ĐỀ THI THỬ CHUYÊN ANH LẦN THỨ 14 Ngày 02/06/2021 Soạn thảo: Hau Tran - Thời gian: 120 phút ĐIỂM Bằng số Bằng chữ Giám khảo Giám khảo Số BD A LISTENING (2.0pt) HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU Bài nghe gồm phần, phần nghe lần, mở đầu kết thúc phần nghe có tín hiệu Mở đầu kết thúc nghe có tín hiệu nhạc Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) có nghe I You will hear part of a radio talk about how to organize a wedding For questions 1- 10, complete the notes (1.0pt) WEDDING ADVICE One year ahead Choose (1) _ for wedding Choose best man and bridesmaids Decide on location for the (2) _ and reception, and make bookings Make a (3) _ Six months ahead Choose bride’s and bridesmaids’ dresses Choose (4) _ according to what will be in season) Choose (5) _ for reception (according to budget) Reserve (6) _ for guests Finalise arrangements for the (7) _ Three months ahead Check (8) _ is valid Organize (9) ) _ Think about the (10) _ (e g by bridegroom or possibly by bride) Most important thing- enjoy the wedding Your answers 10 II Listen and the tasks that follow (1.0 pt) Question 1-3: Choose the correct letter A, B or C Which year of study is the student in? A first B second What course is the student studying? A social science B sociology What is the student number? A 07-26523-821 B 07-26523-911 Questions 4- 5: Choose TWO letters, A- E Which TWO hall facilities are mentioned? A a gym B a games room C a launderette D Internet access E a shop Questions 6-10: Complete the table Write NO MORE NUMBER for each answer Types of room Rent for 40 Additional available weeks payments _ _ no _ Your answer: C third C sports science C 07-26523-921 THAN THREE WORDS OR/AND A Accommodation office web address How to get a room 10 10 B PHONETICS (0.5 pt) I Circle the option A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions (0.3 pt) A fathom B feather C anthem D within A muscle B significant C cathedral D combine A laugh B plough C tough D cough II Circle the option A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose primary stress differs from that of the other three in each of the following questions (0.2 pt) A mammal B camel C naval D canal A inadvertent B indifferent C inexorable D incalculable Your answer: C VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURE (2.5 pt) I Choose the best answer to fill in each blank (1.0 pt) The actor was so nervous that he could only remember small _ of dialogue A shreds B pieces C patches D snatches 2 You could make a formal complaint to the committee, but I wouldn't go down that _ if I were you A road B street C avenue D lane The cheered when the final goal was scored in the match today A spectators B audience C onlookers D viewers He was with emotion at seeing his team win the championship A carried over B carried forward C carried out D carried away the people who come to this club are in their twenties and thirties A Altogether B By and large C To a degree D Virtually After the accident, there was considerable doubt exactly what had happened A in the question of B as to C in the shape of D for Politicians often promise to solve all a country's problems A thick and fast B on the whole C at a stroke D of set purpose I like him very much, he is A so well a man B a quite good man C quite a good man D quite good a man I couldn't deny plausible excuses A him having made B he has made C that he has done D his having made 10 The automobile, along with several other important inventions, an incredible complex world A have created B have been created C has created B has been created Your answer: 10 II Think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all sentences (0.4pt) _ As your mind works at _ mental effectiveness in the morning, set aside some time and your studying in the early hours of the day Only the two surviving mountaineers reached the _ of the mountain It looked like a Pyrrhic victory Most of their friends lost their lives trying to beat nature The roads were terribly congested at _ times and the traffic was often reduced to a crawl _ The _ against winning the lottery are about million to one So, I’d rather you spent that money on my new shoes, honey Strangely enough, her description of the mugger was completely at _ with those of other witnesses The cellar was full of _ and ends the beggar had been collecting for years _ We left early and so _ the rush hour traffic When he was at school, Simon never _ an opportunity to boast about his achievements Petra completely _ the point of what the lecturer had said and so asked an entirely inappropriate question _ We met at university and I must say we _ it off straightaway We‘ve been friends ever since The scandal _ the headlines in the morning The campaign strategists were unable to avert disaster The worst _ region of the country was the south The flooding caused a lot of damage leaving many people homeless Your answer: III Fill in the blank with one suitable verb and preposition in the box below (0.6pt) go mingle run come hold go with into over off around up The excitement of starting a new job is always _ a certain apprehension Your mother hasn't _ from the surgery yet The bomb _ in a crowded street The project was _ by various legal problems _ your work before you hand it in We _ thick fog on the way home Your answer: IV Give the correct form of the words in brackets (0.5 pt) THE ORIGINS OF HALLOWEEN Halloween is celebrated in many parts of the western world, and is a time when people dress up as witches or ghosts, and go "trick-or treating" It is (1) _ (DOUBT) one of the most popular traditions in the United States and Britain The celebration originated about two thousand years ago with the Celts These people were the (2) (INHABIT) of an area that includes Britain, Ireland and Brittany They relied on the land for their (3) _ (LIVE), and this meant that they were at the mercy of unpredictable weather conditions, especially during the winter The Celtic New Year began on 1st November, which also marked the beginning of winter, a period traditionally associated with death On the eve of the New Year, it was believed that the barriers between the worlds of the living and the dead were temporarily withdrawn, and it was possible to communicate with spirits The Celts believed that the spirits offered them (4) (GUIDE) and protection, and the Druids (Celtic priests) were reputedly able to predict the future on this point When the Roman completed their (5) (CONQUER) of Celtic lands, they added their own flavour to this festival The advent of Christianity brought about yet other changes Your answer: C READING (2.5 pt) I Read the following passage and circle the letter A, B, C, D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions (0.8pt) MY FIRST TRIP WITH A CAMERA CREW It was books that first captured my imagination about faraway places TV travelogues always seemed the poor relation to the classic written accounts, although of course the pictures were rather better And then there was the issue of authenticity AH those pretentious theatrical types dying of thirst in the desert, as if we didn't realise there was a camera crew on hand to cater for their every need These days programme-makers know that the audience is more sophisticated and the presence of the camera is acknowledged But can a journey with filming equipment ever be anything other than a cleverly constructed fiction? I recently got the chance to find out, when I was asked to present two one-hour programmes for an adventure travel series The project was the brainchild of the production company Trans-Atlantic Films, which wanted the series presented by writers and adventurers, as well as TV professionals My sole qualification was as a journalist specialising in 'adventure' travel However, I was thought to have 'on-screen' potential The first programme was filmed in Costa Rica Within 24 hours of my arrival, I realised that this was going to be very different from my usual 'one man and his laptop' expeditions For a start, there were five of us - director, cameraman, sound recordist, producer and presenter And then there was the small matter of £100,000 worth of equipment I soon realised that the director, Peter Macpherson, was a vastly experienced adventure film-maker In his case, the term 'adventure' meant precisely that 'Made a film with X,' he would say (normally a famous mountaineer or skier), before describing a death-defying sequence at the top of a glacier in Alaska or hang-gliding off the Angel Falls in Venezuela Invariably, these reminiscences would end with the words: 'Had a great deal of respect for X Dead now, sadly ' Part of the brief for the series was to put the presenter in unusual situations and see how he or she coped One such sequence was the night we spent in the rainforest canopy near the Rincón de la Vieja National Park in Guanacaste province I don't have a head for heights and would make a poor rock-climber, so my distress is real enough as the camera catches me dangling on a rope some 30 metres up, well short of the canopy platform Ironically, it was the presence of the camera, looking down on me from above, that gave me the impetus for the final push to the top By this time, I'd learnt how 'sequences' were cut together and realised that one last effort was required I had to struggle to stay coherent while the camera swooped within a few millimeters of my face for my reaction In the end, it was a magical experience, heightened all the more by the sounds of the forest - a family of howler monkeys in a nearby tree, amplified through the sound recordist's headphones Learning how to establish a rapport with the camera is vital and it took me a while to think of it as a friend rather than a judge and jury The most intimidating moments were when Peter strolled up to me, saying that the light would only be right for another 10 minutes, and that he needed a 'link' from one sequence to another The brief was simple It needed to be 30 seconds long, sum up my feelings, be informative, well-structured and, most important of all, riveting to watch 'Ready to go in about five minutes?' he would say breezily I soon discovered that the effect of the camera on what was going on around us was far less intrusive than I had imagined After a first flurry of curiosity, people usually lost interest and let us get on with our job We were also flexible enough to be spontaneous Our trip coincided with an 80 per cent solar eclipse, a rare event anywhere in the world We were in a village called Santa Elena and captured the whole event on camera The carnival atmosphere was infectious and made a welcome addition to our shooting schedule One thing the writer used to dislike about travel programmes on TV was A the repetitive nature of many of them B the dull images that they frequently contained C their lack of respect for the intelligence of the viewers D their tendency to copy the style of famous written accounts What reason is given for the writer becoming involved in making TV travel programmes? A Other people's belief that he might be suited to appearing on them B His own desire to discover whether it was possible to make good ones C His own belief that it was natural for him to move from journalism to TV D A shortage of writers and adventurers willing to take part in them Shortly after arriving in Costa Rica, the writer became aware that A the director had a reputation that was undeserved B he would probably dislike working as part of a team rather than alone C he would probably get on well with the director personally D his role in the filming would be likely to involve real danger The writer uses the sequence filmed in the National Park as an example of A something he had been worried about before any filming started B the sort of challenge that presenters were intended to face in the series C something he was expected to be unable to deal with D the technical difficulties involved in making films in certain places What does the writer say about the last part of the sequence in the National Park? A It taught him a lot about the technical aspects of film-making B He was encouraged to complete it when he looked up at the camera C It changed his whole attitude towards doing dangerous things D He was unable to say anything that made sense at this time In Paragraph the writer says that he found it particularly difficult to A understand what was required of him for a 'link' B change things he was going to at very short notice C accept certain advice given to him about presenting a film D meet certain demands the director made on him What does the writer use the experience in Santa Elena as an example of? A Something they filmed although they had not planned to B The friendly way in which they were treated by the local people C Something they did purely for their own enjoyment D The kind of thing that viewers like to see in travel films The word “spontaneous” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to? A contemporaneous B unplanned C miscellaneous Your answer: D endearing II Fill in each of the blanks with one suitable word (1.0 pt) THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE The truth (1) _ nobody really knows how language first began Did we all start talking at around the same time (2) _ of the manner in which our brains had begun to develop? Although there is a lack of clear evidence, people have come up with various theories about the origins of language One recent (3) _ is that human beings have evolved in (4) _ a way that we are programmed for language from the moment of birth In (5) _ words, language came about as a result of an evolutionary change in our brains at some stage Language (6) _ well be programmed into the brain but, (7) _ this, people still need stimulus from others around them From studies, we know that (8) _ children are isolated from human contact and have not learnt to construct sentences before they are ten, it is doubtful they will ever so The research shows, if (9) _ else, that language is a social activity, not something invented (10) _ isolation Your answer: 10 III Read the following article and choose which of the paragraphs below fit into the numbered gaps There is one extra paragraph which does not fit in any of the gap (0.7pt) WEALTH IN A COLD CLIMATE Latitude is crucial to a nation’s economic strength A Dr William Masters was reading a book about mosquitoes when inspiration struck “There was this anecdote about the great yellow fever epidemic that hit Philadelphia in 1793,” Masters recalls “This epidemic decimated the city until the first frost came.” The inclement weather froze out the insects, allowing Philadelphia to recover B If weather could be the key to a city’s fortunes, Masters thought, then why not to the historical fortunes of nations? And could frost lie at the heart of one of the most enduring economic mysteries of all—why are almost all the wealthy, industrialised nations to be found at latitudes above 40 degrees? After two years of research, he thinks that he has found a piece of the puzzle Masters, an agricultural economist from Purdue University in Indiana, and Margaret McMillan at Tufts University, Boston, show that annual frosts are among the factors that distinguish rich nations from poor ones Their study is published this month in the Journal of Economic Growth The pair speculate that cold snaps have two main benefits – they freeze pests that would otherwise destroy crops, and also freeze organisms, such as mosquitoes, that carry disease The result is agricultural abundance and a big workforce C The academics took two sets of information The first was average income for countries, the second climate data from the University of East Anglia They found a curious tally between the sets Countries having five or more frosty days a month are uniformly rich, those with fewer than five are impoverished The authors speculate that the five-day figure is important; it could be the minimum time needed to kill pests in the soil Masters says: “For example, Finland is a small country that is growing quickly, but Bolivia is a small country that isn’t growing at all Perhaps climate has something to with that.” In fact, limited frosts bring huge benefits to farmers The chills kill insects or render them inactive; cold weather slows the break-up of plant and animal material in the soil, allowing it to become richer; and frosts ensure a build-up of moisture in the ground for spring, reducing dependence on seasonal rains There are exceptions to the “cold equals rich” argument There are well-heeled tropical places such as Hong Kong and Singapore, a result of their superior trading positions Like-wise, not all European countries are moneyed in the former communist colonies, economic potential was crushed by politics D Masters stresses that climate will never be the overriding factor – the wealth of nations is too complicated to be attributable to just one factor Climate, he feels, somehow combines with other factors such as the presence of institutions, including governments, and access to trading routes to determine whether a country will well Traditionally, Masters says, economists thought that institutions had the biggest effect on the economy, because they brought order to a country in the form of, for example, laws and property rights With order, so the thinking went, came affluence “But there are some problems that even countries with institutions have not been able to get around,” he says “My feeling is that, as countries get richer, they get better institutions And the accumulation of wealth and improvement in governing institutions are both helped by a favourable environment, including climate.” E This does not mean, he insists, that tropical countries are beyond economic help and destined to remain penniless Instead, richer countries should change the way in which foreign aid is given Instead of aid being geared towards improving governance, it should be spent on technology to improve agriculture and to combat disease Masters cites one example: “There are regions in India that have been provided with irrigation, agricultural productivity has gone up and there has been an improvement in health.” Supplying vaccines against tropical diseases and developing crop varieties that can grow in the tropics would break the poverty cycle F Other minds have applied themselves to the split between poor and rich nations, citing anthropological, climatic and zoological reasons for why temperate nations are the most affluent In 350 BC, Aristotle observed that “those who live in a cold climate…are full of spirit” Jared Diamond, from the University of California at Los Angeles, pointed out in his book Guns, Germs and Steel that Eurasia is broadly aligned east-west, while Africa and the Americas are aligned north-south So, in Europe, crops can spread quickly across latitudes because climates are similar One of the first domesticated crops, einkorn wheat, spread quickly from the Middle East into Europe; it took twice as long for corn to spread from Mexico to what is now the eastern United States This easy movement along similar latitudes in Eurasia would also have meant a faster dissemination of other technologies such as the wheel and writing, Diamond speculates The region also boasted domesticated livestock, which could provide meat, wool and motive power in the fields Blessed with such natural advantages, Eurasia was bound to take off economically G John Gallup and Jeffrey Sachs, two US economists, have also pointed out striking correlations between the geographical location of countries and their wealth They note that tropical countries between 23.45 degrees north and south of the equator are nearly all poor In an article for the Harvard International Review, they concluded that “development surely seems to favour the temperate-zone economies, especially those in the northern hemisphere, and those that have managed to avoid both socialism and the ravages of war” But Masters cautions against geographical determinism, the idea that tropical countries are beyond hope: “Human health and agriculture can be made better through scientific and technological research,” he says, “so we shouldn’t be writing off these countries Take Singapore: without air conditioning, it wouldn’t be rich.” List of Headings i The positive correlation between climate and wealth ii Other factors besides climate that influence wealth iii Inspiration from reading a book iv Other researchers’ results not rule out exceptional cases v Different attributes between Eurasia and Africa vi Low temperature benefits people and crops vii The importance of institution in traditional views viii The spread of crops in Europe, Asia and other places ix The best way to use aid x Confusions and exceptions Your answer: A B C D E F G D WRITING (2.5 pt) I Rewrite the following sentences, keeping their meaning unchanged, beginning with the words given and not alter the word given in brackets (0.5 pt) Don't forget those who are at work on this lovely sunny day (spare) Spare The impression most people have of him is that he is an honest person (comes) He _ She just pretended to welcome him, then quickly left the waiting room (motions) She just went Our children are crazy about Korean singers (head) Our children _ I promised him that the situation would not be repeated in the future (word) I II Rewrite each sentence, beginning as shown, so that the meaning stays the same (0.5 pt) I have frequently made stupid mistakes like that Many’s Whatever the methods used to obtain the results, drugs were definitely not involved There was no question _ I didn’t know why people are attracted to spending all day on the beach I can’t see She doesn't think very highly of politicians She’s got _ She was so attractive that every boy in the class ran after her Such III Essay composition (1.5 pt) The education you receive from your family is more important than the education you receive from school To what extent you agree with this statement and why? You should write at least 250 words _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THE END 10 ... times and the traffic was often reduced to a crawl _ The _ against winning the lottery are about million to one So, I’d rather you spent that money on my new shoes, honey Strangely enough,... _ We left early and so _ the rush hour traffic When he was at school, Simon never _ an opportunity to boast about his achievements Petra completely _ the point of what the lecturer... at university and I must say we _ it off straightaway We‘ve been friends ever since The scandal _ the headlines in the morning The campaign strategists were unable to avert disaster The