GCSE MOCK TEST 3 ENGLISH 12

GD&ĐT VINH PHUCƠTR NG THPT LI NƯƠ ÊS NƠ(Đ thi m: 0ề trang) KTCL ÔN THI THPT QU GIA NĂM 201Ề -201 9Môn: TI NG ANH 071Th gian làm bài: 60 phút, không th gian phátờ ờđềH va tên thi sinh:o ……………………………………………………………………. SBD: …………………………Mark the letter A, B, C, or on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from theother three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions .Question 1: A. redundancy B. mendicancy C. pregnancy D. ascendancyQuestion 2: A. document B. dissident C. divergent D. efferentMark the letter A, B, C, or on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE inmeaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions .Question 3: The law holds parents liable if child does not attend school. A. parental B. unhappy C. dutiful D. irresponsibleQuestion 4: My father always kept us on tight rein A. gave less money B. let loose C. set free D. helped to rideMark the letter A, B, C, or on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completeseach of the following exchanges .Question 5: Nuanda " ________________ " Otrecus "Angus? Oh. He's come back again."A. Has Angus been here? I've been looking for him all day.B. People say Angus has divorced his third wife.C. Yes, certainly. Angus'll be here in moment.D. Someone called you last night. His name was Angus.Question 6: Lisa "How are things with Ann?" Clare " ________________ "A. Not so good. They had heatwave all week.B. Yes, certainly. She'll be here in moment.C. Of course. We're going to have lovely autumn.D. Fine. She's just come back from Vietnam.Mark the letter A, B, C, or on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaningto the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions .Question 7: Sheila rings her boy friend every day; she must be running up huge phone bill.A. saving up B. owing to C. being debtor D. having to payQuestion 8: Before the crisis, most people had plenty of crash to spend, but now they have had totighten their belt .A. spend less money B. to keep fit C. to deposit money D. to lose weightRead the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or on your answer sheet to indicatethe correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks .THE JOY OF WORDS Cressida Cowell is the author of the widely-praised How To Train Your Dragon series ofchildren’s books. She spent her own childhood holidays on remote island, where she was left verymuch to her own (9 )_________ As result, she became an avid reader, entertaining herself with booksand developing fervent imagination. She even (10 )_________ up her own secret languages. Cowell believes that today’s children still have real ear for language, even though theirattention span may not be as great as in her day, making them less tolerant of long descriptivepassages in stories. Her books are outlandish and exciting, with vivid imagery, cliffhangers and eye-catching illustrations. Dragons seem to (11 )_________ to children of all nationalities, who also seemto identify with her protagonist, Hiccup quite easily. Hiccup ’s boy who battles his way throughlife’s problems, often against the (13 )_________ Cowell is currently planning an illustrated book for teenagers. In her own words, she enjoysbreaking the (14 )_________ and finds that kids are open-minded enough to accept this.[From EXPERT PROFICIENCY, Student's Book, Oxford, 2015]© Bình THPT Li n, Th ch, Vĩnh Phúc www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 5Question 9: A. pastimes B. hobbies C. entertainments D. devicesQuestion 10: A. invented B. imagined C. dreamt D. createdQuestion 11: A. attract B. appeal C. entice D. engageQuestion A. downsides B. odds C. hardships D. worriesQuestion :A. barrier B. mould C. boundary D. limitMark the letter A, B, C, or on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of thefollowing questions .Question Internationally, 189 countries have signed__________ accord agreeing to createBiodiversity Action Plans to protect endangered and other threatened species.A. B. an C. the D. Question 15: Ben won first__________ in the art competition.A. prize B. medal C. reward D. benefitQuestion 16: One of the most difficult decisions young adults face is what to do for a(n)__________.A. work B. lifestyle C. living D. existenceQuestion 17: Is Heather__________ the hotel reservations for us?A. being made B. to be making C. to be made D. going to makeQuestion 18: think it’s safer to go on package__________ than make my own travel arrangements.A. travel B. journey C. cruise D. holidayQuestion 19: The minimum__________ for the post was degree in education.A. requiring B. required C. require D. requirementQuestion 20: "I wouldn’t buy that dress if were you; it isn’t in__________. "You ’re right, it probably doesn’t suit me either."A. fashion B. mode C. style D. trendQuestion 21: I'm not completely__________ with the way the hairdresser styled my hair.A. satisfied B. satisfying C. satisfyingly D. satisfactionQuestion 22: The wind was blowing so hard that we found it impossible to__________ our tent.A. build B. raise C. make up D. put upQuestion 23: If you work at reception desk, you can’t__________ wearing casual clothes.A. get out of B. get round to C. get into D. get away withQuestion 24: The lecture was so boring that John could hardly keep himself__________ asleep.A. of falling B. to falling C. from fallin D. in fallingQuestion 25: No one won the match; the final result was a(n) __________.A. draw B. equal C. score D. drawingQuestion 26: He can borrow this CD__________ he gives it back to me by Thursday.A. unless B. in case C. as long D. providedMark the letter A, B, C, or on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined partdiffers from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions .Question 27: A. revi ew B. esch ew C. curf ew D. bedscr ewQuestion 28: A. backc ourt B. yogh ourt C. forec ourt D. lawc ourtRead the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or on your answer sheet to indicatethe correct answer to each of the questions The old man rubbed the cramped hand against his trousers and tried to ease the fingers.But the hand would not open. Maybe it will open with the sun, he thought. He looked across the seaand knew how alone he was now. The clouds were building up for the trade wind and he lookedahead and saw flight of wild ducks against the sky over the water, and he knew that no man wasever alone on the sea. He thought of how some men feared being out of sight of land in small boatand knew they were right in months of sudden bad weather. But now they were in hurricanemonths and, when there are no hurricanes, the weather of these months is the best of all the year.If there is hurricane you always see the signs of it in the sky for days ahead, if you are at sea. Theydo not see it ashore because they do not know what to look for, he thought. But we have nohurricane coming now. He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus clouds built like friendly© Bình THPT Li n, Th ch, Vĩnh Phúc www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 5piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high Septembersky. ‘Better weather for me than for you, fish,’ he said. His left hand was still cramped, but he was unknotting it slowly. hate cramp, he thought.It is treachery of one’s own body and it humiliates oneself especially when one is alone. If the boywere here he could rub it for me and loosen it down from the forearm, he thought. But it willloosen up. Then, with his right hand he felt the difference in the pull of the line. As he leanedagainst the line and slapped his left hand hard and fast against his thigh he saw it slanting slowlyupward. ‘He’s coming up,’ he said. ‘Come on hand. Please come on.’ The line rose slowly and steadily and then the surface of the ocean bulged ahead of the boatand the fish came out. He came out unendingly and water poured from his sides. He was bright inthe sun and his head and back were dark purple and in the sun the stripes on his sides showedwide and light lavender. His sword was as long as baseball bat and he rose full-length from thewater and then re-entered it, smoothly, like diver and the old man saw the great blade of his tailgo under and the line started to race out. He is great fish and must convince him, he thought. must never let him learn hisstrength nor what he could do if he made his run. If were him would put in everything now andgo until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; althoughthey are more noble and more able. The old man had seen many great fish. He had seen many thatweighed more than thousand pounds and he had caught two of that size in his life, but neveralone. Now alone, and out of sight of land, he was fast to the biggest fish he had ever seen andbigger than he had ever heard of, and his left hand was still as tight as the gripped claws of aneagle. It will uncramp though, he thought. Surely it will uncramp to help my right hand. There arethree things that are brothers: the fish and my two hands. It must uncramp. It is unworthy of it tobe cramped. The fish had slowed again and was going at his usual pace. wonder why he jumped, the old man thought. He jumped almost as though to show mehow big he was. know now, anyway, he thought. wish could show him what sort of man am.But then he would see my cramped hand. Let him think am more man than am and will be so.[ Extracted from 'The Old Man and the Sea' by Ernest Hemingway ]Question 29: Why was he sure the weather would stay fair ?A. There are more fish during good weather.B. It was not the right time of year for hurricanes.C. He could see no trace of an approaching hurricane.D. Bad weather had not been forecast ashore.Question 30: What does the writer mean when he says the old man was fast to the biggest fish hehad ever seen in line 25 ?A. He was joined to the fish by his line. B. He was surprised to see the fish’s size.C. He was attracted by such big fish. D. He was chasing the fish in his boatQuestion 31: What does the old man worry about after seeing the fish ?A. The fish is too powerful for his boat. B. He doesn’t have enough line.C. He isn’t as clever as the fish. D. The fish could escape if it swam fas t.Question 32: How did the old man feel about being out at sea ?A. He enjoyed it because he had time to himself.B. He realised how dangerous his work was.C. He wasn’t happy at being out of sight of land.D. He didn’t mind as there were creatures around him.Question 33: The old man didn’t want the fish to see that he was __________A. alone in the boat. B. so small. C. too tired. D. in some difficulty .Question 34: What does the verb to ease mean in English ?A. to make less painful B. to soften C. to loosen D. to crackRead the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or on your answer sheet to indicatethe correct answer to each of the questions .DOWNSHIFTING© Bình THPT Li n, Th ch, Vĩnh Phúc www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 5As you move around your home take good hard look at its contents. It's likely that yourliving room will have television set and DVD player, and your kitchen washing machine andtumble drier, maybe also microwave oven and electric toaster. Your bedroom drawers will bestuffed with almost three times as many clothes as you need. You almost certainly own car and ahome computer, holiday abroad at least once year and eat out at least once week. If you couldsee the volume of rubbish in your dustbin over year, you would be horrified. Now, perhaps, more than ever before, people are wondering what life is all about, what it'sfor. The single-minded pursuit of material success is beginning to trouble large numbers of peoplearound the world. They feel the long-hours work culture to make more money to buy more thingsis eating up their lives, leaving them precious little time or energy for family or leisure. Many areturning to alternative ways of living and downshifting is one of them. According to national consulting group, this new approach to work coincides with radicalchanges in the employment market, where job is no longer guaranteed and lifetime employmentcan only be achieved by taking personal responsibility for your career. Six per cent of workers inBritain took the decision to downshift last year, swapping their highly pressured, stressfulpositions for less demanding, less time-consuming work which they believe gives them betterbalanced life. One couple who downshifted is Daniel and Liz. They used to work in central London. Hewas journalist and she used to work for international bank. They would commute every dayfrom their large house in the suburbs, leaving their two children with nanny. Most eveningsDaniel wouldn't get home until eight or nine o' clock, and nearly twice month he would have to flyto New York for meetings. They both earned large amount of money but began to feel that lifewas passing them by. Nowadays, they run farm in the mountains of Wales. ‘I always wanted to have farm here,'says Daniel, and we took almost year to make the decision to downshift. It has taken some gettingused to, but it's been worth it. We have to think twice now about spending money on car repairsand we no longer have any holidays. However. think it made us stronger as family, and thechildren are lot happier.' Liz, however, is not totally convinced. 'I used to enjoy my job, even though it was hard workand long hours. I'm not really country girl, but suppose I'm gradually getting used to lookingafter the animals. One thing do like though is being able to see more of my children. My tip forother people wanting to do the same is not to think about it too much or you might not do it at all.Question 35: What does the writer say about the employment market ?A. It’s difficult to keep company job for life.B. You have to look hard to find job yourself.C. There aren’t many jobs nowadays.D. It’s changing all the time.Question 36: What does it in line 26 refer to ?A. having animals B. her job C. her tip D. downshiftingQuestion 37: According to the writer, people are beginning to rethink their lives because __________ A. they feel too dependent on their possessions.B. their families object to their working so hard.C. they want to spend time doing other things.D. they are worried about the amount of rubbish they throw away.Question 38: What has Daniel’s reaction been to moving to Wales ?A. He felt at home on the farm almost immediately.B. He is sorry that they made the decision to move too quickly.C. He misses the holidays they used to have abroad.D. He’s happy that he’s now fulfilled an ambition.Question 39: Why was this text written ?A. To warn people of the problems of downshifting.B. To prove that having good job doesn’t make you happy.C. To tell people how to downshift.D. To make people aware of new social trend© Bình THPT Li n, Th ch, Vĩnh Phúc www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang 5Question 40: When Daniel was journalist he used to __________ A. miss his children. B. live in central London. C. be highly paid. D. dislike his job.Question 41: What does the word tip in line 25 mean ?A. good idea B. word of advice C. warning D. clueQuestion 42: Daniel and Liz both agree that the move __________ A. to farm was expensive. B. was difficult to organise.C. has been total success. D. has improved family life.Mark the letter A, B, C, or on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needscorrection in each of the following questions .Question 43: I've repaired it so well as can we'll just have to hope for the best A. so well B. the best C. repaired it D. just have toQuestion 44: The improvement to water standards over the last 50 years has been very great A. very great B. the last C. to water D. overQuestion 45: When they visit us they always bring their dog along them A. visit us B. along them C. always bring D. WhenMark the letter A, B, C, or on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest inmeaning to each of the following questions .Question 46: This party is 'evening dress' only .A. You have to dress up for the party this evening.B. dress up only for this evening party.C. You're not allowed to dress casually for this party.D. This party is only for those who dress up in the evening.Question 47: It was mistake for me to buy you that computer game .A. I'm sorry for buying you that computer game.B. shouldn't have bought you that computer game.C. needn't have bought you that computer game.D. mustn't have bought you that computer game.Question 48: have never seen such terrible film before .A. don't enjoy seeing terror films.B. That is one of the most terrible films have seen before.C. This is the worst film that have ever seen.D. Such terrible film that have never seen before.Mark the letter A, B, C, or on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combineseach pair of sentences in the following questions .Question 49: That man may be her father. His eyes are also brown .A. So brown as his eyes that man is perhaps her father. B. That man’s eyes are so brown that he may be her father.C. Because that man’s eyes are brown, he may be her father, too.D. That man whose eyes are also brown may be her father.Question 50: Soccer is not my favourite sport. Dad is infatuated with it.A. Neither Dad nor like soccer.B. Soccer is not my favourite sport so Dad is infatuated with it.C. Because soccer is not my favourite sport, Dad is infatuated with it.D. Although Dad is infatuated with soccer, it is not my favourite sport._________THE END_________© Bình THPT Li n, Th ch, Vĩnh Phúc www.violet.vn/quocbinh72 Trang