For questions 1-5, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D which fits best according to what you hear.. WRITE NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER in the corresponding numbered boxes...
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KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ
LẦN THỨ X, NĂM 2017
ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
LỚP 11
Thời gian: 180 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)
Ngày thi: 15/4/2017
( Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề)
Điểm
Giám khảo1 Giám khảo 2 Số phách
HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
Bài nghe gồm 4 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 30 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
A LISTENING (50 pts)
Part 1: You will hear part of a radio discussion with Ellen Harrington: of the Meadow Lane
Residents Group, and Tim Barlow from Carton Town Planning Department For questions 1-5,
choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear (10pts)
1 What was Ellen's first reaction when the town centre was closed to traffic?
2 The mood of the Meadow Lane residents can best be described as
A furious B dissatisfied C.resigned D dejected
3 How does Tim feel about the changes in the town centre?
A He regrets they were made so quickly B He believes they were inevitable
C He thinks the town council should have foreseen the problem
D He is proud the town council went forward with them
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
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4 What does Tim think about the protest Ellen's group is planning?
A He doesn't think it will accomplish anything
B.He doesn't think drivers will be affected
C He thinks it is not aimed at the right people
D He thinks it will be dangerous
5 How does Ellen react to Tim's comments?
A.She accepts his main point B.She thinks he is being evasive
C She thinks he doesn't understand human nature D She considers his comments unrealistic Your answers:
Part 2: You will hear a radio interview,and decide whether the following sentences are true (T)
or false (F) (10 pts)
1 The idea for the invention occurred to Ryan while waiting at a Burger King restaurant
2 Ryan used the idea when he entered a science contest
3 Ryan’s invention helps deaf people learn sign language
4 Ryan had no previous experience of building electronic devices
5 Ryan has sold his invention to a deaf community centre
Your answers:
Part 3: You will hear a guide speaking to tourists who are visiting some Romans remains Listen and give short answers to the questions Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER taken from the recording (10 pts)
1 When did the Romans first come to the Corbridge area?
………
2 Why did the Romans built a series of forts and strongholds?
………
3 What did people begin to search for in 1201?
………
4 How often have archaeological digs taken place since 1934?
………
5 What are the two things that visitors should pay attention to?
………
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Part 4: Listen to a piece of news about the loss of rainforests and complete the summary below WRITE NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER in the corresponding numbered boxes (20 pts)
Since the beginning of 20th century rainforests have been under threat of extinction One major cause of deforestation is repurposing the land for 1 such as growing rubber or palm oil
on its property
The loss of this dense biodiversity can pose several threats to our modern society It is estimated that 2. modern medicines would be lost along with thousands of 3. _ derived from plants while underprivileged groups are relying on rainforest plants for medicines According to
World Health Organization, 4. take up to 50% of all medicines in ChinA Another major
problem is climate change Known as 5 _, rainforests absorb CO2, clearing it from the atmosphere A rise in carbon dioxide levels and a fall in rainforest acreage would contribute to 6 _ and severe droughts More seriously, 7 over resources such as farming land has led to farmers’ deaths globally
It is not easy to find a feasible approach to stopping deforestation as many people on Earth survive
by means of natural resource 8 A typical example is palm oil industry which helps to
9 _ by creating jobs for millions of farmers Switching to another production of 10 like sunflower or soybean would even cause more land destruction
Your answers:
B LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)
Part 1: Choose the word/ phrase that best completes each of the following sentences Write your answer in the corresponding numbered boxes (10 pts)
1 Fred says that his present job does not provide him with enough for his organising ability
2 Don’t take your mobile phone with you to the exam, the examiners will it if they find
it on you
3 It’s best to meet your problems and solve them before they get worse
4.We were bitterly disappointed when our team were _to the second division from the first
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5 She has decided not to go to the airport she presumes she won't be able to arrive early enough for the plane
6 I don't know what our guests will be wanting to do this weekend We'll have to
7 Although she had been told quite _ to pull herself together, she simply couldn’t stop crying
A rigidly B unsympathetically C unrelentingly D sternly
8 What stands out from The Voice Kids is that many young children are with natural
talent for music
9 Sending out e-mails that people haven’t asked for to addresses is often known
10 Oil spills will _ even the healthiest of marine ecosystem
A play havoc on B break ground with
C pay the consequences for D take their toll on
Your answers:
Part 2: The text below contains 5 mistakes Underline the mistakes and write the corrections in the space provided (5 pts) There is an example at the beginning (0)
True relaxation is most certainly not the matter of flopping down in front
of the television with a welcoming drink Nor is it about drifting into an
exhausting sleep Useful though these responses to tension and
overtiredness may be, we should distinguish between them and
conscious relaxation in case of quality and effect Regardless of the level
of tiredness, real relaxation is a state of alert yet at the same time passive
awareness, in which our bodies are at rest while our minds are waken
Moreover, it is as natural for a healthy person to be relaxed when
moving as resting Being relaxed in action means we bring the
appropriate energy to everything we do, so as to have a feeling of
healthy tiredness by the end of the day, other than one of exhaustion
Your answers
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Part 3 Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition or particle Write your answer in the corresponding numbered boxes (5 pts)
1 He had taken over an old company verging liquidation
2 These carrots have shriveled a bit so I think I’ll throw them out
3 "I will check you tomorrow morning to see if you are ready to be discharged,"
said the friendly doctor to Cyndia
4 The man was done by gangsters and had to be admitted to the ICU
5 My husband brought me some flowers today He must be something!
Your answers:
Part 4: Write the correct form of each bracketed word in corresponding numbered boxes (10 pts)
Youngsters in their teens or even earlier sometimes (1 IDOL) film stars or other celebrities with a kind of blind, devoted (2 HERO) The objects of such adoration are regarded as gods by their (3.SMITE) worshippers How sad that such devotion is almost always (4 REQUITE) (though pop-stars have been known to marry their fans) Young people also sometimes develop an (5 RATION) obsession for another, often older, person that is not an adult, mature feeling but simply a youthful infatuation At parties a boy may (6 PLAY) try
to attract a girl, or vice versa, without intending any serious, lasting relationship This is just a flirtation A relationship which gives deep and lasting happiness to both partners must not be (7 SIDE) (felt more strongly by one of the pair than by the other) It should be based on a (8 MUTUALISM) love and respect, felt equally by each of the two Of course it can take many forms It might be very deep but entail no physical desire, in which case it is described as (9 PLATO) Certainly, for any relationship to be stable, the two people involved must be compatible (they must get on well together) This does not necessarily mean that they must have attitudes and interests in common, for (10 PART) of opposites can work very well The different characters of the two people somehow complement each other
Your answers:
Unfortunately, as a result of living in today’s competitive world, we are
under constant strain and have difficulty in coping, let alone nurturing
our body’s abilities That needs to be rediscovered is conscious
relaxation With this in mind, we must apply ourselves to understanding
stress and the nature of its causes, however deep-seated
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C READING (60pts)
Part 1: For questions 1–10, read the following passages and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in corresponding numbered boxes (10pts)
Over the past fifty years or so, the methods used for collecting money from the public to aid the developing world have changed out of all recognition, along with the gravity of the problems (1) _ , and the increasing awareness among the population that something must be done At the beginning of this period, it would have been common to put money in a collecting box, perhaps on the street or at church The 1960s saw the (2) _ of shops which sold second-hand goods, donated by the public, and which also began to sell articles manufactured in the developing world in charitable projects set up to guarantee a fair income to local people The next development was probably the charity ‘event’, in which participants were (3) to run, cycle, swim or what have you, and collected money from friends and relatives (4) _ how far or long they managed to keep going The first hint of what was to become the most successful means of raising money was the charity record, where the artists donated their time and talent, and the (5) _ from the sales went to a good cause This was perhaps a (6) _ of the fact that young people felt increasingly concerned about the obvious differences between life in Europe and the United States, and that in most of Africa, for example A feeling of frustration was (7) up Why was so little being done? The huge success of Band Aid, and (8) televised concerts, showed the power of the media, and of music in particular, to inspire and shock It differed significantly in style from other events People phoned up in their thousands on the day and pledged money by (9) _ their credit card numbers (10) , if you have enough money to buy an MP3 player, you can afford something for the world’s starving children
1 A faced B covered C opposed D approached
2 A occurrence B advent C entrance D happening
3 A supported B funded C sponsored D promoted
4 A in as much as B as regard C with reference to D according to
5 A proceeds B produce C receipts D returns
6 A consideration B reflection C view D display
7 A setting B rising C flaring D building
8 A attendant B consequent C subsequent D relevant
9 A mentioning B quoting C affirming D recalling
10 A After all B In anyway C Indeed D At any rate Your answers:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Part 2: Read the text below and think of one word which best fits each space Use only ONE WORD for each space Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes (10 pts)
From Royalist to Republican
Erskine Childers was not what you would call your average Irish freedom fighter, A Briton by birth, and a proud (1) _ at that – for most of the early years of his life, Childers was a decorated soldier of the British Admiralty who had demonstrated unwavering commitment and loyalty to both king and country And yet, somewhere along the way, disillusionment (2) _ in
While it is difficult to pinpoint the precise moment (3) _doubt started to creep into Childers' mind (4) _ to whether his loyalty was misguided, what was essentially a complete philosophy shift - a total realignment of ideals - did occur Childers went from (5) _ a royalist to a staunch nationalist, (6) _ with the cause of Irish freedom
He befriended the (7) _ of Eamon DeVelera and Michael Collins, key figures in the Irish Republican camp, and even went so far as to ship illegal armaments to the leaders of the ill-fated Easter Rising of 1916, which was easily put (8) _ by the British army
Later, he would fight on the side of the Irish rebels in the War of Independence, (9) _ an
uneasy truce was agreed between Britain and Ireland Eventually, a treaty was signed partitioning
the country For Childers, by now totally devoted to the cause of Irish freedom and the notion of a united Ireland, partition was (10) _ bitter a pill to swallow
Your answers:
Part 3: Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) according to the text Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes (15pts)
PIAGET’S STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
By charting out the typical cognitive development of children, Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget
has heavily influenced how psychiatrists delineate the progress of juvenile psychological growth
Beginning in the 1920s and up until his death in 1980, he studied the errors schoolchildren made on various tests and realised that children of the same age made the same kinds of reasoning errors Based on these recurring patterns, he identified stages in a child’s cognitive development, beginning
from infancy and extending through adulthood Essentially, he proposed that there was a common
timetable by which children initially develop simple cognitive skills and gradually refine them into more abstract ways of thinking While more recent theories on the matter suggest that there is more overlap among these stages and that different environments affect children’s progress, Piaget’s theory was nonetheless extremely important to initial studies of cognitive development
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According to Piaget, the first stage that children go through is the sensorimotor stage, an eventful and complex period that Piaget further divided into six sub-stages The sensorimotor stage begins at
birth and lasts roughly until the child is two years old During this time, the child experiences the
world through his senses and motor skills, and he will initially develop and master the basic reflexes
of infants, such as grasping, sucking, looking, and listening Moreover, the infant begins to develop the fundamentals of basic cognitive functions He develops awareness of himself and of objects as separate entities and begins to manipulate his external environment, usually by kicking, moving objects, and chewing on toys The child also learns that certain actions will have certain effects, and
he may perform an action to recreate these effects For instance, he may accidentally suck his thumb and find it pleasurable, so he repeatedly sucks his thumb to experience the pleasure again The child may also experiment with different actions to test their effects, like making various sounds to get an adult’s attention Finally, the child also shows the basic capacity for understanding symbols, and he
develops a rudimentary use of language toward the end of this stage, most notably by identifying parents with words like “mama” and “dada.”
In the next stage, the preoperational stage (ages 2–7), the child expands his capacity for symbolic thinking, and he can envision the environment and manipulate it within his imagination Imagination thus develops more fully, as seen in the child’s tendency to role-play other people (like
his parents, firefighters, etc.), and to pretend that objects are other things, like pretending that a
broom is a horse This stage is marked by two other distinctive characteristics The first is egocentrism While the child’s language develops more fully for the purpose of social interaction, his thought process is still limited by individual experiences, and these cognitive limitations exclude any alternative viewpoints Piaget determined this when he instructed several children in this age group to look at a three-dimensional model of a mountain from a particular angle and then pick out
a particular scene they saw All of the subjects correctly fulfilled the task, but, when asked to pick out what someone else would have seen when looking at a different angle, they only picked out the
respective scenes they saw Basically, they were oblivious to the fact that a viewer at a different
angle would see a different scene, so they were only able to pick out only what they saw personally The other characteristic is that thought occurs in an illogical and irreversible manner A child can easily believe that things can magically increase, decrease, or vanish, as perceptions often dictate their reality Piaget determined this from an experiment in which he poured equal amounts of liquid
into a short thick glass and a tall thin glass and asked the children which container had more liquid
The subjects often selected the tall thin glass because the liquid reached a higher level and made the glass appear fuller They believed that liquid magically appeared to fill the taller glass, even though they were told both glasses contained the same amount
In the final two stages, the child refines his skills or reasoning and analysis In the concrete operational stage (ages 7–11), the child shows evidence for logical thought and becomes less
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egocentric in his thinking He begins to grasp concepts such as mass, length, volume, time, and other abstract measurements, and he becomes capable of solving basic logical problems and
understanding reversible logic He can perform simple arithmetic like addition, subtraction, and multiplication, and his understanding of how these concepts relate to each other increased For
instance, he understands that ten minus five equals five, so five plus five equals ten He is also able
to categorize concepts, such as identifying a tiger as a cat, a cat as an animal, and thus a tiger as an animal In the fourth and final stage, the formal operational stage (from puberty to adulthood), the child is finally able to think in completely abstract terms He is able to perform algebra, calculus, and other mathematics that utilize symbols, formulas, and logic, and he is capable of other complex critical and analytical thought This also allows him to hypotheses from experiments and using these to predict the effects of certain actions The extent to which people achieve this degree of abstract thinking is always different, and some may never fully or adequately grasp these skills, even as adults
1 The word “delineate” in the passage is closest in meaning to “ _ ”
2 In paragraph 1, the author moots Piaget’s dissertations with children in order to
A collate his disquisitions with contemporary therapists’
B denote the glitches in his procedures
C designate how he augmented his postulations
D exhibits how Piaget’s hypotheses are pertained
3 According to paragraph 1, what can be inferred about Piaget’s analyses?
A They have been called into question recently
B.They are chiefly issued from other therapists’ inquires
C They invalidated other schools of psychology
D They were never orthodox among psychiatrists
4 According to paragraph 2, a child’s development in the sensorimotor juncture is typified by
A an aptitude for discerning reversible notions
B an sagacity of numerical hypotheses
C.a cognizance of the entity of external objects
D a significant diminution in egocentrism
5 The word “rudimentary” in the passage is closest in meaning to “ _”
6 The phrase “oblivious to” in the passage is closest in meaning to “ _”
A heedless of B impervious to C insensible to D unconscious of
7 According to paragraph 3, most children who executed Piaget’s mountain test
A were impotent to ruminate on the perspectives of other personages
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B.could use their motor prowess to manipulate their surroundings
C evinced the ability to classify objects into different categories
D had tribulations assigning symbols to external objects
8 According to paragraph 4, all of the following are true about the formal operational juncture EXCEPT
A It conventionally institutes at the onset of juvenescence
B It is the most abiding episode of development
C It makes the same strides with the same ramifications all and sundry
D It is when people refine skills mandatory for convoluted mathematics
9 According to the passage, at which episode would a child distinctly possible commence to
impersonate an astronaut?
10 Based on the information in the passage, what can be inferred about a child in the concrete operational juncture?
A He would be adroit to conduct and unravel the elaborate mathematical equations often
wielded in calculus
B He would only be able to kick, shriek, and masticate on miscellaneous objects to create
changes in his vicinities
C He would most likely flunk Piaget’s test that incorporated a three-dimensional model of
mountain
D He would discern that the containers in the liquids-in-two containers test have the same
amount
Your answers:
Part 4 : Read the following passage and do the tasks that follows Write your answer in the space provided (15 pts)
Mutual harm
A In forests and fields all over the world, plants are engaged in a deadly chemical war to suppress
other plants and create conditions for their own success But what if we could learn the secrets of these plants and use them for our own purposes? Would it be possible to use their strategies and weapons to help us improve agriculture by preventing weeds from germinating and encouraging growth in crops? This possibility is leading agricultural researchers to explore the effects plants have on other plants with the aim of applying their findings to farming