5 Đề thi thử THPTQG năm 2021 môn Tiếng Anh

m could not talk to you when you phoned him yesterday, he ______ a bath.
A. took	B. had taken	C. was taking	D. would take
Question 7: I'd expected ______ weight on when I gave up smoking, but I didn't.
A. puts	B. putting	C. put	D. to put
Question 8: She'll ______ those figures until she's sure they've been done correctly.
A. worry at	B. point out	C. fall down	D. call back
Question 9: Both husband and wife should be responsible ______ doing the household chores.
A. with	B. to	C. of	D. for
Question 10: Bob's conducting a three-year internet romance with ______ girl he's never met.
A. a	B. an	C. the	D. Ø (no article)
Question 11: The baby has been crying for 15 minutes so far, ______?
A. does he	B. hasn’t he 	C. was he	D. didn’t he
Question 12: ______ his physical disability, he managed to finish the course with good results.
A. Although	B. Since	C. Because 	D. Despite
Question 13: Participating in teamwork activities helps students develop their ______ skills.
A. socially	...__”
A. Not at all	B. I don’t think so	C. A bit nervous	D. Thanks for asking me
Question 25: Peter and Mary are talking.
- Peter: “Do you mind if I borrow a chair?” - Mary: “______. Do you need only one?”
A. Not at all 	B. Yes, I do	C. Yes, I would	D. I'm sorry
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 26 to 30.
While Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press ushered in an age of democratized knowledge and incipient mass culture, it also transformed the act of authorship, making writing a potentially profitable enterprise. Before the mass production of books, authorship had few financial rewards unless a generous patron got involved. As a (26) ______, pre-Renaissance texts were often collaborative, and many books didn’t even list an author. The earliest concept of the copyright, from the time of the scriptoria, was who had the right to copy a book by hand. The printed book, (27) ______, was a speculative commercial enterprise, in that large numbers of identical copies could be sold. The explosive (28) ______ of the European printing industry meant that authors could potentially profit from the books they made and then wrote if their legal rights were recognized. In contemporary terms, copyright allows a person the right to (29) ______ others from copying, distributing, and selling a work. This is a right usually given to the creator, although that right can be sold or otherwise transferred. Works not covered by copyright or for which the copyright has expired are part of the public domain, (30) ______ means that they are essentially public property and can be used freely by anyone without permission or royalty payments.
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Question 26: A. conference	B. preference	C. difference	D. consequence
Question 27: A. however	B. therefore	C. moreover	D. although
Question 28: A. creation	B. generati... is the name of ______.
A. a championship	B. a primary school	C. a competition	D. a small village
Question 33: The word “coaxing” in paragraph 3 mostly means ______.
A. persuading	B. suggesting	C. pursuing	D. managing
Question 34: Which of the following is TRUE about the origin of the championship as stated in the passage?
A. There were too many worms rising to the surface of the Earth.
B. The school management refused to section off the schoolyard.
C. Annoyed students stomped the ground to reach the worms.
D. There was a huge number of participants in the competition.
Question 35: The word “their” in paragraph 3 refers to ______.
A. competitions	B. championships	C. participants	D. age groups
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 36 to 42.
Mars has been observed by many different cultures from around the world since hundreds of years. Because of this it is impossible to credit anyone with its discovery, Mars being easily visible with the naked eye.
Observations date back to ancient Egyptian astronomers in the 2nd millennium BCE while Chinese records about the motions of Mars appeared before the founding of the Zhou Dynasty in 1045 BCE.
Detailed observations were made even by the Babylonians who developed arithmetic techniques to predict the future position of the planet while the ancient Greeks developed a geocentric model to explain the planets motions.
To the ancient Romans, the planet Mars was symbolic of blood and war, the equivalent of the Greek god of war Aries. In the 16th century, Nicolaus Copernicus proposed a heliocentric model for the Solar System in which the planets follow circular orbits around the Sun.
Johannes Kepler revised this creation, yielding an elliptic orbit for Mars that more accurately fitted the observational data. In 1610, Galileo Galilei first observed Mars with a telescope and within a century, astronomers discovered