<\/span><\/h2>\r\nS\u1ede GD&\u0110T QU\u1ea2NG B\u00ccNH<\/p>
H\u01af\u1edaNG D\u1eaaN CH\u1ea4M<\/p>
K\u1ef2 THI CH\u1eccN HSG T\u1ec8NH N\u0102M H\u1eccC 2024\u20132025<\/p>
Kh\u00f3a ng\u00e0y 03\/12\/2024<\/p>
M\u00f4n: TI\u1ebeNG ANH \u2013 L\u1edaP 12 THPT<\/p>
> \u0110\u00e1p \u00e1n g\u1ed3m: 02 trang<\/p>
—<\/p>
T\u1ed5ng \u0111i\u1ec3m<\/p>
* T\u1ed5ng s\u1ed1 \u0111i\u1ec3m to\u00e0n b\u00e0i: 100 \u0111i\u1ec3m<\/p>
* M\u1ed7i c\u00e2u \u0111\u00fang: 1,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m<\/p>
* B\u00e0i lu\u1eadn: t\u1ed1i \u0111a 10,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m<\/p>
* Sau khi ch\u1ea5m xong, quy v\u1ec1 thang \u0111i\u1ec3m 10 (kh\u00f4ng l\u00e0m tr\u00f2n)<\/p>
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SECTION ONE: LISTENING<\/p>
Part 1 (5,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
1. C\u2003\u20032. B\u2003\u20033. D\u2003\u20034. C\u2003\u20035. A<\/p>
Part 2 (5,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
6. T\u2003\u20037. F\u2003\u20038. F\u2003\u20039. T\u2003\u200310. T<\/p>
Part 3 (10,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
11. human activity\/ activities<\/p>
12. farming and drainage<\/p>
13. Dirty Thirties \/ 30s \/ \u201cDirty Thirties\u201d \/ \u201c30s\u201d<\/p>
14. dry thunderstorms<\/p>
15. machine operators<\/p>
16. drought<\/p>
17. irrigation<\/p>
18. two-thirds \/ 2\/3<\/p>
19. saline \/ toxic \/ salty<\/p>
20. crops \/ plants<\/p>
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SECTION TWO: PHONETICS & LEXICO-GRAMMAR<\/p>
Part 1 (3,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
21. D\u2003\u200322. B\u2003\u200323. A<\/p>
Part 2 (2,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
24. C\u2003\u200325. B<\/p>
Part 3 (10,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
26. D\u2003\u200327. D\u2003\u200328. B\u2003\u200329. C\u2003\u200330. D<\/p>
27. B\u2003\u200332. A\u2003\u200333. A\u2003\u200334. C\u2003\u200335. D<\/p>
Part 4 (5,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
36. quality \u2192 quantity \/ number<\/p>
37. comparing \u2192 compared<\/p>
38. forgettable \u2192 forgetful<\/p>
39. its \u2192 their<\/p>
40. other \u2192 another<\/p>
Part 5 (5,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
41. unbiased<\/p>
42. untangles<\/p>
43. clarity<\/p>
44. in-depth<\/p>
45. exploitation \/ overexploitation<\/p>
Part 6 (5,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
46. made up for<\/p>
47. petered out<\/p>
48. worn out<\/p>
49. ratted on<\/p>
50. came in for<\/p>
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SECTION THREE: READING COMPREHENSION<\/p>
Part 1 (10,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
51. B\u2003\u200352. B\u2003\u200353. C\u2003\u200354. A\u2003\u200355. C<\/p>
52. A\u2003\u200357. B\u2003\u200358. C\u2003\u200359. B\u2003\u200360. D<\/p>
Part 2 (10,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
61. appearance<\/p>
62. far<\/p>
63. back<\/p>
64. themselves<\/p>
65. different<\/p>
66. as<\/p>
67. against<\/p>
68. (brute) physical<\/p>
69. remained<\/p>
70. forces<\/p>
Part 3 (5,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
71. B\u2003\u200372. A\u2003\u200373. C\u2003\u200374. D\u2003\u200375. A<\/p>
Part 4 (5,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
76. iv\u2003\u200377. vi\u2003\u200378. i\u2003\u200379. v\u2003\u200380. viii<\/p>
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SECTION FOUR: WRITING<\/p>
Part 1 (5,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
81. He swore he was nowhere near her house on the night it was broken into.<\/p>
82. Is there any possibility\/ likelihood that Sally will come to us for Christmas?<\/p>
83. On no account should the house be left unlocked.<\/p>
84. It looks as if\/ though he is running away from your fierce dog.<\/p>
85. That takes me back to the time (when) I climbed to the top of Mount Fuji.<\/p>
Part 2 (5,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m)<\/p>
86. I couldn’t pin Julie down to a definite answer.<\/p>
87. You may not like the rules, but you have to toe the line to avoid trouble.<\/p>
88. Local residents expressed their disapproval of the new traffic scheme.<\/p>
89. I am in my mom\u2019s\/ mother’s bad books\/ black books because she heard me swearing.<\/p>
90. I don’t like to make snap decisions\/ a snap decision on important things.<\/p>
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Part 3 (10,0 \u0111i\u1ec3m) \u2013 Essay<\/p>
Ch\u1ea5m theo ti\u00eau ch\u00ed:<\/p>
1. Content: 35%<\/p>
2. Organization & presentation: 30%<\/p>
3. Language: 30%<\/p>
4. Handwriting, punctuation & spelling: 5%<\/p>
—<\/p>
—— THE END ——<\/p>\r\n
S\u1ede GD&\u0110T QU\u1ea2NG B\u00ccNH<\/p>
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\u0110\u1ec0 CH\u00cdNH TH\u1ee8C\t<\/span>K\u1ef2 THI CH\u1eccN HSG T\u1ec8NH N\u0102M H\u1eccC 2024-2025<\/font><\/p>Kh\u00f3a ng\u00e0y 03 th\u00e1ng 12 n\u0103m 2024<\/p>
M\u00f4n thi: TI\u1ebeNG ANH<\/p>
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S\u1ed0 B\u00c1O DANH:\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\t<\/span>L\u1edaP 12 THPT<\/font><\/p>Th\u1eddi gian: 150 ph\u00fat (kh\u00f4ng k\u1ec3 th\u1eddi gian giao \u0111\u1ec1)<\/p>
\u0110\u1ec1 g\u1ed3m c\u00f3 06 trang.<\/p>
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L\u01b0u \u00fd: <\/p>
\u2022\t<\/span>Th\u00ed sinh l\u00e0m b\u00e0i v\u00e0o t\u1edd gi\u1ea5y thi.<\/font><\/p>\u2022\t<\/span>Th\u00ed sinh kh\u00f4ng \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c s\u1eed d\u1ee5ng t\u00e0i li\u1ec7u, k\u1ec3 c\u1ea3 t\u1eeb \u0111i\u1ec3n. <\/font><\/p>SECTION ONE: LISTENING<\/p>
H\u01b0\u1edbng d\u1eabn ph\u1ea7n thi nghe hi\u1ec3u<\/p>
\u2022\t<\/span>B\u00e0i nghe g\u1ed3m 3 ph\u1ea7n; m\u1ed7i ph\u1ea7n \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c nghe 2 l\u1ea7n, m\u1ed7i l\u1ea7n c\u00e1ch nhau 15 gi\u00e2y; m\u1edf \u0111\u1ea7u m\u1ed7i ph\u1ea7n nghe c\u00f3 t\u00edn hi\u1ec7u. M\u1edf \u0111\u1ea7u v\u00e0 k\u1ebft th\u00fac b\u00e0i nghe c\u00f3 t\u00edn hi\u1ec7u nh\u1ea1c. <\/font><\/p>
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Part 1. For questions 1-5, you will hear part of a psychologist being interviewed about friendship. Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. (5pts)<\/p>
1. From three to five years old, children ________.<\/p>
\t<\/span>A. are happy to play alone\t\t<\/span>B. prefer to be with their family\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\t<\/span>C. have rather selfish relationships\t<\/span>D. have little idea of ownership<\/span><\/font><\/p>2. From age five to eight or ten, children ________.\t\t\t<\/span><\/font><\/p>\t<\/span>A. change their friends more often\t<\/span>B. decide who they want to be friends with\t<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\t<\/span>C. admire people who don\u2019t keep to rules\t<\/span>D. learn to be tolerant of their friends<\/span><\/font><\/p>3. According to Sarah Browne, adolescents ________.<\/p>
\t<\/span>A. may be closer to their friends than to their parents\t<\/span> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\t<\/span>B. develop an interest in friends of the opposite sex<\/span><\/font><\/p>\t<\/span>C. choose friends with similar personalities to themselves<\/span><\/font><\/p> \t<\/span>D. want friends who are dependable\t<\/span><\/font><\/p>4. Young married couple ________.<\/p>
\t<\/span>A. tend to focus on their children\t<\/span>B. often lose touch with their friends\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\t<\/span>C. make close friends less easily\t<\/span>D. need fewer friends than single people<\/span><\/font><\/p>5. In middle or old age people generally prefer ________.<\/p>
\t<\/span>A. to stay in touch with old friends\t<\/span>B. to see younger friends more often <\/span><\/font><\/p>\t<\/span>C. to have friends who live nearby\t<\/span>D. to spend more time with their friends<\/span><\/font><\/p>
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Part 2. You will hear an interview in which a deep-sea map-maker called Sally Gordon and a marine biologist called Mark Tomkins are talking about making maps of the ocean floor. For questions 6-10, decide whether the statement is TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). (5pts)<\/p>
6. Sally felt excited at the prospect of making further discoveries when she had completed her first mapping expedition.<\/p>
7. Mark compares the ocean floor to the planets to emphasize how it is overexploited.<\/p>
8. Sally feels optimistic about attitudes towards deep-sea exploration.<\/p>
9. When talking about the territorial ambitions of some island nations, Mark reveals his concern about the potential consequences.<\/p>
10. Sally and Mark predict that future developments in deep-sea exploration result in a change in human behaviour.<\/p>
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Part 3. For questions 11-20, listen to a lecture about dust storms and supply the blanks with the missing information. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND\/OR NUMBERS taken from the recording for each answer in the space provided. (10pts)<\/p>
Main focus of lecture: the impact of (11) _________ on the occurrence of dust storms.<\/p>
\u2022\t<\/span>Two main types of impact:<\/font><\/p> A)\t<\/span>break up ground surface, e.g. off-road vehicle use\t<\/span><\/font><\/p> B) remove protective plants, e.g. (12) __________________<\/p>
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Name of area\t<\/span>Details<\/font><\/p>USA \u2018dust bowl\u2019\t<\/span>Caused by mismanagement of farmland<\/font><\/p>Decade renamed the (13) _____________<\/p>
West Africa\t<\/span>Steady rise in dust storms over 20-year period<\/font><\/p>Arizona\t<\/span>Worst dust clouds arise from (14) _____________<\/font><\/p>Dust deposits are hazardous to (15) ___________<\/p>
Sahara\t<\/span>Increased wind erosion has occurred along with long-term (16) ___________<\/font><\/p>
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Drying-up of Aral Sea<\/p>
Intensive (17) _____________ in Central Asian Republics\t<\/span><\/font><\/p>Drop in water in major tributaries<\/p>
Total volume of water in lake reduced by (18) ________________<\/p>
Increase in wind-blown material<\/p>
Lake has become more (19) _______________<\/p>
Serious effects on (20) ______________nearby<\/p>
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SECTION TWO: PHONETICS AND LEXICO – GRAMMAR<\/p>
Part 1. For questions 21-23, pick up the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. (3pts)<\/p>
21. A. apathy \t<\/span>B. unanimous\t<\/span>C. catalyst\t<\/span>D. attorney <\/font><\/p>22. A. associate\t<\/span>B. sociable\t<\/span>C. ancient\t<\/span>D. ancestor<\/font><\/p>23. A. watered\t<\/span>B. crooked \t<\/span>C. contaminated \t<\/span>D. sacred<\/font><\/p>
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Part 2. For questions 24-25, choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group. (2pts) <\/p>
24. A. dormitory \t<\/span>B. category \t<\/span>C. priority \t<\/span>D. ordinary<\/font><\/p>25. A. environment\t\t<\/span>B. mystery\t<\/span>C. contribute\t<\/span>D. terrific<\/font><\/p>
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Part 3. For questions 26-35, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to each of the following questions. (10pts) <\/p>
26. She awoke with an _____ sense of foreboding which she could find no reason for. <\/p>
\t<\/span>A. intelligible\t<\/span>B. intensive\t<\/span>C. indelible\t<\/span>D. intangible<\/font><\/p>27. Remember to appreciate what your friends do for you. You shouldn’t take them________.<\/p>
\t<\/span>A. as a rule\t<\/span>B. as usual\t<\/span>C. out of habit\t<\/span>D. for granted<\/span><\/font><\/p>28. Don\u2019t trust what you hear on the grapevine. It\u2019s best to hear it straight from the ________ mouth so you know it\u2019s true.<\/p>
\t<\/span>A. dog\u2019s\t<\/span>B. horse\u2019s\t<\/span>C. camel\u2019s\t<\/span>D. cat\u2019s<\/span><\/font><\/p>29. Widely reproduced in magazines and books, ________.\t<\/span><\/font><\/p>\t<\/span>A. Ansel Adams depicted the Western wilderness in his photographs.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\t<\/span>B. the Western wilderness was depicted in the photographs of Ansel Adams.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\t<\/span>C. Ansel Adam\u2019s photographs depicted the Western wilderness.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\t<\/span>D. it was through his photographs that Ansel Adams depicted the Western wilderness.<\/span><\/font><\/p>30. Beneath the streets of a modern city ________ of walls, columns, cables, pipes, and tunnels required to satisfy the needs of its inhabitants. <\/p>
\t<\/span>A. where exists\t\t<\/span>B. the network\u2019s existence <\/span><\/font><\/p>\t<\/span>C. the existing network\t\t<\/span>D. exists the network<\/span><\/font><\/p>31. Psychologists have found that the number of social contacts we have ________ only reason for loneliness.<\/p>
\t<\/span>A. are not the\t<\/span>B. is not the\t<\/span>C. are not an\t<\/span>D. is not an<\/span><\/font><\/p>32. The door hinges had all been oiled to stop them ________.<\/p>
\t<\/span>A. squeaking \t<\/span>B. screeching \t<\/span>C. shrieking \t<\/span>D. squealing<\/span><\/font><\/p>33. John has a monthly bank ________ sent to him so that he knows how much there is in his account.<\/p>
\t<\/span>A. statement\t<\/span>B. overdraft\t<\/span>C. cheque\t<\/span>D. balance<\/span><\/font><\/p>34. Though badly damaged by fire, the palace was eventually ________ to its original splendour.<\/p>
\t<\/span>A. repaired\t<\/span>B. renewed\t<\/span>C. restored\t<\/span>D. renovated<\/span><\/font><\/p>35. I have English classes ________ day \u2013 Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. <\/p>
\t<\/span>A. each other\t<\/span>B. this and the other\t<\/span>C. all other\t<\/span>D. every other<\/span><\/font><\/p>
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Part 4. For questions 36-40, each of the following sentences contains ONE mistake. FIND and CORRECT it. (5pts) <\/p>
36. Assembly lines are useful for producing a large quality of identical products. <\/p>
37. Comparing with other countries, Libya spends a high percentage of income on education. <\/p>
38. I\u2019m becoming increasingly forgettable. Last week I locked myself out of the house twice. <\/p>
39. Musical comedies, as an American form of entertainment, often take its subjects from America\u2019s present or past. \t<\/span><\/font><\/p>40. The steak was really underdone so I sent it back with instructions to cook it for other five minutes. <\/p>
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Part 5. For questions 41-45, supply the correct form of each word given in brackets. (5pts)<\/p>
THE WORLD TODAY<\/p>
One way to stay abreast of and have intelligent opinion on global issues is by reading The World Today. By doing this you will receive a regular and (41. BIAS) ___________ briefing on the people and events that shape our world. Each week, this publication (42. TANGLE) ___________ the important issues through concise, informative and challenging articles. The most complex subjects are presented with (43. CLEAR) ___________, so you will acquire an (44. DEEP) ___________ and focused knowledge of countries, industries and topics of worldwide concern. The World Today is unsurpassed for the quality of its reporting. Regular feature articles examine a range of contentious issues, from international trade wars to the (45. EXPLOIT) __________ of refugees. <\/p>
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Part 6. For questions 46-50, complete each sentence with a suitable form of one of the phrasal verbs in the box. Use each one ONCE only. There is an extra one that you do not need to use. (5pts)<\/p>
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rat on come in for make out for peter out make up for wear out <\/p>
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46. What Jay lacked in experience, he _______ in enthusiasm. <\/p>
47. When the funds finally ________, they had to abandon the scheme. <\/p>
48. Kim was completely______ after jogging in the hot sun all afternoon; she had little energy left. <\/p>
49. That he was using unscrupulous research methods only came out because his assistant _______ him to the press. <\/p>
50. The finance minister_____ a lot of criticism after he raised interest rates by 2%, but he defended himself vigorously. <\/p>
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SECTION THREE: READING COMPREHENSION <\/p>
Part 1. For questions 51-60, read the following passage and choose the answer A, B, C or D which best fits each gap. (10pts)<\/p>
Public opinion polls show that crime is (51) _____ as one of the most serious problems of many societies. Yet, penetrating studies have revealed that the amount of violent crime is (52) _____. Our peculiar awareness and fear is largely brought about by the great attention it is (53) _____ in the mass media and also because of violent crime being a popular theme for television series and films.<\/p>
Among all crimes, murder makes the (54) _____ and there is little doubt that homicides still continue to be a (55) _____ question in a number of countries. The various causes of severe crime are being constantly (56) _____ and innumerable reasons for it are being pointed out. Among these are unemployment, drug (57) _____, inadequate police enforcement, ineffective courts, racial discrimination, television and the general decline in social values.<\/p>
An acknowledged fact is that this is mainly poverty that (58) _____ crime. Individuals incapable of securing for themselves and their families the rudimentary means of living unavoidably (59) _____ to stealing, burgling or committing other offences. We may try to explain crime on different (60) _____ – cultural, economic, psychological, but criminologists are still far from detecting the exact source of violent offences as the direct link between these particular factors isn\u2019t possible to specify.<\/p>
51. A. believed\t\t\t<\/span>B. viewed\t\t<\/span>C. alleged\t\t<\/span>D. thought<\/font><\/p>52. A. outspoken\t\t<\/span>B. overestimated\t<\/span>C. presupposed\t\t<\/span>D. upgraded<\/font><\/p>53. A. granted