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KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 11
NĂM HỌC 2007 - 2008
MÔN TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút
Ngày thi: 20 tháng 3 năm 2008
Số phách do
Chủ tịch Hội đồng chấm
thi ghi
Họ tên và chữ ký giám khảo Điểm
Giám khảo 1: Bằng số Bằng chữ
Giám khảo 2:
Đề thi gồm 06 trang.
Học sinh làm bài trên đề thi và ghi câu trả lời vào ô trống tương ứng cho mỗi câu hỏi.
SECTION A: LISTENING
Listen and complete the note Rachael made. (The information in the recording is not in the same order
as below). You will hear the recording TWICE.
How much? € return ( Iberia).
Depart London Heathrow on April at 19.15.
Arrive Buenos Aires at on 4th April.
Stop in Madrid for .
It’s a flight from Madrid (basically).
17th April – depart Buenos Aires at , , arrive Madrid at (18th).
Depart Madrid at , arrive London Gatwick at 8.20.
Can hold for .
Phone Jude:
SECTION B: USE OF ENGLISH
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5. No sooner ______ the front door than the phone rang.
A. did he lock B. does he lock C. has he locked D. had he locked
6. The captain refused to ______ the safety of his crew and passengers.
A. try the luck B. put at risk C. make a deal D. come to end
7. My younger brother has a habit ______ going to bed with a pair of socks on.
A. for B. in C. of D. with
8. The workers are working night and day to finish the building ______ of time.
A. before B. in front C. prior D. ahead
9. That young driver was _____ breaking the speed limit.
A. accused of B. blamed of C. criticized on D. penalized in
10.
Mrs Dawson was given the award in ___________ of her services to the hospital.
A. knowledge B. recognition C. charge D. sight of
11. She is ______ of her time and energy.
A. economic B. economical C. economy D. economist
12. Japan is still ______ on Middle Eastern oil.
A. reliable B. dependent C. imposing D. independent
13. I think you should do something ______ of sitting there and complaining.
A. in case B. on behalf of C. because D. instead
14. The journey back home, ________ was an 18-hour nonstop flight, almost made her exhausted.
A. that B. which C. when D. what
15. My new friend Suzan in the university has a very ________ smile.
A. child B. childish C. childlike D. childhood
16. She has bought a new pair of glasses, which she can never _____ when reading books.
A. go away with B. make up C. do away with D. do without
17.

III. Each of the following sentences has four underlined parts. Identify the one that is not grammatically
correct. Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in the box provided.
1. The Netherlands, a country with much of the land lying lower than sea level, have a system of dikes
A B C
and canals for controlling water.
D
2. Milk, often considered a nearly perfect food, contains fat, sweet, and protein.
A B C D
3. Soybean, which sometimes grow seven feet tall, have thick, woody stems.
A B C D
4. Lacrosse is a ballgame played on a field outdoors similar soccer.
A B C D
5. The first year of a child’s life is characterized in rapid physical growth.
A B C D
Answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
SECTION C: READING COMPREHENSION
I. Read the passage and choose the best word to fill in each blank. Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in
the box provided.
If you’re an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tent to say with a sneer or a snarl. It has
become a symbol of our wasteful, throw-away society. But there seems little (1) _________ it is
here to say, and the truth is, of course, that plastics have brought enormous (2) _________ even
environmental ones. It’s not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental evil – it’s the
way society chooses to use and (3) _________ them.
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal – non-
renewable natural (4) _________. We import well over three million tones of the stuff in Britain
each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. A high (5) _________ of our annual
consumption is in the (6) ________ of packaging and this constitutes about seven per cent by
weight, of our domestic refuse. Almost all of it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the
plastic recycling (7) _________ is growing fast.

a young child stands? Yet this is all too often seen.
Older people, tired and irritable from a day’s work, are not angels, either far from it. Many a brisk
argument or an insulting quarrel breaks out as the weary queues push and shove each other to get on
buses and tubes. One cannot commend this, of course, but one does feel there is just a little more
excuse.
If cities are to remain pleasant places to live in at all, however, it seems imperative, not only that
communications in transport should be improved, but also that communication between human beings
should be kept smooth and polite. All over cities, it seems that people are too tired and too rushed to be
polite. Shop assistants won’t bother to assist, taxi drivers growl at each other as they dash dangerously
round corners, bus conductors pull the bell before their desperate passengers have time to get on or off
the bus, and so on. It seems to us that it is up to the young and strong to do their small part to stop such
deterioration.
1. In many big cities, it’s now unlikely __________.
A. to see many elderly ladies standing on a bus
B. to find an vacant seat on the bus or the tube
C. to see young people stand up and offer seats to elderly people
D. to see many things exist
2. One excuse for this, given by young men, is that __________ .
A. women are as physically strong as men
B. women should be treated equally as men are
C. women do not need courtesy
D. men have to go out to work as well
3. It can be inferred from the passage that the writer __________.
A. expects young people to show courtesy to those people who really need help
B. thinks that women deserve to be treated equally
C. hopes to see more of equality in society
D. thinks that most women are physically strong
4. What is mentioned by the writer as a sign of unselfishness?
A. The idea of “First come, first served.”
B. Reading a newspaper or a book on a bus

Answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
III. Read the passage and fill in each blank with a suitable word. Write your answers in the box
provided.
ILLITERACY
Illiteracy may be considered more as an abstract concept than a condition. When a famous
English writer used this word over two hundred years ago, he was actually referring to people
(1)_________ could not read Greek or Latin. (2) __________ , it seems unlikely that university
examiners had this sort of disability in (3) __________ when they reported on ‘creeping illiteracy ‘ in
a report on their students’ final examination in 1988.
Over the years, university lecturers have (4) __________ aware of an increasing tendency
towards grammatical sloppiness, poor spelling and general imprecision in their students’ ways of
writing; and sloppy writing is all (5)__________ often a reflection of sloppy thinking. Their
complaint was that they had (6)__________ to do teaching their own subject (7)__________
teaching their undergraduates to write.
Some lecturers believe that they have a duty to stress the importance of maintaining standards
of clear thinking (8) __________ the written word in a world dominated by visual communications
and images. They (9) __________ on the connection between clear thinking and a form of writing
that is not only clear but also sensitive to subtleties of meaning. The same lecturers argue that
undergraduates appear to be the victims of a ‘softening process’ that begins with the teaching of
English in schools, but this point of (10) __________ has, not surprisingly, caused a great deal of
controversy.
Answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
SECTION D: WRITING
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it has a similar meaning to the one printed
before it, using the word given in bold. This word must not be altered in any way.
1. It was the goalkeeper who saved the match for us. lost
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