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ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH
GIỎI LỚP 12 NĂM HỌC
2015 - 2016
Môn: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề.
(Đề gồm 05 trang; Thí sinh làm phần trắc nghiệm vào Phiếu TLTN,
Thí sinh làm phần viết vào giấy thi)
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SECTION A: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (16 POINTS)
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from
the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

Question 1: A. allegedly
Question 2: A. admiral

B. supposedly
B. adventure

C. confusedly
C. advocate

D. wickedly
D. advent

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the
position of the main stress in each of the following questions.

Question 3: A. extravagant
Question 4: A. mysterious
Question 5: A. rental

B. distinctively
B. original
B. canal

C. fundamental
C. elaborate
C. dental

D. dilapidated
D. necessary
D. sandals

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.

Question 6: Ann: “Where’s Polly?”
John: “She is in her room ______.”
A. studying
B. is studying
C. studies
D. has studied
Question 7: ______Everglades is a large, low, wet region in the southern part of the US state of Florida.
A. The
B. θ
C. An

D. Some
Question 8: It is possible ______ may assist some trees in saving water in the winter.
A. to lose leaves
B. when leaves have lost C. that the loss of leaves D. the leaves are lost
Question 9: I called Jenny yesterday with a view ______ asking her about the project.
A. to
B. of
C. in
D. for
Question 10: Pam broke her arm in the accident. It would have been much worse if she ______her seat belt at that time.
A. hadn’t worn
B. hadn’t been for
C. hadn’t been wearing D. had been wearing
Question 11: Having opened the bottle, ______ for everyone.
A. the drink was poured
B. Mike poured the drink
C. Mike pouring the drink
D. the drink was being poured
Question 12: He said there was nothing that happened, but I began to _____ when he kept beating about the bush.
A. get cold feet
B. smell a rat
C. keep an eye on
D. be off my head
Question 13: That he came up with all the ideas ______ a miracle to us.
A. were
B. was
C. to be
D. have been
Question 14: My father gave me ______ as a birthday present on my birthday.
A. a digital useful alarm clock

B. an alarm useful digital clock
C. a useful alarm digital clock
D. a useful digital alarm clock
Question 15: It is a serious operation for a woman as old as my grandmother. She's very frail. I hope she______.
A. comes round
B. gets away
C. puts through
D. pulls through
Question 16: Tim looks so frightened and upset. He ______ something terrible.
A. must experience
B. can have experienced
C. should have experienced
D. must have experienced
Question 17: I don't suppose anyone will volunteer, ______?
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A. does he
B. do I C. will
they
D. won’t they
Question 18: The knee is _______ most other joints in the body because it cannot twist without injury.
A. to be damaged more than likely
B. more likely to be damaged than
C. likely to be more than damaged
D. more than likely to be damaged
Question 19: He became a millionaire by ______ of hard work and a considerable amount of luck.
A. dint
B. process

C. cause
D. effect
Question 20: Most whole milk undergoes homogenization, ______hot milk is pumped through valves to break up
and permanently disperse the fat globules.

A. which process
B. a process in which
C. which is a process
Question 21: He considers shares to be a good long- ______ investment.
A. length
B. time
C. term
Question 22: ______, the catfish is prized for its state.
A. With ugly look
B. As looking ugly
C. As it is looking ugly
Question 23: Lan: “Well, cats are very good at catching mice around the house.”

D. a process
D. age
D. Ugly looking as it is

Mai: “______”

A. You are welcome.
B. Mind your words.
C. You can say that again.
D. Nothing more to say.
Question 24: Studies have shown that the elderly who are pet owners have lower blood pressure than ______ who
live without pets.

A. elderly

B. do the elderly

C. for the elderly to do

D. to the elderly

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underline part that needs correcting.

Question 25: Ducks are less susceptible to infection than another types of poultry.
A. another
B. than
C. to
D. less
Question 26: Fiorello La Guadian made a speech to the United Nations Relief Administration, which he was the
director, stating that Europe experienced prosperity after the World War II.

A. he
B. stating
C. which
D. made
Question 27: During our tour of the refinery, it was seen that both propane and gasoline were produced in large
volumes.

A. the refinery
B. it was seen
C. and
D. in large volumes

Question 28: The Concord can fly across the Atlantic without re-fueling and carrying 11 tons of freight.
A. The
B. carrying
C. freight
D. across
Question 29: Televisions are now an every day feature of most households in the United States, and television
viewing is the number one leisure activity.
A. an every day feature B. leisure activity
C. television viewing

D. most households

Choose the word or phrase CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences.

Question 30: Throughout history, the prevalent authority pattern in families has been patriarchy, in which males
are in control.

A. extraordinary
B. strange
C. dominant
D. uncommon
Question 31: I’d rather staying in a hotel with all the amenities than camp in the woods.
A. conveniences
B. honors
C. privileges
D. expense
Question 32: Crime rates tend to fluctuate with the seasons, with much higher rates in the winter than in the summer.
A. accelerate
B. decrease
C. go up and down

D. stay the same
Choose the word or phrase OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences.

Question 33: There has been no discernible improvement in the noise levels since lorries were banned.
A. thin
B. significant
C. obvious
D. clear
Question 34: Affluent families find it easier to support their children financially.
A. impoverished
B. wealthy
C. well-off
D. prosperous
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Read the following passage taken
from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 8th, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 35 to 44.
SPORT AND FITNESS
The British are very fond of sport, but many people prefer to watch ___(35)___ take part. Many go to watch
football, cricket, etc. at the ground, but many more sit at home and watch sport on television. Most people today
take relatively___(36)___. Over the last 30 or 40 years lifestyles have changed considerably and many people now
travel even the shortest distances by car or bus. ___(37)___ exercise combined with eating too many ___(38)___
and sugary foods has meant that many people are becoming too fat. In recent years, however, there has been a
___(39)___ interest in fitness among young adults and many belong to a sports club or gym. In Britain most towns
have an/a ___(40)___ football and cricket team, and people also have opportunities to play sports such as tennis
and golf. Older people may play bowls. Some people go regularly to a sports center or leisure center. Some sports
centers ___(41)___ classes in aerobics, step and keep-fit. Some people ___(42)___ regularly at a local gym and do

weight training and circuit training. Others go running or jogging in their local area. For enthusiastic runners there
are opportunities to take part in ___(43)___ runs, such as the London marathon. Other people keep themselves fit
by walking or cycling. Many people go abroad on a skiing holiday each year. Membership of a sports club or gym
can be expensive and not everyone can afford the subscription. Local sports centers are generally cheaper. Some
companies now provide sports facilities ___(44)___ their employees or contribute to the cost of joining a gym.

Question 35: A. to
B. except for
Question 36: A. little general exercise
C. a little general exercise
Question 37: A. The lack of
B. Lack
Question 38: A. fat
B. rich
Question 39: A. planting
B. developing
Question 40: A. professional
B. well-known
Question 41: A. grow
B. propose
Question 42: A. work out
B. full in
Question 43: A. distance away B. long-distance
Question 44: A. to
B. for

C. than
D. rather than
B. a few general exercises
D. few general exercises

C. The lack
D. Lack of
C. fatty
D. richly
C. becoming
D. growing
C. competent
D. amateur
C. pass
D. arrange
C. cough up
D. find out
C. short-distance
D. full distance
C. with
D. about

Read the following passage taken from Baron’s The Leader In Test Preparation TOEFL iBT and mark the
letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 45 to
54.
Tulips are Old World, rather than New World, plants, with the origins of the species lying in Central Asia. They
became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after,
part of European life as well. Holland, in particular, became famous for its cultivation of the flower.
A tenuous line marked the advance of the tulip to the New World, where it was unknown in the wild. The first
Dutch colonies in North America had been established in New Netherlands by the Dutch West India Company in
1624, and one individual who settled in New Amsterdam (today's Manhattan section of New York City) in 1642
described the flowers that bravely colonized the settlers' gardens. They were the same flowers seen in Dutch stilllife paintings of the time: crown imperials, roses, carnations, and of course tulips. They flourished in Pennsylvania
too, where in 1698 William Penn received a report of John Tateham's "Great and Stately Palace”, its garden full of
tulips.
By 1760, Boston newspapers were advertising 50 different kinds of mixed tulip "roots”. But the length of the

journey between Europe and North America created many difficulties. Thomas Hancock, an English settler, wrote
thanking his plant supplier for a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter the following year grumbled
that they were all dead.
Tulips arrived in Holland, Michigan, with a later wave of early nineteenth-century Dutch immigrants who
quickly colonized the plains of Michigan. Together with many other Dutch settlements, such as the one at Pella,
Iowa, they established a regular demand for European plants. The demand was bravely met by a new kind of tulip
entrepreneur, the traveling salesperson. One Dutchman, Hendrick Van Der Schoot, spent six months in 1849
traveling through the United States taking orders for tulip bulbs. While tulip bulbs were traveling from Europe to
the United States to satisfy the nostalgic longings of homesick English and Dutch settlers, North American plants
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were traveling in the opposite
direction. In England, the enthusiasm
for American plants was one reason why tulips dropped out of fashion in the gardens of the rich and famous.

Question 45: Which of the following questions does the passage mainly answer?
A. Where were the first Dutch colonies in North America located?
B. What is the difference between an Old World and a New World plant?
C. Why are tulips grown in many different parts of the world?
D. How did tulips become popular in North America?
Question 46: The word "integral" in line 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. interesting
B. overlooked
C. fundamental
D. ornamental
Question 47: The passage mentions that tulips were first found in which of the following regions?
A. Western Europe
B. India

C. Central Asia
D. North America
Question 48: The word "flourished" in line 8 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. were marketed
B. were discovered
C. thrived
D. combined
Question 49: The author mentions tulip growing in New Netherland, Pennsylvania and Michigan in order to
illustrate how ______.
A. tulips grew progressively more popular in North America
B. imported tulips were considered more valuable than locally grown tulips
C. tulips were commonly passed as gifts from one family to another
D. attitudes toward tulips varied from one location to another

Question 50: The word "grumbled" in line 13 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. denied
B. warned
C. explained
D. complained
Question 51: The passage mentions that one reason English and Dutch settlers planted tulips in their gardens was
that tulips ______.

A. were easy to grow
B. made them appear fashionable
C. had become readily available
D. reminded them of home
Question 52: The word "they" in line 17 refers to ______.
A. tulips
B. immigrants
C. plants

D. plains
Question 53: According to the passage, which of the following changes occurred in English gardens during the
European settlement of North America?

A. They grew in size in order to provide enough plants to export to the New World.
B. They decreased in size on the estates of wealthy people.
C. They contained many new types of North American plants.
D. They contained a wider variety of tulips than ever before.
Question 54: The passage mentions which of the following as a problem associated with the importation of tulips
into North America?

A. They were no longer fashionable by the time they arrived.
B. Settlers knew little about how to cultivate them.
C. Orders often took six months or longer to fill.
D. They often failed to survive the journey.
Read the following passage taken from Baron’s How to prepare for the TOEFL and mark the letter A, B, C, or D
on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 55 to 64.
According to the controversial sunspot theory, great storms on the surface of the sun hurl streams of solar
particles into the atmosphere, causing a shift in the weather on earth.
A typical sunspot consists of a dark center umbra surrounded by a lighter penumbra of light and dark threads
extending out from the center like a spoke a wheel. Actually the sunspots are cooler than the rest of the
photosphere, which may account for their color. Typically, the temperature in a sunspot umbra is about 4000 K.
Sunspots range in size from tiny granules to complex structures with areas stretching for billions of square
miles. About 5% of the pots are large enough so that they can be seen without instruments: consequently,
observations of sunspots have been recorded for several thousand years.
Sunspots have been observed in arrangements of one to more than one hundred spots, but they tend to occur in
pairs. There is also a marked tendency for the two spots of a pair to have opposite magnetic field associated with
any given sunspots is closely related to the spot’s size.
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Although there is no theory that
completely explains the nature and
function of sunspots, several models attempt to relate the phenomenon to magnetic fields along the lines of
longitude from the north and south poles of the sun.

Question 55: What is the author’s main purpose in the passage?
A. To argue for the existence of magnetic fields in sunspots
B. To describe the nature of sunspots
C. To propose a theory to explain sunspots
D. To compare the umbra and the penumbra
Question 56: The word controversial in line 1 is closest to ______.
A. open to debate
B. very complicated
C. widely accepted
D. just in traduce
Question 57: Solar particles are hurled into space by ______.
A. small rivers on the surface of the sun
B. underdetermined causes
C. changes the earth’s atmosphere
D. disturbances of wind
Question 58: The word particles in line 2 refers to ______.
A. gas explosions in the atmosphere
B. small pieces
C. liquid streams on the sun
D. light ray from the sun
Question 59: How can we describe matter from the sun that enters the earth’s atmosphere?
A. Very small
B. Very bright

C. Very hard
D. Very hot
Question 60: The sunspot theory is ______.
A. relatively new
B. widely accepted
C. subject to disagreement
D. not considered important
Question 61: The word they in line 7 refers to ______.
A. pots
B. miles
C. granules
D. Structures
Question 62: The word consequently in line 7 could best be replaced by ______.
A. Nevertheless
B. In this way
C. Without doubt
D. As a result
Question 63: In which configuration do sunspots usually occur?
A. In a configuration of two spots
B. In groups of several thousand spots
C. In one spot of varying size
D. In arrangements of one hundred or more spots
Question 64: How are sunspots explained?
A. Sunspots may be related to magnetic fields that follow longitudinal lines on the sun.
B. Sunspots are explained by storms that occur on the earth.
C. Sunspots have no theory or model to explain them.
D. Sunspots appear to be related to magnetic fields on the earth.
SECTION B: WRITING (4 POINTS)

Part I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the

sentence printed before it.
Question 65. I rarely sleep in the afternoon.
 I’m not in …………………………………………………………………………………
Question 66. My grandfather had completely forgotten that he phoned me last night.
 My grandfather didn’t have ………………………………………………………………
Question 67. My brother-in-law is the most exasperating person I’ve ever met.
 I’ve yet ……………………………………………………………………......................
Question 68. Tim spoke to his lawyer before signing the contract.
 Tim didn’t ………………………………………………………………………………...
Question 69. His love increases with his admiration for her.
 The more …………………………………………………………………………………
Part II. Students should have freedom to choose their own subjects in the National examination
for Upper Secondary Education. Do you agree or disagree? Write a paragraph of about
140 words to support your answer.
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_____ THE END_____

SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO
THÁI BÌNH

ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 12 NĂM HỌC 2015-2016
Môn: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề.
(Đề gồm 05 trang; Thí sinh làm phần trắc nghiệm vào Phiếu TLTN,
Thí sinh làm phần viết vào giấy thi)
Mã đề: 213

SECTION A: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (16 POINTS)
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from
the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

Question 1: A. allegedly
Question 2: A. admiral

B. confusedly
B. advent

C. wickedly
C. adventure

D. supposedly
D. advocate

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the
position of the main stress in each of the following questions.

Question 3: A. original
Question 4: A. extravagant
Question 5: A. dental

B. elaborate
B. fundamental
B. canal

C. mysterious
C. distinctively
C. rental

D. necessary
D. dilapidated
D. sandals

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.

Question 6: It is possible ______ may assist some trees in saving water in the winter.
A. that the loss of leaves B. when leaves have lost C. the leaves are lost
D. to lose leaves
Question 7: The knee is _______ most other joints in the body because it cannot twist without injury.
A. to be damaged more than likely
B. more than likely to be damaged
C. likely to be more than damaged
D. more likely to be damaged than
Question 8: Pam broke her arm in the accident. It would have been much worse if she ______her seat belt at that time.
A. had been wearing
B. hadn’t been wearing C. hadn’t worn
D. hadn’t been for
Question 9: Studies have shown that the elderly who are pet owners have lower blood pressure than ______ who
live without pets.

A. elderly
B. do the elderly
C. for the elderly to do
D. to the elderly
Question 10: My father gave me ______ as a birthday present on my birthday.
A. a digital useful alarm clock
B. a useful alarm digital clock

C. an alarm useful digital clock
D. a useful digital alarm clock
Question 11: I don't suppose anyone will volunteer, ______?
A. will they
B. do I
C. does he
D. won’t they
Question 12: That he came up with all the ideas ______ a miracle to us.
A. were
B. was
C. to be
D. have been
Question 13: He said there was nothing that happened, but I began to _____ when he kept beating about the bush.
A. keep an eye on
B. get cold feet
C. be off my head
D. smell a rat
Question 14: ______, the catfish is prized for its state.
A. As looking ugly
B. As it is looking ugly C. Ugly looking as it is D. With ugly look
Question 15: Tim looks so frightened and upset. He ______ something terrible.
A. must experience
B. can have experienced
C. should have experienced
D. must have experienced
Question 16: Most whole milk undergoes homogenization, ______hot milk is pumped through valves to break up
and permanently disperse the fat globules.
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A. which is a process
B. a
process C. a process in which
D. which process
Question 17: Lan: “Well, cats are very good at catching mice around the house.”
Mai: “______”

A. You are welcome.
B. Mind your words.
C. You can say that again.
D. Nothing more to say.
Question 18: He became a millionaire by ______ of hard work and a considerable amount of luck.
A. dint
B. process
C. cause
D. effect
Question 19: I called Jenny yesterday with a view ______ asking her about the project.
A. for
B. of
C. to
D. in
Question 20: He considers shares to be a good long- ______ investment.
A. length
B. time
C. term
D. age
Question 21: Having opened the bottle, ______ for everyone.
A. Mike poured the drink
B. Mike pouring the drink

C. the drink was poured
D. the drink was being poured
Question 22: ______Everglades is a large, low, wet region in the southern part of the US state of Florida.
A. An
B. Some
C. The
D. θ
Question 23: It is a serious operation for a woman as old as my grandmother. She's very frail. I hope she______.
A. comes round
B. gets away
C. puts through
D. pulls through
Question 24: Ann: “Where’s Polly?”
John: “She is in her room ______.”
A. studying
B. has studied
C. is studying
D. studies
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underline part that needs correcting.

Question 25: Fiorello La Guadian made a speech to the United Nations Relief Administration, which he was the
director, stating that Europe experienced prosperity after the World War II.
A. which
B. he
C. made
D. stating
Question 26: Televisions are now an every day feature of most households in the United States, and television
viewing is the number one leisure activity.
A. leisure activity
B. an every day feature

C. most households
D. television viewing
Question 27: The Concord can fly across the Atlantic without re-fueling and carrying 11 tons of freight.
A. The
B. carrying
C. freight
D. across
Question 28: Ducks are less susceptible to infection than another types of poultry.
A. less
B. to
C. than
D. another
Question 29: During our tour of the refinery, it was seen that both propane and gasoline were produced in large
volumes.
A. the refinery
B. it was seen
C. and
D. in large volumes
Choose the word or phrase CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences.
Question 30: Throughout history, the prevalent authority pattern in families has been patriarchy, in which males
are in control.
A. uncommon
B. dominant
C. extraordinary
D. strange
Question 31: Crime rates tend to fluctuate with the seasons, with much higher rates in the winter than in the summer.
A. accelerate
B. decrease
C. stay the same
D. go up and down

Question 32: I’d rather staying in a hotel with all the amenities than camp in the woods.
A. conveniences
B. honors
C. privileges
D. expense
Choose the word or phrase OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences.
Question 33: There has been no discernible improvement in the noise levels since lorries were banned.
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A. clear B. obvious
D. significant

C. thin

Question 34: Affluent families find it easier to support their children financially.
A. well-off
B. wealthy
C. impoverished

D. prosperous
Read the following passage taken from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 8th, and mark the letter
A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 35 to 44.
SPORT AND FITNESS
The British are very fond of sport, but many people prefer to watch ___(35)___ take part. Many go to watch
football, cricket, etc. at the ground, but many more sit at home and watch sport on television. Most people today
take relatively___(36)___. Over the last 30 or 40 years lifestyles have changed considerably and many people now
travel even the shortest distances by car or bus. ___(37)___ exercise combined with eating too many ___(38)___
and sugary foods has meant that many people are becoming too fat. In recent years, however, there has been a

___(39)___ interest in fitness among young adults and many belong to a sports club or gym. In Britain most towns
have an/a ___(40)___ football and cricket team, and people also have opportunities to play sports such as tennis
and golf. Older people may play bowls. Some people go regularly to a sports center or leisure center. Some sports
centers ___(41)___ classes in aerobics, step and keep-fit. Some people ___(42)___ regularly at a local gym and do
weight training and circuit training. Others go running or jogging in their local area. For enthusiastic runners there
are opportunities to take part in ___(43)___ runs, such as the London marathon. Other people keep themselves fit
by walking or cycling. Many people go abroad on a skiing holiday each year. Membership of a sports club or gym
can be expensive and not everyone can afford the subscription. Local sports centers are generally cheaper. Some
companies now provide sports facilities ___(44)___ their employees or contribute to the cost of joining a gym.

Question 35: A. except for
B. than
Question 36: A. few general exercises
C. a little general exercise
Question 37: A. Lack of
B. Lack
Question 38: A. rich
B. fat
Question 39: A. developing
B. becoming
Question 40: A. competent
B. amateur
Question 41: A. propose
B. pass
Question 42: A. full in
B. cough up
Question 43: A. long-distance B. short-distance
Question 44: A. for
B. to

C. rather than
D. to
B. a few general exercises
D. little general exercise
C. The lack of
D. The lack
C. fatty
D. richly
C. planting
D. growing
C. professional
D. well-known
C. grow
D. arrange
C. work out
D. find out
C. distance away
D. full distance
C. with
D. about

Read the following passage taken from Baron’s The Leader In Test Preparation TOEFL iBT and mark the
letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 45 to
54.
Tulips are Old World, rather than New World, plants, with the origins of the species lying in Central Asia. They
became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after,
part of European life as well. Holland, in particular, became famous for its cultivation of the flower.
A tenuous line marked the advance of the tulip to the New World, where it was unknown in the wild. The first
Dutch colonies in North America had been established in New Netherlands by the Dutch West India Company in
1624, and one individual who settled in New Amsterdam (today's Manhattan section of New York City) in 1642

described the flowers that bravely colonized the settlers' gardens. They were the same flowers seen in Dutch stilllife paintings of the time: crown imperials, roses, carnations, and of course tulips. They flourished in Pennsylvania
too, where in 1698 William Penn received a report of John Tateham's "Great and Stately Palace”, its garden full of
tulips.
By 1760, Boston newspapers were advertising 50 different kinds of mixed tulip "roots”. But the length of the
journey between Europe and North America created many difficulties. Thomas Hancock, an English settler, wrote
thanking his plant supplier for a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter the following year grumbled
that they were all dead.
Tulips arrived in Holland, Michigan, with a later wave of early nineteenth-century Dutch immigrants who
quickly colonized the plains of Michigan. Together with many other Dutch settlements, such as the one at Pella,
Iowa, they established a regular demand for European plants. The demand was bravely met by a new kind of tulip
entrepreneur, the traveling salesperson. One Dutchman, Hendrick Van Der Schoot, spent six months in 1849
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traveling through the United States
taking orders for tulip bulbs. While
tulip bulbs were traveling from Europe to the United States to satisfy the nostalgic longings of homesick English
and Dutch settlers, North American plants were traveling in the opposite direction. In England, the enthusiasm for
American plants was one reason why tulips dropped out of fashion in the gardens of the rich and famous.

Question 45: Which of the following questions does the passage mainly answer?
A. Why are tulips grown in many different parts of the world?
B. How did tulips become popular in North America?
C. Where were the first Dutch colonies in North America located?
D. What is the difference between an Old World and a New World plant?
Question 46: The word "integral" in line 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. overlooked
B. ornamental
C. interesting

D. fundamental
Question 47: The passage mentions that tulips were first found in which of the following regions?
A. North America
B. India
C. Central Asia
D. Western Europe
Question 48: The word "flourished" in line 8 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. thrived
B. combined
C. were discovered
D. were marketed
Question 49: The author mentions tulip growing in New Netherland, Pennsylvania and Michigan in order to
illustrate how ______.
A. tulips were commonly passed as gifts from one family to another
B. tulips grew progressively more popular in North America
C. attitudes toward tulips varied from one location to another
D. imported tulips were considered more valuable than locally grown tulips

Question 50: The word "grumbled" in line 13 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. complained
B. warned
C. denied
D. explained
Question 51: The passage mentions that one reason English and Dutch settlers planted tulips in their gardens was
that tulips ______.
A. reminded them of home
C. had become readily available

B. were easy to grow
D. made them appear fashionable

Question 52: The word "they" in line 17 refers to ______.
A. plains
B. plants
C. immigrants
D. tulips
Question 53: According to the passage, which of the following changes occurred in English gardens during the
European settlement of North America?
A. They grew in size in order to provide enough plants to export to the New World.
B. They contained many new types of North American plants.
C. They contained a wider variety of tulips than ever before.
D. They decreased in size on the estates of wealthy people.

Question 54: The passage mentions which of the following as a problem associated with the importation of tulips
into North America?
A. They often failed to survive the journey.
B. They were no longer fashionable by the time they arrived.
C. Orders often took six months or longer to fill.
D. Settlers knew little about how to cultivate them.
Read the following passage taken from Baron’s How to prepare for the TOEFL and mark the letter A, B, C, or D
on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 55 to 64.
According to the controversial sunspot theory, great storms on the surface of the sun hurl streams of solar
particles into the atmosphere, causing a shift in the weather on earth.
A typical sunspot consists of a dark center umbra surrounded by a lighter penumbra of light and dark threads
extending out from the center like a spoke a wheel. Actually the sunspots are cooler than the rest of the
photosphere, which may account for their color. Typically, the temperature in a sunspot umbra is about 4000 K.
Sunspots range in size from tiny granules to complex structures with areas stretching for billions of square
miles. About 5% of the pots are large enough so that they can be seen without instruments: consequently,
observations of sunspots have been recorded for several thousand years.
Sunspots have been observed in arrangements of one to more than one hundred spots, but they tend to occur in

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pairs. There is also a marked tendency
for the two spots of a pair to have
opposite magnetic field associated with any given sunspots is closely related to the spot’s size.
Although there is no theory that completely explains the nature and function of sunspots, several models attempt
to relate the phenomenon to magnetic fields along the lines of longitude from the north and south poles of the sun.

Question 55: What is the author’s main purpose in the passage?
A. To argue for the existence of magnetic fields in sunspots
B. To propose a theory to explain sunspots
C. To describe the nature of sunspots
D. To compare the umbra and the penumbra
Question 56: The word controversial in line 1 is closest to ______.
A. widely accepted
B. very complicated
C. just in traduce
D. open to debate
Question 57: Solar particles are hurled into space by ______.
A. small rivers on the surface of the sun
B. changes the earth’s atmosphere
C. underdetermined causes
D. disturbances of wind
Question 58: The word particles in line 2 refers to ______.
A. liquid streams on the sun
B. small pieces
C. light ray from the sun
D. gas explosions in the atmosphere

Question 59: How can we describe matter from the sun that enters the earth’s atmosphere?
A. Very bright
B. Very hard
C. Very small
D. Very hot
Question 60: The sunspot theory is ______.
A. relatively new
B. not considered important
C. widely accepted
D. subject to disagreement
Question 61: The word they in line 7 refers to ______.
A. pots
B. miles
C. Structures
D. granules
Question 62: The word consequently in line 7 could best be replaced by ______.
A. As a result
B. Without doubt
C. In this way
D. Nevertheless
Question 63: In which configuration do sunspots usually occur?
A. In groups of several thousand spots
B. In a configuration of two spots
C. In one spot of varying size
D. In arrangements of one hundred or more spots
Question 64: How are sunspots explained?
A. Sunspots are explained by storms that occur on the earth.
B. Sunspots have no theory or model to explain them.
C. Sunspots may be related to magnetic fields that follow longitudinal lines on the sun.
D. Sunspots appear to be related to magnetic fields on the earth.

SECTION B: WRITING (4 POINTS)

Part I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the
sentence printed before it.
Question 65. I rarely sleep in the afternoon.
 I’m not in …………………………………………………………………………………
Question 66. My grandfather had completely forgotten that he phoned me last night.
 My grandfather didn’t have ………………………………………………………………
Question 67. My brother-in-law is the most exasperating person I’ve ever met.
 I’ve yet ……………………………………………………………………......................
Question 68. Tim spoke to his lawyer before signing the contract.
 Tim didn’t ………………………………………………………………………………...
Question 69. His love increases with his admiration for her.
 The more …………………………………………………………………………………
Part II. Students should have freedom to choose their own subjects in the National examination
for Upper Secondary Education. Do you agree or disagree? Write a paragraph of about
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140 words to support
your answer.
_____ THE END_____

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Môn: TIẾNG ANH
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SECTION A: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (16 POINTS)
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from
the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

Question 1: A. wickedly
Question 2: A. admiral

B. allegedly
B. adventure

C. confusedly
C. advocate

D. supposedly
D. advent

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position
of the main stress in each of the following questions.

Question 3: A. canal
Question 4: A. dilapidated
Question 5: A. original

B. dental
B. fundamental
B. mysterious

C. sandals
C. distinctively
C. elaborate

D. rental
D. extravagant
D. necessary

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.

Question 6: He considers shares to be a good long- ______ investment.
A. length
B. term
C. time
D. age
Question 7: Pam broke her arm in the accident. It would have been much worse if she ______her seat belt at that time.
A. had been wearing
B. hadn’t been wearing C. hadn’t worn
D. hadn’t been for
Question 8: That he came up with all the ideas ______ a miracle to us.
A. were
B. was
C. to be
D. have been
Question 9: I called Jenny yesterday with a view ______ asking her about the project.
A. for
B. of
C. to

D. in
Question 10: Having opened the bottle, ______ for everyone.
A. Mike poured the drink
B. Mike pouring the drink
C. the drink was poured
D. the drink was being poured
Question 11: Studies have shown that the elderly who are pet owners have lower blood pressure than ______ who
live without pets.

A. for the elderly to do
B. to the elderly
C. elderly
D. do the elderly
Question 12: I don't suppose anyone will volunteer, ______?
A. do I
B. will they
C. won’t they
D. does he
Question 13: My father gave me ______ as a birthday present on my birthday.
A. an alarm useful digital clock
B. a digital useful alarm clock
C. a useful digital alarm clock
D. a useful alarm digital clock
Question 14: He became a millionaire by ______ of hard work and a considerable amount of luck.
A. dint
B. process
C. cause
D. effect
Question 15: ______, the catfish is prized for its state.
A. As looking ugly

B. Ugly looking as it is
C. As it is looking ugly D. With ugly look
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Question 16: Most whole milk
undergoes
homogenization, ______hot milk is pumped through valves to break up and permanently disperse
the fat globules.

A. a process in which
B. which process
C. which is a process
D. a process
Question 17: He said there was nothing that happened, but I began to _____ when he kept beating about the bush.
A. keep an eye on
B. be off my head
C. get cold feet
D. smell a rat
Question 18: It is a serious operation for a woman as old as my grandmother. She's very frail. I hope she______.
A. comes round
B. gets away
C. puts through
D. pulls through
Question 19: Ann: “Where’s Polly?”
John: “She is in her room ______.”
A. studying
B. is studying
C. studies

D. has studied
Question 20: The knee is _______ most other joints in the body because it cannot twist without injury.
A. more likely to be damaged than
B. likely to be more than damaged
C. to be damaged more than likely
D. more than likely to be damaged
Question 21: ______Everglades is a large, low, wet region in the southern part of the US state of Florida.
A. An
B. Some
C. The
D. θ
Question 22: Tim looks so frightened and upset. He ______ something terrible.
A. must experience
B. can have experienced
C. must have experienced
D. should have experienced
Question 23: It is possible ______ may assist some trees in saving water in the winter.
A. to lose leaves
B. the leaves are lost
C. when leaves have lost D. that the loss of leaves
Question 24: Lan: “Well, cats are very good at catching mice around the house.”
Mai: “______”

A. Mind your words.
C. Nothing more to say.

B. You are welcome.
D. You can say that again.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underline part that needs correcting.

Question 25: Televisions are now an every day feature of most households in the United States, and television
viewing is the number one leisure activity.
A. leisure activity
B. an every day feature
C. most households
D. television viewing

Question 26: Ducks are less susceptible to infection than another types of poultry.
A. less
B. to
C. than
D. another
Question 27: During our tour of the refinery, it was seen that both propane and gasoline were produced in large
volumes.
A. the refinery

B. it was seen

C. and

D. in large volumes

Question 28: The Concord can fly across the Atlantic without re-fueling and carrying 11 tons of freight.
A. across
B. freight
C. carrying
D. The
Question 29: Fiorello La Guadian made a speech to the United Nations Relief Administration, which he was the
A. stating

director, stating that Europe experienced prosperity after the World War II.
B. made
C. he
D. which

Choose the word or phrase CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences.

Question 30: I’d rather staying in a hotel with all the amenities than camp in the woods.
A. expense
B. honors
C. conveniences
D. privileges
Question 31: Throughout history, the prevalent authority pattern in families has been patriarchy, in which males
are in control.

A. dominant
B. uncommon
C. extraordinary
D. strange
Question 32: Crime rates tend to fluctuate with the seasons, with much higher rates in the winter than in the summer.
A. stay the same
B. decrease
C. accelerate
D. go up and down
Choose the word or phrase OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences.
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Question 33: Affluent families find it

easier
financially.
A. well-off

B. wealthy

C. impoverished

to

support

their

children

D. prosperous

Question 34: There has been no discernible improvement in the noise levels since lorries were banned.
A. thin
B. clear
C. significant
D. obvious
Read the following passage taken from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 8th, and mark the letter
A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 44.
SPORT AND FITNESS
The British are very fond of sport, but many people prefer to watch ___(35)___ take part. Many go to watch
football, cricket, etc. at the ground, but many more sit at home and watch sport on television. Most people today
take relatively___(36)___. Over the last 30 or 40 years lifestyles have changed considerably and many people now
travel even the shortest distances by car or bus. ___(37)___ exercise combined with eating too many ___(38)___

and sugary foods has meant that many people are becoming too fat. In recent years, however, there has been a
___(39)___ interest in fitness among young adults and many belong to a sports club or gym. In Britain most towns
have an/a ___(40)___ football and cricket team, and people also have opportunities to play sports such as tennis
and golf. Older people may play bowls. Some people go regularly to a sports center or leisure center. Some sports
centers ___(41)___ classes in aerobics, step and keep-fit. Some people ___(42)___ regularly at a local gym and do
weight training and circuit training. Others go running or jogging in their local area. For enthusiastic runners there
are opportunities to take part in ___(43)___ runs, such as the London marathon. Other people keep themselves fit
by walking or cycling. Many people go abroad on a skiing holiday each year. Membership of a sports club or gym
can be expensive and not everyone can afford the subscription. Local sports centers are generally cheaper. Some
companies now provide sports facilities ___(44)___ their employees or contribute to the cost of joining a gym.

Question 35: A. rather than
B. to
Question 36: A. little general exercise
C. few general exercises
Question 37: A. Lack
B. The lack
Question 38: A. richly
B. fatty
Question 39: A. planting
B. growing
Question 40: A. competent
B. professional
Question 41: A. grow
B. pass
Question 42: A. full in
B. cough up
Question 43: A. distance away B. long-distance
Question 44: A. about
B. with

C. than
D. except for
B. a few general exercises
D. a little general exercise
C. The lack of
D. Lack of
C. fat
D. rich
C. developing
D. becoming
C. amateur
D. well-known
C. propose
D. arrange
C. find out
D. work out
C. full distance
D. short-distance
C. to
D. for

Read the following passage taken from Baron’s The Leader In Test Preparation TOEFL iBT and mark the
letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 45 to
54.
Tulips are Old World, rather than New World, plants, with the origins of the species lying in Central Asia. They
became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after,
part of European life as well. Holland, in particular, became famous for its cultivation of the flower.
A tenuous line marked the advance of the tulip to the New World, where it was unknown in the wild. The first
Dutch colonies in North America had been established in New Netherlands by the Dutch West India Company in

1624, and one individual who settled in New Amsterdam (today's Manhattan section of New York City) in 1642
described the flowers that bravely colonized the settlers' gardens. They were the same flowers seen in Dutch stilllife paintings of the time: crown imperials, roses, carnations, and of course tulips. They flourished in Pennsylvania
too, where in 1698 William Penn received a report of John Tateham's "Great and Stately Palace”, its garden full of
tulips.
By 1760, Boston newspapers were advertising 50 different kinds of mixed tulip "roots”. But the length of the
journey between Europe and North America created many difficulties. Thomas Hancock, an English settler, wrote
thanking his plant supplier for a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter the following year grumbled
that they were all dead.
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Tulips
arrived
in
Holland,
Michigan, with a later wave of early
nineteenth-century Dutch immigrants who quickly colonized the plains of Michigan. Together with many other
Dutch settlements, such as the one at Pella, Iowa, they established a regular demand for European plants. The
demand was bravely met by a new kind of tulip entrepreneur, the traveling salesperson. One Dutchman, Hendrick
Van Der Schoot, spent six months in 1849 traveling through the United States taking orders for tulip bulbs. While
tulip bulbs were traveling from Europe to the United States to satisfy the nostalgic longings of homesick English
and Dutch settlers, North American plants were traveling in the opposite direction. In England, the enthusiasm for
American plants was one reason why tulips dropped out of fashion in the gardens of the rich and famous.

Question 45: Which of the following questions does the passage mainly answer?
A. How did tulips become popular in North America?
B. What is the difference between an Old World and a New World plant?
C. Why are tulips grown in many different parts of the world?
D. Where were the first Dutch colonies in North America located?

Question 46: The word "integral" in line 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. fundamental
B. interesting
C. ornamental
D. overlooked
Question 47: The passage mentions that tulips were first found in which of the following regions?
A. North America
B. Western Europe
C. Central Asia
D. India
Question 48: The word "flourished" in line 8 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. thrived
B. combined
C. were discovered
D. were marketed
Question 49: The author mentions tulip growing in New Netherland, Pennsylvania and Michigan in order to
illustrate how ______.
A. attitudes toward tulips varied from one location to another
B. tulips were commonly passed as gifts from one family to another
C. tulips grew progressively more popular in North America
D. imported tulips were considered more valuable than locally grown tulips

Question 50: The word "grumbled" in line 13 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. warned
B. complained
C. explained
D. denied
Question 51: The passage mentions that one reason English and Dutch settlers planted tulips in their gardens was
that tulips ______.

A. made them appear fashionable
B. were easy to grow
C. had become readily available
D. reminded them of home
Question 52: The word "they" in line 17 refers to ______.
A. plants
B. tulips
C. plains
D. immigrants
Question 53: According to the passage, which of the following changes occurred in English gardens during the
European settlement of North America?

A. They contained many new types of North American plants.
B. They contained a wider variety of tulips than ever before.
C. They decreased in size on the estates of wealthy people.
D. They grew in size in order to provide enough plants to export to the New World.
Question 54: The passage mentions which of the following as a problem associated with the importation of tulips
into North America?

A. Orders often took six months or longer to fill.
B. They often failed to survive the journey.
C. They were no longer fashionable by the time they arrived.
D. Settlers knew little about how to cultivate them.
Read the following passage taken from Baron’s How to prepare for the TOEFL and mark the letter A, B, C, or D
on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 55 to 64.
According to the controversial sunspot theory, great storms on the surface of the sun hurl streams of solar
particles into the atmosphere, causing a shift in the weather on earth.
A typical sunspot consists of a dark center umbra surrounded by a lighter penumbra of light and dark threads
extending out from the center like a spoke a wheel. Actually the sunspots are cooler than the rest of the
photosphere, which may account for their color. Typically, the temperature in a sunspot umbra is about 4000 K.

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Sunspots range in size from tiny
granules to complex structures with
areas stretching for billions of square miles. About 5% of the pots are large enough so that they can be seen without
instruments: consequently, observations of sunspots have been recorded for several thousand years.
Sunspots have been observed in arrangements of one to more than one hundred spots, but they tend to occur in
pairs. There is also a marked tendency for the two spots of a pair to have opposite magnetic field associated with
any given sunspots is closely related to the spot’s size.
Although there is no theory that completely explains the nature and function of sunspots, several models attempt
to relate the phenomenon to magnetic fields along the lines of longitude from the north and south poles of the sun.

Question 55: What is the author’s main purpose in the passage?
A. To propose a theory to explain sunspots
B. To describe the nature of sunspots
C. To compare the umbra and the penumbra
D. To argue for the existence of magnetic fields in sunspots
Question 56: The word controversial in line 1 is closest to ______.
A. very complicated
B. just in traduce
C. open to debate
D. widely accepted
Question 57: Solar particles are hurled into space by ______.
A. small rivers on the surface of the sun
B. changes the earth’s atmosphere
C. disturbances of wind
D. underdetermined causes
Question 58: The word particles in line 2 refers to ______.

A. light ray from the sun
B. gas explosions in the atmosphere
C. liquid streams on the sun
D. small pieces
Question 59: How can we describe matter from the sun that enters the earth’s atmosphere?
A. Very hot
B. Very hard
C. Very small
D. Very bright
Question 60: The sunspot theory is ______.
A. subject to disagreement
B. relatively new
C. not considered important
D. widely accepted
Question 61: The word they in line 7 refers to ______.
A. miles
B. Structures
C. pots
D. granules
Question 62: The word consequently in line 7 could best be replaced by ______.
A. As a result
B. Without doubt
C. Nevertheless
D. In this way
Question 63: In which configuration do sunspots usually occur?
A. In a configuration of two spots
B. In arrangements of one hundred or more spots
C. In groups of several thousand spots
D. In one spot of varying size
Question 64: How are sunspots explained?

A. Sunspots have no theory or model to explain them.
B. Sunspots may be related to magnetic fields that follow longitudinal lines on the sun.
C. Sunspots are explained by storms that occur on the earth.
D. Sunspots appear to be related to magnetic fields on the earth.
SECTION B: WRITING (4 POINTS)

Part I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the
sentence printed before it.
Question 65. I rarely sleep in the afternoon.
 I’m not in …………………………………………………………………………………
Question 66. My grandfather had completely forgotten that he phoned me last night.
 My grandfather didn’t have ………………………………………………………………
Question 67. My brother-in-law is the most exasperating person I’ve ever met.
 I’ve yet ……………………………………………………………………......................
Question 68. Tim spoke to his lawyer before signing the contract.
 Tim didn’t ………………………………………………………………………………...
Question 69. His love increases with his admiration for her.
 The more …………………………………………………………………………………
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Part II. Students should have
freedom to choose their own subjects in the National examination for Upper Secondary
Education. Do you agree or disagree? Write a paragraph of about 140 words to support
your answer.
_____ THE END_____

SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO
THÁI BÌNH

ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 12 NĂM HỌC 2015-2016
Môn: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề.
(Đề gồm 05 trang; Thí sinh làm phần trắc nghiệm vào Phiếu TLTN,
Thí sinh làm phần viết vào giấy thi)
Mã đề: 486

SECTION A: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (16 POINTS)
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from
the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

Question 1: A. admiral
Question 2: A. wickedly

B. adventure
B. allegedly

C. advocate
C. supposedly

D. advent
D. confusedly

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the
position of the main stress in each of the following questions.

Question 3: A. fundamental
Question 4: A. dental
Question 5: A. necessary

B. dilapidated
B. rental
B. elaborate

C. extravagant
C. sandals
C. mysterious

D. distinctively
D. canal
D. original

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.
Question 6: Lan: “Well, cats are very good at catching mice around the house.”
Mai: “______”
A. You are welcome.
B. You can say that again.
C. Mind your words.
D. Nothing more to say.
Question 7: My father gave me ______ as a birthday present on my birthday.
A. a useful digital alarm clock
B. an alarm useful digital clock
C. a useful alarm digital clock
D. a digital useful alarm clock
Question 8: Pam broke her arm in the accident. It would have been much worse if she ______her seat belt at that time.
A. hadn’t been for
B. hadn’t been wearing C. hadn’t worn
D. had been wearing

Question 9: It is a serious operation for a woman as old as my grandmother. She's very frail. I hope she______.
A. pulls through
B. gets away
C. puts through
D. comes round
Question 10: That he came up with all the ideas ______ a miracle to us.
A. were
B. have been
C. was
D. to be
Question 11: I don't suppose anyone will volunteer, ______?
A. do I
B. will they
C. won’t they
D. does he
Question 12: Ann: “Where’s Polly?”
John: “She is in her room ______.”
A. studying
B. is studying
C. studies
D. has studied
Question 13: Tim looks so frightened and upset. He ______ something terrible.
A. must experience
B. can have experienced
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C. must have experienced
D. should have experienced

Question 14: ______, the catfish is prized for its state.
A. As looking ugly
B. Ugly looking as it is
C. As it is looking ugly D. With ugly look
Question 15: Having opened the bottle, ______ for everyone.
A. the drink was being poured
B. the drink was poured
C. Mike poured the drink
D. Mike pouring the drink

Question 16: The knee is _______ most other joints in the body because it cannot twist without injury.
A. more likely to be damaged than
B. likely to be more than damaged
C. to be damaged more than likely
D. more than likely to be damaged
Question 17: I called Jenny yesterday with a view ______ asking her about the project.
A. for
B. in
C. to
D. of
Question 18: Studies have shown that the elderly who are pet owners have lower blood pressure than ______ who
live without pets.

A. for the elderly to do
B. to the elderly
C. do the elderly
D. elderly
Question 19: Most whole milk undergoes homogenization, ______hot milk is pumped through valves to break up
and permanently disperse the fat globules.

A. which is a process
B. which process
C. a process in which
D. a process
Question 20: ______Everglades is a large, low, wet region in the southern part of the US state of Florida.
A. The
B. θ
C. An
D. Some
Question 21: He said there was nothing that happened, but I began to _____ when he kept beating about the bush.
A. get cold feet
B. smell a rat
C. keep an eye on
D. be off my head
Question 22: It is possible ______ may assist some trees in saving water in the winter.
A. to lose leaves
B. the leaves are lost
C. when leaves have lost D. that the loss of leaves
Question 23: He considers shares to be a good long- ______ investment.
A. age
B. term
C. time
D. length
Question 24: He became a millionaire by ______ of hard work and a considerable amount of luck.
A. dint
B. process
C. cause
D. effect
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underline part that needs correcting.

Question 25: Ducks are less susceptible to infection than another types of poultry.
A. than
B. less
C. to
D. another
Question 26: Televisions are now an every day feature of most households in the United States, and television
viewing is the number one leisure activity.

A. leisure activity
B. television viewing
C. most households
D. an every day feature
Question 27: The Concord can fly across the Atlantic without re-fueling and carrying 11 tons of freight.
A. across
B. freight
C. carrying
D. The
Question 28: Fiorello La Guadian made a speech to the United Nations Relief Administration, which he was the
director, stating that Europe experienced prosperity after the World War II.
A. stating
B. made
C. he
D. which

Question 29: During our tour of the refinery, it was seen that both propane and gasoline were produced in large
volumes.
A. in large volumes

B. the refinery

C. and

D. it was seen

Choose the word or phrase CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences.

Question 30: Crime rates tend to fluctuate with the seasons, with much higher rates in the winter than in the
summer.

A. stay the same

B. decrease

C. accelerate

D. go up and down
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Question 31: I’d rather staying in a
hotel with all the amenities than camp
in the woods.
A. privileges

B. conveniences

C. expense

D. honors

Question 32: Throughout history, the prevalent authority pattern in families has been patriarchy, in which males
are in control.

A. dominant

B. uncommon

C. strange

D. extraordinary

Choose the word or phrase OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences.

Question 33: Affluent families find it easier to support their children financially.
A. wealthy
B. prosperous
C. impoverished

D. well-off

Question 34: There has been no discernible improvement in the noise levels since lorries were banned.
A. obvious
B. clear
C. significant
D. thin
Read the following passage taken from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 8th, and mark the letter
A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 35 to 44.
SPORT AND FITNESS
The British are very fond of sport, but many people prefer to watch ___(35)___ take part. Many go to watch

football, cricket, etc. at the ground, but many more sit at home and watch sport on television. Most people today
take relatively___(36)___. Over the last 30 or 40 years lifestyles have changed considerably and many people now
travel even the shortest distances by car or bus. ___(37)___ exercise combined with eating too many ___(38)___
and sugary foods has meant that many people are becoming too fat. In recent years, however, there has been a
___(39)___ interest in fitness among young adults and many belong to a sports club or gym. In Britain most towns
have an/a ___(40)___ football and cricket team, and people also have opportunities to play sports such as tennis
and golf. Older people may play bowls. Some people go regularly to a sports center or leisure center. Some sports
centers ___(41)___ classes in aerobics, step and keep-fit. Some people ___(42)___ regularly at a local gym and do
weight training and circuit training. Others go running or jogging in their local area. For enthusiastic runners there
are opportunities to take part in ___(43)___ runs, such as the London marathon. Other people keep themselves fit
by walking or cycling. Many people go abroad on a skiing holiday each year. Membership of a sports club or gym
can be expensive and not everyone can afford the subscription. Local sports centers are generally cheaper. Some
companies now provide sports facilities ___(44)___ their employees or contribute to the cost of joining a gym.

Question 35: A. except for
B. than
Question 36: A. few general exercises
C. little general exercise
Question 37: A. The lack
B. Lack of
Question 38: A. fatty
B. richly
Question 39: A. planting
B. growing
Question 40: A. professional
B. competent
Question 41: A. pass
B. propose
Question 42: A. find out
B. work out

Question 43: A. distance away B. long-distance
Question 44: A. about
B. with

C. rather than
D. to
B. a little general exercise
D. a few general exercises
C. Lack
D. The lack of
C. rich
D. fat
C. developing
D. becoming
C. amateur
D. well-known
C. grow
D. arrange
C. full in
D. cough up
C. short-distance
D. full distance
C. to
D. for

Read the following passage taken from Baron’s The Leader In Test Preparation TOEFL iBT and mark the
letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 45 to
54.
Tulips are Old World, rather than New World, plants, with the origins of the species lying in Central Asia. They
became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onward, and, soon after,

part of European life as well. Holland, in particular, became famous for its cultivation of the flower.
A tenuous line marked the advance of the tulip to the New World, where it was unknown in the wild. The first
Dutch colonies in North America had been established in New Netherlands by the Dutch West India Company in
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1624, and one individual who settled
in
New
Amsterdam
(today's
Manhattan section of New York City) in 1642 described the flowers that bravely colonized the settlers' gardens.
They were the same flowers seen in Dutch still-life paintings of the time: crown imperials, roses, carnations, and of
course tulips. They flourished in Pennsylvania too, where in 1698 William Penn received a report of John
Tateham's "Great and Stately Palace”, its garden full of tulips.
By 1760, Boston newspapers were advertising 50 different kinds of mixed tulip "roots”. But the length of the
journey between Europe and North America created many difficulties. Thomas Hancock, an English settler, wrote
thanking his plant supplier for a gift of some tulip bulbs from England, but his letter the following year grumbled
that they were all dead.
Tulips arrived in Holland, Michigan, with a later wave of early nineteenth-century Dutch immigrants who
quickly colonized the plains of Michigan. Together with many other Dutch settlements, such as the one at Pella,
Iowa, they established a regular demand for European plants. The demand was bravely met by a new kind of tulip
entrepreneur, the traveling salesperson. One Dutchman, Hendrick Van Der Schoot, spent six months in 1849
traveling through the United States taking orders for tulip bulbs. While tulip bulbs were traveling from Europe to
the United States to satisfy the nostalgic longings of homesick English and Dutch settlers, North American plants
were traveling in the opposite direction. In England, the enthusiasm for American plants was one reason why tulips
dropped out of fashion in the gardens of the rich and famous.

Question 45: Which of the following questions does the passage mainly answer?

A. How did tulips become popular in North America?
B. Why are tulips grown in many different parts of the world?
C. What is the difference between an Old World and a New World plant?
D. Where were the first Dutch colonies in North America located?
Question 46: The word "integral" in line 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. fundamental
B. ornamental
C. overlooked
D. interesting
Question 47: The passage mentions that tulips were first found in which of the following regions?
A. India
B. Western Europe
C. Central Asia
D. North America
Question 48: The word "flourished" in line 8 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. were discovered
B. were marketed
C. combined
D. thrived
Question 49: The author mentions tulip growing in New Netherland, Pennsylvania and Michigan in order to
illustrate how ______.

A. imported tulips were considered more valuable than locally grown tulips
B. tulips grew progressively more popular in North America
C. attitudes toward tulips varied from one location to another
D. tulips were commonly passed as gifts from one family to another
Question 50: The word "grumbled" in line 13 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. complained
B. explained
C. warned

D. denied
Question 51: The passage mentions that one reason English and Dutch settlers planted tulips in their gardens was
that tulips ______.
A. had become readily available
C. were easy to grow

B. made them appear fashionable
D. reminded them of home

Question 52: The word "they" in line 17 refers to ______.
A. immigrants
B. plants
C. plains
D. tulips
Question 53: According to the passage, which of the following changes occurred in English gardens during the
European settlement of North America?
A. They decreased in size on the estates of wealthy people.
B. They grew in size in order to provide enough plants to export to the New World.
C. They contained many new types of North American plants.
D. They contained a wider variety of tulips than ever before.

Question 54: The passage mentions which of the following as a problem associated with the importation of tulips
into North America?
A. They were no longer fashionable by the time they arrived.
B. They often failed to survive the journey.
C. Settlers knew little about how to cultivate them.
D. Orders often took six months or longer to fill.
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Read the following passage taken
from Baron’s How to prepare for the TOEFL and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the questions from 55 to 64.
According to the controversial sunspot theory, great storms on the surface of the sun hurl streams of solar
particles into the atmosphere, causing a shift in the weather on earth.
A typical sunspot consists of a dark center umbra surrounded by a lighter penumbra of light and dark threads
extending out from the center like a spoke a wheel. Actually the sunspots are cooler than the rest of the
photosphere, which may account for their color. Typically, the temperature in a sunspot umbra is about 4000 K.
Sunspots range in size from tiny granules to complex structures with areas stretching for billions of square
miles. About 5% of the pots are large enough so that they can be seen without instruments: consequently,
observations of sunspots have been recorded for several thousand years.
Sunspots have been observed in arrangements of one to more than one hundred spots, but they tend to occur in
pairs. There is also a marked tendency for the two spots of a pair to have opposite magnetic field associated with
any given sunspots is closely related to the spot’s size.
Although there is no theory that completely explains the nature and function of sunspots, several models attempt
to relate the phenomenon to magnetic fields along the lines of longitude from the north and south poles of the sun.

Question 55: What is the author’s main purpose in the passage?
A. To describe the nature of sunspots
B. To compare the umbra and the penumbra
C. To argue for the existence of magnetic fields in sunspots
D. To propose a theory to explain sunspots
Question 56: The word controversial in line 1 is closest to ______.
A. widely accepted
B. very complicated
C. just in traduce
D. open to debate
Question 57: Solar particles are hurled into space by ______.
A. changes the earth’s atmosphere

B. underdetermined causes
C. disturbances of wind
D. small rivers on the surface of the sun
Question 58: The word particles in line 2 refers to ______.
A. gas explosions in the atmosphere
B. light ray from the sun
C. small pieces
D. liquid streams on the sun
Question 59: How can we describe matter from the sun that enters the earth’s atmosphere?
A. Very hard
B. Very bright
C. Very hot
D. Very small
Question 60: The sunspot theory is ______.
A. relatively new
B. subject to disagreement
C. not considered important
D. widely accepted
Question 61: The word they in line 7 refers to ______.
A. Structures
B. granules
C. miles
D. pots
Question 62: The word consequently in line 7 could best be replaced by ______.
A. Nevertheless
B. Without doubt
C. In this way
D. As a result
Question 63: In which configuration do sunspots usually occur?
A. In arrangements of one hundred or more spots

B. In a configuration of two spots
C. In groups of several thousand spots
D. In one spot of varying size
Question 64: How are sunspots explained?
A. Sunspots may be related to magnetic fields that follow longitudinal lines on the sun.
B. Sunspots appear to be related to magnetic fields on the earth.
C. Sunspots are explained by storms that occur on the earth.
D. Sunspots have no theory or model to explain them.
SECTION B: WRITING (4 POINTS)

Part I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the
sentence printed before it.
Question 65. I rarely sleep in the afternoon.
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 I’m
not
in
…………………………………………………………………………………
Question 66. My grandfather had completely forgotten that he phoned me last night.
 My grandfather didn’t have ………………………………………………………………
Question 67. My brother-in-law is the most exasperating person I’ve ever met.
 I’ve yet ……………………………………………………………………......................
Question 68. Tim spoke to his lawyer before signing the contract.
 Tim didn’t ………………………………………………………………………………...
Question 69. His love increases with his admiration for her.
 The more …………………………………………………………………………………
Part II. Students should have freedom to choose their own subjects in the National examination

for Upper Secondary Education. Do you agree or disagree? Write a paragraph of about
140 words to support your answer.
_____ THE END_____
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 12 TỈNH THÁI BÌNH
Năm học 2015 - 2016

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Question 65. I rarely sleep in the afternoon.
 I’m not in the habit of sleeping in the afternoon.
Question 66. My grandfather had completely forgotten that he phoned me last night.
 My grandfather didn’t have any recollection of phoning me last night.
Question 67. My brother-in-law is the most exasperating person I’ve ever met.
 I’ve yet to meet a more exasperating person than my brother-in-law.
 I’ve yet to meet such an exasperating person as my brother-in-law.
Question 68. Tim spoke to his lawyer before signing the contract.
 Tim didn’t sign the contract until he had spoken to his lawyer.
Question 69. His love increases with his admiration for her.
 The more he admires her, the more he loves her.
Part II. Students should have freedom to choose their own subjects in the graduation exam for Upper
Secondary education. Do you agree or disagree? Write a paragraph of about 140 words to
support your answer.
(3 điểm)
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1. Bố cục 0,80 đ
- Câu đề dẫn chủ đề mạch lạc
- Bố cục hợp lí rõ ràng phù hợp yêu cầu của đề bài
- Bố cục uyển chuyển từ mở bài đến kết luận
2. Phát triển ý 0,50 đ
- Phát triển ý có trình tự logic
- Có dẫn chứng, ví dụ, … đủ để bảo vệ ý kiến của mình
3. Sử dụng ngôn từ 0,60 đ
- Sử dụng ngôn từ phù hợp nội dung

- Sử dụng ngôn từ đúng văn phong/ thể loại
- Sử dụng từ nối các ý cho bài viết uyển chuyển
4. Nội dung 0,60 đ
- Đủ thuyết phục người đọc
- Đủ dẫn chứng, ví dụ, lập luận
- Độ dài: Số từ không nhiều hơn hoặc ít hơn so với quy định 5%
5. Ngữ pháp, dấu câu và chinh tả: 0,50 đ
- Sử dụng đúng dấu câu
- Chính tả: viết đúng chính tả
- Lỗi chính tả gây hiểu nhầm/sai lệch: sẽ bị tính một lỗi (trừ 1% điểm của bài viết)
- Cùng một lỗi chính tả lặp lại chỉ tính là một lỗi
- Sử dụng đúng thời, thể, cấu trúc câu đúng ngữ pháp (lỗi ngữ pháp gây hiểu nhầm/sai lệch ý
sẽ bị trừ 1% điểm bài viết).
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