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TÀI LIỆU ÔN THI THPT QUỐC GIA MÔN TIẾNG ANH NĂM 2017

BÀI TẬP ĐỌC HIỂU

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word or phrase that best fits each of the blank:

PASSAGE 1

       Clean freshwater resources are essential for drinking, bathing, cooking, irrigation, industry, and for plant and animal (1) ____. Unfortunately, the global supply of freshwater is (2) ____ unevenly. Chronic water shortages (3) ____ in most ofAfricaand drought is common over much of the globe. The (4) ____ of most freshwater supplies - groundwater (water located below the soil surface), reservoirs, and rivers - are under severe and (5) ____ environmental stress because of overuse, water pollution, and ecosystem degradation. Over 95 percent of urban sewage in (6) ____ countries is (7) ____ untreated into surface waters such as rivers and harbors;

     About 65 percent of the global freshwater supply is used in (8) ____ and 25 percent is used in industry. Freshwater (9) ____ therefore requires a reduction in wasteful practices like (10) ____ irrigation, reforms in agriculture and. industry, and strict pollution controls worldwide.

1. A. survive                            B. survived                  C. surviving                D. survival

2. A. delivered                           B. distributed             C. provided                 D. given

3. A. exist                                B. lie                            C. show                       D. l:itay

4. A. resources                        B. springs                    C. sources                   D. starting

5. A. increasing                      B. growing                  C. climbing                  D. ascending

6. A. growing                          B. miserable                C. poverty                   D. developing

7. A. recharged                       B. discharged             C. charged                   D. discharging

8. A. farming                         B. planting                  C. agriculture              D. growing

9. A. reservation                      B. conservation          C. preservation            D. retention

10. A. ineffective                    B. illogical                   C. irrational                 D. inefficient

PASSAGE 2

     Some time ago, scientists began experiments to find out (1)______ it would be possible to set up a “village” under the sea. A special room was built and lowered (2)______ the water of Port Sudan in the Red Sea. For 29 days, five men lived (3)______ a depth of 40 feet. At a (4)______ lower level, another two divers stayed for a week in a smaller “house”. On returning to the surface, the men said that they had experienced no difficulty in breathing and had (5)______ many interesting scientific observations. The captain of the party, Commander Cousteau, spoke of the possibility of (6)______ the seabed. He said that some permanent stations were to be set up under the sea, and some undersea farms would provide food for the growing population of the world.

The divers in both “houses” spent most of their time (7)______ the bottom of the sea. On four occasions, they went down to 360 feet and observed many extraordinary (8)______ of the marine life, some of which had never been seen before. During their stay, Commander Cousteau and his divers reached a depth of 1,000 feet and witnessed a gathering of an immense (9)______ of crabs which numbered, perhaps, hundreds of millions. They also found out that it was (10)______ to move rapidly in the water in a special vessel known as a “diving saucer”.

1.       A. which                       B. what                                   C. how                           D. whether

2.      A. underneath                B. into                                    C. down                         D. below

3.      A. in                               B. at                                        C. on                              D. from

4.      A. any                            B. more                                   C. much                        D. some

5.      A. made                         B. exercised                            C. caught                       D. done

6.      A. implanting                 B. transplanting                      C. growing                     D. cultivating

7.      A. inquiring                    B. exploring                           C. imploring                   D. enquiring

8.      A. systems                      B. forms                                 C. breeds                        D. castes

9.      A. pack                           B. herd                                    C. school                       D. flock

10.    A. able                            B. possible                              C. hardly                        D. capable

PASSAGE 3

Eight out of ten British schools require students to wear school uniforms. Wearing a uniform has been …(1)………as part of British school tradition for a long time, and makes a good …(2)…on people. Some schools have used the idea of school uniform as a(n) (3)………. to let the students …(4)…. themselves by designing their uniform so they could (5)….. a part in deciding what they would wear every day.

The UK government has just …(6)…… the results of a study which showed that many parents actually dread the beginning of the school year because they cannot (7)…. to buy their children school uniforms. This is because schools in many areas make arrangements with one local shop so that their uniforms can only be bought there, and this (8)…. the shop to increase the prices because it doesn’t have any …(9)… The result of the survey is that pressure will now be put on schools to (10)………with the problem and make sure that uniforms can be bought at reasonable prices.

1. A. regarded            B. considered                          C. thought                   D. supposed

2. A. effect                  B. reaction                               C. recognition           D. impression

3. A. opportunity        B. ability                                 C. potential                 D. benefit

4. A. convey                B. express                                C. produce                  D. identify

5. A. take                    B. make                                   C. play                         D. turn

6. A. told                     B. discovered                          C. portrayed                D. announced

7. A. participate          B. allow                                   C. pay                          D. afford

8. A. suits                    B. lets                                      C. enables                    D. manages

9. A. critic                   B. competition                        C. consequence           D. risk

10. A. affect                B. manage                               C. relate                       D. deal