Đề thi thử đại học môn Tiếng Anh năm 2014 trường THPT Chuyên Lê Quý Đôn, Quảng Trị (Lần 2)

Đề thi thử đại học môn Tiếng Anh

Đề thi thử đại học môn Tiếng Anh năm 2014 trường THPT Chuyên Lê Quý Đôn, Quảng Trị (Lần 2) gồm 80 câu hỏi Tiếng Anh có đáp án. Đây là tài liệu giúp các ôn thi Tiếng Anh kỳ thi THPT Quốc gia phần trắc nghiệm hiệu quả.

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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.

Fortunately there are still a few tasty things for us gourmands to enjoy in relative security. Their numbers, however, are depleted almost daily, it seems, by ruthless proclamations from the ever-vigilant Food and Drug Administration and its allies, our doctors. The latest felon to face prosecution is the salt of life, sodium chloride.

Ostensibly, overuse of salt causes high blood pressure and hypertension, the cause of half the deaths in the United States every year. A few years ago the anti-salt campaigners raised such a rumpus that salt was banned from baby food. Currently pressure is being applied to food manufacturers to oblige them to label their products to show sodium content. Because doing so would cost mercenary manufacturers money, they argue that they have no idea how much salt remains on such things as potato chips and how much sticks to the bag. Furthermore, salt isn't the only harmful ingredient in food. If the manufacturer has to provide sodium content, and why not require him to list every ingredient and specify which are detrimental to our health? Cigarettes have a warning printed on them. Shouldn't the same type of warning appear on canned foods that are notoriously oversalted?

There are endless ifs and buts in the controversy, but the most telling of these is the questionable proof of salt's diabolic effect upon the blood pressure. True, people who cut their salt intake lowered their blood pressure, but where is the scientific proof that something other than salt didn't do the trick? The most common means of providing dubious proof that salt causes hypertension is to compare societies that use little salt with those that use mountains of salt in their daily diets. Which group has the higher rate of hypertension? Whose blood pressure is lower? What happens when salt is introduced into a group where salt is a novelty? Does the blood pressure rise significantly? Studies of the Japanese indicate that as the world's greatest salters, they suffer the most from hypertension. On the other hand, the simple salt-free cuisine of several tribes in the Solomon Islands has kept older tribesmen and women from developing hypertension and high blood pressure, ailments traditionally killing their peers in America. No account is taken of the effect of inflation, recession, pollution, crime, and sundry other ills to which Americans, unlike people on primitive islands, are exposed.

To salt or not to salt? That is the question. Now that the question has arisen, it must not be treated with levity but, rather, with searching scientific investigation so that those of us who are preoccupied with both savory food and longevity may decide which of the two is worth its salt.

Question 1: The attitude of the author of this passage toward the salt controversy is that ............

a. we must stop eating salt immediately.
b.she is not convinced that salt is harmful.
c. The Food and Drug Administration works well with doctors.
d. soon there won't be anything tasty left to eat.

Question 2: Presumably a gourmand is a ......

a. person b. theory c. food d. protest

Question 3: The word "mercenary" could be best replaced by .........

a. humane b. temporary c. mad for money d. worthy

Question 4: Canned goods should have the same type of warning as cigarettes because ......

a. both contain salt b. the author like to smoke and eat
c. the cigarette warning reduces smoking d. both are harmful to your health

Question 5: The word "notorious" in the second paragraph means............

a. popular b. infamous c. famous d. ambitious

Question 6: The word 'those' in the third paragraph refers to.............

a. the most common means b. dubious proof
c. societies d. mountains of salt

Đáp án đề thi thử đại học môn Tiếng Anh

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.

Fortunately there are still a few tasty things for us gourmands to enjoy in relative security. Their numbers, however, are depleted almost daily, it seems, by ruthless proclamations from the ever-vigilant Food and Drug Administration and its allies, our doctors. The latest felon to face prosecution is the salt of life, sodium chloride.

Ostensibly, overuse of salt causes high blood pressure and hypertension, the cause of half the deaths in the United States every year. A few years ago the anti-salt campaigners raised such a rumpus that salt was banned from baby food. Currently pressure is being applied to food manufacturers to oblige them to label their products to show sodium content. Because doing so would cost mercenary manufacturers money, they argue that they have no idea how much salt remains on such things as potato chips and how much sticks to the bag. Furthermore, salt isn't the only harmful ingredient in food. If the manufacturer has to provide sodium content, and why not require him to list every ingredient and specify which are detrimental to our health? Cigarettes have a warning printed on them. Shouldn't the same type of warning appear on canned foods that are notoriously oversalted?

There are endless ifs and buts in the controversy, but the most telling of these is the questionable proof of salt's diabolic effect upon the blood pressure. True, people who cut their salt intake lowered their blood pressure, but where is the scientific proof that something other than salt didn't do the trick? The most common means of providing dubious proof that salt causes hypertension is to compare societies that use little salt with those that use mountains of salt in their daily diets. Which group has the higher rate of hypertension? Whose blood pressure is lower? What happens when salt is introduced into a group where salt is a novelty? Does the blood pressure rise significantly? Studies of the Japanese indicate that as the world's greatest salters, they suffer the most from hypertension. On the other hand, the simple salt-free cuisine of several tribes in the Solomon Islands has kept older tribesmen and women from developing hypertension and high blood pressure, ailments traditionally killing their peers in America. No account is taken of the effect of inflation, recession, pollution, crime, and sundry other ills to which Americans, unlike people on primitive islands, are exposed.

To salt or not to salt? That is the question. Now that the question has arisen, it must not be treated with levity but, rather, with searching scientific investigation so that those of us who are preoccupied with both savory food and longevity may decide which of the two is worth its salt.

Question 1: The attitude of the author of this passage toward the salt controversy is that ............

a. we must stop eating salt immediately.
b.she is not convinced that salt is harmful.
c. The Food and Drug Administration works well with doctors.
d. soon there won't be anything tasty left to eat.

Question 2: Presumably a gourmand is a ......

a. person b. theory c. food d. protest

Question 3: The word "mercenary" could be best replaced by .........

a. humane b. temporary c. mad for money d. worthy

Question 4: Canned goods should have the same type of warning as cigarettes because ......

a. both contain salt b. the author like to smoke and eat
c. the cigarette warning reduces smoking d. both are harmful to your health

Question 5: The word "notorious" in the second paragraph means............

a. popular b. infamous c. famous d. ambitious

Question 6: The word 'those' in the third paragraph refers to.............

a. the most common means b. dubious proof
c. societies d. mountains of salt