Trái với điều này, phần bài làm của thí sinh sẽ không được chấm điểm.. ● Thí sinh không được ký tên hoặc dùng bất cứ dấu hiệu gì để đánh dấu bài thi ngoài việc làm bài theo yêu cầu của
Trang 1SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI VĂN HOÁ LỚP 12 THPT
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
(Đề thi này gồm 11 trang)
Ngày sinh:
Phòng thi số:
Hội đồng thi:
Họ, tên và chữ ký
GIÁM THỊ 1
Họ, tên và chữ ký
HƯỚNG DẪN THÍ SINH L ÀM BÀI:
● Thí sinh làm toàn bộ bài thi trên đề thi theo yêu cầu của từng phần Thí sinh
phải viết câu trả lời vào phần trả lời được cho sẵn ở mỗi phần (Your answers here) Trái với điều này, phần bài làm của thí sinh sẽ không được chấm điểm
● Đề thi gồm có 11 trang (không kể trang phách) Thí sinh phải kiểm tra số tờ đề thi trước
khi làm bài
● Phần NGHE, mỗi Part thí sinh được nghe 2 lần
● Thí sinh không được ký tên hoặc dùng bất cứ dấu hiệu gì để đánh dấu bài thi ngoài
việc làm bài theo yêu cầu của đề ra Không được viết bằng mực đỏ, bút chì,
không viết hai thứ mực trên tờ giấy làm bài Phần viết hỏng, ngoài cách dùng
thước để gạch chéo, không được tẩy xóa bằng bất kỳ cách gì khác (kể cả bút xóa màu trắng) Trái với điều này bài thi sẽ bị loại
● Thí sinh nên làm nháp trước rồi ghi chép cẩn thận vào phần bài làm trên đề thi Giám thị sẽ không phát giấy làm bài thay thế đề và giấy làm bài do thí sinh làm hỏng
● Giám thị không giải thích gì thêm về đề thi
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ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC
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SECTION I: LISTENING COMPREHENSION (5 POINTS)
Part 1: Listen to a conversation and complete the form below with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS and/or A NUMBER for each answer Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
Student Union Registration Form
Name : Stefan Unger
Degree programme: (1)
Department : (2)
Leisure activities: (3)
Language(s) (apart from English): (4)
Type of accommodation: (5)
Contact number: 0295069003
Part 2: Listen to part of a radio programme Decide which of the sentences are true (T), and which are false (F) according to the recording Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
1 Everybody in the Outback has at least a telephone to keep in touch with the world
2 In an emergency, doctors use jeeps to get to the patient
3 It doesn’t take the doctors more than ninety minutes to get to any place in the Outback
4 Children living in the Outback do not go to school at all
5 The children in the Outback can communicate with their teachers by two- way radio and post
Part 3: Listen to an interview with a woman called Amy Rowntree, who works as a fashion designer and choose the correct option (A, B, or C) Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
1 Amy decided to become a fashion designer while
A she was working in a shop
B she was still at school
C she was helping run a fashion show
2 Amy says the most important skill for a designer is
A remaining patient in difficult situations
B understanding how clothes are made
C knowing about different materials
3 What does Amy particularly like about her work?
A being able to sell her designs
B having her name recognised
C seeing her clothes on display
4 What helps Amy find new ideas for designs?
A going to visit museums
B looking at photos of clothes
C seeing things around her
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A a fashion show in New York
B a collection of clothes for a film
C a new range for a London store
Part 4: Listen to a lecture about student orientation and complete the table below
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
Orientation Schedule Part I: Campus Tour
Monday
meet at door of (1) at 9 a.m visit (2) _ in the afternoon
Tuesday
Computer Centre: to get (3)
(4) : to apply for
membership
Part II: Course
Arrangement
Wednesday
meet at Auditorium in the west campus (5)
_
course requirement
(6) _ and optional courses
assessments:
(7) _ 80%
assignment
(8) _ group work
exam: open-book Thursday
go to department office to:
get a (9)
hand in optional course form
Venue: (10) _ on the third
floor
Your answers here
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
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SECTION II: LEXICAL & GRAMMAR (3.5 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 If Jack had done his homework last night, he a bad mark now
A wouldn’t get B won’t get C wouldn’t have got D would get
2 It is necessary that Dave _ to see the doctor right now
A come B comes C to come D is coming
3 Everyone hardly finds out a quiet place here, ?
A don’t they B do they C does she D doesn’t she
4 Even when John was angry, he would never _ to violence
A resolve B recourse C exert D resort
5 Tom’s parents were really pleased when they read his school
A report B paper C diploma D account
6 Susan says that she feels less nervous since she on tea and coffee
A stopped off B turned back C cut out D cut down
7 Mike: What a nice hat you have on! ~ Paul:
A You’re welcome B Yes, you like it?
C Oh, you must be kidding D Thanks I bought it at Kelly’s
8 This room is decorated in a _ combination of colours
A delicious B sweet C tasteful D tasty
9 My decision to drop out of university after a year is the one I now regret
A keenly B painfully C heavily D harshly
10 It was decided that the cost of the project would be and so it was abandoned
A restrictive B prohibitive C repressive D exclusive
Your answers here
Part 2: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage in any order and correct them (0) in Line 1 has been done as an example Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
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An endangered species is a population of an organism who is at risk of
becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changed environmental or predation parameters An endangered species
is usually a taxonomic species, but may be other evolutionary significant unit, The World Conservation Union (IPCN) has calculated the percent
of endangered species as 40 percent of all organisms based at the samples of species that have been evaluating through 2006 Many nations have laws offering protection to this species: for example, forbidding hunting, restricting land development or create reserves Only a few of the many species at risk of extinct actually make it to the lists and obtain legal protection Much more species become extinct, or
potential will become extinct, without gaining public notice
Your answers here
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Line 1 (0) who which
Part 3: Complete each of the following sentences with one appropriate preposition/particle Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
1 Fred is really mature He is completely independent his parents
2 Make your mind now or we will go without you
3 Kelly must be responsible the director for what she has just said
4 Nowadays many people have been suffering cancer
5 He really gets my nerves He never stops complaining
6 No student can answer the professor’s question because it is too hard to take
7 Sofia worked very hard and her success went my expectation
Your answers here
Part 4: Supply the correct form of the words given in CAPITALS to complete the sentences Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
Meditation
People are often put off meditation by what they see as its many mystical associations
Yet meditation is a (1) (STRAIGHT) technique which merely involves sitting and resting the mind In addition to its (2) (SIMPLE), meditation offers powerful help in
the battle against stress Hundreds of studies have shown that meditation, when (3)
(TAKE) in a principled way, can reduce hypertension which is related to stress in the body
Research has proved that certain types of meditation can substantially decrease key stress
symptoms such as anxiety and (4) (IRRITABLE) In fact, those who practice meditation with any (5) (REGULAR) see their doctors less and spend, on average,
seventy percent fewer days in hospital They are said to have more stamina, a happier disposition and even enjoy better relationships
When you learn to meditate, your teacher will give you a (6) (PERSON)
‘mantra’ or word which you use every time you practice the technique and which is (7)
(SUPPOSE) chosen according to your needs Initial classes are taught individually but
subsequent classes usually consist of a group of students and take place over a period of about
four days The aim is to learn how to slip into a deeper state of (8) (CONSCIOUS) for
twenty minutes a day The rewards speak for themselves
Your answers here
SECTION III: READING COMPREHENSION (5 POINTS)
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Always a sure source of affection, my grandparents (1) _hugely important figures in my life They would shower my sisters and me with sweets, indulgences and stories, (2) _tales about my parents as naughty children When the last of (3) _ died, we all wondered who would hold the family together
People have relied on grandparents in Britain since the industrial Revolution, (4) _ whole families moved into cities from the country to get work in the new factories, taking grandmother along to look after the children (5) _ the fact that more grandmothers are working now, grandparents are still the backbone of childcare in Britain They provide 44% of full-time care for pre-school children, which (6) _ you wonder how the country would manage without them
The traditional image of a grandparent is a smiling old person surrounded by a cohort of happy children, but this doesn’t match the facts (7) _ we have now is the so-called
‘beanpole family’, thinly stretched over several generations, with fewer family members in each and with growing (8) _ of single-parent families Grandparents are getting younger - more than 50% of grandparents have already had their first grandchild by the age 54
For many of them, grandparenthood means juggling a job, involvement with grandchildren and, sometimes, the care of their own parents It is up to us to balance the demands we make on them if we don’t want to wear them (9) _ Grandparents are (10) _ a valuable part of the family that we just cannot do without them
Your answers here
Part 2: Read the following passage and decide which option (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
From Nigel’s point of view, a love of travelling began with what is called a ‘gap year’
In (1) _ with many other British teenagers, he chose to take a year out before (2) _ to study for his degree After doing various jobs to raise some money, he left home to gain some experience of life in different cultures, visiting America and Asia The more adventurous the young person are, the (3) _ the challenge they are likely to (4) _ themselves for the gap year, and for some, like Nigel, it can (5) _ in a thirst for adventure
Now that his university course has (6) _ to an end, Nigel is just about to leave on a three-year trip that will take him (7) _ around the world What’s more, he plans to make the whole journey using only means of transport which are (8) _ by natural energy In other words, he’ll be relying mostly on bicycles and his own legs; and when there’s an ocean
to cross, he won’t be taking a short cut by climbing aboard a plane, he’ll be joining the crew of
a sailing ship (9) _
As well as doing some mountain climbing and other outdoor pursuits along the way, Nigel hopes to pass on to the people he meets the environmental (10) _ that lies behind the whole idea
2 A settling down B getting up C taking over D holding back
3 A stronger B wider C deeper D greater
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9 A anyway B alike C instead D otherwise
10 A notice B message C tour D voyage
Your answers here
Part 3: Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
Animation traditionally is done by hand-drawing or painting successive frames of an object, each slightly different from the preceding frame In computer animation, although the computer may be the one to draw the different frames, in most cases the artist will draw the beginning and ending frames and the computer will produce the drawings between the first and the last drawing This is generally referred to as computer-assisted animation, because the computer is more of a helper than an originator
In full computer animation, complex mathematical formulas are used to produce the final sequence of pictures These formulas operate on extensive databases of numbers that
define the objects in the pictures as they exist in mathematical space The database consists of
endpoints, and colour and intensity information Highly trained professionals are needed to produce such effects because animation that obtains high degrees of realism involves computer techniques for three-dimensional transformation, shading, and curvatures
High-tech computer animation for film involves very expensive computer systems
along with special colour terminals or frame buffers The frame buffer is nothing more than a
giant image memory for viewing a single frame It temporarily holds the image for display on the screen
A camera can be used to film directly from the computer’s display screen, but for the highest quality images possible, expensive film recorders are used The computer computes the positions and colours for the figures in the picture, and sends this information to the recorder, which captures it on film Sometimes, however, the images are stored on a large
magnetic disk before being sent to the recorder Once this process is completed, it is repeated
for the next frame When the entire sequence has been recorded on the film, the film must be developed before the animation can be viewed If the entire sequence does not seem right, the motions must be corrected, recomputed, redisplayed, and rerecorded This approach can be very expensive and time consuming Often, computer- animation companies first do motion tests with simple computer-generated line drawings before selling their computers to the task
of calculating the high-resolution, realistic-looking images
1 What aspect of computer animation does the passage mainly discuss?
A The production process B The equipment needed
C The high cost D The role of the artist
2 According to the passage, in computer-assisted animation the role of the computer is to draw the
C last frame D entire sequence of frames
3 The word “they” in the second paragraph refers to
A formulas B databases C numbers D objects
4 According to the passage, the frame buffers mentioned in the third paragraph are used to
A add colour to the images B expose several frames at the same time
C store individual images D create new frames
5 According to the passage, the positions and colours of the figures in high-tech animation are determined by
A drawing several versions B enlarging one frame at a line
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6 The word “once” in the fourth paragraph is closest in meaning to
7 According to the passage, how do computer-animation companies often test motion?
A They experiment with computer-generated line drawings
B They hand-draw successive frames
C They calculate high-resolution images
D They develop extensive mathematical formulas
8 Which of the following statements is supported by the passage?
A Computers have reduced the costs of animation
B In the future, traditional artists will no longer be needed
C Artists are unable to produce drawings as high in quality as computer drawings
D Animation involves a wide range of technical and artistic skills
Your answers here
Part 4: Read the passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to the following questions Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
The oceans are so vast and deep that until fairly recently, it was widely assumed that no
matter how trash and chemicals humans dumped into them, the effects would be negligible
Proponents of dumping in the oceans even had a catchphrase: "The solution to pollution is dilution."
Today, we need look no further than the New Jersey–size dead zone that forms each summer in the Mississippi River Delta, or the thousand–mile–wide swath of decomposing plastic in the northern Pacific Ocean to see that this "dilution" policy has helped place a once flourishing ocean ecosystem on the brink of collapse
There is evidence that the oceans have suffered at the hands of mankind for millennia But recent studies show that degradation, particularly of shoreline areas, has accelerated dramatically in the past three centuries as industrial discharge and run–off from farms and coastal cities have increased
Pollution is the introduction of harmful contaminants that are outside the norm for a given ecosystem Common man–made pollutants reaching the oceans include pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, detergents, oil, sewage, plastics, and other solids Many of
these pollutants collect at the ocean's depths, where they are consumed by small marine
organisms and introduced into the global food chain
Many ocean pollutants are released into the environment far upstream from coastlines Nitrogen–rich fertilizers applied by farmers inland, for example, end up in local streams, rivers, and groundwater and are eventually deposited in estuaries, bays, and deltas These
excess nutrients can spawn massive blooms of algae that rob the water of oxygen, leaving
areas where little or no marine life can exist
Solid wastes like bags, foam, and other items dumped into the oceans from land or by ships at sea are frequently consumed, with often fatal effects, by marine mammals, fish, and birds that mistake them for food Discarded fishing nets drift for many years, ensnaring fish and mammals In certain regions, ocean currents corral trillions of decomposing plastic items and other trash into gigantic, swirling garbage patches One in the North Pacific, known as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is estimated to be the size of Texas
Pollution is not always physical In large bodies of water, sound waves can carry undiminished for miles The increased presence of loud or persistent sounds from ships, sonar devices, oil rigs, and even from natural sources like earthquakes can disrupt the migration,
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1 What does the passage mainly discuss?
A The end of the “dilution” era
B Marine pollution and its many forms
C Various kinds of harmful pollutants
D Noise and its disruptive effects on marine life
2 The word “negligible” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to
A unpredictable B serious C insignificant D positive
3 It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that the “dilution” policy is related to _
A helping the ecosystem of the oceans flourish
B neglecting the effects of dumping trash into the oceans
C treating harmful materials in the oceans properly
D dealing with the problems of water pollution
4 The word “they” in paragraph 4 refers to
A ocean’s depth B the oceans
C marine organisms D man–made pollutants
5 The word “spawn” in paragraph 5 can be best replaced by
A produce B appear C prevent D limit
6 According to the passage, nitrogen–rich fertilizers _
A cannot be found inland
B do not relate to the disappearance of marine life
C are created by massive blooms of algae
D cause a shortage of oxygen in the ocean water
7 Which of the following statements is NOT supported in the passage?
A The oceans in the past were more contaminated than they are now
B Industrial wastes and agriculture run–off are blamed for the degradation of the oceans
C It is apparent that the oceans have been polluted for a long time
D Many pollutants deposited in the oceans finally become part of the global food chain
8 Whales and dolphins are mentioned in the final paragraph as an example of marine creatures
that _
A can survive earthquakes because of their large bodies
B suffer from loud or persistent sounds at sea
C are forced to migrate because of water pollution
D can communicate with each other via sound waves
Your answers here
Part 5: Read through the following text and then choose from list A-H the best phrase or sentence to fill each of the blanks One suggested answer does not fit at all Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
A The local people are used to it
B It does not say much for the quality control in the military weapon factories of Britain and Germany
C Only after positive identification of their country of origin can the shells be made safe
D Once cleaned and classified, the shells are placed in wooden boxes, separated by sand
E That makes 400 million unexploded shells
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G Over the years they have grown to treat them with a certain indifference
H Shortly afterwards, huge explosions rock the sea
Twice a day throughout the summer in a field outside the small Belgian town of Poelkapelle, a strange ritual takes place First a siren sounds Then a number of boxes are lowered into specially prepared pits (1) _, throwing clouds of earth into the air (2) _; it is only another consignment of World War I shells exploding 75 years late
Bomb disposal experts at Poelkapelle will be hard at work for many years to come (3) _, but best estimates suggest that of 1.5 billion shells fired on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, about 30% failed to explode on impact (4) _, most of which are still out there In the countryside around Poelkapelle, farmers plough up these deadly souvenirs almost daily (5) _; after unearthing the shells, they leave them by the roadside to be collected by an army jeep The shells, however, remain potentially unstable and lethal as most of them are badly corroded after so many decades in the ground
(6) _ This is initially difficult because they are covered with rust and dirt Officers used to clean them by hand in the open air Now they use a high-pressure water jet or,
if the dirt proves too stubborn, they remove it with a remote-control machine (7) _ Shells over 50kg have to be exploded at sea; the remainders are stored, ready to be detonated
at the ritual hours of 11.45am and 3.30pm
Your answers here
SECTION IV - WRITING (4.5P)
Part 1: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same
as the sentence printed before it Write your answers in the space provided
1 She regrets not studying hard enough for the final examination
She wishes _
2 They believe that the room was badly decorated
The room _
3 I fully intend to find out who is responsible for the graffiti
I have every
4 I didn’t stop worrying about the wild animals until we were safe inside camp
It was only when we reached
5 It’s sad, but unemployment is unlikely to go down this year
Sad
6 The only thing that prevented the passing of the bill was the death of the Prime Minister
Had
7 You may be disqualified if you don’t obey the regulations
Failure
8 His condition improved so rapidly that he went home four days after the operation
There _
9 He is proud of his loyalty to his friends
He prides
10 I was not surprised to hear that Harry had failed his driving test
It came
Part 2: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given Do not change the word given You must use between three and six words, including the word given Write your answers in the space provided
1 She can’t stand her toothache, so she goes to see the dentist (PUT)