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Đề thi thử thpt quốc gia 2020 môn tiếng anh (đề 9)

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Câu 1:

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined partdiffers from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

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Kiến thức: Cách phát âm “ear”

Giải thích:

hear /hiə/                                              pear /peə/

clear /kliə/                                            near /niə/

Đáp án B có phần gạch chân đọc là /eə/, các đáp án còn lại đọc là /iə/

Đáp án: B


Câu 2:

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined partdiffers from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions

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Kiến thức: Cách phát âm đuôi “ed”

Giải thích:

Đuôi ed được đọc là /id/ khi động từ có phát âm kết thúc là /t/ hay /d/. Ví dụ ...

Đuôi ed được đọc là /t/ khi động từ có phát âm kết thúc là: /ch/, /p/, /f/, /s/, /k/, /th/, /ʃ/, /t ʃ/. ... Đuôi ed được đọc là /d/ trong các trường hợp còn lại.

attacked /ə'tækt/                                    stopped /stɔpt/

decided /di'saidid/                                 searched /sə:tʃt/

Đáp án C có phần gạch chân đọc là /id/, các đáp án còn lại đọc là/t/

Đáp án: C


Câu 3:

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

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Kiến thức: Trọng âm từ có 4 âm tiết

individual /,indi'vidjuəl/                       reputation /,repju:'teiʃn/

experience /iks'piəriəns/                        scientific /,saiən'tifik/

Đáp án C có trọng âm rơi vào âm tiết thứ 2, các đáp án còn lại rơi vào âm tiết thứ 3.

Đáp án: C


Câu 4:

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.

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Kiến thức: Trọng âm từ có 2, 3 và 4 âm tiết

Giải thích:

improve /im'pru:v/                                possible /'pɔsəbl/

comfortable /'kʌmfətəbl/                       realize /'riəlaiz/

Đáp án A có trọng âm rơi vào âm tiết thứ 2, các đáp án còn lại rơi vào âm tiết thứ 1.

Đáp án: A


Câu 5:

Caffeine is very ______, which is why people drink so much coffee.

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Kiến thức: Từ loại

Giải thích:

Sau động từ “to be” cần 1 tính từ

addicting (a): khiến cho nghiện, say mê       addictive (a): gây nghiện ( các chất kích thích)

addicted (a): bị nghiện                          addiction (n): sự nghiện

Tạm dịch: Caffeine rất gây nghiện, đó là lý do tại sao mọi người uống nhiều cà phê.

Đáp án: B


Câu 6:

Tom seldom drinks coffee, ______?

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Kiến thức: Câu hỏi đuôi

Giải thích:

Nếu mệnh đề chính trong câu hỏi đuôi mang nghĩa khẳng định => câu hỏi đuôi mang nghĩa phủ định và ngược lại.

Seldom (adv): hiếm khi => mang nghĩa phủ định => Câu hỏi đuôi là: “ does he?”

Tạm dịch: Tom hiếm khi uống cà phê phải không?

Đáp án: A


Câu 7:

The diagrams ______ by  young  Faraday were sent to Sir Humphrey  Davy  at the end of the  year 1812.

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Kiến thức: Quá khứ phân từ

Giải thích:

Có thể sử dụng P2 ( quá khứ phân từ ) để thay thể cho mệnh đề mang nghĩa bị động.

Tạm dịch: Các sơ đồ của Faraday đã được gửi đến Humphrey Davy vào cuối năm 1812.

Đáp án: B


Câu 8:

Someone is going to have to take responsibility for this disaster. Who is going to ______?

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Kiến thức: Thành ngữ

Giải thích:

foot the bill: thanh toán tiền

carry the can: chịu trách nhiệm, chịu sự chỉ trích

don’t count yours the chicken before they hatch: đừng vội làm gì khi chưa chắc chắc. catch the worms: nắm bắt cơ hội

Tạm dịch: Ai đó phải chịu trách nhiệm cho thảm họa này. Ai sẽ chịu trách nhiệm đây?

Đáp án: B


Câu 9:

What noisy neighbors you’ve got! If my neighbors ______ as bad as yours, I ______ crazy.

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Kiến thức: Câu điều kiện

Giải thích:

Câu điều kiện loại 2 dùng để diễn tả khả năng không thể xảy ra ở hiện tại

If + S1 + V-ed…, S2 + would + V…

Tạm dịch: Hàng xóm nhà cậu ồn ào thế! Nếu hàng xóng nhà mình cũng thế, minh sẽ phát điên mất.

Đáp án: B


Câu 10:

Apart from those three very cold weeks in January, it has been a very ______ winter.

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Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

pale (a): nhợt nhạt                                 mild (a): dễ chịu

calm (a): bình tĩnh                                plain (a): bằng phẳng

Tạm dịch: Ngoài ba tuần rất lạnh vào tháng Giêng, mùa đông này vẫn rất dễ chịu.

Đáp án: B


Câu 11:

The ______ of toothpaste are located in the health and beauty section of the supermarket.

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Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

quart (n): bình một lít                    pint (n): panh ( đơn vị đo lường thể tích = 0.57 lít)

tube (n): tuýp                                        stick (n): cái gậy

Tạm dịch: Tuýp kem đánh răng được đặt trong gian hàng sức khỏe và sắc đẹp ở siêu thị.

Đáp án: B


Câu 12:

If orders keep coming in like this, I'll have to ______ more staff.

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Kiến thức: Phrasal verbs

Giải thích:

give up: từ bỏ                                       add in: thêm vào

gain on: tăng                                         take on: thuê

Tạm dịch: Nếu các đơn hàng đến liên tục như thế này thì tôi sẽ phải thuê thêm nhân viên.

Đáp án: D


Câu 13:

You ______ for me; I could have found the way all right.

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Kiến thức: Động từ khuyết thiếu

Giải thích:

Cấu trúc: động từ khuyết thiếu ( can, should, may, must,…) + have + P2 dùng để diễn tả dự đoán, lời khuyên, khả năng,… trong tương lai.

Have to V: phải làm gì

Needn’t have P2: đã không cần làm gì ( nhưng đã làm)

Could have P2: có thể đã làm gì

Didn’t need to V: không cần làm gì ( đã không làm)

Tạm dịch: Bạn đã không cần phải chờ tôi. Tôi có thể đãtìm thấy đường.

Đáp án: B


Câu 14:

We've had to postpone ______ to France because the children are ill.

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Kiến thức: Động từ

Giải thích:

Postpone + V-ing: hoãn làm gì

Tạm dịch: Chúng tôi đã phải hoãn đi Pháp vì bọn trẻ ốm.

Đáp án: C


Câu 15:

In today’s paper, it ______ that there will be a new government soon.

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Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

write (v): viết                                        tell (v): bảo

state (v): tuyên bố                                 record (v): ghi âm

Tạm dịch: Trong bài báo hôm nay, có tuyên bố rằng sẽ sớm có một chính phủ mới.

Đáp án: C


Câu 16:

His clothes are in a mess because he ______ the house all morning.

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Kiến thức: Thì hiện tại hoàn thành tiếp diễn

Giải thích:

Thì hiện tại hoàn thành tiếp diễn dùng để diễn tả hành động đã xảy ra trong quá khứ và vẫn còn tiếp diễn ở hiện tại => nhấn mạnh sự liên tục

Tạm dịch: Quần áo anh ấy lộn xộn hết lên vì anh ta vừa sơn nhà cả buổi sáng.

Đáp án: C


Câu 17:

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.

When the police arrived the thieves took to flight leaving all the stolen things behin

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Kiến thức: Từ đồng nghĩa

Giải thích:

take to flight : chạy đi

do away with: từ bỏ                              climb on: leo lên trên

take away: cất đi                                   run away: chạy đi

=> took to flight = ran away

Tạm dịch: Khi cảnh sát tới, bọn trộm chạy đi, để lại tất cả những đồ ăn trộm lại.

Đáp án: D


Câu 18:

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.

Please, you are so nervous, do try to contain your anger.

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Kiến thức: Từ động nghĩa

Giải thích:

contain (v): kìm nén, ngăn lại

hold back: ngăn cản                              consult (v): tư vấn

consume (v): tiêu dùng                         contact (v): liên hệ

=> contain = Hold back

Tạm dịch: Làm ơn đi mà, cậu lo lắng quá rồi đấy, cố ngăn lại sự tức giận của cậu đi.

Đáp án: A


Câu 19:

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.

I didn't take a deliberate decision to lose weight. It just happened.

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Kiến thức: Từ trái nghĩa

Giải thích:

deliberate (a): thận trọng, cố ý

calculated (a): được tính toán                planned (a): có kế hoạch

accidental (a): tình cờ                            intentional (a): cố ý

=> deliberate >< accidental

Tạm dịch: Tôi không có ý quyết định giảm cân. Nó chỉ là sự tình cơ,

Đáp án: C


Câu 20:

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.

The position fell vacant when Rodman was promoted.

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Kiến thức: Từ trái nghĩa

Giải thích:

vacant (a): thiếu, trống

bright (a): sáng sủa                                obscure (a): tăm tối

worthless (a): không có giá                   occupied (a): đã được chiếm

=> vacant = occupied

Tạm dịch: Vị trí đó có thể vẫn trống khi Roman được thăng chức.

Đáp án: D


Câu 21:

Jane and Suzie are talking after school.

Tom: “I’m awfully sorry I can’t go with you.”

Mary: “______? Haven’t you agreed?”

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Kiến thức: Văn hóa giao tiếp

Giải thích:

Jane và Suzie đang nói chuyện sau giờ học.

Tom: “ Thật sự xin lỗi vì mình không thể đi cùng cậu được.”

Mary: “ __________? Cậu đã đồng ý rồi mà?”

A. Cậu nghĩ tại sao                               B. Làm thế nào giờ

C. Cái gì đấy                                        D. Sao cậu không

Đáp án: B


Câu 22:

Peter and Mike are talking during a class break.

Peter: “What are you doing this weekend?” 

Mike: “______.”

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Kiến thức: Văn hóa giao tiếp

Giải thích:

Peter và Mike đang nói chuyện trong giờ nghỉ giải lao. Peter: "Cậu định làm gì vào cuối tuần này?"

Mike: " _______________."

A. Mình đang rất bận rộn                     B. Mình định đi thăm dì của mình.

C. Mình nghĩ nó sẽ thú vị                     D. Mình hi vọng trời không mưa.

Đáp án: B


Câu 23:

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 23 to 27.

SOCIAL NETWORK

A  16-year-old  girl  from  Essex  has  been  sacked  after  describing  her  job  as  boring  on  the  social  networking website, Facebook. The teenager, who had been working (23) _________  an administrative assistant at a marketing company for just three weeks, didn’t feel very enthusiastic about the duties she was asked to do. (24) _________  of moaning  to  her  friends  she  decided  to  express  her  thoughts  on  her  Facebook  page  to  a  colleague,  who  (25) _________  the  boss’s  attention  to  it.  He  immediately  fired  her  on  the  (26)  _________  that  her  public  display  of dissatisfaction made it impossible for her to continue working for the company. She later told newspapers she had been treated totally unfairly, especially as she hadn’t  even mentioned the company’s name. She claimed she’s  been  perfectly  happy  with  her  job  and  that  her  light-hearted  comments  shouldn’t  (27)  _________  taken seriously. A spokesperson from a workers’ union said the incident demonstrated two things: firstly, that people need to protect their privacy online and secondly, that employers should be less sensitive to criticism.

Điền vào ô 23

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Kiến thức: Động từ

Giải thích:

Work + as + nghề nghiệp: làm nghề gì

Tạm dịch:

The teenager, who had been working (23) _______an administrative assistant at a marketing company for just three weeks, didn’t feel very enthusiastic about the duties she was asked to do.

Cô gái- người đã từng làm trợ lý hành chính tại một công ty tiếp thị chỉ trong ba tuần, đã không cảm thấy rất nhiệt tình về những nhiệm vụ mà cô được yêu cầu phải làm.

Đáp án: B


Câu 24:

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 23 to 27.

SOCIAL NETWORK

A  16-year-old  girl  from  Essex  has  been  sacked  after  describing  her  job  as  boring  on  the  social  networking website, Facebook. The teenager, who had been working (23) _________  an administrative assistant at a marketing company for just three weeks, didn’t feel very enthusiastic about the duties she was asked to do. (24) _________  of moaning  to  her  friends  she  decided  to  express  her  thoughts  on  her  Facebook  page  to  a  colleague,  who  (25) _________  the  boss’s  attention  to  it.  He  immediately  fired  her  on  the  (26)  _________  that  her  public  display  of dissatisfaction made it impossible for her to continue working for the company. She later told newspapers she had been treated totally unfairly, especially as she hadn’t  even mentioned the company’s name. She claimed she’s  been  perfectly  happy  with  her  job  and  that  her  light-hearted  comments  shouldn’t  (27)  _________  taken seriously. A spokesperson from a workers’ union said the incident demonstrated two things: firstly, that people need to protect their privacy online and secondly, that employers should be less sensitive to criticism.

Điền vào ô 24

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Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

due to: bởi vì                                        regardless of: bất kể

instead of: thay vì                                 in spite of = despite: mặc dù

Tạm dịch:

(24)__________of moaning to her friends she decided to express her thoughts on her Facebook page to a colleague, who (25)_______________the boss’s attention to it.

Thay vì phàn nàn với bạn bè của mình, cô quyết định thể hiện suy nghĩ của mình trên trang Facebook về một đồng nghiệp, người đã thu hút sự chú ý của ông chủ vào nó.

Đáp án: C


Câu 25:

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 23 to 27.

SOCIAL NETWORK

A  16-year-old  girl  from  Essex  has  been  sacked  after  describing  her  job  as  boring  on  the  social  networking website, Facebook. The teenager, who had been working (23) _________  an administrative assistant at a marketing company for just three weeks, didn’t feel very enthusiastic about the duties she was asked to do. (24) _________  of moaning  to  her  friends  she  decided  to  express  her  thoughts  on  her  Facebook  page  to  a  colleague,  who  (25) _________  the  boss’s  attention  to  it.  He  immediately  fired  her  on  the  (26)  _________  that  her  public  display  of dissatisfaction made it impossible for her to continue working for the company. She later told newspapers she had been treated totally unfairly, especially as she hadn’t  even mentioned the company’s name. She claimed she’s  been  perfectly  happy  with  her  job  and  that  her  light-hearted  comments  shouldn’t  (27)  _________  taken seriously. A spokesperson from a workers’ union said the incident demonstrated two things: firstly, that people need to protect their privacy online and secondly, that employers should be less sensitive to criticism.

Điền vào ô 25

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Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

Draw one’s attention to…: thu hút sự chú ý của ai tới…

Tạm dịch:

(24) __________of moaning to her friends she decided to express her thoughts on her Facebook page to a colleague, who (25) _____________the boss’s attention to it.

Thay vì phàn nàn với bạn bè của mình, cô quyết định thể hiện suy nghĩ của mình trên trang Facebook về một đồng nghiệp, người đã thu hút sự chú ý của ông chủ vào nó.

Đáp án: D


Câu 26:

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 23 to 27.

SOCIAL NETWORK

A  16-year-old  girl  from  Essex  has  been  sacked  after  describing  her  job  as  boring  on  the  social  networking website, Facebook. The teenager, who had been working (23) _________  an administrative assistant at a marketing company for just three weeks, didn’t feel very enthusiastic about the duties she was asked to do. (24) _________  of moaning  to  her  friends  she  decided  to  express  her  thoughts  on  her  Facebook  page  to  a  colleague,  who  (25) _________  the  boss’s  attention  to  it.  He  immediately  fired  her  on  the  (26)  _________  that  her  public  display  of dissatisfaction made it impossible for her to continue working for the company. She later told newspapers she had been treated totally unfairly, especially as she hadn’t  even mentioned the company’s name. She claimed she’s  been  perfectly  happy  with  her  job  and  that  her  light-hearted  comments  shouldn’t  (27)  _________  taken seriously. A spokesperson from a workers’ union said the incident demonstrated two things: firstly, that people need to protect their privacy online and secondly, that employers should be less sensitive to criticism.

Điền vào ô 26

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Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

term (n): khái niệm                               condition (n): điều kiện

grounds (n): nền tảng                            basis (n): cơ bản

On the grounds that…: trên nền tảng…., với lí do là…

Tạm dịch:

He immediately fired her on the (26) __________that her public display of dissatisfaction made it impossible for her to continue working for the company.

Ông ta ngay lập tức đuổi việc cô ấy vì việc cô ấy thể hiện sự không hài lòng trên mạng xã hội khiến cô ta không thể tiếp tục làm việc cho công ty.

Đáp án: C


Câu 27:

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 23 to 27.

SOCIAL NETWORK

A  16-year-old  girl  from  Essex  has  been  sacked  after  describing  her  job  as  boring  on  the  social  networking website, Facebook. The teenager, who had been working (23) _________  an administrative assistant at a marketing company for just three weeks, didn’t feel very enthusiastic about the duties she was asked to do. (24) _________  of moaning  to  her  friends  she  decided  to  express  her  thoughts  on  her  Facebook  page  to  a  colleague,  who  (25) _________  the  boss’s  attention  to  it.  He  immediately  fired  her  on  the  (26)  _________  that  her  public  display  of dissatisfaction made it impossible for her to continue working for the company. She later told newspapers she had been treated totally unfairly, especially as she hadn’t  even mentioned the company’s name. She claimed she’s  been  perfectly  happy  with  her  job  and  that  her  light-hearted  comments  shouldn’t  (27)  _________  taken seriously. A spokesperson from a workers’ union said the incident demonstrated two things: firstly, that people need to protect their privacy online and secondly, that employers should be less sensitive to criticism.

Điền vào ô 27

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Kiến thức: Động từ khuyết thiếu

Giải thích:

Cấu trúc “ should have P2” nghĩa là: đã không nên làm gì

Tạm dịch:

She claimed she’s been perfectly happy with her job and that her light-hearted comments shouldn’t (27) ______________taken seriously.

Cô cho rằng cô ấy hoàn toàn hài lòng với công việc của mình và những lời bình luận của cô ấy không nên được hiểu là nghiêm túc.

Đáp án: B

Dịch bài đọc

Một cô gái 16 tuổi đến từ Essex đã bị sa thải sau khi nói công việc của cô rất nhàm chán trên trang mạng xã  hội, Facebook.Cô gái- người đã từng làm trợ lý hành chính tại một công ty tiếp thị chỉ trong ba tuần, đã không cảm thấy rất nhiệt tình về những nhiệm vụ mà cô được yêu cầu phải làm. Thay vì phàn nàn với bạn bè của mình, cô quyết định thể hiện suy nghĩ của mình trên trang Facebook về một đồng nghiệp, người đã thu hút sự chú ý của ông chủ vào nó. Ông ta ngay lập tức đuổi việc cô ấy vì việc cô ấy thể hiện sự không hài lòng trên mạng xã hội khiến cô ta không thể tiếp tục làm việc cho công ty. Cô cho rằng cô ấy hoàn toàn hài lòng với  công việc của mình và những lời bình luận của cô ấy không nên được hiểu là nghiêm túc. Một phát ngôn viên của một công đoàn cho biết vụ việc đã chứng minh hai điều: thứ nhất là mọi người cần bảo vệ quyền riêng tư của mình trên mạng và thứ hai là các ông chủ nên bớt nhạy cảm với những lời chỉ trích.


Câu 28:

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 28 to 34.

Therapeutic cloning

Reproductive cloning involves implanting a cloned embryo into a uterus in the hope of producing a healthy foetus. A company called Clonaid claims to have successfully cloned thirteen human babies. They say that all  of the babies are healthy and are in various location including Hong Kong, UK, Spain and Brazil. Clonaid states that they are using human cloning to assist infertile couples, homosexual couples and families who have lost a beloved relative.

The same technology can be used for animal cloning. If endangered species such as the giant panda and Sumatran tiger could be cloned, they could be saved from extinction. Livestock such as cows could also be cloned to allow farmers to reproduce cattle that produce the best meat and most milk. This could greatly help developing countries where cows produce significantly less meat and milk.

What does the passage mainly discuss?

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Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu

Giải thích:

Đoạn văn chủ yếu bàn về vấn đề gì?

A. Sự phát triển của công nghệ có thể được giám sát như thế nào.

B. Nhân bản con người khác như thế nào là nhân bản nhân bản động vật.

C. Một nhà khoa học nổi tiếng làm việc về công nghệ nhân bản.

D. Hai loại công nghệ nhân bản con người khác nhau.

Đáp án: D


Câu 29:

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 28 to 34.

Therapeutic cloning

Reproductive cloning involves implanting a cloned embryo into a uterus in the hope of producing a healthy foetus. A company called Clonaid claims to have successfully cloned thirteen human babies. They say that all  of the babies are healthy and are in various location including Hong Kong, UK, Spain and Brazil. Clonaid states that they are using human cloning to assist infertile couples, homosexual couples and families who have lost a beloved relative.

The same technology can be used for animal cloning. If endangered species such as the giant panda and Sumatran tiger could be cloned, they could be saved from extinction. Livestock such as cows could also be cloned to allow farmers to reproduce cattle that produce the best meat and most milk. This could greatly help developing countries where cows produce significantly less meat and milk.

According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

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Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu

Giải thích:

Theo đoạn văn, điều sau đây KHÔNG đúng?

A. Công nghệ nhân bản có thể giúp chữa thương tích ở cổ và lưng.

B. Con chó đầu tiên được nhân bản ở Hàn Quốc.

C. Nhiều nước có thể sử dụng công nghệ nhân bản để sản xuất nhiều thịt và sữa hơn.

D. Bệnh tiểu đường không thể chữa được bằng cách sử dụng công nghệ nhân bản.

Dẫn chứng: Therapeutic cloning involves the use of embryonic stem cells to develop human cells or organs that can be used to cure diseases such as Parkinson’s and diabetes.

Đáp án: D


Câu 30:

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 28 to 34.

Therapeutic cloning

Reproductive cloning involves implanting a cloned embryo into a uterus in the hope of producing a healthy foetus. A company called Clonaid claims to have successfully cloned thirteen human babies. They say that all  of the babies are healthy and are in various location including Hong Kong, UK, Spain and Brazil. Clonaid states that they are using human cloning to assist infertile couples, homosexual couples and families who have lost a beloved relative.

The same technology can be used for animal cloning. If endangered species such as the giant panda and Sumatran tiger could be cloned, they could be saved from extinction. Livestock such as cows could also be cloned to allow farmers to reproduce cattle that produce the best meat and most milk. This could greatly help developing countries where cows produce significantly less meat and milk.

The word “assist” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____.

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Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

Từ nào gần nghĩa với từ “assist” ở đoạn 3?

assist (v): giúp đỡ

hinder (v): cản trở                                 help (v): giúp đỡ

contribute (v): cống hiến                       cure (v): chữa lành

=> assist = help

Dẫn chứng: Clonaid states that they are using human cloning to assist infertile couples, homosexual couples and families who have lost a beloved relative.

Đáp án: B


Câu 31:

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 28 to 34.

Therapeutic cloning

Reproductive cloning involves implanting a cloned embryo into a uterus in the hope of producing a healthy foetus. A company called Clonaid claims to have successfully cloned thirteen human babies. They say that all  of the babies are healthy and are in various location including Hong Kong, UK, Spain and Brazil. Clonaid states that they are using human cloning to assist infertile couples, homosexual couples and families who have lost a beloved relative.

The same technology can be used for animal cloning. If endangered species such as the giant panda and Sumatran tiger could be cloned, they could be saved from extinction. Livestock such as cows could also be cloned to allow farmers to reproduce cattle that produce the best meat and most milk. This could greatly help developing countries where cows produce significantly less meat and milk.

The word “unveiling” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _____

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Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

Từ “unveiling” ở đoạn 1 gần nghĩa với  ____________

unveiling (n): sự tiết lộ, giới thiệu

entrance (n): lối vào                              introduction (n): giới thiệu

ppening (n): khai mạc                           promotion (n): sự thăng tiến

=> unveiling = introduction

Tạm dịch: Korea’s recent unveiling of the world’s first cloned dog was welcomed by King Chow, assistant professor of biotechnology at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, but he also warned that we need to be on guard against possible reproductive cloning.

Đáp án: B


Câu 32:

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 28 to 34.

Therapeutic cloning

Reproductive cloning involves implanting a cloned embryo into a uterus in the hope of producing a healthy foetus. A company called Clonaid claims to have successfully cloned thirteen human babies. They say that all  of the babies are healthy and are in various location including Hong Kong, UK, Spain and Brazil. Clonaid states that they are using human cloning to assist infertile couples, homosexual couples and families who have lost a beloved relative.

The same technology can be used for animal cloning. If endangered species such as the giant panda and Sumatran tiger could be cloned, they could be saved from extinction. Livestock such as cows could also be cloned to allow farmers to reproduce cattle that produce the best meat and most milk. This could greatly help developing countries where cows produce significantly less meat and milk.

According to the passage, who is King Chow?

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Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu

Giải thích:

Theo đoạn văn, King Chow là ai?

A. Một nhà khoa học đã khám phá ra công nghệ nhân bản.

B. Một giáo sư về công nghệ sinh học.

C. Một bác sĩ Parkinson nổi tiếng.

D. Một chuyên gia nhân bản điều trị.

Dẫn chứng: Korea’s recent unveiling of the world’s first cloned dog was welcomed by King Chow, assistant professor of biotechnology at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, but he also warned that we need to be on guard against possible reproductive cloning.

Đáp án: B


Câu 33:

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 28 to 34.

Therapeutic cloning

Reproductive cloning involves implanting a cloned embryo into a uterus in the hope of producing a healthy foetus. A company called Clonaid claims to have successfully cloned thirteen human babies. They say that all  of the babies are healthy and are in various location including Hong Kong, UK, Spain and Brazil. Clonaid states that they are using human cloning to assist infertile couples, homosexual couples and families who have lost a beloved relative.

The same technology can be used for animal cloning. If endangered species such as the giant panda and Sumatran tiger could be cloned, they could be saved from extinction. Livestock such as cows could also be cloned to allow farmers to reproduce cattle that produce the best meat and most milk. This could greatly help developing countries where cows produce significantly less meat and milk.

According to paragraph 4, what animals are in danger of extinction?

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Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu

Giải thích:

Theo đoạn 4, những động vật nào có nguy cơ tuyệt chủng?

A. bò                                                    B. gấu trúc khổng lồ

C. tất cả các giống hổ                            D. gia súc

Dẫn chứng: If endangered species such as the giant panda and Sumatran tiger could be cloned, they could be saved from extinction. L

Đáp án: B


Câu 34:

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 28 to 34.

Therapeutic cloning

Reproductive cloning involves implanting a cloned embryo into a uterus in the hope of producing a healthy foetus. A company called Clonaid claims to have successfully cloned thirteen human babies. They say that all  of the babies are healthy and are in various location including Hong Kong, UK, Spain and Brazil. Clonaid states that they are using human cloning to assist infertile couples, homosexual couples and families who have lost a beloved relative.

The same technology can be used for animal cloning. If endangered species such as the giant panda and Sumatran tiger could be cloned, they could be saved from extinction. Livestock such as cows could also be cloned to allow farmers to reproduce cattle that produce the best meat and most milk. This could greatly help developing countries where cows produce significantly less meat and milk.

The word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to ______.

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Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu

Giải thích:

Từ "it" trong đoạn 2 đề cập đến ______________.

A. sinh sản nhân bản                            B. sự phát triển của công nghệ nhân bản

C. đại học Khoa học và Công nghệ Hồng Kông    D. con chó được nhân bản đầu tiên

Dẫn chứng: Professor Chow went on to explain that, “The development of the technology is a good thing in itself but how we monitor it and who we allow to use it will be of great importance”.

Đáp án: A

Dịch bài đọc:

Nhân bản điều trị

Ông King Chow, trợ lý giáo sư về công nghệ sinh học tại Đại học Khoa học và Công nghệ Hồng Kông hoan nghênh việc Hàn Quốc công bố con chó nhân bản đầu tiên trên thế giới, nhưng ông cũng cảnh báo rằng chúng ta cần phải bảo vệ việc nhân bản vô tính có khả năng sinh sản. Giáo sư Chow tiếp tục giải thích rằng, "Sự phát

triển của công nghệ này là một điều tốt đẹp, nhưng chúng tôi giám sát nó như thế nào và chúng tôi cho phép sử dụng nó như thế nào sẽ rất quan trọng".

Giáo sư Chow là một trong nhiều học giả cảm thấy rằng cần phải có một con đường rõ ràng giữa nhân bản sinh sản và nhân bản điều trị. Liệu pháp nhân bản bao gồm việc sử dụng tế bào gốc phôi để phát triển tế bào hoặc  các cơ quan của con người có thể được sử dụng để chữa bệnh như bệnh Parkinson và bệnh tiểu đường. Những người ngồi trên xe lăn có thể đi lại được nhờ công nghệ này vì các nhà khoa học tin rằng họ có thể nhân bản các tế bào mới để chữa các vết thương ở lưng và cổ.

Sinh sản vô tính

Sinh sản nhân bản bao gồm cấy ghép phôi nhân tạo vô tính vào tử cung với hy vọng tạo ra một bào thai khỏe mạnh. Một công ty được gọi là Clonaid tuyên bố đã thành công trong việc nhân bản mười ba con người. Họ nói rằng tất cả các em bé đều khỏe mạnh và đang ở các vị trí khác nhau bao gồm Hồng Kông, Anh, Tây Ban Nha và Brazil. Clonaid nói rằng họ đang sử dụng nhân bản để giúp đỡ các cặp vợ chồng vô sinh, cặp vợ chồng đồng tính và gia đình đã mất đi người thân yêu.

Cùng một công nghệ có thể được sử dụng để nhân bản động vật. Nếu những loài nguy cấp như gấu trúc và hổ Sumatra có thể được nhân bản, chúng có thể được cứu thoát khỏi sự tuyệt diệt. Chăn nuôi gia súc như bò cũng có thể được nhân bản để cho phép người nông dân sản xuất ra gia súc sản xuất thịt và sữa tốt nhất. Điều này có thể giúp ích rất nhiều cho các nước đang phát triển nơi mà bò sản xuất ít thịt và sữa.


Câu 35:

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 35 to 42.

THE PRAISE OF FAST FOOD

The media and a multitude of cookbook writers would have us believe that modern, fast, processed food is a disaster, and that it is a mark of sophistication to bemoan the steel roller mill and sliced white bread while yearning for stone-ground flour and a brick oven. Perhaps, we should call those scorn industrialised food, culinary Luddites, after the 19th-century English workers who rebelled against the machines that destroyed their way of life. Instead of technology, what these Luddites abhor is commercial sauces and any synthetic aid to flavouring our food.

Eating fresh, natural food was regarded with suspicion verging on horror; only the uncivilised, the poor, and the starving resorted to it. The ancient Greeks regarded the consumption of greens and root vegetables as a sign of bad times, and many succeeding civilizations believed the same. Happiness was not a verdant garden abounding in fresh fruits, but a securely locked storehouse jammed with preserved, processed foods.

What about the idea that the best food is handmade in the country? That food comes from the country goes without saying. However, the idea that country people eat better than city dwellers is preposterous. Very few of our ancestors working the land were independent peasants baking their own bread and salting down their own pig. Most were burdened with heavy taxes and rent, often paid directly by the food they produced. Many were ultimately serfs or slaves, who subsisted on what was left over; on watery soup and gritty flatbread.

The dishes we call ethnic and assume to be of peasant origin were invented for the urban, or at least urbane, aristocrats who collected the surplus. This is as true of the lasagna of northern Italy as it is of the chicken korma of Mughal Delhi, the moo shu pork of imperial China, and the pilafs and baklava of the great Ottoman palace in Istanbul. Cities have always enjoyed the best food and have invariably been the focal points of culinary innovation.

Preparing home-cooked breakfast, dinner, and tea for eight to ten people 365 days a year was servitude. Churning butter or skinning and cleaning rabbits, without the option of picking up the phone for a pizza if something went wrong, was unremitting, unforgiving toil. Not long ago, in Mexico, most women could expect to spend five hours a day kneeling at the grindstone preparing the dough for the family's tortillas.

In the first half of the 20th century, Italians embraced factory-made pasta and canned tomatoes. In the second half, Japanese women welcomed factory-made bread because they could sleep a little longer instead of getting up to make rice. As supermarkets appeared in Eastern Europe, people rejoiced at the convenience of readymade goods. Culinary modernism had proved what was wanted: food that was processed, preservable, industrial, novel, and fast, the food of the elite at a price everyone could afford. Where modern food became available, people grew taller and stronger and lived longer.

So the sunlit past of the culinary Luddites never existed and their ethos is based not on history but on a fairy tale. So what? Certainly no one would deny that an industrialised food supply has its own problems. Perhaps we should eat more fresh, natural, locally sourced, slow food. Does it matter if the history is not quite right? It matters quite a bit, I believe. If we do not understand that most people had no choice but to devote their lives to growing and cooking food, we are incapable of comprehending that modern food allows us unparalleled choices. If we urge the farmer to stay at his olive press and the housewife to remain at her stove, all so that we may eat traditionally pressed olive oil and home-cooked meals, we are assuming the mantle of the aristocrats of old. If we fail to understand how scant and monotonous most traditional diets were, we fail to appreciate the 'ethnic foods' we encounter.

Culinary Luddites are right, though, about two important things: We need to know how to prepare good food, and we need a culinary ethos. As far as good food goes, they've done us all a service by teaching us how to use the bounty delivered to us by the global economy. Their ethos, though, is another matter. Were we able to turn back the clock, as they urge, most of us would be toiling all day in the fields or the kitchen, and many of us would be starving.

The word “preposterous” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.

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Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

Từ " preposterous " trong đoạn 3 có nghĩa gần nhất với ___________.

preposterous (a): táo bạo, phi lý

sensible (a): hợp lý                                popular (a): phổ biến

ridiculous (a): vô lý                              right (a): đúng

=> preposterous = ridiculous

Dẫn chứng: However, the idea that country people eat better than city dwellers is preposterous.

Đáp án: C


Câu 36:

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 35 to 42.

THE PRAISE OF FAST FOOD

The media and a multitude of cookbook writers would have us believe that modern, fast, processed food is a disaster, and that it is a mark of sophistication to bemoan the steel roller mill and sliced white bread while yearning for stone-ground flour and a brick oven. Perhaps, we should call those scorn industrialised food, culinary Luddites, after the 19th-century English workers who rebelled against the machines that destroyed their way of life. Instead of technology, what these Luddites abhor is commercial sauces and any synthetic aid to flavouring our food.

Eating fresh, natural food was regarded with suspicion verging on horror; only the uncivilised, the poor, and the starving resorted to it. The ancient Greeks regarded the consumption of greens and root vegetables as a sign of bad times, and many succeeding civilizations believed the same. Happiness was not a verdant garden abounding in fresh fruits, but a securely locked storehouse jammed with preserved, processed foods.

What about the idea that the best food is handmade in the country? That food comes from the country goes without saying. However, the idea that country people eat better than city dwellers is preposterous. Very few of our ancestors working the land were independent peasants baking their own bread and salting down their own pig. Most were burdened with heavy taxes and rent, often paid directly by the food they produced. Many were ultimately serfs or slaves, who subsisted on what was left over; on watery soup and gritty flatbread.

The dishes we call ethnic and assume to be of peasant origin were invented for the urban, or at least urbane, aristocrats who collected the surplus. This is as true of the lasagna of northern Italy as it is of the chicken korma of Mughal Delhi, the moo shu pork of imperial China, and the pilafs and baklava of the great Ottoman palace in Istanbul. Cities have always enjoyed the best food and have invariably been the focal points of culinary innovation.

Preparing home-cooked breakfast, dinner, and tea for eight to ten people 365 days a year was servitude. Churning butter or skinning and cleaning rabbits, without the option of picking up the phone for a pizza if something went wrong, was unremitting, unforgiving toil. Not long ago, in Mexico, most women could expect to spend five hours a day kneeling at the grindstone preparing the dough for the family's tortillas.

In the first half of the 20th century, Italians embraced factory-made pasta and canned tomatoes. In the second half, Japanese women welcomed factory-made bread because they could sleep a little longer instead of getting up to make rice. As supermarkets appeared in Eastern Europe, people rejoiced at the convenience of readymade goods. Culinary modernism had proved what was wanted: food that was processed, preservable, industrial, novel, and fast, the food of the elite at a price everyone could afford. Where modern food became available, people grew taller and stronger and lived longer.

So the sunlit past of the culinary Luddites never existed and their ethos is based not on history but on a fairy tale. So what? Certainly no one would deny that an industrialised food supply has its own problems. Perhaps we should eat more fresh, natural, locally sourced, slow food. Does it matter if the history is not quite right? It matters quite a bit, I believe. If we do not understand that most people had no choice but to devote their lives to growing and cooking food, we are incapable of comprehending that modern food allows us unparalleled choices. If we urge the farmer to stay at his olive press and the housewife to remain at her stove, all so that we may eat traditionally pressed olive oil and home-cooked meals, we are assuming the mantle of the aristocrats of old. If we fail to understand how scant and monotonous most traditional diets were, we fail to appreciate the 'ethnic foods' we encounter.

Culinary Luddites are right, though, about two important things: We need to know how to prepare good food, and we need a culinary ethos. As far as good food goes, they've done us all a service by teaching us how to use the bounty delivered to us by the global economy. Their ethos, though, is another matter. Were we able to turn back the clock, as they urge, most of us would be toiling all day in the fields or the kitchen, and many of us would be starving.

Which of the following is NOT an important factor mentioned in paragraphs 5 and 6?

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Giải thích:

Những vấn đề sau đây KHÔNG phải là một yếu tố quan trọng được nêu ra trong đoạn 5 và 6?

A. sự phát triển của thực phẩm ăn nhanh không phải là một sự bắt buộc

B. bản chất gian truân của việc chuẩn bị thức ăn trước khi sản xuất hàng loạt

C. các lợi ích toàn cầu của sản xuất lương thực công nghiệp hóa

D. có nhiều lợi thế mà sản xuất lương thực công nghiệp đã tạo ra

Đáp án: A


Câu 37:

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 35 to 42.

THE PRAISE OF FAST FOOD

The media and a multitude of cookbook writers would have us believe that modern, fast, processed food is a disaster, and that it is a mark of sophistication to bemoan the steel roller mill and sliced white bread while yearning for stone-ground flour and a brick oven. Perhaps, we should call those scorn industrialised food, culinary Luddites, after the 19th-century English workers who rebelled against the machines that destroyed their way of life. Instead of technology, what these Luddites abhor is commercial sauces and any synthetic aid to flavouring our food.

Eating fresh, natural food was regarded with suspicion verging on horror; only the uncivilised, the poor, and the starving resorted to it. The ancient Greeks regarded the consumption of greens and root vegetables as a sign of bad times, and many succeeding civilizations believed the same. Happiness was not a verdant garden abounding in fresh fruits, but a securely locked storehouse jammed with preserved, processed foods.

What about the idea that the best food is handmade in the country? That food comes from the country goes without saying. However, the idea that country people eat better than city dwellers is preposterous. Very few of our ancestors working the land were independent peasants baking their own bread and salting down their own pig. Most were burdened with heavy taxes and rent, often paid directly by the food they produced. Many were ultimately serfs or slaves, who subsisted on what was left over; on watery soup and gritty flatbread.

The dishes we call ethnic and assume to be of peasant origin were invented for the urban, or at least urbane, aristocrats who collected the surplus. This is as true of the lasagna of northern Italy as it is of the chicken korma of Mughal Delhi, the moo shu pork of imperial China, and the pilafs and baklava of the great Ottoman palace in Istanbul. Cities have always enjoyed the best food and have invariably been the focal points of culinary innovation.

Preparing home-cooked breakfast, dinner, and tea for eight to ten people 365 days a year was servitude. Churning butter or skinning and cleaning rabbits, without the option of picking up the phone for a pizza if something went wrong, was unremitting, unforgiving toil. Not long ago, in Mexico, most women could expect to spend five hours a day kneeling at the grindstone preparing the dough for the family's tortillas.

In the first half of the 20th century, Italians embraced factory-made pasta and canned tomatoes. In the second half, Japanese women welcomed factory-made bread because they could sleep a little longer instead of getting up to make rice. As supermarkets appeared in Eastern Europe, people rejoiced at the convenience of readymade goods. Culinary modernism had proved what was wanted: food that was processed, preservable, industrial, novel, and fast, the food of the elite at a price everyone could afford. Where modern food became available, people grew taller and stronger and lived longer.

So the sunlit past of the culinary Luddites never existed and their ethos is based not on history but on a fairy tale. So what? Certainly no one would deny that an industrialised food supply has its own problems. Perhaps we should eat more fresh, natural, locally sourced, slow food. Does it matter if the history is not quite right? It matters quite a bit, I believe. If we do not understand that most people had no choice but to devote their lives to growing and cooking food, we are incapable of comprehending that modern food allows us unparalleled choices. If we urge the farmer to stay at his olive press and the housewife to remain at her stove, all so that we may eat traditionally pressed olive oil and home-cooked meals, we are assuming the mantle of the aristocrats of old. If we fail to understand how scant and monotonous most traditional diets were, we fail to appreciate the 'ethnic foods' we encounter.

Culinary Luddites are right, though, about two important things: We need to know how to prepare good food, and we need a culinary ethos. As far as good food goes, they've done us all a service by teaching us how to use the bounty delivered to us by the global economy. Their ethos, though, is another matter. Were we able to turn back the clock, as they urge, most of us would be toiling all day in the fields or the kitchen, and many of us would be starving.

What is the overall point that the writer makes in the reading passage?

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Giải thích:

Điểm tổng thể mà tác giả đưa ra trong đoạn văn là gì?

A. Mọi người nên tìm hiểu lịch sử của thực phẩm họ tiêu thụ.

B. Chủ nghĩa phê bình về sản xuất lương thực công nghiệp phần lớn không hợp lý.

C. Thức ăn công nghiệp dạng hiện đại thường được ưu tiên hơn thực phẩm thô và tự nhiên.

D. Người ta nên biết ơn nhiều loại thực phẩm họ có thể lựa chọn.

Đáp án: B


Câu 38:

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 35 to 42.

THE PRAISE OF FAST FOOD

The media and a multitude of cookbook writers would have us believe that modern, fast, processed food is a disaster, and that it is a mark of sophistication to bemoan the steel roller mill and sliced white bread while yearning for stone-ground flour and a brick oven. Perhaps, we should call those scorn industrialised food, culinary Luddites, after the 19th-century English workers who rebelled against the machines that destroyed their way of life. Instead of technology, what these Luddites abhor is commercial sauces and any synthetic aid to flavouring our food.

Eating fresh, natural food was regarded with suspicion verging on horror; only the uncivilised, the poor, and the starving resorted to it. The ancient Greeks regarded the consumption of greens and root vegetables as a sign of bad times, and many succeeding civilizations believed the same. Happiness was not a verdant garden abounding in fresh fruits, but a securely locked storehouse jammed with preserved, processed foods.

What about the idea that the best food is handmade in the country? That food comes from the country goes without saying. However, the idea that country people eat better than city dwellers is preposterous. Very few of our ancestors working the land were independent peasants baking their own bread and salting down their own pig. Most were burdened with heavy taxes and rent, often paid directly by the food they produced. Many were ultimately serfs or slaves, who subsisted on what was left over; on watery soup and gritty flatbread.

The dishes we call ethnic and assume to be of peasant origin were invented for the urban, or at least urbane, aristocrats who collected the surplus. This is as true of the lasagna of northern Italy as it is of the chicken korma of Mughal Delhi, the moo shu pork of imperial China, and the pilafs and baklava of the great Ottoman palace in Istanbul. Cities have always enjoyed the best food and have invariably been the focal points of culinary innovation.

Preparing home-cooked breakfast, dinner, and tea for eight to ten people 365 days a year was servitude. Churning butter or skinning and cleaning rabbits, without the option of picking up the phone for a pizza if something went wrong, was unremitting, unforgiving toil. Not long ago, in Mexico, most women could expect to spend five hours a day kneeling at the grindstone preparing the dough for the family's tortillas.

In the first half of the 20th century, Italians embraced factory-made pasta and canned tomatoes. In the second half, Japanese women welcomed factory-made bread because they could sleep a little longer instead of getting up to make rice. As supermarkets appeared in Eastern Europe, people rejoiced at the convenience of readymade goods. Culinary modernism had proved what was wanted: food that was processed, preservable, industrial, novel, and fast, the food of the elite at a price everyone could afford. Where modern food became available, people grew taller and stronger and lived longer.

So the sunlit past of the culinary Luddites never existed and their ethos is based not on history but on a fairy tale. So what? Certainly no one would deny that an industrialised food supply has its own problems. Perhaps we should eat more fresh, natural, locally sourced, slow food. Does it matter if the history is not quite right? It matters quite a bit, I believe. If we do not understand that most people had no choice but to devote their lives to growing and cooking food, we are incapable of comprehending that modern food allows us unparalleled choices. If we urge the farmer to stay at his olive press and the housewife to remain at her stove, all so that we may eat traditionally pressed olive oil and home-cooked meals, we are assuming the mantle of the aristocrats of old. If we fail to understand how scant and monotonous most traditional diets were, we fail to appreciate the 'ethnic foods' we encounter.

Culinary Luddites are right, though, about two important things: We need to know how to prepare good food, and we need a culinary ethos. As far as good food goes, they've done us all a service by teaching us how to use the bounty delivered to us by the global economy. Their ethos, though, is another matter. Were we able to turn back the clock, as they urge, most of us would be toiling all day in the fields or the kitchen, and many of us would be starving.

The word “its” in paragraph 7 refers to ______.

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Giải thích:

Từ "its" trong đoạn 7 đề cập đến          .

A. cung cấp lương thực                         B. câu chuyện cổ tích

C. lịch sử                                              D. quá khứ huy hoàng

Dẫn chứng: So the sunlit past of the culinary Luddites never existed and their ethos is based not on history but on a fairy tale. So what? Certainly no one would deny that an industrialised food supply has its own problems.

Đáp án: A


Câu 39:

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 35 to 42.

THE PRAISE OF FAST FOOD

The media and a multitude of cookbook writers would have us believe that modern, fast, processed food is a disaster, and that it is a mark of sophistication to bemoan the steel roller mill and sliced white bread while yearning for stone-ground flour and a brick oven. Perhaps, we should call those scorn industrialised food, culinary Luddites, after the 19th-century English workers who rebelled against the machines that destroyed their way of life. Instead of technology, what these Luddites abhor is commercial sauces and any synthetic aid to flavouring our food.

Eating fresh, natural food was regarded with suspicion verging on horror; only the uncivilised, the poor, and the starving resorted to it. The ancient Greeks regarded the consumption of greens and root vegetables as a sign of bad times, and many succeeding civilizations believed the same. Happiness was not a verdant garden abounding in fresh fruits, but a securely locked storehouse jammed with preserved, processed foods.

What about the idea that the best food is handmade in the country? That food comes from the country goes without saying. However, the idea that country people eat better than city dwellers is preposterous. Very few of our ancestors working the land were independent peasants baking their own bread and salting down their own pig. Most were burdened with heavy taxes and rent, often paid directly by the food they produced. Many were ultimately serfs or slaves, who subsisted on what was left over; on watery soup and gritty flatbread.

The dishes we call ethnic and assume to be of peasant origin were invented for the urban, or at least urbane, aristocrats who collected the surplus. This is as true of the lasagna of northern Italy as it is of the chicken korma of Mughal Delhi, the moo shu pork of imperial China, and the pilafs and baklava of the great Ottoman palace in Istanbul. Cities have always enjoyed the best food and have invariably been the focal points of culinary innovation.

Preparing home-cooked breakfast, dinner, and tea for eight to ten people 365 days a year was servitude. Churning butter or skinning and cleaning rabbits, without the option of picking up the phone for a pizza if something went wrong, was unremitting, unforgiving toil. Not long ago, in Mexico, most women could expect to spend five hours a day kneeling at the grindstone preparing the dough for the family's tortillas.

In the first half of the 20th century, Italians embraced factory-made pasta and canned tomatoes. In the second half, Japanese women welcomed factory-made bread because they could sleep a little longer instead of getting up to make rice. As supermarkets appeared in Eastern Europe, people rejoiced at the convenience of readymade goods. Culinary modernism had proved what was wanted: food that was processed, preservable, industrial, novel, and fast, the food of the elite at a price everyone could afford. Where modern food became available, people grew taller and stronger and lived longer.

So the sunlit past of the culinary Luddites never existed and their ethos is based not on history but on a fairy tale. So what? Certainly no one would deny that an industrialised food supply has its own problems. Perhaps we should eat more fresh, natural, locally sourced, slow food. Does it matter if the history is not quite right? It matters quite a bit, I believe. If we do not understand that most people had no choice but to devote their lives to growing and cooking food, we are incapable of comprehending that modern food allows us unparalleled choices. If we urge the farmer to stay at his olive press and the housewife to remain at her stove, all so that we may eat traditionally pressed olive oil and home-cooked meals, we are assuming the mantle of the aristocrats of old. If we fail to understand how scant and monotonous most traditional diets were, we fail to appreciate the 'ethnic foods' we encounter.

Culinary Luddites are right, though, about two important things: We need to know how to prepare good food, and we need a culinary ethos. As far as good food goes, they've done us all a service by teaching us how to use the bounty delivered to us by the global economy. Their ethos, though, is another matter. Were we able to turn back the clock, as they urge, most of us would be toiling all day in the fields or the kitchen, and many of us would be starving.

What does the writer say about peasants?

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Giải thích:

Nhà văn viết gì về người nông dân?

A. Họ tạo ra món canh súp trí tưởng tượng và các món ăn bằng bánh mì.

B. Phần lớn những gì họ tạo ra đều được đưa đến chỗ nhà chủ

C. Họ phần lớn đều tự cung tự cấp

D. Họ có chế độ ăn uống tốt hơn so với hầu hết mọi người sống ở các thành phố.

Dẫn chứng: Very few of our ancestors working the land were independent peasants baking their own bread and salting down their own pig. Most were burdened with heavy taxes and rent, often paid directly by the food they produced. Many were ultimately serfs or slaves, who subsisted on what was left over; on watery soup and gritty flatbread.

Đáp án: B


Câu 40:

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 35 to 42.

THE PRAISE OF FAST FOOD

The media and a multitude of cookbook writers would have us believe that modern, fast, processed food is a disaster, and that it is a mark of sophistication to bemoan the steel roller mill and sliced white bread while yearning for stone-ground flour and a brick oven. Perhaps, we should call those scorn industrialised food, culinary Luddites, after the 19th-century English workers who rebelled against the machines that destroyed their way of life. Instead of technology, what these Luddites abhor is commercial sauces and any synthetic aid to flavouring our food.

Eating fresh, natural food was regarded with suspicion verging on horror; only the uncivilised, the poor, and the starving resorted to it. The ancient Greeks regarded the consumption of greens and root vegetables as a sign of bad times, and many succeeding civilizations believed the same. Happiness was not a verdant garden abounding in fresh fruits, but a securely locked storehouse jammed with preserved, processed foods.

What about the idea that the best food is handmade in the country? That food comes from the country goes without saying. However, the idea that country people eat better than city dwellers is preposterous. Very few of our ancestors working the land were independent peasants baking their own bread and salting down their own pig. Most were burdened with heavy taxes and rent, often paid directly by the food they produced. Many were ultimately serfs or slaves, who subsisted on what was left over; on watery soup and gritty flatbread.

The dishes we call ethnic and assume to be of peasant origin were invented for the urban, or at least urbane, aristocrats who collected the surplus. This is as true of the lasagna of northern Italy as it is of the chicken korma of Mughal Delhi, the moo shu pork of imperial China, and the pilafs and baklava of the great Ottoman palace in Istanbul. Cities have always enjoyed the best food and have invariably been the focal points of culinary innovation.

Preparing home-cooked breakfast, dinner, and tea for eight to ten people 365 days a year was servitude. Churning butter or skinning and cleaning rabbits, without the option of picking up the phone for a pizza if something went wrong, was unremitting, unforgiving toil. Not long ago, in Mexico, most women could expect to spend five hours a day kneeling at the grindstone preparing the dough for the family's tortillas.

In the first half of the 20th century, Italians embraced factory-made pasta and canned tomatoes. In the second half, Japanese women welcomed factory-made bread because they could sleep a little longer instead of getting up to make rice. As supermarkets appeared in Eastern Europe, people rejoiced at the convenience of readymade goods. Culinary modernism had proved what was wanted: food that was processed, preservable, industrial, novel, and fast, the food of the elite at a price everyone could afford. Where modern food became available, people grew taller and stronger and lived longer.

So the sunlit past of the culinary Luddites never existed and their ethos is based not on history but on a fairy tale. So what? Certainly no one would deny that an industrialised food supply has its own problems. Perhaps we should eat more fresh, natural, locally sourced, slow food. Does it matter if the history is not quite right? It matters quite a bit, I believe. If we do not understand that most people had no choice but to devote their lives to growing and cooking food, we are incapable of comprehending that modern food allows us unparalleled choices. If we urge the farmer to stay at his olive press and the housewife to remain at her stove, all so that we may eat traditionally pressed olive oil and home-cooked meals, we are assuming the mantle of the aristocrats of old. If we fail to understand how scant and monotonous most traditional diets were, we fail to appreciate the 'ethnic foods' we encounter.

Culinary Luddites are right, though, about two important things: We need to know how to prepare good food, and we need a culinary ethos. As far as good food goes, they've done us all a service by teaching us how to use the bounty delivered to us by the global economy. Their ethos, though, is another matter. Were we able to turn back the clock, as they urge, most of us would be toiling all day in the fields or the kitchen, and many of us would be starving.

What is an important point the writer wishes to make in paragraph 7?

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Giải thích:

Một điểm quan trọng mà nhà văn muốn nhấn mạnh trong đoạn 7 là gì?

A. Mọi người cần có một chế độ ăn uống cân bằng.

B. Có cả bất lợi và lợi thế đối với việc sản xuất lương thực.

C. Mọi người ở khắp mọi nơi hiện nay có rất nhiều loại thực phẩm để lựa chọn.

D. Nhu cầu về thực phẩm vốn được sản xuất theo truyền thống sẽ bóc lột những người sản xuất ra nó.

Dẫn chứng: If we do not understand that most people had no choice but to devote their lives to growing and cooking food, we are incapable of comprehending that modern food allows us unparalleled choices. If we urge the farmer to stay at his olive press and the housewife to remain at her stove, all so that we may eat traditionally pressed olive oil and home-cooked meals, we are assuming the mantle of the aristocrats of old. If we fail to understand how scant and monotonous most traditional diets were, we fail to appreciate the 'ethnic foods' we encounter.

Đáp án: D


Câu 41:

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 35 to 42.

THE PRAISE OF FAST FOOD

The media and a multitude of cookbook writers would have us believe that modern, fast, processed food is a disaster, and that it is a mark of sophistication to bemoan the steel roller mill and sliced white bread while yearning for stone-ground flour and a brick oven. Perhaps, we should call those scorn industrialised food, culinary Luddites, after the 19th-century English workers who rebelled against the machines that destroyed their way of life. Instead of technology, what these Luddites abhor is commercial sauces and any synthetic aid to flavouring our food.

Eating fresh, natural food was regarded with suspicion verging on horror; only the uncivilised, the poor, and the starving resorted to it. The ancient Greeks regarded the consumption of greens and root vegetables as a sign of bad times, and many succeeding civilizations believed the same. Happiness was not a verdant garden abounding in fresh fruits, but a securely locked storehouse jammed with preserved, processed foods.

What about the idea that the best food is handmade in the country? That food comes from the country goes without saying. However, the idea that country people eat better than city dwellers is preposterous. Very few of our ancestors working the land were independent peasants baking their own bread and salting down their own pig. Most were burdened with heavy taxes and rent, often paid directly by the food they produced. Many were ultimately serfs or slaves, who subsisted on what was left over; on watery soup and gritty flatbread.

The dishes we call ethnic and assume to be of peasant origin were invented for the urban, or at least urbane, aristocrats who collected the surplus. This is as true of the lasagna of northern Italy as it is of the chicken korma of Mughal Delhi, the moo shu pork of imperial China, and the pilafs and baklava of the great Ottoman palace in Istanbul. Cities have always enjoyed the best food and have invariably been the focal points of culinary innovation.

Preparing home-cooked breakfast, dinner, and tea for eight to ten people 365 days a year was servitude. Churning butter or skinning and cleaning rabbits, without the option of picking up the phone for a pizza if something went wrong, was unremitting, unforgiving toil. Not long ago, in Mexico, most women could expect to spend five hours a day kneeling at the grindstone preparing the dough for the family's tortillas.

In the first half of the 20th century, Italians embraced factory-made pasta and canned tomatoes. In the second half, Japanese women welcomed factory-made bread because they could sleep a little longer instead of getting up to make rice. As supermarkets appeared in Eastern Europe, people rejoiced at the convenience of readymade goods. Culinary modernism had proved what was wanted: food that was processed, preservable, industrial, novel, and fast, the food of the elite at a price everyone could afford. Where modern food became available, people grew taller and stronger and lived longer.

So the sunlit past of the culinary Luddites never existed and their ethos is based not on history but on a fairy tale. So what? Certainly no one would deny that an industrialised food supply has its own problems. Perhaps we should eat more fresh, natural, locally sourced, slow food. Does it matter if the history is not quite right? It matters quite a bit, I believe. If we do not understand that most people had no choice but to devote their lives to growing and cooking food, we are incapable of comprehending that modern food allows us unparalleled choices. If we urge the farmer to stay at his olive press and the housewife to remain at her stove, all so that we may eat traditionally pressed olive oil and home-cooked meals, we are assuming the mantle of the aristocrats of old. If we fail to understand how scant and monotonous most traditional diets were, we fail to appreciate the 'ethnic foods' we encounter.

Culinary Luddites are right, though, about two important things: We need to know how to prepare good food, and we need a culinary ethos. As far as good food goes, they've done us all a service by teaching us how to use the bounty delivered to us by the global economy. Their ethos, though, is another matter. Were we able to turn back the clock, as they urge, most of us would be toiling all day in the fields or the kitchen, and many of us would be starving.

Lasagna is an example of a dish ______.

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Giải thích:

Mì nướng là một ví dụ của một món ăn __________.

A. có vị như món ăn từ một số nước khác   B. đó chỉ thực sự phổ biến ở miền bắc nước Ý

C. phát minh bởi nông dân                   D. tạo ra cho người dân thành thị giàu có

Dẫn chứng: The dishes we call ethnic and assume to be of peasant origin were invented for the urban, or at least urbane, aristocrats who collected the surplus.

Đáp án: D


Câu 42:

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 35 to 42.

THE PRAISE OF FAST FOOD

The media and a multitude of cookbook writers would have us believe that modern, fast, processed food is a disaster, and that it is a mark of sophistication to bemoan the steel roller mill and sliced white bread while yearning for stone-ground flour and a brick oven. Perhaps, we should call those scorn industrialised food, culinary Luddites, after the 19th-century English workers who rebelled against the machines that destroyed their way of life. Instead of technology, what these Luddites abhor is commercial sauces and any synthetic aid to flavouring our food.

Eating fresh, natural food was regarded with suspicion verging on horror; only the uncivilised, the poor, and the starving resorted to it. The ancient Greeks regarded the consumption of greens and root vegetables as a sign of bad times, and many succeeding civilizations believed the same. Happiness was not a verdant garden abounding in fresh fruits, but a securely locked storehouse jammed with preserved, processed foods.

What about the idea that the best food is handmade in the country? That food comes from the country goes without saying. However, the idea that country people eat better than city dwellers is preposterous. Very few of our ancestors working the land were independent peasants baking their own bread and salting down their own pig. Most were burdened with heavy taxes and rent, often paid directly by the food they produced. Many were ultimately serfs or slaves, who subsisted on what was left over; on watery soup and gritty flatbread.

The dishes we call ethnic and assume to be of peasant origin were invented for the urban, or at least urbane, aristocrats who collected the surplus. This is as true of the lasagna of northern Italy as it is of the chicken korma of Mughal Delhi, the moo shu pork of imperial China, and the pilafs and baklava of the great Ottoman palace in Istanbul. Cities have always enjoyed the best food and have invariably been the focal points of culinary innovation.

Preparing home-cooked breakfast, dinner, and tea for eight to ten people 365 days a year was servitude. Churning butter or skinning and cleaning rabbits, without the option of picking up the phone for a pizza if something went wrong, was unremitting, unforgiving toil. Not long ago, in Mexico, most women could expect to spend five hours a day kneeling at the grindstone preparing the dough for the family's tortillas.

In the first half of the 20th century, Italians embraced factory-made pasta and canned tomatoes. In the second half, Japanese women welcomed factory-made bread because they could sleep a little longer instead of getting up to make rice. As supermarkets appeared in Eastern Europe, people rejoiced at the convenience of readymade goods. Culinary modernism had proved what was wanted: food that was processed, preservable, industrial, novel, and fast, the food of the elite at a price everyone could afford. Where modern food became available, people grew taller and stronger and lived longer.

So the sunlit past of the culinary Luddites never existed and their ethos is based not on history but on a fairy tale. So what? Certainly no one would deny that an industrialised food supply has its own problems. Perhaps we should eat more fresh, natural, locally sourced, slow food. Does it matter if the history is not quite right? It matters quite a bit, I believe. If we do not understand that most people had no choice but to devote their lives to growing and cooking food, we are incapable of comprehending that modern food allows us unparalleled choices. If we urge the farmer to stay at his olive press and the housewife to remain at her stove, all so that we may eat traditionally pressed olive oil and home-cooked meals, we are assuming the mantle of the aristocrats of old. If we fail to understand how scant and monotonous most traditional diets were, we fail to appreciate the 'ethnic foods' we encounter.

Culinary Luddites are right, though, about two important things: We need to know how to prepare good food, and we need a culinary ethos. As far as good food goes, they've done us all a service by teaching us how to use the bounty delivered to us by the global economy. Their ethos, though, is another matter. Were we able to turn back the clock, as they urge, most of us would be toiling all day in the fields or the kitchen, and many of us would be starving.

The word “servitude” in paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to ______.

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Kiến thức: Từ vựng

Giải thích:

Từ " servitude " trong đoạn 5 có nghĩa gần nhất với_______.

servitude (n): chủ nghĩa phục vụ

attitude (n): thái độ                               enslavement (n): nô lệ

capability (n): năng lực                         liberty (n): tự do

=> servitude = enslavement

Dẫn chứng: Preparing home-cooked breakfast, dinner, and tea for eight to ten people 365 days a year was servitude.

Đáp án: B

Dịch bài đọc:

Các phương tiện truyền thông và vô số các nhà văn viết sách nấu nướng sẽ cho chúng ta thấy rằng thực phẩm chế biến hiện đại và nhanh chóng là một thảm hoạ và đó là một dấu ấn của sự tinh tế để khi luôn than vãn về nhà máy cán thép và bánh mì trắng cắt lát trong khi muốn bột mì và một lò nung gạch. Có lẽ, chúng ta nên gọi chúng là thực phẩm khốn khổ, những người thổ dân ẩm thực, sau khi công nhân người Anh thế kỷ 19 nổi dậy chống lại  máy móc phá hủy cuộc sống của họ. Thay vì công nghệ, những gì được tạo ra nước sốt thương mại  và bất kỳ viện trợ tổng hợp để tạo hương vị thực phẩm của chúng ta

Ăn thực phẩm tự nhiên tươi giờ đây được coi là đáng nghi ngờ; chỉ có những người ít văn minh, người nghèo, và những người đói khát sử dụng nó. Người Hy Lạp cổ đại coi việc tiêu thụ rau xanh và rau củ là dấu hiệu của thời kỳ xấu, và nhiều nền văn minh thành công khác cũng tin tưởng như vậy. Hạnh phúc không phải là một khu vườn tươi tắn bao trùm trái cây tươi, mà làmột kho chứa những thực phẩm chế biến được bảo quản.

Vậy còn ý tường về việc thức ăn tốt nhất được tự làm bằng tay thì sao? Thực phẩm đó đến từ đất nước ta không cần biết. Tuy nhiên, ý tưởng cho rằng người dân ở nước này ăn ngon hơn người dân thành phố là điều không hay. Rất ít tổ tiên của chúng ta làm việc trên mảnh đất này là những nông dân độc lập nướng bánh mì của chính họ và tự giết lợn của họ. Hầu hết đều bị áp lực gánh nặng thuế và tiền thuê, thường được trả trực tiếp bởi thực phẩm mà họ sản xuất. Nhiều người là nô lệ, những người sống sót bằng những gì còn sót lại; súp nước và bột thừa

Các món ăn mà chúng ta gọi là struyền thống và giả định có nguồn gốc nông dân được phát minh ra cho những người quý tộc thành thị, hoặc ít ra là những người quý tộc thuần thục thu thập được thặng dư. Điều này cũng đúng với món mì nướng ở miền bắc nước Ý vì nó làm từ gà korma của Delhi Mughal, thịt lợn mèo của đế quốc Trung Quốc, và món cơm cơm thập cẩm cùng bánh tráng miệng của cung điện tuyệt vời Ottoman ở Istanbul. Các thành phố luôn thưởng thức những món ăn ngon và luôn là những điểm nhấn của sự đổi mới ẩm thực.

Chuẩn bị bữa sáng, bữa tối và trà nấu chín cho gia đình có tám đến mười người 365 ngày một năm là sự hi sinh. Đun sôi bơ hoặc lau dọn da và thỏ, không có tùy chọn pizza đặt qua điện thoại, nếu có chuyện gì đó đã xảy ra, không cần phải than vãn. Cách đây không lâu, ở Mêhicô, hầu hết phụ nữ có thể mong đợi dành 5 giờ mỗi ngày để mài chuẩn bị bột làm bánh tortillas cho gia đình.

Trong nửa đầu của thế kỷ 20, người Ý đã chấp nhận mì ống sản xuất trong nhà máy và cà chua đóng hộp. Trong nửasau thế kỉ, phụ nữ Nhật Bản chào đón bánh mì do nhà máy chế biến bởi vì họ có thể ngủ lâu hơn là đi lên để làm gạo. Khi các siêu thị xuất hiện ở Đông Âu, mọi người vui mừng vì sự tiện lợi của hàng hoá đã được chuẩn bị sẵn. Chủ nghĩa hiện đại ẩm thực đã chứng minh điều gì đã được mong muốn: thực phẩm đã được chế biến,

bảo quản, công nghiệp, và nhanh chóng, thực phẩm của giới thượng lưuvới giá mà mọi người có thể mua được. Nơi có thức ăn hiện đại, mọi người lớn lên và mạnh mẽ hơn và sống lâu hơn.

Vì vậy, quá khứ huy honafh của người dân ẩm thực không bao giờ tồn tại và phong cách của họ không dựa trên lịch sử nhưng trên một câu chuyện cổ tích. Vậy cái gì? Chắc chắn không ai phủ nhận rằng việc cung cấp lương thực công nghiệp có những vấn đề riêng. Có lẽ chúng ta nên ăn nhiều hơn thức ăn tự nhiên, nguồn gốc địa phương, hay còn gọi là thực phẩm ăn chậm. Có vấn đề gì nếu lịch sử không hoàn toàn đúng? Có một chút thôi, tôi tin thế. Nếu chúng ta không hiểu rằng hầu hết mọi người không có sự lựa chọn nào khác ngoài việc dành cả cuộc sống để trồng và nấu ăn, chúng ta không thể hiểu được rằng thức ăn hiện đại cho phép chúng ta lựa chọn vô song. Nếu chúng ta thúc giục người nông dân ở lại với vườn ô liu của mình và bà nội trợ để ở lại bếp của cô ta, tất cả để chúng ta có thể ăn dầu ô liu ép và các bữa ăn tự chế biến. Nếu chúng ta không hiểu được chế độ ăn kiêng truyền thống ì ạch và đơn điệu như thế nào, chúng ta không đánh giá cao 'thực phẩm dân tộc' mà chúng ta gặp phải.

Tuy nhiên, những người dân ẩm thực thực sự mang hai điều quan trọng: Chúng ta cần biết cách nấu thức ăn ngon, và chúng ta cần một cảm quan về ẩm thực. Về thực phẩm tốt, họ đã dạy chúng ta cách sử dụng đồng tiền trong nền kinh tế. Tuy nhiên, tính cách của họ là một vấn đề khác. Nếu chúng ta có thể quay lại thời gian, khi họ vội vã, hầu hết chúng ta sẽ phải làm việc cả ngày trên các cánh đồng hoặc nhà bếp, và nhiều người trong chúng ta sẽ phải chết đói.


Câu 43:

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.

Many people who live near the ocean depend on it as a source of food, recreation, and to have economic opportunities.

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Kiến thức: Sự hòa hợp về từ loại

Giải thích:

Sau giới từ “of” là một loạt các danh từ “ food”, “ recreation” => cần 1 danh từ đứng sau “and” to have economic => economic

Tạm dịch: Nhiều người sống gần đại dương phụ thuộc vào nó như là một nguồn thức ăn, giải trí và các cơ hội kinh tế.

Đáp án: D


Câu 44:

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.

The techniques of science and magic are quite different, but their basic aims – to understand and control nature, they are very similar.

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Kiến thức: Cấu trúc câu

Giải thích:

Mệnh đề sau “but” đã có chủ ngữ là “their basic aims” => không cần chủ ngữ “they”

They are => are

Tạm dịch: Các kỹ thuật khoa học và phép thuật hoàn toàn khác nhau, nhưng mục đích cơ bản của chúng là hiểu và kiểm soát thiên nhiên thì rất giống nhau.

Đáp án: D


Câu 45:

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.

The various parts of the body require so different surgical skills that many surgical specialties have developed.

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Kiến thức: Cấu trúc câu

Giải thích:

…so + tính từ/ trạng từ + that…= …such + danh từ + that +…: quá đến nỗi mà So => such

Tạm dịch: Các bộ phận khác nhau của cơ thể yêu cầu kỹ năng phẫu thuật quá khác nhau đến mức mà nhiều chuyên ngành phẫu thuật đã phát triển.

Đáp án: B


Câu 46:

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.

It’s a waste of time asking Peter for help because he is too busy.

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Kiến thức: Câu đồng nghĩa

Giải thích:

There is no point (in) Ving: vô ích khi làm gì…

Tạm dịch:

Thật lãng phí thời gian khi nhờ Peter giúp đỡ vì anh ta quá bận.

A. Peter quá bận rộn đến nỗi không thể giúp gì cho ai.

B. Bạn không nên yêu cầu Peter giúp đỡ vì anh ta sẽ từ chối.

C. Thật vô ích khi nhờ Peter giúp đỡ vì anh ta quá bận.

D. Sẽ tốn thời gian khi bạn yêu cầu Peter giúp đỡ vì anh ta quá bận

Đáp án: C


Câu 47:

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.

“I’m sorry for not keeping my promise, Mum!” said John.

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Kiến thức: Câu đồng nghĩa

Giải thích:

Apologise to smb for Ving: xin lỗi ai vì đã làm gì

Tạm dịch:

"Con xin lỗi vì đã không giữ lời hứa,!" John nói.

A. John nói rằng cậu ấy xin lỗi vì không giữ lời hứa.

B. John xin lỗi mẹ vì không giữ lời hứa.

C. John xin lỗi mẹ vì cậu ấy không giữ lời hứa.

D. John cảm thấy tiếc cho việc mẹ mình không giữ lời hứa.

Đáp án: B


Câu 48:

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.

We’re still hesitating about which school our son ought to go to.

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Kiến thức: Câu đồng nghĩa

Giải thích:

Chúng tôi vẫn còn băn khoăn về ngôi trường mà con trai chúng ta nên học.

A. Chúng tôi thấy khó khăn trong việc quyết định xem con mình nên theo học trường nào.

B. Chúng tôi vẫn chưa quyết định nơi chúng tôi nên đưa con trai đến học

C. Chúng tôi không chắc chắn là chúng tôi nên để con mình chọn một trường học hay không.

D. chúng tôi sẽ không gửi con trai của chúng tôi đến bất kỳ trường học nào trừ phi chúng tôi chắc chắn rằng nó là cái chúng tôi muốn.

Đáp án: B


Câu 49:

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.

I’d like to blame you. However, I know I can’t.

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Kiến thức: Nối câu

Giải thích:

Cấu trúc: Much as + S + V …= Although + S + V: mặc dù…

Tạm dịch:

Tôi muốn đổ lỗi cho bạn. Tuy nhiên, tôi biết tôi không thể.

A. Dù tôi muốn đổ lỗi cho bạn, tôi biết tôi không thể.

B. Tôi rất muốn đổ lỗi cho bạn, tôi biết tôi không thể.

C. Vì tôi biết tôi không thể, tôi muốn đổ lỗi cho bạn.

D. Mặc dù tôi không muốn đổ lỗi cho bạn, tôi biết tôi không thể

Đáp án: A


Câu 50:

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.

My brother couldn’t speak a word. He could do that when he turned three.

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Kiến thức: Nối câu

Giải thích:

Cấu trúc đảo ngữ của “ not until”

Not until …+ trợ động từ +S+V…: mãi đến khi…thì…

Tạm dịch:

Anh tôi không nói được lời nào. Anh ta có thể làm được điều đó khi anh ta chuyển sang ba.

= Mãi đến khi anh trai tôi chuyển sang ba, anh ấy mới nói được một lời.

Đáp án: C


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