Đề cương ôn tập Giữa Học kì II môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 12 thí điểm Năm 2021 - Trường THPT chuyên Bảo Lộc

REVISION OF MID-TERM TEST
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks
THE TRADE IN RHINO HORN
Last year thieves broke into a Scottish castle and stole only one thing: a rhino horn, at 1.5 meters was the longest in the world. In China pharmaceutical (1)_____ have been building up collections of antiques made from rhino horn, for the sole (2)_____ of smashing them to powder to make the (3)_____ ingredient for many of their medicines. And in Africa poachers continue to die in the (4)_____ for black rhino.
Recently, conservationists met to plan a campaign to persuade countries where rhino horn is (5)_____ part of the traditional medicine to (6)_____ substitutes. The biggest threat to the survival of the rhinoceros is the (7)_____ of certain countries to enforce a ban on domestic trading in rhino horn. 
The rhino horn is included in many (8)_____ for disorders ranging from fevers to nosebleeds. Ho... __________ that the user can even feel pressure as he touches something, or feel (11) __________ as he uses a knife. But with Tmsuk IV, the basic technology is now commercially available for (12) __________ people – or at least for (13) __________ who can afford it. Thames, the Japanese company that makes Tmsuk IV hopes to sell 10 robots this year. There are other possible (14) __________ outside the purely domestic. Tmsuk IV could (15) __________ with unexploded bombs or nuclear radiation leaks.
A. spent	B. financed 	C. paid 	D. invested
A. must	B. only	C. just 	D. basically
A. fed	B. handed	C. broadcast	D. moved
A. by	B. via	C. through	D. across
A. apart	B. away	C. far	D. distant
A. talents	B. jobs	C. tasks	D. tricks
A. partly	B. all	C. some	D. both
A. tested 	B. tried	C. created	D. made
A. execute	B. make	C. perform	D. handle
A. routine	B. possible	C. easy	D. realistic
A. nervous	B. resistance	C. pain	D. blood 
A. daily	B. common	C. ordinary	D. normal
A. ones	B. those	C. us	D. these
A. jobs 	B. purposes	C. actions	D. applications
A. handle	B. deal	C. face	D. apply
Simulate: mô phỏng
Simultaneously: cùng một lúc
Face-mounted (a): gắn trên mặt
A back rub: xoa bóp lưng
Read of 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 1 to 8
The girls in this sixth grade class in East Palo Alto, California, all have the same access to computers as boys. But researchers say, by the time they get to high school, they are victims of what the researchers call a major new gender gap in technology. 
Janice Weinman of the American Association of University Woman says, "Girls tend to be less comfortable than boys with the computer. They use it more for word processing rather than for problem solving, rather than to discover new ways in which to understand information."
After re-examining a thousand studies, the American Association of University women researchers found that... many boys have lost interest in computers
C. both boys and girls are very interested in computers
D. computer science classes are filled with girls
5. The research on girls and computers _____________. 
A. is based on a few articles 	B. presented by one person
C. has no facts to support it 	D. is based on thousands of studies
6. Computer software seems to be made to be
A. more interesting to girls	B. more interesting to boys
C. equally interesting to girls and boys	D. interesting only to adults
7. The software company seems to think _____________ .
A. if girls had an equal chance at playing games, they would like computers.
B. if the software was more violent, girls would like it better.
C. if the characters were funny, girls would like them better.
D. if the software content was changed, girls would be more interested in computers.
8. The gender gap needs to be closed because _____________.
A. it isn't fair that boys use the computers all the time
B. there isn't enough money for computers
C. the ability to use the computer is important in today's world
D. the pot is boiling
Read of 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 1 to 4
A computer virus is an illegal and potentially damaging computer program designed to infect other software by attaching itself to any software it contacts. In many cases, virus programs are designed to damage computer systems maliciously by destroying or corrupting data. If the infected software is transferred to or accessed by another computer system, the virus spreads to the other system. Viruses have become a serious problem in recent years, and currently, thousands of known virus programs exist. Viruses can be categorized as boot sector viruses, file viruses, and Trojan horse viruses. A boot sector virus infects the boot program used to start the system. When the infected boot program executes, the virus is loaded into th