VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí PHỊNG GD&ĐT THANH CHƯƠNG BÀI THI CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI NĂM HỌC 2015 -2016 MÔN: TIẾNG ANH LỚP - VÒNG Thời gian làm 150 phút (Thí sinh làm trực tiếp đề thi) Điểm Họ tên, chữ ký giám khảo Số phách Bằng số: …………………… Giám khảo 1: …………………………… Bằng chữ: ………………………… Giám khảo 2: …………………………… SECTION A VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR Question (10 points) Choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D to complete each of the following sentences Are you sure you told me? I don’t recall about it A having told B having been told C to have told D to have been told If you want to develop inner tranquility, you have to stop by every little thing that happens A bothering B being bothered C to bother D to be bothered C have I read D I have read Never _that poem A I have read B I read Only by working independently so quickly A he could grow up B he did grow up C he grew up D could he grow up _ the salary meets my expectations, I will accept the job offer A Due to B Even if C Provided that D Unless No one could account for it They couldn’t it A explain B estimate C interpret D describe Many a candidate unsuccessful in the oral test A was B aren’t C weren’t D were You have to pay extra if you take too _ with you A much luggages B many luggages C much luggage D many luggage She told me that she _ happy for what he _ A is feeling/did B was feeling/had done C feels/did D had left/ has been doing 10 The professor said that Vietnam to South-East Asia A has belonged B had belonged C belonged D belongs VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí Question (10 points) Read the text below and look carefully at each line Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there If a line is correct, put a tick (√) by the number If a line has a word which should not be there, write it in the blanks on the right Number and 00 have been done for you CITY LIGHTS Line I was born in a small country town When I was young 0……… √… 00 it seemed as an idea place to live I had lots of friends to play with and I 00……as… 01 was enough happy But, as I got older, everything suddenly seemed 01………… 02 like a bit boring I wanted to go to museums and theaters but they were too far 02…………… 03 away to get to very often Then, when I was 16, we moved to London because 03…………… 04 my father was offered a much more better job in a big hospital in the city center 04…………… 05 At first, my brothers and I were very unhappy The people in the city seemed be 05…………… 06 really unfriendly to us However, we made friends eventually and we slowly 06…………… realized 07 there was a lot much more to in the city than in the country Near our house, 07…………… 08 for example, there was a fantastic amusement park It was the most greatest 08…………… place 09 I could imagine! We used to spend as much time as we could there We were 09…………… too 10 young for to go on many of the rides, but we loved the atmosphere When I was 10…………… a little older, I discovered many more exciting places to visit Question (10 points) Read the text below Use the word given in capital letters at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line Number (0) has been done for you VOICES FOUNDATION Voices Foundation is a music education (0) organization Its founder, Susan 0) ORGANISE Digby, believes (1) _ that learning to sing is the best way 1) PASSION to introduce children _instrument to music is difficult, ‘Playing and a (2) 2) MUSIC the (3) 3) MAJOR _of children who begin usually give up, but everyone has a voice,’ she says 4) INSPIRE VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí Digby’s (4) _for the Foundation came when she was 5) DEVELOP travelling in Hungary ‘People there believe that a child’s (5) 6) SIGNIFY benefits from music education, and it has a (6) 7) MATHEMATICS _effect on other skills, like (7) and 8) COMMUNICATE linguistic skills Music education provides a training which extends children’s 9) ENJOY (8) and listening powers.’ Digby believes that if children 10) WILL get (9) from singing, they are more likely to learn an instrument (10) when they are older SECTION B READING COMPREHENSION Question (10 points) Complete this passage using sentences marked by A-G There is one extra sentence which you not need to use Write your answer in the box MUSIC TO HELP YOUR BRAIN A Pupils were put into groups to listen to different things B Pupils doing best had probably liked what they had heard C Those listening to pop music did best on the test D It was thought that difficult music made the brain work better E The experiment suggests that the children did not listen to Mozart F Listening to Mozart seemed to improve mental ability G The experiment was carried out in all parts of Britain G Listening to pop music may make you cleverer, according to a Megalab experiment in which 11,000 children in 250 schools across Britain took part The idea was put forward as a scientific study by Dr Sue Hallam of the Institute of Education, London, to follow up work in California which suggested that listening to music by Mozart for ten minutes had a direct effect on people’s ability to work out problems VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí The Megalab experiment took place at eleven o’clock one Thursday morning School children were split at random into three separate groups: one listening to Mozart, one to a pop group and one to a conversation in which Dr Hallam discussed Megalab The children were the given problem-solving tasks The group which had listened to the discussion scored 52 per cent, those who had listened to Mozart also scored 52 per cent, but those who had listened to pop group scored 56 per cent Dr Hallam said the result is interesting and ‘approaching significance’ She thought that the reason was not due to the ‘Mozart effect’ but because the mood of the children had changed, so they were more aroused and tried harder ‘They were probably enjoying it and so they were well motivated,’ she said ‘The others were probably uninterested or not particularly inspired by Mozart or by the discussion.’ Dr Frances Rauscher, of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory in Berkeley, California, had suggested that students would better after listening to Mozart because his music is complex and stimulates particular activity in the brain Question (10 points) Read the passage below and choose the correct answer for each question Choose the correct answers by circling A, B, C or D TEACHING THE VIOLIN ‘The best age to start learning the violin is between three and six,’ said Margaret Porter, a violinist and music teacher ‘It’s the time when you are learning about the world,’ Margaret, who lives in London, prefers to take pupils at three and four, although she has made lots of exceptions for keen five-year-olds When she started teaching the violin in 1972, her first class consisted of her children’s five-year-old school friends Margaret’s pupils have group lessons Each group has about a dozen pupils and each lesson lasts an hour, once a fortnight In addition, each pupil has one individual lesson a week with her VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí Parents also have to attend the lessons It is important that the parents take an active interest in the lesson From the earliest lessons pupils learn to play by ear They not even try to read music until they have been playing for several years, and for a long time there is a big difference between their playing and reading of music Margaret says that her method is not supposed to produce great violinists, and always suggests that pupils who perform particularly well should leave and study the violin using more traditional methods What is the writer trying to in the text? A explain why Margaret likes teaching the violin B describe a different way of learning the violin C give advice on how to find a music teacher D explain why Margaret has a lot of pupils Why should someone read the text? A to discover how Margaret learnt the violin B to learn why it is important to read music C to find out about Margaret’s teaching method D to learn why children should play the violin What opinion does Margaret have about her best pupils? A They ought to find another teacher B They will become great violinists using her method C They could try harder D They take several years to learn to read music Who were Margaret’s first pupils? A her children B three and four – year – olds C her own friends D her children’s friends Which of the following would Margaret include in an advertisement for her classes? A Learn to play the violin with your children – lessons a week B Watch your children learn to play the violin C Group violin lessons for children – no more than per group D We’ll look after your children while you learn the violin Question (10 points) Fill ONE suitable word into each numbered blank DICTIONARIES Dictionaries are (0) AMONG the most important tools of self-education (1) Samuel Johnson wrote his influential English dictionary in the eighteenth VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí century, the work kept him busy for seven years At the end of that period he (2) written the meanings of over forty thousand words Most modern dictionaries require a (3) _ deal less time and effort to write because writers often use earlier dictionaries as a source of reference Nowadays, most dictionaries are put together by teams of writers, or lexicographers Sometimes they need to work together in meetings; at other times they work independently of (4) other, on different parts of the dictionary (5) one time, the starting point for deciding on which words to include used to be the lexicographer’s own knowledge These days, teams (6) use of a large collection of examples of (7) only writing but also every day speech, which is known as a corpus Teams also refer (8) _books and articles about language as (9) as asking experts in particular subjects about the more specialized words Finally, ordinary people are asked to say what they think about the way the words are defined and (10) they find the examples provided helpful or not SECTION C WRITING Question (10 points) Using the word in capital letters, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one Do not change the word given He took a taxi so he wouldn’t have to walk in the rain AVOID He took a taxi _in the rain No one has ever stolen my car HAD I have stolen My parents met for the first time thirty years ago THAT It _my parents first met Although the main actor performed well, the critics didn’t like the play GOOD In spite _by the main actor, the critics didn’t like the play I always trust Carla’s advice SOMEBODY Carla I always trust We appear to have been given the wrong address AS It we have been given the wrong address Valerie doesn’t object to her photograph appearing in the magazine OBJECTION Valerie her photograph appearing in the magazine VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí I find Robert’s taste in music very hard to tolerate PUT I find it _Robert’s taste in music Golf is becoming increasingly popular in Britain POPULARITY The _in Britain 10 Too tired to continued, Phil stopped walking CARRY Phil couldn’t he was too tired Question (10 points) Rewrite the following sentences so that they have the same meaning as the original one I left without saying goodbye as I didn’t want to disturb the meeting Rather……………………………………………………….……………………………………… That’s the last time I go to that restaurant I certainly………………………………………………………………………………………… The drama critic of the ‘Daily News’ regards the new play as a major breakthrough According to.……………………………………………………………………………………… I didn’t realize he was the author and that’s why I was rude about his new book Had………………………….……………………………………………………………………… She never seems to succeed, even though she works hard However………….………………………………………………………………………………… The people who were there didn’t notice anything unusual No one … ………………………………………… ………………………………strange I wasn’t a bit surprised to hear that Karen had changed her job I came as ………………………………………………………………………………………… It was more of an argument than a discussion It was not so ….…………………………………………………………………………………… I would anything for you There’s………………………………………………………………………………………… 10 The computer will be available anytime but one o’clock The computer will ……………………………………………………………………………… Question (20 points) Nowadays some parents think that English Grammar is more important than spoken English Do you agree or disagree with that? Write an essay about 120 – 150 words to express your ideas ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… _The end _ ... with and I 00……as… 01 was enough happy But, as I got older, everything suddenly seemed 01………… 02 like a bit boring I wanted to go to museums and theaters but they were too far 02…………… 03 away... end of that period he (2) written the meanings of over forty thousand words Most modern dictionaries require a (3) _ deal less time and effort to write because writers often use... and 8) COMMUNICATE linguistic skills Music education provides a training which extends children’s 9) ENJOY (8) and listening powers.’ Digby believes that if children 10) WILL get (9)