Tài liệu SỞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO TP. HỒ CHÍ MINH KỲ THI OLYMPIC TRUYỀN THỐNG 30/4 LẦN XVI doc

SỞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO TP. HỒ CHÍ MINH
KỲ THI OLYMPIC TRUYỀN THỐNG 30/4 LẦN XVI- NĂM 2010
Trường THPT Chuyên Lê Hồng Phong
Môn thi: ANH – Khối :10
Ngày thi: 03/04/2010
Thời gian làm bài : 180 phút
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A. MULTIPLE CHOICE
I. PHONOLOGY
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the
other three.
1. a. rhinoceros b. vehicle c. whale d. uninhabitable
2. a. unconcernedly b. ragged c. sacred d. hiccupped
3. a. archaic b. archive c. choir d. archery
4. a. suggestion b. congestion c. digestion d. devotion
5. a. dairy b. lair c. fair d. gait
Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other
three.
6. a. credulous b. acropolis c. dialect d. obsolete
7. a. ecotourism b. compromise c. disposal d. neighborhood
8. a. beneficial b. detrimental c. understanding d. magnificent,
9. a. zoology b. cement c. conquest d. duet
10. a. argumentative b. psychological c. contributory d. hypersensitive

II. READING COMPREHENSION
Read the following passage and choose the best option to complete the
blank or answer the question.
Since water is the basis of life, composing the greatest part of the tissues of
all living things, the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a

world where sources of flowing water is rare. And since
man's inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent
intervals, he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass
their entire lives without a single drop.
Uncompromising as it is, the desert has not eliminated life but only those
forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. Nomoist-skinned, water-
loving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found: the giants of the
North American desert are deer, the coyote, and the bobcat. Since desert
country is open, it holds more swift-footed, running, and leaping creatures
than the tangled forest. Its population is largely nocturnal, silent, filled with
reticence, and ruled by stealth. Yet they are not emaciated. Having adapted
to their austere environment, they are as healthy as animals anywhere in the
world.
The secret of their adjustment lies in a combination of behavior and
physiology. None could survive, if, like mad dogs and Englishmen, they
went out in the midday sun, many would die in a matter of minutes. So most
of them pass the burning hours asleep in cool, humid burrows underneath
the ground, emerging to hunt only by night. The surface of the sun-baked
desert averages around 150 degrees, but 18 inches down the temperature is
only 60 degrees.
1. What is the topic of the passage?
a Desert plants
b. Desert life
c. Animal life
d. Forest life
12. The phrase 'those forms' refers to all the following except ...
a. water-loving animals
b. the bobcat
c. moist-skinned animals
d. many large animals

13. The word 'inexorable' is closest in meaning to ...
a. relentless
b. indispensable
c. full
d. demanding
14. The author mentions all of the following as examples of the behavior of
desert animals except ...
a. animals sleep during the day
b. animals dig homes underground
c. animals are noisy and aggressive
d. animals are watchful and quiet
15. The word 'them' refers to...
a. mad dogs and Englishmen
b. desert animals
c. behavior and physiology
d. minutes
16. The word 'emaciated' is closest in meaning to ...
a. wild
b. cunning
c. unmanageable
d. unhealthy
17. The author states that one characteristic of animals living in the desert is
that they ...
a. are smaller and fleeter than forest animals
b. are less healthy than animals living in different places
c. can hunt in temperature of 150 degrees
d. live in an accommodating environment
18. Which of the following generalizations is supported by the passage?
a. Water is the basis of life.
b. All living things adjust to their environments.

c. Desert life is colorful.
d. Healthy animals live longer lives.
19. The word 'burrows' is closest in meaning to ...
a. underground nests
b. underground houses
c. underground caves
d. underground holes
20. How is the temperature 18 inches underground compared to that on the
surface in the desert?
a. the same
b. much higher
c. less than half
d. half

Read the following passage and choose the best option to complete the
blank or answer the question.
Even before the turn of the century, movies began to develop in two major
directions: the realistic and the formalistic. Realism and formalism are
merely general, rather than absolute, terms. When used to suggest a
tendency toward either polarity, such labels can be helpful, but in the end
they are just labels. Few films are exclusively formalist in style, and fewer
yet are completely realist. There is also an important difference realism and
reality, although this distinction is often forgotten. Realism is a particular
type, whereas physical reality is the source of all the raw materials of film,
both realistic and formalistic. Virtually, all movie directors go to the
photographable world for their subject matter, but what they do with this
material- how they shape and manipulate it- determines their stylistic
emphasis.
Generally speaking, realistic films attempt to reproduce the surface of
concrete reality with a minimum of distortion. In photographing objects and

events, the filmmaker tries to suggest the copiousness of life itself. Both
realist and formalist film directors must select (and hence emphasize) certain
details from the chaotic sprawl of reality. But the element of selectivity in
realistic films is less obvious. Realists, in short, try to preserve the illusion
that their film world is unmanipulated, an objective mirror of the actual
world. Formalists, on the other hand, make no such pretense. They
deliberately stylize and distort their raw materials so that only the very naive
would mistake a manipulated image of an object or event for the real thing.
We rarely notice the style in a realistic movie; the artist tends to be self-
effacing. Some filmmakers are more concerned with what is being shown
than how it is manipulated. The camera is used conservatively. It is
essentially a recording mechanism that produces the surface
of tangible objects with as little commentary as possible. A high premium is
placed on simplicity, spontaneity, and directness. This is not to suggest that
these movies lack artistry, however, for at its best the realistic cinema
specializes in art that conceals art.

21. What does the passage mainly discuss?
a. Acting styles
b. Film plots
c. Styles of filmmaking
d. Filmmaking 100 years ago
22. With which of the following statements would the author be most likely
to agree?
a. Realism and formalism are outdated terms.
b. Most films are neither exclusively realistic nor formalistic.
c. Realistic films are more popular than formalistic ones.
d. Formalistic films are less artistic than realistic ones.
23. The phrase " this distinction" in the first paragraph refers to the
difference between

a. formalists and realists
b. realism and reality
c. general and absolute
d. physical reality and raw materials
24. Whom does the author say is primarily responsible for a style of a film?
a. The director
b. The actors
c. The producer
d. The camera operator
25. The word "it" in the first paragraph refers to
a. the photographable world
b. their subject matter
c. this material
d. their stylistic emphasis
26. The word “copiousness" in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to
a. abundance
b. greatness
c. fullness
d. variety
27. How can one recognize the formalist style?
a. It uses familiar images.
b. It is very impersonal.
c. It obviously manipulated images.
d. It mirrors the actual world.
28. The word " tangible" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to
a. concrete
b. complex
c. various
d. comprehensible
29. The word " self-effacing" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to

a. modest
b. shy
c. egocentric
d. introverted
30. Which of the following films would most likely use a realist style?
a. A travel documentary
b. A science fiction film
c. A musical drama
d. An animated cartoon

III. GUIDED CLOZE
Read the following passage and choose the options that best complete the
blanks.
Sylvia Earle, a (31)_____botanist and one of the (32)_____deep - sea
explorers, has spent over
6,000 hours, more than seven months, under water. From her earliest years,
she took her first plunge into
the open sea as a teenager. In the years since then, she has taken part in a(n)
(33)______ of landmark
underwater projects, from exploratory expeditions around the world to her
celebrated "Jim dive" in 1978,
which was the deepest solo dive (34)_____made without cable connecting
the diver to a support vessel
at the surface of the sea.
(35)_____in aJim suit, a futuristic suit of plastic and metal armor, which was