Đề thi giữa học kì 2 lớp 12 môn Anh – Đề số 1 năm 2015

Đề thi giữa học kì 2 lớp 12 môn Anh – Đề số 1 năm 2015

I. PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM: TỪ QUESTION 1 ĐẾN QUESTION 40 ( 8,0 điểm)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase for each of the blanks

         Wild animals and wild places where they live are seriously (1)______ almost everywhere. One species has become (2)_______ in each year of this century, but many hundreds are now in (3)______. Lack of (4) ______ would lead to the rapid advance of the process of extinction. Already many kinds of wild animals have been so reduced in number that their role in the ecosystem is forgotten.

          But even more important, perhaps, the individual kinds of animals and plants, whole habitats are in danger of vanishing: marshes are being drained, and the world forests, especially the tropical forests are being cut down to (5)_______man’s need of timber and paper.

Question 1. A. protected         B. used                         C. rescued                     D. threatened

Question 2. A. valuable          B. extinct                      C. endangered                D. dangerous

Question 3. A. beauty            B. preservation               C. danger                      D. peace

Question 4. A. attention         B. care                          C. look                         D. ignorance

Question 5. A. reduce            B. help                          C. satisfy                     D. supply

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

Question 6. You __________continue. You've made your point clearly enough already

 A. mustn't                   B. don't have               C. won't                      D. needn't      

Question 7. The Red List is a special book that provides names of ________ animals.

 A. vulnerable and endangered                             B. endangered        

C. hunted                    .                                   D. extinct

Question 8. Books are a wonderful source ________ knowledge and pleasure.

A. about                      B. with                        C. of                            D. in                           

Question 9. It is a top secret. You _______ tell anyone about it.

A. mustn't                   B. needn't                    C. mightn't                  D. won't

Question 10. It’s a school rule, all the pupils _________ wear a uniform.

A. have to                   B. might                      C. must                       D. need

Question 11. Peter ________the piano since he was very young.

A. has played              B. have played               C. was playing            D. was playing

Question 12. The driver_______ to read a newspaper while he_______ for the lights to change.

 A. started- was waiting                                   B. has started- has been waiting

 C. was starting- has waited                              D. had started- waited

Question 13. We are very _______ with our new car.

 A. pleasing                  B. pleasure                  C. please                     D. pleased

Question 14. The lift is not working now. It is out _______ order.

 A. in                            B. to                            C. of                            D. for                         

 Question 15. I’ll lend you the money and you ________ pay me back till next month.

 A. mustn’t                   B. needn’t                   C. need                       D. must

Question 16. The effects of cigarette ____ been proven to be extremely harmful.

 A. has                          B. has just                   C. have                     D. A & B are correct

Question 17. If you ____ a book, you have a brief look at it without reading or studying it seriously.

A. put away                   B. dip into                   C. pick up                   D. put down

Question 18. Tomatoes ________ before they are completely ripe.

 A. can be picked         B. can pick                  C. needn't pick            D. should be picking

Question 19. Peter: “_______________”     - Daisy: He is brave,witty and very kind to other people.

A. How old is he?                                           B. What is he like?

C. What does he like?                                     D. How do you like reading books?

Question 20. A lot of different conservation efforts have been made to________endangered species.

 A. kills                         B. make                       C. save                                    D. do

Question 21. Conservation is the protection of the _________ environment.

 A. nature                     B. naturalize                C. naturally                 D. natural

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.

Question 22. A. different                   B. carefully                 C. holiday                     D. reviewer

Question 23. A. discovery                  B. domestic                 C. reserve                    D. competition

Question 24. A. disappearance           B. vulnerable                 C. conservation            D. generation

Read the following passage and and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to to indicate the correct answer to each of the question

Once there were lots of pandas in the mountains of Western China. Today they are becoming extinct. The reason is that they can’t find enough food. Pandas eat bamboo leaves. They do not like another food. The bamboo grows very slowly. It can take ten years for a bamboo to grow from a seed to a big plant. Some types of bamboo have seeds only once every sixty years. Pandas must wait many years for their food to grow. While bamboo is growing, pandas do not have enough leaves to eat. Farmers are using more and more of the land on the mountain side to grow food for man. The farmers cut down the bamboo. Bamboo leaves become less plentiful. Pandas cannot find enough food to eat. They starve and die. China and World Wild Fund are trying to save the pandas. In 1979 they began to set up special parks where pandas live. One such park is the Wolong Reserve in Sichuan. The Wolong Reserve has highest number of pandas in the world. Scientists come here to study the panda’s eating and mating habits. By learning more about the pandas habits, scientists can save it from extinction.

Question 25. We could find a lot of pandas ____________

 A. in the mountains of Western China                       B. in the national parks of the world

 C. on bamboo trees                                             D. on the coast of Western China

Question 26. It takes a bamboo ____________to grow into a big plant.

 A. ten months                B. a decade                   C. a century                     D. sixty years

Question 27. Farmers cut down bamboo trees because they want to ______________      

 A. get food for pandas                                       B. drive pandas away                    

 C. make pandas starve and die                           D. get farmland

Question 28. What do the scientists do to save pandas from extinction?

 A. They stop farmers from cutting down the bamboo trees

 B. They set up parks for them

 C. They enact laws to ban hunting                               

 D. They plant bamboo trees

Question 29. Pandas are in danger of extinction because of______________

 A. hunters kill them for commercial purpose                

 B. farmers cut down trees for fuel and housing

 C. there is not enough food for them                           

 D. They suffer from diseases.

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

Question 30. I'll make  some sandwiches before  I'll leave  for work.

                          A            B                                             C          D

Question 31. Jackson  was late  because  he was not aware  with the time.

                                  A                 B           C                               D

Question 32. Because of the light, the town seemed  differently from the way I  had  remembered it.

                                 A                                                                B                                       C             D

Question 33. Have you ever read "Oliver Twist," a interesting novel written  by Charles Dickens ?

                                                 A                                        B                          C        D

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.

Question 34. I didn't think his comments were very appropriate at the time.

 A. exact                               B. correct                              C. right                        D. suitable                  

Question 35. Humans depend on species diversity to provide food, clean air and water, and fertile soil for agriculture.

A. destruction                         B. contamination                     C. fertilizer                  D. variety

Question 36. Help and supports are rapidly sent to wherever there are victims of catastrophe.

A. sudden great disaster                                              B. warfare      

C. poverty and famine                                                D. diseases and illnesses.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.

Question 37. A. stable                       B. average                   C. population               D. rate

Question 38. A. impressed                 B. proved                     C. trained                    D. performed

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 39. The new laws to conserve wildlife in the area will come into force next month.

A. eliminate                B. protect                      C. pullute                     D. destroy

Question 40. My uncle, who is an accomplished guitarist, taught me how to play.

A. unqualified             B. ill-educated                 C. unskilled                 D. unimpaired

II. PHẦN TỰ LUẬN (2,0 điểm)

Use the words given in large letters without changing them to finish each of the following sentences in such a way that means the same as the sentence printed before it.

Question 1. They say that he decorated their house in three days

--> He is ……………………………………………………………………………………………….

Question 2. No one has used this room for ages.

--> This ………. ……………………………………………………………………………………….

Question 3. He spent nearly a week preparing for the festival.

--> It ………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Question 4. The weather was so cold that they couldn’t go out for a walk.

--> The weather was too……………………………………………………………………………….

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