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PRACTICE TESTS FOR GIFTED STUDENTS – ENGLISH PAPER N020
KỲ THI CHỌN HSG LỚP 12 - THPT NĂM HỌC 2017 - 2018
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Week 10 (Date ………/……… /2017)

I. Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.
1.
A. bush
B. rush
C. pull
D. lunar
2.

A. bought

B. sought

C. drought

D. fought

3.

A. killed

B. cured

C. crashed

D. waived

4.

A. thunder

B. prefer

C. grocer

D. louder

5.

A. tells

B. talks

C. stays

D. steals

II. Choose one word whose stress pattern is different from the others.
6. A. advice
B. beauty
C. picture
D. postcard
7.

A. prepare

B. practice

C. prevent

D. provide

8.

A. famous

B. curious

C. anxious

D. delicious

9.

A. vacation

B. colleague

C. pupil

D. teacher

B. career

C. cinema

D. gallery

10. A. theatre

III. Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) which best completes each sentence.
11. The school was closed for a month because of serious ________ of fever.
A. outcome
B. outburst
C. outset
D. outbreak
12. The campaign raised far more than the ________ of $20.000.
A. aim
B. object
C. goal
D. target
13. We have a ________ future ahead with little comfort, food or hope.
A. cruel
B. pessimistic
C. grim
D. fierce
14. Only thoroughly unpleasant people leave the ________ of their picnics to spoil the appearance of
the countryside.
A. rest
B. remainder
C. remains
D. rester
15. An almost ________ line of traffic was moving at a snail’s pace through the town.

A. continuous
B. constant
C. continual
D. stopping
16. Medieval travelers’ tales of fantastic creatures were often fascinating but not always ________.
A. credible
B. creditable
C. credulous
D. imaginable
17. Don’t be late for the interview, ________ people will think you are a disorganized person.
A. unless
B. otherwise
C. if not
D. or so
18. My friends have just moved to a new flat in a residential area on the ______ of Paris.
A. suburbs
B. outside
C. outskirts
D. side
19. You are being thoroughly ________ in refusing to allow this ceremony to take place.
A. unrequited
B. unrepresentative C. unreliable
D. unreasonable
20. “But so”, I told him, “you are my own ________.”
A. heart and heart B. body and soul
C. flesh and blood
D. skin and bone
IV. Complete these sentences with proper prepositions or adverbs.
21. Don't use pencils. Please write the letter ________ ink.
22. My father made ________ his mind to settle in the South.

23. Minh couldn’t start his motor engine. I think it ran ________ fuel.
24. Time is off now. Please hand ________ your papers.
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25. We invited 40 people to the party but only 23 turned ________
26. That fish of yours has been in the fridge for weeks. It must have gone________ by now.
27. He needed a model, someone to look ________.
28. Uncle Tom is an idiot, but I only have to put ________ him once a year.
29. I don’t like to make friends with the person who always runs ________ his old friends.
30. These two men’s farms are adjacent ________ each other.
V. Use the word in capitals at the end of these sentences to form a word that fits in the blank
space.
31. How much does _________ of this club cost?
MEMBER
32. She is extremely _________ about the history of art.
KNOW
33. Traveling in big cities is becoming more and more _________ every day.
TROUBLE
34. He is completely _________! Not only is he lazy but he is dishonest too.
EMPLOY
35. His boss told him off because he had behaved _________.
RESPONSIBLE
36. He won the discus event at the Olympic Games but was later _________ QUALIFY
when a medical check proved that he had been taking drugs.
37. Women who are slimming can never enjoy a meal without being afraid of ORGANISE
______ their diet.
38. The trouble with Mr. Brown is that he’s so _________. One minute he goes CONSIST
mad when you come late; the next he says nothing. You never know

where you are!
39. It is forbidden to hunt for that kind of bird. It has been listed as one of the DANGER
_________ species.
40. I didn’t know who it was – with a mask on she was completely _________.
RECONGNISE
VI. Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, circle
letter A, B, C or D next to the answer you choose.
If you’re an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or a snarl. It has
become a symbol of our wasteful, throw-way society. But there seems little (41)_______ it is here to
stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastic has brought enormous (42)_______ even environmental
ones. It’s not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental (43)_______ – it’s the way
society choose to use and (44)_______ them.
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal – nonrenewable natural (45)_______. We (46)_______ well over three million tones of the stuff in Britain
each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. A high (47)_______ of our annual
consumption is in the (48)_______ of packaging, and this (49)_______ about seven per cent by weight
of our domestic (50)_______. Almost all of it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the
plastic recycling (51)_______ is growing fast.
The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich – they have a higher calorific (52)_______
than coal and one (53)_______ of ‘recovery’ strongly (54)_______ by the plastic manufacturers is the
(55)_______ of waste plastic into a fuel.
41. A. evidence
B. concern
C. doubt
D. likelihood
42. A. pleasures
B. benefits
C. savings
D. profits
43. A. poison
B. disaster

C. disadvantage
D. evil
44. A. dispose
B. store
C. endanger
D. abuse
45. A. resources
B. processes
C. products
D. fuels
46. A. remove
B. import
C. consign
D. consume
47. A. portion
B. amount
C. proportion
D. rate
48. A. way
B. kind
C form
D. type
49. A. takes
B. makes
C. carries
D. constitutes
50. A. refuse
B. goods
C. requirements
D. rubble

51. A. manufacture
B. plant
C. factory
D. industry
52. A. degree
B. value
C. demand
D. effect
53. A. measure
B. mechanism
C. method
D. medium
54. A. desired
B. argued
C. favored
D. presented
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B. melting
C. change
D. replacement

VII. Read the following passage and fill the blank with ONE suitable word. (10 pts)
New technologies, like all technologies, are morally neutral. (56)________ their advent makes
the world a better place or not depends on the uses to which they are (57)________. And that,
(58)________ turn, depends upon the decisions of many people, especially of politicians, managers,

trade (59)________ leaders, engineers and scientists. The new technologies, cheap, flexible,
dependent on knowledge and information as their main input, can (60)________ human being from
many of their current constraints for example constraints of resources and geography. (61)________
the new technologies could also (62)________ those with power to control their fellow citizens even
more effectively than in the (63)________ efficient dictatorships of the past. The new technological
society will (64)________ colossal demands on our imagination and ingenuity and on the capacity
(65)________ our institutions to respond to new challenges.
VIII. Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best answers each of the questions in the following
passage.
Several hundred million years ago, plants similar to modern ferns covered vast stretches of
the land. Some were as large as trees, with giant fronds bunched at the top of trunks as straight as
pillars. Others were the size of bushes and formed thickets of undergrowth. Still others lived in the
shade of giant club mosses and horsetails along the edges of swampy lagoons where giant
amphibians swam.
A great number of these plants were true ferns, reproducing themselves without fruits or
seeds. Others had only the appearance of ferns. Their leaves had organs of sexual reproduction and
produced seeds. Although their “flowers” did not have corollas, these false ferns (today completely
extinct) ushered in the era of flowering plants. Traces of these floras of the earliest times have been
preserved in the form of fossils. Such traces are most commonly found in shale and sandstone
rocks wedged between coal beds.
Today only tropical forests bear living proof of the ancient greatness of ferns. The species
that grow there are no longer those of the Carboniferous period, but their variety and vast
numbers, and the great size of some, remind us of the time when ferns ruled the plant kingdom.
66. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Plant reproduction
B. How to locate fossils
C. An ancient form of plant life
D. Tropical plant life
67. The word “Others” refers to_________.
A. plants

B. pillars
C. trees
D. fronds
68. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a characteristic of the plants described in the
passage?
A. They once spread over large areas of land.
B. They varied greatly in size.
C. They coexisted with amphibians, mosses, and horsetails.
D. They clung to tree trunks and bushes for support.
69. The word “true” is closest in meaning to which of the following?
A. accurate
B. genuine
C. straight
D. dependable
70. The author states that fossils of early plant life are usually found in rocks located between
deposits of_______.
A. coal
B. shale
C. sandstone
D. corollas
IX. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence printed before it.
71. Immediately after his appointment to the post, the new editor fell ill.
→ Scarcely___________________________________________________________.
72. I left without saying goodbye as I didn’t want to disturb the meeting.
→ Rather_____________________________________________________________.
73. The value of sterling has fallen considerably in the past week.
→ There has_________________________________________________________.
74. The only reason the party was a success was that a famous film star attended.
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→ Had it not_________________________________________________________.
75. Harriet was upset because she saw Peter with another woman.
→ It was_____________________________________________________________.
X. Writing an essay.
“University education is one of the keys to one’s success”.
What do you think of that matter? Write an essay of about 280- 300 words to support your points.
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KỲ THI CHỌN HSG LỚP 12 - THPT NĂM HỌC 2017 - 2018
HDC MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Week 10 (Date ………/……… /2017)

I. (5pts) 1 point/correct answer.
1. B
2. C
3. C
4. B

5. B

II. (5pts) 1 point/correct answer.
6. A
7. B
8. D

9. A

10. B

15. A

16. A

20. C

III (10pts) 1 point/correct answer.
.
11. D
12. D
13. C
14. C
IV. (10pts) 1.5 point/correct answer.
21. in
23. of
22. up
24. in

25. up
26. off

V. (10pts) 1 point/correct answer.
31. membership
34. unemployable
32. knowledgeable
35. irresponsibly

33. troublesome
36. disqualified
VI. (15pts) 1 point/correct answer.
41. C
42. B
43. D
44. D
51. D
52. B
53. C
54. C
VII (10pts) 1 point/correct answer.
.
56. whether
58. in
57. put
59. union
VIII (10pts) 1 point/correct answer.
.
66. C
67. A
68. D
69. B

17. B

27. up/up to
28. up with
37. disorganizing
38. inconsistent

45. A
55. A

18. C

46. B

60. free
61. but

47. C

19. D

29. down
30. to

39. endangered
40. unrecognizable

48. C

62. enable
63. most

49. D

50. A

64. make
65. of

70. A

IX. (10pts) 2 points/correct answer.
81 → Scarcely had he been appointed to the post when the new editor fell ill.
.
→ Rather than disturb the meeting, I left without saying goodbye.
82 → There has been a considerable fall in the value of sterling in the past week.
.
→ Had it not been for the attendance of a famous film star the party would not have
83 been a success.
.
→ It was because she saw Peter with another woman that Harriet was upset / that upset
84 Harriet.
.
X.
(15pts) Students’ own answers
85. Content: accounts for 50% of the total mark. To be given the maximum of 50% for the
content, the candidates should provide all main ideas and details as appropriate.
Language: accounts for 30% of the total mark. To be given the maximum of 30% for
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language, the candidates should use variety of vocabulary and structures appropriate
to the level of English language high school students.
Presentation: accounts for 20% of the total mark. To be given the maximum of 20%
for presentation, the candidates should write with coherence, cohesion and can use

appropriate styles and linking devices
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