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LỚP 11_ NĂM HỌC 2023-2024

Môn: Tiếng Anh
(Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề)

Số báo danh: Giám khảo số 1 Giám khảo số 2

(Họ tên, chữ ký) (Họ tên, chữ ký)
Họ và tên thí sinh:

Đề thi này gồm 08 trang.

Chú ý:
- Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu, kể cả từ điển.
- Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi này.
- Giám thị không được giải thích gì thêm.
A. LISTENING
Hướng dẫn phần thi nghe hiểu:
- Nội dung nghe gồm 02 phần.
- Hướng dẫn làm bài chi tiết cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.

Section 1: Complete the notes below

Questions 1 - 6: You will hear a conversation. Write ONE WORD for each answer.
SELF-DRIVE TOURS IN THE USA
Example:
Name: Andrea_ Brown_
Address: 24 (1) Road
Postcode: BH5 2OP
Phone: (mobile) 077 8664 3091
Heard about company from: (2)
Possible self-drive hours:
Trip 1:
* Los Angeles customer wants to visit: (3) parks with her children
* Yosemite Park customer wants to stay in a lodge, not a (4)
Trip 2:
* Customers want to see the (5) on the way to Cambria
* At Santa Minoca: not interested in shopping
* At San Diego, wants to spend time on the (6)
Questions 7 – 10. Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD AND/ OR A NUMBER for
each answer.
Number of days Total distance Price (per person) Includes
Trip 1 12 (7) £ 525 - accommodation
- car

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Trip 2 9 980 km (9) £ - accommodation

- car
- (10)

Section 2. Questions 11-20.

Questions 11-15. Choose the best letter A, B or C.
11. Why did a port originally develop at Manham?
A. It was safe from enemy attack
B. It was convenient for river transport
C. It had a good position on the sea coast
12. What causes Manham’s sudden expansion during the Industrial Revolution?
A. the improvement in mining technologies
B. the increase in demand for metals
C. the discovery of tin in the sea
13. Why did rocks have to be sent away from Manham to be processed?
A. shortage of fuel
B. poor transportation
C. lack of skills among local people
14. What happened when the port declined in the twentieth century?
A. The workers went away
B. Traditional skills were lost
C. Buildings were used for new purposes
15. What did the Manham Trust hope to do?
A. discover the location of the original port
B. provide jobs for the unemployed
C. rebuild the port complex
Questions 16-20. Answer the following questions
16. Where should visitors start their visit?
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17. Who shouldn’t be taken into the mine?
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18. Where should visitors visit next?
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19. What is the name of the beautiful old sailing ketch near the school?
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20. By whom was the ship’s wheel dredged out of the silt?
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B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
I. Choose the word that best completes each sentence.
21. As we approached the house, I had a(n) the something terrible had happened.
A. prediction B. forethought C. premonition D. anticipation
22. Cable TV revolutionized communications; , the very existence of that service is now
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 A. moreover B. consequently C. eventually D. nevertheless
23. The strike was owing to a last-minute agreement with the management.
A. broken up B. called off C. come through D. set back
24. William crept on Lisa and put his hands over her eyes.
A. up B. on C. off D. by
25. I know you have been working very hard today. Let’s and go home.
A. pull my leg B. call it a day C. put your back up D. pros and cons
26. She on the computer for more than 2 hours when she decided to stop for a rest.
A. has worked B. has been working C. was working D. had been working
27. their heads in his direction, he knew they were interested.
A. Seeing them both turn B. On seeing them both turn
C. When he saw them both to turn D. After seeing them both to have turned
28. Helen was disappointed when she learnt that she hadn’t won the beauty contest.
A. seriously B. bitterly C. strongly D. heavily
29. is that a chicken stands up to lay its eggs.
A. Many people don’t realize B. What many people don’t realize
C. It is that people don’t realize D. Because many people don’t realize
30. Carbon dioxide may be absorbed by trees or water bodies, or it may stay in the atmosphere when
, while it is only in the atmosphere that chlorofluorocarbons find their home.
A. by releasing emissions from cars B. released from car emissions
C. cars that release emissions D. emissions are released by cars
31. The match will be screened on TV with commentary by Any Gray.
A. lively B. live C. alive D. living
32. I know you didn’t want to upset me but I’d sooner you me the whole truth yesterday.
A could have told B. told C. have told D. had told
33. As the drug took , the patient became quieter.
A. effect B. force C. influence D. action
34. The dawn redwood appears some hundred million years ago in northern forests around the
world.
A. was flourished B. having to flourish C. to have flourished D. have flourished
35. His comments little or no relation to the facts and the figures of the case.
A. reflect B. bear C. give D. possess
II. Supply the correct form of the word provided in blankets in each sentence.
36. Use a bigger screwdriver to this screw. (TIGHT)
37. Jim is one of the most members of the committee. (SPEAK)
38. You look rather . Are you worried about something? (OCCUPY)
39. Please our letter on the 15th. We have no reply. (KNOW)
40. Daniel Defoe was typical in his manner of though, in his (THRIFT).
41. In Scotland there is greater emphasis on by individual school. (VALUE)
42. The key aims of the program are to achieve breath, balance, and progression of all pupils.
(CONTINUE)
43. The effective operation of the social services depends on qualified social workers
(PROFESSION)
44. When my grandfather retired, he felt that he had his usefulness. (LIVE)
45. Vietnam has depended heavily on foreign organizations to train teachers. (GOVERN)
III. Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of
the following questions.
46. One of the most influence leaders of Vietnam is President Ho Chi Minh, who was born in 1890.
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47. More than 600 million individual bacteria lives on the skin of humans.
A B C D
48. Stuart stopped to write his letter because he had to leave for the hospital
A B C D
49. Historians believe that some forms of advertising must be as old as barter and trade
A B C D
50. Dams are used to control flooding, provide water for irrigation, and generating electricity for the
A B C
surrounding area.
D
C. READING COMPREHENSION
Part 1: Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.
One of the hazards that electronic media like the television, radio or computers (51) these
days is the decline in book reading.
The concern (52) mainly to the younger generations who are strongly tempted by the
glamour of the silver screen and, consequently, don’t (53) the importance of acquiring first-hand
information from books.
To (54) reading for pleasure and to propagate a wide array of publications like
encyclopedias reference books manuals or fiction, radical solutions should be applied. Firstly, more
(55)
ought to be put on the educational factor. Youngsters should be made to feel comfortable while
reading either for information or self-satisfaction in public place like airports, buses or on the beach.
Secondly, libraries must be subsidized more accurately in order to provide the potential reader with
(56)
choice of publications and to become more publicly active so as to put books at people’s (57)
rather than keep them under lock and key.
Fund collecting actions organized by libraries might also raise the public awareness of the
advantages of becoming (58) in a good book.
Finally, the mass media themselves might contribute substantially by recommending the purchase of
valuable best-sellers and inspiring their viewers to (59) their knowledge and erudition, and thus
help them to (60) the habit of spontaneous every reading.
51. A. denote B. play C. arise D. pose
52. A. indicates B. affects C. applies D. embodies
53. A. observe B. recognize C. view D. distinguish
54. A. incite B. revert C. instill D. encourage
55. A. emphasis B. persistence C. focus D. relevance
56. A. prolific B. ample C. lavish D. lush
57. A. available B. disposal C. benefit D. usage
58. A. occupied B. inhaled C. engrossed D. incorporated
59. A. enrich B. magnify C. arouse D. elaborate
60. A. grow B. evolve C. proceed D. develop
Part 2: Fill in each gap with one suitable word.
THE FUTURE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
There is a scene in the film Minority Report in (0) which Tome Cruise stands in front of a
vast Perspex-like screen housed in the police department’s Pre-Crime Unit. He gazes (61) earnest
at the transparent surface, waving his hands across the tablet to swirl great chunks of text and moving
image across the screen to (62) a storyboard of yet-to-be- committed crimes. With a simple twist
of his finger or a flick of his wrist, pictures expand and enlarge, word scroll, and whole trains of
thought come to tangible fruition (63) there on board. The year is 2054.

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 Yet it seems the era of true touch-screen technology is already here. Indeed, when Apple boss
Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in San Francisco a few years ago, he grandly declared: “We are
reinventing the cell phone.”
(64) of the main reasons for Jobs’ bold claim was the iPhone’s futuristic user interface-
“multi-touch”. As demonstrated on stage by Jobs (65) , multi-touch was created to make the most
of the iPhone’s large screen. (66) most existing smart phones, the iPhone has only one conventional
button-all the rest of the controls appear on the screen, adapting morphing around your fingertips as
you use the device, almost (67) the giant tablet in Minority Report.
The demonstration iPhone handset certainly looked like re-invention, but multi-touch, while it
was new for Apple, is (68) no means a new technology. The concept has been around for years,
waiting for the hardware side of the equation to get small enough, smart enough, cheap enough to make
it a reality. While it still remains something of a novelty now, there is a good chance that the (69)
years will bring many more computers and consumer gadgets that depend wholly or (70) on multi-
touch concepts.
Part 3: Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.
The World and Its Global Economy
The world as man knows it today is getting smaller and smaller because of technology such as
the Internet and high-speed modems. In fact, on March 3, 2005, a man flew entirely around the globe
without refueling or stopping in a one-person jet. The world is changing the world, and as the 21st
century continues, the global economy will play a larger and larger role. As Thomas Friedman so
eloquently put it in Lexus and the Olive Tree, globalization is "the inexorable integration of markets,
nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before."
A With today's technology it is possible for people to solicit business from the far side of the globe. B
A company like Dell Computers can order parts from several different countries, take shipment in
North Carolina where the new computers will be assembled, and then ship them to all regions of the
globe . C An American oil firm can do a satellite survey in Siberia for oil deposits and then contract
with a Russian oil firm to drill the actual well, while the petroleum engineer, acting as the project
supervisor, remains in the US and runs the project by using a computer, a high-speed Internet
connection, and a cellular telephone for quick questions. D
A global economy poses some serious problems. If a company doesn't act fast enough, it can
lose, and if the company loses heavily, what will happen to the employees working for the company,
and then in turn what will happen to the stores that depend on those employees buying their goods? As
can be seen, there is a definite trickle-down effect. How is the child who is about to graduate from high
school supposed to decide on what career field to enter? A career field that is here today might be gone
long before the child can graduate from college, so not only does it become vital that a person gain the
needed knowledge to enter a given career field, but the person also needs to learn how to learn.
Learning how to learn may prove to be even more necessary than the knowledge needed to enter a
given career field. A person who is good at learning how to learn can quickly adapt to changes in the
global economy by quickly preparing to enter other career fields if his job is here today, but gone in the
morning.
If the world turns into a global economy, a person will need to be able to get along and work
with people from different cultural backgrounds. However, unless a person has spent time living in
different parts of the world, this might be hard to do. While many students from foreign countries,
especially the Asian countries, come to the US to earn a graduate degree, how many students from the
US spend even a semester abroad studying in another country? The answer to this question is of course
a very small percentage.
While individuals from some of foreign countries and some individuals from the US and the US
economy will adjust to globalization, will the rest of the world? Mass media are more than willing to
continue to stir the pot of controversy as they not only have to learn how to report the positive news,
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cars on the streets of Beijing, of course that person wants a car so he can show his neighbor how
wealthy he is, and all this does is promote unneeded consumption. Why does the person who has
nowhere to go and no money to spend for travel want to own a car? The simple answer is because the
media paint owning a car as a symbol of wealth and it is human nature to want to become wealthy or at
least to appear wealthy.
On the positive side, as prices rise due to increased demands on scarce resources, there will be
an incentive to find affordable alternatives. For example, as the price of oil rises and along with it the
price of a gallon of gasoline, a point will be reached at which people are no longer willing to purchase
gasoline so they can drive their cars, and they will demand both alternative transportation methods and
cars which use another source of energy. A current online survey says $2.50 per gallon of gasoline is
the point at which the people in the US will start making demands on the auto manufacturer, which will
open up new career fields in a few countries that have the technology needed to meet the demands;
however, people around the globe will work together on it.
71. The word “inexorable” in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. upward B. recent C. inevitable D. preposterous
72. The word “solicit” in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. lure B. sell C. help D. ask for
73. According to par.2, what can be inferred about the role of a project supervisor?
A. To make sure the project is finished correctly and on time
B. To hand-check each of the steps in a project
C. To assign each of the items that needs to be done in a project
D. To talk to everyone on a daily basis
74. According to the passage, people need to learn how to learn, otherwise
A. they will not move from the first grade to the second grade in elementary school
B. they will not be able to work in the same job throughout college
C. they will not be able to switch from one career to another as the global economy changes
D. they will not be able to graduate from college and become a member of the global economy
75. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the underlined sentence in
the passage?
A. The mass media are like a witch stirring her cauldron.
B. The mass media always report the truth since this keeps the ratings up and brings in the most
advertising revenue.
C. The mass media will report half-truths if it will keep their ratings up so they can sell
advertising
D. The mass media report every angle of a story since reports are apolitical and never present
only one viewpoint.
76. In paragraph 5, what can be inferred from the description of the media about owning a car?
A. A car needs to be painted certain colors if it is going to show others a person is wealthy.
B. The media are so biased that they will provide paint if a person needs to paint his car so as to
project the car as a symbol of wealth.
C. The media slant the stories, so it will appear to viewers that only wealthy people own a car.
D. The members of the media don't own cars, so they are jealous of those wealthy people who
do own cars
77. Look at the four squares [■] in par.2 that indicate where the following sentence could be added to
the passage.
E-businesses will be the lucrative businesses in the future since they are available to everyone
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78-80. Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below.
Complete the summary by selecting the THREE answer choices that express the most important
ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary because they express ideas that are
not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage.
The Internet and technology are making the world a smaller and smaller place today, and this
is creating a global economy.
78.
79.
80.
A. As Thomas Friedman so eloquently put it in Lexus and the Olive Tree, globalization is "the
inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before,"
B. A global economy poses some serious problems and if a company doesn't act fast enough, it
can lose, and if the company loses heavily, the employees working for the company and the stores that
depend on those employees buying their goods can go out of business.
C. A person who is good at learning how to learn can quickly adapt to changes in the global
economy by quickly preparing to enter other career fields, if his job is here today but gone in the
morning.
D. A career field that is here today might be gone long before the child can graduate from
college, so it becomes vital.
E. People are always going to be willing to pay any price they need to pay in order to buy
something they want, which is why the price of gasoline will not be a factor in the global economy.
F. Individuals from some foreign countries, some individuals from the US and the US economy
will adjust to globalization, but the real question is, how is the rest of the world going to react to living
in a global economy?

D. WRITING
I. Finish the second sentence in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed
before it.
81. Someone has suggested the resignation of the minister.
It ....................................................................................... .
82. I have frequently made stupid mistakes like that.
Many's ....................................................................................... .
83. You think that fat people are always jolly, but you are wrong.
Contrary....................................................................................... .
84. You should have called the doctor at once .
It was....................................................................................... .
85. Gary is proud of the fact that he is never late.
Gary prides....................................................................................... .
II. Write a new sentence similar in meaning to the one given, using the word given in brackets. Do
not alter the word in any way.
86. Many customs restrictions within the EC have been abolished. AWAY
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87. At the moment I can’t afford to buy a new car. QUESTION
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88. I assume you’re hungry. GRANTED
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89. I know I can convince Dave that I'm right about this matter. BRING
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90. Students at the school are not allowed to go into the Rainbow Disco. BOUNDS

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III. Write an essay of (about 200-250 words) about the following topic (91-100)

When taking about the quality of education in recent years some people say that it is still very
low because children’s mind bases on the exams. There is an opinion that exams should be abolished.
To what extent do you agree with the idea?

Use your own knowledge and experience , example to illustrate.

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