ĐỀ THI CHỌN LỌC HSG MÔN TIẾN ANH LỚP 12
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LONG AN Ngày thi: 06/10/2011
Bảng A
Đe chinh thức
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh Thời gian: 180 phút (Phần A&B)
LƯU Ý: THÍ SINH LÀM BÀI TRÊN GIẤY THI, KHÔNG LÀM BÀI TRÊN ĐỀ THI NÀY
A. LISTENING: (20 marks)
You will hear a short conversation. Each question in this part has four answer choices. Choose the correct answer(s). Write your answer(s) on your answer sheet
1. What does the World Bank do? (Choose 1 answer)
(A) It saves seeds from plants all over the world.
(B) It gives money to the United Nations.
(C) It gives money, low interest loans, and interest-free credit to poor countries.
(D) It is part of the United Nations.
2. How does the professor explain that not everyone is rich? (Choose 2 answers)
(A) She compares how much money people in poor countries and rich countries make.
(B) She tells a story of poor people in Bolivia.
(C) She gives the example of how many children in poor countries cannot go to school.
(D) She defines wealth.
3. What is the talk mainly about? (Choose 1 answer)
(A) Parts of the World Bank
(B) The history of the World Bank
(C) What the World Bank does
(D) How the World Bank has changed
4. What reason is given for giving extra money to the poorest countries in 2002? (Choose 1 answer)
(A) To start new farms
(B) To build schools
(C) To recycle water
(D) To help fight the illness AIDS
B. READING & WRITING: (80 marksi /. Read the passage and answer the questions thatfollow. (15 marks)
Steve grew up in a children's home in Scotland. Every week, the staff took a proportion of the children's pocket money to pay for holidays. Little Steve developed a daring sừategy to hang on to what little money he had. He laughs about it now. "I used to swallow all my coins. That got them really furious, so they'd put me in a room on my own as a punishment. After a few minutes in there, I'd hit myself on the chest and cough the money back up."
Since then, Steve has turned into Steve Starr, a professional regurgitator who does up to four shows a day, and can demand fees of $500-$2,000 a show.
Everything Steve swallows comes back dry, except for the goldfish. They swim about in his stomach in the water that he swallows for them first. After ten minutes they resume theứ normal lives in a goldfish bowl. 'They never die", says Steve.
Medical experts might have a few worries about Steve. The sight and sound of him swallowing and bringing back a snooker ball sometimes causes even normally calm people to panic. He also smokes a cigarette, retains the smoke in his stomach, then swallows some butane gas and mixes the two. Next he swallows some washing-up liquid, blows a huge bubble, brings up the smoke and gas inside the bubble, cuts the bubble off, gets someone to set light to it, and bang!
Physically, Steve doesn't believe he is any different from the rest of the human race, who use theứ stomachs simply to digest food. "It's all done by muscle control", he says. "I imagine a little paứ of hands in there doing everything, controlled by my brain. I'm sure I could teach anyone to do what I do".
1. Why was Steve punished in the children's home?
2. What does the sentence "Steve grew up in a children's home" tell you about Steve's early childhood?
3. What does the sentence 'They'd put me in a room on my own as a punishment" tell you about the children's home?
4. Why does the bubble go bang when someone sets light to it?
5. What, according to Steve, is the secret of his skill?
II. Read the following passage and then choose the best answer (A, B, c or D) to complete each of the numbered blanks. (15 marks)
THE LANGUAGE OF TEARS
The ability to weep is a uniquely human form of emotional response. Some scientists have suggested that human tears are evidence of an aquatic past - but this does not seem very likely. We
cry from the moment we enter this (1) for a number of reasons. Helpless babies cry to (2)
theữ parents that they are ill, hungry or uncomfortable. As they (3) they will
also cry just to attract parental attention and will often stop when they get it.
The idea that (4) a good cry can do you (5) is a very old one and now it
has scientific (6) since recent research into tears has shown that they (7) a
natural painkiller called eókaphalin. By (8) sorrow and pain this chemical helps you to
feel better. Weeping can increase the quantities of enkaphalin you (9) .
Unfortunately, in our society we impose restrictions upon this naturally (10) activity.
Because some people still regard it as a (11) of weakness in men, boys in particular are
admonished when they cry. This kind of repression can only increase sừess, both emotionally and physically.
Tears of emotion also help the body (12) itself of toxic chemical (13) , for
there is more protein in them than in tears resulting from cold winds or other irritants. Crying
comforts, calms and can be very enjoyable - (14) the popularity of the highly emotional
films which are commonly (15) "weepies". It seems that people enjoy crying together
almost as much as laughing together.
1. A. world B. place c. earth D. space
2. A. communicate B. persuade c. inform D. demonsfrate
3. A. evolve B. change c. develop D alter
4. A. doing B. making c. getting D. having
5. A. better B fine c. good D well
6. A. validity B truth c. reality D. reason
7. A. contain B. retain c hold D. keep
8. A. struggling B. fighting c. opposing D. striking
9. A. construct B. achieve c. provide D. produce
10. A. curing B. ừeating c. healing D. improving
11 A hint B. symbol c. feature D. sign
12. A. release B rid c. loosen D. expel
13. A. rubbish B. waste c. leftovers D. remains
14. A. consider B. remark c. distinguish D.regard
15. A. named B entitled c. subtitled D. called
III. Read the following text and then choose the best phrase or sentence, given below, to fill each of the gaps. Write one letter (A-P) in each of the numbered gaps. Each phrase is only used once. Some of the suggested answers do not fit at all (15 marks)
Archaeologists in Iraq have discovered the world's oldest "statue" - a stone, standing four
feet high, covered with plaster (1) of a human being.
This "stone man" dating from 11,000 years ago, (2) who were emerging from
the pre-agricultural Stone Age into the Neolithic world of early farming.
The statue, probably of religious significance, was located inside a prehistoric house - one
of the earliest sophisticated buildings (3) . Investigations have shown that the house
had (4) with clay-coated, lime-plastered walls and floor.
So far excavation have unearthed three buildings containing seven standing stones, (5)
retain ừaces of lime plaster which once covered them.
However, (6) shows evidence of having been shaped into the likeness of a
human being. It is 30 centuries older (7) previously known oldest statue. (8)
that each building appears to have had at least one standing stone inside it, and that
one house actually had three.
The plaster-covered human shaped obelisk (9) shoulders and the stumps of arms
and part of a neck. The "head", however, (10) .
A. ever discovered by archaeologists I. beautifully finished
B. molded into the shape J. than the remaining
c. to have been built K. has what appear to be
D. strangely carved L. seems to have broken off
E. was fashioned by people M. four of which
F. excavations have revealed N. has been missing
G. only one of these o. it has been decided
H. neither of them p. than the world's
IV. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each
space. (20 marks)
The worry about salt is that it may (1) high blood pressure. Chemically, salt
(2) of sodium and chloride ions, both of (3) are common in the human
(4) and are important for many physiological and biochemical (5) . We
not only need salt, we eat salt, but too (6) may still be bad for us. Although the idea
of a (7) between salt and high blood pressure (8) back to 2000 BC, there
is still no scientific (9) as to whether this so or not. One reason for this (10)
to agree is that individual salt intake (11) enormously from day to day,
and so reliable measures of intake are hard to come (12) .
Those who believe that salt does (13) to high blood pressure
(14) to the high incidence of high blood pressure in countries that eat a very (15)
diet. In Japan, for instance, where salted fish is an important part of the diet, high
blood pressure and (16) complications are common, (17) among some
Amazonian and African tribes, which have a low intake of salt, they are almost (18) .
But (19) there is this neat relation between salt intake and the incidence of high
blood pressure between countries, it doesn't seem to apply (20) those countries
themselves. Studies, for instance, of couples who have a similar salt intake don't show any consistency in how often they develop high blood pressure.
V. There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them. Follow the example.
(15 marks)
Example: Line 1: 0. which -ỳ when
FAMILY HISTORY
In an age which technology is developed faster than ever before, many people are being attracted by the idea of looking back into the past. One way they can make this is by investigating theữ own family history. They can try to find out more about what theứ families came from and what they did. This is now a fast-growing hobby, especially in countries with a faứly short history, alike Australia and the United States.
It is one thing to spend some time going through a book on family history and to take the decision to investigate your own family's past. It is quite another to carry out the research work successfully. It is easy to set about it in a disorganizing way and cause yourself many problems that could have avoided with a little forward planning.
If your own family stories say you that you are connected with a famous character, whether hero or criminal, not to let this idea take over your research. Just treat it as an interesting possibility. A simple system for collecting and storing your information will be adequate to start with; a more complex one may only get in your way. The most important thing, though, is to get starting. Who knows what you might find?
THE END —
SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO LONG AN
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 12 - VÒNG Ì
Ngày thỉ: 06/10/2011
Đề chinh thức
Môn thi: Tiêng Anh
HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM THI
Bảng A
Tổng sổ điểm các phần của bài thi là 100. Sau khi chẩm từng phần của bài làm, giảm khảo cộng và ghi tổng điểm trên hệ 100 vào khung điểm ghi bằng chữ, sau đó chia điểm này cho 20 để có điểm bài thỉ trên hệ 20. Ghi điểm bài thỉ trên hệ 20 không làm tròn sổ vào khung diêm ghi băng chữ.
c. LISTENING: (20 marks) /. (C) (4 marks)
2. (A) (4 marks) (C) (4 marks)
3. (C) (4 marks)
4. (D) (4 marks)
D. READING & WRITING: (80 marks) II. Total: 15 marks (3 marks for each)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
B E A I M G p F K L
1. Because he would not let staff take away his pocket money for holiday - he swallowed it instead.
2. Steve was possibly an orphan or his parents could not look after him.
3. It was probably run on strict, disciplinarian lines.
4. Because it contains butane gas.
5. The secret of his skill is muscle control.
IV. Total: 20 marks (1 mark for each)
1. cause
2. consists
3. which
4. body
5. processes
6. much
7. link/relationship/connection
8. goes/dates
9. agreement/consensus/evidence/proof
10. failure/inability
11. varies/differs/changes
12. by
13. lead/contribute
14. point
15. salty 16 its
17. whereas/while
18. unknown/non-existent
19. whereas/while
20. within
