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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN
Thanh Hoá Dự thi học sinh giỏi quốc gia lớp 12 THPT
Đề chính thức Năm học 2010 -2011
Môn : TIẾNG ANH
Ngày thi : 02 / 11 / 2006 (Thời gian làm bài thi 180 phút)
( Đề này có 05 trang )
A. GRAMMAR
I- Complete the following sentences with a correct preposition. (15 points)
1. There are many advantages …… being able to speak a foreign language.
2. Do you think you could go…… this work with me some time, Peter ?
3. His father doesn’t have much influence …… him.
4. The meeting broke………after three hours and everyone went for drink.
5. Sorry I haven’t written to you for so long. The reason … this is that I’ve been ill
recently.
6. Carol doesn’t have a very good relationship…… her sister.
7. Many young people become addicted…….drugs through ignorance.
8. Helen had great admiration…….her history teacher.
9. My hands were blue…… cold when I got home.
10. I’d like to exchange this car …… a new model but I can’t afford it.
11. The party went on ……. dawn.
12. Your lungs are …….your chest, and your ribs are …….your lungs.
13. It’s easy to get drunk ……… brandy.
14. I’d like to be …… on this scheme.
II. Use the correct form of verbs in brackets. (10 points)
How many of us know what our daily nutritional needs are? How many of us,
when buying food at the shops, consider what the nutritional value of our purchases
(1-be) ? A harassed mother will rush around the supermarket, (2- buy ) foods which
are simple and quick (3- prepare). She will often buy foods which (4- advertise) on

7. ……. breakfast we had at the hotel wasn’t very nice.
8. Can you play ………guitar?
9. I work for …….company that makes carpets.
10. He took …….cigar from his mouth and blew away…….long line of …….smoke.
V. Find out one mistake in each sentence and correct them. (5 points)
1. “ The shop cross the road is where I bought the flowers from” said Mary.
2. It was really surprise that those children survived the fire that destroyed all the
houses.
3. If you try to concentrate on one subject for too long, you might fed-up and not
really learn anything.
4. Not only cigarettes but alcohol is believed to be harmful to one’s health.
5. Caffeine in coffee is relative harmless if people drink it moderately.
B. READING :
VI. Read the passage and do the exercises below. (5 points)
Ogden Nash was a poet, storyteller, humorist, and philosopher. Born in Rye, New
York, and raised in Savannah, Georgia, he tried but failed to adapt himself to the
academic and later the business world. After attending Harvard University briefly, he
became a mail clerk on Wall Street, later advancing to bond salesman. His first job as
a writer was to produce advertising copy for streetcar cards. Then, in 1925, he joined
the advertising department of Doubleday Page and Company, one of the largest
publishing house in new York. Later, as a member of the editorial staff of “ The New
Yorker” magazine, he began writing short poems.
His verses are filled with humor and wry wit as well as the unexpected or
improbable rhymes that have come to characterize them. One of his most famous is a
two-line verse titled “ reflections on Ice- Breaking” in which he offers the following
advise to young lovers : “Candy is candy, but liquor is quicker”. Beginning in1931,
and extending over the next four decades. Nash produced nineteen books of poetry.
During the same time period, he was a favorite contributor to many leading
magazines, and his name became a household word.
1. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

may be because of ….10……as example as the fact that he or she is physically
similar … 11….someone who treated you well or badly. But your reaction
doesn’t……12… to be the result of the memory of a person you previously met-
your feeling about the stranger could ……13… influenced by a smell in the air that
brings to mind a place … 14….you were happy as a child. Since even a single word
can bring back a memory … 15… as that, you may never realize it is happening.
VIII. Choose the best answer to complete sentence. (30 points)
1. Nor do I. She …….me of a fox with her thin unpleasant face.
A. thinks B. reminds C. remembers D. recollects.
2. Parents have no control …… their children these days.
A. for B. over C. on D. with.
3. She is traveling to work by train today because her car is being ……
A. stopped B, broken C. serviced D. rented.
4. The film lasted three hours with……of 15 minutes between part one and part two.
A. an interval B. pause C. stop D. an interruption.
5. We fell over some pieces of wood …… lying around.
A. leave B. leaves C. leaving D. left.
6. There is only one student in the classroom …… his lesson.

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A. prepares B. to prepare C. was preparing D. preparing
7. Now my brother …… a car of his own.
A. is having B. are having C. has D. had.
8. After he had broken his leg, Henry could only go up and down stairs….
A. hardly B. in difficulties C. with difficulty D. hard.
9. The mouse family avoided …… by coming out only when the house was empty
and the two cats were outside.
A. catching B. to be caught C. being caught D. to have been caught.
10. I …….cakes for the whole morning. Would you like to have a piece?

A. were B. am being C. be D. would be.
24. He was lucky when he fell off the ladder. He……. himself.
A. had hurt B. should have hurt C. must have hurt D. could have hurt.
25. In my view the change to the education system have been to good…. .

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A. influence B. outcome C. upshot D. effect.
26. He always felt that he was living in the ……of his famous father.
A. dusk B. gloom C. shadow D. mist.
27. This song is not …….as original as their previous ones.
A. almost B. virtually C. nearly D. practically.
28. He had such a bad stomachache that he was …….with pain.
A. bent down B. folded over C. doubled up D. snapped off.
29. Linda wanted to be an actress, so when they offered her a part in the play,
she…… it.
A. burst into B. seized on C. ran after D. jumped.
30. She has fifty-five cats. I don’t know how she…….them all.
A. looks for B. stands by C. keeps to D. copes with.
C. WRITING :
IX. Rewrite each of these sentences in such way that it means the same as the
sentence printed before it. (10 points)
1. I will marry her and I don’t care how old she is.
- No matter…………………………. .
2. The people who are in group one will have to move to room 106 on the ground
floor.
- Those who……………………… .
3. I met him for the first time in 1985.
- I hadn’t…………………… .
4. Rudyard Killing himself was the first English writer to whom the Nobel Prize was
SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐÁP ÁN - HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM
Thanh Hoá Đề thi chọn đội tuyển dự thi
Học sinh giỏi quốc gia lớp 12 THPT
Năm Học 2006 -2007
Môn : TIẾNG ANH
Ngày thi : 2 / 11 / 2006
A- Đáp án
I. 1. of 8. for
2. over 9. with
3. over 10. for
4. up 11. until
5. for 12. in/ inside- outside
6. with 13. on
7. to 14. in

II. 1. is 6. can be seen
2. buying 7. piled
3. to prepare 8. overeat / are overeating
4. have been advertised 9. eating
5. are wrapped 10. is.

III. 1. giving 6. inexpensive
2. least 7. simplest
3. sympathy 8. appreciated
4. disappointed 9. successful
5. unhappy 10. givers

IV. 1. the - the 6. the

3. I hadn’t met him until 1985.
4. It is Redyard Kipling who the first English writer to who the Nobel Prize was
awarded.
5. I was particularly impressed by her excellent command of English.
6. Before these machines were invented people had to queue.
7. If I had known you were coming, I would have waited for you.
8. On picking up my pen , I found that the nib had broken.
9. The news of his going to university pleased him very much.
10. He didn’t feel well enough to get up.

X- ( 5 points )
Giám khảo thống nhất để cho điểm, yêu cầu lưu ý.
1. Organization : Bố cục rõ ràng , đủ ba phần ( mở bài, thân bài, kết luận )
2. Ideas : ý hay, phong phú biểu đạt nội dung có liên quan chặt chẽ đến yêu cầu chủ
đề của đề thi.
3. Discourse : Thể hiện khả năng viết mạch lạc, chặt chẽ nối kết câu và có chuyển
mạch tốt.
4. Length : Đảm bảo đủ số lượng từ theo yêu cầu của đề, không được dài hoặc ngắn
hơn nhiều.

B- Hướng dẫn chấm:

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Mỗi từ hoặc câu đúng ( trong các câu I đến câu VIII ) được 1 điểm, câu X
tuỳ theo bài làm của thí sinh để cho từ 1 đến 5 điểm.
- Tổng điểm toàn bài: 120 Points
- Thang điểm: 20
Tổng số câu hoặc từ đúng
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