thi HSG tiếng Anh lớp 11 tỉnh Yên Bái (2012)

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TẠO
TỈNH YÊN BÁI
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(đề gồm 8 trang)
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH
LỚP 11 THPT
Môn: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
PART I: LISTENING (3 points)
• There is a piece of music at the beginning and at the end of the
listening part.
• You have 30 seconds to read each question before listening.
• Each recording is played twice with an interval of 10 seconds.
Question I: Listen to 5 people talking about their weights and complete
the table. (2 points)
Name
weight in January (in
kilo)
weight in June (in kilo)
Jane
Mark
Jo
Lee
Kim
Question II: Listen and circle T for True, F for False and U for
Unknown. (1 point)
1. Jim saw an accident on the way back
from work T F U
2. It was raining then T F U
3. The tractor was badly damaged T F U

4. Jim had to walk home T F U
5. They will buy a new car T F U
PART II: PHONETIC (1 point)
Question I: Pick out the word with the underlined part pronounced
differently from the rest
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1. A. confide B. hobbies C. convince D.
principle
2. A. kites B. sketches C. oranges D. buzzes
3. A. mountain B. pronounce C. county D. poultry
4. A. common B. conceited C. won D. terror
5. A. solution B. resolution C. success D.
prosperity
6. A. storage B. encourage C. shortage D.
garage
7. A. concentrate B. delicate C. private D. accurate
8. A. match B. toothache C. orchestra D.
chorus
9. A. method B. negative C. methodical D.
length
10. A. naked B. sacred C. needed D. walked
PART III: LEXICO - GRAMMAR (6 points)
Question I: Choose the word or phrase which best completes each
sentence by circling the letter A, B, C or D next to the correct word or
phrase. (2 points)
1. Don’t be late for the interview; _______, people will think you are a
disorganized person.
A. otherwise B. unless C. if not D. or so
2. The children appear________ about the trip.
A. exciting B. being excited C. to excite D. to be

excited
3. He ________ the dream of scientific career when he was small.
A. sailed B. landed C. obtained D.
harboured
4. In the early days, films were little more than moving_________.
A. noises B. portraits C. sounds D. photographs
5. New York is_________ by its hundreds of the tall offices and apartment
buildings.
A. characterized B. founded C. renamed D.
constructed
6. Many sea animals are at__________ due to hunting and water pollution.
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A. loss B. death C. risk D. danger
7. They turned ________ at the party, despite the awful weather.
A. round B. in C. back D. up
8. We wanted to give him__________ help, but he turned us down.
A. few B. a few C. a little D. little
9. The car is ________ for one year. The garage will pay for any repair
within this period.
A. promised B. guaranteed C. advised D. attended
10. She doesn’t get on well with the rest of the ________actors and
actresses.
A. crowd B. team C. cast D. gang
11. The play last night was a truly_________ performance.
A. memory B. memorable C. memorize D.
memorial
12. While the police were searching for the missing girl, _______girl was
reported to have disappeared.
A. other B. the other C. others D. another
13. They helped handicapped children__________ their difficulties.

A. finish B. overcome C. pass by D.
conquer
14. People who are easily ________ by rumors can never be good friends.
A. influenced B. attracted C. purchased D.
occurred
15. That’s a nice coat, and the color _______you well.
A. fits B. suits C. matches D. couples
16. She is traveling to work by train today because her car is being
________.
A. stopped B. broken C. serviced D. rented
17. Buy me a dozen of eggs on the way back, __________?
A. will you B. may you C. do you D. can you
18. We insist that a meeting________ as soon as possible.
A. be held B. is held C. were held D. will be
held
19. It is believed that there is a _________ between two crimes.
A. join B. chain C. link D. connector
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20. My uncle was______ ill last summer but fortunately, he is now making a
slow but steady recovery.
A. critically B. deeply C. fatally D. seriously
Question II: Supply the correct tense of the verbs in brackets (2 points).
1. At this time next week, they (1. sit) _________ in the train on the way to
Paris.
2. The impact of the earthquake yesterday (2.feel) _________by people who
lived hundreds of kilometers from the epicenter.
3. Turn the television off. By the time the light (3. be) __________ on again
the television station
(4. stop) __________ broadcasting.
4. Scarcely they (5. move) _________ into the new house when their friends

(6. come) _________ in.
5. She was breathing fast and deep as if she (7. run) _________
6. But for our parents, we (8. never/ be) _________successful in life.
7. I (9. work) _________ at my report since Monday. Now I (10. write)
_________ the conclusion.
Question III: Read the passage and fill in each blank with the correct
form of the words (1 point)
At first light, there is nothing unusual about the town of Cameron Park
in California, as the day begins and the town comes to (1. live) _________,
you can’t help (2. notice) _________ that, among the cars, there are light
aeroplanes moving along the roads towards the airport. When the town was
(3.origin)_________ built, a small airport is included for the (4. convenient)
________of people flying in to look at the properties which were for (5. sell)
_________, but it soon became clear to the development that this was an
attraction in itself. The streets were (6. wide) _________ so that planes could
use them, mailboxes near the road were made (7. short) _________ to avoid
passing wings, and all the electricity cables were buried (8.
ground)_________ . Now, there is every likelihood that the (9. reside)
_________ will have a private plane in their garage and use it with the same
(10. free) _________ other people enjoy with their cars.
Question IV: Each line of the following passage contains one mistake.
Underline the mistakes and write the correct answers in the spaces
provided. (1 point)
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In the 1960s, The Beatles were probably the more
famous pop group
0. most
in the whole world. Since then, there was a great
many groups that
1.

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have achieved enormous famous, so it is perhaps
difficult now to
2.
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imagine what sensational The Beatles were at the
time. They were
3.
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four boys from the North of England and none of
them had some
4.
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training in music. They started by performing and
recorded songs by
5.
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black Americans and they had some succeed with
these songs. Then
6.
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they started writing them own songs and that was
when they became
7.

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really popular. The Beatles exchanged pop music.
They were the
8.
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first pop group to achieve great success from songs
they have
9.
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written themselves. After that it became commonly
for groups and
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singers to write their own songs.
PART IV: READING (4 points)
Question I: Read the following passage and ONE word to fill in each
gap. (1 point)
In 1973, when the tiger appeared to be facing extinction, the World
Wide Fund for Nature and the Indian Government agreed to set (1)
__________ “Operation Tiger” - a campaign to save this threatened creature.
They started by creating nine special parks (2) __________ that tigers could
live in safety. The first was at Ranthambhore, a region which was quickly
turning into a desert (3) _______
too much of the grass was being eaten by the local people’s cattle. At the
time, there (4) __________

just fourteen tigers left there. The government had to clear twelve small
villages, which meant moving nearly 1,000 people and 10,000 cattle so the
land (5) __________ be handed back to nature.
Today, Ranthambhore is a very different place, with grass tall (6)
__________ for tigers to hide in, and there are now at (7) __________ forty
of them in the park, wandering freely about. Other animals have also
benefited. For example, there are many (8) __________ deer and monkeys
than before. The people (9) __________ were moved are now living in better
conditions. They live in new villages away from the tiger park, with schools,
temples and fresh water supplies. There are now sixteen such tiger parks in
India and the animal’s future look (10) __________ safer.
Question II: Choose a suitable word to fill in each blank. (1 point)
Many people remember being taken to the zoo as a child. They
remember especially the excitement of (1) __________ seeing animals for
the first (2) __________, when before they had only read about them in
books or seen them on television. However, there is (3) __________
discussion today about the future of zoos and what their role should be.
Supporter of zoos claim that they have an educational (4) ______ and
represent a good way for people of (5) __________ ages to learn more
about the natural world. Also, zoos provide (6) __________ for important
research and frequently allow scientists to help save those animals which are
becoming (7) __________ rare in the wild.
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Opponents, however, criticize zoos for a number of reasons. Firstly,
they say that it is cruel to keep animals in cages. Even in the best zoos,
animals may (8) __________ because the places in which they have to live
are both restricted and artificial. This can cause them to experience stress and
affect their health. Secondly, they believe that money would be better spent
on protecting animals in their (9) __________ environment. Finally,
opponents (10) __________ out that most people nowadays can see well-

made nature documentaries on television and that this is much more valuable
experience than going to a zoo.
1. A. actually B. genuinely C. positively D.
truly
2. A. moment B. event C. occasion D. time
3. A. deep B. considerable C. large D. important
4. A. activity B. function C. situation D.
occupation
5. A. several B. both C. all D. every
6. A. ways B. reasons C. methods D.
opportunities
7. A. completely B. increasingly C. totally D. greatly
8. A. suffer B. injure C. fail D. hurt
9. A. standard B. daily C. typical D. natural
10. A. pick B. point C. show D. speak
Question III: Read the passages carefully and choose the best answers.
(2 points)
HINTS FOR RE ADING PRACTICE
Set aside time each day
Most of us can fine 15 minutes or half an hour each day for some specific
regular activity. It may be a free period or regular wait, say in the queue for a
bus or meal- even while eating breakfast. One famous surgeon always made
it a rule to spend at least 15 minutes on general reading before he went to
sleep each night. Whether he went to bed at 10 p.m or 2-30 a.m made no
difference. Even if you can not keep to this kind of discipline, it is a good
idea to make sure you always have a general interest book in your pocket.
Don’t forget it should be a book which entertains you and the English must
not be too difficult for you.
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Check your progress through pacing

Nearly all speed reading courses have a “pacing” element - some timing
device which lets the student know how many words a minute he is reading.
You can do this simply by looking at your watch every 5 or 10 minutes and
noting down the page number you have reached. Check the average number
of words per age for the particular book you are reading. How do you know
when 5 minutes has passed on your watch if you are busy reading the book?
Well, this is difficult at first. A friend can help by timing you over a set
period, or you can read within hearing distance of a public clock which
strikes the quarter hours. Pace yourself every three or four days, always with
the same kind of easy, general interest book. You should notice your habitual
w.p.m (word per minute) rate creeping up.
Check comprehension
Obviously there is little point in increasing your w.p.m rate if you do not
understand what you are reading. When you are consciously trying to
increase your reading speed, stop after every chapter
(if you are reading a novel) or every section or group of ten or twelve pages
(if it is a textbook) and ask yourself a few questions about what you have
been reading. If you find you have lost the thread of the story, or you can not
remember clearly the details of what was said, re-read the section or chapter.
“Lighting speed” exercise
Try this from time to time. Take four or five pages of the general interest
book you happen to be reading at that time. Read them as fast as you
possibly can. Do not bother about whether you understand or not. Now go
back and read them at what you feel to be your “normal” w.p.m rate, the rate
at which you can comfortably understand. After a “lighting speed” read
through (probably around 600 w.p.m) you will usually find that your
“normal” speed has increase - perhaps by as much as 50 -100 w.p.m. This is
the technique athletes use when they habitually run further in training than
they will have to on the day of the big race.
1. The passage recommends setting aside for reading practice ________.

A. two hours a day B. one hour a day
C. 15 minutes or half an hour a day D. three times a day before meals
2. One famous surgeon always made it a rule to read ________.
A. for 15 minutes at 10 p.m each night.
B. at least 15 minutes at bedtime
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C. at least 15 minutes at either 10 p.m or 2.30 a.m
D. whether he had a spare moment.
3. It is a good idea always to carry in your pocket ________.
A. a book you will never forget B. a serious book
C. several books of various kinds D. an easy and entertaining
English book
4. A “pacing” device ________
A. times a student’s reading speed B. is not included in most speed
reading courses
C. is an aid to vocabulary learning D. should be used whenever we
read alone.
5. Looking at your watch every 5 or 10 minutes ________.
A. avoids the need for reading faster B. is not the same as pacing
C. is not easy at first D. help you to remember the page number
you were at last time
6. The passage recommends pacing yourself ________.
A. every two days with different kinds of book
B. every three or four days with the same kind of book
C. every week with the same kind of book
D. as often as you read a book
7. When you are reading a novel, the passage advises you to pause to check
the content ________.
A. every chapter B. every hour
C. every three or four pages D. after every page

8. The purpose of pausing for thought every chapter so often is to ________.
A. rest the eyes
B. make sure you have not missed any pages
C. make sure you really understand what you have read
D. prevent brain fatigue
9. If you have lost the thread of a story, you are reading, the passage
recommends ________.
A. choosing an easier book
B. glancing back over the chapter you have just read
C. asking a friend to help you with the difficult words
D. learning the previous chapter by heart
10. The purpose of the lightning speed exercise is to ________.
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A. increase your normal speed by practicing at a very high rate
B. get through the book in half the time so that your can go on to the next.
C. help you understand more of the content of the book
D. enable you to win reading races against your friends
PART V: WRITING (6 points)
Question I: Rewrite these sentences so that the new once has a similar
meaning as the given one. (2 points)
1."That's a lovely new dress, Jean" said her mother.
Jean's mother
complemented………………………………………………………………
2. My brother prefers driving to being driven.
My brother would
rather……………………………………………………………………
3. I didn't notice that I had the wrong umbrella until I got home.
Not……………………………………………………………………………
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4. I certainly don't intend to reply to that rude letter from Edward.

I
have……………………………………………………………………………
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5. He made a lot of mistakes because he didn't study carefully.
Had……………………………………………………………………………
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6. It is believed that the man escaped in a stolen car.
The
man……………………………………………………………………………
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7. Are you against working on Sunday?
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Do you
object…………………………………………………………………………
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8. I wish I had gone on holiday with my friends.
I
regret…………………………………………………………………………
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9. “Why don't you buy them a suit of furniture as a wedding present?” he
said.
He suggested
that……………………………………………………………………………
10. It's extremely difficult for us to make ends meet these days.
We
find……………………………………………………………………………
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Question II: Rewrite each of the sentences using the given world so that
the new one has a similar meaning as the preceded. You must not
change the given word (1 point).

1."Don't forget to join in the contest next week" My teacher said.
(REMINDED)
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2. Some high school students participate in helping disadvantaged or
handicapped children (TAKE)
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3. I couldn't go to work because of the flood. (PREVENTED)
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4. Despite knowing the city well, I got lost. (EVEN)
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5. If we took effective action now, we could still save the rainforest. (WERE)
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Question III: Essay writing (3 points)
Today, many parents tend to hire tutors to teach their children at home for
better study results. In your opinion, what are the advantages and
disadvantages of learning with a tutor? Write an essay of about 250 words to
express your ideas.
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