Đề thi thử đại học năm 2014 môn thi: Tiếng Anh – Đề số 70

Question 52. ____ in most of this discourse about the Internet Generation and its transformative potential is the continued presence and influence of adults in the larger digital landscape inhabited by young people. 
 A. Neglecting B. Having neglected C. Neglected D. Being neglected
Question 53. The present experiment explored the relationship between academic confidence and performance within a college setting ____ both self-ratings and peer-ratings.
 A. uses B. by use C. used D. using.
Question 54. Finally, this experiment measured evaluations of confidence and performance as rated by participants' peers, ____ a multi-trait multi-method matrix. A. yield B. yielded C. yielding D. yields 
Question 55. We explored the caves enthusiastically, ____
 A. Jim acted like an experienced guider B acting Jim like an experienced guider
 C. Jim acting as an experienced guider D. Jim acted as an experienced guider.
Read the following newspaper article about an expedition and answer questions 45 – 50. 
 There are very few big adventures left and very few heroes. Children's stories used to specialize in them – courageous explorers with sun-burnt, leathery skin and eyes narrowed by straining to see into far horizons on their journeys into the unknown. These days you no longer find such people in fiction, let alone in real life. Or so I thought until I met Charles Blackmore. Blakemore’s great adventure consisted of leading an expedition across one of the last unexplored places on earth, the Taklamakan Desert in western China. Its name means `once entered you never come out', but local people call it the Desert of Death. He recalled the dangers and exhilaration of that amazing trek, in the calm atmosphere of his family home. 
 The team he led was composed of four Britons (one of them the party' s medical officer), an American photographer, four Chinese (all experts on the area), 30 camels and six camel handlers. It later turned out that the camel handlers had never worked with camels before, but were long-distance lorry drivers: a misunderstanding that could have cost everyone their lives and certainly jeopardized the expedition's success. This mixed bunch set out to cross 1,200 kilometres of the world's least hospitable desert and Charles Blackmore has written a mesmerizing account of their journey. 
 At the time, he was about to leave the Army after 14 happy years. He launched the expedition for fun, to fill a gap in his life, to prove something. `I had always assumed I'd spend my whole life in the Army. I had been offered promotion but suddenly I felt I wanted to see who Charles Blackmore really was, outside all that. It was a tremendous gamble. Tina, my wife, was very worried that I wouldn't come back as nobody had ever done that route; we went into it blind. In the event, it took 59 days to cross from west to east, and the desert was very kind to us.' 
 Anyone reading his extraordinary account of that crossing will wonder at the use of the word `kind'. The team suffered unspeakable hardships: dysentery; extremes of temperature; severe thirst and dehydration; the loss of part of their precious water supply. `But', Blackmore explains, `when we were at the limits of our own endurance and the camels had gone without water for seven days, we managed to find some. We didn't experience the Taklamakan's legendary sandstorms. And we never hit the raw, biting desert cold that would have totally immobilized us. That's not to say that we weren't fighting against hurdles the whole time. The fine sand got into everything, especially blisters and wounds. The high dunes were torture to climb, for us and for the heavily laden camels, which often rolled over onto us. `What drove me on more than anything else was the need to survive. We had no contingency plan. Neither our budget nor time allowed one. No aircraft ever flew over us. 
 Once we got into the sandhills we were completely on our own. `I knew I had the mental stamina for the trip but I was very scared of my physical ability to do it. I remember day one — we sat at the edge of the desert and it was such an inferno that you couldn't breathe. I thought, "We've got to do it now!" At that moment I was a very scared man.' 
 If it was like that at the beginning, how did they feel towards the end? `When you've walked for 1,000 kilometres you're not going to duck out. You've endured so much; you've got so much behind you. We were very thin, but very muscular and sinewy despite our physical exhaustion. My body was well-toned and my legs were like pistons. I could walk over anything.' 
 Midway through the book, Blackmore went on to describe lying in the desert gazing up at a full moon, thinking of his family. How conscious was he of the ordeal it must have been for them? Inside me there's someone trying to find peace with himself. When I have doubts about myself now, I go back to the image of the desert and think, well, we managed to pull that together. As a personal achievement, I feel prouder of that expedition than of anything else I've done. Yet in terms of a lifetime's achievement, I think of my family and the happiness we share — against that yardstick, the desert does not measure up, does not compare.' 
 Has Charles Blackmore found peace? `I yearn for the challenge — for the open spaces — the resolve of it all. We were buoyed up by the sense of purpose. I find it difficult now to be part of the uniformity of modem life.' 
Question 56 Meeting Charles Blackmore changed the writer’s opinion about____.
 A the content of children’s fiction. B the nature of desert exploration. 
 C the existence of traditional heroes. D the activities of explorers. 
Question 57 When the expedition members set off, some of the group ____.
 A posed an unexpected risk. B disagreed with each other. C were doubtful of success. D went on ahead of the others. 
Question 58 Blackmore had decided to set up the expedition because 
 A he was certain he could complete. B he wanted to write a book. 
 C his aims in life had changed. D his self-confidence was low. 
Question 59 Which of the following best describes the team’s experience of the desert? 
 A They were not able to have enough rest. B It presented continual difficulties. 
 C They sometimes could not make any progress at all. D It was worse than they had expected. 
Question 60 Which of the following did Blackmore experience during the trip? 
 A frustration at the lack of funding B regret about the lack of planning 
 C realization that they would receive no help D fear that he would let his companions down 
Question 61 According to Blackmore, what enabled him to finish the expedition? 
 A his strength of will B his physical preparation C his closeness to his family D his understanding of the desert 
Question 62. What put the expedition's success in jeopardy was____.
 A. Charles Blackmore’s underestimating the danger level of the adventure
 B. His destination was of the world's least hospitable deserts
 C. Charles Blackmore mistook long- distance lorry drivers for camel handlers 
 D. Charles Blackmore’s mesmerizing account of their journey. 
Question 63. After 14 happy years in the army, before leaving it; Charles Blackmore launched the expedition with the purpose____. A. to find something of exhilaration B. to assert himself 
 C. to prove some meaning of his life D. to fulfill some empty moments in his life
Question 64. The word inferno in the passage is in the closest meaning to____.
 A. heaven B. bottomless pit C. hell D. overworld 
Question 65. By saying ‘We were buoyed up by the sense of purpose.’ Charles Blackmore implies that..
 A. They were saved from despair by their purpose B. They were rescued from drowning by the sense of purpose
 C. They were defended by the sense of purpose 
 D. the sense of purpose is something for them to cling on to find something out of ordinary
Circle a letter A, B, C orr D that best fits each numbered gap:
 Oxford is a city with such a (66)____ reputation that many who come here find themselves intimidated by the place and can’t wait to leave. While others, taking to it like a 67)____ to water. Find themselves return again and again, the college lawns provide a gorgeous (68)____ to serious study, and in the light night, on a sunny winter’s morning says, one feels as if one is (69)____ on air, such is the sense of unreality. Oxford may like to (70)____ that it is at the intellectual (71) of things but in many ways , it is no more than a sleepy (72)____ where to mix metaphors, transitory students, the (73) their generation, wait in the (74)____ allowing their talents to (75)____ before moving off into the industrial or political (76). Much of this is a myth, of course. Hardship and hard work are very much part and (77)____ of student life .The (78)____ get through the three years’ hard (79)____ by simply putting their shoulders to the (80)____ before going on to fairly average jobs. Only for the tiny minority is Oxford the first university on the ladder to fame and future.
Question 66. A. mind- blowing 	B. clearheaded 	C. backhanded 	D. broken- hearted
Question 67. A. fish B. duck 	C. boat 	D. swimmer
Question 68. A. backdrop B. curtain 	C. scene 	D. screen
Question 69. A. flying B. gliding 	C. floating 	D. swimming
Question 70. A. pretend B. act 	C. resemble 	D. produce
Question 71. A. wheel B. engine 	C. spoke 	D. hub
Question 72. A. backwater B. stream 	C. tributary 	D. watershed
Question 73. A. from B. cream 	C. fat 	D. caviar
Question 74. A. pavilion B. dressing- room 	C. wings 	D. foyer
Question 75. A. flourish B. open 	C. spread 	D. float
Question 76. A. beak B. abattoir 	C. dead-end 	D. fast-lane
Question 77. A. package B. section 	C. province 	D. parcel
Question 78. A. level- headed B. hot- headed 	C. hot- blooded 	D. kind-hearted
Question 79. A. push B. pull 	C. grind 	D. roughage
Question 80. A. cart B. wheel 	C. engine 	D. boat
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