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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO GIA LAI KÌ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH
LỚP 12 THPT NĂM 2008
ĐỀ THI DỰ BỊ Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
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 Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu, kể cả các loại từ điển
 Giám thị không được giải thích gì thêm ___________________________________________________________________________________

I. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (8.0 ps)
Part 1: Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.
1. The woman was _____ from hospital yesterday only a week after her operation.
A. ejected B. expelled C. evicted D. discharged
2. _____ further rioting to occur, the government would be forced to use its emergency powers.
A. Should B. Did C. Were D. Had
3. Unfortunately our local cinema is on the _____ of closing down.
A. verge B. hint C. edge D. threat
4. All courses at the college are offered on a full-time basis unless _____ indicated.
A. further B. otherwise C. below D. differently
5. Your argument _____ that Britain is still a great power, but this is no longer the case.
A. outlines B. presupposes C. concerns D. presents
6. The construction of the new road is _____ winning the support of local residents.
A. thanks to B. reliant on C. dependent on D. responsible to
7. Although he didn’t actually say he wanted a radio for his birthday he did _____ pretty strongly.
A. imply B. suggest C. mention D. hint

19. The best soil was _____ away by a torrential rainstorm.
A. gushed B. flowed C. flooded D. washed
20. Five readers _____ the correct solution to our recent competition.
A. communicated B. qualified C. submitted D. subscribed
Part 2: Read the following passage. One word has been omitted each line. Put an oblique stroke
(/) where the word should be and write the missing word in each blank. 0 is an example.
Professional sport / played for money - lots of money. One team tries 00. ____is____
to beat the other - as in football, or one person tries to beat another 21. __________
a tennis match or golf tournament. Why they really want to win? 22. __________
Not just to show are better, stronger and fitter, but usually, and 23. __________
this is most important, to make lot of money - sometimes many 24. __________
thousands pounds. The losers often get little or nothing for playing 25. __________
the same game. They work as hard play as long. Is this fair? 26. __________
Wouldn’t it be better have professional sport where winners and 27. __________
losers make same money? In other words where winning or losing 28. __________
the game itself is more important the money you make, where it 29. __________
is only a competition of fitness and skill and about money? 30. _________
Part 3: Fill each gap in the following passage with the correct form of the word in brackets
THE OLYMPIC GAMES
The word “Olympic” comes from the name of the town Olympia in Greece, where the ancient
Olympic Games were always held. The first (31) _____ (record) Olympic Games were held in 776
B.C; the Games took place every four years after that date until they were abolished by a Roman
emperor in A.D. 394.
It was not until 1875, when (32) _____ (archaeology) discovered the ruins of the Olympic
Stadium in Greece, that interest in the Games was (33) _____ (new). Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a
French scholar and educator, (34 ) _____ (propose) that the Games should be revised as an (35) _____
(nation)competition to (36) ______ (courage) both sport and world peace.
The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896. Like their classical (37) ____
(predeceed), the athletes were men only women were (38)_____ (admit) to the Games in 1900. Since
that time, the Games have been held at four-year intervals as in ancient Greece. However, since


Part 5: Look at the passage below, in most lines of the passage there is one word which is not in
the correct form. Put a tick () in the right or wrong space to indicate your choice. Give the
correct form of the word in the space provided.

THE UNCERTAINTY OF SCIENCE
Right Wrong

Science no longer holds any absolute truths. Even the 0 ___ () __ __________
disciplin of physics, whose laws once went unchallenged, 00. ________ _discipline__
has had to submit to the indignity of an Uncertainty Principal. 66. ________ __________
In this climate of disbelief, we have begun to doubt even 67. ________ __________
fundamental propositions, and the old distintion between 68. ________ __________
natural and supernatural has become meaningless. I 69. ________ __________
find this tremendously exiting. The picture of science as 70. ________ __________
a jigsaw puzzle, with a finite number of peaces that would 71. ________ __________
one day all be slotted neatly into place, has never been 72 _________ __________
appealing. Experiance indicates that things are not like that 73. ________ __________
at all. Every new developement in the microscope reveals 74. ________ __________
farther minute detail in structures once thought to be 75. ________ __________
indivisable. Each enlargement in the power of the telescope 76. ________ __________
adds thousands of galaxies to a list allready so long that it is 77. ________ __________
meaningless to all but mathematicians. Even researche into what 78. ________ __________
once seemed to be simple behavour patterns has a way of going 79. ________ __________
on forever. 80. ________ __________

II. READING (8.0 ps)
Part 1: Read the passage and then decide which word best fits each space. Circle A, B, C or D to
indicate your answer.
WHITE LIES

93. A. genuinely
94. A. hurt
95. considered
B. usually
B. looking
B. am hating
B. to
B. tell
B. no
B. an
B. real
B. fairy
B. call
B. more
B. reject
B. especially
B. wound
B. considering
C. Occasionally
C. Appearance
C. hate
C. with
C. speak
C. never
C. the
C. true
C. painting
C. express
C. a little
C. deny

stress and so cut down on those headaches which cannot be "help" aspirin an (105) _____ non-
prescription painkillers.

Part 3: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question from the four
choices given.

What is the most widely spoken language in the world today? Well, if you mean what language is
spoken as a first or second language by the most people and what language is spoken in the greatest
number of countries, then the answer is English.
An estimated billion and a half people in the world speak English. One hundred years ago, the
original editor of the Oxford English Dictionary launched in appeal in Britain, the United States and the
former British Empire for new words. Since the end of the 20
th
century, English has become the most
widely used language around the world, and the editor of the OED, as the Oxford English Dictionary
commonly called, are sending out a worldwide appeal as they begin the task of completely revising the
OED.
The Oxford English Dictionary is widely regarded as the definitive record of the English language.
Now the expansive twenty-volume dictionary is to be update and the publisher is calling on the
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English-speaking world to help. The English language has expanded greatly in recent years with new
words, forms of uses in meaning flooding the language from around the world. The OED's principal
word expert Admin Dvina said that the search for new words is being launched globally, simply
because English is a worldwide language.
Contributors are invited to submit printed evidence of new words from a variety of sources,
including magazines, newspapers, books and song lyrics; Dictionary editors are also keen to receive
words of earlier centuries that have so far escaped inclusion.

Most students are capable ________________________________________________
112. Riding a bicycle along a pavement is against the law.
You _________________________________________________________________
113. I am amazed by the mistake he makes.
What ________________________________________________________________
114. You’re under no obligation to accept their offer.
You _________________________________________________________________
115. Paul may not be very well but he still manages to enjoy life.
Paul’s poor ___________________________________________________________

Part 2: Rewrite the following sentences, using exactly the words given
116. As far as I know he’s still working in Ho Chi Minh City.
KNOWLEDGE ________________________________________________________
117. This visa is valid until December 31
st
1999.
EXPIRY ______________________________________________________________
118. He was definitely agreed to accept the job.
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COMMITTED _________________________________________________________
119. He very much surprised me when he said he loved me.
BREATH ______________________________________________________________
120. The pressure of being in the public eye has proved too much for him.
COPE _________________________________________________________________
121. The personal officer promised him that she wouldn’t tell anyone that he had been in prison.
WORD ________________________________________________________________
Part 3: Make all the changes and additions necessary to produce, from the following sets of