KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH – LẦN 8 NĂM HỌC: 2010 - 2011 docx

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KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH – LẦN 8
NĂM HỌC: 2010 - 2011

MÔN THI : TIẾNG ANH LỚP 12 - BẢNG A
THỜI GIAN LÀM BÀI 180 PHÚT ( Khụng kể thời gian giao đề )

I/. Identify the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the
three ones in each group.
1. A: discussion B: revision C: attention D: admission
2. A: cease B: chase C: increase D: raise
3. A: genuine B: geneticist C: guarantee D: generate
4. A: boot B: shoot C: food D: good
5. A: teenage B: dosage C; voyage D: carriage
II/. Identify the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others
in each group.
6. A: postpone B: specialize C: purpose D: summarize
7. A: accident B: reference C: coincide D: formulate.
8. A: significant B: ability C: political D: sympathetic
9. A: evelope B: amazing C: passenger D: reference.
10. A: cultural B: admittance C: demanding D: domestic

Section B: Vocabulary and grammar

I/. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D to complete each sentence.
11. I really must go and lie down for a while, I’ve got a headache.
A: cutting B: splitting C: ringing D: cracking
12. The accident was caused by a taxidriver the traffic lights.

A: rushing B: missing C: jumping D: beating
13. Why don’t the police take measures against crime?
A: affective B: ineffective C: effective D: efficient
14. You’ll have to give to the manager for your actions.
A: report B: account C: narrative D: explanation
15. Some great men have had an school record.
A: indistinguishable B: indistinct C: extinguished D: undistinguished
16. Poor management brought the company to the of collapse.
A: brink B: rim C: fringe D: brim.

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17. The truant was from school for unbecoming behaviour.
A: dispelled B: repelled C: expelled D: compelled
II/. Put the verbs given in brackets into their appropriate tenses or forms.
Last week I (18) ………….… (walk) home after playing tennis when it
(19) ……………… (start) raining very heavily. ‘Oh, no, I (20) ……………….
(get) soaked before I (21) ………….…… (reach) home,’ I thought, ‘I wish I
(22)………….…… (remember) to bring my raincoat.’ But unfortunately I
(23)…………… …. (leave) it at home. ‘How stupid of me!’ I always
(24)………………… (get) to bring it with me. ‘Luckily just then a friend of
mine passed in her car and offered me a lift (25)……………… (go) you home?’
she asked me, ‘or (26)……………… (want) you to go for a drink?’ ‘I think I’d
rather you (27)……………… (take) me home,’ I said.
III/. There are five mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them.
Simply be bilingual does not qualify anyone for interpreting. Interpreting
does not merely a mechanical process of converting one sentence in language A
into a same sentence in language B. Rather, it is a complex art in that thoughts
and idioms which have no obvious analogues from tongue to tongue – or words
which have multiple meanings – must quickly be transformed in many a way

that the message is clearly and accurately expressing to the listener.
28. …………… 29………………. 30. …………………
31. ……………. 32………………
Section C: Reading

I/. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the passage with one suitable word.

Rules and laws
Any discussion of criminal behaviour requires understanding of the
difference in meaning of rules and laws. Rules (33)…………………. be
unwritten, or formal and written. The rules of dress or of how we eat are
unwritten guides. (34) …………………. contrast, the rules of a factory, for
example safety regulations,are usually (35) ………………… down and serve
(36)……………… strict regulators of behaviour.
Laws are perhaps, the (37) ………………… example of written, formal
rules and (38) ……………… decided upon by powerful and influential groups
in society. In order to ensure that everyone adheres (39) ……………… the
laws, there are specific penalties, including fines or imprisonment, for those (40)
……………… guilty of (41)……………… them. Unlike other rules, (42)

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……………… as rules of dress or of grammar, laws can, always be enforced
by agencies like the police and the courts.

II/. Read the following text and decide which word best fits each blank.
The point at which physical decline with age begins adversely to affect a
driver’s capability has not yet been thoroughly studied. A survey of more than
3,000 road accidents in Michigan involving drivers aged over 55 showed that in
eight out of ten (43)………………… it was a driver over the age of 71 who had

(44)………………… a collision by failing to yield, turning carelessly or
changing lanes.
Older drivers are obviously more (45)……………… to injury in vehicle
crashes, as well as being a potential higher (46)…………………. through their
own driving (47)………………. .
Reaction (48)……………… in an emergency involves many different
physical (49)……………… such as the production of the nerve
impulse,perception of the signal, (50)……………. of response and transmission
to the muscles.
Some of these (51) ………………… more than others with age, but the
overall effect increases the time it takes to respond for more (52)……………
drivers.
43. A: users B: points C: cases D: attempts
44. A: avoided B: prevented C: caused D: activated
45. A: likely B: susceptible C: possible D: common
46. A: degree B: chance C: factor D: risk
47. A: practice B: activity C: experience D: behaviour
48. A: period B: time C: process D: system
49. A: events B: parts C: factors D: forms.
50. A: choice B: suggestion C: section D: preference
51. A: improve B: deteriorate C: reduce D: increase
52. A: mature B: ancient C: older D: elderly

III/. Read the following passage and choose the best answer.
According to the census of 1800, the United States of America contained
5,308,483 persons. In the same year the British Islands contained upwards of

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fifteen million, the French Republic, more than twenty-seven million. Nearly

one-fifth of American people were black slaves; the true political population
consisted of four and a half million free whites, or less than one million able-
bodied males, on whose shoulders fell the burden of a continent. Even after two
centuries of struggle the land was still untamed; forest covered every portion,
except here and there a strip of cultivated soil; the minerals lay undisturbed in
their rocky beds, and more than two-thirds of the people clung to the seaboard
within fifty miles of tidewater, where alone the wants of civilized life could be
supplied.
53. In the United States of America in 1800
A: one out of every twenty-five Americans was a black slave.
B: one out of every four Americans was a black slave.
C: two out of every three Americans were black slaves.
D: one out of every five Americans was a black slave.
54. Free white men in America numbered.
A: about four-fifths of the population.
B: about four and a half million.
C: 5,308,483.
D: less than one million.
55. More than two-thirds of the American people
A: lived where the wants of civized life could not be supplied.
B: lived in Washington.
C: live on the seaboard.
D: lived within fifteen miles of tidewater.
56. The struggle to tame the American continent had been going on
A: about two hundred years.
B: about fifty years.
C: a little more than a century.
D: since 1750.
57. This description of the United States in 1800 suggests that.
A: most of the new nation was undeveloped.

B: the people of the new nation had succeeded in taming the continent.
C: strips of cultivated land were everywhere.
D: settlers were beginning to mine the valuable minerals of the new
continent.
Section D: Writing


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I/. Rewrite the following sentences using inversion. Begin your sentences with
the words or phrases given.
58. Steve and Jane have never invited us to their house.
Not once…………………………………………………………………………
59. Women do not have equal rights with men at any level of society.
At no………………………………………………………………………………
60. I realized later that I had made a big mistake.
Not until then……………………………………………………………………
61. The sheriff felt so lonely that he was about to draw his revolver.
So………………………………………………………………………………….
62. The staff members’ telephone numbers shouldn’t be given out under any
circumstances.
Under no…………………………………………………………………………
63. The only representative of the Indian’s handicraft remains on the island.
On…………………………………………………………………………………
II/. For each of the following sentences, write a new sentence as similar as
possible in meaning to the origin sentence, but using the word given in capital
letters. These words must not be altered in any way.
64. If you don’t obey the regulations, you will be permitted to fish in this river.
…………………………………………………………………………… LONG
65. Taking the necessary precautions, you shouldn’t have any health problems.

.………………………………………………………………………PROVIDED
66. He’ll give you the sack if you are late for the meeting.
……………………………………………………………………OTHERWISE
67. If we took effective action now, we could still save the rainforests.
…………………………………………………………………………… WERE
68. Your refusal to co-operate would cause immediate expulsion from the
country.
………………………………………………………………………….SHOULD
69. The ban on hunting was only imposed because the minister insisted.
……………………………………………………………………………….BUT
70. He is unlikely to win the competition.
…………………………………………………………………………CHANCE

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III/. COMPOSITION.
Write a composition (150-200 words) about the following topic:
Some people believe that a college or university education should be
available to all students. Others believe that higher education should be
available only to good students. Discuss these views. Which view do you agree
with? Explain why.
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§¸p ¸n vµ biÓu ®iÓm chÊm m«n tiÕng anh
kú thi chän häc sinh giái cÊp TØnh líp 12 THPT
Section A: Phonetics

I/. Identify the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the
three ones in each group. (5m x 1 = 5m)
1: B 2: D 3: C 4: D 5: A
II/. Identify the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others
in each group. (5m x 1 = 5m)
6: B 7: C 8: C 9: B 10: A

Section B: Vocabulary and grammar

I/. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D to complete each sentence.
(7m x 1 = 7m)
11: B 12: C 13: C 14: B 15: D 16: A
17: C
II/. Put the verbs given in brackets into their appropriate tenses or forms.
(10m x 1 = 10m)
18: was walking 19: started 20: will get 21: reach
22: had remembered 23: had left 24: am always getting
25: are you going 26: do you want 27: took
III/. There are five mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them.
(5m x 1 = 5m)
28: does is 29: a same the same 30: in that in which

31: many a such a 32: expressing expressed

Section C: Reading

I/. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the passage with one suitable word.
(10m x 1 = 10m)
33: may/can 34: in 35: written 36: as 37: best
38: are 39: to 40: found 41: breaking 42: such

II/. Read the following text and decide which word best fits each blank.
(10m x 1 = 10m)
43: C 44: C 45: B 46: D 47: D 48: B
49: C 50: A 51: B 52: D

III/. Read the following passage and choose the best answer.
(5m x 1 = 5m)

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53: D 54: D 55: C 56: A 57: A

Section D: Writing

I/. Rewrite the following sentences using inversion. Begin your sentences with
the words or phrases given. ( 6m x 1 = 6m)

58. Not once have Steve and Jane invited us to their house.
59. At no level of society do women have equal rights with men.
60. Not until then did I realize that I had made a big mistake
61. So lonely did the sheriff feel that he was about to draw his revolver.

62. Under no circumstances should the staff members’ telephone numbers be
given out.
63. On the island remains the only representative of the Indian’s handicraft.

II/. For each of the following sentences, write a new sentence as similar as
possible in meaning to the origin sentence, but using the word given in capital
letters. These words must not be altered in any way. (7m x 1 = 7m)

64. As long as you obey the regulations, you will not be permitted to fish in this
river.
65. Provided you take the necessary precautions,you shouldn’t have any health
problems.
66. Don’t be late for the meeting, otherwise he’ll give you the sack!
67. Were we to take effective action now, we could still save the rainforests.
68. Should you refuse to co-operate, they would expel you immediately from the
country.
69. But for the minister’s insistence, the ban on hunting would not have been
imposed.
70. He stands little chance of winning the competition.

III/. Composition (10m)

Tæng 70 c©u = 70 ®iÓm + bµi viÕt luËn 10 ®iÓm = 80 ®iÓm/4 = 20 ®iÓm