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KỲ THI CHỌN LỌC HỌC SINH GiỎI ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Môn: Tiếng Anh
SECTION A: LISTENING (30 points)
Part I. Listen to Thomas Lambert talking about his life as a ballet dancer. Choose the correct answer. (10 points)
1. How did Thomas feel about doing performing arts?
A. It was important to maintain a family tradition.
B. It was something he was born to do.
C. He wasn’t talented enough to become a pianist.
D. he found it interesting and important.
2. Thomas went to different ballet schools because A. he liked performing in different places.
B. he enjoyed travelling to different countries.
C. he needed to find out what suited him best.
D. he wanted to get the widest range of experience.
3. What does Thomas like best about ballet?
A. It’s difficult to get it right.
B. It involves more than movement.
C. Each ballet tells a story and it attracts him.
D. It’s fun performing in front of an audience.
4. What does Thomas like best about awards?
A. Some of them are worth more than others.
B. It is very important to him.
C. Dancers have to win them while they are young.
D. It’s difficult to win them because dancers have a short career.
5. Thomas says that by the time he stops dancing he wants to have A. studied more about ballet.
B. started to teach ballet to new students.
C. increased audiences for ballet.
D. made the most of his time on stage.
Part II. Listen and fill the information you hear in the numbered spaces. NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS OR
Transport from Airport to Milton A
Example Answer
Distance: …….147…….. miles Options * Car hire - don’t want to drive
* (1)………………………………………. - expensive * Greyhound bus
-$ 15 single , (2).………………. return - direct to the City centre
- long (3)……………..................….…….
* Airport (4)……………………………….. - door to door service
- need to (5)………………………….…….
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Part III. You will hear a conversation between a girl and her father about what she’s going to study next
year. Decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect. Put a (ü) in the box under A for YES and under B for No. (10 points) Yes NO Statements (A) (B)
0.Charlotte wants to study Spanish because she thinks Spanish is easy. ü
1. Chartlotte’s grandmother was born in England.
2. Charlotte’s father is sorry he can’t speak Chinese.
3. Charlotte’s father is keen on her studying in China.
4. Charlotte plans to go to China alone.
5. Charlotte and her father agree that her mother wants to visit China.
SECTION B. PHONETICS (10 points)
Part I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest. (5 points) 1. A. breathtaking B. breathe C. mouth D. monthly 2. A. spectacular B. sandal C. affordable D. negative 3. A. career B. peer C. pear D. appear 4. A. shortage B. carriage C. teenage D. storage 5. A. climber B. subtle C. debtor D. probable Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part II. Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others in the group.(5 points) 1.
A. volunteer B. understand C. temperature D. scientific 2.
A. accidental B. sensitivity C. beneficial D. industrial 3.
A. television B. information C. economic D. engineer 4. A. adolescence B. metropolitant C. multicultural D. spectacular 5. A. swallow B. extinct C. crisis
D. journey Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
SECTION C. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (65 points)
Part I. Choose the word, phrase or expression which best completes each sentence. (15 points) 1.
He thought the talk was fascinating. His friend, _______, fell asleep halfway through it. A. although B. nevertheless C. therefore D. B or C
2. All of the students_______ the seniors will receive their grades in two weeks. A. but B. so C. and D. or
3. The press puts _____ on the police forces who were unable to cope with the crowd of savage hooligans. A. fault B. charge C. blame D. guilt
4. We couldn’t stay long so we only wished Mark many happy ________ of his birthday and hurried to the airport. A. days B. returns C. moments D. regards
5. "Did you like the novel that I gave you last week?”
- “ _________ the novels that I’ve read, I enjoyed this one the most.” A. All of B. Of all
C. For all D. From all 6. “Excuse
me, is this seat free?” - “_____________” A. No, you can’t sit here. C. Sorry, it is taken.
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7. Noone who was invited to the party last night came, ___________? A.
didn’t they B. weren’t they C. did they D. was he
8. He may be shy now, but he’ll soon come out of his ______ when he meets the right girl. A. shoe B. shell C. shed D. hole
9. “By the way, have you heard the one about the Welshman, the Irishman and the pig?” “Yes, we have.
That joke’s as old as______”. A. Solomon B. the hills C. a dinosaur D. Jupiter 10. Just think,
______ two years’ time, we’ll be 18! A. under B. over C. after D. in
11. The referee called off the soccer game because of the darkness. A. canceled
B. postponed C. put off D. called up
12. Matthew has changed his ______ several times about buying a new car. A. sight B. view C. head D. mind
13. We're living in an apartment for now, but soon we'll be looking for a house to buy. A. in a hurry
B. to shake hands C. for the time being D. up to now
14. Playing ____ violin was to be ____ great adventure for him. He knew _______ little about it. A. ø/a/a B. the/ ø /a C. a/a/a D. the/a/ ø
15. Of the two shirts, this one is ___________ A. the prettiest
B. the most pretty C. more pretty D. the prettier
Part II. Give the correct form of the words (20 points)
Computer skills in the office 0.Success
To be (0) successfully in the bussiness market, it is vital for a company to keep up with 1. Wide
all the latest technological development. Nowadays it is (1)_____________ accepted 2. Possible
that running a company without computers, in particular, is virtually (2)____________
. This is why businesses are so keen to hire the best people available for their technology 3. employ departments. 4. Familiar
Apart from the needs of the technology department, it is important that almost all
(3)___________ have some degree of (4) ___________ with personal or desktop 5. Complete
computers, even if this involves no more than the (5) ____________ of a basic computer
course. Like all new things, however, most people will only become 6. Comfort
(6)______________ with using computers after practical experience .
Thanks to computers, today’s businesses are run and managed with far less 7. Di 昀케 cult
(7)________________ than companies could hope to achieve in the past. For example, 8. Organise
computers enable the (8)_____________ of huge amounts of information and greatly
speed up the (9) _______________ of documents and reports. 9. Prepare
In short, although the average businessperson has no need to be a technology expert, 10. Like
they are (10)__________ to get very far without at least a basic knowledge of computers.
Part III. Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets. (20 points)
1. You must tell me the truth. I insist on ( tell ) _________the truth.
2. But for his help, her project (not complete) _________so sucessfully.
3. (Not know) _________ where the theater was, she asked for directions at the hotel reception.
4. There you are! I ( wait) _________ for two hours. Where’ve you been?
5. Under the tree (some students/ stand) now.
6. I feel as if my head (be) _________on fire now, doctor.
7. He would rather he (visit) _________Halong bay last year.
8. I'd love ( go) _________ to the party, but it was impossible.
9. One of the most urgent problems (face) _________ us now is the need to control population growth. 3 lOMoARcPSD|50202050
10. It’s high time we (do) _________ something to save the earth now.
Part IV. Each of the numbered lines in the passage contains a mistake, underline and correct it. (10 points)
Plants and animals hold medicinal, agriculture , ecological value. Endangered 0. agricultural
species must be protected and saved so that future generations can experience their 1. …………………. presence and value. 2. ………………….
Plants and animals are responsible for a variety for useful medications. In fact, about
forty percentage of all prescriptions written today are composed from the natural 3. ………………….
compounds of different species. These species not only save live, but they contribute 4. ………………….
to a prospering pharmaceutical industry worth over $40 billions annually. 5.
Unfortunately, only 5% of know plant species have been screened for their ………………….
medicinal values, although we continue to lost up to 100 species daily. The Pacific 6. ………………….
yew, a slow-grow tree found in the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest, was 7. ………………….
historical considered a "trash" tree. However, a substance in its bark was recently
identified as one of the more promising treatments for ovarian and breast cancer. 8. ………………….
Additionally, more than 3 million American heart disease sufferers would die with 9. ………………….
72 hours of a heart attack without digitalis, a drug derived from the purple foxglove. 10. ………………….
SECTION D. READING COMPREHENSION (50 points)
Part I. Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word to complete the following paragraph. (20 points)
Psychologists have long been interested in (0) ___how___ we judge intelligence in strangers. Now
scientists have designed tests (1)______________ try to discover which cues help people to judge IQ
accurately, and which cause them to get (2) ______________ wrong. High school pupils were videotaped
answering thought- provoking questions and the videos were (3) ______________shown to groups of judge’s
who were asked to assess the students’ physical type and monitor a variety of behavioural cues. Next the
judges were asked to rate the students’ intelligence. At the same time, each student was (4)
______________required to sit a standard IQ test.
Certain cues matched the (5) ______________ of the IQ tests more closely than others. (6)
______________ speaking quickly, using a lot of words or displaying ease of understanding caused the judges
to rate the students’ intelligence highly, and was reflected in the IQ tests (7) ______________ cues seemed
to give judges an entirely false impression of intelligence as measured by the IQ test. (8) ______________
the cues that led judges to assess students as dull were factors (9) ______________ as using halting speech or
slang. Cues that led judges to view students as bright included talking loudly and using proper English. (10)
______________ of these straits correlated with measured IQ, however.
Part II. Choose the best word A, B, C or D to fill in spaces in the following passage. (10 points) NEW HUNT FOR LIFE IN SPACE
British space scientists are planning to join the American in the race to find evidence of life on
(1)___________ planets. Alan Penny and his team at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have designed a
telescope that is 40 times more powerful than Hubble. Known as ‘Darwin’, his telescope could tell if planets
50 (2) ___________ years away have any kind of life on them. Two days (3) ___________, NASA scientists
had shown a proof that one of Jupiter’s moons could support life, Penny announced that his telescope may be
included in a European Space Agency mission. The Darwin project, with a (4) ___________ of 500 million,
is on a short list of two proposals. If approved it will probably be (5) ___________around 2020, its destination
somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. The blueprint is actually for five telescopes positioned 50 meters apart
in space, slowly circling a (6) ___________ processing station. The combined data from these telescopes
would build up a full picture of a planet, picking out faint images that have never been seen before. Darwin
would not be able to take detailed photographs of the planets it (7) ___________, but Penny believes a second-
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(8)___________ galaxy, even though these planets lie (9) ___________our reach for the moment. The
European Space Agency will make its decision (10) ___________ Darwin within three years. 1. A. another B. other C. others D. the other 2. A. light B. lighten C. lightening D. lighting 3. A. following B. after C. next D. later 4. A. price B. schedule C. charge D. budget 5. A. driven B. fetched C. launched D. taken 6. A. central B. centre C. middle D. heart 7. A. invents B. searches C. discovers D. looks 8. A. alone B. same C. one D. own
9. A. out B. toward C. beyond D. over 10. A. of B. on C. about D. with
Part III. Read the passage and choose the correct answer. (20 points)
Water scarcity is fast becoming one of the major limiting factors in world crop production. In many areas,
poor agricultural practices have led to increasing desertification and the loss of formerly arable lands.
Consequently, those plant species that are well adapted to survival in dry climates are being looked at for an
answer in developing more efficient crops to grow on marginally arable lands.
Plants use several mechanisms to ensure their survival in desert environments. Some involve purely
mechanical and physical adaptations, such as the shape of the plant's surface, smaller leaf size, and extensive
root systems. Some of the adaptations are related to chemical mechanisms. Many plants, such as cacti, have
internal gums and mucilage which give them water-retaining properties. Another chemical mechanism is that
of the epicuticular wax layer. This wax layer acts as an impervious cover to protect the plant. It prevents
excessive loss of internal moisture. It also protects the plant from external aggression, which can come from
inorganic agents such as gases, or organic agents which include bacteria and plant pests.
Researchers have proposed that synthetic waxes with similar protective abilities could be prepared based
on knowledge of desert plants. If successfully developed, such a compound could be used to greatly increase
a plant's ability to maintain health in such adverse situations as inadequate water supply, limited fertilizer
availability, attack by pests, and poor storage after harvesting.
1. This passage deals mainly with ____. A. desertification B. decreasing water supply
C. factors limiting crop production
D. developing efficient plants 2. The
word “arable” in the 1st paragraph is closest in meaning to ________. A. fertile B. parched C. barren D. marsh
3. Which of the following is a mechanical or physical mechanism that desert plants use? A. The plant’s shape B. The small root system C. The vast leaf size D. The high water system
4. The word “extensive” in the 2nd paragraph is closest in meaning to _________. A. spongy B. shallow
C. widespread D. comprehensive
5. Which is one of the ways in which the epicuticular wax protects the plant?A. It helps the plant to avoid excessive moisture intake
B. It helps the plant to attack aggressors.
C. It releases gases against plant pests.
D. It guards against bacteria.
6. The word “It” in the 2nd paragraph refers to________. A.
another chemical mechanism B. the epicuticular wax layer C. an impervious plant like cover
D. the loss of internal moisture 7. The word “aggression” in the 2nd paragraph is closest in meaning to_________. A. attack B. agitation C. conditions D. surroundings
8. What is an example of an inorganic agent that may attack plants? A. Bacteria B. Insects C. Gas D. Pests
9. It can be inferred that synthetic stimulate waxes_____. 5 lOMoARcPSD|50202050
A. have not been developed yet B. have not succeeded
C. have been determined to be impervious to organic and inorganic agents
D. have the quality of causing bacteria
10. All of the following are examples of an adverse situation for crops EXCEPT________.
A. inadequate water B. insufficient fertilize C. pest aggression D. proper storage
SECTION E. WRITING (45 points)
Part I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence
printed before it. (10 points)
1. Keith certainly can’t be held responsible for the accident.
- In no way _______________________________________________________________________
2. Melissa’s father was very busy, but he still played with her.
- No matter ______________________________________________________________________3.
“I hear you won the championship. Congratulations!” Jane said to John.
- Jane congratulated ________________________________________________________________4.
You must park your car in the right place; otherwise the police will give you a ticket.
- Unless _________________________________________________________________________ 5.
They have said that the police caught the man stealing my car.
- The man _______________________________________________________________________
Part II. Rewrite each of the following sentences so that it means the same as the given one. Use the given
word in brackets. Do not change the bold word. (10points)
1. He doesn’t get on well with his colleagues. terms
___________________________________________________________________________________
2. He could not explain why he was always late to work. account
___________________________________________________________________________________
3. She doesn’t see or hear from her childhood friends any more. lost
- ___________________________________________________________________________________
4. My boss says I can use his car whenever I want to as long as I am careful. disposal
- ___________________________________________________________________________________
5. That man reminds me a lot of my father. bears -
___________________________________________________________________________________
Part III. Writing (25 points)
What are skills for teenagers to reduce stress and pressure ? In about 200 words, write an essay to
express your point of view. THE END 6