LĐT.HSG 12.CT 1

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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 07 trang )

PART I : LISTENING COMPREHENSION: ( 2.0 pts )

Question 1: Listen to the passage then pick out ONE best option ( A,B,C or D ) in each
question. The passage will be read twice:

1. In Porto, walking around is great because _______________.
A. the shops are very modern and the centre is very crowded.
B. the streets are narrow and full of churches, museums, and markets.
C. the streets are wide and full of people and vehicles.
D. the weather is warm and there are lots of shops and restaurants.
2. The writer thinks the atmosphere in Porto is_____________.
A. very exciting B. unsafe and violent
C. busy and unfriendly D. safe and friendly
3. People spend the evening hitting each other with plastic hammers___________.
A. at weekends B. every Sunday in summer
C. at São Joao in June D. when the weather is sunny
4. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The writer really enjoys drinking wine produced in Porto.
B. People usually go to Foz at the weekends.
C. Porto is not a big town.
D. Porto is situated in the north of Portugal.

C. work D. position
5. Janet should have stayed out of the sun because her skin is so…………
A. senseless B. sensible
C. sensitive D. insensible
6. A good friend will…………you when you’re having problems.
A. stand by B. stand in
C. stand off D. stand over
7. Total colour blindness,……………, is the result of a defect in the retina.
A. is a rare condition B. a rare condition
C. that a rare condition D. a rare condition that
8. Earthquakes can damage a tree………violently, and it can take several years for the
tree to heal.
A. to cause to shake it B. when shaking it causes
C. to cause shaking D. by causing it to shake

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

1. Coffee plants were first………in Ethiopia over 700 years ago. ( discovery )
2. He got retired 5 years ago and was then invited to be a member of the…………
committee of the town. (advice )
3. WWF has ……… panda as a kind of endangered animals in the world. ( classes )
4. It seems to be……….for human beings to live on Mars. It’s extremely hot there.
( possibility )
5. ………….is now applying in education and public health care in our country.
( society )
6. Weather is sometimes………….It’s hard to predict the weather exactly. ( rely )
7. Everyone likes him a lot because of his………….( generous )
8. Nowadays, mobiles are used………….in all regions of Viet Nam. ( popularity )


football match.
C. From the balcony of the high building, the football match can have a good
view.
D. The football match can view the balcony of the high building quite well.
3. / police’s warnings / people / refuse / helmets /
A. Despite the police’s warnings, many people still refuse to wear helmets.
B. Because of the police’s warnings, many people refuse wearing helmets.
C. Thanks to the police’s warnings, many people still refuse of wearing helmets.
D. Even though the police’s warnings, many people refuse not to wear helmets.
4. / ages / be / they / go / Da Lat /
A. It has been ages when they last went to Da Lat.
B. It has been ages when they have gone to Da Lat.
C. It seems to be ages since they last went to Da Lat.
D. Since they have gone to Da Lat, they have been ages.
5. / stop / we / play / tennis / because / rain / start /
A. We stopped playing tennis because it rain starts.
B. We stopped playing tennis because of it started to rain.
C. We stopped playing tennis because it started to rain.
D. We stopped to play tennis because it started to rain.
6. / computer / run / ten time / fast / this / old one /
A. This ten times computer runs faster than the old one.
B. This computer runs ten times faster than the old one.
C. This computer runs fast ten times than the old one.
D. This computer runs faster ten times than the old one
7. / this coat / you / prefer / coat / wear / yesterday /
A. I prefer this coat to the coat you wearing yesterday.
B. I prefer this coat than the coat you were wearing yesterday.
C. I prefer this coat to the coat you wear yesterday.
D. I prefer this coat to the coat you wore yesterday.
8. / Einstein / can / not / speak / until / he / eight /

cloud boiled up, while and blue, lightning flashes crackled through the mountains. It rained
mud balls. And after that the ash came down. It just got black, and I mean pitch black’.
Another witness said: ‘I broke out in a cold sweat, and ran.’
Within seconds the volcano had put on a terrible display. The north wall collapsed and gas,
ash and rock blasted up into the air, some up to 16 miles into the stratosphere. Snow melted
instantly and avalanches of mud and rock hurtled down the sides of the volcano at 100 mph,
sweeping away homes, cabins, bridges and millions of fir trees. One flow of debris blocked the
outlet of Spirit Lake. When the ash fell, it fell on the state fish farm at Green River killing
10,000,000 salmon, and on the wheat fields and orchards to the east.
Until 1980 the volcano had been inactive since 1857. In 1975 geologists had predicted that it
might erupt ‘perhaps before the end of the century’. And then seven weeks before the disaster,
the experts came up with a more exact prediction. They said an eruption was imminent and that
an evacuation programme should begin. They declared two zones around the mountain ( a red
zone and a blue zone) and set up blockades to stop people going in. But in the weeks that led
up to that Sunday, tourists, loggers, property-owners, newsmen and mountain climbers had
entered the ‘forbidden’ zones. Some of these people paid with their lives. Later, it was found
that ash and molten mud had caught up with many: falling trees had killed others.
David Johnston had always known that the mountain would blow fast when the time came.
He thought they would have about two hours’warning. In the event, he had hardly any warning
at all. Searchers found only a four-foot-high pile of black ash where Johnston’s trailer had
stood.
When the dust and ash had finally settled, what kinds of problems do you think people in
nearby towns and cities had to face up ?

1. The disaster happened when__________
A. an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima .
B. a bomb exploded at the US Geological Survey base.
C. Mount St Helens erupted in the United States in 1980.
D. there was an explosion in the US capital in 1980.
2. The eruption at Mount St Helens happened _________

D. for stopping people evacuating from the red zones.

Question 8 : Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word to complete the
passage below:

Sanjit Ray works for a computer company in Los Angeles, California. He writes computer
…( 1 )…. But he doesn’t go to Los Angeles every day. In fact, he doesn’t live in the USA. He
lives in India. Every day, he…( 2 )…the bus into Bombay and he goes to an office there. The
computer company sends information to him…( 3 )…e-mail. He works on the information on a
computer and then he sends the program back to California. The computer company doesn’t do
the work in the USA because it costs…( 4 )…to do it in India. Salaries there are…( 5 )….Also,
India is twelve hours…( 6 )…of California. So the computer company sends information at the
end of the day and Sanjit works on it when it’s…( 7 )…time in the USA. When he sends the
programs…( 8 )…, they arrive in California before the computer company starts in the
morning.

Question 9 : The article below is not complete and logical. Eight paragraphs or
sentences have been removed from it. Find out one of the suitable paragraphs / sentences
( A- I ), then insert it into the gaps ( 1- 8 ) where it should be to make the article a good
one. There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use:

THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET
That day in May three years ago could have put me off flying completely, but it didn’t. I had
always wanted to take up flying, but it wasn’t until I had seen an advertisement for a cheap
trial lesson that I decided to try it. __ or at least I thought I did! So I rang up the flying club and booked a lesson.
I obviously did something wrong because the next moment the ground seemed to be racing up
to meet us.
my instructor took over the controls and we were soon flying straight again.
I honestly admit that the experience was more embarrassing than anything else.
but friends won’t let you forget things like that very easily, will they?

THE REMOVED PARAGRAPHS :

A. I know that I froze for a moment or two, but I don’t know exactly what I did after that.
B. Although she knew I had no experience at all, she took me straight out to the plane
which was being tanked up with fuel.
C. I have been flying regularly for three years now and can put a plane in and out of a dive,
D. I had very little money and no knowledge at all about flying, but I had a lot of courage
E. “ Oh, yes, I know there’s an energy crisis__ but we’ll pull through somehow!”
F. I woke up very excited on the morning of the ‘historic day’ and cycled to the airport
which was about ten miles away.
G. We put on parachutes, got into the plane, which was about as big as a Mini inside,
strapped ourselves in side by side, and took off.
H. I thought we were going to crash, but with a calm ‘I’ll take over again now’,
I. The instructor was flying the plane of course and I was just holding my dual controls.

PART IV : WRITING ( 4.0 pts )

Question 10 : For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as

4. Weather may cause various effects on a person’s mood.
Affected
5. For thousands of years , people have highly believed in supernatural powers.
Belief

6. Telephone has brought convenience to people all over the world.
Convenient
7. A man with high ambition will never find leisured time in his life.
Ambitious
8. She was finally persuaded to travel by train.
Persuasion

Question 11: Write a short passage ( about 150 words ) which ends with this sentence:
“ In spite of everything that had happened, however, I just couldn’t help smiling to myself.”
The end
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KỲ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 12 THPT - DỰ THI Q.G.
Khóa ngày 22 tháng 12 năm 2008

Câu hỏi 7 : Đọc bài văn, chọn câu trả lời thích hợp : 2.0 điểm, mỗi câu chọn đúng: 0.25 đ
1. C 2. B 3. B 4. A
5. D 6. C 7. A 8. B
Câu hỏi 8: Điền khuyết, hoàn chỉnh bài văn bằng từ thích hợp: 2.0 điểm, mỗi từ điền đúng:
0.25 đ
1. programs 2. takes 3. by 4. less /lower /cheaper
5. low / cheap 6. ahead 7. night 8. back
Câu hỏi 9: Chèn mệnh đề / cụm từ vào đoạn văn : 2.0 điểm, mỗi chổ chèn đúng: 0.25 đ
1. D 2. F 3. B 4. G
5. I 6. A 7. H 8. C
PHẦN IV: VIẾT : 4.0 điểm
Câu hỏi 10: Viết chuyển đổi câu, dùng từ cho sẳn: 2.0 điểm, mỗi câu viết đúng: 0.25 đ
1. There was a complete difference between life in the countryside and that in the city.
2. The New World was explored as early as the 15
th
century.
3. Breathing / To breathe deeply in pure air is good for your health.
4. A person’s mood may be affected variously by the weather.
5. Thousands of years ago, people had high belief in super-natural forces.
6. Telephone has been convenient to people all over the world.
7. Highly ambitious man never find leisured time in his life.
8. She finally accepted the persuasion of travelling by train.
Câu hỏi 11: Viết một câu chuyện ngắn kể lại một kinh nghiệm mình đã trải qua: 2.0 điểm.
 Ý tưởng: 1.0 điểm : Nêu lên được cụ thể chi tiết, các diển tiến có tính cách thách thức
cho bản thân mà mình không lường trước được.
 Kỹ thuật viết: 1.0 điểm.
Phải trình bày dưới hình thức đoạn văn thuật sự, dài độ 150 từ, có bố cục rõ ràng, có
từ chuyển mạch, câu liên kết, dùng từ chính xác, phong phú, viết đúng ngữ pháp và
bắt buộc phải kết thúc bằng câu qui định.
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