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Trường THPT Chuyên Nguyễn Đình Chiểu
ĐỀ THI CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TRƯỜNG NK 2010 – 2011- ĐỢT 1
Môn : Tiếng Anh . Khối lớp 11& 12
Thời gian làm bài : 90 phút.
Chữ ký của Giám khảo Điểm Số phách Số thứ tự
I II Học sinh làm bài bằng cách viết A, B, C, hay D vào phần ANSWER hay viết từ ngữ vào phần chừa
trống của đề thi. Viết rõ ràng, sạch sẽ.

I. Phonetic: (10ms)
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest.(5m)

1. A. current. B. turn C. fun D. under
2. A. further B. fertile C. heard D. mother
3. A. mountain B. southern C. mouth D. count
4. A. tiny B. island C. river D. wind
5. A. coast B. lost C. most D. whole

Answer: 1. ____ 2. ____ 3. ____ 4. ____ 5. ____

II. Choose the word which is stressed differently from the rest. (5m)
6. A. disappear B. engineer C. education D. attachment
7. A. consume B. reflect C. local D. between
8. A. curtain B. enclose C. contain D. remember
9. A. distance B. glorious C. exciting D. journey
10. A. trememdous B. enormous C. serious D. describe


Answer:: 1. ____ 2. ____ 3. ____ 4. ____ 5. ____ 6. ____ 7. ____8. ____9. ____ 10. ____

III. GRAMMAR: (25ms)
A. Write the verbs in the correct forms: (5m)
1. We were a few minutes late, so the film ___________________ (start) when we got to the cinema.
2. He wishes that he _____________________ (work) harder, but it is too late now.
3. The man who ___________________________ (rescue) had been in the sea for ten hours.
4. Pupils are made ____________________________ (work) hard at school.
5. It ___________________________ (rain) for two hours and the ground is too wet to play on.

B. Write a correct preposition into each blank: (10m)
1. We stopped at a small village _____________ the way to London.
2. I haven't seen her since she left home _____________ work this morning.
3. You had better take ______________ your coat if you' re too hot.
4. Mr. Johnson is _____________ charge of the department.
5. The thieves broke the door down ______________ a hammer.
6. Buon Me Thuot is well-known ___________ its coffee.
7. Vietnam is __________ the top exporters of rice.
8. The bridge is still ___________ construction now.
9. The women's liberation varied ___________country _____________ country.
10. The building is 508 meters ___________ height.

C. Finish the second sentence so that it has the same meaning: (10m)
A. Finish the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one (6m)
1. I think you should tell the police about the accident.
If __________________________________________________________
2. The fire was brought under control thanks to the night watchman.
If it hadn't ____________________________________________________
3. She never seems to succeed even though she studies much.
Much ________________________________________________________

print news daily. For example, the newspapers "The New York Times" is (7) _________________
weekly, for instance, Newsweek and Time magazines are published once a week. The
electronic media are generally divided into radio and television. (8) ________________ news is
news that you listen to. In the United States many radio stations (9) ________________ five
minutes of news every hour. Television news is news that you not only listen to but also watch.
In Canada and the United States, for example, many people watch an hour of news on TV at six
o'clock in the evening. In the future, new categories of news media will develop, even today
computers are beginning to (10) __________________ the transmission and reception of news.

V. WRITING: (10m)
Identify the one underlined expression that is not correct. Circle and correct it.

1. Ceramics can be (A) harder, (B) light and more (C) resistant to heat than (D) metals.
2. (A) Light can (B) travels from the Sun to the Earth (C) in eight minutes (D) and twenty seconds.
3. Mosquitoes will (A) accepts the (B) malaria parasite at (C) only one stage of the parasite's
(D) complex life cycle.
4. (A) The price of silver (B) rose to $50.05 per troy ounce in January 1980 (C) and then fell to
$10.80 (D) two month later.
5. (A) In 1821 Emma Williard (B) open the doors of the first school in the United States
(C) to offer college-level courses (D) for women.
6. (A) First of all there (B) was a signal failure, then the train in front of (C) us broke (D) downward.
7. Emmy was (A) determined (B) to succeed and (C) final achieved (D) what she wanted.
8. (A) Being (B) a actress (C) means that I work late so it's important that I create space
(D) for myself at the beginning of each day.
9. (A) Use e-mail means you can choose when (B) to reply, unlike the telephone, which
interrupts (C) whatever you happen to be doing (D) when it rings.
10. (A) To live in India is to be (B) partly of a way of life (C) totally unlike anything (D) else

Answer:: 1. ____ 2. ____ 3. ____ 4. ____ 5. ____ 6. ____ 7. ____8. ____9. ____ 10. ____


1. fitness 2. weight 3. strengthening 4. Frequent 5. pressure IV. B Key: (10m)
1. world. 2. into 3. media 4. material 5. send
6. divided 7. published 8. Radio 9. broadcast 10. influence

V. Key: (10m)
1. B (lighter) 2. B (travel) 3. A (accept) 4.D (months)
5. B (opened) 6. D (down) 7. C (finally) 8. B (an)
9. A (using) 10. B (part)
Tổng điểm số: 70 điểm / 90 pht