HƯỚNG ĐẾN KỲ THI THPT 2020

THI THỬ KYS – LẦN 1

MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút

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 the primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. grotesque B. disfavour C. cartography D. frontage
Question 2: A. tertiary B. reference C. insurance D. thoroughly
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentences that best completes
each of the following exchanges.
Question 3: - “Can I have one of those chocolate pies, Mom?”
- “_____________.”
A. No, thanks. You have to wait B. Not at all. No worry.
C. Of course you can D. Yes. Don’t mention it
Question 4: Two people are talking to each other.
- A: “How did you get here? It’s too late”
- B: “_____________”
A. I came here by train B. I came here last night
C. The train is so crowded D. Is it far from here?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is
OPPOSITE meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 5: Antique documents displayed in museum and library collections can be examined
strictly by obtaining permission in advance.
A. thriftily B. unruly C. ingeniously D. loosely
Question 6: I’m sorry to say that this service is temporarily unavailable.
A. permanently B. briefly C. intermittently D. provisionally
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 7 to 13.
Hydroelectricity is a renewable energy source, since the water flowing in rivers comes from
rain or snow. Worldwide, about 24 percent of the world’s electricity is produced by hydropower
plants and more than 1 billion people are supplied with power from these plants. Today the
largest hydroelectric project in the world is China’s massive Three Gorges Dam. Although is

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primary function is to control flooding, it also provides about three percent of China’s power.
There are six main components to a hydroelectric power station. Below are first three.
First, the dam. Most hydropower plants have a dam to contain water, creating a large
reservoir of water behind the hydroelectric station. Dams are usually placed where water
descends from a height, as the energy that is generated from water depends not only on the
volume but also the difference in height between the dam and the water outflow. This height
difference is called the head. For this reason, fundamentally, dams are built as high as possible
to produce the maximum electrical energy. However, some early hydroelectric systems used the
flow of water over an existing waterfall, with no dam needed, for example, a large amount of
electricity is generated by Niagara Falls.
Second, the intake where gates on the dam are opened and water is pull through the
penstock – a pipe that leads to the turbine. Water pressure is built up as it flows through this
pipe.
Third, perhaps the most important component, is the turbine. The turbine has large blades,
which are moved by the flow of the water and are attached to a generator above it through a
drive shaft. The most common type of turbine for hydro power plants is the Francis Turbine,
which looks like a big disc with curved blades.
Question 7: Hydroelectric power stations __________.
A. supply a large number of people with electricity
B. produce the amount of electricity depending solely on the amount of water.
C. must be built next to rivers
D. have always required a dam
Question 8: Which of the following is TRUE about Three Gorges Dam?
A. It supplies 1 billion people with electricity
B. It provides six percent of China’s power
C. Now it is used as a hydroelectric station
D. It was not originally built to provide electricity
Question 9: The word “reservoir” in paragraph 2 is closet in meaning to
A. storage B. flow C. waterway D. engine
Question 10: Now the primary element to produce the greatest amount of electricity is the
_________.
A. large reservoir B. water flow
C. height of the dam D. position of the station

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 Question 11: The word “generated” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _________.
A. disconnected B. produced C. consumed D. saved
Question 12: The highlighted word “it” in the passage refers to __________.
A. a turbine B. a blade C. a generator D. a component
Question 13: The passage is about _________.
A. The disadvantages of hydropower B. How hydropower stations benefit people
C. Different kinds of hydropower stations D. Components of a hydropower station
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines
each pair of sentences of the following questions.
Question 14: The box was heavy. John could not lift it.
A. The box was such heavy that John could not lift it.
B. The box was too heavy for John to lift it.
C. The box was so heavy that John did not lift.
D. The box was too heavy for John to lift.
Question 15: She tried very hard for the test. She failed it.
A. If she had tried hard for the test, she wouldn’t have failed it.
B. She failed the test because she didn’t try hard for it.
C. No matter how hard she tried, she failed the test.
D. Although she did not try very hard, she still passed the test.
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 16 to 23.
The Making of an Internet Sensation
We’ve all received those web links from friends ‘you must watch this – it’s brilliant!’ Read how one such
popular Internet video was made.
It is a cold November evening and I am perched at the top of a tall stepladder in a village hall.
On the floor, 16 golden retrievers stare up at me curiously. They are arranged in a square, four
by four. I watch through the viewfinder of my video camera This, I think to myself, could make
me famous.
I hadn’t thought up the idea myself – it all came about at the behest of my editor. We want
you to write about viral videos, he had told me a couple of weeks earlier. Go and find out why
some videos go viral. What makes people share them? It sounded straightforward enough.
To better understand what makes people share videos, I turned to Judith Donath of MIT, who
studies online social networks. She argues that the factors driving people to share stuff over the
web are not that different from the reasons apes pick bugs out of each other's fur: it's a way of

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establishing social bonds. Other researchers have argued that in human societies, language -
especially gossip - has taken on the social function of such grooming. Sharing videos via email
or within social networks is just the next step, Donath argues. "Sharing online is tantamount to
small talk," she says. "It's a little gift of information. It shows I’m thinking of you'."
Video sharing is also a way of making a statement. "In addition, people use videos as a way of
showing their position in the 'information-technology ecology'," Donath says. "A video reflects
on the person who sends it." In other words, people will pass on a video if they think it's cool -
because it makes them look cool too. I have friends and colleagues who are cool, so I quizzed
them for inspiration. Eventually, we hit upon a winning idea. I called it Pet Teach Science. The
aim is to demonstrate tricky concepts ranging from quantum physics to chemical structure with
the help of man’s best friend and other furry companions.
The next question was what to film for the first episode. For what I had in mind, a degree of
canine discipline was required, so I contacted a group of dog trainers. They agreed to help, and
last month we made a film using 16 of their dogs to illustrate the structure of the atom. Some of
the animals acted as the protons and neutrons in the nucleus, while the rest circulated to mimic
the electron cloud.
A few days of shamelessly begging all my friends and family to disseminate the video resulted
in fewer than 1,000 hits. The big breakthrough came after a tip from Michael Wesch, an
anthropologist who studies the behaviour of visitors to YouTube. One of the key bits of advice he
gave me was to send the video to a so-called "sneezer"- a media outlet or blogger that can quickly
disseminate your video to a large number of people. "Almost every viral has a catalyst moment
at which it has a big leap of, say, 100,000 viewers at once," he says. For the massive videos, that
sneeze can be anything from a TV appearance to a tweet by a popular Twitterer. This catapults
the video onto YouTube's daily "most popular" lists, and the chain reaction begins. Even if only
1 in 10 people continue to share the video, you have succeeded.
It happened for me when I sent a link to the free London paper Metro. The paper gave Pets
Teach Science an enthusiastic write-up, and the video's views surged by about 8,000 within a few
hours. It soon appeared on YouTube's "pets and animals" page. In the following days, it was
referred to in a couple of influential blogs and that almost doubled my hits overnight to more
than 50,000. The growth continues, proving that with a little cunning, and some cute pets, anyone
can make a video go viral. I can reveal that Charlie's record remains intact. Still, despite my worst
fears, my video turned out to be a surprising success. Next up on the channel is a sleepy fat cat
which will demonstrate Einstein's general theory of relativity with a trampoline. Keep watching!

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Question 16: The writer is on a stepladder at the beginning of the article because
A. he is getting dogs ready for a video.
В. someone is filming him with some animals.
С. he is trying to make a special type of video called viral videos.
D. he is observing people making a film.
Question 17: What does the phrase " it all came about at the behest of my editor " mean ?
A. It's completely my editor's idea
B. It's all my editor's request
C. It's entirely the result of my editor's work
D. It's the complete instruction of my editor
Question 18: What does the writer’s editor want him to do?
A. make them both famous
B. investigate the success of the YouTube website
C. get a film of some golden retrievers
D. discover the reasons for the popularity of some videos
Question 19: What does 'such grooming' refer to?
A. using small talk
В. sharing stuff on the web
С. looking after each other like animals do
D. establishing social networks through gossiping
Question 20: Which of these does Donath give as a further reason why people share videos?
A. People enjoy entertaining their friends.
В. People use videos as a statement of their ideas.
С. People think it gives them a good image.
D. People want to practice their technical skills.
Question 21: What will the videos that the writer is planning do?
A. show dogs doing amusing things
В. present animals being trained in a scientific way
С. use animals to illustrate scientific ideas
D. demonstrate some simple experiments
Question 22: Who or what acted as a 'sneezer' for the writer's video?
A. a local newspaper В. a popular online writer
С. an anthropologist D. a specific website

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Question 23: In this article the writer's main aim is to
A. demonstrate that viral videos are relatively easy to produce.
В. examine why viral videos are successful.
С. show that viral videos can have an educational purpose.
D. educate his readers in the tricks used by viral video makers.
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 24: A. dishes B. successes C. matches D. cigarettes
Question 25: A. tomorrow B. sorry C. worried D. rocking
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 26: Cars are a requisite part of our life _________ banning them is an unrealistic option.
A. so B. therefore C. so that D. as such
Question 27: Some kinds of fish ___________ distortions of electrical field through special
receptors.
A. are sensed B. sense C. are sensing D. senses
Question 28: If you take the food safety into __________, you will be more careful with your food
choice.
A. mind B. thought C. account D. allowance
Question 29: Barely _________ down to watch TV when there was a knock on the door.
A. had I sat B. did I sit C. I had sat D. I would sit
Question 30: Global warming is a problem that __________ for a long time.
A. has existed B. is existing C. can exist D. exists
Question 31: The trip to France which had been arranged weeks before was __________ at the
last minute.
A. taken over B. called off C. pulled down D. set about
Question 32: Laura is a very __________ person and is always kind to her friends.
A. thought B. thoughtful C. thoughtless D. thinking
Question 33: _____________ in all parts of the state, pines are the most common trees in Georgia.
A. Founded B. Finding C. To find D. Found
Question 34: It is true that ___________ drinking is bad for people’s health.
A. sufficient B. enough C. little D. excessive
Question 35: ___________ traveling is educational, it can also be stressful and expensive.
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Question 36: The house was more expensive ___________ we could afford.
A. than B. as C. from D. that
Question 37: Many young people in rural areas don’t want to spend their lives on the farm like
their ___________ parents. Therefore, they decide to leave their home villages to find well-paid
jobs in the fast-growing industrial zones.
A. long-term B. contentious C. weather-beaten D. many-splendored
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 38: we have no solid evidence that radiation has caused the problem.
A. not liquid or gas B. unreliable C. contentious D. certain
Question 39: Almost every school in the country had reported problems with the new system.
A. Virtually B. Irrevocably C. primarily D. briefly
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 40: Stayed strong, family members have to be engaged in each other’s lives.
A. Stayed B. strong C. have D. be engaged
Question 41: Once you can overcome your difficulty, the problem may well become a
source of strengthen to your marriage and your faith.
A. Once B. overcome C. may well become D. strengthen
Question 42: Higher education is very importance to national economies and it is also a source
of trained and educated personnel for the whole country.
A. importance B. economies C. educated D. the whole country
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the word(s) that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 43 to 47.
Mary Heath, female pilot
Female pilot Mary Heath was the original Queen of the Skies, one of the best-known women
in the world during the (43) ___________ age of aviation. She was the first woman in Britain to
gain a commercial pilot’s licence, the first to (44) _____________ a parachute jump and the first
British women’s javelin champion. She scandalised 1920s’ British society by marrying three times
(at the (45) _____________ of her fame she wed politician Sir James Heath – her second husband,
45 years her senior).
In 1928, aged 31, she became the first pilot to fly an open-cockpit plane, solo, from South Africa
to Egypt, covering 9,000 miles in three months. It was a triumph. Lady Heath was (46)
___________ as the nation’s sweetheart and called ‘Lady Icarus’ by the press. However, her life

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was cut tragically short. Only a year later, she (47) ___________ a horrific accident at the National
Air Show in Ohio in the USA, when her plane crashed through the roof of a building. Her health
was never the same again, and she died in May 1939.
Question 43: A. golden B. sweet C. shiny D. bright
Question 44: A. make B. take C. hold D. put
Question 45: A. fullness B. peak C. height D. crest
Question 46: A. exclaim B. exclaimed C. exclaiming D. to exclaim
Question 47: A. suffers B. will suffer C. suffered D. is suffering
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 48: “Why can’t you do your work more carefully?” said the manager to Jimmy.
A. The manager asked Jimmy not to do his job carefully.
B. The manager criticized Jimmy for doing his job meticulously.
C. Jimmy’s boss criticized him for doing his haphazard work.
D. Jimmy’s boss praised him for doing his job carelessly.
Question 49: Had we left any later, we would have missed the train.
A. We left too late to catch the train.
B. We almost missed the train.
C. Because the train was late, we missed it.
D. We didn’t miss the train because it left late.
Question 50: You are not allowed to park your car here.
A. You don’t have to park your car here.
B. You needn’t park your car here.
C. You must not park your car here.
D. You may not park your car here.
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