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SỞ GD-ĐT BẾN TRE ĐỀ THI OLYMPIC ĐỒNG BẰNG SÔNG CỬU LONG
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SECTION A: LISTENING
I. You will hear a food critic, Andrea, talking to a famous chef. For questions 1-9, choose the
correct option from A, B, C, or D.
1. What is Marco Pierre well-known for?
A. sacking staff. B. making staff feel small.
C. being enthusiastic. D. being the best chef in the country.
2. How does he think his appearance has changed over the last eight years?
A. His hair is longer. B. His complexion is less clear.
C. He weighs a lot more. D. He wears different clothes.
3. How does he usually treat his customers nowadays?
A. He throws many out of his restaurant. B. He fights with many of them.
C. He makes jokes at their expense. D. He makes them laugh.
4. He asked one food critic to leave
A. in front of the man's guest. B. when he met the man in the bathroom.
C. without paying his bill. D. in the middle of lunch.
5. How does he treat his kitchen staff nowadays?
A. He bullies them mercilessly. B. He keeps them under control.
C. He takes advantage of them. D. He shouts at the unnecessarily.
6. The 'two-star' chef spent his childhood in
A. Leeds. B. Chelsea. C. Knightsbridge. D. Italy.
7. What is the code he lives by?
A. He forgives people who apologize. B. He criticizes people face to face.
C. He forgives and forgets everything. D. He never speaks ill of anybody.
8. What does he believe?
A. arrogance is a negative quality. B. arrogance creates success.

B. In her opinion, it is not necessary.
C. She uses it as an example of negative body language.
D. She believes that it causes complications.
6. What does the speaker imply when she says this…………… ?
A. The information she gives may surprise students.
B. The information she gives is false.
C. The information she gives is difficult to understand.
D. She is unsure of the information she gives.
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SECTION B: GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY
I. Choose the word that best complete each sentence.
1. The president was eventually ……………… by a military coup.
A. disposed B. despised C. deposed D. dispersed
2. The collapse of the silver market left him financially ………………
A. desolate B. dejected C. destitute D. derelict
3. He ……………… so much harm on the nation during his regime that it has never fully
recovered.
A. indicted B. inferred C. induced D. inflicted
4. I don’t want to be rude, so I’ll just say he is a bit ………………
A. flabby B. plump C. overweight D. obese
5. Union leaders called for ……………… between themselves and the government.
A. speeches B. elections C. debates D. consultations
6. At the ……………… same moment, we both realized what was happening.
A. quite B. simply C. very D. absolutely
7. It was clear from the beginning of the meeting that Jack was ……………… on causing
trouble.
A. inclined B. predisposed C. bent D. obsessed
8. Even the other convicts considered it a……………… crime.
A. guilty B. hard-bitten C. heinous D. hell-bent

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C. In summer, southern
Britain is warmer than northern Britain because of its attitude, but in winter the North Atlantic Drift
– a warm sea current - keeps the west mild than the east. Consequently, Wales and the south-west
peninsula has the most moderate climate and eastern England the most extremely. These
differences, are not great however, and local variations arise from factors such as latitude and
pollution are often greater. Annual rainfall is fairly evenly distribute, but ranges from more than
1,600 mm in the mountainous areas of the west and north far less than 800 mm over central and
eastern parts. This is because depression from the Atlantic bring frontal rainfall first to the west and
that western Britain is higher and so gets more relief rain.
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III. Select the word in the list below the text and change it in the correct form to fill in the gap.

GIFT-GIVING

If you have ever lied about some horrendous offering until your face was puce, or lain awake worrying about what
to buy the one you love, you will know that the giving and receiving of Christmas gifts is fraught with political
significance. At its (1) ………………., pretending you like something is merely prudent damage (2) ……………….,
designed to save the feelings of someone you love. Women, incidentally, are far better at this - like George Washington,
men cannot tell a lie (well, not about presents anyway) and fail to see why (3) ………………. to adore a polyester tie is
better than reducing an (4) ………………. relative to tears.

a head like a horse, big blue eyes, shining silver skin, and a bright red tail. The fish, which (8. since
send) ……………… to a museum where it (9. examine) ……………… by a scientist, is called
an oarfish. Such creatures (10. rarely see) ……………… alive by man as they live at a depth of
six hundred feet.
1. …………. 2. …………. 3. …………. 4. …………. 5. ………….
6. …………. 7. …………. 8. …………. 9. …………. 10. ………….

V. Fill in the blank space with one suitable preposition.
1. He expected his daughter to fetch and carry ……………….him all day.
2. She’s got the business of buying birthday present down ……………….a fine art.
3. A: I’ve got some questions I’d like to ask you.
B: Right, fire ……………….!
4. With several of their planes ……………….temporarily commission, the airline is losing
money.
5. The hall isn’t quite ready for the ceremony yet, but it will be all right ……………….the
night.
6. I’ve only had time to dip ……………….the report.
7. Our first sight of the dingy little hotel did not inspire us ……………….much confident.
8. I just can’t manage ……………….£50 a week.
9. You can’t expect promotion to be handed to you ……………….a plate.
10. When he listens to music, he’s lost ……………….the world.
1. …………. 2. …………. 3. …………. 4. …………. 5. ………….
6. …………. 7. …………. 8. …………. 9. …………. 10. ………….

VI. Fill in the blank with A/AN/THE or x (no article)
1. If this goes wrong, your job’s on …………… line.
2. In …………… case of fire, ring the alarm bell.
3. What? “Pam”? Oh no, there is …………… L in the word “palm”.
4. At the end of the street there is a house in …………… course of construction.
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16. …………. 17. …………. 18. …………. 19. …………. 20. ………….

II. Choose the answer that best completes each sentence.
At 13.19 yesterday British Rail's retired Peaks class diesel locomotive 46009 came from Old
Dalby station at about 100mph to strike the nuclear fuel flask the Central Electricity Generating
Board had placed across her track.
She was a few minutes late because of anti-nuclear demonstrators on the line, but the tense,
waiting spectators knew there was no driver at the controls and no passengers in the three elderly
coaches 46009 was pulling.
For a few eerie seconds, I suspect most of us were more concerned with the fate of the train
than with the 8ft square yellow-painted steel transport flask whose security this extraordinary event
was designed to demonstrate.
Even the board's ebullient chairman, Sir Walter Marshall, admitted to a moment of shock as the
150-ton train struck its target. But he was delighted with the result.
The impact was like a vast bass drum being sounded across the Leicestershire countryside.
Then a flash of flame as the locomotive tossed the 50-tea flask aside and leapt over the deliberately
derailed wagon that had carried it.
But even though the flask lay on its side as to give the diesel’s protruding draw bar the best
chance of prising the heavily-bolted lid open, the flask suffered only superficial damage.
Sir Walter beamed as his engineers connected a pressure meter to the flask’s valve and
registered a drop through the lid seals of only 0.29 of a pound from the original 100lb per square
inch.
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“Even better than we expected," he said. "It shows that our calculations were ultra-cautious-
which is what we have always known."
Sir Walter openly acknowledged that this expensive crash test, spectacular though it was, was
not conducted primarily as a scientific experiment.
The 14-inch-thick forged steel walls of the flask were actually subjected to far more stress last
March, when it was dropped from a crane onto concrete.

B. a train was destroyed
C. a locomotive was destroyed D. a nuclear flask was completely undamaged
4. Sir Walter 'beamed' (line 54) because ………………….
A. he is a jolly sort of fellow B. he had been annoyed by the demonstrators
C. he wanted pressmen to see he was happy
D. he knew the test had been thoroughly successful
5. After the crash the pressure inside the flask was ………………….
A. 99.29 p.s.i. B. 99.71 p.s.i. C. 100 p.s.i. D. 100.29 p.s.i.
6. The locomotive started its final journey………………….
A. 4 miles from the crash point B. when Sir Walter pushed a button
C. in the direction of Nottingham D. away from Nottingham
7. A test was carried out in March ………………….
A. to show the public the safety of transporting nuclear fuel by rail
B. to conform with international regulations
C. at a similar cost to the one reported in the passage
D. with a similar fanfare of publicity
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8. The phrase 'the board were considering' (line 32) implies that die following information is
being reported as ………………….
A. definite fact B. conjecture
C. the writer's opinion D. Sir Walter's statement
9. The writer reports the condition of the windows and seats because this is………………….
A. important information B. an integral part of the
test
C. irrelevant but amusing
D. an interesting by-product of the experiment
10. The tone of the passage suggests that the writer is ………………….the CEGB.
A. amused by B. hostile to C. skeptical of D. shocked by
1. …………. 2. …………. 3. …………. 4. …………. 5. ………….

A. to reduce the damage
B. to let them get away with
C. to govern the construction of reactions
D. to make changes to our lifestyles
E. to get rid of nuclear waste
F. to make is that
G. to show that there are steps
H. to fit effective filters
I. to change their packaging policies
J. to take action against pollution
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SECTION D: WRITING
I. Write a new sentence using the word given.
1. He is becoming quite famous as an interviewer. NAME
2. He makes sure that he isn't associated with policies he disagrees with. DISTANCES
3. I really don't know what you're talking about. FAINTEST
4. I feel I am not being treated fairly. RAW
5. Someone paid five thousand pounds for the painting. WENT
6. You can walk to the station easily from the hotel. DISTANCE
7. Pauline isn’t one of the people who know the secret. ON
8. We don’t expect that the missing climbers have survived. HOLD
9. You must accept the fact that she has left you. TERMS
10. He was not given details of the company’s new plans. DARK
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II. TASK 2
Present a written argument or case to an educated reader with no specialist knowledge of the
following topic:
Some people believe that computers are more a hindrance than a help in today's world. Others
feel that they are such indispensable tools that they would not be able to live or work without
them.
 In what ways are computers a hindrance?
 What’s your opinion?
Use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and
with relevant evidence.

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