Đề luyện thi THPT Quốc gia môn Tiếng Anh - Đề 05 (Kèm đáp án)

ĐỀ 05

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

each of the blanks.

Any change in one part of an ecosystem can cause changes in other parts. Droughts, storms and fires can

change ecosystems. Some changes (1) _________ ecosystems. If there is too (2) _________ rainfall, plants will not

have enough water to live. If a kind of plant dies off, the animals that feed on it may also die or move away. Some

changes are good for ecosystems. Some pine forests need fires for the pine trees to reproduce. The seeds are sealed

inside pinecones. Heat from a forest fire melts the seal and lets the seeds (3) _________. Polluting the air, soil, and

water can harm ecosysterms. Building (4)_________ on rivers for electric power and irrigation can harm ecosystems

around the rivers. Bulldozing wetlands and cutting down forests destroy ecosystems. Ecologists are working with

companies and governments to find better ways of (5) _________ fish, cutting down trees, and building dams. They

are looking for ways to get food, lumber, and other products for people without causing harm to ecosystems.

Question 1. A. harms B. harmful C. harmless D. harm

Question 2. A. little B. a little C. few D. a few

Question 3. A. out B. ỉn C. go D. fly

Question 4. A. moats B. ditches C. bridges D. dams

Question 5. A. catching B. holding C. carrying D. taking

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part that differs

from the other three in thepronunciation in each of the following questions.

Question 6: A. state B. status C. station D. statue

Question 7: A. bury B. carry C. heavy D. many

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 8: A. popularityB. conscientious C. apprenticeship D. personality

Question 9: A. consonant B. divisible C. significant D. mosquito

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or Don your answer sheet to indicate the correct

answer

In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. In 1869 the

Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was

financed by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect

to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the economics

and social potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s

inviting facade, the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain

in the more sumptuous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors.

The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in

the 1870’s and early 1880’s was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a

rectangular area 25 feet wide by 100 feet deep-a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also

accommodate a rectangular tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms

that great apartment buildings require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment

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