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1. UBND TỈNH LAI CHÂU KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 12 CẤP TỈNH SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO NĂM HỌC 2017-2018 ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC Môn: Tiếng Anh (Đề thi có 06 trang) Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) Ngày thi: 22/4/2018 PART I: PHONETICS (1.0 point) Question I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others. (0.5 point) 1. A. picked 0) B. wicked C. licked D. ticked 2. A. through B. enoughC. rough D. tough 3. A. famousB. nervousC. favourite D. mountain 4. A. ancientB. ancestorC. anchor D. ankle 5. A. food B. too C. good D. soon Question II. Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others in the group. (0.5 point) 1. A. opposite B. insuranceC. confident D. coconut 2. A. sympatheticB. conservativeC. comparative D. indifferent 3. A. informativeB. competitiveC. insensitive D. imitative 4. A. abandonB. constable C. frequency D. habitat 5. A. annoyanceB. developC. sacrifice D. tomorrow PART II: LEXICO – GRAMMAR (9.0 points) Question I: Choose the best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences. (3.0 points) 1. Peter: “I’ve got to go, Betty. So long." Betty: “So long, Peter. And _________” A. be carefulB. don’t hurryC. take care D. don’t take 2. John: “How lovely your house is!” Jack: “__________” A. I love it, too. B. Thank you, it’s nice of you to say so. C. Can you say that again?D. Really? It is. 3. Without his lawyer, he refused ______ by the police. A. questioning B. being questioned C. to question D. to be questioned 4. She took a course in fine arts_________ starting her own business in interior design. A. with a view to B. in terms of C. in order to D. with preference to 5. Henry was really a silly boy when we were at high school. I still remember________ very stupid questions. A. him asking B. him to ask C. asking him D. his being asked 6. Susan was sad because she wasn’t invited to any social events. She felt ________. A. turned outB. left out C. omitted out D. gone out 7. We all have to follow the rules, and none of us is_____ the law. A. beyond B. over C. above D. Onto 8. By the end of this March he______ here for 20 years Page 1 of 6
2. A. has been living B. will have been living C. will live D. will be living 9. He’d rather_________ long at the party. A. I did not stay B. me not to stayC. I do not stayD. me did not stay 10. __________a lot of clothes, he sent them to poor children. A. Had collectedB. Because having collected C. Because of he collectedD. Having collected 11. But for the fog, we_________ our destination ages ago. A. would have reachedB. would reachC. reachedD. had reached 12. We bought some________. A. German lovely old glassesB. German old lovely glasses C. lovely old German glassesD. old lovely German glasses 13. Nam: “I'm having some friends over for lunch this Saturday. Would you like to join us?” Huong: “______________________”. A. Can I take a rain check?B. Come on. It's your turn. C. Thanks, but I mustn’tD. As a matter of fact, I do. 14. It is difficult for this test_________ in one hour. A. to finish B. to be finished C. finishing D. being finished 15. Since they aren't answering the phone, they _________. A. need have left B. can’t have left C. must have left D. should have left Question II. Write the correct form of each bracketed word on your answer sheet. (2.0 points) BOOK PUBLICISTS The courteous smile of an author selling books, signing copies or chatting on television shows can be (1. DECEIVE) ________. Behind the scenes of the book tour that has become as much a part of the modern (2. SELL) ________ as print and paper,the writer may be a (3. CONTEND)________for a Golden Dartboard Award. This is the Oscar for authors (4. ALLEGE) ________ behaving badly, an informal award nominated by the weary, sometimes (5. TRAUMA)________, publicists who travel from city to city garnering publicity and sales. They call themselves “babysitters” as they tend to the fragile egos and (6. CONVENTION) ________ demands of authors. Among the most feared (7. ASSIGN) ________ for the publicists are the feminist writer who is remembered for yelling at her publicists in public and in (8. COLOUR) _______language, and the thriller writer whose publicists report that they have instructions from his publisher to speak only when spoken to. One (9. SURVIVE)________of a tour with him, who nominated him for a Golden Dartboard, says: “He treats us all as his (10. INFER)________.” Question III: Each sentence below contains a mistake. Pick it out and correct it. (2.0 points) 1. The harder he tried, the best he danced before the large audience. 2. They can make every effort to find out more about what their families came from and what they did in the past. 3. Each of the students in the accounting class has to type their own research paper this semester. 4. There was a very interesting news on the radio this morning about the earthquake in Italy. Page 2 of 6
3. 5. So little I knew about mathematics that the lecture was completely beyond me. 6. The replacement of shops such as the groceries and chemists by cafes have left the housewives with insufficient facilities for shopping. 7. In an age when technology is developing faster than ever before, many people are being attracted by the idea of looking back into the past. 8. Anthropologists assert that many of the early American Plains Indians did not engage in planting crops but to hunt, living primarily on buffalo meat. 9. It is essential that the temperature is not elevated to a point where the substances formed may become unstable and decompose into its constituent elements. 10. Some bacteria are extremely harmful, while the others are regularly used in producing cheeses, crackers, and many other foods. Question IV: Choose 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 sentences. (1.0 point) 1. He drives me to the edge because he never stops talking. A. steer meB. irritates meC. moves meD. frightens me 2. In the United States, the transition from one president to the next one is generally smooth. A. paymentB. understandingC. searchD. change 3. The swimmer dived in to the pool at one end and swam under water to the other end, where she emerged from water. A. came outB. dried offC. sank to the bottom D. injured herself 4. Although they had never met before the party, Jim and Jane felt strong affinity to each other. A. enthusiasm B. moved C. attraction D. interest Question V: Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions. (1.0 point) 1. Affluent families find it easier to support their children financially. A. WealthyB. Well-offC. PrivilegedD. Impoverished 2. His career advancement was slow and he did not gain any promotion until he was 40, when he won the position of the company’s Chief Executive. A. progressB. elevationC. decrease D. rise 3. They protested about the inhumane treatment of the prisoners. A. viciousB. warmheartedC. callousD. coldblooded 4. I can’t stand people who treat animals cruelly. A. gentlyB. cleverlyC. reasonablyD. brutally PART III: READING (6.0 points) Question I. Read the passage and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. (2.0 points) Television is one of man’s most important (1) _________ of communication. It brings (2) _________ and sounds from around the world into millions of homes. A person with a television set can sit in his house and watch the President (3) _________ a speech or visit a foreign country. He can see a war being fought and statesmen try to (4) _________ about peace on television. Page 3 of 6
4. Home (5) _________ can see and learn about people, places, and things in faraway lands. TV even takes people out of this world. It brings them (6) _________ of America’s astronauts as the astronauts explore the (7) _________ of programs that are (8) _________ to entertain. In fact, TV provides many more (9) _________ programs than any other kinds. The programs include action packed dramas, light comedies, sporting (10) _________ and motion pictures. Question II. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. (2.0 points) Stressful situations that (1) ________almost every day in life seem to be unavoidable. However, we can do little sometimes to (2)________a misfortune or unpleasant occurrence which may (3) ________us unexpectedly as only it can. At such a moment, one may hit the roof give in to the helplessness of the situation or, ideally, put a brave (4) ________on it trying to (5)________the burden. Can you (6.) ________ in your mind an hour spent in a traffic jam, say, this morning? Do you light one cigarette after another? Do you sound the horn every few seconds like the other neurotics? Or do you take a different stance and make good use of the time drawing up a schedule for the days to come? To withstand the stressful moment you can also do a crossword puzzle, listen to your favorite music or even compose a menu for your Sunday dinner. In fact, whatever way you (7) ________to the annoying situation, you can exert no impact on it as the traffic jam will only reduce in due (8) ________. Nevertheless, your reaction might considerably influence your disposition for the rest of the day. The inability to confront a stressful occurrence like that with a deal of composure and sensibility adds much more strain to your life and in this way puts your well-being in (9) __________. Surprisingly, it’s the seemingly negligible hardships we (10)________on daily that run double the risk of developing serious health disorders rather than our isolated tragedies however painful they may be. Given that so many of those wretched stress including troubles affect us in a day, we should, at best, try to avoid them or possibly make radical alterations in the way we lead our daily lifestyles. 1. A. deviseB. createC. originateD. emerge 2. A. ward offB. boil downC. stamp outD. drawn on 3. A. ariseB. happenC. befallD. occur 4. A. faceB. neckC. foreheadD. fist 5. A. subsistB. remainC. copeD. bear 6. A. envisionB. observeC. pictureD. conclude 7. A. confrontB. dealC. respondD. challenge 8. A. termB. courseC. timingD. period 9. A. riskB. weaknessC. insecurityD. jeopardy 10. A. stumbleB. staggerC. stutterD. stump Question III. Read the passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) according to the text. (2.0 points) Page 4 of 6
5. No educational medium better serves as a means of spatial communication than the atlas. Atlases deal with such invaluable information as population distribution and density. One of the best, Pennycooke's World Atlas, has been widely accepted as a standard owing to the quality of its maps and photographs, which not only show various settlements but also portray them in a variety of scales. In fact, the very first map in the atlas is a cleverly designed population cartogram that projects the size of each country if geographical size were proportional to population. Following the proportional layout, a sequence of smaller maps shows the world's population density, each country's birth and death rates, population increase or decrease, industrialization, urbanization, gross national product in terms of per capita income, the quality of medical care, literacy, and language. To give readers a perspective on how their own country fits in with the global view, additional projections depict the world's patterns in nutrition, calorie and protein consumption, health care, number of physicians per unit of population, and life expectancy by region. Population density maps on a subcontinental scale, as well as political maps, convey the diverse demographic phenomena of the world in a broad array of scales. 1. What is the main topic of this passage? A. The educational benefits of atlasesB. Physical maps in an atlas C. The ideal in the making of atlasesD. Partial maps and their uses 2. According to the passage, the first map in Pennycooke's World Atlas shows _______. A. the population policy in each country B. the hypothetical sizes of each country C. geographical proportions of each country D. national boundaries relative to population 3. Which of the following sentences is TRUE about the atlas? A. A country's population growth is presented clearly in the very first map in the atlas. B. The atlas isn't as good as other educational medium in term of spatial communication. C. The atlas provides readers with not only each country's life expectancy by religion but also its language and literacy. D. The atlas deals with such worthless information as population distribution and density. 4. The word “invaluable” in the passage is closest in meaning to _______. A. worthlessB. valueless C. priceless D. useless 5. The word “cleverly” in the passage is closest in meaning to _______. A. clearly B. immaculately C. intelligently D. accurately 6. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage? A. Calorie consumptionB. Currency exchange rates C. A level of educationsD. Population decline 7. The word “layout” in the passage refers to _______. A. the cartogramB. the geographical size C. populationD. each country 8. It can be inferred from the passage that maps can be used to _______. A. pinpoint ethnic strife in each country B. identify a shortage of qualified labour C. give readers a new perspective in their own country D. show readers photographs in a new form Page 5 of 6
6. 9. The author of the passage implies that _______. A. atlases provide a bird's eye view of countries B. maps use a variety of scales in each projection C. maps of countries differ in size D. atlases can be versatile instrument 10. The word “convey” in the passage is closest meaning to _______. A. deviseB. conjure up C. demonstrate D. indicate PART 4: WRITING (4.0 points) Question I. Finish each second sentence so that it has similar meaning to the first sentence, using the words given in the brackets. (2.0 points) 1. I’m sure it was Tom who cleared everything up. (must) 2. While I strongly disapprove of your behavior, I will help you this time. (Despite my) 3. “Remember to switch off when you have finished”, he said. (reminded) 4. John didn’t celebrate until he received the offer of promotion in writing. (Not until) 5. It is thought that the accident was caused by human error. (The accident) 6. The only reason the party was a success was that a famous film star attended. (Had it not) 7. I would rather go out for a meal than stay at home. (prefer) 8. The rail workers do not intend to call off their strike. (have no intention of) Question II. Write an essay (180- 200 words) to express your opinion on the following topic. (2.0 points) “Why are more and more students taking online classes?” ......................The end..................... Thí sinh không sử dụng tài liệu. Giám thị không giải thích gì thêm. Page 6 of 6