Đề thi học sinh giỏi tỉnh môn tiếng anh 12 tỉnh sóc trăng năm 2008 2009 vòng 2

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SỞ GIÁO DỤC – ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI ĐỀ NGHỊ KÌ THI OLYMPIC ĐBSCL
SÓC TRĂNG Năm học 2008 – 2009
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Đề chính thức
Môn : Tiếng Anh –Lớp 12
(Thời gian làm bài 180 phút, không kể phát đề)

I. LISTENING (3 points)
PART 1: Listen to a talk and circle A,B,C or D to indicate the correct answer.
1. What is the main topic of the talk?
A. How to become young entrepreneurs.
B. How to meet rich, famous people.
C. How to become wealthy people.
D. How to have qualities of rich people.
2. Who is the audience?
A. Young entrepreneurs.
B. University students.
C. Rich businesspeople.
D. Famous millionaires.
3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the talk?
A. The rich have qualities that make them different.
B. Not all the qualities that rich people have are good.
C. Meanness is one quality people should have to get rich.
D. Rich people’s appearance is very different from ours.
4. What did Matthew Freud do to get money when young?
A. He helped his friends with their homework.

B. He sold mice to his friends at school.
C. He showed rich schoolfriends how to learn.
D. He made friends with millionaires’children.
5. Which of the following is NOT a quality of the rich?
A. Extravagance
B. Confidence
C. Hard work
D. Ambition
6. Which of these people is mentioned as an example of a hard-working person?
A. John Paul Getty
B. Bill Gates
C. Rupert Murdoch
D. Anita Roddick

PART 2: Listen to a conversation and fill in the numbered gaps in the table. Write NO MORE
THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

TIM JANE
Day of arrival Sunday (1) ……………………………
Subject (2) …………………………… (3) ……………………………
Number of books to read (4) …………………............... (5) ……………………………
Day of the first lecture (6) ………………………….. (7) ……………………………



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First essay’s topic / title (8) ………………………….. (9) ……………………………

II. LEXICAL-GRAMMAR (7 points)

PART 1: Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. Write your answers
(A, B, C or D) in the spaces provided under this part.

1. They say he inherited his money from a ______ relative he had never met.
A. faraway B. remote C. distant D. far
2. The discovery of penicillin was a significant medical ______.
A. breakthrough B. innovation C. revolution D. novelty
3. As the day wore ______, I began to feel more and more uncomfortable in their company.
A. in B. on C. out D. off
4. It was a rough _______ and a lot of people on the ferry were seasick.
A. travel B. voyage C. trip D. crossing
5. I was thinking of going out, but on _______ thoughts, it might be better to stay in.
A. strong B. second C. good D. deep
6. One of my classmates is always putting me _______ in public. It’s so embarrassing!
A. up B. off C. through D. down
7. Turn to page 35 to find out at a _______ which courses are available to you.
A. glance B. stare C. glimpse D. look
8. The aircraft experienced severe _______ during the final approach, but the pilot kept his
cool and landed it safely.
A. instability B. wavering C. turbulence D. unsteadiness
9. Frank has been the _______ of the local history museum for over ten years now.
A. escort B. dean C. curator D. conductor
10. With our help, she finally came _______ after having passed out for five minutes.
A. back B. round C. by D. down
11. I know his name is ‘Jim’, but it was just a ______ of the tongue when I called him ‘Tim’.
A. slide B. skid C. skim D. slip
12. Increased traffic _______ has led some local councils to start charging drivers to enter
city centres.
A. congestion B. blockage C. stoppage D. obstruction

13. I know it’s hard to stop smoking, but you’ll feel better in the long _______.
A. time B. turn C. way D. run
14. If you leave your baggage ______ at the airport, it will be taken away.
A. inattentive B. careless C. unattended D. neglectful
15. James Bond was sent _______ a mission to recover a top secret file.
A. in B. on C. off D. out

1. _________ 2. ________ 3. ________
4. _________ 5. ________ 6. ________
7. _________ 8. ________ 9. ________
10._________ 11. ________ 12. ________
13._________ 14. ________ 15. ________

PART 2: The passage below contains 10 errors. Identify and correct them. Write your answers
in the space provided in the column on the right. (0) has been done as an example.



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A DISAPPOINTING MEAL

Have you ever complained in a restaurant? I never thought I
would, but last week I ended up doing just that. It was my best
friend’s birthday, but I had booked a table at a new restaurant
that had just opened in the city centre. But while we arrived,
exactly on time, they told me that it was no record of my

booking and we would have to wait for a table to become free. I
suspected that they had given our table to anyone else, but I
didn’t say anything. Then we were kept waiting for an hour
without an apology, because they did take our order. We both
chose soup as a starter and my friend ordered a steak like a
main course. I thought I would be a bit more adventurous, and
decided to try something called Ossobuco, if I wasn’t quite sure
what it was. To cut a long story short, a soup was almost cold,
my friend’s steak was uncooked at the middle and my
Ossobuco turned out to be a plate of bone within a very acidic
sauce. So, we called the manager and told we would not pay
because the meal had been substandard. But in the end we paid
because we had eaten it all, but we won’t be going there again!


0. but – so
1. …………………………
2. …………………………

3. …………………………

4. …………………………
5. …………………………

6. …………………………
7. …………………………
8. …………………………
9. ………………………..
10. ………………………..

PART 3: Write the correct form of each word in brackets in the numbered spaces provided in
the column on the right. (0) has been done as an example.

FOOD MILES




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In Britain, what is described as ‘food miles’, the distance which
food is transported from the place where it is grown to its point of sale,
continues to rise. This has major (0. ECONOMY) , social and
environmental consequences, given the traffic congestion and pollution
which (1. VARIABLE) follow.

According to (2. PRESS) groups, the same amount of food is
travelling 50% further than twenty years ago. What’s more, the rise in the
demand for road haulage over this period has mostly been due to the
transport of food and drink. The groups assert that the increase in the
number of lorry journeys is (3. EXCEED) and that many of these are far
from (4. ESSENCE).
In the distribution systems employed by British food (5. RETAIL),
fleets of lorries bring all goods into more (6. CENTRE) located
warehouses for redistribution across the country. (7. LOGIC) as this might
appear, the situation whereby some goods get sent back to the same areas
from which they came is (8. AVOID).
In response to scathing (9. CRITIC) from environmentalists, some
food distributors now aim to minimise the impact of food miles by routing

vehicles, wherever possible, on motorways after dark. This encourages
greater energy (10. EFFICIENT) whilst also reducing the impact on the
residential areas through which they would otherwise pass.


0. economic

1. ………………

2. ……………..



3. ……………..
4. ……………..
5. ……………..
6. ……………..
7. ……………..

8. ……………..
9. ……………..


10. ……………

PART 4: Complete the news report. Put each verb in brackets into the correct form. Write your
answers in the spaces provided below the passage.

The actress Vanessa Kemp (1. DISAPPEAR). Yesterday she (2. FAIL) to arrived at the
Prince Charles Theatre in London’s West End for her leading role in the comedy ‘Don’t look

now!’. Ms Kemp, who (3. LIVE) in Hampstead, left home at four o’clock yesterday afternoon
for the theatre, a journey she (4. MAKE) several times the week before. Two people who (5.
WALK) past her home at the time saw her (6. LEAVE). But no one (7. SEE) her since then. At
half past seven she still (8. NOT, ARRIVE) at the theatre. At eight o’clock the theatre manager
(9. HAVE) to break the news to the audience, who (10. WAIT) patiently for the play to start.
Since yesterday, theatre staff and friends (11. TRY) to contact Ms Kemp, but they (12. HAVE)
not success so far. The police (13. TAKE) the matter seriously, but they (14. BELIEVE) that she
is unlikely to be in any danger. Her friends all (15. WANT) to hear from her soon.


1. ________________ 2. ________________ 3. ________________

4. ________________ 5. ________________ 6. ________________

7. ________________ 8. ________________ 9. ________________

10.________________ 11. ________________ 12. ________________

13.________________ 14. ________________ 15. ________________





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PART 5: This is a weather forecast on a local radio station. Put in the missing prepositions.
Write your answers in the spaces provided below the passage.

Good morning. This is the weather at six in the morning on Thursday 7 February. It’s

cold outside, and there’s ice (1) ________ the roads, so don’t drive too close to the car in front of
you! There should be forty metres (2) _________ you and that car! If you’re driving (3)
________ the city this morning, pay attention to schoolchildren walking (4) ________ the road.
Remember, you might be next to a school! Traffic is moving very slowly (5) ________ the city
centre (6) ________ the moment. There was an accident last night – If you’re driving (7)
________ Central Library, the Police may stop you and ask you a few questions. That’s all for
now. More weather news every hour, (8) ________ six in the morning (9) ________ six at night.
This is the KC News Network making sure you’re up to date (10) _______ the news!

1. ……………… 2. ……………….

3. ……………… 4. ……………….

5. ……………… 6. ……………….

7. ……………… 8. ……………….

9. …………….... 10. ……………….

PART 6: Insert A, AN, THE or Φ (zero article). Write on the numbered blanks.
I came home from school one day with (1) ________ headache, and took two aspirins
from (2) _______ bottle in (3) ________ medicine cupboard. They left (4) _______ curious
aftertaste in my mouth, and when my mother came home half an hour later I told her what I had
done. She shrieked and ran to (5) _______ telephone: I had taken some tablets that (6) ________
doctor had prescribed for her stomach cramps, and she had been warned that it was dangerous to
exceed (7) _______ stated doze – one tablet a day. She had broken (8) ________ bottle that
morning, and transferred (9) _______ tablets to (10) _______ empty aspirin bottle.

III. READING (4 points)
PART 1: Choose the word that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage. Circle A,

B, C or D to indicate your answer. (0) has been done as an example.

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
The Open University was created in 1968 to (0) ___________ people who cannot afford
to (1) __________ regular courses of study, the opportunity of studying and (2) _________ a
university diploma or degree. They study at home and their academic performance is assessed by
(3) __________ of written examinations or project work. Most Open University students (4)
__________ in study while also holding down a job or coping with a busy home life. They study
in order to update their job skills or for personal (5) __________.
At the heart of most courses is a (6) ___________ of specially written and professionally
printed textbooks and workbooks which students receive by post. On many of the courses,
students are (7) __________ to watch television programmes on the BBC network, which are
usually broadcast in the (8) ___________ hours of the morning. The (9) _________ of these
programmes is to develop and broaden the study experience, so that students do not have to (10)