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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO
TỈNH YÊN BÁI

Đề chính thức
(đề có 11 trang)
KỲ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYỂN DỰ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI
QUỐC GIA NĂM HỌC 2010 -2011

Môn thi : Tiếng Anh
Thời gian : 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) Điểm của bài thi Họ, tên và chữ kí của giám khảo
Số phách
(do chủ tịch HĐCT ghi)
Bằng số: Giám khảo 1:
Bằng chữ: Giám khảo 2: PART I : LISTENING (3 points)
 There is a piece of music at the beginning and at the end of the listening part.
 You have 30 seconds to read each question before listening.
 Each recording is played twice with an interval of 10 seconds.

Question I: Listen to a telephone conversation and complete the notes below (1 point).
a. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

John Frank Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln lived in different times. Kennedy was born in
1._______________, whereas Lincoln was born more than 100 years earlier. As for their family backgrounds,
Kennedy came from a rich family. He was able to attend expensive private schools. he graduated from
2._______________ University. Lincoln only had one year of formal schooling. In spite of his lack of
3._______________, he became a well-known lawyer. He was a 4. _____________ man. In spite of these
differences in their backgrounds, some interesting 5. _______________ between the two man are evident. For
example, take their political careers. Both of them began their political careers as a 6. _______________. They
went to the Congress just 7. _______________ apart. Another interesting coincidence is that each man was
elected President of the United States in a year ending with the number 60. Furthermore, both men were
presidents during the years of civil 8. _______________ in the country. Both of them were 9._______________
while in office. They were shot while they were sitting next to 10. _______________

Question III: Listen to a talk and choose the correct answer (1 point).
1. PS Camping has been organising holidays for ________
A. 15 years B. 20 years C. 25 years
2. The company has most camping sites in ________
A. France B. Italy C. Switzerland
3. Which organised activity can children do everyday of the week?
A. football B. drama C. model making
4. Some areas of the sites have "no noise" rules after ________
A. 9.30 pm B. 10.00 pm C. 10.30 pm
5. The holiday insurance that is offered by PS Camping ________
A. can be charged on an annual basis.
B. is included in the price of the holiday.
C. must be taken out at the time of booking.
6. Customers who have recommended PS Camping to friends will receive ________
A. a free gift B. an upgrade to a luxury tent C. a discount

Where are the following items? Write A,B or C after each item


8. ________ he loved her, he didn't forgive what she had done.
A. Much as B. Because C. However D. No matter
9. He spent his entire life ________ round the world, never settling down anywhere.
A. roaming B. scattering C. scrambling D. transporting
10. She tries to set ________ 15 minutes everyday to do some aerobics.
A. about B. aside C. down D. in
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Question II : Fill in each blank with the correct form of the words from the box (1 point).
special able develop use organise
success full compete communicate demonstrate
A teacher standing in front of a history class is seldom teaching history alone. A good teacher is also (1)
________ self-expression, management ability, (2) ________ skills and a whole host of other skills that may be
(3) ________ for you later in life. There are certain basic (4) ________ that everyone needs to have if they are
to be (5) ________ in education, employment and even in social circumstances. Learning these skills is (6)
________ important at secondary school level in order to (7) ________ prepare for further education and the
working world. A minimum level of (8) ________ is demanded by all employers, colleges and universities. The
more advanced you are in those areas, the more the (9) ________ believes you will be competent. These
personal (10) ________ skills differ from other school subjects in that they can not be taught in isolation from
the rest of school curriculum.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Question III: The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Underline the mistakes and correct them in the
space provided in the column on the right. (1 point)
Most obviously, those exposing to weekly general music classes or private instrumental
or vocal lessons will find an outlet for their creativity and self-expression. Therefore, a
closer, more - scientific look at music will show that the advantages are indeed much greater
than just increased creativity.

6. _________ 7. _________
8. _________

9. _________
10._________
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Question IV : Supply the correct tense of the verbs in brackets (1 point).
In mankind's millions of years on Earth, many types of energy resources (1. utilise) ________.
However, in the last ninety years, petroleum by far (2. become) ________ the most important. Accounting for
over fifty percent of all energy consumed, it (3. be) ________ so essential that, without petroleum, we (4. face)
________ economic disaster. Of course, the Earth's supply of petroleum (5. not/last) ________ forever, and in
fact, it (6. disappear) ________ sooner than most people (7. believe) ________. At the current rate of
consumption, the world oil reserves (8. may/exhaust) ________ within forty or fifty years. Obviously,
measures (9. take) ________ decades ago to reduce our dependence on oil. Amazingly, such measures (10.
still/discuss) ________ today.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10.
Question V: Fill in each blank with an appropriate preposition or particle (1 point)
1. The company is committed _________ raising salaries and improving conditions.
2. I’ve really gone _________ Bill. I thought he was such a kind man but I’ve found out that he is really very
self - centered.
3. The delegate touched _________ a number subjects during her speech.
4. I applied for a part - time job at the supermarket. They’ve going to take me _________
5. I was passing their house, so I dropped _________ Claire and Peter.

Nobody knows for certain what the origin of music was. Music is certainly older than poetry and
painting but as early man had no way of (1) ________ it, we can only guess what it sounded like. Watching a
child (2) ________ on a drum with his hands or a piece of wood, it is easy to see that this is the simplest of
instruments. It does not (3) ________ much effort to produce a rhythm on it.
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Wall painting show what some of the instruments looked like. Early civilisations had already discovered
three basic (4) ________ of producing music; blowing into a tube, striking an object and scraping a string. We
know that western music comes from the (5) ________ Greeks. The musical scale we now use are (6) ________
on a certain sequences of notes which the Greeks used to create a particular (7) ________.
Until the sixteenth century, most players of instruments were single performers, but as music became
more (8) ________, orchestras and musical groups began to (9) ________. This (10) ________ about the
writing of music to be played by several musicians at a time. This can certainly be called the birth of modern
music.
1. A. recording B. playing C. producing D. performing
2. A. hitting B. knocking C. crashing D. banging
3. A. make B. call C. take D. do
4. A. forms B. manners C. systems D. ways
5. A. ancient B. old C. aged D. antique
6. A. raised B. based C. established D. supported
7. A. spirit B. temper C. mood D. humour
8. A. widespread B. enlarged C. expanded D. extended
9. A. turn B. appear C. spring D. be
10. A. produced B. affected C. caused D. brought
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Question II: Read the passage carefully and use a suitable word to fill in each blank (1 point).
In the 1960s women tennis players received little or no prize money at all. In the 1990s, (1) _________,

the fact that only half of the bequest was actually paid, the General Court named the college after the minister in
appreciation for what he had done. The amount of the bequest may not have been large, particularly by today’s
standards, but it was more than the General Court had found it necessary to appropriate in order to open the
college.
Henry Dunster was appointed the first president of Harvard in 1640, and it should be noted that in
addition to serving as president, he was also the entire faculty, with an entering freshman class of four students.
Although the staff did expand somewhat, for the first century of its existence the entire teaching staff consisted
of the president and three or four tutors.
1. The main idea of this passage is that _________.
A. Harvard is one of the world’s most prestigious universities
B. What is today a great university started out small.
C. John Harvard was key to the development of a great University
D. Harvard University developed under the auspices of the General Court of Massachusetts
2. The passage indicates that Harvard is _________
A. one of the oldest universities in the world B. the oldest university in the world
C. one of the oldest universities in America D. the oldest university in America
3. It can be inferred from the passage that the Puritans who traveled to the Massachusetts colony were
_________.
A. rather well educated B. rather rich
C. rather supportive of the English government D. rather undemocratic
4. The underlined pronoun “they” refer to _________.
A. Oxford and Cambridge universities B. university graduates
C. sons D. educational opportunities
5. The “pounds” are probably _________.
A. types of books B. college student
C. units of money D. school campuses
6. The “English cousin” refers to a _________.
A. city B. relative
C. person D. court
7. Which of the following is NOT mentioned about John Harvard?

Despite the Church's opposition, we came to realise that the Earth lie in the center of the universe. Instead, we
gradually found we live on a small planet on the edge of a minor galaxy, circling one star in a universe that
contains billions of others. Our unique position in the universe was gone forever.
A few centuries later, we were moved even further from stage center. The Darwinian revolution
removed us from our position as a unique creation of God. Instead, we discovered we were just another part of
the animal Kingdom proud to have "a miserable ape for a grandfather", as Thomas Huxley put it in 1860. We
know now just how close to the apes we are - over 90% of our genes are the same as those of the chimpanzee.
Increasing knowledge of our genetics is one of the driving forces in the third great conceptual shift that
will soon take place. Other are the growing knowledge of the way our minds work, our new ability to use
knowledge of the nervous system to design drugs that affect specific states of minds and the creation of
sophisticated scanners which enable us to see what is happening inside our brains. In the third revolution, we are
taking our own selves to pieces and finding the parts which make up the machine that is us.
Much of the new knowledge from genetics, molecular biology and the neuro-sciences is esoteric. But its
cultural impact is already running ahead of science. People begin to see themselves not as wholes with a moral
center but the result of the combined action of parts for which they have little responsibility.
It's Nobody's Fault is the title of a popular America book on "difficult" children. Many different
children, the book explains, are not actually difficult but are suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).
There is nothing wrong with them or the way they have been brought up. Rather, the part of the brain which
controls attention is short of a neuro-transmitter.
ADD is now the world's fastest growing psychological problem. In the United States, a survey showed
that 1.5 million children between the ages of five and eighteen were being treated with a drug, Ritalin, for the
disorder. Since then, the number taking the drug is believed to have doubled.
You might, as many people do, question the way in which the disorder has been diagnosed on such
staggering scale but that is not the point. The cultural shift is that people are not responsible for their disorders,
only obtaining for treatment for the parts of them that have gone wrong.
The more we know about the parts of ourselves, the more cures for our defects will appear. The best-
selling Listening to Prozac claimed the drug "can transform pessimists into optimists, turn loners into
extroverts". And Prozac, the book explained, "was not so much discovered as planfully discovered, through the
efforts of a large pharmaceutical firm… the likely result of this form of research is not medicines that correct
particular illnesses but medicine that affects clusters of function in the human brain."

D. Mankind has a unique position in the universe.
3. What did Darwin discover?
A. Human beings were a unique creation of God.
B. Human beings and apes shared a common ancestor.
C. Human beings were lucky while apes were miserable.
D. Human beings and chimpanzees were nearly identical.
4. Which of the following is NOT "one of the driving forces in the third great conceptual shift"?
A. Knowledge of our own genetics.
B. Knowledge of our way our minds work.
C. Knowledge of how to use sophisticated scanners
D. Knowledge of how to design drugs that affect specific states of mind.
5. Which of the following is likely to be the main idea of the book It's nobody's fault?
A. Many children are suffering from ADD.
B. ADD is the problem for problematic children.
C. Some people's brains do not have neurotransmitters.
D. The way people are brought up determines their behavior.
6. How many people are taking Ritalin in the US?
A. less than 1.5 million B. 1.5 million of the people aged 5-18
C. 3 million of the people aged 5-18 D. more than 3 million teenagers

7. Which of the following refers to the cultural shift?
A. More people are diagnosed to be suffering from mental disorders.
B. People are not responsible for the problems they have.
C. More people are seeking mental treatment.
D. People begin to question the accuracy of doctors' diagnoses.
8. What is Prozac?
A. a book B. a medicine C. a type of people D. a mental disorder
9. Genetic analysis seems to have confirmed that there is a gene in our body that is responsible for
A. alcoholism B. homosexuality C. obesity D. laziness
10. Which of the following does the drug Viagra illustrate?

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3. He usually invents ridiculous stories like that. (MAKES)
_________________________________________________________________
4. His reputation was greatly damaged by the scandal. (HARM)
_________________________________________________________________
5. My brother is not feeling well these days. (WEATHER)
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Question III: The chart below shows the changes of literacy rates by country in 1990 and 2000. Write a
report describing the information in the chart in at least 150 words. (2 points)
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10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Brazil China Egypt
Percent
Literacy Rates, by country, 1990 and 2000
Male 1990
Male 2000
Female 1990
Female 2000

about 250 words to express your ideas. (3 points)

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