Kỳ thi chọn HSG lớp 12 THPT tỉnh Ninh Thuận năm học 2017-2018 đề thi môn Tiếng Anh

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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH NINH THUẬN NĂM HỌC 2017 - 2018 Khóa ngày: 18 / 3 / 2018
(Đề chính thức)
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH - Cấp THPT
(Đề thi gồm 11 trang/ 20 điểm)
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút
(Không kể thời gian phát đề) SECTION I: LISTENING
HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
Bài nghe gồm 3 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín
hiệu. Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
Part 1: You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For question 1 – 8, choose the best
answer (A, B or C) and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. You hear a man speaking on the radio about scientists. What is his attitude to scientists?
A. He doesn't always trust them.
B. He respects their opinions.
C. He regrets not having their ability.
2. You overhear two people talking on a bus. Where does the woman think she lost her mobile phone? A. in her car B. in her office C. in a shop
3. You turn on the radio and hear the beginning of a programme.
What type of programme is being introduced?
A. a documentary about the environment B. a feature about holidays
C. a personal story about a journey
4. You hear an artist talking about his schooldays. What made him interested in sculpture as a career?
A. His teacher showed him new sculpture techniques.
B. His family believed he had a talent for sculpture.
C. His first attempt at sculpture was highly praised.
5. You overhear two students talking. What do they agree about? A. It's important to study.
B. It's necessary to find a job.
C. It's an appropriate time to travel.
6. You overhear a swimming instructor talking to a learner about his swimming technique.
What mistake has the learner just made?
A. He forgot the correct hand position.
B. He moved his arms too soon. C. He kicked too weakly.
7. On the radio, you hear a fashion designer talking about her life. What was she like as a child? A. very strong-minded B. highly competitive
C. very dependent on her parents
8. You overhear a woman leaving a message on an answering machine. Why is she phoning? A. to rearrange a meeting
B. to apologise for something she's done C. to ask a favour Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 1 Điểm bằng số Điểm bằng chữ Chữ ký G.khảo 1 Chữ ký G.khảo 2 Số phách Số T.tự bài thi [
Part 2: Complete the form below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND / OR A
NUMBER for each answer.
GRADUATE FAIR REGISTRATION TGS GLOBAL Graduate details Area of work: Example: Marketing Name: Dominika (1) _______________ Nationality: (2) _______________ (3) _______________@qmail.com Email address: University: London Type of course: (4) _______________BA Date available: (5) _______________ Personal information
organised a (6) _______________ for charity Other activities:
(7) _________________ and (8) ________________ Interests: Previous job(s): (9) _______________ Career plans:
wants to be a (10) _______________ Heard about Fair through: (11) _______________
Part 3: You will hear part of an interview with a man called Tony Elliott who founded a magazine
called Time Out. Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.
1. Tony says that Time Out was unlike other publications in 1968 because _____
A. it was written by one person.
B. information was more accurate.
C. it had a comprehensive list of events.
D. it was in the form of a magazine.
2. What experience did Tony have of publishing?
A. He had worked for What's On.
B. He had written numerous articles.
C. He had transformed an existing magazine.
D. He had started a student magazine.
3. Why did Tony leave university? A. He wanted to go to France.
B. He didn't have time to study.
C. He had failed his French examinations.
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4. According to Tony, what led to the magazine becoming a weekly? A. some market research
B. the quantity of information C. technical improvements D. external pressure
5. Tony says the big publishers were not interested in this type of magazine because_____
A. it was popular with students.
B. it was considered too expensive.
C. it came out too frequently.
D. it threatened their publications.
6. Tony says that, compared to 1968, people who buy Time Out today are _____
A. more intelligent and active. B. more likely to be parents. C. more or less the same age.
D. more mature and professional. Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. SECTION II: USE OF ENGLISH
Part 1: Choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) to each of the following questions and write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. It might sound strange, but dinner yesterday was the first time I _____octopus. A. was eating
B. have been eating C. have eaten D. had eaten
2. Have you considered applying for a job with the _____service? A. civil B. national C. civic D. governmental
3. ‘Would you pick the kids up from school this afternoon?’ -
‘No, I’m afraid I _____.’ A. wouldn’t B. can’t C. shan’t D. don’t
4. The new regulations have _____up a number of problems for the company. A. come B. thrown C. got D. moved
5. The text doesn’t give you the answer explicitly, you have to _____it from the evidence. A. convert B. grasp C. reckon D. deduce
6. They made _____ preparations in anticipation of the arrival of their celebrity guests. A. degenerate B. decadent C. elaborate D. strenuous
7. The venue had a lovely, warm _____and we felt very comfortable there. A. semblance B. ambience C. traction D. disposition
8. The level of service we received from all staff, without exception, was quite simply _____ A. gallant B. solicitous C. punctilious D. exemplary
9. Why are all your clothes in a _____on the floor? A. bulk B. batch C. heap D. sum
10. It’s high time _____rid of this old sofar. A. we got B. we get C. for us to get D. to get Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 3 Điểm bằng số Điểm bằng chữ Chữ ký G.khảo 1 Chữ ký G.khảo 2 Số phách Số T.tự bài thi [
Part 2: Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word in the numbered space provided in each
column on the right. (0) has been done as an example. LIFE ON MARS
The planet Mars is, at present, (0. HABITABLE) _______. Dust hangs in the 0. uninhabitable
air like a light fog, the temperature can (1. EXCESS) _______. 100 degrees 1. __________
below zero, the habitat is barren and humans cannot breathe (2. AID) _______ 2. __________
But Dr. Robert Zubrin, an austronautical (3. ENGINE) _______, believes that 3. __________
one day this will all change. Although it could take hundreds of years to turn
Mars into a viable arena for the development of life, Dr. Zubrin is (4.
PERTURB) _______ by this timescale. He believes that we need the challenge. 4. __________
(5. CIVIL) _______ are like people, they develop in response to challenges and 5. __________
a human mission to Mars would encourage every child to learn science, develop 6. __________
their mind and become part of a (6. PIONEER) _______ new world. 7. __________
More importantly Zubrin (7. LIGHT) _______ the political benefits that life on
Mars could bring to those on Earth. He sees Mars as an open frontier where the
rules have not yet been written. He believes the most profound (8. FREE) 8. __________
_______that people can have is to make their own world - one which may even 9. __________
have a direct (9. DEMOCRATIC) _______ in which everyone will vote on (10. 10. _________
LEGISLATE) _______ via e-mail.
Part 3: Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ONE word in
each gap. Write your answers in the corresponding boxes provided below the passage.
Why are Sunglasses Cool?
When you go shopping for sunglasses, you soon realise that as well as being overpriced, they are
heavily associated (1)_____ images of celebrity. Sunglasses are cool, and it is a cool (2)_____ seems
set to endure. Have you ever wondered (3)_____ this should be?
The roots of sunglasses are anything (4)_____ glamorous, however. Amber-tinted spectacles first
appeared in the nineteenth century and were a medical remedy for people (5)_____eyes were
oversensitive to light. The first mass-produced versions, made by Sam Foster of Foster Grant fame,
were sold in the 1920s in US seaside resorts. (6) _____ this point, however, they remained functional
objects, and were still to acquire the cool image they now enjoy.
This came about thanks to the US air force. In the 1930s, airmen started to wear antiglare glasses
which were (7) _____'aviators'. In the early days of flight, these men were regarded (8) _____ heroes.
Down on the ground, actors keen to cash in on a little of that glory realised that sunglasses represented
a short cut to intrigue. (9) _____ audiences couldn't see an actor's eyes, then they couldn't read his or
her thoughts. (10) _____ human, audiences wanted to know more. So it was that the link between the
fascination of celebrity and a pair of sunglasses was forged. Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 4 Điểm bằng số Điểm bằng chữ Chữ ký G.khảo 1 Chữ ký G.khảo 2 Số phách Số T.tự bài thi [ SECTION III: READING
Part 1: Read the passage and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according
to the text. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.
The changing profile of a city in the United States is apparent in the shifting definitions used by the
United States Bureau of the Census. In 1870 the census officially distinguished the nation's "urban"
from its "rural" population for the first time. "Urban population" was defined as persons living in
towns of 8,000 inhabitants or more. But after 1900 it meant persons living in incorporated places
having 2,500 or more inhabitants.
Then, in 1950 the Census Bureau radically changed its definition of urban to take account of the
new vagueness of city boundaries. In addition to persons living in incorporated units of 2,500 or more,
the census now included those who lived in unincorporated units of that size, and also all persons
living in the densely settled urban fringe, including both incorporated and unincorporated areas located
around cities of 50,000 inhabitants or more. Each such unit, conceived as an integrated economic and
social unit with a large population nucleus, was named a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA).
Each SMSA would contain at least (a) one central city with 50,000 inhabitants or more or (b) two cities having
shared boundaries and constituting, for general economic and social purposes, a single community
with a combined population of at least 50,000, the smaller of which must have a population of at least
15,000. Such an area would include the county in which the central city was located, and adjacent
counties that were found to be metropolitan in character and economically and socially integrated with
the county of the central city. By 1970, about two-thirds of the population of the United States was
living in these urbanized areas, and of that figure more than half were living outside the central cities.
While the Census Bureau and the United States government used the term SMSA (by 1969 there
were 233 of them), social scientists were also using new terms to describe the elusive, vaguely defined
areas reaching out from what used to be simple "towns" and "cities." A host of terms came into
use:"metropolitanregions," "polynucleated population groups," "conurbations," "metropolitan
clusters," "megalopolises" and so on.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. How cities in the United States began and developed
B. Solutions to overcrowding in cities
C. The changing definition of an urban area
D. How the United States Census Bureau conducts a census
2. According to the passage, the population of the United States was first classified as rural or urban in_____. A. 1870 B. 1900 C. 1950 D. 1970
3. The word "distinguished" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _____. A. removed B. honored C. differentiated D. protected
4. Prior to 1900, how many inhabitants would a town have to have before being defined as urban? A. 2,500 B. 8,000 C. 15.000 D. 50.000
5. According to the passage, why did the Census Bureau revise the definition of urban in 1950?
A. City borders had become less distinct.
B. Cities had undergone radical social change.
C. Elected officials could not agree on an acceptable definition
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6. The word "those" in paragraph 2 refers to _____. A. boundaries B. persons C. units D. areas
7. The word "constituting” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____. A. located near B. determined by C. calling for D. making up
8. The Census Bureau first used the term "SMSA" in _____. A. 1900 B. 1950 C. 1969 D. 1970
9. Which of the following is NOT true of an SMSA?
A. It has a population of at least 50.000.
B. It can include a city's outlying regions.
C. It can include unincorporated regions.
D. It consists of at least two cities.
10. By 1970, what proportion of the population in the United States did NOT live in an SMSA? A. 3/4 B. 2/3 C. 1/2 D. 1/3 Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2: Read the following passage and do the tasks below.
The World Wide Web from its origins
Science inspired the World Wide Web, and the Web has responded by changing science
‘Information Management: A Proposal'. That was the bland title of a document written in March 1989
by a then little- known computer scientist called Tim Berners-Lee, who was working at CERN,
Europe’s particle physics laboratory, near Geneva His proposal, modestly called the World Wide Web.
has achieved far more than anyone expected at the time.
In fact, the Web was invented to deal with a specific problem. In the late 1980s, CERN was planning
one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC. As the first few
lines of the original proposal put it, ‘Many of the discussions of the future at CERN and the LHC end
with the question “Yes, but how will we ever keep track of such a large project?” This proposal
provides an answer to such questions.'
The Web, as everyone now knows, has many more uses than the original idea of linking electronic
documents about particle physics in laboratories around the world. But among all the changes it has
brought about, from personal social networks to political campaigning, it has also transformed the
business of doing science itself, as the man who invented it hoped it would.
It allows journals to be published online and links to be made from one paper to another. It also
permits professional scientists to recruit thousands of amateurs to give them a hand. One project of this
type, called GalaxyZoo, used these unpaid workers to classify one million images of galaxies into
various types (spiral, elliptical and irregular). This project, which was intended to help astronomers
understand how galaxies evolve, was so successful that a successor has now been launched, to classify
the brightest quarter of a million of them in finer detail. People working for a more modest project
called Herbana@home examine scanned images of handwritten notes about old plants stored in British
museums. This will allow them to track the changes in the distribution of species in response to climate change. 6 Điểm bằng số Điểm bằng chữ Chữ ký G.khảo 1 Chữ ký G.khảo 2 Số phách Số T.tự bài thi [
Another new scientific application of the Web is to use it as an experimental laboratory. It is allowing
social scientists, in particular, to do things that were previously impossible. In one project, scientists
made observations about the sizes of human social networks using data from Facebook A second
investigation of these networks, produced by Bernardo Huberman of HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard's
research arm in Palo Alto. California, looked at Twitter, a social networking website that allows people
to post short messages to long lists of friends.
At first glance, the networks seemed enormous - the 300,000 Twitterers sampled had 80 friends each,
on average (those on Facebook had 120), but some listed up to 1,000. Closer statistical inspection,
however, revealed that the majority of the messages were directed at a few specific friends. This
showed that an individual’s active social network is far smaller than his ‘clan’. Dr Huberman has also
helped uncover several laws of web surfing, including the number of times an average person will go
from web page to web page on a given site before giving up, and the details of the 'winner takes all’
phenomenon, whereby a few sites on a given subject attract most of the attention, and the rest get very little.
Scientists have been good at using the Web to carry out research. However, they have not been so
effective at employing the latest web-based social-networking tools to open up scientific discussion
and encourage more effective collaboration.
Journalists are now used to having their articles commented on by dozens of readers. Indeed, many
bloggers develop and refine their essays as a result of these comments. Yet although people have tried
to have scientific research reviewed in the same way, most researchers only accept reviews from a few
anonymous experts. When Nature, one of the world’s most respected scientific journals, experimented
with open peer review in 2006. the results were disappointing. Only 5% of the authors it spoke to
agreed to have their article posted for review on the Web - and their instinct turned out to be right,
because almost half of the papers attracted no comments. Michael Nielsen, an expert on quantum
computers, belongs to a new wave of scientist bloggers who want to change this. He thinks the reason
for the lack of comments is that potential reviewers lack incentive.
Questions 1-6. Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage?
Write your answers in the numbered boxes: TRUE
if the statement agrees with the information FALSE
if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
1 Tim Berners-Lee was famous for his research in physics before he invented the World Wide Web.
2 The original intention of the Web was to help manage one extremely complex project.
3 Tim Berners-Lee has also been active in politics.
4 The Web has allowed professional and amateur scientists to work together.
5 The second galaxy project aims to examine more galaxies than the first.
6 Herbaria@ home’s work will help to reduce the effects of climate change. Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7 Điểm bằng số Điểm bằng chữ Chữ ký G.khảo 1 Chữ ký G.khảo 2 Số phách Số T.tự bài thi [
Questions 7-10. Complete the notes below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the
passage for each answer. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.
Social networks and internet use
Web used by social scientists (including Dr Huberman) to investigate the (7)_____of social networks.
Most (8)_____intended for limited number of people – not everyone on list.
Dr Huberman has also investigated: (9)_____to discover how long people will spend on a particular
website; why a small number of sites get much more (10)_____than others on same subject. Your answers: 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 3: Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fit each gap. Write your
answers in the numbered boxes.
The problem with studying the past is that it is past. The people who (1)______ in times of peace
and plenty and struggled through conflict and drought are long dead. The forces that (2) ______them
to settle here or move there, that brought them together as families and clans, villages and cities, have
(3) ______ from memory. Archaeology provides (4) ______ and clues, but we cannot test our
hypotheses with experiments on cultures living or dead. We cannot (5) ______ the tape and watch a
replay of the past. Then again, perhaps we can.
Computer modelling (6) ______ us to recreate prehistoric landscapes and environments and
(7)______them with virtual communities - digital creations with some of the needs, independence and
capabilities of real-world humans. We can establish (8) ______of conduct and (9) _______ social
units. Then we can turn down the rainfall - or turn up the population - and watch (10) ______this
cyber-culture and its artificial people react. 1. A. endured B. enriched C. prevailed D. prospered 2. A. sought B. made C. drove D. chose 3. A. dissolved B. faded C. lapsed D. slipped 4. A. hints B. tips C. prompts D. cribs 5. A. rewind B. return C. receive D. restore 6. A. let B. makes C. suggests D. allows 7. A. fulfil B. inhabit C. populate D. settle 8. A. etiquette B. ways C. manners D. rules 9. A. replicate B. demand C. transfer D. conclude 10. A. where B. when C. how D. why Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 8 Điểm bằng số Điểm bằng chữ Chữ ký G.khảo 1 Chữ ký G.khảo 2 Số phách Số T.tự bài thi [ SECTION IV: WRITING
Part 1: Read the following passage and use your own words to summarize it. Your summary should
be about 80 words long. You MUST NOT copy the original. What Do You See?
Most people would say that we see with our eyes. It is certainly true that our eyes receive images.
However, it is really our minds that "see" what these images are. You could say we see light with our
eyes but understand images with our minds.
Researchers who have been studying people with brain injuries have discovered something about how
the mind sees. Although certain people with brain injuries have no problems with vision, they may
have a hard time recognizing things. One doctor in particular, Dr. Oliver Sacks, studies patients with
these types of problems. His patients' problems are often tragic but sometimes funny as well. Take one
of his patients who was a professor. Sacks called this patient P. This professor, along with his wife,
initially came to see Sacks because his family was afraid that he was developing Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Sacks examined P, who appeared to be a well-spoken, smart man. A strange thing occurred,
however, when P went to put his shoes on after the examination. He stopped and looked at his feet and
then his shoes. Finally, P put a hand on his foot and said, "This is my shoe, yes?" Surprised, Dr. Sacks
pointed to P's shoe. The patient had confused his foot and his shoe.
From this, Sacks realized that there was damage to the visual part of P's brain. His eyes saw shapes,
but his brain could not recognize them. Final evidence of this occurred as, at the door, P reached out
for his wife's head. He then tried to lift it off and put it on. P had mistaken his wife's head for a hat!
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Part 2: The chart below gives information about the level of education of Bulgarian people who
wanted to go and live in another country in 2002, 2006 and 2008.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons
where relevant. Write in about 150 words.
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Part 3: Write about the following topic:
Some people argue that fashion items cost too much money. Others say that this is acceptable
because fashion is an important part of life.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or
experience. Write in about 250 – 300 words. (Do not include your personal information).
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