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SỞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO NGHỆ AN ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT
THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH LỚP 12 THPT
Môn: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian: 180’

SECTION A: PHONETICS

I/. Identify the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the three
ones in each group.
1. A: discussion B: revision C: attention D: admission
2. A: cease B: chase C: increase D: raise
3. A: genuine B: geneticist C: guarantee D: generate
4. A: boot B: shoot C: food D: good
5. A: teenage B: dosage C; voyage D: carriage
II/. Identify the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others in each
group.
6. A: postpone B: specialize C: purpose D: summarize
7. A: accident B: reference C: coincide D: formulate.
8. A: significant B: ability C: political D: sympathetic
9. A: envelope B: amazing C: passenger D: reference.
10. A: cultural B: admittance C: demanding D: domestic

SECTION B: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

I/. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D to complete each sentence.
11. I really must go and lie down for a while, I’ve got a headache.
A: cutting B: splitting C: ringing D: cracking
12. The accident was caused by a taxi driver the traffic lights.

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SECTION C: READING

I/. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the passage with one suitable word.

RULES AND LAWS
Any discussion of criminal behaviour requires understanding of the difference in
meaning of rules and laws. Rules (33)…………………. be unwritten, or formal and
written. The rules of dress or of how we eat are unwritten guides. (34) ………………….
contrast, the rules of a factory, for example safety regulations, are usually (35)
………………… down and serve (36)……………… strict regulators of behavior.
Laws are perhaps, the (37) ………………… example of written, formal rules and
(38) ……………… decided upon by powerful and influential groups in society. In order
to ensure that everyone adheres (39) ……………… the laws, there are specific penalties,
including fines or imprisonment, for those (40) ……………… guilty of
(41)……………… them. Unlike other rules, (42) ……………… as rules of dress or of
grammar, laws can, always be enforced by agencies like the police and the courts.

II/. Read the following text and decide which word best fits each blank.
The point at which physical decline with age begins adversely to affect a driver’s
capability has not yet been thoroughly studied. A survey of more than 3,000 road accidents
in Michigan involving drivers aged over 55 showed that in eight out of ten

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(43)………………… it was a driver over the age of 71 who had (44)………………… a
collision by failing to yield, turning carelessly or changing lanes.
Older drivers are obviously more (45)……………… to injury in vehicle crashes,
as well as being a potential higher (46)…………………. through their own driving

C: two out of every three Americans were black slaves.
D: one out of every five Americans was a black slave.
54. Free white men in America numbered.
A: about four-fifths of the population.

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B: about four and a half million.
C: 5,308,483.
D: less than one million.
55. More than two-thirds of the American people
A: lived where the wants of civized life could not be supplied.
B: lived in Washington.
C: live on the seaboard.
D: lived within fifteen miles of tidewater.
56. The struggle to tame the American continent had been going on
A: about two hundred years.
B: about fifty years.
C: a little more than a century.
D: since 1750.
57. This description of the United States in 1800 suggests that.
A: most of the new nation was undeveloped.
B: the people of the new nation had succeeded in taming the continent.
C: strips of cultivated land were everywhere.
D: settlers were beginning to mine the valuable minerals of the new continent.
SECTION D: WRITING

I/. Rewrite the following sentences using inversion. Begin your sentences with the words
or phrases given.
58. Steve and Jane have never invited us to their house.

70. He is unlikely to win the competition.
…………………………………………………………………………CHANCE

III/. COMPOSITION.
Write a composition (150-200 words) about the following topic:
Some people believe that a college or university education should be available to
all students. Others believe that higher education should be available only to good
students. Discuss these views. Which view do you agree with? Explain why.
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6: B 7: C 8: C 9: B 10: A

SECTION B: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

I/. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D to complete each sentence.
(7m x 1 = 7m)
11: B 12: C 13: C 14: B 15: D 16: A
17: C
II/. Put the verbs given in brackets into their appropriate tenses or forms.
(10m x 1 = 10m)
18: was walking 19: started 20: will get 21: reach
22: had remembered 23: had left 24: am always getting
25: are you going 26: do you want 27: took
III/. There are five mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them.
(5m x 1 = 5m)
28: does is 29: a same the same 30: in that in which
31: many a such a 32: expressing expressed

SECTION C: READING

I/. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the passage with one suitable word.
(10m x 1 = 10m)
33: may/can 34: in 35: written 36: as 37: best
38: are 39: to 40: found 41: breaking 42: such

II/. Read the following text and decide which word best fits each blank.
(10m x 1 = 10m)
43: C 44: C 45: B 46: D 47: D 48: B
49: C 50: A 51: B 52: D



III/. Composition (10m)

Tổng 70 câu = 70 điểm + bài viết luận 10 điểm = 80 điểm/4 = 20 điểm