(2025) Đề ôn thi tốt nghiệp THPT môn Tiếng Anh (Đề 12)

     Beautiful Sunset

     This band returns once again to play songs (10) _______ their latest album. Expect an amazing performance from these musicians who have sold over 80 million records. Tickets are on (11) _______ sale for €60, the price includes a free souvenir T-shirt. (12) _______ a meal in our restaurant after the show. Public transport nearby.

     The Sports Palace

     Captain Rob's Adventures in 4DX

     Not cheap but this animated version of a well-known film is an experience you definitely can't get at home. The picture and sound (13) _______ is fantastic, and the 4D effects are amazing. Feel the wind and the waves, (14) _______ you sail with Captain Rob. Choice of restaurants nearby. Public transport within easy walking (15) _______ .

     Filmworld 4DX

A number of factors related to the voice reveal the personality of the speaker. The first is the broad area of communication, which includes imparting information by use of language, (18) _______ and specialized communication through performance. (19) _______ through choice of words, by a tone of voice that is pleasant or unpleasant, gentle or harsh, by the rhythm that is inherent within the language itself, and by speech rhythms (20) _______ and regular or uneven and hesitant, and finally, by the pitch and melody of the utterance. When speaking before a group, a person's tone may indicate uncertainty or fright, confidence or calm. (21) _______ the tone may reflect ideas and feelings over and above the words chosen, or may believe them. Here the participant's tone can consciously or unconsciously reflect intuitive sympathy or antipathy, (22) _______ or interest, fatigue, anxiety, enthusiasm or excitement, all of which (23) _______ Public performance is a manner of communication that is highly specialized with its own techniques for obtaining effects by voice and /or gesture.

     Beavers are remarkable animals. They are second only to humans in their ability to manipulate and change their environment. By building dams, beavers create wetlands, (24) _______ are one of the most biologically productive habitats on Earth. These wetlands provide a home for a wide (25) _______ of wildlife, from birds and fish to invertebrates and plants.

     The dams also slow the flow of water, reducing the risk of floods downstream. (26) _______ filter out pollutants, improving the quality of our water. Moreover, the carbon stored in the dams and surrounding wetlands helps mitigate climate change.

     Yet, despite their ecological benefits, beavers (27) _______ numerous threats. Habitat loss is a significant concern. As we continue to develop and change natural landscapes, beaver populations decline. Illegal trapping and hunting for their fur, once a thriving industry, also pose a serious risk.

     To address these issues, conservationists are taking (28) _______ . Efforts are being made to protect beaver habitats, restrict hunting, and reintroduce beavers in areas where they have disappeared. In some cases, artificial beaver dams are being created to mimic the benefits they provide.

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 29 to 33.

     Captain Matthew Webb is fortunate in being remembered as the first man to swim the English Channel, rather than the one who later tried, and failed, to plunge through the Niagara Falls. If ever a man possessed an abundance of self-confidence, it was Webb; but it was his stubborn refusal to give up that eventually proved his undoing. Unwilling to recognise the Channel crossing as the peak of his career, he went on and on, addicted to glory, literally swimming himself to death.

     Webb astonished the British nation on August 25, 1875, with a Channel crossing that took a mammoth 21 hours and 45 minutes. He had entered the sea a merchant-ship captain living in obscurity, but he emerged in France, stung by jellyfish and half-dead with exhaustion, a national hero. He was feted, mobbed and cheered wherever he went. But all this stardom was too much for him, and he made the fatal error of many a pop star in later years. Craving applause, he very nearly dissolved himself in a series of marathon swims for money, including a six-day endurance contest. Then he sailed for America, and he had a punishing schedule of long swims there. It was America that lured Webb to the final act in his tragedy; his crazed attempt to swim the Niagara River beneath the Falls in June 1883. Regardless of all advice, he dived in from a boat and subsided forever into the boiling rapids.

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 34 to 40.

     Real, or original, pizza is an art: the pizzaiolo - the specialist pizza chef - is baker, fire stoker and cook. A wood-burning oven is an essential part of the proceedings. However, before the pizzas get to the fire, they have to be properly shaped and it was this procedure that was causing me all the grief.

     Francesco Sarritzu, the pizzaiolo at The Park restaurant in Queen's Park, London, where I went to be trainee for the evening, made it look easy. He showed me what to do and I tried to take it in. The chilled dough balls, pre-weighed at 170 g , were all ready in a special fridge below the work counter. The dough was sticky and Francesco worked fast. First, it was dropped into a large pile of flour and then it was mixed with a small handful of polenta.

     From here it was all hands. He pressed out the dough with his fingers, all the time working in flour and pressing the edges out until a small round circle had emerged. He then threw it into his hands, twirling it to shake off the excess flour. He did not toss it in the air. "Tossing is for show,' he said disdainfully. "It is not necessary.' Once the flour was shaken off, he put the dough onto the steel work surface with one half of it hanging over the edge. One hand pressed and stretched and the other pulled in the opposite direction. Before you could say 'pizza Margherita', there was a perfect circle ready to be topped.

     I moved nervously into position to have a go at achieving the same result myself. I scooped up a piece of dough from its snug tray. It immediately stuck to my fingers and when I threw it at the flour, it just remained stuck. I had to pull it off. The first bit is easy, or so it seems, but unless you follow the right procedure you sow the seeds of later failure.

     The object is to press out the edges, not the centre, using the flour to dry out the stickiness. However, the temptation to press everything in sight to make it stretch into a circular shape is too strong; before I knew it, I had thick edges and a thin centre. Then, a hole appeared in the centre. I was defeated. My second pizza went where the first one had gone: on the fire. We all watched it go up in flames.

     Later Francesco showed me that there was a point in the deep oven away from the fire, where the pizzas go when they are first put into the oven. That is putting the long handle deep into the oven, feeling the heat on the arms, and bringing it back sharply.