Đê Thi T.Anh TN-THPT-09_m952

BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO

ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC
(Đề thi có 04 trang)
KỲ THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG NĂM 2009
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH ─ Chương trình Chuẩn và Nâng cao
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút.


Mã đề thi 952


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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 1 to 5.
It can be shown in facts and figures that cycling is the cheapest, most convenient, and most environmentally desirable form of transport (1) towns, but such cold calculations do not mean much on a frosty winter morning. The real appeal of cycling is that it is so (2) . It has none of
the difficulties and tensions of other ways of travelling so you are more cheerful after a ride, even
through the rush hour.
The first thing a non-cyclist says to you is: "But isn`t it (3) dangerous?" It would be foolish to deny the danger of sharing the road with motor vehicles and it must be admitted that there
are an alarming (4) of accidents involving cyclists. However, although police records
(5) that the car driver is often to blame, the answer lies with the cyclist. It is possible to ride in such a way as to reduce risks to a minimum.
Question 1: A. in
B. at
C. to
D. on

Question 2: A. boring
B. careful
C. enjoyable
D. excited

Question 3: A. expectedly
B. strangely
C. terribly
D. comfortably

Question 4: A. size
B. number
C. deal
D. digit

Question 5: A. point
B. indicate
C. display
D. exhibit


Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is
pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.
Question 6: A. high
B. laugh
C. thought
D. eight

Question 7: A. promise
B. despite
C. enterprise
D. economize

Question 8: A. appeal
B. ease
C. team
D. already

Question 9: A. scholar
B. chemist
C. approach
D. aching


Question 10: A. attracted B. decided C. expected D. engaged


Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 11: , we couldn`t have continued with the project.
A. If you hadn`t contributed positively B. Even if you didn`t like to contribute
C. Provided your contribution wouldn`t come D. Unless we had your contribution
Question 12: Alex did not do very well in class .
A. therefore he was a good student B. as long as he had studied badly
C. because he failed to study properly D. although he was not hard-working
Question 13: The more you talk about the situation, .
A. it seems worse B. the worse does it seem
C. the worse it seems D. it seems the worse
Question 14: Those boys took a long ladder .
A. in order to get the ball from the roof B. so they will get the ball from the roof
C. so that the ball from the roof can be gotten D. and then get the ball from the roof
Question 15: She regretted to tell him that .
A. she was leaving the tickets at home B. she had left the tickets at home
C. the tickets at home would be left D. she would have left the tickets at home

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 from 16 to 20.
By adopting a few simple techniques, parents who read to their children can considerably increase their children`s language development. It is surprising, but true. How parents talk to their children makes a big difference in the children`s language development. If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading, the child`s language skills increase.
A study was done with two or three-year-old children and their parents. Half of the thirty children participants were in the experimental study; the other half acted as the control group. In the experimental group, the parents were given a two-hour training session in which they were taught to
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