What does Carlene think about people who don’t believe herA. She doesn’t understand why they think that.[r]
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VÙNG DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ ĐỀ THI MÔN TIẾNG ANH KHỐI 10
TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN NGUYỄN TẤT
THÀNH TỈNH YÊN BÁI
NĂM 2016
ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút
I LISTENING
Part 1 In this part, you will hear a radio interview with a ghost hunter called Carlene
Belfort For questions 1-5, choose the best answer You should listen to the audio twice
1 How did Carlene become a ghost hunter?
A she wanted to contact her dead grandmother
B she grew up in a haunted house
C her parents encouraged her
2 What, according to Carlene, do ghost hunters need most?
A a special gift
B equipment
C an adventurous mind
3 Who does Carlene mostly work for?
A people who want reassurance
B people who want to contact loved ones
C people who want to find a ghost
4 How does Carlene detect when ghosts are present?
A She feels cold
B She gets evidence from her equipment
C She feels them touching her hair
5 What does Carlene think about people who don’t believe her?
A She doesn’t understand why they think that
B She thinks they don’t have enough evidence
C She wants them to experience it for themselves
Part 2 You will listen to a piece of news about cycling For questions 1-5, decide whether the
statements are true or false
3 Edward Genochio completed a 41.000km trip to China and back True / False
4 Cycling is becoming more popular in the UK True / False
5 Boris Johnson cycles to show people that he cares about the environment
True / False
Part 3 You will hear the head teacher of a school talking to a group of parents about an
international student exchange programme Complete the table below Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORD for each answer.
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The school's exchange programme is called 1
A return visit is then arranged 2 later
Children first get to know their exchange partners by taking part in a 3 _ scheme
The programme is not only intended for students who enjoy using 4 _
The two countries most often visited on the programme are 5 _
Some students suffer from problems such as homesickness and 6
To help students who have problems, a qualified 7 is always available
Local visits are described as being 8 and also 9 _
Students enjoy visiting 10 parks most of all
II VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
Part 1 Choose the best answer:
1 He looks very aggressive and threatening, and so his soft, gentle voice is rather
A disembodied B discordant C dismissive D disconcerting
2 When my teacher gave me my homework back, she said I was on the right
3 I’m opting out of the race and going to live on a small farm in the countryside
4 After months of bitter arguing the couple had to accept that they were
A incongruous B incompatible C dissident D disaffected
5 Don’t thank me for helping in the garden It was pleasure to be working out
of doors
6 The police have been ordered not to if the students attack them
A combat B rebuff C retaliate D challenge
7 Six novels a year, you say? He’s certainly a writer
A fruitful B fertile C virile D prolific
8 The case against the bank robber was for lack of evidence
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9 Many road accidents occur because motorists cannot the speed of approaching vehicles
10.It’s hard to believe that anyone would purposely harm a child, of all its own mother
11.Ever since we quarreled in the office, Janice and I have been enemies
A assured B confirmed C defined D guaranteed
12.Police are the town for the missing vehicle
A seeking B looking C investigating D combing
13.The jury her compliments on her excellent knowledge of the subject
A paid B gave C made D said
14.He was blinded by the of the approaching car’s headlights
A gleam B glare C glow D flare
15.Don’t throw that away – it might
A come into use B come into handy C come in use D come in handy
16.– “It is raining outside.” – “………”
A So is it B So it is C So it does D Is it so? 17.At the moment the ruling party is on the of a dilemma A hooves B points C top D horns 18.The magistrate his disapproval of the young man’s behavior A voiced B said C told D spoke 19.The audience watched as the story before their eyes A uncovered B unfolded C unwrapped D undid 20.In any transport system, the safety of passengers should be A paramount B eminent C chief D prime Part 2 ERROR IDENTIFICATION The passage below contains 10 mistakes Underline the mistakes and write their correct forms in the space provided in the column on the right (0) has been done as an example. When a celebrity, a politics or other person in the media spotlight loses their temper in public, they run the risk of hitting the headings in the most embarrassing way For such uncontrolling outbursts of anger are often triggered by what seem to be trivial matters and, if they are caught on camera, can make the person appear slightly ridiculousness But it's not only the rich and famous who is prone to fits of rage According to recent surveys, ordinary people are increasingly tending to lose their cool in public Although anger is a potentially destructive emotion that uses up a lot of energy and creates a high level of emotional and physical stress - and it stops us thinking rational Consequently angry people often end up saying, and doing, things they later have to regret So, how can anger be avoided? Firstly, diet and lifestyle may be to 0 politics politician 1 ………
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someone hasn't slept properly or has skipped a meal, and any intake of
caffeine can make things worst Take regular exercise can help to ease
and diffuse feelings of aggression , however, reducing the chances of an
angry response But if something or someone does make you angry, it's
advisable not to react immediately Once you've calmed down, things
won't look half as badly as you first thought
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Part 3 Fill in each blank with a correct preposition. 1 He was very upset when the boss passed him and promoted a newcomer to the assistant’s job 2 The union and the management are dispute over working conditions 3 They said that the blue cheese was very tasty, but the smell put me 4 What the smoke and the noise, the party made me feel quite ill 5 Old Mr Brown’s condition looks very serious and it is doubtful if he will pull 6 My meeting with him was previous my meeting with you 7 What her problems all seemed to boil to was lack of money 8 The firm will have to step production if it is to defeat its competitors 9 He is always ordering other people as if he were their boss 10.A good dictionary is indispensable learning foreign languages Part 4 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 Ancient man used sticks of charcoal to draw pictures on cave walls in order to communicate (with, probably, their deities and (0) …………
(TRAIN) huntsmen) Today, some of their direct (1) …………
(DESCEND) are still using ‘chalk and talk’ and other (2) …………
(MODE) equipment to make presentations to sophisticated business audiences Now, there’s nothing wrong with whiteboards, flip charts and overhead projectors In their right context, they are still (3) ………… (EXCEED) useful presentation tools But in a business environment in which the presentation of clear, easily understandable information is a (4) ………… (NEED), and in which memorability is key, managers should be constantly (5) ………… (GRADE) their equipment to keep pace with developments Audiences are coming to expect high-quality presentations that are (6) ………… (VISION) stimulating and get the message across without wasting time Professionally-made presentations clearly (7) ………… (SIGNIFICANT) that the person giving them has thought through the issues and knows what they are talking about They can put a (8) ………… (PERSUADE) case that wins over an audience in a way that pieces of paper can’t And 0 train trainee 1 ………
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(ADVANTAGE) light possible by delivering a well thought-out
message (10) ………… (RELY) every time
III READING
Part 1: For questions 1 – 15, read the advertisement and decide which word best fits each space
Save money on the book that aims to save animals
Do you want to take part in the battle to save the world’s wildlife? Animal Watch is a book
which will (1) you in the fight for survival that (2) many of our
endangered animals and show how they struggle on the (3) of extinction
As you enjoy the book’s 250 pages and over 150 colour photographs, you will have the
(4) of knowing that part of your purchase money is being used to
(5) animals (6) From the comfort of your armchair, you will be able to observe the world’s animals close-up and explore their habitats You will also discover the terrible results of human (7) for land, flesh and skins
Animal Watch is packed with fascinating facts Did you know that polar bears cover their
black noses (8) their (9) so they can hunt their prey in the snow without being seen, for example? Or that (10) each orang-utan which is captured, one has to die?
This superb (11) has so (12) Britain’s leading wildlife charity that it has been chosen as Book of the Year, a (13) awarded to books which are considered
to have made a major contribution to wildlife conservation You will find Animal Watch at a
special low (14) price at all good bookshops, but hurry while
(15) last
11 A publicity B periodical C publication D reference
14 A beginning B preparatory C original D introductory
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Anger can get us into hot water – and bottling things up only makes (1) But you can do more than simply gnash your teeth
Anger is one of the most commonly felt emotions, yet relatively few of us know how to cope with it effectively Shouting, swearing, and hitting inanimate objects are common
responses (2) _ the age-old problem of expressing our often accumulated
frustrations Nevertheless, losing control is more (3) _ to lead to humiliation than vindication
So, we learn not to lose control In public, our tension is held in check by the urge to (4) _ on to our dignity, whilst the extent of our reaction to any event will depend on unresolved issues from the past People tend to carry learned responses, so if parents scream
or fall (5) _ awkward silences when they were cross, their offspring will probably
do the same
Conversely, a child may be terrified of anger because one of its parents had no (6) over their temper As a result, the child may repress its own feelings, often expressing them inappropriately or channeling them internally (7) thus feeling depressed In fact, depression is often called “internal anger”
Self-expression is the key to dealing with anger Although there are no hard and fast rules for (8) best to achieve this, burying the debris is probably the least
productive method Physical release through exercise can be effective – even working (9) _ at the gym may help
Strange as it sounds, I’ve seen tension in relationships evaporate through pillow or water fights In an emergency, shouting in a parked car, or hitting a pillow with a tied towel are also good (10) _ of relief, although these methods are considerably less
demure than writing it all down in a diary
Part 3 Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the
questions that follow.
IMAGE AND THE CITY
In the city, we are barraged with images of the people we might become Identity is presented
as plastic, a matter of possessions and appearance; and a very large proportion of the urban landscape is taken up by slogans, advertisements, flatly photographed images of folk heroes – the man who turned into a sophisticated dandy overnight by drinking a particular brand of
drink, the girl who transformed herself into a femme fatale with a squirt of cheap scent The tone of the wording of these advertisements is usually pert and facetious, comically drowning
in its own hyperbole But the pictures are brutally exact: they reproduce every detail of a style
of life, down to the brand of cigarette-lighter, the stone in the ring, and the economic row of books on the shelf
Even in the business of the mass-production of images of identity, this shift from the general
to the diverse and particular is quite recent Consider another line of stills: the back-lit, soft-focus portraits of the first and second generations of great movie stars There is a degree of
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of society at large Only in the specialized genres of westerns, farces and gangster movies were stars allowed to have odd, knobby cadaverous faces The hero as loner belonged to history or the underworld: he spoke from the perimeter of society, reminding us of its dangerous edges
The stars of the last decade have looked quite different Soft-focus photography has gone, to
be replaced by a style which searches out warts and bumps, and emphasizes the uniqueness not the generality of the face Voices, too, are strenuously idiosyncratic; whines, stammers and low rumbles are exploited as features of “star quality” Instead of romantic heroes and heroines, we have a brutalist, hard-edged style in which isolation and egotism are assumed as natural social conditions
In the movies, as in the city, the sense of stable hierarchy has become increasingly exhausted;
we no longer live in a world where we can all share the same values, and the same heroes (It
is doubtful whether this world, so beloved of nostalgia moralists, ever existed; but lip-service was paid to it, the pretence, at last, was kept up.) The isolate and the eccentric push towards the centre of the stage; their fashions and mannerisms are presented as having as good a claim
to the limelight and the future as those of anyone else In the crowd on the underground platform, one may observe a honeycomb of fully-worked-out worlds, each private, exclusive, bearing little comparison with its nearest neighbor What is prized in one is despised in another There are no clear rules about how one is supposed to manage one’s body, dress, talk,
or think Though there are elaborate protocols and etiquettes among particular cults and groups within the city, they subscribe to no common standard
For the new arrival, this disordered abundance is the city’s most evident and alarming quality
He feels as if he has parachuted into a funfair of contradictory imperatives There are so many people he might become, and a suit of clothes, a make of car, and a brand of cigarettes, will go some way towards turning him into a personage even before he has discovered who that personage is Personal identity has always been deeply rooted in property, but hitherto the relationship has been a simple one – a question of buying what you could afford, and leaving your wealth to announce your status In the modern city, there are so many things to buy, such
a quantity of different kinds of status, that the choice and its attendant anxieties have created a new pornography of state
The leisure pages of the Sunday newspapers, fashion magazines, TV plays, popular novels, cookbooks, window displays all nag at the nerve of our uncertainty and snobbery Should we like American cars, hard-rock hamburger joints, Bauhaus chairs…? Literature and art are promoted as personal accessories, the paintings of Mondrian or the novels of Samuel Beckett
“go” with certain styles like matching handbags There is in the city a creeping imperialism of taste, in which more and more commodities are made over to being mere expressions of personal identity The piece of furniture, the pair of shoes, the book, the film, are important not so much in themselves but for what they communicate about their owners; and ownership
is stretched to include what one likes or believes in as well as what one can buy
1 What does the writer say about advertisements in the first paragraph?
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B The pictures in them accurately reflect the way that some people really live.
C Certain kinds are considered more effective in cities than others.
D The way in which some of them are worded is cleverer than it might appear.
2 What does a “femme fatale” refer to?
A a beautiful woman who spends her time enjoying herself
B a gorgeous woman who realizes most men’s dream
C a potential good wife
D an attractive woman who may bring unhappiness to men
3 The word “facetious” is closest in meaning to _.
A flippant B prevalent C impudent D complacent
4 The writer says that if you look at a line of advertisements on a tube train, it is clear that
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A city dwellers have very diverse ideas about what image they would like to have
B some images in advertisements have a general appeal that others lack
C city dwellers are more influenced by images on advertisements than other people are
D some images are intended to be representative of everyone’s aspirations
5 What does the writer imply about portraits of old movie stars?
A They reflected an era in which people felt basically safe.
B They made people feel that their own faces were rather unattractive.
C They tried to disguise the less attractive features of their subjects.
D Most people did not think they were accurate representations of the stars in them.
6 What does the writer suggest about the stars of the last decade?
A Most people accept that they are not typical of society as a whole.
B They make an effort to speak in a way that may not be pleasant on the ear.
C Some of them may be uncomfortable about the way they come across.
D They make people wonder whether they should become more selfish.
7 The writer uses the crowd on an underground platform to exemplify his belief that _.
A no one in a city has strict attitudes towards the behavior of others
B no single attitude to life is more common than another in a city
C people in cities would like to have more in common with each other
D views of what society was like in the past are often accurate
8 The writer implies that new arrivals in a city may _.
A acquire a certain image without understanding what that involves
B underestimate the importance of wealth
C decide that status is of little importance
D change the image they wish to have too frequently
9 The novels of Samuel Beckett is an example of _.
A classic literature works that make their owners feel superior to other people
B literature works of high artistic value
C possessions that show owners’ identity
D what is wanted by the majority in the society
10 What point does the writer make about city dwellers in the final paragraph?
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B They are keen to be the first to appreciate new styles.
C They want to acquire more and more possessions.
D They are aware that judgments are made about them according to what they buy.
Part 4 Reading 2
Questions 1-5
The following reading passage has five sections A-E Choose the correct heading for each
section from the list of headings on the next page There are more headings than sections, so you will not use them all
ii Diagnosing colorblindness iii What is colorblindness?
iv Curing colorblindness
vi Animals and colorblindness vii Developing the ability to see color viii Colorblindness and the sexes
Colorblindness
A Myths related to the causes and symptoms of "colorblindness" abound throughout the
world The term itself is misleading, since it is extremely rare for anyone to have a complete lack of color perception By looking into the myths related to color blindness, one can learn many facts about the structure and genetics of the human eye It is a myth that colorblind people see the world as if it were a black and white movie There are very few cases of complete colorblindness Those who have a complete lack of color perception are referred to
as monochromatics, and usually have a serious problem with their overall vision as well as an inability to see colors The fact is that in most cases of colorblindness, there are only certain shades that a person cannot distinguish between These people are said to be dichromatic They may not be able to tell the difference between red and green, or orange and yellow A person with normal color vision has what is called trichromatic vision The difference between the three levels of color perception have to do with the cones in the human eye A normal human eye has three cones located inside the retina: the red cone, the green cone, and the yellow cone Each cone contains a specific pigment whose function is to absorb the light of these colors and the combinations of them People with trichromatic vision have all three cones in working order When one of the three cones does not function properly, dichromatic vision occurs
B Some people believe that only men can be colorblind This is also a myth, though it is not
completely untrue In an average population, 8% of males exhibit some form of
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X chromosomes to carry the defective gene This is why the incidence of color deficiency is sometimes more prevalent in extremely small societies that have a limited gene pool
C It is true that all babies are born colorblind A baby's cones do not begin to differentiate
between many different colors until he is approximately four months old This is why many of the modern toys for very young babies consist of black and white patterns or primary colors, rather than traditional soft pastels However, some current research points to the importance of developing an infant's color visual system In 2004, Japanese researcher Yoichi Sugita of the Neuroscience Research Institute performed an experiment that would suggest that color vision deficiency isn't entirely genetic In his experiment, he subjected a group of baby monkeys to monochromatic lighting for one year He later compared their vision to normal monkey who had experienced the colorful world outdoors It was found that the test monkeys were unable
to perform the color-matching tasks that the normal monkeys could Nevertheless, most cases
of colorblindness are attributed to genetic factors that are present at birth
D Part of the reason there are so many inconsistencies related to colorblindness, or "color
vision deficiency" as it is called in the medical world, is that it is difficult to know exactly which colors each human can see Children are taught from a very young age that an apple is red Naming colors allows children to associate a certain shade with a certain name, regardless
of a color vision deficiency Someone who never takes a color test can go through life thinking that what they see as red is called green Children are generally tested for colorblindness at about four years of age The Ishihara Test is the most common, though it is highly criticized' because it requires that children have the ability to recognize numerals In the Ishihara Test, a number made up of colored dots is hidden inside a series of dots of a different shade Those with normal vision can distinguish the number from the background, while those with color vision deficiency will only see the dots
E While many of the myths related to colorblindness have been busted by modern science,
there are still a few remaining beliefs that require more research in order to be labeled as folklore For example, there is a long-standing belief that colorblindness can aid military soldiers because it gives them the ability to see through camouflage Another belief is that everyone becomes colorblind in an emergency situation The basis of this idea is that a catastrophic event can overwhelm the brain, causing it to utilize only those receptors needed
to perform vital tasks In general, identifying color is not considered an essential task in a life
or death situation
Questions 6-10 Complete the summary using words from the box below.