SỞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO
TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN
NGUYỄN HUỆ
ĐỀ THI THỬ MÔN TIẾNG ANH
KÌ THI THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015
Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút;
Mã đề thi
132
(Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu)
Họ, tên thí sinh: Lớp
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 1: A. inherit B. harmony C. nominate D. primitive
Question 2: A. purchase B. reflect C. suggest D. contain
Question 3: A. facilitate B. instrumental C. historical D. dimensional
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part
differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 4: A. change B. jealous C. generous D. gear
Question 5: A. pole B. lost C. post D. loan
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 6: The job requires certain______. You have to be good at operating computers and dealing
with people.
A. qualifications B. knowledge C. techniques D. skills
Question 7: “Shall I wait for you? - “_________________”
A. Why ask such a question B. No need to ask
C. No, don’t bother D. Yes, of course
Question 8: ‘Excuse me. Where is the _______ office of UNICEF Vietnam located?”
A. leading B. head C. summit D. central
Question 9: He really deserved the award because he performed _________ what was expected of
him.

A. to learn B. learned C. learning D. learn
Question 23: When the car was invented, I don’t think anyone could have predicted______it would
change the world.
A. how B. what C. why D. when
Question 24: You have to study hard to______your classmates.
A. keep pace with B. get in touch with C. catch sight of D. look out for
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Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheets to indicate the word (s) SIMILAR in
meaning to the underlined word (s) in each of the following questions.
Question 25: By the end of the storm, the hikers had depleted even their emergency stores.
A. destroyed B. lost C. used almost all of D. greatly dropped
Question 26: Originally the builders have me a price of $5,000, but now they say they underestimated
it, and now it’s going to be at least $8,000.
A. underrated B. outnumbered C. undervalued D. misjudged
Question 27: Please stop making that noise! It really gets on my nerves.
A. Cheers me up B. wakes me up C. annoys me D. amuses me
Question 28: Please do up your safety belt before we begin the journey
A. fasten B. carry C. wear D. loosen
Question 29: It is inevitable that smoking will damage your health
A. invading B. intriguing C. unavoidable D. unhealthy
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct word or phrase for each of the blanks.
School exams are, generally speaking, the first kind of test we take. They find out how much
knowledge we have gained. But do they really show how intelligent we are? After all, isn’t it a
___(30)_____ that some people who are very academically successful don’t have any common sense.
Intelligence is the speed ___(31)_____ which we can understand and react to new situations and it is
usually tested by logic puzzles. Although scientist are now preparing ___(32)_____ computer
technology that will be able to “read” our brains, ___(33)_____ tests are still the most popular ways of
measuring intelligence.
A person’s IQ is their intelligence ___(34)_____ it is measured by a special test. The most common IT

curtained-off section at the back of the arena is laughably referred to as the girls' dressing room, but is
more accurately described as a corridor, with beige, cracked walls and cheap temporary tables set up
along the length of it. Each girl has a small area littered with pots of orange make-up, tubes of mascara
and long false eyelashes.
As a place to work, it must rank pretty low down the scale: the area round the ice-rink is grey
and mucky with rows of dirty blue and brown plastic seating and red carpet tiles. It's an unimpressive
picture, but the show itself is an unquestionably vast, polished global enterprise: the lights come from a
firm in Texas, the people who make the audio system are in California, but Montreal supplies the
smoke effects; former British Olympic skater Robin Cousins is now creative director for the company
and conducts a vast master class to make sure they're ready for the show's next performance.
The next day, as the music blares out from the sound system, the case start to go through their
routines under Cousins' direction. Cousins says, 'The aim is to make sure they're all still getting to
exactly the right place on the ice at the right time - largely because the banks of lights in the ceiling are
set to those places, and if the skaters are all half a metre out they'll be illuminating empty ice. Our
challenge, ' he continues, 'is to produce something they can sell in a number of countries at the same
time. My theory is that you take those things that people want to see and you give it to them, but not in
the way they expect to see it. You try to twist it. And you have to find music that is challenging to the
skaters, because they have to do it every night.'
It may be a job which he took to pay the rent, but you can’t doubt his enthusiasm. 'They only
place you'll see certain skating moves is an ice show,' he says, 'because you're not allowed to do them
in competition. It's not in the rules. So the ice show word has things to offer which the competitive
world just doesn't. Cousins knows what he's talking about because he skated for the show himself
when he stopped competing - he was financially unable to retire. He learnt the hard way that you can't
put on an Olympic performance every night. I'd be thinking, these people have paid their money, now
do your stuff, and I suddenly thought, "I really can't cope. I'm not enjoying it".' The solution, he
realized, was to give 75 per cent every night, rather than striving for the sort of twice-a-year excellence
which won him medals.
To be honest, for those of us whose only experience of ice-skating is watching top-class
Olympic skaters, some of the movements can look a bit amateurish, but then, who are we to judge?
Equally, it's impossible not to be swept up in the whole thing; well, you'd have to try pretty hard not to

D. by presenting familiar material in an unexpected way
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Question 47: What does Cousins suggest in paragraph 5 about skating in shows?
A. It can be as competitive as other forms of skating
B. It enables skaters to visit a variety of places
C. It is particularly well paid
D. It allows skaters to try out a range of ideas
Question 48: What is meant by 'the hard way'?
A. through making a lot of errors
B. through difficult personal experience
C. by over-estimating the ability of others
D. by misunderstanding the expectations of others
Question 49: What conclusion does the writer draw about Holiday on Ice?
A. It is hard to know who really enjoys it
B. It is more enjoyable to watch than formal ice-skating
C. It requires as much skill as Olympic ice-skating
D. It is difficult to dislike it
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.
Question 50: Economists have tried to discourage the use of the phrase “underdeveloped
A B
nation and encouraging the more accurate phase “developing nation” in order to suggest an
C D
ongoing process.
Question 51: Being the biggest expanse of brackish water in the world, the Baltic Sea is of
A B C
special interesting to scientists.
D
Question 52: Nylon, a synthetic done from a combination of water, air and a by – product of
A B

accompany hunger.
The woman planted another staple, squash, about the first of June, and harvested it near the time of
the green corn harvest. After they picked it, they sliced it, dried it, and strung the slices before they
stored them. Once again, they saved the seeds from the best of the year’s crop. The Mandans also
grew sunflowers and tobacco; the latter was the particular task of the older men.
Source (TOEFL reading)
Question 55: What is the main topic of the passage ?
A. The problems encountered by farmers specializing in growing once crop
B. The agricultural activities of a North American Society
C. Various ways corn can be used.
D. Weather conditions on the western plains.
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Question 56: The Mandans built their houses close together in order to ____________.
A. guard their supplies of food B. protect themselves against the weather
C. share farming implements D. allow more room for growing corn
Question 57: The word “enabled” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to ____________.
A. covered B. helped C. reminded D. isolated
Question 58: Why does the author believe that the Mandans were skilled farmers?
A. They developed effective fertilizers.
B. They could grow crops in most types of soil.
C. They could grow crops despite adverse weather.
D. They developed new varieties of corn.
Question 59: The word “consumption” in the paragraph is closest in meaning to _________.
A. decay B. conversation C. eating D. planting
Question 60: Which of the following processes does the author imply was done by both men and
women?
A. clearing fields B. Harvesting squash C. Harvesting corn D. Planting corn
Question 61: The word “disaster” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to __________.
A. control B. catastrophe C. history. D. avoidance
Question 62: The word “them” in the last paragraph refers to _________.

PHẦN VIẾT ( 2 điểm)
PHẦN I (0,5 điểm) (0,1đ/câu)
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CÂU SỐ ĐÁP ÁN CÂU SỐ ĐÁP ÁN CÂU SỐ ĐÁP ÁN
1. A 24. A 47. D
2. A 25. C 48. B
3. B 26. C 49. D
4. D 27. C 50. C
5. B 28. A 51. D
6. D 29. C 52. A
7. C 30. D 53. C
8. B 31. C 54. C
9. D 32. D 55. B
10. B 33. D 56. A
11. A 34. A 57. B
12. A 35. C 58. C
13. B 36. C 59. C
14. A 37. B 60. C
15. B 38. D 61. B
16. C 39. A 62. C
17. B 40. A 63. D
18. A 41. D 64. D
19. A 42. C
20. B 43. B
21. C 44. B
22. C 45. D
23. A 46. D
Question 65: The secretary apologized for (her) being late for the meeting
Question 66: Hardly had the teacher returned home from work when he started to write the lesson
plan.

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