ĐỀ THI TUYỂN SINH ĐẠI HỌC NĂM 2014
MÔN THI: ANH VĂN; Khối D1
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ĐỀ THI GỒM 80 CÂU (TỪ QUESTION 1 ĐẾN QUESTION 80)
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 1: We run a very tight ship here, and we expect all our employees to be at their desks by eight o’clock and take good care of their own business.
A. organize things inefficiently B. manage an inflexible system
C. run faster than others D. have a good voyage
run a tight ship: quản lý hiệu quả, điều hành chặt chẽ
→ opposite: A. điều hành kém hiệu quả
Question 2: Any student who neglects his or her homework is unlikely to do well at school.
A. approves of. B. attends to. C. puts off. D. looks for.
neglect: làm ngơ, không chú ý.
approve of: đồng ý
attend to: đối mặt; quan tâm đến
put off: trì hoãn, làm mất hứng thú, khiến ai ghét
look for: tìm kiếm
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 3 to 12.
We live in a world of tired, sleep deprived people. In his book Counting Sheep, Paul Martin – a behavioral biologist – describes a society which is just too busy to sleep and which does not give sleeping the importance it deserves.
Modern society has invented reasons not to sleep. We are now a 24/7 society where shops and services must be available all hours. We spend longer hours at work than we used to, and more time getting to work. Mobile phones and email allow us to stay in touch round the clock and late-night TV and the Internet tempt us away from our beds. When we need more time for work or pleasure, the easy solution is to sleep less. The average adult sleeps only 6.2 hours a night during the week, whereas research shows that most people need eight or even eight and a half hours’ sleep to feel at their best. Nowadays, many people have got used to sleeping less than they need and they live in an almost permanent state of ‘sleep debt’.
Until the invention of the electric light in 1879 our daily cycle of sleep used to depend on the hours of daylight. People would get up with the sun and go to bed at nightfall. But nowadays our hours of sleep are mainly determined by our working hours (or our social life) and most people are woken up artificially by an alarm clock. During the day caffeine, the world’s most popular drug, helps to keep us awake. 75% of the world’s population habitually consume caffeine, which up to a point masks the symptoms of sleep deprivation.
What does a chronic lack of sleep do to us? As well as making us irritable and unhappy as humans, it also reduces our motivation and ability to work. This has serious implications for society in general. Doctors, for example, are often chronically sleep deprived, especially when they are on ‘night call’, and may get less than three hours’ sleep. Lack of sleep can seriously impair their mood, judgment, and ability to take decisions. Tired engineers, in the early hours of the morning, made a series of mistakes with catastrophic results. On our roads and motorways lack of sleep kills thousands of people every year. Tests show that a tired driver can be just as dangerous as a drunken driver. However, driving when drunk is against the law but driving when exhausted isn’t. As Paul Martin says, it is very ironic that we admire people who function on very little sleep instead of criticizing them for being irresponsible. Our world would be a much safer, happier place if everyone, whatever their job, slept eight hours a night.
New English File Upper-intermediate by Clive OXENDEN and Christina Latham-Koenig, OUP
Question 3: According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE about Paul Martin?
A. He shows his concern for sleep deprivation in modern society.
B. He gives an interesting account of a sleepless society.
C. He is a scientist who is chronically deprived of sleep.
D. He describes the modern world as a place without insomnia.
sleep deprivation: sự thiếu ngủ
account of: mô tả về cái gì
deprive of sth: bị mất cái gì, khiến không có được
insomnia: bệnh mất ngủ
→ Tác giả cho thấy sự mối quan tâm của ông về sự thiếu ngủ trong xã hội hiện đại.
→ Tác giả không đưa ra mô tả đơn thuần như câu B;