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30 đề thi THPT Quốc gia môn Tiếng Anh cực hay, có đáp án (Đề 16)

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Câu 1:

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.

Any change in one part of an ecosystem can cause changes in other parts. Droughts, storms and fires can change ecosystems. Some changes (1) _______ ecosystems. If there is too (2) _______ rainfall, plants will not have enough water to live. If a kind of plant dies off, the animals that feed on it may also die or move away. Some changes are good for ecosystems. Some pine forests need fires for he pine trees to reproduce. The seeds are sealed inside pinecones. Heat from a forest fire melts the seal and lets the seeds (3) _______. Polluting the air, soil, and water can harm ecosystems. Building (4) _______ on rivers for electric power and irrigation can harm ecosystems around the rivers. Bulldozing wetlands and cutting down forests destroy ecosystems. Ecologists are working with companies and governments to find better ways of (5) _______ fish, cutting down trees, and building dams. They are looking for ways to get food, lumber, and other products for people without causing harm to ecosystems.

Điền vào ô số 1

Xem đáp án

Đáp án D.

Tạm dịch: … Some changes (1) _______ ecosystems: Một số thay đổi _______ tới các hệ sinh thái.

A. harms (v): gây hại

B. harmful (adj): có hại

C. harmless (adj): vô hại

D. harm (v): gây hại

Chỗ trống còn thiếu động từ, loại đáp án B và C. Chủ ngữ “some changes” là số nhiều, loại đáp án A.


Câu 2:

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.

Any change in one part of an ecosystem can cause changes in other parts. Droughts, storms and fires can change ecosystems. Some changes (1) _______ ecosystems. If there is too (2) _______ rainfall, plants will not have enough water to live. If a kind of plant dies off, the animals that feed on it may also die or move away. Some changes are good for ecosystems. Some pine forests need fires for he pine trees to reproduce. The seeds are sealed inside pinecones. Heat from a forest fire melts the seal and lets the seeds (3) _______. Polluting the air, soil, and water can harm ecosystems. Building (4) _______ on rivers for electric power and irrigation can harm ecosystems around the rivers. Bulldozing wetlands and cutting down forests destroy ecosystems. Ecologists are working with companies and governments to find better ways of (5) _______ fish, cutting down trees, and building dams. They are looking for ways to get food, lumber, and other products for people without causing harm to ecosystems.

Điền vào ô số 2

Xem đáp án

Đáp án A.

Tạm dịch: … If there is too (2) _______ rainfall, plants will not have enough water to live: Nếu lượng mưa quá _______, thực vật sẽ không có đủ nước để duy trì sự sống.

A. little: ít, hầu như không đủ (dùng với danh từ không đếm được, mang nét nghĩa phủ định)

B. a little: ít nhưng đủ dùng (dùng với danh từ đếm được, mang nét nghĩa khẳng định)

C. a few: ít, hầu như không đủ (dùng với danh từ đếm được, mang nét nghĩa phủ định)

D. a few: ít nhưng đủ dùng (dùng với danh từ đếm được, mang nét nghĩa khẳng định)

Vì có “too” và danh từ “rainfall”: lượng mưa không đếm được → Đáp án đúng là A. little.

FOR REVIEW

Few/ little

- Dùng sau các từ nhấn mạnh: very/so/too

Ex: We had too little time left before the exam.

- Dùng sau các từ chỉ định: the, my, her, their, its …

Ex: We should use the little money to buy food.


Câu 3:

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.

Any change in one part of an ecosystem can cause changes in other parts. Droughts, storms and fires can change ecosystems. Some changes (1) _______ ecosystems. If there is too (2) _______ rainfall, plants will not have enough water to live. If a kind of plant dies off, the animals that feed on it may also die or move away. Some changes are good for ecosystems. Some pine forests need fires for he pine trees to reproduce. The seeds are sealed inside pinecones. Heat from a forest fire melts the seal and lets the seeds (3) _______. Polluting the air, soil, and water can harm ecosystems. Building (4) _______ on rivers for electric power and irrigation can harm ecosystems around the rivers. Bulldozing wetlands and cutting down forests destroy ecosystems. Ecologists are working with companies and governments to find better ways of (5) _______ fish, cutting down trees, and building dams. They are looking for ways to get food, lumber, and other products for people without causing harm to ecosystems.

Điền vào ô số 3

Xem đáp án

Đáp án A.

Tạm dịch: … Heat from a forest fire melts the seal and lets the seeds (5) _______: Sức nong từ cháy rừng sẽ làm tan chảy các mối bít và thả các hạt _______.

Một cách logic, khi có sức nóng khiến các mối bít tan chảy thì các hạt bị tắc ở trong trước đó sẽ có thể rơi ra ngoài. Mỗi bít không còn để các hạt ở trong không hợp lý, loại đáp án B. Loại C và D vì các hạt không thể đi và bay. Để các hạt ra ngoài là đáp án phù hợp nhất. Do đó đáp án đúng là A. out.


Câu 4:

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.

Any change in one part of an ecosystem can cause changes in other parts. Droughts, storms and fires can change ecosystems. Some changes (1) _______ ecosystems. If there is too (2) _______ rainfall, plants will not have enough water to live. If a kind of plant dies off, the animals that feed on it may also die or move away. Some changes are good for ecosystems. Some pine forests need fires for he pine trees to reproduce. The seeds are sealed inside pinecones. Heat from a forest fire melts the seal and lets the seeds (3) _______. Polluting the air, soil, and water can harm ecosystems. Building (4) _______ on rivers for electric power and irrigation can harm ecosystems around the rivers. Bulldozing wetlands and cutting down forests destroy ecosystems. Ecologists are working with companies and governments to find better ways of (5) _______ fish, cutting down trees, and building dams. They are looking for ways to get food, lumber, and other products for people without causing harm to ecosystems.

Điền vào ô số 4

Xem đáp án

Đáp án D.

Tạm dịch: Building (4) _______ on rivers for electric power and irigation can hảm ecosystems around the rivers: Xây _______ trên sông làm thủy điện và tưới tiêu cũng gây hại tới hệ sinh thái xung quanh dòng sông.

A. moats: hào (xung quanh thành trì)

B. ditches: (hào, rãnh, mương)

C. bridges: cầu

D. dams: đập

Xây đập trên sông để làm thủy điện và phục vụ tưới tiêu do đó đáp án đúng là D. dams.


Câu 5:

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.

Any change in one part of an ecosystem can cause changes in other parts. Droughts, storms and fires can change ecosystems. Some changes (1) _______ ecosystems. If there is too (2) _______ rainfall, plants will not have enough water to live. If a kind of plant dies off, the animals that feed on it may also die or move away. Some changes are good for ecosystems. Some pine forests need fires for he pine trees to reproduce. The seeds are sealed inside pinecones. Heat from a forest fire melts the seal and lets the seeds (3) _______. Polluting the air, soil, and water can harm ecosystems. Building (4) _______ on rivers for electric power and irrigation can harm ecosystems around the rivers. Bulldozing wetlands and cutting down forests destroy ecosystems. Ecologists are working with companies and governments to find better ways of (5) _______ fish, cutting down trees, and building dams. They are looking for ways to get food, lumber, and other products for people without causing harm to ecosystems.

Điền vào ô số 5

Xem đáp án

Đáp án A.

Tạm dịch: … Ecologists are working with companies and governments to find better ways of (5) _______ fish, cutting down trees, and building dams: Các nhà sinh thái học đang hợp tác cùng các doanh nghiệp và chính phủ để tìm ra phương thức hiệu quả hơn _______ cá, chặt rừng và xây đập.

A. catching: đánh bắt, tóm

B. holding: cầm, giữ

C. carrying: mang, vác

D. taking: lấy

Đánh bắt cá chung ta sử dụng “To catch fish”. Các đáp án khác không hợp nghĩa.

Vậy đáp án đúng là A.


Câu 6:

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 the pronunciation in each of the following questions

Xem đáp án

Đáp án D.

A. skating / ˈskeɪtɪŋ / (n): trượt băng

B. status / ˈsteɪtəs / (n): địa vị, thân phận, thân thế

C. stadium / ˈsteɪdiəm / (n): sân vận động

D. statue / ˈstætʃuː / (n): tượng

Đáp án chính xác là D vì phần gạch chân được đọc là âm /æ/ khác với những đáp án còn lại đọc âm /eɪ/.


Câu 7:

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 the pronunciation in each of the following questions

Xem đáp án

Đáp án B.

A. definitions / defɪˈnɪʃnz/ (n): định nghĩa

B. documents / ˈdɒkjumənts/ (n): tài liệu

C. combs / kəʊmz/ (n): cái lược

D. doors / dɔː(r)z/ (n): cửa

Đáp án chính xác là B vì phần gạch chân được đọc là âm /s/ khác với những đáp án còn lại đọc âm /z/.


Câu 8:

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

Xem đáp án

Đáp án C.

C nhấn trọng âm ở âm tiết thứ 1 hoặc 2, còn lại nhấn âm thứ 3.

A. popularity / ˌpɒpjuˈlærəti / (n): sự nổi tiếng, sự yêu mến của nhân dân; sự ưa thích của quần chúng

B. conscientious / ˌkɒnʃiˈenʃəs / (adj): có lương tâm, tận tâm, chu đáo, tỉ mỉ, cẩn thận

C. apprenticeship / əˈprentɪʃɪp / (n): sự học việc, sự học nghề; thời gian học việc, thời gian học nghề

D. personality / ˌpɜːsəˈnæləti / (n): nhân phẩm; cá tính

MEMORIZE

Popularity (n) / ˌpɒpjuˈlærəti /

- popular (adj): nổi tiếng, phổ biến, thuộc nhân dân

- popularly (adv): phổ biến

- popularize (v): làm cho phổ biến, làm cho quần chúng ưu thích

- popularization (n): sự đại chúng hóa, sự truyền bá


Câu 9:

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

Xem đáp án

Đáp án A.

A nhấn trọng âm ở âm tiết thứ 2, còn lại nhấn âm thứ 1.

A. relax (v): nghỉ ngơi, thư giãn

B. wonder (v): băn khoăn

C. problem (n): vấn đề

D. special (adj): đặc biệt


Câu 10:

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.

In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quitely being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the eonomics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting façade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors.

The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 1870’s and early 1880’s was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better then tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.

So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout in multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.

 

The new housing form discussed in the passage refers to _______.

Xem đáp án

Đáp án B.

Đọc đoạn văn ta có thể dễ dàng nhận thấy tác giả chủ yếu đề cập tới hình thức nhà ở mới: đó là sự xuất hiện của những căn hộ cao cấp.

Do đó đáp án đúng là B. apartment buildings.


Câu 11:

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.

In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quitely being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the eonomics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting façade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors.

The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 1870’s and early 1880’s was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better then tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.

So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout in multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.

 

The word “inviting” in bold is closest in meaning to _______.

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Đáp án C.

Ta có: inviting (adj): thu hút, mời gọi, hấp dẫn = attractive (adj)


Câu 12:

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.

In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quitely being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the eonomics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting façade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors.

The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 1870’s and early 1880’s was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better then tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.

So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout in multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.

 

Why was the Stuyvesant a limited success?

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Đáp án A.

Keywords: Stuyvesant, a limited success.

Clue: “In spite of Hunt’s inviting façade, the living space was awkwardly arranged”: Mặc dù mặt tiền của Hunt hấp dẫn, không gian sống lại được bố trí rất vụng về.

Như vậy có thể thấy những phòng ở Stuyvesant bố trí không hợp lí, không thuận tiện.

Chọn A. The arrangement of the rooms was not convenient.


Câu 13:

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.

In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quitely being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the eonomics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting façade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors.

The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 1870’s and early 1880’s was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better then tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.

So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout in multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.

 

It can be inferred that the majority of people who lived in New York’s first apartments were.

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Đáp án D.

Keywords: inferred, majority, lived, New York’s first apartments.

Clue: “… leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors”: … bỏ lại Stuyvesant cho những cặp đôi mới cưới và những người độc thân.

Như vậy những người sống trong khu chung cư đầu tiên của New York (Stuyvesant) chủ yếu là những người trẻ. Do đó đáp án đúng phải là D. young.


Câu 14:

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.

In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quitely being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the eonomics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting façade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors.

The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 1870’s and early 1880’s was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better then tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.

So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout in multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.

 

It can be inferred that a New York apartment building in the 1870’s and 1880’s had all of the following characteristics EXCEPT _______.

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Đáp án C.

Keywords: inferred, New York apartment building, 1870’s, 1880’s, charactersitics EXCEPT.

Clue: “…though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require”: … mặc dù nó không thể mang lại những căn phòng vuông vức, ánh sáng đầy đủ và sự bố trí hợp lí mà một căn hộ cao cấp yêu cầu.

Như vậy chỉ có đáp án C. It was spacious inside là không được đề cập. Các đáp án còn lại đúng theo clue:

A. Its room arrangement was not logical: Sắp xếp phòng của nó không hợp lý.

B. It was rectangular: Nó là hình chữ nhật.

D. It had limited light: Nó có ánh sáng giới hạn.


Câu 15:

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.

In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quitely being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the eonomics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting façade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors.

The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 1870’s and early 1880’s was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better then tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.

So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout in multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.

 

The word “yield” in bold is closest in meaning to _______.

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Đáp án D.

Ta có: yield (v): mang lại = provide (v)

- surrender: từ bỏ điều gì khi bạn bị ép buộc, đầu hàng.

Ex: The rebel soldiers were forced to surrender.

MEMORIZE

- yield (v): sinh ra, mang lại

- yield (n): sản lượng

- yield to sb/ sth: chịu thua, đầu hàng


Câu 16:

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.

In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quitely being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the eonomics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting façade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors.

The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 1870’s and early 1880’s was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better then tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.

So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout in multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.

 

Why did the idea of living in an apartment become popular in the late 1800’s?

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Đáp án B.

Keywords: living in an apartment, popular, late 1800’s.

Clue: “But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better than tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses”: Nhưng ngay cả với cách bày trí nội thất vụng về của những căn hộ cao cấp ban đầu, ý tưởng sống ở đó vẫn phổ biến. Nó đáp ứng nhu cầu của một số lượng lớn và ngày càng gia tăng số người dân muốn ở nơi tốt hơn nhà tập thể nhưng lại không có điều kiện trả hoặc không muốn nhà lô.

Như vậy lí do sống ở căn hộ trở nên phổ biến ở cuối những năm 1800 là B. Apartments were preferable to tenements and cheaper than row houses: Căn hộ thì thích hợp hơn là nhà tập thể và rẻ hơn nhà lô.


Câu 17:

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.

In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quitely being developed. In 1869 the Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the eonomics and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting façade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors.

The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 1870’s and early 1880’s was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better then tenements but could not afford or did not want row houses.

So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels began to sprout in multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.

 

The author mentions the Dakota and the Ansonia in bold because _______.

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Đáp án A.

Keywords: Dakota and the Ansonia.

Clue: “… spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally … only a small step to building luxury apartment houses.”: … những tòa nhà rộng rãi, như là “Dakota and the Ansonia” cuối cùng cũng vượt ra khỏi sự kìm hãm của những tòa nhà liên kết. Từ đây thì chỉ một bước nhỏ nữa thôi là có thể xây dựng những căn hộ lộng lẫy.

Như vậy “Dakota and the Ansonia” là ví dụ của những căn hộ cao cấp rộng lớn, thiết kế đẹp nên đáp án là A. they are examples of large, well-designed apartment buildings.


Câu 18:

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.

Everyone at her housewarming was very friendly towards me.

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Đáp án C.

Tạm dịch: Mọi người ở bữa tiệc mừng nhà mới của cô ấy rất thân thiện với tôi.

A. amicable (adj): thân mật, thân tình

B. inapplicable (adj): không thể áp dụng được, không thể ứng dụng được.

C. hostile (adj): không thân thiện, thái độ thù địch

D. futile (adj): vô ích, không có hiệu quả

- friendly: thân thiện. Do đó đáp án phải là hostile vì yêu cầu của đề là tìm từ trái nghĩa.


Câu 19:

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.

The clubs meet on the last Thursday of every month in a dilapidated palace.

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Đáp án C.

Tạm dịch: Các câu lạc bộ họp mặt vào thứ năm cuối cùng hàng tháng tại lâu đài đổ nát.

A. renovated (v): làm mới lại, đổi mới; cải tiến, sửa chữa lại

B. regenerated (v): tái sinh, phục lại

C. furnished (adj): có sẵn đồ đạc, được trang bị đồ đạc

D. neglected (adj): sao lãng, không chú ý, bỏ bê, thờ ơ

- dilapidated (adj): đổ nát, xiêu vẹo, ọp ẹp (nhà).

Do đó đáp án phải là C, vì yêu cầu của đề là tìm từ trái nghĩa


Câu 20:

If you inherited a million pounds, what _______ with the money?

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Đáp án A.

Dựa vào động từ inheritated đang chia ở QKĐ → Đây là câu điều kiện 2 nên đáp án đúng là A. would you do.

Tạm dịch: Nếu bạn được thừa hưởng một triệu bảng, bạn sẽ làm gì với số tiền đó?


Câu 21:

They _______ the play on New Year’s Eve as they went to the Countdown Party 2018.

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Đáp án D.

Tạm dịch: Họ chắc hẳn đã không xem vở kịch đêm giao thừa vì lúc đó họ đã đi xem Lễ Hội đếm ngược chào Xuân 2018.

Can’t have done something được sử dụng để đưa ra suy đoán chắc chắn đến 99% cho hành động xảy ra trong quá khứ.

Ex: Tom can’t have written this because it is in French and he doesn’t know French: Không có khả năng nào là Tom viết cái này cả vì cái này viết bằng tiếng Pháp mà Tom thì có biết tiếng Pháp đâu.


Câu 22:

Lien and Loan are planning for their weekend.

Lien: “_______”

Loan: “Not really.”

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Đáp án C.

Lựa chọn C là phù hợp nhất, nếu sử dụng A, đơn thuần chỉ là một câu trần thuật. Sẽ không có câu trả lời “Not really” ở sau. Lựa chọn B yêu cầu người trả lời phải lựa chọn, hoặc là “cartoon” hoặc là “documentary” chứ không đơn thuần trả lời là “Not really” là được. Lựa chọn D là một câu hỏi thường xuyên, bao lâu một lần thì người trả lời phải nêu ra các trạng từ chỉ sự thường xuyên hoặc tần suất (2 lần 1 tuần/ 1 tuần/ 1 tháng…).


Câu 23:

Something tells me that you _______ to a single word I _______ in the past ten minutes.

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Đáp án C.

Học sinh lưu ý cụm từ chỉ thời gian: In the past ten minutes: trong mười phút vừa qua – sử dụng thì hiện tại hoàn thành để diễn tả hành động vừa mới xảy ra trong quá khứ. Thêm nữa, tác giả muốn nhấn mạnh độ liên tục của hành động “listen” → dùng thì hiện tại hoàn thành tiếp diễn


Câu 24:

The _______ country mouse ran home as fast as his legs could carry him.

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Đáp án D.

D. frightened country mouse: con chuột đồng bị làm cho hoảng sợ, làm cho khiếp đảm.

Các lựa chọn còn lại không phù hợp:

A. frightening (adj): kinh khủng, khủng khiếp

B. frighten (v): làm hoảng sợ, làm sợ

C. frightful (adj): ghê sợ, khủng khiếp, kinh khủng

MEMORIZE

frighten (v): làm hoảng sợ

- frighten sb into/ out of V-ing sth: làm cho ai sợ mà phải làm/ thôi không làm gì

- frighten sb/ sth away/ off: gieo rắc nỗi kinh hoàng cho ai


Câu 25:

The plice spokesman said he was _______ to believe that the arrested man was the serial killer they had been looking for.

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Đáp án A.

A. inclued: có khuynh hướng, có ý thiên về

Tạm dịch: Phát ngôn viên cảnh sát cho biết ông thiên về khả năng người đàn ông bị bắt là kẻ giết người hàng loạt mà họ đang tìm kiếm.

- to be inclined to do something: có xu hướng làm điều gì đó, nghiêng về điều gì đó

B. seemed: dường như

C. suspected: nghi ngờ

D. supposed: cho là, tin


Câu 26:

For lunch, I always haave something quick and easy: a sandwich, a salad, toast and the _______.

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Đáp án C.

- and the like: những thứ đại loại như thế.


Câu 27:

I don’t think anyone understood what I was saying at the meeting, did they? I totally failed to get my point _______.

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Đáp án C.

- to get one’s point across: trình bày quan điểm một cách rõ ràng, khúc triết.


Câu 28:

This fruit has been in the fridge for over three weeks! It is all _______.

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Đáp án C.

- rotten (adj): mục nát, thối rữa, hỏng (thực phẩm, đặc biệt là hoa quả).


Câu 29:

As I have just had a tooth _______, I am not allowed to eat or drink anything for three hours.

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Đáp án A.

A. to take out: lấy ra, rút sạch, nhổ (răng)

B. to cross out: xóa bỏ

C. to break off: rời ra, lìa ra

D. to try on: thử cái gì

Vậy chọn đáp án A.


Câu 30:

We don’t seem to have any more of that book, Sir. It is out of _______ but we are getting a new delivery next Thursday if you would like to pop back then.

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Đáp án A.

- to be out of stock: không có sẵn trong cửa hàng (hết hàng).

- to be in stock: còn hàng.


Câu 31:

Mary is going shopping with her friend.

Mary: “What do you think of fashion?”

Mary’s friend: “_______”

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Đáp án A.

Câu hỏi nhấn mạnh về: cảm nghĩ đối với thời trang → câu trả lời phải là A. Tôi phát điên vì nó (Ý là tôi thích nó điên lên được)


Câu 32:

Hyolyn, the former main vocalist for the group SISTAR, has known for being one of the most well-rounded idols, being extremely good at signing, dancing and _______.

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Đáp án B.

Các em lưu ý: … good at singing, dancing thì cụm từ tiếp theo sau “and” phải là “performing live” để đảm bảo cấu trúc song song.

Tạm dịch: Hyolyn, cựu ca sĩ hát chính của nhóm SISTAR, được biết đến là một trong những thần tượng nổi tiếng nhất, rất giỏi hát, nhảy múa và trình diễn trực tiếp.


Câu 33:

I phoned Tiki, who _______ me that my reference books would be delivered within 3 days.

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Đáp án A.

A. assure sb that …: cam đoan với ai rằng…

B. confirm: xác nhận

C. guarantee: bảo hành

D. reassure: trấn an

Tạm dịch: Tôi gọi cho nhà sách Tiki, người ta cam đoan với tôi rằng sách tham khảo của tôi sẽ được gửi đến trong vòng 3 ngày.


Câu 34:

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.

We’re really close friends but we just can not see eye to eye on politics.

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Đáp án B.

Tạm dịch: Chúng tôi thật sự là những người bạn thân nhưng chúng tôi không cùng quan điểm về chính trị.

- not see eye to eye with sb (on sth) = not share the same views with sb (about sth): Không có đồng quan điểm với ai đó về cái gì

Do đó đáp án chính xác là B (đề bài yêu cầu tìm đáp án gần nghĩa).

MEMORIZE

eye (n): mắt, con mắt, cách nhìn

- be up to the eye in: ngập đầu (công việc, nợ nần)

- cast sheep’s eyes: liếc mắt đưa tình

- wipe sb’s eyes: phỗng tay trên ai, đi nước trước ai


Câu 35:

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.

The changes in a person’s physical and emotional state caused by drinking alcohol are known as intoxication

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Đáp án A.

Tạm dịch: Những thay đổi về thể trạng và tình cảm gây ra bởi đồ uống có cồn được gọi là say.

- intoxication (n): sự say, tình trạng say

A. drunkenness: sự say

B. poison: chất độc

C. sleepiness: cơn buồn ngủ

D. excitement: sự hứng thú, vui vẻ

Câu hỏi tìm đáp án gần nghĩa nhất. Ta thấy đáp án chính xác và phù hợp nhất với văn cảnh là A.


Câu 36:

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.

Are organically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates of organic foods – a term whose meaning varies greatly – frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.

The growing interest of consumers in the safety and more nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development. However, much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims that the food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs. Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to separate fact from fiction. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting entirely of organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to health have become widely publicized and form the basis for folklore.

Almost daily the public is besieged by claims for “no-aging” diets, new vitamins, and other wonder foods. There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains and the like.

One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods. But in many cases consumers are misled if they believe organic foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods. So there is real cause for concern if consumers, particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food and buy only expensive organic foods instead.

 

The word “Advocates” is closest in meaning to which of the following?

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Đáp án A.

Key words: advocates, closest meaning.

Câu hỏi: Từ “Advocates” gần nghĩa nhất với từ nào dưới đây?

Clue: “Advocates of organic foods – a term whose meaning varies greatly – frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others”: Những người ủng hộ thực phẩm hữu cơ, một thuật ngữ với nghĩa vô cùng đa dạng, thường xuyên tuyên bố rằng các thực phẩm này an toàn hơn và có nhiều dinh dưỡng hơn các sản phẩm khác.

Phân tích: Vì những người “advocates” nghĩ sản phẩm thức ăn hữu cơ an toàn và nhiều dinh dưỡng, đều là những từ tích cực dành cho loại sản phẩm này, nên có thể suy luận đây là những người ưa chuộng sản phẩm này. “Advocates” là những người tán thành, ủng hộ một ý tưởng hoặc quan điểm nào đó.

Xét các đáp án:

A. Proponents: người đề xướng – một người đề xướng ra một ý tưởng nghĩa là người đó tán thành ý tưởng đó – hợp lý.

B. Merchants: Thương gia, người mua bán hàng hóa – không hợp lý.

C. Inspectors: Thanh tra, người điều tra – không hợp lý.

D. Consumers: Người tiêu dùng – không hợp lý vì không thể hiện được thái độ tán thành hay không.

Vậy đáp án A là hợp lý nhất.


Câu 37:

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.

Are organically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates of organic foods – a term whose meaning varies greatly – frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.

The growing interest of consumers in the safety and more nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development. However, much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims that the food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs. Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to separate fact from fiction. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting entirely of organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to health have become widely publicized and form the basis for folklore.

Almost daily the public is besieged by claims for “no-aging” diets, new vitamins, and other wonder foods. There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains and the like.

One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods. But in many cases consumers are misled if they believe organic foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods. So there is real cause for concern if consumers, particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food and buy only expensive organic foods instead.

 

The word “others” refers to _______.

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Đáp án D.

Key words: others, refer to.

Câu hỏi: Từ “others” trong bài văn được hiểu là gì?

Clue: “… such products are safer and more nutritious than others”: … các thực phẩm này an toàn hơn và có nhiều dinh dưỡng hơn các sản phẩm khác.

Phân tích: Tác giả đưa ra so sánh giữa hai vật, một là “such products” và hai là “others”. “Others” ở đây phải tương ứng với chủ ngữ đầu tiên, nên đầy đủ phải là “other products”. Vì vậy đáp án đúng phải là D. products: sản phẩm.

Các đáp án khác không phù hợp:

A. advantages: những điểm mạnh

B. advocates: những người tán thành

C. organic foods: thực phẩm hữu cơ

MEMORIZE

advocate / ˈædvəkeɪt / (v): ủng hộ, tán thành

advocate / ˈædvəkət / (n): người ủng hộ, người tán thành; luật sư

- advocate of sth/ peace/ socialism: người chủ trương hòa bình, người tán thành CNXH


Câu 38:

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.

Are organically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates of organic foods – a term whose meaning varies greatly – frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.

The growing interest of consumers in the safety and more nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development. However, much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims that the food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs. Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to separate fact from fiction. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting entirely of organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to health have become widely publicized and form the basis for folklore.

Almost daily the public is besieged by claims for “no-aging” diets, new vitamins, and other wonder foods. There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains and the like.

One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods. But in many cases consumers are misled if they believe organic foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods. So there is real cause for concern if consumers, particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food and buy only expensive organic foods instead.

 

The “welcome development” is an increase in _______.

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Đáp án A.

Key words: welcome development, increase.

Câu hỏi: Cụm “welcome development” là chỉ sự tăng của cái gì?

Clue: “The growing interest of consumers in the safety and more nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development”: Sự ưa chuộng đang gia tăng của người tiêu dùng về thực phẩm an toàn và chất lượng dinh dưỡng của thực đơn điển hình vùng Bắc Mỹ là sự phát triển đáng hoan nghênh.

Phân tích: Xét các đáp án:

A. Interest in food safety and nutritional quality of the typical North American diet: sự ưa chuộng thực phẩm an toàn và chất lượng dinh dưỡng của thực đơn điển hình vùng Bắc Mỹ - Đúng, khớp với Clue.

B. The nutritional quality of the typiecal North American diet: chất lượng dinh dưỡng của thực đơn điển hình vùng Bắc Mỹ - Sai, chưa đầy đủ thông tin ở Clue.

C. The amount of healthy food grown in North America: lượng thức ăn an toàn được trồng ở Bắc Mỹ - Không có thông tin.

D. The number of consumers in North America: số lượng người tiêu dùng ở Bắc Mỹ - Không có thông tin.


Câu 39:

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.

Are organically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates of organic foods – a term whose meaning varies greatly – frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.

The growing interest of consumers in the safety and more nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development. However, much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims that the food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs. Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to separate fact from fiction. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting entirely of organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to health have become widely publicized and form the basis for folklore.

Almost daily the public is besieged by claims for “no-aging” diets, new vitamins, and other wonder foods. There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains and the like.

One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods. But in many cases consumers are misled if they believe organic foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods. So there is real cause for concern if consumers, particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food and buy only expensive organic foods instead.

 

According to the first paragraph, which of the following is true about the term “organic foods”?

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Đáp án C.

Key words: first paragraph, true, organic foods.

Clue:Advocates of organic foods – a term whose meaning varies greatly – frequently proclaim that …”: Những người ủng hộ thực phẩm hữu cơ – một thuật ngữ có ý nghĩa rất khác nhau – thường tuyên bố rằng … Vậy đáp án đúng là C. It has no fixed meaning: Nó không có một nghĩa cố định.

Các đáp án khác không đúng.

A. It is accepted by most nutritionists: Hầu hết các nhà nghiên cứu dinh dưỡng chấp nhận nó.

B. It has been used only in recent years: Nó mới dc dùng gần đây.

D. It is seldom used by consumers: Nó ít khi được người tiêu dùng sử dụng.


Câu 40:

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.

Are organically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates of organic foods – a term whose meaning varies greatly – frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.

The growing interest of consumers in the safety and more nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development. However, much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims that the food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs. Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to separate fact from fiction. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting entirely of organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to health have become widely publicized and form the basis for folklore.

Almost daily the public is besieged by claims for “no-aging” diets, new vitamins, and other wonder foods. There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains and the like.

One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods. But in many cases consumers are misled if they believe organic foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods. So there is real cause for concern if consumers, particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food and buy only expensive organic foods instead.

 

The author implies that there is cause for concern if consumers with limited incomes buy organic foods instead of conventionally grown foods because _______.

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Đáp án A.

Key words: implies, cause for concern, limited incomes.

Câu hỏi: Tác giả ngụ ý là nếu những người tiêu dùng với thu nhập có hạn mua thực phẩm hữu cơ thay vì thực phẩm được trồng truyền thống thì nguyên nhân cần quan tâm là gì?

Clue: “So there is real cause for concern if consumers, particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food and buy only expensive organic foods instead”: Vì vậy sẽ là một mối bận tâm thực sự nếu các khách hàng, đặc biệt những người với thu nhập hạn chế, không tin tưởng thực phẩm thông thường mà thay vào đó chỉ mua thực phẩm hữu cơ đắt tiền.

Phân tích: Thức ăn hữu cơ đắt tiền hơn thức ăn thông thường, khi người tiêu dùng với thu nhập có hạn tiêu tốn nhiều tiền hơn với loại thực phẩm này vì họ lầm tưởng thức ăn hữu cơ tốt hơn thì gây ra mối quan ngại. Do đó, chọn đáp án A. organic foods can be more expensive but are often no better than conventionally grown foods: thực phẩm hữu cơ có thể đắt tiền hơn nhưng thường không tốt hơn thực phẩm được trồng truyền thống.

Các đáp án khác không có thông tin.

B. Many organic foods are actually less nutritious than similar conventionally grown foods: rất nhiều thực phẩm hữu cơ thực tế ít dinh dưỡng hơn những thực phẩm được trồng truyền thống tương đương – Không có thông tin.

C. Conventionally grown foods are more readily available than organic foods: thực phẩm được trồng truyền thống sẵn có hơn thực phẩm hữu cơ – Không có thông tin.

D. Too many farmers will stop using conventional methods to grow food crops: quá nhiều nông dân sẽ ngừng sử dụng phương pháp trồng trọt truyền thống – Không có thông tin.


Câu 41:

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.

Are organically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates of organic foods – a term whose meaning varies greatly – frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.

The growing interest of consumers in the safety and more nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development. However, much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims that the food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs. Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to separate fact from fiction. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting entirely of organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to health have become widely publicized and form the basis for folklore.

Almost daily the public is besieged by claims for “no-aging” diets, new vitamins, and other wonder foods. There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains and the like.

One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods. But in many cases consumers are misled if they believe organic foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods. So there is real cause for concern if consumers, particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food and buy only expensive organic foods instead.

 

According to the last paragraph, consumers who believe that organic foods are better than conventionally grown foods are often _______.

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Đáp án B.

Key words: last paragraph, organic food, better than.

Câu hỏi: Theo thông tin đoạn cuối, người tiêu dùng thường như thế nào nếu họ tin rằng thực phẩm hữu cơ tốt hơn thực phẩm được trồng truyền thống?

Clue: “But in many cases consumers are misled if they believe organic foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods.”: Nhưng trong nhiều trường hợp người tiêu dùng bị lầm tưởng nếu họ tin thực phẩm hữu cơ có thể duy trì sức khỏe và cung cấp chất lượng dinh dưỡng tốt hơn là thực phẩm được trồng truyền thống.

Ta chọn đáp án B. mistaken: lầm tưởng, nhầm lẫn.

Các đáp án khác không phù hợp:

A. careless: bất cẩn

C. thrifty: tiết kiệm

D. wealthy: giàu có

EXTRA

- thrifty (adj): tiết kiệm, tằn tiện

- thrive (v): thịnh vượng, phát đạt


Câu 42:

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.

Are organically grown foods the best food choices? The advantages claimed for such foods over conventionally grown and marketed food products are now being debated. Advocates of organic foods – a term whose meaning varies greatly – frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.

The growing interest of consumers in the safety and more nutritional quality of the typical North American diet is a welcome development. However, much of this interest has been sparked by sweeping claims that the food supply is unsafe or inadequate in meeting nutritional needs. Although most of these claims are not supported by scientific evidence, the preponderance of written material advancing such claims makes it difficult for the general public to separate fact from fiction. As a result, claims that eating a diet consisting entirely of organically grown foods prevents or cures disease or provides other benefits to health have become widely publicized and form the basis for folklore.

Almost daily the public is besieged by claims for “no-aging” diets, new vitamins, and other wonder foods. There are numerous unsubstantiated reports that natural vitamins are superior to synthetic ones, that fertilized eggs are nutritionally superior to unfertilized eggs, that untreated grains are better than fumigated grains and the like.

One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods. But in many cases consumers are misled if they believe organic foods can maintain health and provide better nutritional quality than conventionally grown foods. So there is real cause for concern if consumers, particularly those with limited incomes, distrust the regular food and buy only expensive organic foods instead.

 

What is the one thing in common that most organic food seem to have?

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Đáp án A

Keywords: one thing in common, most organic food.

Câu hỏi: Điều mà hầu hết những thực phẩm hữu cơ có điểm chung là gì?

Clue: “One thing that most organically grown food products seem to have in common is that they cost more than conventionally grown foods”: Một điều mà hầu hết các thực phẩm hữu cơ có chung là chúng đắt hơn thực phẩm được trồng truyền thống.

Vậy chọn đáp án A. They cost more than conventionally grown food.

Các đáp án khác không phù hợp.


Câu 43:

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.

After the social science lecture all students are invited to take part in a discussion of the issues which were risen in the talk.

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Đáp án D.

Đổi risen thành raised.

- raise (v): nâng lên, đỡ dậy; giơ lên, đưa lên, kéo lên; ngước lên, ngẩng lên: Ngoại động từ, theo sau là tân ngữ.

- rise (v):  lên, lên cao, tăng lên: Nội động từ, không có tân ngữ đứng sau, không dùng được ở dạng bị động.


Câu 44:

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.

A football match begins with the ball kicking forwards from a spot in the centre of the field

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Đáp án C.

Đổi kicking forwards thành kicked forwards hoặc which/ that is kicked forwards.

Rút gọn mệnh đề quan hệ của câu bị động, không thể dùng phân từ đuổi “ing”.


Câu 45:

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.

The salary of a professor is higher than a secretary.

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Đáp án D.

Đổi a secretary thành that of a secretary.

Vì nếu không thêm that of vào trước a secretary thì mình đang so sánh mức lương với một nghề → Không đảm bảo cấu trúc song song trong so sánh.

Hãy xem một số ví dụ khác:

Ex1: John’s car runs better than Mary. (sai – vì đang so sánh ô tô của John với Mary).

John’s car runs better than Mary’s. (đúng vì Mary’s = Mary’s car).

Ex2: The living condition of a rich man is better than that of a poor one. (that of = the living condition of).

The speaking skills of the student in urban areas are the same as those of the student in rural areas. (those of = the speaking skills of).

Lưu ý: Thay that of cho danh từ số ít và those of cho các danh từ số nhiều.


Câu 46:

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.

It is difficult to get tickets for 2018 World Cup. It was wise of him to buy the tickets for 2018 World Cup in advance.

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Đáp án C.

Tạm dịch: Vé xem World Cup 2018 rất khó mua. Anh ta thật khôn ngoan khi mua vé trước.

In advance = beforehand: trước

Đảo ngữ với Such … that:

Such + (a/an) + adj + N + to be + S + that Clause: Thứ gì đó quá như thế nào để làm gì.

Các đáp án còn lại không phù hợp về nghĩa.


Câu 47:

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.

We arrived at airport. We realized our passports were still at home.

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Đáp án D.

Cấu trúc đảo ngữ: với not until đứng đầu câu thì thực hiện đảo ngữ ở vế sau.

Not until + MĐ/ trạng ngữ chỉ thời gian + trợ động từ + S + V: Mãi cho đến … thì …


Câu 48:

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.

Intelligent thought she may seem, she’s not to be relied on.

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Đáp án D.

Tạm dịch: Mặc dù cô ấy trông có vẻ thông minh, cô ấy không phải là người để mình dựa dẫm được.

Đáp án A, B, C hoặc sai về nghĩa hoặc về cấu trúc. Ví dụ ở đáp án B lẽ ra seem phải đi với một động từ ở dạng to V.

Đáp án D là hợp lý. Dùng cấu trúc nhấn mạnh với tính từ.

However adj/adv + SV, SV: mặc dù… đến thế nào nhưng…

Ex: However hard he tried, he failed.


Câu 49:

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.

“You’re always cheating on exams, An.”, said the teacher.

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Đáp án C.

Tạm dịch: Giáo viên nói với An: “em lúc nào cũng gian lận khi làm bài thi”, ý là giáo viên đang phàn nàn bạn học sinh nên khi viết lại câu dùng từ complain là chính xác nhất.


Câu 50:

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.

Israel, India and Pakistan are generally believed to have nuclear weapons that use only nuclear fission.

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Đáp án B.

Tạm dịch: Israel, Ấn Độ và Pakistan thường được cho là có sở hữu vũ khí hạt nhân, loại vũ khí chỉ sử dụng sự phân hạch nguyên tử.

Cấu trúc bị động đặc biệt:

People/ they + say/ think/ believe … + (that) + S + V + O.

Cách 1: It + to be (chia cùng thì với say/ think/ believe) + said/ thought/ believed … + that + S + V.

Ex: People said that he was nice to his friends.

→ It was said that he was nice to his friends.

Cách 2: S + to be (chia cùng thì với say/ think/ believe) + said/ thought/ believed … + to V + O.

Ex: People said that he was nice to his friends.

→ He was said to be nice to his friends.

Nếu động từ ở mệnh đề sau “that” xảy ra trước động từ ở mệnh đề trước “that” thì chuyển về dạng to have PP.

Ex: People said that he had been nice to his friends.

→ He was said to have been nice to his friends.

Xét câu đề bài: (… are generally believed to have…) ta thấy động từ phía sau ở dạng “to V” nên khi chuyển sang dạng bị động bắt đầu với “It” thì động từ sau “that” phải cùng thì HTĐ như động từ trước “that”.

Vậy ta chọn đáp án B.


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