Phone Jude: SECTION B: USE OF ENGLISH I.Select the best option to complete each of the following sentences.. Use the right form of the word given in CAPITALS to complete each of the fol
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KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 11
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SECTION A: LISTENING
Listen and complete the note Rachael made (The information in the recording is not in the same order
as below) You will hear the recording TWICE
How much? € return ( Iberia)
Depart London Heathrow on April at 19.15
Arrive Buenos Aires at on 4th April
Stop in Madrid for
It’s a flight from Madrid (basically) 17th April – depart Buenos Aires at , , arrive Madrid at (18th) Depart Madrid at , arrive London Gatwick at 8.20
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Phone Jude:
SECTION B: USE OF ENGLISH I.Select the best option to complete each of the following sentences Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in the box provided 1. In no time _ greater opportunities at work and in life than they do now A do women have B did women have C have women had D had women had 2. The champions, to their fans who were cheering crazily, stepped forwards to receive the cup and the gold medals A waving B wave C to wave D waved 3. I think he’ll consider _ that house if they reduce the price by 10% A buy B buys C buying D to buy 4. You should have switched off the stove an hour ago; I expected the chicken curry _ over cooked by now A is B was C has been D had been 1
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5. No sooner the front door than the phone rang.
10. Mrs Dawson was given the award in _ of her services to the hospital
17. Sport is one way of relieving the of a busy life
the workshop
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II Use the right form of the word given in CAPITALS to complete each of the following sentences Write your answers in the box provided
1 Such things seem _, but I saw them happen with my own eyes. (BELIEVE)
2 You look rather _ Are you worried about something? (OCCUPY)
3 Let’s go for a picnic tomorrow unless the weather forecast is . (FAVOUR)
4 Going swimming every day would have very effects (BENEFIT)
5 I’m sure that the whole problem is a simple (UNDERSTAND)
7 It is _ to know that they have reached home safe and sound. (SATISFY)
8 Widespread has permitted mass production and consequent lowering of consumer prices.
(MACHINE)
10 The glare from snow may cause problems such as headaches, eyes or blindness (WATER)
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III Each of the following sentences has four underlined parts Identify the one that is not grammatically correct Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in the box provided
1 The Netherlands, a country with much of the land lying lower than sea level, have a system of dikes
A B C
and canals for controlling water
D
2 Milk, often considered a nearly perfect food, contains fat, sweet, and protein.
A B C D
3 Soybean, which sometimes grow seven feet tall, have thick, woody stems.
A B C D
4 Lacrosse is a ballgame played on a field outdoors similar soccer.
A B C D
5 The first year of a child’s life is characterized in rapid physical growth.
A B C D
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SECTION C: READING COMPREHENSION
I Read the passage and choose the best word to fill in each blank Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in the box provided
If you’re an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tent to say with a sneer or a snarl It has
become a symbol of our wasteful, throw-away society But there seems little (1) _ it is here to say, and the truth is, of course, that plastics have brought enormous (2) _ even
environmental ones It’s not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental evil – it’s the
way society chooses to use and (3) _ them.
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal –
non-renewable natural (4) _ We import well over three million tones of the stuff in Britain each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away A high (5) _ of our annual consumption is in the (6) of packaging and this constitutes about seven per cent by
weight, of our domestic refuse Almost all of it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the
plastic recycling (7) _ is growing fast.
The plastics themselves are extremely energy rich – they have a higher calorific value than coal
and one (8) _ of ‘recovery’ strongly (9) _ by the plastic manufacturers is the
(10) _ of waste plastic into a fuel.
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answers
Manners nowadays in metropolitan cities like London are practically non-existent It is nothing for
a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her
This question of giving up seats in public transport is much argued about by young men, who say that, since women have claimed equality, they no longer deserved to be treated with courtesy and that those who go out to work should take their turn in the rat race like anyone else Women have never claimed to be physically as strong as men Even if it is not agreed, however, that young men should stand up for younger women, the fact remains that courtesy should be shown to the old, the sick and the burdened Are we really so lost to all ideals of unselfishness that we can sit there indifferently reading the
a young child stands? Yet this is all too often seen
Older people, tired and irritable from a day’s work, are not angels, either far from it Many a brisk argument or an insulting quarrel breaks out as the weary queues push and shove each other to get on buses and tubes One cannot commend this, of course, but one does feel there is just a little more excuse
If cities are to remain pleasant places to live in at all, however, it seems imperative, not only that communications in transport should be improved, but also that communication between human beings should be kept smooth and polite All over cities, it seems that people are too tired and too rushed to be polite Shop assistants won’t bother to assist, taxi drivers growl at each other as they dash dangerously round corners, bus conductors pull the bell before their desperate passengers have time to get on or off the bus, and so on It seems to us that it is up to the young and strong to do their small part to stop such deterioration
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III Read the passage and fill in each blank with a suitable word Write your answers in the box provided
ILLITERACY
Illiteracy may be considered more as an abstract concept than a condition When a famous English writer used this word over two hundred years ago, he was actually referring to people
(1) _ could not read Greek or Latin (2) , it seems unlikely that university
examiners had this sort of disability in (3) when they reported on ‘creeping illiteracy ‘ in
a report on their students’ final examination in 1988
Over the years, university lecturers have (4) aware of an increasing tendency
towards grammatical sloppiness, poor spelling and general imprecision in their students’ ways of
writing; and sloppy writing is all (5) often a reflection of sloppy thinking Their complaint was that they had (6) to do teaching their own subject (7)
teaching their undergraduates to write
Some lecturers believe that they have a duty to stress the importance of maintaining standards
of clear thinking (8) the written word in a world dominated by visual communications and images They (9) on the connection between clear thinking and a form of writing
that is not only clear but also sensitive to subtleties of meaning The same lecturers argue that undergraduates appear to be the victims of a ‘softening process’ that begins with the teaching of
English in schools, but this point of (10) has, not surprisingly, caused a great deal of
controversy
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SECTION D: WRITING
I Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it has a similar meaning to the one printed before it, using the word given in bold This word must not be altered in any way
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since
It’s married
People he would be promoted to
a senior position next year
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No sooner in the weather
hesitate
Should you call
A number _due to the company’s financial problems
There for short eco-tours this year
Only _ you get to see the match
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I’ve my aunt
II Many big cities in Vietnam are facing air pollution now Write a paragraph of about 120 words to show what we should do to solve this problem
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