KỲ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI QUỐC GIA LỚP 12 THPT NĂM 2011 potx

UBND TỈNH TIỀN GIANG KỲ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI QUỐC GIA
SỞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO LỚP 12 THPT NĂM 2011



Môn thi : TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian thi : 180 phút ( không kể thời gian giao đề )
Ngày thi : 23/11/2011
Đáp án có 11 trang , gồm 04 phần ( I, II, III và IV )
 Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu, kể cả từ điển.
 Giám thị không giải thích gì thêm.
 Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp lên đề thi ( ở những chỗ dành sẵn )









Chữ ký Giám khảo I : Chữ ký Giám khảo II :




Điểm từng câu
Câu 1 ……………….

Câu 2 ……………….

Câu 3 ……………….

Câu 4 ……………….

Câu 5……………….
Câu 6……………….
Câu 7……………….
Câu 8……………….
Câu 9………………
Câu 10…………
Tổng điểm ( số )









I/. LISTENING (4/20 points)

HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU

 Bài nghe gồm 3 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 15 giây, mở
đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu.
 Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 3 phần để hoàn chỉnh bài
trước tín hiệu nhạc kết thúc bài nghe.
 Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.

Part 1: Questions 1 – 10
This is an introductory talk by a Student Information Officer. Listen and answer the
following questions by either choosing the correct answers or supplying your own
answers in the space provided. ( You do not need to write full sentences.)
1. Overseas students will enroll on
A. 8
th
February
Đáp án chính thức

B. 16
th
February
C. 17
th
February
D. 18
th
February
2. Undergraduate students must enroll
A. between 8.00 and 10.30 am
B. between 9.30 am and 12.30 pm
C. between 12.30 and 2.30 pm
D. between 2.00 and 4.30 pm
3. The venue for enrolment is
A. in the Mathematics Faculty
B. on Level 158
C. in Room C658
D. in Room C6

4. At enrolment, all students
A. must show a letter of acceptance from their faculty
B. need not show their letter of acceptance
C. need not bring any identification
D. must prove their level of English proficiency
5. Students who have paid their fees
A. should go to the International Students’ Office
B. are guaranteed a place at university
C. must get a bank cheque
D. should pay a further $ 10,000
6. The student Card
A. is issued before enrolment
B. has the student’s identification number
C. is issued by the Library
D. is not laminated
7. During university term, the Library will be open
A. from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm
B. from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm
C. from 8.30 am to 9.00 pm
D. from 4.00 pm to 9.30 pm
8. If anyone who hasn’t paid their fees for this semester yet, where should they go?
_____________THE STUDENT ADMISSIONS OFFICE ___________
9. As regards paying the fees, what is a word of advice?
___IT’S BEST TO GET A BANK CHEQUE TO PAY YOUR FEES___ .
10. Why don’t you have to bring a photo for Student Cards?
Because the enrolling officer will ___TAKE AN INSTANT PHOTO__ and put it on the card,
so it’s all done at once.

1 D 2 B 3 C 4 A 5 B
6 B 7 C 9 10

Part 2 : Questions 11 – 25
Listen to a newsreader talk about a disaster and fill in the missing information in the numbered
space.

Severe storms hit the western areas of the city last night, leaving (11) ____________________
scenes of destruction and at least a hundred homes without power or running water.
Dozens of families were left homeless when the roofs of their houses (12) were
_____________________ ripped away.

Many of the areas hit were the same ones badly affected by (13) _____________________
hailstorms last week.
In Macquarie Street, the council car park was completely (14) _____________________
flooded.
A Toyota Corolla was badly damaged by floodwaters which carried the car across the (15)
_____________________ carpark and into a large stormwater drain.
A separate storm (16) _____________________ raced through the Federation Botanical Park.
It uprooted at least (17) _____________________ 50 trees; many of them were over a
hundred years old.
In Menal, several trees were found lying on parked cars, causing an insurance bill that will run
into the (18) _____________________ tens of thousands of dollars.
Winds were recorded at speeds of over (19) _____________________ 70 kilometers an hour.
People were trapped in cars for up to an hour because the (20) _____________________
floodwaters had left them stranded in swollen creeks, amidst a sea of debris.
There were (21) _____________________ reports of cars being piled one on top of the other.
In Lucas Heights a tree fell on a mini-bus that was taking the (22) _____________________
local soccer team to training. Luckily all but the driver escaped serious injury.
The (23) _____________________ driver is in an (24) _____________________
satisfactory condition in Westmead Hospital.
For tomorrow, weather reports predict improved conditions, with clear skies and an expected

(25) _____________________ maximum temperature in the city of 14, Helen Brookes
reporting for ILTC RADIO NEWS.

Part 3: Questions 26 - 40

You will hear a conversation between a representative of an insurance company and a person
who wishes to apply for life insurance. While you listen to the conversation, complete the
person’s application form by either circle the choice or by supplying the information.
Swallow Life Insurance


Name of Applicant
(26) ………GEORGE ROWLANDS ……


Address (27)
52, GREEN STREET
……………………….
.


Postcode (28)

……2135……

Age (29)

………35……

 Height (30)

………1 METRE 75 /
175
CENTIMETERS…….
.

 Weight (31)

………80
KILOS/KILOGRAMS…….
.


Marital Status (32)

……SINGLE…….
Single Married Divorced Widowed

.

MEDICAL HISTORY

Serious illness
(33) …NONE…


Which of the
following is not
described as
serious illness by

the interviewer?
measles, kidney disorder, pneumonia, cancerous
growth

(34) ……MEASLES……


Major surgical
operations

(35 ……NONE…


Any current
medical condition

(36) ……HAY FEVER……


Is applicant’s
father or mother
dead ?
Father Mother
(37) ………FATHER…………



If so, at what age
did he/she die?
Why?

Age: (38)

………67……
Cause of Death: (39)

…CAR ACCIDENT



Is the applicant
currently a
smoker?
Yes No
(40) ……YES………


II. LEXICO - GRAMMAR ( 6/20 pts.)

Part 1 : Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. Write your answer
( A, B, C, or D ) in the numbered box.

41. In the last century, it was widely …………… that Indian fakirs were capable of
superhuman feasts.
A. held B. grasped C. kept D. shaken
42. We may win, we may lose – it’s just the …………… of the draw!
A. strike B. odds C. chance D. luck
43. Claims for compensation could …………… run into billions of pounds.
A. far B. much C. well D. most
44. Trespassers will be …………… .
A. perpetrated B. persecuted C. proscribed D. prosecuted

45. A traveler looks down on anyone who seems to be a(n) ……………tourist
A. only B. sole C. mere D. lone
46. We welcome the new regulations, which become .…………… on the first of next month.

A. effective B. efficient C. efficacious D. effete
47. He’ll never be able to come .…………… with his failure to win the tournament.
A. down B. round C. to terms D. up
48. He’s on his own now – he’ll have to ………… his own canoe!
A. row B. steer C. paddle D. ride
49. Most people buy their houses with a loan which they then pay back ………… 25 years.
A. over B. during C. with D. throughout
50. People who are squeamish are afraid of the ………… of blood.
A. spectacle B. view C. sight D. look

Your answers

41. A 46. A
42. D 47. C
43. C 48. C
44. D 49. A
45. C 50. C

Part 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.

Your answers

There is (0) _________ (WIDTH) wide cross-cultural variation in the
social rules governing the selection of a partner for marriage. There is
variation in the degree to which (51) _________ (PART) selection is an

individual decision by the partners or a collective decision by the partners
kin groups, and there is variation in the rules (52) _________
(REGULATIONS) which partners are valid (53) _________ (CHOOSE) .
In many societies the choice of partner is limited to suitable persons from
specific social groups. In some societies the rule is that a partner is
selected from an individual's own social group - endogamy, this is the case
in many class and caste based societies. But in other societies a partner
must be chosen from a different group than one's own - exogamy, this is
the case in many societies practicing totemic religion where society is (54)
_________ (DIVISION) into several exogamous totemic clans, such as
most aboriginal Australian societies. In other societies a person is
expected to marry their cross-cousin, a woman must marry her father's
sister's son and a man must marry his mother's brother's daughter - this is
often the case if either a society has a rule of tracing kinship (55)
_________ (EXCLUSION) through patrilineal or matrilineal descent
groups as among the Akan people of Africa. Another kind of marriage
selection is the levirate marriage in which widows are obligated to marry
their husband's brother, this is mostly found in societies where kinship is
based on endogamous clan groups.
In other cultures with less strict rules governing the groups from
which a partner can be chosen the selection of a marriage partner may
involve either the couple going through a selection process of (56)
_________ (COURT) or the marriage may be arranged by the couple's
0. wide

51. partner

52. regulating
53. choices

54. divided




55. exclusively









56. courtship


parents or an outside party, a matchmaker.
A pragmatic (or 'arranged') marriage is made easier by formal
procedures of family or group politics. A responsible authority sets up or
(57) _________ (COURAGE) the marriage; they may, indeed, engage a
professional matchmaker to find a suitable spouse for an (58) _________
(MARRY) person. The authority figure could be parents, family, a
religious official, or a group consensus. In some cases, the authority figure

may choose a match for purposes other than marital (59) _________
(HARMONIZE) .
In rural Indian villages, child marriage is also practiced, with parents
at times arranging the wedding, sometimes even before the child is born.
This practice is now (60) _________ (LEGAL) under the Child Marriage
Restraint Act. In some societies ranging from Central Asia to the
Caucasus to Africa, the custom of bride kidnapping still exists, in which a
woman is captured by a man and his friends.



57. encourages

58. unmarried

59. harmony





60. illegal


Part 3: The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Underline the mistakes and correct them
in the space provided in the column on the right. ( 0) has been done as an example.
Your answers

English is an West Germanic language that originated from the
Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic invaders from

various parts of that is now northwest Germany and the Netherlands.
Initially, Old English was a divert group of dialects, reflecting the varied
origins of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England. One of these dialects,
Late West Saxon, eventually came to dominate.
The original Old English language was then influential by two
further waves of invasion: the first by speakers of the Scandinavian branch
of the Germanic language family, which conquered and colonized parts of
Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries; the latter by the Normans in the 11th
century, who spoke Old Norman and ultimately developed an English
variety of this called Anglo-Norman. These two invasions caused English
to become "mixed" to any degree.
Cohabitation with the Scandinavians resulted in a significant
grammatical simplification and lexical enrichment of the Anglo-Frisian
core of English; the later Norman occupation led to the grafting onto that
Germanic core of a more elaborate layer of works from the Romance
languages (Latin-based languages). This Norman influence entered
English large through the courts and government. Thus, English
developed into a "borrowing" language of great flexibility, resulted in an
enormous and varied vocabulary.
0. an → a

61. what
62. diverse



63. influenced

64. who
65. second

66. some

67. ( cho 0.2 câu
này )


68. words

69. largely
70. resulting


Part 4 : Supply the correct form of the VERB in brackets to complete the passage. Write
your answer in the numbered box.

Your answers

71. MANIPULATING 76. TEACHING
72. TO FORM 77. HELPING
73. TO FULFIL 78. TAUGHT
74. LEARNING 79. SPELLING
75. NEGATED 80. NOT KNOW

Part 5: Fill each gap in the following sentences with one of the prepositions or particles in
the box. Use each word only ONCE and write your answer in the numbered box. ( Please
note that the given words outnumber the gaps)
to into in behind under in
round about for against at with

81. Leaving fingerprints _________ was very foolish.
82. Doctors advice people who are deficient _________ Vitamin C to eat more fruit and
vegetables.
83. As his aunt’s only beneficiary, he came _________ a fortune on her death.
84. On returning home, Peter discovered _________ his horror that the pipes had burst and the
entire house was flooded.
85. The police held the two suspects for further questioning because their stories did not tie
_________ with each other.
86. She has been a bit _________ the weather recently. She has not been very well.
87. When he came _________ after the operation, he had absolutely no idea where he was.
88. He has been harboring his grievances _________ his boss.
89. _________ length, the bus arrived, forty minutes late.
90. He is _________ disgrace with his father because he told a lie.

Your answers
81. BEHIND 86. UNDER
82. IN 87. ROUND
83. INTO 88. AGAINST
84. TO 89. AT
85. IN 90. IN


III : READING ( 4/20 points )

Part 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer ( A, B, C, or D ) best fits
each gap. Write your answer in the numbered box. ( 0) has been done as an example.

(0.) _________ In developing countries, the (91.) _________ number and seriousness of the
problems faced are naturally greater. People in more remote or agrarian areas are sometimes

unaware of the importance of education. However, many countries have an active Ministry of
Education, and in many subjects, such as foreign language learning, the degree of education is
actually much higher than in industrialized countries; for example, it is not at all (92.)
_________ uncommon for students in many developing countries to be reasonably fluent in
multiple foreign languages, (93.) _________ whereas this is much more of a rarity in the
supposedly "more educated" countries where (94.) _________ much of the population is in
fact monolingual.
Universal primary education is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals and great
improvements have been (95.) _________ achieved in the past decade, yet a great deal (96.)

_________ remains to be done. Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute indicate
the main obstacles to greater funding from donors (97.) _________ include donor priorities,
aid architecture, and the lack of evidence and advocacy. Additionally, Transparency
International has identified corruption in the education sector as a major stumbling block to
achieving Universal primary education in Africa. Furthermore, demand in the developing
world for improved educational access is not as high as one would expect as governments
avoid the (98.) _________ recurrent costs involved and there is economic pressure on those
parents who prefer their children making money in the short term over any long-term benefits
of education. Recent studies on child labor and poverty have suggested that when poor families
reach a certain economic (99.) _________ threshold where families are able to provide
for their basic needs, parents return their children to school. This has been found to be true,
once the threshold has been (100.) _________ breached, even if the potential economic
value of the children's work has increased since their return to school.
Your answers
(0) C
91. C 92. D 93. D 94. D 95. A
96. B 97. D 98. C 99. D 100. B

Part 2: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable sentence from the list A to
E for each gap from 101 to 107. (There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.)

Then, choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the questions from 108 to 110.
Write your answer in the numbered box.


Your answers
101. C 102. F 103. A 104. D 105. B
106. G 107. E 108. B 109. B 110. A

Part 3: Read the following passage and answer the questions from 111 to 120


Questions 111-115: Complete the summary and choose NO MORE THAN TWO
WORDS from the above-mentioned passage to fill in each numbered blank supplied.
Write your answer in the numbered box.
Sand dunes
In terms of geological features, sand dunes are described as large mounds of sand. Sand
dunes are the result of wind blowing and causing (111) ___EROSION__ . Their shape is up
to the (112) ___WIND__ . There are many different kinds of dunes.
Sand dunes are usually in coastal regions or in deserts. They have many different
shapes and the (113) __CRESCENT__ dune is found more often than any other ones.
They come in different types. Among them, the one that is without the minimum
number of sides nor is a larger dune containing many smaller dunes in itself is a (114)
___COMPLEX__ dune.
Their effects are to help prevent erosion, create environment for fauna and flora to live
in, and to give rise to (115) __DESERTIFICATION__ .
Questions 116-120: Complete another brief summary of the passage be selecting the
FIVE answer choices that express important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not
belong in the summary because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage
or are minor ideas in the passage.
(116). …………A………………. .

(117). …………E………………. .

(118). …………F………………. .
(119). …………G/H………………. .
(120). …………H/G……………. .

Part 4: Fill each blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the numbered
boxes provided below the passage.
Your answers
121. customs 126. departure / leaving
122. during 127. possible / necessary
123. more 128. late
124. middle 129. occasions
125. all 130. result


IV. WRITING ( 6/20 points. )

Part 1: (0.5/20 pts)
Use the word(s) given in brackets and make any necessary additions to write a new sentence
in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Do NOT
change the form of the given word(s).

131. Turning down that job was very foolish of you.
YOU MADE A FOOL OF (YOURSELF) TURNING DOWN THAT JOB /
IT WAS VERY FOOLISH OF YOU TO TURN DOWN THAT JOB/
YOU TURNED DOWN THAT JOB, WHICH WAS VERY FOOLISH.
……………………………………………. .
132. Many species of wild life are threatened with extinction.
MANY SPECIES OF WILD LIFE ARE DRIVEN TO THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION./

MANY SPECIES OF WILD LIFE ARE ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION.

…………………… ……………………………. .
133. Pandas need a special diet, without which they perish.
PANDAS PERISH/WILL PERISH UNLESS THEY HAVE/LIVE ON/GO ON/ARE
GIVEN/ARE PROVIDED WITH/ ARE FED WITH A SPECIAL DIET.
……………………… ………………………. .
134. You’d be wasting your time trying to make him change his mind
IT IS/’D BE POINTLESS TO TRY TO MAKE HIM CHANGE HIS MIND/
TRYING TO MAKE HIM CHANGE HIS MIND IS POINTLESS.
……………………………… ……………………… .
135. The police arrived as the thieves were committing the crime.
THE POLICE CAUGHT THE THIEVES RED-HANDED./
THE THIEVES WERE CAUGHT RED-HANDED.
………………………………………………. .
136. We don’t seem to have much sugar left!.
WE SEEM TO BE RUNNING OUT OF SUGAR.
……………… …………… .
137. Mass tourism has been one of the causes of the problem.
THEY HAVE BEEN TO BLAME MASS TOURISM FOR THE PROBLEM./
THEY HAVE BEEN TO BLAME THE PROBLEM ON MASS TOURISM./
MASS TOURISM HAS BEEN TO BLAME FOR THE PROBLEM.
…………………………………….………………. .
138. The ‘environmentally friendly’ label on this product is misleading.

CONTRARY TO THE LABEL/ITS LABEL/THE LABEL ON IT/WHAT IT SAYS /READS
ON THE LABEL/ WHAT IS SAID ON THE LABEL/ , THIS PRODUCT IS NOT
ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY.
…………………………………………………………. .
139. The pressures of being in the public eye have proved too much for him.

HE HAS HAD TO COPE TOO MUCH WITH THE PRESSURES OF BEING IN THE
PUBLIC EYE./
HE CAN’T COPE WITH THE PRESSURES OF BEING IN THE PUBLIC EYE ANY
LONGER./ ANY MORE.
HE CAN NO LONGER COPE WITH THE PRESSURES OF BEING IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

…………………………………………………………….………
140. We were not very surprised to hear that he had been stealing money from the company.
THEIR STEALING/HAVING STOLEN MONEY FROM THE COMPANY CAME AS NO
SURPRISE TO US. /
IT CAME AS NO SURPRISE TO US THAT HE HAD BEEN STEALING MONEY FROM
THE COMPANY./
THAT HE HAD BEEN STEALING MONEY FROM THE COMPANY CAME AS NO
SURPRISE TO US.
…………………………………………………………………………………… .

Part 2: (2.5/20 pts)
The chart below shows Consumer Price Indexes of Vietnam in 2007. Write a report
describing the information shown. You should write at least 150 words.


100
105
110
115
120
125
130
135
140

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Month
Index
Common Index
Staple Food
Food
Gold Price
USD Price


EXAMPLE: ( Đây chỉ là ví dụ, không phải bài mẫu )

The graph/chart/diagram indicates/shows consumer price indexes of Vietnam
through the months of the year 2007.
As can be seen, the indexes of food and staple food, the common index, and
even that of USD all increased with varied patterns.
Most obviously the gold price rose the highest of all up to 127.2% in December
2007 compared to the end of the year 2006, which went up dramatically with its two
peaks at 137% in the second quarter and 129% in the third quarter of the year.
The USD price and the food price were comparatively stable, in which the
former was remarkably lower than that of the gold and other consumer goods with the
percentage of December 2007 increasing only by 1% while the latter went up sharply
by 5% in February and afterwards decreased a little and increased slightly by 5.5% in
the end of the year 2007 vs the end of the year 2006. This was just under the rise in the
percentage of the common index.

There was a gradual and, after that, dramatic growth in the staple food price
during the last months of the year. Accordingly, the staple food price went up by 14.1%
compared to December 2006.
The common index in December 2007 climbed up to 106%, less than one-fifth

of that of the gold price in the same period.
To sum up/In brief/In conclusion, the statistics show that while the index of the
USD price changed little while that of other consumer goods mounted higher partly due
to the rise in the gold price. However, there is still an optimistic signal that the common
index didn’t ascend much.


Part 3: (3/20 pts)
School violence is one of the social issues these days that is demanding corrective
attention every passing day. What do you think? Write about 300 words to discuss and
suggest the solutions (and do not include your personal information). You may continue your
writing on the back page if you need more space.

Sau đây chỉ là gợi ý, không phải bài mẫu:

School violence is a very pointed problem. It is one of the social issues these
days that is demanding corrective attention every passing day.
School violence is getting worse and worse. Mass media have been reporting a
great deal about the problem. Every day we hear more new cases of school boys and
girls fighting, stabbing, outraging, wounding, insulting, attacking or revenging. This
problem is so serious that something needs to be done about it before it is too late.
SOLUTIONS:
- eradicate violence-stimulating forms of culture such as books, pictures, movies,
games on line that involve or advocate violence.
- educate school students to live and behave peacefully, not to behave
aggressively by the fact that relatives, teachers, friends, neighbors set good examples
through their actions, responses, behaviors, manners.
- encourage school children to struggle for noble, positive, humane ideals. Make
sure that they pursue healthy, positive interests,
- provide a friendly, mutually-affectionate, helpful and collective environment

for school students to live in, so as to foster friendliness, helpfulness, solidarity and to
abolish autism, unfriendliness, hostility.
- ………………………….

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