DE TIENG ANH 11

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KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ

LẦN THỨ XIII, NĂM 2022

(Đề thi gồm 17 trang)

ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 11

Thời gian: 180 phút (Không kể thời gian phát đề)

Ngày thi: 14/7/2022

(Thí sinh làm bài vào Phiếu trả lời)

A LISTENING (50 points)

HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU

 Bài nghe gồm 4 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 15 giây, mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu.

 Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc Thí sinh có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín hiệu nhạc kết thúc bài nghe.

 Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.

Part 1 For questions 1-5, you will hear a woman talking about caffeine Listen and decide whether the following sentences are true (T) or false (F) Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet (10 points)

1 The desired effect of caffeine is brought about as it facilitates the proper function of Adenosine receptors in the brain

2 People around the world have consumed caffeine-infused products on a daily basis for centuries

3 The popularity of tea in Britain led to it being consumed in China later on

4 Caffeinated drinks have integrated themselves into the drinking culture in the United States

5 Pure caffeine poses a serious health risk, resulting even in dealths

Part 2 For questions 6-10, you will hear a lecture about water Listen and answer the questions Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet (10 points)

6 What are the two features of water that concern people everywhere?

7 What is the main use of water in our everyday life?

8 Besides rivers, where can we find the purest water?

ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC

9 What hinders people from utilising rainwater in Oceania, besides its increasingly limited amount?

10 What need(s) removing from water before we use it?

Part 3 For questions 11-15, you will hear two nutritionists, Fay Wells and George Fisher, discussing methods of food production Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet (10 points)

11 Looking at reports on the subject of GM foods, Fay feels

A pleased to read that the problem of food shortages is being addressed

B surprised that the fears of the public are not allayed by them

C frustrated by contradictory conclusions

D critical of the scientists' methodology

12 What does George suggest about organic foods?

A Consumers remain surprisingly poorly informed about them

B People need to check out the claims made about them

C They need to be made more attractive to meat-eaters

D They may become more widely affordable in future

13 What is George's opinion of 'vertical farming'?

A It could provide a realistic alternative to existing methods

B It's a highly impractical scheme dreamt up by architects

C It's unlikely to go much beyond the experimental stage

D It has the potential to reduce consumption of energy

14 George and Fay agree that the use of nanotechnology in food production will

A reduce the need for dietary supplements

B simplify the process of food-labelling

C complicate things for the consumer

D introduce potential health risks

15 In Fay's view, returning to self-sufficiency is only an option for people who

A have no need to get a return on their investment

B are willing to accept a high level of regulation

C reject the values of a consumer society

D already have sufficient set-up funds

Part 4 For questions 16-25, you will listen to a recording of a presenter talking about Machu Picchu Complete the summary by writing NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS and/or

A NUMBER in each gap Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet (20 points)

16 Machu Picchu, one of the most fascinating archaeological sites on Earth, proves how _ the Incas were

17 In its heyday, the Inca civilisation stretched _, comparable to the horizontal width of the continental America

18 Machu Picchu epitomised the Inca’s _.

19 The construction of Machu Picchu was spectacular as it was done without the use of _ to bind stones together

20 Despite regular _ in the region, Machu Picchu has remained in remarkable condition for over five centuries

21 Machu Picchu is likely to have played its role as a(n) _, a military stronghold,

or a ceremonial site

22 It is impossible to shed light on the real purpose of Machu Picchu due to the Inca’s lack of

_.

23 After being abandoned, Machu Picchu remained a mystery to the outside world, including _ who mounted an invasion of the Inca civilisation in the 16th century

24 _ notwithstanding, Machu Picchu is still among the world’s most important archaeological sites

25 1983 saw Machu Picchu being designated as _

B LEXICO – GRAMMAR (30 points)

Part 1 For questions 26-45, choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the following sentences and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet (20 points)

26 The new cirriculum has been designed to students’ learning by combining theory with hands-on practice

A alleviate B exaggerate C sharpen D optimize

27 The consultant called in by the firm had a of experience bearing on the problem

28 The chairman had a recommendation that

A each member studied more carefully the problem

B the problem was more carefully studied by each member

C with more carefulness the problem could be studied

D each member study the problem more carefully

29 A career in marketing has always been what she desires, so she just herself in her work

A immersed B submerged C engulfed D engrossed

30 Rather than ponder the questions, the interviewee out the first answer coming into his head

A blundered B blurted C bungled D botched

31 She rocked the baby in her arms and watched his little face as he to sleep

A drifted off B burned with C slipped into D popped up

32 He was so highly knowledgeable on the areas that many would say he was something of a

A veteran B novice C probationer D archivist

33 Many people refused to fall in with the idea that religion is a(n) disputable anachronism

A academically B cerebrally C cognitively D intellectually

34 A large proportion of the households in this area is to the internet thanks to a generous foreign donor

A linked with B wired up C hooked up D crossed with

35 It was a close but we just made it to the airport on time for our flight

36 You are not supposed to park on the hard except in an emergency

37 Round and round

A went the wheels of the engine B the wheels of the engine went

C did the wheels of the engine go D going the wheels of the engine

38 I was thrilled to meet Paul Mc Cartney in the when I sat next to him at the theatre

39 He preferred to any profits he made back into business

40 His new manager, who is always willing to do somebody a good , is kind-hearted and sociable

41 It was a hot summer day and ice cream salesmen were doing a trade

A roaring B bustling C flickering D staggering

42 The choreographer his fingers in time to the music so that the dancers could pick up the tempo

A clenched B snapped C nudged D beckoned

43 The football club decided to the team with a couple of world-class players

A beef up B chuck out C match against D sort out

44 When you join this game, it’s important that you should

A keep your wits about you B gather your wits

C keep your head in the clouds D go to your head

45 Regional parliaments allow for remote parts of the country or islands far from the captital

A self-government B self-sufficiency C self-regulation D self-support

Part 2 For questions 46-55, give the correct form of each given word to complete the following sentences and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet (10 points)

46 If a screen does not contain everything needed, further lexicographic information can be

obtained by clicking on a (link).

47 The documented differences between men and women in scientific career paths do not

match what would be expected in a true (merit).

48 Few (practice) of homeopathy, acupuncture and the like regard therapies as

complete substitutes for modern medicine

49 You can ask a (diet) for advice on what kind of food you should eat to keep you

healthy

50 The new policy only serves to (accent) the inadequacy of provision for the

homeless

51 It is vital that we (mystery) this realm if we ever want to get anything done

effective in securing it

52 At the dawn of the Internet, many believed that it would enable a more

(participate) platform, particularly with politics.

53 I must admit that it is time the organizers did away with the (annual) computer

system and bought a new one

54 The building looks a bit (future) from the outside but it’s quite traditional inside.

55 Left-handers now dominate the game to an extent that (weigh) their numbers.

C READING (60 points)

Part 1 For questions 56-65, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet (15 points)

THE CHANGING FACE OF WORKING LIFE

The accepted concept of a career path followed a similar pattern for decades After (56) their education, people would enter the adult world of work, settling down on to a job which they would likely remain from that point (57) Not only would this occupation provide their income for their entire working life, it would also allow them a(n) (58)

pension when they retired and moved into old age Over the past twenty years, however, the

relationship between a wage earner and their chosen profession has changed enormously Today, the idea of a ‘job-for-life’ has all (59) disappeared, to be replaced by an unforgiving world of unstable employment Some observers even argue that current society to pit old (60) young in a constant battle to find work of some description, all against a (61) of increasing debt and economic difficulties

At the same time, the government regularly (62) figures that suggest the economy is prospering, evidencing this claim with the fact that the unemployment rate continues to fall annually There are indeed more jobs (63) However, a huge number of these are casual, temporary or short-term positions, all of which are low-paid and create (64) in the way of tax income for the government This has a number of debilitating long-term effects, not (65) because this assurance of a growing economy is based more in myth than fact

Part 2 For questions 66-75, read the passage below and choose the answer A, B, C or D that fits best according to the text Write your answers in the corrresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet (10 points)

WRITING FICTION

Because I am a novelist myself, I am always faintly fussed by the idea of creative writing courses I completely accept that you can teach the craft, that you can give instruction

on how to structure a book, how to vary space and tension, how to write dialogue But what you can’t teach, it seems to me is the right kind of interpretation of what has been observed It worries me to think of all those earnest pupils who have diligently mastered the mechanics, wondering with varying degrees of misery and rag why the finished recipe just hasn’t somehow worked

The great writer Samuel Coleridge explained it He said that there are two kinds of imagination, the primary and the secondary We all, he said, possess the primary imagination,

we all have the capacity to perceive, to notice But what only poets (loosely translated as all

truly creative people, I suppose) have - the secondary imagination is the capacity to select, and then translate and illuminate everything that has been observed so that it seems to the audience something entirely new, something entirely true, something exciting, wonderful and terrible

There is, after all, nothing new to say about the human condition There is nothing to say that Shakespeare or Sophocles hasn’t already, inimitably, brilliantly, said Codes of product, fashions in morality and ethics, all may come and go But what the human heart has desired -and feared – down the ages goes on being very much the same The novelist’s task is to follow

the well-trodden, time-worn path of human hopes and terrors Never forget: betrayal may be

as old as time, it may happen every nanosecond of every minute that’s ever been, but the first time it happens to you feels like the first time in the history of the world A cliché is a cliché only if it is comfortably taking place in someone else’s life

This empathy is vital in the writing of fiction Coleridge’s view of the poet as prophet to

the hungry hordes is, in truth, a bit grand for me I admire it, but I am not, personally, quite up

to it I am happier seeing the novelist, sleeves rolled up, in the thick of it alongside the reader, bleeding when pricked, in just the same way that the reader does The only capacity I would claim is that I have an instinct to select, from everything I have noticed in half a century’s beady-eyed people-watching, the telling detail, the apt phrase I seem to be good at the rhythms

of dialogue I seem to know how not to overwrite But that is it really Except that the older I get, the more prepared I am to surrender and trust to the power of the unconscious mind Maybe this is a modest form of the secondary imagination, maybe not Whatever it is, it produces a level and intensity of communication that causes people to buy my books and write

to me about them in numbers that I still can’t get over

What I do believe, fervently, is that we are all in this boat together – writer, reader, critic

I have a tattered little quotation that lies on my desk and becomes more valuable to me as time goes on It comes from the autobiography of the celebrated nineteenth-century writer Anthony Trollope He said many remarkable things in this book, but my own personal favourite is on the subject of the novelist’s central preoccupation Trollope is not so much concerned with the landscape of the grand passions as with something else, something less glamorous perhaps, but just as intense and certainly more universal: ‘My task’, he wrote, ‘is to chronicle those little

daily lacerations upon the spirit.’

I feel a thrill of recognition every time I read that, or even think about it That is what the writer’s life is all about for me The point of it is to emphasise that we are none of us immune to longing, or disappointment (much under-rated, in my view, as a source for distress),

or frustration, or idiotic hope, or bad behaviour What fiction does, in this difficult world, is to reassure us that we are not alone, nor we are (most of us) lost causes There is a theory that

suffering strengthens and elevates us in a way that joy can never somehow do I’m not so sure about that Isn’t it just that we have, on the whole, so much more suffering than joy that we have resolved, out of our great surviving instinct, to insist that something worthwhile must be

made of it? And isn’t fiction a handrail, of a kind, which we can all grasp while we blunder

about in the dark? Isn’t fiction written by people for people about people? And is there a subject more fascinating or more important?

66 What view does the novelist express about creative writing courses?

A A few good books emerge from them

B It would be inappropriate for her to teach on them

C Students are frustrated by the poor teaching on them

D Some aspects of writing skills can be successfully taught on them

67 The novelist implies that a writer’s most valuable asset is

A an instinct for the unusual

B a gift for meticulous observation

C the ability to put a fresh interpretation on the everyday world

D the ability to highlight sensational aspects of our existence

68 What is stated about writers in the third paragraph?

A They should not exploit their readers’ fears

B They should revisit well-established themes

C They should be prepared to exaggerate their personal experience

D They should not try to keep pace with changes in literary tastes

69 The phrase ‘the well-trodden, time-worn path’ refers to themes of writing that are .

A familiar and long-standing B extraordinary and profound

C up-to-date and catchy D simple and soulful

70 The word ‘prophet’ refers to writer as a(n) person.

A conservative B receptive C impartial D emotional

71 The novelist states that one of her own strengths as a writer lies in

A her depiction of character B her construction of plot

C her command of language D her knowledge of psychology

72 Why does novelist admire Anthony Trollope?

A He portrays the fact that everyone suffers in some way

B He realises that all writers need a strong sense of place

C He understands that everyone craves deep emotion

D He is aware that all writers have a particular obsession

73 The word ‘lacerations’ refers to events.

A exhilarating B epoch-making C pathetic D trivial

74 The novelist describes fiction as ‘a handrail, of a kind’ because it .

A reflects the negative aspects of emotion B enables us to deal with failure

C helps us make sense of complex events D offers reassurance in an uncertain world

75 Which theme recurs in this text?

A The need for novelists to avoid complex philosophical questions

B The need for novelists to develop their writing techniques

C The need for novelists to give an accurate reflection of the spirit of the time

D The need for novelists to identify closely with readers’ preoccupations

Part 3 For questions 76-88, read the following passage and do the tasks that follow (13 points)

Does water have memory?

The practice of homeopathy was first developed by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann During research in the 1790s, Hahnemann began experimenting with quinine, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark that was well known at the time to have a positive effect

on fever Hahnemann started dosing himself with quinine while in a state of good health, and reported in his journals that his extremities went cold, he experienced palpitations, an “infinite anxiety”, a trembling and weakening of the limbs, reddening cheeks and thirst – “in short”, he concluded, “all the symptoms of relapsing fever presented themselves successively ” Hahnemann’s main observation was that things which create problems for healthy people cure those problems in sick people, and this became his first principle of homeopathy: simila similibus (with help from the same) While diverging from the principle of apothecary practice

at the time – which was contraria contrariis (with help from the opposite) – the efficacy of simila similibus was reaffirmed by subsequent developments in the field of vaccinations

Hahnemann’s second principle was minimal dosing – treatments should be taken in the most diluted form at which they remain effective This negated any possible toxic effects of simila similibus

In 1988 the French immunologist Jacques Benveniste took minimal dosing to new extremes when he published a paper in the prestigious scientific journal Nature in which he suggested that very high dilutions of the anti-lgE antibody could affect human basophil granulocytes, the least common of the granulocytes that make up about 0.01% to 0.3% of white blood cells The point of controversy, however, was that the water in Benveniste’s test had been so diluted that any molecular evidence of the antibodies no longer existed Water molecules, the researcher concluded, had a biologically active component that a journalist later termed “water memory”

A number of efforts from scientists in Britain, France and the Netherlands to duplicate

Benveniste’s research were unsuccessful, however, and to this day no peer-reviewed study under broadly accepted conditions has been able to confirm the validity of “water memory” The third principle of homeopathy is “the single remedy.” Exponents of this principle believe that it would be too difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain the potential effects of multiple homeopathic remedies delivered simultaneously If it did work, they suggest, one could not know quite why it worked, turning homeopathy into an ambiguous guessing game If

it did not work, neither patient nor practitioner would know whether the ingredients were all ineffective, or whether they were only ineffective in combination with one another Combination remedies are gaining in popularity, but classical homeopaths who rely on the single remedy approach warn these are not more potent, nor do they provide more treatment options The availability of combination remedies, these homeopaths suggest, has been led by consumers wanting more options, not from homeopathic research indicating their efficacy Homeopathy is an extremely contentious form of medicine, with strong assertions coming from both critics and supporters of the practice “Homeopathy: There’s nothing in it” announces the tagline to 10:23, a major British anti-homeopathy campaign At 10.23 a.m on 30 January 2010, over 400 supporters of the 10:23 stood outside Boots pharmacies and swallowed

an entire bottle each of homeopathic pills in an attempt to raise awareness about the fact that these remedies are made of sugar and water, with no active components This, defenders of homeopathy say, is entirely the point Homeopathic products do not rely on ingredients that become toxic at high doses, because the water retains the “memory” that allows the original treatment to function

Critics also point out the fact that homeopathic preparations have no systematic design to them, making it hard to monitor whether or not a particular treatment has been efficacious Homeopaths embrace this While results may be less certain, they argue, the non-toxic nature

of homeopathy means that practitioner and patient can experiment until they find something that works without concern for side effects Traditional medicine, they argue, assaults the body with a cocktail of drugs that only tackles the symptoms of disease, while homeopathy has its sights aimed on the causes Homeopaths suggest this approach leads to kinder, gentler, more effective treatment

Finally, critics allege that when homeopathy has produced good results, these are exceedingly dependent on the placebo effect, and cannot justify the resources, time and expense that the homeopathic tradition absorbs The placebo effect is a term that describes beneficial outcomes from a treatment that can be attributed to the patient’s expectations concerning the treatment rather than from the treatment itself Basically, the patient “thinks” himself into feeling better Defenders suggest that homeopathy can go beyond this