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<span class='text_page_counter'>(1)</span>PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VAØ ĐAØO TẠO QUẬN I ĐỀ THI CHOÏN HOÏC SINH GIỎI QUAÄN 1 NAÊM HOÏC 2012-2013 Thời gian : 120 phút ( không kể thời gian giao đề ) LISTENING (15 pts) I. Listen to the recording and decide whether each statement is TRUE or FALSE. Write TRUE or FALSE in the space given in the answer sheet. 1. The rebels attacked the President’s country house. 2. The USA sent ships to the area this morning. 3. There were two lost climbers. 4. The climbers got caught in a heavy rain. 5. The climbers haven’t been found yet. II. Listen to the recording and choose the best option (A, B, C, or D) to fill in each blank. 6. John was on holiday in _________________in January. A. his hometown B. Switzerland C. Florida 7. In Florida, the weather was __________________. A. warm B. wonderful C. awful 8. People in Florida were quite ____________________. A. excellent B. fantastic C. friendly 9. John’s wife doesn’t ____________________. A. like Florida B. go on holiday with him C. live with him 10. John’s children were ____________________last month. A. with him B. with his wife C. with their grandparents III. Listen to the recording and give short answers to the questions. 11. Where was he during the First World War? 12. How old was he when he had to go to hospital? 13. Why did he have to go to hospital? 14. Does he still work, or is he retired now? 15. How is his life now? USE OF ENGLISH (25pts) Choose the best word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) to fill in the blank in each sentence. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27.. The boys look _______________their teacher of English because of his high teaching quality. A. into B. up to C. down upon D. at We are brought ______________in a culture which tells us that it’s good to control our feelings. A. from B. off C. out D. up Hard work can often bring __________________success. A. into B. in C. about D. up They are fascinated ____________________the idea of going away for the summer. A. on B. in C. about D. with They broke ___________________their relationship after a quarrel. A. into B. out C. off D. up ___________________what you think, learning a foreign language is great fun. A. Moreover B. Contrary to C. Whereas D. Therefore The experts were not fully ________________that the animal was a puma. A. convinced B. believed C. realized D. discovered I hope you will take this matter into __________________. A. effect B. understanding C. consideration D. notice He could not resist the _______________of making a lot of money quickly. A. introduction B. temptation C. invitation D. trial You asked me to ________________you to post that letter. A. remember B. remark C. remind D. recall After a lot of difficulty, he ________________open to door. A. managed B. succeeded C. was able to help D. was capable That man has __________________medicine for many years in the area. A. practiced B. passed C. worked D. earned.

<span class='text_page_counter'>(2)</span> 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.. What she needs to do now is see a doctor for a ________________. A. check-up B. set-up C. make-up D. build-up His application was rejected immediately because of his lack of _______________. A. requirements B. thought C. quantifiers D. qualification I absolutely _______________of everything that has been said. A. agree B. approve C. admit D. accept The man ________________stamps for 5 years by the end of 2010. A. will be collecting B. has collected C. will have collected D. will have been collecting There’s no point _________________; the problem will sort itself out. A. to worry B. worried C. worrying D. for us worry He doesn’t drink much _________________the police catch him as he drives home. A. in the event B. despite C. otherwise D. in case I saw him ________________to a nice girl at the school library. A. talking B. to talk C. talk D. talked Either you, or I, or your brother _________________responsible for the damage. A. is B. are C. am D. being - Barcelona defeated Real Madrid by 6 goals to two. - ___________________. A. That’s incredible B. I’ll think about it later C. Let’s do it together D. Thanks all the same - Did you do a good job in the last driving test? - _____________________ A. Not bad, I think! B. Don’t do it now! C. Yes, please. D. That’s true. - ________________________ – She’s Australian. A. How do you know her? B. What’s her nationality? C. Where has she been? D. What do you think about her? - What is your pastime? - _____________________. A. I hate my past B. Playing tennis is my favorite thing C. That’s nonsense D. The time to play is past - Why don’t you join us on the sightseeing tour? - ____________________. A. I’m afraid so B. Don’t mention it C. Please do it for me D. Another time, perhaps. READING (25 pts) A. Read the following passage carefully. Choose the word (A, B, C, or D) that best fits the blank spaces. (10 pts) Society has changed in many ways since the (41)___________________of computers, and people’s lives at home and at the office have been (42)___________________. Most people are working for fewer hours per week than they used to, and manufacturers and advertising agencies are becoming much more interested in how people spend this extra leisure time. One recent report stated that, (43)___________________the number of hobbies had not increased, each hobby had become much more specialized. A second finding is that nowadays, many managers would (44)___________________spend time with their families than stay late in the office every day. Home life is seen (45)___________________as important as working. Some companies now make managers take their annual holidays (46)___________________they don’t want to, because this leads to quite an improvement in their (47)___________________if they have some rest. (48)___________________these changes, some people are working harder than (49)____________________. The standard of exams is getting higher, and increased competition is making it harder to get into university than it was 20 years ago. School children and students are now having to work (50)__________________hard that in many cases they work longer hours than their parents. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46.. A. existence A. damaged A. since A. like A. be A. unless. B. introduction B. changed B. if B. rather B. being B. however. C. recommendation C. transferred C. although C. better C. to be C. even if. D. manufacture D. affected D. because D. prefer D. been D. as.

<span class='text_page_counter'>(3)</span> 47. 48. 49. 50.. A. performance A. In addition to A. ever before A. very. B. rehearsal B. Instead of B. lately B. too. C. display C. In spite of C. ever since C. as. D. expression D. In place of D. never before D. so. B. Read the passage below carefully and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D: (5 pts) The planet Earth is 4,600 million years old. It is difficult for us to think about such an enormous length of time because it has little meaning for us. We can, however, simplify the idea to make it more understandable. We can compare the planet Earth to a person of forty-six years of age. Nothing is known about the first seven years of this person’s life. Very little information exists about the middle period either. It was only at the age of forty-two that the Earth began to flower. Dinosaurs and great reptiles did not appear until one year ago, when the planet was forty-five. Mammals only arrived eight months ago. In the middle of last week, man-like apes became ape-like men and began to communicate with each other. Last weekend, the Ice Age covered the Earth. Modern man has only been around for four hours. During the last hour man discovered agriculture. The Industrial Revolution and the rise of large cities began just sixty seconds ago. During that short time, Modern man has made a rubbish tip of the Earth. In one minute, he has increased his numbers to terrible proportion, and has caused the death of hundreds of species of animals. He has robbed and destroyed the planet in his search for fuels. Now he stands, like a violent, spoilt child, delighted at the speed of his rise to power, on the edge of the final mass destruction and of killing all the life which exists in the solar system. 51. The passage tells us that _________________________________________. A. a great deal is known about how the Earth was created. B. life on Earth began relatively recently. C. more is known about the first part of the Earth’s life than the middle part. D. scientists are well-informed about the middle part of the Earth’s life. 52. We are informed by the author that _________________________________. A. the dinosaurs appeared during the middle period. B. mammals and great reptiles both appeared at the same time. C. there were more than forty-five kinds of great reptiles. D. ape-like men appeared before the last Ice Age. 53. The author is mainly interested in ___________________________________. A. the time when man first evolved from apes. B. what has happened since the Industrial Revolution. C. the effects of farming. D. the period before the last Ice Age. 54. It would appear that the main danger ahead is that ______________________. A. man will destroy everything on Earth. B. man will use up all the fuels. C. there will be a population explosion. D. more species of animals may die out. 55. The author’s general view of man seems to be that ______________________. A. he has no right to be so destructive. B. he has been the most successful animal. C. he will be able to control the environment. D. he has learned a lot from past mistakes. C. Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word to make a meaningful passage: (10 pts) There are about 3000 living languages in the world, but only six of them are the most important (56)___________________. Two-thirds of the world’s population speaks those languages. More than 400 million people speak English as their (57)___________________tongue. Another 400 million speak it as a second language. No one knows (58)__________________many people speak it as a foreign language. Chinese is the language with more speakers (59)___________________English, but it is only (60)_________________language for over one billion Chinese people. English is the official language on one-fifth of the land area the world (61)___________________. It is (62)___________________in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. In South Africa and India, it is one of the official languages. In many countries, the textbooks in universities are (63)__________________in English. More than three-fourths of the world’s mail is composed in.

<span class='text_page_counter'>(4)</span> English. More than three-fifths of the radio stations (64)____________________programs in English. More than half of the scientific and research (65)____________________are in English. English is the language of international communication. WORD FORMS (10 pts) Use the correct form of each word given in brackets to make meaningful sentences: 66. We are waiting to have the new _____________________installed. (equip) 67. Such a war would be ____________________for the country. (catastrophe) 68. After the storm life ___________________got back to normal. (quick) 69. He expressed strong ____________________to the plan. (object) 70. The film won an award for its ___________________. (photo) 71. Many young people _____________________work for charity organization. (volunteer) 72. The music show was really ____________________. (entertain) 73. The _________________of Vietnamese trademarks has been remarkably increasing. (popular) 74. Jane is sometimes _________________when she needs to tell the difference between some Vietnamese words. (confuse) 75. There are some music ____________________between the two lectures. (perform) ERROR IDENTIFICATION (5 pts) Find the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) that needs correcting: 76. His job is quite important to the total function of the firm because he is responsible A B for maintaining the records of sales and costs for almost the departments. C D 77. The whale died because the rescuers did not have proper equipments to support its weight. A B C D 78. It was her strong determination that helped her overcoming the physical and emotional pain A B C that followed her accident. D 79. Mike takes greatly pride in being a good computer programmer. A B C D 80. We are aware of people there spoke a different kind of language two hundred years ago. A B C D SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20 pts) Rewrite the sentences so that they mean almost the same as the ones printed before them: 81. The boss made them work very hard. They ___________________________________________________________ 82. I am sorry I didn’t succeed in finding the solution. If only __________________________________________________________ 83. John’s behavior sometimes surprises everyone. Everyone _______________________________________________________ 84. The girl took the gold pen by mistake. The girl didn’t mean _______________________________________________ 85. Several contestants withdrew from the final round. Just a few contestants took __________________________________________ 86. I advise you to be patient in this situation. If I _____________________________________________________________ 87. Mai had difficulty solving the problem. Mai came ________________________________________________________ 88. He dislikes English food very much. He doesn’t think ___________________________________________________ 89. There were a lot of people in the discotheque. The discotheque ___________________________________________________ 90. He didn’t buy the shirt he liked because he didn’t have any money with him. Had ____________________________________________________________ THE END OF THE TEST.

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