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ĐỀ THI CHỌN HSG VÙNG DUYÊN HẢI – ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ LẦN THỨ VI
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh 10 Thời gian làm bài: 180’
I LISTENING
Section 1:
Questions 1 – 10
Complete the table below Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
HOSTELS
Hostelling
International West
End
Example 10 minutes
from downtown by
Answer ……
bus……….
$50 per night but only $1………
for members
Membership card offers discount on entry to
2……… Internet access costs
$3 per 3……… 4……… Hostel Near beach
Two-minute walk to 5………
$62 Meals extra but only available in 6………
Was built as a hostel
in 7……… Can hire
8……… from hostel
Backpackers Hostel In 9………
district
$45 plus $5 for breakfast
A 10………
on every floor for guests to use
Section 2:
Questions 11 – 15
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11 Bilingualism can be defined as having an equal level of communicative ………
in two or more languages
12 Early research suggested that bilingualism caused problems with ……… and mental development
13 Early research into bilingualism is now ejected because it did not consider the
……… and ……… backgrounds of the children
14 It is now thought that there is a ……… relationship between bilingualism and cognitive skills in children
15 Research done by Ellen Bialystok in Canada now suggests that the effects of bilingualism also apply to ………
Questions 16 – 20
Choose the correct letter A, B, or C.
16 In Dr Bialystok’s experiment, the subjects had to react according to
A the colour of the square on the screen
B the location of the square on the screen
C the location of the shift key on the keyboard
17 The experiment demonstrated the ‘Simon effect’ because it involved a conflict between
A seeing something and reacting to it
B producing fast and slow reactions
C demonstrating awareness of shape and colour
18 The experiment shows that, compared with the monolingual subjects, the bilingual
subjects
A were more intelligent
B had faster reaction times overall
C had more problems with the ‘Simon effect’
19 The results of the experiment indicate that bilingual people may be better at
A doing different types of tasks at the same time
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C focusing only on what is needed to do a task
20 Dr Bialystok’s first and second experiments both suggest that bilingualism may
A slow down the effects of old age on the brain
B lead to mental confusion among old people
C help old people to stay in better physical condition
II GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
Exercise 1: Choose the best answer to fill in the blank
1 Last year ABBA made a of several million crowns
2 Even though I didn’t want my son to leave home, since he was 21 there was nothing I could do to _ it
3 You’ll have to use the stairs, I’m afraid The lift is out of _
4 Have you seen a mug anywhere, Roy? We seem to be one
5 We got a very good _ in the newspaper this morning They must have liked the play
6 I’m afraid I really couldn’t eat any more I’m _
A full up B fed up C filled up D famished
7 One day I’m going to find a/an of land somewhere in the country and build
a house on it
8 The position of monarch is not something that is chosen by the people It is
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A inherit B generated C hereditary D passed over
9 Don’t tell Anne about Paul and Jane breaking up – you know what a/an she is;
it will be all over the town in no time
10 I can’t eat this meat; it’s too _
11 David’s married Elizabeth Green? No, I don’t believe it! You’re pulling my !
12 The accused man was proved innocent and was
A liberated B excused C interned D acquitted
13 It rains whenever I go out without my umbrella
A continually B invariably C typically D infallibly
14 Don’t waste your time telling Janet a joke; she’s totally _ of a sense of
humour
A deficient B missing C devoid D lacking
15 The photocopier in our office needs a complete These copies are terrible
A maintenance B repair C overhaul D renovation
16 A prominent member of the Cabinet was as correspondent in the divorce case
17 The travel agency sent us a detailed of our journey to India
A docket B agenda C itinerary D documentation
18 Since our train leaves at 10:30, it is that everyone is at the station no later than 10:15
A imperative B urgent C desired D inescapable
19 After travelling all day, he was completely _
A done in B done up C broken down D used up
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be after a very short time
A antiquated B irreparable C disused D obsolete
Exercise 2: There are ten mistakes in the following passage Find the mistakes and
correct them.
The main sources of energy in the world are fossil fuels - coal, oil and natural gas Fossil fuels are non-renewable - this mean that nature cannot recreate them as fast as people using them up today Sometimes in the future, all of them will run out and we will need other renewable sources of energy Some renewable energy sources are being available now One
of them is water, what has been used to create energy for thousands of years Today, hydro-or water power, generate by huge dams, is a major source of electric in many parts of the world But hydropower has its own costs When dams are built, the area above them is flooded, even for miles In some places, people lose their homes as well as the rich soil river in which they once growed their crops In other places, wonderful wild landscapes buried forever under new, artificial lakes Below the dams, the natural habitats of fish and wildlife in the river valley are destroyed as the course of the river is changed
Exercise 3: Fill in each blank with one suitable particle or preposition.
1 Don’t tell me you like his taste _ clothes! He looks terrible!
2 Although we were all rather irritated by the situation at the time, we laughed _
it afterwards
3 The national debt has been decreased $10 billion this year
4 Her latest novel is coming in paperback soon
5 I wish you’d lay _ telling me what to do all the time
6 I’d better turn early I didn’t sleep well last night
7 He has a talent for getting the most complicated ideas _
8 For the last twenty years, he has been laying _ 15%of his salary for his old age
9 He had a bad time in the army but he has put it _ him now
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Exercise 4: Fill in each blank with the suitable form of the word in capital
It’s noisy in space!
Inside the International Space Station, it is so noisy that the astronauts cannot
hear one another As a result, United States and Russian engineers have
launched a (1) repair programme which they hope will lead to the
(2) of the station’s 72-decibel roar: the equivalent of standing
beside a busy motorway ‘It is not a (3) situation,’ said Mike
Engle, a (4) for the engineering team ‘Apart from astronauts
losing sleep, there is a danger one of them will (5) a colleague’s
instruction and press an incorrect button!’ (6) , most of the noise
comes from the equipment needed to keep them (7) ‘The coolers
are the worst,’ Mr Engle explained ‘But without them, the station would
become (8) hot! When we put together the station we faced a
choice We could either spend extra years (9) that the station
would be totally quiet, or we could get on and build the thing Now it’s
assembled, we are doing our best to (10) it down
PRIOR REDUCE HEALTH SPEAK HEAR IRONY LIFE
BEAR SURE
QUIET
Exercise 5: Read the text and fill in each blank with one suitable word.
Exploring the Arctic Ocean
A huge international project to explore the Arctic Ocean has begun It is expected to discover thousands of new species of marine animals, many of which have been completely cut (1) from the rest of the world for thousands of years Scientists claim that the study of the unknown depths of the Arctic Ocean, perhaps the (2) understood ocean on earth, is now urgent (3) of the growing threat (4) its unique marine life posed by global warming Climatologists estimate that the Arctic summer has
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The Arctic Ocean is unusual as much of it is capped with ice and there is land all around it ‘It
is as (6) _ the Arctic Ocean is inside a box which has a lid of ice on the top There’s (7) _ other place in the world like it,’ says chief scientist Ron O’Dor A particular focus planned for the project he is undertaking will be the Canada Basin, an underwater hole 3,800 metres deep where life has remained isolated (8) millennia
This Arctic exploration project is part of the Census of Marine Life, a collaboration of more than 300 scientists from 53 countries, (9) _ aim is to address our ignorance of what lives in the sea Since the Census began several years ago, more than 500 new species
of fish have been identified However, scientists believe (10) could be ten times as many yet to be discovered
III READING
Exercise 1: Read the text and choose the best answer to fill in each blank.
We really can tell if we are being watched
Stories about how people somehow know when they are being watched have been going around for years However, few (1) have been made to investigate the
phenomenon scientifically Now, with the completion of the largest ever study of the so-called staring effect, there is impressive evidence that this is a recognizable and
(2) sixth sense The study (3) hundreds of children For the experiments, they sat with their eyes covered and with their backs to other children, who are told to either stare at them or look away The results consistently showed that the children who could not see were able to tell when they were being stared at In a total of 18,000 trials carried out worldwide, the children (4) sensed when they were being watched almost 70% of the time The experiment was repeated with the (5) precaution
of putting children who were being watched outside the room, (6) from the
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on, with the children telling each other whether they were looking or not This prevented the possibility of sounds being (8) between the children The results, though less impressive, were more or less the same Dr Sheldrake, the biologist who designed the study, believes that the results are (9) enough to find out through further experiments (10) how the staring effect might actually come about
3 A involved B contained C comprised D enclosed
4 A exactly B correctly C thoroughly D perfectly
5 A attached B added C connected D increased
7 A pretending B lying C cheating D deceiving
8 A delivered B transported C transmitted D distributed
9 A satisfying B convincing C concluding D persuading
10 A really B carefully C definitely D precisely
Exercise 2: Read the text and choose the best answer.
During the late Middle Ages, oil paint took hold as the artistic medium of choice because it was effective, flexible, ad resilient relative to the wax-based, watercolor, fresco, or tempera paints prevalent at the time Although contemporary commercially prepared paints contain a
mixture of pigments and linseed oil, poppy oil paints are also available to connoisseurs The
original recipes developed in medieval European monasteries relied on fast-drying bases derived from various organic oils predominantly valued for their medicinal qualities The
pigments are insoluble, lightproof, and chemically inert powders ground in the base.
Occasionally, varnish can be added to increase the paste’s ability to reflect light and to cover pictures with a protective seal The resulting stiff, resinous compounds are often packaged in flexible metal or plastic tubes Historically, yellow pigments have been added to the oil, and then the paste was layered over tin foil to imitate the appearance of gold leaf
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exploit their viscosity in thick applications, sprays, thin trickles, and three-dimensional blobs.
The purification by boiling and filtering and bleaching of oils can impart varied hues to powdered pigments, while drying time can be reduced by adding metallic oxides
Professional painters who mix their own medium usually have their own trademark methods
of mixing materials that art experts recognize as a part of an artist’s creative work
The thickness of the paste also plays an important role in defining the stages of painting a picture After the basic design is sketched in pencil or charcoal, the broad background or foreground areas of the canvas are covered with thin, diluted paint on top of the primer A thicker paint, often with added varnish, is subsequently used to refine and outline the foundation The width of the brush depends on the type of paint the artist chooses to use, and stiff bristles are usually found in narrow brushes for making sharp lines, while softer brushes
of animal hair can be employed in broad strokes
1 What does the passage mainly discuss?
A The evolution and history of oil paintings and media
B The technology and development of drying oils
C The recipes and ingredients for producing oil paints
D The composition and techniques for mixing oil paints
2 It can be inferred from the passage that oil paintings
A supplanted the use of tempera and fresco
B took hold of the artistic choices in the Middle Ages
C promoted artistic talent since the early times
D supported the usefulness of applying paints
3 The word “connoisseurs” in bold is closest in meaning to
A explorers
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C exporters
D experimenters
4 According to the passage, medieval monks extracted oil
A from minerals
B in conjunction with pigments
C from plants
D in combination with medicines
5 The phrase “the base” in bold is closest in meaning to
A paint
B oil
C chemicals
D pestle
6 The purpose of paragraph 2 is to illustrate
A the laboriousness of making oil paints
B the durability of oil colors
C the complexity of oil purification
D the superiority of oil paints
7 The word “viscosity” in bold is closest in meaning to
A stiffness
B elasticity
C stickiness
D eloquence
8 Which of the following is NOT mentioned as components of oil paints?
A accelerants
B retarders
C sealants
D glosses