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A. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1. Complete the following sentences using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.
(10 points)
1. One walk includes a break at the oldest pub so that the walkers can get some …………………….
2. The castle walk allows more time to see the ……………………… and walk on the castle wall.
3. You have to …………………….. if you want to go the Ghost Walk.
4. The Ghost Walk goes to the castle and the …………………………
5. The fourth shows people the …………………………… of the writer Robert Jones.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 2. You will hear part of a discussion between Velm and Andrews, a lawyer, and Sergeant
William Bailey, a police officer. For questions 1-5, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best
according to what you hear. (10 points)
1. How did William feel the first time he gave evidence in court?
A. humiliated B. nervous C. furious D. indifferent
2. Velm a suggests that police officers giving evidence should ……….
A. study the evidence more carefully. B. ignore the lawyer for the defence.
C. not take comments personally. D. demonstrate that they are honest and reliable.
3. Velma compares a police officer's evidence to a piece in a jigsaw puzzle because ……….
A. it is unimportant unless it is part of a bigger picture. B. it m ay not fit in with the rest of the
evidence.
C. the defence lawyer w ill try to destroy it. D the police officer should only talk about his or her
evidence.
4. William suggests that lawyers ………….
A adopt a special manner in the courtroom . B. can be detached about a case.
C. might actually be close friends. D. do not take their work seriously.
5. William's main concern is that
A. a criminal could get away with his or her crime. B. a court case could be confusing,
C. young police officers find courts terrifying. D. police officers might argue with the lawyer.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 3. You will hear an interview with a man called Jon Simmons and a woman called Clare Harries,
who both work as life coaches, and decide whether the following sentences are true (T) or false (F).
1. Jon feels that the job of a life coach is based on individual experiences.
2 Clare says she became a life coach because it involved something she enjoyed doing.
3. Jon thinks the most important to understand about relationships is that They start with the individual's
attitude to him- or herself.
4. Jon and Clare both think the most important message to get over to clients is to make good use of your
particular skills.
5. Jon and Clare both feel the most rewarding part of their job is watching another person develop their
confidence
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 4. You will hear a woman call called Yvonne on a TV programme giving her opinion about children
being punished at school. (20 points)
For questions 1-10 complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.
The strap was a long piece of leather made especially for (1)…………….children's palms.
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Today, children who misbehave at school seldom even get a (2) …………………
In the fifties, Yvonne was strapped for coming to school (3) ……………in Yvonne thought the way she was
disciplined at schools was (4) ………………. and unfair. The members of the organisation P.O.P.P.I. all had
(5)…………………
In 1979, because of P.O.P.P.I. (6) ………………… made the strap illegal.
Yvonne describes her children as (7) ……………….. and irresponsible.
Yvonne does not think her children understand (8) ………………. they are.
She is now sorry that the government (9) …………………..
She believes that there would be less (10) …………………. if the strap was still used.
Your answers
1 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (50 points)

Part 1. Choose the best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences and write your answers
in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)
1. Some animals are on the ________ of becoming extinct.
A. edge B. verge C. side D. tip
b
2. The play is very long but there are three ________
A. intervals B. breaks C. rests D. naps b
3. The last lecture ________ completely over my head.
A. got B. went C. was D. left c
4. Could I pick your ________ on the subject before the meeting?
A. brains B. head C. intellect D. mind a
5. I was prepared to lend my brother some money but he turned ________ my offer.
A. back B. up C. out D. down d
6. I ________ with the performances but I got flu the day before.
A. was to have helped B. helped C. was to help D. had helped c
7. The dying man’s speech was so________ that no one was able to interpret his last request.
A. incoherent B. indiscreet C. nonchalant D. impotent a
8. Very soon I found some other people to ________ and we began to write songs.
A. keep up with B. team up with C. talk through with D. get along with b
9. ________ chair the meeting.
A. John was decided to B. It was decided that John should b
C. There was decided that John should D. John had been decided to
10. I thought about the problem but I couldn’t ________ a solution.
A. come in for B. come across C. come up with D. come out c
11. ________, they slept soundly.
A. Hot though was the night air B. Hot though the night air was b
C. Hot as was the night air D. Hot although the night air was
12.Several passengers received minor injuries when the train unexpectedly came to a _______. d
A. delay B. stand C. brake D. halt
a by opposing his boss.
13. John refused to put his career in ________
A. jeopardy B. hazard C. risk D. stake
a
14. The more expensive carpet is a good choice ________it will last longer.
A. by means of B. due to C. in that D. in view of
c
15. The police were baffled by the attack as there seemed to be no apparent ________ .
A. design B. principle C. motive D. plot
16. If you want to be sure of receiving a copy of the magazine, I suggest you ________ d an annual
subscription.
A. put down B. take out C. write off D. send up
c
17. ________ the phone rang later that night did Anna remember the appointment.
A. No sooner B. Only C. Not until D. Just before
b
18. After feeling off ________ for days, Tom finally went to see his doctor.
A. food B. color C. fitness D. balance
d
19. There was ________ evidence to bring charges against the man.
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 A. insubstantial B. inferior C. ineffective D. insufficient
a she to be offered the job.
20. The interviewer told Alison that she would earn £30,000 a year,_______
A. were B. should C. let D. would
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Part 2. Read the passage below which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the
corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
FAMILY HISTORY
Line 1 In an age which technology is developed faster than ever before, many people are being
2 attracted by the idea of looking back into the past. One way they can make this is by
3 investigating their own family history. They can try to find out more about what their families
4 came from and what they did. This is now a fast-growing hobby, especially in countries with
5 a fairly short history, alike Australia and the United States.
6 It is one thing to spend some time going through a book on family history and to take the
7 decision to investigate your own family’s past. It is quite another to carry out the research
8 work successfully. It is easy to set about it in a disorganizing way and cause yourself many
9 problems that could have avoided with a little forward planning.
10 If your own family stories say you that you are connected with a famous character,
11 whether hero or criminal, not to let this idea take over your research. Just treat it as an
12 interesting possibility. A simple system for collecting and storing your information will be
13 adequate to start with; a more complex one may only get in your way. The most important
14 thing, though, is to get starting. Who knows what you might find?
Your answers
Line Mistake Correction
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Part 3. Complete each sentence with one suitable particle or preposition. Write your answer in the
box provided. (10 points)
1. He walked ________a great job straight after university because his father is a big fish in city politics.
2. They wheeled________ the same old excuses last time this happened.
3. The police have zeroed ___________ on the man they believe to be responsible for the murder.
4. Japan continues to forge _________ in the manufacture of new electronic equipment.
5. The explosion had smashed _________ all the ground-floor windows.
6. It took Sarah some years to work _________ a market for her products.
7. When David goes on one of his European trips, he lashed _________ $ 2,000 on presents for the whole
family.
8. You can see from here how the river bank is slowly being eaten _________.
9. The company plans to roll _________ the scheme across Europe in the coming months.
10. Ned, the General Editor, led _________ with a general survey of the objectives to be aimed at.
Your answers
1 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Part 4. Write the correct form of the words given in the brackets. Write your answers in the spaces
provided below. (10 points) d
The advances made by humans have made us the (1. DOMINATE) species on our planet. However,
several eminent scientists are concerned that we have become too successful, that our way of life is putting
an (2. PRECEDE)ing strain on the Earth's ecosystems and threatening our future as a species. We are confronting
environmental problems that are more taxing than ever before, some of them seemingly (3. unSOLVE). ableMany
of the Earth's crises are (4. PERSIST) and inexorably linked. Pollution is an obvious example of this affecting
our air, water and soil. ently
The air is polluted by emissions produced by cars and industry. Through acid rain and greenhouse
gases these same exhaust fumes can have a devastating impact on our climate. Climate change is (5.un ARGUE)ably
the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet with increased storms, floods, drought and species
losses predicted. This will inevitably have a negative impact on (6. DIVERSIFY)ty and thus our ecosystem.
The soil is contaminated by factories and power stations which can leave heavy metals in the soil.
Other human activities such as the (7. DEVELOP)ment of land and the clearing of trees also take their toll on the
quality of our soil; deforestation has been shown to cause soil erosion. Certain farming practices can also
pollute the land though the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. This contamination in turn affects our
rivers and waterways and damages life there. The chemicals enter our food chain, moving from fish to
mammals to us. Our crops are also grown on land that is far from (8. SPOIL). Affected species include the
polar bear, so not even the Arctic is immune. ing
Reducing waste and clearing up pollution costs money. Yet it is our quest for wealth that generates so
much of the refuse. There is an urgent need to find a way of life that is less damaging to the Earth. This is not
easy, but it is vital, because pollution is (9. PERVADE) and often life-(10. THREAT).ening
Your answers: ing
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

C. READING (50 points)

Part 1. For questions 1-10, read the article below and then decide which answer best fits each space. (10
points)
WARWICKSHIRE – SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLAND
From Romeo and Juliet to Hamlet and Macbeth, the world-renowned Royal Shakespeare Company
c
performs all year (1) _________ in Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of our most famous literary figure.
With its rolling hills, meandering rivers and canals, picturesque Warwickshire-Shakespeare’s England is the
ideal place for a country escape.
The Tudor house where the great playwright grew up is a shrine for Shakespeare fans all over the
world. You can wander (2) _____a the rooms and (3) ______ d a glimpse of the world that shaped the man.
c
Other (4) _______ Shakespeare family houses in Stratford-upon-Avon c
open to the public (5) ________ the
homes of his wife, Anne Hathaway, and his mother. A stroll through the pretty town will take you to the River
Avon, where you can take a relaxing boat cruise and let your mind (6) ________ the past.
Nearby, the magnificent Warwick Castle is one of the country’s (7) ______ medieval fortresses. A
lavish interior of state rooms and a great hall is complemented by beautifully landscaped gardens. You can
climb to the top of towers and ramparts to see breathtaking views and watch birds (8) _____, jousting
tournaments and fireball launching.
The market town of Warwick offers a mixture of old and new, with antique sellers, tea shops, fine
dining, and literary and folk festivals. After a day’s sightseeing, you could unwind (9) ____ style at the
Ardencote Manor Hotel and Spa or Wroxall Abbey Hotel and Estate, once (10) _______ to Sir Christopher
Wren.

1. A. up B. about C. round D. down

2. A. around B. towards C. at D. by
3. A. give B. put C. make D. get
4. A. reserved B. conserved C. preserved D. observed
5. A. inclusive B. include C. including D. included
6. A. grow into B. drift into C. grow on D. drift on
7. A. better-kept B. best-kept C. better-keeping D. best-keeping
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8. A. of prey B. of predator C. on prey D. on predator
9. A. on B. at C. for D. in
10. A. house B. homage C. home D. housing
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2. Read the article below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ONE word in
each gap. (15 points)
Calls for authors to get fairer share of publisher profits
Philip Pullman has called on publishers to (1) ________ damaging “the ecology of the book world”
and start giving authors a fairer share of the money their books earn.
Speaking in his capacity as president of the Society of Authors, the His Dark Materials author hit out
at the fact that while (2) _______ margins in publishing are rising, the money authors are paid is (3) ________
down.
“To allow corporate profits to be so high at a time when author earnings are markedly falling is, apart (4)
_________ anything else, shockingly bad husbandry. It’s perfectly possible to make a good profit and (5)
______ a fair return to all of those on whose work, after all, everything else depends. But that’s not happening
at the moment,” said Pullman. “I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal
with; but I don’t like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the ecology of the book world. It’s damaging,
and it should change.”
Pullman’s comments came in an (6) _________for the Bookseller magazine by Society of Authors
chief executive Nicola Solomon, in which Solomon described how major publishers (7) _______ as Simon &
Schuster and Penguin Random House are reporting profit margins of around 16%, while authors – (8)
______, according to a 2016 European commission report have a typical annual income of just £12,500 –
were taking home around 3% of publisher turnover in 2016, (9) ___________ to her calculations.
“(10) _______ everyone in the publishing house was paid, publishers’ shareholders received up to three times
the amount paid to authors. And authors still had to pay their own expenses and agents,” wrote Solomon,
acknowledging that while “publishers may contest these numbers … we cannot break down these figures
between publishers because they do not publish authors’ share”.
(Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/05/philip-pullman-calls-for-authors-to-get-fairer-
share-of-publisher-profits)
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3. Read the passage and choose the right answer for each question. (10 points)
A LONG AND HEALTHY LIFE?
How long will a baby born today live? 100 years? 120 years? Scientists are studying genes that could
mean long life for us all.
There are already many, many people who have passed the landmark age of 100. In fact, there are now
so many healthy, elderly people that there’s a new term for them: the wellderly. These are people over the age
of 80 who have no diseases such a high blood pressure, heart disease or diabetes and have never taken
medicines for these conditions.
There have been many scientific studies of communities where a healthy old age is typical. These
include places like Calabria in southern Italy and the island of Okinawa in Japan. The small village of
Molochio in Calabria has about 2,000 inhabitants. And of those, there are at least eight centenarians. When
researchers ask people like this this the secret of their long life, the answer is almost always to do with diet
and is almost always the same. ‘I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables.’ ‘A little bit, but of everything.’ ‘No
smoking, no drinking.’
Whilst in the past scientists have looked at things such as diet and lifestyle for an explanation of long
life, these days they are investigating genetics. Once such researcher is Eric Topol, who says, ‘There must be
genes that explain why these individuals are protected from the aging process.’
The new research into long life looks at groups of people who have a genetic connection. For example,
one group of interest lives in Ecuador. In one area of the country there are a number of people with the same
genetic condition. It’s called Laron syndrome. The condition means that they don’t grow to more than about
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one metre, but is also seems to give them protection against cancer and diabetes. As a result, they live longer
than other people in their families. Meanwhilst, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, there’s another group of
long-lived men, Japanese-Americans. They have a similar gene to the Laron syndrome group.
Back in Canada, scientists are trying to work out exactly how much of the longevity is due to genetics
and how much to environment. By checking public records going back to the 29th century, researchers have
reconstructed the family trees of 202 nonagenarians and centenarians. They concluded that there were
genetic factors involved. And they seemed to benefit the men more than the women – a surprising result
because generally in Europe, there are five times more women centenarians than men.
So what really makes people live longer? It seems likely that it is an interaction of genes, the environment
and probably a third factor – luck.
(Source: http://www.ngllife.com/long-and-healthy-life-0)
1. What two factors for long life do scientists usually investigate?
A. where people live and what their lifestyle are B. genetic factors and environmental
factors
C. people’s diet and activity when they were young D. people’s working and living habits
2. Diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure _________.
A. are common illnesses in elderly people. B. teach scientists a lot about old age
and long life.
C. are never found amongst a group of people in Ecuador. D. affect people in some areas more than
those in others.
3. What do some people from Calabria and Okinawa have in common?
A. They suffer from diabetes. D. They have an unusual genetic illness.
C. They live long and healthy lives. D. They have similar genetic patterns.
4. According to the article, ____________.
A. scientists are investigating people who are 120 years old.
B. scientific advances mean we will all live to at least 100 years.
C. scientists have found genes that might influence how long we live.
D. scientists haven’t discovered why people in some areas typically live longer than others.
5. The word “landmark” is closest in meaning to __________.
A. important stage B. major breakthrough C. hallmark D. benchmark
6. According to the article, _________.
A. people who live in small villages have healthier lifestyles.
B. in parts of Italy and Japan, most people live to be a hundred.
C. men generally outlive women in most parts of the world.
D. some communities in Italy and Japan have been studied by scientists.
7. Healthy elderly people __________.
A. often say that their diet is the most important thing.
B. don’t usually know what the secret to long life is.
C. give many different reasons for their old age.
D. used to pursue at least one type of physical activity when they were young.
8. The word “nonagenarians” is closest in meaning to _________.
A. people under 100 years old. B. people over 100 years old.
C. people from 50 to 59 years old. D. people from 90 to 99 years old.
9. Laron syndrome is interesting to scientists because ___________.
A. it might help people with growth problems. B. it shows that there is a genetic reason for old
age.
C. there are different versions of the syndrome. D. what causes it is still a mystery.
10. Scientists think that healthy old age ________.
A. is typical in certain communities only.
B. is a genetic condition in European women.
C. was more common in the 19th century than it is today.
D. is the result of the interaction of different factors.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Part 4. The reading passage below has seven paragraphs A-G. ( 15 points)
Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the correct
number i-x.
List of headings
i paper contributed as a sharing or managing must 1. paragraph A
ii Inspiring piles can be long habituated 2. paragraph B
iii process that economists used paper 3. paragraph C
iv overview of an unexpected situation: paper survived 4. paragraph D
v comparison between paper and computer 5. paragraph E
vi IMF’s paperless office seemed to be a waste of papers 6. paragraph F
vii example of failure for avoidance of paper record 7. paragraph G
viii advantages of using a paper in offices
ix piles reflect certain characteristics in people’s thought
x joy of having the paper square in front of computer
PAPER or COMPUTER
A Computer technology was supposed to replace paper, but that hasn’t happened. Every country in the
western world uses more paper today, on a per-capita basis, than it did ten years ago. The consumption of
uncoated free-sheet paper, for instance-the most common kind of office paper-rose almost fifteen per cent in
the United States between 1995 and 2000. This is generally taken as evidence of how hard it is to eradicate
old, wasteful habits and of how stubbornly resistant we are to efficiencies offered by computerization.

B Economists at the I.M.F spend most of their time writing reports on complicated economic questions,
work that would seem to be perfectly suited to sitting in front of a computer. Nonetheless, the I.M.F is awash
in paper, and Sellen and Harper wanted to find out way. Their answer is that the business of writing reports –
at least at the I.M.F – is an intensely collaborative process, involving the professional judgments and
contributions of many people. The economists bring drafts of reports to conference rooms, spread out the
relevant pages, and negotiate changes with one another. They go back to their offices and jot down comments
in the margin, taking advantage of freedom offered by the informality of the handwritten note. Then they
deliver the annotated draft to the author in person, taking him, page by page, through the suggested changes.
At the end of the process, the author spreads out all the pages with comments on his desk and starts to enter
them on the computer – moving the pages around as he works, organizing and reorganizing, saving and
discarding.

C Without paper, this kind of collaborative, iterative work process would be much more difficult.
According to Sellen and Harper, paper has a unique set of ‘affordances’ – that is, qualities that permit specific
kind of uses. Paper is tangible: we can pick up a document, flip through it, read little bits here and there, and
quickly get a sense of it. Paper is spatially flexible, meaning that we can spread it out and arrange it in the
way that suits us best. And it’s tailorable: we can easily annotate it, and scribble on it as we read, without
altering the original text. Digital documents, of course, have their own affordances. They can be easily
searched, shared, stored, accessed remotely, and linked to other relevant material. But they lack the
affordances that really matter to a group working together on a report.

D Paper enables a certain kind of thinking, for instance, the top of your desk. Chances are that you have
a keyboard and a computer screen off to one side, and a clear space roughly eighteen inches square in front
of your chair. What covers the rest of the desktop in probably piles – piles of paper journals, magazines,
binders, postcards, videotapes, and all the other artifacts of the knowledge economy. The piles look like a
mess, but they aren’t. When a group at Apple Computer studied piling behavior several years ago, they found
that even the most disorderly piles usually make perfect sense to the piler, and office workers could hold forth
in great detail about the precise history and meaning of their piles. The pile closest to the cleared, eighteen-
inch-square working area, for example, generally represents the most urgent business, and within that pile the
most important document of all is likely to be at the top. Piles are living, breathing archives. Over time, they
get broken down and resorted, sometimes chronologically and thematically; clues about certain piece of paper
at an angle or inserting dividers into the stack.

E But why do we pile documents instead of filling them? Because piles represent the process of active,
ongoing thinking. The Psychologist Alison Kidd, whose research Sellen and Harper refer to extensively,
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argues that ‘knowledge workers’ use the physical space of the desktop to hold ‘ideas which they cannot yet
categorize or even decide how they might use.’ The messy desk is not necessarily a sign of disorganization.
It may be a sign of complexity: those who deal with many unresolved ideas simultaneously cannot sort and
file the papers on their desks because they haven’t yet sorted and filed the ideas in their head.

F Sellen and Harper arrived at similar findings when they did some consulting work with a chocolate
manufacturer. The people in the firm they were most interested in were the buyers – the staff who handled the
company’s relationships with its venders, from cocoa and sugar manufacturers to advertisers. The buyers kept
folders (containing contracts, correspondence, meeting notes, and so forth) on every supplier they had dealings
with. The company wanted to move the information in those documents online, to save space and money, and
make it easier for everyone in the firm to have access to it. That sounds like an eminently rational thing to do.
But when Sellen and Harper looked at the folders they discovered that they contained all kinds of idiosyncratic
material – advertising paraphernalia, printouts of e-mails, presentation notes, and letters – much of which had
been annotated in the margins with thoughts and amendments and they write ‘perhaps most important
comments about problems and issues with a supplier’s performance not intended for the supplier’s eyes.’ The
information in each folder was organized – if it was organized at all - according to the whims of the particular
buyer. Whenever other people wanted to look at a document, they generally had to be walked through it by
the buyer who ‘owned’ it, because it simply wouldn’t make sense otherwise. The much advertised advantage
of digitizing documents – that they could be made available to anyone, at any time – was illusory: documents
cannot speak for themselves.

G This idea that paper facilitates a highly specialized cognitive and social process is a far cry from the
way we have historically thought about the stuff. Paper first began to proliferate in the workplace in the late
nineteenth century as part of the move toward ‘systematic management.’ To cope with the complexity of the
industrial economy, managers were instituting company – wide policies and demanding monthly, weekly, or
even daily updates from their subordinates. Thus was born the monthly sales report, and the office manual
and the internal company newsletter. The typewriter took off in the eighteen-eighties, making it possible to
create documents in a fraction of the time it had previously taken, and that was followed closely by the advent
of carbon paper, which meant that a typist could create ten copies of that document simultaneously. Then the
secretary would make ten carbon copies of that schedule and send them out to the stations along your railway
line. Paper was important not to facilitate creative collaboration and thought but as an instrument of control.
(Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/03/25/the-social-life-of-paper)

Complete the note below.

Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Compared with digital documents, paper has several advantages. First it allows clerks to work in
a (8) _____________ way among colleagues. Next, paper is not like virtual digital versions, it is (9) _____.
Finally, because it is (10) _________, note or comments can be effortlessly added as related information.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

D. WRITING (50 points)

Part 1. Rewrite each sentence using the word in brackets so that the meaning stays the same. You must
use between TWO and SIX words, including the word given. (10 points)
1. All my friends have left me. (DESERTED )
→ I ____________________________________________ my friends.
2. One of the directors pointed out to the board a number of inconsistencies in the report. (ATTENTION )
→One of the directors _________________________________a number of inconsistencies in the report.
3. I don’t think she was informed about the burglary. (BEEN)
→ She _____________________________________________ the burglary.
4. My best friend is someone I can really trust. (CONFIDENCE)
→I ____________________________________________ best friend.
5. When Mary was pregnant, all she wanted to eat was jelly. (CRAVING)
→ Mary _________________________________________ when she was pregnant.

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Part 2. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence
printed before it. (10 points)
1. The fire led to the setting up of a public enquiry.
→As a _____________________________________________.
2.Vitamin intake and intelligence are not connected.
→There_____________________________________________.
3.He suddenly thought that he might have misunderstood her.
→It crossed ___________________________________________
4.His wife keeps telling him that he should get a better job.
→His wife is pushing ___________________________________
5. His second attempt on the world record was successful.
→ He broke ___________________________________________

Part 3. Writing an essay (30 points)

The best way to solve the world’s environmental problem is to increase the cost of fuel. To what extent do
you agree with this statement? Write an essay of about 250 words to state your viewpoint.

THE END

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ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 10
Thời gian: 180 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)

A. LISTENING (50 points):

Part 1. Listen and complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS OR A NUMBER for
each answer. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
TULIP HOT SPRING GARDEN RESORT
Location: 1._________________ close to Peak Mountains
Hot spring was exploited 2._______________ metres under the ground.
Temperature of Tulip hot spring is 3.__________________
Notice for tourists:
Adjust water temperature before bathing.
Do not bath immediately after drink
Do not take your 4._____________ when bathing.
There are:
56 different water sports.
21 different 5. _________________
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 2. You will hear a student talking about the survey conducted among people of different age groups
to find out how architecture may affect people’s lives. Listen carefully and choose the correct answer A, B
or C for each question. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
1. The purpose of the data collection was to
A. test people's reaction to different buildings.
B. collect detailed information on various buildings.
C. assess the beauty of different public buildings.
2. The initial plan to use a questionnaire was abandoned, because
A. it would take too much time to produce.
B. the questions were difficult to write.
C. it would take too long for people to complete.
3. People indicated their reactions on 1-5 scale,
A. giving rise to some interesting answers.
B. ensuring that the information was easier to collect.
C. making it quicker to choose the three images.
4. What was done to preserve the images when being used?
A. They were covered in plastic with a special machine.
B. People were asked to wear gloves when touching them
C. The images were handled only by the researcher.
5. What was the reason for appointing a leader for the group?
A. To comply with the instructions for the task.
B. To help hold the team together.
C. To allocate tasks to the various members.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 3. You will hear a doctor’s talk. Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F). Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
1. What people eat may determine the cholesterol level in the blood.
2. Saturated fat will help to lower blood cholesterol.
3. People are suggested to eat more saturated fat.
4. The human body can make a lot of fatty acids.
5. Some nuts, seeds and fish contain a high proportion of polyunsaturated fats.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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Part 4: You are going to hear a talk on Canada. As you listen to the talk, complete the notes below by
writing NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in the spaces provided. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)
Canada is located in the northern half of the continent of 1.__________. The most northern parts of
Canada are called the land of 2.__________ because at certain times of the year the sun never sets. This
northern part of Canada is cold and mostly covered with snow all year round. The original people in the
northern part of Canada are called 3.__________. They are also called the "First Nation". The populations in
the Atlantic provinces of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are small.
The land there is not very fertile so their main industries are forestry, 4.__________ and mining. The
province of British Columbia is in the 5. __________ of Canada and is an attractive place for tourists
because of its mild climate, mountains, seacoast and 6.__________. The original settlers came from
7.__________ In the 16th century, the first Europeans arrived in 8.__________ Canada. They came from
9.__________. By the end of the 10.__________ all of Canada was under British rule. In this century,
Canada has had an influence of settlers from all over the world.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (50 points)

Part 1. Choose one of the words marked A, B, C, or D which best completes each of the following sentences.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)
1. In __________, it was a bad idea to pay him in cash.
A. hindsight B. consideration C. retrospect D. knowledge
2. The ministered assured us that there were funds for this project.
A. rich B. financial C. ample D. deep
3. After years of working together, the partners found themselves __________ linked
A. permanently B. indelibly C. perpetually D. inextricably
4. The president decided to release a number of political prisoners as a(n) __________ of goodwill.
A. gesture B. indication C. pledge D. symbol
5. The racing-driver climbed out of the wreckage completely __________ .
A. unwounded B. intact C. unscathed D. well-preserved
6. The King showed his mercy by __________ the rebel’s lives.
A. saving B. sparing C. granting D. accepting
7. If you don’t not repay the money we will, as a last , taking you to court.
A. measure B. attempt C. act D. resort
8. In terms of protocol, the president takes over all others in the country.
A. precedence B. priority C. the lead D. the head
9. When attacked by his opponents, the general __________ with a strong justification for his policy.
A. hit back B. struck up C. leapt up D. push forward
10. To get his proposal accepted, the Finance Manager had to __________ heavy pressure from colleagues.
A. laugh off B. fend off C. send off D. rose up
11. It is very appropriate that the prize __________ go to such a young architect.
A. could B. should C. need D. might
12. Casinos ensure there is a healthy __________ between what they take from gamblers and what they pay
out.
A. balance B. profit C. margin D. difference
13. I revised my views comments from colleagues.
A. in the light of B. further to C. against D. consequent upon
14. __________ his love of swimming, it’s hardly surprising he enjoys spending his holidays by the sea.
A. Recognizing B. Given C. Providing D. Granted
15. Because of the ice, drivers found their cars on the road.
A. squealing B. slipping C. squeaking D. skidding
16. is understood to be no question of a criminal act having taken place.
A. There B. It C. Although D. And
17. Over the centuries the feet of many visitors have the steps to the castle.
A. worn out B. worn through C. worn down D. worn in
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18. They attempted to the painting to its original.
A. renovate B. restore C. repair D. refurbish
19. The general was relieved of his command after committing one of the worst ______ in the history of
warfare.
A. blunders B. faults C. disasters D. defeats
20. This is a matter of the __________ concern.
A. ultimate B. utmost C. utter D. universal
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Part 2. Read the passage below which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the corrections
in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
LINE TEXT
1 Human memory, formerly believed to be rather inefficient, is really more sophisticated than that
2 of a computer. Researchers approaching the problem from a variation of viewpoints have all
3 concluded that there is a great deal more storing in our minds than has been generally supposed.
4 Dr. Wilder Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgery, proved that by stimulating their brains electrically,
5 he can elicit the total recall of specific events in his subjects’ lives. Even dreams and another minor
6 events supposedly forgotten for many years suddenly emerged in details. Although the physical
7 basic for memory is not yet understood, one theory is how the fantastic capacity for storage in the
8 brain is the result of an almost unlimited combination of interconnections between brain cell,
9 stimulated by patterns of activity. Repeated references with the same information support recall.
10 In other word, improved performance is the result of strengthening the chemical bonds in the
1 memory.

Your answers:
Line Mistakes Corrections
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
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Part 3. Complete each of the following sentences with (a) suitable preposition(s) or particle(s). Write your
answer in the box provided. (10 points)
1. The area has been cordoned _________ following a bomb threat.
2. Could you lend me some money to tide me _________ to the end of the month?
3. There’s no need to fly _________ me- I wasn’t the one who crashed the car.
4. Mary was beavering _________ at her desk when I last popped in to see her.
5. My fingers are tired! I’ve been hammering _________ at this keyboard for hours.
6. They are planning to wind _________ their operation in Greece and concentrate on Eastern Europe.
7. One good way to drum _________ support is to get people in the high street to sign a petition.
8. Once he decided what he wanted, he would go _________ it with single mindedness.
9. I knew it supposed to be a secret but I just blurted it _________ before I could stop my self
10. It took Jerry a while to cotton _________ to the fact I was joking.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 4. Write the correct form of the words given in the brackets. Write your answers in the spaces provided
below. (10 points)
The greenhouse effect is essentially the process by which the (1. ABSORB) ___________ and emission of
infrared radiation by gases in the atmosphere warms the planet’s lower atmosphere and surface. Put simply,
the so-called greenhouse gases which cause this effect (2. BASE) ___________ redirect heat that would
otherwise escape back into outer space down towards the surface of the earth. This phenomenon is actually
key to creating conditions (3. CONDUCT) ___________ to life on Earth. Without the natural (4. OCCUR)
___________ of these gases and consequent planetary warming, Earth would actually be a very (5.
HOSPITABLE) ___________ place. The problem, however, began in the 1800s during the industrial
revolution. The increased amount of industrial activity led to additional volumes of greenhouse gases being
produced unnaturally as a result of human activity. Obviously, as the level of industrial activity has increased
dramatically over the last several centuries , so too then has the rate of production and emission of greenhouse
gases. Human activity has therefore altered the balance of things with (6. CONCENTRATE) of greenhouse
gases such as CO2 and methane in the atmosphere significantly higher today than at any other time in the past
800,000 years of Earth’s history. About two-thirds of the additional CO2 released is attributed to the burning
of fossil fuels, while the rest of the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas levels is put down to changes in
land-use, in particular (7. FOREST) ___________, and population growth, which, for example, has led to
greater numbers of livestock than ever before being reared for (8. CONSUME) ___________, and a
consequent significant increase in methane emissions. The (9. DEPLETE) ___________ of the tropospheric
ozone layer, caused by chlorofluorocarbons, has also had a significant warming effect on the Earth’s surface,
but this is not to be confused with the greenhouse effect as the two phenomena are largely (10. RELATE)
___________ .
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

C. READING (50 points)

Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write your
answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
THE FUTURE IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Modern industry pollutes, and it also seems to cause significant changes to the climate. What is needed
is an industry that (1) ____________ the benefits without the costs. And the (2) ____________ of such an
industry can now be discerned.
That industry is based on biotechnology. At the moment, biotech’s main uses are in medicine and
agriculture. However, its biggest long-term impact may be industrial. Biotechnology will (3) ____________
demand for oil by taking the cheapest raw materials imaginable, carbon dioxide and water, and using them to
make fuel and plastics.
It is now possible to create enzymes that work thousands of times faster than their natural counterparts.
These should turn the manufacture of ethanol as a petrol additive from a subsidised boondoggle into a industry
that can pay its (4) ____________. Biotechnologists are also working on enzymes that can digest cellulose.
Turning cellulose into fermentable sugars really would give petrol a (5) ____________ for its money.
The plastics industry, too, may be (6) ____________ by biotechonology. There are now plastics made
entirely by bacteria that have had their metabolic pathways redesigned. Soon, plastics may be grown on farms,
in genetically engineered plants, rather than being (7) ____________ in huge, centralised industrial plants.
Plastics and fuels made in this way would have several advantages. They can be called “renewables”,
(8) ____________ nothing is depleted to make them. They would be part of the natural carbon cycle,
borrowing that element from the atmosphere for a few months, and returning it when they were burned or (9)
____________. That means that they could not possibly contribute to global warming. They would also be
environmentally friendly in other ways. Bioplastics are biodegradable, and biofuels are a lot cleaner than
petrol and diesel, and would be cleaner (10) ____________even than the fuel-cell technology.
All in all, the future could be green in ways that traditional environmentalists had not expected.
1. A. delivered B. collects C. reaps D. produces
2. A. impact B. age C. glimmerings D. outgrowth
3. A. satisfy B. preserve C. boost D. diminish
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4. A. road B. route C. way D. course
5. A. path B. run C. race D. climb
6. A. converted B. substituted C. modulated D. transformed
7. A. manufactured B. assembled C. constructed D. mingled
8. A. although B. since C. otherwise D. therefore
9. A. garbaged B. wasted C. disposed D. dumped
10. A. almost B. wholly C. overall D. thoroughly
Your answer:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2. Read the following text and fill in the blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in
corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)
Food for a future
Jon Wynne-Tyson was an original thinker whose best-known book “Food for a future” was published
in 1975. In this classic work, a case was put forward for (1) ____________ can only be described as a more
responsible and humane attitude towards the world’s food resources. It had gradually (2) ____________ clear
to Wynne-Tyson that the economics and ecology of meat production did not make sense. What justification
was (3) ____________, he argued, for using seven tonnes of cereal to produce one tonne of meat?
Even today, the book’s succinct style makes it compulsively readable. (4) ____________ his approach
is basically an emotional one, Wynne- Tyson goes to great lengths to back (5) ____________ every statement
with considerable supporting evidence and statistical data. Thus, even (6) ____________ of us who are widely
read on the subject of vegetarianism will gain fresh insights from this book. It is generally agreed that his
most skilful achievement is the slow revelation of his main thesis (7) ____________ the arguments unfold.
The book concludes that a move away from an animal-based diet to one which is based on plant sources is
inevitable in the long-term, in (8) ____________ of the fact that there is no sound nutritional, medical or
social justification for meat eating. (9) ____________ of whether you agree with such a conclusion or not,
the book certainly makes (10) ____________ fascinating read.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3. Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions. Write
your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
FORGETFUL BRAINS
Humans have always had trouble remembering certain details. One person has the unique experience
of recalling in almost exact detail a memory from his childhood, but he cannot remember what he ate for
lunch yesterday. Another cannot recall names of people she met five minutes ago, but she remembers the
names of people she met from an hour before. Psychologists have searched for answers to the memory
phenomenon to better understand how the brain functions and what triggers memory or causes forgetfulness.
After extensive research over the past century, they have come up with some basic theories to help explain
memory loss.
There are times when an individual loses all recollection of an event. ■ A). This is referred to as the
decay theory, which states that if memories are not recalled from time to time, they fade and then gradually
drop from a person’s memory. Decay is proven to occur with sensory memories, or short-term memories, if
they are not recalled or rehearsed. Decay of long-term memory is harder to explain because these memories
last through the passage of time. ■ B) In fact, some knowledge can be accessed many years after it is first
learned. ■ C) Research on students who took Spanish courses in high school revealed that they still
remembered a great deal of Spanish fifty years later, even though they had hardly used the language. While
some memories tend to decay, others remain burned into recesses of the brain, causing psychologists to further
ponder the workings of memory. ■ D)
Another explanation made by researchers concerning memory loss is known as interference. Under
this theory, an individual forgets a memory when similar information enters the mind and interferes with the
original memory in either the storage or retrieval area of the brain. The information is somewhere in the
person’s memory, but it gets confused with other details. This occurs in both short –term and long-term
memory and is most common when a person tries to recall isolated facts. For instance, a woman goes to a
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party and meets a man named Joe at the front door. Half an hour later, she is introduced to Jason. When she
sees Joe again, she accidentally calls him Jason. This is retroactive interference. The newest information input
replaces the old information, causing the woman to mistakenly call the first man by the wrong name.
Additionally, people may suffer from proactive interference. A student meets his first professor, Dr Mack, in
his English class. When he has History, he meets Dr. Miller. However, he frequently calls both teachers Dr.
Mack, since that is the first name he had learned. Remembering the first set of information and not
remembering the next is proactive interference. The old information interfered with the student’s ability to
recall the newer information.
When a person needs to remember something, he frequently relies on cues, or reminders, to help him
retrieve a specific memory. When he lacks the cue to recall the memory, the person suffers from cue-
dependent forgetting. This may be the most common type of forgetfulness. Psychologist Willem Wagenaar
did a year-long study during which he recorded events from his life daily. After a year’s time, he could not
remember twenty percent of the critical details, and after five years, he had forgotten sixty percent. However,
he compiled cues from ten witnesses to some events in his past that he believed he had forgotten, he was able
to recall pieces of information about all ten. Thus, when he had cues to help him retrieve his memories, he
could remember his experiences, illustrating that he was somewhat cue-dependent. Cognitive psychologists
believe that these specific cues help direct a person to the area of the brain where the memory is stored or they
match up with information linked to the actual memory the person is seeking.
Whether forgetfulness is from years of decay, replacement of old memories, or lack of cues,
researchers continue working to locate the source of people’s forgetfulness. The answers are becoming clearer
with each additional study. As brain research advances, psychologists are sure to connect many different
factors that link people back to their memories.
1. The word triggers in the passage is closest in meaning to:
A. closes B. cues C. reviews D. erases
2. According to paragraph 2, decay of short-term memories can be avoided by:
A. remembering associations B. removing immediate distractions
C. recollecting information often D. taking time to acquire input
3. What can be inferred about the decay theory from paragraph 2?
A. Memories from big events always remain in the mind.
B. Memory decay arises from specific circumstances.
C. Recalling old memories prevent their decay.
D. Most people suffer from some degree of memory decay.
4. Look at the four squares ■ that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage.
However the age of the memory does not enable psychologists to predict which memories will disappear and
which will remain.
Where would the sentence best fit?
A. First square B. Second square C. Third square D. Fourth square
5. The word ponder in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. consider B. explain C. forget D. understand
6. All of the following are mentioned in paragraph 3 as interference EXCEPT:
A. Confusing newly learned facts with other details
B. Confusing old memories with current situations
C. Remembering the first information but forgetting the second set
D. Recalling the last information acquired but losing the first
7. In paragraph 3, the author discusses remembering and forgetting names in order to
A. demonstrate memory interference
B. refute proactive and retroactive interference
C. advocate acquiring new memories
D. reveal the workings of forgetfulness
8. The word isolated in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. complex B. angry C. remote D. ignored
9. According to paragraph 4, cue-dependent forgetting is defined as
A. not being able to remember details or events when clues are present.
B. not being able to remember details or events unless clues are present.
C. not being able to forget clues about details or events.
D. not being able to remember details or events without assistance from other people.
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10. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the
passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A. Cues about an event lead a person back to the part of the brain storing the memory.
B. Psychologists are able to link cues to areas of a person’s brain when he or she is forgetful.
C. Information stored within the brain cannot be linked to specific memories after time.
D. A person can find specific memories by using context cues about an experience.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 4. Read the following text and do the tasks that follow. (15 points)
A. A condition that causes children to dislike being hugged and sometimes reject all physical affection is
closer to being understood following research into the part of the brain responsible for our senses. Scientists
at Northwestern University, Illinois, and the University of Edinburgh explored fragile X syndrome, a
condition associated with hypersensitivity to sounds, touch, smells and visual stimuli that can result in social
withdrawal or anxiety. Hypersensitivity is a condition in which the person affected responds in an excessive
way to contact with the world around them. Some sufferers are even hypersensitive to material on their skin.
B. The scientists found that critical phases in the brain’s development may be wrongly timed in people with
the condition. This may result in delayed communication between certain neurons in the brain. By recording
electrical signals in the brains of mice, bred to exactly copy the effects of the condition, the researchers found
that connections in the brain’s sensory cortex were late to develop fully. The study, published in the journal
Neuron, found that normal neural connections in the sensory cortex occur much easier than previously
thought: in the first week of pregnancy in mice, which is equivalent to the middle of the second trimester (or
fifth month) of pregnancy in humans. In fragile X syndrome, the mistiming also has a domino effect, causing
further problems with the correct wiring of the brain. The hope is that by understanding how and when the
functions of the brain are effected in fragile X syndrome, a therapy may become possible.
C. “There is a “critical period” during development, when the brain is very plastic and is changing rapidly,”
said Anis Contractor, from the Geinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. “All the elements
of this rapid development have to be coordinated so that the brain becomes wired correctly and therefore
functions properly.” People with the syndrome have cognitive problems as well as sensory problems that
make them physically weaker. “They have tactile defensiveness,” Dr Contractor said. “They don’t look in
people’s eyes, they won’t hug their parents, and they are hypersensitive to touch and sound. All of this causes
anxiety for family and friends as well as for the fragile X patients themselves.” Peter Kind, who led the study
at the University of Edinburgh, said: “We know there are key windows during which the brain develops, both
in the womb and afterwards. The general principle is that if these time windows have shifted, then that could
explain the cognitive problems.”
D. Professor Kind said that this could be demonstrated by the fact that a child with cataract (a medical
condition in which the lens of the eyes becomes less and less transparent) that was not corrected would become
permanently blind in the affected eye, whereas an adult would be able to regain their sight after an operation.
“We’ve learnt that theses changes happen much earlier than previously thought, which gives valuable insight
into when we should begin therapeutic intervention for people with these conditions,” he said. “It also has
implications for the treatment of autism since the changes in the brains of people with fragile X syndrome and
autistic people are thought to significantly overlap.” Autism, as many people know, is a disability that affects
how a person communicates with and relates to other people, and how they make sense of the world.
E. Fragile X syndrome is as common as cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that commonly affects the lungs
and causes breathing difficulties, and that affects about 1 in 4,000 males and 1 in 8,000 females worldwide.
The Fragile X Society believes that there are many people who have the fragile X syndrome but have never
been diagnosed. It shows up in early infancy and progressively worsens throughout childhood, causing
intellectual disability as well as social, language and behavioural problems.
F. Fragile X syndrome is caused by a gene mutation on the X chromosome- one of the two chromosomes that
determine the gender or sex of a person. The mutation interferes in the production of a protein called fragile
X mental retardation protein. Fragile X is so-named because the X chromosome appears broken or kinked.
Tim Potter, of the Fragile X Society, said: “ We welcome any research that helps us understand fragile X and
which may open the way to reversing the effects or preventing them ever happening.

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Task 1. The Reading Passage above has eight paragraphs A-H. From the list of headings below, choose
the most suitable heading for each paragraph. Write the appropriate numbers (i-ix) in boxes 1-6.
Paragraph A has been done for you.
List of Headings 1 paragraph A __________
i. How fragile X syndrome was discovered 2 paragraph B __________
ii. The genetic basic of fragile X syndrome 3 paragraph C __________
iii. Fragile X syndrome and developmental delays in the brain 4 paragraph D __________
iv. New treatments for fragile X syndrome 5 paragraph E __________
v. The comparative frequency of fragile X syndrome 6 paragraph F __________
vi. Research into understanding fragile X syndrome
vii. Reasons for the increase of fragile X syndrome
viii. Other conditions related to cognitive development
ix. Examples of the symptoms of fragile X syndrome

Task 2: Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
People with fragile X syndrome are extremely sensitive to sensory (7) ……………………………..
Some sufferers are even hypersensitive to clothing. The condition is the result of connections within the (8)
……………………………. of the brain not being made at the right time. Instead, the neurons of people with
the condition establish connections later than should happen, which is normally in the second (9)
…………………………. of pregnancy of humans. By understanding how the brain’s (10)
……………………..…. are affected, scientists hope to develop a treatment.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9. 10.

D. WRITING (50 points)

Part 1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the one printed
before it. Write your answers in the space provided. (10 points)
1. People became aware of the damage to the zone layer when an enormous hole was discovered over the
South Pole.
It was the …………………………………………………………………………
2. Advanced technology cannot operate without special glass.
Were it not………………………………………………………………………..
3. You cannot make use of this offer after 15 December
This offer is only………………………………………………………………….
4. Although I respect the law, I cannot accept the court’s decision.
Much ……………………………………………………………………………..
5. It was more of a business arrangement than a marriage.
It was not so………………………………………………………………………

Part II. Rewrite the sentences below in such a way that their meanings stay the same. You must use the
words in capital without changing their forms. Write your answers in the space provided (10 points)
1. The committee members said they would remain loyal to the chairman.
PLEDGED
………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. The villagers prepared themselves to withstand the coming storm. BRACED
………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. The challenger just wasn’t talented enough to provide a good contest with the reigning champion.
MATCH
………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. They could not warn people by electronic mail because that might spread the computer virus. FEAR
……………………………………………………………………………………………….
5. Daniel’s habit of taking risks doesn’t fit in with his image as a family man. COMPATIBLE
……………………………………………………………………………………………….

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KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ
ĐỀ SỐ 23
ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 10
Thời gian: 180 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)

LISTENING
PART 1: Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A
NUMBER for each answer.
Customer’s name: 1. ______________________
Customer number: 45993
Product: 2. ______________________
Cost of the product: 3. ______________________
Language(s) in manual: 4. ______________________
Order number: 5. ______________________
Customer’s phone number: 348-28841
PART 2: Circle the letter before the best answers according to the recording
1. What is one of Shawn's concerns about the dog?
A. It can be somewhat aggressive.
B. It eats too much food at one time.
C. The dog might mess on his carpet.
2. What is Shawn supposed to do between 3:00-4:00 p.m. for the dog?
A. Take the dog for some exercise with a Frisbee.
B. Feed him an afternoon doggie treat for a snack.
C. Let the dog watch a program on television.
3. Which point is NOT true about the cat?
A. The cat becomes a little moody at times.
B. The cat enjoys listening to rock music.
C. The cat will run away if it gets outside the house.
4. What can we infer from the conversation on the snake's reaction to Shawn?
A. The snake appears to warm up to him.
B. The snake doesn't care for Shawn at all.
C. The snake is extremely shy of Shawn.
5. What is Shawn's final response to Norman?
A. Norman should seek someone who is well-trained with animals.
B. Norman should take his animals to the zoo for special care.
C. Norman agrees to watch them for a lot of extra money.
PART 3: Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) or not given (NG)
1. Jackie was surprised that David had problems placing his order.
2. David needs to order the software for his office.
3. Jackie gives him the 25% discount even though he's not ordering online.
4. Jackie tells David that the free microphones are usually not very good quality.
5. David buys both versions of the software.
PART 4: Listen and fill in the blank
1. Both Hilary and Mike comment that not everybody ___________ what SETI is.
2. Hilary says that SETI researchers all believe in ___________ planets.
3. She uses the snail example to illustrate __________ involved.
4. NASA sent messages on spacecraft during the ____________.
5. Current SETI techniques involve _____________ rather than sending signals.
6. In an ideal world, NASA would like to find ___________ and not just simple plant life.
7. It's possible to get depressed by the continued ___________ but Hilary remains optimistic.
8. One reason an advanced form of life cannot be detected is that they may have ___________
themselves.
9. Hilary mentions nuclear proliferation, overpopulation and ___________ as examples of how our
civilization puts itself in danger.
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10. If Hilary met any aliens, she would ask them how it was possible for them ____________.

LEXICO-GRAMMAR
PART 1: Choose the best options
1. There was a great scandal when it turned out that the Bishop, who was meant to be_________, had a son.
A celibate B immaculate C singular D separated
2. Mozart was a very________musician and had written several concertos by the age of 10.
A endowed B gifted C expert D qualified
3. According to psychiatrists, many violent criminals harbour feelings of ________and insecurity.
A shortage B insufficiency C scarcity D inadequacy
4. Many students find the concept of a fourth dimension difficult to_________.
A hold B clutch C grab C grasp
5. Charles Babbage’s ‘difference engine’ is widely regarded as the ________of modern computers.
A precedent B precursor C ancestor D antecedent
6. During the Asia Tsunami, an ________200.000 people lost their lives.
A estimated B assumed C envisaged D approximated
7. It is ________that the Minister of Justice should be accused of corruption
A sarcastic B sardonic C ironic D cynical
8. You can’t believe a word that woman says –she is a ________liar.
A committed B compulsive C impulsive D devoted
9. You really ought to go to bed –you look absolutely.
A weary B weak C shattered D tired
10. I think that this painting can be ________in a number of different but equally valid ways.
A dissected B interpreted C translated D rendered
11. The photo would have been wonderful had it not been________focus.
A beyond B far from C out of D without
12. Although they are often criticized in the press, single mothers__for only a very small proportion of
government spending.
A account B cause C create D cost
13. He felt _________that at last the surgery was successful.
A relieved B smoothed C resigned D conceded
14. The judge show that the murderer had shown a callous ________for human life.
A disregard B ignorance C omission D neglect
15. The countries of the West are noted for their conspicuous ________ of energy.
A absorption B consumption C dissipation D depletion
16. Social workers admitted feeling utterly ________when faced with the problem of drugs and violence.
A aimless B pointless C clueless D helpless
17. Tracy said she had been very lonely since_____up her boyfriend.
A finishing B ending C stopping D splitting
18. We had a long and exhausted car _________before reaching our final destination.
A journey B trip C voyage D excursion
19. The older inhabitants looked on the festival as an opportunity to bridge the ____between the newcomers
and themselves.
A hole B gap C blank D crevice
20. The tourist office was able to recommend several places of _______interest which we decided to visit.
A ancient B authentic C historical D historic

PART 2: Find and correct ten mistakes/ errors in the following passage
Having a roof over your head is a basic human need, but there are 1.2 billion people in the ……………………
world with adequate housing. This may change thanks for a revolutionary, low-cost use of ……………………
3D printers to construct houses. With 3D printing, materials are joined together or ……………………
reinforcing by using a computer-controlled device to create a three-dimensional object. ……………………
Two companies have joined forces to try and ease homeless around the world by building ……………………
affording homes using 3D printing. Tech company ICON has developed a method for ……………………
printing a one-floor, 60-square-meter house out of cement in a day for just $10,000. This ……………………
……………………
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 is a fraction of both the time and cost needing to build a similar construction using ……………………
conventional methods. ……………………
ICON has teamed up with the non-profit, internationally housing organization New Story. ……………………
Together, they will start building homes in developing countries. Their joint venture will ……………………
see 100 new homes constructing in El Salvador next year. New Story's co-founder ……………………
Alexandria Lafci acknowledged that the 100 homes were just a drop in the ocean. She said: ……………………
"There are over 100 million people living in slum conditions, in what we call survive ……………………
mode." She also saw possibilities for 3D-printed houses to become regular in richer ……………………
countries in years to come. However, she said that for the moment: "The tech is ready now ……………………
to print very high-quality, safe homes in the places we're building."

PART 3: Fill in each gap with ONE suitable preposition

1. If you draw ____________ income from your investment too quickly, it may not last long.
2. They agreed to the policy ___________ the understanding that it would be to their benefits.
3. Pack it ____________ will you? Your guitar playing is getting on my nerves.
4. Further ____________ the road, some more policies are sure to be introduced.
5. Clever people never bite _______________ more than they can chew.
6. I think it would be fun to swan _______________ Europe in the summer.
7. That old, crazy man once claimed he was descended ____________ William Shakespeare.
8. Without any information to bank on, we landed ourselves ___________ the most boring job of the lot.
9. She gets so nervous at the thought of examinations that her mind completely blanks _____________.
10. She gambled ____________ the house even though it was not hers.

PART 4: Fill in each gap with the correct form of the word given
Over half a century ago, scientists found that they could record the electrical signals of the brain
at work. What at first appeared a random hotchpotch of activity became a pattern of elegant
waves (1. RHYTHM) determined. Ever since, scientists have wondered whether the secrets of 1.
our thoughts, (2. PERCEIVE) and even (3. CONSCIOUS) itself might be hidden in the 2.
patterns of our brain waves. The question of why we have brain waves is, (4. ARGUE), as hotly 3.
debated today as it was when the patterns were discovered. But the meaning, and even the 4.
existence, of fast rhythms in the alert brain is highly (5. CONTROVERSY). 5.
What is problematic is that you cannot perceive these rhythms directly, they are so well hidden 6.
in the noise created by other brain activity, but many (6. SEARCH) now hold the (7. 7.
CONVINCE) that the significance of these brain waves should not be (8. ESTIMATE). 8.
The latest suggestion is that the rhythms could be (9. DECIDE) in detecting progresses going 9.
on in different regions of the brain. Some believe that these rhythms might even interact, and 10.
in doing so help the brain to package information into (10. COHERE) thoughts. How we bring
together these related signals of the brain is a puzzle as yet unsolved.

READING
PART 1: Choose the best options to complete the passage
Why did you decide to read this, and will you keep reading to the end? Do you expect to understand every
(1)__ part of it and will you remember anything about it in a fortnight’s time. Common sense (2)___ that the
answers to these questions depend on “readability” – whether the (3)____ matter is interesting, the argument
clear and the (4)___ attractive. But psychologists are discovering that to determine why people read –and
often don’t read –technical information, they have to (5)___ not so much the writing as the reader.
Even the most technically confident people often (6)__instructions for the video or home computer in favour
of hand-ons experience. And people frequently take little notice of consumer information, whether on
nutritional labels or in the small print of contracts.
Psychologists researching reading tend to assume that both beginners and (7) ___ readers read everything put
in front of them from start to finish. There are (8)___ among them about the role of the eyes, memory and
brain during the process. Some believe that fluent readers take (9)____ every letter or word they see; other
insist that readers rely on memory or context to carry them from one phrase to another. But they have always
assumed that the reading process is the same: reading starts, comprehension (10)___, then reading stops.
1 A absolute B one C single D unique
2 A suggests B transmits C advises D informs
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3 A subject B topic C content D text
4 A pattern B formation C layout D assembly
5 A examine B inquire C trace D calculate
6 A miss B omit C pass D ignore
7 A competent B sufficient C considerable D valid
8 A objections B arguments C contests D separations
9 A up B over C out D in
10 A sets B occurs C issues D establishes

PART 2: Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word

Perhaps the greatest value of biodiversity is yet unknown. Scientists have discovered and named only 1.75
million species — less than 20 percent of those (1)________ to exist. And of those identified, only a (2)
________ has been examined for potential medicinal, agricultural or (3) ________ value. Much of Earth’s
great biodiversity is (4) ________ disappearing, even before we know what is missing. Most biologists agree
that life on Earth now is (5) ________ with the most severe extinction episode since the event that drove the
dinosaurs to (6) _______ 65 million years ago. Species of plants, animals, fungi and microscopic organisms
such as (7) ________ are being lost at alarming rates – so many, in fact, that biologists estimate that three (8)
________ go extinct every hour. Scientists around the (9) _________ are cataloging and studying global
biodiversity in hopes that they might (10) _______ understand it, or at least slow the rate of loss.

PART 3: Read the passage and choose the best options to answer the questions
Vincent Van Gogh was born in Groot Zundert, in The Netherlands on March 30th 1853, to parents
Theodorus Van Gogh, a preacher, and Ana Cornelia Carbentus. In 1869 at the age of 16, Van Gogh began a
career, not as a painter, but as an art dealer with the firm Goupil & Cie. He spent 7 years at Goupil & Cie
where daily contacts with works of art kindled his appreciation of paintings and drawings. Gradually Vincent
lost interest in his work and decided to try his hand teaching at a Catholic School for boys. His growing
interest religion and his desire to help the poor eventually drove him to become a clergyman. In 1878, he
became a lay preacher in one of the most impoverished regions in Western Europe: the coal-mining district
of the Borinage in Belgium. Vincent sympathized with the poverty-stricken miners and gave away most of
his food and clothing to ease their burdened lives. His extreme commitment to the miners drew disfavor from
the church, which dismissed him of his post. Vincent, however, decided to remain with the miners and began
to paint them and their families, chronicling their harsh conditions.
Soon after, thanks to his brother’s financial help, Vincent decided to go to Brussels in 1880 to begin
studies in art. During the next 10 years, Vincent painted around 872 painting. In 1882, Vincent began living
with Clasina Maria Hoornik, also known as Sien, and her children, in the Hague. Their volatile personalities
and the strain of living in complete poverty created stormy relationship. Vincent was devoted to Sien and her
children, but art always came first. As his drawing and painting skills advanced, his relationship with Sien
deteriorated and they parted ways in September 1883.
In 1886, Vincent moved in with his brother-Theo in Paris where he met Paul Gauguin and various
other artists, who had a tremendous impact on his ongoing evolution as an artist. Never truly happy in large
cities, Vincent decided to move to Aries Province in the south of France, where he rented a studio and invited
Paul Gauguin to live with him. In December 1888, Vincent experienced a psychotic episode in which he cut
off a piece of his left ear. After his episode, he was in and out of asylums for the next year. It was thought that
Van Gogh was actually epileptic and that is why people thought he had fits of insanity throughout his life. He
painted one of his best-known painting, Starry Night, during one of his stays in the asylum. In mid-1890,
Vincent left the asylum and spent the last few months of his life in Auvers, France. On July 27th 1890, Vincent
Van Gogh shot himself in the chest. Two days later he died with his younger brother-Theo by his side. He left
behind a wonderful array of paintings that make him one of the most influential painters of our time.

1: The word "chronicling" in paragraph 1 is closest meaning to "_________".

A. recording B. classifying C. suffering D. colouring
2: Van Gogh decided to become a clergyman due to ________.
A. his love of art B. his teachings at the Catholic School for boys
C. the Goupil & Cie art dealer firm D. his developing enthusiasm in Christianity
3: Vincent's extreme commitment to the miners resulted in ________.
A. his painting the miners and their families
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C. the church discharging him of his duty
D. the church giving food and clothing to the miners
4: The word "deteriorated" in paragraph 2 is closest meaning to "_________".
A. detested B. became worse and worse
C. developed D. turned down
5: Vincent and Clasina's relationship was stormy because of ________.
A. his devotion to art B. the stress of living in poor conditions
C. her children D. their tame personalities
6: Vincent first went into an asylum because ________.
A. he painted Starry Night B. he was epileptic
C. he cut off part of his ear D. he was insane throughout his life
7: Vincent went to Aries because ________.
A. he did not get along with his brother, Theo
B. he wanted to live in Gauguin's house in Aries
C. he wanted to live in a bigger city
D. he disliked big cities
8: Vincent moved to Paris ________.
A. in order to evolve as an artist B. to live with his brother
C. to meet other artists D. to live with Paul Gauguin
9: Van Gogh was believed to be ________.
A. insane B. a loner C. epileptic D. an inadequate painter
10: The word "episode" in paragraph 3 refers to "_________".
A. important event in his life B. unbelievable fact
C. unfortunate time D. one of several parts of a story on television

PART 4: Read the passage and do the tasks follow

Thomas Harriot- The Discovery of Refraction
A . When light travels from one medium to another, it generally bends, or refracts. The law of refraction gives
us a way of predicting the amount of bending. Refraction has many applications in optics and technology. A
lens uses refraction to form an image of an object for many different purposes, such as magnification. A prism
uses refraction to form a spectrum of colors from an incident beam of light. Refraction also plays an important
role in the formation of a mirage and other optical illusions. The law of refraction is also known as Snell’s
Law, named after Willobrord, Snell, who discovered the law in 1621. Although Snell’s sine law of refraction
is now taught routinely in undergraduate courses, the quest for it spanned many centuries and involved many
celebrated scientists. Perhaps the most interesting thing is that the first discovery of the sine law, made by the
sixteenth-century English scientist Thomas Harriot (1560-1621), has been almost completely overlooked by
physicists, despite much published material describing his contribution.

B . A contemporary of Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Johannes Kepler and Galilei Galileo, Thomas Harriot (1560-
1621) was an English scientist and mathematician. His principal biographer, J. W. Shirley, was quoted saying
that in his time he was “England’s most profound mathematician, most imaginative and methodical
experimental scientist” . As a mathematician, he contributed to the development of algebra, and introduced
the symbols of ”>” , and ”<” for ”more than” and ”less than.” He also studied navigation and astronomy. On
September 17, 1607, Harriot observed a comet, later Identified as Hailey-s. With his painstaking observations,
later workers were able to compute the comet’s orbit. Harriot was also the first to use a telescope to observe
the heavens in England. He made sketches of the moon in 1609, and then developed lenses of increasing
magnification. By April 1611, he had developed a lens with a magnification of 32. Between October 17，
1610 and February 26, 1612，he observed the moons of Jupiter, which had already discovered by Galileo.
While observing Jupiter, s moons，he made a discovery of his own: sunspots, which he viewed 199 times
between December 8, 1610 and January 18, 1613. These observations allowed him to figure out the sun’s
period of rotation.

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C. He was also an early English explorer of North America. He was a friend of the English courtier and
explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, and travelled to Virginia as a scientific observer on a colonising expedition in
1585. On June 30, 1585, his ship anchored at Roanoke Island ，off Virginia. On shore，Harriot observed the
topography, flora and fauna, made many drawings and maps, and met the native people who spoke a language
the English called Algonquian. Harriot worked out a phonetic transcription of the native people’s speech
sounds and began to learn the language, which enabled him to converse to some extent with other natives the
English encountered. Harriot wrote his report for Raleigh and published it as A Briefe and True Report of the
New Found Land of Virginia in 1588. Raleigh gave Harriot his own estate in Ireland, and Harriot began a
survey of Raleigh’s Irish holdings. He also undertook a study of ballistics and ship design for Raleigh in
advance of the Spanish Armada’s arrival.

D. Harriot kept regular correspondence with other scientists and mathematicians, especially in England but
also in mainland Europe, notably with Johannes Kepler. About twenty years before Snell’s discovery,
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) had also looked for the law of refraction, but used the early data of Ptolemy.
Unfortunately, Ptolemy’s data was in error, so Kepler could obtain only an approximation which he published
in 1604. Kepler later tried to obtain additional experimental results on refraction, and corresponded with
Thomas Harriot from 1606 to 1609 since Kepler had heard Harriot had carried out some detailed experiments.
In 1606, Harriot sent Kepler some tables of refraction data for different materials at a constant incident angle,
but didn’t provide enough detail for the data to be very useful. Kepler requested further information, but
Harriot was not forthcoming, and it appears that Kepler eventually gave up the correspondence, frustrated
with Harriot’s reluctance.

E .Apart from the correspondence with Kepler, there is no evidence that Harriot ever published his detailed
results on refraction. His personal notes, however, reveal extensive studies significantly predating those of
Kepler, Snell and Descartes. Harriot carried out many experiments on refraction in the 1590s, and from his
notes it is clear that he had discovered the sine law at least as early as 1602. Around 1606, he had studied
dispersion in prisms (predating Newton by around 60 years), measured the refractive indices of different
liquids placed in a hollow glass prism, studied refraction in crystal spheres, and correctly understood refraction
in the rainbow before Descartes.

F. As his studies of refraction, Harriot’ s discoveries in other fields were largely unpublished during his
lifetime, and until this century, Harriot was known only for an account of his travels in Virginia published in
1588, ，and for a treatise on algebra published posthumously in 1631. The reason why Harriot kept his results
unpublished is unclear. Harriot wrote to Kepler that poor health prevented him from providing more
information, but it is also possible that he was afraid of the seventeenth century’s English religious
establishment which was suspicious of the work carried out by mathematicians and scientists.

G After the discovery of sunspots, Harriot’ s scientific work dwindled. The cause of his diminished
productivity might have been a cancer discovered on his nose. Harriot died on July 2, 1621, in London, but
his story did not end with his death. Recent research has revealed his wide range of interests and his genuinely
original discoveries. What some writers describe as his “thousands upon thousands of sheets of mathematics
and of scientific observations” appeared to be lost until 1784, when they were found in Henry Percy’s country
estate by one of Percy’s descendants. She gave them to Franz Xaver Zach，her husband’s son’s tutor. Zach
eventually put some of the papers in the hands of the Oxford University Press, but much work was required
to prepare them for publication, and it has never been done. Scholars have begun to study them，, and an
appreciation of Harriot’s contribution started to grow in the second half of the twentieth century. Harriot’s
study of refraction is but one example where his work overlapped with independent studies carried out by
others in Europe, but in any historical treatment of optics his contribution rightfully deserves to be
acknowledged.
QUESTION 1-5 : Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-E and G from the list of headings
below. Write the correct number, i-x, next to the paragraphs.
List of Headings Example Answer Para A i
i A misunderstanding in the history of science 1. Paragraph B ………….
ii Thomas Harriot’s biography 2. Paragraph C ………….
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iv Harriot’s 1588 publication on North America 4. Paragraph E ………….
studies 5. Paragraph G ………….
v Expedition to the New World
vi Reluctant cooperation with Kepler
vii Belated appreciation of Harriot’s contribution
viii Religious pressures keeping him from
publishing
ix Correspondence with Kepler
x Interests and researches into multiple fields of
study

QUESTION 6-10: Answer the questions below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the
passage for each answer.
Various modem applications base on an image produced by lens uses refraction, such as 6_____________.
And a spectrum of colors from a beam of light can be produced with 7____________. Harriot travelled to
Virginia and mainly did research which focused on two subjects of American 8_____________. After, he also
enter upon a study of flight dynamics and 9_______________ for one of his friends much ahead of major
European competitor. He undertook extensive other studies which were only noted down personally yet
predated than many other great scientists. One result, for example, corrected the misconception about the idea
of 10____________.

WRITING
PART 1: Rewriting
1. It was the goalkeeper that saved the match for us.
→Had
2. Tim insisted on being told the complete story.
→Nothin
3. Jane’s husband will be returning from South America quite soon.
→It won’t
4. The permit expires at the end of this month.
→The permit is not
5. I don’t really like her, even though I admire her achievements.
→Much as
6. As an antidote to their disappointment, he bought them ice-cream. (OFFSET)
→
7. If interest rates are cut, the economic situation may improve. (REDUCTION)
→
8. I don’t personally care if they come or not. (MATTER)
→
9. Local residents said they were against the new traffic scheme. (DISAPPROVAL)
→
10. Products which seem to lack credibility are not popular. (CALL)
→
PART 2
Scientists say that in the future humans will speak the same language. Do you think this is a positive or
negative social development? Write an essay of 200 – 250 words.

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 KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI KHU VỰC
DUYÊN HẢI – ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ
ĐỀ SỐ 24

MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH 10

Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)

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PART I. LISTENING (32 points)
I. You will hear part of a radio programme in which details of a competition are announced. Complete the
notes using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in each gap. Write your answers in the box provided (9 pts).
You will hear the recording TWICE.
YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR
Competition open to people aged 18 to 25.
Organized through a programme called (1) _____________________.
Last year’s competition won by a Turk who runs a (2) _____________________.
He was chosen from (3) _____________________ finalists.
All finalists are (4) _____________________.
Entry: - must be typed on one side of paper only.
- no longer than (5) _____________________.
- must have a person’s signature.
- person must not be (6) _____________________.
Include name, home and business addresses and (7) _____________________.
Closing date: (8) _____________________.
Final prizewinner’s name broadcast in (9) _____________________ programme.
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9.

II. You will hear a local radio broadcast about transport and travel. Complete the notes using NO MORE
THAN THREE WORDS in each gap.Listen very carefully as you will hear the recording ONCE only. Write
your answers in the box provided (7 pts)
• Road works causing delays on approach to (1) _____________________.
• Stadley station closed due to (2) _____________________, buses available for those with (3)
_____________________.
• Main road through Chorley village is (4) _____________________.
• Airport is open, no (5) _____________________ but several international flights (6)
_____________________.
• City centre bomb scare still causing (7) _____________________.
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7.

III. You will hear part of a radio programme about dancing. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.
You will hear the recording TWICE. Write your answers in the box provided (6 pts)
1. What makes Shirley dance?
A. certain types of music B. other people dancing
C. the beat of music D. being in a good mood
2. How does Tony choose which song to play first?
A. according to the age of the crowd B. according to the atmosphere in the place
C. according to musical fashions at the time D. according to the type of event it is
3. What happens at some company dances, according to Tony?
A. People feel obliged to dance. B. The bosses don’t dance.
C. There is more talking than dancing. D. People are too shy to dance.
4. According to Emma, why is dancing important to young people?
A. It gives them a sense of identity. B. It reflects their cultural background.
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 C. They have more energy than older people. D. They gain a greater understanding of music.
5. Emma believes that musical taste
A. shows there are no barriers between people. B. is a reflection of cultural influences.
C. reflects people’s political views. D. shows how individual people are.
6. What is Tony’s opinion of dancing?
A. It brings all social classes together. B. It makes young people happy.
C. It enables people to make friends. D. It can be enjoyed by everyone.
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 4: You will hear five short extracts in which different people are talking about performances that
they have been to. Choose the correct answer A, B or C.
You will hear the recording TWICE. Write your answers in the box provided (10 pts)
1. The concert was unusual because the musicians didn’t use
A. microphones. B. instruments. C. a stage.
2. In talking about the concert, the speaker says she
A. hadn’t heard that kind of music before.
B. hadn’t really liked the music.
C. hadn’t understood the music very well.
3. What does the speaker say about the concert?
A. The musicians were very old. B. The songs were too unfamiliar. C. The sound quality was
poor.
4. The audience were
A. appreciative. B. dissatisfied. C. inattentive.
5. What does the speaker say about the theatre?
A. It had recently moved. B. It was overcrowded. C. It was unusually small.
6. The play was spoilt because the actors
A. forgot their lines. B. were unenthusiastic C. had too much make-up on
7. At the start of the concert, the speaker was surprised by the number of
A. people who arrived late. B. people he recognized. C. female performers.
8. What section of the orchestra did the speaker find disappointing?
A. the violins B. the brass C. the drums
9. The acrobatic acts were
A. impressive. B. alarming. C. repetitive.
10. How did the speaker feel at the end of the performance?
A. She didn’t realize it was so late.
B. She felt it should have ended earlier.
C. She would have preferred an evening ticket.
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (60 points)

I. Select the best option for each sentence. Write your answers in the box provided (20 pts)
1. Lack of sleep over the last few months is finally ________ Jane.
A. catching up with B. getting on with C. coming over D. putting on
2. Sally has an ________ command of the Chinese language.
A. extreme B. outstanding C. utter D. intensive
3. I’ve had this car for 12 years, but now I’m having more and more problems with it. Clearly it’s ________.
A. on its hind legs B. got its back up C. got its heart set D. on its last leg
4. All things ________, she is the best student to represent our school.
A. considered B. involved C. taken D. dealt with
5. To succeed in this job, you have to be utterly ________.
A. hot-blooded B. single-minded C. kind-hearted D. near-sighted
6. The Prime Minister gave a press conference to deny the charges ________ at him.
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A. leveled B. accused C. targeted D. blamed
7. When the morning came, the scene of where the bomb had fallen was one of ________ devastation.
A. great B. utter C. entire D. extreme
8. There is still a ________ of hope that the rescuers will find survivors.
A. spray B. ray C. light D. spot
9. ________, modelling is actually hard work.
A. Even it may seem glamorous B. Yet it may seem glamorous
C. However glamorous it may seem D. Glamorous as though it is
10. The city zoo is building a new section to ________ their larger mammals.
A. house B. store C. shade D. capture
11. After so many years, it is great to see him ________ his ambitions.
A. get B. realise C. possess D. deserve
12. The review committee ________ three practicing lawyers and a retired businessman.
A. consists B. comprises C. is made up D. encloses
13. Don’t worry: this is nothing that ________ you.
A. matters B. entails C. concerns D. complicates
14. As always, I am ________ with everything you say.
A. agree B. agreeing C. agreeable D. in agreement
15. It may be raining, but I’m ________ enjoying myself.
A. thoroughly B. highly C. extremely D. desperately
16. In the event, we found your advice absolutely ________.
A. unworthy B. valuable C. invaluable D. impecunious
17. In the end, I just lost my ________ and started gabbling incoherently.
A. head B. mind C. brain D. intelligence
18. Despite all the interruptions, he ________ with his work.
A. stuck at B. held on C. hung out D. pressed on
19. When the funds finally ________, they had to abandon the scheme.
A. faded away B. clamped down C. petered out D. fobbed off
20. The team won the championship four years ________.
A. running B. passing C. following D. rotating
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

II. There are TEN mistakes in the passage below. Read the passage carefully, underline the mistakes and
write your corrections on the corresponding lines in the box for Answers. (20 pts)
Answers
Each week Hilary Mullock, also known as Doctor Doppit, visiting London’s General Hospital. ____________
Carrying balloons and magic tricks better than a stethoscope, she administers her own special kind ____________
of medicine. Employed by the Theodora Children’s Trust, Hilary brings fun and laughter for the ____________
patients in the children’s wards, making a hospital staying a less difficult experience for these ____________
young patients. ____________
Having studied drama at university, Hilary later became interested in children’s theatre. ____________
Seeing an advert with a clown doctor, she knew she had founded the ideal job. Before taking up ____________
the position, Hilary had to complete four weeks of training, being instructed in balloon modeling ____________
and magic tricks. ____________
According to a spokesperson for the Theodora Children’s Trust, hospitalized children, ____________
having been excluding from their normal day-to-day routine and the family environment, are likely ____________
to be frightening and homesick. Clown doctors like Hilary has a valuable part to play in helping ____________
them forget their problems for a while. Humour, it has been seen, has a positively impact on health. ____________
In fact, certain chemicals produced in the body by laughter have even been shown to act as natural ____________
painkillers. Laughter really is the best medicine, it seems. ____________
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III. Select a suitable phrasal verb from the list to fill the gap in each of the sentences. Make change to the
form of the verb when necessary. Write your answers in the box provided. (10 pts)
put up keep up wear down brush up move in do away
opt out come round figure out get through take to pull over
1. I’ve got a lot of work to ____ ____ before the holidays.
2. She felt rather sick when she ____ ____ after the operation.
3. After she got divorced, she ____ ____ with her mother.
4. Could you just ____ ____ for a second?
5. I’ve ____ ____ getting up much earlier.
6. I think I can ____ you ____ for a few days while you are here.
7. I don’t think I can afford to ____ ____ my piano lessons.
8. This constant criticism at work is really ____ me ____.
9. Quite a few of the members have ____ ____ of the trip.
10. Did you hear that they’re going to ____ ____ with private universities altogether?
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

IV. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the space in the
same line. Write your answers in the box provided (10 pts)
Until comparatively recent times science and technology performed different and separate
functions, the progress of one so often completely (1) ________ to the progress of the other. RELATE
(2) ________ have established that, since the earliest times, the improvements in our way HISTORY
of life have resulted from an empirical approach, that is a process of trial and error, by which
equipment and tools are made to satisfy important needs. It is to this approach that we owe
the evolution of technology. Our modern concept of science, both (3) ________ and PHILOSOPHY
pragmatic in approach, stems from the seventeenth century, when extensive investigations
into the natural laws governing the behavior of matter were (4) ________. It was this (5) TAKE
________ style of thought which led to a science-based technology. Scientific knowledge REVOLUTION
was not in itself seen as a (6) ________ for the earlier system of trial and error, but it did PLACE
help the technical (7) ________ to see which path of experimentation might be more (8) INNOVATE
________. With the industrialization of the nineteenth century, the bond between science FRUIT
and technology (9) ________. In our own time, the mutual (10) ________ of one discipline STRONG
upon the other has increased still further. RELY
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART III: READING (42 points)

I. Choose the words that best complete the sentences in the text. Write your answers in the box provided
(15 pts)
The knowledge and eloquence that people (1) ________ through travelling is usually perceived as the
best (2) ________ in life. It is the inquisitive human nature that (3) ________ people to seek (4) ________
experiences and to set out on an exploration trip. Those who travel frequently and to (5) ________ places
benefit from establishing new relationships and (6) ________ a better knowledge about other cultures and
lifestyles.
However, there is a (7) ________ of truth in the assumption that people are prone to (8) ________ clichés and
unfounded prejudices about other nations and their characteristics. Sometimes, it is only the first-hand
encounter that can help change the (9) ________ towards the so-called ‘inferior communities’. This direct
contact with a different civilisation enables travelers to (10) ________ their baseless assumptions and get (11)
________ with the real concept of life in all four corners of the globe.
(12) ________ question, travelling (13) ________ friendship and makes it easier for many individuals to
acknowledge the true value of different traditions and customs. Yet, it does not always mean enjoyment. It
may also (14) ________ coming close with the atrocities of real existence as well as becoming aware of the
challenges and hardships that other people have to struggle with. Hence, a true voyage is the one with a good
deal of experience to (15) ________ about, very often combined with exposure to abhorrent sights and
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incredible ordeals. The learning to be complete, thus, requires an ability to observe and analyse the
surroundings, both their glamour and brutality.

1. A. purchase B. exact C. gain D. nurture

2. A. completion B. fulfilment C. conclusion D. resolution
3. A. impels B. involves C. entails D. pursues
4. A. thriving B. throbbing C. thwarting D. thrilling
5. A. reverse B. averse C. diverse D. converse
6. A. acquiring B. educating C. learning D. exacting
7. A. speck B. grain C. scrap D. tip
8. A. persevering B. cherishing C. indulging D. persisting
9. A. prejudice B. manner C. outlook D. approach
10. A. drop B. cease C. fail D. quit
11. A. informed B. realized C. acquainted D. defined
12. A. Apart B. Beyond C. Unfailing D. Beneath
13. A. facilitates B. affords C. elicits D. incites
14. A. involve B. derive C. consist D. enclose
15. A. commemorate B. reminisce C. resemble D. remind
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

II. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE WORD in each
space. Write your answers in the box provided (10 pts)
Throughout our lives, right from the moment when (1) ________ infants we cry to express hunger, we
are engaging in social interaction of one form or another. Each and (2) ________ time we encounter fellow
human beings, some kind of social interaction will take place, (3) ________ it’s getting on a bus and paying
the fare for the journey, or socializing with friends. It goes without (4) ________, therefore, that we need the
ability to communicate. Without some method of transmitting intentions, we would be at a complete loss
when it comes to interacting socially.
Communication involves the exchange of information, which can be (5) ________ from a gesture to
a friend signaling boredom to the presentation of a university thesis which may (6) ________ ever be read by
a handful of others, or it could be something in (7) ________ the two.
Our highly developed languages set us apart from animals. But for these languages, we could not
communicate sophisticated or abstract ideas. (8) ________ could we talk or write about people or objects (9)
________ immediately present. (10) ________ we restricted to discussing objects already present, we would
be unable to make abstract generalisations about the world.
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

III. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions. Write
your answers in the box provided (10 pts)
Exquisite patterns and surface ornamentation were an integral part of the aesthetics of the late
Victorian era. In America, these developments were incorporated into the themes of national expositions and
artistic movements, as cottage industries grew and productivity in the decorative arts flourished. The last three
decades of the 19th century saw a change in sensibility that resulted in new stylistic approaches in American
decorative arts, a departure from the previous era of Rococo and Renaissance Revival excess. Shapes became
more angular, smoother and less flamboyant. The popular carvings and deep modeling of earlier years
disappeared as ornamentation became more linear and lighter in appearance. Decoration focused on the
surface with rich and elegant patterns adorning furniture, objects of every sort, and architectural and interior
decorations. This artistic reawakening was prompted by the effects of the Industrial Revolution on
contemporary design.
This new attitude, with its focus on ornament and decorative, was later referred to as the Aesthetic
Movement, but it also encompassed the early Arts and Crafts Movement as well. The purpose was to bring a
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refined sensibility and components of “good taste” to the domestic interior. Art and good taste not only
denoted good character, but also could be used to induce proper moral conduct and actions, thereby
contributing to the betterment of society. This placed a heavy burden on designers/decorators as well as on
women as keepers of the home. Americans drew inspiration from the writing and work of English artists. This
was a period of great eclecticism. Tastes ranged from the Modern Gothic through the Persian, Greek and
Islamic, to the Japanese, and with more than a nod to Mother Nature. Yet, regardless of the influence, surface
pattern reigned supreme. English reformers dictated that ornament should be derived from nature, and pattern
should be flat and stylized. Forms were accentuated by colored outlines, or often with touches of gold. The
emphasis was on art and on development of a refined sensibility. It was all a matter of taste.
1. What is the main topic of the passage?
A. Defining the “Aesthetic Movement”
B. Decorative arts in late 19th century America
C. English influences on American decorative arts in the late 19th century
D.The change in tastes from “Rocco and Renaissance Revival” to the “Aesthetic Movement” in the late 19th
century America
2. The word “integral” in line 1 is closest in meaning to
A. essential B. additional C. important D. beautifying
3. According to the passage, during the Aesthetic Movement popular carvings and deep modeling of earlier
years ________.
A. were popular B. again became popular C. disappeared D. defined good taste
4. The word “elegant” is closes in meaning to ________.
A. beautiful B. ornamental C. colorful D. refined
5. According to the passage, the purpose of the Aesthetic Movement was to ________.
A. induce proper moral conducts and actions
B. define what was meant by good taste in the domestic interior
C. encompass Arts and Crafts as well as ornament and decoration
D. define good character and contribute to the betterment of society
6. The phrase “new attitude” refers to ________.
A. including the early Arts and Craft Movement as well B. artistic reawakening
C. the Industrial Revolution D. Rococo and Renaissance Revival
7. The word “denoted” is closest in meaning to ________.
A. promoted B. facilitated C. developed D. signified
8. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. designers and decorators were mainly responsible for starting the new attitude
B. the movement led to a higher standard of morality in late 19th century America
C. the Americans considered the English to be the arbiters of good taste
D. women, as keepers of the home, faced a heavy burden
9. According to the passage, which of the following remained most important, regardless of influences from
other countries?
A. surface pattern B. English opinions
C. good taste D. Proper moral conduct and actions
10. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as feature of the Aesthetic Movement?
A. shapes became less flamboyant B. ornamentation became lighter in appearance
C. forms were accentuated by colored lines D. decorations focused mainly on furniture
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

IV. There are seven paragraphs A – G. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of
headings below. Write your answers in the box provided. (7 pts)
List of Headings
I. Optimistic beliefs held by the writers of childrens’s literature 1. Paragraph A
II. The attitude of certain adults towards children’s literature 2. Paragraph B
III. The attraction of children’s literature 3. Paragraph C
IV. A contrast that categorises books as children’s literature 4. Paragraph D
V. A false assumption made about children’s literature 5. Paragraph E
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 VI. The conventional view of children’s literature 6. Paragraph F
VII. Some good and bad features of children’s literature 7. Paragraph G
VIII. Classifying a book as children’s literature
IX. The treatment of various themes in children’s literature
X. Another way of looking at children’s literature

A I am sometimes asked why anyone who is not a teacher or a librarian or the parent of little kids should
concern herself with children’s books and folklore. I know the standard answers: that many famous writers
have written for children, and that the great children’s books are also great literature; that these books and
tales are an important source of archetype and symbol, and that they can help us to understand the structure
and functions of the novel.
B All this is true. But I think we should also take children’s literature seriously because it is sometimes
subversive: because its values are not always those of the conventional adult world. Of course, in a sense
much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination and
truth. In what we call the real world, what usually counts is money, power and public success.
C The great subversive works of children’s literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides
those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative,
unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the
imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for
change. That is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional
tales have been forgotten.
D An interesting question is what – besides intention – makes a particular story a ‘children’s book’? With the
exception of picture books for toddlers, these works are not necessarily shorter or simpler than so-called adult
fiction, and they are surely not less well written. The heroes and heroines of these tales, it is true, are often
children: but then so are the protagonists of Henry Jame’s What Maisie Knew and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest
Eye. Yet the barrier between children’s books and adult fiction remains; editors, critics and readers seem to
have little trouble in assigning a given work to one category or the other.
E In classic children’s fiction a pastoral convention is maintained. It is assumed that the world of childhood
is simpler and more natural than that of adults, and that children, though they may have faults, are essentially
good or at least capable of becoming so. The transformation of selfish, whiny, disagreeable Mary and
hysterical, demanding Colin in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden is a paradigm. Of course, there
are often unpleasant minor juvenile characters who give the protagonist a lot of trouble and are defeated or
evaded rather than reeducated. But on occasion even the angry bully and the lying sneak can be reformed and
forgiven. Richard Hughes’s A High Wind in Jamaica, though most of its characters are children, never appears
on lists of recommended juvenile fiction; not so much because of the elaborations of its diction (which is no
more complex than that of, say, Treasure Island), but because in it children are irretrievably damaged and
corrupted.
F Adults in most children’s books, on the other hand, are usually stuck with their characters and incapable of
alteration or growth. If they are really unpleasant, the only thing that can rescue them is the natural goodness
of a child. Here again, Mrs. Burnett provides the classic example, in Little Lord Fauntleroy. (Scrooge’s
somewhat similar change of heart in Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, however, is due mainly to regret for his
past and terror of the future. This is one of the things that makes the book a family rather than a juvenile
romance; another is the helpless passivity of the principal child character, Tiny Tim.).
G Of the three principal preoccupations of adult fiction – sex, money and death – the first is absent from
classic children’s literature and the other two either absent or much muted. Money is a motive in children’s
literature, in the sense that many stories deal with a search for treasure of some sort. These quests, unlike real-
life ones, are almost always successful, though occasionally what is found in the end is some form of family
happiness, which is declared by the author and the characters to be a ‘real treasure’. Simple economic survival,
however, is almost never the problem; what is sought, rather, is a magical (sometimes literally magical)
surplus of wealth. Death, which was a common theme in nineteenth-century fiction for children, was almost
banished during the first half of the twentieth century. Since then it has begun to reappear; the breakthrough
book was E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web. Today not only animals but people die, notably in the sort of books
that get awards and are recommended by librarians and psychologists for children who have lost a relative.
But even today the characters who die tend to be of another generation; the protagonist and his or her friends
survive. Though there are some interesting exceptions, even the most subversive of contemporary children’s

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for survival.
Answers:
Paragraph 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Heading

PART IV: WRITING (50 points)

I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed
before it. (20 points)
1. That week, the train was late everyday except for Friday. RUN
Only once ___________________________________________________________.
2. I really think you should be more assertive about your rights. UP

It’s about time________________________________________________________.

3. Graham took back his words on noticing there were fresh strawberries on the menu. TUNE
Graham sang _________________________________________________________.
4. Paul couldn’t stop thinking about the argument he had had with his brother. WENT

Paul________________________________________________________________.
5. My grandmother would always make us eat everything on our plates when we visited her. WASTE
Nothing we __________________________________________________________.
6. Alternative medicine is a complete mystery to some people.
Some people are ______________________________________________________.
7. You may be disqualified if you don’t obey the regulations.
Failure ______________________________________________________________.
8. He tried hard so that he could win the first prize.
Having ______________________________________________________________.
9. I only recognized him when he came into the light.
It was not until _______________________________________________________.
10. Mass tourism has been one of the causes of the environmental problems.
Mass tourism is _______________________________________________________.

II. Essay writing (30 points)

Write an essay of about 250 words in length on the following topic:
With the ageing of society, we are now beginning to see a growing interest in further abolishment of
mandatory retirement. Do you think that mandatory retirement is obsolete or should be sustained?

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 KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN
KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ
ĐỀ SỐ 25
MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
I. Listening (50 points)
Part 1: For question 1-10, listen to a piece of news from BBC about “What to wear?” and supply the
blanks with the missing information. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS and/or A NUMBER
taken from the recording for each answer in the spaces provided.
One of the biggest shocks when you arrive in a new country can be the clothes people are wearing.
You may look fashionable at home, but you suddenly find you are (1)____________________or simply
someone to laugh at when you arrive abroad. With this in mind, let's take a look at teenage fashion in the UK
for girls.
One of the things that may shock an outsider most is piercings. These days it is not enough to simply
wear rings in your ears. You will see many teenagers with rings in their navel, or belly button, nose, lip, or
even their eyebrow.
Some girls go for a 'glam' look. They wear T-shirts; trousers are usually preferred, blue or black, and
the look is (2)_____________________ with metallic bags and shoes and arms full of bracelets. Another
alternative is the (3)________________________ You start with a T-shirt of your favourite band and tight
jeans or a long skirt. On top of this you can wear a denim jacket. Jewellery tends to be large and metallic, and
to add colour, wear a scarf.
If neither of these is for you, why not (4)_________________________? T-shirts are usually tie-
dyed in hot colours. Wear long shorts, short jeans or a denim skirt. And on your feet?
(5)___________________________, of course! If you prefer something more feminine, there's the
(6)___________________________ Skirts are long, to the floor. Wear a top with butterflies or flowers printed
on it!
Finally, how about the 'Tom Boy' look? Wear (7)________________________ and a T-shirt with a
logo. Don't forget your (8)_______________________ of course!
Follow the fashion tips above, and you shouldn't (9)______________________However, it's
important to remember to wear clothes and choose a look that you feel comfortable with. Don't just be
(10)_______________- be yourself!
Part 2. You will hear a radio music presenter talking about his job. For questions 11- 19, complete the
sentences.
Music presenter
He got a degree in (11)____________________________________from university.
On leaving university, he began a career in (12) _____________________________
His first experience of broadcasting was at a (13)_____________________________ station.
When he first tried to work in radio professionally, he got a lot of
(14)_________________________________
One station invited him to attend some (15)___________________________________
The programme he presents usually lasts for (16)_______________________________
When he arrives, he starts by (17)___________________________________________
Then he works out what the (18)_____________________________and running order of his programe will
be.
After lunch he looks through the (19)________________________________________

Part 3. You will hear an interview with an engineer called Roger Moffar, whose working life has
changed dramatically over the last ten years. For questions 20- 25, choose the correct answer A, B, C
or D.
You will hear the recording twice.
20. The interviewer says that Roger is the kind of person who
A. is reluctant to try something different. B. does not want to spend his money.
C. enjoys entertaining others. D. is happy to reveal the tricks of his trade.
21. How did Roger feel initially about what happened ten years ago?
A. angry B. resigned C. depressed D. disinterested
22. Roger regards his early days in business as
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 A. frustrating B. demanding C. irrelevant D. boring
23. What does Roger feel is the greatest benefit of running his own business?
A. He arranges his free time as he pleases B. He gets on better with other people
C. He has more leisure time than before. D. He is free of an environment he disliked.
24. What is Roger’s attitude toward his future?
A. he considers his position to be no less secure than before
B. He thinks he will be more vulnerable than he used to be.
C. He’d feel financially more secure working for someone else.
D. he considers himself too old to change direction again.
25. Which description best sums up Roger’s appraisal of engineers?
A. dedicated workers B. creative artists
C. well- balanced realists D. powerful leaders
26. What does Roger find most satisfying about the “tools of his trade”?
A. They are intricate beyond belief. B. They are the creations of colleagues.
C. They are theoretical in design. D. They are exciting to contemplate.

II. SECTION - LEXICO-GRAMMAR (…/20 points)

Part 1: Choose the best answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the following questions and write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. When the storm prevented the climbers from reaching the top of the mountain, they were ____
disappointed.
A. bitterly B. savagely C. stormily D. angrily
2. When she puts her mind to it, she is always capable of _____ sarcasm.
A. biting B. sharpening C. slicing D. striking
3. The footballer never really recovered from the injury he __________at the beginning of the season.
A. got B. struck C. endured D.
sustained
4. He was absolutely __________ with anger when he found that I had scratched his car.
A. burned B. carmine C. fickle D. livid
5. He had an honest and __________ expression, which hid the fact he had a very devious mind.
A. competent B. trusting C. integrated D.
integrity
6. I must admit, Fred is the __________ person I would have thought of to marry Jane.
A. last B. ultimate C. final D. end
7. The praise of his boss and his colleagues was __________to his ears.
A. song B. music C. harmony D. melody
8. Fred has a__________ of staying out of trouble at the office - he never gets involved.
A. trait B. ability C. skill D. knack
9. Though I’m unsure of myself but in her __________ I have to say she knew nothing about it beforehand.
A. place B. position C. defence D.
advocate
10. You’ve obviously lost weight, and this dress will need to be __________ to fit you properly.
A. dressed up B. taken in C. put out D. taken
off
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2: Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word in the corresponding numbered boxes. (0) has
been done as an example.
The Moon
Anyone taking the trouble to look (0) _________ (WARD) on a clear moonlit night cannot fail to be
moved by the sight of our sister planet hanging up there in the sky like a silver ball casting (11) _________
(GHOST) shadows on the Earth below. Few (12) _________ (ANIMATE) objects can have had such an
influence over religion and the arts. And never is the Moon's visual impact more impressive than when it is
full and just above the distant horizon. Under these conditions, the apparent (13) _________ (PROXIMATE)
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of the lunar disc to familiar terrestrial objects makes the Moon appear to be very much larger and closer than
normal. But the fact that our (14) _________ (AID) eyes still cannot discern more than just a few dark blotches
on its surface demonstrates that this effect must indeed be just an optical illusion. The light from the Moon
cannot really become magnified as it passes at a (15) _________ (GRAZE) angle through our atmosphere.
But why should the Moon be an object worthy of scientific study at all? Why cannot we be content just to
gaze up at it in awe rather than attempt to probe its (16) _________ (INNER) secrets? Some would say that
the study of the Moon, particularly during the last ten years or so, has destroyed any precious illusions about
the Moon that we might have held and given us very little in return. But this would be a very shortsighted
view.
Your answers:
0. upwards 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.
16.

Part 3: The passage below contains 10 mistakes. UNDERLINE the mistakes and WRITTE THEIR
CORRECT FORMS in the corresponding numbered boxes. (0) has been done as an example.
THE HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC
For the past eight years, many of the world’s leading classical musician have gathered together in
Switzerland’s most glitzy ski resort to play, to teach and socialise. If this were all, it would be the ultimate
classical music insiders’ club. But the attraction of Verbier, its charm and relevance, is that it is also home for
three weeks to more than 100 young musicians from 31 countries, starried-eye about meeting the masters and
getting a crashing course at the highest possible level. Conductors of the world’s top orchestras are on hand
to get the young musicians into shape, coaxing fine performances of so daunting challenges as Mahler’s Third
Symphony and Brahms’ First Symphony.
Verbier is the creation of the Swede, Martin Engstroem, who for many years was a leading agent. He
wanted to run his own festival and, having some of the best contacts of the business, it was not hard to find a
Swiss ski report to look for a summer boost, rich villa owners keen to open their houses to musical celebrities
and stars used to being indulged. Engstroem is the most relaxed and charming of men, but in his way he is
adictator. The music heard at Verbier tends to be of his classical taste with barely a note of the contemporary.
Your answers:
0. musician -> musicians 17. 18.
19. 20. 21.
22. 23.

Part 4: Fill in the gaps in the following sentences with suitable particles. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes. (0) has been done as an example.
(0) He finds it hard to put_____________ the noise of the nearby factory
24. The Prime Minister thinks that it’s time we did ____________ red tape and beauraucracy.
25. Jane is going to put_____________ the job of a sales assistant in Newcastle.
26. Those naughty boys went on making terrible noise in the park even though they had been ticked
_____________ by the annoyed constable.
27. The company has decided not to go _____________ with the takeover of its smaller rival.
28. It’s impossible to live on the low unemployment benefit I come___________ from the government.
29. He is very well-known and he will go ___________ in history as a great statesman.
30. I've got a lot of work to do, but I can't seem to get ____________ it.
Your answers
0. up with 24. 25.
26. 27. 28.
29. 30.

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III.SECTION - READING (…/20 points)
Part 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write
your answer in corresponding numbered boxes. (0) has been done as an example
Charity Fund-raising
Every year in the spring our school has a special (0) ________ event on a Friday evening to raise
money for poor people in a (1) ________ part of the world.
It all started a few years ago when two teachers, who wanted to make Earth a better place, decided to
hold an all-night karaoke party in aid of the victims of the recent Tsunami disaster in South-East Asia.
Although there was little time to organize it, they managed to throw the party (2) ________ well enough that
a grand total of one thousand pounds was collected, a clear sign that all the hard work had (3) ________.
Afterwards, everybody put the party's success down to the enthusiasm of the two organizers, which
had soon (4) ________ on everybody else. There was a prize for the best singer, so many people happily paid
twenty pounds for the chance to sing with all their (5) ________ while other people agreed to accept the
challenge of singing an unfamiliar song for as much as fifty pounds.
Because that first charity event (6) ________ so well, it was decided to hold another similar event
every year and each subsequent party proved more successful than its predecessor. The school staff soon
realized that an essential factor in making something like this work is how many people are willing to (7)
________ time and effort in the preparation. Fortunately, at our school there is no shortage of such people.
0. A society B. sociable C. social D. so-called
1. A. poverty B. poorly C. depraved D. deprived
2. A. on B. up C. about D. together
3. A. paid off B. made off C. paid up D. made out
4. A. made up B. rubbed off C. come out D. taken up
5. A. breath B. strength C. power D. might
6. A. turned out B. came up C. carried off D. went on
7. A. give B. make C. invest D. dedicate
Your answers:
0. social 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Part 2: Read the text below and think of the ward which best fits each gap. Use only one word in
each gap. Write your answer in corresponding numbered boxes. (0) has been done as an example.
The Badger
The Badger's legs are so short, that its belly seems to touch the ground ; this, (0)_______, is but a
deceitful appearance, as it is (8) _______ by the length of the hair, which is very long all over the body, and
makes it seem much more bulky than it really is. It is a solitary, stupid animal that finds refuge remote (9)
_______man, and digs itself a deep hole with great assiduity. It seems to avoid the light, and seldom quits its
retreat by day, only stealing (10) _______ at night to find subsistence. It burrows in the ground very easily,
its legs being short and strong, and its claws stiff and horny. As it continues to bury (11) _______, it throws
the earth behind it, to a great distance, and thus forms to itself a winding hole, at the bottom (12)
_______which it remains in safety. As the fox is not so expert at digging into the earth, it often (13)
_______possession of that which has been quitted by the badger, and some say, forces it from its retreat, by
laying its excrements (14) _______ the mouth of the badger's hole. This animal, however, is not long in
making itself a new habitation, from which it seldom ventures far, as it flicks but slowly, and can find safety
only in the strength of its retreat. When it is surprised by the dogs at some distance from its hole, it then
combats (15) _______ desperate resolution; it falls upon its back, defends itself on every side, and seldom
dies unrevenged in the midst of its enemies.
Your answers:
0. however 8. 9. 10. 11.
12. 13. 14. 15.

Part 3: Read the following text carefully and then choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) for Questions 16-
20 according to the text. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.

Like many meticulous people, Cameron thought of himself as merely organized. He certainly did not
consider that he took great pains over anything; he did just enough to get it right. Exactly right, of course, for
as he was fond of telling his staff, "if it's not exactly right, it's wrong". Occasionally a worker might whimper
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faintly on hearing these words, because it meant another hour or so of going over the same bit of work,
correcting the mistakes which Cameron had patiently pointed out. And doing the corrections exactly right of
course.

Oddly enough, his passion for precision did not make Cameron unpopular. His department had the
reputation for performing the highest quality work in the company, and it was seen, and not only by those
who worked in the department, as a sort of elite unit. Those programmes that had to work first time, straight
out of the box, Cameron's men got those. "It's mission critical - give it to Cameron" was almost a catch-phrase
with his team.

It helped that Cameron was not merely fussy. He wanted things done just so, not because of a personal
idiosyncrasy, but because he had discovered through patient experimentation that this was the best way for it
to be done. What drove his team to distraction, and occasionally to contemplating murder, or suicide, or both,
is that he insisted it be done that way under all circumstances. Daughter's wedding? Oh, dear, well you can
go as soon as you have finished the project. Take as long as you want.

That was another term that filled the programmers with horror. In Cameron's lexicon, "Take as long
as you want" meant that you could work on your task not just in office hours, but that evening, and late into
the wee hours of following morning if you so desired. But the project had to be in by its completion date, and
yes, done exactly right. Or you did it again. There were those that refused to work under this regime. They
told Cameron so, at length, and often with a selection of colorful adjectives. And Cameron would give them
his saintly smile, call one of his colleagues, and the worker would find himself at another desk the next day,
doing the same sort of work, for exactly the same pay. Then he could cut corners where he knew it didn't
matter, use the occasional bodge if it worked, and be reasonably sure of getting home for matters like
anniversary dinners.

But he would always be regarded, and not least by himself, as someone who had failed to measure up,
one of those who just couldn't cut it. You had to face it, if you were not working for Cameron, you were

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second best. So when word got out that Cameron had fouled up, big time, the news was greeted with a mixture
of sympathy, and outright relief that this paragon too was human.

16. What was Cameron's job?

A. Software programmer B. Quality controller C. Head of department D. A chief
scientist
17. Why was "mission-critical" work given to Cameron?
A. Because Cameron was critical B. Because Cameron's work was error-free
C. Because he didn't mind working late D. Because he had a good team
18. Which word best describes Cameron?
A. Uncompromising B. Patient C. Tyrannical D. Unsympathetic
19. How did people feel about working for Cameron?
A. That they were part of an elite B. That their mission was critical
C. That Cameron was very fussy D. That Cameron was patient and saintly
20. What is meant by someone who "can't cut it"?
A. He doesn't cut corners. B. He isn't good enough.
C. He has the wrong measurements. D. He is a paragon.
Your answers:
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Part 4: Read the following passage and answer Questions 21 to 33.

Gondwanaland
21.
Meet Mesosaurus, a small reptile which lived in fresh-water lakes and streams millions of years ago during
the lower Permain age. Mesosaurus has had a big impact on how we view our planet, because he helped to
prove the existence of the super-continent called Gondwanaland.
22.
Every schoolchild has probably looked at a map of the earth and noticed how Africa and South America fit
together like pieces of a giant jigsaw, yet until just over a hundred and fifty years ago, no-one believed that
this was more than an odd coincidence. It seemed impossible that the massive continents of the earth could
ever be moved, let alone so far apart that they ended up half a planet from each other.
23.
Nevertheless, in 1912 Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist came up with the theory that the continents
of the earth had all existed in a single mass, which he called Pangaea (which is Greek for 'all the world'') Later
researchers decided that Pangaea had been two continents, one to the north of the other, which had existed
about 250 million years ago. From the geological evidence found in the Gondwana area of India, an Austrian
geologist, Eduard Suess coined the name 'Gondwanaland' for the southern super continent, of which India
was once a part. (The northern continent was called Lurasia.)
24.
For many years super-continents were regarded as an interesting theory, but no-one knew how it might work
in reality. Then the discovery of the mechanisms of plate tectonics showed how continents might drift across
the face of the globe. Once it was accepted that the continents were floating on currents of lava, more evidence
became apparent. A particular type of an early plant, the seed fern, was found on continents now scattered
about the southern hemisphere of the world, as were tillates, a deposit left by glaciers in the Permo-
Carboniferous era of 520 million years ago. And Mesosaurus, the little fresh-water reptile, left his remains in
West Africa and Brazil. Since Mesosaurus had no way of crossing the Atlantic, researchers realized that it
could not be coincidence that this reptile had left remains in exactly the place where Africa and South America
fit together so neatly.
25.
By investigating similarities in animal fossils, different types of plants found in the southern hemisphere but
not in the northern hemisphere, and patterns of rock formations, researchers have managed to put the
continents of modern-day earth together like a huge jigsaw to make up the vanished super-continent.
Sometimes rock formations can be seen to break off at the ocean's edge, to carry on once more thousands of

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miles away on another continent. The evidence shows that not only were Africa and South America once
joined to Antarctica, but so were India and Australia, parts of south Western Europe, and Florida.
26.
Although Gondwanaland was located in the far southern hemisphere of the planet, where Antarctica remains
today, the climate was much warmer, and we know that huge forests grew there. These forests, fossilized into
coal, supply many Indians with energy today. The land animals were adapted to life on their cool continent,
with its long dark winter days. Some of the best known dinosaurs, such as Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and
Tyrannosaurus lived on the northern continents, but Gondwanaland also had some fearsome predators such
as Abelisaurus, a large meat-eater that lived during the cretaceous period. The seas were populated with fish
called placoderms, a name which they get from their skin, which was so thick that they were practically
armored.
27.
The break-up of Gondwanaland had huge consequences for planet earth as we know it now. In geological
terms, India has been a sprinter. Breaking from Gondwanaland the sub-continent drifted rapidly northward

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from the South Pole, finally smashing into Asia about 45 million years ago in a collision that raised the
Himalayas.
28.
When South America split off about 30 million years ago the effect was even more dramatic. Cold Antarctic
water no longer mixed with warmer seas when pushed northward by the south American landmass. Instead it
circled the pole getting colder and colder, until Antartica lost its vegetation and animal life, and became the
barren icy wilderness it is today.

Question 21-28: Match the paragraph headings A - H with the paragraphs 21-28 above. Write your answers
in the numbered boxes.
A. Finding the evidence
B. The living continent
C. Small but significant
D. Making modern Antarctica
E. Putting it all together
F. Joining another continent
G. An impossible idea
H. What's in a name?
Your answers:
21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28.

Question 29 - 33: Choose from the phrases (I –R) to complete sentences 29 to 33 which best summarize the
points made by the writer. Write the letter (I - R) at the end of the sentences 29 to 33.

29. For many years the existence of Gondwanaland ____________.

30. The discovery of plate tectonics_________________________.
31. Evidence for Gondwanaland____________________________.
32. In the past Gondwanaland______________________________.
33. The break-up of Gondwanaland__________________________.

I. was dominated by the theories of European scientists

J. had a large population of plants and animals
K. demonstrated that continents can indeed drift apart
L. partly explains why earthquakes and volcanoes happen
M. was because Mesosaurus existed on two modern continents
N. has been found in geological formations and fossils
O. smashed into the Asian landmass 45 million years ago
P. was nothing but speculation
Q. had huge effects on the climate of the Earth
R. was believed to be a legendary lost continent

Part 5: Read the following passage and answer Questions 34- 45.
Robotic approach to crop breeding
Jennifer Manyweathers takes a look at a robot that is being used to identify drought-tolerant crop varieties
A. The Australian sunflower industry is the major source of polyunsaturated fatty acids found in
margarines and spreads. Recognized as the type of fatty acid most able to protect against heart disease, it is in
everybody's best interest that Australia has a competitive and healthy sunflower industry, but in Australia
there is a constant struggle with the harsh climate. However, thanks to one special robot, farmers may be able
to win the battle against drought.
B. Dr Chris Lambrides, a research fellow at the University of Queensland, is nearing the end of a project
that aims to develop more drought tolerant sunflowers by selecting flowers that use water more efficiently.

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He's done this with the help of a robot developed by the Australian National University's Research School of
Biological Sciences.
C. Plants undergo photosynthesis to produce energy in the form of sugar. This involves allowing carbon
dioxide to enter the leaves through pores called stomata. Transpiration is the mechanism by which plants lose
water through their leaves. This system is thought to facilitate the passage of minerals through the plant and
is vital for healthy plants.
D. However, in conditions of drought, the plants that can use the available water efficiently and lose less
to the environment will be more likely to thrive and, in a commercial sense become more profitable. These
plants are classified as having a high transpiration efficiency. When plants transpire, the leaves become cooler
due to evaporation. Therefore, by measuring the temperature of the leaves, scientists can determine how much
water is being lost through transpiration.
E. When the project first began, the researchers used hand-held infrared thermometers to measure the
temperature difference between leaves of different varieties of sunflowers in an experimental plot. Wind can
affect leaf temperature, and the research team discovered that its initial approach did not cater for changes in
wind speed, which could not be controlled as an experimental variable. The team therefore needed a technique
to measure temperature continuously that would allow it to examine the effects of other variables such as
humidity. They needed a robot.
F. They designed a robot with two infrared thermometers set at 1800 to each other. The robot runs on an
oblong track around the experimental plot and the thermometers operate on each side of the track. In order to
minimize any variables from the two thermometers, they are rotated 1800 at the beginning of each run and
the results are averaged. The infrared thermometers can be rotated on an angle to examine different parts of
the foliage.
G. The robot is also able to detect light intensity. It has a garage on the track, where it waits until the light
intensity is high enough to give useful results. If the skies darken due to rain, heavy cloud cover or sunset, the
robot makes its way back to the garage to wait.
H. The main difficulty faced by the research group was to find an agronomist who could grow the perfect
crop of sunflowers. The sunflower canopy had to be complete, with no visible soil, 50 that the thermometers
would only measure the temperature of the plants and not the surrounding environment. Eight varieties of

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sunflower were examined. The data collected by the robot has been used by the research team to determine
which variety has the highest transpiration efficiency.
I. This is not the first time such methods have been used to determine drought-resistance in plants. The
team and their robot have already made a major breakthrough in the Australian wheat industry with Drysdale
Wheat, which signaled the arrival of a new technique for selecting drought-resistant species.

Questions 34 - 37: Complete the sentences with words taken from the passage. Use NO MORE THAN TWO
WORDS for each answer. Write your answers next to Questions 34 – 37.
34. In terms of our health, sunflowers are important in defending humans against
_______________________________.

35. The research team wanted to find a sunflower that could cope well in conditions.
_______________________________.

36. The name of the process which is believed to help keep plants in good condition is
_______________________________.

37. The research team had to rethink their initial approach when they realized they needed to measure the
impact of external conditions such as _________________________ and _______________________.

Questions 38 - 45: The reading passage has nine paragraphs labeled A-I.
Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-I next to Questions 38 -
45.
38. the precise growing conditions required to allow the experiment to work __________________
39. a description of the how the robot operates __________________
40. an explanation of two important processes used by plants __________________
41. a reference to a previous study using a different crop __________________
42. details of what the robot does when conditions are poor __________________
43. the name of the group responsible for making the robot __________________
44. the number of different types of sunflower tested ___________________
45. the purpose of taking the temperature of the plants __________________

IV- Writing
Part l: Use the word given in brackets and make any necessary additions to write a neyy 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
words given. You must use between three and eight words including the words given.

1. We will have to do with one tent and a few biscuits instead of a luxury hotel and lavish meals.
(In place)
____________________________________________________________________
2. The results aren’t satisfactory considering her long and rigorous training. (Account)

_______________________________________________________________________
3. You will certainly encounter a lot of difficulties if you opt for a lone expedition. (Bound)

_________________________________________________________________________
4. David really confides in Mr. Palmer’s greater experience. (Confident)

________________________________________________________________________
5. Shannon doesn’t think much of the book. (Low)

________________________________________________________________________

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KEY
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI
KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ
ĐỀ 21

HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM MÔN: TIẾNG ANH LỚP 10

(HDC gồm 04 trang)

SECTION I: LISTENING (50/200)

Part 1. Complete the following sentences using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. ( 10
points)
1. refreshments
2. exhibits
3. book ahead
4. cathedral
5. life and time

Part 2. You will hear part of a discussion between Velm and Andrews, a lawyer, and Sergeant
William Bailey, a police officer. For questions 1-5, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best
according to what you hear. ( 10 points)

1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. A

Part 3. You will hear an interview with a man called Jon Simmons and a woman called Clare Harries,
who both work as life coaches, and decide whether the following sentences are true (T) or false (F).
(10 points)

1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T

Part 4. You will hear a woman call called Yvonne on a TV programme giving her opinion about
children being punished at school. ( 20 points)

1. hitting 2. telling off 9. changed the law

3. the wrong shoes 4. (very) cruel 10. (teenage) crime
5. young children 6.the government 7. lazy
8. how lucky
SECTION II: LEXICO – GRAMMAR (50/200)
Part 1. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions. (20 points)
1. B 2. A 3. B 4. A 5. D
6. A 7. A 8. B 9. B 10. C
11. B 12. D 13. A 14. C 15. C
16. B 17. C 18. B 19. D 20. A

Part 2. Identify and correct 10 errors in the passage. (10 points)

1. developed  developing
2. (attracted) by  (attracted) to
3. make  do
4. what  where
5. alike  like
6. disorganizing  disorganized

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 7. have avoided  have been avoided
8. say  tell
9. not to  don’t
10. starting  started
Part 3. Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions or adverbial particles. (10 points)

1. into 2. out 3. in 4. ahead 5. in/ down

6. up 7. out 8. away 9. out 10. off

Part 4. Fill in each blank with the most suitable form of the word in brackets. (10 point

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1. dominant 2. Unprecedented 3. Insoluble 4. Persistent 5. Arguably
6. biodiversity 7. Overdevelopment 8. unspoiled / unspoilt 9. Pervasive 10. threatening

SECTION III: READING COMPREHENSION (50/200)

Part 1: Read the passage below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. Write your
answer in the numbered boxes. (10 points)

1. C 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. B
6. B 7. B 8. A 9. D 10. C

Part 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each
space. (15 points)
1. stop 2. profit 3. going 4.from 5. pay
6. article 7. such 8. who 9. according 10. once

Part 3. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer A, B, C or D. Write your answer in the
space provided. (10 points)
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. A
6.D 7. A 8. D 9. B 10. D

Part 4. The reading passage below has SIX paragraphs, A-F. Reading the passage and do
the tasks below. (15 points)
1. iv
2. iii
3. viii
4. ii
5. ix
6. vii
7. i
8. flexible
9. tangible
10. tailorable

SECTION IV: WRITING (50/200)

Part 1. (10 points)
Rewrite the following sentences with the given word. The given words can’t be changed.
1. I have been deserted by all my friends.
2. One of the directors drew the board’s attention to a number of inconsistencies in the report.
3. She can’t have been informed about the burglary.
4. I have confidence in my best friends.
5. Mary had a craving for jelly when she was pregnant.

Part 2. (10 points)

Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence
printed before it.
1. As a result of the fire, a public enquiry was set up.
2. There is no connection between vitamin intake and intelligence.
3. It crossed his mind that he might have misunderstood her.
4. His wife is pushing him to get a better job.
5. He broke the world record at/on his second attempt.
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Part 3. Writing an essay. (30 points)
1. Content: (35% of total mark)
a. providing all main ideas and details as required.
b. communicating intentions sufficiently and effectively
2. Organization & Presentation (30% total mark)
a. Ideas are well- organized and presented with coherence, cohesion, and clarify
b. The essay is well- structured
3. Language: (30% of total mark)
a. Demonstration of a variety vocabulary and structures appropriate to the level of English
language gifted school students
b. Good use and control of grammatical structures
4. Punctuation, spelling, and handwriting (5% of total mark)
a. Good punctuation and no spelling mistakes
b. Legible handwriting

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TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN
LÊ THÁNH TÔNG – QUẢNG NAM KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ
ĐỀ 22

ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 10

ĐỀ ĐỀ XUẤT
Thời gian: 180 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)
Ngày thi: 16/4/2018
(Thí sinh viết câu trả lời vào bảng cho sẵn trong đề)
I. LISTENING: (50pts)
Part 1: 10 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts
1. north suburb 2. 3,000 3. 650C 4. jewellery / 5. SPA pools
jewelry

Part 2: 10 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts

1.A 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B

Part 3: 10 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts

1.T 2.F 3.F 4.F 5.T

Part 4: 20 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts

1. North America 5. far west 9. Britain and France
2. the midnight sun 6. beautiful forests 10. 18th century
3. Eskimos 7. Asia
4. fishing 8. eastern

II. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (50 points)

Part 1: 20 points- Each correct answer is given 1 pt

1.C 2.C 3.D 4.A 5.C

6.B 7.D 8.A 9.A 10.B
11.B 12.C 13.A 14.B 15.D
16.A 17.C 18.B 19.A 20.B
Part 2: 10 points- Each correct answer is given 1 pt
Line Mistakes Corrections
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 1. 3 variation variety
2. 4 storing stored
3. 5 neurosurgery neurosurgeon
4. 6 can could
5. 7 another other
6. 8 details detail
7. 9 one that
8. 11 cell cells
9. 12 with to
10. 12 word words
Part 3: 10 points- Each correct answer is given 1 pt
1. off 2. over 3. at 4. away 5. away
6. down 7. up 8. after 9. out 10. on
Part 4: 10 points- Each correct answer is given 1 pt
III. READING (50 points)
Part 1. absorption 2. basically 3. conducive 4. occurrence 5. inhospitable
1: 10
6. concentrations 7. deforestation 8. consumption 9. depletion 10. unrelated

points- Each correct answer is given 1 pt

1. A 2. C 3. D 4. C 5. B
6. D 7. A 8. B 9. D 10. C

Part 2: 15 points- Each correct answer is given 1.5 pts

1. what 2. become 3. there 4. Although/Though/While/Whilst 5. up
6. those 7. as 8. view 9. Irrespective/Regardless 10. a

Part 3: 10 points- Each correct answer is given 1 pt

1. B 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. A
6. B 7. A 8. C 9. B 10. A
Part 4: 15 points- Each correct answer is given 1.5 pts
1. vi 2. iii 3. ix 4. viii 5. v
6. ii 7. stimuli 8.sensory cortex 9. trimester 10. functions

WRITING (50 points)

Part 1: 10 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts
1. It was the discovery of an enormous hole over the South Pole that made people aware of the damage to the
ozone layer.
2. Were it not for special class, advanced technology couldn’t operate.
3. This offer is only valid/ available until 15 December.
4. Much as I respect the law, I cannot accept the court’s decision.
5. It was not so much a marriage as a business arrangement.
Part 2: 10 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts
1.The committee members pledged the loyalty to the chairman.
2. The villagers braced themselves for the coming storm.
3. The challenger was no match for the reigning champion.
4. They could not warn people by electronic mail for fear of spreading the computer virus.
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5. Daniel’s habit of taking risks isn’t compatible with his image as a family man.
Part 3: Essay writing (30 pts)
1. Completion: (2 pts.)
2. Content: (10 pts)
Provide relevant and convincing ideas about the topic, supported by specific example and/or reasonable
justification.
3. Organization: (8 pts)
- Ideas are well organized and presented with unity, cohesion and coherence.
4. Language: (8 pts)
- Demonstrate of a wide range of vocabulary and structures.
- Good use of grammatical structures.
- Present the ideas with clarity.
5. Punctuations and spelling. (2 pts)
Tapescripts
Part 1:
Receptionist: Good afternoon. How can I help you?
Customer: Good afternoon. I’d like to enquire about some information regarding resort.
Receptionist: What kind of resort would you prefer?
Customer: I want a hot spring resort and it is better to have some indoor or outdoor water activities.
Receptionist: OK. Let me check. How about Tulip Hot Spring Garden Resort?
Customer: Tell me some details, please.
Receptionist: Fine. It is located in the north suburb near Peak Mountains. Covering about 66 acres of green land
with refreshing environment, the resort provides various kinds of facilities for sports, entertainment, leisure and
meetings. And the best part is its hot spring.
Customer: Great. Could you give me some introduction about the hot spring?
Receptionist: The millennium precipitation of the Tulip hot spring was exploited 3,000 metres deep under the
ground. It is sulphur hot spring. The major ingredient is sulphur.
Customer: I heard that when sulphur is sterilised, it’s armless to the human body.
Receptionist: Yes. It plays a significant role in softening the skin, hydrating the skin and beautifying the skin. It
can lower blood pressure and reduce blood fat.
Customer: That’s so great. How about its temperature?
Receptionist: It’s 65°C. There are some attentions about the hot spring.
Customer: Attentions?
Receptionist: Yes. The hot spring water contains various minerals which come out first in black colour, change
to clear water afterwards with a mineral smell. Adjust water temperature to one’s comfort before bathing.
Customer: OK.
Receptionist: And do not bath immediately after drinking and please take your jewellery off when you are
bathing.
Customer: Fine. How about water activities?
Receptionist: Merry Water World has 56 different water sports for tourists. You can experience four
different sauna rooms and 21 different SPA pools. For a change, one can try the standard swimming pool, tennis
courts and the bowling.
Customer: Can you tell me the location?

Part 2:
Student: My group has been doing a project on the importance of architecture in people's lives and whether it
has any impact on the lives of people in general. (1) The main part I have played is in the collection of data to
find out what effect, if any, various buildings have on people's mood, i.e. whether ugly buildings make people
unhappy and whether beautiful buildings do the opposite. We had originally thought of starting measuring
people's reactions by using a questionnaire with about 40 questions, which we were going to hand out to people
including students at the university. (2) But we were worried that doing the questionnaire would be too time-

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consuming for people to fill in, so we gave up the idea. I then asked several of the postgraduate students for
advice. One of them came up with the simple idea of showing people images of various buildings from different
eras and styles, instead of giving out the questionnaire and asking them to indicate how they felt on a scale of 1-
5 about the images, where I was unhappy and 5 was very happy. (3) People would also be given the option of not
saying what they felt. Using the scale meant that it would be much simpler to record people's reactions. I decided
to follow this advice and so the first stage was to collect a large number of images. I used Google to print off
colour images of views of houses and apartment blocks where people live and different types of buildings where
they work. I started with about 30 or 40 and then reduced them to ten images. Media resources in the Amory
Building at the Judd Street branch of the university helped me produce the final images. I had them blown up to
A4 size and we used colour rather than black and white to make the detail on the images clearer. (4) We made
five sets of images and for protection when handling we pasted the images onto hard card. Then using a machine
to wrap them with plastic, we laminated the cards.
Five of us targeted different age groups; we went to a local school where we obtained permission to ask a group
of teenagers between 11 and 18. We also asked a sample of the general public including tourists from all over the
world, as they exited the Tate Modern in London, what they thought. We aimed to ask people from different age
groups, namely 20 to 40, and 50 and over. What our group learnt most from the project was first of all the value
of teamwork. (5) And secondly we found that we had to appoint a leader to stop us pulling in different directions
and falling apart, so this turned out to be an invaluable lesson for all of us.

Part 3:
In Western countries, many people have fatty deposits on the inside wall of their arteries. These deposits
build up over a number of years, narrowing the arteries. Sometimes the deposits can stimulate the formation of
blood clots. If a clot breaks free, it can enter the circulation and sooner or later it will become trapped and block
off a blood vessel, possibly causing a heart attack or a stroke.
When researchers looked at the fatty deposits they found they contained huge amounts of of a substance
called cholesterol. Everyone has cholesterol in their blood although often the amounts detected in heart disease
victims are much greater. So what is the link between what you eat and the cholesterol in your blood? The answer
seems to be that amount and type of fat in your diet are crucial in determining the cholesterol level in the blood.
Food contains two main types of fats. They are called saturated and unsaturated fats. Saturated fats are
the baddies, raising blood cholesterol level, while unsaturated fats, called polyunsaturated, will help to lower it.
Polyunsaturated fats also contain lots of essential fatty acids like linoleic acid. As their name suggests,
essential fatty acids are vital for health and cannot be made by the body. We should try to reduce the amount of
saturated fats we eat and partially replace it with polyunsaturated fats. Polyunsaturated fats are naturally found in
some nuts and seeds like sunflowers seeds, and in oily fish mackerel. Margarine and oils which contain a high
proportion of polyunsaturated fats are clearly labelled as such. Products which are high in polyunsaturated are
also low in saturated fats.
Part 4
Good morning and welcome to this talk on Canada. Many people think of Canada as a land of ice and
snow. They think of it as a young country with few inhabitants, a country of English-speaking white people.
While some of this is true, it is also an inaccurate description of the country we call Canada.
Canada lies in the northern half of the continent of North America. The most northern parts of Canada are
sometimes called “the land of the midnight sun”, because at certain times of the year the sun never sets and is
still shining faintly at midnight. This northern part of Canada is cold and mostly snow-covered all year round.
Most of the people who live in the northern part of Canada are called Inuit or Dene- They were once
called “Eskimos”. They are the original people of this land and are part of what are called the “First Nation”. As
we move to the more southern parts of Canada the land changes and so do the people. Moving from east to west
in southern Canada we travel from the Atlantic provinces of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick and
Prince Edward Island. These small provinces, with small populations, border on Atlantic Ocean. The land in these
provinces is not very fertile, so fishing, forestry and mining are the main industries, although in some small areas
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of the large provinces of Quebec and Ontario. Both provinces are rich in natural resources, have fertile land and
are the centres of industry for Canada’s largest cities; Toronto and Montreal are found in these provinces.
The province of Quebec is the centre of French language and culture in Canada. In fact, Montreal if the
second largest French-speaking city in the world after Paris. Finally, in the far west of Canada we come to the
province of British Columbia. This province is separated from the prairies by the Rocky Mountains and is
bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean. British Columbia is often called simply “the West Coast”. British
Columbia is an attractive place for tourists because of its mild climate, spectacular mountains, seacoast and
beautiful forests. Agriculture, forestry, shipping and fishing are major industries in British Columbia.
The people of this land of Canada are as varied as its landscape. The original settlers, those we call the
people of the first nations, came from Asia by crossing the Baring Strait from Siberia to Alaska. In their new
environment, they developed many new languages and cultures. In the 16th century, the first Europeans arrives
in eastern Canada. They came from Britain and France. By making treaties with the original inhabitants they
gradually established colonies in eastern and central Canada. After a war with France, Britain took over the
French colonies in Quebec and eastern Canada. By the end of 18th century, all of Canada was under British rule.
From this time until the present country, most of the immigrants to Canada were British, Scottish and Irish. In
this century, however, Canada has had an influence of settlers from all over the world. There are now hundreds
of thousands of people from Asia, Africa and South America who now call Canada their home.
ĐỀ 23
SỞ GDĐT QUẢNG TRỊ MÔN TIẾNG ANH KHỐI 10
TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN LÊ QUÝ ĐÔN

LISTENING
PART 1:
1. Harry Menzies
2. a pool table
3. $800
4. Spanish and Polish
5. GH12338
Hello, my name is Harry Menzies, that's M-E-N-Z-I-E-S. I purchased a pool table from Excalibur Sports a
week ago. Now, I ordered it online last Tuesday and it arrived only three days later. I was amazed and very
happy at the speed of service. But then the problems started unfortunately.
I had to assemble the pool table and this was quite difficult. The first major complaint I have is that the
instruction booklet included with the pool table was written only in Spanish and Polish. At least I think it was
Polish although I couldn't be sure. I don't think this is very helpful for me. I can't believe you wouldn't include
the assembly instructions in English. Anyway, I managed to follow the diagrams and get the pool table put
together in about two hours.
Once I had put it together, I noticed the white ball, you know - the cue ball, wasn't in the rack of balls. How am
I supposed to be able to play any games without the cue ball? Luckily, a friend of mine came over with his cue
ball and we were able to play a game. A single game only, because it quickly became obvious that the table was
defective.
The roll of the balls was not very true - they kept curving to the left or the right so I think there's a problem with
the main slate of the table. I don't really know enough about pool tables to know what the problem could be. I
just know I don't want to spend $800 for a pool table that can't be used!
Here is some information about me and I would appreciate it if you could get back to me as soon as possible.
My name is Harry Menzies and my customer number is 45993. The order number for my pool table order was
GH12338.
You can get in touch with me on my home phone number: 348-28841. Please get in touch with me as soon as
possible to let me know how we can resolve these problems. I am also going to write a letter to your head office
as I think it's important to have this complaint down in writing.
I really hope to hear from you as soon as possible. Ok, bye bye...

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PART 2
1. It can be somewhat aggressive.
2. Let the dog watch a program on television.
3. The cat enjoys listening to rock music.
4. The snake doesn't care for Shawn at all.
5. Norman should seek someone who is well-trained with animals.
Norman: Hey, neighbor. How's it going?
Shawn: Fine. How about you?
Norman: Okay. Huh, by the way, my wife and I are going out of town this weekend, and I was wondering if
you could take care of some of our animals while we're gone. You know our dog, Jaws, don't you?
Shawn: Yeah. My leg still hurts from the last incident.
Norman: Hey, he's just a playful little beast.
Shawn: Right.
Norman: Hey, he likes to bark a little, and his bark is worse than his bite.
Shawn: Oh yeah.
Norman: Just feed him a can of dog food a day, and make sure he has plenty of water in his dish. [Oh] And
then, take him for a walk around the block.
Shawn: Well, how about if I just throw a Frisbee over the fence to give him some exercise? Wouldn't that
work?
Norman: Ah, and then, he likes to watch the 3:00 soap opera on Channel 4 [What?] . . . and brush his teeth after
you give you some doggie treats around 4:00.
Shawn: Man, you really pamper your dog.
Norman: And, then brush his fur for about twenty minutes. He tends to shed this time of year. [Ah, what?] And
then scratch him around the ears. Otherwise, he feels neglected.
Shawn: Is that it?
Norman: Well, and then there's Claws.
Shawn: Claws? Who's Claws.
Norman: Oh, he's the cat we adopted from the animal shelter, but he's a little temperamental.
Shawn: What do you mean "temperamental"?
Norman: Well, he has mood swings [Mood swings?], but he's been doing better since he's been going to the
animal therapist.
Shawn: A therapist?
Norman: So, be sure to feed him a half cup of cat food two times a day [What? A therapist . . .], and don't forget
to put out (on) some soft classical music during his nap time at 2:40 p.m. But don't let him out of the house
because he might run away and chase the neighbor's dog.
Shawn: You have some high-maintenance animals.
Norman: Not really. And, don't forget to change the cat litter daily, or he might have an accident on the carpet.
[Oh, great.] And finally, there's Buttercup.
Shawn: Buttercup? Who's Buttercu . . . ? I'm afraid to ask.
Norman: Ah, she's a sweetie [What?] . . . if you know how to handle her right. [Oh, great.] Wait. Let me get her
for you. Here you are.
Shawn: That's . . . That's a snake . . .[Hold her.] That's a big snake with big fangs. Does the snake go to a
therapist, too?
Norman: Of course not . . . just an anger-management class.
Shawn: Oh! What?
Norman: I'm joking. Buttercup is a very docile creature, and she never bites anyone she likes. If she doesn't,
you'll know because she starts hissing and staring at you . . . . kind like what she's doing now.
Shawn: Well, I'm leaving. You must be going out of you mind to think I'm going to watch a zoo full of
misunderstood animals. You'd better hire some professional help 'cause I wouldn't watch them even if you paid
me a million dollars.

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PART 3
Question 1: false.
Question 2: true.
Question 3: true.
Question 4: true.
Question 5 : false.
Jackie: Good morning, Power Net Software, this is Jackie. Can I help you?
David: Hi, I've been trying to order some of your software from the website but there seems to be a problem
because my order didn't go through.
Jackie: Oh, I'm sorry about that Sir. The technical department sent everyone a memo this morning saying there
was a problem with one of the servers. That's probably why you had some difficulty.
David: Would it be possible for me to place my order through you now? I really need this software as soon as
possible. It's for my work you see. I don't want to have to wait until tomorrow as I might be out seeing
customers.
Jackie: OK, sure. Now then, what is it you would like to order from us?
David: Your site had a great offer on something called Viva Voce. The price was something like 25% off the
normal recommended retail price. Could you tell me something more about this product please?
Jackie: Well, I'm afraid that price is only available for those of our customers who order through our site.
David: That's hardly fair, is it? I just tried to order through your site and, as I told you, the sale wouldn't go
through. Can't you give me that discount anyway?
Jackie: Yeah, I think that would be alright. It's not as if it's your fault. Now, what did you want to know about
Viva Voce? It's one of our best selling products.
David: Do you have that program also in the Professional edition? I only saw the Standard edition but we need
the extra recording software which comes with the Professional edition.
Jackie: Fine, let's have a look ... Yes, we have the Professional edition and that is also discounted 25%.
David: Now, in our office, there are both Windows and Mac computers. How much is the Mac version of this
software? I don't want to have to pay too much more.
Jackie: Hmmm, we don't seem to have the Mac version in stock at the moment. It's arriving this evening or
tomorrow morning.
David: One more question for you and then I'll be done. Is there a microphone included with the software? I
tried to find out from your website but it didn't seem to be very clear whether there was a mic included or not.
Jackie: Yes, all our speech recognition software comes with a free microphone although, between you and me,
the quality isn't the best. I would recommend you buy a higher quality one, especially if you are planning to use
this for your work.
David: Thanks a lot for that information. Those free mics are usually pretty poor, aren't they? OK, we're done. I
have ordered through you before and my customer number is 794791. You should have all my contact
information and credit card number on file.
Jackie: 794791 ... let's see, oh yes. Here you are, Mr. David Thompson, is that correct?
David: Yes, that's me. How long will the delivery take?
Jackie: You should have this by Wednesday. Can I just confirm then - you want one Windows edition and one
Mac edition when it comes through to us this evening or tomorrow?
David: No, just send me the one Windows Professional. We'll just have to do all the speech recognition work
on the Windows computers, it's not such a big deal.
Jackie: Great. Thanks for calling Power Net Software. Have a nice morning.
David: Thanks very much, goodbye.

PART 4
Question 1: understands exactly what.
Question 2: life on other.
Question 3: the distances.
Question 4: 1960s and 1970s.

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Question 5: listening for signals.
Question 6: intelligent life.
Question 7: silence from space.
Question 8: destroyed.
Question 9 : environmental damage.
Question 10: to survive.
Mike: Tonight on Science Tonight, we are joined by Professor Hilary Twaine who works at Yale University
and also participates in research on various SETI related programs for NASA and private organizations. First
Professor, you have to tell us exactly what SETI is as I feel there's a lot of confusion out there.
Hilary: Thanks Mike. It's a pleasure to be here and above all, to be given this chance to explain to your listeners
what my work is about and more importantly what it is NOT about. Many of you will know that SETI stands
for the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence but it doesn't mean we are standing out in our back yards
looking for flying saucers in the sky.
Mike: Do you not believe in UFO's?
Hilary: Me personally? Err,..no...I think..
Mike: Oh? That surprises me greatly. It's your job, isn't it?
Hilary: Ah...this is where the confusion lies. SETI scientists do not necessarily believe that there are aliens
running around on Earth..or, for that matter, that they are flying about your neighborhood in silver discs.
Whether I or my colleagues believe in the classic notion of UFO's is immaterial. What we do all believe in is
that there is intelligent life out there somewhere in our solar system or in another galaxy - and it is that which
we seek. Not E.T in our garden shed!
Mike: OK, that makes things a bit clearer. So a belief in UFO's is not a pre-requisite to be able to do your job.
Hilary: Exactly. We all believe these intelligent civilizations exist. But not all of us believe they have placed a
foot on our planet.
Mike: Or a paw indeed.
Hilary: Oh, of course.
Mike: Now, what does this "search for intelligence" consist of. I understand the distances involved are quite
staggering and it's not just a case of picking up the phone.
Hilary: It is one of the hardest parts of my job as SETI researcher to get across to people what a difficult task it
is trying to find this needle in a haystack. Another of my colleagues, a Professor John Turgan who works for
NASA, explained it like this to some kids in a school last year. Imagine you have a single solitary snail sat slap
bang in the center of Alaska. He knows there are two or three other snails sitting on the coast of Alaska
hundreds and hundreds of miles away and he can't go any faster than...well, we know how slow a snail is!
Mike: Yeah, pretty slow. Is that what we face?
Hilary: Yeah, the snail can set off in one direction, travel for years and years towards a point on the coast before
trying another direction.
Mike: So we would never find anything like that.
Hilary: No, precisely! Searching for life on other planets involved a active stance in the 1960s and 1970s. We
were actively putting signals out there trying to find the other guys. We sent probes into space with messages
on, with photos and music from Earth on rudimentary picture discs. We even sent out a map of how to find us.
Mike: That could be dangerous....these fellows might not be that friendly!
Hilary: There were many who thought that! But then in the last twenty or so years, we have taken up a more
passive policy, I mean we wait and listen out for their signals.
Mike: What's the thinking behind that?
Hilary: Well there are many reasons why this makes far more sense. First of all, it's a question of logistics.
Think of our snail in Alaska again. Instead of trying to guess where his buddy snails are, he can sit back and
wait for them to come to him. Also, we are looking for advanced civilizations. It would be nice to find some
fungus on Mars or some other planet but we would ultimately like to find an intelligent civilization - one that
was capable of long distance inter-stellar communication and possibly travel
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Hilary: Pretty much yes. We have been emanating radio and TV waves into space for about 70 years. Any
civilization within 70 light years of Earth - and that's quite a few stars, believe me - would have been made
aware of our presence by now. We are simply looking for the same tell tale signs coming from other planets
and star systems.
Mike: OK, that makes sense. But so far it seems we have found nothing.
Hilary: well, in a word, yes, that's true. A famous SETI scientist once said many years ago something to the
effect of, if these guys are out there in such great numbers as many of us believe, where are they? It's quite
worrying, the total silence and it's quite easy to begin to think that we might actually be alone here.
Mike: Do you personally believe that?
Hilary: Hmmmm, no, not really.
Mike: So how would you explain the silence?
Hilary: It could be any of a whole list of things. We may be looking in the wrong place? We may not have the
technology to pick up whatever is being broadcast by civilizations more advanced than us. Would we have been
able to pick up radio waves in the days of Jefferson and Washington? I don't think so....
Mike: Is it also true that any advanced civilization in our corner of the universe may not be around anymore?
Hilary: That is another interesting theory. What, in the end, is the life span of an advanced civilization? Maybe
these extra terrestrial intelligences got so smart that they destroyed themselves. You only need to look at
ourselves to see that possibility. We have only been what one might call advanced for a matter of a century or
two - and look at environmental damage, nuclear proliferation and overpopulation. Yeah, it's a distinct
possibility that any life form may only be at our level of advancement for a relatively short time.
Mike: Pretty depressing when you think about it.
Hilary: I'm optimistic. The universe is a staggeringly large place and we have only scanned our galaxy really.
When you think that there are as many galaxies in the observable universe as there are grains of sand on Earth -
it makes you realize we have a lot of real estate to get through yet.
Mike: What's the first question you would ask the little green men?
Hilary: Oh, good question. Hmmm....well, I think, err, I would ask how they survived!
Mike: In what sense, do...
Hilary: I mean, I mean referring back to what we were talking about before. How did you get past the stage of
being capable, technologically speaking, of destroying yourselves, something we are struggling with today.
And how did you feed an ever expanding population. And how did you ultimately control that population
without destroying the environment of your home planet. Just that!
Mike: Well, you cheated as I only gave you one question to ask!
Hilary: Oh, that's right I'm sorry...
Mike: Professor Hilary Twaine, it's been an entertaining and educational talk this evening. Be sure to come
back and tell us if ET does phone you.
Hilary: You'll be the first to know! Thanks for having me here tonight.

LEXICO-GRAMMAR
PART 1: Choose the best options
1. A 2. B 3. B 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. C 8. B 9. C 10. B
11. C 12. A 13. A 14. A 15. B 16. D 17. D 18. A 19. B 20. D

PART 2 Find and correct ten mistakes/ errors in the following passage
Having a roof over your head is a basic human need, but there are 1.2 billion people in the world without
adequate housing. This may change thanks to a revolutionary, low-cost use of 3D printers to construct houses.
With 3D printing, materials are joined together or reinforced by using a computer-controlled device to create a
three-dimensional object. Two companies have joined forces to try and ease homelessness around the world by
building affordable homes using 3D printing. Tech company ICON has developed a method for printing a one-
floor, 60-square-meter house out of cement in a day for just $10,000. This is a fraction of both the time and cost
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ICON has teamed up with the non-profit, international housing organization New Story. Together, they will
start building homes in developing countries. Their joint venture will see 100 new homes constructed in El
Salvador next year. New Story's co-founder Alexandria Lafci acknowledged that the 100 homes were just a
drop in the ocean. She said: "There are over 100 million people living in slum conditions, in what we call
survival mode." She also saw possibilities for 3D-printed houses to become common in richer countries in
years to come. However, she said that for the moment: "The tech is ready now to print very high-quality, safe
homes in the places we're building."

PART 3: Fill in each gap with ONE preposition

1. down 2. on 3. in 4. along 5. off
6. about 7. from 8. with 9. out 10. away

PART 4: Word form

1. rhythmically 2. perception(s) 3. consciousness 4. (un)arguably 5. controversial
6. researchers 7. conviction 8. underestimated 9. decisive 10. coherent
READING
PART 1
1. C 2. A 3. A 4. C 5. A
6. D 7. A 8. B 9. D 10. B

PART 2
1. estimated 2. fraction 3. industrial 4. rapidly 5. faced
6. extinction 7. bacteria 8. species 9. world 10. better

PART 3
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. B
6. C 7. D 8. B 9. C 10. A

PART 4
1. x 2. v 3. ix 4. iii 5. vii
6. magnification 7. a prism 8. land and language 9. ship design
10. (the) rainbow refraction/refraction in rainbow

WRITING
PART 1: Rewriting
1. It was the goalkeeper that saved the match for us.
→Had it not been for the goalkeeper, we would have lost the match.
2. Tim insisted on being told the complete story.
→Nothing but the complete story would satisfy Tim.
3. Jane’s husband will be returning from South America quite soon.
→It won’t be long after Jane’s husband returns from S.A.
4. The permit expires at the end of this month.
→The permit is not valid after the end of this month.
5. I don’t really like her, even though I admire her achievements.
→Much as I admire her achievement, I don’t really like her.
6. As an antidote to their disappointment, he bought them ice-cream. (OFFSET)
→To offset their disappointment, he bought them ice-cream.
7. If interest rates are cut, the economic situation may improve. (REDUCTION)
→A reduction in/of interest rates may improve the economic situation.
8. I don’t personally care if they come or not. (MATTER)
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9. Local residents said they were against the new traffic scheme. (DISAPPROVAL)
→Local residents expressed their disapproval of the new traffic scheme.
10. Products which seem to lack credibility are not popular. (CALL)
→There is no call for products which seem to lack credibility.
PART 2: ESSAY

SỞ GD-ĐT THÀNH PHỐ ĐÀ NẴNG KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI KHU VỰC
TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN DUYÊN HẢI – ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ
LÊ QUÝ ĐÔN ĐÀ NẴNG ĐỀ 24

ĐỀ THI ĐỀ NGHỊ MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH 10

(Đề thi gồm 16 trang) Thờigian: 180 phút (khôngkểthờigiangiaođề)

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PART I. LISTENING (32 points)
I. You will hear part of a radio programme in which details of a competition are announced. Complete the notes
using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in each gap. Write your answers in the box provided (9 pts)
You will hear the recording TWICE.
KEY:
1. Business Matters 2. graphic design agency 3. six/6
4. interviewed 5. 350 words 6.business) colleague/relative/related/family
7. daytime phone/tel/number/no 8. June 15 9. September’s/(the) September

II. You will hear a local radio broadcast about transport and travel. Complete the notes using NO MORE
THAN THREE WORDS in each gap.Listen very carefully as you will hear the recording ONCE only. Write
your answers in the box provided (7 pts)
KEY:
1. Science Park 2. flooding/floods/heavy rain/thunderstorm
3. season tickets 4. blocked/jammed/impassable
5. cancellation to flights/ cancellation notified 6. delayed
7. traffic delays/jams/holdups/congestion

III. You will hear part of a radio programme about dancing. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.
You will hear the recording TWICE. Write your answers in the box provided (6 pts)
KEY:
1. C 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. B 6. D

IV. You will hear five short extracts in which different people are talking about performances that they have
been to. Choose the correct answer A, B or C.
You will hear the recording TWICE. Write your answers in the box provided (10 pts)

KEY:
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. C
6. A 7. B 8. B 9. A 10. C

PART II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (60 points)

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I. Choose the word that best completes each sentence. Write your answer (A, B, C, or D) in the box provided.
(20 points)
KEY:
1. A 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. B
6. A 7. B 8. B 9. C 10. A
11. B 12. B 13. C 14. D 15. A
16. C 17. A 18. D 19. C 20. A

II. There are TEN mistakes in the passage below. Read the passage carefully, underline the mistakes and write
your corrections on the corresponding lines in the box for Answers. (20 pts)
Answers
Each week Hilary Mullock, also known as Doctor Doppit, visiting London’s ____visits___
General Hospital. Carrying balloons and magic tricks better than a stethoscope, she ____rather___
administers her own special kind of medicine. Employed by the Theodora ____________
Children’s Trust, Hilary brings fun and laughter for the patients in the children’s ____________
wards, making a hospital staying a less difficult experience for these young patients. _____to_____
Having studied drama at university, Hilary later became interested in ____stay_____
children’s theatre. Seeing an advert with a clown doctor, she knew she had founded ____________
the ideal job. Before taking up the position, Hilary had to complete four weeks of ____for______
training, being instructed in balloon modeling and magic tricks. ___found____
According to a spokesperson for the Theodora Children’s Trust, hospitalized ____________
children, having been excluding from their normal day-to-day routine and the ____________
family environment, are likely to be frightening and homesick. Clown doctors like ____________
Hilary has a valuable part to play in helping them forget their problems for a while. __excluded___
Humour, it has been seen, has a positively impact on health. In fact, certain __frightened__
chemicals produced in the body by laughter have even been shown to act as natural ____have____
painkillers. Laughter really is the best medicine, it seems. ____________
___positive___

III. Select a suitable phrasal verb from the list to fill the gap in each of the sentences. Make change to the
form of the verb when necessary. Write your answers in the box provided. (10 pts)
KEY:
1. get through 2. came round 3. moved in 4. pull over
5. taken to 6. put … up 7. keep up
8. wearing … down 9. opted out 10. do away
IV. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the space in the
same line. Write your answers in the box provided (10 pts)
KEY:
1. unrelated 2. historians 3. philosophical 4. undertaken
5. revolutionary 6. replacement 7. innovator(s) 8. fruitful
9. strengthened 10. Reliance

PART III:READING (42 points)

I.Choose the words that best complete the sentences in the text. Write your answers in the box provided (15
pts)
KEY:
1. C 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. C
6. A 7. B 8. B 9. D 10. A
11. C 12. B 13. A 14. A 15. B

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space. Write your answers in the box provided (10 pts)
KEY:
1. as 2. every 3. whether 4. saying 5. anything
6. only 7. between 8. Neither/Nor 9. not 10. Were
III. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions. Write
your answers in the box provided (10 pts)
KEY:
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. B
6. B 7. D 8. D 9. A 10. D
IV. There are seven paragraphs A – G. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of
headings below. Write your answers in the box provided. (7 pts)
KEY:
1. VI 2. X 3. III 4. VIII 5. I 6. IV 7. IX

PART IV: WRITING (50 points)

I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed
before it. (20 points)
1. Only once did the train run on time that week and that was Friday.
2. It’s about time you stood up for your rights more.
3. Graham sang a different tune when noticing there were fresh strawberries on the menu.
4. Paul went over and over the argument he had had with his brother.
5. Nothing we were given to eat was allowed to go to waste when we visited my/our grandmother.
6. Some people are completely mystified by alternative medicine.
7. Failure to obey the regulations may lead to/result in disqualification.
8. Having the first prize in view, he tried hard.
9. It was not until he came into the light that I recognized him.
10. Mass tourism is partly responsible for/ to blame for the environmental problems.

II. Essay writing (30 points)

1. Content: (35% of total mark)
a. Providing all main ideas and details as required
b. Communicating intentions sufficiently and effectively
2. Organization & Presentation: (30% of total mark)
a. Ideas are well organized and presented with coherence, cohesion, and clarity
b. The essay is well-structured
3. Language: (30% of total mark)
a. Demonstration of a variety of vocabulary and structures appropriate to the level of English language gifted
upper-secondary school students
b. Good use and control of grammatical structures
4. Punctuation, spelling, and handwriting (5% of total mark)
a. Good punctuation and no spelling mistakes
b. Legible handwriting
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 KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN
KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ
ĐỀ 25

ĐÁP ÁN MÔN: TIẾNG ANH

LỚP: 10

ĐÁP ÁN
(Đáp án gồm 4 trang)

I. PHONOLOGY (5pts)
l. B 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. C 6. B 7. C 8. A 9. D 10. B
A. LISTENING (50 points):

Part 1. 10 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts- ()

1.Behind the time
1. Finished off
2. Rocker look
3. Go sporty
4. Beach sandals
5. Girly look
6. flared jeans
7. waistcoat
8. feel out of place
10. one of the crowd

Part 2. 10 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts- (

11.engineering
12. industry
13. hospital radio
14. rejection(s) letters / letters of rejection
15. training (sessions)
16.three hours
17. opening the/his mail/letters
18. content
19. music press/ papers/ newspapers/ magazines

Part 3: 10 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts-

20. C 21. C 22. B 23. D 24. A 25. B

B. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (50 points)

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Part 1:
1. A 2. A 3. D 4. D 5. B
6. A 7. B 8. D 9. C 10. B

Part 2

0. upwards 11. ghostly 12. inanimate

13. proximity 14. unaided 15. grazing
16. innermost

Part 3:
0. musician -> musicians 17. glitzy -> glitziest 18. starried eye-> starry-eyed
19.crashing -> crash 20. so -> such 21. of -> in
22. to look -> looking 23. of -> to

Part 4
0. up with 24. away with 25. in for
26. off 27. through 28. by
29. down 30. down to

SECTION - READING (…/20 points)

Part 1:
0. social 1. D 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. D 6. A 7. C

Part 2
0. however 8.caused 9. from 10. out 11. itself
12. of 13. takes 14. at 15. with

Part 3
16. C 17. B 18. C 19. A 20. C

Part 4:
21. C 22. G 23. H 24. A 25. E 26. B 27. F 28. D

Question 29 - 33: Choose from the phrases (I –R) to complete sentences 29 to 33 which best summarize the
points made by the writer. Write the letter (I - R) at the end of the sentences 29 to 33.

34. For many years the existence of Gondwanaland ______P______.

35. The discovery of plate tectonics__________________K_______. Part 5

36. Evidence for Gondwanaland___________________N_________. 34. In terms

37. In the past Gondwanaland_____________________J_________. of our
health,
38. The break-up of Gondwanaland________________Q__________. sunflowers

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are important in defending humans against _____heart disease________________.

35. The research team wanted to find a sunflower that could cope well in conditions of
___________________drought____________.

36. The name of the process which is believed to help keep plants in good condition is
________transpiration____________.

37. The research team had to rethink their initial approach when they realized they needed to measure the
impact of external conditions such as _________wind_________ and ____humidity_____.

Questions 38 - 45

38. the precise growing conditions required to allow the experiment to work ________H__________
39. a description of the how the robot operates _________F_________
40. an explanation of two important processes used by plants ________C__________
41. a reference to a previous study using a different crop _________I_________
42. details of what the robot does when conditions are poor _________G_________
43. the name of the group responsible for making the robot ________B__________
44. the number of different types of sunflower tested _________H__________
45. the purpose of taking the temperature of the plants __________D________

Part 3. Paragraph writing. (20 points) – “Increasing travels between countries enable people to learn
different cultures or to increase tension between people from different countries.
.” Do you agree with this statement? Write a paragraph of 150-200 words to state your viewpoint.
Criteria:
1. Task response (5 points)
The writer clearly states their point of view (agree/disagree) and provides a well-supported paragraph
related to the topic.
2. Lexical resource (5points)
- The writer uses synonyms and paraphrases flexibly.
- The writer uses topic-related vocabulary.
3. Coherence and cohesion (5 points)
- The paragraph has a topic sentence with controlling idea.
- The topic is well-developed with relevant supporting evidence, examples and facts.
- Ideas are well connected with suitable cohesive devices.
- The paragraph shows a certain organization pattern (for example: by order of importance, etc.)
- The writer uses pronouns consistently and coherently, with third-person pronouns (They, this,
these, one/ones) gaining higher scores.
4. Grammatical range and accuracy (5 points)
- The writer uses a wide range of sentence structures (simple, compound and complex)
- The writer uses verb tense and forms accurately.
- The writer shows good control of spelling and punctuation.

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