40 câu hỏi trắc nghiệm thuộc Đề kiểm tra giữa kì 2 Tiếng anh 12 năm 2023 có đáp án (Đề 4)

Câu 1:

Chimpanzees in the wild like to snack on termites, and youngsters learn to fish for them by pocking long sticks and other (1)........tools into the mounds that large groups of termites build.

A. relative

B. similar

C. close

D. connected

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Chọn B

Câu 2:

Researchers found that (2)............average female chimps in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania learned how to do termite fishing at the age of 31 months, more than two years earlier than the males.

A. at

B. by

C. on

D. for

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Chọn C

Câu 3:

Lonsdorf, director of field conservation at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, said that it is (3).............to find that, when a young male and female are near a mound

A. typical

B. regular

C. ordinary

D. frequent

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Chọn A

Câu 4:

‘she’s really focusing on termite fishing and he’s spinning himself round (4)...........circles’.

A. in

B. with

C. to

D. through

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Chọn A

Câu 5:

Dr Landsdorf and colleagues are studying chimpanzees at the zoo with a new, specially created termite mound, filled with mustard (5).......than termites.

A. other

B. else

C. instead

D. rather

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Chọn D

Câu 6:

What is the topic of the passage?

A. Life underground

B. Animal life in a desert environment

C. Desert plants

D. Man’s life in the desert

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Chọn B

Câu 7:

The word “desiccating” means____.

A. humidifying

B. killing

C. drying

D. life threatening

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Chọn C

Câu 8:

The phrase “those forms” refers to all of the following EXCEPT

A. water – loving animals

B. moist – skinned animals

C. many large animals

D. the bobcat

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Chọn C

Câu 9:

The author states that one characteristic of animals that live in the desert is that they ____.

A. are less healthy than animals that live in different places

B. are smaller and fleeter than forest animals

C. can hunt in temperature of 150 degrees

D. live in an accommodating environment

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Chọn B

Câu 10:

Which of the following generalizations are supported by the passage?

A. All living things adjust to their environments.

B. Healthy animals live longer lives.

C. Water is the basis of life.

D. Desert life is colorful.

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Chọn A

Câu 11:

The word “they” in paragraph 3 refers to____.

A. large animals

B. the forest animals

C. water – loving

D. the desert population.

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Chọn D

Câu 12:

The author mentions all the following as examples of the behavior of desert animals EXCEPT

A. they dig home underground

B. they are noisy and aggressive

C. they are ready to hunt after sunset

D. they sleep during the day

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Chọn B

Câu 13:

What is the passage mainly about?

A. the origin of baseball.

B. the influence of the “New York Game” on baseball

C. the commercialization of baseball.

D. the development of baseball in the nineteenth century

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Chọn D

Câu 14:

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A. the “New York “spread rapidly because it was better formalized.

B. hot dogs would not have become as popular as they did, without the professionalism and commercialism that develop in baseball.

C. the wealthy gentlemen who first played baseball, later needed to find another recreational
opportunity if they did not want to mix with others or become a “muffin”.

D. business – minded investors were only interested in profits.

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Chọn A

Câu 15:

The word “inception” in line 8 is closest in meaning to ____.

A. requirements

B. rules

C. insistence

D. beginning

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Chọn D

Câu 16:

Which of the following is true of the way the game was played by wealthy gentlemen at its inception?

A. they didn’t play on the weekend

B. the president would choose teams from among the members

C. a team might consist of 40 members

D. they might be called “duffers” if they didn’t make the first nine.

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Chọn A

Câu 17:

According to the second paragraph, all of the following are true except____.

A. commercialism became more prosperous

B. the clubs are smaller

C. outstanding players got extra income

D. people gambled on the outcome of game

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Chọn C

Câu 18:

Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a feature of the 1880s “Golden Age”?

A. profits soared

B. a weekly periodical news

C. wooden stadiums replaced open fields

D. the National Association of Professional Baseball Players was formed.

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Chọn D

Câu 19:

The word “itself” in line 24 refers to____.

A. the Western League

B. growing cities

C. the Midwest

D. the American League

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Chọn A

Câu 20:

The word “lavish “in line 11 is closest in meaning to____.

A. very generous

B. prolonged

C. Grand

D. extensive

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Chọn A

Câu 21:

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.

A. requests

B. calculates

C. questions

D. attacks

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Chọn C

Câu 22:

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.

A. civic

B. service

C. fertile

D. determine

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Chọn C

Câu 23:

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.

A. contribute

B. dynamics

C. imagine

D. devastate

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Chọn D

Câu 24:

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.

A. habitat

B. expansion

C. endanger

D. agreement

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Chọn A

Câu 25:

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.

Tom said that he was trying to carry out some campaigns to protect the environment and will encourage others to do so.

A. he was trying

B. some

C. campaigns

D. will encourage others

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Chọn C

Câu 26:

My elder sisters, both of them were doctors, said they were too busy to pick me up.

A. elder

B. both of them

C. too busy

D. to pick

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Chọn B

Câu 27:

Tropical rain forests are founded in a belt around the Equator of the Earth.

A. Tropical

B. founded

C. a

D. of

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Chọn B

Câu 28:

It is very difficult for her to prevent him for smoking in her house.

A. very

B. for

C. prevent

D. for smoking

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Chọn D

Câu 29:

If we cannot save the forests in their original state, we must save enough to preserve them as living burgeon ecosystem

A. cannot save

B. original

C. save enough

D. living burgeon ecosystem

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Chọn D

Câu 30:

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

The students in class were made _____ very hard

A. learning

B. learn

C. to learn

D. having learnt

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Chọn C

Câu 31:

____ umbrella should not be used during ______ thunderstorm.

A. a/a

B. the/a

C. an/a

D. no article/ a

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Chọn C

Câu 32:

I have had a toothache for one week but I still keep _____ going to the dentist.

A. put on

B. taking off

C. take on

D. putting off

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Chọn D

Câu 33:

She hasn’t had a _____ week. She seems to have done nothing at all.

A. productive

B. enthusiastic

C. economic

D. extensive

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Chọn A

Câu 34:

The police have not found the robbers yet and the bank robbery is still under ____

A. provision

B. investigation

C. explanation

D. division

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Chọn B

Câu 35:

I decided _________ the dictionary you told me about.

A. bought

B. buy

C. buying

D. to buy

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Chọn D

Câu 36:

The university ____ by private funds as well as by tuition income and grants.

A. supports

B. is supported

C. is supporting

D. has supported

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Chọn B

Câu 37:

She always complained ___ her parents ___ how small her room was or how few clothes she had.

A. with/ for

B. with/about

C. to/ about

D. to/ for

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Chọn C

Câu 38:

A native speaker of Spanish, for example, will __ to learn than a native speaker of Chinese

A. find Portuguese much easier

B. find that Portuguese is much easy

C. find Portuguese much easy

D. find Portuguese is much easier

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Chọn A

Câu 39:

I couldn’t help ____ when I saw your face after making up.

A. to laugh.

B. for laughing

C. laughing

D. laughed

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Chọn C

Câu 40:

When she _____ at the new dress for half part an hour, she asked how much it_____

A. have looked/cost

B. had looked/cost

C. has been looking/costed

D. looked/costs

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Chọn B