ĐỀ THI VÀO TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN PHAN BỘI CHÂU section a: vocabulary and grammar I. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D. Circle the letter .A, B, C or D 1. Don’t such a lie to me. I can see you through 2. Children will work hard if the lessons are A. expressing B. inquiring C. attracting D. interesting 3. The Browns are travelling to London train A. by B. on C. through D. in 4. As his car had broken down, she gave him a to work A. drive B. way C. lift D. passage 5. he was sick, he still turned up for his guitar lesson A. Although B. Because C. Despite D. Since 6. They haven’t replied to the letter we sent two months ago A. still B. yet C. already D. ever 7. Be careful with what you say, he has a temper A. strong B. big C. loud D. hot 8. The boys hurt when they jumped down from the tree A. one another B. each other C. himself D. themselves 9. 10. It’s too early in the to expect many visitors to come A. term B. season C. time D. calendar 10. Most of them also have more time to devote leisure A. of B. for C. to D. with II. Each of the following sentence has a mistake. Find it and correct it. 1. I expect Mary come here early tonight. She should arrive in the next half an hour 2. He has just bought an expensive furniture 3. He lost his job and he was late everyday. 4. Scientists who study animal behaviour thinks that only human beings get headaches. 5. Thank you for the invitation. What time would you like we to come? section b : reading III. Read the text choose the best option to answer the questions . Circle the letter A. Anybody running a company knows that a well- planned conference can greatly improve the performance of that business. The main reason for this is that it takes your employees away from the daily work place and offers them somewhere fresh for a short time. However, unless the conference is well thought out it will not have the best results and you will have wasted a great deal of money. The first step is to find the right place. Can your employees easily reach the conference centre? Is it near a railway station? Is it close to a good, fast road? Has it plenty of suitable parking space? If you are going to choose a hotel, then perhaps the hotel has cheaper rates at weekends or, if it is in a popular tourist area, midweek rates may be cheaper. Another important requirement is food and drink. Breakfast is a time when people can relax before the day’s work begins, but you may not want a long break for lunch in the middle of the day. Buffet lunches are very popular for this reason. Then there is dinner, which most employees consider a reward for a day’s hard work! Whatever your needs, it is essential to think ahead if you want a successful conference. A. say B. speak C. talk D . tell 1. What is the writer trying to do in the text? A. complain about a bad conference centre B. describe what makes a good conference centre C. persuade employers to choose a conference hotel D. advise employees where to stay for a conference. 2. Why would somebody read the text? A. to find out about organising conferences B. to learn how to reward good employees C to find out about running a business D. to learn some details about conference centres 3. What is very important when choosing a conference centre? A. cheap food an drink B. free car parking C. good transport connections D. popular tourist areas 4. Why does the writer think a buffet lunch is a good idea? A. It’s relaxing B. It’s quick C. It’s cheap D. It’s tasty 5. Which centre would the writer recommend to an employee? A. Star Conference centre: Close to an airport and golf course. Choice of conference rooms. Swimming pool and sauna. 3 fill meals a day included in price. B. Topps conference centre : Enjoy beautiful scenery high up in the hills. Continental breakfast served in bedroom if wished. Mini bus service to nearest town C. Watt conference centre: 5 minutes from city centre and close to motorway. Full breakfast, light lunches and exciting dinner menu. Choice of accommodation to suit your financial needs. D. Royal conference centre: Situated in a quiet country side. Free car park available for guests. Three buffet- style meals a day. B. Many people now think that teachers give pupils too much homework. They say that it is unnecessary for children to work at home in their free time. Moreover, they argue that most teachers do not properly plan the homework tasks they give to pupils. The result is that pupils have to repeat tasks which they have already done at school. Recently in Greece many parents said that most of the homework was a waste of time, and they wanted to stop it. Spain and Turkey are two countries which stopped homework recently. In Denmark, Germany and several other countries in Europe, teachers cannot set homework at weekends. In Holland, teachers allow pupils to stay at school to do their homework. The children are free to help one another. Similar arrangements also exist in some British schools. 1.The purpose of the author when he writes the above passage is A. to complain about the difficult homework B. to explain why homework is difficult. C. to suggest that homework should be stopped D. to present the various evaluations and solutions to the problems of homework 2. By “ most teachers do not properly plan the homework tasks they give to pupils, ” the author means that A. most teacher do not prepare very well and carefully the homework tasks. B. most teachers do not give the homework tasks to individual students. C. most teachers do not choose the suitable time to give the homework tasks D. most teachers do not give the proper plan to pupils at home. 3. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? A. In some countries, children are free to choose proper homework at weekends B. Parents are free to help their children to do their homework at school. C. Homework was a waste of time to parents, not to children D. Homework may be done at school 4. Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage? A. Homework is still necessary if the teachers properly plan its tasks B. Pupils can help their friends to do homework C. Homework should not be done at weekends D. Homework helps pupils to improve their memory. 5. The best title of the passage is A. Homework, a Waste of Time B. Homework, an Unnecessary Task C. Different Solutions to Homework D. Different Measurements to Plan Homework Tasks. C. When I opened the first “ Body Shop “ in 1976, my only object was to earn enough to feed my children. Today, the “Body Shop“ is an international company rapidly growing all around the world. In the years since we began I have learnt a lot. Much of what I have learnt will be found in this book, for I believe that we, as a company have something worth saying about how to run a successful business without giving up what we really believe in. It’s not a normal business book, nor is it just about my life. The message is that to succeed in business you have to be different. Business can be fun, a business can be run with love and it can do good. In business, as in life, I need to enjoy myself, to have a feeling of family and to feel excited by the unexpected. I have always wanted the people who work for “The Body Shop“ to feel the same way. Now this book sends these ideas if mine out into the world, makes them public. I’d like to think there are no limits to our “family“, no limits to what can be done. I find that an exciting thought. I hope you do, too. 1. What is the writer’s main purpose in writing the text? A. to tell the reader her life story B. to introduce her ideas to the reader C. to explain how international companies operate D. to tell the reader how she brought up a family 2. What would someone learn from this text? A. how to make a lot of money B. how to write a book about business C. what the writer’s family is like D. what the writer’s book is about 3. How does the writer feels about the business she runs? A. She doesn’t care about success if her children are fed B. She just runs it for her own entertainment C. It is not like any other company D. It is likely to become even more successful 4. What kind of workers does the writer like to employ? A. workers who can explain their ideas B. workers who get on well with the public C. workers who have the same attitudes as she does D. workers who have their own families. 5. What kind of person does the writer seem to be? A. She seems to be someone with strong opinions B. She doesn’t seem to be very confident C. She is mainly interested in making money D. She sees running a business as just a job. D. I know that it is my job to make sure that everything goes well for the tourists and I feel I work hard for the company. I cannot be blamed for last week. I met the group at the airport and took them to the coach. The coach driver was a bit annoyed because the flight was late. But it wasn’t far to the hotel and everyone was looking forward to their dinner. We hadn’t used the Hotel Rivera before but our normal one had a conference in it so was fully booked. When I announced our arrival at the reception desk, they said they were full. I had booked rooms for the group but the manager said they were cancelled by phone a few days before. He insisted that he recognised my voice and that I had made the phone call. We had a bit of an argument but they obviously didn’t have enough rooms. In the end the manager phoned other hotels in the town and found rooms for everyone but in four different hotels. By this time the coach had gone so we had to get taxis and some of the tourists started to get very angry with me. I still don’t know who made that phone call but it definitely wasn’t me. 1. What is the writer trying to do? A. argue B. appologise C. explain D. complain 2. Who was the text written to ? A. one of the tourists B. the writer’s employer C. the hotel manager D. the coach company 3. Why wasn’t any rooms available at the Hotel Rivera? A. A conference was taking place there B. There were more people in the group than expected C. Someone had forgotten to book them D. Someone had said they were not needed 4. What happened in the end? A. The tourists got angry with the hotel manager B. The tourists couldn’t stay together. C. The writer found other hotels with rooms D. The writer called the coach driver back. 5. Which of the following diaries was written by one of the tourists? A. Someone had made a mistake with our hotel booking and the hotel had given our rooms to other people B. The hotel we were taken to wasn’t good enough so we asked to change to a different one. C. We got to the airport and had to wait for the coach. So it was really late when we got to the hotel D. The coach driver took us to the wrong hotel and they knew nothing about us. E. Many people now think that teachers give pupils too much homework. They say that it is unnecessary for children to work at home in their free time. Moreover, they argue that most teachers do not properly plan the homework tasks they give to pupils. The result is that pupils have to repeat tasks which they have already done at school. Recently in Greece many parents said that most of the homework was a waste of time, and they wanted to stop it. Spain and Turkey are two countries which stopped homework recently. In Denmark, Germany and several other countries in Europe, teachers cannot set homework at weekends. In Holland, teachers allow pupils to stay at school to do their homework. The children are free to help one another. Similar arrangements also exist in some British schools. 1.The purpose of the author when he writes the above passage is A. to complain about the difficult homework B. to explain why homework is difficult. C. to suggest that homework should be stopped D. to present the various evaluations and solutions to the problems of homework 2. By “most teachers do not properly plan the homework tasks they give to pupils,” the author means that A. most teacher do not prepare very well and carefully the homework tasks. B. most teachers do not give the homework tasks to individual students. C. most teachers do not choose the suitable time to give the homework tasks D. most teachers do not give the proper plan to pupils at home. 3. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? A. In some countries, children are free to choose proper homework at weekends B. Parents are free to help their children to do their homework at school. C. Homework was a waste of time to parents, not to children D. Homework may be done at school 4. Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage? A. Homework is still necessary if the teachers properly plan its tasks B. Pupils can help their friends to do homework C. Homework should not be done at weekends D. Homework helps pupils to improve their memory. 5. The best title of the passage is A. Homework, a Waste of Time B. Homework, an Unnecessary Task C. Different Solutions to Homework D. Different Measurements to Plan Homework Tasks IV. Fill in each of the blank with one suitable word I had a terrible time last Sunday. It was rather cold, (1) quite sunny, so after lunch I walked (2) town. I wanted to buy a pullover, I (3) looking in the window of a clothes shop (4) someone stole my wallet. While I was walking (5 ) it started to rain and I arrived home cold and miserable. I decided to have a hot bath. I was getting (6) to have my bath when the doorbell (7) . It was a salesman and it (8) me several minutes to get (9) of him. Unfortunately, all the time he was (10) to me the water was running. You can imagine the state of the bathroom! 1. 2 3 4 5 6. 7 8 9 10 V. Complete the passage using the appropriate words in the box course skills help among another class while getting later worth make important straight where Around the age of sixteen, you must make one of the biggest decisions of your life. Do I stay on at school and hopefully go on to university(1) ? Do I leave and start work or begin a training (2) ? The decision is yours, but it may be (3) remembering two things: there is more unemployment (4) who haven’t been to university, and people who have the right (5) will have a big advantage in the competition for jobs. If you decide to go (6) into a job, there are many opportunities for training. Getting qualifications will (7) you to get on more quickly in many careers, and evening classes allow you to learn (8) you earn. Starting work and taking a break to study when you are older is (9) possibility. This way, you can save up money for your student’s days as well as ( 10 ) practical work experience 1 2 3 4 5 6. 7 8 9 10 section c: writing VI. Finish the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first 1. If you are a student you can always get special reduced prices Unless 2. There is a great danger in driving too fast Driving too fast is 3. The house is very expensive and they do not have enough money to buy it The house is too 4. May I borrow your newspaper? Would you mind. 5. It was your father’s wish that you should become an engineer. Your father wanted VII. Write about 180 – 200 words to answer the question: How important is English to you? What should you do to improve your English? the end ®¸p ¸n vµ híng dÉn chÊm section a : vocabulary and grammar I. Choose the best answer : 1 m for 1 answer x 10 = 10 m 1. D 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. A 6. A 7. D 8. D 9. B 10. C II. Each of the following sentence has 1 m for 1 answer x 10 = 10 m 1. come to come 2. an expensive ( some / a piece of / some pieces of ) expensive 3. and – because 4. thinks think 5. we us section b: reading III. Read the text and choose the best : 2 m for 1 answer x 10 = 10 m A. 1. B 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. C B. 1. C 2. A 3. D 4. D 5. C C. 1. B 2. D 3. C 4. C 5. A D. 1. C 2. B 3. D 4. B 5. A IV. Fill in each with one suitable word 1 m for 1 answer x 10 = 10 m 1. but 2. into 3. was 4. when 5. home 6. ready 7. rang 8. took 9. rid 10. talking V. Complete the passage using the words: 1 m for 1 answer x 10 = 10 m 1. later 2. course 3. worth 4. among 5. skills 6. straight 7. help 8. while 9. another 10. getting section c : writing VI. Finish the second sentence 1 m for 1 answer x 10 = 10 m 1. Unless you are a student, you can’t always get 2. Driving too fast is a great danger 3. The house is too expensive for them to buy 4. Would you mind lending me your newspaper? 5. Your father wanted you to become an engineer VII. Write about 1 m for 1 answer x 10 = 10 m Total test : 80/4 = 20 m . by one of the tourists? A. Someone had made a mistake with our hotel booking and the hotel had given our rooms to other people B. The hotel we were taken to wasn’t good enough so we asked to change. free to choose proper homework at weekends B. Parents are free to help their children to do their homework at school. C. Homework was a waste of time to parents, not to children D. Homework may. free to choose proper homework at weekends B. Parents are free to help their children to do their homework at school. C. Homework was a waste of time to parents, not to children D. Homework may