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KỲ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYỂN HOC SINH GIỎI LỚP 12 THPT DỰ THI QUỐC GIA
Môn: ANH VĂN
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút ( không kể thời gian giao đề )
( Đề gồm 8 trang )
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PART I : LISTENING COMPREHENSION: ( 2.0 pts )

Question 1: Listen to the conversations in the tape two times then pick out ONE best
option ( A,B,C or D ) in each question:

1. The car needs replacing
A. the front tyre on the driver’s side.
B. the front tyre on the passenger’s side.
C. both of the front tyres.
D. both of the rear tyres.
2. Finally, the tourist decides to book a wake-up call at
A. 6.30 o’clock B. 7.00 o’clock
C. 7.15 o’clock D. 6.45 o’clock
3. The patient goes to see the doctor because she has got
A. a headache B. a stomachache
C. a toothache D. a backache
4. The doctor tells the patient
A. to stay in bed for some days.
B. to take some medicines.
C. to stop reading and watching telly.
D. to have her eyes tested.


C. controlling D. controlled
5. His play made a tremendous………….on audience.
A. result B. affect
C. impact D. collision
6. Unmarried middle-aged ladies usually dislike being called ……….although it is
technically the correct word to use.
A. old maids B. spinsters
C. maidens D. bachelors
7. She’s so………in doing her research that she never has time to relax.
A. involved B. included
C. complicated D. approved
8. I apologize. I shouldn’t……………. my temper.
A. have made B. have lost
C. have showed D. have given

Question 4 : Complete these sentences, using the suitable forms of the words in
brackets:

1. ………is one of the important factors that lead the firm to success.( managed )
2. I think he is the most………….in our village. Six members in his family died in the
last flood. ( fortunately )
3. Excuse me, Sir. I know it’s……… to call you up at two A.M. But our factory is on
fire! ( convenience )
4. All those foreign visitors can speak Vietnamese very well. There will be a big……
to have a translator here. ( useful )
5. The natural disasters have………… seriously the life of all people there.( effect )
6. Look at the doctor’s………….carefully before you take these tablets.( prescribe )
7. The behaviour of the woman is very…………The guard of the supermarket is having
a look on her. ( suspect )
8. Finally, the proposal of the students was………….yesterday. ( admission )

A. It’s important that your father should stop smoking at once.
B. It’s important that your father stopped smoking at once.
C. It’s important that your father stops smoking at once.
D. It’s important that your father may stop smoking at once.
3. / use / be / footballer / team / football / national / Huynh Duc / the best / of / our /
A. Huynh Duc used being the best footballer of our national football team.
B. Huynh Duc used to be the best footballer of our national football team.
C. Huynh Duc used to being the best footballer of our national football team.
D. Huynh Duc uses to be the best footballer of our national football team.
4. / hurt / she / boyfriend / learn / forget / birthday /
A. She was hurt when learning that had her boyfriend forgotten her bithday.
B. She hurt was when learning that her boyfriend had forgotten her birthday.
C. She was hurt that when learning her boyfriend had forgotten her bithday.
D. She was hurt when learning that her boyfriend had forgotten her birthday.
5. / highway / now that / take / get / build / hours / there /
A. Now that the highway has been built, it takes only two hours to get there.
B. Now that the highway has been built, it took only two hours to get there.
C. Now that the highway has been built, it is taking only two hours to get there.
D. Now that the highway has been built, it has taken only two hours to get there.
6. / stupid / it / give up / him / job / money / need /
A. It was stupid with him to give up his job when he needed the money.
B. It was stupid to him to give up his job when he needed the money.
C. It was stupid of him to give up his job when he needed the money.
D. It was stupid for him to give up his job when he needed the money.
7. / survive / we / unless / work / start / cleaner / safer / energy / sources /
A. We won’t survive so we start working on cleaner,safer sources of energy.
B. We won’t survive although we start working on cleaner, safer sources of
energy.
C. We won’t survive unless we start working on cleaner, safer sources of
energy.

and soaking trousers. So I carried on reading books and started writing poetry at home.
By chance, I won some prizes and literary awards in national competitions. A young woman
from a TV company came to the college one day. She told me in the quiet of the corridor that I
had won a national poetry award. I stared at her in astonishment and disbelief. She wanted to
make a short film about me, to which I said: ‘ No, I couldn’t do that.’ Not that I had any real
excuse. I was just frightened. She eventually persuadedme that I should do it the following day.
Off I went to Shaws Bridge, on the outskirts of Belfast.They made a short film of me reading
one of my poems and I was forever after occupied with a fascination for words.I wondered
what I should do after this, and decided some weeks later that I could not stand the idea of
spending the rest of my days dealing with pipes. So one evening, I hesitatingly told my parents
that I wanted to return to school.They were shocked and, I think, a little afraid but they did not
try to persuade me not to. They wanted to know if I was sure, if I knew what it meant and
whether I was aware that if I gave up my training it would be very difficult to get a good
job.But nothing could put me off, and they pursued the matter no further.
1. One reason why the writer left school at the age of fifteen was that he
A. thought he would get a good job.
B. had no other choice.
C. didn’t get on well with his teachers.
D. didn’t want to be different from his friends.
2. What did the writer feel while he was training to be a heating engineer?
A. He didn’t receive enough money.
B. He preferred the college to the factory.
C. He was capable of doing something better.
D. He might fail to qualify as a heating engineer.
3. What did the writer find when he attended the evening classes?
A. The behaviour of the other students annoyed him.
B. The studies were less interesting than he expected.
C. He was out of place among the other students.
D. He learned more when he studied at home.
4. What does “ it “in ‘ I put up with it for a short period.’ refer to ?

New drivers could be asked to play a sophisticated video game as part of their training and
driving test, under proposals to be announced by transport ministers next week. The
Department of Transport has been considering a test devised by researchers which tests
people’s “ hazard and perception…( 1 )…”, that is how quickly they are aware of a dangerous
situation and how quickly they react to it.This is a particular weak point of new and learner
drivers.
Dr Frank McKenna, the psychologist heading the £200,000 research project, says: ‘…( 2 )
people, despite popular belief and, particularly their own estimation of their driving, do not
have faster reaction times than older drivers. Although they may be slightly quicker once they
notice something dangerous, they are much…( 3 )…at spotting a possible crisis.
Dr McKenna says that the video is a much better tool for training and testing than written
questionnaires, which were an alternative suggestion put forward in a consultation paper by the
department last August:”…( 4 )…may be cheaper, though they are quite expensive to mark,
but there is no relationship between being good at answering the questions and being good at
avoiding accidents.”
Rather than developing a…( 5 )…programme involving high technology, Dr McKenna has
concentrated on a scheme that could be carried out quickly and cheaply.” There will be no
excuse for not implementing this test.”
Drivers being assessed watch a ten-minute video and push a button as soon as they see a
dangerous …( 6 )….While some of the situations on the video were acted by the research team,
several were not, including a dangerously wobbly cyclist who cuts across traffic to go along
the white line in the middle of the road, and a woman stepping out into the traffic from a bus
stop.
Dr McKenna is working on research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
on how drivers judge their own driving skills. His preliminary work suggests that people
usually think that their skills are above average which of course, is a nonsense statistically .
Indeed, in one…( 7 )…survey in the US not one person from a large sample thought their skills
were below average.
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Together they try it out on the runway, taking half-steps at different corners and turning at
angles to be followed in the sky later on. Pepsi-Cola certainly agrees. Fourteen years ago the soft drink company, searching for someone
to carry on a tradition begun in the early 1930s, looked through some 3,000 applicants for a
skywriter, and chose a 21-year-old woman pilot from Oregon.
She says that when you are two miles away from your audience, you forget how big an
impression it makes on the people below. Kids stop playing ball and traffic comes to a
complete standstill. You can’t actually see while she ‘s writing, of course. But during the
descent and on landing she can look back and see what she’s written. Children come up to Asbury- Oliver after her shows. She says that they are really curious
because they are learning and form their own letters and they imagine her aeroplane as apencil.
Their parents are often surprised when they meet her. 123

D. “You’d think it was nothing special to have a woman skywriter, but parents will bring
their little girls to meet me. At first they ‘ll approach my husband and say,” Look what
he did,” and he’ll say,” No, she did that.” They’re astonished.”
E. She gets great pleasure out of doing it well.” If it’s a beautiful day and the letters are
staying, you say to yourself, I did a good job. If a letter isn’t quiteright, you become your
own worst critic, and you say, I can’t believe I did that.”
F. What’s more,Butler doesn’t get as much business from industry as he used to and isn’t
sure how much longer he will continue training skywtiters.
G. “For me to train a skywriter,” Butler says, in his office at North Perry Airport,” they
have to be able to fly straight and parallel lines and judge their work without using
equipment.”
H. “Women are better students in skywriting,” Butler continues, back inside.” They pay
more attention to detail, and they’re less likely to depart from procedure.”

I. The art began almost eighty years ago in the skies over Europe during the First World
War, when a British pilot squirted some light oil into his plane’s exhaust system to make
a mid-air spot of smoke above an enemy position.

PART IV : WRITING ( 4.0 pts )

Question 10 : For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as
possible in meaning to the original one, but using the word given.This word must not
be altered in any way:

Example: ( o ) There was no conclusion at the end of the workshop.
Conclude
They did not conclude anything at the end of the workshop.

1. We cannot see animals in a vast area after the forest fire.
Absence

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