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KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 12 THPT CẤP TỈNH
NĂM HỌC 2010 - 2011
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ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề)
Ngày thi: 10 tháng 10 năm 2010
(Đề thi gồm có: 15 trang)
Họ và tên thí
sinh:__________________________
Giám thị 1:______________
Giám thị 2:______________
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Điểm bài thi Họ tên và chữ ký
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Bằng số Bằng chữ Giám khảo 1 Giám khảo 2
PART I: LISTENING (3 points)
Question 1: You'll hear a conversation between two people three times. Listen and fill in the
blanks
G Excuse me, Mr. Brown? Do you have a minute?
T Sure, come on in.

Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề)
Ngày thi: 10 tháng 10 năm 2010
(Đề thi gồm có: 15 trang)
Họ và tên thí
sinh:__________________________
Giám thị 1:______________
Giám thị 2:______________
STT do GT ghi
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Question 2: Listen to part of conversation between two characters. Which of these
sentences are TRUE (T) and which are FALSE (F) ? You will hear the coversation two
times.
TRUE FALSE
1. Alan Turner speaks to Liza Carter.
2. Sylvie Dubois is French.
3. She lives in England now.
4. She's on holiday in Canada.
5. She works for an airline company.
TRUE FALSE
6. Sebastian knows Susan.
7. Sebastian knows Henry.
8. Susan is Sebastian's secretary.
9. Henry and Susan work in a bank.
10. Sebastian works for an Insurance
company.
TRUE FALSE

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A. bar B. slice C. carton D. packet
3. It was rather silly of them to go to the sea without a ship to _______ radio.
A. beach B. coast C. bay D. shore
4. Harriet was offered the job _______her linguistic abilities.
A. according to B. on account of C. owing to D. as regard
5. The human brain _______ only two percent of an adult's body weight.
A. which makes up B. it makes up C. makes it up D. makes up
6. Children usually turn to their parents rather than _______for protection from threads in the
environment.
A. they turn to other figures of authority B. authority figures to other
C. to their other figures of authority D. their turning to other figures of authority
7. _______ gene in the human genome were more completely understood, many human diseases could
be cured or prevented.
A. Each B. Since C. If each D. Were each
8. Over the past several decades, radio telescopes _______ of the universe from the one disclosed by
ordinary telescopes.
A. have given scientists quite a different view B. have quite a different view given scientists
C. quite a different view have given scientists D. have they given scientists quite a different view
9. We have worked out the plan and now we must put it into ________.
A. practice B. reality C. fact D. deed
10. There are two small rooms in the beach house , _________ served as a kitchen .
A. the smaller of which B. the smallest of which
C. the smaller of them D. smallest of that
11. Scientists believe that beaver's instinct to build dams is more complex than ________ other animal
instinct.

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A. knowledge B. experience C. occasion D. event
17. - Is the lift still working?. - No , it’s ________ Let’s use the stairs.
A. out of work B. impossible C. in danger D. out of order
18. It’s wonderful here tonight ! It’s ________ I have ever enjoyed a garden party.
A. a long time B. the first time C. time D. several times
19. When his alarm went off, he shut it off and slept for _______ 15 minutes.
A. another B. others C. other D. the others
20. On being told about her sack, __________ .
A. her boss felt sorry for Mary B. Mary was shocked
C. Mary’s face turned pale D. all are correct
ANSWERS:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Question 2: Fill in the blank space with a right preposition or adverb particle.
Dennis has given (1) _______ his job so he can stay at home and look (2) _____ the
children.
 Overeating and lack (3) ______ exercise can lead (4) ______serious health problems in
later time.
 Now, don’t let us (5) ______. We are counting (6) ______you to cook something really
special for the party this Saturday.
 Not paying a visit (7) _______ her family last week turned (8) ______ to be the biggest
mistake I have ever made.
 Jane has always stood (9) _______ her brother even when he was accused (10) ______
murder and everyone refused to speak to him.
ANSWERS:

free at the last minute and we took off. The flight lasted at least (5. TWO) ______ as long as it should
have and by the time we arrived, we were both feeling rather (6. POOR) ______, probably because of
the dubious in-flight meal we had had. We were met by our guide, who seemed (7. LANGUAGE)
______ incompetent and understood very little of what we said to him. Instead of the hotel we had seen
in the
photograph back home, he took us to a squalid little guesthouse much (8. FAR) ______ away from the
resort than we were expecting. We wanted to explain that there had been a (9. DREAD) ______mistake
but it was (10. USE) ______ trying to complain – nobody could understand us.
ANSWERS:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Question 4: Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct and
some have a word which should not be there. If the line is correct, put a stick () by the number.
If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word . There are two examples at the
beginning (0 and 00).

0 Not so long ago I had the good fortune to make friends
00 with a neighbour who was owned a garage which socialized in
01 repairing quality cars. He usually arrived at home with a customer’s
02 car when he finished work in order to test it all fully before
03 giving it back the following day. Most of the cars he has brought
04 back were more expensive but I didn’t really like them. That was
05 until one day when I saw Daimler 5.3 parked outside of his
06 house. At that time such a car was cost about £30.000. This
07 meant that I could only to dream of owning or driving
08 one. After a moment’s hesitation, I knocked on his door and
09 waited. When he answered, I was staring at the car so he
10 knew about what I was going to ask him. he invited me in
for a cup of some tea and tried to tell me that driving the
car was out of the question.

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Question 5: Put the verb in parentheses in the correct tense or form. The word in italics
should be put in the correct position in relation to the verb.
A. The world is getting warmer and the oceans are rising. Why this (1. happen)
_______? One answer is that it could simply be part of a natural process. After all, there
(2. be) ________ ice ages and long periods of warmth, so we could just (3. experience)
_________ another warming trend. This kind of answer (4. have) _______ more supporters a
few years ago. What scientists now (5. believe) _________ is that human activity is the cause.
For more than two hundred years, human (6. gradually change) ________ the atmosphere,
mainly as a result of industrial pollution. We (7. create) _________ an atmosphere around the
earth that, like a giant glass container, (8. let) ________ heat from the sun through and then (9.
hold) _________ it in temperatures, and sea levels (10. keep) _________ rising? The general
answer is unfortunately yes.
ANSWERS:
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.
B. Fishermen and sailors sometimes claim (11. see) _______ monsters in the sea.
Though people (12. often laugh) _______at stories told by seamen, it is now known that many
of these 'monsters' which (13. at times sight) _______ are simply strange fish. Occasionally,
unusual creatures (14. wash) _______ to the shore, but few of them (15. catch) _______out at
sea. Some time ago, however, a peculiar fish was caught near Madagascar. A small fishing-