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ĐỀ THI THAM KHẢO
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KÌ THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG NĂM
2024
Bài thi: NGOẠI NGỮ; Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH 69
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Họ và tên thí sinh:……………………………………………………………………. SBD:…………………………
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.
Question 1: A. thief
B. theme
C. their
D. thick
Question 2: A. legend
B. lesson
C. lessen
D. legal
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 primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3: A. future
B. enter
C. include
D. venture
Question 4: A. surrender
B. prestigious
C. privilege
D. sufficient
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 5: Nate couldn't persuade Annie ______ with him on the business trip.
A. go
B. going
C. to go
D. to going
Question 6: Staying in a hotel may cost ______ renting a room in a homestay.
A. twice as much as B. as twice much as C. twice much as
D. two-time more than
Question 7: When the robbery happened, the security guard ______! It was unbelievable!
A. slept
B. was sleeping
C. had slept
D. was slept
Question 8: Last year, the company ______ after the one of its senior executives offered his
resignation.
A. moved straight in B. went belly up
C. burned oil on
D. blew cloud to
Question 9: If something urgent has ______ up, please call me immediately and I will help you.
A. picked
B. come
C. kept
D. brought
Question 10: Unless you look after your new car, it ______ very long.
A. last
B. wouldn't last
C. won't last
D. lasted
Question 11: I was proud to ______ as a member of the organization.
A. choose
B. chose
C. being chosen
D. be chosen
Question 12: She had to hand in her notice ______ advance when she decided to leave the job.
A. in
B. from
C. with
D. to
Question 13: Electronic music is a kind of music in which sounds are produced ______.
A. electron
B. electric
C. electronic
D. electronically
Question 14: The fire alarm of the building has been tested since this morning, ______?
A. is it
B. hasn't it
C. did it
D. doesn't it
Question 15: Shining her torch, Maria could just ______ a shadowy figure crouched behind a tree.
A. draw out
B. work out
C. make out
D. put out
Question 16: Several infrastructures ______ by the storm have been rebuilt.
A. destroys
B. destroying
C. destroyed
D. be destroyed
Question 17: Mary will have finished all her work ______.
A. as soon as her boss returned
B. until her boss will return
C. by the time her boss returns
D. when he-r boss will return
Question 18: The pop festival passed off peacefully ______ the fears of local residents.
A. because
B. because of
C. although
D. despite
Question 19: It required the combined mastermind of mankind to ______ the wheel.
A. discover
B. perform
C. encounter
D. invent
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes
each of the following exchanges.
Question 20: Rose is talking to Lisa when they are staying in their bedroom.
- Rose: “Would you mind turning down the speaker? I'm working!” - Lisa: “______.”
A. Yes, I'm working, too.
B. Sorry. I'll do it now.
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C. Thank you. I'm pleased.
D. No, I won't be working.
Question 21: Ann is calling to her Professor's office to ask about the assignment.
- Ann: “Hello, I'd like to speak to Professor Phạm, please.” - Office clerk: “________”
A. I'm afraid I don't know.
B. Why? I'll call again later.
C. Sorry. Can I take a rest?
D. Sure, I'll put you through.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in
meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 22: The consequences of the food were disastrous due to the lack of warning.
A. physical
B. damaging
C. beneficial
D. severe
Question 23: Tim has to burn the midnight oil in order to be well-prepared for the coming
exams.
A. go to bed early
B. cram up
C. work late
D. skip the class
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word CLOSEST in meaning to
the underlined word in each of the following questions.
Question 24: Certain courses in this university are compulsory; others are optional.
A. voluntary
B. free
C. elective
D. mandatory
Question 25: Among all students of class 12I, John has a thorough knowledge of the history of music.
A. practical
B. scientific
C. profound
D. wonderful
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in
meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 26: It isn't necessary for you to finish the project today.
A. You needn't finish the project today.
B. You may not finish the project today.
C. You can't finish the project today.
D. You had better not finish the project today.
Question 27: She last checked her Instagram newsfeed two days ago.
A. She hasn't checked her Instagram newsfeed for two days.
B. She started checking her Instagram newsfeed two days ago.
C. She didn't check her Instagram newsfeed two days ago.
D. She has checked her Instagram newsfeed for two days.
Question 28: “I have just seen your mother this morning”. Mai said to Nam.
A. Mai told Nam I have just seen your mother this morning.
B. Mai told Nam she had just seen his mother that morning.
C. Mai told Nam she has just seen his mother that morning.
D. Mai told Nam he had just seen her mother that morning.
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.
Question 29: My husband is considerable enough not to comment on my interest in doing so many
odd things in my life.
A. considerable
B. on
C. so
D. odd
Question 30: I found it difficult to learn a new language, but I manage to take a German course last
year.
A. it
B. to learn
C. manage
D. take
Question 31: Before creating the telegraph, Samuel Morse made their living as a painter.
A. their
B. creating
C. a
D. as
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.
Question 32: I didn't take his advice, so I didn't succeed in that job.
A. If I took his advice, I would succeed in that job.
B. If I had taken his advice, I wouldn't have succeeded in that job.
C. If I hadn't taken his advice, I would have succeeded in that job.
D. If I had taken his advice, I would have succeeded in that job.
Question 33: She agreed to marry John. Soon afterwards, she began to have serious doubts.
A. Had she not agreed to marry John, she wouldn't have begun to have serious doubts.
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B. No sooner had she agreed to marry John than she began to have serious doubts.
C. Hardly she had agreed to marry John when she began to have serious doubts.
D. She hardly has serious doubts about John, so she agreed to marry him.
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 from 34 to 38.
Tribal tourism is a (34) ______ new type of tourism. It involves travelers going to remote
destinations, staying with local people and (35) ______ about their culture and way of life. They stay
in local accommodation, share facilities with local people, and join in with meals and celebrations.
At the moment, less than one percent of holidays are tribal tourism holidays, but this is set to
change.
Tribal tourism is often compared with foreign exchange visits. (36) ______, a foreign
exchange involves staying with people who often share the same values. Tribal tourism takes
visitors to places (37) ______ the lifestyle is very different from that in their home location. Those
who have been on tribal holiday explain that experiencing this lifestyle is the main (38) ______.
They say that it offers them the chance to live in a way they never have before.
(Adopted from “Complete IELTS” by Rawdon Wyatt)
Question 34: A. relative
B. relatively
C. relation
D. related
Question 35: A. learning
B. learn
C. to learn
D. learnt
Question 36: A. Therefore B. Consequently
C. However
D. Additionally
Question 37: A. who
B. which
C. when
D. where
Question 38: A. attraction B. opportunity
C. relaxation
D. activity
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 39 to 45.
One day, a middle-aged man asked a taxi to take him to see Chelsea play Arsenal at football.
He told the driver "Stamford Bridge", the name of Chelsea's stadium, but he was delivered instead
to the village of Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire. Of course, he missed the match.
What had happened? With the Sat-Nav system in place, the driver in this story felt he did
not need to know where he was going. He confidently outsourced the job of knowing this
information to the Sat-Nav. Using an Internet search engine takes a broadband user less than a
second. And with smartphones at hand, people will be online almost all of the time.
The same could be true of university education. Today, the average student seems not to
value general knowledge. If asked a factual question, they will usually click on a search engine
without a second thought. Actually knowing the fact and committing it to memory does not seem
to be an issue, it's the case with which we can look it up.
However, general knowledge has never been something that you acquire formally. Instead,
we pick it up from all sorts of sources as we go along, often absorbing facts without realizing it.
The question remains, then: is the Internet threatening general knowledge? When I put that to
Moira Jones, an expert in designing IQ tests, she referred me to the story of the Egyptian god
Thoth. It goes like this: Thoth offers writing as a gift to the king of Egypt, declaring it an "elixir of
memory and wisdom." But the king is horrified, and tells him: "This invention will induce
forgetfulness in the souls of those who have learned it, because they will not need to exercise their
memories, being able to rely on what is written."
Who wants to be a millionaire finalist David Swift, responding to the same question,
recognizes that there was a problem of young people saying: "I don't need to know that", but he is
far more excited about the educational potential of the Internet. "There is so much more
information out there, giving people opportunities to boost their general knowledge."
After all, the Internet might just help us to forget more and more. But meanwhile, the
continuing popularity of quizzes and game-shows shows us that general knowledge is strong
enough to remain.
(Adapted from English Unlimited by Adrian Doff and Ben Gok)
Question 39: Which best serves as the title for the passage?
A. The Age of the Robot?
B. Novel Applications of the Sat Nav System
C. The End of General Knowledge?
D. New Perspectives on Tertiary Education
Question 40: Why did the middle-aged man miss the football match?
A. Because the Sat-Nav in his car was out of order
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B. Because the taxi driver was over-dependent on technology
C. Because he did not remember the directions to the stadium
D. Because the search engine in the taxi failed to work
Question 41: The word outsourced in paragraph 2 mostly means
A. exchanged
B. assigned
C. submitted
D. imposed
Question 42: The word that in paragraph 4 refers to ______.
A. general
B. knowledge
C. the Internet
D. the question
Question 43: The word induce in paragraph 4 mostly means ______.
A. ease
B. limit
C. promote
D. cause
Question 44: Which of the following is TRUE, according to the passage?
A. Young people do not seem to bother themselves with memorizing factual information.
B. General knowledge tends to have been mainly acquired through formal schooling.
C. The majority of undergraduates are reluctant to look for answers to factual questions
online.
D. On being offered the gift of writing, the king of Egypt was hopeful about its potential.
Question 45: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Many universities worldwide have switched to virtual platforms for learning and
teaching
B. Moira Jones is not positive about the potential of the Internet in general knowledge
acquisition.
C. When it comes to IQ tests, the ability to recall factual information is of little importance.
D. David Swift believes that informal acquisition of knowledge has been overrated these days.
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 46 to 50.
Most of us have taken a selfie at one time or another, be it a photo of ourselves in a beautiful
place, during a performance by our favorite band, or on a memorable night out with friends. But
today, more and more people are putting their lives at risk in an attempt to get the most shocking
pictures to share on social media. In several cases, this action has had disastrous consequences.
Take, for example, the Spaniard who was killed by a bull while he was taking a selfie during
the annual bull run in a village near his hometown, or the Singaporean tourist who died when he fell
from cliffs on the coast of Bali. Such incidents have led to the death toll from selfie-related incidents
reaching double figures for the first time in 2015, overtaking the number of victims of shark
attacks.
Despite the risks, social media is full of pictures featuring near misses that could have been
fatal under other circumstances. Under the caption 'Most dangerous selfie ever', a woman posing
at a stadium can be seen narrowly avoiding being hit in the head by a baseball approaching her.
Yet the photo has received thousands of 'likes', and the comments below it suggest that this
behavior is something to be admired.
In response to the increasing threat posed by the selfie, the authorities have started to take
action. The Russian Interior Ministry, for instance, has launched a public education campaign
advising selfie-takers against balancing on dangerous surfaces or posing with their pets, among
other things. But if instructions like this are really necessary, then perhaps it is about time we
asked ourselves which is more important, a 'like' or a life?
(Adapted from Solutions - Third Edition by Tim Falla and Paul A Davies)
Question 46: What could be the best title for the passage?
A. Posing with Animals
B. Dying for a Selfie
C. A Ban on Selfie-taking
D. Negative Trends in Photography
Question 47: According to paragraph 1, people try to get outrageous pictures mainly to ______.
A. warn other people
B. share them with others
C. keep lovely memories with friends
D. show off their beautiful lives
Question 48: The word overtaking in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. being less than
B. becoming greater than
C. competing with
D. becoming better than
Question 49: The word it in paragraph 3 refers to ______.
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A. a baseball
B. the head
C. the photo
D. a stadium
Question 50: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Taking a selfie with pets is considered the most dangerous.
B. Pictures of near misses are popular on social media.
C. Action has been taken to warn selfie-takers against dangerous situations.
D. There was an increase in the number of selfie-related deaths in 2015.
_____HẾT_____

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