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LUYỆN THI THPT
QUỐC GIA – 2017
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ĐỀ 01
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 1. A. uniform
B. situation
C. amusing
D. unemployment
Question 2. A. benefit
B. every
C. bed
D. enjoy
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the
other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3. A. competence B. comfortable C. compliment D. companion
Question 4. A. inevitable
B. innovate
C. incapable
D. insecticide
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 5. People are not allowed to enter the park after midnight because lack of security.
A

C. would never marry
D. must never have married
Question 10. Many species of wild life are__________ of extinction
A. at rish
B. on the verge
C. on the side
D. in dangers
Question 11. I ran after her, but she managed to_________
A. get by
B. get over
C. get out
D. get away
Question 12. Due to the storm, the flight to New York was ______ for some hours.
A. cancelled
B. delayed
C. stopped
D. given up
Question 13. The twins look so much alike that almost no one can ______ them ______.
A. tell – away
B. take – on
C. tell – apart
D. take – apart
Question 14. In his student days, he was as poor as a church ______
A. beggar
B. miser
C. mouse
D. pauper
Question 15. They have made no ______ at all in our talk about a common agricultural policy.
A. gain
B. progress

Question 21. - “Don’t forget to do as I have told you.”
- “_____________ “
A. Yes, I won’t
B. Yes, I will
C. No, I won’t
D. No, I will remember
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.


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Question 22. The notice should be put in the most conspicuous place so that all the students
can be well-informed.
A. easily seen
B. beautiful
C. popular
D. suspicious
Question 23. Many scientists agree that global warming poses great threats to all species on Earth.
A. annoyance
B. risks
C. irritations
D. fears
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.
Question 24. In Tra Bong District, Quang Ngai province, the class began seven years ago with
a mix of children, some dumb, deaf or suffering a lisp and others mentally retarded.
A. loud

B. Henry watched TV last night instead of doing his homework.
C. Henry did not watch TV last night because he had to do his homework.
D. Henry did his homework while watching TV.
Question 30. Seeing that he was angry, she left the office.
A. She didn't want to make him angry, so she left.


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B. He wouldn't have been so angry if she hadn't been there.
C. He grew very angry when he saw her leaving the office.
D. She left the office when she saw how angry he was.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.
In Britain, the average young person now spends more money on games each year than
on going to the cinema or renting videos. But is this (31)_________a bad thing? For years,
newspaper reports have been saying that children who spend too much time playing computer
games become unsociable, bad- tempered, even violent as a (32)_________But new research,
carried out in both Europe and the USA, suggests that the opposite may be true.
Indeed, playing some of the more complicated games may help people of all ages to
improve certain skills. Researchers claim that this is because the games (33)_________the
brain work harder in certain ways, like noticing sounds and movements quickly and identifying
what they are. The fact that people play the games repeatedly (34)_________that they get a lot
of practice in these skills which are therefore likely to become highly developed.
Social skills may benefit, too. Researchers in Chicago think that fans of first- person
shooter games such as “Counterstrike” are better than non-players when it comes to building
trust and co-operation, and that this (35)_________them to make good friendships and become
strong members of their communities. So rather than giving up computer games, perhaps


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 from 36 to 42.
A number of factors related to the voice reveal the personality of the speaker.
The first is the broad area of communication, which includes imparting information by
use of language, communicating with a group or an individual and specialized communication
through performance. A person conveys thoughts and ideas through choice of words, by a tone
of voice that is pleasant or unpleasant, gentle or harsh, by the rhythm that is inherent within
the language itself, and by speech rhythms that are flowing and regular or uneven and hesitant,
and finally, by the pitch and melody of the utterance. When speaking before a group, a person's
tone may indicate uncertainty or fright, confidence or calm. At interpersonal levels, the tone
may reflect ideas and feelings over and above the words chosen, or may belie them. Here the
participant’s tone can consciously or unconsciously reflect intuitive sympathy or antipathy,
lack of concern or interest, fatigue, anxiety, enthusiasm or excitement, all of which are .usually
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highly specialized with its own techniques for obtaining effects by voice and/or gesture. The
motivation derived from the text, and in the case of singing, the music, in combination with
the performer's skills, personality, and ability to create empathy will determine the success of
artistic, political, or pedagogic communication.
Second, the voice gives psychological clues to a person's self-image, perception of
others, and emotional health. Self-image can be indicated by a tone of voice that is confident,
pretentious, shy, aggressive, outgoing, or exuberant, to name only a few personality traits. Also
the sound may give a clue to the facade or mask of that person, for example, a shy person
hiding behind an overconfident front. How a speaker perceives the listener's receptiveness,

D. To introduce the idea of self-image
Question 41. According to the passage, an exuberant tone of voice may be an indication of a
person's_________
A. general physical health
B. personality
C. ability to communicate


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D. vocal quality
Question 42. According to the passage, an overconfident front may hide_________
A. hostility
B. shyness
C. friendliness
D. strength
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 from 43 to 50.
Television has transformed politics in the United States by changing the way in
which information is disseminated, by altering political campaigns, and by changing citizen's
patterns of response to politics. By giving citizens independent access to the candidates,
television diminished the role of the political party in the selection of the major party
candidates. By centering politics on the person of the candidate, television accelerated the
citizen's focus on character rather than issues.
Television has altered the forms of political communication as well. The messages on
which most of us rely are briefer than they once were. The stump speech, a political speech
given by traveling politicians and lasting an hour and a half to 2 hours, which characterized
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B. spent more money to promote their political candidates
C. attracted more members
D. received more money
Question 45. The author mentions the "stump speech" in line 7 as an example of
A. an event created by politicians to attract media attention
B. an interactive discussion between two politicians
C. a kind of political presentation typical of the nineteenth century
D. a style of speech common to televised political events
Question 46. According to the passage, as compared with televised speeches, traditional
political discourse was more successful at
A. allowing news coverage of political candidates
B. placing political issues within a historical context
C. making politics seem more intimate to citizens
D. providing detailed information about a candidate private behavior
Question 47. The author states that "politicians assert but do not argue" (line 18)
in order to suggest that politicians
A. make claims without providing reasons for the claims
B. take stronger positions on issues than in the past
C. enjoy explaining the issue to broadcasters
D. dislike having to explain their own positions on issues to citizens
Question 48. The purpose of paragraph 2 is to suggest that
A. politicians will need to learn to become more personal when meeting citizens
B. politicians who are considered very attractive are favored by citizens over politicians who
are less attractive
C. citizens tend to favor a politician who analyzed the issue over one who does not
D. citizens will need to learn how to evaluate visual political images in order to become better
informed

B. tight
C. child
D. children
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the
other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3. A. minute B. about
C. Physics
D. English
Question 4. A. quarter B. before
C. partner
D. weather
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 5. One and more sentences related to the same topic form a paragraph.
A
B
C
D
Question 6. Improvements in people’s health are due in part to advances
A
B
C
in medical care and sanitary.
D
Question 7. In the beginning radios cost much more than they do today because
A
B
they turned out slowly and expensively by hand.
C
D


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Question 14. ________ he had no money for a bus, he had to walk all the way home.
A. If
B. Thus
C. So
D. As
Question 15. He ________ the plants. If he had, they wouldn't have died.
A. needn't have watered
B. can't have watered
C. shouldn't water
D. couldn't water
Question 16. A few months ago I moved into a very small flat after ________ for years with
my parents.
A. be living
B. being lived
C. having lived
D. have living
Question 17. His performance in King Lear was most ________.
A. impressed
B. impressing
C. impression
D. impressive
Question 18. Improving the overall environmental quality is a long-term battle in which we
do want the participation of everyone in society in order to ________ results.
A. reap
B. bear

A. exhaustive
B. charitable
C. remarkable
D. widespread
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.
Question 24. Population growth rates vary among regions and even among countries within
the same region.
A. fluctuate
B. stay unchanged C. restrain
D. remain unstable
Question 25. After five days on trial, the court found him innocent of the crime and he was
released
A. innovative
B. naïve
C. guilty
D. benevolent
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in meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 26. Payment must be made at the time of booking.
A. You must pay before you book
B. You are not allowed to pay when you book.
C. You must pay when you book.
D. Payment in advance is acceptable if you want to book.

A desert is a special region where only certain kinds of plants and animals can survive.
All deserts have very little water. This means that only animals and plants that can (31)
_________ water for long periods of time can exist in the desert.
Plants in the deserts are particularly adapted to the dry and hot environment. One wellknown desert plant is the cactus. Like many desert plants, this plant has very tiny leaves. As
plants lose most of their water (32)_______ their leaves, the small leaves of the cactus help to cut


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down water evaporation. There are some desert plants that do not have leaves at all.
Some desert plants survive by avoiding the dry season altogether. During the dry season,
this plant remains a seed and does not (33) _________ from the soil at all. When the rains
come, this seed would grow very quickly into a plant. It would bloom rapidly and then scatter
its seeds before the dry season returns.
Desert animals have also learnt to adapt well to life in this region. The camel, for
example, (34) __________ well in the desert because water can be stored in its body. Other
desert animals include rodents such as mice. These animals need very little water as they can
get all the water they (35) __________ from their food.
Question 31. A. keep off B. do without C. stay away D. give up
Question 32. A. by
B. through C. out of
D. from
Question 33. A. rise
B. arise
C. awake
D. emerge
Question 34. A. exists
B. survives C. subsists D. remains

Question 38. The word “disparage” in the passage mostly means____________
A. make something seem more important


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B. think that something is more important
C. think about something carefully
D. suggest that something is not important or valuable
Question 39. According to the passage, writing ____________
A. represents speech, but not perfectly B. is represented perfectly by speech
C. developed from imperfect speech
D. is imperfect, but less so than speech
Question 40. The word “acquire” in the passage mostly means ____________
A. help somebody learn something by giving information about it
B. gain something by our own efforts or ability
C. become aware of something by hearing about it
D. develop a natural ability or quality so that it improves
Question 41. In the passage, the author judges that ____________
A. speech conveys ideas less accurately than writing does
B. writing has more advantages than speech
C. writing is more real speech.
D. speech is essential but writing has important benefits.
Question 42. According to the passage, speech began to exist in our life ____________
A. just when human beings appeared
B. when writing became important in our culture
C. when human beings were able to communicate in writing
D. at least 5000 years ago

Question 44. The phrase “ those forms” refers to all of the following EXCEPT_______
A. the bobcat
B. water – loving animals
C. moist – skinned animals
D. many large animals
Question 45. The word “ desiccating” means_______
A. killing
B. drying
C. humidifying D. life threatening
Question 46. The author mentions all of the following as examples of the behavior of desert
animals EXCEPT _______
A. animals dig homes underground
B. animals are watchful and quiet
C. animals sleep during the day
D. animals are noisy and aggressive
Question 47. The word “they” in the last sentence of paragraph 2 refers to -_______
A. desert creatures
B. men
C. forest creatures
D. desert sounds
Question 48. The word “emaciated” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_______
A. wild B. cunning
C. unhealthy
D. unmanageable
Question 49. The author states that one characteristic of animals that live in the desert is that
they_______
A. are less healthy than animals that live in different places
B. can hunt in temperature of 150 degrees
C. live in an accommodating environment
D. are smaller and fleeter than forest animals

C. apply
D. rely
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 5. There are more than eighty-four million specimens in the
A
B
National Museum of Natural History’s collection of biological, geological,
C
archeological and anthropology treasures.
D
Question 6. The National Basketball Association will not let any athlete to
A
continue playing in the league unless he submits voluntarily to treatment
B
C
for drug addiction.
D
Question 7. The incidence of which is now referred to as cryovolcanism,
A
B
or ice volcanoes, is quite high on the surface of Triton, one of the moons of Neptune.
C
D
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each
of the following questions.
Question 8. Stop fighting you two! Shake hands and ________your peace with each other!
A. set
B. do
C. make

D. hundred/ her
Question 14. John lost the __________ bicycle he bought last week and h is parents were
very angry with him because of his carelessness.
A. beautiful Japanese blue new
B. beautiful new blue Japanese
C. new beautiful blue Japanese
D. Japanese beautiful new blue
Question 15. He said that the plane had already left and that I __________arrived an hour
earlier.
A. should have
B. must have
C. had to
D. was supposed to
Question 16. Farmers are at the__________of the bad weather that can destroy their crop
A. change
B. influence C. force
D. mercy
Question 17. “Excuse me. Where is the ____________office of OXFAM located?”
A. leading
B. head
C. central
D. summit
Question 18. There is no water on the moon, nor ____________ an atmosphere around it.
A. there is
B. there is not C. is there
D. is it
Question 19. Many plants can grow in water, __________ nutrients are added.
A. as long as B. besides
C. above all
D. however

A. stop
B. continue
C. finish
D. consider
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B. able to join intramural sport
D. unable to pass an examination in reading and writing

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. Seeing that he was so angry, she left the office
A. She left the office when she saw how angry he was
B. She didn’t want to make him angry, so she left the office
C. He grew very angry when he saw her leaving the office
D. He wouldn’t have been so angry if she hadn’t left
Question 27. When I was younger I used to go climbing more than I do now
A. Now I don’t go climbing anymore
B. I used to go climbing when I was younger
C. I don’t like going climbing anymore
D. Now I don’t go climbing as much as I did
Question 28. The more money Dane makes, the more his wife spends.
A. Dane spends more money than his wife.

result is that whereas a hundred years ago, the average man lived for 35 years, nowadays, in
many areas of the world, people can (35) _______ to live for 75 years. And what do we expect
by the year 2020? Undoubtedly, medical science will continue to advance. Some people will
be able to avoid medical problems that are unavoidable today.
Question 31. A. forget
B. ignore
C. give up
D. throw away
Question 32. A. if
B. so
C. when
D. while
Question 33. A. therefore B. however
C. although
D. moreover
Question 34. A. more
B. much
C. very
D. quite
Question 35. A. desire
B. hope
C. want
D. expect
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 from 36 to 42.
History books recorded that the first film with sound was The Jazz Singer in 1927. But
sound films, or talkies, did not suddenly appear after years of silent screenings. From the
earliest public performances in 1896, films were accompanied by music and sound effects.
These were produced by a single pianist, a small band, or a full-scale orchestra; large movie
theatres could buy sound-effect machines. Research into sound that was reproduced at exactly


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Question 39. According to the passage, gramophones were ineffective because they
__________.
A. got out of synchronization with the picture
B. were too large for most movie theaters.
C. were newly invented and still had imperfections
D. changed speeds when the needle jumped
Question 40. The word “sequence” is closest in meaning to __________.
A. interpretation
B. progression
C. distribution
D. organization
Question 41. According to the passage, sound-on-film guaranteed synchronization because
the recording was __________.
A. made during the film of the picture
B. read by an optical sensor
C. inserted beside the image on the film
D. marked on the gramophone
Question 42. Short feature films produced as early as 1922 __________.
A. were recorded by optical sensors
B. put musicians out of work
C. were only effective for dialogue sequences
D. preceding talking pictures.
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 from 43 to 50.
Simply being bilingual doesn't qualify someone to interpret. Interpreting is not only a
mechanical process of converting one sentence in language A into the same sentence in
language B. Rather, its a complex art in which thoughts and idioms that have no obvious

D. stress the importance of word for word translation


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ĐỀ THI THPT QUỐC GIA
ĐỀ 04
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 1. A. easy
B. sea
C. learn
D. eat
Question 2. A. park
B. yard
C. card
D. carry
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the
other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3. A. vacancy
B. calculate C. delicious D. furniture
Question 4. A. sincerely B. completely C. extremelyD. faithfully

D. heavily
Question 10. ________ in the diet is especially important for vegetarians.
A. Enough protein is obtained
B. Obtaining enough protein
C. They obtain enough protein
D. By obtaining enough protein
Question 11. The tourists refused to ____________ the poor service.
A. stand in for B. put up with C. get away from D. get on with
Question 12. I haven’t got the time to do my own work, ____________help you with yours.
A. leaving aside B. let alone
C. apart from
D. not counting
Question 13. Professor Lockwood recommended that Michael ____________in chemistry.
A. not to major B. not major
C. wouldn’t major D. isn’t majoring
Question 14. Luggage may be placed here___________the owner’s risk.
A. at
B. by
C. under
D. with
Question 15. Legend____________that Robin Hood fired an arrow from his death - bed and
was buried where the arrow landed.


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A. tells it
B. says it

D. That was very sweet of you.
Question 21. - “Mum! I’ve got 6000 on the TOEFL test”
- “...................”
A. Good way!
B. You are right
C. Good job!
D. Oh, hard luck
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.
Question 22. He was asked to account for his presence at the scene of crime.
A. complain
B. exchange
C. explain
D. arrange
Question 23. I’ll take the new job whose salary is fantastic.
A. reasonable
B. acceptable
C. pretty high
D. wonderful
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.
Question 24. Experts hope that the vaccine will be mass-produced soon.
A. Produced in great numbers
B. produced in small numbers
C. Produced cheaply
D. produced with high cost
Question 25. Peter was an agile and athletic youth.
A. Awkward
B. passive
C. ponderous

C. Having suspected to have stolen credit cards, he has been investigated for days.
D. Suspected to have stolen credit cards, he has been investigated for days.
Question 30. Crazianna is a big country. Unfortunately, it has never received respect from its
neighbours.
A. Though Crazianna is a big country, it has never received respect from its neighbours.
B. Crazianna has never received respect from its neighbours because it is a big country.
C. It is Crazianna, a big country, that has never received respect from its neighbours.
D. Crazianna is such a big country that it has never received respect from its neighbours.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.
The traditional definition of literacy is considered to be the ability to read and write, or
the ability to use language to read, write, listen, and speak. In modern contexts, the word refers
to reading and writing at a level suitable for communication, or at a level that lets one
understand and communicate ideas in a literate society,' so as to take (31)_____ in that society.
The United Nations, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has drafted
the following definition: “Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create,
communicate and compute, using printed and written' materials associated with varying
contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning to enable an Individual to achieve his or
her goals, to develop his, or her (32) _____ and potential, and to participate fully in the wider
society."
Many policy analysts consider literacy rates a crucial measure of a region's human
capital. This claim is made on the foundations that literate people can be trained less


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expensively than illiterate people, generally have a higher socio-economic (33) _____ and
enjoy better health and employment prospects. Policy makers also argue that literacy increases

conscious processing.
Explanations of animal behavior that leave out any sort of consciousness at all and
ascribe actions entirely to instinct leave many questions unanswered. One example of such
unexplained behavior: Honeybees communicate the sources of nectar to one another by doing
a dance in a figure-eight pattern. The orientation of the dance conveys the position of the food
relative to the sun’s position in the sky, and the speed of the dance tells how far the food source
is from the hive. Most researchers assume that the ability to perform and encode the dance
isinnate and shows no special intelligence. But in one study, when experimenters kept changing
the site of the food source, each time moving the food 25 percent farther from the previous
site, foraging honeybees began to anticipate where the food source would appear next. When
the researchers arrived at the new location, they would find the bees circling the spot, waiting
for their food. No one has yet explained how bees, whose brains weigh four ten-thousandths
of an ounce, could have inferred the location of the new site.
Other behaviors that may indicate some cognition include tool use. Many animals, like
the otter who uses a stone to crack mussel shells, are capable of using objects in the natural
environment as rudimentary tools. One researcher has found that mother chimpanzees
occasionally show their young how to use tools to open hard nuts. In one study, chimpanzees
compared two pairs of food wells containing chocolate chips. One pair might contain, say, five
chips and three chips, the other fourchips and three chips. Allowed to choose which pair they
wanted, the chimpanzees almost always chose the one with the higher total, showing some
sort of summing ability. Other chimpanzees have learned to use numerals to label quantities of
items and do simple sums.