Đề tiếng anh chọn HSG cấp trường (có đáp án)

Đề thi tiếng Anh chọn HSG lớp 12 cấp trường. Đề thi được biên soạn cẩn thận, gồm các phần: Listening, Grammar and Vocabulary, Reading, Writing. Có đáp án và hướng dẫn chấm chi tiết. Tài liệu này có thể sử dụng cho việc ôn luyện đội tuyển học sinh giỏi lớp 12 cấp trường hoặc sử dụng làm đề thi chính thức.

TRƯỜNG THPT ……… KÌ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TRƯỜNG LỚP 12

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Môn thi: Tiếng Anh (Hệ 7 năm) Thời gian: 180 phút (không tính thời gian phát đề) Đề thi có 06 trang, gồm 44 câu tự luận, 25 câu trắc nghiệm Lưu ý: - Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu, kể cả từ điển. - Cán bộ coi thi không giải thích gì thêm - Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp trên đề thi Ngày thi : / /2014

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PART I – LISTENING COMPREHENSION (3.75 points) Question 1-10 You are going to listen to a talk about scientists’ study on human’s dreams Complete the following passage with the words/phrases which you hear Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS You are going to listen TWICE (2.5 points) Japanese scientists say they have found a way to "read" people's (1) ……… Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for what they say is, "the world's first decoding" of (2)……… Their research is published in the journal "Science" The researchers wrote: "Visual imagery during sleep has long been a topic of (3)……… , but its private nature has hampered objective analysis Here, we present a neural decoding approach in which machine learning models predict the (4)……… of visual imagery during sleep." They were able to predict what images their volunteers had seen with a 60 per cent (5)……… rate The research is a part of a wider programme aimed at studying the brain It hopes to unlock the secrets of the (6) ……….to help the disabled move artificial limbs using brain activity It could also help those with dementia and other (7)……… conditions A spokesperson said: "Our expectations from the dream study are quite high, but we are also looking carefully at the (8)……… aspects of the technology, which may allow a third person to look at somebody else's thoughts." Head researcher Yukiyasu Kamitani said, "dreams have fascinated people since ancient times, but their (9)……… and meaning has remained closed" He believes his research is "a (10)……….towards reading dreams more precisely" Your answer: 1 ……… 2 ……… 3 ……… 4 ………

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Question 11-15 You are going to listen to a report on UK garbage cost Listen and choose the best answers for the following sentences You are going to listen TWICE (1.25 pts)

11 The nation’s garbage is claimed worth

A exactly $ 4.5 billion

B above $ 4.5 million

C roughly $ 4.5 billion

D $ 45 billion

12 The study shows that the scheme could provide more jobs by

A providing better services

B expanding the household recycling sector

C collecting, sorting and reprocessing recycling

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D Landfilling waste

13 How much rubbish does the UK produce every year?

A 50 million tones

B 11 billion tones

C 26 million tones

D 54 million tones

14 It is time to take the lid off the

A dusting debate

B dusty bin debate

C dust bendy bait

D dustbin debate

15 We owe it to today's

A hard-pushed taxpayers

B hard-pressed taxpayers

C hard-passed taxpayers

D hard-pressing taxpayers

Your answer:

PART II - READING COMPREHENSION ( 3.75 points)

Question 16-25 Read the passage and choose the best options (A, B, C, or D) which best answer the questions that follow (2.5 points)

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Birds that feed in flocks commonly retire together into roosts The reason for roosting communally are not always obvious, but there are some likely benefits In winter especially, it is

important for birds to keep warm at night and conserve precious food reserves One way to do this is

to find a sheltered roost

Solitary roosters shelter in dense vegetation or enter a cavity- horned larks dig holes in the ground

and ptarmigan burrow into snow banks-but the effect of sheltering is magnified by several birds

huddling together in the roosts, as wrens, swifts, brown creepers, bluebirds, and anis do Body contact reduces the surface area exposed to the cold air, so the birds keep each other warm Two kinglets huddling together were found to reduce their heat losses by a quarter, and three other saved

a third of their heat

The second possible benefit of communal roosts is that the act as “information centers.”

During the day, parties of birds will have spread out to forage over a very large area When they

return in the evening some will fed well, but others may have found little to eat Some investigators have observed that when the birds set out again next morning, those birds that did not feed well on the previous day appear to follow those that did The behavior of common and lesser kestrels may illustrate different feeding behaviors of similar birds with different roosting habits The common kestrel hunts vertebrate animals in a small, familiar hunting ground, whereas the very similar lesser kestrel feeds on insects over a large area The common kestrel roosts and hunts alone, but the lesser kestrel roosts and hunts in flocks, possibly so one bird can learn from others where to find insect swarms

Finally, there is safety in numbers at communal roosts since there will always be a few birds

awake at any given moment to give the alarm But this increased protection is partially counteracted

by the fact that mass roosts attract predators and are especially vulnerable if they are on the ground

Even those in trees can be attacked by birds of prey The birds on the edge are at greatest risk since predators find it easier to catch small birds perching at the margins of the roost

16 What does the passage mainly discuss?

A How birds find and store food

B How birds maintain body heat in the winter

C Why birds need to establish territory

D Why some species of birds nest together

17 The word “conserve” in line 3 is closest in meaning to

A retain B watch C locate D share

18 Ptarmigan keep warm in the winter by

A huddling together on the ground with other birds

B building nests in trees

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C burrowing into dense patches of vegetation

D digging tunnels into the snow

19 The word “magnified” in line 6 is closest meaning to

A caused B modified C intensified D combined

20 The author mentions kinglets in line 9 as an example of birds that

A protect themselves by nesting in holes

B nest with other species of birds

C nest together for warmth

D usually feed and nest in pairs

21 The word “forage” in line 12 is closest meaning to

22 Which of the following statements about lesser and common kestrels is true?

A lesser kestrel and common kestrel have similar diets

B The lesser kestrel feeds sociably but the common kestrel does not

C The common kestrel nests in large flocks than does the lesser kestrel

D The common kestrel nests in trees; he lesser kestrel nests on the ground

23 The word “counteracted” in line 22 is closest meaning to

24 Which of the following is a disadvantage of common roosts that is mentioned in the passage ?

A Diseases easily spread among birds

B Groups are more attractive to predators than individual birds are

C Food supplies are quickly depleted

D Some birds in the group will attack the others

25 The word “they” in line 23 refers to

Question 26-30 You must choose which of the paragraphs A-F fit into the numbered gaps in the following magazine article There is ONE EXTRA paragraph which does not fit in any of the gaps (1.25 points)

A The creature was so weakened by the ordeal that it could not even keep itself afloat and had to be walked in the

tank to stop it from just sinking to the bottom and drowning Most people can only walk a dolphin for around 20 minutes to half an hour Holding a 150 kg animal away from your body and walking though water at sea temperature saps your strength

B It is large but has only a small opening so, once in, getting out isn’t easy The boats at the event would have

panicked the creature and it ended up beached, battered and drained of energy

C The story actually appeared in several national newspapers as well as the local press Publicity is very important

for charities like the Marine Life Rescue , providing precious exposure which please the sponsor companies and highlights the team’s work

D Luck then seemed to be on the team’s side when a double-glazing van driver stopped to investigate The driver

offered his services to transport the dolphin back to the Sea Life Centre and a lady spectator gave the team a brand new cooler box to store valuable water to keep the dolphin moist

E However, by the time they arrived, the dolphin had started to swim unsupported The press picked up on the story

and descended on the Sea Life Centre wanting stories, pictures and any information the could get hold of And they wanted a name Mark and the other team member had a hasty think and came up with “Muddy”- after all, it was found at Mudeford

F Now the battle to save its life could begin, but transportation problem arose How do you get a grown dolphin

back to the Sea Ute Centre without a vehicle big enough

DOLPHIN RESCUE Free time isn’t in the vocabulary of British Drivers’ Marine Life Rescue teams; one fairly normal weekend recently spilled over into three weeks, as a seal move turned into a major dolphin rescue.

To find a beached and stranded dolphin is a rarity; to nurse on back from the brink of death, and reintroduce it into the wild, is almost unheard of Only two cases have occurred in Britain, the most recent of which involved a rescue team from British Drivers’ Marine Life Rescue They started the weekend trying to relocate a 9ft bull seal and finished it fighting to save a dolphin ‘s life after the Sea Life Centre on the south coast had informed them that a dolphin was beached at Mudeford (pronounced Mudeford ) near Bournemouth

The dolphin was found by a lady, who must have heard the massage telling anyone who found it what to do The animal was kept wet and its blowhole clean Mark Stevens of the rescue team says: “ The dolphin would have certainly been in a worse condition, if not dead, if that lady hadn’t known what to do.”

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“I can’t thank those people enough The woman even gave us her lemonade so we could have a much-needed drink.” The Sea Life Centre had hastily moved several large tope and the odd stingray from their quarantine, and the dolphin was duly installed

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By 1 a.m the team were running out of energy and needed more help But where do you find volunteers at that time

of night? Mark knew of only one place and called his friends at the local dive centre

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The team allowed the photographers in for a few minutes at a time, not wanting to stress the creature too much They had to walk a fine line between highlighting the animal’s ordeal and being detrimental to its health

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How a striped dolphin got stranded in Mudeford isn’t clear because they are primarily a oceangoing, rather than an inshore, species Theories suggest that he was chucked out of his pod

(group of dolphins) for some reason and, maybe chasing fish or attracted by the sounds coming from the Mudeford water festival, wandered into the bay by accident

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It took several days before the dolphin was comfortable enough to feed itself-in the meantime it had to be tube-fed Fish was mashed up and the forced down a tube inserted into the dolphin’s stomach It’s not a nice procedure, but without it the dolphin would have died Eventually he started to feed and respond to treatment

Your answer:

PART III- LEXICO AND GRAMMAR ( 7.5 points)

Question 31-35 Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position

of the main stress in each of the following questions (1.25 points)

32 A employee B initiate C sociable D gorilla

Question 36-40 Give the correct tense of the verbs in bracket to complete each of the following sentences (1.25 points)

36 You and your big mouth! It was supposed to be a secret You ………….(should/tell) her

37 It is necessary that they …………(inform) the change of the plan

38 He sat silently in the room, ………(read) the diary written by his wife before her death

39 Maryam, together with her friends,………… (visit) us tonight

40 I’m on a diet and by the end of the month I (lose) six kilos

Your answer:

Question 41-50 The following passage contains 10 errors Find and correct them Underline the error and write the correction in the space provided There is an example at the beginning (2.5 points)

Example:

who 0 who which

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An endangered species is a population of organisms who is at risk of becoming extinct because it is both few in numbers, or threatened by changed environmental or predation parameters An endangered species is usually a taxonomic species, though may be another evolutionary significant unit The World Conservation Union (IPCN) was calculated the percentage of endangered species as 40 percent of all organisms based at the sample of

species that have been evaluating through 2006 Many nations have laws offering protection to this species: for example, forbidding hunting, restricting land development or creating preserves Only a little of the many

species at risk of extinct actually make it to the lists and obtain legal protection like Pandas Much more species become extinct, or potentially will become extinct, without gaining public notice

Your answer:

Question 51-55 Supply the appropriate forms of words in the brackets (1.25 points)

51 Young children should be well aware of their ………… manner (BEHAVE)

52 She is a studious student She always listens ………… to her teacher’s lessons (ATTENTION)

53 Your son is very naughty He has cut himself again and it is………… (BLOOD)

54 I’ve never met such a strong man His energy seems ………… (EXHAUST)

55 Those rose bushes need protection Spray them with ………… (INSECT)

Question 56-60 Complete each sentence with a suitable particle or preposition Write your answer in the space given (1.25 points)

56 I'm afraid; we have run………… of apple juice Will an orange juice do?

57 When the police discovered his history of drunk driving, they took ………… his driver's license

58 It is hard to exaggerate the psychological effect of Japanese investment ………… local prosperity

59 She totally fell …………my story

60 His explanation doesn’t add ………… at all No one believes him

Your answer:

PART IV – WRITING (5.0 points)

Question 61-64 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 (1.0 point)

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65-68 Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first Beginning as shown (1.0 point)

65 Immediately after his arrival home a water-heater exploded

Hardly ………

66 Absolute secrecy was crucial to the success of the mission

Without ………

67 It was the goalkeeper that saved the match for us

Had ………

68 He speaks more persuasively than his brother.

He is ………

69.Write an essay about the following topic (3.0 points) In many countries schools have severe problems with student behaviour What do you think are the causes of this? What solutions can you suggest? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience Write at least 250 words ………

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ĐÁP ÁN VÀ HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TRƯỜNG KHỐI 11-12

Năm học 2014-2015 PART I - LISTENING COMPREHENSION (3.75 points)

Question 1-10 Complete the following passage with the words/phrases which you hear Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS (2.5 points: 0.25 point for each correct answer.)

1 dreams 2.night-time visions 3.persistent speculation 4 contents 5 accuracy

Question 11-15 Listen and choose the best answers for the following sentences: (1.25pts: 0.25 point for each correct answer)

PART II – READING COMPREHENSION (3.75 points)

Question 16-25 Read the passage and choose the best options (A, B, C, or D) which best answer the questions that follow (2.5 points: 0.25 point for each correct answer)

16.D 17 A 18 D 19 C 20 C 21 C 22 B 23 B 24 B 25.B

Question 26-30 You must choose which of the paragraphs A-F fit into the numbered gaps in the following magazine article There is one extra paragraph which does not fit in any of the gaps.

(1.25 points: 0.25 point for each correct answer)

26 D 27 A 28.E 29 C 30 B

PART III LEXICO AND STRUCTURES (7.5 points)

Question 31-35 Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position

of the main stress in each of the following questions (1.25 points: 0.25 point for each correct verb form.)

Question 36-40 Give the correct tense of the verbs in bracket to complete each of the following sentences

(1.25 points: 0.25 point for each correct answer)

36 shouldn’t have told 37 inform 38 reading 39 is visiting 40 will have lost

Question 41-50 Complete each sentence with ONE suitable preposition (2.5 points: 0.25 point for each

correct answer.)

An endangered species is a population of organisms who is at risk of becoming extinct because it is both few in

numbers, or threatened by changed environmental or predation parameters An endangered species is usually a

taxonomic species, though may be another evolutionary significant unit The World Conservation Union (IPCN) was calculated the percentage of endangered species as 40 percent of all organisms based at the sample of species that have been evaluating through 2006 Many nations have laws offering protection to this species: for example,

forbidding hunting, restricting land development or creating preserves Only a little of the many species at risk of extinct actually make it to the lists and obtain legal protection like Pandas Much more species become extinct, or potentially will become extinct, without gaining public notice

42 changed  changing 47 this (species)  these (species)

44 was (calculated) has (calculated) 49 (at risk of) extinct  (at risk of) extinction

45 (based) at  (based) on 50 Much (more species)  many (more species)

Question 51-55 Supply the appropriate forms of words in the brackets (1.25 points: 0.25 point for each correct answer)

51 behavioral/

behavioural 52 attentively 53 bleeding 54 inexhaustible 55 insecticide

Question 56-60 Complete each sentence with a suitable particle or preposition Write your answer in the

space given (1.25 points: 0.25 point for each correct answer.)

56 out 57 away 58 in 59 for 60 up

PART IV WRITING (5.0 points)

Question 61-64 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 (1.0 point: 0.25 point for each correct answer)

61 The storm had bad effect on the crops

62 I enjoy being a big fish in a small pond

63 They have a lot of hobbies and interests in common

64 This train was meant to leave 30 minutes ago

Question 65-68 Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first Beginning as

shown (1.0 point: 0.25 point for each correct answer.)

65 Hardly had he arrived home when a water-heater exploded.

66 Without absolute secrecy, the mission wouldn’t have succeeded/ been successful.

67 Had it not been for the goalkeeper, we would have lost the match.

68 He is a more persuasive speaker than his brother (is).

69.Write an essay on the following topic (3.0 points)

In many countries schools have severe problems with student behaviour.

What do you think are the causes of this?

What solutions can you suggest?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience

Write at least 250 words

Score Task Achievement Coherence and

Cohesion Lexical Resource

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

3 • fully satisfies all

the requirements

of the task

• the essay is

well-developed

• uses cohesion in such a way that it attracts no attention

• skillfully manages paragraphing

• uses a wide range

of vocabulary with very natural and sophisticated control of lexical features

• rare minor errors

• uses a wide range of structures with full flexibility and accuracy

• rare minor errors

requirements of the task

sufficiently

• presents key

points but could

be more clearly and appropriately

• logically organizes information and ideas; there is clear progression throughout

• uses a sufficient range of

vocabulary to allow some flexibility and precision

• may produce occasional errors

in word choice, spelling and/or word formation

• uses a variety of complex structures

• produces frequent error-free

sentences

• has good control of grammar and punctuation but may make a few errors

1 answer is barely

related to the task

has very little control

of organizational features

uses an extremely limited range of vocabulary;

essentially no control

of word formation and/or spelling

cannot use sentence forms except in memorized phrases

0.5 answer is completely

unrelated to the task

fails to communicate any message

can only use a few isolated words

cannot use sentence forms at all

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