Đề thi thử đại học năm 2014 môn thi: Tiếng Anh – Đề số 2

e the delay was so long. 
	B. The more increasingly the crowd became, the longer the delay was. 
	C. The longer the delay was, the angrier the crowd became. 
	D. The more the crowd became angry at the delay, the longer they feel. 
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 51 to 60
 The goal of Internet-based encyclopedia Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) is to give everyone on the planet access to information. Like other encyclopedias, Wikipedia contains lots of information: more than 2.5 million articles in 200 different languages covering just about every subject. Unlike other encyclopedias, however, Wikipedia is not written by experts, but by ordinary people. These writers are not paid and their names are not published. They contribute to Wikipedia simply because they want to share their knowledge.
 Encyclopedias began in ancient times as collections of writings about all aspects of human knowledge. The word itself comes from ancient Greek, and means “a complete general education”. Real popularity for encyclopedias came in the nineteenth century in Europe and the United States, with the publication of encyclopedias written for ordinary readers. With the invention of the CD-ROM, the same amount of information could be put on a few computer discs. Then with the Internet, it became possible to create an online encyclopedia that could be constantly updated, like Microsoft’s Encarta. However, even Internet-based encyclopedias like Encarta were written by paid experts. At first, Wikipedia, the brainchild of Jimmy Wales, a businessman in Chicago, was not so different from these. In 2001, he had the idea for an Internet-based encyclopedia that would provide information quickly and easily to everyone. Furthermore, that information would be available free, unlike other Internet encyclopedias at that time.
 But Wales, like everyone else, believed that people with special knowledge were needed to write the articles, and so he began by hiring experts. He soon changed his approach, however, as it took them a long time to finish their work. He decided to open up the encyclopedia in a radical new way, so that everyone would have access not only to the information, but also to the process of putting this information online. To do this, he used what is known as “Wiki” software (from the Hawaiian word for “fast”), which allows users to create or alter content on web page. The system is very simple: When you open the web site, you can simply search for information or you can log on to become a writer or editor of articles. If you find an article that interests you – about your hometown, for example – you can correct it or expand it. This process goes on until no one is interested in making any more changes.
Question 51: Wikipedia is a(n) ___________ .
 A. book	B. journal	C. article	D. dictionary
Question 52: Wikipedia is written by___________.
 A. paid written	B. millionaires	C. normal people	D. world experts
Question 53: The phrase “these writers” in the first paragraph refers to _______.
 A. ordinary readers 	B. ordinary people 	 C. encyclopedia experts 	D. every subject
Question 54: The phrase “the word” in the second paragraph refers to ________.
 A. knowledge	B. encyclopedia	C. writing	D. collection
Question 55: Microsoft’s Encarta is cited in the passage as an example of _______.
 A. CD-ROM dicitonary	B. printed encyclopedia C. online encyclopedia D. updateable online encyclopedia
Question 56: The word “brainchild” in the 2nd paragraph of the passage can be best replaced by_____.
 A. born	B. child	 	 C. product	D. father
Question 57: The word “approach” in the third paragraph of the passage means________. 
 A. idea	B. time	 C. method	D. writing
Question 58: The user of Wikipedia can do all of the following EXCEPT__________.
 A. have access to information B. determinate the website C. modify information 	D. edit information
Question 59: We can say that Jimmy Wales _______.
 A. became very famous after the formation of Wikipedia B. is the father of Wikipedia
 C. made a great profit from Wikipedia 	 D. decides who can use Wikipedia
Question 60: Wiki software enables _______.
 A. exchanging articles 	B. a purchase of information C. limited access	D. editing
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 61 to 70
Fiberscopes are one of the most are one of the most important outcomes of he science of fiber optics. Fibers made of glass and transparent acrylic plastic are capable of conveying light energy, and when thousands of these fibers are combined in what is called a fiberscope, they can transmit images. The most common fiberscopes contain about 750,000 fibers, each 0.001 centimeter, or 10 microns, in diameter. For certain uses, the diameter of the fiber may be as small as 5 microns.
Fiberscopes have a wide range of applications. In the medical field, physicians use fiberscopes to examine internal organs and as an aid in delicate surgeries. Miniature probes have also been developed to view muscle fiber, skin tissue, and blood cells. Fiberscopes have also found varied uses in industry, particularly to inspect or control operations in inaccessible areas. Bundles of fiberscopes fused together in a solid plate, called a faceplate, are being used in the manufacture of television tubes and other cathode-ray tube devices.
The most far reaching applications of fiber-optic technology are in communication. Optical fibers carry voice messages for telephone service. The sound of the voice is electronically broken down into thousands of pulses per second, which causes a transmitting laser to send coordinated pulses of light through the optical fibers. At the receiving end, the light pulses are converted to electrical signals and the voice message is reconstructed. Light-wave communication systems can handle an immensely greater number of telephone calls and television programs than the current system, and they will form the basis of the “electronic superhighway” expected to crisscross the nation in the near future of the information age.
Question 61: How do optical fibers carry voice message?
 A. By fusing bundles of fiberscopes into a faceplate	B. By converting electrical signals to light pulses
 C. By sending coordinated electrical pulses through optical fibers	D. By using cathode-ray tube devices.
Question 62: The word inaccessible in line 9 means____.
 A. difficult to find	B. extremely small	C. hard to reach	D. impossible to climb
Question 63: 	It can be inferred from the passage that fiberscopes____.
 A. have more uses in industry than in medicine	 B. will play a major role in the information age
 C. will decrease in importance as they become more common D. have reached the peak of their development
Question 64: Where in the passage does the author discuss the uses of miniature probes in medicine?
 A. lines 2-7	B. lines 6-8	C. lines 14-16	D. lines 17-19
Question 65: The main topic of the passage is____.
 A. The birth of the “electronic superhighway”	 	B. The various applications of fiber-optic technology
 C. How fiberscopes have enhanced the field of medicine	D. How sound may be transformed into light
Question 66: As used in line 18, the word they refers to____.
 A. fiberscopes	B. light-wave communication systems C. television programs	D. television calls
Question 67: The word converted in line 15 is closest in meaning to____.
 A. transferred	B. transformed	C. transmitted	D. changed
Question 68: The word coordinated in line 14 is closest in meaning to____.
 A. separated	B. organized	C. transformed	D. deconstructed
Question 69:	Fiberscopes are being used to do all of the following EXCEPT____.
 A. assist in delicate surgeries	 	B. control operations in inaccessible areas
 C. convert light pulses to electrical signals	 D. transmit images
Question 70: The passage will most likely be followed by a discussion of____.
 A. homes and businesses of the future	B. the structure of fiberscopes
 C. additional uses of fiberscopes in industry	D. the use of fiber optics in the electronic superhighway
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase to fill in the blank in the following passage from 71 to 80. 
 Why do people like to chew gum? Some people say they like the taste (71)___ say they can think better if they chew gum. Some people chew it when they have some boring work to (72)___.Others chew gum when they are nervous.
 Gum is a (73)___ of things. For many years gum companies made gum from chicle. Chicle is a natural gum from a tree in Mexico and Central America. Now companies use plastic and rubber made from petroleum (74)___ of chicle.
 Gum must be soft (75)___ you can chew it. A softener keeps it soft. The gum company makes the softener from vegetable oil. A sweetener makes the gum sweet. The sweetener is usually sugar. Then the company (76)___ the flavor.
 Thomas Adams made the first gum from chicle in 1836. (77)___, chewing gum was not new. The Greeks chewed gum from a tree (78)___ 2,000 years ago. Mayan Indians in Mexico chewed chicle. Indians in the Northeastern United States taught Europeans to chew gum from a tree there.
 People first made bubble gum in 1928. Children like to (79)___ bubble with bubble gum. Some university students do (80)___.
Question 71: A. The other	B. Others	C. The others	D. Other
Question 72: A. make	B. get	C. do	D. carry
Question 73: A. mixture	B. roll	C. fix	D. connection
Question 74: A. aside	B. apart	C. inside	D. instead
Question 75: A. so that	B. then	 	C. for	D. that
Question 76: A. puts	B. places	C. adds	D. fits
Question 77: A. However	B. More	C. But	D. Though
Question 78: A. more	B. over	 	C. above	D. than
Question 79: A. turn	 	B. set	C. pass	D. blow
Question 80: A. so	B. too	C. then	 	D. same
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