Bài tập nâng cao Tiếng Anh 12
Lê Nga CBT - 2010
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BÀI TẬP NÂNG CAO TIẾNG ANH 12 – BÀI SỐ 5
I. Choose the word whose sstressed syllable is different from the others in each group
1. A.product B.nonsense C.around D.foreign
2. A.integrate B.recognize C.accurate D.attractive
3. A.enthusiast B.recognition C.commercialize D.accelerate
4. A.accident B.agreement C.destruction D.spectator
5. A.prescription B.digestion C.conciuousness D.religion
II. Choose the word which best fits each gap of the sentence.
6. I can’t help you with your homework. I football in ten minutes.
A.play B.will have played C.am playing D.will play
7. No, I haven’t had an accident. I the car.
A.was repairing B.have been repairing C.have repaired D.repaired
8. my keys, I wasn’t able to get into the house and had to wait until Ann got home.
A.To have lost B.Having lost C.As I lost D.Because I was losing
9. The assistant suggested the next day when the manager would be there.
A.we are coming back B.us to come back
C.we will come back D.we came back
10. I’ve always enjoyed traveling. my brother, , prefers to stay at home.
A.however B.but C.although D.despite
11. Don’t be late for the interview, people will think you are a disorganised person.
A.unless B.if not C.otherwise D.or so
12. Some people tie a knot in their handkerchief they don’t forget something important.
A.so that B.in order C.because D.so as
13. that letter for you on my way to the office?
A.Do I post B.Shall I post C.Would I post D.Will I post
14. Nga: “ Are most of your books in English?” – Nam : “ ”
A.Yes, I have to read some science books in English

III. Read the passage and choose the best answer for each blank.
THE QUEEN OF THE CHANEL
Some time ago, Alison Streeter swam the Chanel – the stretch of water between Britain and France – for
the 19
th
time. When she reached France she wasn’t (26) tired, so she turned around and swam straight
back again. “It was Friday night. I thought, I’ve got the weekend to get (27) it and the weather is good.
I’ll do it,” she says. This was her fifth return trip.
Since the first Chanel swim in 1875, only 478 swimmers have (28) to do it. Only one in ten
attempts to swim the 34km succeeds, but Alison has never failed. For many swimmers, to do it (29)
once would be enough, but to keep goin back and do it again must surely be madness. “When I first did it, I
didn’t think it was anything special,” says Alison, and almost dismissing the achievement. “I didn’t really want
to do another swim. Then someone (30) me to have a go at two-way crossing. The thought of being
the first British swimmer to do that was quite exciting.”
During a swim, she (31) on regular drinks of tea mixed with a carbonhydrate power. A red
light-stick is attatched to her back (32) she can be seen by the boat accompanying her. “In the early
days I used to be almost asleep (33) ,” she says. “I would try to calculate the number of strokes I was
doing per hour. Now I just empty my mind and time (34) really quickly.
Her best time one-way is 8 hours 48 minutes. Soon, she intends to swim the Chanel for the 32
nd
time,
(35) her the world record holder.
26. A.heavily B.considerably C.particularly D.distinctly
27. A.round B.over C.out of D.through to
28. A.succeeded B.managed C.achieved D.fulfilled
29. A.plainly B.just C.purely D.alone
30. A.insisted B.suggested C.proposed D.persuaded
31. A.keeps B.lasts C.exists D.runs
32. A.so that B.on account of C.as far as D.in case
33. A.at times B.over and over C.by and by D.in stages


44. A.especially B.anyway C.eventually D.meanwhile
45. A.progress B.progression C.profressive D.progressing
V. Read the passage and choose the best answer for each question.
There are desert plants which survive the dry season in the form of inactive seeds. There are also desert
insects which survive as inactive larvae or pupae. In addition, difficult as it is to believe, there are desert fish
which can survive through years of drought in the form of inactive eggs. These are shrimps that live in the
Mojave Desert, an intensely dry region in the southwest of the United States where shade temperature of over
50
0
C are often recorded.
The eggs are in the size and have the appearance of grains of sand. When sufficient spring rain falls to
form a lake, once every two or five years, these eggs hatch. Then the water soon swarms with millions of tiny
shrimps about a millimeter long which feed on microscope plant and animal organisms which grow in the
temporary desert lake. Within a week, the shrimps grow from their original 1 millimeter to a length of about 1
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centimeters.
Through the time that the shrimps are rapidly maturing, the water in the lake equally rapidly evaporates.
Therefore, it is a race against time. By twelfth day, when they are about 3 centimaters long, hundreds of tiny
eggs form on the underbodies of the females. Usually, bu this time, all that ramains of the final hours of their
brief lives, the females lay their eggs in the mud. Then, having ensured that their species will survive, the
shrimps die as the last of the water evaporates.
If sufficient rain falls the following year to form another lake, the eggs hatch, and once again the cycle
growth, adulthood, egg-laying, and death is rapidly passed through. If there is insufficient rain to form a lake,
the eggs like dormant for years, or even longer if necessary. Ocasionally, perhaps twice in a hundred years,
sufficient rain falls to form a deep lake that last a month or more. In this case, the species passes through two
cycles of gowth, egg-laying and death. Thus the species multiplies considerably, which further ensures its
survival.
46. What does the passage mainly discuss?

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writing requires language to express far more complex train of thought than it was biologically designed to do.
Inconsistencies caused by limitations of short-term memory and palnning, unnoticed in conversation, are not
as tolerably when preserved on a page that is to be persued more leisurely. Also, unlike a conversational
partner, a reader will rarely share enough background assumptions to interpolate all the missing oremises that
make language comprhensible. Overcoming one’s natural egocentrism and trying to anticiplate the knowledge
state of a reader at every stage of the exposition is one of the most important tasks in writing well. All this
makes writing a difficult craft that must be mastered through practice, instruction, feedback, and-probably most
important-intensive exposure to good examples. There are excellent manuals of composition that discuss these
and other skills with great wisdom. What is most relevant is how removed their practical advice is from the
trivia of split infinitives and slang. For example, a banal but universally acknowledged key to good writing is
to revise extensively. Good writers go through anywhere from two to twenty drafts before releasing a paper.
Anyone who does not appreciate this necessity is going to be a bad writer. If clear writing is wanted, then this is
the course that must be followed.
56. What is the main topic of the passage?
A.The importance of repeated draft in writing.
B.The difficulties involved in producing good writing
C.The problems of conveying meaning to readers
D.The importance of reading good writing
57. The phrase “trains of thought” is closest meaning to .
A.ways of thinking B.connected ideas C.continuous concepts D.logical thinking
58. Why does the author mention “short-term memory”?
A.To suggest that memories are not always accurate.
B.To show the problems of writing down memories
C.To indicate the necessity for long-term memory.
D.To explain sshort-term memory is indequate for complex writing.
59. According to the passage, readers sometimes have difficulty undresatanding text because .
A.they have no knowledge of the subject matter
B. there is no opportunity for them to check their assumptions

A B C D
69. The burglar is thought to get in through the bathroom window.
A B C D
70. Jerry said that he didn’t go to the meeting the previous evening because of his illness.
A B C D
VIII. Choose the correct phrase or clause to complete each of the following sentences.
71. As soon as the singer finished his song, .
A.the audience burst into applause B.the audience had burst into applause
C.the audience would have burst into applause D.the audience were burst into applause
72. , the more miserable I feel.
A.When the weather is hotter B.The weather is getting hotter
C.The hotter the weather is D.Getting hotter the weather is
73. The party was very boring. .
A.So we, therefore, decided to leave early B.We decided to leave early, therefore
C.We, therefore, decided to leave early, so D.We decided to leave early, so
74. , he has become a successful businessman.
A.Eventhough his physical handicap B. Inspite of the fact that his physical handicap
C. Despite his physical handicap D.Although being of his physical handicap
75. We won’t gat any information .
A.if he won’t phone immediately B.unless he phoned immediately
C.must he phone immediately D.should he phone immediately
IX. Choose one sentence that has the same meaning as the root one.
76. It was quite unnecessary for you to carry all those parcels home yourself.
A.You wouldn’t carry all those parcels home yourself.
B.You can’t have carried all those parcels home yourself.
C.You needn’t have carried all those parcels home yourself.
D.You haven’t carried all those parcels home yourself.
77. “ You’ve passed the exam?” “Oh, well done!” my aunt said to me.
A.My aunt congratulated me on passing the exam.
B.My aunt said I have passed the exam, well done.