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KỲ THI GIÁO VIÊN GIỎI CẤP HUYỆN
Năm học: 2013-2014
Môn : Tiếng Anh
Thời gian: 150 phút ( không kể thời gian giao đê

PHẦN THI KIẾN THỨC BỘ MÔN
PART A. PHONETICS
Question I/ Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from
the rest.
1.
A. float
B. broad
C. goat
D. coat
2.
A. office
B. promise
C. service
D. expertise
3.
A. physical
B. mythology
C. rhythmic
D. psychological
Question II. Choose the word (A, B, C or D) whose main stress pattern is not the same
as that of the others. (5 points)
1. A. interesting
B. surprising

C. amusing
D. successful
2. A. understand
B. engineer
C. benefit
D. Vietnamese
PART B. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
Question III/ Choose the word or phrase to complete the sentence.
1. Your cousin is the ______ - looking man I have ever met.
A. most
B. best
C. better
D. well
2. She lives next to me and I often speak to her on my _______ to work.
A. way
B. street
C. travel
D. road
3. She kindly offered to ______ me the way to the museum.
A. describe
B. show
C. direct
D. explain
4. In many families, the important decisions are ______ by women.
A. done
B. given
C. arrived
D. made
5. My brother, like me, doesn’t like films _______ unhappy endings.
A. of which are B. have

C. whose have
D. that have
6. Do you mind ______ in here?
A. to smoke
B. if I smoking
C. my smoking
D. me to smoke
7. We ______ you more help, but we were too busy.
A. might have given
B. should give
C. might give
D. could give
8. Encouraged by his mother, _______.
A. art was studied in London by John
B. John studied art in London
C. the study is art in London was done by John
D. London was where John studied art
9. ______ advertising is so widespread, it has had an enormous effect on the people’s lives.
A. Why
B. The reason why
C. Since
D. On account of
10. Many people read newspaper _______ waiting for the bus.
A. during
B. if
C. as they
D. While
Question IV/ . Use the correct form of each word on the right to complete the
numbered spaces provided in the passage. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
The mysteries of the skies

Three hundred and fifty years before the first men looked down
on the amazingly beautiful surface of the moon from close quarters,
Galileo’s newly built telescope (1) _____________ him to look at
1. ABLE
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the edge of the hitherto mysterious sphere. He saw that the
apparently
(2) _____________ surface was not
2. LIVE
divinely smooth and round, but bumpy and imperfect. He realized
that although the moon might appear (3) _____________,
3. ACT
resembling a still life painted by the hand of a cosmic (4)
4. ART
____________, it was a real world, perhaps not very different from
5. ACHIEVE
our own. This amounted to a great (5) _____________ hardly to be
6. CONCLUDE
expected in his day and age, although nowadays his (6) __________
7. SIGNIFY
may appear to some to be trivial and (7) _____________.
Not long after Galileo lunar’s observations, the skies which had
8. ELUDE
previously been so (8) _____________ revealed more of their
extraordinary mysteries. Casting around for further wonders,
9. STRIKE
Galileo focused his lens on the (9) _____________ planet of Jupiter.
Nestling next to it, he saw four little points of light circling the

10. FORTUNE
distant planet. Our moon it appeared, perhaps (10) ____________ in
the eyes of those fearful of what the discovery might mean, was not
alone!
Question V/ Give the correct forms of the words in brackets
1. The robbers ............................... ( catch) as they .......................(leave) the bank.
2. Mr Taylor was angry with the newspaper agent because his Sunday
newspaper ........................ (not deliver).
3. Don't worry. When you ................. (arrive) in New York, you .............. (pick up) by one of
our drivers and ......................(take) to the conference centre.
4. After my operation, all my hair ................... (fall out). It's growing back now though.
5. Our dustbins .......................... (empty) every Monday.
6. When I woke up this morning, the world look like a wonderland. It .................... (snow) all
night.
7. Ten people ...................... (kill) in a train crash in Sweden two days ago.
Question VI / . Underline and correct mistakes in the following paragraph. Each line has
one mistake. Write the correct one in the numbered blanks. (0) is an example.
The other day, when I was in London, I ran in an old friend of
mine who had been at university with me. Although we hadn’t seen one
another for ages and had lost touch, it was just like old times, and he
told me all his new. He moved to London after leaving from university,
and started to train as an accountant. He left after a few months because
he hadn’t found it very interesting, and he didn’t feel like spending the
rest of this life in an office. His parents were very helpful - they didn’t
try to make him to carry on training as a chartered accountant, and said
they will continue to support him despite of the fact that he didn’t have
a job to go to. He soon found work do what he really wanted - writing
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for a TV show, after the first series, the producer let him to have his 10. ______
own TV show even though he was relatively young, and it turned out to
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be a great success.
PART C. READING
Question VII : Put ONE suitable word in each space(15 points)
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong, who (1) ................born in 1990 and (2) ................... in 1971, was a

very famous jazz musician. He used to be known as “ Satchmo” and this nickname stayed
with him all his (3) ................ . As a child in New Orleans, he learnt to (4) ..............the
trumpet while he was living in a special home for children who (5) ..............got into trouble
with the police. When he had finished his stay in the home, he (6) .............various bands and
then he formed his own. Between 1925 (7) .................1928 he made about 60 records. These
records made him one (8) ..................the first solo stars in the history of pop (9) ...............
When he died, he had (10) ............... making records and he had been touring all over the
(11) ...............for more than forty years, and he (12) ............. just as popular (13) ................
he had been before. He even (14) ............... a number one pop record - What A Wonderful
World – (15) ............... the 1960s.
PART D. WRITING
Question VIII/ Rewrite the following sentences so that the meaning stay the same the
ones given.(10 Points)
1. I have an appointment for a haircut this afternoon.
- I am .............................................................................................................
2. "Don’t open the door please" said Mary.
- Mary told .......................................................................................................
3. Staying at home would be better than going out tonight.
- I'd rather........................................................................................................
4. The last time it rained here was a fortnight ago.
- It ..................................................................................................................
5. My neighbors have three small children. The children make a lot of noise. My neighbors
never apologize me.
. My neighbors..............................................................................................................
6.They said that Mr Tuan is a good teacher.
- Mr Tuan ......................................................................................................
7.My French friend finds driving on the left difficult.
- My French friend isn't ...............................................................................
8.I think that no city in the world is more beautiful than Paris.
- I think Paris ..................................................................................................

9.The flight to Moscow lasted three and half hours.
- It took............................................................................................................
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10. Rich as he was, he never helped the poor.
- No........................................................................ ..................................
Question IX: (10 points) Write a passage about 100 - 150 words about the topic:
Learning english as a foreign language
- The importance of learning English nowadays.
- How to learn English well.

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