Đề số 5 - Đề kiểm tra giữa kì 2 - Tiếng Anh 12 mới

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in

the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

Question 1. A. reserve B. schedule C. wildlife D. beauty

Question 2. A. television B. engineer C. economic D. information

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the

questions.

The past fifty years or so have seen the gradual disappearance of animals from this earth, fishes from the sea,

trees and plants from the land.

Many factors result in this unpleasant phenomenon. Among them, hunting is the main factor that endangers

wildlife. Some people kill wildlife for sport. They take pleasure in collecting heads and hides. Yet others

specialize in commercial hunting like killing whales.

Apart from this, the rapidly growing human population threatens wildlife on land, too. Towns expand and

roads have to be built, so forests are burnt and trees are chopped down. It seems that man needs every inch of

land within his reach, so he moves on to the natural habitat of wildlife. Tigers, lions and leopards slowly die

off without the food and shelter that the forests provide.

In addition, rapid urbanization means industrial expansion. Very often, poisonous chemicals, industrial wastes

and oil are dumped into the rivers and seas. Fish and birds are threatened.

Many depend greatly on animals for survival. He needs their flesh, hides and furs. Thus, man cannot do without

wildlife; or he himself would become extinct. The public should be made aware that it would be better to shoot

the animals with a camera than with a gun. In this way, they can preserve and help wildlife to continue living

rather than to move all signs of it.

Man must learn to farm the sea as he does the land. He should regulate the amount of frequency of his catch.

He should allow fish to breed and multiply before netting them. A man also needs to build forest reserves, and

to pass a law prohibiting the killing of animals, especially those that already rare. To retain the present animal

kingdom, the least that man can do is to clean the seas and rivers to prevent pollution. The cycle of nature is

such that it forms a vicious circle. The insecticides and pesticides that we spray on crops can kill the birds and

animals that feed on them. When a man eats these poisoned animals, he himself can die. We must therefore

test the chemicals to be used before they are sprayed or it might mean the death of man!

Question 3: The author’s purpose in writing the passage is to__________.

A. explain the relationship between wildlife and human beings

B. call people’s attention to serious problems of pollution

C. explain how important wildlife is to human beings

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D. call people’s attention to the protection of wildlife

Question 4: According to the passage, the biggest threat to wildlife is __________.

A. various kinds of hunting B. the growing number of human beings

C. industrial expansion D. rapid urbanization

Question 5: According to the passage, what has happened to the wildlife in the past fifty years or so?

A. Animals, fishes, trees and plants can no longer live on the Earth.

B. Most animals, fishes, trees and plants are disappearing from the Earth.

C. Animals, fishes, trees and plants are becoming smaller in number.

D. The number of animals, fishes, trees and plants has suddenly dropped.

Question 6: The growing human population threatens wildlife because ___________.

A. people eat more and more animals B. more people like to go hunting

C. people take land from animals D. people move to live in forests

Question 7: According to the passage, fishes are threatened by________.

A. poisonous chemicals, industrial wastes and oil

B. industrial expansion in the urban areas

C. growing human population

D. urbanization and …