Tham khảo Đề thi học kì 2 môn Tiếng Anh 12 năm 2017-2018 có đáp án - Trường THPT Nguyễn Trãi - Mã đề 123 dành cho các bạn học sinh lớp 12 và quý thầy cô giáo. Hi vọng với tài liệu này sẽ giúp cho các bạn học sinh ôn tập tốt hơn và hệ thống kiến thức chuẩn bị cho kì kiểm tra sắp tới cũng như trau dồi kinh nghiệm ra đề cho quý thầy cô. Mời các thầy cô và các bạn tham khảo. | NGUYEN TRAI-BD HIGH SCHOOL Full name: Class: 12A END- OF – 2nd SEMESTER TEST - GRADE 12 School year: 2017 – 2018 Time: 60 minutes TEST CODE: 123 Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. Question 1: Early warnings of rising water levels prevented another major catastrophe. A. challenge B. epidemic C. disaster D. disadvantage Question 2: Because of an accident, the train was held up for several hours. A. finished B. started C. delayed D. continued 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. Today there are libraries in almost every town in the world. Even in areas (3) there are no libraries, there are often mobile libraries which take books from one village to the other. But in the days when books were copied by hand (4) than printed, libraries were very rare. The reason is simple: books took a very long time to produce, and there were far fewer copies of any given work around. The greatest library of all that, in Alexandia, had 54,000 books. In the ancient world, this number (5) considered huge. It was the first time that anyone had collected so many books from all around the world under one roof. There are many theories about why these books were lost. One is that the library accidentally burned down. Another is that one of the rulers of the city ordered the books to be burned. They were taken to various places and it took six months to burn them. Whatever happened, the collection there was (6) . Many of the library’s treasures were lost forever, some books were never recovered. We cannot even know (7) what the library contained. Question 3 Question 4: Question 5: Question 6: Question 7: A. who A. much A. is A. priceless A. exactly B. which B. else B.