Đề thi hsg tỉnh Phú Yên (2009-2011)

Give the correct form of the word in capitals 2 points It is 1 .... Read the following passage and answer the question 1.25 points Although he created the game of basketball at the YMCA

SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO

KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH LỚP 12 THPT NĂM HỌC 2009–2010

MÔN THI : TIẾNG ANH

Thời gian làm bài : 180 phút

( Không kể thời gian phát đề )

-Lưu ý : Đề thi cĩ 5 trang Thí sinh làm bài trên giấy thi, khơng làm trên đề

LISTENING

I You will hear a tourist guide talking about some places to visit in London Choose the correct answer You will hear the piece twice ( 1.5 points )

1 The guide says you can eat at the Canal Café Theatre

2 What has improved at the Donmar Warehouse ?

A It is more comfortable for the audience

B The performers are more famous

C The shows are more up-to-date

D It is now larger

3 What does the guide like about the Hackney Empire ?

4 The nearest station to the Hackney Empire is called

5 Which part of the Brixton Academy is unusually big ?

6 What is special about Mondays at the Drill Hall ?

A The performers are from abroad

B It is only open to students

C They experiment with new work

D Men can’t go in

II Look at the notes about a competition Some information is missing You will hear a radio announcer giving information about the competition For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space.You will hear the

COMPETITION

Take a photograph showing (1)………

First prize : Holiday at (2) ……….Bay, Jamaica

Second prize : (3) ……….worth £500

Closing date : (4) ………

Age : Must be (5) ………

Send to DCM Radio, (6) ……… , Brighton , Sussex

VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

I Complete the sentence with a preposition (1.25 points)

1 I've told the police ……… people throwing stones at our windows

2 I thanked everyone………… all the help they had given me

3 The school provides all its students………… books

4 I congratulated her………… winning the tournament

5 The station platform was crowded……… people waiting for the train

1 The little girl wouldn’t go to the beach ………… her father went to

2 He learned ………… to drive when he was 17

3 Every Sunday, Bob is with his father………… him with his carpentry work

4 Last month , our class made a two-day………… to Yen Tu pagoda

5 I remember………….him say the grass needed…………

6 She………….the bell three times before he answered the door

7 He’s not used ………….spoken to like that

8 Music makes people…………

III Add a suitable verb to make the correct phrasal verb There are two extra verbs

( 1.5 points )

look take cut break run get turn go

1 There was no sign indicating that the cottage had been…………into, yet, the owner was sure his precious paintings had been stolen

2 Don’t you think Patrick…………after his grandfather ? They both have got equally blue eyes and blond hair

3 During the Winter Olympic Games, the small mountain village…………into a city with thousands of visitors from all over the world

4 Luckily the bomb……….off near the bank last Friday didn’t kill anyone

5 I’m trying to lose weight by………….down on bread and sweet things

6 The bus is coming now If you don’t know where to………off, ask the bus driver He’ll tell you

IV Give the correct form of the word in capitals ( 2 points)

It is (1) believed that paper was invented in China A TRADITION

(2) , Chinese court official by the name of Ts'ai Lun first RESOURCE

unknown, but it is thought that among his ingredients were

bits of tree bark, old rags and fishing nets Ts'ai Lun's

inspiration came (5) from making observations of PRIME

insects that construct a thin-shelled nest from tiny pieces of

wood fiber The first industrial machine for making paper in a

continuous roll was perfected in France in 1799 Since then,

the world has had an (6) supply of paper Today paper INTERRUPT

(7) can offer a wide variety of paper types, from fine MANUFACTURE

white paper to tough brown (8) paper These days, WRAP

paper-making is no longer such a time-consuming activity

READING

2.5 points

II Read the following passage and answer the question (1.25 points )

Although he created the game of basketball at the YMCA in Springfield , Massachusetts, Dr James A Naismith was a Canadian Working as a physical education instructor at the International YMCA, now Springfield College, Dr Naismith noticed a lack of interest in exercise among students during the wintertime The New England

winters were fierce , and the students balked at participating in outdoor activities

Naismith determined that a fast-moving game that could be played indoors would fill a void after the baseball and football seasons had ended

First he attempted to adapt outdoor games such as soccer and rugby to indoor

play, but he soon found them unsuitable for confined areas Finally, he determined that

he would have to invent a game

In December of 1891, Dr Naismith hung two old peach baskets at either end of the gymnasium at the school, and, using a soccer ball and nine players on each side, organized the first basketball game The early rules allowed three points for each basket and made running with the ball a violation Every time a goal was made, someone had to climb a ladder to retrieve the ball

Nevertheless, the game became popular In less than a year, basketball was being played in both the United States and Canada Five years later, a championship tournament was staged in New York City , which was won by the Brooklyn Central YMCA

The teams had already been reduced to seven players , and five became standard

in the 1897 season When basketball was introduced as a demonstration sport in the 1904 Olympic Games in St Louis , it quickly spread throughout the world In 1906, a metal hoop was introduced to replace the basket, but the name basketball has remained

1 What does this passage mainly discuss ?

A The Olympic Games in St Louis in 1904

B The development of basketball

C The YMCA athletic program

D Dr James Naismith

2 The author mentions all the following as typical of the early game of basketball

EXCEPT

A Three points were scored for every baskets

B Running with the ball was not a foul

C Nine players were on a team

D The ball had to be retrieved from the basket after each score

3.The phrase “balked at” in line 5 could be best replaced by

4 The word “them” in line 9 refers to

5 It can be inferred from the passage that the original baskets

A were not placed very high

B had a metal rim

C did not have a hole in the bottom

III Fill in the gap with ONE suitable word ( 2.5 points )

Central Park

If you have the chance to take a walk through Central Park in New York, you will get a

quick tour of the wide range of cultures and people who live in the city (1) man speeds along on a racing bike singing (2) the top of his voice, (3) dances to the

beat of techno music coming from a tape recorder

Central Park, the first public park built in America, allows for just about (4)

conceivable leisure activity in a rectangle of just over one and a half square kilometres

But it may (5) that its best use is for the most entertaining sport in New York - people

watching

Visitors can have (6) better introduction to the diversity of New York than a stroll in

this park

Central Park did not always embrace (7) a variety of human life Having won a

competition for the park's design in 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux saw

the place as an oasis of calm in a disorderly city The idea (8) to create a place where

the upper-class citizens of the city could take gentle exercise (9) being disturbed

However, the park authorities never managed to enforce (10) regime of order

Olmsted has been determined to create the illusion of the countryside in the heart of New York

WRITING

I Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given Do not change the word given ( 2 points )

I regretted………

2.In my opinion, these two kinds of music are completely different from each other

COMPARISON

In my opinion, there is………

I………

………

5 “That meal would have satisfied a king!” he exclaimed FIT

………

6 She sued the shop as their claim had damaged her reputation INJURIOUS

………

………

8.The board met secretly to discuss changes in company policy DOORS

………

II Writing :Do you agree or disagree with the following statement ?Children should

begin learning a foreign language as soon as they start school Use specific reasons and