Đề thi thử THPT Quốc gia năm 2017 môn Tiếng Anh có đáp án - Đề 2 (2)

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 40 to 49.
A rather surprising geographical feature of Antarctica is that a huge freshwater lake, one of the world's largest and deepest, lies hidden there under four kilometers of ice. Now known as Lake Vostok, this huge body of water is located under the ice block that comprises Antarctica. The lake is able to exist in its unfrozen state beneath this block of ice because its waters are warmed by geothermal heat from the earth's core. The thick glacier above Lake Vostok actually insulates it from the frigid temperatures on the surface. The lake was first discovered in the 1970s while a research team was conducting an aerial survey of the area. Radio waves from the survey equipment penetrated the ice and revealed a body of water of indeterminate size. It was not until much more recently that data collected by satellite made scientists aware of the tremendous size of the lake; the satellite-borne radar detected an extremely flat region where the ice remains level because it is floating on the water of the lake. The discovery of such a huge freshwater lake trapped under Antarctica is of interest to the scientific community because of the potential that the lake contains ancient microbes that have survived for thousands upon thousands of years, unaffected by factors such as nuclear fallout and elevated ultraviolet light that have affected organisms in more exposed areas. The downside of the discovery, however, lies in the difficulty of conducting research on the lake in such a harsh climate and in the problems associated with obtaining uncontaminated samples from the lake without actually exposing the lake to contamination. Scientists are looking for possible ways to accomplish this.

Question 28: What is true of Lake Vostok?

Question 29: All of the following are true about the 1970 survey of Antarctica EXCEPT that it___.

Question 30: It can be inferred from the passage that the ice would not be flat if___.

Question 31: The word "microbes" in paragraph 3 could best be replaced by which of the following?

Question 32: Lake Vostok is potentially important to scientists because it

Question 33: The last paragraph suggests that scientists should be aware of

Question 34: The purpose of the passage is to______.

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.
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness and its originality of perspective. Satire itself, however, rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false. Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd; Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift. It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude. Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is sanctimonious, sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it.

Question 35: What does the passage mainly discuss?

Question 36: Don Quixote, Brave New World, and A Modest Proposal are cited by the author as______.

Question 37: What satires fascinates readers is how ______.

Question 38: Which of the following can be found in satiric literature?

Question 39: According to the passage, there is a need for satire because people need to be_____.

Question 40: The word "refreshing" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to_______.

Question 41: The word "sanctimonious" may be new to you. It most probably means "_____" in this context.

Question 42: The various purposes of satire include all of the following EXCEPT_______.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined, part that needs correction.

Question 43: Please remain in your assign seats until the instructor dismisses the class.
                         A                   B          C                                D

Question 44: Employees who haven't seen the new regulations often ask for unnecessary questions; instead
                    A                                                                       B                                                C 
they should ask for a copy of the regulations and read them
                                                                                    D

Question 45: The nutritionist told him to avoid eating lots of carbohydrates, focus having more protein-rich foods and green
                                                  A                                                     B                                     C
vegetables, and drink at least eight glasses of water a day.
                             D

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

Question 46: You don’t try to work hard. You will fail in the exam.

Question 47: Marry loved her stuffed animal when she was young. She couldn’t sleep without it.

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 questionsor indicate the correct answer to each of them.

Question 48: He decided not to go to university and went to work in a restaurant.

Question 49: The secret to success is hard work.

Câu 50: Rather than disturb the meeting, I left without saying goodbye.