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VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ LẦN THỨ VI
MÔN TIẾNG ANH – LỚP 10
Thời gian: 180 phút Part I: Listening (15 points)
I Napoleon led a very exciting and dangerous life, but he died in his own bed The cause of Napoleon’s death has been the subject of controversy from that time to the present Listen to some of the theories people have had about the cause of his death and fill in each blank with ONE word You will listen to the CD twice (5 points)
The cause of Napoleon’s death at the age of 51 on the island of St Helena is still a (1) _ There is no doubt that he was a very sick man at the time of his death One theory about the cause of his death is that he had (2) cancer Another theory is that he was deliberately (3) by a servant A third theory also suggests that he was poisoned, but not by his servant This third theory suggests that he was poisoned accidentally by fumes from the (4) _ in the house he lived in A few years ago, samples of the wallpaper were (5) and (6) _ of arsenic were found in it Arsenic is a (7) poison that was used in some of the (8) in wallpaper during the time that Napoleon lived More than (9) _ years after his death, people are still (10) _ about the cause of his death
II You will hear someone talking on the radio about a Language Study Fair For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space In each space, use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS You will listen to the CD twice (5 points)
The Language Study Fair
Dates: 17th to 19th (0) of March
Place: National Education Centre
Fair includes: - stands with textbooks
- (1) ……… by educational speakers
- exhibition of furniture
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Opening hours: 9.30 a.m – 5.00 p.m Thursday and Friday
9.30 a.m – 4.00 p.m (3)………
Tickets: £5
or £3 for (4)………
Tickets can be booked by ringing (5) ……… on 984 7711
III Listen to a conversation on a university campus and choose the correct option (5 points)
1 What is the woman’s status at the university?
C She’s a transfer student D She’s a graduate student
2 What is the man’s status at the university?
C He’s a transfer student D He’s a graduate student
3 What does the man want to learn from the woman?
A How to transfer to a junior college
B How to find his way around campus
C The course requirements for a literature major
D Who won the campus election
4 How many total courses must a student take for a literature major?
5 The man will probably take his elective courses in which area?
Part II: Grammar and Vocabulary
I Choose the best answer (10 points)
1 All my friends have big new cars I’m becoming ………… of my old Mini
2 Fiona is very angry ………… her boss’s decision to sack several members of staff
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4 I’m afraid you may find the truth somewhat ………
5 She’s very ………… She can be relied on to do her job properly
6 The youth team really ……… themselves in the semi-final
7 In my opinion, it’s only common ……… to wear a seat belt in a car
8 How do you ……… about the pollution problem in this country?
9 I’m ……… in my present job; I need something more challenging
10 I find his behaviour towards me quite ………… He treats me like an idiot
11 Several of my friends are ……… reporters
12 Why did Mary ask you ………… a bicycle?
A that if you had B do you have C that you had D if you had
13 Our classroom is supplied with …………
14 There are several means of mass communication The newspaper is one, television is
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15 Her guest apologized for causing her so much ………
16 This cloth ……… very thin
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17 Bread and butter ………… his favorite breakfast
18 As Roger had resigned, the company decided to take no further ………….against him
19 Neither Peter nor his parents ……… going to spend the summer abroad
20 I cannot help ……… anxious about the exam results
II In most lines of the following text, there is an error For each line, indicate the error and correct it Some lines are correct Indicate these lines with a tick (5 points)
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Is it possible constructing devices that will talk and understand speech? As early
as the 18th century, various attempts was being made to find some way of reproducing the human voice by mechanical means The Austrian inventor, Wolfgang von Kempelen built a small machine consists of a device to produce air flow, and other similar mechanism to function like a voice box Alexander Bell also constructed a “talking head”, made out of artificial materials, that was able to produce few sounds Modern techniques led to huge progress in this field It is no longer necessary to build physical models of the voice box as sound waves can be made electronic by reproduce the different components of the sound wave Early results sounded very unnaturally More recently, the quality of artificial speech is greatly improved In fact, with some devices, it is impossible to tell whether or not human being is talking
III Complete the following sentences with a suitable particle/preposition (5 points)
1 A lorry had broken ……… on the motorway and we had to wait for over an hour
2 Stop the car! I think we’ve run ………a dog
3 Who came up ……… the idea of the ball-point pen?
4 I’d like everyone here to put ………as many suggestions as possible
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6 They said ………….the news that the price of petrol is going up again
7 The issue ………… question is more complex than you think
8 Watch out ………….words like “so-called” in articles as they express the writer’s bias
9 I’ve gone ………… skiing since I discovered snowboarding
10 I have narrowed it ……… to two computer games, but I can’t still make up my mind
VI Fill each gap with the correct form of the word in brackets.( 5 points)
1 I didn't believe him His story was very (convince)
2 I'm afraid that your report is full of ( accurate )
3 The company was hit by a of crises (success)
4 I have told you on occasions not to leave the safe unlocked (number)
5 Deirdre is a on football matches for local radio (comment)
6 In with other countries in the region, Vietnam is still a poor country
(compare)
7 Burning gas in an way of heating a house Coal is much cheaper
(economy)
8 The policeman held the thief by the wrist The thief followed him without
(resist)
9 She must have a lot of………… to think of ideas like that (imagine)
10 It would be safer if all houses had windows made out of ……….glass (break)
VI Write ONE word in each gap (10 points)
Your first telescope
Many people look up at the night sky and become fascinated by the wonders of the universe.(1) ………… that sounds like you, then perhaps it’s time you got your own telescope Astronomy can be a great hobby and we’ve provided this simple guide for those
of you thinking of (2) ……… it up
What if I don’t have much money?
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……… discover a comet! Remember, though, that you (5)……… never look at the Sun directly through binoculars or a telescope
What kind of telescope do I need?
Depending on what you want to do, you need to choose (6)……… a refracting and
a reflecting telescope A refracting telescope (with two glass lenses) is a great way of quickly (7)…… your way around the heavens As well as more stars (8)……… you can imagine, there are the planets to explore! You should have no difficulty (9)
……… finding Mars and even Saturn, with its fantastic rings If you want to really explore the universe, then you will need a reflecting telescope (with a mirror) These telescopes are much (10)………… at collecting light and allow you to see things in amazing detail!
Whatever you decide, welcome the wonderful world of astronomy!
Part III: Reading (30 points)
I Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks (10 points)
If you are an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or a snarl It has become a symbol of our wasteful, throw-away society But there seems little doubt it is here to stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastic has brought enormous (1) even environmental ones It's not really the plastic themselves that are the environmental evil - it's the way society chooses to use and (2) them
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal-non-renewable natural (3) We (4) well over three millions tonnes of the stuff
in Britain each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away A high (5) of our annual consumption is in the form of packaging, and this (6) about 7% by weight of our domestic refuse Almost all of it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling (7) is growing fast
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II Read the passage and choose the best answer.(10 points)
Theories of life on Mars
In the mid-1700s, astronomers observed polar ice caps on Mars William Herschel saw that the ice caps changed in size with the seasons The presence of water and seasons, features present on Earth, prompted speculation that life might exist on Mars
Improved telescopes in the nineteenth century further fueled these speculations
They allowed Mars’s surface features to be identified In 1877, an Italian astronomer,
Giovanni Schiapareli, used a 22-centimeter telescope to draw the first map of Mars His
map depicted long lines that he called canali, the Italian word for channels But his term
was mistakenly translated into English as canals Because channels are usually natural and canals are manmade, the mistake gave birth to imaginative theories of life on Mars over the next 100 years
The leading proponent of the view that the canals were built by intelligent beings was an American astronomer, Percival Lowell At the Lowell Observatory in the high altitude and clear air of Flagstaff, Arizona, Lowell studied Mars extensively and made detailed drawings of its surface features He published books about his Mars studies,
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proposed that the canals had been constructed by a long-extinct civilization as an elaborate
irrigation system The canals conveyed water from the polar regions to the dry population
centers of the planet Lowell’s ideas were embraced by popular culture The British
novelist H.G Wells wrote the most famous novel describing life on Mars, War of the
Worlds He imagined that Martians invaded Earth in order to flee the death of their own
planet
Bigger and better telescope lenses in the twentieth century failed to confirm that the features Lowell observed really were canals In fact, they ultimately were shown to be optical illusions
Life on Mars was dealt a further blow beginning in 1965 The United States launched the Mariner spacecrafts to fly close to the surface to take photographs and test the atmosphere Those probes showed that Mars has a thin atmosphere made mostly of carbon dioxide and that the polar ice caps are frozen dioxide, not water The photos revealed that Mars had no rivers, oceans, or any other visible signs of life Scientists concluded that Mars’ thin atmosphere and lack of a magnetic field made it vulnerable to harmful cosmic radiation Biological and soil experiments were conducted by the Viking project in 1976 To the scientists’ surprise, the test showed that Mars’s surface has no organic matter at all Thus the present view is that Mars is a dead planet, though there may have been life early in its history that later became extinct
Beginning in 1996, the United States launched a highly successful series of landings
on Mars While they have not found life, they have expanded our knowledge of Martian geology and chemistry A robotic exploration vehicle in 2001 sent back to Earth spectacular images of Mars’s terrain Other missions have detected hydrogen and methane
In 2004, Martian vehicles provided conclusive evidence that water existed in the distant past Additional American missions have been planned through 2009 The European Space Agency wants to land humans on Mars by 2035 And in 2004, the American president declared a national goal of sending astronauts to land on and explore Mars
1 The word they in the paragraph 2 refers to …
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2 According to paragraph 2, the first map of Mars showed which of the following surface feature?
3 What does the author imply about water on Mars?
A It never existed because Mars has no oxygen
B It disappeared because of Mars’ thin atmosphere and cosmic radiation
C It was carried by manmade canals
D It was used to irrigate the deserts
4 The word conveyed in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ………
5 Why does the author mention H.G Wells’s novel, War of the Worlds?
A To show that another astronomer agreed with Lowell
B To give an example of how Lowell’s view was adopted by popular culture
C To identify a famous novel of the early 1900s
D to prove that there were canals on Mars
6 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about Mars?
C It has a thick atmosphere D Its surface has no organic matter
7 Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 5 about Earth?
A Its atmosphere is made mostly of carbon dioxide and water
B Its atmosphere is thinner than Mars’s
C Its oceans were once frozen carbon dioxide
D Its magnetic field protects life forms from cosmic radiation
8 – 9 – 10 Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is
provided below Complete the summary by selecting the THREE answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage Some answer choices do not belong in
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This passage discusses the history of theories of life on Mars
Answer Choices:
A H.G Wells wrote War of the Worlds.
B The Italian word for channels is canali.
C Observations of polar ice caps and canals suggested that life existed.
D Recent space probes have proved that life is lacking.
E Improved telescopes showed that there are no canals.
F The Viking project conducted soil surveys on Mars.
III You are going to read a magazine article about cloning Choose the most suitable heading from the list A-H for each part (1-5) of the article There is one extra heading which you do not need to use There are two examples at the beginning and at the end (5 points)
A Planning the filming
B Selling it to the right person
C Breaking down the budget
D Not as glamorous as you think
E Give people what they expect
F The right leader with business sense
G Putting the pieces together
H hard work, but worth it
Lights, Camera, Actions
Most films start as an idea It might be in a director’s mind, or in a writer’s mind, but wherever it comes from, it’s the producer who needs convincing The producer is the businessman who finds the money to make the film If you’ve got an idea for the next blockbuster, you need to find somebody who is willing to make your film The producer will then organize the budget and decide how much it worth spending on the film
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