Đề thi thử tốt nghiệp THPT 2020 (theo cấu trúc đề minh họa lần 2) của Trường THPT CHUYÊN LƯƠNG VĂN CHÁNH, Phú Yên.
Choose the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following question.
The coffee was not strong. It didn't keep us awake.
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His English was poor. He managed to communicate his problem very clearly.
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Helen likes listening to music, going to the cinema, to chat on the phone and going shopping.
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The better you are at English, more chance you have to get a job with international organizations.
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I found my new contact lenses strangely at first, but I got used to them in the end.
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Remember to take off your shoes before entering the temple.
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The performance finally started half an hour late.
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"How beautiful is the dress you have just bought!" Peter said to Mary.
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It was essential to persuade him to change his mind but you didn't.
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Because it was an interesting novel, I stayed up all night to finish it.
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Insects' lives are very short and they have many enemies, but they must survive long enough to breed and perpetuate their kind. The less insect-like they look, the better their chance of survival. To look "inedible" by resembling or imitating plants is a deception widely practiced by insects. Mammals rarely use this type of camouflage, but many fish and invertebrates do.
The stick caterpillar is well named. It is hardly distinguishable from a brown or green twig. This caterpillar is quite common and can be found almost anywhere in North America. It is also called "measuring worm" or "inchworm". It walks by arching its body than stretching out and grasping the branch with its front feet then looping its body again to bring the hind feet forward. When danger threatens, the stick caterpillar stretches its body away from the branch at an angle and remains rigid and still, like a twig, until the danger has passed.
Walking sticks, or stick insects, do not have to assume a rigid, twig-like pose to find protection; they look like inedible twigs in any position. There are many kinds of walking sticks, ranging in size from the few inches of the North American variety to some tropical species that may be over a foot long. When at rest their front legs are stretched out heightening their camouflage. Some of the tropical species are adorned with spines or ridges imitating the thorny bushes or trees in which they live.
Leaves also seem to be a favorite object for insects to imitate. Many butterflies can suddenly disappear from view by folding their wings and sitting quietly among the foliage that they resemble.
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The politician is as crooked as a dog's hind leg and nobody trusts him.
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We were at sixes and sevens when we happened to find that the local grocery store closed.
He grew up in _____ orphanage in _____ United States.
_____ she came to know him better, she relied on him more.
Old houses have a _____ to be draughty.
Share these sweets _____ the five children and see that each one gets a fair share.
As the drug took _____, the patient became quieter.
He will take the dog out for a walk as soon as he _____ dinner.
He _____ me to believe that they had left the district.
_____ less last night, you _____ so bad today.
Once _____ in large quantities, these products will be more affordably priced.
Someone remembered to leave the messages, _____?
Sam always remembers _____ in the garage so that the driveway is free for other cars.
The taxes have increased _____ the board and everyone must pay more.
Bill and Ted _____ each other straight away and became firm friends.
Ann couldn't cut the grass because the lawnmower _____ a few days previously.
Although he was _____, he agreed to play tennis with me.
Alice: "What a great haircut, Lucy!"
Lucy: "_____."
Linda: "Can you make it at 3 p.m. on Friday for our meeting?"
- Mike: "_____.”
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Music can bring us to tears or to our feet, drive us into battle or lull us to sleep. Music is indeed remarkable in its power over all humankind, and perhaps for that very reason, no human culture on earth has ever lived without it. From discoveries made in France and Slovenia, even Neanderthal man, as long as 53,000 years ago, had developed surprisingly sophisticated, sweet-sounding flutes carved from animal bones. It is perhaps then, no accident that music should strike such a chord with the limbic system - an ancient part of our brain, evolutionarily speaking, and one that we share with much of the animal kingdom. Some researchers even propose that music came into this world long before the human race ever did. For example, the fact that whale and human music have so much in common even though our evolutionary paths have not intersected for nearly 60 million years suggests that music may predate humans. They assert that rather than being the inventors of music, we are latecomers to the musical scene.
Humpback whale composers employ many of the same tricks that human songwriters do. In addition to using similar rhythms, humpbacks keep musical phrases to a few seconds, creating themes out of several phrases before singing the next one. Whale songs in general are no longer than symphony movements, perhaps because they have a similar attention span. Even though they can sing over a range of seven octaves, the whales typically sing in key, spreading adjacent notes no farther apart than a scale. They mix percussive and pure tones in pretty much the same ratios as human composers - and follow their ABA form, in which a theme is presented, elaborated on and then revisited in a slightly modified form. Perhaps most amazing, humpback whale songs include repeating refrains that rhyme. It has been suggested that whales might use thymes for exactly the same reasons that we do: as devices to help them remember. Whale songs can also be rather catchy. When a few humpbacks from the Indian Ocean strayed into the Pacific, some of the whales they met there quickly changed their tunes - singing the new whales' songs within three short years. Some scientists are even tempted to speculate that a universal music awaits discovery.
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Many people think that we can learn a lot about the culture of a foreign country by living in that country. this is not necessarily true. Often the longer we stay in a foreign country, the more we realize how little we actually know about the culture of that country. Books and talks about other people's cultures can even be dangerous because they concentrate on cultural differences and exaggerate national characteristics; sometimes a lot of the information contain is true.
In a survey recently in Britain, people were asked to make a list of anything which they thought was typical Britain and would interest foreign visitors there. Most of them mentioned Shakespeare, the Queen, village inns, English folk dancing, football hooligans, umbrellas, English castles, cricket and fish and chips.