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KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH NĂM HỌC 2007-2008 ĐẮK LẮK MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 12 – THPT -------------
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( 180 phút, không kể thời gian giao bài)
CHỮ KÝ CỦA 2 GIÁM KHẢO ĐIỂM THI SỐ PHÁCH Bằng số Bằng chữ
I) LISTENING ( 3, 0 points) Part 1: Questions 1 - 8
Mr. Ba is talking to his grandson, Nam, about his school days. Listen to their conversation and check ( v )
if the statements are true (T) or false (F), or not given (NG). (T) (F) (NG) 1
Mr. Ba started school in 1942. 2
He went on with his higher schooling in the only high school in town. 3
He felt a bit worried on his first school days because of his being left-handed. 4
He went to school in town by bike. 5
He sometimes overslept and was late to school. 6
When studying at the school in town, he was once hit by his teacher. 7
The teachers never asked him to do any homework. 8
He thought that his school days were the happiest days in his life. Part 2: Questions 9 - 15 .
Listen to three people, Suzan Diaz, Linda Reed and Richard Ching, talking about the disasters they
once experienced and how they were survived. Circle A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer.
9. What was Susan Diaz doing at that time?
A. She was walking up to her office on the 28th floor.
B She was writing some letters to her secretary.
C She was dictating some letters to her secretary. D She was rushing to the elevator.
10. What did she decide to do as soon as she found that the elevator wasn't working?
A. To run out down the stairs. C To shout for help. B. To go up to the roof. D To wait calmly for help.
11. How many of them were rescued from the roof before the building collapsed? A. Six B Sixteen C Sixty D Twenty six
12. What was Linda Reed doing when the disaster happened?
A. She was on a holiday in a small village. C She was running toward the harbour.
B. She was having a rest in her hotel room. D She was watching the volcano erupting.
13. How could she escaped from the volcano eruption?
A. She put on a life jacket and jumped down to the sea.B She ran to the harbour and a helicopter rescued her.
C She managed to get on a ship just before the lava hit the town.
D She was so terrified that she couldn't do anything except looking through the window.
14. What were Mr. Ching and his wife doing when the earthquake began?
A. They were having their meal.
C. They were chatting with their friends.
B. They were picking up plates for dinner. D. They were staying with friends in Santa Libradas.
15. What did they do to survive from the earthquake?A They ran out of the restaurant quickly.
B They picked up everything and shouted for help.
C. They fell onto the floor and lay there for three hours.
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II) PHONETICS ( 1, 0 points ):
Part 1: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group. Circle
A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer. 16/ A. purpose B. prose C. propose D. enclose 17/ A. normality B. forget C. formation D. shortage 18/ A. complex B. excavate C. excellent D. expensive 19/ A. immense B. excellent C. intelligent D. recently 20 / A. register B. region C. regularity D. religion
Part 2: Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others in each group. Circle A, B, C or D to
indicate the correct answer. 21/ A. development B. competitive C. immediate D. sympathetic 22/ A. vocational B. employer C. minority D. reasonable 23/ A. analysis B. destination C. presidential D. apprehension 24/ A. exploration B. facilities C. scientific D. educational 25/ A. temperature B. acquaintance C. photography D. distinctive
III. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (4, 5 points):
Part 1: Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. Circle A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer.
26. In some paintings, one color seems to ____ into another. A separate B dissolve C drive D soar
27. About 120 people have been __ with the virus of bird flu since the beginning of the year. A affected B spread C infected D threatened
28. How do you ___ with your colleagues, Miss Johnson ?
A make friends B get on C be nice 29. They stared up into the D show off
sky until the noise of the rocket ___ . A. died away B. went out C. gave up D. wore off
30. California, with the population of more than 23 million, is the most __ state in the US. A. populous B. popular C. populated D. populating
31. Your parents are getting older. Take__ . A. after them B care of them C them in D. up with them
32. If the road is icy. you'd be ____ advised to delay your departure. A. rather B. better C. like D. whole
33. Could you phone me __ you have the results of the test? A since B if C as soon as D until
35. ___ the rain the fans were hurrying to the theater to see the competition. A No matter B However C Although D Whatever
36. This is the first time we ___ to Scotland, so it’s all new to us.
A have gone B will visit C have been flown D are traveling
37. ___ was the day before yesterday.
A The France’s In dependence Day B. The day of the French independence B France’s Independence Day
D. French’s Independence Day
38. The students liked that professor’s course because ___ .
A there was little or no homework B. there was few if any homework
C. of there wasn’t a great amount of homework D. not a lot of homework 38.
The facilities of the older hotel ___.
A. is as good or better than the new hotel
B. are as good or better than the new hotel
C. are as good as better than the new hotel
D. are as good as those of the new hotel, if not better
39. You haven't been studying much recently and you'd better ……… if you want to pass the Cambridge CPE exam. A. thread your way through B. meet your Waterloo C. pull your socks up D. change your spots
40. Donna ……… after her husband left her for a younger woman. A. read between the lines B. lead the field
C. took to the bottle D. spared the rod
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41. Mike would certainly have attended the proceedings ____ .
A. if he didn’t get a flat tire
B. had he not had a flat tire C. if the flat tire hadn’t happened
D. had the tire not flattened itself 42. We had hardly sat down when she ___ plates of food for us A. brought B. has brought C. had brought D. would have brought
43. Because Ann was feeling unwell, ___ to miss the examination. A. that she wanted B. the student who wanted C. and wanted D. she wanted
44. ___ her for ages, I’m not surprised she won the prize. A. Knowing B. To know C. To be knowing D. Having known
45. Neither Jane nor her brothers ____ a consent form for tomorrow’s field trip. A. need B. needs C. is needing D. has needed .
Part 2: From the four underlined words or phrases (A), (B), (C) or (D) in each of the following sentences, identify the
one that is NOT correct. Circle the bracketed capital letter below your choice. 0 has been done as an example.
0. Children enjoy telling and listening to ghost stories, especially in Halloween night.
( A ) ( B ) ( C ) ( D )
46. Despite of a language barrier, people have managed to communicate with others through sign ( A ) ( B )
language, in which certain motions stand for letters, words, or ideas. ( C ) ( D )
47. Many theories on conserving the purity of water has been proposed, but not one has been ( A ) ( B ) ( C ) as widely accepted as this one. ( D )
48. Made up of more than 150 countries, the organization is known as the United Nations was established ( A ) ( B ) ( C )
after World War II to preserve international peace and security. ( D )
49. Some methods to prevent soil erosion are plowing parallel with the slopes of hills, to plant trees ( A ) ( B ) ( C ) ( D )
on unproductive land, and rotating crops.
50. Paris has been well known for its famous monuments, beautiful music, and wonderful restaurants for above
( A ) ( B) ( C ) ( D ) one hundred years.
Part 3: The passage below contains 10 errors. Underline and correct them. Write your answers in the space
provided in the column on the right. (00) has been done as an example.
Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the hotter young film stars around at the moment. His face has been
00 hottest.................
on the covers of all the top movies and young magazines over the last few months and he has
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been the subject of countless articles, rumours and showbiz gossip. Leonard doesn’t like reading
about him because “I read things about me that I’ve never said in my life and never did" .
52 ............................
Leonardo DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles on 11 November, 1974. He’s a Scorpio. His full name
53 ............................
is Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio. His mother is Germany and his father ItalianAmerican. They called
him Leonardo because when his mother was still pregnant, he started kicking while she was stood
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in front of a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci. His friends call him Leo. He has a scar from when he
was stinging by a Portuguese man-of-
55 ...........................
56 ............................
war. His parents separated before he was born, so his mother moved to a poor
neighbourhood of Hollywood there Leo grew up . At school he was very good at imitating people,
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especially Michael Jackson. This made him very popularly. His childhood hero was Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.
58 ............................
After appearance in TV commercials and episodes of Roseanne, he played the cast of Roseanne,
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the TV sitcom starring Kirk Cameron. Leonard played the part of Luke, a homeless boy. Lately, he
played the part of Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries. But he has really become famous since
60 ............................
he acted in the film Titanic.
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Part 4: Write the CORRECT FORM of each bracketed word in the numbered spaces provided on the column on the right.
(00) has been done as an example.
Our environment contains several factors that may cause disease. Even the
weather can be ( 0. DANGER). Too much cold 00. may result in frostbite. ( 61. dangerous.
EXCESS) heat may produce heat 61. exhaustion. 62. Sometimes man
………………....………………
poisons his environment, ( 62. PRODUCE) a 63. new source of disease. In many (
………………………....……..
63. COMMUNE), factories and 64.
…………………………....…..
motor vehicles pollute the air with ( 64. POISON) gas fumes that may cause lung ……………………………......
diseases. Our environment is filled with many 65.
forms of radiant energy which make life ( 65. POSSIBLE). Radiation from the sun ……………………………......
provides us with heat, light, and food. But radiation from any source may be
dangerous because it can destroy body tissues. Even the sun's rays which penetrate the atmosphere 66.
……………………………......
can cause serious burns. Most ( 66. SCIENCE) believe that some effects of
radiation may be delayed and may later produce cancer. 67.
Man is learning to protect himself against damage from 68.. radiation. In ( 67. ………………………………....
ATOM) energy projects, thick concrete wall 69. shield workers from the effects ………………………………....
of radiation. In hospitals and 70. ( 68. LABORATORY), X-ray( 69. TECHNIQUE ) ………………………………....
stand out of the range of the ( 70. RADIO ).
……………………………………
IV. READING COMPREHENSION (5,5 points)
Part 1: Read the text and decide which word best fits each space by circling the letter A, B, C or D before it.
English has without a ( 71 ) ____ become the second language of Europe and the world. European countries which have
most ( 72 ) ____ assimilated English into daily life are England's neighbours in Northern Europe: Ireland, the
Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and the ( 73 )____ of Scandinavia.
The situation is so ( 74 ) ____ that any visitor to the Netherlands will soon be ( 75 ) ____ of the pressure of English on
daily life: television, radio and print ( 76 ) ____ it into every home and the schoolyard ( 77) ____ of children; advertisers
use it to ( 78 ) ____ up their message, journalists take refuge in it when their home-bred skills ( 79 ) ____ them.
Increasingly one hears the ( 80 ) ____ that Dutch will give way to English as the national tongue within two or three generations ... 71. A. question B. doubt C. problem D. thought 72. A. successfully B. victorious C. successful D. lucrative 73. A. rest B. additional C. remaining D. extra 74. A. plain B. open C. blatant D. marked 75. A. ignorant B. aware C. oblivious D. acquainted 76. A. guide B. bring C. shift D. haul 77. A. conversation B. head-to-head C. consultation D. dialogue 78. A. life B. energy C. enthusiasm D. pep 79. A. succeed B. fall C. fail D. fizzle 80 A. feeling B. posture C. judgment D. view
Part 2: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable heading from the list A => H for each paragraph. There
are three extra headings which you do not need to use. Write your answer in the space provided. A. An unreal ambition.
E. The first manned space flight. B. A dream never coming true. F. Welcome home.
C. Congratulation from the White
G. The first oral message from space. House. H. Answers still ahead. D. Wonders from space. 81
With a shout of "Here we go!", Yuri Gagarin lifted off into space aboard the Vostok I at 9:07 a.m. Moscow time
on April 12, 1961 and approximately 12 minutes later, the first human being was in orbit around the Earth. His flight lasted 108 minutes.
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When Yuri Gagarin said goodbye to his family and prepared to leave the planet, there was still enormous
uncertainty. No one knew precisely what would happen to a human being in space. How would the body react to the
extreme changes in temperature? How would the mind deal with the psychological tension? With a technical failure,
Gagarin could never be back to Earth. 83
At a speed of more than 17,000 miles per hour, the 27-year-old Soviet cosmonaut circled the Earth. He also
became the first person to eat and drink in weightlessness. From his window in space, Gagarin had a view of Earth that
no human had before. The first words spoken from space were: "I see Earth. It's so beautiful!" 84
Gagarin's flight attracted worldwide attention and made him a hero. In a telegram to Moscow, U.S. President
John F. Kennedy wrote, "The people of the United States share with the people of the Soviet Union their satisfaction for
the safe flight of the astronaut in man's first venture into space. We congratulate you and the Soviet scientists and
engineers who made this feat possible. ..." 85
The pioneer cosmonaut could have fulfilled his ambition of making a new space flight if the tragic accident
had not occurred. He died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968. After his death, his hometown of
Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia, was given the name of this national hero.
Part 3: Read the following passage and fill the blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the space
provided below the passage.
Sugar was for a long time a luxury and in the opinion of the medical profession it still should be. During the nineteenth
century, however, manufacturers discovered ways of producing it in vast quantities and it has since become (86)____
of the staple articles of diet, particularly among the lower social classes. It has the advantages of being comparatively
cheap, easily digested, rich in energy and useful for flavouring. Its major (87) ____ are that it lacks every nourishing
quality (88) ____ that of giving energy, and because of its attractive flavour it (89) ____ to displace other much mote
valuable foods from the diet. Most serious of all is its adverse (90) ____ on health, since excessive consumption can
cause heart (91) ____ obesity and dental decay. The latter is widespread among the inhabitants of western countries.
From the very young to the very old, (92) ____ anyone escapes. Yet if parents would drastically reduce the amounts of
confectionery, they allow their (93) ____ to eat, the extent of dental decay would soon be checked. And if they (94)
____ to cut down their own consumption of sugar, they would (95) ____ much less from ailments resulting directly
or indirectly from their being overweight. Your answers:
86................................ 87................................ 88................................ 89................................ 90................................
91................................ 92................................ 93................................ 94................................ 95................................
Part 4: Read the passages below carefully. Then choose the best answer for each of the four questions that follow.
Circle A, B, C, D or E to indicate your choice.
The following are letters to the editor of a school newspaper.
Students should be allowed to study without worrying about grades. Fortunately, most educators are becoming aware
of the fact that students have different interests and abilities. However, the regimentation resulting from grades still
exists. Grades often stifle creativity. Competing for better grades causes many students to turn down opportunities to
pursue music, dramatics and sports. Grades impose an arbitrary standard of success on everyone. I do not demand as
some extremists do, that grades be abolished immediately. However, I do believe that less emphasis should be placed
on grades. I hope that someday grades will become optional at Village High School. Magdalena Smith, President, Drama Club
Let's face the facts about grades. Grades perform three basic functions. First, grades motivate students to work at their
highest level of competence. Second, they act as a reward for hardworking students and as a reprimand
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to students who do not work hard. Finally, grades are used as an effective standard by which to measure student
achievement. Good grades help students to get jobs and to get into university. I've spoken with a number of students
who have jobs, and most of them say that they were hired primarily on the basis of their grades. My grades helped me
land a part-time job and will help me get into university next year. I think grades are extremely important at Village High School. Simon Harper, Member, Science Club
96. Simon Harper writes from the viewpoint of someone whoA wants business to hire more students.
B believes in the benefits of good grades.
C is concerned about students' creativity.
D supports students' interests and abilities.E doesn't work too hard at his studies.
97. Magdalena Smith thinks it is important for A students to get good jobs
B students to participate in music, dramatics, and sports
C students to compete more for gradesD educators to have more control over grades
E students to be reprimanded for not working hard.
98. Which of the following states is a fact about grades at Village High School? A They are not useful B They stifle creativity
C They foster unnecessary competitionD They should be optional E They are currently in use.
99. Which of the following is NOT an opinion expressed by Magdalena Smith? A Grades should be abolished.
B Regimentation results from grades.
C Grades impose arbitrary standards of success.
D Students should be able to learn without worrying about grades.
E Competition may discourage students from pursuing subjects such as drama and art.
100. Good grades will mainly enable students A to work at their highest level of competence. B to go to university. C to land a part-time job.
D to get a job at a village high school.E to perform basic functions.
IV. WRITING ( 6 points)
Part 1: Finish the second sentence in such a way that it means the same as the sentence before it:
101. Columbus discovered America more than 400 years ago.