Bộ 5 đề thi cuối kì 1 Tiếng Anh 12 năm 2024-2025 có đáp án - Đề 2

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Oregon is serious about recycling. (1)________dutifully separating milk cartons, yogurt containers, cereal boxes and kombucha bottles from their trash to divert them from the landfill. But this year, because of a far-reaching rule change in China, some of the recyclables are ending up in the local dump anyway. In recent months, in fact, (2)________ in dozens of American cities and towns have gone to landfills.

In the past, the city dwellers would have shipped much of their used paper, plastics and other scrap materials to China for processing. But as part of a broad antipollution campaign, China announced that it no longer wanted to import "foreign garbage." Since January 1 (3)________ of various types of plastic and paper, and tightened standards for materials it does accept.

(4)________their recyclable materials to be processed domestically, or are shipping more to other countries, others have been unable to find a substitute for the Chinese market. "All of a sudden, material being collected on the street (5)________ ," said Pete Keller, vice president of recycling and sustainability at Republic Services, one of the largest waste managers in the country. China's stricter requirements also mean that loads of recycling are more likely to be considered contaminated (6)________.

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Italian adventurer Marco Polo traveled to China near the end of the Middle Ages. He came back to Italy in 1295 and told the Italians about some really new and different things the Chinese were doing. Among it was money crafted from paper. 

(11)________had the Chinese come to use paper money? One possible explanation is related to the supply of metal. Metal is needed to make coins, and the Chinese did not have a big (12)________ of metal to make coins for all of the people in China. The Chinese had already invented paper, and they had already invented a method of printing on paper. When the Chinese needed something to make into money and they did not have (13)________ metal, they used paper to make money.

And how do you think the Chinese government got the Chinese people (14)________ printed paper as money? The Chinese government issued an order saying that paper money it created was to be used by everyone in China. At first, people were (15)________ that paper money would not have any value, and they did not want to use paper money. However, the government of China was a very strong government, and people had to follow the order to use paper money. After a while, people saw that they could use paper money to buy anything, and they began to (16)________paper money.

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Did you know that sleep is more important than food? A person who does not sleep dies at a younger age than a person who does not eat. Let's say you go to sleep 12 hours later than you usually do. It will take your body about three weeks to restore. We spend about one-third of our lives in sleep. That's about 121 days a year!

How much sleep do we need? We are all different. A baby needs 16 hours of sleep every day. Children 6 to 12 years old need 10 to 12 hours of sleep. A teenager needs 9 to 10 hours of sleep. An adult needs 7 to 8 hours. There are some people who need only 3 hours of sleep, others need 10 hours of sleep. After the age of 50, the average sleep time goes down to 6.5 hours a night.

Most people have some nights when they cannot sleep. About one in three Americans has problems with sleep. Many of them cannot fall asleep or stay asleep. The name of this problem is insomnia. Some people say, "I didn't sleep all night." They may sleep lightly and wake up several times. In the morning, they only remember the times they were awake, so they think they were awake all night.

Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people had special ideas to make them sleep. Benjamin Franklin, the famous American statesman and inventor, had four beds. He moved from one to the other to fall asleep. King Louis XIV of France had 413 beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous American writer, had a different way. He lay on his side across the end of the bed!