[162] Đề thi thử Tiếng Anh - THPT Quốc gia 2025 - THÁI NGUYÊN (Mã 003)

EXCITING INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY
Join the prestigious global event, National Model United Nations (NMUN), (1) _______ in vibrant New York City this April. Improve your public speaking ability, teamwork strategy, and diplomatic communication skills (2) _______ realistic UN simulations. The conference offers two (3) _______ : April 6-10 and April 13-17, 2025.
Participate in important world discussions with students from different universities, (4) _______ global policy challenges and gaining (5) _______ .
Event (6) _______ : New York
City Register at: nmun.org
Be part of the life-changing leadership journey today!
(Adapted from: https://www.nmun.org)

ENERGY SAVING TIPS
Turn off devices
● Most electrical and electronic (7) _______ can safely be turned off at the plug to save energy (8) _______ satellite and digital TV recorders that may need to stay plugged in.
● You could save about £30 a year by (9) _______ devices left in standby mode.
Careful in the kitchen
● Don't fill up your kettle (10) _______ time you use it. Only boil the (11) _______ of water that you need.
● Make sure the size of your saucepan matches the size of your hob ring to reduce energy (12) _______.
● Set your washing machine to wash at 30°C as it will use around 40% less energy than at higher temperatures.

Can robots advance so far that they become the ultimate threat to our existence? (18) _______ . The human brain, they argue, is the most complicated system ever created, and any machine designed to reproduce human thought is bound to fail. Physicist Roger Penrose of Oxford University and others believe (19) _______ . Colin McGinn of Rutgers University backs this up when he says that Artificial Intelligence is like sheep trying to do complicated psychoanalysis. (20) _______ .
Artificial Intelligence, or Al, is different from most technologies in that scientists still understand very little about how intelligence works. Physicists have a good understanding of Newtonian mechanics and the quantum theory of atoms and molecules, whereas the basic laws of intelligence remain a mystery. But a sizeable number of mathematicians and computer scientists, who are specialists in the area, are optimistic about the possibilities. (21) _______ . Over the years, various problems have impeded all efforts to create robots. To attack these difficulties, researchers tried to use the 'top-down approach', using a computer in an attempt to program all the essential rules onto a single disc. (22) _______ .

Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time. If corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people's. In the same way, children learn all the other things they learn to do without being taught - to talk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle - compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes.
But in school, we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes contingent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we, teachers, waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can't find the way to get the right answer. Let's end all this nonsense of grades, exams, and marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as schoolteachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one's life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, "But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get on in the world?" Don't worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.

Members of the royal family have led an outpouring of tributes from around the world at the death of Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth. Buckingham Palace has spoken of the Queen's "deep sorrow" after her husband of 73 years, who had been by her side throughout her reign, died peacefully at Windsor Castle aged 99 on Friday night (Australian time). [I]
[II] Flags at Buckingham Palace and government buildings across the United Kingdom were lowered to half-mast, and within an hour of the announcement the public began to lay flowers outside Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. [III] However, mourners have been urged not to gather and leave tributes at royal residences, and the public has been asked to stay away from funeral events because of the coronavirus pandemic. [IV]
The prince died two months short of his 100 birthday. He had recently spent four weeks in hospital with an infection where he was treated for a heart condition before being discharged and returned to Windsor carly in March. The Duke of Edinburgh had been by his wife's side throughout her 69-year reign, the longest in British history, and during that time earned a reputation for a tough, no-nonsense attitude, and a propensity for occasional gaffes. A Greek prince, Philip married Elizabeth in 1947, and together they had four children, eight grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren. He played a key role helping the monarchy adapt to a changing world in the post-World War II period, and behind the walls of Buckingham Palace was the one key figure the Queen could trust and tum to, knowing he could tell her exactly what he thought.