Đề thi thử tốt nghiệp THPT 2027 môn Tiếng Anh — Đề ôn luyện số 3

Not sure which path to take after you leave school? Our annual Future Careers Fair is the perfect opportunity to (1) _______ insight into the jobs of tomorrow.

• Meet more than 40 employers, (2) _______ of whom are looking for summer interns.
• Listen to young professionals (3) _______ careers did not follow a straight line.
• Explore new roles, from drone pilot to AI ethics adviser, that were almost (4) _______ a generation ago.

Since it was first held in 2019, the fair (5) _______ thousands of students find their way into further study and work. Admission is free, but numbers are limited. (6) _______ to attend, please register on the school website by 15 May.

Of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, a large proportion are at risk of disappearing within this century. Most endangered languages are spoken by small communities, (7) _______. When children grow up using only the dominant language of their country, the chain between generations is broken, and an ancestral language can vanish within a few decades.

Why should this matter? A language is far more than a set of words. (8) _______: local knowledge about plants, weather and land, songs and stories, and ways of expressing ideas that have no exact translation elsewhere. Linguists often compare the death of a language to the burning of a library (9) _______.

Fortunately, this decline is not always irreversible. (10) _______, some communities have brought their languages back from the edge. Schools where all lessons are taught in the heritage language, recordings of elderly speakers and even mobile apps have all played a part. (11) _______ is the involvement of young people, because a language survives only if it is used in everyday life.

How do professional fact-checkers decide whether a website can be trusted? In one well-known study, researchers asked three groups of people — experienced academics, university students and professional fact-checkers — to evaluate a series of unfamiliar websites. The results were surprising. Despite their education, the academics and students were often taken in by sites that looked professional but were in fact run by groups with a hidden agenda. The fact-checkers, on the other hand, reached more accurate conclusions in far less time.

The difference lay in how they read. The academics and students read "vertically": they stayed on the page, studied its design, examined its "About us" section and judged it by the way it presented itself. The fact-checkers, by contrast, read "laterally". Within seconds of landing on an unfamiliar site, they opened new browser tabs and searched for what independent sources said about it. In other words, they learnt more about a website by leaving it than by staying on it.

This finding challenges much of the traditional advice given to young people, such as checking whether a site looks professional or has an official-sounding name. Such signs are easy to fake. Today, anyone with basic skills can build an attractive website within hours, and misleading organisations often choose names that sound neutral or scientific.

Lateral reading also involves resisting the urge to click on the first result. Fact-checkers tend to scan the whole page of search results before deciding where to go, a habit sometimes called "click restraint". This small pause helps them avoid sources that appear at the top of the list simply because they have paid to be there or have been designed to attract clicks.

The good news is that lateral reading can be taught. Short classroom programmes have shown that secondary school students can learn the basic moves in a few lessons, and that their ability to spot unreliable sources improves as a result. In an age when information spreads faster than ever, such skills may be just as essential as reading and writing themselves.

From 1 March, the district council is launching a composting scheme for all households. A large share of what we throw away is food waste, (20) _______ ends up in landfill, where it produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

How the scheme works

• Each household will receive a small kitchen bin and a larger outdoor container, both free of (21) _______.
• Fruit and vegetable peels, tea leaves and eggshells can all go in. Meat and dairy products, (22) _______, should be kept out, as they attract rats and flies.
• Containers will be emptied every Tuesday, and the compost will then be (23) _______ to local farms and community gardens.
• Residents who run (24) _______ of compostable bags can order more on the council website.

The council hopes that by the end of next year, the scheme (25) _______ the amount of household waste sent to landfill by a quarter.

Every major wave of technology has been accompanied by fears of mass unemployment, and artificial intelligence is no exception. Headlines regularly warn that machines will soon replace lawyers, journalists and even doctors. Yet many economists argue that such predictions misread how technology actually changes work. Rather than eliminating entire jobs, they say, new tools tend to take over particular tasks, reshaping occupations instead of wiping them out.

History offers a useful example. [I] When cash machines spread in the late twentieth century, many people predicted the end of the bank clerk. [II] Because each branch now needed fewer clerks, it became cheaper to run one, and banks opened more branches. [III] For years, the total number of clerks in some countries actually grew, although their work shifted from counting cash towards advising customers and selling financial products. [IV]

Something similar may happen with AI. Systems that can draft documents, summarise reports or answer routine questions are already changing office work. Several recent studies suggest that, at least in the short term, such tools help less experienced workers the most: by giving them quick access to the kind of know-how that once took years to acquire, AI can narrow the gap between beginners and experts.

None of this means that the transition will be painless. Workers whose tasks are largely routine face real risks, and new jobs do not always appear in the same places, or require the same skills, as the old ones. A factory worker who loses her job cannot simply become a data analyst overnight. For this reason, many experts argue that the greatest challenge is social rather than technological: societies need training systems that allow people to update their skills throughout their working lives.

Ultimately, the impact of AI on work will depend less on what machines can do than on the choices made by businesses, governments and individuals. Used wisely, these technologies could free people from repetitive work and allow them to focus on the creative and interpersonal sides of their jobs, areas in which humans still hold a clear advantage. Used carelessly, they could widen inequality. The future of work, in other words, is not something that will simply happen to us; it is something we will shape.