Kỳ Thi KSCL Tốt Nghiệp THPT Lần 1 Tiếng Anh 2022-2023 THPT Chuyên Lam Sơn Sở GD&ĐT Thanh Hóa (Mã Đề 896)

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.
Câu 1: Tim and Peter met each other on the pavement last week.
Tim: “Do you want me to help you with those suitcases?”
Peter: “__________________”
A. No, those aren’t mine. B. Of course, not for me.
C. No, I can manage them myself. D. No, I can’t help you now.
Câu 2: Daisy is in a restaurant near her house.
Waiter: May I take your order now, sir?
Daisy: “__________________”
A. Yes, I’d like some fish and chips. B. Sure, it’s delicious.
C. Ok, here is my bill. D. Thanks, I’ve really had enough.

Câu 3: A. clutter B. fortune C. hunting D. humble
Câu 4: A. maintained B. confined C. absorbed D. protected

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.
Câu 5: Turtle enclosures save baby turtles from natural predators like birds, crabs, and lizards.
A. savers
B. protectors
C. survivors
D. hunters
Câu 6: Looking at the weather, I think we made a wise decision not to go to the coast this weekend.
A. wrong
B. right
C. sensible
D. difficult

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.
Câu 7: Joe is not here with us. He will know how to fix this technical issue.
A. If only Joe were here with us to help fix this technical issue.
B. Provided that Joe is here with us, he won’t know how to fix this technical issue.
C. Joe will know how to fix this technical issue even if he is not here with us.
D. We wish Joe had been here with us and fix this technical issue.
Câu 8: He started working in the World Bank. That was right after he had graduated from university.
A. No sooner had he graduated from university than he started working in the World Bank.
B. No sooner had he started working in the World Bank than he graduated from university.
C. Hardly had he started working in the World Bank when he graduated from university.
D. If you had lent me the dictionary last night, I could have translated the article today.

Câu 9: It was her performances in American idol that gained her an international reputation as a soprano.
A. damaged
B. enjoyed
C. enhanced
D. earned

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

Câu 11: After the flash flood, all the drains were overflowing _____ storm water.
A. from
B. with
C. for
D. by

Câu 12: The ideas _______ in this essay are not particularly original.
A. are discussed
B. discussing
C. discussed
D. which are discussing

Câu 13: Some of his proposals would not so much control the product as attach a few _______ to the proposed system.
A. things bright as a button
B. hitches wagon to a star
C. golden handshakes
D. bells and whistles

Câu 14: Today, many serious childhood diseases _____ by early immunization.
A. can be prevented
B. be prevented
C. can prevent
D. are preventing

Câu 15: The volunteer team _____ students with various visual, hearing, physical and cognitive impairments every two months to give them both financial and spiritual support.
A. call on
B. call off
C. call out
D. call back

Câu 16: John lost the _____ bicycle he bought last week and his parents were very angry with him.
A. new beautiful blue Japanese
B. beautiful blue Japanese new
C. Japanese beautiful new blue
D. beautiful new blue Japanese

Câu 17: Some teenagers just simply run ______ to their parents' expectations as a way to express their identity.
A. contrary
B. against
C. opposite
D. counter

Câu 18: The larger the area of forest is destroyed, ______.
A. the most frequently natural disasters occur
B. the more frequently are natural disasters
C. the most frequent natural disasters are
D. the more frequently natural disasters occur

Câu 19: Fitzgerald is eager to _____ Martin's record of three successive world titles.
A. copy
B. emulate
C. produce
D. imitate

Câu 20: Native species ______ a part of a given biological landscape since they adapted to the local environment.
A. are
B. have been
C. is
D. has been

Câu 21: You have a ticket to the water puppetry, _____?
A. do you
B. haven't you
C. don't you
D. have you

Câu 22: Oprah Winfrey has been an important role model for black American women, breaking down many invisible ______.
A. barriers
B. trends
C. gaps
D. races

Câu 23: The writer and poet _____ to preside over this meeting.
A. are going
B. is going
C. have been going
D. is to going

Câu 24: His visit to Korea was delayed _____ his illness.
A. although
B. because of
C. because
D. in spite of

Câu 25: We couldn't hear anything because of the _____ noise of the drums the next-door neighbours were playing.
A. deafness
B. deafen
C. deafening
D. deaf

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.

Câu 26: A. costume B. surface C. symptom D. unique

Câu 27: A. romantic B. popular C. nutrition D. financial

Harvard University, today recognized as part of the top echelon of the world's universities, came from very inauspicious and humble beginning.
This oldest of American universities was founded in 1636, just sixteen years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. Included in the Puritan emigrants to the Massachusetts colony during this period were more than 100 graduates of England's prestigious Oxford and Cambridge universities, and these universities graduates in the New Word were determined that their sons would have the same educational opportunities that they themselves had had. Because of this support in the colony for an institution of higher learning, the General Court of Massachusetts appropriated 400 pounds for a college in October of 1636 and early the following year decided on a parcel of land for the school; this land was in an area called Newetowne which was later renamed Cambridge after its English cousin and is the site of the present-day university.
When a young minister named John Harvard, who came from the neighboring town of Charlestowne, died from tuberculosis in 1638, he willed half of his estate of 1,700 pounds to the fledgling college. In spite of the fact that only half of the bequest was actually paid, the General Court named the college after the minister in appreciation for what he had done. The amount of the bequest may not have been large, particularly by today's standard, but it was more than the General Court had found it necessary to appropriate in order to open the college.
Henry Dunster was appointed the first president of Harvard in 1640, and it should be noted that in addition to serving as president, he was also the entire faculty, with an entering freshmen class of four students. Although the staff did expand somewhat, for the first century of its existence the entire teaching staff consisted of the president and three or four tutors.
(Source: https://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/TOEFL_reading1.htm&ved)

How long will a baby born today live? 100 years? 120 years? Scientists are studying genes that could mean long life for us all.
There are already many, many people who have passed the landmark age of 100. In fact, there are now so many healthy, elderly people that there's a name for them: the wellderly. These are people over the age of eighty who have no major illnesses, such as high blood pressure, heart disease or diabetes.
There are many scientific studies of communities where healthy old age is typical. These include places like Calabria in southern Italy and the island of Okinawa in Japan. In Calabria, the small village of Molochio has about 2,000 inhabitants. And of these, there are at least eight people over a hundred years old. When researchers ask people like this the secret of their long life, the answer is almost always about food and is almost always the same: 'I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables.' 'I eat a little bit of everything.' ' I neither smoke nor drink.'
In the past, scientists looked at things such as diet and lifestyle for an explanation of long life, these days they are also looking at genetics. Researcher Eric Topol says that there must be genes that explain why people are protected from the effects of aging process. The new research into long life did scrutinize groups of people who have a genetic connection. One interesting group lives in Ecuador. In one area of the country there are a number of people with the same genetic condition. It's called Laron syndrome. These people don't grow very tall – just over one metre. But Laron syndrome also give them protection against cancer and diabetes. As a result, they live longer than other people in their families. Meanwhile, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, there's another group of long-lived men, Japanese-Americans. They have a similar gene to the Laron syndrome group.
Back in Calabria, researchers constructed the family trees of the 100-year-old people. They looked at family information from the 19th century to today. It is concluded that there are genetic factors that give health benefits to the men. This is a surprising result because generally in Europe, women live longer than men. So what really makes people live longer? It seems likely that it is an interaction of genes, the environment and probably a third factor – luck.
(Adapted from https://www.ngllife.com/long-and-healthy-life-0)

How long will a baby born today live? 100 years? 120 years? Scientists are studying genes that could mean long life for us all.
There are already many, many people who have passed the landmark age of 100. In fact, there are now so many healthy, elderly people that there's a name for them: the wellderly. These are people over the age of eighty who have no major illnesses, such as high blood pressure, heart disease or diabetes.
There are many scientific studies of communities where healthy old age is typical. These include places like Calabria in southern Italy and the island of Okinawa in Japan. In Calabria, the small village of Molochio has about 2,000 inhabitants. And of these, there are at least eight people over a hundred years old. When researchers ask people like this the secret of their long life, the answer is almost always about food and is almost always the same: 'I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables.' 'I eat a little bit of everything.' ' I neither smoke nor drink.'
In the past, scientists looked at things such as diet and lifestyle for an explanation of long life, these days they are also looking at genetics. Researcher Eric Topol says that there must be genes that explain why people are protected from the effects of aging process. The new research into long life did scrutinize groups of people who have a genetic connection. One interesting group lives in Ecuador. In one area of the country there are a number of people with the same genetic condition. It's called Laron syndrome. These people don't grow very tall – just over one metre. But Laron syndrome also give them protection against cancer and diabetes. As a result, they live longer than other people in their families. Meanwhile, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, there's another group of long-lived men, Japanese-Americans. They have a similar gene to the Laron syndrome group.
Back in Calabria, researchers constructed the family trees of the 100-year-old people. They looked at family information from the 19th century to today. It is concluded that there are genetic factors that give health benefits to the men. This is a surprising result because generally in Europe, women live longer than men. So what really makes people live longer? It seems likely that it is an interaction of genes, the environment and probably a third factor – luck.
(Adapted from https://www.ngllife.com/long-and-healthy-life-0)

Why is culture important and how does it answer the question "What is cultural identity?"? Culture is the underlying foundation of traditions and beliefs that help a person relate to the world around them. It is the basis for any superstitions they may have. It is the aversion to (40) _______ types of meat, or which days you can work on. Culture gives us a definite starting point when beginning to search for our roots. Knowing (41) _______ a person comes from will help to define how they look at their family obligations as well as how they celebrate important milestones in life.
As a person has given up their cultural identity, they can (42) ________ identify themselves with the things that were (43) ______ the most important things in their lives. They lose direction. As time (44) ________ by and they continue to forget about their past and their natural traditions, their identity becomes less and less pronounced.
(Source: http://nobullying. com/ cultural-identity)

Why is culture important and how does it answer the question "What is cultural identity?"? Culture is the underlying foundation of traditions and beliefs that help a person relate to the world around them. It is the basis for any superstitions they may have. It is the aversion to (40) _______ types of meat, or which days you can work on. Culture gives us a definite starting point when beginning to search for our roots. Knowing (41) _______ a person comes from will help to define how they look at their family obligations as well as how they celebrate important milestones in life.
As a person has given up their cultural identity, they can (42) ________ identify themselves with the things that were (43) ______ the most important things in their lives. They lose direction. As time (44) ________ by and they continue to forget about their past and their natural traditions, their identity becomes less and less pronounced.
(Source: http://nobullying. com/ cultural-identity)

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.

Câu 45: My brother started studying French three years ago.
A. My brother hasn't studied French for three years.
B. My brother studied French for three years ago.
C. My brother studies French for three years.
D. My brother has studied French for three years.

Câu 46: It was wrong of you not to ask your parents' permission before deciding to quit your job.
A. You must have asked your parents' permission before deciding to quit your job.
B. You had to have asked your parents' permission before deciding to quit your job.
C. You should have asked your parents' permission before deciding to quit your job.
D. You might have asked your parents' permission before deciding to quit your job.

Câu 47: "I am going away tomorrow, mom.", the son said.
A. The son told his mom that he was going away the next day.
B. The son asked his mom if he was going away tomorrow.
C. The son said that he was going away the next day, mom.
D. The son said his mom he was going away the next day.

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.

Câu 48: The nutritionist told him to avoid eating lots of carbohydrates, focus on having more protein-rich foods and green vegetables, and drinking at least eight glasses of water a day.
A. foods
B. drinking
C. avoid eating
D. focus on having

Câu 49: Heavy storms usually cause powerful cuts in hundreds of homes.
A. heavy
B. cuts
C. homes
D. powerful

Câu 50: The United States come top of the list of countries ranked by economic performances.
A. the list
B. economic
C. come
D. ranked