyện thi Tốt nghiệp và Đại học Năm 2011 – Đề 12
Exercise 1. Chọn từ có phần gạch dưới có cách phát âm khác với từ còn lại.
1. a. nose b. seen c. useful d. bus
2. a. walls b. forks c. bags d. ways
3. a. carrots b. apples c. peas d. raisins
4. a. pleasing b. pleasant c. pleasure d. please
5. a. houses b. faces c. horses d. places
Exercise 2. Chọn một từ / nhóm từ thích hợp cho mỗi chỗ trống trong những câu sau.
1. Weatherman can ________ the weather correctly most of the time.
a. plan for b. accept c. forbid d. predict
2. When the railroad tracks are raised, the danger of crossing will be ________.
a. perceived b. wiped out c. understood d. disappeared
3. Einstein’s ________ is really too difficult for the average people to understand.
a. explanation b. knowledge c. experiment d. theory
4. After studying the ________ we were able to finish our report.
a. data b. facility c. equipment d. media
5. The wind became colder, the men began to ________.
a. soar b. vanish c. shiver d. shake
6. How did you learn to drive ? - _________ strict obedience to my tutor.
a. To give b. Give c. By giving d. Giving
7. My boss is angry with me. I didn’t do all the work that I ________ last week.
a. should do b. should have done c. must have done d. might have done
8. As he was dying, the old man said: “ I _______ a lot of mistakes in my life but I don’t regret any of
them”.
a. may make b. might make c. would have made d. might have made
9. Would you be so good as ________ the phone when it rings.
a. to answer b. answer c. answering d. answer
10. There was a short silence and then footsteps were heard _______ from the direction of the library.
a. come b. to come c. comes d. came
Exercise 3. Xác định dạng thích hợp của những từ cho sẵn trong ngoặc
1. The teacher punished the child for ( 1 – OBEY ) __________.

Most plants cannot move about to search for food. They cannot fly, crawl, swim, hop, walk or run. Their
(4) __ hold them firmly in the soil. Yet they are (5) ____ to keep growing and seem to have plenty of food.
For a long time people believed that plants (6) _____ only soil for food. A (7) _______ thoughful people
noticed that plants (8) _______ grew in pots did not seem to use up the soil. No matter (9) ______ large
such plants became, the amount of soil in the pots remained about the (10) _____. This was very puzzling.
At last, a man thought of an experiment to find out (11) ______ plants use soil for food. He placed a pot
of soil in the oven. He heated it until the water was driven off and the soil was very (12) ______. Then he
weighed the pot of soil very carefully and wrote down its exact (13) _______. Next he (14) _______ some
seeds in the soil, and gave them plenty water. When the seeds had (15) _____ into large plants, he
removed these plants, roots and all, (16) ______ the pot. He dried the pot of soil again and weighed it. It
weighed only a very little less than it had before. The plants had gained a great deal (17) ______ weight,
but the soil had (18) _______ only a very little in weight.

Exercise 5. Đọc đoạn văn dưới đây rồi chọn đáp án đúng hoặc sai.
Noah Webster’s goal in life was to promote the adoption of an American language. He wanted to free
Americans from British English as they had freed themselves from the British crown. To this end he
published a series of three textbooks: a speller in 1783, a grammar in 1784, and a reader in 1785.
Webster objected to the way certain words had been borrowed from other languages but had not been
respelled. The results, he claimed, was a confusing mixture of letters, many of which were not pronounced
the way they looked, and other of which were not pronounced at all.
Webster urged Americans to simplify their spelling. For example, he argued that “head” should be
spelled / hed / and “ bread” should be spelled / bred /. Most of Webster’s suggestions did not catch on, but
his textbooks sold millions of copies.

1. Which of the following is the best title for the passage ?
a. The three books of Noah Webster
b. Noah Webster and the Adoption of an American language.
c. Simplication of spelling.
d. Noah Webster and the British Crown.
2. According to Webster, Americans should