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KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ
LẦN THỨ XII, NĂM 2022
ĐỀ THI MƠN: TIẾNG ANH 10
Thời gian: 180 phút (khơng kể thời gian giao đề)
Ngày thi:
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ĐỀ ĐỀ XUẤT

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Giám khảo 1

Bằng chữ

Giám khảo 2

Số phách

A. LISTENING (50 points):
Part 1. Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/ OR A
NUMBER for each answer. (10 points)

ENQUIRY ABOUT BOOKCASES
Number of bookcases available: two
Both bookcases
Width: (1) _______________________________
Made of: (2) _______________________________
First bookcase

Cost: (3) _______________________________
Color: (4) _______________________________
Number of shelves: six (four are (5) _______________________________)
Your answers:
1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Part 2. Listen to part of a tutorial between two students and their tutor. The students are
doing a research project to do with computer use. Listen and decide whether the following
sentences are True (T) or False (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes provided.
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1. Sami and Irene decided to do a survey about access to computer facilities because no one has
investigated it before.
2. Sami and Irene had problems with the reading for their project because not much had been
written about the topic.
3. Sami and Irene get the main data in their survey from observation of students.
4. The tutor suggests that one problem with the survey was limitation in the number of students
involved.
5. 77% of students surveyed thought that a booking system would be the best solution.
Your answers:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Part 3. You will hear a radio interview with the gardening experts Jed and Helena Stone.
Choose the answer A, B, C, or D which fits best according to what you hear. (10 pts)
1. How does Helena feel about the use of Jed's name for their joint business?
A. Occasionally frustrated that her contribution goes unnoticed.
B. Amused that they have a name people tend to remember.
C. Appreciative of the respect that the name has brought her.
D. Irritated by the fact that Jed is more of a celebrity than she is.
2. What is Jed's attitude to his public profile?
A. He likes the fact that complete strangers often want to talk to him.
B. He's unhappy that it prevents him from doing everyday activities.
C. He enjoys it more now than he did when he was younger.
D. He's proud of the way it reflects his achievements.
3. How did Helena feel about her work on The Travel Show?
A. She would have enjoyed it more in different circumstances.
B. It was convenient for her to be away from the house then.
C. It was a welcome alternative to manual work.
D. She felt obliged to do it at that particular time.
4. What explanation does Helena give for the name of the garden?
A. It provided a useful framework for the project.
B. It was a response to the bright colors they wanted there.
C. It allowed them to experiment with a wide range of options.
D. It was meant to inspire them to embrace unconventional ideas.
5. Jed says that, for him, the name 'jewel garden' is ______.
A. a reminder of the value of creativity
B. an appropriate one for something so beautiful

C. a positive way of combining both past and present
D. a way of explaining his philosophy of design to people
Your answers:
1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Part 4. Listen to part of a talk and complete the sentences with NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the space provided. (20 points)
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There really is no single definition of "business attire" these days. The era of "Big
Business" with fine clothes and tailored suits is largely gone, except in
(1)____________________________. It is easy for people to toss out all the starched, buttonedup conformity of (2)____________________________. The question posed is what we use to
replace office clothes. While bankers are (3)____________, techy-types in all industries tend to
dress down. The issues associated with (4)_____________ isn’t new in this 21st century though
it seems to be more casual. Interestingly, in the prewar period, half of the men’s suits were
(5)____________________________. From the 1940s to 1the 950s, all styles remain the same,
except the fact that men’s suits change from (6)_____________________________ to skinny.
Between the time of 1960s and 1970s, traditional men’s suit remains unchanged, however a new
type of suit called the (7) ____________________________ shirts or Nehru jackets were
introduced.
Thanks to Silicon Valley, a term called “business casual” was used in the 1980s. Originally, it

referred to khaki pants, sensible shoes and (8)____________________________. However, this
term today is rather ambiguous. The Atlantic grappled with this by defining the casual
workplace basing on (9)____________________________ business culture instead of a
"process-oriented" culture obsessed with employees' looks. Mark Zuckerberg's gray T-shirt and
gray hoodie is one exception to casual workplace. Some business are still creased and pleated
and tailor. We are left to suss out the suitability of (10) ____________________________ and
Allbirds, which don’t match with shoulder pads. Final words given after all is “Dressing for
success is as hard to define as business casual”.
Your answers:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

B. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (40 points)
Part 1. Choose one of the words marked A, B, C, or D which best completes each of the
following sentences. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)
1. I never get a _________ of sleep after watching a horror film.
A. wink
B. blink
C. night
D. ounce
2. The child sat in the middle of the floor and _________ refused to move.

A. distinctively
B. decisively
C. flatly
D. totally
3. Little did I imagine The Amazing Race would entail long-winded journeys and ups and
downs _________.
A. aplenty
B. inexhaustibly
C. profusely
D. superabundant
4. Ants are social insects which form small to large_________.
A. schools
B. flocks
C. colonies
D. packs
5. Having our heart broken is an _________ part of growing up.
A. inward
B. inset
C. integral
D. internal
6. You may as well as your _________ because Tom never listens to anyone.
A. breath
B. iron
C. impression
D. nature
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7. I couldn’t believe it when Marcy accused me of _________in her relationship with Joe.
A. intervening

B. interacting
C. interfering
D. intercepting
8. There has been a lot of _________ surrounding the government’s proposed scheme.
A. controversy
B. consent
C. conformity
D. consequence
9. The stage designed was out of _________ , but unfortunately the acting was not so
impressive.
A. moon
B. planet
C. world
D. earth
10. We all have to follow the rules, and none of us is _________the law.
A. beyond
B. over
C. above
D. onto
11. Don’t be _________ by false advertisements. If something looks too good to be true, it
probably is.
A. putting off
B. given up
C. taken in
D. put down
12. _________ talking of running for election again, after such a crushing defeat, is surely proof
of his resilience.
A. Should he be
B. That he is
C. Had he been

D. That he were
13. I was at a_________ end on Sunday morning so I decided to bathe the puppy.
A. loose
B. low
C. dead
D. wits’
14. In _______ of the increasing violence in our towns the President has decided to impose a
curfew.
A. sight
B. view
C. mood
D. agreement
15. _________ 30,000 people are thought to have attended the concert.
A. As much as
B. As many as
C. Much less than D. As little as
16. I recommend reading the books _________, starting with the very first.
A. by accident
B. at random
C. in sequence
D. on impact
17. The word “gossip” conjures _________ an image of a group of people huddled in a corner
sharing some scandalous news about neighbor or colleague.
A. up
B. out
C. cover
D. in
18. The government is trying to _________ when it says it will spend more on health service
without raising taxes.
A. chew the fat

B. wave the flag
C. put the lid
D. square the circle
19. Unanswered, the demands for nuclear deterrent have_________ fears of civil war.
A. flashed up
B. prognosticated C. sidetracked
D. stoked up
20. It is important to make sure the right decision because there is a lot at _________ .
A. range
B. stake
C. chance
D. expectation
Your answers:
1.
2.
3.
4.

5.
6.
7.
8.

9.
10.
11.
12.

13.
14.

15.
16.

17.
18.
19.
20.

Part 2. Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable particle. Write your answer
in the boxes provided. (10 points)
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1. Sleep deprivation means that it takes the body a greater length of time to heal itself and to
shake ________ any minor ailments such as coughs and colds.
2. People should refrain from caffeine in the late evening and opt ________ a milky drink rather
than cola, coffee or tea.
3. Jade has come _________terms with the fact that she’ll never become a doctor.
4. _________a view to finding another Queen Anne table, I went to the antique fair.
5. _________ fear of saying the wrong thing, Lily kept quiet.
6. ___________hindsight, maybe you should have taken the bus, Mustafa!
7. Our photocopier is prone_________ breaking down.
8. Telling her father that the car he had bought her was not the right color was rather like
looking a gift horse _________ the mouth.
9. Don’t be so upset about losing your job. Look _________ the bright side- you will have more
time to spend with the children.
10. Traditional rollerskates have been _________ for many years, but inline skates have several
advantages over the older kind of design.
Your answers:
1.

6.

2.
7.

3.
8.

4.
9.

5.
10.

Part 3. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
1. Not only is smoking unhealthy but it’s also __________ SOCIETY.
2. At first, I thought I could count on Jim, but then I discovered that he’s just a __________
friend. WEATHER
3. Now that this has been fully understood, the industy is __________ fighting online for the
loyalty of fans, but it may already be a lost cause. LATE
4. At all events, it was this group of the __________ that gave the first successful impetus to the
Revolution. POSSESS
5. All the talk about global warming really has some __________ for me after being flooded
last year. RESONATE
6. All human beings need some degree of physical exertion to keep fit, and inline skating is a
great __________ source of exercise. ROUND
7. This invention is attributed to Charles Barbier, who was __________ officer. Art
8. The computer age created an __________ and continuing explosion in the amount of Braille
published and read in nearly every country throughout the world. PRECEDENT

9. The Palme d’Or was awarded to the director of that movie because of his having created a
__________ film. THINK
10. Excuses like poor connections and __________ , or the inability to reach someone just
don’t work when even the most inaccessible places have wireless coverage. COMMUNICATE
Your answers:
1.
6.

2.
7.

3.
8.

4.
9.

5.
10.
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C. READING (60 points)
Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each
gap. (15 points)
Broadcasting has democratized the publication of language, often at its most informal, even
undressed. Now the ears of the educated cannot escape the language of the masses. It (1) _____
them on the news, weather, sports, commercials, and the ever-proliferating game shows. This
wider dissemination of popular speech may easily give purists the (2) _____ that language is
suddenly going to hell in this generation, and may (3) _____ the new paranoia about it.

It might also be argued that more Americans hear more correct, even beautiful, English on
television than ever before. Through television more models of good usage (4) _____ more
American homes than was ever possible in other times. Television gives them lots of (5) _____
English too, some awful, some creative, but that is not new.
Hidden in this is a (6) _____ fact: our language is not the special private property of the
language police, or grammarians, or teachers, or even great writers. The (7) _____ of English is
that it has always been the tongue of the common people, literate or not.
English belongs to everybody: the funny (8) _____ of phrase that pops into the mind of a
farmer telling a story; or the (9) _____ salesman’s dirty joke; or the teenager saying, "Gag me
with a spoon"; or the pop lyric - all contribute, are all as (10) _____ as the tortured image of the
academic, or the line the poet sweats over for a week.
1. A. circles
B. surrenders
C. supports
D. surrounds
2. A. thought
B. idea
C. sight
D. belief
3. A. justify
B. inflate
C. explain
D. idealize
4. A. render
B. reach
C. expose
D. leave
5. A. colloquial
B. current
C. common

D. spoken
6. A. common
B. stupid
C. central
D. simple
7. A. genii
B. genius
C. giant
D. generalization
8. A. turn
B. twist
C. use
D. time
9. A. tour
B. transport
C. travel
D. travelling
10. A. valued
B. valid
C. truthful
D. imperfect
Your answers:
1.
6.

2.
7.

3.
8.

4.
9.

5.
10.

Part 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one
word in each space. (15 points)

THE CULT OF CELEBRITY
Once, children had ambitions to be doctors, explorers, sportsmen, artists or scientists. Now
taking their lead from TV, they just "want to be famous". Fame is no longer a reward for gallant
service or great, perhaps even selfless endeavor. It is an end in (1) ______, and the sooner it can be
achieved, the sooner the lonely bedroom mirror can be replaced by the TV camera and flash gun,
the better. Celebrity is the profession (2 ______ the moment, a vainglorious vocation which, (3)
______ some 18th- century royal court, seem to exist largely so that the rest of us might watch and
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be amazed (4) ______ its members live out their lives in public, like self-regarding members of
some glittering soap opera.
Today, (5) ______ everyone can be famous. Never has fame (6) ______ more
democratic, more ordinary, more achievable. (7)______ wonder it's modern ambition. It's easy
to see why people crave celebrity, (8) ______ generations reared on the instant fame offered by
television want to step out of the limousine (9) ______ the flashlights bouncing around them.
Who doesn't want to be the center of attention at some time in their lives?
Modern celebrity, peopled by the largely vain and vacuous, fills a need in our lives. It
peoples talks shows, sells goods and newspapers and rewards the famous for, well, (10)
______famous.

Your answers:
1.
6.

2.
7.

3.
8.

4.
9.

5.
10.

Part 3. Read an extract from an article and choose the answer A, B, C or D that fits best
according to the text. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (15
points)
Using video gaming in education
It has become conventional wisdom that spending too much time playing video games has a
detrimental effect on children’s studies and their social development. However, some
educationalists are now questioning this theory and are using video games as effective
educational tools thus bridging the gap between recreational and educational activities.
Due to the sophisticated nature of today’s games, teachers are able to justify the inclusion of
video and online games for many pedagogical reasons. There may, for example, be sociological,
psychological, and ethical implications built into the gameplay. Harvey Edwards, who teaches
IT classes in London, was one such educator who decided to use video games in his lessons. To
do this, he chose Minecraft, an online game in which players create and develop imaginary
worlds. He was somewhat uneasy about attempting such an unconventional approach, not

because of some students’ unfamiliarity with the game but rather due to them not being able to
make sense of what he was trying to do with it. He worried that it might interfere with his
learners’ focus, but he couldn’t have been more surprised by the results.
Minecraft is an example of a ‘sandbox game’, in which gamers roam around and change a
virtual world at will. Instead of having to pass through numbered levels to reach certain places,
there’s full access from start to finish. The original version can be adapted to control which
characters and content are left in. Each student can then be allocated tasks – such as housebuilding, locating items or problem-solving – which they must complete within the game.
Elements of more general skills can be subtly incorporated into the lessons, such as online
politeness and safety, teamwork and resolving differences. Edwards feels that presenting such
lessons in the context of a game students probably already know and enjoy enables him to
connect with them at greater depth, and in more motivational ways.
Bolstered by his success, Edwards introduced his approach to another school nearby. He recalls
that the first couple of sessions didn’t live up to his expectations. Those who had played
Minecraft before were keen for others to adopt their own style of play. Unsurprisingly, this
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assortment of styles and opinions as to how the game should proceed were far from harmonious.
However, the sessions rapidly transformed into something more cohesive, with the learners
driving the change. With minimal teacher input, they set about choosing leaders and established
several teams, each with its own clearly-defined role. These teams, now party to clear common
goals, willingly cooperated to ensure that their newborn world flourished, even when faced with
the toughest of challenges.
‘Human’ inhabitants in a Minecraft ‘society’ are very primitive and wander around the
imaginary world, waiting for guidance from players. [A] This dynamic bears a resemblance to
traditional education, an observation highlighted by Martina Williams, one of the leaders of the
group. [B] ‘Through the game, we were no longer passive learners in the classroom, being told
what and how to learn, but active participants in our own society. [C] The leaders, meanwhile,
had a vision for their virtual world as a whole, encouraging everyone to play their part in
achieving the group’s goals. [D] Through creating their own characters and using these to build

their own ‘world’, students will have gained some experiential understanding of societal
structure and how communities work.
But not everyone is convinced by video games’ potential academic value. While many
progressive commentators cite extensive evidence to maintain that video games encourage
collaboration and build problem-solving skills, more traditional factions continue to insist they
are a distraction that do not merit inclusion in any curriculum. Even less evangelical cynics, who
may grudgingly acknowledge games have some educational benefit, assert that this is only the
case in the hands of creative educators. However, the accusation most often levelled at video
games is that they detract from the social aspect of the classroom, particularly taking part in
discussions. Dr Helen Conway, an educational researcher, argues that video games can be used
to promote social activities. ‘Students become animated talking about the game and how to
improve their gameplaying and problem-solving skills,’ she says. ‘I find it strange, this image
that many people have,’ Conway says. ‘Children are often totally detached from their peers
when undertaking more traditional activities, like reading books, but we never suggest that
books are harmful because they’re a solitary experience.
1. The first time Edwards used a game in his classes, he was______________
A. convinced that learners would realise why he wanted them to play it.
B. convinced that learners would see the reasons for playing it.
C. anxious that he had chosen the wrong one for learners to play.
D. sure that his reasons for getting learners to play it were valid.
2. The writer suggests that Minecraft is a good choice of educational game because______
A. any number of learners can use it simultaneously.
B. teachers can remove any inappropriate material.
C. gamers can create educative tasks whilst playing it.
D. players can develop their skills in a step-by-step way.
3. Which of the following words in the fourth paragraph is used to convey a feeling of
approval?
A. keen
B. harmonious
C. driving

D. newborn
4. In the fifth paragraph, the writer draws a comparison between a Minecraft ‘society’
and_______________
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A. relationships within the group as they played.
B. the way in which countries organize themselves.
C. typical students in a school environment.
D. how leadership operates in different situations.
5. In the sixth paragraph, the writer feels that critics of video games in education_________
A. are unwilling to admit that using them in class has benefits.
B. make accurate observations about teachers who use them.
C. use flawed research to support their objections to using them.
D. acknowledge the drawbacks of more traditional teaching methods.
6. The words ‘this image’ in the sixth paragraph refer to______________
A. people who criticize gaming in education.
B. students discussing a game in a group.
C. a group of students reading individually.
D. a solitary player absorbed in a game.
7. Where does this sentence belong to in the fifth paragraph?
Each group member had ideas as to how their function should develop.
A. [A]
B. [B]
C. [C]
D. [D]
8. The word ‘subtly’ in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to __________.
A. intricately
B. ingeniously
C. ingenuously

D. haphazardly
9. The word ‘grudgingly’ in the sixth paragraph is closest in meaning to __________.
A. gleefully
B. vivaciously
C. genially
D. reluctantly
10. Which of the following best describes the author's attitude towards the application of
gaming into education?
A. supportive
B. neutral
C. cynical
D. satirical
Your answers:
1.
6.

2.
7.

3.
8.

4.
9.

5.
10.

Part 4. For questions 1-10, read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. (15
points)

Follow your nose
A
Aromatherapy is the most widely used complementary therapy in the National Health
Service, and doctors use it most often for treating dementia. For elderly patients who have
difficulty interacting verbally, and to whom conventional medicine has little to offer,
aromatherapy can bring benefits in terms of better sleep, improved motivation, and less
disturbed behaviour. So the thinking goes. But last year, a systematic review of health care
databases found almost no evidence that aromatherapy is effective in the treatment of dementia.
Other findings suggest that aromatherapy works only if you believe it will. In fact, the only
research that has unequivocally shown it to have an effect has been carried out on animals.
B
Behavioural studies have consistently shown that odours elicit emotional memories far
more readily than other sensory cues. And earlier this year, Rachel Herz, of Brown University in
Providence, Rhode Island, and colleagues peered into people’s heads using functional Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to corroborate that. They scanned the brains of five women while
they either looked at a photo of a bottle of perfume that evoked a pleasant memory for them, or
smelled that perfume. One woman, for instance, remembered how as a child living in Paris—she
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would watch with excitement as her mother dressed to go out and sprayed herself with that
perfume. The women themselves described the perfume as far more evocative than the photo,
and Herz and co-workers found that the scent did indeed activate the amygdala and other brain
regions associated with emotion processing far more strongly than the photograph. But the
interesting thing was that the memory itself was no better recalled by the odour than by the
picture. “People don’t remember any more detail or with any more clarity when the memory is
recalled with an odour,” she says. “However, with the odour, you have this intense emotional
feeling that’s really visceral.”
C
That’s hardly surprising, Herz thinks, given how the brain has evolved. “The way I like to

think about it is that emotion and olfaction are essentially the same things,” she says. “The part
of the brain that controls emotion literally grew out of the part of the brain that controls smell.”
That, she says, probably explains why memories for odours that are associated with intense
emotions are so strongly entrenched in us, because the smell was initially a survival skill: a
signal to approach or to avoid.
D
Eric Vermetten, a psychiatrist at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, says that
doctors have long known about the potential of smells to act as traumatic reminders, but the
evidence has been largely anecdotal. Last year, he and others set out to document it by
describing three cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in which patients reported either
that a certain smell triggered their flashbacks, or that smell was a feature of the flashback itself.
The researchers concluded that odours could be made use of in exposure therapy, or for
reconditioning patients’ fear responses.
E
After Vermetten presented his findings at a conference, doctors in the audience told him
how they had turned this association around and put it to good use. PTSD patients often undergo
group therapy, but the therapy itself can expose them to traumatic reminders. “Some clinicians
put a strip of vanilla or a strong, pleasant, everyday odorant such as coffee under their patients’
noses, so that they have this continuous olfactory stimulation,” says Vermetten. So armed, the
patients seem to be better protected against flashbacks. It’s purely anecdotal, and nobody knows
what’s happening in the brain, says Vermetten, but it’s possible that the neural pathways by
which the odour elicits the pleasant, everyday memory override the fear-conditioned neural
pathways that respond to verbal cues.
F
According to Herz, the therapeutic potential of odours could lie in their very unreliability.
She has shown with her perfume-bottle experiment that they don’t guarantee any better recall,
even if the memories they elicit feel more real. And there’s plenty of research to show that our
noses can be tricked, because being predominantly visual and verbal creatures, we put more
faith in those other modalities. In 2001, for instance, Gil Morrot, of the National Institute for
Agronomic Research in Montpellier, tricked 54 oenology students by secretly colouring a white

wine with an odourless red dye just before they were asked to describe the odours of a range of
red and white wines. The students described the coloured wine using terms typically reserved
for red wines. What’s more, just like experts, they used terms alluding to the wine’s redness and
darkness—visual rather than olfactory qualities. Smell, the researchers concluded, cannot be
separated from the other senses.
G
Last July, Jay Gottfried and Ray Dolan of the Wellcome Department of Imaging
Neuroscience in London took that research a step further when they tested people’s response
times in naming an odour, either when presented with an image that was associated with the
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odour or one that was not. So, they asked them to sniff vanilla and simultaneously showed them
either a picture of ice cream or of cheese, while scanning their brains in a fMRI machine. People
named the smells faster when the picture showed something semantically related to them, and
when that happened, a structure called the hippocampus was strongly activated. The researchers’
interpretation was that the hippocampus plays a role in integrating information from the senses
— information that the brain then uses to decide what it is perceiving.
Questions 1-7
The passage has seven paragraphs, A-G.
Choose the correct heading for paragraph A-G and from the list of headings below.
Write the correct number, i-x, in boxes 1-6.
List of Headings
i
Remembering the past more clearly
ii
Bringing back painful memories
iii
Originally an alarm signal
iv

The physical effects of scent versus image
v
Checking unreliable evidence
vi
Reinforcing one sense with another
vii
Protection against reliving the past
viii
The overriding power of sight and sound
ix
Conflicting views
Example Paragraph A : ix
1 Paragraph B
2 Paragraph C
3 Paragraph D
4 Paragraph E
5 Paragraph F
6 Paragraph G
Your answers
1.
2.
3.

4.

5.

6.

Questions 7-10

Look at the following findings and the list of researchers
Match each finding with the correct researcher, A-D.
Write the correct letter, A-D, in boxes 7-10.
NB You may use any letter more than once.
7. Smell can trigger images of horrible events.
8. Memory cannot get sharpened by smell.
9. When people are given an odour and a picture of something to learn, they will respond more
quickly in naming the smell because the stimulus is stronger when two or more senses are
involved.
10. It is impossible to isolate smell from visual cues.
A Rachel Hertz
B Eric Vermetten
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C Gil Morrot
D Jay Gottfried and Ray Dolan
Your answers
7.
8.

9.

10.

D. WRITING (50 points)
Part 1: (20 points)

The graph below shows the number of tourists visiting a particular Caribbean Island
between 2010-2017. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main

features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

Part 2. Essay writing. (30 points)
Write an essay of about 250 words to express your opinion on the following topic:
Some people say that subjects like arts, music, drama and creative writing are more beneficial
to children and therefore they need more of these subjects to be included in the timetable.
Do you agree or disagree?
Use your own knowledge and experience to support your arguments with examples and relevant
evidence.

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KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN
KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ
LẦN THỨ XII, NĂM 2022
ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 10
Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
ĐỀ ĐỀ XUẤT
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A. LISTENING (50 points):
Part 1. Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/ OR A
NUMBER for each answer. (10 points)
1. 75 cm/
2. wood
3. 15 pounds/
4. cream
5. adjustable
centimetres/
fifteen pounds/

centimeters
£15
Part 2: Listen to part of a tutorial between two students and their tutor. The students are
doing a research project to do with computer use. Listen and decide whether the following
sentences are true (T) or false (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
provided. (10 points)
1. False

2. True

3.False

4. False

5. True

Part 3. You will hear a radio interview with the gardening experts Jed and Helena Stone.
Choose the answer A, B, C, or D which fits best according to what you hear. (10 pts)
1. A
2. D
3. D
4. A
5. C
Part 4. Listen to part of a talk and complete the sentences with NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the space provided. (20 points)
1. white shoes
2. yesteryear
3. besuited
4. workwear conundrum
5. double-breasted

6. loose-fitting
7. leisure suit
8. button-down collared
9. result oriented
10. unpressed pants

B. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (50 points)
Part 1. Choose one of the words marked A, B, C, or D which best completes each of the
following sentences. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)
1. A
5. C
9. C
13. A
17. A
2. C
6. A
10. C
14. B
18. D
3. A
7. C
11. C
15. B
19. D
4. C
8. A
12. B
16. C
20. B

Part 2. Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable particle. Write your answer
in the boxes provided. (10 points)
1. off
2. for
3. to
4. With
5. For
6. With/ In
7. to
8. in
9. on
10. around
Part 3. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
1.
anti-social/

2.
fair-weather

3.
belatedly

4.
dispossessed

5.
resonance(s)
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antisocial
6. all-round

7. artillery

8. unprecedented

9. thoughtprovoking

10.Miscommunications

C. READING ( 60 points)
Part 1. (15 points- 1,5 points for each correct answer)
1. D
2. B
3. C
4. B
6. D
7. B
8. A
9. D
Part 2. (15 points- 1,5 points for each correct answer)
1. itself
2. of
3. like
6. become/
7.
seemed/been/appeare No/Small/Little
8. why

d

5. A
10. B

4. as/while

5. almost

9. with

10. being

Part 3. (15 points- 1,5 points for each correct answer)
1. D
2. B
3. C
4. C
5. A
6. D
7. C
8. B
9. D
10. A
Part 4. (15 points- 1,5 points for each correct answer)
1. iv
2. iii
3. ii
4. vii
5. v

6. vi
7. B
8. A
9. D
10. C
D. WRITING (50 points)
Part 1:

Content ( 8 points)

- Providing all main ideas and details as required
- Communicating intentions sufficiently and effectively

Language (8 points)

- Demonstration of a variety of vocabulary and structures
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appropriate to the level of English language gifted uppersecondary school students
- Good use and control of grammatical structures
- Good punctuation and no spelling mistakes
- Legible handwriting
Organization and
Presentation (4 points)

- Ideas are well organized and presented with coherence,
cohesion, and clarity
- The essay is well-structured

Part 2. Essay writing. (30 points)
Content (12 points)

- Providing all main ideas and details as required
- Communicating intentions sufficiently and effectively

Language (12 points)

- Demonstration of a variety of vocabulary and structures
appropriate to the level of English language gifted uppersecondary school students
- Good use and control of grammatical structures
- Good punctuation and no spelling mistakes
- Legible handwriting

Organization and
Presentation (6 points)

- Ideas are well organized and presented with coherence,
cohesion, and clarity
- The essay is well-structured

TAPESCRIPT
PART 1
Mrs Blake: Hello?
Conor: Oh, hello I’m ringing about the advertisement in yesterday’s newspaper… the one for
the bookcases can you tell me if They’re still available?
Mrs Blake: We’ve sold one, but we still have two available.
Conor: Right. Err… can you tell me a bit about them?
Mrs Blake: Sure, er. what do you want to know?
Conor: Well, I’m looking for something to tit in my study, so. well, I’m not too worried about

the height, but the width’s quite important Can you tell me how wide each of them is?
Mrs Blake: They’re both exactly the same size let me see. I’ve got the details written down
somewhere. Yes. so they’re both 75 cm wide [1] and 180 cm high.
Conor: OK. fine, that should fit m OK. And I don’t want anything that looks too severe… not
made of metal, for example I was really looking for something made of wood? [2]
Mrs Blake: That’s all right, they are, both of them. [2]
Conor: So. are they both the same price as well?
Mrs Blake: No, I he first bookcase is quite a bit cheaper. It’s just ?15 [3]. We paid ?60 for it
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just five years ago, so it’s very good value. It’s in perfectly good condition, they’re both in very
good condition in fact, but the first one isn’t the same quality as the other one. It’s a good
sturdy bookcase, it used to be in my son’s room, but it could do with a fresh coat of paint…
Conor: Oh, it’s painted?
Mrs Blake: Yes, it’s cream at present [4], but as I say you could easily change that if you
wanted to fit in with your colour scheme.
Conor: Yes. I’d probably paint it white if I got it. Let’s see, what else… how many shelves has it
got?
Mrs Blake: Six two of them are fixed, and the other four are adjustable [5] so you can shift them
up and down according to the sizes of your books.
Conor: Right, fine. Well, that certainly sounds like a possibility.
PART 2:
Sami: Dr Barrett?
Tutor: Sami, come in. Is Irene with you?
Irene: Yes.
Tutor: Good. Sit down. Right, we’re looking at how far you’ve got with your research project
since we last met. You decided to do a survey about computer facilities at the university, didn’t
you?
Irene: That’s right. We decided to investigate the university’s open access centres, and in

particular the computer facilities. Lots of the students are having trouble getting access to a
computer when they need one, so we thought it would be a useful area to research.
Tutor: Good. Fine. It’s not a topic anyone has looked at before, as far as I know, so it’s a good
choice. So what background reading did you do?
Sami: Well, we looked in the catalogues in the library but we couldn’t find much that was useful
– it’s such a specialized subject, hardly anything seems to have been published about it…
Irene: And as well as that, the technology is all changing so quickly.
Sami: But the open access centre has an online questionnaire on computer use that it asks all
the students to do at the end of their first year, and the supervisor gave us access to that data, so
we used it as a starting point for our research. It wasn’t exactly what we needed, but it gave us
an idea of what we wanted to find out in our survey. Then we designed our own questionnaire.
Tutor: And how did you use it?
Irene: We approached students individually and went through our questionnaire with them on a
one-to-one basis.
Tutor: So you actually asked them the questions?
Irene: That’s right. We made notes of the answers as we went along, and actually we found we
got a bit of extra information that may as well – about the underlying attitudes of the people we
were interviewing – by observing the body language and things like that.
Tutor: How big is your sample?
Sami: Well, altogether we interviewed a random sample of 65 students, 55% male and 45%
female.
Tutor: And what about the locations and times of the survey?
Sami: We went to the five open access computer centres at the university, and we got about
equal amounts of data at each one. It took us three weeks. We did it during the week, in the day
and in the evenings.
Tutor: Not the weekend?
Sami: No.
Tutor: So presumably your respondents were mostly full-time students?
Sami: Yes… Oh, you mean we should have collected some data at the weekends, from the parttime students? We don’t think of that.
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Tutor: OK. It’s just an example of how difficult it is to get a truly random sample. So how far
have you got with the analysis of results?
Irene: Well, everyone agreed there was a problem, but we’re more interested in what they think
should be done about it. The most popular suggestion was for some sort of booking system.
About 77% of the students thought that would be best. But there were other suggestions; for
example, about 65% of people thought it would help if the opening hours were longer, like 24
hours a day.
PART 3:
Interviewer
:

Helena:

Interviewer
:
Jed:

Interviewer
:
Helena:

Interviewer
:
Jed:

Jed Stone's best known now for his talented as a garden designer - but he
and his wife Helena ran a highly successful jewellery business in the
nineteen nineties, which brought them fame and high living. Then they lost it

all and some years later, bought a derelict house which they renovated and
now together they've created a garden. They join me in the studio today.
You do seem to do most things in partnership, like the jewellery business,
but using Jed's name. Why's that? Helena?
Well, this is a bit of a bone of contention, actually. We have a friend in PR
who said, "You have a great name, Jed Stone. People would pay a fortune for
such a good name."But, sadly, at the time, it never crossed my mind that I
wouldn't get the credit for what we do, and that does get to me sometimes but, there again, I'm very bad at putting myself forward. People see Jed as a
figurehead, which is fine, actually, because I don't enjoy being recognized
or get any thrill out of that, whereas Jed loves it.
Is that right, Jed?
Obviously, I'd love to say, N
" o, I don't,"but yeah, I do. Even as a child, I
thought it must be marvelous to walk down a street and have people know
who you were. Ironically, that's the worst of it now. It would be nice just to
go and buy a paper without somebody saying something. But I suppose I do
like being a public figure. It gives me a sense that I've done something
people appreciate. It doesn't stop me doing anything, but it does modify how
I do it.
But Helena, you did appear on our television screens briefly as a presenter
on The Travel Show. That must have been a dream job, travelling around
the world?
Actually, I thought I was being heroic taking that job. I'd actually rather
have gone down a coal mine. It was ironic really, because Jed adores
travelling, whilst I hate it. The timing was critical though; I mean, we were
living in this derelict house. We'd knocked huge holes in the walls to make
windows and we could hardly afford to get the job finished and I wanted to
be there when it was done. So I genuinely didn't want to do the job they
were offering, but I felt I had no choice because, apart from anything else, it
would provide us with a reasonable income.

So what about this jewel garden? Did you have a clear idea of what you
wanted to do when you bought the house?
Not at all. In fact, we were provoked into action. I was giving a lecture on
gardening and I was including some snaps of our own wilderness to show
what certain plans looked like. But these photos hadn't loaded onto my
laptop properly, and you couldn't see a thing. So I started to make it up describing this jewel garden with magical colours - It came straight out of
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Interviewer
:
Helena:

Jed:

Interviewer
:

my imagination, it hadn't been a long-term plan or anything. Anyway, as
soon as I'd finished, these journalists came rushing up saying, "We must
come and take pictures of your jewel garden."And I heard myself replying,
"Fine, but come when the colours are good, don't come now."To cut a long
story short, we had make the jewel garden before they came, and actually,
we did ninety per cent of the work that summer. That was out incentive!
And why did you call it a "jewel garden"? Having read about the disasters
with the jewellery business, one would have thought you wouldn't want the
word "jewel"in your house at all.
Well, I'd like to work on projects and if you have a project where you're
thinking only of jewel colours then that starts to limit you, and design is all
about reduction. Really it was just a good, positive way of tackling what

plants we were putting in, and the way we were going to design the garden,
wasn't it, Jed?
Yeah. But for me it was also partly a metaphor, it's making something
worthwhile out of a failure. We did spend years doing the jewellery and it
wasn't all disastrous; there were good things about it too and we wanted to
salvage them and treasure them. It seemed a waste not to take that bit of our
lives and to somehow incorporate it into our new design venture - to take
the bad experience and use it in a creative way.
Jed and Helena, thank you for telling us about it today.

PART 4
There really is no single definition of "business attire"these days. The era of "Big Business"with
fine clothes and tailored suits is largely gone, except in white-shoe firms. There's a lot of
freedom in tossing out the starched, buttoned-up conformity of yesteryear. But what replaces it?
What are we supposed to wear to work? A young defense lawyer might wear jeans and a T-shirt
in the office while reviewing case files, but keep a dark suit hanging nearby for going to court
or meeting a client.
Bankers are besuited; techy-types in all industries tend to dress down (same here at Newsy).
Our 21st century workwear conundrum isn't new, but it's trending more casual. Before World
War II, men wore suits — often double-breasted — and hats (yes, hats were a necessity).
Women wore dresses that managed to rise above the ankle, and complemented their attire with
matching hats, gloves, bags and shoes.
Interesting fact: Before the war, 50% of all men’s suits were double-breasted, but by the end of
the 1940s they made up only 12%. Wartime cloth restrictions were the reason.
In the 1950s, much of the style was the same, but men's suits went from loose-fitting to s"kinny."
The 1960s and 1970s mixed things up a bit. Enter the pantsuit for women. Patterns and colors
got bolder. The traditional men's suit stuck around, but some guys started showing up in Nehru
jackets and something called the "leisure suit."
The 1980s introduced something called "business casual,"thanks to Silicon Valley. It originally
meant khaki pants, sensible shoes and button-down collared shirts. (The collars were critical.)

Today, defining "business casual"is almost impossible. Is it a T-shirt? Jeans? A hoodie? A Zara
jacket? What's proper "business casual"for one business just won’t do in another. The
Atlantic grappled with this and says the casual workplace can be traced to a r"esults oriented"
business culture rather than a "process-oriented"culture obsessed with employees' looks — a
change that also can be traced to the tech industry.

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