Ôn thi tốt nghiệp THPT môn Tiếng Anh: Đề số 20 năm 2026 có đáp án chi tiết

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English Graduation Practice Test – Test 20

Suggested time: 50 minutes. Questions: 40 multiple-choice items. Choose one answer, A, B, C or D, for each item.

Questions 1–6. Read the announcement and choose the best option for each blank.

Voices from Our Neighbourhood
The history club is collecting short interviews with long-time residents. If you would like to take part, please (1) ______ your name on the form outside Room 12. A student interviewer will contact you (2) ______ agree on a convenient time. Each conversation will last no more than twenty minutes. With the speaker’s permission, we will make an audio (3) ______ for the school archive. Anyone who prefers not to be recorded may still share information (4) ______ writing. We will not publish a person’s name without asking (5) ______. Please return the form (6) ______ Friday.

1. 1. A. erase   B. fold   C. enter   D. borrow
2. 2. A. so   B. to   C. despite   D. although
3. 3. A. record   B. recorded   C. recording   D. recorder
4. 4. A. at   B. of   C. from   D. in
5. 5. A. first   B. already   C. either   D. yet
6. 6. A. in   B. by   C. for   D. since

Questions 7–12. Choose the best option.

1. 7. “Would you like us to use your real name in the school display?”
   A. The microphone is on the desk.   B. Please use only my first name.   C. The display opens next month.   D. I walked past the library.
2. 8. Arrange the sentences to make a coherent message. (a) We can meet in the community room next Wednesday. (b) Hello, Mrs Tran. (c) Thank you for offering to tell us about the old market. (d) Please let us know if that time suits you. (e) Best, Khoa
   A. c–b–d–a–e   B. b–a–c–e–d   C. a–b–c–d–e   D. b–c–a–d–e
3. 9. The interviewer asked the speaker to ______ a detail that was difficult to hear.
   A. repeat   B. prevent   C. prepare   D. protect
4. 10. Each of the recordings ______ a date and a short description.
   A. have   B. are having   C. has   D. were
5. 11. The students listened to the interview again ______ check the spelling of the place names.
   A. so that   B. in order to   C. because of   D. despite
6. 12. “I cannot remember the exact year the footbridge was built.”
   A. You should publish a guess as a fact.   B. The recording has no sound.   C. Every bridge has the same design.   D. We can leave the date uncertain and check another source.

Questions 13–20. Choose the best option to complete each sentence.

1. 13. The archive includes a short ______ of each interview.
   A. summarise   B. summary   C. summarising   D. summarised
2. 14. The students ______ the permission forms before they began recording.
   A. had collected   B. collect   C. are collecting   D. will collect
3. 15. “Preserve” is closest in meaning to ______ in the sentence “The club hopes to preserve local memories.”
   A. forget   B. exchange   C. keep safe for the future   D. shorten
4. 16. The speaker asked that her family’s address ______ from the public copy.
   A. leaves   B. be left out   C. leaving out   D. left out
5. 17. The archive is small, ______ it contains interviews from several different streets.
   A. unless   B. because   C. so that   D. but
6. 18. The old cinema, ______ closed many years ago, is mentioned in two interviews.
   A. which   B. who   C. where   D. whose
7. 19. Choose the sentence closest in meaning to: “Only the editor can publish a recording.”
   A. Everyone may publish the recording.   B. The recording can be published only by the editor.   C. The editor has never published a recording.   D. The editor published every recording.
8. 20. After listening to the file, Mai made a note ______ she could check the street name later.
   A. although   B. unless   C. so that   D. whereas

Questions 21–26. Read the passage and choose the best option for each blank.

The history club began by asking residents what they remembered about the weekly market. Some people described the same event from different (21) ______. The students did not try to choose one account as the only correct version. Instead, they wrote down who was speaking and when the event was said to have happened. They also asked follow-up questions when a place name was unclear, rather than (22) ______ an answer. Before an interview, each guest received a short explanation of how the recording might be used. The student checked that the guest had (23) ______ to the plan before pressing the record button. Afterward, the club saved a copy in a password-protected folder and wrote a brief description (24) ______ the file could be found later. If a guest asked for a correction, the club would review the request and update the public text (25) ______. Keeping a record of these decisions made the project more (26) ______ to its participants.

1. 21. A. fabrics   B. engines   C. angles   D. packages
2. 22. A. confirming   B. invent   C. invented   D. inventing
3. 23. A. agreed   B. agree   C. agreeing   D. agreement
4. 24. A. unless   B. whereas   C. so that   D. in spite
5. 25. A. careless   B. care   C. careful   D. carefully
6. 26. A. transparent   B. harmful   C. distant   D. impatient

Questions 27–32. Read the passage and answer the questions.

For a class project, Linh interviewed her grandfather about the bus route he used when he first moved to the city. He remembered waiting near a bakery and said the journey took “about an hour.” Linh searched a collection of old route maps and found that the stop had a different name at the time. She showed him the map, and he recognised the location. The map helped them identify the stop, but it did not tell them exactly how long his particular journey had taken.

In her written account, Linh kept her grandfather’s estimate and explained that it came from memory. She added the map’s publication date and noted that its route information was printed for a different year. Her teacher suggested that she ask another family member whether they remembered the trip. The second person recalled travelling on the same route but could not confirm the duration.

Linh’s final presentation separated the details supported by the map from the details people remembered. She said that this approach did not make the memories unimportant. It helped her show readers what each source could and could not establish.

1. 27. What did the old map help Linh and her grandfather identify?
   A. The exact length of his journey.   B. The date he moved to the city.   C. The location of the stop he remembered.   D. The name of the bakery owner.
2. 28. Why did Linh explain that the one-hour estimate came from memory?
   A. To show the type of evidence behind the estimate.   B. To suggest that her grandfather had not taken a bus.   C. To prove that the route map was incorrect.   D. To show that every journey took an hour.
3. 29. What could the second family member confirm?
   A. The precise duration of the first trip.   B. The publication date of the map.   C. The bakery’s old street number.   D. Travelling on the same route, but not how long it took.
4. 30. In the passage, “this approach” refers to ______.
   A. replacing memories with the oldest map   B. separating map-supported details from remembered details   C. removing the interview from the presentation   D. changing the route to match a newer map
5. 31. What is the main idea of the passage?
   A. Family memories should never be included in schoolwork.   B. Old maps always contain exact travel times.   C. Readers can better assess an account when its sources and limits are explained.   D. Interviews are more accurate than all written records.
6. 32. Which statement is supported by the passage?
   A. The map confirmed the exact duration of the trip.   B. The second family member remembered the bakery’s owner.   C. Linh treated every detail as equally certain.   D. The map and the interviews provided different kinds of information.

Questions 33–40. Read the passage and answer the questions.

A neighbourhood museum in Binh An is building an audio collection about work along the river. Its first recordings came from retired boat builders, market sellers and ferry workers. The museum chose these topics after local teachers asked for materials that students could connect with places they knew. The collection is not intended to represent every resident or every kind of work in the district.

Before recording, staff explain the project and ask speakers how they want to be identified. Some use their full names; others choose a first name or no name at all. The museum keeps the original audio in a restricted archive and creates a shorter public version only after checking it with the speaker. A transcript accompanies each public clip so that visitors can read along and search for names of places or tools.

The staff have found that the transcript is useful, but it cannot carry everything in a person’s voice. A pause may show that a speaker is thinking, while a change in tone can mark a joke. The museum therefore keeps the audio as well as the written text. It invites listeners to report a possible transcription error, then compares the suggested correction with the recording before making a change.

The collection will grow in stages. The museum plans to ask school groups which clips were easiest to understand and what questions remained. Their responses will help staff choose future topics. The museum will describe the collection as a set of local accounts, not a complete history of the river district.

1. 33. Why did the museum begin with work along the river?
   A. The district has no other kinds of work.   B. Teachers wanted materials linked to familiar local places.   C. Every resident had worked on a boat.   D. The museum was required to record only retired workers.
2. 34. How does the museum handle speakers’ preferences about names?
   A. It publishes everyone’s full name.   B. It omits every speaker’s name.   C. It lets speakers choose how they are identified.   D. It asks visitors to select a name for each speaker.
3. 35. What happens before a shorter public recording is released?
   A. Staff check it with the speaker.   B. Visitors rewrite the original audio.   C. The museum deletes the full recording.   D. The speaker must write the transcript alone.
4. 36. Why does the museum keep the audio as well as a transcript?
   A. The transcript is always inaccurate.   B. Visitors are not allowed to read.   C. Audio files take less space than text.   D. Some features of a voice are not fully conveyed in writing.
5. 37. What does staff do when a listener reports a possible transcript error?
   A. Compare the suggestion with the recording.   B. Accept every correction without checking.   C. Remove the speaker’s recording.   D. Ask another visitor to rewrite the story.
6. 38. The word “restricted” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
   A. noisy   B. newly built   C. easy to copy   D. limited to authorised access
7. 39. How will school groups’ responses be used?
   A. To decide which speakers may keep their names.   B. To help choose topics and improve future materials.   C. To replace the original recordings with a single summary.   D. To claim that the collection covers every resident.
8. 40. Which statement best summarises the passage?
   A. The museum is producing a complete record of every river worker.   B. Written transcripts make audio unnecessary.   C. A local audio project uses speaker choices, transcripts and feedback while recognising its limits.   D. School groups are responsible for checking all original recordings.

Format tham khảo: Cấu trúc Bộ GDĐT từ năm 2025 quy định môn Ngoại ngữ có 40 lệnh hỏi, 50 phút và chỉ dùng trắc nghiệm nhiều lựa chọn. Cục Quản lý chất lượng – Bộ GDĐT. Đây là đề luyện tập tự biên soạn, không phải đề chính thức.

Answer key and explanations

1. 1. C. “Enter your name on the form” is the natural instruction for signing up.
2. 2. B. The infinitive “to agree” states the purpose of contacting each participant.
3. 3. A. “Make an audio record” uses the noun “record” after the article “an.”
4. 4. D. “In writing” is the standard phrase for sharing information in written form.
5. 5. A. “Ask first” means obtain permission before publishing the person’s name.
6. 6. B. “By Friday” sets Friday as the latest return time.
7. 7. B. The speaker directly states a preference about how their name should appear.
8. 8. D. A message starts with the greeting, thanks the recipient, proposes a time and place, asks for confirmation, then signs off.
9. 9. A. Asking someone to “repeat” a detail helps the interviewer hear it again.
10. 10. C. “Each” is singular, so the present simple verb is “has.”
11. 11. B. “In order to check” expresses the purpose of listening again.
12. 12. D. Leaving the date uncertain and checking another source avoids presenting a guess as fact.
13. 13. B. The noun “summary” follows “a short.”
14. 14. A. Collecting the forms was completed before recording began, so the past perfect fits the sequence.
15. 15. C. To preserve a memory is to keep it safe for the future.
16. 16. B. The request uses the passive subjunctive form “be left out” after “asked that.”
17. 17. D. “But” contrasts the archive’s small size with the variety of streets represented.
18. 18. A. “Which” introduces a non-defining relative clause referring to “the old cinema.”
19. 19. B. “Can be published only by the editor” preserves the restriction in the original sentence.
20. 20. C. The note was made for the purpose of checking the street name later.
21. 21. C. People may recall the same event from different angles or perspectives.
22. 22. D. After “rather than,” the gerund “inventing” completes the contrast with asking follow-up questions.
23. 23. A. “Had agreed” is the past perfect form describing permission given before the recording.
24. 24. C. The description was written so that the file could be located later.
25. 25. D. The adverb “carefully” modifies the verb “update.”
26. 26. A. A transparent project is open about its decisions and handling of corrections.
27. 27. C. The map helped them recognise the location of the stop, not the exact journey time.
28. 28. A. Labelling the estimate as a memory tells readers what kind of source supports it.
29. 29. D. The second person recalled the route but could not confirm how long the trip lasted.
30. 30. B. The phrase refers to separating what the map supported from what people remembered.
31. 31. C. The passage shows why explaining the source and limits of each detail helps readers assess an account.
32. 32. D. The map helped identify a stop, while the interviews supplied personal recollections of the journey.
33. 33. B. Teachers asked for materials connected with places familiar to students.
34. 34. C. Speakers can choose a full name, first name or no name, so identification follows their preference.
35. 35. A. Staff prepare a shorter public version only after checking it with the speaker.
36. 36. D. Pauses and changes in tone may carry meaning that a written transcript does not fully show.
37. 37. A. Staff compare a suggested correction with the audio before changing the transcript.
38. 38. D. A restricted archive is accessible only to people who are authorised to use it.
39. 39. B. Feedback about clarity and unanswered questions will guide future topics and materials.
40. 40. C. The passage describes consent choices, audio and transcripts, listener feedback and the collection’s limits.