KỲ THI HSG ĐBCL LẦN THỨ 17
LONG AN - NĂM 2011

Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút

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LISTENING. (30 pts)

Part 1. (8 pts)

Listen to the recording and fill each gap with THREE WORDS. The recording will be played twice.

Having a good memory doesn’t really mean (1) …………… use your memory to remmber things you
want. Here are some steps to do it. First, a (2) …………… the things you want to remmber can help you
remmber them easily. Second, it also helps if you (3) …………… something concrete or a set of facts. Finally,
things can be remembered better if you visualize them – see something (4) ……………
Memorizing means fixing something firmly in your memory. One way is (5) …………… many times
until you can recall them all. Keep doing that until you can recall them as quickly as you do with your own
name. Once you can do this, you have come to (6) …………… But are you sure you can keep those things in
your memory for a long time? To do this , (7) …………… things you have learned every day, every two days,
every three days … If you can remember things easily after three days, then you can (8) …………… time to
only once a week.
I hope this talk is helpful to you in some way.

Part 2. (8 pts)

Listen to the recording and do as directed . The recording will be played twice.
Question 1-3, choose the correct answer A-D.

1. What do both Anthea and Marco want to discuss with the adviser?

Part 1. (15 pts)

Choose the word or phrase that best fits the space in each of the following sentences.

1 In the modern area, the increased international movement of people has greatly ……. the destruction
of languages.
A. speeded B. urged C. accelerated D. hurried
2 There is no room for ……. if we want to stay in this competition!
A. complaisance B. competence C. complacency D. commendation
3 There is no ……. evidence to suggest that it was a murder case.
A. conclusive B. exclusive C. decisive D. affective
4 His georgraphical imagination was ……. by the ships which passed to and from the rest of the world.
A. raised B. supplied C. reared D. nourished
5 They were ……. from their apartment because they hadn’t paid the rent.
A. evicted B. expelled C. deposed D. discarded
6 The emergency services ……. as soon as the news of the bomb explosion reached them
A. put on an act B. were out of action C. swung into action D. did a vanishing act
7 I;m afraid that this incident could put your career here …….
A. beyond a joke B. in jeopardy C. in earnest D. at fault
8 I don’t like a few things about my job, but ……. it is quite enjoyable.
A. by and large B. by mistake C. sooner or later D. what is more
9 I reckon Martin is ……. of a nervous breakdown.
A. in charge B. under suspicion C. on the verge D. indicative
10 At the ……. same moment, we both realized what was happening.
A. quite B. seem C. very D. absolutely
11 At the end of the week, all the sales staff were ……. exhausted.
A. utterly B. even C. actually D. reasonably
12 Tina ……. all the way to class because her teacher was absent.
A. mustn’t run B. didn’t need to run C. needn’t have run D. can’t have run
13 The weather here can be compared with …….

on various activities, and found a great deal of surprises. People who work more hours do not necessary rean
more money. And, contrarily to the predictions of many supporters of the short four-day working week (10 hours
a day), workers show little interest of using their long weekends for increased public service or for continual
education.
Furthermore, Robinson found no significant difference of men and women in the amount of free time
that each has. (He defines free time with the time remaining after the demands of work, housework, travelling to
work and personnel needs – such as eating and sleeping – have been met.) He also discovered that, at least until
retirement, free time decreasing steadily with age. Robinson suggests that the more time older people spend on
housework and shopping, the little free time they feel they have.
He also found that greater satisfaction is associated with less except for more free time. Apparently,
people with plentiful of free time feel the burden of ‘over-choice’. In addition, they seem to experience a need
for a sense of belonging that involves responsibilities, hence a loss of free time.

Part 4. (20 pts)

Use the correct tense or form of each verb given in the blank.

A disastrous collision between two cars occurred at 10.08 p.m. last night on a local mountain road. The
drivers of both cars (1) ……………… (kill) despite the efforts of rescue workers (2) ………………. (save)
them. Witnesses say that both cars (3) ………………. (accelerate) as they (4) ………………. (approach) the
dangerous bend where the accident (5) ………………. (happen). As the two cars (6) ………………. (come)
towards each other from opposite directions, neither drivers began (7) ………………. (realize) the danger until it
was too late (8) ………………. (brake) sufficiently (9) ……… …. (handle) the curve adequately. The two cars
(10) ………………. (collide) head on while (11) ………………. (travel) at high speed. The force of the
collision was so great that its sound (12) ………………. (hear) as far away as the top of the mountain by
campers (13) ………………. (spend) the night there. The campers who (14) ………………. (stay) at their camp
since the afternoon (15) ………………. (hurry) down the mountain road to the scene of the accident, but on (16)
………………. (arrive) they (17) ………………. (discover) that fuel (18) ………………. (leak) from the
vehicles and caught fire. “They (19) ………………. (not, drive) that fast,” said one camper. Further
investigation (20) ………………. (conduct) by the police and there will be more details about the accident

produce large amounts of (5) …………… called aerosols, gaseous suspensions of dust particles or byproducts
from the (6) …………… of fossil fuels. Both heat and aerosols change the dynamics of clouds. When hoisted up
in the sky, the microscopic particles act as multiple surfaces on which the (7) …………… in clouds can
condense as tiny droplets. This can prevent or delay the formation of larger raindrops that fall more easily from
the sky, or it can cause the rain to fall in another location.
In California, pollution blows eastward and causes a precipitation (8) …………… of around one trillion
gallons a year across the Sierra Nevada mountain range. (9) …………… , in very humid cities, such as Houston,
heat and pollutants seem to (10) …………… summer storm activity by allowing clouds to build higher and
fuller before releasing torrential rains.

1 A. impression B. impact C. influence D. affection
2 A. havoc B. damage C. chaos D. breakage
3 A. accusing B. mugging C. depriving D. avoiding
4 A. at most B. in majority C. in priority D. on average
5 A. filters B. fertilizers C. pollutants D. poisons
6 A. firing B. burning C. lighting D. flaming
7 A. mosture B. water C. wetness D. humidity
8 A. lack B. emptiness C. shortage D. ineffiency
9 A. Therefore B. Furthermore C. Otherwise D. By contrats
10 A. lessen B. invigorate C. fasten D. eliminate

PASSAGE B.

So much sentimentality is attached to the rose in (1) …………… culture that it is difficult to separate
the original mythological and folkloric beliefs from the emotional excess that (2) …………… the flower. Yet if
we look into the beliefs, we find that the rose is much more than the mere (3) …………… of romantic love
invoked by every minor poet and painter.
One of the rose’s most common (4) …………… in folklore is with death. The Romans often decked the
tombs of the dead with roses; in fact, Roman wills frequently (5) …………… that roses were to be planted on
the grave. To this day, in Switzerland, cemeteries are known as rose gardens. The Saxons (6) …………… the

delinquents need help and a humane and tolerant approach. They are often victims of circumstances: broken
homes, lack of parental affection, poverty, neighborhood and insufficient discipline. One or more of these (4)
…………… may lead one to crime.
Family size and family income have a bearing on (5) …………… delinquency. In a family with a
large number of siblings, problems created by lack of parental care can be exacerbated. If the family is poor,
parents are forced to live in neighborhoods with a high incidence of delinquency. Parents, overburdened with
work and responsibilities, will have limited opportunities to (6) …………… control over their children or to
discipline them. Lacking parental control and guidance, children are apt to rely on peer groups and develop
wrong values. Overcrowding in the home (7) …………… is to have a deleterious (8) …………… upon
behavior. Older brothers may set bad examples for the younger ones to be vulnerable to delinquency owing to
close parental supervision or becoming deviant in behavior to combat parental possessiveness.
Poverty or low parental (9) …………… may lead to the social alienation of poor children and their
identification with a subculture of low standards. The effects of (10) …………… stringency can be worse if the
father is irresponsible or incompetent.

Part 3. (10 pts)

Read the following passage and choose the option (A, B, C or D) which is most suitable to complete
the sentence or answer the question before it.

What happened to Amelia Earhart? One of the mysteries is that no persuasive answer has been found to this
question. In 1928, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, and in 1932, she was the first
person to fly alone across the Atlantic. Earhart continued to break records. In 1935, she was the first person to
fly alone from Hawaii to California. Later, in 1937, she and her navigator, Frederic Noonan, set off in hopes of
being the plane wrecks. Two people on this group, Ric first to fly around the world. They never made it.
Somewhere in the Pacific between New Guinea and Howland Island, Earhart’s plane disappeared.
Conventional wisdom has it that Earhart’s plane ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean, but some refuse
to believe this. People still continue to look for clues about the disappearance of the plane. In 1992, one search
party reported finding remnants of what could be Earhart’s plane on the island of Nikumaroro, but people who
originally worked on Earhart’s plane disputed that evidence. There have been other search expeditions to

D. A group of people on the island assisted them.
7 Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Earhart and Noonan wanted to fly around the world.
B. Earhart’s plane was shot down over the Pacific.
C. Earhart was the first woman to fly alone from hawaii to California.
D. Earhart was an accomplished pilot.
8 According to the passage, what would most likely make Gillespie and Thrasher very happy?
A. To find a small piece of Earhart’s plane. B. To find people to talk to on Nikumaroro.
C. To get the funding to continue their search. D. To get more free time to be able to search.
9 Which of the following is NOT mentoned as a possible piece of evidence?
A. A part of a woman’s shoe. B. A piece of bone.
C. A piece of metal. D. A part of an engine.
10 The author uses the phrase ‘just around the corner’ in line 18 – 19 mean ………
A. they cannot go straight B. there is an intersection
C. something is close D. it is dependent on others

WRITING. (60 pts)

Part 1. (10 pts)

Rewrite the follwoing sentences in such a way that they mean almost the same as those printed
before them. You have to use the words given in brackets in your sentence and you mustn’t change the
word in any way.

1. I think he will come to the coference. (PRESENT)
 There is …………………………………………………………………………………………………….
2. It may be sunny, so wear a hat. (PUT)
 In case .…………………………………………………………………………………………………….
3. He is very rich thanks to the money he inherited from his uncle. (WELL)
 Had ….…………………………………………………………………………………………………….