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Circle best option A, B, C, or D to complete the sentences below.. Circle best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following passage.. Find a suitable word to complete the following pas

PHÒNG GD&ĐT HÀ THANH KÌ THI CHỌN HSG NĂM HỌC 2015-2016

MÔN: TIẾNG ANH

Thời gian làm bài 120 phút không kể thời gian giao đề

Part 1: PHONETICS (0.2 x 10 = 2.0 pts)

I Choose the underlined part is pronounced differently from of the others (5x0,2=1.0 pt)

11 A education B collection C celebration D question

12 A recycle B collect C cooking D electric

II Choose the words whose stress pattern isn’t the same as that of the others (5x 0,2 = 1.0 pt)

16 A seventeen B seventy C measure D friendly

18 A geography B chemistry C history D different

20 A discussion B television C equation D selection

Part 2: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 x 0.2 =6.0 pts)

I Circle best option A, B, C, or D to complete the sentences below (10 x 0,2 = 2 pts)

21 Some people are used to in crowed buses, and don't mind it at all

22 It’s no use him to stop smoking

23 It is fun to camp in the forest, but it is very important to know how to nature clean before we leave

24 this invention, we can learn more about the undersea world.

25 My parents like fish, but .

26 My sister has a summer vacation

A five - weeks B five - week's C five - weeks' D five - week

27 Marry and I are looking forward you

A of seeing B for seeing C to seeing D to see

28 Where can we cross the road? – Use the

A crossing pavement B zebre crossing C passenger way D foot bath

29 My funny story made the whole class

30 She needed these postcards to her friends

ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC

31 Did you make a _ go to Nha Trang.

32 I'd like a nice _ orange

33 Eating _ is the key to good health

34 Do you like _ music

35 It’s so _ today! It’s too wet and cold I hate this kind of weather

36 The _ students often play soccer or basketball

37 He can’t hear because of his _.

38 Hoa had a _ check- up

39 These shops have goods for sale at _ price.

40 My headache _ after I took the tablet

DECIDE JUICE SENSIBLE TRADITION PLEASURE ENERGY DEAF MEDICINE ATTRACT APPEAR

III Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb in the brackets (0,2 x 5 =1.0 pt)

41 The number of participants (increase) _ every week

42 Nobody (work) _ harder than John

43 I think she (leave) _ this afternoon.

44 Mumps (be) _ an infectious disease.

45 Listen! The girl (play) _ the piano.

IV Fill each gap of the following sentences with the suitable preposition (0,2 x 5 = 1.0 pt)

46 You’ll get wet if you go out a raincoat because it is raining.

47 We’d like a walk instead riding a bike

48 I know You are fed up this problem.

49 Some games player spend too much time the computer games

50 My friends advised me give fishing.

Part 3: READING (5.0 pts)

I Circle best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following passage (10 x 0.2 = 2.0 pts)

Your headache and you sneeze and cough Your nose is all stuffed up, and it keeps running, so you have

to blow it every few minutes You know by these (51) that you have a cold, and you fell completely (52) You are not sure if you will live through the day.

Everyone suffers (53) the common cold at some time or other It isn’t a serious (54) , but over a billion dollars a year is spent on different kinds of cold medicine every year This medicine can relieve the symptoms That is, it can make you cough (55) , make your head less intense, and stop your nose (56) for a while However, it can cure your cold So far, (57) no cure for the common cold and no medicine to prevent it.

(58) there is no cure or preventive medicine for colds, people have all kinds of ideas about (59) prevent and treat colds Some people think that if you eat a lot of onions, you won’t catch cold (60) say that you should avoid getting wet and chilled, or you will catch cold However, this is apparently not so.

II Find a suitable word to complete the following passage (10 x 0,2 = 2 pts)

Mark twain is a famous American writer His (61) was Samuel Longhorn Clemens and “ Mark Twain” was (62) pen-name Samuel Clemens was born in a small town (63) the Mississippi river in the USA The boy (64) many friends at school and when he became a writer, he described them in his stories (65) Samuel was twelve, his after father died and the boy began to work and learned the (66) of a printer Samuel always (67) to be a sailor and when he was he was twenty he found work on a river boat After some time he (68) the boat and went to live in California Here he began to write short (69) under the name of Mark Twain He sent (70)

to newspaper The reader liked his stories very much

III Read the following text and then do the task below (5 x 0,2 = 1 pt)

CAMPFIRE SAFETY Sitting around a burning campfire is a fun way to relax after a day of hiking Unluckily, many campers don’t know how to keep their fires safe Forests are easy to catch fire but it is extremely difficult to stop a forest fire Each year, forest fires burn plants, kill animals, destroy environment and put the lives of people

in danger It is important that when you have a fire, you should make it a safe fire.

These are some guidelines to remember:

1 Choose a safe place for your fire Move all things easy to catch fire at least 1 meter away from your campfire.

2 When the campfire is burning, someone of your group should watch it to make sure the fire does not spread.

3 Have a shovel ready in case you need to put the fire out.

4 When you don’t want to use the fire anymore, pour water on the fire until it is completely

Now write T for right sentence or F for the wrong sentence

71 Many campers do not know how to keep their campfires safe and they cannot cook their meal

72 When a forest burn, It will burn plants, kill animals, destroy environment and put people in danger.

73 When the campfire is burning, someone should take care of it to stop the fire to spread in time

74 When do not want to use the fire any more, we should cover it with green leaves.

75 We should know how to keep our campfires safe because Forests are easy to catch fire.

Part 4: WRITING (5.0 points)

I Find and correct the underlined word or phrase in each sentence that needs correcting (5 x 0,2

= 1 pt)

76 My parents always think that I am not enough old to ride to school alone

A B C D

77 Neither you nor she want to become a pharmacist

A B C D

78 I tried hardly to remember his name but I couldn’t

A B C D

79 Million of foreign visitors come to Vietnam every year

A B C D

80 You look tired You'd better staying inside at recess

A B C D

II Finish the second sentence in such a way is similar to the original one (10 x 0,2 = 2 pts)

81 Mr Thanh couldn't enjoy the meal because of the stomachache.

The stomachache prevented

82 Lan didn’t come to school And Mai didn’t come to school

Neither

83 A train leaves at eight o'clock every morning.

There is ………

84 Lan didn’t go to school yesterday because of her sickness

Because … ………

85 There is no need for you to talk so loudly.

You don't ……….

86 Miss Lan is a fast runner

Miss Lan runs………

87 The visitor spoke so quickly that I couldn't understand what he said.

The visitor spoke too ………

88 Trung didn't go to school last Saturday

Trung was

89 My house is the oldest house on the stress.

No houses………

90 It takes my mother half an hour to cook lunch.

My mother spends………

III Write a passage about the activities your classmates and you enjoy doing at the recess (not more than 100 words) (2 pts)

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