Đề thi thử đại học năm 2014 môn thi: Tiếng Anh – Đề số 57

 author views body building____.
	A. with enthusiasm	B. as an artistic from 	C. with scientific interest D. of doubtful benefic
Question 46. The word "horny" in line 9 is closest in meaning to____.
	A. firm	B. strong 	C. tough 	D. dense 
Question 47. It can be inferred from the passage that the principle of use and disuse enables organisms to____.
	A. change their existence 	B. automatically benefit
	C. survive in any condition	D. improve their lifetime
Question 48. The author suggests that melanin_____.
	A. is necessary for the production of vitamin-D	B. is beneficial in sunless climates
	C. helps protect fair-skinned people	D. is a synthetic product
Question 49. In the second paragraph, the author mentions sun tanning as an example of____.
	A. humans improving their local condition	B. humans surviving in adverse conditions
	C. humans using the principle of use and disuse	D. humans running the risk of skin cancer
Question 50. The word " susceptible" could be best replaced by____.
	A. condemned 	B. vulnerable 	C. allergic 	D. suggestible
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.
Question 51. A. recommend 	B. hurricane	 	C. photograph	D. separate
Question 52. A. explain	B. involve	C. purpose	D. control
Question 53. A. furnish	B. reason	C. promise	D. tonight
Question 54. A. specific	B. coincide	C. inventive	D. regardless
Question 55. A. habitable	B. infamously	C. geneticist	D. communes
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 56 to 65 THE HISTORY OF WRITING
The development of writing (56) ___ a huge difference to the world and might see it as the beginning of the (57) ____. Pieces of pottery with marks on that are probably numbers have been discovered in China that date from around 4000 BC. Hieroglyphics and other forms of "picture writing" developed in the (58)_____ around Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), where the ancient Sumerian civilization was based, from around 3300 BC onwards. However, the first (59) _____ alphabet was used by the Phoenicians around 1050 BC. Their alphabet had 22 letters and it is estimated that it lasted for 1000 years. The first two signs were called "aleph" and "beth", which in Greek became "alpha" and "beta", which gave us the (60)____ word "alphabet"
The modern European alphabet is based on the Greek and (61) ____ to other European countries under the Romans. A number of changes took place as time passed. The Romans added the letter G, and the letter J and V were (62) ____ to people in Shakespeare's time.
If we (63)____ the history of punctuation, we also find some interesting facts. The Romans used to write quaesto at the end of a sentence in (64) _____ to show that it was a question. they started to write Qo in (65) ____ of the whole word, and then put the Q above the o. In the end, that became the question mark "?"
Question 56. A. did 	B. had 	C. made 	D. took 
Question 57. A. media	B. bulletin 	C. programme 	D. journalism
Question 58. A. distance 	B. area 	C. length 	D. earth
Question 59. A. true 	B. accurate 	C. exact 	D. precise
Question 60. A. new 	B. trendy 	C. modern 	D. fashionable
Question 61. A. spread 	B. appeared 	C. was 	D. occurred
Question 62. A. infamous	B. unpopular	C. unknown	D. hidden
Question 63. A. look into 	B. bring on 	C. make off 	D. hold up
Question 64. A. turn 	B. fact 	C. order 	D. intention
Question 65. A. position 	B. space 	C. spot 	D. place
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 66 to 75
You can usually tell when your friends are happy or angry by the looks on their faces or by their actions. This is useful because reading their emotional expressions helps you to know how to respond to them. Emotions have evolved to help us respond to important situations and to convey our intentions to others. But does raising the eyebrows and rounding the mouth say the same thing in Minneapolis as it does in Madagascar? Much research on emotional expressions has centered on such questions. 
 According to Paul Ekman, the leading researcher in this area, people speak and understand substantially the same “facial language”. Studies by Ekman’s group have demonstrated that humans share a set of universal emotional expressions that testify to the common biological heritage of the human species. Smiles, for example, signal happiness and frowns indicate sadness on the faces of people in such far- flung places as Argentina, Japan, Spain, Hungary, Poland , Sumatra ,the United States, Vietnam, the jungles of New Guinea , and the Eskimo villages north of Artic Circle. Ekman and his colleagues claim that people everywhere can recognize at least seven basic emotions: sadness, fear, anger, disgust, contempt, happiness, and surprise. There are, however, huge differences across cultures in both the context and intensity of emotional displays – the so called display rules. In many Asian cultures, for example, children are taught to control emotional responses – especially negative ones- while many American children are encouraged to express their feelings more openly. Regardless of culture, however, emotions usually show themselves, to some degree , in people’s behavior. From their first days of life, babies produce facial expressions that communicate their feelings. 
 The ability to read facial expressions develops early, too. Very young children pay close attention to facial expressions, and by age five, they nearly equal adults in their skill at reading emotions on people’s faces. This evidence all points to a biological underpinning for our abilities to express and interpret a basic set of human emotions. Moreover, as Charles Darwin pointed out over a century ago, some emotional expressions seem to appear across species boundaries. Cross - cultural psychologists tell us that certain emotional responses carry different meanings in different cultures. For example, what emotion do you suppose might be conveyed by sticking out your tongue? For Americans, this might indicate disgust, while in China it can signify surprise. Likewise, a grin on an American face may indicate joy, while on a Japanese face it may just as easily mean embarrassment. Clearly, culture influences emotional expressions.
Question 66. According to the passage, we respond to others by _________. 
	A. observing their looks 	C. watching their actions 
	B. observing their emotional expressions	D. looking at their faces
Question 67. Many studies on emotional expressions try to answer the question whether __________. 
 A. different cultures have similar emotional expressions. 
 B. eyebrow raising means the same in Minneapolis and Madagascar. 
 C. raising the eyebrows has similar meaning to rounding the mouth. 
rounding the mouth has the same meaning in Minneapolis and Madagascar. 
Question 68. The word “ evolved” in line 3 is closest in meaning to __________. 
	A. reduced	B. increased	C. simplified 	D. developed 
Question 69. Paul Ekman is mentioned in the passage as an example of ____________. 
	A. lacked many main ingredients 	B. researchers on universal language
researchers who can speak and understand many languages
investigators on universal emotional expressions
Question 70. Smiles and frowns __________.	
are universal expressions across cultures 	 C. do not convey the same emotions in various cultures
are not popular everywhere	 D. have different meanings in different cultures 
Question 71. The biggest difference lies in __________.
how long negative emotions are displayed B. how intensive emotions are expressed 
how emotional responses are controlled D. how often positive emotions are shown 
Question 72. Unlike American children, Asian children are encouraged to _______.
	A. control their emotions	C. display their emotions openly
	B. conceal their positive emotions 	D. change their behaviour 
Question 73. Young children _______.
spend a long time learning to read others’ emotions B. are sensitive towards others’ emotions
 C. make amazing progress in controlling their emotions D. take time to control their facial expressions 
Question 74. The phrase “ this evidence” in line 24 refers to _________.
the fact that children are good at recognizing others’ emotions C. human facial expressions 
a biological underpinning for humans to express emotions D. the fact that children can control their feelings 
Question 75. The best title for the passage is ________________.
Cultural universals in emotional expressions C. Ways to control emotional expressions 
C. review of research on emotional expressions D. Human habit of displaying emotions 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best way to complete each of the following sentences.
Question 76. The temperature inversions often occur when ________ in the late afternoon.
	A. the earth's surface is cooled	B. the earth's surface is cooling
	C. the surface of earth cooled	D. cooling the earth's surface
Question 77. A little farther down the street _________.
	A. is the inn I used to stay at.	B. there is an inn where I used to stay in
	C. the inn is the place where I used to stay	D. is there an inn in which I used to stay
Question 78. He came to Nairobi ____. A. with a view to climb Mt. Kenya	B. so for climbing Mt. Kenya
	C. intended to climb Mt. Kenya	D. with the intention of climbing Mt. Kenya
Question 79. Kate is committed to ____. A. buying goods from that shop 	B. buy goods from that shop
	C. that shop for buying goods	D. that shop to buy goods
Question 80. The children sing loudly _____.
	A. as though they are the winners	B. though they are the winners
	C. as if they were the winners	D. were they the winners
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