Đề thi tuyển sinh cao đẳng năm 2012 môn Tiếng Anh Khối A1+D1 - Mã đề 532 (Kèm đáp án)

. D. My pleasure. 
Question 4: The teacher said that I would be able to speak English fluently ______ six months. 
A. since B. in C. by D. till 
Question 5: There is a good film ______ TV tonight. Will you watch it? 
A. in B. on C. at D. from 
Question 6: Parts of the mountain road have been washed ______ after the floods. 
A. away B. out C. through D. off 
Question 7: Susan, remember to apply this sun cream ______ two hours. 
A. every B. several C. some D. each 
Question 8: I hope you will ______ notice of what I am going to tell you. 
A. gain B. get C. take D. keep 
Question 9: How long ago ______ to learn French? 
A. were you starting B. have you started C. would you start D. did you start 
Question 10: Neither Tom nor his brothers ______ willing to help their mother with the housework. 
A. is B. was C. are D. has been 
Question 11: College students are becoming less dependent ______ their teachers. 
A. on B. to C. of D. with 
Question 12: No sooner ______ my car than the alarm went off. 
A. touched the thief B. the thief touched 
C. the thief had touched D. had the thief touched 
Question 13: Nowadays, most students use ______ calculators in their studies and examinations. 
A. electricity B. electronic C. electrical D. electric 
Question 14: ______ he was tired, he still watched the final match on TV. 
A. However B. Though C. Despite D. Because 
Question 15: I’d rather you ______ to the English-speaking club with me this Sunday. 
A. will come B. to come C. come D. came 
Question 16: He gave ______ his job in order to go back to university. 
A. away B. in C. up D. out 
Question 17: Parts of the country are suffering water ______ after the unusually dry summer. 
A. supply B. hunger C. thirst D. shortage 
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Question 18: Sarah: “Oh my God, I’ve missed my bus.” 
 Christ: “______. Another will come here in ten minutes.” 
A. Don’t worry B. Thank you C. I hope so D. Don’t mention it 
Question 19: She was ______...rect answer to each of the questions from 26 to 35. 
One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual 
exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, 
you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to 
an extreme degree. 
The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and 
the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all 
that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication. 
When television came along, it proliferated like a population of rabbits. In 1950, there were 
100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more than a million. 
Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to 
perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of 
them it runs 24 hours a day. 
What’s more, after the traumatic events of September 11, 2001, live newscasts were paired with 
perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every 
story all the time. 
Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and 
sound bytes alluding to disaster (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. 
Compounding the problem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with 
scare stories about things that possibly might threaten our health, safety, finances, relationships, 
waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm 
a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth 
skin. 
Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma –...slowly 
C. printing, transportation, and telecommunications were not developed 
D. most people lived in distant towns and villages 
Question 28: The pronoun “them” in paragraph 3 refers to ______. 
A. TV channels B. TV news C. cable access D. television sets 
Question 29: The word “traumatic” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to ______. 
A. exciting B. upsetting C. boring D. fascinating 
Question 30: According to the passage, when there is not enough actual breaking news, broadcasts 
______. 
A. are full of dangerous diseases such as flu 
B. send out frightening stories about potential dangers 
C. send out live newscasts paired with text across the screen 
D. are forced to publicise an alarming increase in crime 
Question 31: As stated in the passage, a flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream tend to 
______. 
A. be warmly welcomed by the public B. be scarce breaking news 
C. be treated with equal alarm D. involve natural and man-made disasters 
Question 32: Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage? 
A. Many people are under stress caused by the media. 
B. The news that is reported to us is not good news. 
C. The only source of stress in our modern life is the media. 
D. Many TV channels supply the public with breaking news. 
Question 33: The word “slip” in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ______. 
A. bring B. fall C. fail D. release 
Question 34: According to the passage, our continual exposure to bad news without perspective is 
obviously ______. 
A. a source of chronic stress 
B. the result of an overabundance of good news 
C. a source of defects in human brain 
D. the result of human brain’s switch to alarm mode 
Question 35: What is probably the best title for this passage? 
A. Developments in Telecommunications B. More Modern Life – More Stress 
C. Effective Ways to Beat Stress D. The Media – A Major Cause of Stress 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word