Đề thi thử THPT Quốc gia năm 2018 môn Tiếng Anh - Sở GD&ĐT Gia Lai

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges.
Question 5: Nancy: “________” - Sue: “Great. Thanks.”
A. Be careful!	B. Excuse me	!	C. How are you doing?	D. What are you doing?
Question 6: Tom: “ Sorry, I forgot to phone you last night.” -Mary: “________”
A. I have nothing to tell you. B. Oh. Poor me!	
C. Never mind!	 	 D. You was absent – minded.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 7: I usually throwaway the common stamps.
A. distinctive 	 B. beautiful 	 C. unpopular 	 D. ordinary
Question 8: My uncle, who is an accomplished guitarist, taught me how to play.
A. unimpaired 	 B. unskilled 	 C. ill-educated 	 D. unqualified
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 9: The most important thing is to keep yourself occupied.
A. busy 	 B. relaxed 	 C. comfortable 	 D. free
Question 10: The whole family usually tries to get together at Christmas.
A. contact 	 B. communicate	C. relate 	 D. gather
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 11: You and I went there together, ______?
A. didn't you 	B. did you 	 C. did we 	 D. didn't we
Question 12: We can't risk ______ in heavy traffic during rush hour.
A. holding up 	B. being held up 	C. having held up 	 D. to hold up
Question 13: It turned out that we ______ rushed to the airport as the plane was delayed by several hours.
A. hadn't 	 B. should have 	 C. needn't have 	 D. mustn't
Question 14: If she hadn't gone out in the rain without a raincoat, she ______ in bed now with flu.
A. weren't 	 B. hadn't been 	 C. isn't 	 D. wouldn't be
Question 15: Cameron, ______ directed ‘The Titanic’...cago in 1979.
A. It was Jane Byrne 	 B. Jane Byrne
C. That Jane Byrne 	D. When Jane Byrne
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 
Robots are already a part of our lives. Industrial robots widely used in manufacturing. Military and police organizations use robots to (23) _____ in dangerous situations. Robots can also be found from vacuuming the floors in your home to exploring the surface of Mars. 
Within a few more years a whole host of robotic adaptations will be running many aspects' of our lives. "I think in the next thirty years, we are going to see a transformation between the industrial sorts of robots to personal robots," says Brooks from Brooks' company, IRobot, markets floor cleaning robots for homes.
"The advances in robotics make it clear that many household (24) ____ will be easily handled by a robot in the near future," says Bob Christopher, who works for a robotic technology company that is marketing a toy robot called Pleo. "We have only one child but I could easily (25) _____ five or six robots in the home as well."
Within the next 10 years one will be able to afford to lease or purchase a domestic robot that not only does the household cleaning and prepare and serve his meals, (26) _____ also can carry him to the bathtub if he cannot walk.
Demographic changes, such as a rapidly aging population and a shrinking workforce, will drive forward the application of new (27) ___. There is going to be a real pull for increasing the productivity of working age people. So there is going to be a real push for robotics to help people. In addition it is likely that in the near future we will see robots- taking on some of the care functions elderly, or long-term ill people.
Question 23: A. assist 	B. increase 	C. make 	D. create
Question 24: A. aspects 	B. chores 	C. works 	D. jobs
Question 25: A. hope 	B. think 	C. imagine 	D. lo...travel in groups when they have to migrate from cooler to warmer waters. The young stay with their parents for as long as fifteen years. Whales are known not to desert the ill or injured members; instead, they cradle them.
When whales are in danger, there are people who go to great lengths to help them. One such case occurred in 1988, when three young whales were trapped in the sea. It was close to winter and the sea had begun to freeze over. Whales are mammals that require oxygen from the air, so the frozen ice was a great danger to them. All they had then was a tiny hole in the ice for them to breathe through. Volunteers from all over soon turned up to help these creatures. They cut holes in the ice to provide more breathing holes for the whales. These holes would also serve as guides for the whales so that they could swim to warmer waters.
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Question 28: Which of the following best describes the main idea of this passage?
A. Successful attempts to rescue whales all over the world
B. Some remarkable similarities of whales to humans
C. Whales as the largest, gentlest but vulnerable creatures
D. Whales as the only animals to live in warm water
Question 29: Whales can move easily in water thanks to their .
A. tail and blubber	B. size and head	C. tail and skin	D. skin and head
Question 30: Where is the whale’s breathing hole located?
A. On its head	B. On its back	C. On its face	D. On its tail
Question 31: According to paragraph 2, the author mentions all of the following to show that whales “are more similar to humans” EXCEPT 	.
A. they do not desert the ill or injured members
B. they do not migrate from cooler to warmer waters
C. they live in family groups and travel in groups
D. the young stay with their parents for almost fifteen years
Question 32: The word “tiny” in paragraph 3 probably means 	.
A. very small	B. very deep	C. very fat	D. very ugly
Question 33: The word “they” in paragraph 3 refers to 	.
A. guides	B. holes	C. the wha