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KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI & ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ LẦN
THỨ IX NĂM HỌC 2015 - 2016
ĐỀ THI MÔN: ANH VĂN - KHỐI 10
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút
Ngày thi:
PART I: LISTENING (40p.)
HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
Bài nghe gồm 3 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 15 giây, mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu.
Thí sinh có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài nghe.
Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
I You will hear part of an interview with the astronaut Charles Duke, who is talking about
his trip to the moon Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear (10p.)
1 How did Charles feel about space travel as a boy?
A He thought it was unlikely to happen
B He regarded it as more than science fiction
C He was fascinated by the idea of it
D He showed no particular Interest in it
2 What did Charles consider to be the hardest part of the training?
A feeling trapped in the heavy spacesuit
B endlessly practising the lunar surface landing
C constantly being afraid of making a mistake
D being unable to move his arms and hands
3 What was Charles's reaction when he first found out he was going to the moon?
A He realised he had to be cautious
B He felt proud to be given the opportunity
C He tried to control his excitement
D He reflected on his chances of survival
4 How did the crew feel when they had landed on the moon?
A They felt as if they were coming home,
B They realised they had achieved something special
C They were afraid of what they might find on the surface
D They were worried about how they would take off again
5 What feature of the moon made the greatest impact on Charles?
A the brightness of the sun
B the vastness of the sky
C the loneliness of the place
D the absence of any stars
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II True/ False Statements (10p.)
You will hear a man called Dan Pearman talking on the radio about Pedal Power-a UK charity which sends bicycles to developing countries Listen and decide the following sentences True (T) or False (F).
6 In 1993 Dan Pearman went to Ecuador as part of his studies
7 Dan’s neighbour was successful in business because he found it easy to reach customers
8 Dan says charities rely on getting enough bicycles to send regularly
9 The town of Rivas has almost as many bikes as Amsterdam
10 In August 2000, the charity was criticised in the British media.
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You will hear an explorer called Richard Livingstone talking about a trip he made in the rainforest of South America Listen and complete the following sentences Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS FOR EACH GAP.
11 Richard and Matthew abandoned their boat because they couldn't got past a (11)
12 They decided to walk through the jungle as far as the (12) marked on the
map
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Richard says that during the walk, they were always both (13) and (14)
15 The first sign of human activity that they found was a (15) .
16 and 17
In a deserted camp, they found some soup made from unusual (16) and (17)
18 Richard says that by the time they had reached the camp, they were lacking in (18)
19 Richard says that after the meal, they began to feel (19) about what they'd
done
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PART II: GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY (60p.)
I Choose the word or phrase that best fits each blank in the following sentences (20p.)
1. I would like passersby to be excited by the sculpture and to feel it has not
a value but a timeless feel to it
2. _ recent incidents, we are asking our customers to take particular care of their personal belongings
3. But most people will not assess the small print setting out changes to a(n) _ and little understood institutional structure
4. Every time she is in a _, she rings her father and asks for help
5. The world’s first boot camp for teenagers addicted to the Internet may be the _ of things to come
6. Teachers aim to help children become _ learners
7. Sam was born in the country and had a deep _ with nature
8. When her tears had _ their course, she felt calmer and more in control
9. His emotional problems _ from the attitudes he encountered as a child
10. She _ scorn on his plans to get rich quickly
11. He quickly learned the _ of the job
A by and large B fair and square C ins and outs D odds and ends
12. The picking of the fruit, _, takes about a week
A whose work they receive no money B for which work they receive no money
C they receive no money for it D as they receive no money for that work
13. She made _ telling him exactly what she thought of him
A the best of B no bones about C a splash D a clean sweep of
14. My patience is beginning to _
A make waves B hold water C wear very thin D stay afloat
15. For the first few months the babies looked so alike I couldn’t tell _
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16. _ invisible to the unaided eye, ultraviolet light can be detected in a number
of ways
A Although is B Despite C Even though it D Although
17. You can imagine how upset I was after the closure of the magazine Since the first day
on its staff I _ it as my best job ever
A have considered B considered C had considered D was considered
18. The boss shouted at me as if _
A I had been the only one who were to blame
B I were the only one to be to blame
C nobody but I am to blame
D only I had been blamed
19. If I were you, I would regard their offer with considerable _ because it seems too good to be true
20. I love to do things for children because I get a _ out of it
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II The passage below contains 10 mistakes IDENTIFY and CORRECT them Write your answers in the space provided in the column on the right (10p.)
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People appear to bear to compute The numerical skills of children develop
so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of
mathematical mature guiding their growth No long after learning to walk
and talk, they can set the table with impressive accuracy – one plate, one
knife, one spoon, one fork, for all of the five chairs Soon they are capable of
nothing that they have placed five knives, spoons, and forks on the table
and, a bit later, that this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware Having thus
mastering addition, they move on to subtraction It seems most reasonable to
expect that if a child were secluded on a desert island in birth and retrieved
seven years later, he or she could enter a second-grade mathematics class
without some serious problems of intellectual adjustment
Of course, the truth is not so simple This century, the work of cognitive
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psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on that
intellectual progress depends Children were observed as they slow grasped
or, as the case might be, bumped into – concepts that adults take for granted,
as they refuse, for instance, to concede that quantity is unchanged as water
pours from a short stout glass into a tall thin one
III Fill each blank with a suitable preposition (10p.)
a Environmental groups are locked (1) _ argument with the council (2) _ the
proposed new bypass through parts of Charmy Wood
b My new hiking boots will be great once I’ve broken them (3) _.
c We were taken out for a meal (4) _ the company’s expense
d Let’s kick (5) _ this session by introducing ourselves, shall we?
e I don’t want to turn down work, but I’ve got far too much (6) _ my plate.
f She’s worked very hard at her tennis and she’s progressing (7) _ leaps and
bounds
g ‘This will cause all sorts of problems.’ - ‘I know It is a recipe (8) _ disaster.’
h I believe the apartment for sale is now (9) _ offer
i (10) _ balance, I think the government’s doing a reasonable job.
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IV Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word in the numbered spaces provided.
(20p.)
A successful failure
If there is one historical figure that has been regarded as a failure during his lifetime by so
many biographers and yet is remembered by secondary school history students as a (1)
(LEGEND) _ explorer and campaigner, it is David Livingstone
As an explorer, he erred (2) (DISASTER) _ in thinking that that the Zambezi river was
navigable and he misidentified the source of the Nile In addition, by the time he died, his
campaign against the East African slave trade had had (3) (DISAPPOINT) _ little
success He was not much better as a husband or father, either, leaving his family behind for
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terrain
Despite his mistakes and the fact that his behaviour was often less than (5) (EXAMPLE)
_ he deserved more recognition than he has been given by experts Indeed, there were
values he (6) (BODY) _ that have held him in high esteem in some circles He found the (7) (TREAT) _ of the blacks ensnared in the booming African slave trade so (8) (TASTE) _ that he fought (9) (TIRE) _ to stamp it out His attempts may have
failed during his active campaign but in the year after his death, the Sultan of Zanzibar
signed a treaty with Britain guaranteeing the (10) (ABOLISH) _ of the East African
slave trade, an agreement Livingstone had dreamed of
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I Choose the word that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage Write your answers in the numbered box (15p.)
Why people laugh
Sunday May 4th will be World Laughter Day Dr Madan Kataria, who introduced this annual
event, says we need more laughter in our lives to (1) _ the global rise of stress and loneliness But surely that strange sound that we make periodically can’t be the (2) _ to
such problems
If an alien were to land on our planet and (3) _ a stroll among a crowd of earthlings, it would hear a lot of ‘ha-ha’ noises It might wonder what (4) _ this strange habit served.
If we ask ourselves what (5) _ a good laugh, the obvious answer is that it is a response
to something funny (6) _ one scientist, Robert Provine, says humour has surprisingly little to (7) _ with that Instead, it lies at the (8) _ of such issues as the perception of
self and the evolution of language and social behaviour
Provine realised that you cannot capture (9) _ laughter in the lab because as soon as you (10) _ it under scrutiny, it vanishes So, instead, he gathered data (11) _ hanging
around groups of people, noting when they laughed
He collected 1,200 laugh episodes – and episode being (12) _ as the comment immediately preceding the laughter and the laughter itself His analysis of this data (13) _ some important facts about laughter “It’s a message we send to other people – it (14)
_ disappears when we’re by ourselves,” he says “And it’s not a choice Ask someone to
laugh and they’ll either try to (15) _ a laugh or say they can’t do it on command.”
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9. A complete B authentic C contemporary D current
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II Fill each blank with ONE suitable word Write your answers in the numbered blanks provided below the passage (15p.)
Among all the abilities with (1) _ an individual may be endowed, musical talent appears (2) _ in life Very young children can exhibit musical precocity (3) _ different reasons Some develop exceptional (4) _ as a result of a well-designed instructional
regime, such as the Suzuki method for the violin Some have the good fortune to be born into
a musical (5) _ in a household filled with music In a number of interesting cases,
musical talent is part of an otherwise disabling condition such as autism or mental
retardation A musically gifted child has an inborn talent; (6) _, the extent to which the talent is expressed (7) _ will depend upon the environment in which the child lives.
Musically gifted children master (8) _ an early age the principal elements of music,
including pitch and rhythm Pitch – or melody – is more central in certain cultures, for example, in Eastern societies that make use of tiny quarter – tone intervals Rhythm, sounds
produced at certain auditory frequencies and grouped according to a prescribed (9) _, is emphasized in sub-Saharan Africa, (10) _ the rhythmic ratios can be very complex.
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III In this part of the test, you are going to read a short text, then answer the questions following each text by choosing the best answer to each question A,B,C or D (15p.)
Those brilliant autumn leaves
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During spring and summer, leaves get their green cast from chlorophyll, the pigment that plays a major role in capturing sunlight But the leaves also contain other pigments whose colours are masked during the growing season In autumn, trees break down their chlorophyll and draw some of the components back into their tissues Conventional wisdom regards autumn colours as the product of the remaining pigments, which are finally unmasked
Evolutionary biologists and plant physiologists offer two different explanations for why natural selection has made autumn colours so widespread Dr William Hamilton, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford University, proposed that bright autumn leaves contain a message: they warn insects to leave them alone Dr Hamilton's 'leaf signal' hypothesis grew out of earlier work he had done on the extravagant plumage of birds He proposed it served
as an advertisement from males to females, indicating they had desirable genes As females evolved a preference for those displays, males evolved more extravagant feathers as they competed for mates In the case of trees, Dr Hamilton proposed that the visual message was sent to insects In the autumn, aphids and other insects choose trees where they will lay their eggs When the eggs hatch the next spring, the larvae feed on the tree, often with devastating
results A tree can ward off these pests with poisons Dr Hamilton speculated that trees with
strong defences might be able to protect themselves even further by letting egg-laying insects know what was in store for their eggs By producing brilliant autumn colours, the trees advertised their lethality As insects evolved to avoid the brightest leaves, natural selection favoured trees that could become even brighter
‘It was a beautiful idea,’ said Marco Archetti, a former student of Dr Hamilton who is now
at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland Dr Hamilton had Mr Archetti turn the hypothesis into a mathematical model The model showed that warning signals could indeed drive the evolution of bright leaves - at least in theory Another student, Sam Brown, tested the leaf-signal hypothesis against real data about trees and insects ‘It was a first stab to see what was out there,’ said Dr Brown, now an evolutionary biologist at the University of Texas
The leaf-signal hypothesis has also drawn criticism, most recently from Dr Wilkinson and
Dr H Martin Schaefer, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Freiburg in Germany
Dr Wilkinson and other critics point to a number of details about aphids and trees that do not fit Dr Hamilton's hypothesis Dr William Hoch, a plant physiologist at the University of Wisconsin, argues that bright leaves appear on trees that have no insects to warn off ‘If you are up here in the north of Wisconsin, by the time the leaves change, all the insects that feed
on foliage are gone,’ Dr Hoch said In their article, Dr Schaefer and Dr Wilkinson argue that a much more plausible explanation for autumn colours can be found in the research of
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serve mainly as a sunscreen.
Dr Hamilton's former students argue that the leaf-signal hypothesis is still worth investigating Dr Brown believes that leaves might be able to protect themselves both from sunlight and from insects Dr Brown and Dr Archetti also argue that supporters of the sunscreen hypothesis have yet to explain why some trees have bright colours and some do not 'This is a basic question in evolution that they seem to ignore,’ Dr Archetti said ‘I don't think it's a huge concern,’ Dr Hoch replied ‘There's natural variation for every characteristic.’
Dr Hamilton's students and their critics agree that the debate has been useful, because it has given them a deeper reverence for this time of year 'People sometimes say that science
makes the world less interesting and awesome by just explaining things away,' Dr.
Wilkinson said 'But with autumn leaves, the more you know about them, the more amazed you are.'
1. What is stated about the colours of autumn leaves in the first two paragraphs?
A There has previously been no disagreement about what causes them
B The process that results in them has never been fully understood
C Different colours from those that were previously the norm have started to appear
D Debate about the purpose of them has gone on for a long time
2. The writer says that Dr Hamilton's work has focused on
A the different purposes of different colours
B the use of colour for opposite purposes
C the possibility that birds and insects have influenced each other's behaviour
D the increased survival rates of certain kinds of tree
3. Dr Hamilton has suggested that there is a connection between
A the colours of autumn leaves and the behaviour of insects
B the development of brighter leaves and the reduced numbers of certain types of insect
C the survival of trees and the proximity of insects to them
D the brightness of leaves and the development of other defence mechanisms in trees
4. The phrase ‘ward off’ in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to
5. What is said about the work done by former students of Dr Hamilton?
A Neither of them was able to achieve what they set out to do
B Mr Archetti felt some regret about the outcome of the work he did
C Both of them initiated the idea of doing the work
D Dr Brown did not expect to draw any firm conclusions from his work
6. Critics of Dr Hamilton's theory have expressed the view that
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B his theory is based on a misunderstanding about insect behaviour
C the colours of autumn leaves have a different protective function
D his theory can only be applied to certain kinds of insect
7. The word ‘serve’ in paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to
8. In the debate between the two groups of people investigating the subject, it has been suggested that
A something regarded as a key point by one side is in fact not important
B further research will prove that Dr Hamilton's theory is the correct one
C both sides may in fact be completely wrong
D the two sides should collaborate
9. The word ‘awesome’ in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to
10. All the people involved in research on the subject of autumn leaves feel that
A it highlights the mystery of the natural world
B it is one of the most complex areas they have ever investigated
C it concerns a phenomenon that ordinary people would like an explanation for
D it shows how interesting an area previously thought to be dull can be
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IV The following text has seven sections, A-G Choose the correct heading for each section from the list of headings below Write the correct number, i-x, in blanks 1-7 (10.5p.)
List of Headings
i The instructions for old dances survive
ii Inspired by foreign examples iii Found in a number of countries and districts
iv An enthusiastic response from certain people
v Spectators join in the dancing
vi How the street event came about vii From the height of popularity to a fall from fashion viii A surprise public entertainment