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PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP THỊ XÃ THỊ XÃ VĨNH CHÂU Năm học 2022-2023 Môn: Tiếng Anh 9 Thời gian 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề Giám khảo 1 Giám khảo 2 Số mật mã Điểm Điểm (ký và ghi rõ họ (ký và ghi rõ họ (do Chủ tịch (bằng số) (bằng chữ) tên) tên) Hội đồng ghi) (Đề thi này có 09 trang) SECTION A. LISTENING (5 points) HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU - Bài nghe gồm 4 phần; mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 05 giây; mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu. Thí sinh có 20 giây để đọc mỗi phần câu hỏi. - Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 03 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. Part 1. You will hear a man phoning the owner of a holiday cottage. For questions 1-5, complete the notes by writing ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet. (1 point) HOLIDAY RENTAL Owner’s names: Jack Fitzgerald and Shirley Fitzgerald Granary Cottage ● available for week beginning 28th May ● cost for the week: (1) __________________ (2) __________________ Cottage ● cost for the week: £480 ● building was originally a (3) __________________ ● walk through doors from living room into a (4) __________________ ● several (5) __________________ spaces at the front Part 2. Listen to the recording and decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (1 point) 6. Most plastic is made from oil, which is a finite resource. 7. Turng's research focuses on making plastic from recycled materials rather than corn and soybeans. 8. According to Turng, special composting facilities can currently diminish plastic waste by decomposing it. Page 1 of 9
9. The first plant-based plastics were created over 100 years ago. 10. Turng is working on bioplastics that are stronger and easier to mold than petroleum-based plastics. Your answers: 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Part 3. You will hear part of an interview with a woman called Barbara Darby, who works as a casting director in the film industry. For questions 11-15, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) that fits best according to what you hear. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet. (1 point) 11. According to Barbara, a casting director needs above all _______ A. to learn from experience. B. to be a good communicator. C. to have a relevant qualification. D. to have a natural feel for the job. 12. Barbara says that she looks for actors who _______ A. can play a variety of roles. B. complement each other. C. accept her way of working. D. think deeply about a part. 13. At which stage in the casting process does Barbara meet the actors? A. before she goes to see them performing live B. once the director has approved them C. before a final short list is drawn up D. as soon as a final selection is made 14. Barbara explains that what motivates her now is a need for _______ A. personal satisfaction. B. professional recognition. C. a glamorous lifestyle. D. financial security. 15. What made Barbara give up her job for a while? A. She’d become tired of travelling. B. She was ready to try something new. C. She felt she’d been put under too much pressure. D. She found that she was no longer as committed to it. Part 4. You will hear a man talking about depression. For questions 16-25, complete the summary by writing NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet. (2 points) Depression stands as the primary contributor to global disability, with individuals typically taking more than ten years to seek assistance for their mental health condition. However, effective treatments exist through the combination of medications and therapy, which work together to enhance (16) __________. If you know someone struggling with depression, encourage them to seek out some of these options. You might offer to help with (17) __________ (like searching for therapists, making a list of question to ask a doctor) which seems (18) __________ to one with depression. Point out that depression is a (19) ______________ it’s not a weakness or a (20) __________. You must avoid comparing depression to times you’ve felt down since it just makes the depressed feel (21) __________. A much better way to help them is (22) __________ about depression. According to research, asking someone about suicidal thoughts reduces their (23) __________. Moreover, open conversations about mental illness help (24) __________and make it easier for people Page 2 of 9
to ask for help. The more patients (25) __________, the more scientists will learn about depression and the better the treatment will get. B. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (5 points) Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each question. 26. The teachers are not very qualified, but in all ______ to Principal Montara, the school hasn't received funding to hire better teachers. A. fairness B. tenderness C. fondness D. hardiness 27. She was kept in ______ of his true identity. A. acceptance B. intolerance C. annoyance D. ignorance 28. My brother says that snails have teeth but I don't know if he's ______ or if he's serious. A. giving me the cold shoulder B. twisting my arm C. pulling my leg D. raising his eyebrows 29. It was a very ______ article that truly made me stop and think. A. long-lasting B. absent-minded C. thought-provoking D. strong-willed 30. Moving in together was a mistake, and things rapidly went ______. A. down bad B. off C. a long way D. downhill 31. I don’t suppose you are telling us the true version of the story, ______? A. do I B. are you C. aren’t you D. will you 32. Not having written about the required topic, ________ a low mark. A. my presentation was given B. the teacher gives me C. the teacher gave me D. I was given 33. Thomas received a warning for speeding. He _________ so fast. A. shouldn’t have driven B. would have driven C. must have driven D. might have driven 34. The doctor insisted that his patient ________. A. did not work too hard for three months B. take it easy for three months C. take it easy inside of three months D. could take a vacation for three months 35. ________ technically proficient; it also explores psychological questions. A. Not only is Barbara Astman's artwork B. Not only Barbara Astman's artwork C. Barbara Astman's artwork not only D. Barbara Astman’s artwork not only Read the sentences below. Use the correct form of the word in capitals next to each sentence to fill in the space. 36. Our ________ from London to Sydney took 24 hours. FLY 37. In most social situations where ________ is allowed, a brief raise of the hand and a small wave are fine. FORMAL Page 3 of 9
38. The country is very ________, so travelling by road is difficult. MOUNTAIN 39. The teacher stressed the need for regular ________. ATTEND 40. The house is large, but it is terribly ________ to live in. COMFORT 41. There were over fifty ________ in the orchestra. MUSIC 42. Jim always does what he says; he’s a very ________ person. RELY 43. Alexander knows which mushrooms are ________ so ask him before you pick them. POISON 44. I take the _______________ for running the household. IRRESPONSIBLE 45. Show ________ in an interview if you want to get the job offer. ENTHUSIASTIC Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions. 46. Athletics were his favourite sport when he was a high school student. A B C D 47. When I was a little girl, I used to play hide-and-seek, making toys and draw pictures. A B C D 48. The company had better develop more rapid and reliant systems for handling customers’ complaints. A B C D 49. It was embarrassing how a few people attended the party. A B C D 50. A cheap blue small car is thought to be sold with a resonable price. A B C D C. READING (5 POINTS) Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Example: 0 IN In 1900, just 13 per cent of the world’s people lived in cities. (0) _____ 2008, the number passed 50 per cent for the first time in history. By 2050, the number will be about 70 per cent. The urban (51) _________ in Asia and Africa will double, and there will be nearly 30 ‘megacities’ – cities with more than 10 million people. So what will life be like for people in the cities of the future? Professor of human geography Ben Rhodes describes his vision of the urban world in 2050. Life in cities will be very (52) _________ from how it is today. Energy, especially oil, will be very expensive, so many people will probably work at home, or have their work places close to where they live. There will be less traffic on the roads, and it will be easier for people to be close to their families. For these reasons, cities won’t have just one centre where everyone goes to work and shop. Instead, we’ll probably see cities with many different centres. It will be difficult to provide enough water, gas and electricity for really big cities, so these will probably stop growing. Many people from the countryside will move to smaller cities of 500,000 people or less. Transport over long (53) _________ will be a lot more expensive than it is now, so people will have to use food and energy from the countryside Page 4 of 9
around their cities. They will use local materials for building, and perhaps traditional styles of architecture too. The thing I really worry about is that energy may become too expensive for many people. In the end we might have two groups of people: a rich group which can afford energy and lives in clean, green areas, and a bigger, poorer group which can’t afford energy and has to live in the more polluted parts of the city. This might lead to serious political (54) _________. As we all know, cities near the sea will probably experience some extra problems. As temperatures around the world go up, sea levels will (55) _________ and many places will have problems with flooding. Some cities will be OK, some may even find that the change in the climate is good for them, but others will need help. We really need to start planning for this now. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions. Like many constructions, it started small; but now thousands of children with autism are making friends and learning social skills by playing a version of online building game Minecraft. Stuart Duncan, a web developer in Timmins, Canada, got the idea through a popular blog he ran about his own experiences with autism as well as bringing up a son with autism. Other parents with autistic children started telling him that their kids were enamoured with a game that let them explore a randomly generated wilderness. However, many of the children were being bullied by other players. So, in 2013, he set up a server to run a version of Minecraft exclusively for children with autism and their families. At first, he thought the invite-only server would attract 10 or 20 people. To his amazement, hundreds requested to join in the first few days. Now, almost three years later, the community boasts nearly 7000 members, along with a team of admins to help manage its many activities. “Parents see such a benefit for themselves and their children,” says Duncan. Everyday social situations can be challenging for autistic children, who may struggle to pick up on social cues or understand another person’s perspective. Minecraft strips away the pressures typical of the real world. There is no noisy or unfamiliar environment to distract you, no pressure to track the other person’s facial expressions or worry about eye contact. “With Minecraft, you can really just be yourself,” he says. To join Autcraft, you must fill out an application. Once approved, you are free to roam the landscape and build your own structures. You can also take part in group games or build things as a team. However, you have to stick to some rules. Harassing other players or destroying their property can get you banned. Joining a community like Autcraft could be a good first step to feeling less socially anxious and more engaged, says Elizabeth Laugeson, director of the PEERS Clinic at the University of California, Los Angeles. The server also caught the eye of Kate Ringland at the University of California, Irvine. She sees Autcraft as not just another online community, but as a tool that helps autistic children practise social skills. “There’s a lot of reflection going on,” she says. “Autcraft is supporting a lot of social behaviours”. (Adapted from https://www.newscientist.com/) 56. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage? A. Minecraft versus Autcraft: Two Peas in a Pod? B. Autistic Children Got Bullied: A Mess to Clear Up Page 5 of 9
C. Defeating Autism: A Story of a Canadian Web Developer D. Minecraft: A Blessing to Children with Autism 57. According to paragraph 1, Stuart Duncan ______. A. is an expert in the field of treating autism B. has a blog about developing websites C. has a son who was diagnosed with autism D. loves making friends with autistic children 58. The word enamoured with in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______. A. angry with B. devoid of C. crazy about D. good at 59. The word its in paragraph 2 refers to ______. A. admin B. community C. team D. activity 60. The word challenging in paragraph 3 mostly means ______. A. decisive B. terrific C. hurtful D. tough 61. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A. The great benefits of Autcraft are acknowledged by parents with autistic children. B. The number of requests to join Autcraft went beyond Duncan’s initial expectations. C. Minecraft exerts many pressures typical of the real world on children with autism. D. Failure to conform to certain rules of Autcraft can result in a player being banned. 62. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage? A. Thanks to Minecraft, the number of autistic children falling victim to bullying has reduced greatly. B. Minecraft is by far the most effective game to develop social skills and form new relationships. C. Autcraft provides autistic children with steps to feel less socially anxious and more engaged. D. Some professionals seem positive about the potential of Autcraft in emboldening autistic children. Read the passage and do the task below One of the most eminent of psychologists, Clark Hull, claimed that the essence of reasoning lies in the putting together of two 'behaviour segments' in some novel way, never actually performed before, so as to reach a goal. Two followers of Clark Hull, Howard and Tracey Kendler, devised a test for children that was explicitly based on Clark Hull's principles. The children were given the task of learning to operate a machine so as to get a toy. In order to succeed they had to go through a two-stage sequence. The children were trained on each stage separately. The stages consisted merely of pressing the correct one of two buttons to get a marble; and of inserting the marble into a small hole to release the toy. The Kendlers found that the children could learn the separate bits readily enough. Given the task of getting a marble by pressing the button they could get the marble; given the task of getting a toy when a marble was handed to them, they could use the marble. (All they had to do was put it in a hole.) But they did not for the most part 'integrate', to use the Kendlers' terminology. They did not press the button to get the marble and then proceed without further help to use the marble to get the toy. So the Kendlers concluded that they Page 6 of 9
were incapable of deductive reasoning. The mystery at first appears to deepen when we learn, from another psychologist, Michael Cole, and his colleagues, that adults in an African culture apparently cannot do the Kendlers' task either. But it lessens, on the other hand, when we learn that a task was devised which was strictly analogous to the Kendlers' one but much easier for the African males to handle. Instead of the button-pressing machine, Cole used a locked box and two differently coloured match-boxes, one of which contained a key that would open the box. Notice that there are still two behaviour segments — 'open the right match-box to get the key' and 'use the key to open the box' - so the task seems formally to be the same. But psychologically it is quite different. Now the subject is dealing not with a strange machine but with familiar meaningful objects; and it is clear to him what he is meant to do. It then turns out that the difficulty of 'integration' is greatly reduced. Recent work by Simon Hewson is of great interest here for it shows that, for young children, too, the difficulty lies not in the inferential processes which the task demands, but in certain perplexing features of the apparatus and the procedure. When these are changed in ways which do not at all affect the inferential nature of the problem, then five-year-old children solve the problem as well as college students did in the Kendlers' own experiments. Hewson made two crucial changes. First, he replaced the button-pressing mechanism in the side panels by drawers in these panels which the child could open and shut. This took away the mystery from the first stage of training. Then he helped the child to understand that there was no 'magic' about the specific marble which, during the second stage of training, the experimenter handed to him so that he could pop it in the hole and get the reward. A child understands nothing, after all, about how a marble put into a hole can open a little door. How is he to know that any other marble of similar size will do just as well? Yet he must assume that if he is to solve the problem. Hewson made the functional equivalence of different marbles clear by playing a 'swapping game' with the children. The two modifications together produced a jump in success rates from 30 per cent to 90 per cent for five-year-olds and from 35 per cent to 72.5 per cent for four-year-olds. For three-year - olds, for reasons that are still in need of clarification, no improvement - rather a slight drop in performance - resulted from the change. We may conclude, then, that children experience very real difficulty when faced with the Kendler apparatus; but this difficulty cannot be taken as proof that they are incapable of deductive reasoning. Questions 63-70 Classify the following descriptions as a referring Clark Hull CH Howard and Tracy Kendler HTK Micheal Cole and colleagues MC Simon Hewson SH Write the appropriate letters in boxes 63-70 on your answer sheet. NB You may use any answer more than once. 63. __________ is cited as famous in the field of psychology. 64. __________ demonstrated that the two-stage experiment involving button-pressing and inserting a marble into a hole poses problems for certain adults as well as children. Page 7 of 9
65. __________ devised an experiment that investigated deductive reasoning without the use of any marbles. 66. __________ appears to have proved that a change in the apparatus dramatically improves the performance of children of certain ages. 67. __________ used a machine to measure inductive reasoning that replaced button- pressing with drawer-opening. 68. __________ experimented with things that the subjects might have been expected to encounter in everyday life, rather than with a machine. 69. __________ compared the performance of five-year-olds with college students, using the same apparatus with both sets of subjects. 70. __________ is cited as having demonstrated that earlier experiments into children's ability to reason deductively may have led to the wrong conclusions. Questions 71-75 Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage? In boxes 71-75 on your answer sheet write YES if the statement agrees with the information NO if the statement contradicts the information NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this in the passage 71. __________ Howard and Tracey Kendler studied under Clark Hull. 72. __________ The Kendlers trained their subjects separately in the two stages of their experiment, but not in how to integrate the two actions. 73. __________ Michael Cole and his colleagues demonstrated that adult performance on inductive reasoning tasks depends on features of the apparatus and procedure. 74. __________ All Hewson's experiments used marbles of the same size. 75. __________ Hewson's modifications resulted in a higher success rate for children of all ages. D. WRITING (5 POINTS) Finish the second sentences sothat it means the same as the first one (1 point) 76. She thought it was too difficult for her to finish the job by lunchtime. She found _________________________________________________. 77. They thought that the little girl had found the keys accidentally. The keys ______________________________________________. 78. Someone has suggested abolishing income tax. It _____________________________________. 79. It was wrong of you to allow a 4-year-old child to walk home alone. You should ______________________________________________. 80. We were late for the meeting because it rained heavily. But for _______________________________________. Page 8 of 9
Finish the second sentences sothat it means the same as the first one, using the word given. You mustn’t change the given words in any way. (1 point) 81. The two theories appear to be completely different. COMMON _____________________________________________________________ 82. His rude behaviour is too much for me. PUT _____________________________________________________________ 83. My grandfather was sixty when he learnt how to swim. AGE _____________________________________________________________ 84. The interview panel thought that Sarah had a very good manner. IMPRESSION _____________________________________________________________ 85. Organic vegetables are said to be healthy. WONDERS _____________________________________________________________ Write a paragraph (150 words) about the following topic. (3 points) Governments should make more effort to promote alternative sources of energy. Do you agree or disagree with this opinion? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ___ THE END ___ Page 9 of 9