ĐỀ THI OLYMPIC CÓ ĐÁP ÁN- KHỐI 10-

Tỉnh : Phú Yên
Trường : THPT chuyên Lương Văn Chánh
Môn : Tiếng Anh Khối 10.
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I. Phonetics
A. Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the
rest.
1. a. orchestra b. chemical c. character d. chef
2. a. sacrifice b. surety c. safari d. sanguine
3. a. cable b. comb c. climb d. debt
4. a. theory b. theatre c. through d. breather
5. a. NATO b. natural c. international d. nationality
6. a. officer b. bother c. poverty d. omega
7. a. sleigh b. height c. weight d. eight
8. a. naked b. wicked c. beloved d. worked
9. a. cap b. hat c. manage d. daring
10. a. cashier b. catalogue c. cement d. catcall
B. Underline the stressed syllables in the following words.
1. atmosphere 6. deficiencey
2. asylum 7. dehydrate
3. biological 8. harmony
4. citadel 9. illustrate
5. competition 10. humanitarian
II. Grammar and structure.
A. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly
the same as the sentences before it.
1. Happiness is elusive to rich and poor alike.
Whether …

2. Alternative medicine is a complete mystery to some people.
Some people are …
3. The government have been reviewing their immigration policy for some
time.
The government’s …
4. A new flu vaccine has been on trial since the beginning of the year.
They …
5. If anyone succeeds in solving the problem, it wil probably be him.
He is the most …
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6. She discovered eight new comets in the course of her work.
Her work resulted …
7. The decorators have finished the whole of the first floor.
We have …
8. Her hobby is one thing that she doesn’t intend to give up.
She has …
9. Freak weather conditions resulted in the hurricane which devastated the
area.
The hurricane which…………….
10. The restoration of communications and essential services is of prime
importance for the council.
The first …
B. For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as
possible in meaning to the original sentence, but using the words given in capital
letters. These words must not be altered in any way.
1. The regiment’s reputation was greatly damaged by his outragious conduct.
HARM
2. The ships were hardly visible through the thick fog.
MAKE
3. The rain was coming down in torrents.

CATS
4. There’s nothing new about defence alliances.
HILLS
5. The disagreement is a lot of fuss about nothing.
TEACUP
6. A government official leaked the story to the world press.
WIND
7. It was with great reluctance that they came to our aid.
LOATH
8. Organic vegetables are said to be very healtly.
WONDERS
9. The children are in disgrace for being so badly behaved.
CLOUD
10. He will have to live an independent life
PADDLE
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C. Fill in the blank with an appropriate preposition.
1. There is no warmth surrounding him, so for much of the day he sits on the
stone floor 1 his ragged, threadbare clothes, clasping his knees tightly 2 his thin
body and burying his head; There are moments of fury as well, when he batters his
pale, scarred face 3 his fists or beats his head 4 one of the walls. At other times,
he simply sits there rocking relentlessly backwards and forwards, his wide open eyes
staring feverishly 5 the grey concrete walls and at a terryfying, endless future as
bleak as despair itself.
2. Severe hurricane force winds buffeted their way 1 Kent and much of the
south – east of England last night, leaving a trail 2 devastation 3 their wake.
Vast tracks of the county have been flattened, and damage 4 property is estimated
5 hundreds of millions of pounds.
D. Use the following phrasal verbs in their correct forms to complete the
sentences below.

- hold up - knock away
- come round - look down on
- look out - swim with
- go off - live over
- break down - save up
1. When he ……………… after the operation, he had absolutely no idea where he was.
2. This car can’t have …………… . I had it serviced last week.
3. The Criminals ……………… the train and stole all the passengers’ money.
4. …………… that you don’t catch cold.
5. A gun …………… everyday to mark exactly one o’clock.
6. I ……………… for ages, but nobody has answered the door.
7. The old man keeps …………… his memories.
8. Women have grown tired of …………… by employers.
9. How long did it take you ……………… for a new car?
10. Her eyes ……………… tears as she watched the plane leave.
III III. Comprehension .
Read the following passage about population trends. The type of word
missing is given. Can you supply the word?
Too Many or Too Few?
Today the most important population trends are the fast growth in the number

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of elderly people and the sharp drop in the number of teenagers leaving school.
The size of the elderly population is (1) (verb) because peole are living longer
and 2 (adj) babies have been born.
In 1911, only five percent of the UK population was older than 65. Today, the
3 (noun) is more than 15 per cent. Over the next decade the greatest 4 (noun)
will be in people aged 75 and over. The drop in the number of school leavers was 5
(verb) by the fall in the birth rate 6 (preposition) 1964 and 1977. This trend is known
7 (preposition) the “demographic time bomb” – because demographers knew that,

once the birth rate fell, there was 8 (determiner) way to stop it 9 (verb) an explosive
effect on the economy and on society 16 years later.
However, the impact may 10 (adverb) be a short – term According to some
forecaster the UK’s birth rate may soon become one of the highest in western
Europe.
Companies have to 11 (verb) into account the age of the population when they
are deciding what goods to produce and when they are recruiting staff.
In Britain and most of Europe, the birth rate fell between the early 1960 s and
the mid 1970 s. That 12 (verb) that, by the second half of the 1980 s, the number of
teenagers leaving school and looking for jobs each year fell sharply.
In 1986, there were 6.2 million people 13 (adj) between 16 and 24 in the
labour force. By the turn of the century, this is likely to 14 (verb) fallen to 4.9
million. That means that companies who generally recruited many of their staff 15
(adverb) from school have had to think of other ways of attracting workers.
At the other end of the age scale is the significant increase in the number of
elderly people in the population. Over the 16 (adjective) ten years, several
companies have 17 (verb) up which specialize 18 (preposition) building “sheltered
accommodation” for elderly people – groups of houses or flats where there is a
warden on 19 (noun) to give help. In the 1970 s, these companies were virtually
unknown.
They have come into 20 (noun) because of demographic change.
B. Read the article below for mutiple – choice questions
JOURNEY TO THE FRONT LINES
The following morning the exodus began. Huoy and I packed the mosquito
net, the mats and the clothes into bundles once again and attached them to the
shoulderboard. Another journey. The Khmer Rouge said we were going to the “front
lines”, but didn’t explain what or where the front lines were. For all we knew we
were going to the moon.
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Around us, the other inhabitants emerged from the huts they had built of

thatch and reeds and pieces of plastic, and started down the paths. It was a cold
morning. The “new” people wrapped their kramas around their shoulders to stay
warm. Those who didn’t have kramas or extra shirts shivered and rubbed themselves
with their hands. We walked down the paths towards the railroad tracks, but not
everybody in Phum Chleav was lucky enough to leave. Through the open door of a
hut, we saw an old lady lying unconcious against a wall. Unable to walk and too
heavy to carry, she had been left behind.
As we climbed onto the railroad tracks, which was elevated a few feet above
the nearby ground and was the only dry place in the landscape, we looked around at
the pitiful spectacle.
And then I understood why the rice fields had been so empty of workess. It
was as if all the patients I had visited in their huts had been multiplied many time
over and put in a parade before our eyes. People with shrunken faces and haunted
vacant eyes, with legs and arms as thin as sticks or else puffy and bloated with
edema. Leaning on canes or on relatives’ shoulders, or alone, they walked with that
terrible economy of movement that signals the approach of starvation.
As Huoy and I watched, a thin, scrawny, midde – aged woman put down the
end of the hammock she had been carrying, slung under a bamboo pole. The man
inside the hammock called out weakly, “Sweet, sweet, bring me with you. Don’t
leave me behind”. But the women shook her head and trudged off down the railrood
track. After a moment of indecision the man carrying the other end of the hammock
abandoned it and hobbled off after her. No one went to the hammock to help the
man. I didn’t. Even if I could have helped him, there was no way that Huoy and I
could have carried him. If we tried to carry him, we probably wouldn’t make it
ourselves.
What made it worse, what made it more appalling was that somehow it was
ordinary. You heard the cries of the weak but you didn’t pay much attention because
you were concentrating on yourself and your own survival. We had all seen death
before. In the exodus from Phum Chleav, the atrocious had become normal.
How fast man changes! How fast he sheds his outer humannity and becomes

the animal inside! In the old days – only six months before – nobody abandoned the
dead. Now everything had changed – not just our burial customs but also all our
beliefs and behaviour. We had no more monks and no religious services. We had no
more family obligations. Children left their parents to die, wives abandoned their