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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO
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ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 10
MÔN TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút
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Học sinh làm bài trên đề thi và ghi câu trả lời vào ô trống tương ứng cho mỗi câu hỏi.
SECTION A: 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.
2. Look at these two pieces of material I have just bought Which do you like ?
3. Have this one, ?
4. Half the people in the office have a strange illness
A gone in for B gone along with C gone through with D gone down with
5. The Police are going to him very carefully
9. The instructor on the course was hopeless explaining things
11 You have to study harder to your classmates
12 is the safeguarding and preservation of natural resources so that they can be used and enjoyed
13 It is imperative that this letter immediately.
14 Two of the boys in the art class were doing self-portraits by looking at in the mirror
15 The Tories won the election in 1979
16 While attempting to reach his home before the storm,
17 After several hours on that road, they became to the fact that they would never reach
the hotel by nightfall
Trang 2A dejected B resigned C depressed D disillusioned
18 He perceived a change in temperature
19 In all , he’s already left
20 , I like the Rolling Stones
A No need to say B Don’t need to say C Needless saying D Needless to say
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II Use the right form of the word given in CAPITALS to complete the sentences Write your answers
in the box provided
1 He has known Tom for a long time and valued his (FRIEND)
2 After all he has done for us, it would be very of us if we didn’t do this for him now
(HELP)
3 The storm caused terrible _ along the coast. (DESTROY)
4 is one of the qualities required of a social worker (FLEXIBLE)
5 The new leisure centre doesn’t quite come up to my (EXPECT)
6 The floor of the attic needs _ if we’re going to make it into a bedroom.
(STRONG)
7 Is it possible to between a hobby and an interest? (DISTINCT)
8 This used to be a rural area but it has become _ (INDUSTRY)
9 I’m surprised at what you’ve done I hope my confidence in you has not been .
(PLACE)
10 This jewel is not simply valuable It is (VALUE)
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unnecessary words There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00) Write your answers on
the right lines provided
CAMPING
0 You’ve finally arrived at your destination place and you’re looking for somewhere place_
00 to set up your tent So what should you be looking for? You need to look for _√ _
1 relatively level ground, and, whatever you do, never pitch your tent on a slope
2 or you will find yourself rolling around out of your sleeping bag all night
3 Don’t forget to check it that there is a water source nearby Water is essential for
4 camping: you’ll need it for the drinking and cooking You don’t want to have to
5 walk far with a twenty-litre container, do you? Find a suitable area for cooking
6 Don’t cook in you tent Locate a flat area away from some leaves, grass or
7 twigs, which can make fire Another thing you must do is keep the campsite clean
8 After meals, wash the whole dishes, and put the rubbish in an appropriate place
9 Remember to follow the campsite rules, which they were made so that everyone
10 can be enjoy the site Leave it as you would like to find it yourself.
I Read the text below and choose the best word or combination of words to fill in each blank Write
your answers (A, B, C or D) in the box provided
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)
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example But in the modern world, time is something that can be in short supply
Book publishers haven’t been (5) to realize this and are now selling a product which needn’t (6) as much of your time but still tells you an excellent story The new
products is the audiobook - cassette recordings of shortened novels, often read by well-known personalities or the authors themselves Audiobooks are relatively new but people are becoming more
aware of them and sales are increasing (7) .
One of the attractions of audiobooks is that they’re (8) listening to the radio, only
better You can listen to what you want when you want, and you won’t ever miss anything Much of
their appeal (9) in their flexibility They allow you do to other things while you’re listening, such as driving or (10) the housework For some people, audio books can be a much
more enjoyable way of gaining knowledge than reading
Answers
II Fill in each of the numbered blanks with ONE suitable word Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in
the box provided
About two hundred years ago man lived in greater harmony with his environment because
industry was not much developed Today the situation is quite (1) _ People all over the
world are worried about what is happening to the environment, because of modern industry and
the need for more and more energy Newspapers and magazines write (2) _water pollution, air pollution and land pollution Why is there so much (3) about pollution.
After all, people have been polluting the world around them for thousands and thousands of
years But in the past, there were not many people and (4) of room in the world so they
could move to another place when their settlements became dirty
Now, however, many parts of the world are (5) _, people live in big cities and much
of our waste, especially waste from factories, electric (6) _ stations, the chemical industry
and heavy industry is very dangerous Fish die in the lakes, rivers and seas; forest trees die
(7) _ Much of this dangerous waste goes into the air and is carried by the wind for great
distances The earth is (8) home We must take care of it for ourselves and for the next generations This means (9) _our environment clean.
The importance of this task is pointed out by ecologists, the scientists who study the
(10) _ between living things and the environment However, each of us must do
everything possible to keep the land, air and water clean
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III Read the passage carefully and choose the best option for each sentence
Most of us lead unhealthy lives: we spend far too much time sitting down If, in addition, we are careless about our diets, our bodies soon become flabby and our systems sluggish Then the
Trang 4guilt feelings start : “I must go on a diet”, “ I must try to lose weight” “ I must get more fresh air and exercise”, “I must stop smoking”, “I must try to keep fit” There are some aspects of our unhealthy lives that we cannot avoid I’m thinking of such features of modern urban life as pollution, noise, rushed meals and stress But keeping fit is a way to minimize the effects of these evils
The usual suggestion to a person who is looking for a way to keep fit is to take some sports While it is true that every weekend you will find people playing football and hockey in the local park, they are outnumbered a hundred to one by the people who are simply watching them It is
an illusion to think that you will get fit by going to watch the football match every Saturday, unless you count the effort required to fight your way through the crowds to get to the best seats For those who do not particularly enjoy competitive sports – and it is especially difficult to do
so if you are not good at them – there are such solitary activities as cycling, walking and swimming What often happens, though, is that you do them in such a leisurely way, so slowly, that is doubtful if you are doing yourself much good, apart from the fact that you have at least managed to get up out of your armchair Of course you can be very thorough about exercise, even fanatical Many sports shops now sell frightening pieces of apparatus, chest-expanders and other mysterious gadgets of shiny spring steel, which, according to the advertisements, will bring you up to an Olympic standard of fitness, provided that you follow a rigorous and regular programme of exercises Such programmes generally involve long periods of time bending these curious bits of metal into improbable shapes
It all strikes me as utterly boring and also time-consuming Somebody suggested recently that all such effort was pointless anyway because if you spend half an hour every day jogging round the local park, you will add to your life exactly the number of hours that you wasted doing the ‘jogging’ in the first place The argument is false even if the facts are correct, but there is no doubt that exercise in itself can be boring
Even after you have found a routine for keeping in shape, through sport or gymnastics or isometrics, you are still only half way to good health, because, according to the experts, you must also master the art of complete metal and physical relaxation Now, this does not mean snoozing
in the armchair or going dancing ( which is a good form of exercise in itself ) It has to do with deep breathing , emptying your mind of all thoughts, meditation, and so on
Yoga, as practiced in the West, is the most widely known and popular of the systems for achieving the necessary state of relaxation Contrary to popular belief, you do not have to learn a lot of strange words or become a Buddhist in order to benefit from Yoga It seems ironical, though, that as our lives have improved in a material sense, we have found it increasingly necessary to go back to forms of activity – physical effort on the one hand, and relaxation on the other – which were the natural way of life of our forefathers
1 Unfitness is the result of _.
B overeating, smoking and living in town
C not eating properly and not getting enough exercise
D not taking part in sports
2 Pollution, noise and stress are examples of _.
3 Our reaction to being out of condition is to _.
4 A lot of people who go to the park at the weekend are _.
5 You cannot really enjoy competitive sports unless you are _.
6 The reason we don’t get much out of solitary sports such as walking is that we do not
_
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7 The writer does not like keep-fit programmes because he thinks _.
8 To be healthy we must _.
9 Many people believe that in order to practise Yoga _.
10 Our forefathers were healthy because _.
A their way of life involved both exercise and relaxation
B they were careful to get plenty of fresh air and keep fit
C they lived in the country and spent time out of doors
D they had simple work to do and very little to worry about
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SECTION D: WRITING
I Finish each sentence in such a way that it means exactly the same as the one printed before it
1. His second attempt on the world record was successful
He broke _
2. They were all arrested because of his incompetence
Had _
4. “That’s a lovely new dress, Jean”, said her mother
Jean’s mother complimented _
5. I don’t really like her even though I admire her achievements
Much
II For each of the sentences, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original
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III The Internet is now getting more and more popular all over the world So, how important is it
to your life? Write a paragraph of about 120 words to answer this question.
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