ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI VÒNG TỈNH LỚP 12 NĂM HỌC 2011-2012 MÔN TIẾNG ANH

ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI VÒNG TỈNH LỚP 12 NĂM HỌC 2011-2012 MÔN TIẾNG ANH

SỞ GDĐT BẠC LIÊU KỲ THI CHỌN HSG LỚP 12 VÒNG TỈNH

NĂM HỌC 2011 - 2012

* Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH (BẢNG B)

* Ngày thi: 05/11/2011

* Thời gian: 180 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)

Điểm Bằng số Bằng chữ Chữ ký GK 1 Chữ ký GK 2 Mã phách

ĐỀ (Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp trên đề thi)

Part A LISTENING

I Listen to Diane talking to a friend about a trip to London For each question, circle the best answer (A, B, C) You will hear the conversation twice (0) is as an example (1 point)

Example:

0 Diane went to London yesterday

A morning B afternoon C evening

1 Diane went to London by

2 Diane and her friends ate

A Mexican food B Chinese food C Spanish food

3 Diane says the restaurant was

A full B expensive C quiet

4 After the meal, Diane and her friends

A sat and talked B saw a film C walked by the water

5 During Diane's trip to London,

A it rained B it snowed C it was windy

II You will hear a woman being interviewed for a job For questions 1 – 10, fill in the relevant information on the application form You will hear twice (2 points)

PANDORA INTERNATIONAL GENERAL APPLICATION FORM

APPLYING FOR POST OF: Head of advertising

Name: (1) Irene …….………

Address: (2) ………… Redwood Avenue Kingston

Tel no: (3) ………

(Gồm 16 trang,

không kể trang phách)

CHÍNH THỨC

Qualifications

Graduated from: (4) ………

Diploma in: (5) ………

Current position: (6) ………

Job description: (7) ………

and

(8) ………

Reason for leaving: (9) limited ………

Reason for applying to Pandora International: (10) gaining ……… in an international market

PART B LEXICO AND GRAMMAR

I Circle the best answer (A, B, C, or D) to complete each unfinished sentence (1 point)

1 I love this painting of an old man He has such a ……… smile

A childhood B childish C childless D childlike

2 You’d better leave for the airport now ………… there’s a lot of traffic on the way

3 I would like to thank you, ……… my colleagues, for the welcome you have given us

A on account of B on behalf of C because of D instead of

4 The poor child was in floods of ………because his bicycle had been stolen

5 The soldier was punished for ……… to obey his commanding officer’s orders

A refusing B regretting C objecting D resisting

6 She ………… her husband’s job for his ill health

7 It’s time we ………… this old car and bought a new one

8 The project was rejected because of ………… funds

A unavailable B inconsiderable C incomplete D insufficient

9 Please leave this space ………… on the enrolment form

10 You shouldn’t have criticized him in front of his friends It was extremely ……… of you

A unfortunate B insensitive C insensible D unconscious

11 Phone me before ten; ……… I’ll be too busy to talk to you

12 According to the ………… of the contract, tenants must give six months’ notice if they intend to leave

13 The injured man was taken to hospital and ………… for internal injuries

14 The door hinges had all been oiled to stop them ………

A squeaking B screeching C shrieking D squealing

15 Mary attempted to ……… herself with her new boss by volunteering to take on extra work

A gratify B please C ingratiate D commend

16 You are under no obligation ………… to accept this offer

17 Wasn’t it you yourself ……… the door open?

A to be left B were left C who left D that should leave

18 If only motorists ………… drive more carefully!

19 It is regretted that there can be no ……… to this rule

A exclusion B alternative C exception D deviation

20 Complete the form as ……… in the notes below

A insisted B specified C implied D devised

II In the passage below some lines are correct but some have a word that should not be there Indicate the correct lines with a tick (√) For the incorrect lines, write the words that should not

be there (1 point)

1 Many species of animals, birds and even that insects are in danger

2 ………… of disappearing from the earth off Every day construction in

3 ………… the rainforests destroys the habitats of these creatures They

4 ………… cannot survive in other environments They rely on about the food

5 ………… and shelter being in their own habitats Each time a habitat is

6 ………… destroyed, the animals must have search for a new place Luckily,

7 ………… there are some people who they are doing something about this

8 ………… situation Animal protection societies are helping for the world

9 ………… to learn more than about endangered species When people know

10 ………… more, they can fight to protect and save the animals

III Choose the right tenses to complete the following passage (1 point)

That afternoon we all got ready (1.go) ………… to the pictures We got a 63 bus to take us to the Elephant and Castle, because the pictures (2.be) ………… just next door There was a great big queue (3.wait) ………… to go in and we were at the very back Soon we (4 get) ………… in The picture (5 already start) ………… and it was very dark in there We had to go down some stairs (6.get) ………… to our seats but instead of walking down them we fell down them Soon we were in our seats We (7 sit) ………… there (8.watch) ………… the film when something hit me on the head It was an ice-cream tub I (9.turn) ………… round to see who it was and a little boy who (10 sit) ………… two rows behind me said, “I am very sorry I wasn’t meant to hit you I was meant to hit the boy in front.”

IV Use the correct form of the word in capitals to fit each gap (1 point)

Interviews are an imperfect method of choosing the best people

for jobs, yet human (1) ………… like to examine each other in BE

this way One of the many problems of (2) ………… as it is SELECT

commonly practised is that the forms filled in by (3) ………… APPLY

often fail to show people as they really are This means that you can

follow all the best (4) ………… when completing your form and ADVISE

still find that you are (5) ………… at the next stage - the interview SUCCESS

(6) ………… , in the rare cases where interviewers are automatic, a SIMILAR

candidate with an (7) ………… form may do surprisingly well ADEQUATE

Of course, your forms need to show that you have (8) ………… CONFIDENT

in your (9) ………… to do the job, but don’t try to turn yourself ABLE

into someone else – a person you have to pretend to be at the

interview Realism and (10) ………… are definitely the best HONEST

approach

V Choose the correct prepositional phrase from the box to complete the following sentences You may not use one phrase (1 point)

1 Gold is ……… brass in color

2 I must speak to someone responsible Who’s ……… here?

3 She is very ……… swimming

4 Jane’s new friend is a Scorpio, and he likes cats, so they have a lot ………

5 He was ……… his brother’s success

6 Zoos were very popular, but now many people think it’s wrong to keep animals

………

7 As there’s no cream, so we have to be ……… milk

8 I’m tired of staying at home on Sundays Let’s go out ………

9 I’m very ……… snakes I can’t go near them

10 At school we used to have to learn bits of Shakespeare ………

VI Insert a, an or the if necessary If there is no article, put ∅ (1 point)

In (1) ……… summer of 1907, I was living in (2) ………little cottage in (3)

……… country, at (4) ……… small distance from (5) ……… sea Half (6)

……… mile from my cottage there was (7) ……… school, The Grables, where Harold Stackhurst, (8) ………headmaster, and several other teachers taught students and prepared them for various professions

Stackhurst and I went on friendly terms and he was (9) ……… only man in ……… (10) neighbourhood who sometimes called at my cottage

jealous of by heart for a change content with in common

afraid of in captivity similar to in charge good at

capable of

PART C READING

I Read the following passage Circle the best answers (A, B, C or D) to complete the passage (1 point)

Smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, and breathing problems Worldwide, about three million people die every year because of smoking - that's about one (1) every ten seconds ! In fact, smoking is the (2) of almost 20 percent of all deaths in the developed countries of the world Smoking doesn't just (3)…… the smoker, it hurts other people, too When a pregnant (4) smokes, she is hurting her developing…… (5) When a man (6) at home, his wife and children are also breathing in smoke and can become sick Even though most people understand the (7) effects of smoking, they continue to smoke The … (8) of women and teenagers who smoke is increasing Cigarette companies make advertisements that…… (9) these groups of people so that they… (10)… to buy cigarettes

7 A beneficial B harmful C harmed D profitable

10 A retain B maintain C continue D preserve

II Read the passage below Then circle the best option (A, B, C or D) to answer each question (1 point)

Rachel Carson was born in 1907 in Springsdale, Pennsylvania She studied biology at college and zoology at Johns Hopkins University, where she received her master’s degree in 1933 In 1936, she was hired by the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, where she worked most of her life

Carson’s first book, Under the Sea Wind, was published in 1941 It received excellent reviews, but sales were poor until it was reissued in 1952 In that year, she published The Sea Around Us, which

provided a fascinating look beneath the ocean’s surface, emphasizing human history as well as geology and marine biology Her imaginary and language had a poetic quality Carson consulted no less than 1,000 printing sources She had voluminous correspondence and frequent discussions with experts in the field However, she always realized the limitations of her non-technical readers

In 1962, Carson published Silent Spring, a book that sparked considerable controversy It

proved how much harm was done by the uncontrolled, reckless use of insecticides She detailed how

they poisoned the food supply of animals, killed birds and fish, and contaminated human food At the time, spokesmen for the chemical industry mounted personal attacks against Carson and issued

propaganda to indicate that her findings were flawed However, her work was vindicated by a 1963

report of the President’s Science Advisory Committee

1.The passage mainly discusses Rachel Carson’s work

C at the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service D as a writer

2 According to the passage, what did Carson primarily study at Johns Hopkins University ?

3 When she published her first book, Carson was closest to the age of

4 It can be inferred from the passage that in 1952, Carson’s book Under the Sea Wind

A was outdated

B became more popular than her other books

C was praised by critics

D sold many copies

5 Which of the following was Not mentioned in the passage as a source of information for The Sea Around Us ?

A printed matter B talks with experts

C a research expedition D letters from scientists

6 Which of the following words or phrases is LEAST accurate in describing The Sea Around Us ?

A highly technical B poetic C fascinating D well-researched

7.The word “reckless” is closest in meaning to

A unnecessary B limited C continuous D irresponsible

8 According to the passage, Silent Spring is primarily

A an attack on the use of chemical preservatives in food

B a discussion of the hazards insects posing to the food supply

C a warning about the dangers of misusing insecticides

D an illustration of the benefits of the chemical industry

9 The word “flawed” is closest in meaning to

10 Why does the author of the passage mention the report of the President’ s Science Advisory

Committee ?

A To provide an example of government propaganda

B To support Carson’s ideas

C To indicate a growing government concern with the environment

D To validate the chemical industry’s claims

III Read the text below carefully and then do the exercise below (1 point)

Lotte and Wytze Hellinga

A As a student at the University of Amsterdam after the second World War, Lotte found herself

stimulated first by the teaching of Herman de la Fontain Verwey and then by that of the forceful personality of Wytze Hellinga, at that time Professor of Dutch Philology at the University Wytze Hellinga’s teaching was grounded in the idea of situating what he taught in its context Obliged to teach Gothic, for example, he tried to convey a sense of the language rooted in its own time and environment

B Study of the book was becoming increasingly important at the University of Amsterdam at this

period, as the work of de la Fontain Verwey and Gerrit Willem Ovink testifies Wytze Hellinga’s interests, formerly largely in a socio-linguistic direction, were now learning more towards texts and to the book as the medium that carried written texts

C Much of the Wytze’s teaching followed his own research interests, as he developed his ideas around

the sense that texts should properly be understood in the context of their method of production and dissemination He was at this time increasingly turning to codicology and to the classic Anglo- Saxon model of bibliography in the realization that the plan to produce a proper critical edition of the works of Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, the seventeenth-century poet, dramatist and historian, depended on the application of the skills of analytical bibliography

D Encouraged by his work, Lotte produced an undergraduate thesis on the printer’s copy of the Oria of

Constantijn Huygens (the Hague, 1625) This work, incidentally, has never been published, although an article was regularly announced as forthcoming in Quaerendo during the early 1970s

E On graduation in 1958, events took a turn that was to prove fateful Lotte was awarded a

postgraduate fellowship by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Zuiver – Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (or Z.W.O) to go to England to study the fifteenth- century printing, and Marie Kronenberg, the doyenne of Dutch bibliographers, arranged for her to be “taught in incunabulizing” (as she put it) by Victor Scholderer at the British Museum

F As an honorary Assistant Keeper at the Museum, then, she came to England in 1959, assisting

among other things with the preparation of BMC volume IX (concerning the production of Holland and Belgium) while studying the texts of the Gouda printer Gerard Leeu to see if the sources (and hopefully printer’s copy) for his editions could be identified Although the subject proved difficult to define immediately so as to lead in a productive direction, most of this work was nonetheless to find its way into print in such collaborative publications as the Hellingas’ Fifteenth century printing types, the edition of the Bradshaw correspondence and the 1973 Brussels catalogue, to each of which we shall return But during her time at the Museum, Lotte’s attention was also attracted by such things as English provenances on early-printed continental books, an interest which has stayed with her throughout her career

Questions 1 – 5: This reading passage has 6 paragraphs (A-F) Choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below Write the appropriate number (1-6) next to the paragraph One of the headings has been done for you

List of Headings

1 Lotte to go to England

2 Wytze’s interest in texts and books

3 Lotte unpublished

4 Lotte’s first influences at university

5 Lotte’s work in England

6 The development of Wytze’s research

Your answer:

Paragraph A _4 Paragraph B _ Paragraph C _

Paragraph D _ Paragraph E _ Paragraph F _

Question 6- 10: Read the passage again and then decide whether the following statements agree with the information in the Reading or not Write:

Yes if the statement agrees with the information in the passage

No if the statement contradicts the information in the passage

No Information if there is no information about the statement in the passage

Example: When Hellinga was obliged to teach Gothic, he tried to convey a sense of the language

rooted in its own time and environment

Answer: Yes

6 Lotte studied at the University of Amsterdam after the Second World War

7 Prior to his interests in the book, Wytze’s interest was mainly in socio-linguistic

8 According to Wyzte Hellinga, the production and dissemination of books were not really matters of importance

9 When Lotte moved to England, she found it difficult to settle in initially

10 Lotte’s undergraduate thesis on the printer’s copy of the Oria of Constantijn Huygens was widely disseminated

Your answer:

6 7 8 9 10

IV You are going to read an article about the galaxy Ten sentences or phrases have been removed from the article Choose from the sentences or phrases A- J the one which fits each gap (1-10) (1 point)

……… (1) ……… A galaxy is a giant family of many millions

of stars, and it is held together by its own gravitational field ……… (2)

………

There are three main types of galaxy: ……… (3) ……… The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy: ……… (4) ……… About one-quarter of all galaxies have this shape Spiral galaxies are well supplied with the interstellar gas in which new stars form; as the rotating spiral pattern sweeps around the galaxy it compresses gas and dust, triggering the formation of bright young stars in its arms ……… (5) ……… Most of their member stars are very old and since ellipticals are devoid of interstellar gas, no new stars are forming in them

The biggest and brightest galaxies in the universe are ellipticals with masses of about 1013 times that

of the Sun; these giants may frequently be sources of strong radio emission, ………(6)

……… About two-thirds of all galaxies are elliptical Irregular galaxies comprise about one-tenth

of all galaxies and they come in many subclasses

Measurement in space is quite different from measurement on Earth Some terrestrial distances can

be expressed as intervals of time: ……… (7) ………, for example

By comparison with these familiar yardsticks, the distances to the galaxies are incomprehensibly large,

……… (8) ………, in this case the distance that light travels in one year On such a scale the nearest giant spiral galaxy………(9) ………, is two million light years away The most distant luminous objects seen by telescopes are probably ten thousand million light years away ……… (10) ……… The light from the nearby Virgo galaxy set out when reptiles still dominated the animal world

A the time to fly from one continent to another or the time it takes to drive to work

B a flattish disc of stars with two spiral arms emerging from its central nucleus

C in which case they are called radio galaxies

D Most of the material universe is organized into galaxies of stars, together with gas and dust

E A galaxy is a giant family of many millions of stars

F spiral, elliptical, and irregular

G but they too are made more manageable by using a time calibration

H the Andromeda galaxy

I Their light was already halfway here before the Earth even formed

J The elliptical galaxies have a symmetrical elliptical or spheroidal shape with no obvious structure

Your answer:

Part D WRITING

I Rewrite the following sentences, keeping their meaning unchanged, beginning with the words given (1 point)

1 Everyone thinks I picked all the flowers in the garden

I am thought ………

2 I tried to persuade her I didn’t succeed, however

Although ………

3 We decided to move to the countryside

We made a ………

4 The oceans are so vast that they can cope with the present levels of pollution

They are such ………

5 Does car exhaust fumes always pollute the air?

Is ……….?

6 The Colombian coffee cost less than the Kenyan coffee

The Colombian coffee was not ………

7 Let’s put our old newspapers and bottles in recycling bins

Why ……….?

8 He said that he was sorry he hadn’t told me before

He apologized ………

9 Yesterday she got up too late to catch the bus

Yesterday she got up so ………

10 Because of her determination to overcome difficulties, she climbed to the top of her profession Because she was ………

II The chart below gives information about global sales of games software, CDs and DVD or video Write a report describing the information

You should write at least 150 words (2 points)

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40

Games software DVD/Video CDs

III Some people think that family is the most important influence on young adults Other people think that friends are the most important influence on young adults Which view do you agree with? Use examples to support your opinion You should write at least 250 words (3 points)