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HỘI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT
CHUYÊN
KHU VỰC DH & ĐB BẮC BỘ

KÌ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI KHU VỰC MỞ RỘNG

NĂM HỌC 2011- 2012
MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH LỚP 10
Ngày thi: 21 tháng 4 năm 2012
(Thời gian làm bài 180 phút không kể thời gian giao đề)
Đề thi gồm 12 trang Part I. LISTENING (10 pts)
Question 1. You will hear a telephone conversation between a passenger and an officer at the
London Heathrow airport. (5 pts)
Listen to the conversation and complete the booking form below.
Write ONE WORD OR A NUMBER for each answer. LISTEN ONCE ONLY.

AIRPORT SHUTTLE BOOKING FORM
To: Milton
Date: (1) No. of passengers: One
Bus time: (2) p.m Type of ticket: (3)
Name: Jane Thomson
Flight No: AC936 From: London Heathrow
Address in Milton: Vacation Motel, 24, (4) Street
Fare: $ 35
Credit Card No: (Visa) (5)


Part II. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (40 pts)

Question 1. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D in each sentence to complete it. (10 pts)
1. His answer was so confused that I could hardly make any ______ of it at all.
A. interpretation B. meaning C. intelligibility D. sense
2. The thought of living in another country has never ______ my mind.
A. crossed B. entered C. occurred to D. come
3. I was passing their house, so I ______ Claire and Michael.
A. dropped in B. came up with C. got on with D. run into
4. I don’t really ______ winter sport very much.
A. deal with B. face up to C. go in for D. get round to
5. Her mother’s illness cast a cloud ______ her wedding day.
A. over B. for C. in D. on
6. She did six hours’ ______ studying a day for her exam.
A. solid B. heavy C. strong D. big
7. No one liked the new lecturer, so there was a gradual ______ in the attendance of his
lectures.
A. fall-through B. fall-out C. fall-off D. fall-in
8. I was talking to my aunt when suddenly my cousin Gorge ______
in our
conversation.
A. interrupted B. broke C. went D. intervened
9. He has been unable to find a job ______ with his ability as an accountant.
A. appropriate B. suitable C. commensurate D. requisite
10. Don't count on him. He's liable to ______ out if things get too difficult.
A. let B. be C. opt D. stop
11. In this assignment, we will ______ your work and then give you detailed feedback on how
to improve your writing.
A. assess B. judge C. measure D. test
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Question 2. Error Correction. The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes
and correct them in the space provided. (5pts)
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MTV stands for Music Television. It’s a television channel dedicating to pop music. It was
born on 1
st
August 1981 in the United States. Because of MTV’s instant succeed in the US,
the company expanded other areas. MTV Europe began operating on 1
st
August 1978. MTV
Europe broadcast 24 hours a day from it London studios. It can be seen in 33 countries and
reaches an estimated audiences of 110 million viewers. People of 19 different nationalities
work at London headquarters, and they try offering a mixture of music from all over
Europe. The channel broadcasts in English but Germany provides the bigger number of
viewers. Currently, one five of the music is by German artists. Most of TV output is video
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and concerts, but there is also a programme calling Unplugged, where major artist play live

10. You look very terrible! What have you been getting ______ to?

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Question 4: Give the correct form the word provided to fill each gap. (5 pts)
1. The people possess ______ rights. VIOLATE
2. Various ______ by police officers were brought to light by the enquiry. PRACTICE
3. Jim is one of the most ______ members of the committee. SPEAK
4. This is an original, but it’s a good ______. PRODUCE
5. The successful candidate will have superb ______ skills. LEAD
6. Kapo, the gorilla was born and bred in ______. CAPTIVE
7. She may look fierce but the lioness has ______ instincts like any other female animal.
MOTHER
8. The fish in the river provide an ______ supply of fish for the young bears. ABOUND
9. Nowadays only a ______of wild crocodiles remain here. HAND
10. Patricia's skill in playing the piano is quite ______. No other child in this group can play the
difficult pieces with similar mastery. COMPARE

Your answers:

1 ………………………… 6 …………………………
2 ………………………… 7 …………………………
3 ………………………… 8 …………………………
4 ………………………… 9 …………………………
5 ………………………… 10 …………………………


Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Question 6: Fill in the blank with one suitable word. Write your answers in the numbered
blanks provided below. (5 pts)

If all countries had the same monetary units, a difficult problem of international trade would be
solved. One country’s money is not usually good in (1)___, however, and it is necessary to have a
system for (2)___ the currency of the buyer into (3)___ of the seller. Bankers handle this by doing
(4)___ is called buying or selling foreign exchange.
When an exporter sells his goods to a merchant in a foreign country, he makes (5)___ a bill of
exchange for the merchandise. The bill of exchange looks (6)___ a common bank check. The
exporter sends this bill to his bank and receives his money. (7)___, the exporter receives payment
in his own currency.
The exporter’s bank sends the bill of exchange to (8)___ branch bank which notifies the (9)___
who pays the bill in his currency. The branch bank keeps his money and uses it to pay future
(10)___ of exchange presented by merchants in that country who have goods to export.

Your answers:

1 ………………………… 6 …………………………
2 ………………………… 7 …………………………
3 ………………………… 8 …………………………
4 ………………………… 9 …………………………
5 ………………………… 10 …………………………
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Part III. READING
Question 1: Read the passage and choose the correct answer for the following questions.

A. gramophones were developed about the same time as moving pictures
B. sound-effects machines were not common because they were expensive
C. orchestras couldn’t synchronize sound with pictures
D. most movie theatres had a pianist
6. According to the passage, gramophone were ineffective because they ______.
A. got out of synchronization with the pictures
B. were too large for most movie theatres.
C. were newly invented and still had imperfection
D. changed speeds when the needle jumped
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7. The word “sequence” is closest in meaning to ______.
A. interpretation B. progression C. distribution D. organization
8. The phrase “these signals” refers to ______.
A. sounds B. series C. marks D. sensors
9. According to the passage, sound-on-film guaranteed synchronization because the record
was ______.
A. made during the filming of the pictures B. read by an optical sensor
C. inserted beside the image on the film D. marked on the gramophone
10. Short feature films produced as early as 1922 ______.
A. were recorded by an optical sensor B. preceded talking pictures
C. were only effective for dialogue sequences D. put musicians out of work

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Question2: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable heading from the list A-I
for each part (1-7) of the passage. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use.
One example has been done for you. (7pts)

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Until the mid- 1960s, climbers practiced their skills on cliffs in areas where there was a plentiful
supply of good climbing angles. During the winter they would either tolerate the cold weather, go
walking instead or climb on snow and ice in Scotland.
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However, as the sport developed it was increasingly important for top climbers to keep fit. With
the cliffs unusable for much of the year, they used brick-edges or stone buildings to ‘work out’ on.
This allowed them to keep their fingers strong and beat off the boredom of not being able to
climb. It wasn’t long before many sports centre started building walls specifically for the task,
using bricks with special edges to cling on to.
4

Many of these early walls followed the example set by Don Robison, a teacher of physical
education who, during the mid- 1960s, constructed a climbing wall in corridor of his department
at Leeds University. Robison developed the idea of setting natural rock in a block of concrete,
which could then be included in a wall.
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Scores of climbing walls of this kind were built in sports halls up and down the country
throughout the 1970s but they had obvious design problems. Walls could only be built in a
vertical plane, whereas cliffs outside have features like overhangs and angled slabs of rock. There
was the added drawback that once the walls were up they couldn’t be altered and climbers would
eventually tire of their repetitive nature, despite thinking of every combination of holds possible.
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In 1985, a Frenchman, Francois Savigny, developed a material which he moulded into shapes like
those that climbers would find on the cliffs. These could be fixed onto any existing wall and then
taken off when climbers got bored with a particular combination.

clotted cream. You'll soon realise that this is just one of the many things (8)______.

A. that visitors make another important discovery about the metropolis
B. that have only recently become so popular
C. that have been around for over a century
D. that tourists complain about the noise
E. that makes sure visitors come back again
F. there is always some museum, church or gallery well worth seeing
G. that there are cafes, restaurants and snack bars on virtually every street corner
H. that make London the diverse place that it is
I. that they have available to them
J. that the dilemma solves itself
K. that the city has far too much traffic

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Part IV. WRITING (25 pts)

Question 1: Finish each of the sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence printed before it. (5 pts)
1. We cannot see animals in a vast area after the forest fire.
There is an
2. We cannot make any comparison with her sacrifice.
Nothing
3. He will have to spend seven years in prison.
He has been
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