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LỚP 12 THPT NĂM HỌC 2012-2013
Đề thi chính thức
(ðề thi cú 11 trang)
Họ, tờn và chữ ký
của hai giỏm thị
Môn: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề
Ngày sinh:
Học sinh trường:
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ðiểm bài thi: Bằng số: ……… (Bằng chữ: ……… … ………… )
Họ, tờn và chữ ký của hai giỏm khảo:
1: ……… 2: ……… …….………
Số phỏch:
Ghi chỳ: Thớ sinh trả lời ngay vào bài thi này Nếu viết sai phải gạch bỏ rồi viết lại
I LISTENING (5,0 points)
Activity 1: You are going to hear some massages people left on Sylvia’s answerphone
while she was away one weekend Listen and complete the information on Sylvia’s notepad
1 From: Mr Ian Rogers
About: (1)………
Action to take: ring him to explain
Number: (2) ……….……….……
2 From: Mum
About: (3) ……….……… ………
Action to take: (4) ……… ……
Number (mobile): (5) ……… ………
3 From: Jenny Smith
About (6) ……… ……
Action to take: (7) ……… ……
4 From: (8) ……… ………
About: charity work
Action to take: (9) ……… ……
Number: (10) ……….……… ……
Activity 2: You are going to hear five speakers, using formal and informal language
Listen and choose one correct statement for each speaker Write number 1, 2, 3, … next
to the statement you choose There are 3 extra statements
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Speaker 2 B _ has photocopied the wrong report
Speaker 3 C _ has forgotten to book some tickets
Speaker 4 D _ is asking for advice
Speaker 5 E _ is giving a talk
F _ wants to change some concert tickets
G _ thinks someone isn’t doing his/ her job properly
H _ has not met this person before
Activity 3: You are going to hear some airport announcetments Listen carefully and
complete the information below
Flight number Destination Departure
BA2724 Stockholm (1) ………… (2) …… … Boarding
Activity 4: Listen to the recording and answer the questions below by circling the letter
A, B or C next to the answer you choose
1 What country was Marco Polo from?
A Italy B Europe C China
2 Did he travel alone?
A Yes, he travelled alone
B No, he travelled with his father and uncle
C No, he travelled with a group of Europeans
3 How long did Marco Polo stay in China?
A for three years B for 20 years C since 1275
4 How did people in China heat their homes in 1275?
A by coal B by wood C by electricity
5 Why were Europeans amazed that China had paved highways?
A Because Europe had paved roads, too
B Because Europe had dirt roads
C Because Europe didn’t need paved roads
6 What animal did Marco Polo see in the south of China?
A elephants B tigers C crocodiles
7 Did everyone believe Marco Polo’s stories?
A Yes, everyone did
B No, no one did
C Some people did and some people didn’t
II LEXICO-GRAMMAR (2,0 points)
Activity 1: Circle the letter A, B, C, or D next to the right word to complete the sentences below
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2 We realized our visit in their house was unwelcome by the smile on the woman’s face
3 Perhaps, the fresh scarp of evidence will throw some new on the murder case in Wiltshire
4 Jimmy gave up his work in the hotel kitchen and became soldier in the army
A an intentional B a deliberate C an optional D a voluntary
5 Paul’s been in Alice’s bad ever since he offended her at the party
6 A military junta has taken over power in the country after the democratic
administration
A collapsed B stumbled C vanished D abandoned 7 The new situation has a lot of anger and dissatisfaction Our duty now is to encounter it in the most sensible way A devised B established C originated D provoked 8 Mr Hopkins is going to have his old family mansion The building lost its glamour after his ancestors died several years ago A recovered B resumed C restored D revived 9 .by her brilliant appearance, she must be very affluent A Considering B Seeing C Supposing D Judging 10 Feel free to come to us at all if you need our advice A whiles B moments C hours D occasions Activity 2: Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space provided in the column on the right (0) has been done as an example ROMFORD COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CLUB Hello all members! Welcome to another edition of the club newsletter A list of (0) (COME) _ events for the autumn is being prepared It will be displayed on the club’s noticeboard Sadly, our intended celebrity guest, the actor George Wells, has had to (1) (DRAW) _ from the summer fair However, we are pleased to announce that we have lined up a (2) (PLACE) _ in the shape of Bethan Rogers, the folk-singer Meanwhile, we are looking for (3) (VOLUNTARY) _ to help run both the cloakroom and the (4) (FRESH) _ stall If you are interested, please let me know as soon as possible The cost of admittance to the fair for (5) (MEMBERSHIP) _ has been agreed at ₤2.50 Members will, of course, be free 0 forthcoming 1
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Activity 3: The passage below contains 5 mistakes Underline the mistakes and write the
correct forms in the space provided in the column below the passage (0) has been done
as an example
Trang 4Rock climbing is one of the UK’s fastest grow sports Nowadays, however, it’s not necessary to head to the fields when you decide to get it up as a hobby Indoor climbing is a great way to discover whether or not you have a head for heights Whatever you may have been told, size and strength aren’t that importance in climbing Climbers just need to be fit, with a good sense of balance Man-made climbing walls have footholds and handholds at different shapes and sizes Beginners can choose walls with holds near to each other More difficult routes up the wall will have small handholds quite close apart
0 grow→ growing 1 2
3 4 5
III READING (5,0 points)
Activity 1: Fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word
Of all the accounts of premonitions, one of the most dramatic and most easily verifiable concerns the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 In 1898, author Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called Futility, which bore many striking (1) to the loss
of the Titanic 14 years later Robertson’s ship, the Titan, was the largest ship afloat, and had the most modern equipment and the most highly qualified (2) members The only thing that she (3) was a sufficient number of lifeboats to accommodate everyone on board However, this did not seem to (4) as the Titan was believed to be unsinkable It was April when the voyage in question took (5) ., and the Titan was steaming at (6) speed On each of her two masts, the crew had hoisted great triangular (7) to help the ship make a record crossing So intent on breaking this record were the crew that when they rammed a windjammer they did not stop to pick up anyone who might have (8) A curse was shouted by one of the sailors in the water, calling down the wrath of God on the doomed vessel
Later, on a foggy (9) moonlit night, theTitan encountered an iceberg She did not strike it squarely, but slid up a gradual slope of ice until she was almost completely out of the water; the severely damaged ship then slid backwards into the water, after also (10) her starboard lifeboats smashed in the process Out of 3,000 people on board, only 13 survived when the Titan sank
Activity 2: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable from A to G on the
list and write it in each gap from 1 to 5
STAYING HEALTHY IN SPACE
The range of foods available to astronauts is vast, and great care is taken to ensure that it looks and smells appetising Meals are organised to provide an average of 3,000 calories a day, which seems high for living in an enclosed environment in which there is
no gravity But astronauts can expend a great deal of energy in doing the simplest things For example, if they try to turn a handle, they turn themselves as well If they bend down
to do up a shoelace, (1) Finding unusual ways of doing such ordinary things uses up the excess calories The space diet is balanced rather differently from a terrestrial diet This is to try and compensate for changes that take place in the body during space flight Bodily changes begin as soon as astronauts go into space (2) Among the most serious is calcium loss, which causes a marked reduction in the mass and strength of bones There is also a progressive loss of red blood cells What causes these effects is not known, (3) The heart muscles,
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A and the question must be answered before long- duration space-flight is really safe
B and are quite noticeable after even a week
C they start turning somersaults
D and will never be known
E which is rather more than astronauts really need
F and is vital on very long flights
G can only be done if astronauts put on their heavy spacesuits
Activity 3: Questions 1 - 4: Read the following passage and circle the letter A, B, C, or
D next to the right answer to each of the following questions
EDUCATING PSYCHE
Educating Psyche by Bernie Neville is a book which looks at radical new
approaches to learning, describing the effects of emotion, imagination and the unconscious on learning One theory discussed in the book is that proposed by George Lozanov, which focuses on the power of suggestion
Lozanov’s instructional technique is based on the evidence that the connections made in the brain through unconscious processing (which he calls non-specific mental reactivity) are more durable than those made through conscious processing Besides the laboratory evidence for this, we know from our experience that we often remember what
we have perceived peripherally, long after we have forgotten what we set out to learn If
we think of a book we studied months or years ago, we will find it easier to recall peripheral details- the colour, the binding, the typeface, the table at the library where we sat while studying it- than the content on which we were concentrating If we think of a lecture we listened to with great concentration, we will recall the lecture’s appearance and mannerisms, our place in the auditorium, the failure of the air-conditioning, much more easily than the ideas we went to learn Even if these peripheral details are a bit elusive, they come back readily in hypnosis or when we relive the event imaginatively, as
in psychodrama The details of the content of the lecture, on the other hand, seem to have gone forever
This phenomenon can be partly attributed to the common counterproductive approach to study (making extreme efforts to memorise, tensing muscles, including fatigue), but it also simply reflects the way the brain functions Lozanov therefore made indirect instruction (suggestion) central to his teaching system In suggestopedia, as he called his method, consciousness is shifted away from the curriculum to focus on something peripheral The curriculum then becomes peripheral and is dealt with by the reserve capacity of the brain
The suggestopedic approach to foreign language learning provides a good illustration In its most recent variant (1980), it consists of the reading of vocabulary and text while the class is listening to music The first session is in two parts In the first part, the music is classical (Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms) and the teacher reads the text slowly and solemnly, with intention to the dynamics of the music The students follow the text in their books This is followed by several minutes of silence In the second part, they listen
to baroque music (Bach, Corelli, Handel) while the teacher reads the text in a normal
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Beforehand, the students have been carefully prepared for the language learning experience Through meeting with the staff and satisfied students they develop the expectation that learning will be easy and pleasant and that they will successfully learn several hundred words of the foreign language during the class In a preliminary talk, the teacher introduces them to the material to be covered, but does not ‘teach’ it Likewise, the students are instructed not to try to learn it during this introduction
Some hours after the two-part session, there is a follow-up class at which the students are stimulated to recall the material presented Once again the approach is indirect The students do not focus their attention on trying to remember the vocabulary, but focus on using the language to communicate (e.g through games or improvised dramatisations) Such methods are not unusual in language teaching What is distinctive
in the suggestopedic method is that they are devoted entirely to assisting recall The
‘learning’ of the material is assumed to be automatic and effortless, accomplished while listening to music The teacher’s task is to assist the students to apply what they have learned paraconsciuosly, and in doing so to make it easily accessible to consciousness Another difference from conventional teaching is the evidence that students can regularly learn 1000 new words of a foreign language during a suggestopedic session, as well as grammar and idiom
Lozanov experimented with teaching by direct suggestion during sleep, hypnosis and trance states, but found such procedures unnecessary Hypnosis, yoga, Silva mind-control, religious ceremonies and faith healing are all associated with successful suggestion, but none of their techniques seem to be essential to it Such rituals may be seen as placebos Lozanov acknowledges that the ritual surrounding suggestion in his own system is also a placebo, but maintains that without such a placebo people are unable or afraid to tap the reserve capacity of their brains Like any placebo, it must be dispensed with authority to be effective Just as a doctor calls on the full power of autocratic suggestion by insisting that the patient take precisely this while capsule precisely three times a day before meals, Lozanov is categoric in insisting that the suggestopedic session be conducted exactly in the manner designed, by trained and accredited suggestopedic teachers
While suggestopedic has gained some notoriety through success in the teaching of modern languages, few teachers are able to emulate the spectacular results of Lozanov and his associates We can, perhaps, attribute mediocre results to an inadequate placebo effect The students have not developed the appropriate mind set They are often not motivated to learn through this method They do not have enough ‘faith’ They do not see
it as ‘real teaching’, especially as it does not seem to involve the ‘work’ they have learned to believe is essential to learning
1 The book Educating Psyche is mainly concerned with
A the power of suggestion in learning
B a particular technique for learning based on emotions
C the effects of emotion on the imagination and the unconscious
D ways of learning which are not traditional
2 Lozanov’s theory claims that, when we try to remember things,
A unimportant details are the easiest to recall
B concentrating hard produces the best results
C the most significant facts are most easily recalled
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3 In this passage, the author uses the examples of a book and a lecture to illustrate that
A both of these are important for developing concentration
B his theory about methods of learning is valid
C reading is a better technique for learning than listening
D we can remember things more easily under hypnosis
4 Lozanov claims that teachers should train students to
A memorise details of the curriculum
B develop their own sets of indirect instructions
C think about something other than the curriculum content
D avoid overloading the capacity of the brain
Questions 5 – 10: Do the statements below agree with the information in the reading
passage? Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
Y if the statement agrees with the information in the passage,
N if the statement contradicts the information in the passage, or
NG if there is no information about the statement in the passage
5 In the example of suggestopedic teaching in the fourth paragraph, the only variable that changes is the music
6 Prior to the suggestopedia class, students are made aware that the language
experience will be demanding
7 In the follow-up class, the teaching activities are similar to those used in conventional classes
8 As an indirect benefit, students notice improvements in their memory
9 Teachers say they prefer suggestopedia to traditional approaches to language teaching
10 Students in a suggestopedia class retain more new vocabulary than those in ordinary classes
Activity 4: Questions 1 - 9: Read the following passage and circle the letter A, B, C, or
D next to the right answer to each of the following questions
For many students, the college years are a trying time While academic challenges
are an expected part of higher learning, students can face personal challenges as well
One common problem is that of isolation ■ A) To feel isolated is to feel absolutely
alone, with no feelings of connection to others Of course, in a literal sense, students are
not alone, as they are surrounded by other students all the time ■ B) It is very easy to
feel lost among a large group of many different sorts of people This can intensify the normal barriers between people, making them seem much larger and more complicated For students that are naturally introverted or overly attached to their families, it can be a
very complicated problem ■ C) If a student does not take part in any student activities,
spends most or all of his or her time alone, and has no meaningful relationships with other students, that student can be considered isolated Of course, there are certain
students who may prefer this sort of condition ■ D) Some may feel more comfortable
having few or no relationships at school so that they can focus more intensively on their studies However, studies show that the vast majority of students who find themselves isolated do not enjoy this condition
Freshmen normally experience the most extreme feelings of isolation They are suddenly in an unfamiliar environment away from relatives and friends, where everyone seems to be a stranger Naturally shy students or those with strong family ties may not
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this may cause a student to emotionally and socially withdraw as a defense mechanism
Instead of thinking of other students as potential friends, they imagine them as potential enemies Those freshmen who deeply miss their friends from before college may cling to those old friendships This makes establishing new friendships all the more difficult and
the feelings of isolation more pronounced
To make matters worse, isolation can lead to other emotional problems, primarily depression Loneliness and other negative feelings are only deepened and reinforced by the fact that there is no one with whom the isolated student can share his or her feelings Depression can drain a student’s energy and initiative, resulting in poor academic performance In addition, it can damage what relationships the student may already have Finally, it can also lead to more serious problems such as alcoholism and, in some cases, suicidal feelings
Universities can take various initiatives to prevent students from becoming isolated One of the most effective and common methods is to require students to share a
dormitory room ■ A) Having a roommate makes it very difficult to be isolated since a
student must interact with this person regardless of how shy he or she may be Although a determined student can still manage to be isolated, even in such a situation, few students
have both the will and the desire to do so ■ B) Another method is to encourage a student
to join in some sort of activity immediately after entering university This can include
joining a club, a student association, or a study group ■ C) There are also student groups
designed to ease freshmen into university life, giving them opportunities to meet other
new students through various social activities, such as lunches or day trips ■ D) Finally,
a university can provide professional counseling for students with personal problems
However a university attempts to help, the fact remains that the cause of isolation among students is personal Unlike health and academic problems, there are few resources to conclusively treat the problem of isolation, since much of the problem lies in the individual student’s personality This does not mean that, in the end, the student is the one who has the ultimate power to improve the situation
1 The expression “more pronounced” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
A cleaner B louder C more talked about D more intense
2 The phrase “defense mechanism” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
A tool for distraction B reason for withdrawing
C method of protection D device for resolving disputes
3 In paragraph 1, the author explains the concept of isolation by
A giving examples of how schools can help isolated students
B characterizing the type of students who cause isolation in their classmates
C providing a definition of the concept and examples of those prone to it
D discussing factors affecting the barriers between students
4 According to the passage, what types of students most typically experience isolation?
A Students who prefer to focus on their studies rather than socialize
B Students who are surrounded by large numbers of other students
C Students who view others as potential enemies or accusers
D Freshmen students who are shy or overly attached to their families
5 Which of the following sentences best expresses the essential information of the first sentence in paragraph 4?
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B There are several strategies that universities can implement in order to reduce the chances of students becoming isolated
C Isolated students can be prevented from entering certain universities
D Students can start the process of avoiding isolation by suggesting strategies to their university
6 Look at the four squares [■] in paragraph 1 and circle the letter A, B, C or D where the
following sentence should be added to the passage: “However, this can actually aggravate one’s sense of isolation.”
7 The word “higher” in paragraph 1 could best be replaced by which of the following?
8 What does the third paragraph mainly discuss?
A The reasons why students should make an effort to meet new people
B Things the students can do to free themselves from isolation
C The negative effects of isolation on the student
D Ways in which the university contribute to isolation
9 Look at the four squares [■] in paragraph 4 and circle the letter A, B, C or D where the
following sentence should be added to the passage: “These organizations give the students a sense of belonging and self-worth.”
Questions 10 – 15: Directions: Select the appropriate phrases from the answer choices
and match them to the category by writing the letter A, B, C or D next to the number under each category TWO of the answer choices will NOT be used
Causes of Isolation Effects of Isolation Ways to Prevent Isolation
10 12 14 11 13 15
A Join a club
B Live with family
C Alcoholism
D Poor academic performance
E Being away from family and friends
F Live with a roommate
G Talk to professors
H Being around large groups of people
IV WRITING (6,0 points)
Activity 1: Read the following extract and use your own words to summarize it (in about
80 words) You MUST NOT copy or re-write the original
Everyone should try to stay physically fit through exercise Fitness means being able to do every activities without feeling pain or getting too tired There are three main parts of physical fitness: heart and lung fitness, muscular fitness, and flexibility
Every time you move your body, you use oxygen Good exercises for the heart and lungs include walking, jogging, or in-line skating In-line skating first became popular in the 1990s You should do one of these activities for 30 minutes, three to five times a week
You need strong, healthy muscles for walking up stairs, lifting groceries, and so
on Build strong muscles by lifting weights at least twice a week for 15 minutes
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to do stretching exercises three or four times a week
Activity 2: The graph below shows the changes of population of different ages in Japan Write a report describing the changes of population in Japan from 1950 to 2005 and forcasting in 2025 Write about 150 words