Đề thi giữa học kì 2 môn Tiếng Anh lớp 12 có đáp án - Đề số 30

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.

In 2012, 9% of the energy consumed in the USA came from the renewable sources. Out of this, hydro-power accounted for 16%.

Corn, domesticated by the American Indians, was brought to Europe by Columbus.

Choose the word that has the main stress differently from the others

Choose the word that has the main stress differently from the others

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

They asked me what did happen last night, but I was unable to tell them.

It was not until the end of prehistoric times that the first wheeled vehicles appearing.

Some people often say that using cars is not as convenient than using motorbikes.

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 question.One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media - particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree. The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication. When television came along, it proliferated like a population of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more than a million. Today, it's not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day. What's more, after the traumatic events of September 11, 2001, live new-casts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time. Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to disaster (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the problem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin. Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma - not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potential trauma - at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourselves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress. 

According to the passage, which of the following has contributed to the intense nature of twenty first century stress?

In the past, we had less news of distant people and lands because ___.

According to the passage, our continual exposure to bad news without perspective is obviously ___.

According to the passage, when there is not enough actual breaking news, broadcasts ___.

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

The word "slip" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ___.

The word "traumatic" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ___.

What is probably the best title for this passage?

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.

- Michel: "I failed my driving test again!" - Nick: “___”

- Anna: "Would you like a glass of beer, Emma?" - Emma:”___”

In some countries, the disease burden could be prevented through environmental improvements.

Population growth rates vary among regions and even among countries within the same region

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

My friend bought ___ from a shop on Tran Phu street.

He was so mean that he couldn't bear to ___ the smallest sum of money for the charity appeal.

Thousands of people came to see the Queen ___ the rain.

From an early age, Wolfgang had a (n) ___ for music.

She was so tired last night that she slept like ___ until 10 o'clock this morning.

The last person ___ will have to turn off the lights.

I thought I saw water in the distance but it must have been an optical ___.

He usually travels to ___ Philadelphia by ___ train.  

They have just visited the town ___ location was little known.

I'm becoming increasingly ___. Last week I locked myself out of the house twice.

Regular exercise and good diet will bring ___ fitness and health.

This shirt is ___ that one.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks. Global warming is the current increase in temperature of the Earth's surface (both land and water) as well as its atmosphere. Average temperature around the world have risen by 0.75°C (1.4°F) (32) ___ the last 100 years. About two thirds of this increase has occurred since 1975 in the past, when the Earth experienced increases in temperature it was the result of natural causes, but today it is being caused by accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere produced by human (33) ___. The natural greenhouse effect maintains the Earth's temperature at a safe level making it (34) ___ for humans and many other life forms to exist. However, since The Industrial Revolution what benefits human has significantly enhanced the greenhouse effect (35) ___ the Earth's average temperature to rise by almost 1°C. This is creating the global warming (36) ___ we see today.

Average temperature around the world have risen by 0.75°C (1.4°F) (32) ___ the last 100 years.

but today it is being caused by accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere produced by human (33) ___.

The natural greenhouse effect maintains the Earth's temperature at a safe level making it (34) ___ for humans and many other life forms to exist.

However, since The Industrial Revolution what benefits human has significantly enhanced the greenhouse effect (35) ___ the Earth's average temperature to rise by almost 1°C.

This is creating the global warming (36) ___ we see today.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or 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.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or 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 SAVANNAH

The tourist looking at the African savannah on a summer afternoon might be excused for thinking that the wide yellow grass plain was completely deserted of life, almost a desert. With only a few small thorn trees sticking out through the veldt, there seems to be almost no place for a living creature to hide. However, under those trees you might find small steenbok, sleeping in the shade, and waiting for the night to fall. There may even be a small group of lions somewhere, their bodies exactly the same as the tall grass around them. In the holes in the ground a host of tiny creatures, from rabbits and badgers to rats and' snakes are waiting for the heat to finish. The tall grass also hides the fact that there may be a small stream running across the middle of the plain. One clue that there may be water here is the sight of a majestic Marshall eagle circling slowly over the grassland. When he drops, he may come up with a small fish, or maybe a grass snake that has been waiting at the edge of a pool in the hope of catching a frog. The best time to see the animals then, is in the evening, just as the sun is setting. The best time of the year to come is in late September, or early August, just before the rains. Then the animals must come to the waterholes, as there is no other place for them to drink. And they like to come while it is still light; so they can see if any dangers are creeping up on them. So it is at sunset, and after the night falls, that the creatures of the African veld rise and go about their business. 

Why do animals come to the waterholes while it is still light?

By "go about their business" the writer means ___

What kind of book does the text seem to be from?

What kind of book does the text seem to be from?

What kind of book does the text seem to be from?

The phrase "a host of " in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ___.

The phrase "be excused for" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ___.

The word "he" in paragraph 2 refers to ___.

The savannah appears to be empty because ___.

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.

We spend about one-third of our lives sleeping. We know relatively little about sleep

Overeating is a cause of several deadly diseases. Physical inactivity is another cause of several deadly diseases.

People say that Mr. Goldman gave nearly a million pounds to charity last year.

"Why don't we wear sunglasses?" - our grandpa would say when we went out on bright sunny days.

I am sure he did not know that his brother graduated with flying colors.