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KÌ THI TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG QG 2020

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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the
other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions
Question 1: A. photographs B. ploughs C. books D. laughs
Question 2: A. easy B. increase C. create D. decrease

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the
position of primary stress in each of the following questions
Question 3: A. decide B. equal C. certain D. purpose
Question 4: A. permanent B. romantic C. actually D. attitude

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.
Question 5. Nobody comes there, __________?
A. does he B. doesn’t he C. do they D. don’t they
Question 6: More and more investors are pouring _________money into food and beverage start–ups.
A. the B. a C. an D. Ø
Question 7: Books provide the reader _______ so many facts and so much information.
A. for B. on C. with D. at
Question 8: She locked the door of her room all day yesterday to avoid____________.
A. to be disturbed B. disturbing C. being disturbed D. to disturb
Question 9: Do you think there _________less conflict in the world if all people spoke the samelanguage?
A. were B. will be C. would be D. are
Question 10: Mr Pike ______ English at our school for 20 years before he retired last year.
A. was teaching B. has been teaching C. is teaching D. had been teaching
Question 11: John has worked very late at night these days, ___________he is physically exhausted.
A. yet B. hence C. because D. since
Question 12: ____________, she managed to hide her feelings.
A. If she would feel jealous B. In case she felt jealous
C. However jealous she felt D. Despite of her being jealous
Question 13: Books and magazines ______ around made his room very untidy.
A. that lie B. laying C. which lied D. lying
Question 14: Although David was_________ after a day’s work in the office, he tried to help his wife the
household chores.
A. exhausting B. exhausted C. exhaust D. exhaustive
Question 15: ―The old paint that you have stored in your garage is a fine hazard.‖ — ―You’re right. I should
______ it.‖
A. get rid of B. get away from C. get through with D. get along with
Question 16: My father always _______ the crossword in the newspaper before breakfast.
A. writes B. does C. works D. makes

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Question 17: The police are trying to determine the ____of events that led up to the disappearance of the child.
A. series B. ranges C. courses D. sequences
Question 18: A better solution should be _______to deal with the matter of mass immigration from the rural areas.
A. thought B. adopted C. adapted D. done
Question 19: I will have a big exam tomorrow so I’ll be burning the midnight _________ tonight.
A. Gas B. candle C. oil D. lamp

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions
Question 20: The Arctic fox’s brownish-gray coat blends in with the barren tundra landscape in the months
without snow.
A. infertile B. fruitful C. productive D. abundant
Question 21: It looks as if the blaze was started deliberately. Local residents didn’t think that flames melted a lead
pipe and ignited leaking gas.
A. intentionally B. unwittingly C. suddenly D. simultaneously

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 22: Her physical condition was not an impediment to her career as a singer. She has won a lot of prizes.
A. advantage B. obstacle C. barrier D. disadvantage
Question 23: The nominating committee always meet behind closed doors, lest its deliberations become known
prematurely.
A. dangerously B. safely C. privately D. publicly

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best completes each of the
following exchanges
Question 24: Jane: ―It’s going to rain‖.
Mary: ―________.‖
A. I hope not so B. I hope not C. I don’t hope so D. I don’t hope either
Question 25: Barbara is at the clinic.
– Barbara: ―Can I make an appointment to see a doctor, please?‖ – Receptionist: ―_____.‖
A. Not at the moment. He can’t be disturbed C. OK, let me just check my diary
B. Have a seat and I will be with you in an hour D. OK, you will need to check my diary

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word
or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29.

If you want to prepare yourself for great achievement and have more to (26) ________ to your education or
your work, try reading more books. (27) ________ up some of the interestingly informative books and search for
well – researched materials that can help you grow.
We should encourage our children to read more books and spend less time watching TV. Some people have
commented that this is inconsistent. ―Why is the written word a superior way to get information than television?‖
That is an interesting point of view worth further (28) ________. Reading is a skill that is in much greater demand
than the demand for watching TV. There are no jobs (29) ________require a person to be able to watch TV but
reading is an integral part of many jobs. The written word is an incredibly flexible and efficient way of
communication. You can write something down and, in no time, it can be communicated to many different people.

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Not only that, we can (30) ________ vast amounts of information through reading in a very short time. A good
reader can acquire more information in reading for two hours than someone watching TV can acquire in a full day.
You are able to gain a lot of information quickly because you are a fast reader with good comprehension skills. It
will save you massive amounts of time and you will be able to assimilate vast quantities of information.

Question 26:A. gain B. gather C. collect D. contribute

Question 27:A. Make B. Pick C. Set D. Take
Question 28:A. exploration B. explore C. explorer D. explorative
Question 29:A. who B. where C. that D. why
Question 30:A. digest B. inhale C. breathe D. eat

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 31 to 35.

Fish that live on the sea bottom benefit by being flat and hugging the contours. There are two very different
types of flatfish and they have evolved in very separate ways. The skates and rays, relatives of the sharks have
become flat in what might be called the obvious way. Their bodies have grown out sideways to form great ―wings‖
They look as though they have been flattened but have remained symmetrical and ―the right way up‖. Conversely
fish such as plaice, sole, and halibut have become flat in a different way. There are bony fish which have a marked
tendency to be flattened in a vertical direction; they are much ―taller‖ than they are wide. They use their whole
vertically flattened bodies as swimming surfaces, which undulate through the water as they move. Therefore when
their ancestors migrated to the seabed, they lay on one side than on their bellies.
However, this raises the problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively
useless - In evolution this problem was solved by the lower eye ―moving‖ around the other side. We see this
process of moving around enacted in the development of every young bony flat fish. It starts life swimming near
the surface, and is symmetrical and vertically flattened, but then the skull starts to grow in a strange asymmetrical
twisted fashion, so that one eye for instance the left, moves over the top of the head upwards, an old Picasso - like
vision. Incidentally, some species of 20 flatfish settle on the right side, others on the left, and others on either side.

Question 31: The word ―conversely‖ is closest in meaning to _________

A. similarly B. alternatively C. inversely D. contrarily
Question 32: The passage is mainly concerned with __________
A. bony flatfish B. evolution asymmetrical
C. symmetrical flatfish D. different types of flatfish.
Question 33: The author mentions skates and rays as examples of fish that __________
A. have spread horizontally B. become asymmetrical
C. resemble sharks D. appear to fly
Question 34: The word ―this‖ refer to ____________
A. the migration of the ancestors
B. the difficulty of the only one eye being useful
C. the problem of the one eye looking downwards
D. the practice of lying on one side.
Question 35: According to the passage, the ability of a bony flatfish to move its eyes around is_________
A. average B. excellent C. weak D. variable

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 36 to 42.

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Meteorite Impact and Dinosaur Extinction
There is increasing evidence that the impacts of meteorites have had important effects on Earth, particularly
in the field of biological evolution. Such impacts continue to pose a natural hazard to life on Earth. Twice in the
twentieth century, large meteorite objects are known to have collided with Earth.
If an impact is large enough, it can disturb the environment of the entire Earth and cause an ecological
catastrophe. The best-documented such impact took place 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period
of geological history. This break in Earth’s history is marked by a mass extinction, when as many as half the
species on the planet became extinct. While there are a dozen or more mass extinctions in the geological record, the
Cretaceous mass extinction has always intrigued paleontologists because it marks the end of the age of the
dinosaurs. For tens of millions of years, those great creatures had flourished. Then, suddenly, they disappeared.
The body that impacted Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period was a meteorite with a mass of more than
a trillion tons and a diameter of at least 10 kilometers. Scientists first identified this impact in 1980 from the
worldwide layer of sediment deposited from the dust cloud that enveloped the planet after the impact. This
sediment layer is enriched in the rare metal iridium and other elements that are relatively abundant in a meteorite
but very rare in the crust of Earth. Even diluted by the terrestrial material excavated from the crater, this component
of meteorites is easily identified. By 1990 geologists had located the impact site itself in the Yucatán region of
Mexico. The crater, now deeply buried in sediment, was originally about 200 kilometers in diameter.
This impact released an enormous amount of energy, excavating a crater about twice as large as the lunar
crater Tycho. The explosion lifted about 100 trillion tons of dust into the atmosphere, as can be determined by
measuring the thickness of the sediment layer formed when this dust settled to the surface. Such a quantity of
material would have blocked the sunlight completely from reaching the surface, plunging Earth into a period of
cold and darkness that lasted at least several months. The explosion is also calculated to have produced vast
quantities of nitric acid and melted rock that sprayed out over much of Earth, starting widespread fires that must
have consumed most terrestrial forests and grassland. Presumably, those environmental disasters could have been
responsible for the mass extinction, including the death of the dinosaurs.
Several other mass extinctions in the geological record have been tentatively identified with large impacts,
but none is so dramatic as the Cretaceous event. But even without such specific documentation, it is clear that
impacts of this size do occur and that their results can be catastrophic. What is a catastrophe for one group of living
things, however, may create opportunities for another group. Following each mass extinction, there is a sudden
evolutionary burst as new species develop to fill the ecological niches opened by the event.
Impacts by meteorites represent one mechanism that could cause global catastrophes and seriously
influence the evolution of life all over the planet. According to some estimates, the majority of all extinctions of
species may be due to such impacts. Such a perspective fundamentally changes our view of biological evolution.
The standard criterion for the survival of a species is its success in competing with other species and adapting to
slowly changing environments. Yet an equally important criterion is the ability of a species to survive random
global ecological catastrophes due to impacts.
Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting gallery, subject to random violent events that were unsuspected a
few decades ago. In 1991 the United States Congress asked NASA to investigate the hazard posed today by large
impacts on Earth. The group conducting the study concluded from a detailed analysis that impacts from meteorites
can indeed be hazardous. Although there is always some risk that a large impact could occur, careful study shows
that this risk is quite small.

Question 36: The word ―pose‖ on line 2 is closest in meaning to

A. claim B. model C. assume D. present

Question 37: In paragraph 2, why does the author include the information that dinosaurs had flourished for tens of
millions of years and then suddenly disappeared?
A. To support the claim that the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous is the best-documented of the dozen
or so mass extinctions in the geological record
B. To explain why as many as half of the species on Earth at the time are believed to have become extinct at the
end of the Cretaceous
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C. To explain why paleontologists have always been intrigued by the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous
D. To provide evidence that an impact can be large enough to disturb the environment of the entire planet and cause an
ecological disaster

Question 38: Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 3 about the location of the meteorite impact
in Mexico?
A. The location of the impact site in Mexico was kept secret by geologists from 1980 to 1990.
B. It was a well-known fact that the impact had occurred in the Yucatán region.
C. Geologists knew that there had been an impact before they knew where it had occurred.
D. The Yucatán region was chosen by geologists as the most probable impact site because of its climate.
Question 39: According to paragraph 3, how did scientists determine that a large meteorite had
impacted Earth?
A. They discovered a large crater in the Yucatán region of Mexico.
B. They found a unique layer of sediment worldwide.
C. They were alerted by archaeologists who had been excavating in the Yucatán region.
D. They located a meteorite with a mass of over a trillion tons
Question 40: According to paragraph 4, all of the following statements are true of the impact at the end of the
Cretaceous period EXCEPT:
A. A large amount of dust blocked sunlight from Earth.
B. Earth became cold and dark for several months.
C. New elements were formed in Earth’s crust.
D. Large quantities of nitric acid were produced.
Question 41: The phrase ―tentatively identified‖ is closest in meaning to_______
A. identified after careful study
B. identified without certainty
C. occasionally identified
D. easily identified
Question 42: Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the following sentence?
Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting gallery, subject to random violent events that were unsuspected a few
decades ago.
Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A. Until recently, nobody realized that Earth is exposed to unpredictable violent impacts from space.
B. In the last few decades, the risk of a random violent impact from space has increased.
C. Since most violent events on Earth occur randomly, nobody can predict when or where they will
happen.
D. A few decades ago, Earth became the target of random violent events originating in outer space.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each
of the following questions.

Question 43: I find that necessary to do something about traffic problem in our city.
A B C D

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Question 44: Some people say often that using cars is not so convenient as using motorbikes.
A B C D
Question 45: She stood looking out over the flat expansion of fields.
A B C D

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of
the following questions
Question 46: Most scientists know him well. However, very few ordinary people have heard of him.
A. Many ordinary people know him better than most scientists do.
B. Although he is well-known to scientists, he is little known to the general public.
C. He is the only scientist that is not known to the general public.
D. Not only the general public but also scientists know him as a big name.
Question 47: A supermarket is more convenient than a shopping centre.
A. A shopping centre is not as convenient as a supermarket.
B. A shopping centre is more convenient than a supermarket.
C. A supermarket is not as convenient as a shopping centre.
D. A supermarket is as inconvenient as a shopping centre.
Question 48: “Why don’t you complain to the company, John?” said Peter.
A. Peter suggested that John should complain to the company.
B. Peter advised John complaining to the company.
C. Peter threatened John to complain to the company.
D. Peter asked John why he doesn’t complain to the company.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of
sentences in the following questions.
Question 49: The tornado struck with great force. It lifted automobiles off the ground.
A. The tornado struck with such great force that it lifted automobiles off the ground.
B. The tornado struck so great force that it lifted automobiles off the ground.
C. The force was so great that it lifted automobiles off the ground.
D. Automobiles were lifted off by a very great force.
Question 50: You have just passed your final examination. This makes your parents happy
A. Having just passed your final examination making your parents happy.
B. You have just passed your final examination makes your parents happy.
C. That you have just passed your final examination makes your parents happy.
D. You have just passed your final examination which it makes your parents happy.