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VÙNG DUYÊN HẢI – ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ LẦN THỨ VI
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh 10
Thời gian làm bài: 180’
I. LISTENING
Section 1:
Questions 1 – 10
Complete the table below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Name
Hostelling

HOSTELS
Location
Cost of double room
Notes
Example 10 minutes $50 per night but
Membership card

International West

from downtown by

only $1……………

offers discount on

End

Answer ……

for members

entry to

bus……….

2……………………
Internet access costs

4…………… Hostel

Near beach. Two-

$62. Meals extra but

$3 per 3……………
Was built as a hostel

minute walk to

only available in

in 7…………………

5……………………

6……………………

Can hire

8………………….

Backpackers Hostel

In 9………………… $45 plus $5 for

from hostel
A 10………………

district

on every floor for

breakfast

guests to use

Section 2:
Questions 11 – 15


Complete the sentences below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
11. Bilingualism can be defined as having an equal level of communicative ……………….
in two or more languages.
12. Early research suggested that bilingualism caused problems with ………………. and
mental development.
13. Early research into bilingualism is now ejected because it did not consider the
………………… and …………………….. backgrounds of the children.
14. It is now thought that there is a …………….. relationship between bilingualism and
cognitive skills in children.

15. Research done by Ellen Bialystok in Canada now suggests that the effects of bilingualism
also apply to ………………..
Questions 16 – 20
Choose the correct letter A, B, or C.
16. In Dr Bialystok’s experiment, the subjects had to react according to
A. the colour of the square on the screen.
B. the location of the square on the screen.
C. the location of the shift key on the keyboard.
17. The experiment demonstrated the ‘Simon effect’ because it involved a conflict between
A. seeing something and reacting to it.
B. producing fast and slow reactions.
C. demonstrating awareness of shape and colour.
18. The experiment shows that, compared with the monolingual subjects, the bilingual
subjects
A. were more intelligent.
B. had faster reaction times overall.
C. had more problems with the ‘Simon effect’.
19. The results of the experiment indicate that bilingual people may be better at
A. doing different types of tasks at the same time.


B. thinking about several things at once.
C. focusing only on what is needed to do a task.
20. Dr Bialystok’s first and second experiments both suggest that bilingualism may
A. slow down the effects of old age on the brain.
B. lead to mental confusion among old people.
C. help old people to stay in better physical condition.
II. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
Exercise 1: Choose the best answer to fill in the blank
1. Last year ABBA made a ______________ of several million crowns.

A. win

B. gain

C. profit

D. salary

2. Even though I didn’t want my son to leave home, since he was 21 there was nothing I
could do to _______ it.
A. hinder

B. prevent

C. resist

D. cease

3. You’ll have to use the stairs, I’m afraid. The lift is out of _______.
A. function

B. work

C. order

D. function

4. Have you seen a mug anywhere, Roy? We seem to be one ______________.
A. missed

B. less

C. deficient

D. short

5. We got a very good ___________ in the newspaper this morning. They must have liked the
play.
A. critic

B. article

C. praise

D. write-up

6. I’m afraid I really couldn’t eat any more. I’m ___________.
A. full up

B. fed up

C. filled up

D. famished

7. One day I’m going to find a/an ____________ of land somewhere in the country and build
a house on it.
A. area

B. plot

C. ground

D. patch

8. The position of monarch is not something that is chosen by the people. It is
______________.


A. inherit

B. generated

C. hereditary

D. passed over

9. Don’t tell Anne about Paul and Jane breaking up – you know what a/an __________ she is;
it will be all over the town in no time.
A. talker

B. liar

C. gossip

D. scavenger

10. I can’t eat this meat; it’s too ___________.
A. strong

B. soggy

C. tough

D. bad

11. David’s married Elizabeth Green? No, I don’t believe it! You’re pulling my __________!
A. leg

B. hair

C. head

D. arm

12. The accused man was proved innocent and was __________.
A. liberated

B. excused

C. interned

D. acquitted

13. It __________ rains whenever I go out without my umbrella.
A. continually

B. invariably

C. typically

D. infallibly

14. Don’t waste your time telling Janet a joke; she’s totally ___________ of a sense of
humour.
A. deficient

B. missing

C. devoid

D. lacking

15. The photocopier in our office needs a complete ______. These copies are terrible.
A. maintenance

B. repair

C. overhaul

D. renovation

16. A prominent member of the Cabinet was __________ as correspondent in the divorce
case.
A. cited

B. included

C. accused

D. linked

17. The travel agency sent us a detailed ________ of our journey to India.
A. docket

B. agenda

C. itinerary

D. documentation

18. Since our train leaves at 10:30, it is ____________ that everyone is at the station no later
than 10:15.
A. imperative

B. urgent

C. desired

D. inescapable

19. After travelling all day, he was completely ___________.
A. done in

B. done up

C. broken down

D. used up

20. Technology is advancing so rapidly nowadays that computers and other machines seem to
be ________ after a very short time.
A. antiquated

B. irreparable

C. disused

D. obsolete

Exercise 2: There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find the mistakes and
correct them.
The main sources of energy in the world are fossil fuels - coal, oil and natural gas. Fossil
fuels are non-renewable - this mean that nature cannot recreate them as fast as people using
them up today. Sometimes in the future, all of them will run out and we will need other
renewable sources of energy. Some renewable energy sources are being available now. One
of them is water, what has been used to create energy for thousands of years. Today, hydro-or
water power, generate by huge dams, is a major source of electric in many parts of the world.
But hydropower has its own costs. When dams are built, the area above them is flooded, even
for miles. In some places, people lose their homes as well as the rich soil river in which they
once growed their crops. In other places, wonderful wild landscapes buried forever under
new, artificial lakes. Below the dams, the natural habitats of fish and wildlife in the river
valley are destroyed as the course of the river is changed.
Exercise 3: Fill in each blank with one suitable particle or preposition.
1. Don’t tell me you like his taste _________ clothes! He looks terrible!
2. Although we were all rather irritated by the situation at the time, we laughed ___________
it afterwards.
3. The national debt has been decreased ________ $10 billion this year.
4. Her latest novel is coming ________ in paperback soon.

5. I wish you’d lay ___________ telling me what to do all the time.
6. I’d better turn ______ early. I didn’t sleep well last night.
7. He has a talent for getting the most complicated ideas _________.
8. For the last twenty years, he has been laying _________ 15%of his salary for his old age.
9. He had a bad time in the army but he has put it _________ him now.


10. Joan threw books and papers __________ the room whilst trying to find her passport and
her cheque book.

Exercise 4: Fill in each blank with the suitable form of the word in capital.
It’s noisy in space!
Inside the International Space Station, it is so noisy that the astronauts cannot
hear one another. As a result, United States and Russian engineers have
launched a (1)__________ repair programme which they hope will lead to the

PRIOR

(2)__________ of the station’s 72-decibel roar: the equivalent of standing

REDUCE

beside a busy motorway. ‘It is not a (3)__________ situation,’ said Mike

HEALTH

Engle, a (4)__________ for the engineering team. ‘Apart from astronauts

SPEAK

losing sleep, there is a danger one of them will (5)__________ a colleague’s

HEAR

instruction and press an incorrect button!’ (6)__________, most of the noise

IRONY

comes from the equipment needed to keep them (7)__________. ‘The coolers

LIFE

are the worst,’ Mr Engle explained. ‘But without them, the station would
become (8)__________ hot! When we put together the station we faced a

BEAR

choice. We could either spend extra years (9)__________ that the station

SURE

would be totally quiet, or we could get on and build the thing. Now it’s
assembled, we are doing our best to (10)__________ it down.
Exercise 5: Read the text and fill in each blank with one suitable word.

QUIET

Exploring the Arctic Ocean
A huge international project to explore the Arctic Ocean has begun. It is expected to discover
thousands of new species of marine animals, many of which have been completely cut

(1)____________ from the rest of the world for thousands of years. Scientists claim that the
study of the unknown depths of the Arctic Ocean, perhaps the (2)__________ understood
ocean on earth, is now urgent (3)__________ of the growing threat (4)________ its unique
marine life posed by global warming. Climatologists estimate that the Arctic summer has


increased by five days every decade for the (5)_________ forty years, and that a totally icefree Arctic summer will soon occur.
The Arctic Ocean is unusual as much of it is capped with ice and there is land all around it. ‘It
is as (6)___________ the Arctic Ocean is inside a box which has a lid of ice on the top.
There’s (7) _________ other place in the world like it,’ says chief scientist Ron O’Dor. A
particular focus planned for the project he is undertaking will be the Canada Basin, an
underwater hole 3,800 metres deep where life has remained isolated (8)____________
millennia.
This Arctic exploration project is part of the Census of Marine Life, a collaboration of more
than 300 scientists from 53 countries, (9)___________ aim is to address our ignorance of
what lives in the sea. Since the Census began several years ago, more than 500 new species
of fish have been identified. However, scientists believe (10)____________ could be ten
times as many yet to be discovered.
III. READING
Exercise 1: Read the text and choose the best answer to fill in each blank.
We really can tell if we are being watched
Stories about how people somehow know when they are being watched have been going
around for years. However, few (1)____________ have been made to investigate the
phenomenon scientifically. Now, with the completion of the largest ever study of the socalled staring effect, there is impressive evidence that this is a recognizable and
(2)____________ sixth sense. The study (3)____________ hundreds of children. For the
experiments, they sat with their eyes covered and with their backs to other children, who are
told to either stare at them or look away. The results consistently showed that the children
who could not see were able to tell when they were being stared at. In a total of 18,000 trials
carried out worldwide, the children (4)____________ sensed when they were being watched
almost 70% of the time. The experiment was repeated with the (5)____________ precaution

of putting children who were being watched outside the room, (6)____________ from the


starers by the windows. This was done just in case there was some (7)____________ going
on, with the children telling each other whether they were looking or not. This prevented the
possibility of sounds being (8)____________ between the children. The results, though less
impressive, were more or less the same. Dr Sheldrake, the biologist who designed the study,
believes that the results are (9)____________ enough to find out through further experiments
(10)____________ how the staring effect might actually come about.
1. A. tries

B. tests

C. attempts

D. aims

2. A. genuine

B. accepted

C. received

D. sure

3. A. involved

B. contained

C. comprised

D. enclosed

4. A. exactly

B. correctly

C. thoroughly

D. perfectly

5. A. attached

B. added

C. connected

D. increased

6. A. separated

B. parted

C. split

D. divided

7. A. pretending

B. lying

C. cheating

D. deceiving

8. A. delivered

B. transported

C. transmitted

D. distributed

9. A. satisfying

B. convincing

C. concluding

D. persuading

10. A. really

B. carefully

C. definitely

D. precisely

Exercise 2: Read the text and choose the best answer.

During the late Middle Ages, oil paint took hold as the artistic medium of choice because it
was effective, flexible, ad resilient relative to the wax-based, watercolor, fresco, or tempera
paints prevalent at the time. Although contemporary commercially prepared paints contain a
mixture of pigments and linseed oil, poppy oil paints are also available to connoisseurs. The
original recipes developed in medieval European monasteries relied on fast-drying bases
derived from various organic oils predominantly valued for their medicinal qualities. The
pigments are insoluble, lightproof, and chemically inert powders ground in the base.
Occasionally, varnish can be added to increase the paste’s ability to reflect light and to cover
pictures with a protective seal. The resulting stiff, resinous compounds are often packaged in
flexible metal or plastic tubes. Historically, yellow pigments have been added to the oil, and
then the paste was layered over tin foil to imitate the appearance of gold leaf.


Despite the numerous experiments to accelerate the drying process, oil paints dry
comparatively slowly with little color alteration. An important advantage of color stability is
that tones and undertones are easy to blend, match, transpose, and grade, and mistakes and
smudges are simple to correct. Due to the creamy consistency of most mixtures, artists can
exploit their viscosity in thick applications, sprays, thin trickles, and three-dimensional blobs.
The purification by boiling and filtering and bleaching of oils can impart varied hues to
powdered pigments, while drying time can be reduced by adding metallic oxides.
Professional painters who mix their own medium usually have their own trademark methods
of mixing materials that art experts recognize as a part of an artist’s creative work.
The thickness of the paste also plays an important role in defining the stages of painting a
picture. After the basic design is sketched in pencil or charcoal, the broad background or
foreground areas of the canvas are covered with thin, diluted paint on top of the primer. A
thicker paint, often with added varnish, is subsequently used to refine and outline the
foundation. The width of the brush depends on the type of paint the artist chooses to use, and
stiff bristles are usually found in narrow brushes for making sharp lines, while softer brushes
of animal hair can be employed in broad strokes.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The evolution and history of oil paintings and media.
B. The technology and development of drying oils.
C. The recipes and ingredients for producing oil paints.
D. The composition and techniques for mixing oil paints.
2. It can be inferred from the passage that oil paintings
A. supplanted the use of tempera and fresco
B. took hold of the artistic choices in the Middle Ages
C. promoted artistic talent since the early times
D. supported the usefulness of applying paints
3. The word “connoisseurs” in bold is closest in meaning to
A. explorers


B. experts
C. exporters
D. experimenters
4. According to the passage, medieval monks extracted oil
A. from minerals
B. in conjunction with pigments
C. from plants
D. in combination with medicines
5. The phrase “the base” in bold is closest in meaning to
A. paint
B. oil
C. chemicals
D. pestle
6. The purpose of paragraph 2 is to illustrate
A. the laboriousness of making oil paints
B. the durability of oil colors
C. the complexity of oil purification

D. the superiority of oil paints
7. The word “viscosity” in bold is closest in meaning to
A. stiffness
B. elasticity
C. stickiness
D. eloquence
8. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as components of oil paints?
A. accelerants
B. retarders
C. sealants
D. glosses


9. The word “trademark” in bold is closest in meaning to
A. signature
B. selection
C. significance
D. secret
10. The author of the passage implies that an oil painting
A. requires professional painters to mix their own paint
B. contains a layer of canvas and charcoal
C. thickens as the oil continues to dry in stages
D. requires multiple layers of brushwork
Exercise 3: Read the text and do the tasks followed.

Did tea and beer bring about industrialization?

A
B

Alan Macfarlane thinks he could rewrite history. The processor of anthropological
science at King’s College, Cambridge has, like other historians, spent decades
trying to understand the enigma of the Industrial Revolution. Why did this
particular important event – the world-changing birth of industry – happen in Britain? And
why did it happen at the end of the 18th century?
Macfarlane compares the question to a puzzle. He claims that there were about 20
different factors and all of them needed to be present before the revolution could
happen. The chief conditions are to be found in history textbooks. For industry to
‘take off’, there needed to be the technology and power to drive factories, large urban
populations to provide cheap labour, easy transport to move goods around, an affluent
middle-class willing to buy mass-produced objects, a market-driven economy, and a political
system that allowed this to happen. While this was the case for England, other nations, such
as Japan, Holland and France also met some of these criteria. All these factors must have
been necessary but not sufficient to cause the revolution. Holland had everything except coal,
while China also had many of these factors. Most historians, however, are convinced that one
or two missing factors are needed to solve the puzzle.

C

The missing factors, he proposes, are to be found in every kitchen cupboard. Tea
and beer, two of the nation’s favourite drinks, drove the revolution. Tannin, the
active ingredient in tea, and hops, used in making beer, both contain antiseptic


properties. This, plus the fact that both are made with boiled water, helped prevent epidemics
or waterborne diseases, such as dysentery, in densely populated urban areas.

D

Historians had noticed one interesting factor around the mid-18 th century that

required explanation. Between about 1650 and 1740, the population was static. But
then there was a burst in population. The infant mortality rate halved in the space of
20 years, and this happened in both rural areas and cites, and across all classes. Four possible
causes have been suggested. There could have been a sudden change in the viruses and
bacteria present at that time, but this is unlikely. Was there a revolution in medical science?
But this was a century before Lister introduced antiseptic surgery. Was there a change in
environmental conditions? There were improvements in agriculture that wiped out malaria,
but these were small gains. Sanitation did not become widespread until the 19 th century. The
only option left was food. But the height and weight statistics show a decline. So the food got
worse. Efforts to explain this sudden reduction in child deaths appeared to draw a blank.

E

This population burst seemed to happen at just the right time to provide labor for the
Industrial Revolution. But why? When the Industrial Revolution started, it was
economically efficient to have people crowded together forming towns and cities.
But with crowded living conditions comes disease, particularly from human waste. Some
research in the historical records revealed that there was a change in the incidence of
waterborne disease at that time, especially dysentery. Macfarlane deduced that whatever the
British were drinking must have been important in controlling disease. They drank beer and
ale. For a long time, the English were protected by the strong antibacterial agent in hops,
which were added to make beer last. But in the late 17 th century a tax was introduced on malt.
The poor turned to water and gin, and in the 1720s the mortality rate began to rise again.
Then it suddenly dropped again. What was the cause?

F

Macfarlane looked to Japan, which was also developing large cities about the same
time, and also had no sanitation. Waterborne diseases in the Japanese population were
far fewer than those in Britain. Could it be the prevalence of tea in their culture? That

was when Macfarlane thought about the role of tea in Britain. The history of tea in Britain
provided an extraordinary coincidence of dates. Tea was relatively expensive until Britain
started direct trade with China in the early 18 th century. By the 1740s, about the time that
infant mortality was falling, the drink was common. Macfarlane guesses that the fact that
water had to be boiled, together with the stomach-purifying properties of tea so eloquently
described in Buddhist texts, mean that the breast milk provided by mothers was healthier than
it had ever been. No other European nation drank tea so often as the British, which, by
Macfarlane’s logic, pushed the other nations out of the race for the Industrial Revolution.


G

But, if tea is a factor in the puzzle, why didn’t this cause an industrial revolution
in Japan? Macfarlane notes that in the 17th century, Japan had large cities, high
literacy rates and even a futures market. However, Japan decided against a
work-based revolution, by giving up labour-saving devices, even animals, to
avoid putting people out of work. Astonishingly, the nation that we now think of as one of the
most technologically advanced, entered the 19 th century having almost abandoned the wheel.
While Britain was undergoing the Industrial Revolution, Macfarlane notes wryly Japan was
undergoing an industrious one.

H

The Cambridge academic considers the mystery solved. He adds that he thinks the
UN should encourage aid agencies to take tea to the world’s trouble-spots, along
with rehydration sachets and food rations.

Questions 1 – 5
Choose the most suitable headings for paragraphs B – F from the list of headings below.
Write the appropriate number (i – x). There are more headings than sections so you will

not use all of them.

List of Headings
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)

The significance of tea drinking
Possible solution to the puzzle
Industry in Holland and France
Significant population increase
The relationship between drinks and disease
Gin drinking and industrialization
Dysentery prevention in Japan and Holland
Japan’s waterborne diseases
Preconditions necessary for industrial revolution
Introduction

EXAMPLE
Section A
1. Section B
2. Section C
3. Section D

Answer
x


4. Section D
5. Section F
Questions 6 – 10
Complete the table using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage.
CENTURY
mid 17th century
late 17th century

SOCIAL CHANGE
IN BRITAIN
main drinks were still
(6)________________

REASON

gin becomes more
popular, especially
with poor people

beer becomes
expensive because of
(7)______________

early 18th century (8)_____________
drinking starts to

become widespread
mid 18th century

hops helped to make
beer last longer

EFFECT ON
POPULATION
no significant change
mortality rate goes up

Britain starts trade with mortality rate goes
China
down

decline in urban deaths (10)______________
caused by
water used for tea and
(9)_______________
beer; antibacterial
qualities of tannin

infant mortality rate
goes down by half

IV. WRITING
Exercise 1: Complete the following sentences using the given words/phrases.
1. I/ pass/ test/ matter/ hard/ be.
2. If/ you/ not/ help/ I/ not meet/ my brother/ last month.
3. We/ not/ get/ on/ plane/ without/ tickets.

4. I/ not see/ him/ since/ he/ graduate/ university.
5. We/ learn/ languages/ easily/ help/ computer.
Exercise 2: Rewrite the following sentences using the given words without any change so
that their meanings are the same as the original.
1. Five boys on a motorbike at the speed of 60 mph are very likely to end up in hospital.
RECIPE


2. They’ll cause a lot of trouble.
CAT
3. Teaching doesn’t suit her.
CUT
4. Organic vegetables are said to be health.
WONDERS
5. I tried to talk to Jack about the problem but he was too busy.
WORD
Exercise 3: Paragraph writing
People attend college or university for many different reasons. Why do you think people
attend college or university?
Write a paragraph (about 200 words) on the topic using examples and details in your answer.


Key
I. LISTENING: Total: 15 points
Questions 1 – 10: 5 points (0.5 point/one correct answer)
1. 41

6. summer

2. museums

7. 1887

3. hour

8. scooter(s)

4. Elliscoat

9. entertainment

5. ferry

10. kitchen

Questions 11 – 20: 10 points (1.0 point/one correct answer)
11. proficiency

16. A

12. learning

17. A

13. social (and) economic

18. B

14. positive

19. C

15. adults

20. A

II. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: Total: 35 points
Exercise 1: Total: 10 points (0.5 point /one correct answer)
1. C

6. A

11. A

16. A

2. B

7. B

12. D

17. C

3. C

8. C

13. B

18. A

4. D

9. C

14. C

19. A

5. D

10. C

15. C

20. D

Exercise 2: Total: 5 points (0.5 point /one correct answer)
1. mean => means

6. generate => generated

2. using => are using

7. electric => electricity

3. Sometimes => Sometime

8. soil river => river soil

4. being => x

9. growed => grew

5. what => which

10. buried => are buried


Exercise 3: Total: 5 points (0.5 point /one correct answer)
1. in

6. in

2. about

7. across

3. by

8. aside

4. out

9. behind

5. off

10. about/around

Exercise 4: Total: 5 points (0.5 point /one correct answer)
1. priority

6. Ironically

2. reduction

7. alive

3. healthy

8. unbearably

4. spokesman/spokesperson

9. ensuring

5. mishear

10. quieten

Exercise 5: Total: 10 points (1.0 point /one correct answer)
1. off

6. if/though

2. least

7. no

3. because

8. for

4. to

9. whose

5. last/past

10. there

III. READING: Total: 30 points
Exercise 1: Total: 10 points (1.0 point /one correct answer)
1. C

6. A

2. A

7. C

3. A

8. C

4. B

9. B

5. B

10. D

Exercise 2: Total: 10 points (1.0 point /one correct answer)
1. D

2. A

3. B

4. C

5. B


6. D

7. C

8. B

9. A

10. D

Exercise 3: Total: 10 points (1.0 point /one correct answer)
1. ix

6. beer and ale

2. ii

7. tax/ tax on malt/ malt tax

3. iv

8. tea

4. v

9. waterborne diseases/ dysentery

5.i

10. boiled

IV. WRITING: Total: 20 points
Exercise 1: Total: 5 points (1.0 point /one correct answer)
1. I passed the test no matter how hard it was./ I’ll pass the test no matter how hard it is.
2. If you hadn’t helped, I would not have met my brother last month.
3. We cannot get on the plane without tickets.
4. I haven’t seen him since he graduated from (the) university.
5. We (can) learn languages easily with the help of the computer.
Exercise 2: Total: 5 points (1.0 point /one correct answer)
1.
2.
3.
4.

5.

I tried to have a word with Jack about the problem but he was too busy.
They’ll put the cat among the pigeons.
She isn’t really cut out for teaching.
Organic vegetables are said to do wonders for one’s health.
Five boys on a motorbike at the speed of 60 mph is a recipe for disaster.

Exercise 3: Total: 10 points
Well-organized, varied and correct in grammatical structures and vocabs, interesting ideas
Suggested ideas: new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge
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