Đề thi thử Tiếng Anh 2023 chuyên Nguyễn Trãi lần 1

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People volunteer for different reasons, but probably most of us volunteer in order to try to improve life for others. (34) _______, generosity brings a reward. It seems that volunteers can expect to benefit themselves as well! In the past few years, studies have shown that people who volunteer typically (35) _______ greater levels of self-esteem than those who don’t. Similarly, their overall health and well-being also improves. People who volunteer regularly today may live longer in the future, and they tend to suffer from (36) _______ diseases - although of course there are no guarantees! Partly, these health benefits are due to the extra exercise, as volunteers are usually fairly active people.

What’s more, it seems that we generally enjoy making others happy, (37) _______ in turn boosts our energy and fitness levels. So how much time should we volunteer for? Some studies suggest that we need to volunteer for at least 100 hours a year to enjoy the full advantages. At the end of our first year of volunteering, we will have (38) _______ our own lives for the better, too.

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THE AUTOMOBILE
THE AUTOMOBILE
Automobiles have been around for a long time. We have grown up with them as an integral part of our  lives. We use them every day, and never really consider a time when automobiles did not exist. However,  the automobiles as we know it today, was not invested in a single day by a single inventor. The history of the  automobile reflects an evolution that took place worldwide It is estimated that over 100,000 patients created  the modern automobile.
Automobiles have been powered by steam, electricity and internal combustion engines. The first steam automobile was built on 1769 by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot at the Paris Arsenal. The first electrical car was built sometime between 1832 and 1839 by Robert Anderson of Scotland. However, the internal combustion engine, powered by gasoline, became the standard over time.
By the early 1900s gasoline cars began to outsell all other types of automobiles. The market was going for economical automobiles and the need for industrial production was pressing. The first car manufacturers in the world who built entire motor vehicles for sale- not just engine inventors who experimented with car design to test their engines- were French: Panhard & Levassor (1889) and Peugeot (1891).
Henry Ford is credited with creating the first economical car designed for the common man. His success is directly related to his creation of an assembly time. Ford’s famous Model T was assembled in just ninety- three minutes.

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Humans first lived on Earth 40,000 years ago in Africa. How they arrived in the Americas is a subject of debate among anthropologists. The most accepted explanation today is the Bering Strait land bridge theory. Recent evidence, however, supports the view that migration occurred by other routes as well.
The Bering Strait is a narrow passage between Siberia in Russia and Alaska to the west of Canada. In 1856, Samuel Haven proposed that about 20,000 years ago during the Ice Age, the sea level dropped when the water became locked up in glaciers. The level was about sixty meters lower than it is today. This exposed the land beneath the strait, allowing humans and animals to walk from Siberia to Alaska. Evidence for this land bridge is confirmed by soil cores taken from the waters of the strait, showing that the land during that era was dry plains. Remains of large mammals have also been found, suggesting that Asian tribes were hunters who followed the animals into North America about 12,000 years ago. Mammals native to Africa and Asia, such as lions and cheetahs, later evolved in North America into extinct species. And the North  American camelid, which became extinct in North America, evolved into camels in Asia.
The archaeological record shows that the migration went from west to east. The land bridge was about 2,000 kilometers wide. From Alaska, these nomadic hunters moved down into North America by following ice-free routes along the Pacific coastline. Some groups then made their way eastward past the Rocky Mountains and all the way to the Atlantic coast. Other tribes continued south into Central and South America.
The people who crossed the Bering Strait are called the Clovis people after the town of Clovis, New Mexico, where their spear points were found in 1932. Clovis points have a distinctive shape. Similar points  have been found as far east as the east coast of the United States and as far south as Chile. Some scientists  theorize that the Clovis people who crossed the Bering Strait continued to all parts of North and South  America.
But evidence has also been found that some humans arrived at least 1,000 years before the Clovis people. These findings have caused some to believe that the Americas also may have been populated by a route other than the Bering Strait, perhaps by boats crossing the South Pacific. Archaeologists have found indications that boats were used in Australia and Japan as far back as 25,000 to 40,000 years ago. They speculate that some could have sailed to the coast of the Americas and then down the Pacific coast. Unfortunately, many potential coastal sites are now under water, making it difficult to search for signs left by ancient sailors.
Measurements of human skeletons also point to multiple sources of migration. Native Americans have broad faces and prominent cheekbones that match those of Asian people. But other skulls have been found  with narrow skulls and flattened faces, consistent with Polynesians and Europeans.
Recent studies in molecular genetics confirm that American Indians share an Asian origin. But a newly discovered DNA line has shown a non-Asian influence as well. DNA research has also revealed that Americans may have diverged genetically from Siberians 20,000 years ago, much earlier than the archaeological evidence indicates.