Đề thi tuyển sinh đại học năm 2010 môn Tiếng Anh Khối D - Mã đề 184 (Kèm đáp án)

s and soil particles are carried into streams and then into the sea. 
Land that is covered with trees, grass and other plants wears away very slowly, and so loses very 
(4)______ of its soil. The roots of plants help to (5)______ the rocks and soil in place. Water that 
falls on grasslands runs away more slowly than water that falls on bare ground. Thus, forests and 
grasslands (6)______ to slow down erosion. 
Even where the land is (7)______ covered with plants, some erosion goes on. In the spring, the 
(8)______ snow turns into a large quantity of water that then runs downhill in streams. (9)______ a 
stream carries away some of the soil, the stream bed gets deeper and deeper. (10)______ thousands of 
years of such erosion, wide valleys are often formed. 
Question 1: A. cleans out B. picks up C. carries out D. holds up 
Question 2: A. still B. such C. even D. though 
Question 3: A. borders B. topside C. backside D. hillsides 
Question 4: A. large B. little C. few D. much 
Question 5: A. hold B. back C. stay D. store 
Question 6: A. help B. aid C. assist D. facilitate 
Question 7: A. strongly B. thickly C. thinly D. scarcely 
Question 8: A. melted B. melting C. building D. formed 
Question 9: A. Although B. Till C. As D. Until 
Question 10: A. After B. During C. Among D. In 
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the 
correct answer to each of the questions from 11 to 20. 
It’s often said that we learn things at the wrong time. University students frequently do the 
minimum of work because they’re crazy about a good social life instead. Children often scream 
before their piano practice because it’s so boring. They have to be given gold stars and medals to be 
persuaded to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. But the story is different when you’re older. 
Over the years, I’ve done my share of adult learning. At 30, I went to a college and did courses in 
History and English. It wa... when you’re older, you get less frustrated. 
Experience has told you that, if you’re calm and simply do something carefully again and again, 
eventually you’ll get the hang of it. The confidence you have in other areas – from being able to drive 
a car, perhaps – means that if you can’t, say, build a chair instantly, you don’t, like a child, want to 
destroy your first pathetic attempts. Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get 
there. 
I hated piano lessons at school, but I was good at music. And coming back to it, with a teacher 
who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical concepts that, at the age of ten, 
I could never grasp, was magical. Initially, I did feel a bit strange, thumping out a piece that I’d 
played for my school exams, with just as little comprehension of what the composer intended as I’d 
had all those years before. But soon, complex emotions that I never knew poured out from my 
fingers, and suddenly I could understand why practice makes perfect. 
Question 11: It is implied in paragraph 1 that ______. 
A. young learners are usually lazy in their class 
B. teachers should give young learners less homework 
C. young learners often lack a good motivation for learning 
D. parents should encourage young learners to study more 
Question 12: The writer’s main point in paragraph 2 is to show that as people grow up, ______. 
A. they cannot learn as well as younger learners 
B. they have a more positive attitude towards learning 
C. they tend to learn less as they are discouraged 
D. they get more impatient with their teachers 
Question 13: The phrase “For starters” in paragraph 2 could best be replaced by “______”. 
A. For beginners B. First and foremost 
C. At the starting point D. At the beginning 
Question 14: While doing some adult learning courses at a college, the writer was surprised ______. 
A. to have more time to learn B. to be able to learn more quickly 
C. to feel l...arning 
process because adult learners ______. 
A. pay more attention to detail than younger learners 
B. have become more patient than younger learners 
C. are less worried about learning than younger learners 
D. are able to organize themselves better than younger learners 
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Question 19: It is implied in the last paragraph that when you learn later in life, you ______. 
A. should expect to take longer to learn than when you were younger 
B. find that you can recall a lot of things you learnt when younger 
C. can sometimes understand more than when you were younger 
D. are not able to concentrate as well as when you were younger 
Question 20: What is the writer’s main purpose in the passage? 
A. To show how fast adult learning is. B. To describe adult learning methods. 
C. To encourage adult learning. D. To explain reasons for learning. 
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the 
correct answer to each of the questions from 21 to 30. 
In the West, cartoons are used chiefly to make people laugh. The important feature of all these 
cartoons is the joke and the element of surprise which is contained. Even though it is very funny, a 
good cartoon is always based on close observation of a particular feature of life and usually has a 
serious purpose. 
Cartoons in the West have been associated with political and social matters for many years. In 
wartime, for example, they proved to be an excellent way of spreading propaganda. Nowadays 
cartoons are often used to make short, sharp comments on politics and governments as well as on a 
variety of social matters. In this way, the modern cartoon has become a very powerful force in 
influencing people in Europe and the United States. 
Unlike most American and European cartoons, however, many Chinese cartoon drawings in the 
past have also attempted to educate people, especially those who could not read and write. Such