Nhằm giúp các bạn học sinh đang chuẩn bị cho kì thi chọn HSG sắp diễn ra cũng như giúp các em củng cố và ôn luyện kiến thức, rèn kỹ năng làm bài thông qua việc giải "Đề thi thử THPT QG môn Tiếng Anh lần 13 năm 2021-2022 có đáp án - Sở GD&ĐT Bắc Ninh" dưới đây. Hi vọng đây là tài liệu hữu ích cho các bạn trong việc ôn tập. Chúc các bạn thi tốt! | SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI THỬ TỐT NGHIỆP THPT LẦN 3 TỈNH BẮC NINH MÔN TIẾNG ANH Năm học 2021 2022 Thời gian làm bài 60 phút Read the following passage and mark the letter A B C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions. The ballpoint pen Most of us have at least one but how did this popular item evolve One morning in 1945 a crowd of 5 000 people jammed the entrance of Gimbels Department Store in New York. The day before Gimbels had placed a full page advertisement in the New York Times for a wonderful new invention the ballpoint pen. The advertisement described the pen as fantastic and miraculous . Although they were expensive each all 10 000 pens in stock were sold on the first day. In fact this new pen was not new at all. In 1888 John Loud a leather manufacturer had invented a pen with a reservoir of ink and a rolling ball. However his pen was never produced and efforts by other people to produce a commercially successful one failed too. The main problem was with the ink. If it was too thin the ink leaked out of the pen. If it was too thick it didn t come out of the pen at all. Almost fifty years later in 1935 a newspaper editor in Hungary thought he spent too much time filling his pens with ink. He decided to invent a better kind of pen. With the help of his brother who was a chemist he produced a ballpoint pen that didn t leak when the pen wasn t being used. The editor was called Ladislas Biro and it was his name that people would associate more than any other with the ballpoint pen. By chance Biro met Augustine Justo the Argentinian president. Justo was so impressed with Biro s invention that he invited him to set up a factory in Argentina. În 1943 the first Biro pens were produced. Unfortunately they were not popular since the pen needed to be held in a vertical position for the ink to come out. Biro redesigned the pen with a better ball and in 1944 the new product was on sale throughout Argentina. It was a North American .
