Đề thi học sinh giỏi cấp THPT tỉnh Lâm Đồng môn Tiếng Anh

interest -> interested SECTION III : READING 6 pts Part 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer A, B, C, or D best fits each gap.. The three phrases of human memory are the

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LÂM ĐỒ NG L P 12 N M H C : 2010-2011 Ớ Ă Ọ

SECTION I: LISTENING ( 4 pts)

• Bài nghe gồm 3 phần mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 15 giây

• Mở đầu mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu nhạc, mỗi phần cách nhau 1 phút

• Thí sinh đọc kỹ hướng dẫn trước khi làm bài

Part 1 : Listen and choose the correct information about each invitation Write your answer (A,

B, C, or D) in the numbered box.

1 A Lynne refuses Dave’s invitation

B The invitation is for Saturday

C Lynne will meet Dave’s parents on Saturday

D Dave will meet Lynne’s parents on Saturday

2 A Paula already has plans

B They will meet at the bookstore

C The invitation is for Friday

D They will meet at the football stadium

3 A There will be free drinks and food

B Rose refuses the invitation

C Rose doesn’t think it will be fun

D Rose has something planned on Saturday

4 A Ron accepts the invitation

B Ron has to study for an important exam

C Ron has to work late

D Ron has to go to an evening English class

5 A They will go downtown after class

B They both hate listening to music

C The invitation is for next month

D They will go dancing after class

6 A The invitation is for Sunday

B George likes those kinds of shows

C They will go to the show in the morning

D They won’t go to the show

Your answers:

Part 2: Listen to four conversations in which people are giving invitations What events are they talking about? Listen and choose the correct answer Write your answer (A, B, C, or D) in the numbered box.

A art show

B sports festival

C children’s concert

D flowers festival

A craft fair

B food fair

C farm show

D music show

A movie premiere

B restaurant opening

C ice-skating exhibition

D art show

A restaurant opening

B book signing

C fashion show

D concert

Your answers:

Part 3:

A Listen to people talking about what they think is fun Complete the numbered blank with no more than four words

Karen Chicago

(1)………

Staying at home and (2)………

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Paul

New York (3)………

Going online and chatting

Emi Taipei

(4)……… (5) ………

B Listen to the interview with three athletes Complete the numbered blank with no more than four words

Yes / No

Injury

Barbara

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No

Victor

and……… Lucy

(4) ……… Yes She fell off her bike

and (5)………

SECTION II : LEXICO-GRAMMAR ( 5 pts)

Part 1: Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence Write your answer (A, B,

C, or D) in the numbered box.

1 I do not believe that this preposterous scheme is _ of our serious consideration

A worthless B worth C worthwhile D worthy

2 One of riding a bicycle is that it’s cheap

A credit B advantage C advance D value

3 People who take on a second job inevitably _ themselves to greater stress

A offer B subject C field D place

4 I keep putting the decision because I can’t make up my mind

A up B down C off D on

5 The new factory must be finished _ as the profitability of the company depends on it

A on time B in times C at time D for a time

6 To prevent flooding in winter, the water flowing from the dam is constantly by a computer

A managed B graded C monitored D conducted

7 I usually buy the clothes _ It is cheaper than going to a dressmaker

A off the peg B on the house C in public D on the shelf

8 I was already fed up with the job, but when the boss walked into my office and told me he expected me to work overtime that was the _ I quit

A final curtain B last straw C end of the line D last waltz

9 The doctor gave the patient _ examination to discover the cause of his collapse

A a thorough B a universal C an exact D a whole

10 After leaving school , Nigel decided to _ in the army

A register B enrol C sign D enlist

Your answers:

Part 2: Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word in the numbered space provided in the column on the right (0) has been done as an example.

JOB INTERVIEWS

Your answers: Interviews are an (0) (perfect) method of choosing the best people for jobs, yet human (1) (be) like to examine each other in this way One of the many problems of (2) (select) as it is commonly practised is that the forms filled in by the (3) _(apply) often fail to show people as they really are This means that you can follow all the best (4) (advise) when completing your form and still find that you are (5) ( success) at the next stage – the interview (6) (similar) in the rare cases where the interviews are automatic, a candidate with an (7) _(adequate) form may do surprisingly well Of course, your form needs to show that you have (8) _(confident) in your (9) _(able) to do the job , but don’t try to turn yourself into someone else – a person you have to pretend to be at the interview (10) _ (real) and honesty are definitely the best approach (0) imperfect (1)………

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Part 3: Complete each sentence with the correct form of ONE of the phrasal verbs below Write your answer in the numbered box Each verb is used only once

1 I just can’t _ why President Clinton did that! What a stupid thing to do!

2 If you plan the project well, then everything should place.

3 At first the guys were just having a small argument, but their friends _ them _

until they started fighting

4 The doctor told me to sugar and fat in my diet

5 I’m sorry, I just can’t the game right now I’m thinking about work

6 You _ when you told Sara about her surprise party You shouldn’t have done that.

7 In many cultures, it is appropriate _ your shoes when entering a house.

8 Most patients find that the numbness from the injection after about an hour

9 We _ milk this morning, so we need to go to the store

10 everyone! The pub is closing in five minutes.

Your answers:

Part 4: The passage below contains 10 mistakes Underline the mistakes, correct them and write your answers in the numbered box (0) has been done as an example.

Most of us are interest in one kind of sport or another , even if we don’t go in for it active

Lots of people take up a particular sport at an early age, for example tennis, skiing or ice-skating

If they get up to a suitable high standard, they may go in for local competitions or even champion But special training is hard works and most young people don’t keep it up Many of them drop out when they come up against tough competition

To become a professional in sport, you have to go through with a strictness training schedule And it is not easy It means doing without some of life’s pleasures, too For example, to build up your physical strong you may have to stick to a special diet and give up some of your favour foods Smoking and alcohol are out , and to keep fit you have to work out regular every day

Sometimes it all pays off, but the road to succeed is long and there are no guarantees No wonder that countless young talents decide to settle for a regular job instead, and, as far as professional sport are concerned, prefer to look on as spectators

Your answers: Example: 0 interest -> interested

SECTION III : READING (6 pts)

Part 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap Write your answer in the numbered box.

AUDIOBOOKS – BOOKS ON CASSETTE

In the modern world, there is a wealth of leisure activities to choose from Entertainment industries (1) for your leisure time You can watch TV, listen to music, go to an art gallery

or concert or, of course, read a book Sometimes it seems that reading is (2) because, (3) _ you’re a faster reader, it can take a (4) amount of time to finish a novel, for example But in the (5) _world, time is something that can be in short supply

Book publishers haven’t been (6) _ to realize this and are now selling a product which needn’t (7) as much of your time but still tells you an excellent story The new product is the audiobook-cassette recordings of shortened novels, often read by well-known personalities or the authors themselves Audiobooks are (8) new but people are becoming more aware of them and sales are increasing (9) _

One of the attractions of audiobooks is that they’re (10) _ listening to the radio, only better You can listen to what you want when you want, and you won’t ever (11) _ anything Much of their appeal (12) _ in their flexibility They (13) you to

do other things while you’re listening ,such as driving or (14) _ the housework For some people , audiobooks can be a much more enjoyable way of (15) _ knowledge than reading

1 A chase B compete C oppose D purpose

2 A neglected B declined C lessened D disposed

3 A in spite B no matter C regardless of D even if

4 A plentiful B broad C considerable D lasting

5 A current B new C present D modern

6 A behind B slow C delayed D overdue

7 A take up B fill out C go through D pass by

8 A partly B approximately C roughly D relatively

9 A ever since then B all the time C up until now D from then on

10 A as B same C like D both

11 A pass B lack C miss D lose

12 A stands B belongs C bases D lies

13 A grant B allow C spare D afford

14 A doing B running C making D cleaning

15 A grasping B catching C gaining D raising

Your answers:

Part 2: Read the passage and choose the best answer to each question from the four choices marked (A , B , C or D) Write your answer in the numbered box.

The three phrases of human memory are the sensory memory, the short-term memory, and

the long - term memory This division of the memory into phases is based on the length of time of

the memory

Sensory memory is instantaneous memory It is an image or memory that enters your mind only for a short period of time; it comes and goes in under a second The memory will not last longer than that unless the information enters the short-term memory

Information can be held in the short-term memory for about twenty seconds or as long as you are actively using it If you repeat a fact to yourself, that fact will stay in your short- term

memory as long as you keep repeating it Once you stop repeating it, either it is forgotten or moves

into long -term memory

Long -term memory is the huge memory tank that can hold ideas and images for years and years Information can be added to your long-term memory when you actively try to put it there

through memorization or when an idea or image enters your mind on its own

1 The best title for this passage would be

A The Difference Between Sensory memory and Short-term memory

B How long It Takes to Memorize

C The Stage of Human Memory

D Human Phases

2 The three phases of memory discussed in the passage are differentiated according to

A the location in the brain

B the period of time it takes to remember something

C how the senses are involved in the memory

D how long the memory lasts

3 The expression “is based on” could be best replaced by _

A is on top of B is at the foot of

C depends on D is below

4 According to the passage, which type of the memory is the shortest?

A Sensory memory B Active memory

C Short-term memory D Long-term memory

5 According to the passage, when will information stay in your short-term memory?

A For as long as twenty minutes

B As long as it is being used

C After you have repeated it many times

D When it has moved into long-term memory

6 The word “keep” could be best replaced by .

A hold B continue

C retain D save

7 The word “Once” could be best replaced by which of the following?

A Just after B Although

C Just before D Because

8 All of the following are true about long-term memory EXCEPT that _

A it has a very large capacity.

B it can hold information for a long time

C it is possible to put information into it through memorization

D memorization is the only way that information can get there

9 The expression “on its own” could be best replaced by .

A by itself B in its own time

C with its possessions D in only one way

10 It can be inferred from the passage that if a person remembers a piece of information for two days , this information is probably in _

A three phases of memory B the sensory memory

C the short-term memory D the long-term memory

Your answers:

Part 3: Read the following article and choose the most suitable heading for each of the following sections of the article from the list A to H There are two extra headings which you do not need

to use Write your answer in the numbered box.

A Bargain prices B Escaping the crowds C In-flight comfort

D Ensuring availability E Save on taxi fares F Cheap excess baggage

G Lost lugguage compensation H Changing to a better seat

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Membership of an airline loyalty club will guarantee you a seat on a flight, even when that flight is fully booked for ‘normal passangers’ Air France, KLM, Scandinavian Airlines and Singapore Airlines are just four carriers offering this facility to their very best customers Others, like British Airways, Lufthansa and Swissair, are not quite so bold with their claims but all will move heaven and earth to secure a seat for their club members

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First-class and bussiness-class passengers get the pick of the seating, ‘up front’ away from all the engine noise and vibration Economy passengers are invariably seated in the noisier, back rows of the aircraft, however, and airline seating plans ( displayed in timetables) enable you to choose the best seat

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Traveling with overweight baggage can cost you dearly On long-haul flights, the airlines give you

a free baggage allowance of between 20 and 64 kilos, depending on the class of travel and the route Every excess kilo is charged at one per cent of the first-class fare One way round this is to hand over your baggage to an excess company, which can save you as much as 70 per cent on airline fees Your luggage will then travel to your destination unaccompanied, and you can either collect it from the airport or have it delivered to your destination address It won’t usually arrive the same day, though

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Booking a first-class or business-class ticket usually entitles you to use the more peaceful airline executive lounge at the airport Regular passengers with an airline can also use the lounges, even when flying on cut-price economy tickets

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The unthinkable has happened You have arrived overseas but your luggage has not appeared on the airport baggage carousel Keep calm In most cases your bags will turn up, eventually But, before you leave the airport, contact a member of staff and complete a Baggage Irregularity Report, which

ensures that you will receive compensation However, airlines pay out pitiful compensastion, so do read the small print on your ticket, and it’s essential to take out adequate insurance beforehand

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Securing an upgrade is easier than ever before Canadian Airlines will now seat some transatlantic passengers who have paid the economy fare in business class, while business-class passengers bound for New York, Toronto, Delhi or Bombay are automatically upgraded to first-class if they have paid the full business-class fare In addition, large companies are increasingly negotiating an automatic upgrade with airlines

Your answers:

Part 4: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable sentence from the list A to H for each gap There are two extra sentences which you do not need to use Write your answer in the numbered box.

Island creatures are extremely vulnerable to extinction Except in the island continents like

Australia, mankind has had a far less dramatic impact upon continental creatures.(1) _

The number of creatures known to have died out in the rainforest of the world is still tiny Nearly all

of the extinctions mankind has caused have been on island, and most of those have been achieved

by introducing competitors (Lakes are equivalent to islands When Nile perch were put in Lake Victoria, they quickly wiped out half the 300 species in fish in the lake)

What harm is done? There is no diminution of biomass, no increase in the chances of a collapse of all life (2) , the invaders are often better adapted to survive than their victims So why does such extinction matter at all?

The answer is that it standardizes the world (3) It meant sheep and cattle in Eurasia, giant birds in New Zealand and Madagascar, elephants in Africa, and bison in North America Now most of them are extinct or marginalized The same also applied to other forms of extinction Where once there were hundreds of African theologies, now Christianity and Islam dominate Where once there were more than a thousand mutually unintelligible languages on the island of new Guinea alone, soon there will be just pidgin Where once there were different kinds

of cars in every country on earth, now everybody drives a clone It is not so much extinction itself that matters – does it matter that nobody speaks Linear B drives a Model T or worships Ra? It is the standardizing of the world, the disappearance of diversity that matters

True, nature flights back Worldwide species are evolving into separate kinds; it could be only a few thousand years before starlings in Hawaii cannot breed with starlings in London and are therefore technically a different species (4) _ Islands have been called nature’s laboratories: they take a few, monotonous, global species and fragment them into experimental forms, a few of which later inherit the earth In just the same way, for a new language to be born the

A A species is a recipe written in DNA; a theology is an idea written in human language; a steam train is an engineer’s blueprint

B Natural selection creates diversity- a thousand different ways to solve the same problems

C Even if we cannot yet recreate species from their genomes

D But they’ve got taken exactly on schedule

E Despite the munch-vaunted web of ecological connections between all life

F Mankind has now destroyed 90 per cent of Brazil’s coastal rainforest and not a single

endemic species of bird has died out

G Some pachyderms survived on an island

H But it is necessary for island to remain isolated if this is to happen

speakers must be isolated by a mountain range or a stretch of sea for several centuries; that is impossible today

How do you save diversity of species, theologies, languages and technologies? The answer must lie in information technology All of these things are really just chunks of unique information (5) Each needs to be virtually saved before it is physically lost Read the genome of

a Hawaiian goose: take down the lexicon of a Fore language; film the tricks of a brilliant watchmaker

(6) _, we should save them for a time when our descendants can Petrarch grumbled that he was surrounded by books in Ancient Greek that neither he nor anybody else could read The skill was later reacquired

Your answers:

SECTION IV: WRITING (5 pts)

Part 1: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentences printed before it.

1 It was overeating that caused his heart attack

If

2 You’re under no obligation to accept their offer

You can please _

3 It seems as if there is a slight deterioration in his physical condition

His _

4 Everyone started complaining the moment the announcement was made

No sooner

5 As far as I know, there’s no reason for James to be so unhappy

To the _

Part 2: Use the word(s) given in brackets and make any necessary additions to complete a new sentence in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence Do NOT change the form of the given word(s)

1 I find it surprising that she didn’t like her present (thought)

I would

2 The new plans for the school have been approved by the authorities (met)

The new plans _

3 Somehow no one found out he had stolen the technical design from another company.( away)

Somehow he

4 I want to know if you have finalised those delivery dates yet (round)

Have you _?

5 Don’t eat so many sweets and won’t have to visit the dentist so often (save)

Eating fewer _

Part 3: Write an essay (about 250 words) on the following topic: Why is education the top priority of all people? (Do not include your personal information.)

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HẾT-S GIÁO D C & ÀO T O K THI CH N H C HẾT-SINH GI I C P T NH Ở Ụ Đ Ạ Ỳ Ọ Ọ Ỏ Ấ Ỉ LÂM ĐỒ NG L P 12 N M H C : 2010-2011 Ớ Ă Ọ

H ƯỚ NG D N CH M Ẫ Ấ ĐỀ CHÍNH TH C MÔN TI NG ANH THPT Ứ Ế

Ngày thi 18 tháng 2 n m 2011 ă SECTION I: LISTENING (4 ) đ

Part 1: (1.2 ) M i áp án úng 0.2 (0.2 x 6 = 1.2) đ ỗ đ đ

Part 2: (0.8 ) M i áp án úng 0.2 (0.2 x 4 = 0.8) đ ỗ đ đ

Part 3: (2.0 ) đ

A (1 ) M i áp án úng 0.2 (0.2 x 5 = 1) đ ỗ đ đ

Paul 3 business student

Emi 4 actress 5 listening to her

(favourite) CDs

B (1 ) M i áp án úng 0.2 (0.2 x 5 = 1) đ ỗ đ đ

and (his) leg

SECTION II: LEXICO-GRAMMAR ( 5 ) đ

Part 1: (1 ) M i áp án úng 0.1 (0.1 x 10 = 1) đ ỗ đ đ

Part 2: (1 ) M i áp án úng 0.1 (0.1 x 10 = 1) đ ỗ đ đ

Part 3: (1.5 ) M i áp án úng 0.15 (0.15 x 10 = 1.5) đ ỗ đ đ