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KÌ THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG NĂM
2023
Bài thi. NGOẠI NGỮ; Môn thi. TIẾNG ANH 016
Thời gian làm bài. 60 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề

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 01: A. lean
B. mean
C. team
D. head
Question 02: A. throw
B. though
C. thought
D. thorough
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 03: A. tradition
B. socialize
C. memory
D. animal
Question 04: A. vacant
B. secure
C. equip
D. oblige
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 05: The tabloids completely ______ that story about Bruce Willis. It's not true at all.
A. turned over
B. stood out
C. made up
D. filed in
Question 06: Today, many serious childhood diseases ______ by early immunization.
A. are preventing
B. can prevent
C. prevent
D. can be prevented
Question 07: If it ______ an off-day today, he would be here.
A. was
B. been
C. will be
D. were
Question 08: We were all too afraid to speak. Nobody dared ______ anything.
A. saying
B. being said
C. says
D. to say
Question 09: According to FAO, Vietnam is ______ second largest coffee producer in the world after
Brazil.
A. the
B. 0 (no article)
C. a
D. an
Question 10: I'd like to _______ this old car for a new model but I can't afford it.
A. convert
B. replace
C. exchange
D. interchange
Question 11: I have a message for people ______ by the traffic chaos.
A. to delay
B. who delay
C. delayed
D. who delaying
Question 12: The pop festival passed off peacefully ______ the fears of local residents.
A. because
B. because of
C. although
D. despite
Question 13: Please don't ______ a word of this to anyone else, it's highly confidential.
A. pass
B. breathe
C. speak
D. mutter
Question 14: An only child often creates an ______ friend to play with.
A. imagery
B. imaginary
C. imaginative
D. imaginable
Question 15: We should make full use ______ the Internet as it is an endless source of information.
A. from
B. with
C. in
D. of
Question 16: The economic is in danger of collapse unless ______ reforms are implemented.
A. far-reaching
B. long-lasting
C. off-putting
D. hard-charging
Question 17: Remember to appreciate what your friends do for you. You shouldn't ______.
A. keep them as a rule
B. treat them as usual
C. make them out of habit
D. take them for granted
Question 18. After feeling off ______ for days, Tom finally went to see his doctor.
A. food
B. fitness
C. color
D. balance
Question 19: The salary of a computer programmer is ______ as that of a teacher.
A. as much twice
B. twice as high
C. as twice much
D. twice as higher
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning
to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 20: Mary has a strong desire to make independent decisions.
A. dependent
B. self-confident
C. self-confessed
D. self-determining
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Question 21: Media plays a significant role in keeping everyone updated about the various events
around the world.
A. reluctant
B. indifferent
C. disinterested
D. informed
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: Jose had a hard time comparing the iPhone to the Samsung phone because to him
they were apples and oranges.
A. very similar
B. very complicated
C. containing too many technical details D. completely different
Question 23: She called me this morning at the office and we chat briefly about the project for a
while.
A. lengthily
B. seriously
C. shortly
D. privately
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes
each of the following exchanges.
Question 24: Tom and Tony are talking about a tennis game.
Tom: “I thought your tennis game was a lot better today, Tony.”
Tony: “_______! I thought it was terrible.”
A. You can say that again
B. No, I think so
C. You've got to be kidding
D. Thanks! Same to you
Question 25: Alice meets Mary at their class after Mary has had her hair cut.
Alice: “What an attractive hair style you have got, Mary!” Mary: “__________”.
A. You are telling a lie
B. Thank you very much. I am afraid
C. Thank you for your compliment
D. I don't like your sayings.
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.
No one runs the internet. It's organized as a decentralized network of networks.
Thousands of companies, universities, governments, and other (26) ______ operate their own
networks and exchange traffic with (27) ______ other based on voluntary interconnection
agreements. The shared technical standards (28) ______ make the internet work are managed by
an organization called the Internet Engineering Task Force. The IETF is an open organization;
anyone is free to attend meetings, propose new standards, and recommend changes to existing
standards. No one is required to adopt standards endorsed by the IETF, but the IETF's
consensusbased decision-making process helps to (29) ______ that its recommendations are
generally adopted by the internet community. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) is sometimes described as being (30) ______ for internet governance. As its
name implies, ICANN is in charge of distributing domain names (like vox.com) and IP addresses.
But ICANN doesn't control who can connect to the internet or what kind of information can be
sent over it.
(Adapted from https://www. vox.com/)
Question 26: A. amounts
B. entities
C. terms
D. states
Question 27: A. every
B. another
C. each
D. all
Question 28: A. that
B. who
C. when
D. what
Question 29: A. stress
B. exchange
C. function
D. ensure
Question 30: A. responsible B. cheerful
C. curious
D. interested
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.
Newspapers and television news programs always seem to report about the bad things
happening in society. However, there is a place where readers can find some good news. That
place is the website called HappyNews. The man behind HappyNews is Byron Reese. Reese set up
HappyNews because he thought other news sources were giving people an unbalanced view of
the world. Reese said about Happy News, “The news media gives you a distorted view of the
world by exaggerating bad news, misery, and despair. We're trying to balance out the scale.”
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Not everyone agrees with Reese's view, though. Many people think that news sources have
a responsibility to provide news that is helpful to people. People need to know about issues or
problems in today's society. Then they are better able to make informed decisions about things
that affect their daily lives. Reese said that HappyNews is not trying to stop people from learning
about issues or problems. Happy News is just trying to provide a balanced picture of today's
world.
By the end of its first month online, HappyNews had more than 70,000 unique readers.
About 60 percent of those readers were women. Something else unique makes HappyNews
different from any of the other news or information websites that are on the Internet. Unlike
many other websites, HappyNews gets fan mail from its readers on a daily basis.
Question 31: Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
A. “Why Women Like HappyNews”
B. “Byron Reese Tells People How to Be Happy”
C. “Newspapers vs. Online News”
D. “Good News for a Change”
Question 32: What does “exaggerating” mean in this reading?
A. improving
B. worsening
C. explaining
D. editing
Question 33: The word “they” in paragraph 2 refers to _______.
A. problems
B. issues
C. people
D. sources
Question 34: How is HappyNews different than other news sources?
A. Its stories are not about bad things.
C. The website only has stories about women.
B. All of the stories are written by Reese. D. HappyNews does not exaggerate itsstories.
Question 35: Why might some people NOT like HappyNews?
A. It doesn't tell them about important issues or problems.
B. Some sources give a balanced view.
C. The stories are from around the world.
D. Reese's stories are about misery and despair.
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.
PANDEMIC DISEASES
Diseases are a natural part of life on earth. If there were no diseases, the population would
grow too quickly, and there would not be enough food or other resources, so in a way, diseases are
natural ways of keeping the Earth in balance. But sometimes they spread very quickly and kill large
numbers of people. For example, in 1918, an outbreak of the flu spread across the world, killing
over 25 million people in only six months. Such terrible outbreaks of a disease are called
pandemics.
Pandemics happen when a disease changes in a way that our bodies are not prepared to
fight. In 1918, a new type of flu virus appeared. Our bodies had no way to fight this new flu virus,
and so it spread very quickly and killed large numbers of people. While there have been many
different pandemic diseases throughout history, all of them have a new thing in common. First, all
pandemic diseases spread from one person to another very easily.
Second, while they may kill many people, they generally do not kill people very quickly. A
good example of this would be the Marburg virus. The Marburg virus is an extremely infectious
disease. In addition, it is deadly. About 70 -80% of all people who get the Marburg virus died from
the disease. However, the Marburg virus has not become a pandemic because most people die
within three days of getting the disease. This means that the virus does not have enough time to
spread a large number of people. The flu virus of 1918, on the other hand, generally took about a
week to ten days to kill its victims, so it had more time to spread.
While we may never be able to completely stop pandemics, we can make them less
common. Doctors carefully monitor new diseases that they fear could become pandemics. For
example, in 2002, and 2003, doctors carefully watched SARS. Their health warnings may have
prevented SARS from becoming a pandemic.
Question 37: What is this passage mainly about?
A. How to prevent pandemic diseases?
B. Pandemic diseases.
C. Why pandemics happen?
D. Pandemic diseases throughout history.
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Question 38: The author mentions SARS in order to ______.
A. suggest that there may be a new pandemic soon.
B. suggest that SARS will never become a pandemic
C. give an example of the successful prevention of a pandemic
D. give an example of a highly dangerous disease
Question 39: According to paragraph 1, how are diseases a natural part of life on Earth?
A. They prevent pandemics.
B. They led the world grow quickly.
C. They help control the population.
D. They kill too many people.
Question 40: The word “it” in the passage refers to ______.
A. bodies
B. flu virus
C. pandemics
D. disease
Question 41: Based on the information in the passage the term “pandemics” can be explained as ______.
A. diseases with no cure
B. diseases that spread quickly and kill large numbers of people
C. a deadly kind of flu
D. new disease like SARS or the Marburg virus
Question 42: The word 'monitor' in the passage is closest in meaning to ______.
A. prevent
B. fight
C. watch
D. avoid
Question 43: According to the passage, all of the following are true of the 1918 flu pandemic
EXCEPT that _______.
A. it killed over 25 million people
B. it took a little over a week to kill its victims
C. it involved a new kind of flu virus
D. it was the last pandemic in history
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 43: Some manufacturers are not only raising their prices but also decreasing the
production of its products.
A. raising
B. but
C. decreasing
D. its
Question 44: He was so exhaustive that he fell asleep at his desk.
A. was
B. exhaustive
C. fell asleep
D. his desk
Question 45: The assumption that smoking has bad effects on our health have been proved.
A. smoking
B. effects
C. on
D. have
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 46: The last time I went to the museum was a year ago.
A. A year ago, I often went to the museum.
B. I have not been to the museum for a year.
C. At last I went to the museum after a year.
D. My going to the museum lasted a year.
Question 47: It is compulsory for all the students to obey the class rules.
A. All the students must obey the class rules.
B. All the students needn't obey the class rules.
C. All the students can't obey the class rules.
D. All the students needn't obey the class rules.
Question 48: “Be careful or you may get lost and run out of money.”, she said.
A. She advised me to be careful or I might get lost and run out of money.
B. She ordered me to be careful and I might get lost and run out of money.
C. She warned me to be careful or I had to get lost and run out of money.
D. She told me to be careful if I got lost and run out of the money.
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 49: The soccer team knew they lost the match. They soon started to blame each other.
A. Not only did the soccer team lose the match but they blamed each other as well.
B. Hardly had the soccer team known they lost the match when they started to blame each
other.
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C. As soon as they blamed each other, the soccer team knew they lost the match.
D. No sooner had the soccer team blamed each other than they knew they lost the match.
Question 50: John lent me money. Otherwise, I would have gone out of business.
A. John lent me money, but I went out of business.
B. I wouldn't have gone out of business if John had lent me money.
C. Even if John lent me money, I went out of business.
D. If it hadn't been for John's lending me money, I would have gone out of business.
______HẾT_____

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