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TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN NGUYỄN TẤT NĂM 2016
THÀNH TỈNH YÊN BÁI
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút
ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT

I. LISTENING
Part 1. In this part, you will hear a radio interview with a ghost hunter called Carlene
Belfort. For questions 1-5, choose the best answer. You should listen to the audio twice
1. How did Carlene become a ghost hunter?
A. she wanted to contact her dead grandmother
B. she grew up in a haunted house
C. her parents encouraged her
2. What, according to Carlene, do ghost hunters need most?
A. a special gift
B. equipment
C. an adventurous mind
3. Who does Carlene mostly work for?
A. people who want reassurance = put sb’s mind at ease/rest
B. people who want to contact loved ones
C. people who want to find a ghost
4. How does Carlene detect when ghosts are present?
A. She feels cold.
B. She gets evidence from her equipment. the most conclusive: photographs, voice records, meter readings
C. She feels them touching her hair.
5. What does Carlene think about people who don’t believe her?
A. She doesn’t understand why they think that.
B. She thinks they don’t have enough evidence.
C. She wants them to experience it for themselves.
Part 2. You will listen to a piece of news about cycling. For questions 1-5, decide whether the
statements are true or false. = solo
1. Mr Jones is travelling on his own. True / False
2. Mr Jones only stays in hotels. True / False
3. Edward Genochio completed a 41.000km trip to China and back. True / False
4. Cycling is becoming more popular in the UK. True / False
5. Boris Johnson cycles to show people that he cares about the environment
boost their eco-credentials True / False

Part 3. You will hear the head teacher of a school talking to a group of parents about an
international student exchange programme. Complete the table below. Write NO MORE
THAN THREE WORD for each answer.
 INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMME
• The school's exchange programme is called 1. ________________________
• A return visit is then arranged 2. ________________________later
• Children first get to know their exchange partners by taking part in a 3. _______________
________ scheme.
• The programme is not only intended for students who enjoy using 4. _________________
________
• The two countries most often visited on the programme are 5. _______________________
• Some students suffer from problems such as homesickness and 6. ____________________
• To help students who have problems, a qualified 7. ________________________ is always
available.
• Local visits are described as being 8. ________________________ and also 9. _________
______________
• Students enjoy visiting 10. ________________________ parks most of all.
II. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
Part 1. Choose the best answer:

1. He looks very aggressive and threatening, and so his soft, gentle voice is rather
________. (adj): bất hòa, trước ngược nhau = conflicting (adj) = sb who loses his/her temperature
quickly = unsettle, fluster
(adj) = ghostly, hồn lìa khỏi xác (adj) thô bạo, đối xử tùy tiện với người khác =
A. disembodied B. discordant C. dismissive
contemptuous
D.todisconcerting
be on the right track = do sth correctly
2. When my teacher gave me my homework back, she said I was on the right ________.
A. course B. way C. direction D. track
3. I’m opting out of the ________ race and going to live on a small farm in the countryside.
A. horse B. dog C. rat D. cat and mouse
4. After months of bitter arguing the couple had to accept that they were ________.
A. incongruous B. incompatible C. dissident D. disaffected
5. Don’t thank me for helping in the garden. It was ________ pleasure to be working out
of doors.-- emphasize sth is not large or important
express how sb feel about a situation
- emphasize how big, great, important
of a situation/feeling
A. mere B. simple C. sheer D. plain
6. The police have been ordered not to ________ if the students attack them.
A. combat B. rebuff C. retaliate D. challenge
7. Six novels a year, you say? He’s certainly a ________ writer.
A. fruitful B. fertile C. virile D. prolific
8. The case against the bank robber was ________ for lack of evidence.
A. discarded B. dismissed C. refused D. eliminated
9. Many road accidents occur because motorists cannot ________ the speed of
approaching vehicles.
A. assume B. count C. assess D. value
10. It’s hard to believe that anyone would purposely harm a child, ________ of all its own
mother.
 A. first B. least C. worst D. best
11. Ever since we quarreled in the office, Janice and I have been ______ enemies.
A. assured B. confirmed C. defined D. guaranteed
12. Police are ______ the town for the missing vehicle.
A. seeking B. looking C. investigating D. combing
13. The jury ______ her compliments on her excellent knowledge of the subject.
A. paid B. gave C. made D. said
14. He was blinded by the ______ of the approaching car’s headlights.
A. gleam B. glare C. glow D. flare
15. Don’t throw that away – it might ______.
= start being operated
A. come into use B. come into handy C. come in use D. come in handy =particular be useful to sb for a
purpose
16. – “It is raining outside.” – “……………”
= express agreement or affirmation
đặt nghi vấn về 1 điều gì đó có thật hay ko.
= that’s the way it is “À thế à?”
A. So is it. B. So it is. C. So it does. D. Is it so?
17. At the moment the ruling party is on the ______ of a dilemma.
A. hooves B. points C. top D. horns
(n) thẩm phán địa phương
18. The magistrate ______ his disapproval of the young man’s behavior.
A. voiced B. said C. told D. spoke
= reveal, disclose (information, story, thought, secret)
19. The audience watched as the story ______ before their eyes.
= discover sth, open a cover = remove the wrapping from a package
A. uncovered B. unfolded C. unwrapped D. undid = cancel or reverse the results of sth
20. In any transport system, the safety of passengers should be ______.
A. paramount B. eminent C. chief D. prime
= more important than = noticeable, respected = a leader of a group = the main or more important
anything else, supreme
Part 2. ERROR IDENTIFICATION
The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Underline the mistakes and write their correct
forms in the space provided in the column on the right. (0) has been done as an example.
When a celebrity, a politics or other person in the media spotlight loses 0. politics è
their temper in public, they run the risk of hitting the headings in the most politician
embarrassing way. For such uncontrolling outbursts of anger are often
triggered by what seem to be trivial matters and, if they are caught on
camera, can make the person appear slightly ridiculousness. But it's not 1. ……………
only the rich and famous who is prone to fits of rage. According to recent 2. …………....
surveys, ordinary people are increasingly tending to lose their cool in 3. .……….….
public. Although anger is a potentially destructive emotion that uses up a
lot of energy and creates a high level of emotional and physical stress - 4. ……………
and it stops us thinking rational. Consequently angry people often end up 5. ……………
saying, and doing, things they later have to regret. So, how can anger be 6. ……………
avoided? Firstly, diet and lifestyle may be to blame. Tolerance and
7. ……………
irritability certainly come to the surface when someone hasn't slept
properly or has skipped a meal, and any intake of caffeine can make things 8. ……………
worst. Take regular exercise can help to ease and diffuse feelings of 9. ……………
aggression , however, reducing the chances of an angry response. But if 10. ……………
something or someone does make you angry, it's advisable not to react
immediately. Once you've calmed down, things won't look half as badly
as you first thought.

Part 3. Fill in each blank with a correct preposition.

pass sb/sth over: to ignore or not give attention to sb or sth
1. He was very upset when the boss passed him ________ and promoted a newcomer to
the assistant’s job. to be in dispute over sth: disargeed on sth, being argued about
arguement, conflict
2. The union and the management are ______ in dispute over working conditions.
put sb off: to cause sb to lose interest
3. They said that the blue cheese was very tasty, but the smell put me ______. off
what with sth: the reasons for a situation (bad or hard)
4. What________ with the smoke and the noise, the party made me feel quite ill.
5. Old Mr. Brown’s condition looks very serious and it is doubtful if he will pull ______. through
6. My meeting with him was previous ________ pull through sth: to become well again after a serious illness
to = prior to my meeting with you. prior >< latter
the
7. What her problems all seemed to boil ________ down to was lack of money.
(n): công ty
8. The firm will have to step ______
up production if it is to defeat its competitors.
9. He is always ordering other people______ up as if he were their boss.
10. A good dictionary is indispensable______for learning foreign languages.
9. order sb up: request sb to do sth (rudely) 7. boil down to sth: sth is the main reason for the situation
(adj) sth/sb that is so important that you can manage without 8. step up sth: to increase what you are doing to achieve sth
Part 4. Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word in the numbered space
provided in the column on the right. (0) has been done as an example.
Ancient man used sticks of charcoal to draw pictures on cave walls in 0. train à trainee
order to communicate (with, probably, their deities and (0) …………
1. …………………
(TRAIN) huntsmen). Today, some of their direct (1) …………
(DESCEND) are still using ‘chalk and talk’ and other (2) ………… 2. …………………
(MODE) equipment to make presentations to sophisticated business
3. …………………
audiences.
Now, there’s nothing wrong with whiteboards, flip charts and overhead 4. …………………
projectors. In their right context, they are still (3) ………… (EXCEED)
5. …………………
useful presentation tools. But in a business environment in which the
presentation of clear, easily understandable information is a (4) 6. …………………
………… (NEED), and in which memorability is key, managers should
7. …………………
be constantly (5) ………… (GRADE) their equipment to keep pace with
developments. Audiences are coming to expect high-quality 8. …………………
presentations that are (6) ………… (VISION) stimulating and get the
9. …………………
message across without wasting time. Professionally-made presentations
clearly (7) ………… (SIGNIFICANT) that the person giving them 10. …………………
has thought through the issues and knows what they are talking
about. They can put a (8) ………… (PERSUADE) case that wins
over an audience in a way that pieces of paper can’t. And they can
put you, or your company, in the most (9) ………… (ADVANTAGE)
light possible by delivering a well thought-out message (10) …………
(RELY) every time.
III. READING
Part 1: For questions 1 – 15, read the advertisement and decide which word best fits each
space.
Save money on the book that aims to save animals
Do you want to take part in the battle to save the world’s wildlife? Animal Watch is a book
which will (1) ________ you in the fight for survival that (2) ________ many of our
endangered animals and show how they struggle on the (3) ________ of extinction.
As you enjoy the book’s 250 pages and over 150 colour photographs, you will have the
(4) ________ of knowing that part of your purchase money is being used to
(5) ________ animals (6) ________. From the comfort of your armchair, you will be able to
observe the world’s animals close-up and explore their habitats. You will also discover the
terrible results of human (7) ________ for land, flesh and skins.
Animal Watch is packed with fascinating facts. Did you know that polar bears cover their
black noses (8) ________ their (9) ________ so they can hunt their prey in the snow without
being seen, for example? Or that (10) ________ each orang-utan which is captured, one has to
die?
This superb (11) ________ has so (12) ________ Britain’s leading wildlife charity that it
has been chosen as Book of the Year, a (13) ________ awarded to books which are considered
to have made a major contribution to wildlife conservation. You will find Animal Watch at a
special low (14) ________ price at all good bookshops, but hurry while
(15) ________ last.

1 A combine B involve C bring D lead

2 A meets B opposes C forces D faces
3 A edge B start C limit D end
4 A satisfaction B enjoyment C virtue D value
5 A enable B help C allow D assist
6 A preserve B conserve C revive D survive
7 A greed B interest C care D concern
8 A with B by C for D from
9 A feet B claws C paws D toes
10 A with B by C for D from
11 A publicity B periodical C publication D reference
12 A imposed B impressed C persuaded D admired
13 A symbol B title C trademark D nickname
14 A beginning B preparatory C original D introductory
15 A stores B stocks C goods D funds

Part 2. Read the texts below and think of the word which best bits each space. Use only
ONE WORD for each space.
Anger can get us into hot water – and bottling things up only makes (1) ____________. But
you can do more than simply gnash your teeth.
 Anger is one of the most commonly felt emotions, yet relatively few of us know how to
cope with it effectively. Shouting, swearing, and hitting inanimate objects are common
responses (2) ___________ the age-old problem of expressing our often accumulated
frustrations. Nevertheless, losing control is more (3) ___________ to lead to humiliation than
vindication.
So, we learn not to lose control. In public, our tension is held in check by the urge to (4)
___________ on to our dignity, whilst the extent of our reaction to any event will depend on
unresolved issues from the past. People tend to carry learned responses, so if parents scream
or fall (5) ___________ awkward silences when they were cross, their offspring will probably
do the same.
Conversely, a child may be terrified of anger because one of its parents had no (6)
____________ over their temper. As a result, the child may repress its own feelings, often
expressing them inappropriately or channeling them internally (7)____________ thus feeling
depressed. In fact, depression is often called “internal anger”.
Self-expression is the key to dealing with anger. Although there are no hard and fast
rules for (8) ____________ best to achieve this, burying the debris is probably the least
productive method. Physical release through exercise can be effective – even working (9)
___________ at the gym may help.
Strange as it sounds, I’ve seen tension in relationships evaporate through pillow or
water fights. In an emergency, shouting in a parked car, or hitting a pillow with a tied towel
are also good (10) ___________ of relief, although these methods are considerably less
demure than writing it all down in a diary.

Part 3. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the
questions that follow.
IMAGE AND THE CITY
In the city, we are barraged with images of the people we might become. Identity is presented
as plastic, a matter of possessions and appearance; and a very large proportion of the urban
landscape is taken up by slogans, advertisements, flatly photographed images of folk heroes –
the man who turned into a sophisticated dandy overnight by drinking a particular brand of drink,
the girl who transformed herself into a femme fatale with a squirt of cheap scent. The tone of
the wording of these advertisements is usually pert and facetious, comically drowning in its
own hyperbole. But the pictures are brutally exact: they reproduce every detail of a style of life,
down to the brand of cigarette-lighter, the stone in the ring, and the economic row of books on
the shelf.
Even in the business of the mass-production of images of identity, this shift from the general to
the diverse and particular is quite recent. Consider another line of stills: the back-lit, soft-focus
portraits of the first and second generations of great movie stars. There is a degree of romantic
unparticularity in the face of each one, as if they were communal dream-projections of society
at large. Only in the specialized genres of westerns, farces and gangster movies were stars
allowed to have odd, knobby cadaverous faces. The hero as loner belonged to history or the
underworld: he spoke from the perimeter of society, reminding us of its dangerous edges.
The stars of the last decade have looked quite different. Soft-focus photography has gone, to be
replaced by a style which searches out warts and bumps, and emphasizes the uniqueness not the
generality of the face. Voices, too, are strenuously idiosyncratic; whines, stammers and low
rumbles are exploited as features of “star quality”. Instead of romantic heroes and heroines, we
have a brutalist, hard-edged style in which isolation and egotism are assumed as natural social
conditions.
In the movies, as in the city, the sense of stable hierarchy has become increasingly exhausted;
we no longer live in a world where we can all share the same values, and the same heroes. (It is
doubtful whether this world, so beloved of nostalgia moralists, ever existed; but lip-service was
paid to it, the pretence, at last, was kept up.) The isolate and the eccentric push towards the
centre of the stage; their fashions and mannerisms are presented as having as good a claim to
the limelight and the future as those of anyone else. In the crowd on the underground platform,
one may observe a honeycomb of fully-worked-out worlds, each private, exclusive, bearing
little comparison with its nearest neighbor. What is prized in one is despised in another. There
are no clear rules about how one is supposed to manage one’s body, dress, talk, or think. Though
there are elaborate protocols and etiquettes among particular cults and groups within the city,
they subscribe to no common standard.
For the new arrival, this disordered abundance is the city’s most evident and alarming quality.
He feels as if he has parachuted into a funfair of contradictory imperatives. There are so many
people he might become, and a suit of clothes, a make of car, and a brand of cigarettes, will go
some way towards turning him into a personage even before he has discovered who that
personage is. Personal identity has always been deeply rooted in property, but hitherto the
relationship has been a simple one – a question of buying what you could afford, and leaving
your wealth to announce your status. In the modern city, there are so many things to buy, such
a quantity of different kinds of status, that the choice and its attendant anxieties have created a
new pornography of state.
The leisure pages of the Sunday newspapers, fashion magazines, TV plays, popular novels,
cookbooks, window displays all nag at the nerve of our uncertainty and snobbery. Should we
like American cars, hard-rock hamburger joints, Bauhaus chairs…? Literature and art are
promoted as personal accessories, the paintings of Mondrian or the novels of Samuel Beckett
“go” with certain styles like matching handbags. There is in the city a creeping imperialism of
taste, in which more and more commodities are made over to being mere expressions of personal
identity. The piece of furniture, the pair of shoes, the book, the film, are important not so much
in themselves but for what they communicate about their owners; and ownership is stretched to
include what one likes or believes in as well as what one can buy.
1. What does the writer say about advertisements in the first paragraph?
A. They often depict people that most other people would not care to be like.
B. The pictures in them accurately reflect the way that some people really live.
C. Certain kinds are considered more effective in cities than others.
D. The way in which some of them are worded is cleverer than it might appear.
2. What does a “femme fatale” refer to?
 A. a beautiful woman who spends her time enjoying herself
B. a gorgeous woman who realizes most men’s dream
C. a potential good wife
D. an attractive woman who may bring unhappiness to men
3. The word “facetious” is closest in meaning to _____.
A. flippant B. prevalent C. impudent D. complacent
4. The writer says that if you look at a line of advertisements on a tube train, it is clear that
_____.
A. city dwellers have very diverse ideas about what image they would like to have
B. some images in advertisements have a general appeal that others lack
C. city dwellers are more influenced by images on advertisements than other people are
D. some images are intended to be representative of everyone’s aspirations
5. What does the writer imply about portraits of old movie stars?
A. They reflected an era in which people felt basically safe.
B. They made people feel that their own faces were rather unattractive.
C. They tried to disguise the less attractive features of their subjects.
D. Most people did not think they were accurate representations of the stars in them.
6. What does the writer suggest about the stars of the last decade?
A. Most people accept that they are not typical of society as a whole.
B. They make an effort to speak in a way that may not be pleasant on the ear.
C. Some of them may be uncomfortable about the way they come across.
D. They make people wonder whether they should become more selfish.
7. The writer uses the crowd on an underground platform to exemplify his belief that _____.
A. no one in a city has strict attitudes towards the behavior of others
B. no single attitude to life is more common than another in a city
C. people in cities would like to have more in common with each other
D. views of what society was like in the past are often accurate
8. The writer implies that new arrivals in a city may _____.
A. acquire a certain image without understanding what that involves
B. underestimate the importance of wealth
C. decide that status is of little importance
D. change the image they wish to have too frequently
9. The novels of Samuel Beckett is an example of _____.
A. classic literature works that make their owners feel superior to other people
B. literature works of high artistic value
C. possessions that show owners’ identity
D. what is wanted by the majority in the society
10. What point does the writer make about city dwellers in the final paragraph?
A. They are unsure as to why certain things are popular with others.
B. They are keen to be the first to appreciate new styles.
C. They want to acquire more and more possessions.
D. They are aware that judgments are made about them according to what they buy.
Part 4. Reading 2

Questions 1-5
The following reading passage has five sections A-E. Choose the correct heading for each
section from the list of headings on the next page. There are more headings than sections, so
you will not use them all.

1 Section A i Colorblindness' in different countries

2 Section B ii Diagnosing colorblindness
3 Section C iii What is colorblindness?
4 Section D iv Curing colorblindness
5 Section E v Unsolved myths
vi Animals and colorblindness
vii Developing the ability to see color
viii Colorblindness and the sexes

Colorblindness

A Myths related to the causes and symptoms of "colorblindness" abound throughout the world.
The term itself is misleading, since it is extremely rare for anyone to have a complete lack of
color perception. By looking into the myths related to color blindness, one can learn many facts
about the structure and genetics of the human eye. It is a myth that colorblind people see the
world as if it were a black and white movie. There are very few cases of complete
colorblindness. Those who have a complete lack of color perception are referred to as
monochromatics, and usually have a serious problem with their overall vision as well as an
inability to see colors. The fact is that in most cases of colorblindness, there are only certain
shades that a person cannot distinguish between. These people are said to be dichromatic. They
may not be able to tell the difference between red and green, or orange and yellow. A person
with normal color vision has what is called trichromatic vision. The difference between the three
levels of color perception have to do with the cones in the human eye. A normal human eye has
three cones located inside the retina: the red cone, the green cone, and the yellow cone. Each
cone contains a specific pigment whose function is to absorb the light of these colors and the
combinations of them. People with trichromatic vision have all three cones in working order.
When one of the three cones does not function properly, dichromatic vision occurs.

B Some people believe that only men can be colorblind. This is also a myth, though it is not
completely untrue. In an average population, 8% of males exhibit some form of colorblindness,
while only 0.5% of women do. While there may be some truth to the idea that more men have
trouble matching their clothing than women, the reason that color vision deficiency is
predominant in males has nothing to do with fashion. The fact is that the gene for color blindness
is located on the X chromosome, which men only have one of. Females have two X
chromosomes, and if one carries the defective gene, the other one naturally compensates.
Therefore, the only way for a female to inherit colorblindness is for both of her X chromosomes
to carry the defective gene. This is why the incidence of color deficiency is sometimes more
prevalent in extremely small societies that have a limited gene pool.

C It is true that all babies are born colorblind. A baby's cones do not begin to differentiate
between many different colors until he is approximately four months old. This is why many of
the modern toys for very young babies consist of black and white patterns or primary colors,
rather than traditional soft pastels. However, some current research points to the importance of
developing an infant's color visual system. In 2004, Japanese researcher Yoichi Sugita of the
Neuroscience Research Institute performed an experiment that would suggest that color vision
deficiency isn't entirely genetic. In his experiment, he subjected a group of baby monkeys to
monochromatic lighting for one year. He later compared their vision to normal monkey who
had experienced the colorful world outdoors. It was found that the test monkeys were unable to
perform the color-matching tasks that the normal monkeys could. Nevertheless, most cases of
colorblindness are attributed to genetic factors that are present at birth.

D Part of the reason there are so many inconsistencies related to colorblindness, or "color vision
deficiency" as it is called in the medical world, is that it is difficult to know exactly which colors
each human can see. Children are taught from a very young age that an apple is red. Naming
colors allows children to associate a certain shade with a certain name, regardless of a color
vision deficiency. Someone who never takes a color test can go through life thinking that what
they see as red is called green. Children are generally tested for colorblindness at about four
years of age. The Ishihara Test is the most common, though it is highly criticized' because it
requires that children have the ability to recognize numerals. In the Ishihara Test, a number
made up of colored dots is hidden inside a series of dots of a different shade. Those with normal
vision can distinguish the number from the background, while those with color vision deficiency
will only see the dots.

E While many of the myths related to colorblindness have been busted by modern science, there
are still a few remaining beliefs that require more research in order to be labeled as folklore. For
example, there is a long-standing belief that colorblindness can aid military soldiers because it
gives them the ability to see through camouflage. Another belief is that everyone becomes
colorblind in an emergency situation. The basis of this idea is that a catastrophic event can
overwhelm the brain, causing it to utilize only those receptors needed to perform vital tasks. In
general, identifying color is not considered an essential task in a life or death situation.

Questions 6-10. Complete the summary using words from the box below.

Write your answers in boxes 6-10 on your Answer Sheet There are more answers than spaces,
so you will not use them all.

It is a common 6 ________________ that only men suffer from 7 ________________ On

average 8 ________________ than ten percent of men have this problem. Women have
 two 9 ________________. For this reason it is 10 ________________for a woman to
suffer from colorblindness.

myth a little less colorblindness X chromosomes defective genes

fact slightly more exactly less likely more probable

IV. WRITING
Part 1. Finish the second sentence in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence printed before it.
1. She acted brilliantly in the school play.
She gave ...........................................................................................
2. You must concentrate on your work more.
You must apply ................................................................................
3. He imitated George Bush and other politicians in a humorous way.
He took ............................................................................................
4. Peter doesn’t care if Jean leaves or stay.
Whatever ..........................................................................................
5. “I think the whole idea’s ridiculous”, he said.
He dismissed ....................................................................................

Part 2. Write a new sentence similar in meaning to the one given, using the word given
in capital. Do not alter the word in any way.
1. Many customs restrictions within the EC have been abolished. AWAY
...............................................................................................................
2. I’m annoyed with you for not phoning me to say you’d be late. EARTH
................................................................................................................
3. People’s race, creed or color is not taken into account when they apply for a job with us.
IRRESPECTIVE
................................................................................................................
4. I tried to talk to Jack about the problem but he was too busy. WORD
................................................................................................................
5. I have searched everywhere for my purse. HIGH
...............................................................................................................

Part 3. Write a paragraph of about 150 words on the topic

Do you agree with the following statement? Young people today do not give enough time to
help their community? Use specific reasons and examples to support your ideas.