CHUYÊN ĐỀ BỒI DƯỠNG HỌC SINH GIỎI PHẦN SỬ DỤNG NGÔN NGỮ (USE OF ENGLISH)

SỞ GD&ĐT KIÊN GIANG
TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN HUỲNH MẪN ĐẠT
TỔ: TIẾNG ANH
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Rạch Giá, ngày 10 tháng 7 năm 2015

CHUYÊN ĐỀ BỒI DƯỠNG HỌC SINH GIỎI
PHẦN SỬ DỤNG NGÔN NGỮ (USE OF ENGLISH)
I. NGƯỜI THỰC HIỆN: NGUYỄN BỬU TRUNG
II. MỤC ĐÍCH CỦA CHUYÊN ĐỀ:
- Giúp giáo viên có thêm tài liệu tham khảo các bài tập về phần sử dụng ngôn ngữ mức
độ nâng cao.
- Giúp học sinh có thêm tài liệu tham khảo, luyện tập phần sử dụng ngôn ngữ ôn thi HSG
Olympic và Quốc gia với các dạng bài tập: hình thức của từ (word forms), viết lại câu có từ
khóa (keyword transformation) và tự điền từ thích hợp vào ô trống (open-close test).
III. NỘI DUNG:
A. WORD FORMATION
1. CPE Word Formation: A Balloon Expedition
0 E XP E DI T I ON
In 1897 three Swedes set out from Svalbard on an (0) …… to the North Pole by hot air
balloon under the (1) …… of S.A. Andree. Although all three men were experienced (2) ……, they
continued to have (3) …… faith in the effectiveness of their equipment despite considerable
evidence of the (4) …… of the balloon’s steering system which Andree had designed himself.
Also, the polar balloon had not (5) …… the normal testing procedure for hydrogen balloons but
none of the three men, would in any way (6) …… the serious (7) …… that this had for the likely
fate of their voyage. Soon after their departure on July 7th, it was noticed that (8) …… amounts of
hydrogen were escaping from the balloon but the three men were unconcerned by the amount of (9)
…… . Unfortunately, as the balloon gained altitude, this loss of gas soon (10) …… and so, after a
brief flight of ten hours and twenty-nine minutes the balloon crash-landed on pack-ice where the
three explorers attempted to continue their journey on foot. Their bodies were eventually recovered
from the ice thirty-three years later.

0. EXPEDITE
1. LEAD
2. BALLOON
3. QUESTION
4. EFFECT
5. GO
6. KNOW
7. IMPLY
8. CONSIDER
9. LEAK
10. QUICK
1. LEADERSHIP
4. INEFFECTIVENESS
7. IMPLICATIONS
10. QUICKENED

2. BALLOONISTS
5. UNDERGONE
8. CONSIDERABLE

3. UNQUESTIONING
6. ACKNOWLEDGE
9. LEAKAGE

2. CPE Word Formation: Big Companies Go Green
0 ANNOUNC E ME NT
The government has recently made an (0) …… that should please environmentalists. After
(1) …… were made against more than one high-profile company regarding the releasing of raw
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(2) …… into rivers and the sea, ministers have promised to adopt a zero (3) …… approach to
enforcing environmental protection rules. This has forced some companies to go on the
(4) …… and try publishing statistics designed to play down the (5) …… of the problems they have
caused. One oil has company recently had a promotional campaign in which they claim that they
were actually responsible for rescuing a number of species from the brink of (6) …… in an area of
tropical rainforest. But despite such publicity, it may hard to (7) …… their negative public image
after security personnel from the same company were filmed using (8) …… force to
(9) …… restrain protesters outside one of their UK plants. Several news networks broadcast images
of violent clashes after what appeared to be a perfectly (10) …… public protest.
0. ANNOUNCE
1. ALLEGE
2. SEWER
3. TOLERATE
4. OFFEND
5. EXTEND
6. EXTINCT
7. COME
8. EXCEED
9. PHYSICS
10. ORDER
1. ALLEGATIONS 2. SEWAGE
6. EXTINCTION 7. OVERCOME

3. TOLERANCE
8. EXCESSIVE

4. OFFENSIVE
9. PHYSICALLY

5. EXTENT
10. ORDERLY

3. CPE Word Formation: Business Interests
0 AP T I T UDE
Ed Bullock clearly has a great (0) …… for making money. As the richest man in north-east
Bristol, he's known for the (1) …… approach he has taken to amassing his huge fortune in a (2)
…… short space of time. His first business venture, at the age of twenty was in engineering. With
an (3) …… capital of only fifty pounds, he built the (4) …… of a new kind garden tool, which was
soon selling like hot cakes. He then moved into the highly (5) …… world of print and news media,
by buying a local newspaper whose monthly (6) …… , at the time of purchase, was (7) …… low.
Within a few months he had turned the business around and showed that he was perfectly (8)
…… of running large businesses as well as small ones. He had also (9) …… attracted the attention
of the local anti-corruption police who have carefully watched his dealings ever since. Sixteen years
later, Bullock is currently the majority (10) …… in no less than twenty-eight separate firms and has
a personal fortune estimated at seventy million pounds.
0. APT
1. INNOVATION
2. DECISION
3. INITIATE 4. TYPE
5. COMPETITION
6. CIRCLE
7. PITY
8. ABLE
9. WIT
10. HOLD
1. INNOVATIVE 2. DECIDEDLY
3. INITIAL
6. CIRCULATION 7. PITIFULLY
8. CAPABLE

10. SHAREHOLDER or STAKEHOLDER

4. PROTOTYPE 5. COMPETITIVE
9. UNWITTINGLY

4. CPE Word Formation: Illegal Downloads
0 DOWNL OADI NG
The problem of people illegally (0) …… music from the Internet has been gaining large
amounts of (1) …… in recent weeks. The fact that so much (2) …… pop music is now available
from illegal sources, means that young people are no longer purchasing the latest (3) …… tune
from legitimate sellers. But although this practice is (4) …… upon by many older citizens, the
younger age-group, who would be more likely to (5) …… new music stars and be willing to pay for
their creations are beginning to resent the idea of (6) …… the pockets of musicians who are often
already multi-millionaires. These young song- swappers present other (7) …… arguments why for
their peers illegal file-sharing has become the (8) …… . They point to the ephemeral nature of the
music industry and suggest that any music star with truly (9) …… appeal will never be short of
money and believe that the decision should (10) …… be up to you whether you pay to copy
something that you can hear for free on the radio anyway.
0. LOAD
1. PUBLIC 2. MAIN
3. CATCH
4. FROWN
5. IDOL
6. LINE
7. COMPULSORY 8. NORMAL
9. LAST
10. ULTIMATE
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1. PUBLICITY
5. IDOLISE or IDOLIZE
9. LASTING

2. MAINSTREAM
6. LINING
10. ULTIMATELY

3. CATCHY
7. COMPELLING

4. FROWNED
8. NORM

B. KEYWORD TRANSFORMATION
1. CPE Keyword Transformation: Boring Movies
Titanic was so boring that I fell asleep after the first hour. LESS
Had Titanic …………………. have fallen asleep in the first hour.
0
BEEN LESS BORING I WOULDN'T
1. Mary, what do you think you would do if you won the lottery? SUPPOSING
Mary, ………………………. what would you do?
2. The best thing to do is to be honest with her about the situation. STRAIGHT
If I were you, …………………………… her about the situation.
3. I like to take my time to decide, not rush important things. SNAP
I don't like to ……………………… important things.
4. I know it is unlikely, but if you see Mum, could you give her this money? HAPPEN
If you ……………………… could you give her this money?
5. In my job as a journalist, I can get money that is more than enough to live on. LIVING
I can …………………………. as a journalist.

6. I would have made different arrangements, if I had been warned about the situation. HAD
I would have made different arrangements, …………………………. about the situation.
7. Although I can see your point, the most important thing is that we don't have the money
to open a new branch of the company. BOTTOM
Although I can see your point, ……………………….we don't have enough money to open
a new branch.
8. I can lend you ten pounds, on the condition that you give me back the money next week,
Shohei. PROVIDING
I can lend you ten pounds, ……………………………. me the money next week.
1 SUPPOSING YOU
.

WON THE LOTTERY

2. I WOULD BE

STRAIGHT WITH

3 MAKE SNAP
. MAKE SNAP

DECISIONS ABOUT
DECISIONS ON

4. SHOULD HAPPEN
SHOULD HAPPEN

TO SEE MUM,
TO SEE MUM

5. MAKE A
EARN A
MAKE A
EARN A

GOOD LIVING
GOOD LIVING
DECENT LIVING
DECENT LIVING

6 HAD I
. IF I HAD

BEEN WARNED or
BEEN WARNED

7. THE BOTTOM

LINE IS

8. PROVIDING THAT
PROVIDING

YOU GIVE
YOU GIVE

or

or
or

or
or
or

or

2. CPE Keyword Transformation: Demonstrators
Some of the rowdier students were encouraging other demonstrators to throw stones.
EGGED
Demonstrators were …………………..throw stones.
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0

BEING EGGED ON TO
1. It's a good idea, but you really need to consider it carefully before you take action.
THROUGH
Your idea is good, but it …………………………. before you act on it.
2. My manager told me that I ought to test my new idea in a small way to see it works.
PILOT
My manager wants me to run ……………………..so that we can evaluate it.
3. Jenny apologises, but she isn't very well today so she won't be coming in. HERSELF
Jenny is sorry but she can't come in as she ………………………….today.
4. The government recommend a balance of reward and punishment when dealing with
young offenders. STICK
The government favour a ………………………to young offenders
5. Apparently, only one percent of the total land is used for agricultural production.
ACCOUNTS
It seems that agricultural production ……………………….the total land.

6. Graham likes bananas, but when he eats them he always feels bad afterwards. AGREE
Bananas ……………………….Graham but he still likes them.
7. Let's all work together, and we'll finish the job very quickly. NEXT
We'll have this job done ……………………………..if we all co-operate.
8. If you want to succeed, you need to make best use of the things you are good at. PLAY
You have to ……………………………if you want to do well.
1 NEEDS
. NEEDS
NEEDS

TO BE THOUGHT THROUGH
THINKING THROUGH
THINKING THROUGH
CAREFULLY
TO BE THOUGHT THROUGH
CAREFULLY

or
or

2. A PILOT
A PILOT

SCHEME
PROJECT

or

3 ISN'T FEELING
. IS NOT FEELING

DOES NOT FEEL
DOESN'T FEEL

HERSELF
HERSELF
HERSELF
HERSELF

NEEDS

4. CARROT AND STICK
CARROT AND STICK
5. ACCOUNTS FOR
ACCOUNTS FOR
ACCOUNTS FOR
ACCOUNTS FOR

APPROACH
POLICY

or

or
or
or
or

JUST ONE PERCENT OF or
ONLY ONE PERCENT OF or
ONE PERCENT OF

or
ONE PER CENT OF

6 DON'T AGREE
.

WITH

7. IN NEXT TO

NO TIME

8. PLAY TO

YOUR STRENGTHS

3. CPE Keyword Transformation: Endangered Species
Many of the world's most exotic animals may disappear in the near future unless we take
urgent action. EXTINCTION
Many of the world's most exotic animals are ……………….., unless we take urgent action.
0
ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION

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1. The number of people killed this year in bicycle accidents is now thirty-five. ALREADY
Thirty-five people ……………………………….far this year in bicycle accidents.
2. Nobody knows what to expect when they get there. DARK
Everybody is ………………………….. find when they get there.

3. The heart attack was probably caused by shock. BROUGHT
The heart attack …………………………….by shock.
4. She simply assumed that they would all agree with her. TOOK
She …………………………..that they would all agree with her.
5. Peter has more work than he can handle. COPE
Peter …………………………. his workload.
6. It gave me great pleasure to hear that my ex-boyfriend's marriage was a disaster.
GLOATED
I ……………………………..news that my ex-boyfriend's marriage was a disaster.
7. The company has no plans to replace the current model. REPLACING
The company is ……………………………. the current model.
8. Children's educational development suffers if they grow up in a home where the
television is permanently switched on. CONDUCIVE
Growing up in a home where the television is permanently switched on ……………………
educational development.
1 HAVE ALREADY BEEN KILLED
. ALREADY HAVE BEEN KILLED
HAVE BEEN KILLED ALREADY
2. IN THE DARK ABOUT
IN THE DARK AS TO
IN THE DARK ON

or
or

WHAT THEY WILL
WHAT THEY WILL
WHAT THEY WILL

3 WAS PROBABLY BROUGHT

. WAS PROBABLY BROUGHT
4. TOOK IT
TOOK IT
TOOK IT

SO
SO
SO

ON
BY

or
or

or

FOR GRANTED or
AS READ
or
AS GIVEN

5. CAN'T COPE
CANNOT COPE

WITH
WITH

6 GLOATED
.

OVER THE

7. NOT PLANNING

ON REPLACING

8. IS NOT CONDUCIVE
IS NOT CONDUCIVE

or

TO CHILDREN'S or
TO A CHILD'S

4. CPE Keyword Transformation: No Difficulties
I don't think we will find anything difficult in the test. FORESEE
I cannot …………………..anything difficult in the test.
0
FORESEE THERE BEING
1. I don't know why he started behaving differently. ABOUT
I don't know what ……………………….……… his behaviour.
2. When house prices increased dramatically we abandoned our plans to buy a flat.
BUYING
We gave ………………………. to the increase in house prices.
3. Our teacher always made sure that all her students learned something new each lesson.
SAW
Our teacher always ……………. something new for each student to learn in every lesson.
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4. I really need my car when I do the sales trips in the Midlands. NEVER
Were it ………………………………….. do the sales trips in the Midlands.
5. Customers: Please don't smoke in the company car park. KINDLY
We ………………………. from smoking in the company car park.
6. It's the long wait for the exam results that really annoys me about the CPE exam. STAND
What I really …………………………………..the long wait for the results.
7. She wouldn't let me stay in the bar when she realised I was under age. INSISTENT
She was quite …………………………..realising that I was under age.
8. Her job title is Sales Manager but in fact she does the job of a director. INTENTS
Although her job title is Sales Manager, …………………………….. the company director.
1
.

BROUGHT ABOUT
BROUGHT ON
BROUGHT ABOUT
BROUGHT ON

THE CHANGE IN
THE CHANGE IN
THIS CHANGE IN
THIS CHANGE IN

2. UP OUR PLANS OF BUYING A FLAT
UP OUR PLANS OF BUYING A FLAT
UP ON BUYING A FLAT
UP ON BUYING A FLAT

3

.

SAW TO IT
SAW TO IT
SAW TO IT
SAW TO IT

I COULD NEVER or
I NEVER COULD or
I COULDN'T
or
I COULDN'T EVER

5. KINDLY ASK ALL CUSTOMERS
ASK ALL CUSTOMERS
ASK THAT ALL CUSTOMERS
KINDLY ASK CUSTOMERS
ASK CUSTOMERS
ASK THAT CUSTOMERS

CAN'T STAND ABOUT
CANNOT STAND ABOUT

7. INSISTENT ON
INSISTENT ON

OWING or
DUE
or
DUE

or
OWING

THAT THERE WAS
or
THAT SHE INCLUDED
or
THAT THERE WAS ALWAYS or
THAT SHE ALWAYS
INCLUDED

4. NOT FOR MY CAR
NOT FOR MY CAR
NOT FOR MY CAR
NOT FOR MY CAR

6
.

or
or
or

TO REFRAIN
TO KINDLY REFRAIN
KINDLY REFRAIN
TO REFRAIN
TO KINDLY REFRAIN
KINDLY REFRAIN

THE CPE EXAM IS or
THE CPE EXAM IS

MY LEAVING THE BAR AFTER or
MY LEAVING THE BAR ON
or

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or
or
or
or
or


INSISTENT THAT
INSISTENT THAT
INSISTENT ON
INSISTENT ON

I LEAVE THE BAR AFTER
or
I LEAVE THE BAR ON
or
ME LEAVING THE BAR AFTER or
ME LEAVING THE BAR ON

8. TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES
TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES

SHE IS or
SHE'S

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C. OPEN CLOSE TEST
1. CPE Open Cloze: Getting Ahead At Work
0 MUC H
One job is pretty (0) ………… like another. In fact, having a job is a bit like being in a family.
Everybody assumes a different role and conflict is (1) ………… with from that perspective. The
difference in the workplace is that (2) ………… if you don't like the role you have, you need to
continue to (3) ………… a brave face on it. And unlike in a family, (4) ………… you might do
little or nothing to help out, in your job, you are expected to do your (5) ………… share - nobody
else wants to do your work for you.
Some people go (6) ………… of their way to be helpful at work although (7) ………… is not
always noticed or appreciated. Some people are naturally very (8) ………… the ball and always
seem to be very on (9) ………… of things. Others resent the (10) ………… that they have their
boss (11) ………… down their necks all the time and they try to avoid having to (12) ………… on
your feet; like when you discover it's somebody's birthday but nothing has been organised, so you
create a card on your PC, wrap the bottle of wine you have just bought for dinner and organise for
everybody to sing Happy Birthday out of tune. Do this often enough and you will be well on the
way to becoming the most popular person around.
1. DEALT
6. OUT
11. BREATHING

2. EVEN
7. IT or THIS

12. PULL

3. PUT
8. ON

4. WHERE
9. TOP

5. FAIR
10. FACT

2. CPE Open Cloze: King's Ransom
0 T OGE T HE R
In 1998, two young MBA graduates, Ben King and Miles Ransom put (0) ………… a business
plan that would transform the airline industry. They (1) ………… out to establish an airline whose
style and brand image were decidedly out of tune (2) ………… most other operators and promised
a good (3) ………… on their shareholders' initial investment. At a time when penny-pinching
budget deals extended to (4) ………… level of the airline industry and customer comfort levels
were going from bad to (5) …………, the two entrepreneurs (6) ………… upon the idea of offering
a little more luxury.
By weighing (7) ………… customer satisfaction against profit margins, they were able to
(8) ………… an obvious conclusion; that it wouldn't (9) ………… much additional cost to attract
customers away from their competitors. Their new premium-rate airline took (10) ………… name
from the founders' surnames. King's Ransom Ltd (11) ………… to the air in February 1999 and as
most readers are no doubt only (12) ………… his share alone was worth a staggering sixteen billion
pounds.
1. SET
2. WITH
5. WORSE
6. HIT

9. TAKE or REQUIRE

3. RETURN or PROFIT
4. EVERY
7. UP
8. DRAW or MAKE
10. ITS
11. TOOK
12. TOO

3. CPE Open Cloze: Pluto
0 AF T E R
In 1930, (0) ………… nearly a year of painstaking work at the Lowell Observatory, (1)
………… American astronomer, Clyde W Tombaugh finally identified an object in the outer
(2) ………… system which (3) ………… to be known as Pluto. He had been searching for an
object (4) ………… existence had been predicted by extrapolating (5) ………… observations of
changes in the shape of other planets’ orbits. To do (6) ………… Tombaugh ended up
(7) ………… to look through hundreds of pairs photographs taken of sections of the (8) …………
sky at two different times in order to identify an object which appeared to change position between
the (9) ………… and the second.
After the discovery, the Lowell Observatory invited (10) ………… suggestions and soon ideas
(11) ………… pouring in from all over the world. The name which was eventually (12) …………
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the third criterion for planet-hood, namely that it would need to have swallowed up all other objects
in or near its orbit. In fact thousands of objects have been discovered around the orbit of Pluto and
so despite massive protests from ardent supporters, it is no longer included in the list of solar system
planets.
1. THE

2. SOLAR
3. CAME
4. WHOSE
5. FROM
6. THIS
7. HAVING or NEEDING
8. NIGHT
9. FIRST
10. NAMING or NAME
11. CAME or STARTED or STARTED
12. AGREED or SETTLED
4. CPE Open Cloze: Stroking Sharks
0 I T
On a recent one-week diving trip in Australia, (0) ………… was suggested by the organisers
of the tour that I might like to (1) ………… stroking one of the most fearsome beasts the Coral Sea
(2) ………… to offer. At first, our tour group, (3) ………… included, reacted with amused
reluctance but we were assured, during our usual pre-dive briefing, that (4) ………… the business
of feeding was safely out of the (5) …………, it would be perfectly safe to approach a shark while
it was (6) ………… rest and actually touch it on the side of its body. The guides insisted that
(7) ………… experienced divers, members of our group should have (8) ………… difficulty in
lowering ourselves to the sandy seabed where white-tip reef-sharks are inclined to (9) ………… a
rest after the exertions of the planned shark-feeding.
The feeding itself was certainly as spectacularly feral in (10) ………… intensity as had been
promised. Twenty or so two-metre sharks convened on an underwater garden location and
(11) ………… turns ripping pieces off a frozen mass of fish, lowered into the water from the dive
boat above. Meanwhile, my group of amazed divers knelt on the sandy ocean floor at a safe (12)
………… I was able manouvre myself to within an arm's length of one of them and cautiously
reach out and touch it. And I am glad to say, I am still in possession of my right hand.
1. TRY or ATTEMPT
2. HAD or HAS

3. MYSELF or ME
4. ONCE or AFTER or AFTER
5. WAY
6. AT
7. AS or BEING
8. NO or LITTLE
9. HAVE or TAKE
10. ITS
11. TOOK
12. DISTANCE

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