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Sở Giáo Dục và Đào Tạo Đồng Tháp Trường THPT TXCL Thi Học Sinh Giỏi ĐBSCL Năm Học 2010 – 2011 Môn Anh Văn ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ NGHỊ SECTION 1: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (42 points) Part 1. (10 points) Q # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Key D B B D B D C D C A Part 2: (10 points) 1. unable 2. patient 3. intelligent 4. impossible 5. inadequate 6. unsatisfactory 7. incorrect 8. impolite 9. unfortunately 10.inappropriate Part 3: (13 points) 1. have been 2. want/are planning/plan/ have decided 3. are enjoying/have been enjoying 4. have visited 5. have been wandering/have been walking 6. haven’t spent 7. have taken/ have been taking/ have been getting/ have been doing 8. have had 9. has been 10. say 11. rains 12. have been / have come 13. guess/ suppose Part 4: ( 9 points): 1.setting them off 2. went in for 3. own up 4. think it over 5. carry on 6. stood up for 7. turned it down 8. put up with 9. found out SECTION 2: READING (26 points): Part 1. (15 points) Q # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Key B C A B B A B D B B A A A D C Part 2: (11 points) 16. iv 17.vii 18. i 19. ix 20. iii 21. vi 22. celluloid(film) 23. projectors, screens 24. warmth 25. equipment 26. e-theatre
SECTION 3: WRITING (32 points) Part 1: (15 points) Q# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Key √ as the the a to so √ √ √ make themselves √ as √ Part 2: (8 points) 1. We haven’t received confirmation about our booking. 2. According to the salesman my new car would be delivered next Wednesday. 3. There have been very few sightings of the Yeti having been seen at this attitude. 4. It is open to doubt whether Jones will get the job. 5. No sooner had the announcement been made than everyone started complaining. 6. The older I get, the less I want to travel. 7. You won’t be able to get a house in that district for under $ 100.000. 8. Alan’s illness was caused by his working hard at the office. Part 3 (9 points) 1. Without his neighbour’s help, he wouldn’t have managed to repair the garage roof. 2. Everybody can make mistakes. 3. The last Olympic Games took place in Seoul. 4. The sole subject of his conversation was the weather. 5. In the end, I had no regrets about having left the club. 6. You are an idiot to refuse Richard’s offer of a loan. 7. The company has had an intention to replace this model. 8. In the next few years, we are likely to hear a lot more about the environmental pollution. 9. Paula blamed me for causing/having caused the accident. THE END
LĐT.HSG 12.CT 1 UBND TỈNH TIỀN GIANG CỘNG HÒA XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM SỞ GIÁO DỤC& ĐÀO TẠO Độc lập - Tự do - Hạnh phúc KỲ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYỂN HOC SINH GIỎI LỚP 12 THPT DỰ THI QUỐC GIA Đ Môn: ANH VĂN Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút ( không kể thời gian giao đề ) ( Đề gồm 07 trang )-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PART I : LISTENING COMPREHENSION: ( 2.0 pts ) Question 1: Listen to the passage then pick out ONE best option ( A,B,C or D ) in each question. The passage will be read twice: 1. In Porto, walking around is great because _______________. A. the shops are very modern and the centre is very crowded. B. the streets are narrow and full of churches, museums, and markets. C. the streets are wide and full of people and vehicles. D. the weather is warm and there are lots of shops and restaurants. 2. The writer thinks the atmosphere in Porto is_____________. A. very exciting B. unsafe and violent C. busy and unfriendly D. safe and friendly 3. People spend the evening hitting each other with plastic hammers___________. A. at weekends B. every Sunday in summer C. at São Joao in June D. when the weather is sunny 4. Which of the following is NOT true? A. The writer really enjoys drinking wine produced in Porto. B. People usually go to Foz at the weekends. C. Porto is not a big town. D. Porto is situated in the north of Portugal. Question 2 : Listen to the passage then pick out the information to complete these sentences. The passage will be read twice: 1. If the coffee plant is left alone in the wild, it can grow up to_______________. 2. When the berries are ripe, the_____________are used to produce coffee. 3. After the coffee beans are roasted and ground, people pack the coffee powder in_______________ to keep it fresh. 4. In some places of the world, coffee is made very_______________, and it is served in small cups. . PART II :VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR ( 8 pts ) Question 3: Pick out ONE best option ( A,B,C or D ) to complete each sentence : 1. We are………busy to think about that problem at the moment. A. much more B. far too C. really D. simply 2. Please help me! I couldn’t open the jar……….hard I tried. A. in spite of B. no matter C. whatever D. however 3. He tells his daughter to eat all her food or……….she would not get any toys. A. instead B. in fact
LĐT.HSG 12.CT 2 C. else D. in case 4. Mrs. Laurence has to send her dirty clothes to the laundress’s because her washing machine was out of………….. A. order B. fashion C. work D. position 5. Janet should have stayed out of the sun because her skin is so………….. A. senseless B. sensible C. sensitive D. insensible 6. A good friend will…………you when you’re having problems. A. stand by B. stand in C. stand off D. stand over 7. Total colour blindness,……………, is the result of a defect in the retina. A. is a rare condition B. a rare condition C. that a rare condition D. a rare condition that 8. Earthquakes can damage a tree………violently, and it can take several years for the tree to heal. A. to cause to shake it B. when shaking it causes C. to cause shaking D. by causing it to shake Question 4 : Complete these sentences, using the suitable forms of the words in brackets: 1. Coffee plants were first………in Ethiopia over 700 years ago. ( discovery ) 2. He got retired 5 years ago and was then invited to be a member of the………….. committee of the town. (advice ) 3. WWF has ……….. panda as a kind of endangered animals in the world. ( classes ) 4. It seems to be……….for human beings to live on Mars. It’s extremely hot there. ( possibility ) 5. ………….is now applying in education and public health care in our country. ( society ) 6. Weather is sometimes………….It’s hard to predict the weather exactly. ( rely ) 7. Everyone likes him a lot because of his………….( generous ) 8. Nowadays, mobiles are used………….in all regions of Viet Nam. ( popularity ) Question 5 : There are 8 errors in the passage below. Read the passage, find out these errors then correct them.The number (0) is an example: There are so ( 0.much -> many ) museums and gallleries in London which even people who have lived there for a long time do not know them all. Some are traditional museums, but many are now making its exhibitions interactive, or hands-on, to encourage people to touch and understand what is on display. At the Science Museum, visitors can carry away experiments. At the National History Museum, managers can find out how to look for fossils on the beach. At the National Gallery, the country’s main art gallery, visitors can call up paintings on radio screens, find out about them and then print out a plan with their location indicated. The Clink Prison Museum is a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century prison. Visitors can look at a typical cell and light leg irons and chains. At MOMI, the Museum of the Moving Image, almost all the things on display move. You can see why the first film was made, listen to the latest stereo systems and watch the news from the 1960s. You can compose your own cartoons, read the news on TV and fly like Superman over London. Question 6 : Choose ONE option ( A,B,C or D ) corresponding to the best sentence
LĐT.HSG 12.CT 3 which is made up from the given cue words. 1. / important / it / stop / patient / smoke / drink / at once / A. It’s important that the patient stops smoking and drinking at once. B. It’s important that the patient should stop smoking and drinking at once. C. It’s important that the patient stops to smoke and drink at once. D. It’s important that the patient should stop to smoke and drink at once. 2. / balcony / high building / good / view / football match / A. The balcony of the high building can make the football match better to view. B. From the balcony of the high building, we can have a better view of the football match. C. From the balcony of the high building, the football match can have a good view. D. The football match can view the balcony of the high building quite well. 3. / police’s warnings / people / refuse / helmets / A. Despite the police’s warnings, many people still refuse to wear helmets. B. Because of the police’s warnings, many people refuse wearing helmets. C. Thanks to the police’s warnings, many people still refuse of wearing helmets. D. Even though the police’s warnings, many people refuse not to wear helmets. 4. / ages / be / they / go / Da Lat / A. It has been ages when they last went to Da Lat. B. It has been ages when they have gone to Da Lat. C. It seems to be ages since they last went to Da Lat. D. Since they have gone to Da Lat, they have been ages. 5. / stop / we / play / tennis / because / rain / start / A. We stopped playing tennis because it rain starts. B. We stopped playing tennis because of it started to rain. C. We stopped playing tennis because it started to rain. D. We stopped to play tennis because it started to rain. 6. / computer / run / ten time / fast / this / old one / A. This ten times computer runs faster than the old one. B. This computer runs ten times faster than the old one. C. This computer runs fast ten times than the old one. D. This computer runs faster ten times than the old one 7. / this coat / you / prefer / coat / wear / yesterday / A. I prefer this coat to the coat you wearing yesterday. B. I prefer this coat than the coat you were wearing yesterday. C. I prefer this coat to the coat you wear yesterday. D. I prefer this coat to the coat you wore yesterday. 8. / Einstein / can / not / speak / until / he / eight / A. Not until Einstein was eight can he speak. B. Einstein could not speak until he was eight. C. Einstein cannot speak until he was eight. D. Not until Einstein was eight he can speak. PART III : READING ( 6.0 pts ) Question 7 : Read the passage below then pick out ONE best option ( A,B,C or D ) in each question : Disasters are usually unexpected. For once, this was one which everyone had expected. Even so, when Mount St Helens actually exploded in Washington State on Sunday, 18th May 1980, it did so suddenly and dramatically __ and left some 100 people dead.
LĐT.HSG 12.CT 4 Geologist David Johnston was keeping watch at the Coldwater Two observation post five miles north of the summit of Mount St Helens. For seven weeks the 2,949-metre snow-covered mountain had been giving out signs of imminent eruption. Johnston was at one of a number of observation points from which geologists were keeping up with the state of the mountain and reporting back to the US Geological Survey base 40 miles south of the summit at Vancouver, Washington State. At 8.32 a.m. that Sunday, Johnston got on to the base and shouted over the radio: ‘Vancouver, Vancouver. This is it. The mountain’s going!’ They were the 30-year-old geologist’s last words. He died instantly as the volcano exploded with a force 500 times greater than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, taking 400 metres off the top. Any attempts to get through to Johnston again were useless. People heard the noise 200 miles aways. But the mud and ash quickly caught up with Bert Delfonso, a logger, only 25 miles away. He said it was ‘like the end of the world. Heavy, thick cloud boiled up, while and blue, lightning flashes crackled through the mountains. It rained mud balls. And after that the ash came down. It just got black, and I mean pitch black’. Another witness said: ‘I broke out in a cold sweat, and ran.’ Within seconds the volcano had put on a terrible display. The north wall collapsed and gas, ash and rock blasted up into the air, some up to 16 miles into the stratosphere. Snow melted instantly and avalanches of mud and rock hurtled down the sides of the volcano at 100 mph, sweeping away homes, cabins, bridges and millions of fir trees. One flow of debris blocked the outlet of Spirit Lake. When the ash fell, it fell on the state fish farm at Green River killing 10,000,000 salmon, and on the wheat fields and orchards to the east. Until 1980 the volcano had been inactive since 1857. In 1975 geologists had predicted that it might erupt ‘perhaps before the end of the century’. And then seven weeks before the disaster, the experts came up with a more exact prediction. They said an eruption was imminent and that an evacuation programme should begin. They declared two zones around the mountain ( a red zone and a blue zone) and set up blockades to stop people going in. But in the weeks that led up to that Sunday, tourists, loggers, property-owners, newsmen and mountain climbers had entered the ‘forbidden’ zones. Some of these people paid with their lives. Later, it was found that ash and molten mud had caught up with many: falling trees had killed others. David Johnston had always known that the mountain would blow fast when the time came. He thought they would have about two hours’warning. In the event, he had hardly any warning at all. Searchers found only a four-foot-high pile of black ash where Johnston’s trailer had stood. When the dust and ash had finally settled, what kinds of problems do you think people in nearby towns and cities had to face up ? 1. The disaster happened when__________ A. an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima . B. a bomb exploded at the US Geological Survey base. C. Mount St Helens erupted in the United States in 1980. D. there was an explosion in the US capital in 1980. 2. The eruption at Mount St Helens happened _________ A. suddenly without any signs of warnings in advance. B. seven weeks after it had given out signs of imminent eruption. C. repeatedly one by one in some days during seven weeks. D. seven weeks earlier than the geologists’ prediction. 3. Right after Johnston saw the eruption, he___________ A. drove quickly to the US Geological Survey base. B. reported quickly to the US Geological Survey base by radio. C. quickly escaped from the site by helicoter. D. couldn’t report any words to the base in Vancouver.
LĐT.HSG 12.CT 5 4. After the explosion at the summit of Mount St Helens, the mud and ash caught up anybody and anything ___________ away . A. 25 miles B. 200 miles C. 16 miles D. 400 metres 5. Some of the gas, ash and rock blasted up into the air up to the __________. A. snow-covered summit B. outer space. C. Geological Survey base D. stratosphere 6. Before this eruption, Mount St Helens had been living in peace since _________ A. the end of the previous century B. 1980 C. 1857 D. 1975 7. Seven weeks before the disaster, geologists suggested_________ A. carrying out an evacuation programme. B. building a series of observation points. C. building a long wall to prevent the hot lava. D. sweeping away homes, cabins, bridges and trees. 8. A lot of people paid their lives in this disaster ___________ A. while running away from the blue zone. B. for entering the ‘ forbidden’ zones. C. while climbing to the summit of Mount St Helens. D. for stopping people evacuating from the red zones. Question 8 : Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word to complete the passage below: Sanjit Ray works for a computer company in Los Angeles, California. He writes computer …( 1 )…. But he doesn’t go to Los Angeles every day. In fact, he doesn’t live in the USA. He lives in India. Every day, he…( 2 )…the bus into Bombay and he goes to an office there. The computer company sends information to him…( 3 )…e-mail. He works on the information on a computer and then he sends the program back to California. The computer company doesn’t do the work in the USA because it costs…( 4 )…to do it in India. Salaries there are…( 5 )….Also, India is twelve hours…( 6 )…of California. So the computer company sends information at the end of the day and Sanjit works on it when it’s…( 7 )…time in the USA. When he sends the programs…( 8 )…, they arrive in California before the computer company starts in the morning. Question 9 : The article below is not complete and logical. Eight paragraphs or sentences have been removed from it. Find out one of the suitable paragraphs / sentences ( A- I ), then insert it into the gaps ( 1- 8 ) where it should be to make the article a good one. There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use: THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET That day in May three years ago could have put me off flying completely, but it didn’t. I had always wanted to take up flying, but it wasn’t until I had seen an advertisement for a cheap trial lesson that I decided to try it. 1 __ or at least I thought I did! So I rang up the flying club and booked a lesson. 2 When I turned up at the club, I paid and then met my instructor, who turned out to be a woman.
LĐT.HSG 12.CT 6 3 I should have listened to her from the moment we had shaken hands, because she was in fact giving me my own private lecture on the basic of flying. The trouble was that everything was so new and strange to me that I hardly heard anything she said. 4 The instructor was still talking, giving me information and advice, but I couldn’t take anything in. I wasn’t frightened: I was just too interested in leaving the earth and in the view beneath us. 5 But we had only up in the air for about ten minutes__ and remember that this was the first time I had ever been in an aeroplane__ when she said: ‘Right. You can take over now. Good luck. Just keep her steady with the horizon.’And she took her hands off the controls. 6 I obviously did something wrong because the next moment the ground seemed to be racing up to meet us. 7 my instructor took over the controls and we were soon flying straight again. I honestly admit that the experience was more embarrassing than anything else. 8 but friends won’t let you forget things like that very easily, will they? THE REMOVED PARAGRAPHS : A. I know that I froze for a moment or two, but I don’t know exactly what I did after that. B. Although she knew I had no experience at all, she took me straight out to the plane which was being tanked up with fuel. C. I have been flying regularly for three years now and can put a plane in and out of a dive, D. I had very little money and no knowledge at all about flying, but I had a lot of courage E. “ Oh, yes, I know there’s an energy crisis__ but we’ll pull through somehow!” F. I woke up very excited on the morning of the ‘historic day’ and cycled to the airport which was about ten miles away. G. We put on parachutes, got into the plane, which was about as big as a Mini inside, strapped ourselves in side by side, and took off. H. I thought we were going to crash, but with a calm ‘I’ll take over again now’, I. The instructor was flying the plane of course and I was just holding my dual controls. PART IV : WRITING ( 4.0 pts ) Question 10 : For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original one, but using the word given.This word must not be altered in any way:
LĐT.HSG 12.CT 7 Example: ( o ) There was no conclusion at the end of the workshop. Conclude They did not conclude anything at the end of the workshop. 1. Life in the countryside was completely different from that in the city. Difference 2. The exploration of the New World was made as early as the 15th century. Explore 3. Deep breath in pure air is good for your health. Breathe 4. Weather may cause various effects on a person’s mood. Affected 5. For thousands of years , people have highly believed in supernatural powers. Belief 6. Telephone has brought convenience to people all over the world. Convenient 7. A man with high ambition will never find leisured time in his life. Ambitious 8. She was finally persuaded to travel by train. Persuasion Question 11: Write a short passage ( about 150 words ) which ends with this sentence: “ In spite of everything that had happened, however, I just couldn’t help smiling to myself.” ---------------------------------------------------- The end ----------------------------------------------- UBND TỈNH TIỀN GIANG CỘNG HÒA XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM SỞ GIÁO DỤC& ĐÀO TẠO Độc lập - Tự do - Hạnh phúc ------------ -------------------- HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM MÔN ANH VĂN ( ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC ) KỲ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 12 THPT - DỰ THI Q.G. Khóa ngày 22 tháng 12 năm 2008 PHẦN I : NGHE HIỂU : 2.0 điểm Câu hỏi 1 : Nghe, chọn câu đúng nhất : 1.0 điểm, mỗi câu chọn đúng : 0.25 đ 1. B 2. D 3. C 4. A Câu hỏi 2 : Nghe, tìm thông tin để hoàn chỉnh câu : 1.0 điểm, mỗi câu đúng : 0.25 đ 1. nine metres 2. beans inside 3. air-tight cans and bags 4. thick and strong PHẦN II : TỪ VỰNG VÀ NGỮ PHÁP : 8.0 điểm Câu hỏi 3 : Chọn thông tin, hoàn chỉnh câu : 2.0 điểm, mỗi câu chọn đúng : 0.25 đ 1. B 2. D 3. C 4. A 5. C 6. A 7. B 8. D
LĐT.HSG 12.CT 8 Câu hỏi 4: Tìm dạng thích hợp của từ, điền hoàn chỉnh câu:2.0 điểm, mỗi câu làm đúng: 0.25 đ 1. discovered 2. advisory 3. classified 4. impossible 5. socialization 6. unreliable 7. generosity 8. popularly Câu hỏi 5 : Tìm chổ sai trong đoạn văn và sửa lại cho đúng : 2.0 điểm, mỗi chổ sai tìm được và sữa đúng : 0.25 đ 1. which -> that 2. its -> their 3. away -> out 4. managers -> visitors 5. radio -> computer 6. light -> heavy 7. why -> how 8. compose -> design Câu hỏi 6 : Chọn câu có ý nghĩa gần nhất với câu được xây dựng từ các từ khóa cho sẳn : 2.0 điểm, mỗi câu chọn đúng : 0.25 đ 1. B 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. C 6. B 7. D 8. B PHẦN III : ĐỌC HIỂU : 6.0 điểm Câu hỏi 7 : Đọc bài văn, chọn câu trả lời thích hợp : 2.0 điểm, mỗi câu chọn đúng: 0.25 đ 1. C 2. B 3. B 4. A 5. D 6. C 7. A 8. B Câu hỏi 8: Điền khuyết, hoàn chỉnh bài văn bằng từ thích hợp: 2.0 điểm, mỗi từ điền đúng: 0.25 đ 1. programs 2. takes 3. by 4. less /lower /cheaper 5. low / cheap 6. ahead 7. night 8. back Câu hỏi 9: Chèn mệnh đề / cụm từ vào đoạn văn : 2.0 điểm, mỗi chổ chèn đúng: 0.25 đ 1. D 2. F 3. B 4. G 5. I 6. A 7. H 8. C PHẦN IV: VIẾT : 4.0 điểm Câu hỏi 10: Viết chuyển đổi câu, dùng từ cho sẳn: 2.0 điểm, mỗi câu viết đúng: 0.25 đ 1. There was a complete difference between life in the countryside and that in the city. 2. The New World was explored as early as the 15th century. 3. Breathing / To breathe deeply in pure air is good for your health. 4. A person’s mood may be affected variously by the weather. 5. Thousands of years ago, people had high belief in super-natural forces. 6. Telephone has been convenient to people all over the world. 7. Highly ambitious man never find leisured time in his life. 8. She finally accepted the persuasion of travelling by train. Câu hỏi 11: Viết một câu chuyện ngắn kể lại một kinh nghiệm mình đã trải qua: 2.0 điểm.  Ý tưởng: 1.0 điểm : Nêu lên được cụ thể chi tiết, các diển tiến có tính cách thách thức cho bản thân mà mình không lường trước được.  Kỹ thuật viết: 1.0 điểm. Phải trình bày dưới hình thức đoạn văn thuật sự, dài độ 150 từ, có bố cục rõ ràng, có từ chuyển mạch, câu liên kết, dùng từ chính xác, phong phú, viết đúng ngữ pháp và bắt buộc phải kết thúc bằng câu qui định. Ghi chú:  Chấm sát đáp án, biểu điểm  Tổng điểm không làm tròn số, giử nguyên 2 chữ số thập phân ( ví dụ: 14.25 , 12.50 , 10.75 )
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UBND TỈNH Hµ T¢Y CỘNG HßA X· HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM SỞ GIÁO DỤC& ĐÀO TẠO Đéc lập - Tự do - Hạnh phóc -------------------- ----------------- KỲ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYỂN HOC SINH GIỎI LỚP 12 THPT DỰ THI QUỐC GIA Đề chính thức Môn: ANH VĂN Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) --------------------------------------------- (ĐÒ gåm 6 trang) ------------------------------------------ PART I : LISTENING COMPREHENSION: ( 2.0 pts ) Question 1: Listen to the conversations in the tape twice then pick out ONE best option (A,B,C or D) in each question. 1. The car needs replacing A. the front tyre on the driver’s side. B. the front tyre on the passenger’s side. C. both of the front tyres. D. both of the rear tyres. 2. Finally, the tourist decides to book a wake-up call at A. 6.30 o’clock B. 7.00 o’clock C. 7.15 o’clock D. 6.45 o’clock 3. The patient goes to see the doctor because she has got A. a headache B. a stomachache C. a toothache D. a backache 4. The doctor tells the patient A. to stay in bed for some days. B. to take some medicines. C. to stop reading and watching telly. D. to have her eyes tested. Question 2 : Listen to the conversations in the tape twice then pick out the information to complete these sentences. 1. The boarding time for the flight to Manchester will be at_____________. 2. On the flight to Barcelona, the passenger may take on board__________piece(s) of hand baggage. 3. How many passengers are there in the group that is checking in for the flight to Rome at this moment?_____________________. 4. There is an electrical item in the suitcase of the passenger. It is the_______________ PART II :VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR ( 8 pts ) Question 3: Pick out ONE best option ( A,B,C or D ) to completch sentence 1. ………the cave was found, millions of visitors from many countries have come to look at its beauty. A. When B. Since C. While D. Unless 2. This is the stone bed………the king had lain before he died in the 14th century. A. however B. of which C. wherever D. where 3. It’s so long since I last saw him that I almost failed to………….him. A. recognize B. receive C. approve D. accept 4. The coal and steel industries are among the productions………..by the government. A. control B. to control C. controlling D. controlled 5. His play made a tremendous………….on audience. A. result B. affect C. impact D. collision 6. Unmarried middle-aged ladies usually dislike being called ……….although it is technically the correct word to use. A. old maids B. spinsters C. maidens D. bachelors 7. She’s so………in doing her research that she never has time to relax. A. involved B. included C. complicated D. approved 8. I apologize. I shouldn’t……………. my temper. A. have made B. have lost C. have showed D. have given Question 4: Complete these sentences, using the suitable forms of the words in brackets 1. ………………..is one of the important factors that lead the firm to success.( managed ) 2. I think he is the most………in our village. Six members in his family died in the last flood. (fortune) 3. Excuse me, Sir. I know it’s………………. to call you up at two A.M. But our factory is on fire! (convenience) 4. All those foreign visitors can speak Vietnamese very well. There will be a big……………….to have a translator here. (useful) 5. The natural disasters have………………..seriously the life of all people there. (effect) 6. Look at the doctor’s…………………..carefully before you take these tablets. (prescribe)
7. The behaviour of the woman is very………………The guard of the supermarket is having a look on her. (suspect) 8. Finally, the proposal of the students was……….……….yesterday. (admission) Question 5: There are 8 errors in the passage below. Read the passage, find out these errors then correct them.The number (o) is an example Social engagements follow rather definite rules of etiquette, but there are varying (o. degree-> degrees) of formality and informality. Invitations for formal parties and dinners and to such important occasions as weddings and graduations, is usually made in writing on formal printed or engraved cards. Quite often the invitation will indicate the type of cloth to be worn, but if this is not clear, it is perfectly permissible to telephone the host or hostess to inquire about this.If the native costume of foreign visitors is different with the usual local style of dress, it is always correct to wear the costume one would wear at home for an occasion of comparable formality. The person invited should never reply, as promptly as possible, to let the hostess know whether or not he or she can accept the guests. Usually the hostess must plan for a specific number of guests and any time in that number will also require changes in the sitting arrangements, or in the amount of food to be prepared. Before attending a social function to which he or she has been invited by a written invitation , the guest may send a thank – you card to the hostess. Question 6: Choose ONE option ( A,B,C or D ) corresponding to the best sentence which is made up from the given cue words. 1. keep / she / rain / wait / minutes / night / I / ten / last / A. She kept me to wait in the rain for ten minutes last night. B. She kept me wait in the rain foe ten minutes last night. C. She kept me to be waiting in the rain for ten minutes last night. D. She kept me waiting in the rain for ten minutes last night. 2. important / it / stop / father / your / smoke / once/ A. It’s important that your father should stop smoking at once. B. It’s important that your father stopped smoking at once. C. It’s important that your father stops smoking at once. D. It’s important that your father may stop smoking at once. 3. use / be / footballer / team / football / national / Huynh Duc / the best / of / our / A. Huynh Duc used being the best footballer of our national football team. B. Huynh Duc used to be the best footballer of our national football team. C. Huynh Duc used to being the best footballer of our national football team. D. Huynh Duc uses to be the best footballer of our national football team. 4. hurt / she / boyfriend / learn / forget / birthday / A. She was hurt when learning that had her boyfriend forgotten her bithday. B. She hurt was when learning that her boyfriend had forgotten her birthday. C. She was hurt that when learning her boyfriend had forgotten her bithday. D. She was hurt when learning that her boyfriend had forgotten her birthday. 5. highway / now that / take / get / build / hours / there / A. Now that the highway has been built, it takes only two hours to get there. B. Now that the highway has been built, it took only two hours to get there. C. Now that the highway has been built, it is taking only two hours to get there. D. Now that the highway has been built, it has taken only two hours to get there. 6. stupid / it / give up / him / job / money / need / A. It was stupid with him to give up his job when he needed the money. B. It was stupid to him to give up his job when he needed the money. C. It was stupid of him to give up his job when he needed the money. D. It was stupid for him to give up his job when he needed the money. 7. survive / we / unless / work / start / cleaner / safer / energy / sources / A. We won’t survive so we start working on cleaner,safer sources of energy. B. We won’t survive although we start working on cleaner, safer sources of energy. C. We won’t survive unless we start working on cleaner, safer sources of energy. D. We won’t survive otherwise we start working on cleaner, safer sources of energy. 8. grateful / I / me / kindness / visit / last month / your factory / A. I’m grateful for your kindness to me when I visited your factory last month. B. I’m grateful with your kindness to me when I visited your factory last month. C. I’m grateful of your kindness to me when I visited your factory last month. D. I’m grateful at your kindness to me when I visited your factory last month.
PART III: READING ( 6.0 pts ) Question 7: Read the passage below then pick out ONE best option ( A,B,C or D ) in each question I left school at fifteen. I was an academically bright lad who was urged by some of his teachers not to leave, but I wanted out, to see life, and I didn’t want to reach beyond the expectation of the friends who left school with me. I worked for a year in a laundry, as a van-boy delivering dry cleaning. On turning sixteen I applied to be, and eventually began working as, a trainee heating engineer with a medium-sized company in East Belfast. The first months were boring. The work was not demanding but I found the environment of the factory annoying. I remember my first week .I left the factory to meet up with a friend and I realized that I had forgotten to collect my wages. My friend thought I was an idiot. After many months working in the factory, I was sent off to college to study for my Certificate in Heating Engineering. I found the classroom routine unpleasant and I remember feeling a sense of limitation. Five years of this- to end up as a heating engineer and continue with that for the foreseeable future was not an exciting thought. Although I had left school against the advice of my teachers I had, without telling anyone, tried to continue my studies in literature at evening classes. It was a boring walk from one end of the city to another and to sit amongst adults was confusing. I was the youngest in the class, so the companionship I knew at school was absent. I put up with it for a short period. It was too long a walk on cold winter’s nights and it was hard to concentrate on Shakespeare with wet shoes and soaking trousers. So I carried on reading books and started writing poetry at home. By chance, I won some prizes and literary awards in national competitions. A young woman from a TV company came to the college one day. She told me in the quiet of the corridor that I had won a national poetry award. I stared at her in astonishment and disbelief. She wanted to make a short film about me, to which I said: ‘ No, I couldn’t do that.’ Not that I had any real excuse. I was just frightened. She eventually persuadedme that I should do it the following day. Off I went to Shaws Bridge, on the outskirts of Belfast.They made a short film of me reading one of my poems and I was forever after occupied with a fascination for words.I wondered what I should do after this, and decided some weeks later that I could not stand the idea of spending the rest of my days dealing with pipes. So one evening, I hesitatingly told my parents that I wanted to return to school.They were shocked and, I think, a little afraid but they did not try to persuade me not to. They wanted to know if I was sure, if I knew what it meant and whether I was aware that if I gave up my training it would be very difficult to get a good job.But nothing could put me off, and they pursued the matter no further. 1. One reason why the writer left school at the age of fifteen was that he A. thought he would get a good job. B. had no other choice. C. didn’t get on well with his teachers. D. didn’t want to be different from his friends. 2. What did the writer feel while he was training to be a heating engineer? A. He didn’t receive enough money. B. He preferred the college to the factory. C. He was capable of doing something better. D. He might fail to qualify as a heating engineer. 3. What did the writer find when he attended the evening classes? A. The behaviour of the other students annoyed him. B. He learned more when he studied at home. C. He was out of place among the other students. D. The studies were less interesting than he expected 4. What does “ it” in “I put up with it for a short period” refer to ? A. companionship B. the walk C. literature D. the evening class 5. Why at first did the writer refuse to appear in the film? A. He felt he didn’t deserve it. B. He was taken by surprise. C. He thought someone else should be in it. D. He wanted more time to think about it. 6. Why didn’t he go on with his poetry writing at home? A. He was too busy with his studying at college. B. He couldn’t earn enough for his life. C. He didn’t want to spend all his life sitting at one place thinking and writing. D. His parents wanted him to return to the college. 7. How did the writer’s parents react to his decision to return to school? A. They argued with him. B. They pointed out how it would affect his future. C. They told him he was making a mistake. D. They hid their real thoughts from him. 8. What would be the most suitable title for this extract? A. A change of direction B. Great expectations C. An unlucky beginning D. Pressures of fame
Question 8: Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word to complete the passage below New drivers could be asked to play a sophisticated video game as part of their training and driving test, under proposals to be announced by transport ministers next week. The Department of Transport has been considering a test devised by researchers which tests people’s “ hazard and perception(1)…….…”, that is how quickly they are aware of a dangerous situation and how quickly they react to it.This is a particular weak point of new and learner drivers. Dr Frank McKenna, the psychologist heading the £200,000 research project, says: ‘(2)……………….... people, despite popular belief and, particularly their own estimation of their driving, do not have faster reaction times than older drivers. Although they may be slightly quicker once they notice something dangerous, they are much(3)………….…at spotting a possible crisis. Dr McKenna says that the video is a much better tool for training and testing than written questionnaires, which were an alternative suggestion put forward in a consultation paper by the department last August:”(4).......…may be cheaper, though they are quite expensive to mark, but there is no relationship between being good at answering the questions and being good at avoiding accidents.” Rather than developing a(5)……programme involving high technology, Dr McKenna has concentrated on a scheme that could be carried out quickly and cheaply.” There will be no excuse for not implementing this test.” Drivers being assessed watch a ten-minute video and push a button as soon as they see a dangerous(6) …………….While some of the situations on the video were acted by the research team, several were not, including a dangerously wobbly cyclist who cuts across traffic to go along the white line in the middle of the road, and a woman stepping out into the traffic from a bus stop. Dr McKenna is working on research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council on how drivers judge their own driving skills. His preliminary work suggests that people usually think that their skills are above average which of course, is a nonsense statistically . Indeed, in one(7)………………survey in the US not one person from a large sample thought their skills were below average. He believes that one way of reducing road deaths is to get people to realize that they are not as good as they think. He gets them to think of an accident they have(8)……………and then to imagine the results. This traing is successful at making drivers more careful and Dr McKenna hopes it may become a routine part of driver instruction. Question 9: The article below is not complete and logical. Eight paragraphs have been removed from it. Find out one of the suitable paragraphs (A-I), then insert it into the gaps (1-8) where it should be to make the article a good one. Be careful! There is one extra paragraph. ADMIRING THE SKILLS OF THE AMERICAN SKYWRITERS Skywriting isn’t quite a dying art, but you have to scan the American skies pretty carefully these days to find white smoke puffing out a message. Skywriters have a skill that’s seen by nearly all, but no more than a dozen pilots in the USA regularly practise it. 1 With this information, gunners on the ground could more easily aim their fire at the enemy beneath the smoke. In the mid-1920s a US company began the first advertising campaign in the sky, promoting cigarettes. The plane flew over Philadelphia sending out a message in the air to the people below. This is how skywriting began and it has continue to fascinate us. 2 The memory of that moment stayed with him when he followed in his father’s footsteps as a pilot and now, as head of the Aerial Sign Company in Hollywood, it comes back when he puts floating adverts up in the sky himself. 3 He says the pilots need to be highly skilled: Most skywriters work about two miles high. Everything has to be square, otherwise it’s simply poor penmanship that everybody sees. You have to know where your plane is at all times. 4 Together they try it out on the runway, taking half-steps at different corners and turning at angles to be followed in the sky later on. 5
Pepsi-Cola certainly agrees. Fourteen years ago the soft drink company, searching for someone to carry on a tradition begun in the early 1930s, looked through some 3,000 applicants for a skywriter, and chose a 21-year-old woman pilot from Oregon. 6 She says that when you are two miles away from your audience, you forget how big an impression it makes on the people below. Kids stop playing ball and traffic comes to a complete standstill. You can’t actually see while she ‘s writing, of course. But during the descent and on landing she can look back and see what she’s written. 7 Children come up to Asbury- Oliver after her shows. She says that they are really curious because they are learning and form their own letters and they imagine her aeroplane as apencil. Their parents are often surprised when they meet her. 8 Each letter is about half a mile across, so a simple IT’S FESTIVAL TIME !, including punctuation and spacing, takes up about eight miles of sky ! THE REMOVED PARAGRAPHS A. Butler’s newest pupil is his 26- year- old son, and Dad shows Junior a diagram he has sketched out to put his wife’s name,Regla, up in the air. The drawing looks like her name backwards, as if in a mirror, with arrows, angles, numbers of seconds, and dotted lines showing the pilot what to do. B. Today that same woman, Suzanne Asbury-Oliver, flies twenty or thirty times a year above festivals and fairs. Suzanne and her husband, Steve,who flies aerobatic manoeuvres, live in Colorado but keep their plane in Illinois. C. Jim Butler remembers the day as a kid in the 1950s in New Hampshire when he looked up from his backyard to see a plane writing in the skies. D. “You’d think it was nothing special to have a woman skywriter, but parents will bring their little girls to meet me. At first they ‘ll approach my husband and say,” Look what he did,” and he’ll say,” No, she did that.” They’re astonished.” E. She gets great pleasure out of doing it well.” If it’s a beautiful day and the letters are staying, you say to yourself, I did a good job. If a letter isn’t quiteright, you become your own worst critic, and you say, I can’t believe I did that.” F. What’s more, Butler doesn’t get as much business from industry as he used to and isn’t sure how much longer he will continue training skywtiters. G. “For me to train a skywriter,” Butler says, in his office at North Perry Airport,” they have to be able to fly straight and parallel lines and judge their work without using equipment.” H. “Women are better students in skywriting,” Butler continues, back inside.” They pay more attention to detail, and they’re less likely to depart from procedure.” I. The art began almost eighty years ago in the skies over Europe during the First World War, when a British pilot squirted some light oil into his plane’s exhaust system to make a mid-air spot of smoke above an enemy position. PART IV: WRITING (4.0 pts) Question 10: For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original one, but using the word given.This word must not be altered in any way Example: ( o ) There was no conclusion at the end of the workshop. Conclude……………………………………………………. They did not conclude anything at the end of the workshop. 1. We cannot see animals in a vast area after the forest fire. Absence……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 2. Our environment is polluted seriously. Pollution…………………………………………………………………………………………………... 3. We cannot make any comparison with her sacrifice. Compare…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4. A huge investment has been put into the field of hydro-electricity. Invest………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 5. They speak English in a high proficiency.
Proficiently………………………………………………………………………………………………... 6. He tried his best but he couldn’t succeed. Success…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 7. Regular practice will make us skilful. Practise……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 8. If the factory is opened, everyone will have a job. Unemployed………………………………………………………………………………………………. Question 11: Study the gragh below. Write a short passage of about 120 – 150 words on the birthrates of some countries. Comparison on birthrates in some countries (Per thousand) 30 Birthrates Per Thousand 25 20 15 10 5 0 Year 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Birthrates in Sweden Birthrates in Australia Birthrates in China Birthrates in VietNam …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Answer key PHẦN I : NGHE HIỂU: 2.0 điểm Câu hỏi 1 : Nghe, chọn câu đúng nhất : 1.0 điểm, mỗi câu chọn đúng : 0.25 đ 1. C 2. D 3. A 4. D Câu hỏi 2 : Nghe, tìm thông tin để hoàn chỉnh câu : 1.0 điểm, mỗi câu đúng : 0.25 đ 1. 15 : 20 2. one piece 3. four ( passengers ) 4. hairdryer / hairdrier PHẦN II: TỪ VỰNG VÀ NGỮ PHÁP : 8.0 điểm Câu hỏi 3: Chọn thông tin, hoàn chỉnh câu : 2.0 điểm, mỗi câu chọn đúng: 0.25 đ 1. B 2. D 3. A 4. D 5. C 6. B 7. A 8. B Câu hỏi 4: Tìm dạng thích hợp của từ, điền hoàn chỉnh câu:2.0 điểm, mỗi câu làm đúng: 0.25 đ 1. Management 2. unfortunate 3. inconvenient 4. uselessness 5. affected 6. prescription 7. suspicious 8. admitted Câu hỏi 5: Tìm chổ sai trong đoạn văn và sửa lại cho đúng : 2.0 điểm, mỗi chổ sai tìm được và sữa đúng : 0.25 đ 1. for -> to 2. is -> are 3. cloth -> clothing / clothes 4. with -> from 5. never -> always 6. guests -> invitation 7. time -> change 8. before -> after Câu hỏi 6: Chọn câu có ý nghĩa gần nhất với câu được xây dựng từ các từ khóa cho sẳn : 2.0 điểm, mỗi câu chọn đúng : 0.25 đ 1. D 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. A 6. C 7. C 8. A PHẦN III : ĐỌC HIỂU : 6.0 điểm Câu hỏi 7: Đọc bài văn, chọn câu trả lời thích hợp : 2.0 điểm, mỗi câu chọn đúng: 0.25 đ 1. D 2. C 3. C 4. D 5. B 6. C 7. B 8. A Câu hỏi 8: Điền khuyết, hoàn chỉnh bài văn bằng từ thích hợp: 2.0 điểm, mỗi từ điền đúng: 0.25 đ 1. skills 2. young 3. slower 4. questionnaires 5. complicated 6. situation 7. similar 8. caused Câu hỏi 9: Chèn mệnh đề / cụm từ vào đoạn văn : 2.0 điểm, mỗi chổ chèn đúng: 0.25 đ 1. I 2. C 3. G 4. A 5. H 6. B 7. E 8. D PHẦN IV: VIẾT : 4.0 điểm Câu hỏi 10: Viết chuyển đổi câu, dùng từ cho sẳn: 2.0 điểm, mỗi câu viết đúng: 0.25 đ 1. There is an absence of animals in a vast area after the forest fire. 2. There is a serious pollution in our environment . 3. Nothing can be compared with her sacrifice. / We can compare nothing else with her sacrifice. 4. They invest a big fund / sum of money into the field of hydro electricity. 5. They speak English very proficiently. 6. He tried his best but he couldn’t get any success. / Although he tried his best, he couldn’t get any success. 7. You will be skilful if you practise regularly. 8. If the factory is opened, no one is unemployed . Câu hỏi 11
Sở Giáo dục & Đào tạo Cà Mau KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI ĐỒNG BẰNG SÔNG CỬU LONG Trường THPT Chuyên Phan Ngọc Hiển Năm học 2010 – 2011  GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY A> Multiple choice: 1- You are late again! Please, try to be …….. in future. A- accurate B- efficient C- punctual D- reliable 2- Students sometimes support themselves by ………… of evening jobs. A- ways B- means C- efforts D- method 3- Driving in London is supposed to be confusing but I didn’t find it at …….. difficult A.-. all B- first C- once D- least 4- The noise got ………… as the car disappeared into the distance. A- smaller B- fainter C- weaker D- slighter 5- I ‘d ……… you didn’t leave just at the moment. A- rather B- like C- better D- asked 6- According to the ………… of the contract, tenants must give six months notice if they intent to leave. A- laws B- rules C- terms D- details 7- It was not easy to understand her ………. to the situation. A- feelings B- conduct C- outlook D- reaction 8- From the hotel there is good ……… of the mountains A- vision B- view C- sight D- picture 9- He lost the race because he ran out of petrol on the last …… . A- lap B- trip C- tour D- journey 10- What he told me was a ………. of lies. A- pack B- load C- mob D- flock B> Fill in each of the blanks with the correct preposition or verbal particle: 1. Don’t sit _______up________ for me. I shall probably be back very late. 2. Put _______out________ the cigarette, please. I don’t like the smell of your tobacco. 3. _______on________ the whole, I agree with you. 4. His bad behaviour was put ___down____ to his upbringing. 5. John can’t go out . He is up ____to___ his ears with work. 6. They came ___out____ with another good idea for raising money for the hungry. 7. Don’t trust him. He always goes ____back___ on his word. 8. Mrs. Brown goes ___for____ cooking special slimming food. 9. She put ___in____ an application for a job as a nurse. 10. She turned ___in____ late as usual just as I was going home. C> Supply the correct form of the word in parentheses. 1. The judge told him it was _______________ to drink and drive and banned him for a year. (RESPONSIBLE)  IRRESPONSIBLE 2. Most doctors are _______________ after they learn general medicine. (SPECIAL)  SPECIALISTS
3. Peter’s gained so much weight because he can’t stop _______________. (EAT)  OVEREATING 4. The sun and the moon are often _______________ in poetry. (PERSON)  PERSONIFIED 5. The work is still at very _______________ level. (EXPERIMENT)  EXPERIMENTAL 6. She wants to be an actress but her parents _______________ of her intention. (APPROVE)  DISAPPROVE 7. In the Middle Ages, salt was very valuable so that slaves were _______________ with it. (COMPARE)  INCOMPARABLE 8. The _______________ of the trains and the buses cause frustration and annoyance. (FREQUENT)  INFREQUENCY 9. It is usually for bidden to destroy _______________ buildings. (HISTORY)  HISTORIC 10. This matter is very _______________. Don’t discuss it outside the office. (CONFIDENCE)  CONFIDENTIAL D> Supply the correct form and tenses of the verbs in brackets: My friend Mike and Jane (just return) ______ have just returned _______ from their honeymoon in Europe. Before they (leave) _____ left _____ New York, I (give) ______ had given ______ them my brother’s address in Moscow in the hope that they (visit) ______ would visit ______ him and his family. When I went to call on the newly-weds last Tuesday night, they told me how much they (enjoy) _____ had enjoyed (travel) ______ travelling ______ around Europe and that we (soon look) _____ would soon look _______ at the colour slides they (take) _____ had taken ______. They also (give) ______ gave _____ greetings from my brother and assured me that it (be) ______ had been ______ a great pleasure for them to meet my relatives. E> Find and correct the mistake in the following sentences. 1. The police is now investigating the robbery that took place in our neighbourhood last night. 2. There was a slight disagreement between committee members of the club, regarding their trip next month. 3. Most of us were feeling sleepily at the meeting because the speaker had a very monotonous voice. 4. She was not unaware of their presence in the room as she was absorbed in her reading. 5. When you talk to the old man, please remember to speak out as he is hard of hearing. 6. My pen has very few ink in it, so could you give me some? 7. Neither William or his brother stole the rambutans from your orchard. 8. It is hoped that the develop countries will be less selfish in their economic policies and help the poorer nations. 9. The audience watching the rock concert obviously do not satisfy with the way the band played. 10. Those silly ghost stories Abu told made Rafik feared to go upstairs by himself. WRITING A> Sentence transformation: For each of the sentences below, write a new sentences as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence, but using the words given in bold letters. The words MUST NOT BE ALTERED in any way. 1. Stop criticizing everybody! (DOWN)  Stop running everybody DOWN. 2. Terry has just insured her life. (OUT)  Terry has just taken OUT insurance on her life. 3. In the end it was discovered that Joe was the thief. (OUT)  it turned OUT that Joe was the thief. 4. I need a calculator to arrive at the total. (OUT)  I need a calculator to work OUT the total. 5. I met your friend David the other day. (INTO)  I ran INTO your friend David the other day.