(2023) Đề thi thử Tiếng anh Sở giáo dục và đào tạo Thanh Hóa (Lần 1) có đáp án

Mark the letter A, B, Cor 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.

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.  Sylvia Earle is an underwater explorer and marine biologist who was born in the USA in 1935 She became interested in the world's oceans from an early age. As a child, she liked to stand on the beach for hours and look at the sea, wondering what it must be like under the surface. When she was 16, she finally got a chance to make her first dive. It was this dive that inspired her to become an underwater explorer. Since then, she has spent more than 6,500 hours under water, and has led more than seventy expeditions worldwide. She has also made the deepest dive ever reaching a record breaking depth of 381 meters. In 1970, she became famous around the world when she became the captain of the first all-female team to live under water. The team spent two weeks in an underwater 'house'. The research they carried out showed the damage that pollution was causing to marine life, and especially to coral reefs. Since then she has written several books and magazine articles about ways of reducing the damage that is being done to the world's oceans. One way, she believes, is to rely on fish farms for seafood, and reduce the amount of fishing that is done out at sea. (Adapted from Complete IELTS Workbook by Rawdon Wyatt)

The word “inspired” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______.

According to paragraph 1, Sylvia Earle _________.

Which best serves as the title for the passage?

The word “they” in paragraph 2 refers to _______.

Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage ?

Mark the letter A, B, Cor 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.

 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.

The garden city was largely the invention of the British social visionary Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928). After emigrating from England to the USA, and an unsuccessful attempt to make a living as a farmer, he moved to Chicago, where he saw the reconstruction of the city after the disastrous fire of 1871. In those pre-skyscraper days, it was nicknamed “the Garden City”, almost certainly the source of Howard's name for his proposed towns. Returning to London, Howard developed his concept in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing on ideas that were circulating at the time, but creating a unique combination of proposals. The nineteenth-century slum city was in many ways a horrific place; but it offered economic and social opportunities, lights and crowds. At the same time, the British countryside - now too often seen in a sentimental glow - was in fact equally unprepossessing: though it promised fresh air and nature, it suffered from agricultural depression and it offered neither enough work and wages, nor adequate social life. Howard's idea was to combine the best of town and country in a new kind of settlement, the garden city. Howard's idea was that a group of people should establish a company, borrowing money to establish a garden city in the countryside, far enough from existing cities to ensure that the land was bought at the bottom price. They should get agreement from leading industrialists to move their factories there from the congested cities; their workers would move too, and would build their own houses. Garden cities would follow the same basic blueprint, with a high proportion of green spaces, together with a central public open space, radial avenues, and peripheral industries. They would be surrounded by a much larger area of permanent green belt, also owned by the company, containing not merely farms, but institutions like reformatories and convalescent homes, that could benefit from a rural location. As more and more people moved out, the garden city would reach its planned limit - Howard suggested 32,000 people; then, another would be started a short distance away. Thus, over time,there would develop a vast planned house collection, extending almost without limit; within it, each garden city would offer a wide range of jobs and services, but each would also be connected to the others by a rapid transportation system, thus giving all the economic and social opportunities of a big city. 

Which best serves as the title for the passage?

According to paragraph 3, garden cities were planned _______.

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

The word “They” in paragraph 3 refers to _______.

The phrase “drawing on” in paragraph 1 mostly means

What can be inferred about garden cities from the last paragraph?

The word “unprepossessing” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _______.

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.

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. According to a recent study, your personality could determine how likely you are to be involved in an accident. In fact, it could be the most important factor behind around a quarter of all mishaps. The researchers have found that there are three key personality traits that can make (26) _______ people more accident-prone than others. Firstly, high levels of aggressiveness or selfishness may (27) _______ people more at risk of having accidents as individuals with these characteristics are often highly competitive and therefore more likely not to follow instructions and to ignore rules. It also seems that those (28) _______ have very open personalities may also have more accidents as these kinds of people can be dreamy and lack concentration. Finally, people who aren't very dependable or responsible may also be more at risk. Not everyone, (29) _______ agrees with the study's findings. A spokesperson for an accident prevention organization said: “We must (30) _______ responsibility for our actions and educate people to prevent accidents instead of blaming our personalities.”

The researchers have found that there are three key personality traits that can make (26) _______ people more accident-prone than others.

Firstly, high levels of aggressiveness or selfishness may (27) _______ people more at risk of having accidents as individuals with these characteristics are often highly competitive and therefore more likely not to follow instructions and to ignore rules.

It also seems that those (28) _______ have very open personalities may also have more accidents as these kinds of people can be dreamy and lack concentration.

Not everyone, (29) _______ agrees with the study's findings.

A spokesperson for an accident prevention organization said: “We must (30) _______ responsibility for our actions and educate people to prevent accidents instead of blaming our personalities.”

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.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

We arranged to meet at 7.30, but she didn't ________.

24 Vietnamese soldiers and medical workers ________ to Turkey for earthquake relief.

Although I like the dress very much, the ________ cost of it is what really puts me off.

Alice took great photos of butterflies while she ________ in the forest.

It's so busy in my office. I don't get the chance to ________ my breath after my long journey into the office. I have to get down to work as soon as I get in.

Juliette leads a quiet life ________ a small town.

The letter ________ me of the theft hadn't been signed.

The more I concentrate, ________ my answers are.

I love the ________ car that always parked at the end of the street.

Many ethnic groups find it difficult to _______ their culture.

Students often use their calculators to solve tricky questions, ________?

If Hoa’s brother had listened to her advice, he wouldn't have bought a ________ in a poke. She can't believe he wasted so much money on such rubbish.

They have _______ some measures to control traffic jam at rush hours

She was still worried ________ having prepared carefully for the job interview.

John will look for a job ________.

Mark the letter A, B, C on your answer sheet to indicate the word CLOSEST in meaning to underlined word in each of the following questions

The new college is intended to improve the life chances of children in the inner city.

The fire ruined the forest completely; all habitats were totally in the flames.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to

the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

Hoai An was on edge all day about the important presentation she had to give to the group of local citizens.

Most of the female football players will be jobless when the Games are over.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges.

Linda and Peter are talking about safe driving.

    Linda: “I think drink-driving should be severely punished.”

    Peter: “_______________. It may cause accidents or even deaths.”

Mary is at Daisy’s birthday party.

    Mary: “What a beautiful dress you are wearing today, Daisy!”

    Daisy: “_____________”

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs to correction on each of the following questions.

Alice broke the school rules so many times that the headmistress finally had no alternation but to expel her.

Peacocks are among the most exotic birds in nature; its long tail feathers fan out to reveal a profusion of vivid colors.

Millions of students took part in the entrance examination at university every year.

Mark the letter A, B, C or Iron your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

He hasn't changed his Facebook avatar for 3 years.

It’s very likely that the company will accept his application.

“I met my old friend yesterday.” Anna said

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.

She read all the instructions of the exam. She started to do it.

They are too busy with their work. They really want to go for a picnic.