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
Đề thi có 15 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 chổ 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
Đề chính thức

SỒ PHÁCH
SỒ PHÁCH

A. 8
th
February
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

done at once.
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) ____________________
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
_____________________ away.
Many of the areas hit were the same ones badly affected by (13) _____________________
last week.
In Macquarie Street, the council car park was completely (14) _____________________ .

A Toyota Corolla was badly damaged by floodwaters which carried the car across the (15)
_____________________ and into a large stormwater drain.
A separate storm (16) _____________________ through the Federation Botanical Park.
It uprooted at least (17) _____________________ ; 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) _____________________ of dollars.
Winds were recorded at speeds of over (19) _____________________ kilometers an hour.
People were trapped in cars for up to an hour because the (20) _____________________ had
left them stranded in swollen creeks, amidst a sea of debris.
There were (21) _____________________ 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) _____________________
soccer team to training. Luckily all but the driver escaped serious injury.
The (23) _____________________ is in an (24) _____________________ condition in
Westmead Hospital.
For tomorrow, weather reports predict improved conditions, with clear skies and an expected
(25) _____________________ temperature in the city of 14, Helen Brookes reporting for

………………………

 Height (30)

………………………  Weight (31)

……………………… 
Marital Status (32)

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Single
Married
Divorced
Widowed
MEDICAL HISTORY

Serious illness
(33) ……………………… 
Which of the following
is not described as


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Cause of Death: (39)

……………………… 

Is the applicant
currently a smoker?
Yes No
(40) ……………………… 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
parents or an outside party, a matchmaker.
A pragmatic (or 'arranged') marriage is made easier by formal
procedures of family or group politics. A responsible authority sets up or
(57) _________ (COURAGE) the marriage; they may, indeed, engage a
professional matchmaker to find a suitable spouse for an (58) _________
(MARRY) person. The authority figure could be parents, family, a
religious official, or a group consensus. In some cases, the authority figure

57. _________
58. _________ 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.
60. _________

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
various parts of that is now northwest Germany and the Netherlands.
Initially, Old English was a divert group of dialects, reflecting the varied
66. __________

67. __________ 68. __________

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

Learners of English often have difficulty ( 71. MANIPULATE) __________ the various ways
in which English uses the first auxiliary verb of a tense. These include negation (e.g. He hasn't
been drinking.), inversion with the subject (72. FORM) __________ a question (e.g. Has he
been drinking?), short answers (e.g. Yes, he has.) and tag questions (has he?). A further
complication is that the dummy auxiliary verb do /does /did is added (73. FULFIL)
__________ these functions in the simple present and simple past, but not for the verb to be.

Word derivation in English requires a lot of rote (74. LEARN) __________ . For example, an
adjective can be (75. NEGATE) __________ by using the prefix un- (e.g. unable), in- (e.g.
inappropriate), dis- (e.g. dishonest), or a- (e.g. amoral), or through the use of one of a myriad
related but rarer prefixes, all modified versions of the first four. (76. TEACH) __________ English therefore involves not only (77. HELP) __________ the

87. When he came _________ after the operation, he had absolutely no idea where he was.
88. He has been harboring his grievances _________ his boss.
89. _________ length, the bus arrived, forty minutes late.
90. He is _________ disgrace with his father because he told a lie.

Your answers
81. 86.
82. 87.
83. 88.
84. 89.
85. 90.

III : READING ( 4/20 points )

Part 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer ( A, B, C, or D ) best fits
each gap. Write your answer in the numbered box. ( 0) has been done as an example.

(0.) _________ developing countries, the (91.) _________ and seriousness of the problems
faced are naturally greater. People in more remote or agrarian areas are sometimes 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.) _________ for
students in many developing countries to be reasonably fluent in multiple foreign languages,
(93.) _________ this is much more of a rarity in the supposedly "more educated" countries
where (94.) _________ of the population is in fact monolingual.
Universal primary education is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals and great
improvements have been (95.) _________ in the past decade, yet a great deal (96.) _________
to be done. Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute indicate the main obstacles to
greater funding from donors (97.) _________ donor priorities, aid architecture, and the lack of
evidence and advocacy. Additionally, Transparency International has identified corruption in

B. breached
C. In
C. number
C. usual
C. when
C. many
C. obtained
C. stay
C. contain
C. recurrent
C. summit
C. failed
D. On
D. quantity
D. uncommon
D. whereas
D. much
D. reached
D. still
D. include
D. urgent
D. threshold
D. terminated

Your answers
(0) C
91. 92. 93. 94. 95.
96. 97. 98. 99. 100.
Most long-lived people have a sense of self-discipline. (106) ……………… . The
man who lives long because he walks a mile a day does so because he does it every day, as part
of an organised existence.
Over and over, during my researches, it emerged that long life goes with a “twinkle in
the eye”. (107) ……………… . The sour-faced puritan and the solemn bore soon begin to
lose ground, leaving their more amused contemporaries to enjoy the last laugh.
Finally, nothing is to be gained by a head-in-the-sand avoidance of the facts of life and
death. The healthiest solution is to accept that one’s span on Earth is limited and then to live
every day, in the present, and to the full.
(Desmond Morris: The Book of Ages)

A. But it is important to make a distinction between calmly relaxed and passively
lazy.
B. Puritanical arguments about smoking and drinking have little to support them.
C. People who want a long life with an alert old age should never retire.
D. But, in gaining success, individuals should not overstress themselves.
E. A sense of humour, impishness, a feeling that life is fun, are strong weapons
against ageing.
F. Such activities as walking and gardening prolong life spectacularly because
they are ‘non-intensive’ forms of all-over bodily movement.

G. That does not imply a harsh military-style masochism but the ordering of life
and the imposition of a pattern on the events of the day.

108. Which sentence is the counter statement of “ Some people are naturally more
physically active than others, and are at a considerable advantage providing their
activities are not the result of stress”?
A. If they are forcibly retired they should immerse themselves in some new, absorbing activity.
B. If they take exercise too seriously it will work against them
C. Older individuals who take up intensive athletic activity are usually people who fear

inland in large, dry regions such as deserts. Along the coasts, sand dunes protect the land
against stormy seas and subsequent erosion. Although the conditions sound harsh, many kinds
of seaweed and seabirds find coastal dunes to be an ideal habitat while many forms of cacti,
snakes, and spiders find the conditions of desert dunes to be ideal.
There are a variety of dune shapes, each caused in part by the vigor and direction of the
wind and the landscape that surrounds it. The most common dune shape is the crescent dune.
This type of dune is generally wider than long and is formed when the wind blows
continuously from one direction. Star-shaped dunes are very symmetrical, with three or more
sides that radiate down from a high peak. This kind of dune is common in deserts, such as the
Grand Erg Oriental in the Sahara, due to winds shifting in various directions. This dune grows
upwards as opposed to laterally. Reversing dunes are the ones that come in varying shapes and
sizes due to a periodic reversal of wind direction.

No matter what the dune shape, each type can occur in three forms: simple, compound,
or complex. A simple dune is the one that has the minimum number of sides, or slipfaces, that
form a geometric shape. A compound dune is a larger dune that contains many smaller dunes
of the same shape as itself, and a complex dune is a combination of two or more dune types.
Sand dunes are an essential part of certain habitats, especially in coastal regions, where
they aid against the erosion of coastal land and also foster an environment for certain kinds of
wildlife. On the other hand, sand dunes can also contribute to a problem known as
desertification. Desertification happens when there is a degradation of land due to climatic
changes. The same winds that create sand dunes often help them encroach on human habitats
in the form of sand storms or sand avalanches, which can cause major damage to buildings or
crops. Every year, in places like Africa and the Middle East, sand fences are put up to try to
stop sand from migrating into inhabited areas.
Antidunes are different. Antidunes are commonly observed in small streams that flow
across beaches into the ocean. Antidunes are typically found in fluvial environments in shallow
areas with a high flow rate. Inversely, when the slope is steeper, antidunes can be found where
the motion of the sediment begins, disappearing when the rate of flow increases. The
appearance of antidunes are quite similar to ripples that go in the direction of the wave, but are

___________ dune.
Their effects are to help prevent erosion, create environment for fauna and flora to live
in, and to give rise to (115) ___________ .

Questions 116-120: Complete another brief summary of the passage be selecting the
FIVE answer choices (among A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H) that express important ideas in the
passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary because they express ideas that
are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage.
(116). …………………………. .
(117). …………………………. .
(118). …………………………. .
(119). …………………………. .
(120). …………………………. .
Answer Choices
A. All sand dunes, no matter what their size and shape, are formed by wind erosion.
B. The slack is the valley between two adjoining sand dunes.
C. A large dune field is known as an erg.
D. Every year sand fences are put up to stop sand from encroaching on human habitats and
crops.
E. Sand dunes protect against erosion and provide a habitat for wild life.
F. Sand dunes can occur in three forms: simple, compound, and complex.
G. Sand dunes in Israel are important because of their scientific information and public
recreation.
H. Antidunes are typically found in environments near rivers or streams in shallow areas with a
high flow rate. Part 4: Fill each blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the numbered
boxes provided below the passage.
Clearing customs

121. 126.
122. 127.
123. 128.
124. 129.
125. 130. 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.
FOOL ……………………………………………. .
132. Many species of wild life are threatened with extinction.
VERGE …………………… ……………………………. .
133. Pandas need a special diet, without which they perish.
UNLESS ……………………… ………………………. .
134. You’d be wasting your time trying to make him change his mind
POINTLESS ……………………………… ……………………… .
135. The police arrived as the thieves were committing the crime.
RED-HANDED ………………………………………………. .
136. We don’t seem to have much sugar left!.
RUNNING ……………… …………… .
137. Mass tourism has been one of the causes of the problem.
BLAME …………………………………….………………. .
138. The ‘environmentally friendly’ label on this product is misleading.
CONTRARY …………………………………………………………. .

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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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