Đề thi tuyển sinh đại học, cao đẳng năm 2008 môn Tiếng Anh Khối D - Mã đề 846 (Kèm đáp án)

es have been made much easier by electrical ______. 
A. applications B. instruments C. utilities D. appliances 
Câu 7: The doctor decided to give her a thorough examination ______ he could identify the causes of her 
illness. 
A. so as B. unless C. after D. so that 
Câu 8: I'm sure you'll have no ______ the exam. 
A. difficulties of passing B. difficulty passing C. difficulties to pass D. difficulty to pass 
Câu 9: The referee ______ the coin to decide which team would kick the ball first. 
A. caught B. threw C. cast D. tossed 
Câu 10: Increasing ______ of fruit in the diet may help to reduce the risk of heart disease. 
A. the amount B. an amount C. the number D. a number 
Câu 11: - "Why wasn't your boyfriend at the party last night?" 
 - "He ______ the lecture at Shaw Hall. I know he very much wanted to hear the speaker." 
A. was to attend B. can have attended C. may have attended D. should have attended 
Câu 12: I am considering ______ my job. Can you recommend a good company? 
A. changing B. to move C. to change D. moving 
Câu 13: The price of fruit has increased recently, ______ the price of vegetables has gone down. 
A. whereas B. whether C. when D. otherwise 
Câu 14: I’m afraid I’m not really ______ to comment on this matter. 
A. qualitative B. quality C. qualified D. qualifying 
Câu 15: I accidentally ______ Mike when I was crossing a street downtown yesterday. 
A. kept an eye on B. lost touch with C. paid attention to D. caught sight of 
Câu 16: It is blowing so hard. We ______ such a terrible storm. 
A. never know B. had never known 
C. have never known D. have never been knowing 
Câu 17: My computer is not ______ of running this software. 
A. compatible B. suitable C. capable D. able 
Câu 18: - Laura: “What a lovely house you have!” 
 - Maria: “_______.” 
A. No problem B. Thank you. Hope you will drop in 
C. Of course not, it’s not costly D. I think so 
Câu 19: The room needs ______ for the wedding. 
A. to decorate B. be dec...s almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and 
medieval worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term “reading” undoubtedly meant reading aloud. Only 
during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace. 
 One should be wary, however, of assuming that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud 
was a distraction to others. Examinations of factors related to the historical development of silent reading have 
revealed that it became the usual mode of reading for most adults mainly because the tasks themselves 
changed in character. 
 The last century saw a steady gradual increase in literacy and thus in the number of readers. As the 
number of readers increased, the number of potential listeners declined and thus there was some reduction in 
the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the flourishing of 
reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and offices, where reading 
aloud would cause distraction to other readers. 
 Towards the end of the century, there was still considerable argument over whether books should be 
used for information or treated respectfully and over whether the reading of materials such as newspapers was 
in some way mentally weakening. Indeed, this argument remains with us still in education. However, whatever 
its virtues, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the printed mass media on the one 
hand and by books and periodicals for a specialised readership on the other. 
 By the end of the twentieth century, students were being recommended to adopt attitudes to books and 
to use reading skills which were inappropriate, if not impossible, for the oral reader. The social, cultural and 
technological changes in the century had greatly altered what the term “reading” implied. 
Câu 26: Reading aloud was more common in the medieval world because ______. 
A. few people could rea...he readers’ interest 
C. an improvement of printing techniques D. an alteration in educationalists’ attitudes 
Câu 31: The phrase “a specialised readership” in paragraph 4 mostly means “______”. 
A. a status for readers specialised in mass media 
B. a limited number of readers in a particular area of knowledge 
C. a requirement for readers in a particular area of knowledge 
D. a reading volume for particular professionals 
Câu 32: The phrase “oral reader” in the last paragraph mostly means “a person who ______”. 
A. takes part in an audition B. is good at public speaking 
C. is interested in spoken language D. practises reading to an audience 
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Câu 33: All of the following might be the factors that affected the continuation of the old shared literacy culture 
EXCEPT ______. 
A. the inappropriate reading skills B. the printed mass media 
C. the diversity of reading materials D. the specialised readership 
Câu 34: Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage? 
A. Reading aloud was more common in the past than it is today. 
B. The decline of reading aloud was wholly due to its distracting effect. 
C. The change in reading habits was partly due to the social, cultural and technological changes. 
D. Not all printed mass media was appropriate for reading aloud. 
Câu 35: The writer of this passage is attempting to ______. 
A. show how reading methods have improved B. explain how reading habits have developed 
C. change people’s attitudes to reading D. encourage the growth of reading 
Đọc kỹ đoạn văn sau và chọn phương án đúng (A hoặc B, C, D) cho mỗi câu từ 36 đến 45. 
 The Sun today is a yellow dwarf star. It is fueled by thermonuclear reactions near its center that convert 
hydrogen to helium. The Sun has existed in its present state for about four billion six hundred million years and 
is thousands of times larger than the Earth. 
 By studying other stars, astronomers can predict what the re