Đề thi thử đại học năm 2014 môn thi: Tiếng Anh – Đề số 56

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	The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich- they have a higher calorific (48)_____than coal and one (49)___of "recovery" strongly favoured by the plastic manufacturers is the ( 50)___ of waste plastic into a fuel.
Question 41. A. savings	B. pleasures	C. benefits	D. profits
Question 42. A. abuse	B. endanger	C. store	D. dispose
Question 43. A. processes	B. resources	C. products	D. fuels
Question 44. A. import	B. consign	C. remove	D. consume
Question 45. A. amount	B. proportion	C. portion	D. rate
Question 46. A. makes	B. carries	C. takes	D. constitutes
Question 47. A. industry	B. manufacture	C. plant	D. factory
Question 48. A. demand	B. effect	C. value	D. degree
Question 49. A. medium	B. method	C. measure	D. mechanism
Question 50. A. melting	B. conversion	C. change	D. replacement	
Choose one word whose main stress pattern is different from the others'. 
Question 51. A. application	B. advisable	C. denial	D. adventure
Question 52. A. volunteer	B. competition	C. advantage	D. capability
Question 53. A. acceptance	B. confidence	C. apologize	D. diversity
Question 54. A. consume	B. proportion	C. conscious	D. empower
Question 55. A. aborigine	B. geographical	C. undergraduate	D. parallelism
Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each of the following questions
	What we today call American folk art was, indeed, art of, by, and for ordinary, everyday "folks" who, with increasing prosperity and leisure, created a market for art of all kinds, and especially for portraits. Citizens of prosperous, essentially middle-class republics ─ whether ancient Romans, seventeenth-century Dutch burghers, or nineteenth-century Americans ─ have always shown a marked taste for portraiture. Starting in the late eighteenth century, the United States contained increasing numbers of such people, and of the artists who could meet their demands.
	The earliest American folk art portraits come, not surprisingly, from New England ─ especially Connecticut and Massachusetts ─ for this was a wealthy and populous region and the center of a strong craft tradition. Within a few decades after the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the population was pushing westward, and portrait painters could be found at work in western New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri. Midway through its first century as a nation, the United States' population had increased roughly five times, and eleven new states had been added to the original thirteen. During these years the demand for portraits grew and grew, eventually to be satisfied by the camera. In 1839 the daguerreotype was introduced to America, ushering in the age of photography, and within a generation the new invention put an end to the popularity of painted portraits. Once again an original portrait became a luxury, commissioned by the wealthy and executed by the professional.
	But in the heyday of portrait painting ─ from the late eighteenth century until the 1850's ─ anyone with a modicum of artistic ability could become a limner, as such a portraitist was called. Local craftspeople ─ sign, coach, and house painters ─ began to paint portraits as a profitable sideline; sometimes a talented man or woman who began by sketching family members gained a local reputation and was besieged with requests for portraits; artists found it worth their while to pack their paints, canvases, and brushes and to travel the countryside, often combining house decorating with portrait painting.
Question 56. In lines 3- 4 the author mentions seventeenth-century Dutch burghers as an example of a group that____. 
A. consisted mainly of self-taught artists	B. appreciated portraits
C. influenced American folk art	D. had little time for the arts 
Question 57. The word marked in line 4 is closest in meaning to____. 
A. pronounced	B. fortunate	C. understandable	D. mysterious
Question 58. According to the passage, where were many of the first American folk art portraits painted?
A. In western New York	B. In Illinois and Missouri
C. In Connecticut and Massachusetts	D. In Ohio
Question 59. The word this in line 8 refers to____. 
A. a strong craft tradition	B. American folk art	C. New England	D. western New York
Question 60. How much did the population of the United Stats increase in the first fifty years following independence?
A. It became three times larges	B. It became five times larger
C. It became eleven times larger	D. It became thirteen times larger
Question 61. The phrase ushering in in line 14 is closest meaning to____. 
A. beginning	B. demanding	C. publishing	D. increasing
Question 62. The relationship between the daguerreotype and the painted portrait is similar to the relationship between the automobile and the____. A. highway	B. driver	C. horse-drawn carriage	D. engine
Question 63. According to the passage, which of the following contributed to a decline in the demand for painted portraits?
A. The lack of a strong craft tradition	B. The westward migration of many painters
C. The growing preference for landscape paintings	D. The invention of the camera
Question 64. The author implies that most limners ____. 
A. received instruction from traveling teachers	B. were women
C. were from wealthy families	D. had no formal art training
Question 65. The phrase worth their while in line 21 is closest in meaning to____. 
A. essential	B. educational	C. profitable	D. pleasurable
Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each of the following questions
	No educational medium better serves as a means of spatial communication than the atlas. Atlases deal with such invaluable information as population distribution and density. One of the best, Pennycooke's World Atlas, has been widely accepted as a standard owing to the quality of its maps and photographs, which not only show various settlements but also portray them in a variety of scales. In fact, the very first map in the atlas is a cleverly designed population cartogram that projects the size of each country if geographical size were proportional to population. Following the proportional layout, a sequence of smaller maps shows the world's population density, each country's birth and death rates, population increase or decrease, industrialization, urbanization, gross national product in term of per capita income, the quality of medical care, literacy, and language. To give readers a perspective on how their own country fits in with the global view, additional projections depict the world's patterns in nutrition, calorie and protein consumption, health care, number of physicians per unit of population, and life expectancy by region. Population density maps on a subcontinental scale, as well as political maps, convey the diverse demographic phenomena of the world in a broad array of scales.
Question 66. What is the main topic of this passage?
A. The educational benefits of atlases	B. Physical maps in an atlas
C. The ideal in the making of atlases	D. Partial maps and their uses
Question 67. According to the passage, the first map in Pennycooke's World Atlas shows____. 
A. the population policy in each country	B. the hypothetical sizes of each country
C. geographical proportions of each country	D. national boundaries relative to population
Question 68 Which of the following sentences is TRUE about the atlas?
A. A country's population growth is presented clearly in the very first map in the atlas.	
B. The atlas isn't as good as other educational medium in term of spatial communication.	
C. The atlas provides readers with not only each country's life expectancy by religion but also its language and literacy.
D. The atlas deals with such worthless information as population distribution and density.
Question 69. The word cleverly in the passage is closest in meaning to____. 
A. clearly	B. immaculately	C. intelligently	D. accurately
Question 70. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Calorie consumption	 B. Currency exchange rates C. A level of educations	D. Population decline
Question 71. The word layout in the passage refers to____. 
A. the cartogram	B. the geographical size	C. population	D. each country
Question 72. The phrase in term of used in the passage is closest in meaning to____. 
A. for considering aspects	B. in spite of	C. with a view to	D. in regard to
Question 73. It can be inferred from the passage that maps can be used to____. 
A. pinpoint ethnic strife in each country	B. identify a shortage of qualified labour
C. give readers a new perspective in their own country	D. show readers photographs in a new form
Question 74. The author of the passage implies that ____. 
A. atlases provide a bird's eye view of countries	B. maps use a variety of scales in each projection
C. maps of countries differ in size	D. atlases can be versatile instrument
Question 75. The word convey in the passage is closest meaning to____. 
A. devise	B. conjure up	C. demonstrate	D. indicate
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction. 
Question 76. The purpose of the United Nations, broadly speaking, is to maintain peace and security and encourage respect for human rights. A	 B
	C 	D
Question 77: Although caffeine is a moderately habit-forming drug, coffee is not regarded as harmfully to 
 A B C 
the average healthy adult.
 D 
Question 78: Being sick is the ultimate weapon that some children use so that to get their parents' attention 
	 A	 B	C
and to make sure that their demands are met.
	D
Question 79: Many people found it is moving to see a nine-year-old Japanese boy desperately searching for 
	A	B	C
his family lost in the quake and tsunami of March 11,2011. 
	 D
Question 80: Not only the number of mahogany trees has decreased markedly during the last decade, but 
	A	B
other valuable trees are becoming scarcer and scarcer as well. 
	C	D
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