Đề thi HSG cấp tỉnh Lớp 11 môn Tiếng Anh (Đề 1) - Năm học 2016-2017 - Sở GD&ĐT tỉnh Lai Châu (Có đáp án)

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1. ĐỀ THI HSG CẤP TỈNH LỚP 11 MÔN: TIẾNG ANH ĐỀ SỐ: 01 (Thí sinh không được làm trực tiếp vào đề thi) PART I: PHONETICS Question 1. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others and write your answers on your answer sheet. (0.5 point) 1. A. throughB. enoughC. roughD. tough 2. A. stepsB. touristsC. banks D. symbols 3. A. stationedB. belongedC. establishedD. studied 4. A. combB. commonC. homeD. dome 5. A. certainB. curtainC. maintainD. Britain Question 2. Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others in the group and write your answers on your answer sheet. (0.5 point) 1. A. experimentalB. confidentiallyC. centenarianD. insupportable 2. A. AsianB. advanced C. gatherD. decade 3. A. decorateB. influenceC. celebrateD. entertain 4. A. supervisorB. catastropheC. agricultureD. dictionary 5. A. householdB. conflictC. concernD. garbage PART II: LEXICO – GRAMMAR Question 1. Choose the best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences and write your answers on your answer sheet. (3 points) 1. I don’t think it would be wise to try to make Max change his mind about divorcing Barbara. Well, in his place I ______ her at all. A. would never have marriedB. needn’t have married C. would never marryD. must never have married 2. The children appear________ about the trip. A. excitingB. being excitedC. to exciteD. to be excited 3. Buy me a dozen of eggs on the way back, __________? A. will youB. may youC. do youD. can you 4. Many sea animals are at__________ due to hunting and water pollution. A. lossB. deathC. riskD. danger 5. They turned ________ at the party, despite the awful weather. A. roundB. inC. backD. up 6. While the police were searching for the missing girl, _______girl was reported to have disappeared. A. otherB. the otherC. othersD. another 7. Life's very easy for you. You were born with a _______ spoon in your mouth. A. golden B. silver C. bronze D. diamond 8. It’s been a good year. I’ve written two books and a couple of articles, and _______ are now in print. A. both of which B. both of them C. all of which D. all of them 9. We rang the doorbell again _______ they hadn’t heard it the first time. A. because B. although C. for fear of D. in case 10. A: Why didn't you go to work yesterday? B: I was feeling a bit ____________. A. under the weatherB. full of hot air C. breeze D. under pressure 11. Florida, ________ the Sunshine State, attracts many tourists every year. Page 1 of 6
2. A. is B. is known as C. known as D. that is known as 12. Joe seemed to be in a good mood, ________ he snapped at me angrily when I asked him to join us. A. yet B. so C. for D. and 13. Staying in a hotel costs _______ renting a room in a dormitory for a week. A. twice more than B. twice as much as C. as much twice as D. as much as twice Choose the best option A, B, C, or D to indicate the most suitable response to complete each of the following exchanges: 14. “Would you mind if I shut the window?” – “____________” A. Yes, please shut.B. Yes, I wouldn’t mind. C. No, please do.D. No, don’t shut it. 15. “Guess what! I was just invited to the manager’s house for dinner?” - “_________” A. What’s that?B. Oh, how nice. C. Well doneD. Really? I don’t think so. Question 2. Write the correct form of each bracketed word on your answer sheet. (2 points) 1. If you lose interest in the job soon, you are thought to lack _______. (CONSTANT) 2. Tuition at private universities has become ________. (ASTRONOMY) 3. He has no ______ of taking the documents out of the filling cabinet. (COLLECT) 4. What is done can’t be _________. (DO) 5. The thief replaced the diamond with a ________ stone. (WORTH) 6. People with very ______ skin shouldn’t go sunbathing for long periods. (SENSE) 7. _____ about the company’s future meant that few people wanted to (CERTAIN) invest money in it. 8. We started a campaign for _____ eradication in the summer of 2000. (LITERATE) 9. Nowadays more and more people _______ take care of others. (VOLUNTEER) 10. Barbara is very _______ about birds. She knows a lot about them. (KNOW) Question 3. Each sentence below contains ONE error. Find and correct it and write your answers on your answer sheet. (2 points) 1. I’d prefer to do it on myself, because other people make me nervous. 2. Even though the extremely bad weather in the mountains, the climbers decided not to cancel their climb. 3. The examination will test your ability to understand spoken English, to read non-technical language, and writing correctly. 4. The recycling of waste paper and old newspapers help us save a great amount of wood. 5. The number of books which we have to read for the exams are considerable. 6. The environment is frustrated at many activities of human beings who irresponsibility is causing great damage to their surrounding. 7. There are very large rooms with beautiful decorated walls in her new house. 8. Of the two lectures, the first was by far the best partly because the person who delivered it had such a dynamic style. 9. As many as 50 percent of the income from motion pictures produced in the USA comes from marketing films abroad. 10. There are many researchers show that various species of animals have been extinct. Question 4. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions and write your answers on your answer sheet. (1.0 point) 1. The company lures workers with high salaries and good working conditions. Page 2 of 6
3. A. organizesB. firesC. attractsD. angers 2. Childbearing is the women’s most wonderful role. A. bringing up a childB. giving birth to a baby C. having no childD. educating a child 3. Moving to a new town brought about many changes in his life. A. resulted inB. speeded upC. resulted fromD. prevented from 4. There was a long period without rain in the countryside last year so the harvest was poor. A. famineB. floodC. epidemic D. drought Question 5. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions and write your answers on your answer sheet. (1.0 point) 1. You can certainly set up a partnership with him as he is trustworthy. A. unreliableB. indispensableC. unfavourableD. independent 2. However, how to make full use of these sources of energy is a question for researchers all over the world. A. completeB. imperfectC. partialD. hungry 3. If you are at a loose end this weekend, I will show you round the city. A. freeB. occupiedC. confidentD. reluctant 4. I’d like to pay some money into my bank account. A. withdraw some money fromB. put some money into C. give some money outD. leave some money aside PART III: READING Question 1. Read the passage and think of the word which best fists each gap. Use only ONE word in each gap. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (2 points) In 1973, when the tiger appeared to be facing extinction, the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Indian Government agreed to set (1) ________ “Operation Tiger” - a campaign to save this threatened creature. They started by creating nine special parks (2) __________ that tigers could live in safety. The first was at Ranthambhore, a region which was quickly turning into a desert (3) _______ too much of the grass was being eaten by the local people’s cattle. At the time, there (4) _______ just fourteen tigers left there. The government had to clear twelve small villages, which meant moving nearly 1,000 people and 10,000 cattle so the land (5) __________ be handed back to nature. Today, Ranthambhore is a very different place, with grass tall (6) __________ for tigers to hide in, and there are now at (7) __________ forty of them in the park, wandering freely about. Other animals have also benefited. For example, there are many (8) __________ deer and monkeys than before. The people (9) __________ were moved are now living in better conditions. They live in new villages away from the tiger park, with schools, temples and fresh water supplies. There are now sixteen such tiger parks in India and the animal’s future look (10) _______ little safer. Question 2. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. Write your answer on your answer sheet. (2.0 points) WHALES How far would you travel for a good meal? If you were a humpback whale, the answer would be five thousand miles. These large sea animals travel at least that far from their winter home off the (1) _______ of Columbia to their summer (2)_______ areas off Antarctica. Page 3 of 6
4. The distance covered by some types of whale is amazing, especially when you (3) _______ their enormous size. The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived on earth and it can weigh as much as thirty elephants. It (4)_______ as no surprise, therefore, to hear that ancient folk legends tell of sailors (5) _______ these creatures for islands. The more we find out about whales, the more wonderful they seem. Some species can (6) _______ their breath for more than an hour and dive to a depth of over 200 meters. They use a system of sounds (7) _______ as echo-location to find the fish they eat and they have further sounds to keep in (8) _______ with each other. The noises they produce can travel hundreds of miles under water. Some species seem to sing complicated songs which (9) _______ of a number of separate themes, sung in a specific order which can last up to half an hour or more. If you ever get the chance to see one of these great creatures in the wild, you will understand (10) ________ they have inspired so many legends. 1. A. seasideB. groundC. beachD. coast 2. A. chewingB. eatingC. feedingD. dining 3. A. view B. considerC. believeD. think 4. A. comesB. goesC. getsD. seems 5.A. confusingB. mistakingC. supposingD. mixing 6. A. holdB. keepC. storeD. save 7. A. namedB. referredC. knownD. called 8.A. reach B. touch C. range D. call 9. A. includeB. compose C. consistD. involve 10. A. what B. whenC. whereD. why Question 3. Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) according to the text. Write your answer on your answer sheet. (2.0 points) Just two months after the flight of Apollo 10, the Apollo 11 astronauts made their historic landing on the surface of the Moon. This momentous trip for humanity also provided scientists with an abundance of material for study; from rock and soil samples brought back from the Moon, scientists have been able to determine much about the composition of the Moon as well as to draw inferences about the development of the Moon from its composition. The Moon soil that came back on Apollo 11 contains small bits of rock and glass which were probably ground from larger rocks when meteors impacted with the surface of the Moon. The bits of glass are spherical in shape and constitute approximately half of the Moon soil. Scientists found no trace of animal or plant life in this soil. In addition to the Moon soil, astronauts gathered two basic types of rocks from the surface of the Moon: basalt and breccia. Basalt is a cooled and hardened volcanic lava common to the Earth. Since basalt is formed under extremely high temperatures, the presence of this type of rock is an indication that the temperature of the Moon was once extremely hot. Breccia, the other kind of rock brought back by the astronauts, was formed during the impact of falling objects on the surface of the Moon. This second type of rock consists of small pieces of rock compressed together by the force of impact. Gases such as hydrogen and helium were found in some of the rocks, and scientists believe that these gases were carried to the Moon by the solar wind, the streams of gases that are constantly emitted by the Sun. 1. The paragraph preceding the passage most likely discusses __________. A. astronaut training B. The inception of the Apollo space program C. a different space trip D. previous Moon landings 2. What is the subject of this passage? Page 4 of 6
5. A. The Apollo astronauts.B. Soil on the Moon. C. What the Moon is made of.D. Basalt and breccia. 3. The word “abundance” in paragraph 1 can be best replaced by ________ . A. a disorderly pileB. a wealthy bunch C. an insignificant proportionD. a large amount 4. According to the passage, what does Moon soil consist of? A. Hydrogen and helium.B. Large chunks of volcanic lava. C. Tiny pieces of stones and glass.D. Streams of gases. 5. Which of the following was NOT brought back to the Earth by the astronauts? A. BasaltB. SoilC. BrecciaD. Plant life 6. According to the passage, breccia was formed________. A. when objects struck the Moon B. from volcanic lava C. When streams of gases hit the surface of the Moon D. from the interaction of helium and hydrogen 7. It is implied in the passage that scientists believe that the gases found in the Moon rocks ______. A. were not originally from the MoonB. were created inside the rocks C. traveled from the Moon to the SunD. caused the Moon's temperature to rise 8. The word “emitted” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to ________. A. set offB. vaporizedC. sent outD. separated 9. The author's purpose in this passage is to ________. A. describe some rock and soil samples B. explain some of the things learned from space flights C. propose a new theory about the creation of the Moon D. demonstrate the difference between basalt and breccia 10. It can be interred from the passage that _______. A. the only items of importance that astronauts brought back from the Moon were rock and soil samples B. scientists learned relatively little from the Moon rock and soil samples C. scientists do not believe that it is necessary to return to the Moon D. rock and soil samples were only some of a myriad of significant items from the Moon PART IV: WRITING Question 1. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence using the word given. DO NOT CHANGE THE WORD GIVEN. (2.0points) 1. “Congratulations! You’ve succeeded in the interview, Mary,” my mother told me. My mother _____________________________________________________________. 2. She is proud of being such a good cook. She prides_______________________________________________________________. 3. People report that the building was badly damaged by the fire. The building ____________________________________________________________. 4. Even though some events were cancelled, thousands of people attended the festival. Despite ________________________________________________________________. 5. The demand was so great that they had to reprint the book immediately. So ____________________________________________________________________. 6. Tom is working on two jobs right now, so he doesn’t have time to help you. Were Tom ______________________________________________________________. 7. Immediately after his appointment to the post, the new editor fell ill. No sooner ______________________________________________________________. 8. He was sorry he hadn’t said goodbye to her at the airport. He regretted ____________________________________________________________. Page 5 of 6
6. Question 2: Write a paragraph of about 150 words to answer the following question: “What makes a good friend?” (2 points) ____________THE END ____________ Page 6 of 6