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SECTION I: LISTENING COMPREHENSION (40pts) HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
Bài nghe gồm 3 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 15 giây, mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu.
Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín hiệu nhạc kết thúc bài nghe.
Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
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Part 1. Listen to the passage and then fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS. (20 pts)
1. Cavers explore the underground places such as mines and (1) ______ as well as caves.
2. When cavers camp underground, they choose places which have both space and (2) ______
available.
3. In the UK, the place Mike likes best for caving is (3) ______.
4. As a physical activity, Mike compares caving to (4) ______.
5. Cavers can pay as much as £20 for a suitable (5) ______.
6. Cavers can pay as much as (6) ______ for the right kind of lamp which is worn on the head.
7. Mike recommends buying expensive (7) ______ to avoid having accidents.
8. Caving is a sport for people of (8) ______ and backgrounds.
9. Some caves in Britain are called “places of (9) ______” .
10. That cavers don’t enjoy (10) ______ and the need for safety explain why people don’t organize caving competitions.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2: Complete the table below with information from a part of the radio interview. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. (10 pts)
Changes Benefits
seats (1) ______ to the consumer
entertainment (2) ______ to the consumer
TRẠI HÈ HÙNG VƯƠNG LẦN THỨ XII
BẮC GIANG 2016
ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH – KHỐI 10
Ngày thi: 31 tháng 7 năm 2016
Thời gian làm bài:180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) (Đề thi có 10 trang)
THÍ SINH LÀM BÀI TRỰC TIẾP VÀO BẢNG CHO SẴN TRONG TỜ ĐỀ THI
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
2 (3) ______
Restrictions Atmosphere more pleasant (4) ______
economy class
meals (5) ______ to the consumer
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 3: Listen to a radio program about two writers. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to complete each of the questions. (10 pts)
1. The novelist J. D. Salinger went to university but ______
A. was asked to leave.
B. received poor grades in his first year.
C. left before finishing the first year.
D. did not regard getting a degree as ‘success’.
2. Salinger’s famous novel about adolescence was ______
A. popular mainly because it was controversial.
B. only popular with younger readers.
C. extremely popular but condemned by some people.
D. not taught in many schools at first.
3. Because Salinger refused to be in the public eye, ______
A. people stopped asking him for interviews.
B. nobody was even sure what religion he was.
C. he was rarely talked about.
D. his fame actuality increased.
4. Harper Lee’s education was ______
A. not as successful as she had hoped.
B. more successful than Salinger’s.
C. not as successful as Salinger’s.
D. very similar to Salinger’s.
5. How did Harper Lee find time to write her first novel?
A. A friend paid for her to take a year off work.
B. A friend got her work as a songwriter in New York.
C. She couldn’t find a job in New York.
D. She wrote slowly for ten years in total.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
SECTION II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (50 points)
Part 1. Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to complete each sentence below. (20 pts) 1. ______ I can’t make the presentation myself, I’ve asked my assistant to be prepared to do it for me.
A. On the other hand B. In the event that C. Only if D. For
2. ______ the benefits and the drawbacks of their immigration to Germany, they decided to stay.
A. Taking B. Concerning C. Weighed D. Given
3. He was awarded a medal in ______ of his services to the Queen
A. view B. recognition C. regard D. light
4. The reporters thought that the football manager would be depressed by his dismissal, but he just ______.
A. ran it down B. called it off C. laughed it off D. turned it down 5. In this assignment, we will ______ your work and then give you detailed feedback on how to improve your writing.
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A. assess B. judge C. measure D. test 6. Charlotte Bronte died of tuberculosis, ______.
A. as did all her sisters B. and all her sisters did C. and so were all sisters D. either did all her sisters 7. Tom: “Do you think you'll pass the exam?” Jake: “I don’t know. ______”.
A. I am keeping my fingers crossed B. My lips are sealed C. That will be the day D. A little bird told me
8. If this animal had escaped from its cage, it could ______ have killed or maimed several people.
A. simply B. surely C. well D. fairly
9. When he went to Egypt, he knew______ no Arabic, but within six months he had become extremely fluent.
A. entirely B. barely C. virtually D. scarcely
10. - Were you told to clean the house? - No, I did it of my own ______.
A. desire B. accord C. idea D. will
11. No one really knows who composed this piece of music, but it has been ______ to Bach.
A. identified B. attributed C. referred D. associated
12. Opponents say animals may suffer because their ______ environment is restricted and artificial.
A. prisonlike B. confined C. incarcerated D. captive 13. It was a close ______ but we just made it to the airport on time for our flight.
A. run B. drive C. call D. go
14. Children can be difficult to teach because of their short attention ______.
A. span B. limit C. duration D. time
15. ______ gene in the human genome to be thoroughly understood, many human diseases could be cured or prevented.
A. Each B. Since C. If each D. Were each
16. ______ are a form of carbon has been known since the late eighteenth century.
A. Diamonds, which B. Because diamonds C. That diamonds D. Diamonds 17. Mark: “Do you think that smoking should be banned in public?” Veronica: “______”.
A. Yes, it’s an absurd idea C. Of course not. You bet B. Well, that’s very surprising D. There’s no doubt about it.
18. Closure of many vocational schools took place ______ falling numbers of pupils.
A. in the context of B. with regard to C. with a concern for D. in consideration of 19. He ______ his life to the skill of the surgeons.
A. owes B. keeps C. preserves D. maintains
20. Marcus never writes the timetable down. He keeps it in his ______.
A. brain B. head C. mind D. heart
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Part 2. Complete the following passage with the correct forms of the words given in CAPITALS. (10pts)
1. Every Christmas, they donate some food and clothes to the _________. NEED 2. The_________ President is about to appoint a committee of five to COME take care of a serious political problem.
3. The mother of the child hurried _________to her neighborhood drugstore. BREATH 4. Children quickly _________ their shoes and clothes. GROW 5. Town planners would make the city more inhabitable by _________ the center.
PEDESTRIAN 6. The EIU puts Mr. Trumps on the same level of risk as “the rising threat of Jihadi terrorism
_________ the global economy”. STABLE
7. As a result of her _________, Ethel has strong sense of the difference between right and wrong.
BRING
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8. Have our arguments convinced or do you need any more _________? ASSURE 9. Gift exchange is an expression of an existing social relationship or of the establishment of a new one that differs from __________ market relationships. PERSON 10. Because of the lack of cooperation he decided to leave the project _________. FINISH Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 3. Complete the sentences with the suitable particles or prepositions. (10pts) 1. I’d like to exchange this car __________ a new model but I can’t afford it.
2. Everybody put Mr. Spark's success ____ ____his extraordinary cleverness at persuading people to entrust their money with him.
3. School children are gifted _________ coining nicknames for their teachers.
4. Van Gogh had an eye _________ detail and many of his works were mistaken for photographs.
5. When the child was healed, her parents were delirious _________ joy.
6. The painting was a valuable family possession which had been handed_______from generation to generation.
7. The factory smoke looked white _________ the gray winter sky.
8. He wasn't allowed in the cinema because he was _________ age.
9. It was such a sad film that we were all reduced _________ tears at the end.
10. It always pays to buy high quality goods. _________ the long run it’s cheaper.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 4. Find and correct 10 mistakes in the text. (10 pts) Line
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An endangered species is a population of an organism who is at risk of becoming extinct because it is both few in numbers, or threatened by changed environment or predation parameters. An endangered species is usually a taxonomic species, though may be another evolutionary significant unit. The World Conservation Union was calculated the percentage of endangered species as 40 percent of all organisms based at the sample of species that have been evaluating through 2006.
Many nations have laws offering protection to this species: for example, forbidding hunting, restricting land development or creating preserves. Only a little of the many species at risk of extinct actually make it to the lists and obtain legal protection. Much more species become extinct, or potentially will become extinct, without gaining public notice.
Your answers
Line Mistake Correction Line Mistake Correction
SECTION 3: READING (60 points)
Part1. Read the text below and then decide which word best fits each blank. (15pts) Gerard Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
When Gerard Mercatorwas was born in 1512, the geography of the globe still remained a mystery. It was unclear whether America was part of Asia, if there was a vast (1) _________ of sea at the top of the world or if Australia was (2) _________ to Antarctica.
Mercator's childhood was spent chiefly in Rupelmonde, a Flemish trading town on the river, and it was here that his geographical imagination was (3) _________ by the ships which passed to
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and from the rest of the world. Alongside imagination, he developed two very different skills. The first was the ability to gather, (4) _________ and co-ordinate the geographical information (5) _________ explorers and sailors who frequented the margins of the known. He also had to be able to imagine himself (6) _________ from the heavens, to achieve the visionary (7) _________ of gods in the skies, (8) _________ down on the world. The main reason why Mercator's name is (9) _________ to us is because of the Mercator Projection: the solution he (10) _________ to represent the spheroidal surface of the globe on a two-dimensional plane. It is less well known that Mercator was the first man to conceive of mapping the (11) _________ surface of the planet or that he (12) _________ the idea of multiple maps being presented in bound books, to which he gave the name 'Atlas'.
It is difficult for us now to be surprised by maps, so many are there, and of such detail and coverage, but we should (13) _________ in mind that Mercator lived at a time when such knowledge was far from (14) _________. He was the man who (15) _________ our worldview forever.
1. A. territory B. distance C. range D. expanse 2. A. connected B. coupled C. united D. integrated 3. A. raised B. reared C. supplied D. nourished 4. A. congregate B. amass C. assimilate D. construct 5. A. granted B. conferred C. contributed D. provided 6. A. suspended B. located C. situated D. attached 7. A. inspection B. observation C. perspective D. assessment 8. A. glimpsing B. scrutinizing C. watching D. gazing 9. A. familiar B. famous C. memorable D. recognizable 10. A. invented B. contrived C. devised D. schemed 11. A. sheer B. full C. entire D. utter 12. A. pioneered B. initiated C. lead D. prepared 13. A. carry B. hold C. take D. bear 14. A. typical B. common C. routine D. normal 15. A. converted B. substituted C. distorted D. altered Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Part 2. Fill each blank in the passage with ONE suitable word. (15 pts)
The latest addiction to trap thousands of people is the Internet, which has been (1) _________ for broken relationships, job losses, financial ruin, and even suicide. Psychologists now recognize Internet Addiction Syndrome (IAS) (2) _________ a new illness that could cause serious problems and ruin many lives. Special help groups have been (3) _________ up to offer sufferers help and support.
Psychologists have described many worrying (4) _________, including one man who took his own life (5) _________ borrowing more than ₤ 14,000 to feed his addiction, and a teenager who had to receive psychiatric (6) _________ for his 12-hour-a-day habit. "This illness is not fake, and it must be taken (7) _________," said an expert in behavioral addiction at Nottingham Trent University. "These are not sad people (8) _________ serious personality defects; they are people who were fine before they found the Internet."
IAS is similar to other problems like gambling, smoking and drinking: (9) _________ have dreams about the Internet; they need to use it (10) _________ thing in the morning; they lie to their partners about how much time they spent (11) _________; they wish they could cut down, but are unable to do so. A recent study found that many users spend up to 40 hours a week on the Internet; (12) _________ they felt guilty, they became depressed if they were made to stop using it.
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(13) _________ anyone can be at risk. Some of the addicts are teenagers who are already (14) _________ on computer games and who find it very difficult to resist the games on the Internet. Surprisingly, (15) _________, psychologists say that most victims are middle-aged housewives who have never used a computer before.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Part 3. Read the following passage carefully then choose the best answer to each question.
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Archaeological records - paintings, drawings, and carvings of humans engaged in activities involving the use of hands - indicate that humans have been predominantly right- handed for more than 5,000 years. In ancient Egyptian artwork, for example, the right-hand is depicted as the dominant one in about 90 percent of the examples. Fracture or wear patterns on tools also indicate that a majority of ancient people were right-handed.
Cro-Magnon cave paintings some 27,000years old commonly show outlines of human hands made by placing one hand against the cave wall and applying paint with the other. Children today make similar outlines of their hands with crayons on paper. With few exceptions, left hands of Cro-Magnons are displayed on cave walls, indicating that the paintings were usually done by right-handers.
Anthropological evidence pushes the record of handedness in early human ancestors back to at least 1.4 million years ago. One important line of evidence comes from flaking patterns of stone cores used in tool making: implements flaked with a clockwise motion (indicating a right-handed toolmaker) can be distinguished from those flaked with a counter-clockwise rotation (indicating a left-handed toolmaker).
Even scratches found on fossil human teeth offer clues. Ancient humans are thought to have cut meat into strips by holding it between their teeth and slicing it with stone knives, as do the present-day Inuit. Occasionally the knives slip and leave scratches on the users` teeth. Scratches made with a left-to-right stroke direction (by right-handers) are more common than scratches in the opposite direction (made by left-handers).
Still other evidence comes from cranial morphology: scientists think that physical differences between the right and left sides of the interior of the skull indicate subtle physical differences between the two sides of the brain. The variation between the hemispheres corresponds to which side of the body is used to perform specific activities.
Such studies, as well as studies of tool use, indicate that right- or left-sided dominance is not exclusive to modern Homo sapiens. Populations of Neanderthals, such as Homo erectus and Homo habilis, seem to have been predominantly right-handed, as we are.
1. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Human ancestors became predominantly right-handed when they began to use tools.
B. It is difficult to interpret the significance of anthropological evidence concerning tool use.
C. Humans and their ancestors have been predominantly right-handed for over a million years.
D. Human ancestors were more skilled at using both hands than modern humans.
2. What does the author say about Cro-Magnon paintings of hands?
A. Some are not very old. B. It is unusual to see such paintings.
C. Many were made by children. D. The artists were mostly right-handed.
3. The word “depicted” refers to ______.
A. written B. portrayed C. referred D. mentioned 4. When compared with implements “flaked with a counter-clockwise rotation” it can be inferred that “implements flaked with a clockwise motion” are ______.
A. more common B. larger C. more sophisticated D. older 5. The word “cranial morphology” is closest in meaning to ______.
A. the form of crane B. the form of the body C. the study of physical body D. the study of the skull
6. The fact that the Inuit cut meat by holding it between their teeth is significant because _____.
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A. the relationship between handedness and scratches on fossil human teeth can be verified B. it emphasizes the differences between contemporary humans and their ancestors C. the scratch patterns produced by stone knives vary significantly from patterns
produced by modern knives
D. it demonstrates that ancient humans were not skilled at using tools 7. The word “hemispheres” is closest in meaning to ______.
A. differences B. sides C. activities D. studies 8. Why does the author mention Homo erectus and Habilis in line 26-27?
A. To contrast them with modern humans
B. To explain when human ancestors began to make tools
C. To show that early humans were also predominantly right-handed D. To prove that the population of Neanderthals was very large
9. All of the following are mentioned as types of evidence concerning handedness EXCEPT____.
A. ancient artwork B. asymmetrical skulls
C. studies of tool use D. fossilized hand bones
10. Which of the following conclusion is suggested by the evidence from cranial morphology?
A. Differences in the hemispheres of the brain probably came about relatively recently.
B. There may be a link between handedness and differences in the brain’s hemisphere.
C. Left-handedness was somewhat more common among Neanderthals.
D. Variation between the brain’s hemispheres was not evident in the skulls of Homo erectus and Homo habilis.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 4. The reading passage has five paragraphs (A-E). Choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the appropriate numbers (i-vi) in boxes 1-5.
Note: There are more headings than paragraphs so you will not use all of them.
PAPER RECYCLING
A. Paper is different from other waste produce because it comes from a sustainable resource:
trees. Unlike the minerals and oil used to make plastics and metals, trees are replaceable. Paper is also biodegradable, so it does not pose as much threat to the environment when it is discarded.
While 45 out of every 100 tones of wood fibre used to make paper in Australia comes from waste paper, the rest comes directly from virgin fibre from forests and plantations. By world standards this is a good performance since the world-wide average is 33 per cent waste paper. Governments have encouraged waste paper collection and sorting schemes and at the same time, the paper industry has responded by developing new recycling technologies that have paved the way for even greater utilization of used fibre. As a result, industry’s use of recycled fibres is expected to increase at twice the rate of virgin fibre over the coming years.
B. Already, waste paper constitutes 70% of paper used for packaging and advances in the technology required to remove ink from the paper have allowed a higher recycled content in newsprint and writing paper. To achieve the benefits of recycling, the community must also contribute. We need to accept a change in the quality of paper products; for example stationery may be less white and of a rougher texture. There also needs to be support from the community for waste paper collection programs. Not only do we need to make the paper available to collectors but it also needs to be separated into different types and sorted from contaminants such as staples, paperclips, string and other miscellaneous items.
C. There are technical limitations to the amount of paper which can be recycled and some paper products cannot be collected for re-use. These include paper in the form of books and permanent records, photographic paper and paper which is badly contaminated. The four most common sources of paper for recycling are factories and retail stores which gather large amounts of packaging material in which goods are delivered, also offices which have unwanted business documents and computer output, paper converters and printers and lastly households which discard
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newspapers and packaging material. The paper manufacturer pays a price for the paper and may also incur the collection cost.
D. Once collected, the paper has to be sorted by hand by people trained to recognize various types of paper. This is necessary because some types of paper can only be made from particular kinds of recycled fibre. The sorted paper then has to be repulped or mixed with water and broken down into its individual fibres. This mixture is called stock and may contain a wide variety of contaminating materials, particularly if it is made from mixed waste paper which has had little sorting. Various machineries are used to remove other materials from the stock. After passing through the repulping process, the fibres from printed waste paper are grey in colour because the printing ink has soaked into the individual fibres. This recycled material can only be used in products where the grey colour does not matter, such as cardboard boxes but if the grey colour is not acceptable, the fibres must be de-inked. This involves adding chemicals such as caustic soda or other alkalis, soaps and detergents, water-hardening agents such as calcium chloride, frothing agents and bleaching agents.
Before the recycled fibres can be made into paper they must be refined or treated in such a way that they bond together.
E. Most paper products must contain some virgin fibre as well as recycled fibres and unlike glass, paper cannot be recycled indefinitely. Most paper is down-cycled which means that a product made from recycled paper is of an inferior quality to the original paper. Recycling paper is beneficial in that it saves some of the energy, labour and capital that go into producing virgin pulp.
However, recycling requires the use of fossil fuel, a non-renewable energy source, to collect the waste paper from the community and to process it to produce new paper. And the recycling process still creates emissions which require treatment before they can be disposed of safely.
Nevertheless, paper recycling is an important economical and environmental practice but one which must be carried out in a rational and viable manner for it to be useful to both industry and the community.
i. Sources of paper for recycling ii. Bad sides of paper recycling
iii. Contribution of community to recycling paper iv. Process of paper recycling
v. Less threat of waste paper to the environment vi. Collection of paper for recycling
Your answers
1. Paragraph A 2. Paragraph B 3. Paragraph C 4. Paragraph D 5. Paragraph E
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SUMMARY
Complete the summary below of the first two paragraphs of the reading passage. Choose ONE OR TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
From the point of view of recycling, paper has two advantages over minerals and oil in that firstly it comes from a resource which is (1) _________ and secondly it is less threatening to our environment when we throw it away because it is (2) _________. Although Australia’s record in the re-use of waste paper is good, it is still necessary to use a combination of recycled fibre and (3) _________ to make new paper. The paper industry has contributed positively and people have also been (4) _________ by governments to collect their waste on a regular basis. One major difficulty is the removal of ink from used paper but (5) _________ are being made in this area. However, we need to learn to accept paper which is generally of a lower (6) _________ than before and to sort our waste paper by removing (7) _________ before discarding it for collection.
Look at paragraphs C, D, and E and, using the information in the passage, complete the flow chart below. Use ONE OR TWO WORDS for each answer.
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* Waste paper is collected from:
factories
(8) _________
offices
paper converters and printers households
* Paper is then
sorted
and (9) _________ by adding water
Chemicals are added in order to de-ink
* The fibres are then (10) _________
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
SECTION IV: WRITING (50 points)
Part 1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it. (7.5pts)
1. We shouldn’t overstate the importance of finishing the project on time.
We shouldn’t put ____________________________________________________________
2. The Japanese missing boy Yamato was found healthy and hungry in a military hut by a soldier.
The moment a _____________________________________________________________
3. We cannot make any comparison with her sacrifice.
Nothing ___________________________________________________________________
4. I am having a lot of trouble now because I lost my passport last week.
If I ________________________________________________________________________
5. His description of the incident was completely different from what really happened.
His description of the incident bore ______________________________________________
Part 2. Use the word(s) given in brackets and make any necessary additions to complete a new sentence in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Do not change the form of the given word(s). (7.5pts)
1. The bus was too crowded for him to put his case down. (ROOM)
________________________________________________________________________
2. My impression of him was that he was a very capable person (STRUCK)
________________________________________________________________________
3. They arrived at the station with only a minute to spare. (NICK)
________________________________________________________________________
4. The film was so controversial that it was banned in several parts of the world. (CAUSED)
Such was __________________________________________________________________
5. The elections take place next Sunday. (SCHEDULED)
The elections ________________________________________next Sunday.
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Part 3. Write a paragraph of about 150 words to explain the reasons why sex education is important to high school students. (35pts)
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