UBND TỈNH TIỀN GIANG KỲ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI QUỐC GIA
SỞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO LỚP 12 THPT NĂM 2011
Môn thi : TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian thi : 180 phút ( không kể thời gian giao đề )
Ngày thi : 23/11/2011
Đáp án có 11 trang , gồm 04 phần ( I, II, III và IV )
 Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu, kể cả từ điển.
 Giám thị không giải thích gì thêm.
 Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp lên đề thi ( ở những chỗ dành sẵn )
Chữ ký Giám khảo I : Chữ ký Giám khảo II :

Điểm từng câu
Câu 1 ……………….

Câu 2 ……………….


Part 1: Questions 1 – 10
This is an introductory talk by a Student Information Officer. Listen and answer the
following questions by either choosing the correct answers or supplying your own
answers in the space provided. ( You do not need to write full sentences.)
1. Overseas students will enroll on
A. 8
th
February
Đáp án chính thức

B. 16
th
February
C. 17
th
February
D. 18
th
February
2. Undergraduate students must enroll
A. between 8.00 and 10.30 am
B. between 9.30 am and 12.30 pm
C. between 12.30 and 2.30 pm
D. between 2.00 and 4.30 pm
3. The venue for enrolment is
A. in the Mathematics Faculty
B. on Level 158
C. in Room C658
D. in Room C6


Part 2 : Questions 11 – 25
Listen to a newsreader talk about a disaster and fill in the missing information in the numbered
space.

Severe storms hit the western areas of the city last night, leaving (11) ____________________
scenes of destruction and at least a hundred homes without power or running water.
Dozens of families were left homeless when the roofs of their houses (12) were
_____________________ ripped away.

Many of the areas hit were the same ones badly affected by (13) _____________________
hailstorms last week.
In Macquarie Street, the council car park was completely (14) _____________________
flooded.
A Toyota Corolla was badly damaged by floodwaters which carried the car across the (15)
_____________________ carpark and into a large stormwater drain.
A separate storm (16) _____________________ raced through the Federation Botanical Park.
It uprooted at least (17) _____________________ 50 trees; many of them were over a
hundred years old.
In Menal, several trees were found lying on parked cars, causing an insurance bill that will run
into the (18) _____________________ tens of thousands of dollars.
Winds were recorded at speeds of over (19) _____________________ 70 kilometers an hour.
People were trapped in cars for up to an hour because the (20) _____________________
floodwaters had left them stranded in swollen creeks, amidst a sea of debris.
There were (21) _____________________ reports of cars being piled one on top of the other.
In Lucas Heights a tree fell on a mini-bus that was taking the (22) _____________________
local soccer team to training. Luckily all but the driver escaped serious injury.
The (23) _____________________ driver is in an (24) _____________________
satisfactory condition in Westmead Hospital.
For tomorrow, weather reports predict improved conditions, with clear skies and an expected


………1 METRE 75 /
175
CENTIMETERS…….
.

 Weight (31)

………80
KILOS/KILOGRAMS…….
.


Marital Status (32)

……SINGLE…….
Single Married Divorced Widowed

.

MEDICAL HISTORY

Serious illness
(33) …NONE…


Which of the
following is not
described as
serious illness by

Age: (38)

………67……
Cause of Death: (39)

…CAR ACCIDENT



Is the applicant
currently a
smoker?
Yes No
(40) ……YES……… II. LEXICO - GRAMMAR ( 6/20 pts.)

Part 1 : Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. Write your answer
( A, B, C, or D ) in the numbered box.

41. In the last century, it was widely …………… that Indian fakirs were capable of
superhuman feasts.
A. held B. grasped C. kept D. shaken
42. We may win, we may lose – it’s just the …………… of the draw!
A. strike B. odds C. chance D. luck
43. Claims for compensation could …………… run into billions of pounds.
A. far B. much C. well D. most
44. Trespassers will be …………… .
A. perpetrated B. persecuted C. proscribed D. prosecuted

individual decision by the partners or a collective decision by the partners
kin groups, and there is variation in the rules (52) _________
(REGULATIONS) which partners are valid (53) _________ (CHOOSE) .
In many societies the choice of partner is limited to suitable persons from
specific social groups. In some societies the rule is that a partner is
selected from an individual's own social group - endogamy, this is the case
in many class and caste based societies. But in other societies a partner
must be chosen from a different group than one's own - exogamy, this is
the case in many societies practicing totemic religion where society is (54)
_________ (DIVISION) into several exogamous totemic clans, such as
most aboriginal Australian societies. In other societies a person is
expected to marry their cross-cousin, a woman must marry her father's
sister's son and a man must marry his mother's brother's daughter - this is
often the case if either a society has a rule of tracing kinship (55)
_________ (EXCLUSION) through patrilineal or matrilineal descent
groups as among the Akan people of Africa. Another kind of marriage
selection is the levirate marriage in which widows are obligated to marry
their husband's brother, this is mostly found in societies where kinship is
based on endogamous clan groups.
In other cultures with less strict rules governing the groups from
which a partner can be chosen the selection of a marriage partner may
involve either the couple going through a selection process of (56)
_________ (COURT) or the marriage may be arranged by the couple's
0. wide

51. partner

52. regulating
53. choices


may choose a match for purposes other than marital (59) _________
(HARMONIZE) .
In rural Indian villages, child marriage is also practiced, with parents
at times arranging the wedding, sometimes even before the child is born.
This practice is now (60) _________ (LEGAL) under the Child Marriage
Restraint Act. In some societies ranging from Central Asia to the
Caucasus to Africa, the custom of bride kidnapping still exists, in which a
woman is captured by a man and his friends.
57. encourages

58. unmarried

59. harmony 60. illegal Part 3: The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Underline the mistakes and correct them
in the space provided in the column on the right. ( 0) has been done as an example.
Your answers

English is an West Germanic language that originated from the
Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic invaders from
66. some

67. ( cho 0.2 câu
này ) 68. words

69. largely
70. resulting Part 4 : Supply the correct form of the VERB in brackets to complete the passage. Write
your answer in the numbered box.

Your answers

71. MANIPULATING 76. TEACHING
72. TO FORM 77. HELPING
73. TO FULFIL 78. TAUGHT
74. LEARNING 79. SPELLING
75. NEGATED 80. NOT KNOW

Part 5: Fill each gap in the following sentences with one of the prepositions or particles in
the box. Use each word only ONCE and write your answer in the numbered box. ( Please
note that the given words outnumber the gaps)
to into in behind under in
round about for against at with

unaware of the importance of education. However, many countries have an active Ministry of
Education, and in many subjects, such as foreign language learning, the degree of education is
actually much higher than in industrialized countries; for example, it is not at all (92.)
_________ uncommon for students in many developing countries to be reasonably fluent in
multiple foreign languages, (93.) _________ whereas this is much more of a rarity in the
supposedly "more educated" countries where (94.) _________ much of the population is in
fact monolingual.
Universal primary education is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals and great
improvements have been (95.) _________ achieved in the past decade, yet a great deal (96.)

_________ remains to be done. Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute indicate
the main obstacles to greater funding from donors (97.) _________ include donor priorities,
aid architecture, and the lack of evidence and advocacy. Additionally, Transparency
International has identified corruption in the education sector as a major stumbling block to
achieving Universal primary education in Africa. Furthermore, demand in the developing
world for improved educational access is not as high as one would expect as governments
avoid the (98.) _________ recurrent costs involved and there is economic pressure on those
parents who prefer their children making money in the short term over any long-term benefits
of education. Recent studies on child labor and poverty have suggested that when poor families
reach a certain economic (99.) _________ threshold where families are able to provide
for their basic needs, parents return their children to school. This has been found to be true,
once the threshold has been (100.) _________ breached, even if the potential economic
value of the children's work has increased since their return to school.
Your answers
(0) C
91. C 92. D 93. D 94. D 95. A
96. B 97. D 98. C 99. D 100. B

Part 2: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable sentence from the list A to
E for each gap from 101 to 107. (There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.)

(117). …………E………………. .

(118). …………F………………. .
(119). …………G/H………………. .
(120). …………H/G……………. .

Part 4: Fill each blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the numbered
boxes provided below the passage.
Your answers
121. customs 126. departure / leaving
122. during 127. possible / necessary
123. more 128. late
124. middle 129. occasions
125. all 130. result IV. WRITING ( 6/20 points. )

Part 1: (0.5/20 pts)
Use the word(s) given in brackets and make any necessary additions to write a new sentence
in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Do NOT
change the form of the given word(s).

131. Turning down that job was very foolish of you.
YOU MADE A FOOL OF (YOURSELF) TURNING DOWN THAT JOB /
IT WAS VERY FOOLISH OF YOU TO TURN DOWN THAT JOB/
YOU TURNED DOWN THAT JOB, WHICH WAS VERY FOOLISH.
……………………………………………. .
132. Many species of wild life are threatened with extinction.
MANY SPECIES OF WILD LIFE ARE DRIVEN TO THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION./

HE HAS HAD TO COPE TOO MUCH WITH THE PRESSURES OF BEING IN THE
PUBLIC EYE./
HE CAN’T COPE WITH THE PRESSURES OF BEING IN THE PUBLIC EYE ANY
LONGER./ ANY MORE.
HE CAN NO LONGER COPE WITH THE PRESSURES OF BEING IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

…………………………………………………………….………
140. We were not very surprised to hear that he had been stealing money from the company.
THEIR STEALING/HAVING STOLEN MONEY FROM THE COMPANY CAME AS NO
SURPRISE TO US. /
IT CAME AS NO SURPRISE TO US THAT HE HAD BEEN STEALING MONEY FROM
THE COMPANY./
THAT HE HAD BEEN STEALING MONEY FROM THE COMPANY CAME AS NO
SURPRISE TO US.
…………………………………………………………………………………… .

Part 2: (2.5/20 pts)
The chart below shows Consumer Price Indexes of Vietnam in 2007. Write a report
describing the information shown. You should write at least 150 words. 100
105
110
115
120
125
130
135
140

of that of the gold price in the same period.
To sum up/In brief/In conclusion, the statistics show that while the index of the
USD price changed little while that of other consumer goods mounted higher partly due
to the rise in the gold price. However, there is still an optimistic signal that the common
index didn’t ascend much. Part 3: (3/20 pts)
School violence is one of the social issues these days that is demanding corrective
attention every passing day. What do you think? Write about 300 words to discuss and
suggest the solutions (and do not include your personal information). You may continue your
writing on the back page if you need more space.

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School violence is a very pointed problem. It is one of the social issues these
days that is demanding corrective attention every passing day.
School violence is getting worse and worse. Mass media have been reporting a
great deal about the problem. Every day we hear more new cases of school boys and
girls fighting, stabbing, outraging, wounding, insulting, attacking or revenging. This
problem is so serious that something needs to be done about it before it is too late.
SOLUTIONS:
- eradicate violence-stimulating forms of culture such as books, pictures, movies,
games on line that involve or advocate violence.
- educate school students to live and behave peacefully, not to behave
aggressively by the fact that relatives, teachers, friends, neighbors set good examples
through their actions, responses, behaviors, manners.
- encourage school children to struggle for noble, positive, humane ideals. Make
sure that they pursue healthy, positive interests,
- provide a friendly, mutually-affectionate, helpful and collective environment