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TRƯỜNG THPT LƯƠNG NGỌC QUYẾN KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TRƯỜNG
LỚP 11_ NĂM HỌC 2023-2024
Môn: Tiếng Anh
(Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề)
Số báo danh:_________
Giám khảo số 1
(Họ tên, chữ ký)
Giám khảo số 2
(Họ tên, chữ ký)
Họ và tên thí sinh:
_____________________
Đề thi này gồm 08 trang.
Chú ý:
- Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu, kể cả từ điển.
- Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi này.
- Giám thị không được giải thích gì thêm.
A. LISTENING
Hướng dẫn phần thi nghe hiểu:
- Nội dung nghe gồm 02 phần.
- Hướng dẫn làm bài chi tiết cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
Section 1: Complete the notes below
Questions 1 - 6: You will hear a conversation. Write ONE WORD for each answer.
SELF-DRIVE TOURS IN THE USA
Example:
Name: Andrea_ Brown_
Address: 24 (1) __________________Road
Postcode: BH5 2OP
Phone: (mobile) 077 8664 3091
Heard about company from: (2) ______________________
Possible self-drive hours:
Trip 1:
* Los Angeles customer wants to visit: (3) _________________ parks with her children
* Yosemite Park customer wants to stay in a lodge, not a (4) ___________________
Trip 2:
* Customers want to see the (5) _____________ on the way to Cambria
* At Santa Minoca: not interested in shopping
* At San Diego, wants to spend time on the (6) ____________________
Questions 7 – 10. Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD AND/ OR A NUMBER for
each answer.
Number of days
Total distance
Price (per person)
Includes
Trip 1
12
(7) ___________
£ 525
- accommodation
- car
Đề chính thức
2
- one (8) _______
Trip 2
9
980 km
(9) £ _________
- accommodation
- car
- (10) _______
Section 2. Questions 11-20.
Questions 11-15. Choose the best letter A, B or C.
11. Why did a port originally develop at Manham?
A. It was safe from enemy attack
B. It was convenient for river transport
C. It had a good position on the sea coast
12. What causes Manham’s sudden expansion during the Industrial Revolution?
A. the improvement in mining technologies
B. the increase in demand for metals
C. the discovery of tin in the sea
13. Why did rocks have to be sent away from Manham to be processed?
A. shortage of fuel
B. poor transportation
C. lack of skills among local people
14. What happened when the port declined in the twentieth century?
A. The workers went away
B. Traditional skills were lost
C. Buildings were used for new purposes
15. What did the Manham Trust hope to do?
A. discover the location of the original port
B. provide jobs for the unemployed
C. rebuild the port complex
Questions 16-20. Answer the following questions
16. Where should visitors start their visit?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
17. Who shouldn’t be taken into the mine?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
18. Where should visitors visit next?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
19.What is the name of the beautiful old sailing ketch near the school?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
20. By whom was the ship’s wheel dredged out of the silt?
……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
I. Choose the word that best completes each sentence.
21. As we approached the house, I had a(n) _____the something terrible had happened.
A. prediction B. forethought C. premonition D. anticipation
22. Cable TV revolutionized communications; ____, the very existence of that service is now
threatened by satellites.
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A. moreover B. consequently C. eventually D. nevertheless
23. The strike was ____owing to a last-minute agreement with the management.
A. broken up B. called off C. come through D. set back
24. William crept ____ on Lisa and put his hands over her eyes.
A. up B. on C. off D. by
25. I know you have been working very hard today. Let’s ____ and go home.
A. pull my leg B. call it a day C. put your back up D. pros and cons
26. She ______ on the computer for more than 2 hours when she decided to stop for a rest.
A. has worked B. has been working C. was working D. had been working
27. _____ their heads in his direction, he knew they were interested.
A. Seeing them both turn B. On seeing them both turn
C. When he saw them both to turn D. After seeing them both to have turned
28. Helen was _____ disappointed when she learnt that she hadn’t won the beauty contest.
A. seriously B. bitterly C. strongly D. heavily
29. _____ is that a chicken stands up to lay its eggs.
A. Many people don’t realize B. What many people don’t realize
C. It is that people don’t realize D. Because many people don’t realize
30. Carbon dioxide may be absorbed by trees or water bodies, or it may stay in the atmosphere when
____, while it is only in the atmosphere that chlorofluorocarbons find their home.
A. by releasing emissions from cars B. released from car emissions
C. cars that release emissions D. emissions are released by cars
31. The match will be screened on TV with _____ commentary by Any Gray.
A. lively B. live C. alive D. living
32. I know you didn’t want to upset me but I’d sooner you ___ me the whole truth yesterday.
A could have told B. told C. have told D. had told
33. As the drug took ____, the patient became quieter.
A. effect B. force C. influence D. action
34. The dawn redwood appears ____ some hundred million years ago in northern forests around the
world.
A. was flourished B. having to flourish C. to have flourished D. have flourished
35. His comments ___ little or no relation to the facts and the figures of the case.
A. reflect B. bear C. give D. possess
II. Supply the correct form of the word provided in blankets in each sentence.
36. Use a bigger screwdriver to _____ this screw. (TIGHT)
37. Jim is one of the most ____ members of the committee. (SPEAK)
38. You look rather ______. Are you worried about something? (OCCUPY)
39. Please _____ our letter on the 15th. We have no reply. (KNOW)
40. Daniel Defoe was typical in his manner of though, in his ____ (THRIFT).
41. In Scotland there is greater emphasis on ____ by individual school. (VALUE)
42. The key aims of the program are to achieve breath, balance, ____ and progression of all pupils.
(CONTINUE)
43. The effective operation of the social services depends on ___ qualified social workers
(PROFESSION)
44. When my grandfather retired, he felt that he had _____ his usefulness. (LIVE)
45. Vietnam has depended heavily on foreign ____ organizations to train teachers. (GOVERN)
III. Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to show the underlined part that needs correction in each of
the following questions.
46. One of the most influence leaders of Vietnam is President Ho Chi Minh, who was born in 1890.
A B C D
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47. More than 600 million individual bacteria lives on the skin of humans.
A B C D
48. Stuart stopped to write his letter because he had to leave for the hospital
A B C D
49. Historians believe that some forms of advertising must be as old as barter and trade
A B C D
50. Dams are used to control flooding, provide water for irrigation, and generating electricity for the
A B C
surrounding area.
D
C. READING COMPREHENSION
Part 1: Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.
One of the hazards that electronic media like the television, radio or computers (51) _____ these
days is the decline in book reading.
The concern (52) _____ mainly to the younger generations who are strongly tempted by the
glamour of the silver screen and, consequently, don’t (53) _____ the importance of acquiring first-hand
information from books.
To (54) _____ reading for pleasure and to propagate a wide array of publications like
encyclopedias reference books manuals or fiction, radical solutions should be applied. Firstly, more (55)
_____ ought to be put on the educational factor. Youngsters should be made to feel comfortable while
reading either for information or self-satisfaction in public place like airports, buses or on the beach.
Secondly, libraries must be subsidized more accurately in order to provide the potential reader with (56)
_____ choice of publications and to become more publicly active so as to put books at people’s (57)
_____ rather than keep them under lock and key.
Fund collecting actions organized by libraries might also raise the public awareness of the
advantages of becoming (58) _____ in a good book.
Finally, the mass media themselves might contribute substantially by recommending the purchase of
valuable best-sellers and inspiring their viewers to (59) _____ their knowledge and erudition, and thus
help them to (60) _____ the habit of spontaneous every reading.
51. A. denote B. play C. arise D. pose
52. A. indicates B. affects C. applies D. embodies
53. A. observe B. recognize C. view D. distinguish
54. A. incite B. revert C. instill D. encourage
55. A. emphasis B. persistence C. focus D. relevance
56. A. prolific B. ample C. lavish D. lush
57. A. available B. disposal C. benefit D. usage
58. A. occupied B. inhaled C. engrossed D. incorporated
59. A. enrich B. magnify C. arouse D. elaborate
60. A. grow B. evolve C. proceed D. develop
Part 2: Fill in each gap with one suitable word.
THE FUTURE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
There is a scene in the film Minority Report in (0) __which__ Tome Cruise stands in front of a
vast Perspex-like screen housed in the police department’s Pre-Crime Unit. He gazes (61) ____ earnest
at the transparent surface, waving his hands across the tablet to swirl great chunks of text and moving
image across the screen to (62) ____ a storyboard of yet-to-be- committed crimes. With a simple twist
of his finger or a flick of his wrist, pictures expand and enlarge, word scroll, and whole trains of thought
come to tangible fruition (63) ____ there on board. The year is 2054.
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Yet it seems the era of true touch-screen technology is already here. Indeed, when Apple boss
Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in San Francisco a few years ago, he grandly declared: “We are
reinventing the cell phone.”
(64) ____ of the main reasons for Jobs’ bold claim was the iPhone’s futuristic user interface-
“multi-touch”. As demonstrated on stage by Jobs (65) ____, multi-touch was created to make the most
of the iPhone’s large screen. (66)____most existing smart phones, the iPhone has only one conventional
button-all the rest of the controls appear on the screen, adapting morphing around your fingertips as you
use the device, almost (67)____ the giant tablet in Minority Report.
The demonstration iPhone handset certainly looked like re-invention, but multi-touch, while it
was new for Apple, is (68) ____ no means a new technology. The concept has been around for years,
waiting for the hardware side of the equation to get small enough, smart enough, cheap enough to make
it a reality. While it still remains something of a novelty now, there is a good chance that the (69) ____
years will bring many more computers and consumer gadgets that depend wholly or (70)____ on multi-
touch concepts.
Part 3: Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.
The World and Its Global Economy
The world as man knows it today is getting smaller and smaller because of technology such as
the Internet and high-speed modems. In fact, on March 3, 2005, a man flew entirely around the globe
without refueling or stopping in a one-person jet. The world is changing the world, and as the 21st century
continues, the global economy will play a larger and larger role. As Thomas Friedman so eloquently put
it in Lexus and the Olive Tree, globalization is "the inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and
technologies to a degree never witnessed before."
A
With today's technology it is possible for people to solicit business from the far side of the globe. B
A company like Dell Computers can order parts from several different countries, take shipment in North
Carolina where the new computers will be assembled, and then ship them to all regions of the globe . C
An American oil firm can do a satellite survey in Siberia for oil deposits and then contract with a Russian
oil firm to drill the actual well, while the petroleum engineer, acting as the project supervisor, remains in
the US and runs the project by using a computer, a high-speed Internet connection, and a cellular
telephone for quick questions. D
A global economy poses some serious problems. If a company doesn't act fast enough, it can lose,
and if the company loses heavily, what will happen to the employees working for the company, and then
in turn what will happen to the stores that depend on those employees buying their goods? As can be
seen, there is a definite trickle-down effect. How is the child who is about to graduate from high school
supposed to decide on what career field to enter? A career field that is here today might be gone long
before the child can graduate from college, so not only does it become vital that a person gain the needed
knowledge to enter a given career field, but the person also needs to learn how to learn. Learning how to
learn may prove to be even more necessary than the knowledge needed to enter a given career field. A
person who is good at learning how to learn can quickly adapt to changes in the global economy by
quickly preparing to enter other career fields if his job is here today, but gone in the morning.
If the world turns into a global economy, a person will need to be able to get along and work with
people from different cultural backgrounds. However, unless a person has spent time living in different
parts of the world, this might be hard to do. While many students from foreign countries, especially the
Asian countries, come to the US to earn a graduate degree, how many students from the US spend even
a semester abroad studying in another country? The answer to this question is of course a very small
percentage.
While individuals from some of foreign countries and some individuals from the US and the US
economy will adjust to globalization, will the rest of the world? Mass media are more than willing to
continue to stir the pot of controversy as they not only have to learn how to report the positive news, but
also dole out a continuous stream of negative news. When a person in a developing country sees all the