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(A) Bad polluted air can (B) cause illness and (C) even death to (D) many people.

Increasing numbers of parents in the U.S. are choosing to teach their children at home. In fact, the U.S. Department of Education has estimated that in 1999, about 850,000 children were being homeschooled. Some educational experts say that the real number is double this estimate, and the ranks of homeschooled children seem to be growing at the average rate of about eleven percent every year.

At one time, there was a theory accounting for homeschooling: it was traditionally used for students who could not attend school because of behavioral or learning difficulties. Today, however, more parents are taking on the responsibility of educating their own children at home due to their dissatisfaction with the educational system. Many parents are unhappy about class size, as well as problems inside the classroom. Teacher shortages and lack of funding mean that, in many schools, one teacher is responsible for thirty or forty students. The children are, therefore, deprived of the attention they need. Escalating classroom violence has also motivated some parents to remove their children from school.

Although there have been a lot of arguments for and against it, homeschooling in the U.S. has become a multi-million dollar industry, and it is growing bigger and bigger. There are now plenty of websites, support groups, and conventions that help parents protect their rights and enable them to learn more about educating their children. Though once it was the only choice for troubled children, homeschooling today is an accepted alternative to an educational system that many believe is failing.

Computers (A) are often used to control, (B) adjustment, and (C) correct complex (D) industrial operations.

A number of (A) many wildlife habitat reserves (B) have been established so that a wide range of endangered species can have a chance (C) to survive and (D) develop.

(A) Entered the room, he (B) discovered that he (C) had lost his wallet while (D) shopping in the city center.

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ĐỀ THI THỬ THQG NĂM 2015 MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH – ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ 141 Thời gian: 90 phút

I. Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three words in each by marking the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet.

Câu 1: A. agency B. supermax C. atmosphere D. interfere 3

Câu 2: A. backstairs B. backstage 1 C. backstreet D. backspace

Câu 3: A. Atlantic 1 B. Catholic C. lunatic D. politics

Câu 4: A. misfortune B. illegal C. indifference D. discotheque 1

Câu 5: A. seventeen B. chromosome 1 C. authenticity D. picturesque

II. Choose the best answer for each question by marking the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet.

Câu 6: It’s a piece of good news. The factory’s ______has increased considerably this year.

A. output B. put-in C. put-out D. input

Câu 7: We didn’t much like the new neighbors at first, but ______we grew quite fond of them.

A. in time đôi khi B. by the time C. against time D. at the same time

Câu 8: I am ______ to come to the meeting on Monday evening, please apologize for my absence.

A. unable B. impossible C. incapable D. unlikely

Câu 9: Much of the funding has come from international ______ agencies.

A. relief B. aid C. support D. help

Câu 10: On ______ to power, the new president announced a program of social reforms.

A. arriving B. achieving C. coming D. reaching

Câu 11: She looks pretty although she has a______ on her left eye.

_{A. birth mark B. birth control C. birth place D. birth right}

Câu 12: It is imperative that his recovery ______ the treatment for at least two months.

A. continue B. to continue C. continued D. continues

Câu 13: We are looking for someone who can ______ with the rest of our team.

A. get up B. work off C. fit in D. act up

Câu 14: The girl standing among many other students ______ a scholarship to Columbia University.

A. was rewarded B. were awarded C. were rewarded D. was awarded

Câu 15: Out ______ when the bell rang.

A. run the children B. do the children run C. ran the children D. did the children run

Câu 16: ______always in such a hurry, your work would be much better.

A. If you were B. Unless you were C. But for your D. If you weren't

Câu 17: ______, business managers plan the tasks that their employees are to carry out.

A. Through the organizing process B. They process the organizing

C. It is the organizing process D. While the organizing process

Câu 18: Mai: “That millions of people attended General Vo Nguyen Giap’s funeral made a special impression on almost every foreigner.” Lan: “______”

A. My pleasure. B. Me neither. C. I’m afraid I can’t D. I’ll say.

Câu 19: Now that he has retired, he lives partly on his pension and partly on the ___ on his post office savings account.

A. salary B. income C. interest D. wages

Câu 20: He seemed undecided ______ go or stay.

A. if B. whether to C. whether D. if to

Câu 21: His eyes were light blue and ______ in their innocence.

A. childless B. childish C. childlike D. childhood

Câu 22: The mother put a rug (chăn mền)______ her sleeping child.

A. at B. in C. on D. over

Câu 23: “Your kitchen is fantastic! Did you do it all yourself?” “No, I______ by a professional.”

A. have it designed B. had designed it C. had it designed D. designed it

Câu 24: The copy machine was reduced to even ______ the sale price.

A. least as B. as much as C. more than D. less than

Câu 25: When a fire broke out in the Louvre, at least twenty______ paintings were destroyed, including two by Picasso.

A. worthless B. valueless C. priceless D. meaningless

Câu 26: Rewrite the important parts of the letter ______bold, will you?

A. to B. in C. at D. on

Câu 27: The plane I intended to catch crashed and everyone was killed. If I______ that plane, I would be dead now.

A. had caught B. caught C. catch D. am catching

Câu 28: We should______ every chance we have to speak English.

A. turn to our advantage B. make use of C. come into use D. open to abuse

Câu 29: _{“You’re probably too tired to play another game of racquetball, right?” “I’m not that tired, really.} ______, I’d enjoy another game.” A. As a matter of fact B. As a matter C. As a fact D. As a fact matter

Câu 30: We have orders ______ from all over the world.

A. come B. coming C. to come D. to have come

III. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.

Câu 31: Unless I miss my guess, your computer needs a new hard drive. NHẦM LẪN

A. I break the soft drive B. you lack money C. you are my guess D. I make a mistake

Câu 32: The Civil War in 1863 cut the United States into two nations - a southern Confederacy and a northern Union.

A. acknowledged B. alienated C. severed D. integrated

Câu 33: Relaxation therapy (liệu pháp) teaches one not to fret over small problems. Trang trí, lo lắng

A. get involved in B. worry about C. look for D. get angry about

IV. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions. .34 den cau 35.

Câu 34: Thousands are going starving because of the failure of this year's harvest.

A. hungry B. poor C. rich D. full

Câu 35: I’d like to pay some money into my bank account.

A. withdraw some money from B. put some money into C. give some money out D. leave some money aside

V. Read the following passage and mark the letter A,B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 45.

The conservatism of the early English colonists in North America, their strong attachment to the English way of doing things, would play a major part in the furniture that was made in New England. The very tools that the first New England furniture makers used were, after all, not much different from those used for centuries- even millennia: basic hammers, saws, chisels, planes, augers, compasses, and measures. These were the tools used more or less by all people who worked with wood: carpenters, barrel makers, and shipwrights. At most the furniture makers might have had planes with special edges or more dedicate chisels, but there could not have been much specialization in the early years of the colonies.

The furniture makers in those early dedicates of the 1600s were known as “joiners,” for the primary method of constructing furniture, at least among the English of this time, was that of mortise-and-tenon joinery (ghép mộng). The mortise is the hole chiseled (đục) and cut into one piece of wood, while the tenon is the tongue or protruding element shaped from another piece of wood so that it fits into the mortise; and another small hole is then drilled (with the auger=mũi khoan) through the Mortise end and the tenon so that a whittled (gọt, đẽo) peg (chốt) can secure the joint- thus the term “joiner”. Panels were fitted into slots (khe, rãnh) on the basic frames. This kind of construction was used for making everything from houses to chests. Hòm, tủ

Relatively little hardware was used during this period. Some nails- forged by hand- were used, but no screws or glue. Hinges were often made of leather, but metal hinges were also used. The cruder varieties were made by blacksmiths thợ rèn in the colonies, but the finer metal elements were imported. Locks and escutcheon (nắp khóa) plates- the latter to shield the wood from the metal key- would often be imported.