ĐỀ THI KHẢO SÁT GV TIẾNG ANH 29.9.2012

ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST
Subject: Reading Time:55’
Questions1-20:Read the texts carefully and choose the best answer to the questions
TEXT 1 Bananas are widely believed to grow on trees: this is incorrect. The banana is a plant which finishes all its growth in one year, reading a height of 30 feet. Bananas have a subterranean stem from which come large, green leaves. The plant reaches its maturity in about 18 months.
As the bunches of bananas mature and the fruit develops, they can be propped up with poles and covered with blue polyethylene bags. These prevent bruising, protect against the frost and speed ripening by increasing heat and humidity.
Once the banana plant has produced its fruit, the mother plant dies and is replaced by pups (sucker plants). These grow next to the parent and make a new generation of banana plants.
1. What does “this” in line 1 refer to?
A. The belief that bananas grow on trees.
B. Certain beliefs about bananas.
C. Widely-held that bananas do not grow on trees.
D. The belief that bananas do not grow on trees.
2. What would be the best title for the first paragraph?
A. Beliefs about banana plants.
B. The growth of a banana plant to maturity.
C. A year in the life of a banana plant.
D. Banana plants: from birth to maturity.
3. Why are blue polyethylene bags mentioned in paragraph 2?
A. They are used to prop up bananas.
B. They protect growing bananas and speed ripening.
C. They help increase heat and humidity and so prevent ripening.
D. Bunches of bananas are always covered with them.
4. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. How the banana plant produces its fruit.
B. How a sucker plant is called a pup.
C. The death of mother plants
D. The growth of sucker plants.
5. The next sentence after the passage is mostly likely to be:
A. The old banana plants are chopped up and used as mature.
B. Chicken mature can now be used to feed all kinds of banana plants
C. Bananas are used in dessert recipes all over the world.
D. Bananas are grown all over South and Central America.
TEXT 2 Petroleum products, such as gasoline, kerosene, home heating oil, residual fuel oil, and lubricating oils, come from one source -- crude oil found below the earth`s surface, as well as under large bodies of water, from a few hundred feet below the surface to as deep as 25,000 feet into the earth`s interior.    Sometimes crude oil is secured by drilling a hole through the earth, but more dry holes are drilled than those producing oil.    Pressure at the source or pumping forces crude oil to the surface.    Crude oil wells flow at varying rates, from ten to thousands of barrels per hour.    Petroleum products are always measured in 42-gallon barrels. Petroleum products vary greatly in physical appearance: thin, thick, transparent or opaque, but regardless, their chemical composition is made up of two elements: carbon and hydrogen, which form compounds called hydrocarbons.    Other chemical elements found in union with the hydrocarbons are few and are classified as impurities.    Trace elements are also found, but these are of such minute quantities that they are disregarded.    The combination of carbon and hydrogen forms many thousands of compounds which are possible because of the carious positions and joinings of these two atoms in the hydrocarbon molecule. The various petroleum products are refined from the crude oil by heating and condensing the vapors.    These products are the so-called light oils, such as gasoline, kerosene, and distillate oil.    The residue remaining after the light oils are distilled is known as heavy or residual fuel oil and is used mostly for burning under boilers.    Additional complicated refining processes rearrange the chemical structure of the hydrocarbons to produce other products, some of which are used to upgrade and increase the octane rating of various types of gasoline. 6. Which of the following is NOT true? A. Crude oil is found below land and water. B. Crude oil is always found a few hundred feet below the surface. C. Pumping and pressure force crude oil to the surface. D. A variety of petroleum products is obtained from crude oil. 7. Many thousands of hydrocarbon compounds are possible because ___. A. the petroleum products vary greatly in physical appearance B. complicated refining processes rearrange the chemical structure C. the two atoms in the molecule assume many positions D. the pressure needed to force it to the surface causes molecular transformation 8. Which of the following is true? A. The various petroleum products are produced by filtration. B. Heating and condensation produce the various products.