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KỲ THI CHỌN HSG
KHU VỰC DH-ĐBBB
Năm học: 2014 - 2015
ĐỀ THI: TIẾNG ANH
LỚP 10
(Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút)

PART A. LISTENING
I. Listen and choose the best answer. (10 pts)
1. Paddy is interested in the sports programme because……………….
A. he needs a qualification to teach PE.
B. he wants to improve his general teaching skills.
C. he has been told to attend it.
2. The swimming course concentrates on ……………….
A. competitive swimming.
B. teaching beginners.
C. technical aspects of swimming.
3. Paddy is interested in the equestrian course because……………….
A. he thinks it will help him get better employment.
B. there is great interest in this sport in his present school.
C. he has always been interested in riding.
4. The beginners on the equestrian course will be taught……………….
A. basic horsemanship.
B. only dressage and show jumping.

sentences.(10 pts)
1. She saw ________ the deception immediately.
A. round
B. past
C. into
D. through
2. Lack of sleep over the last few months is finally ________ Jane.
A. catching up with
B. getting on with
C. coming over
D. putting on
3. Please don’t ________ it amiss if I make a few suggestions for improvement.
A. think
B. assume
C. take
D. judge
4. - "Would you like to join our volunteer group this summer?"
- "______"
A. Do you think I would?
B. I wouldn't. Thank you.
C. Yes, you're a good friend.
D. Yes, I'd love to. Thanks.
5. If I make a fool of myself in front of my friends, I’ll never ________ it down.
A. let
B. give
C. settle
D. live
6. Because of his poor health, it took him along time to ________ his bad cold.
A. throw off
B. throw away

C. right
D. plain
13. It was with a ________ heart that she said goodbye to all her colleagues.
A. solemn
B. heavy
C. dismal
D. grim
14. When facing problems, it is important to keep a sense of ________ .
A. proportion
B. introspection C. relativity
D. comparison
15. “But son,” I told him , “you ’re my own_______.
A. heart to heart B. body and soul C. flesh and blood D. skin and bone


16. Seeing her mother shot by a terrorist left an _______impression on the
young child’s mind.
A. instant
B. indelible
C. indefinite
D. infinite
17. Children can be difficult to teach because of their short attention
__________ .
A. limit
B. duration
C. span
D. time
18. “Another cup of coffee?” — “No, but thanks
__________.
A. not at all

III. Fill in each of the blanks a suitable preposition (10 pts)
1. The doctor is busy right now, but she could probably fit you ______ later.
2. It was a good idea, but I am afraid it didn’t quite come______
3. I couldn’t pin Ann ______ to a definite answer.
4. His heart attack was brought ______by too much stress at work.
5. The victims of the industrial accident should, ______ rights, be compensated
by the factory owners.
6. As nobody seems to know what to do next, may I put ______ a proposal?
7. I’m sorry to hear that Dick and Peter have fallen ______.They were such
good friends.
8. He was taken ______by her aggressive attitude.
9. His business has gone ______, and he has lost everything.
10.My husband brought me some flowers today. He must be ______ something!


IV. Write the correct form of the word given in brackets. (15 pts)
1. The government’s policy on arms is shocking. It is quite _____ (defend)
2. Despite going to German classes twice a week, I don’t feel I’m making much
_____ with the language. (head)
3. John always knows how to _______the party with his jokes. (lively)
4. The fire-prevention system is _____ by any small increase in temperature.
(active)
5. The government’s ______ approach has brought criticism. (compromise)
6. Your presence has enriched our lives________(measure).
7. She won the first prize in the contest due to her________(persuade)
8. All________ must be received before July 20th 2007. (apply)
9. The women employed in the mines were ______ young and married.
(dominance)
10. The outcome of the election is a ______ conclusion. (go)
VI. Write the correct form of the word given in brackets. (15 pts)

can be (4)…..for their children. Should parents worry if their children are
spending that much time (5)…..their computer?
Obviously, if children are bent over their computers for hours,(6)…..in some
game, instead of doing their homework, then something is wrong. Parents and
children could decide how much use the child should (7)…..of the internet, and
the child should give his or her (8)…..that it won’t interfere with homework. If
the child is not holding to this arrangement, the parent can take more drastic
(9)…… Dealing with a child’s use of the Internet is not much different from
(10)…..any other sort of bargain about behaviour.
Any parent who is (11)…..alarmed about a child’s behavior should make an
appointment to (12)…..the matter with a teacher. Spending time in front of the
screen does not (13)…..affect a child’s performance at school. Even if a child is
(14)…..crazy about using the internet, he or she is probably just (15)…..through
a phase, and in a few months there will be something else to worry about!
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each question. (15pts)
The first scientific attempt at coaxing moisture from a cloud was in 1946,
when scientist Vincent Schaefer dropped 3 pounds of dry ice from an airplane
into a cloud and, to his delight, produced snow. The success of the experiment
was modest, but it spawned optimism among farmers and ranchers around the
country. It seemed to them that science had finally triumphed over weather.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work out that way. Although there were many
cloud-seeding operations, during the late 1940s and the 1950s, no one could say
whether they had any effect on precipitation. Cloud seeding, or weather
modification as it came to be called, was dearly more complicated than had been
thought. It was not until the early 1970s that enough experiments had been done
to understand the processes involved. What these studies indicated was that only
certain types of clouds are amenable to seeding. One of the most responsive is
the winter orographic cloud, formed when air currents encounter a mountain
slope and rise. If the temperature in such a cloud is right, seeding can increase
snow yield by 10 to 20 percent.
There are two major methods of weather modification. In one method, silver
iodide is burned in propane-fired ground generators. The smoke rises into the
clouds where the tiny silver-iodide particles act as nuclei for the formation of ice
crystals. The alternate system uses airplanes to deliver dry-ice pellets. Dry ice
does not provide ice-forming nuclei. Instead, it lowers the temperature near the
water droplets in the clouds so that they freeze instantly—a process called
spontaneous nucleation. Seeding from aircraft is more efficient but also more
expensive.
About 75 percent of all weather modification in the United States takes
place in the Western states. With the population of the West growing rapidly,
few regions of the world require more water. About 85 percent of the waters in
the rivers of the West comes from melted snow. As one expert put it, the water
problems of the future may make the energy problems of the 70s seem like
child’s play to solve. That’s why the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, along with

5. To which of the following does the word they in line 21 refer?
A. Water droplets
B. Clouds C. Ice-forming nuclei
D. Airplanes
6. When clouds are seeded from the ground, what actually causes ice crystals to
form?
A. Propane
B. Silver-iodide smoke
C. Dry-ice pellets
D. Nuclear radiation
7. Clouds would most likely be seeded from airplanes when
A. it is important to save money
B. the process of spontaneous nucleation cannot be employed
C. the production of precipitation must be efficient
D. temperatures are lower than usual
8. What does the author imply about the energy problems of the 1970s?
A. They were caused by a lack of water.
B. They took attention away from water problems.
C. They may not be as critical as water problems will be in the future.
D. They were thought to be minor at the time but turned out to be serious.
9. The author mentions agricultural cooperatives (line 31) as an example of
A. state government agencies
B. private interests
C. organizations that compete with ski areas for water
D. municipal water districts
10. It can be inferred from, the passage that the weather-modification project of
1976-77 was
A. put together quickly B. a complete failure
C. not necessary
D. easy to evaluate

could improve the rate substantially, though it is unrealistic to expect very high
levels of water-use efficiency in many developing countries, faced as they are
with a chronic lack of capital and a largely untrained rural workforce. After
agriculture, industry is the second biggest user of water and, in terms of value
added per litre used, is sixty times more productive than agriculture. However,
some industrial processes use amounts of water. For example, production of 1
kg of aluminium might require 1,500 litres of water. Paper production too is
often very water-intensive. Though new processes have greatly reduced
consumption, there is still plenty of room for big savings in industrial uses of
water.
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In rich countries, water consumption has gradually been slowed down by price
increases and the use of modem technology and recycling. In the USA,
industrial production has risen fourfold since 1950, while water consumption
has fallen by more than a third. Japan and Germany have similarly improved
their use of water in manufacturing processes. Japanese industry, for example,


now recycles more than 75% of process water. However, industrial water
consumption is continuing to increase sharply in developing countries. With
domestic and agricultural demands also increasing, the capacity of water supply
systems is under growing strain.
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Many experts believe that the best way to counter this trend is to impose water
charges based on the real cost of supplies. This would provide a powerful
incentive for consumers to introduce water-saving processes and recycling. Few
governments charge realistic prices for water, especially to farmers. Even in rich
California, farm get water for less than a tenth of the cost of supply. In many
developing countries there is virtually no charge for irrigation water, while
energy prices are heavily subsidised too (which means that farmers can afford to

both in the plants and in the ground. Removal of the vegetation means that
rainfall runs off the top of the land, accelerating erosion instead of being
gradually fed into the soil to renew ground water.


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Global warming is bound to affect rainfall patterns, though there is considerable
disagreement about its precise effects. But it is likely that, as sea levels rise,
countries in low-lying coastal areas will be hit by seawater penetration of ground
water. Other countries will experience changes in rainfall which could have a
major impact on agricultural yield - either for better or for worse. In broad
terms, it is thought that rainfall zones will shift northwards, adding to the water
deficit in Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean - a grim prospect
indeed.
Questions 8 - 10
Complete the summary below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the text for each answer.
Other ways of protecting supplies are to reduce water loss resulting from
8.______ in the supply systems and to find ways of utilising used water. Longer
term measures, such as improved environmental 9.______would protect the
ecosystem and ensure the replenishment of ground water for future generations.
Without such measures, future supplies are uncertain, especially when global
warming is expected to interfere with rainfall patterns and to worsen the 10.
______already suffered by many countries today.
PART D: WRITING
I. Rewrite the sentences with the given words or beginning in such a way
that their meanings remain unchanged. (15pts)
1. It was his lack of confidence that surprised me.
What……………………………………………….
2. He got over his operation very quickly.


ĐỀ ĐỀ NGHỊ

ĐỀ THI: TIẾNG ANH, LỚP 10

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(Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút)
ĐÁP ÁN

PART A. LISTENING
I. Listen and choose the best answer (10 pts)
1. B

2. C

3. B

4. A

5. C

II. Listen to part of a radio programme. Decide whether the information in
each sentence is true or false.(10 pts)
1. F

2. F

3. F


pts)
1. D

2. A

3. C

4.D

5. D

6. A

7. B

8. C

9. A

10. A

11. C

12. D

13. B

14. A

15. C

1. in

2. off

3. down

4. on

6. forward

7. out

8. aback

9. under

5. by
10. after

IV. Write the correct form of the word given in brackets. (15 pts)
1. indefensible

2. headway

3. enliven

4. activated

5. uncompromising



9.

10.

mysteriously

independently

happenings

PART C. READING
I. Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each
space. (15 pts)
1. A

2. D

3. C

4.B

5. A

6. D

7. C

8. A



8. for

9. this

10. one

III. Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to
each question. (15pts)
1. B

2. D

3. A

4. D

5. A

6. B

7. C

8. C

9. B

10. A

IV. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings

6. He takes everything in his stride.
7. The new regulations had an immediate effect on many companies.
8. Being her only niece, Mary is the apple of her eye.
9. I used to know this school like the back of my hand.
10. John’s arrival in Ho Chi Minh City coincided with hers.

II. Paragraph writing
1. Organization: (5 points)
+ Three parts (topic sentence, supporting sentences, concluding sentence)
+ Topic sentence: consists of topic and controlling idea.


+ Concluding sentence: summarizes the main supporting ideas / restates the topic
sentence and gives personal opinion.
2. Content, coherence and cohesion: (12 points)
+ Supporting sentences: support directly the main idea stated in the topic sentence
and provide logical, persuasive examples.
+ Use of transition signals appropriately.
3. Language use and accuracy: (8 points)

LISTENING SCRIPTS
I. Listen and choose the best answer
P = Paddy K = Kate
P: Excuse me, I've come to enquire about your summer school courses. My
name's Paddy Deans. Please call me Paddy.
K: OK, Paddy, I'm at your disposal. Are you talking about concen-trating on one
subject or do you want to study a number of different subjects? And are we talking
about graduate studies or preparation for graduate studies? We can also give you
advice on a new career, but we're not in the field of I Management or anything like
that.

I'm sure something will grab your fancy.
P: Great. By the way, what's the enrolment deadline for all this?
K: Well, we've just extended it by a week, so it's now Mav 2nd.
P: Fine.
II. Listen to part of a radio programme. Decide whether the information in
each sentence is true or false.
What’s the connection between a lower crime rate, the price of shampoo at your local shop
and the cure for cancer? The answer is data mining. How do you know where the next
crime is most likely to be committed, which products to offer your customers or where to
search for new cures? All the answers are there at our fingertips, in the mountains of text
and data which have become accessible to all computer users. The problem now is how to
extract those precious bits of knowledge from the wealth of available information. That’s
where data mining comes in. Data mining is digging deep on the Internet for information
and statistics and trying to establish a link between them. It isn’t a new thing, but with


faster and cheaper hardware and flexible software, it is now possible to get the answers
almost instantaneously.
People often think that data mining is just an easy way to find information on the web.
They think of using keywords to search the web for relevant pages. That’s a mistake. That
process is called Information Retrieval, which is like surfing the net to pull out the
documents you are interested in and push away the others.
In contrast, data mining is a way to examine a collection of documents and discover
information not contained in any individual document. Rather, the researcher seeks
relationships between the content of multiple texts and then sets about linking this
information toptherto form a new hypothesis. One field which benefits greatly from data
mining is medical research. A large and growing database of medical journal articles exists
in digital format. Because there are so many of them, it’s unlikely that any researcher could
read, and remember, their contents.
Data mining is there to enable researchers to find possible links in published research

doctors alike. For some time now, their healing powers have been well known. A
swim with a group of dolphins, for example, is a recognised 'medical’ activity for
everyday problems such as stress. But some dolphins are playing a far more
serious medical role for us than that.
Amanda Morton, who suffered from a life-threatening illness, argued that being with
dolphins saved her life because they were able to read her feelings. 'They knew how I was
feeling,’ she was quoted as saying. And it's the idea that they actually ‘cafe’, that they are
gentle, happy creatures that want to befriend us, which has led to projects with children as
well. In one such project, dolphins are being used to help children who are slow learners
learn to read. The dolphins do things like carrying small boards on their noses. These
boards show words or pictures which the children are asked to identify. When the children
get it right, they spend more time swimming with the dolphins and touching them and they
see this as a reward. So what is it that makes contact with dolphins so powerful? They
certainly have an engaging smile ... in each jaw they have up to fifty-two teeth, but rather
than frightening us to death, it's one of the warmest greetings in the world! They're also
fantastic swimmers to watch ... the spotted dolphin has been observed reaching twenty
miles an hour and keeping this up for two days at a time. And they know they're good at it
so they show off in front of humans by diving in and out of the water and showing us just
how much fun they’re having.


They’re great communicators too. They make all kinds of fascinating high- pitched noises.
They catch fish, for example, by sending out sound waves which tell them everything they
need to know - where it is, what it is and how big it is.
The only creatures that concern dolphins, in fact, are sharks and man. We don't necessarily
harm them on purpose, but we trap them in fishing nets and we pollute the water they
swim in. Pollution, in fact, is one of the dolphin’s greatest problems. So with all the good
they do for us, isn't it time we started caring about them?



A. They were driven away by a fierce predator
B. Crocodiles evolved from desert creatures to wetland creatures
C. North Africa used to be wetland but slowly turned to desert over time
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5.

Part 2: You will hear two students talking to their professor about presentations. For question 610, choose True (T) or False (F) for each sentence (10 pts)
6. The population has declined more rapidly than the sales of both oil and cheese in New
Zealand
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7. The same situation for both products has happened in Colombia
8. “Kostig” is the most expensive brand in Italy
9. Germans love to make jokes and give the nation the name “The land of Chocolate”
10. Bruce will investigate the packaging process of cookies and the effects of the materials on
sales.
6.

7.

8.


D. encouraged
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2. Our leaflets are printed on ______ papers in order to be environmental friendly.
A. recycled
B. reformed
C. remade
D. reconstructed
3. Joyce enjoys reading ______ stories – those about true happenings.
A. autobiography B. unimaginative
C. fictional

D.non-fictional

4. She simply _______ attending meetings.
A. attests
B. protests

C. retests

D. detests

5. She left him as he was heavily in ______ .
A. debt
B. overdraft

C. loan


A. relaxing
B. confronting
C. consoling

D.soothing

11. The mental patient was sent to the _______ after he assaulted his own mother.
A. jail
B. hospital
C. camp
D.asylum
12. The teacher gave me some ______ advice on which college to enrol.
A. nonsensical
B. sound
C. loud
D. preposterous
13. I seem to be ______ in energy this morning.
A. bereft
B. short
C. lack

D. low

14. I have told her that I am not going to go ahead with my plans ______ she may think.
A. whether
B.whatever
C. however
D. despite
15. The best way of writing a composition in a foreign language is to try and write ______
thinking in your own language.

A. importance
B. effect
C. matter
D. question
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Corrections

Mistakes

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Corrections

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Part 3: Put in suitable prepositions and adverb particles. (10 pts)


Part 4: Complete each sentence with the correct form of the word given in parentheses.
(15 pts)
1. A mother has to be a nurse, house keeper, shopper, cook, teacher, etc… She plays a
__________ role. (LATERAL)
2. A witness can legally refuse to give evidence to avoid ___________ (CRIME).
3. To avoid _________ on the journey we’d better pack these glasses in either cotton wool of
soft paper. (BREAK)
4. She has a _________ attitude towards life. (CARE)
5. The illegal payments were discovered by a journalist working _________(COVER).
6. Does she have any _________ experience? (MANAGE)
7. These policies could cause severe economic and social _________ (LOCATE)
8. We can’t make a decision based on __________ and guesswork. (HEAR)
9. He was in a job where he felt __________ and undervalued. (APPRECIATE)
10. The document provided a _________ for a lot of useful discussion. (BOARD)
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C. READING COMPREHENSION: (60 POINTS)
Part 1: Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.
(15 pts)
MUSIC IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS
Outdoor entertainment has a long history in countries with a warm climate. In ancient
Greece, for example, plays were (1) _______ in large open arenas. Today, audiences enjoy
concerts of classical, opera, pop and rock music in outdoor (2) _______ . These are usually less
formal and restrictive for the listeners than a stuffy concert hall, and a warm, starry night (3)
_______ a unique atmosphere.
Music heard inside a building is (4) _______ to different acoustics. Sound vibrations are (5)
_______ from a musical instrument or voice to the eardrum and the building's structure can (6)
_______ these vibrations, which we then experience as an echo. Obstructions such as pillars can
(7) _______ vibrations, and hard surfaces resonate or vibrate, (8) _______ the sound, while carpets
and curtains may (9) _________ and deaden voices and music.
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B. circumstances
B. forms
B. subject
B.played
B. exhibit
B. halt
B. bending
B. attract
B. shade

C. executed
C. surroundings
C. composes
C.related
C.directed
C. produce
C. impede
C. distorting
C. withdraw
B. wrapper

D. held
D. backgrounds
D.creates
D. adapted
D.broadcast
D. register
D. prevent
D. adjusting
D. detain

Smiling at yourself may make you feel a (4) _______ self-conscious – but it works! Next
time you are (5) _______ the weather, physically or emotionally, you can test for (6) ______ the
therapeutic powers of smiling. Each (7) _______ the expression fades from your face, try again and
again until you begin to notice an improvement in yourself. In a large number of cases, this
simpletechnique will produce noticeable benefits (8) ______ a short space of time – and it’s free.
As well as cheering yourself up, smiling at someone else can help (9) ______ of you to feel
better, for a smile tends to call forth an answering smile. One of the reasons why we are attracted to
smiling faces is because they can affect our autonomic nervous system. Facial expressions and
moods are catching, since we are not simply registering that someone is cheerful or cross – we are
experiencing the same emotion. If you are always surrounded by miserable people with long faces,
you are more than (10) _______ to suffer depressive feeling yourself eventually.
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