Bộ 20 đề ôn thi Chuyên Anh năm 2023 (Đề 64)

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in the same line.

Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word for each space.

Technology        

    When faced with some new and possibly bewildering technological change, most people react in one of two ……….(1). They either recoil from anything new, claiming that it is unnecessary, or too complicated or that it somehow makes life less than ……….(2). Or they learn to …………(3) to the new invention, and eventually………..(4) how they could possibly have existed without it. Take computers as an example. For many of us, they still represent a ……….(5) to our freedom, and give us a frightening sense of a future in which all ……….(6) will be taken by machines. This may be because they seem mysterious, and diffcult to understand. Ask most people what you can use  a home computer for, and you usually get ……….(7) answers about how ‘they give you information’. In fact, even those of us who are familiar with computers, and use them in our daily work, have very little idea of how they work. But it does not take long to learn how to operate a business programme, even if things occasionally go wrong for no apparent reason. Presumably much the same happened when the telephone and the television became ……….(8). What seems to alarm most people is the speed of technological change, rather than change itself. And the ……….(9) that are made to new technology may well have a point to them, since change is not always an improvement. As discover during power cuts, there is a lot to be said for the oil lamp, the coal fire, and forms of entertainment, such as books or board games, that don’t have to be ………..(10) in to work.

 When faced with some new and possibly bewildering technological change, most people react in one of two ……….(1). 

They either recoil from anything new, claiming that it is unnecessary, or too complicated or that it somehow makes life less than ……….(2).

Or they learn to …………(3) to the new invention, and eventually………..(4) how they could possibly have existed without it.

Or they learn to …………(3) to the new invention, and eventually………..(4) how they could possibly have existed without it.

For many of us, they still represent a ……….(5) to our freedom, and give us a frightening sense of a future in which all ……….(6) will be taken by machines.

For many of us, they still represent a ……….(5) to our freedom, and give us a frightening sense of a future in which all ……….(6) will be taken by machines

Ask most people what you can use  a home computer for, and you usually get ……….(7) answers about how ‘they give you information’.

Presumably much the same happened when the telephone and the television became ……….(8).

And the ……….(9) that are made to new technology may well have a point to them, since change is not always an improvement.

As discover during power cuts, there is a lot to be said for the oil lamp, the coal fire, and forms of entertainment, such as books or board games, that don’t have to be ………..(10) in to work.

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in the same line.

Supply the most suitable word for each blank       

     People who are deprived (1) …… sleep lose energy and become quick-tempered. (2).......... two days without sleep, a person finds that lengthy concentration ............. (3) difficult. He can force himself to (4) ……   tasks well for short periods, but he is  (5)…….... distracted.  He makes many mistakes especially at routine tasks, and his attention slips (6) …… times. Even a  "sleepless" person experiences periods in which he dozes off for a few seconds or more. He falls completely asleep ............(7) he is kept active continuously. Persons who go without sleep for more than three days have great (8)_____ thinking, seeing, and hearing clearly. They have periods of hallucinations during  (9)…….they see things that do not really exist. They also confuse day dreams with real life and (10) …….track of their thoughts in the middle of a sentence.

           People who are deprived (1) …… sleep lose energy and become quick-tempered.

(2).......... two days without sleep, a person finds that lengthy concentration ............. (3) difficult.

(2).......... two days without sleep, a person finds that lengthy concentration ............. (3) difficult.

He can force himself to (4) ……   tasks well for short periods, but he is (5)…….... distracted. 

He can force himself to (4) …… tasks well for short periods, but he is (5)…….... distracted.

He makes many mistakes especially at routine tasks, and his attention slips (6) …… times.

He falls completely asleep ............(7)he is kept active continuously.

Persons who go without sleep for more than three days have great (8)_____ thinking, seeing, and hearing clearly.

They have periods of hallucinations during (9)…….they see things that do not really exist.

They also confuse day dreams with real life and (10) …….track of their thoughts in the middle of a sentence.

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in the same line.

Read the article about endangered species. For questions 1-10, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.           The word laser was coined as an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Ordinary light, from the Sun or a light bulb, is emitted spontaneously, when atoms or molecules get rid of excess energy by themselves, with out any outside intervention. Stimulated emission is different because it occurs when an atom or molecule holding onto excess energy has been stimulates to emit it as light          Albert Einstein was the first to suggest the existence of stimulated emission in a paper published in 1917. However, for many years physicists thought that atoms and molecules always were much more likely to emit light spontaneously and that stimulates emission thus always would be much weaker. It was not until after the Second World War that physicists began trying to make stimulated emission dominate. They sought ways by which one stomp or molecule could stimulate many others to emit light, amplifying it to much higher powers.          The first to succeed was Charles H. Townes, then at Columbia University in New York. Instead of working with light, however, he worked with microwaves, which have a much longer wavelength, and built a device ha called a “maser,” for Microwave Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Although he thought of the key idea in 1951, the first maser was not complete until a couple of years later. Before long, many other physicists were building masers and trying to discover how to produce stimulated emission at even shorted wavelengths.          The key concepts emerged about 1957. Townes and Arthur Schawlow, then at Bell Telephone Laboratories, wrote a long paper outlining the conditions needed to amplify stimulated emission of visible light waves. At about the same time, similar ideas crystallized in the mind if Gordon Gould, then a 37-years-old graduate student at Columbia, who wrote them down in a series of notebook. Townes and Schawlow published their ideas in a scientific journal, Physical Review Letters, but Gould files a patent application. Three decades later, people still argue about who deserved the credit for the concept of the laser.

The word “coined” in line I could best be replaced by _________

The word “intervention” in the first paragraph can best be replaced by _________

The word “it” in the last line of the first paragraph refers to _________

Which of the following statements best describes a laser?

Why was Townes’ early work with stimulated emission done with microwaves?

In his research at Columbia University, Charles Townes worked with all of the following EXCEPT

In approximate what year was first maser built?

The word “emerged” in paragraph 4 is closet in meaning to _________

The word “outlining” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _________ .

Why do people still argue about who deserves the credit for the concept of the laser ?

Pick out the word that has the stress syllable differently fromthat of the other words.

Pick out the word that has the stress syllable differently fromthat of the other words.

Choose the correct word or phrase to complete each sentenceAre there enough apples for us to have one .............. ?

We must .............. our pounds for dollars before going to New York.

Who is the .................... of this company?

That book is by a famous anthropologist. It’s about the people in Samoa .............. for two years.

The old man serves the ball so skilfully. He ..................... a good tennis player when young.

Instead of thingking carefully, he tends to .................... conclusions.

Can you really insure yourself .............. unemployment?

I love this painting of an old man. He has such a beautiful, .............. smile.

............... more help, I could call my neighbour.

............... alone in ................. dark, deserted street is risky.

I shall do the job to the best of my .................. .

Phone me before ten, .............. I’ll be too busy to talk to you.

To get a passport, you must send in your birth ................ and two photos.

Dinosaurs are thought to ............... out millions of years ago.

A: Do you think you’ll get the job? – B: ………….

Use the correct forms of the verbs in brackets

Where have you been, Tom? Look at your face! You are a sight!

- Mummy, you .....................( always grumble).

With this promotion, I feel that I................... (reach) a turning point in my career.

...............(convince) that they.................(try) to poison him, he refused to eat anything.

Why didn't you tell me you could lend me the money? I....................( not borrow) it from the bank.

I don't mind you................ (borrow) my laptop, but I'd sooner you..................(ask) me first.

Unfortunately tomorrow's match ...................(call off).

Do you realize that if the workmen are still there on Monday, they ........................(dig) up the road for a whole month?

She can't bear................(leave) alone.

Fill each blank with the correct form of the words given.

There is a………living-room, with French windows.                 SPACE

I thought the test was ………. easy, actually. COMPARE

The driver who gave us a lift refused to accept…… PAY

This statue………. the soldiers who died in the war.             MEMORY

We had to take out a…. . from the bank to buy the car.                                  LEND

I find computers rather cold and…..               PERSON

I think there is too much…… on T.V                      ADVERTISE

Jim is one of the most…..members of the committee.                                   SPEAK

The car in front braked…….. and I ran into it.                  EXPECT 

He wanted to escape from the............. of the small town where he had been brought up          PROVINCE

There is ten mistakes in  following sentences. Find and correct them.

           My cousin and her husband lived in one of the suburbs of London. One morning they woke up to find at  their dismay that their car had been stolen from outside their house. They immediately phoned the police to report the thief before left for work by bus.

           When they returned home later the same day, they found that their car brought back and was parked in its common place outside their house. Under one of the windscreen wiper was a small envelope.

           They quickly opened it and found a note to apologize profusely for "borrowing" their car. The man who wrote it explained that he didn't have the car itself, and his wife had gone into labour in the middle of the night with their first baby. So he hoped they wouldn't mind too much that he had taken their cars without their permission in order to run her to the hospital as it was anything of an emergency.

Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it.

These young men became engineers after five years training.

-> After these young men...........................................

Under no circumstances should you phone the police.

 -> The last................................................................

It was the goalkeeper that saved the match for us.

-> Had........................................................................

This is the quickest way to get into the city.

-> There is.................................................................

The instructions say you just add boiling water to the soup powder.

-> The soup powder...........................................................

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sen­tence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word given. 

It has always been her ambition to write a successful novel.            dreamt

 -> She.............................................................a successful novel.

I met her while I was staying in Paris last summer.               stay

 -> I met her......................................................................in Paris last summer.

You got lost because you didn't do what I told you.            instructions

 -> If...................................................................you wouldn't have got lost.

I'll only leave the waiter some money if he's quick.                    tip

 -> I won't..........................................................................he's quick.

Our neighbour says he definitely won't return the ball.            keeping

-> Our neighbour says he......................................................................the ball.