B GIO DC V O TO K THI CHN HC SINH GII QUC GIA THPT

THI MU NM 2018
Mn thi: TING ANH
Thi gian thi: 180 pht

PHN 1: LISTENING

PHN 2: LEXICO-GRAMMAR

PHN 3: READING
Just nearly half an hour witnessed a newborn with an opioids addiction. Such statistic is heartbreakingly one
symptom of an epidemic that shows no sign of (1)__________. The 33,000 overdose deaths from opioids in
2015 were a 16 percent rise over the previous year, which also set a record. Drug overdoses are now a
leading cause of death among Americans under 50but only part of a broader addiction (2)__________ that
ranges from drug and alcohol abuse to obsessive eating, gambling, and even sex.
Not long ago the idea of repairing the brains wiring to fight addiction would have seemed (3)________,
medical writer Fran Smith reports in our story. But advances in neuroscience have (4)_________ conventional
notions about addiction what it is, what can trigger it, and why quitting is so tough. The very nature of
addiction is being rethought. In 2016, when he was U.S. surgeon general, Vivek Murthywhos interviewed in
this issue(5)___________ what scientists had contended for years, claiming addiction to be a disease, not a
moral failing . Its characterized not necessarily by dependence or withdrawal but by compulsive repetition of
an activity despite life-damaging consequences. This view has led many scientists to accept the once
(6)__________ idea that addiction is possible without drugs. Still, drug abuse takes a huge toll nationwide:
nearly $200 billion a year in costs related to health, crime, and lost productivity. Nowhere does this play out
more (7)__________ than in West Virginia, which owns what Senator Shelley Moore Capito calls an
unfortunate distinction: the nations highest rate of drug overdose deaths. From what hes learned, he says, is
that turning the corner will require a (8)_________ of solutionseverything from more support at the state and
federal levels for treatment and prevention programs to more facilities like Lilys Place, a Huntington, West
Virginia, medical center for babies born dependent on drugs.
1. A. declining B. striking C. abating D. reverberating
2. A. landscape B. scene C. vista D. trend
3. A. questionable B. dubious C. strained D. far-fetched
4. A. upheld B. espoused C. capsized D. upended
5. A. ensured B. assured C. affirmed D. ascertained
6. A. orthodox B. conventional C. heretical D. reactionary
7. A. starkly B. arrantly C. fiercely D. flagrantly
8. A. variety B. heterogeneity C. spectrum D. miscellany
PART 4: WRITING

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