ĐỀ HSG HUẾ VÒNG 1 05-06

SỞ GIÁO DỤC – ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH
THỪA THIÊN HUẾ l P 12 THPT N M H C 2005 - 2006Ớ Ă Ọ
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ĐÈ CHÍNH THỨC MÔN: TIẾNG ANH - (VÒNG 1)
Thời gian: 150 phút ( Không kể thời gian giao đề)
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I. VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR ( 35 points)
Part 1: Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. Circle the
letter A, B, C or D next to the correct word or phrase.
1. The social services are chiefly ………..with the poor, the old and the sick.
A. Influenced B. related C. suffered D. concerned
2. I know you’re annoyed, but you must try to control your…………..
A. blood B. storm C. explosion D temper
3. It was a hot day, and many people were………….their way to the beach.
A. taking B. hitting C. making D. setting
4. After a lot of difficulty, he ………….to open the door.
A. managed B. succeeded C. obtained D. realized
5. The car was badly smashed up, but the driver escaped without serious…………
A. damage B. pain C. wound D. injury
6. The country’s annual………..of coffee beans has increased each year since 1977
A. produce B. growth C. outcome D. production
7. he kept his marriage a secret for years ,but eventually the truth……………
A came out B. came through C. went out D turned out
8. Jo was shocked when I disagreed with her . She’s so used to getting her
own…………
A. mind B. way C. opinion D. views
9. When he sings, he has the ............................. ability to make songs sound good.
A. sparse B. rare C. infrequent D. scarce
10. The management are making ............................. to increase the company's
efficiency.

A. measures B. steps C. moves D. deeds
11. I know this is a big disappointment but don't take it to .............................
A. soul B. mind C. spirit D. heart
12. I was told yesterday that the car had been fixed but it's broken
down ............................. again!
A. even B. still C. yet D. right
13. Simon ............................. in me on the understanding that I wouldn't tell anyone
else.
A. confided B. intimated C. confessed D. disclosed
Part 2: Read the text below. Use the words given in capitals at the end of each
line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
Unusual beliefs
Despite the fact that this is now the 21st century an
(1) .............................. number of English people appear INCREASE
to (2) .............................. in the paranormal. What is BELIEF
the (3) .............................. for this? EXPLAIN
(4) .............................. have found the answers to many of SCIENCE
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our questions, but the more (5) .............................. we make, DISCOVER
the more we want to know. The (6) .............................. need PSYCHOLOGY
for (7) .............................. that we have appears to be very SECURE
strong. For this reason, a belief in the (8) .............................. EXIST
of aliens. and especially, the (9) .............................. of contact POSSIBLE
with alien life forms is (10) .............................. common. EXTREME
Part 3: Put the verbs in brackets into the suitable tenses, including passives if
necessary
The mystery of the Mary Celeste is one of the greatest mysteries of the sea. An
American sailing ship, the Mary Celeste set sail from New York on 5 November 1872 -
bound for Genoa in Italy, with a cargo of 1,700 barrels of commercial alcohol.
A month later - on 5 December - she (1 sight) ............................................east of the Azores,

in the eastern Atlantic, by a British ship, the Dei Gratia. By an amazing coincidence, the
master of the British ship, Captain David Reed Morehouse, and the master of the Mary
Celeste , captain Benjamine Spooner Briggs (2 dine) ...........................................together in
New York the night before the Mary Celeste (3 set sail) ............................................ So
Morehouse (4 realize) ..........................................., that the Mary Celeste (5
sail) ........................................... in the wrong direction. What could be the ship doing, he (6
wonder) ...........................................? Having hailed his friend's ship and got no reply, he (7
go) ........................................... to investigate. There (8 be) ...........................................nobody on
board. Captain Briggs, his wife and two-year-old daughter (9 all
vanish) ............................................ The last entry in the ship's log was for 25 November, on
which day the Mary Celeste (10 be) ........................................... within six miles of the
Azores.
An enquiry (11 hold later) ........................................... in Gibraltar, but to this day the mystery
of the Mary Celeste ( 12 never solve) ...........................................
II. READING (35 points)
Part 1 Fill in each gap with ONE appropriate word. The first gap has been done as
an example.
EVOLUTION
It is generally accepted that present-day animals and plants differ from those of
the past, (0) ...having ... changed by a general process called evolution. But this theory
has been widely accepted for little (1) ................ than a hundred years. The present
theory of evolution was developed (2) ................ two naturalists – Charles Darwin and
Alfred Russell Wallace – working independently.
When he was a young man (3) ................ 22, Darwin went as naturalist on a
round-the-world, map-making cruise aboard a British naval survey ship, HMS Beagle.
The cruise began in 1831 and lasted (4) ................ 1836. In the Galapagos islands,
Darwin came (5) ................ a group of birds, later to become known (6) ................
“Darwin’s finches”. They were similar to one (7) ................ in their colour, song, nests
and eggs, and were clearly descended (8) ................ the same finch stock,
(9) ................ each had a different kind of beak and was adapted (10) ................ a

different way of life. (11) ................ were seed-eaters, fly-catchers, woodpeckers and
various other types.
Darwin assumed that the ancestors of all (12) ................ types had been blown to
the islands in bleak weather, had survived and changed somehow (13) ................ the
various forms. In the years after the voyage, Darwin gradually came to the conclusion
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that individuals better suited (14) ................ their environment would tend to leave more
offspring while those (15) ................ well adapted would die out.
Part 2: Read the following passages and choose the best answers to the
comprehension questions.
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The word laser was coined as an acronym for Light Amplification by the
stimulated Emission of Radiation. Ordinary light, from the Sun or a light bulb, is
emitted spontaneously, when atoms or molecules get rid of the excess energy
by themselves, without any outside intervention. Stimulated emission is
different because it occurs when an atom or molecule holding onto excess
energy has been stimulated to emit it as light.
Albert Einstein was the first to suggest the existence of stimulated
emission in a paper published in 1917. However, for many years, physicists
thought that atoms and molecules always were much more likely to emit light
spontaneously and that stimulated emission thus always would be much
weaker. It was not until after the Second World War that physicists began
trying to make stimulated emission dominate. They sought ways by which one
atom or molecule could stimulate many others to emit light, amplifying it to
much higher powers.
The first to succeed was Charles H. Townes, then at Columbia

University in New York. Instead of working with light, however, he worked with
microwaves, which have a much longer wavelength, and built a device he
called a “maser”, for Microwave Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of
Radiation. Although he thought of the key idea in 1951, the first maser was not
completed until a couple of years later. Before long, many other physicists
were building masers and trying to discover how to produce stimulated
emission at even shorter wavelengths.
The key concepts emerged about 1957. Townes and Arthur Schawlow,
then at Bell Telephone Laboratories, wrote a long paper outlining the
conditions needed to amplify stimulated emission of visible light waves. At
about the same time, similar ideas crystallized in the mind of Gordon Gould,
then a 37-year-old graduate student at Columbia, who wrote them down in a
series of notebooks. Townes and Schawlow published their ideas in a
scientific journal, Physical Review Letters, but Gould filed a patent application.
Three decades later, people still argue about who deserves the credit for the
concept of the laser.
1. The word “coined” in line 1 could best be replaced by
A. created
B. mentioned
C. understood
D. discovered
2. The word “intervention” in line 4 can best be replaced by
A. need
B. device
C. influence
D. source
3. The word “it” in line 6 refers to
A. light bulb
B. energy
C. molecule

D. atom
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4. Which of the following statements best describes a laser?
A. A device for stimulating atoms and molecules to emit light
B. An atom in a high-energy state
C. A technique for destroying atoms or molecules
D. An instrument for measuring light waves
5. Why was Towne’s early work with stimulated emission done with microwaves?
A. He was not concerned with light amplification.
B. It was easier to work with longer wavelengths.
C. His partner Schawlow had already begun work on the laser.
D. The laser had already been developed.
6. In his research at Columbia University, Charles Townes worked with all of the
following EXCEPT
A. stimulated emission
B. microwaves
C. light amplification
D. a maser
7. In approximately what year was the first maser built?
A. 1917
B. 1951
C. 1953
D. 1957
8. The word “emerged” in line 23 is closest in meaning to
A. increased
B. concluded
C. succeeded
D. appeared
9. The word “outlining” in line 24 is closest in meaning to
A. assigning

B. studying
C. checking
D. summarizing
10. Why do people still argue about who deserves the credit of the laser?
A. The researchers’ notebooks were lost.
B. Several people were developing the idea at the same time.
C. No one claimed credit for the development until recently.
D. The work is still incomplete.
Part 3: Read the article. Six sentences have been removed from the text. Choose
from sentences A-G the one which best fits each gap 1-5. There is one extra
sentence which you do not need to use. There is an example (0) at the beginning.
A. Because of this, cotton T-shirts are not a particular good idea.
B. But each year, hundred of people get into trouble and the reason is always the same.
C. Everybody knows what it means.
D. He repeated this until he reached the village.
E. How had he managed to get down off the mountain?
F. If you visit almost any town in Britain, you will be struck by the number of shops
selling outdoor equipment.
G. The greatest threat to your survival comes from hypothermia.
How to survive the cold
It seems that the popularity of outdoor sports is growing. Britons are taking to
the hills in increasing numbers in their free time, perhaps influenced by the growing
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interest in the environment. The fact that there are more and more of these shops is
evidence of this trend. Going for a walk in the mountains of Scotland may seem a safe
and gentle way to spend your time (the highest peak is just over 1,300 m).

Some time this winter, you can be sure that you will see it on the news: " Hope is
fading for a missing climber." Somewhere, in some frozen corner of Scotland, a

mountain rescue team is looking for someone - and they know, the chances are, it's
already too late.
On 4 January last year it was Richard Antrim, a computer programmer from
Newcastle, who did not return to his car after a walking weekend. Weather conditions
were terrible and the search team, trying to rescue him feared the worst. However three
days later, Antrim walked into the ski resort of Glensee.
Trapped by strong winds and deep snow, Antrim had made a hole in the snow
and crawled into a survival bag. The next day, he walked two kilometres before digging
another hole. He celebrated his survival in British style with a hot cup of tea,
But his story is unusual.
4 The blood gets thicker as it loses water, limiting the body's ability to keep
warm, so it's important to drink a lot. You also need to keep up your body temperature
by eating high-energy food like chocolate and Antrim was lucky because he had some
available. He also had a kettle which meant he could boil water.
Protecting yourself against the cold will also be a key to survival.. The wind can
lower temperatures by more than 20oC so wind- and water-proof clothing is essential.
Underneath this you need at least two layers of clothing that do not absorb water.

But however well prepared you are what you need more than anything else
is a lot of luck. If it's your lucky day, the weather and visibility will improve and you will
have a little chance of avoiding unseen dangers and finding your way home. But if
conditions get worse you could find yourself in a very dangerous situation.
III. WRITING (30 points)
Part 1: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence.
1.They intend to travel round the world when they retire. go
They are……………………………………………………………………………….
2.The weather forecast predicts a drop in temperature tomorrow. will
They say tomorrow…………………………………………………………………..
3.I can’t come at eleven on Saturday, as I have an appointment with the
hairdresser. having

I can’t come …………………………………………………………………………..
4.The time of departure for your flight to Rio is six o’clock. takes
The plane to Rio ……………………………………………………………………..
5.It looks like that old bridge is ready to fall down. is
It looks like that old bridge ………………………………………………………….
6.I suppose you are very tired after your long walk. must
You ………………………………………………………………………………..….
7.’I won’t come home late from late the party.’ she said. promised
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