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ĐỀ SỐ 03
(Đề thi vào lớp 10 THPT chuyên Quốc học Huế, năm học 2005 – 2006)
(Thời gian: 150 phút)
I. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
I. Identify a mistake in the underlined words or phrases in the following senetnces. Circle the letter A, B,
C or D for your choice.
1. California has (A) more land under (B) irrigation than (C) any another (D) state.
2. Beside (A) the ages of nine and fifteen, almost (B) all young (C) people undergo a rapid (D) series of
physiological changes.
3. In (A) the 1920's cinema became (B) an important art form and (C) one of the ten largest industry (D) in the
United States.
4. To improve (A) effectively, a musician must thorough (B) understand the conventions of (C) a given (D)
musical style.
5. Some (A) hangars, buildings used to hold large aircraft, are very (B) tall that rain occasionally falls from (C)
clouds that form along (D) the ceilings.
6. According to (A) most psychological (B) studies, body language expresses (C) a speaker's emotions and
attitudes and it also tends to affect the emotions and attitudes of the listen (D).
7. Chocolate is prepared by a complexity (A) process of cleaning, blending (B), and roasting cocoa beans,
which must be (C) ground and mixed (D) with sugar. .
8. Antique collecting became (A) a significant pastime in the 1980's when (B) old object (C) began to be
appreciated for (D) their beauty as well as for their historical importance.
9. American painter, Georgia O'Keeffe is well known as (A) her large paintings of flowers in which (B) single
blossoms (C) are presented (D) as if in close up.

10. Despite (A) television is the dominant entertainment medium for United States households, Garrison
Keller’s Saturday night radio show (B) of folk songs and stories is (C) heard by millions (D) of people.
11. Ripe (A) fruit is often stored (B) in a place who (C) contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not
decay too rapidly (D).
12. Mathew C. Perry, a United States naval (A) commander, gained (B) fame not in war and (C) through
diplomacy (D).
13. One of the most impressive collections (A) of nineteenth-century European paintings (B) in the United
States can (C) be found to (D) the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
14. In the (A) nineteenth century, women (B) used quilts to inscribe their responses to (C) social, economic, and
politics (D) issues.
15. Hot (A) at the equator causes the air (B) to expand, rise (C), and flow toward (D) the poles.
II. Fill in the gaps with the most suitable prepositions to complete the letter.
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Dear Mr. Markham,
Thank you very much for your letter (1)................. 14 th March. Naturally I am delighted, and very excited
at the prospect of my holiday (2).............. Britain.
I would like to take my holiday (3)....................... 15 th June (4)................... 5th July, which I believe is the
time (5).................... the Wimbledon tennis championships, and I would be very grateful if you could arrange
(6)......................... me to see some of the matches. I would also like to see some test cricket. There will be no
football then, but perhaps I could spend a day (7)................... the races at Ascot, too.

The places I would like to visit are the university towns (8)...................... Oxford and Cambridge, where I
would like to see one of Shakespeare's plays, and if possible I would really love to visit an old English village
(9)...................... a typical country pub.
I am very grateful to you and the company (10)....................... giving me this opportunity of a lifetime.
Yours sincerely,
Joseph Degama
III. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense, active or passive.
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.
IV. Fill in the gap with the correct form of the word in capital letters.
Apart from television, the cinema is the most popular form of
(0) entertainment for most people because it is still relatively

ENTERTAIN

(1) ....................................... Hollywood is, of course, the capital of the

EXPENSE

(2) ...................................... cinema industry. Hollywood movies make up

NATION

(3) ...................................... 75% of all the films we watch at our local

ROUGH

cinemas. Although we may find it difficult to remember the names of
(4) ...................................... and French film stars, Hollywood stars, such as

ITALY

Sylvester Stallone and Meryl Streep are (5) ...................................... names

HOUSE

all around the world. Moreover, only Hollywood seems to make certain
kind of films (6)...................................... .

SUCCESS
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(7) ...................................... are one example but we can also include westerns

MUSIC

although for a time "spaghetti westerns" were quite (8) ................................

FASHION

with cinema goers. But cowboys and Indians are really a Hollywood
(9) ...................................... and they are still going strong after all these

SPECIAL

years. Such films, however, have not remained (10) ......................................

TOUCH

by time and changes in attitudes. The cowboys are no longer always the goodies
as they were in the 1940s.
B. Reading
I. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.
Who are the best drivers? Which drivers are the safest on the (1).....................? According to a recent
survey, young and inexperienced drivers are the most likely to have an (2)......................... Older drivers are
more careful. Gender makes a difference, too. Young men have (3)...................... worst accidents records of all.
They are (4)................ aggressive than older (5).................... They also choose faster (6)................ with bigger
engines. One of the most interesting facts in the survey (7)................. the passengers have an effect on the
(8)............... When young male drivers have their friends in their car, their driving becomes worse. When their
wife or their girlfriend is in the car, however, their driving is (9).................... But the opposite is true for
women. Their driving is more (10) ...................... when their husband or boyfriend is in the car.
II. Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.
WALT DISNEY
There is no one who has not heard of Walt Disney; he is without (0) B one of the most famous figures in
the twentieth century and (1)......... most people know hardly anything about him.

(2)........... he became one of the most successful men in history, he (3) ............. school at the age of
sixteen and then studied art for a short time. By the (4).......... years of this century, he had (5)........ started to
produce cartoons in Hollywood in (6).................... with his brother Roy, who, is for some reason, never
(7)................. to become as famous as Walt. Disney is perhaps most well-known on (8)............. of his lovable
cartoon character, Mickey mouse, who first (9)................ in 1928 in a film called Steamboat Willie. One of the
most (10)............ cartoon films of all time is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which when it was
(11).............. in 1937, was the first full-length cartoon in the history of the cinema.
(12) ..................... the 1950s, Walt Disney had become one of the world's major (13)................... of
films for cinema and television. As Disney Productions (14)...................., its founder retained complete artistic
control of the films and he also (15).................. on to publish books for children and cartoon strips in
newspapers, featuring such characters as Donald duck and Pluto the dog.
0. A. comparison

B. doubt

C. disagreement

D. explanation

1. A. yet

B. then

C. already

D. however

2. A. Despite

B. In spite of

C. Although

D. even

3. A. graduated

B. completed

C. left

D. failed

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4. A. primary

B. early

C. beginning

D. initial

5. A. still

B. soon

C. yet

D. already

6. A. partnership

B. friendship

C. relationship

D. membership

7. A. achieved

B. reached

C. succeeded

D. managed

8. A. case

B. account

C. view

D. regard

9. A. appeared

B. performed

C. starred

D. began

10 A. common

B. excited

C. popular

D. known

11 A. seen

B. released

C. circulated

D. advertised

12 A. Until

B. Since

C. By

D. To

13 A. businessmen

B. owners

C. publishers

D. producers

14 A. grew

B. enlarged

C. increased

D. succeeded

15 A. took

B. put

C. pushed

D. went

III. Read the text below and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F) or if the text doesn't
say (DS). Put a tick () in the right box. The first one has been done as an example.
Many countries around the world have no caves. This is not because there are no hills or mountains in
those places. Some of the world's biggest mountains have no caves because they are not made of the right sort
of stone. But the low, limestone hills of the north of England and the south of France are full of interesting
caves.
For hundreds of years, people have enjoyed finding caves and going inside them. This sport is called
"caving", and the people who do it are called "cavers. Cave exploration began in Europe and even today most
cavers come from there. That is why we know so much about European caves. But in many other parts of the
world there are hundreds of caves which few people have ever visited. For example, there are many caves in
Russia and Afghanistan, in Albania and China, but not many cavers in those countries and it is often very
difficult for foreign cavers to get permission to visit.
T

F


0

Every country in the world has caves.

1

Caves are found in limestone hills and mountains.

2

The south of England has very few hills or mountains.

3

Most cavers are European.

4

There are still many unexplored caves in the world.

5

Many foreigners visit the caves in Russia.

C. Writing
I. Put these sentences in the right order to complete the text.
A. is also an international city where you can eat food from
B. wonderful beaches! When they think of Sydney, many people think
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C. opened in 1973 for music, theatre and dance. Near
D. building looks like sails on Sydney Harbor. It was

E. the Opera House is one of the longest
F. all over the world, or just visit some of the thirty
G. Sydney is the oldest and biggest city, with 3,7 million
H. buildings are the centre for much of Australian business. It
I. people. It is a busy modern city and its high-rise
J. of the Sydney Opera House. The roof of this beautiful
K. bridges in the world - the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
II. Use the words in the brackets to combine the following sentences.
1. He said, “Arrive on time for the interview tomorrow.” (reminded)
- ...............................................................................................................
2. I didn’t know I had to write my name in block capitals. (wish)
- ...............................................................................................................
3. This man used to smoke. Now he stops smoking. (no longer)
- ...............................................................................................................
4. You will meet her later. You will have an opportunity of it. (meeting)
- ...............................................................................................................
5. I have forgotten the tickets. I’m sorry for it. (having)
- ...............................................................................................................

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