Listen and answer the following questions by either choosing the correct answers or supplying your own answers in the space provided.. You do not need to write full sentences.[r]
(1)ĐATA 12 TLĐT-HSG 23-11-2010 UBND TỈNH TIỀN GIANG SỞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI QUỐC GIA LỚP 12 THPT NĂM 2010 Đáp án chính thức Môn thi Thời gian thi Ngày thi : TIẾNG ANH : 180 phút ( không kể thời gian giao đề ) : 23/11/2010 Đáp án có 11 trang , gồm 04 phần ( I, II, III và IV ) Thí sinh không sử dụng tài liệu, kể từ điển Giám thị không giải thích gì thêm Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp lên đề thi ( chỗ dành sẵn ) Chữ ký Giám khảo I : Chữ ký Giám khảo II : Điểm câu Câu ……………… Câu 6……………… Câu ……………… Câu 7……………… Câu ……………… Câu 8……………… Câu ……………… Câu 9……………… Câu 5……………… Câu 10………… Tổng điểm ( số ) -I/ LISTENING (4/20 points) HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU Bài nghe gồm phần, phần nghe lần, lần cách 15 giây, mở đầu và kết thúc phần nghe có tín hiệu Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc Thí sinh có phần để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín hiệu nhạc kết thúc bài nghe Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có bài nghe Part 1: Questions – 10 This is an introductory talk by a Student Information Officer Listen and answer the following questions by either choosing the correct answers or supplying your own answers in the space provided ( You not need to write full sentences.) Overseas students will enroll on A 8th February B 16th February (2) ĐATA 12 TLĐT-HSG 23-11-2010 C 17th February D 18th February Undergraduate students must enroll A between 8.00 and 10.30 am B between 9.30 am and 12.30 pm C between 12.30 and 2.30 pm D between 2.00 and 4.30 pm The venue for enrolment is A in the Mathematics Faculty B on Level 158 C in Room C658 D in Room C6 At enrolment, all students A must show a letter of acceptance from their faculty B need not show their letter of acceptance C need not bring any identification D must prove their level of English proficiency Students who have paid their fees A should go to the International Students’ Office B are guaranteed a place at university C must get a bank cheque D should pay a further $ 10,000 The student Card A is issued before enrolment B has the student’s identification number C is issued by the Library D is not laminated During university term, the Library will be open A from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm B from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm C from 8.30 am to 9.00 pm D from 4.00 pm to 9.30 pm If anyone who hasn’t paid their fees for this semester yet, where should they go? _THE STUDENT ADMISSIONS OFFICE _ As regards paying the fees, what is a word of advice? _IT’S BEST TO GET A BANK CHEQUE TO PAY YOUR FEES _ 10 Why don’t you have to bring a photo for Student Cards? Because the enrolling officer will _TAKE AN INSTANT PHOTO and put it on the card, so it’s all done at once 1D 6B 2B 7C 3C 4A 5B 10 Part : Questions 11 – 25 Listen to a newsreader talk about a disaster and fill in the missing information in the numbered space Severe storms hit the western areas of the city last night, leaving (11) scenes of destruction and at least a hundred homes without power or running water Dozens of families were left homeless when the roofs of their houses (12) were _ ripped away (3) ĐATA 12 TLĐT-HSG 23-11-2010 Many of the areas hit were the same ones badly affected by (13) _ hailstorms last week In Macquarie Street, the council car park was completely (14) _ flooded A Toyota Corolla was badly damaged by floodwaters which carried the car across the (15) _ carpark and into a large stormwater drain A separate storm (16) _ raced through the Federation Botanical Park It uprooted at least (17) _ 50 trees; many of them were over a hundred years old In Menal, several trees were found lying on parked cars, causing an insurance bill that will run into the (18) _ tens of thousands of dollars Winds were recorded at speeds of over (19) _ 70 kilometers an hour People were trapped in cars for up to an hour because the (20) _ floodwaters had left them stranded in swollen creeks, amidst a sea of debris There were (21) _ reports of cars being piled one on top of the other In Lucas Heights a tree fell on a mini-bus that was taking the (22) _ local soccer team to training Luckily all but the driver escaped serious injury The (23) _ driver is in an (24) _ satisfactory condition in Westmead Hospital For tomorrow, weather reports predict improved conditions, with clear skies and an expected (25) _ maximum temperature in the city of 14, Helen Brookes reporting for ILTC RADIO NEWS Part 3: Questions 26 - 40 You will hear a conversation between a representative of an insurance company and a person who wishes to apply for life insurance While you listen to the conversation, complete the person’s application form by either circle the choice or by supplying the information Swallow Life Insurance Name of Applicant Address (27) Postcode (28) 52, GREEN STREET ……………………… ……2135…… Age (29) Height (30) ………35…… ………1 METRE 75 / ………80 175 KILOS/KILOGRAMS…… CENTIMETERS…… Marital Status (32) Single (26) ………GEORGE ROWLANDS …… Married Weight (31) Divorced Widowed (4) ĐATA 12 TLĐT-HSG 23-11-2010 …… SINGLE…… MEDICAL HISTORY Serious illness (33) …NONE… Which of the following is not described as serious illness by the interviewer? Major surgical operations Any current medical condition measles, kidney disorder, pneumonia, cancerous growth (34) ……MEASLES…… (35 ……NONE… (36) ……HAY FEVER…… Is applicant’s father or mother dead ? If so, at what age did he/she die? Why? Father Mother (37) ………FATHER………… Is the applicant currently a smoker? Yes (40) ……YES……… Age: (38) Cause of Death: (39) ………67…… …CAR ACCIDENT No II LEXICO - GRAMMAR ( 6/20 pts.) Part : Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence Write your answer ( A, B, C, or D ) in the numbered box 41 In the last century, it was widely …………… that Indian fakirs were capable of superhuman feasts A held B grasped C kept D shaken 42 We may win, we may lose – it’s just the …………… of the draw! A strike B odds C chance D luck 43 Claims for compensation could …………… run into billions of pounds A far B much C well D most 44 Trespassers will be …………… A perpetrated B persecuted C proscribed D prosecuted 45 A traveler looks down on anyone who seems to be a(n) ……………tourist A only B sole C mere D lone (5) ĐATA 12 TLĐT-HSG 23-11-2010 46 We welcome the new regulations, which become …………… on the first of next month A effective B efficient C efficacious D effete 47 He’ll never be able to come …………… with his failure to win the tournament A down B round C to terms D up 48 He’s on his own now – he’ll have to ………… his own canoe! A row B steer C paddle D ride 49 Most people buy their houses with a loan which they then pay back ………… 25 years A over B during C with D throughout 50 People who are squeamish are afraid of the ………… of blood A spectacle B view C sight D look Your answers 41 A 42 D 43 C 44 D 45 C 46 A 47 C 48 C 49 A 50 C Part 2: Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word in the numbered space provided in the column on the right ( 0) has been done as an example Your answers There is (0) _ (WIDTH) wide cross-cultural variation in the social rules governing the selection of a partner for marriage There is variation in the degree to which (51) _ (PART) selection is an individual decision by the partners or a collective decision by the partners kin groups, and there is variation in the rules (52) _ (REGULATIONS) which partners are valid (53) _ (CHOOSE) wide 51 partner 52 regulating 53 choices In many societies the choice of partner is limited to suitable persons from specific social groups In some societies the rule is that a partner is selected from an individual's own social group - endogamy, this is the case in many class and caste based societies But in other societies a partner must be chosen from a different group than one's own - exogamy, this is the case in many societies practicing totemic religion where society is (54) 54 divided _ (DIVISION) into several exogamous totemic clans, such as most aboriginal Australian societies In other societies a person is expected to marry their cross-cousin, a woman must marry her father's sister's son and a man must marry his mother's brother's daughter - this is often the case if either a society has a rule of tracing kinship (55) 55 exclusively _ (EXCLUSION) through patrilineal or matrilineal descent groups as among the Akan people of Africa Another kind of marriage selection is the levirate marriage in which widows are obligated to marry their husband's brother, this is mostly found in societies where kinship is based on endogamous clan groups In other cultures with less strict rules governing the groups from which a partner can be chosen the selection of a marriage partner may involve either the couple going through a selection process of (56) (6) ĐATA 12 TLĐT-HSG 23-11-2010 56 courtship _ (COURT) or the marriage may be arranged by the couple's parents or an outside party, a matchmaker A pragmatic (or 'arranged') marriage is made easier by formal procedures of family or group politics A responsible authority sets up or (57) _ (COURAGE) the marriage; they may, indeed, engage a professional matchmaker to find a suitable spouse for an (58) _ (MARRY) person The authority figure could be parents, family, a religious official, or a group consensus In some cases, the authority figure may choose a match for purposes other than marital (59) _ (HARMONIZE) 57 encourages 58 unmarried 59 harmony In rural Indian villages, child marriage is also practiced, with parents at times arranging the wedding, sometimes even before the child is born This practice is now (60) _ (LEGAL) under the Child Marriage 60 illegal Restraint Act In some societies ranging from Central Asia to the Caucasus to Africa, the custom of bride kidnapping still exists, in which a woman is captured by a man and his friends Part 3: The passage below contains 10 mistakes Underline the mistakes and correct them in the space provided in the column on the right ( 0) has been done as an example Your answers English is an West Germanic language that originated from the an → a Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic invaders from various parts of that is now northwest Germany and the Netherlands 61 what Initially, Old English was a divert group of dialects, reflecting the varied 62 diverse origins of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England One of these dialects, Late West Saxon, eventually came to dominate The original Old English language was then influential by two further waves of invasion: the first by speakers of the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic language family, which conquered and colonized parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries; the latter by the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke Old Norman and ultimately developed an English variety of this called Anglo-Norman These two invasions caused English to become "mixed" to any degree 63 influenced Cohabitation with the Scandinavians resulted in a significant grammatical simplification and lexical enrichment of the Anglo-Frisian core of English; the later Norman occupation led to the grafting onto that Germanic core of a more elaborate layer of works from the Romance languages (Latin-based languages) This Norman influence entered English large through the courts and government Thus, English developed into a "borrowing" language of great flexibility, resulted in an enormous and varied vocabulary 67 ( cho 0.2 câu này ) 64 who 65 second 66 some 68 words 69 largely 70 resulting Part : Supply the correct form of the VERB in brackets to complete the passage Write your answer in the numbered box (7) ĐATA 12 TLĐT-HSG 23-11-2010 Your answers 71 MANIPULATING 72 TO FORM 73 TO FULFIL 74 LEARNING 75 NEGATED 76 TEACHING 77 HELPING 78 TAUGHT 79 SPELLING 80 NOT KNOW Part 5: Fill each gap in the following sentences with one of the prepositions or particles in the box Use each word only ONCE and write your answer in the numbered box ( Please note that the given words outnumber the gaps) to into in behind under in round about for against at with 81 Leaving fingerprints _ was very foolish 82 Doctors advice people who are deficient _ Vitamin C to eat more fruit and vegetables 83 As his aunt’s only beneficiary, he came _ a fortune on her death 84 On returning home, Peter discovered _ his horror that the pipes had burst and the entire house was flooded 85 The police held the two suspects for further questioning because their stories did not tie _ with each other 86 She has been a bit _ the weather recently She has not been very well 87 When he came _ after the operation, he had absolutely no idea where he was 88 He has been harboring his grievances _ his boss 89 _ length, the bus arrived, forty minutes late 90 He is _ disgrace with his father because he told a lie Your answers 81 BEHIND 82 IN 83 INTO 84 TO 85 IN 86 UNDER 87 ROUND 88 AGAINST 89 AT 90 IN III : READING ( 4/20 points ) Part 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer ( A, B, C, or D ) best fits each gap Write your answer in the numbered box ( 0) has been done as an example (0.) _ In developing countries, the (91.) _ number and seriousness of the problems faced are naturally greater People in more remote or agrarian areas are sometimes unaware of the importance of education However, many countries have an active Ministry of Education, and in many subjects, such as foreign language learning, the degree of education is actually much higher than in industrialized countries; for example, it is not at all (92.) _ uncommon for students in many developing countries to be reasonably fluent in multiple foreign languages, (93.) _ whereas this is much more of a rarity in the supposedly "more educated" countries where (94.) _ much of the population is in fact monolingual (8) ĐATA 12 TLĐT-HSG 23-11-2010 Universal primary education is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals and great improvements have been (95.) _ achieved in the past decade, yet a great deal (96.) _ remains to be done Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute indicate the main obstacles to greater funding from donors (97.) _ include donor priorities, aid architecture, and the lack of evidence and advocacy Additionally, Transparency International has identified corruption in the education sector as a major stumbling block to achieving Universal primary education in Africa Furthermore, demand in the developing world for improved educational access is not as high as one would expect as governments avoid the (98.) _ recurrent costs involved and there is economic pressure on those parents who prefer their children making money in the short term over any long-term benefits of education Recent studies on child labor and poverty have suggested that when poor families reach a certain economic (99.) _ threshold where families are able to provide for their basic needs, parents return their children to school This has been found to be true, once the threshold has been (100.) _ breached, even if the potential economic value of the children's work has increased since their return to school Your answers (0) C 91 C 96 B 92 D 97 D 93 D 98 C 94 D 99 D 95 A 100 B Part 2: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable sentence from the list A to E for each gap from 101 to 107 (There is one extra sentence which you not need to use.) Then, choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the questions from 108 to 110 Write your answer in the numbered box Your answers 101 C 106 G 102 F 107 E 103 A 108 B 104 D 109 B 105 B 110 A Part 3: Read the following passage and answer the questions from 111 to 120 Questions 111-115: Complete the summary and choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the above-mentioned passage to fill in each numbered blank supplied Write your answer in the numbered box Sand dunes In terms of geological features, sand dunes are described as large mounds of sand Sand dunes are the result of wind blowing and causing (111) _EROSION Their shape is up to the (112) _WIND There are many different kinds of dunes Sand dunes are usually in coastal regions or in deserts They have many different shapes and the (113) CRESCENT dune is found more often than any other ones They come in different types Among them, the one that is without the minimum number of sides nor is a larger dune containing many smaller dunes in itself is a (114) _COMPLEX dune Their effects are to help prevent erosion, create environment for fauna and flora to live in, and to give rise to (115) DESERTIFICATION Questions 116-120: Complete another brief summary of the passage be selecting the FIVE answer choices that express important ideas in the passage Some sentences not belong in the summary because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage (9) ĐATA 12 TLĐT-HSG 23-11-2010 (116) …………A……………… (117) …………E……………… (upload.123doc.net) …………F……………… (119) …………G/H……………… (120) …………H/G…………… Part 4: Fill each blank with ONE suitable word Write your answers in the numbered boxes provided below the passage Your answers 121 customs 126 departure / leaving 122 during 127 possible / necessary 123 more 128 late 124 middle 129 occasions 125 all 130 result IV WRITING ( 6/20 points ) Part 1: (0.5/20 pts) Use the word(s) given in brackets and make any necessary additions to write a new sentence in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence Do NOT change the form of the given word(s) 131 Turning down that job was very foolish of you YOU MADE A FOOL OF (YOURSELF) TURNING DOWN THAT JOB / IT WAS VERY FOOLISH OF YOU TO TURN DOWN THAT JOB/ YOU TURNED DOWN THAT JOB, WHICH WAS VERY FOOLISH …………………………………………… 132 Many species of wild life are threatened with extinction MANY SPECIES OF WILD LIFE ARE DRIVEN TO THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION./ MANY SPECIES OF WILD LIFE ARE ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION …………………… …………………………… 133 Pandas need a special diet, without which they perish PANDAS PERISH/WILL PERISH UNLESS THEY HAVE/LIVE ON/GO ON/ARE GIVEN/ARE PROVIDED WITH/ ARE FED WITH A SPECIAL DIET ……………………… ……………………… 134 You’d be wasting your time trying to make him change his mind IT IS/’D BE POINTLESS TO TRY TO MAKE HIM CHANGE HIS MIND/ TRYING TO MAKE HIM CHANGE HIS MIND IS POINTLESS ……………………………… ……………………… 135 The police arrived as the thieves were committing the crime THE POLICE CAUGHT THE THIEVES RED-HANDED./ THE THIEVES WERE CAUGHT RED-HANDED ……………………………………………… 136 We don’t seem to have much sugar left! WE SEEM TO BE RUNNING OUT OF SUGAR ……………… …………… 137 Mass tourism has been one of the causes of the problem THEY HAVE BEEN TO BLAME MASS TOURISM FOR THE PROBLEM./ THEY HAVE BEEN TO BLAME THE PROBLEM ON MASS TOURISM./ MASS TOURISM HAS BEEN TO BLAME FOR THE PROBLEM (10) ĐATA 12 TLĐT-HSG 23-11-2010 …………………………………….……………… 138 The ‘environmentally friendly’ label on this product is misleading CONTRARY TO THE LABEL/ITS LABEL/THE LABEL ON IT/WHAT IT SAYS /READS ON THE LABEL/ WHAT IS SAID ON THE LABEL/ , THIS PRODUCT IS NOT ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY ………………………………………………………… 139 The pressures of being in the public eye have proved too much for him HE HAS HAD TO COPE TOO MUCH WITH THE PRESSURES OF BEING IN THE PUBLIC EYE./ HE CAN’T COPE WITH THE PRESSURES OF BEING IN THE PUBLIC EYE ANY LONGER./ ANY MORE HE CAN NO LONGER COPE WITH THE PRESSURES OF BEING IN THE PUBLIC EYE …………………………………………………………….……… 140 We were not very surprised to hear that he had been stealing money from the company THEIR STEALING/HAVING STOLEN MONEY FROM THE COMPANY CAME AS NO SURPRISE TO US / IT CAME AS NO SURPRISE TO US THAT HE HAD BEEN STEALING MONEY FROM THE COMPANY./ THAT HE HAD BEEN STEALING MONEY FROM THE COMPANY CAME AS NO SURPRISE TO US …………………………………………………………………………………… Part 2: (2.5/20 pts) The chart below shows Consumer Price Indexes of Vietnam in 2007 Write a report describing the information shown You should write at least 150 words (11) ĐATA 12 TLĐT-HSG 23-11-2010 EXAMPLE: ( Đây là ví dụ, không phải bài mẫu ) The graph/chart/diagram indicates/shows consumer price indexes of Vietnam through the months of the year 2007 As can be seen, the indexes of food and staple food, the common index, and even that of USD all increased with varied patterns Most obviously the gold price rose the highest of all up to 127.2% in December 2007 compared to the end of the year 2006, which went up dramatically with its two peaks at 137% in the second quarter and 129% in the third quarter of the year The USD price and the food price were comparatively stable, in which the former was remarkably lower than that of the gold and other consumer goods with the percentage of December 2007 increasing only by 1% while the latter went up sharply by 5% in February and afterwards decreased a little and increased slightly by 5.5% in the end of the year 2007 vs the end of the year 2006 This was just under the rise in the percentage of the common index (12) ĐATA 12 TLĐT-HSG 23-11-2010 There was a gradual and, after that, dramatic growth in the staple food price during the last months of the year Accordingly, the staple food price went up by 14.1% compared to December 2006 The common index in December 2007 climbed up to 106%, less than one-fifth of that of the gold price in the same period To sum up/In brief/In conclusion, the statistics show that while the index of the USD price changed little while that of other consumer goods mounted higher partly due to the rise in the gold price However, there is still an optimistic signal that the common index didn’t ascend much Part 3: (3/20 pts) School violence is one of the social issues these days that is demanding corrective attention every passing day What you think? Write about 300 words to discuss and suggest the solutions (and not include your personal information) You may continue your writing on the back page if you need more space Sau đây là gợi ý, không phải bài mẫu: School violence is a very pointed problem It is one of the social issues these days that is demanding corrective attention every passing day School violence is getting worse and worse Mass media have been reporting a great deal about the problem Every day we hear more new cases of school boys and girls fighting, stabbing, outraging, wounding, insulting, attacking or revenging This problem is so serious that something needs to be done about it before it is too late SOLUTIONS: - eradicate violence-stimulating forms of culture such as books, pictures, movies, games on line that involve or advocate violence - educate school students to live and behave peacefully, not to behave aggressively by the fact that relatives, teachers, friends, neighbors set good examples through their actions, responses, behaviors, manners - encourage school children to struggle for noble, positive, humane ideals Make sure that they pursue healthy, positive interests, - provide a friendly, mutually-affectionate, helpful and collective environment for school students to live in, so as to foster friendliness, helpfulness, solidarity and to abolish autism, unfriendliness, hostility - ………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… THE END (13)