SỞ GD&ĐT KIÊN GIANG ĐỀ THI THỬ TỐT NHIỆP THPT NĂM 2023

TRƯỜNG THCS&THPT HÒA HƯNG Đề số: 16

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs
from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Câu 1: A. think B. thrill C. though D. thank
Câu 2: A. design B. climate C. exticnt D. remind
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.
Câu 3: A. believe B. support C. carry D. attract
Câu 4: A. romantic B. attractive C. important D. attitude
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Câu 5: Thien Mu Pagoda, ____________,in Hue city is one of the most famous tourist attractions .
A. locating B. to locate C. to be located D. located
Câu 6: Life in the countryside is _______than life in the city.
A. more peaceful B. most peacful C. the most peaceful D. peaceful
Câu 7: I will call and tell you something interesting ______.
A. before I came home after work B. after I had come home after work
C. while I was coming home after work D. when I come home after work
Câu 8: Would you kindly inform me who is responsible ______ the travel arrangements?
A. on B. to C. in D. for
Câu 9: Your father is going to work tomorrow, ______?
A. isn’t he B. was he C. doesn’t he D. did he
Câu 10: In summer time, my family often have _______ dinner in our garden.
A. x (no article) B. a C. the D. an
Câu 11. Due to the widespread deforestation, the ___________ of wild animals is being severely
damaged.
A. accommodation B. location C. house D. habitat
Câu 12: She ran in a marathon last week but _______ after ten kilometers.
A. dropped out B. closed down C. broke up D. made up
Câu 13: She agrees______ overtime to save money for her family vacation .
A. working B. work C. to working D. to work
Câu 11: .When my friends have an argument, it's better to sit on the _______!
A. gate B. roof C. wall D. fence
Câu 15: When I _______ to school yesterday, I met him.
A. was going B. went C. am going D. go
Câu 16: It is parents' duty and responsibility to _______ hands to take care of their children and give
them a happy home.
A. shake B. hold C. join D. take
Câu 17: An online seminar ______ by Pro. Smith next Sunday.
A. held B. is holding C. have told D. will be held
Câu 18: There are _______ ways of spending your free time, so you can choose to do whatever you like.
A. scanty B. various C. ridiculous D. variety
Câu 19. Animals classified as CR on the conservation status scale are in ___________ of extinction.
A. diversity B. danger C. need D. protection
Choose A, B, C, or D to indicate the most suitable response to complete following exchanges.
Câu 20: Mai is thanking Marry for the birthday present.
Mai: “What a lovely hat! Thank you very much!”. Marry: “____________.”
A. You’re welcome. I am glad that you like it B. Yes. It is very expensive
C. Yes. It is very difficult to find D. Yes. It is really lovely
Câu 21: Nancy and James are talking about their school days.
- Nancy: "I think school days are the best time of our lives."

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- James: "………We had sweet memories together then."
A. Absolutely B. I doubt it C. I'm afraid so D. That's nonsense
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in
meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Câu 22: The International Organizations are going to be in a temporary way in the country.
A. soak B. permanent C. complicated D. guess
Câu 23: One of the main benefits of urbanization is that people who once lived in rural areas have greater
opportunity to access to up-to-date technology and facilities.
A. outdated B. young C. modern D. sophisticated
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined part in each of the following questions.
Câu 24: She got up late and rushed to the bus stop.
A. came into B. went leisurely C. went quickly D. dropped by
Câu 25:. I didn't think his comments were very appropriate at the time.
A. correct B. right C. suitable D. exact
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.
Câu 26: It is compulsory for students to hand in their assignments at dead time.
A. Students needn’t hand in their assignments at dead time.
B. We shouldn’t hand in their assignments at dead time.
C. Students musts hand in their assignments at dead time.
D. Students may hand in their assignments at dead time.
Câu 27: The last time I went to the museum was a year ago.
A. A year ago, I often went to the museum. B. My going to the museum lasted a year.
C. At last I went to the museum after a year. D. I have not been to the museum for a year.
Câu 28: "What are you going to do tonight?"asked my brother.
A. My brother asked me what I was going to to that night.
B. My brother asked me what I am going to do that night.
C. My brother asked me what am I going to do that night.
D. My brother asked me what was I going to do that night.
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.
Câu 29: They have carried out exhausting research into the effects of smartphones on schoolchildren's
A B
behaviour and their academic performance.
C D
Câu 30: I finish college last year, and I have been working here for only eight months now.
A B C D
Câu 31: Many schools are more modern to make it convenient for children to receive better education.
A B C 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
Câu 32: We survived that accident because we were wearing our seat belts.
A. But for our seat belts, we would have survived that accident.
B. Had we not been wearing our seat belts, we wouldn't have survived that accident.
C. Without our seat belts, we could have survived that accident.
D. If we weren't wearing our seat belts, we couldn't have survived that accident.
Câu 33: Tom had just approached the house. He received a phone call from the local police.
A. Only after Tom had received a phone call from the local police did he approach the house.
B. Hardly had Tom approached the house when he received a phone call from the local police.
C. Not until Tom had received a phone call from the local police did he approach the house.
D. Hardly Tom had received a phone call from the local police when he approach the house.
Read the passage and fill in the numbered blanks with correct words (A,B,C or D)
Whales are the largest animals in the world, and the gentlest creatures we know______(34)_____ the
whale is very huge, it is not hindered at all by its size when it is in the water. Whales have

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______(35)_____ that end like flippers. With just a gentle flick, it can propel itself forward. The skin of a
whale is so smooth that it does not create any friction ______(36)_____ can slow the whale down. A
whale’s breathing hole is located on the top of its head, so it can breathe without having to completely
push its head out of the water. Whales are protected from the cold seawater by body fat that is called
blubber.
Whales live in the ocean but, in terms of behaviour, they are ______(37)_____ similar to humans than
fish. They live in family groups and they even 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 ______(38)_____ for the whales so that they could swim
to warmer waters.
Câu 34: A. But B. Although C. And D. So
Câu 35: A. heads B. backs C. tails D. faces
Câu 36: A. where B. when C. whom D. that
Câu 37: A. many B. more C. another D. every
Câu 38: A. guides B. oceans C. experiences D. maps
Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to the following questions.
For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming back to an
empty house. Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hide. But all of them have
something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called “latchkey children”. They are
children who look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad condition has become a
subject of concern.
Lynette Long was once the principle of an elementary school. She said, “We had a school rule against
wearing jewelry. A lot of kids had chains around their necks with keys attached. I was constantly telling
them to put the keys inside the shirts. There were so many keys; it never came to my mind what they
meant.” Slowly, she learned that they were house keys.
She and her husband began talking to the children who had keys. They learned of the effect working
couples and single parents were having on their children. Fear was the biggest problem faced by children
at home alone. One in three latchkey children the Longs talked to reported being frightened. Many had
nightmares and were worried about their own safety.
The most common was latchkey children deal with their fears is by hiding. They may hide in a shower
stall, under a bed or in a closet. The second is TV. They often turn the volume up. It’s hard to get
statistics on latchkey children, the Long have learned. Most parents are slow to admit that they leave their
children alone.
Câu 39: What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
A. Bad condition of latchkey children. B. Children’s activities at home
C. How kids spend free time D. Why kids hate going
home
Câu 40: The phrase “an empty house” in the passage mostly means _______
A. a house with nothing inside B. a house with no people inside
C. a house with too much space D. a house with no furniture
Câu 41: The word “them” in paragraph 2 refers to _______
A. Kids B. keys C. chains D. necks
Câu 42: What is the most common way for latchkey children to deal with fears?
A. Talking to the Longs B. Hiding somewhere
C. Lying under a TV D. Having a shower
Câu 43: It’s difficult to find out the number of latchkey children because _______.
A. they hide themselves in shower stalls or under beds
B. they do not give information about themselves for safety reasons

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 C. there are too many of them in the whole country
D. most parents are reluctant to admit that they leave their children alone
Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to the following questions.
In the American colonies there was little money. England did not supply the colonies with coins and
did not allow the colonies to make their own coins, except for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which
received permission for a short period in 1652 to make several kinds of silver coins. England wanted to
keep money out of America as a means of controlling trade: America was forced to trade only with
England if it did not have the money to buy products from other countries. The result during this re-
revolutionary period was that the colonists used various goods in place of money: beaver pelts, Indian
wampum, and tobacco leaves were all commonly used substitutes for money. The colonists also made use
of any foreign coins they could obtain. Dutch, Spanish, French, and English coins were all in use in the
American colonies.
During the Revolutionary War, funds were needed to finance the world, so each of the individual
states and the Continental Congress issued paper money. So much of this paper money was printed that
by the end of the war, almost no one would accept it. As a result, trade in goods and the use of foreign
coins still flourished during this period.
By the time the Revolutionary War had been won by the American colonists, the monetary system
was in a state of total disarray. To remedy this situation, the new Constitution of the United States,
approved in 1789, allowed Congress to issue money. The individual states could no longer have their
own money supply. A few years later, the Coinage Act of 1792 made the dollar the official currency of
the United States and put the country on a bimetallic standard. In this bimetallic system, both gold and
silver were legal money, and the rate of exchange of silver to gold was fixed by the government at sixteen
to one.
Câu 44: The passage mainly discusses?
A. The effect of the Revolution on American money.
B. American money from past to present.
C. The American monetary system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
D. The English monetary policies in colonial America.
Câu 45: The passage indicates that during the colonial period, money was__________.
A. used extensively for trade B. scarce C. supplied by England D. coined by
colonists
Câu 46: The Massachusetts Bay Colony was allowed to make coins
A. for a short time during one year. B. throughout the seventeenth century.
C. continuously from the inception of the colonies. D. from 1652 until the Revolutionary War.
Câu 47: Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as a substitute for money during the
colonial period?
A. Wampum B. Cotton C. Beaver furs D. Tobacco
Câu 48: The pronoun it in paragraph 2 refers to which of the following
A. The Continental Congress B. Trade in goods C. The War D. Paper money
Câu 49: The word approved in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. agreed B. appeared C. considered D. decided
Câu 50: According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about the bimetallic monetary
system?
A. Either gold or silver could be used as official money.
B. It was established in 1792.
C. Gold could be exchanged for silver at the rate of sixteen to one.
D. The monetary system was based on two matters.

The end and good luck!