LĐT.HSG 12.CT
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KỲ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYỂN HOC SINH GIỎI LỚP 12 THPT DỰ THI QUỐC GIA
Khóa ngày 22 tháng 12 năm 2008
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.
Question 2 : Listen to the passage then pick out the information to complete these
sentences. The passage will be read twice:
1. If the coffee plant is left alone in the wild, it can grow up to_______________.

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 )
Question 5 : There are 8 errors in the passage below. Read the passage, find out these
errors then correct them.The number (0) is an example:
There are so ( 0.much -> many ) museums and gallleries in London which even people
who have lived there for a long time do not know them all. Some are traditional museums, but
many are now making its exhibitions interactive, or hands-on, to encourage people to touch and
understand what is on display. At the Science Museum, visitors can carry away experiments. At
the National History Museum, managers can find out how to look for fossils on the beach. At the
National Gallery, the country’s main art gallery, visitors can call up paintings on radio screens,

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 /
A. Not until Einstein was eight can he speak.
B. Einstein could not speak until he was eight.
C. Einstein cannot speak until he was eight.
D. Not until Einstein was eight he can speak.

PART III : READING ( 6.0 pts )
Question 7 : Read the passage below then pick out ONE best option ( A,B,C or D ) in
each question :

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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 _________
A. suddenly without any signs of warnings in advance.
B. seven weeks after it had given out signs of imminent eruption.
C. repeatedly one by one in some days during seven weeks.
D. seven weeks earlier than the geologists’ prediction.
3. Right after Johnston saw the eruption, he___________
A. drove quickly to the US Geological Survey base.
B. reported quickly to the US Geological Survey base by radio.
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C. quickly escaped from the site by helicoter.
D. couldn’t report any words to the base in Vancouver.
4. After the explosion at the summit of Mount St Helens, the mud and ash caught up
anybody and anything ___________ away .
A. 25 miles B. 200 miles

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.When I turned up at the club, I paid and then met my instructor, who turned out to be a woman.
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