ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH LỚP 12 THPT VÒNG 1 NĂM 2012 MÔN TIẾNG ANH - SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO LONG AN

ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH LỚP 12 THPT VÒNG 1 NĂM 2012 MÔN TIẾNG ANH - SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO LONG AN

SỞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO

Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể phát đề)

Phách của Hội đồng chấm phúc khảo

Chữ kí Giám khảo I:………

Chữ kí Giám khảo II:………

Phách của Hội đồng chấm thi

Chữ kí Giám khảo I:……….Chữ kí Giám khảo II:………

- Đề thi gồm 22 trang; thí sinh làm bài thi trên đề thi này.

- Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu, kể cả từ điển.

- Giám thị không giải thích gì thêm.

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I LISTENING (6/40 points):

PART 1: You are going to listen to two students talking about libraries in

Australia

Listen and choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) for each question

1/ Why is Yumi worried?

A She is a new student

B She doesn’t know very much about libraries

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C She hasn’t used a library much

D She has a lot of assignments

2/ Who advised Yumi to join the local library?

A her flat mate

B Mary Ann

C The librarian

D Mary Ann and Yumi’s flat mate

3/ What items cannot be borrowed from the local library?

A she will have to pay the fine

B she will have to pay 10 cents

C it won’t cost her anything

D she can’t borrow anything later

5/ Why hasn’t Yumi been to university library yet?

A She couldn’t attend the orientation activities

B She has been sick all week

C She has to go to her lecture

D She doesn’t know where it is

Label the map of the library below Choose the correct letter from A- E for each answer:

ENTRANCE

You will hear an interview with a man called Richard Porter who is a maker of

musical instruments called organs Listen and complete the sentences:

Musical Instrument Maker

Richard’s first ambition was to be a

churches worldwide

Richard makes

with most of his overseas clients

well as building and selling them

uses comes from Britain

Richard’s new workshop will be a building that was once used as a

new workshop

The only thing that Richard will have to pay for his new workshop is the

The new workshop will be perfect for the instruments Richard makes because it is a

Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) that best completes each sentence.

1 Even though they don’t agree with what is happening, they are too………… to

protest

2 The policeman………….me off with a warning as it was Christmas

3 Big cities like New York and Tokyo are _ populated

A greatly B closely C densely D variously

4 I am sorry for all the ……….things I said to you

5 Conservationists are worried that many potentially valuable of plants andanimals are threatened with extinction

6 I find his behavior towards me quite………He treats me like an idiot

7 At first Tom insisted he was right, but then began to………

8 It’s no good pretending You’ve got to ……… reality

A bargain for B come up against C face up to D get down to

9 In the United States, ……….is the most concentrated is New Orleans

A French influence the city C the city where French influence

B Where the city influences French D where the French influence the city

10 They turned the proposal ……….that it didn’t fulfill their requirements

A allowing B as a cause C by reason D on the grounds Your answers:

punctuation in the space on the right Some lines are correct Indicate these lines with

a tick () The first three lines are done for you as examples.

How Equal Are Woman, Really?

On the face of it, women in Britain haven’t done too badly over the passed

thirty years There has been a woman Prime Minister a woman has gone into

space, and women are ordained as priests They have won the right to equal

pay with men for the same work inspite of the fact that they still earn only

80% of their male colleague’s salaries They have even become professionals

in what have always been considered male sports, like football But can it

really be said that equality of the sexes is fact rather than wishful thinking.

The trouble begins at school, though equality shouldn’t be an issue in

education since, acording to the Department of Education’s statistics, they do

better than boys in exams at all levels Nevertheless, they are at an immediate

disadvantage as soon as they apply for jobs and go out to work Teachers

believe its vital to overcome this by encouraging them to study subjects like

physics, which have been almost exclusively a male preserve A peice of

research recently carried out at Reading University may explain why boys

succeed, weather or not they have better academic qualifications It shows

that they are willing to call out answers in class and risk making mistakes,

whereas girls feel self conscious This capacity to take the lead is why boys

tend to make a better impresion at an interview for a business career, though

they may not always prove to be the best choice thereafter

The Desire to Know

Curiosity goes back to the dawn of human (0)…existence…… This

irresponsible desire to know is not a (1)………of inanimate objects

Nor does it seem to be attributable to some forms of living organism which,

for that very reason, we can scarcely bring ourselves to consider alive A

tree, for example, does not display (2)……… curiosity, nor does a

sponge or even an oyster If chance events bring them poison, predators or

parasites, they die as (3)……….as they lived

Early in the scheme of life, (4)……….motion was developed by

some organisms It meant an (5)……….advance in their control of

the environment A moving organism no longer waited in stolid (6)

………for food to come its way, but went out after it The individual

that hesitated in the (7)……….search for food, or that was overly (8)

………in its investigation, starved

As organisms grew more complex, more messages of greater variety were

received from and about the (9)………environment At the same

time, the nervous system, the living instrument that interprets and stores the

data collected by the sense organs, became (10)………….complex

EXISTCHARACTER

RECOGNISECEREMONIOUS

DEPENDORDINARY

RIGIDZEALCONSERVE

ROUNDINCREASE

Your answers:

PART 4:

Replace the underlined expressions in the sentences below with the suitable phrasal verbs

in the box Make any necessary changes There are more words than you need

suck up to put across drop out of pick up drag on

dumb down count towards swot up kick out

clamp down on take over mess around step down

1 I’ve got tests all next week- I’ve really got to revise hard.

2 Todd stopped attending school at 16 because he considered schoolwork a waste of time

3 Does this term’s test mark contribute to our final grade?

4 Apparently, the headmaster is going to implement punishments more strictly for truancy

5 Just because Jilly cleaned the blackboard, it doesn’t mean she is trying to make herself popular with the teacher

6 If you make too much noise in Mrs Skinner’s class, she will make you leave

7 I can’t wait for the summer holidays- this term has seemed to last a long time

8 So many students lacked basic numeracy skills that the course has been made simpler andeasier

9 I couldn’t hear the teacher because the other kids were behaving badly

10 Surely if Hannah were dyslexic, it would have been noticed long before now

Each and (0)………every…………day we see hundreds of advertising images (1)

………… other of image confronts us (2)……….anything like the same frequency.Never in history (3)……….there been such a concentration of visual messages The braincannot help (4)………… take these messages in, and for a moment they stimulate theimagination (5)………virtue of their appeal to memory or expectation

Advertising is usually justified as a competitive medium of benefit (6)……….the publicand efficient manufactures (7)………it may be true that, in advertising, one particularbrand competes against another, it is also just (8)……….true that such publicity imagesconfirm and enhance others That there are choices to be made (9)……….without saying

but, ultimately, advertising as a system makes a single proposal- namely (10)……… wetransform ourselves, or our lives, by buying something more We are led to believe that, by (11)

………… doing, we will in (12)………….way or another become richer- but in fact we willbecome poor, (13)……….spent our money

Advertising shows us people who have apparently been transformed into a new state and are, as

a result, enviable The state of being envied is (14)……….constitutes glamour Andadvertising is in the business (15)……… manufacturing glamour

Complete the sentences below, using one of the words in the box

arrest consequence lead face increase means

praise appearance reach intention exception stage

1 Crime is said to be on the (a)……….in this area, and in (b)………the mayor has appealed for more police to be brought in to deal with it

2 Before the police could put him under (a)………., he fled abroad to a country without an extradition treaty, beyond the (b)………of authorities

3 On the (a)…………of it, it looks a simple task but from bitter experience I know that it isn’t easy by any (b)………

4 There have been several reviews in (a)……… of the film but it’s too early to say at this (b)………that it will win the prize at the festival

5 He took the (a)………… in arranging these meetings and has every (b)……….of

playing his full part in the process

Your answers:

1.(a)

(b) 2 (a) (b) 3 (a) (b) 4 (a) (b) 5 (a) (b)

III READING (8/40 points)

PART 1:

Read the following passage and decide which answer A, B, C, or D best fits each gap

MEN AND SHOPPING

Normally, a crèche is where children are looked after while their parents work, but recently ashopping center opened a ‘crèche’ which (1)…… men to play computer games while theirpartners go shopping The aim is to (2)…… men to feel that shopping is fun You only have to(3)……… at men’s faces in a shopping center in the UK to realize that they find shopping less(4)……… than women Whether they are well off or (5)……… up, the effect is the same: theyare so anxious before they go shopping that their stress levels increase to a truly (6)………extent, comparable to those felt by (7)…… fighter pilots or riot police According to onepsychologist, women are much more (8)……… in the shops and men get so impatient becausemen are less used to shopping than women She adds that, quite (9)…… over the years, womenhave developed a laid-back (10)……… to shopping, but that men’s negative feelings (11)

……… when they are buying things for people other than themselves It’s understandable, then,that women (12)……… men for not (13)…… an effort when it comes to buying things for thefamily She notes that, in the UK, many men (14)………… to go shopping at all, or claim to feel(15)……… out after only five minutes Let’s hope the crèche makes a difference!

8 A comfortable B convenient C relaxing D restful

environmentally

Your answers:

PART 2:

Read the following passage and do the tasks below:

Day after day we hear about how anthropogenic development is causing global warming.According to an increasingly vocal minority, however, we should be asking ourselves how much

of this is media hype and how much is based on real evidence It seems, as so often is the casethat it depends on which expert you listen to, or which statistics you study

       Yes, it is true that there is a mass of evidence to indicate that the world is getting warmer,with one of the world's leading weather predictors stating that air temperatures have shown anincrease of just under half a degree Celsius since the beginning of the twentieth century Andwhile this may not sound like anything worth losing sleep over, the international press wouldhave us believe that the consequences could be devastating Other experts, however, are of theopinion that what we are seeing is just part of a natural upward and downward swing that hasalways been part of the cycle of global weather An analysis of the views of majormeteorologists in the United States showed that less than 20% of them believed that any change

in temperature over the last hundred years was our own fault - the rest attributed it to naturalcyclical changes

       There is, of course, no denying that we are still at a very early stage in understandingweather The effects of such variables as rainfall, cloud formation, the seas and oceans gasessuch as methane and ozone, or even solar energy are still not really understood, and therefore thepredictions that we make using them cannot always be relied on Dr James Hansen, in 1988, waspredicting that the likely effects of global warming would be a rising of world temperature whichwould have disastrous consequences for mankind: “a strong cause and effect relationshipbetween the current climate and human alteration of the atmosphere " He has now gone onrecord as stating that using artificial models of climate as a way of predicting change is all butimpossible In fact, he now believes that, rather than getting hotter, our planet is getting greener

as a result of the carbon dioxide increase, with the prospect of increasing vegetation in areaswhich in recent history have been frozen wastelands

        In fact, there is some evidence to suggest that as our computer-based weather models havebecome more sophisticated, the predicted rises in temperature have been cut back In addition, if

we look at the much reported rise in global temperature over the last century, a close analysisreveals that the lion's share of that increase, almost three quarters in total, occurred before manbegan to "poison" his world with industrial processes and the accompanying greenhouse gasemissions in the second half of the twentieth century

        So should we pay any attention to those stories that scream out at us from billboards andtelevision news headlines, claiming that man, with his inexhaustible dependence on oil-basedmachinery and ever more sophisticated forms of transport is creating a nightmare level ofgreenhouse gas emissions, poisoning his environment and ripping open the ozone layer?

Doubters point to scientific evidence, which can prove that, of all the greenhouse gases, only twopercent come from man-made sources, the rest resulting from natural emissions Who, then, tobelieve: the environmentalist exhorting us to leave the car at home, to buy re-usable productspackaged in recycled paper and to plant trees in our back yard? Or the skeptics, including, ofcourse, a lot of big businesses who have most to lose, when they tell us that we are making amountain out of a molehill? And my own opinion? The jury's still out as far as I am concerned!

Question 1-6: Choose the appropriate letters (A, B, C or D), based on the information from the passage.

1   The author

A    believes that man is causing global warming

B    believes that global warming is a natural process

C    is sure what the causes of global warming are

D    does not say what he believes the causes of global warming are

2.   As to the cause of global warming, the author believes that

A    occasionally the facts depend on who you are talking to

B    the facts always depend on who you are talking to

C    often the facts depend on which expert you listen to

D    you should not speak to experts

3.   More than 80% of the top meteorologists in the United States are of the opinion

that

A    global warming should make us lose sleep

B    global warming is not the result of natural cyclical changes, but man-made

C    the consequences of global warming will be devastating

D    global warming is not man-made, but the result of natural cyclical changes

4.   Our understanding of weather

A    leads to reliable predictions

B    is variable