Đề thi Situation 1: It is parents’ wedding anniversary soon and you are considering a good present for them. There are three options: a tour to NhaTrang, two tickets for a romantic film at the National Cinema Center and a romantic meal at a fivestar restaurant. Which option do you think is the best choice? why dont you choose the other two
Trang 1SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO HÀ NỘI
TRƯỜNG ĐH THỦ ĐÔ HÀ NỘI CỘNG HOÀ XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM Độc lập - Tự do - Hạnh phúc
BỘ CÂU HỎI ÔN TẬP THI KHẢO SÁT TIẾNG ANH ĐẦU RA
PHẦN 1: NGHE
Câu 1:
What is being advertised?
Vacations
Câu 2:
Who can get a discount?
A Group of at least eight people B People who buy foods for a party
C People who arrive later than 8:00 D Anyone who calls a certain number
Câu 3:
How much is the cheapest ticket?
$75
Câu 4:
When will the sale end?
August 31
Câu 5:
How often does the bus leave?
A Every twenty minutes B Every thirty minutes
Câu 6:
What will the temperature be like tomorrow?
Cold
Câu 7:
How long will Mr Olmos be away?
Over one month
Câu 8:
What does the woman want to do?
A Get the directions to the office B Get a special line
C Make an international call D Change the office
phones
Câu 9:
Trang 2How will the man probably travel?
bus
Câu 10:
What are they discussing?
Câu 11:
Who faxed the notes?
C The accounting supervisor D Mr Mizuno
Câu 12:
When will the customer’s order arrive?
A In two days B In four days
Câu 13:
What problem is being described?
A Someone is absent. B There are no more rolls
C People are not attentive D Children are playing on the stairs
Câu 14:
What is done to cars that are not parked legally?
A They are fined B They are towed. C They are ticketed
D They are reparked
Câu 15:
What should you do if you have a ticket?
A Line up at the end of the hall B Go to the front desk
Câu 16:
Who is making the announcement?
A An airplane pilot B A ship’s captain C A flight attendant
D A passenger
Câu 17:
Who is Lucinda Park?
A tour guide
Câu 18:
What should the owner of the keys do?
A Show identification B Tell the security guard
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Why will they go into the shop?
A To make a purchase B To see a friend C To get a haircut D.
To ask for information
Câu 20:
Why is the man concerned?
A A package has been lost B Business is very slow
C A deadline is coming. D An employee has been fired
Câu 21:
When will the tour begin?
1:00 pm
Câu 22:
When does this conversation take place?
Winter
Câu 23:
Who is seeking a new position?
Câu 24:
Where will the plants be placed?
A Next to the window B Just outside the building
C Near the water cooler D On either side of the front door
Câu 25:
Which of the following groups is NOT part of the agreement?
Ballet
Câu 26:
Where did the president go?
A To Asia B To Malaysia C To Indonesia D To Australia
Câu 27:
What happened to Marisol’s employees?
A They were terminated. B They were
promoted
C They were transferred D They were given
reduced pensions
Câu 28:
What did people do in the afternoon?
Trang 4A They went to a concert in the park. B They went home early
C They followed the parade D They played ball
Câu 29:
Who is speaking?
A A police officer B A weather forecaster
C A radio announcer D A bus driver
Câu 30:
How are the apartments described?
A They are up-to-date in design. B They have two bedrooms
C They are in the middle of the city D They are very small
Câu 31:
What is the speaker doing?
A Showing photos of the southwest region B Taking about her
company on TV
C Presenting an award to an employee D Introducing a new sales campaign
Câu 32:
When are the design plans due?
year
Câu 33:
Who called and left the message?
C Mr Murphy’s secretary D The committee
chairperson
Câu 34:
Where does this conversation take place?
A In a coffee shop B In the office C In a post office D In a
supermarket
Câu 35:
Why is Mrs Sompong leaving?
A To join another company B To start her own
business
work
Câu 36:
When does Claudia want to go to the play?
Saturday
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Who is NOT allowed inside the theater?
A Children under 12 B Senior citizens
Câu 38:
What should be brought to the exam?
Câu 39:
What will the weather be like tomorrow?
A Rainy B Sunny C Cloudy D Windy
Câu 40:
What happened at the zoo today?
A New lions were bought B Baby lions were born.
C There were games for children D A new director was hired
PHẦN HAI: ĐỌC
Câu 1:
The ability of falling cats to right themselves in midair and land on their feet has been a source of wonder for ages Biologists long regarded
it as an example of adaptation by natural selection, but for physicists it
bordered on the miraculous Newton's laws of motion assume that the total amount of spin of a body cannot change unless an external torque speeds it up or slows it down If a cat has no spin when it is released and experiences no external torque, it ought not to be able to twist around as
it falls
In the speed of its execution, the righting of a tumbling cat resembles
a magician's trick The gyrations of the cat in midair are too fast for the
human eye to follow, so the process is obscured Either the eye must be
speeded up, or the cat's fall slowed down for the phenomenon to be observed A century ago the former was accomplished by means of high-speed photography using equipment now available in any pharmacy But
in the nineteenth century the capture on film of a falling cat constituted a scientific experiment
The experiment was described in a paper presented to the Paris
Academy in 1894 Two sequences of twenty photographs each, one from the side and one from behind, show a white cat in the act of righting itself Grainy and quaint though they are, the photos show that the cat was dropped upside down, with no initial spin, and still landed on its feet
Careful analysis of the photos reveals the secret; As the cat rotates the
front of its body clockwise, the rear and tail twist counterclockwise, so that the total spin remains zero, in perfect accord with Newton's laws Halfway down, the cat pulls in its legs before reversing its twist and then extends them again, with the desired end result The explanation was that
while nobody can acquire spin without torque, a flexible one can readily
change its orientation, or phase Cats know this instinctively, but scientists
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16 What does the passage mainly discuss?
A The explanation of an interesting phenomenon
B Miracles in modern science
C Procedures in scientific investigation
D The differences between biology and physics
17 What does the word “it” refers to?
18 The word “process” refers to .
A the righting of a tumbling cat B the cat's fall slowed down
C high-speed photography D a scientific experiment
19 Why are the photographs mentioned referred to as an “experiment”?
A The photographs were not very clear
B The purpose of the photographs was to explain the process.
C The photographer used inferior equipment
D The photographer thought the cat might be injured
20 Which of the following can be inferred about high-speed photography in the late 1800's?
A It was a relatively new technology.
B The necessary equipment was easy to obtain
C The resulting photographs are difficult to interpret
D It was not fast enough to provide new information
21 The word “rotates” is closest in meaning to .
22 According to the passage, a cat is able to right itself in midair because it is
A frightened B small C intelligent D.flexible
23 The word “readily” is closest in meaning to .
24 How did scientists increase “the speed of their perceptions a thousand-fold”?
A By analyzing photographs
B By observing a white cat in a dark room
C By dropping a cat from a greater height
D By studying Newton's laws of motion
25 What is the author’s tone in this passage?
A Surprised B Optimistic C Neutral D Worried
Câu 2:
The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean It stretches southward across the largest and northernmost state in the United States, ending at a remote ice-free seaport village nearly 800 miles
from where it begins It is massive in size and extremely complicated to
operate
The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of delicate tundra that tops the frozen ground It weaves through crooked canyons, climbs sheer mountains, plunges over rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and passes over or under hundreds of rivers and streams The pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million barrels (or 84 million
gallons) of crude oil can be pumped through it daily Resting on
H-shaped steel racks called "bents," long sections of the pipeline follow a zigzag course high above the frozen earth Other long sections drop out of sight beneath spongy or rocky ground and return to the surface later on The pattern of the pipeline's up-and-down route is determined by the
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of the land, and the varied compositions of soil, rock, or permafrost (permanently frozen ground) A little more than half of the pipeline is elevated above the ground The remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to
12 feet, depending largely upon the type of terrain and the properties of the soil One of the largest in the world, the pipeline cost approximately
$8 billion and is by far the biggest and most expensive construction
project ever undertaken by private industry In fact, no single business
could raise that much money, so 8 major oil companies formed a consortium in order to share the costs Each company controlled oil rights
to particular shares of land in the oil fields and paid into the
pipeline-construction fund according to the size of its holdings Today, despite enormous problems of climate, supply shortages, equipment breakdowns, labor disagreements, treacherous terrain, a certain amount of mismanagement, and even theft, the Alaska pipeline has been completed and is operating
16 The passage primarily discusses the pipeline's _
construction
17 The word "it" refers to _.
A pipeline B ocean C state D
village
18 According to the passage, 84 million gallons of oil can travel through the pipeline each _
A day B week C month D year
19 The phrase "Resting on" is closest in meaning to _.
A consisting of B supported byC passing under D.
protected with
20 The author mentions all of the following as important in determining the pipeline's route EXCEPT the _
C local vegetation D kind of soil and rock
21 The word "undertaken" is closest in meaning to _.
attempted
22 How many companies shared the costs of constructing the pipeline?
23 The word "particular" in line 22 is closest in meaning to _.
24 Which of the following determined what percentage of the construction costs each member of the consortium would pay?
A How much oil field land each company owned
B How long each company had owned land in the oil fields
C How many people worked for each company
D How many oil wells were located on the company's land
25 According to the passage, the Alaska pipeline is suffering from the following problems EXCEPT:
A There was not enough supply
B The climate was problematic
C It ever got stolen
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Câu 3:
Around the year 1500, hunting people occupied the entire northern third of North America They lived well from the animals with whom they shared these lands Hunters of sea mammals had colonized the Arctic coasts of Canada and Greenland between four and five thousand years before Land-hunting people had lived throughout much of the northern interior for at least 12,000 years
Northern North America is part of a larger circumpolar ecological
domain that across the narrow Bering Strait into Siberia and northern
Europe The overall circumpolar environment in the 1500's was not very different from the environment of the present This vast landmass had a continental climate and was dominated by cold arctic air throughout a long winter and spring season Summer temperature ranged from near freezing to the mid-20's Celsius, while winter temperature were often as low as 40 degrees below zero Celsius
(A) Geographers divide the overall circumpolar domain into two zones, the Arctic and, below it, the Subarctic (B) Temperatures in the
northern lands were below freezing for eight or nine months of the year
(C) Subsurface soil in the Arctic's tundra remained permanently frozen.
Even when summer temperatures were above freezing and the top inches
of earth became saturated with water, the soil below remained frozen into a permafrost, as hard as rock (D)
When water flowed upon the surface of permanently frozen tundra, it made overland travel extremely difficult Summer travel in the boggy lands, or muskeg country, of the Subarctic's taiga was also slow and
arduous Tracking animals was more difficult than it was during the
winter when the swampy ground was frozen solid and covered with snow
In both tundra and taiga, hordes of mosquitoes and biting flies bred in the
standing pools of water Clothing lost its thermal efficiency when it
became damp
Northern people looked forward to the turn of the season to bring the easier traveling conditions associated with cold weather In the Arctic, they could haul food and supplies by dogsled while in the Subarctic, people could travel quickly and efficiently by snowshoes and toboggan
16 What does the passage mainly discuss?
A The hunting people of North America
B The circumpolar environment of the sixteenth century
C Animals that inhabit the Arctic coast
D The geography of Canada and Greenland
17 The word “domain” is closest in meaning to .
A temperature B period C region D process
18 Where can this sentence be best added?
They refer to the landforms of these areas as tundra and taiga, respectively.
19 Which of the following terms is used to describe the landforms of the Arctic region?
20 For how many months of the year were temperatures below freezing in the circumpolar region?
A 4-5 months B 6 months C 8-9 months D 12 months
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A enriched B dissolved C removed D soaked
22 The word “arduous” is closest in meaning to .
A humid B difficult C indirect D unnecessary
23 The word “standing” is closest in meaning to
A not flowing B very deep C numerous D contaminated
24 All of the following are mentioned as having made travel in the summer difficult EXCEPT _
A insects B wet clothing C swampy lands D lack of
supplies
25 The subsurface soil in the Arctic's tundra is most comparable to which of the following?
A Cement B A bog C A pond D Sand
Câu 4:
American music, in most of its various forms, can be traced back to the music of the earliest African-Americans Even though these Americans came here under the worst of circumstances, they still brought with them traditions, and developed new traditions of their own, that have grown into what is recognized around the world today as American music
Musicians, like other artists, are usually quick to give credit where credit is due Just as a writer quotes his sources, a musician credits
those musicians who inspired him In the case of the early African-Americans, that is not always easy Many of the slaves who brought musical traditions from Africa will never be known by name No one wrote their history Many of the slaves who sang work songs in the fields will never be known by name No one wrote their history either
However, there is a lot that we do know
The first well-recognized form of African-American music was spirituals Spirituals are religious songs They are songs that tell a story or express emotions Spirituals have a strong rhythm They are often sung
by a group, sometimes with a leader who sings a line or two alone and a
chorus that sings the refrain Spirituals originated in the Southern United
States Spirituals sung by slaves often expressed the hope for freedom that was so important in their lives Well know spirituals include "Go Down Moses," "Deep River," and "Swing Low Sweet Chariot."
After slavery ended, spirituals began to spread to other parts of the United States Harry Thacker Burleigh was one of the first singers to perform spirituals on stage in a concert Marian Anderson, well known for her classical singing, helped spirituals to gain a wider audience too Spirituals influenced the development of another well-known form of American music - the blues
The blues were a more individual style of music than spirituals Blues were often sung solo, and sometimes they were accompanied by guitar music As the name suggests, the blues were often about sadness and facing troubles However, the blues could also be funny, positive, and even defiant One blues singer, loved for her strong, beautiful voice, was Bessie Smith Another early blues musician was W C Handy Handy was not only a musician, he also wrote music, promoted concerts, and published blues songs
During the time that the blues were spreading across the country, another style of music was also quickly gaining in popularity Ragtime was energetic music with a complicated, syncopated beat Often played on the
Trang 10piano, ragtime was the latest and most sophisticated in American popular music The best-known ragtime musician was probably Scott Joplin, who wrote many hit ragtime pieces for the piano including "Maple Leaf Rag." Eventually, elements from all of these forms of music and more came back together In their own kind of melting pot, African rhythms, slave work songs, spirituals, blues, ragtime, and other influences recombined to form the beginnings of that truly American art form - jazz In the late 1800’s jazz was just beginning, but not long after the turn of the century,
it would be the most popular American music It would go on from there to worldwide popularity Jazz would branch out into many forms, and it would influence future styles of American music
Many musicians today credit earlier musicians such as Scott Joplin or
Bessie Smith with inspiring their music It’s a shame that they can’t also
name the earliest African-Americans who really began the traditions that led to the American music of today
16 According to the passage, who introduced the early form of American music?
A American natives
B Harry Thacker Burleigh
C Slaves from Africa
D People from the South of the United States
17 According to the passage, why is it easy to forget the people who first brought musical tradition to America?
A Because slaves were not considered as proper persons thus nobody cared to record their lives
B Because singers like Anderson and Burleigh were more famous than earlier artists
C Because new traditions brought by foreigners were not welcomed in the united states during that time
D Because their history was so long that few people can remember about them
18 Which has the closest in meaning to the phrase “give credit where credit is due”?
A Pay off the debt before it is out of date
B Believe in someone because of his reputation
C Give money to people who deserve the money
D Acknowledge someone’s contribution because he deserves it
19 Which type of music is often involved with piano accompaniment?
20 What is NOT true when talking about blues?
A They could be amusing and optimistic
B A well-known blues musician was scott joplin
C They gained popularity near the time ragtime became popular
D They were a more individual style of music than spirituals
21 When did jazz become the most popular American music?
A Sometime in the early 20th century
B When elements from other american music combined
C After the hit “maple leaf rag” was written
D In the late 1800s
22 Scott Joplin and Bessie Smith were _
A famous ragtime musicians
B people who really began the American musical traditions
C artists who inspired many musicians today
D songwriters who wrote blues songs
23 What is the closest meaning to the word “chorus” used in the passage?
A A group of singers that sing together B The main part of a song