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Trang 1Sở GD&ĐT Quảng Ninh kỳ thi chọn học sinh giỏi CẤP tỉnh
lớp 12 năm học 2010 - 2011
Đề thi CHÍNH THỨC
(Đề thi này cú 09 trang)
Chữ ký của giám thị Môn: Tiếng Anh (bảng A)
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề SBD: 1: Ngày thi: 26/10/2010 Họ, tên thí sinh: Số phách Ngày sinh: chấm lần 1: 2: Nơi sinh: Học sinh trường: Ban coi thi:
Số phỏch chấm phỳc khảo: Điểm bài thi chấm lần 1: Bằng số: ……….……….………
Bằng chữ: ……….……….……
Họ tờn, chữ ký của hai người chấm lần 1: 1: ……… ………
2: ……….…… ……… ………….
Số phách chấm lần 1: Số phỏch chấm phỳc khảo: Điểm bài thi chấm phỳc khảo: Bằng số: ……….……… … ….………
Bằng chữ: ……….……… ……….…….……
Họ tờn, chữ ký của hai người chấm phỳc khảo: 1: ……… ………
2: ……….……… ……… ………….
Ghi chú: Thí sinh trả lời ngay vào bài thi này Nếu viết sai phải gạch bỏ rồi viết lại I LISTENING (3,0 points) Activity 1: When Ted comes home, he finds three recorded messages on his answerphone Listen and complete the information in Ted's notebook 1 From: Carol About: (1)
Where: the Odeon When: (2)
What time: (3)
Where to meet: (4)
2 From: Donald Ferguson About: (5)
Where: (6)
When: (7)
What time: (8)
Dress: not formal 3 From: Jason About: (9)
Where: (10)
When: (11)
What time: (12)
Address: (13)
Activity 2: Listen to two people, Sophie and Sally, arraging a party Read the questions,
then listen and circle the letter A, B or C next to the right answer
1 Who is leaving?
Trang 22 Who is going to book the restaurant?
3 Which restaurant is it?
4 How many people will be at the dinner?
5 What time will the booking be?
6 How long has Trevor worked for the company?
7 What extra thing should the restaurant provide?
8 What are they thinking of doing after the dinner?
Activity 3: You are going to hear four short conversaions Listen and write T next to the
following sentences if it is true and write F if it is false
1 Joshua and Megan haven't seen each other for years
2 Joshua now lives in Seattle
3 Nathan Oliver has worked for the company longer than Jack Bennett
4 Jack Bennett has an interesting idea for Nathan Oliver
5 Emma was travelling by bus to meet her friend
6 Rebecca got wet because she had to walk there
7 Emma and Rebecca were planning to go to the theatre
8 The two men have just had a meal
9 They are brothers
II VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (5,0 points)
Activity 1: Circle the letter A, B, C or D next to the word that has underlined part is
pronounced differently from the other three in each question
Activity 2: Circle the letter A, B, C or D next to the best answer to complete each
sentence below
1 In a new culture, many embarrassing situations occur _ a misunderstanding
2 The problem _ discussed by the board of directors when it was proposed again by the supervisors
3 He told us to use our dictionaries to _ anything we didn’t understand
4 You need to be highly trained and have _ skills to work in engineering
5 Sarah congratulated _ passing my driving test
Trang 36 Had it not been for the intolerable heat in the hall, they _ much longer
7 _ have made communication faster and easier through the use of e-mail and the Internet is widely recognized
8 I can’t quite _ out what the sign says
9 One _ of the scheme is the very high cost
10 This picture book, the few pages _ are missing, is my favorite
11 I don’t think we can _ him to change his mind
12 She said that if she came back _, she’d be able to help me
13 - John: “Do you think that we should use public transportation to protect our environment?” - Laura: “ _”
14 I had a terrible day at work and lost my umbrella too _ , I spoke to that nice guy who works in the coffee shop at last
15 It _ that to be a good musician, you have to learn to play very young
16 Unemployment _ by 5 percent since the beginning of the year
17 “What are the office hours where you work?” “ , everyone comes in at eight and leaves at five”
A General B In generally C In the general D In general
18 She _ very hungry because she hasn’t eaten anything all day
19 We shouldn’t give the children everything they ask for; they will become completely _
20 At last we’ve found the information that I was looking
21 I was with the film I had expected it to be better
22 The plane has just taken off is an hour late
23 Martin is someone with I usually agree
24 I’d like to see the photo
Activity 3: Circle the letter A or B, C, D next to the best answer or the similar meaning to
the statements below
1 Hello How have you been?
Trang 4A Good, thanks B Fine C Thank you D That's right
2 Good luck on your exam
3 I’m afraid there’s no sugar Do you want a coffee without any?
4 I’m afraid I can’t take you to the airport
5 Do you need any help?
6 Tan said: “I am going to work in Ho Chi Minh city next July.”
A Tan said to me that he is going to work in Ho Chi Minh City next July
B Tan told me that he was going to work in Ho Chi Minh City the next July
C Tan spoke to me that he was going to work in Ho Chi Minh City next July
D Tan told me he was going to work in Ho Chi Minh City in July
7 I asked Tan: “How long have you been working in your company?”
A I asked Tan how long has he been working in his Company
B I wanted to know how long he has been working in his company
C I asked Tan how long he had been working in his company
D I asked Tan how long had he been working in his company
8 Hung said: “I hope you will come and visit me in Ho Chi Minh City.”
A Hung hopes I will come and visit him in Ho Chi Minh City
B Hung hoped that I came and visited him in Ho Chi Minh City
C Hung hoped that he would visit me in Ho Chi Minh City
D Hung hoped that I would come and visit him in Ho Chi Minh City
9 The teacher asked Nam “Have you done your homework?”
A The teacher wanted to know if Nam had done his homework
B The teacher wanted to know if Nam has done his home work
C The teacher asked Nam weather he had done his home work
D The teacher asked Nam whether had he done his home work
10 Lan said to her mother: “I stayed up late last night so I am tired now.”
A Lan told her mother that she had stayed up late the night before so she was tired now
B Lan told her mother that she had stayed up late the night before so she was tired then
C Lan said to her mother that she stayed up late the night before so she was tired then
D Lan said to her mother that she stayed up late the night bebore so she was tired than
Activity 4: Use the word given on the right to form a word that fits in the gap in the same
line Write your answers in the spaces provided
Careers information: circus performers
Here is some brief (1) for anyone
thinking of following careers in the circus There is, of course, a
wide range of jobs (2) : trapeze artists,
acrobats, clowns, magicians, fire-eaters and tight-rope walkers
are all to be found in the big top
A few circuses train their own performers, but usually they
are more interested in someone who can already demonstrate a
circus-related (3) _ or skill Circus schools
are the best way of obtaining the necessary training, and can be
either connected to a large circus or else totally
(4) Good circus performers are talented,
1 inform
2 avail
3 able
4 depend
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Activity 1: Read the following passage and circle the letter A, B, C or D next to the right
word in each number to complete the passage
If you (1) _ to be walking in your local park tomorrow and you find an abandoned book with a label inside (2) _ “Read and Release me”, don't just treat it (3) _ a joke You've probably come (4) _ an example of “bookcrossing”, a book-sharing movement started in 2001 by American software developer Ron Hornbaker, whose stated aim is to “make the (5) _ world a library”
Bookcrossers “release” books (6) _ by passing them on to friends or else by (7) _ them in public places for others to pick up, or “catch”, and then read, before they (8) _ turn release them back “into the wild” (9) _ a book has been “caught”, the person finding it is (10) _ to record the event by logging on to the bookcrossing website and entering the book's ID number written on the label That (11) _ , both the original owner and subsequent readers of the book can keep track of its progress
Over half a million people worldwide (12) _ in bookcrossing, “releasing” books
in a (13) _ range of locations including airports, bus stations, telephone boxes and even underwater in public fountains Often a book is left in a place (14) _ is relevant
to its (15) _ or content: Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express on a train, for
example, or an archeology book in a museum
Activity 2: Read the following passage and circle the letter A, B, C or D next to the best answer
To date, Canada has produced only one classic children’s tale to rank with Alice’s
Adventures in wonderland and the works of Mark Twain; this was Lucy Maud
energetic and (5) They need to be
(6) _ fit and possess the necessary mental
strength to cope with the intense training and obvious demands
of job They are also flexible and able to adapt easily to new
situations, particularly as circuses are (7) _
on the move (8) _ , for many jobs within
the circus, good (9) is essential
Fire-eaters and acrobats can't afford to be careless as mistakes can
have (10) _ consequences
5 enthuse
6 physical
7 frequency
8 add
9 concentrate
10 disaster
Trang 6Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clinton,
Prince Edward Island Her mother died soon after her birth, and when her father went to Saskatchewan to assume a business position, she moved in with her grandparents in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island There she went to school and later qualified to be a teacher
Montgomery wrote the Anne books while living in Cavendish and helping her grandmother at the post office The first of the books, Anne of Green Gabbles, was
published in 1908, and in the next three years she wrote two sequels Like Montgomery,
the heroine of the book is taken in by an elderly couple who lives in the fictional town of
Avonlea, and Montgomery incorporated many events from her life in Cavendish into the
Anne books
In 1911, Montgomery married Evan Macdonald and the couple soon moved to Ontario, where she wrote many other books However, it was her first efforts that secured
her prominence, and the Anne books are still read all around the world Her novels have helped create a warm picture of Prince Edward Island’s special character Several movies,
a television series, and a musical play have been based on her tales, and today visitors scour the Island for locations described in the book
1 The main purpose of this passage is to
A introduce Montgomery and her Anne books
B contrast Canadian children’s literature with that of other countries
C provide a brief introduction to Prince Edward Island
D show the similarities between Montgomery’s life and that of her fictional character Anne
2 The word “this” in line 2 refers to
A Canada B the work of Mark Twain
C Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland D a Canadian children’s classic
3 According to the passage, Montgomery was raised primarily
A in an orphanage B by her grandparents
C by her mother D by her father
4 Approximately when did Lucy Maud Montgomery write the two sequels to her book
Anne of Green Gables?
A From 1874 to 1908 B From 1908 to 1911
C From 1911 to 1913 D From 1913 to 1918
5 The word “elderly” in line 11 is closest in meaning to
6 In the Anne books, the main character lives in
A the town of Cavendish B Saskatchewan
C the town of Avonlea D Ontario
7 Which of the following can be concluded from the passage about Anne books?
A They were at least partially autobiographical
B They were influenced by the works of Mark Twain
C They were not as successful as Montgomery’s later works
D They were not popular until after Montgomery had died
8 Ontario was the place where
9 The word “prominence” in line 16 is closest in meaning to
Trang 710 Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word “character” in line 17?
A a person in a novel B nature
C a written symbol D location
Activity 3: Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word to complete the text below
Family trees
You do not see a “family tree” in a forest It (1) ……… “grows” on paper
or on computer screens! A family tree is not (2) ……… a tree at all It is a (3)
……… of a family’s history It shows (4) ……… is related to whom and how (5) ……… family trees are big They show the history of a family (6) ……… hundreds of years Family trees are important They tell us (7) ……… we came from Making a family tree is a (8)
……… business! Many people pay (9) …… ……… to make their family trees They pay an expert to do (10) ……… …… The expert finds out (11)
……… the family’s history Then the expert (12) ………… ………… a family tree It starts long (13) ……… and reaches to the present Do you know who (14) ……… great-great-great grandparents were? A family tree (15) ……… tell you!
Activity 4: Read the text below and choose from the sentences A-L, the one which fits
each space (1-10) There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use Write the
letter A, B, C, or L in the spaces provided
Antarctica
Antarctica is cold Only a few black rocks and green plants in iceless valleys add some color to the endless white cover of ice (1) _ It contains 85 percent of all the fresh water on earth At the edges, pieces of ice, icebergs break off and float on the ocean currents to warmer climates (2) _ In winter storms, winds blow up to 400 kilometers per hour (3) _
But even in this impossible climate there is life (4) _ For two months every summer they receive sunlight almost 24 hours a day At this time the Antarctic is the most productive ocean in the world (5) _ The krill provide food for seabirds, fish, seals, whales, and penguins
Since 1958 scientists from many countries have been working together in this huge
“laboratory” (6) _ Today Antarctica has more than 30 research stations, including those of Argentina, Australia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, and the United States
Scientists know that this huge icy area is very important to the world’s climate and they are trying to learn why (7) _ The ozone layer protects living things from the dangerous rays of the sun In the mid-1980s, scientists discovered that the ozone layer above Antarctica was very thin (8) _
Scientists have also discovered that since 1970 the temperature of the air and the water in Antarctica has been slowly rising (9) _ Scientist think that some kinds of penguins are becoming fewer in number: these Antarctic creatures don’t have enough ice
to survive (10) _
A The icy cold water of the Antarctic Ocean contains tiny plants
B Warmer temperatures result in less sea ice during the winter months
C Much of their research focus on ozone, a form of oxygen
D Antarctica is the first part of the world used entirely for peaceful purposes
E Scientists are learning that the winter sea ice is very important to the chain of life
Trang 8F They call this the “ozone hole”
G These tiny plants provide food for millions of krill, a sea animal that is less than eight centimeters long
H This land of unimaginable cold must be entirely lifeless
I The ice in Antarctica was formed at least 20,000 years ago and is thousands of meters deep
K There are a lot of things to learn from the Antarctic Ocean
L An iceberg can cover four square kilometers
IV WRITING: (6,0 points)
Activity 1: Finish the second sentence so that it means exactly the same as the first one
1 I found it difficult to communicate in English
I had
2 I couldn’t finish my work without my friend’s help
If
3 Nam couldn’t answer those two difficult questions
Those two questions were so
4 If the letter is heavier, you have to put more stamps on it
The heavier
5 Although she is intelligent, she can make mistakes
In spite of her
6 “Don’t forget to buy me a newspaper on the way home” Peter said to Ann
Peter reminded
7 Everyone believes he won a lot of money on the lottery
He
8 I have a great deal of respect for Susan, so I asked her
I asked Susan,
9 It isn’t necessary to bring your Coursebook to the class tomorrow
You don’t
10 When did you buy your computer?
How long have
Activity 2: For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in
meaning to it Use the word given on the right, and this word must not be changed in any way (0) has been done as an example
0 Nobody can solve the problem (can’t) The problem can’t be solved
1 “Me? No, I didn’t take Sue’s calculator,” said Bob (denied)
Trang 92 It's possible that someone stole your purse when we were in the restaurant (might)
3 They said that an electrical failure was the cause of the fire (blamed)
4 How has the strike affected students' attendance? (effect)
5 Peter was the first person I asked for advice (whose)
Activity 3: Write a passage of about 200 words about the famous film star or singer that you like, why you like him or her and what lessons you can learn from him or her
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Trang 10SỞ GD&ĐT QUẢNG NINH HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH
LỚP 12 NĂM HỌC 2010 - 2011
Môn: Tiếng Anh (BẢNG A)
I LISTENING (3,0 điểm)
Activity 1: (1,3 điểm) Mỗi câu đúng 0,1 điểm
4 café in Market Street 5 dinner with him and his wife/
having dinner
6 his house
13 flat 7A
Activity 2: (0,8 điểm) Mỗi câu đúng 0,1 điểm
Activity 3: (0,9 điểm) Mỗi câu đúng 0,1 điểm
II VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (5,0 điểm)
Activity 1: (0,6 điểm) Mỗi câu đúng 0,1 điểm
Activity 2: (2,4 điểm) Mỗi câu đúng 0,1 điểm
Activity 3: (1,0 điểm) Mỗi câu đúng 0,1 điểm
Activity 4: (1,0 điểm) Mỗi câu đúng 0,1 điểm
III READING (6,0 điểm)
Activity 1: (1,5 điểm) Mỗi câu đúng 0,1 điểm
Activity 2: (1,5 điểm) Mỗi câu đúng 0,15 điểm
