Anh ngữ chất lượng cao Cơ sở 1: số 41 ngõ 168 Kim Giang, Hoàng Mai, HN ĐT: 043.5597963/0979.487.406 (Ms Xuân Quý, MA) Email: quyspring@gmail.com Cơ sở 2: Tầng sân sau tòa nhà I9, Thanh Xuân Bắc, HN ĐT: 043.542866/0979.587.407 (Ms Xuân Quý, MA) ĐỀ SỐ 03 (Đề thi vào lớp 10 THPT chuyên Quốc học Huế, năm học 2005 – 2006) (Thời gian: 150 phút) I VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR I Identify a mistake in the underlined words or phrases in the following senetnces Circle the letter A, B, C or D for your choice California has (A) more land under (B) irrigation than (C) any another (D) state Beside (A) the ages of nine and fifteen, almost (B) all young (C) people undergo a rapid (D) series of physiological changes In (A) the 1920's cinema became (B) an important art form and (C) one of the ten largest industry (D) in the United States To improve (A) effectively, a musician must thorough (B) understand the conventions of (C) a given (D) musical style Some (A) hangars, buildings used to hold large aircraft, are very (B) tall that rain occasionally falls from (C) clouds that form along (D) the ceilings According to (A) most psychological (B) studies, body language expresses (C) a speaker's emotions and attitudes and it also tends to affect the emotions and attitudes of the listen (D) Chocolate is prepared by a complexity (A) process of cleaning, blending (B), and roasting cocoa beans, which must be (C) ground and mixed (D) with sugar Antique collecting became (A) a significant pastime in the 1980's when (B) old object (C) began to be appreciated for (D) their beauty as well as for their historical importance American painter, Georgia O'Keeffe is well known as (A) her large paintings of flowers in which (B) single blossoms (C) are presented (D) as if in close up 10 Despite (A) television is the dominant entertainment medium for United States households, Garrison Keller’s Saturday night radio show (B) of folk songs and stories is (C) heard by millions (D) of people 11 Ripe (A) fruit is often stored (B) in a place who (C) contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too rapidly (D) 12 Mathew C Perry, a United States naval (A) commander, gained (B) fame not in war and (C) through diplomacy (D) 13 One of the most impressive collections (A) of nineteenth-century European paintings (B) in the United States can (C) be found to (D) the Philadelphia Museum of Art 14 In the (A) nineteenth century, women (B) used quilts to inscribe their responses to (C) social, economic, and politics (D) issues 15 Hot (A) at the equator causes the air (B) to expand, rise (C), and flow toward (D) the poles II Fill in the gaps with the most suitable prepositions to complete the letter Anh ngữ chất lượng cao Cơ sở 1: số 41 ngõ 168 Kim Giang, Hoàng Mai, HN ĐT: 043.5597963/0979.487.406 (Ms Xuân Quý, MA) Email: quyspring@gmail.com Cơ sở 2: Tầng sân sau tòa nhà I9, Thanh Xuân Bắc, HN ĐT: 043.542866/0979.587.407 (Ms Xuân Quý, MA) Dear Mr Markham, Thank you very much for your letter (1) 14 th March Naturally I am delighted, and very excited at the prospect of my holiday (2) Britain I would like to take my holiday (3) 15 th June (4) 5th July, which I believe is the time (5) the Wimbledon tennis championships, and I would be very grateful if you could arrange (6) me to see some of the matches I would also like to see some test cricket There will be no football then, but perhaps I could spend a day (7) the races at Ascot, too The places I would like to visit are the university towns (8) Oxford and Cambridge, where I would like to see one of Shakespeare's plays, and if possible I would really love to visit an old English village (9) a typical country pub I am very grateful to you and the company (10) giving me this opportunity of a lifetime Yours sincerely, Joseph Degama III Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense, active or passive The robbers (catch) as they (leave) the bank Mr Taylor was angry with the newspaper agent because his Sunday newspaper (not deliver) Don't worry When you (arrive) in New York, you (pick up) by one of our drivers and (take) to the conference centre After my operation, all my hair (fall out) It's growing back now though Our dustbins (empty) every Monday When I woke up this morning, the world look like a wonderland It (snow) all night Ten people (kill) in a train crash in Sweden two days ago IV Fill in the gap with the correct form of the word in capital letters Apart from television, the cinema is the most popular form of (0) entertainment for most people because it is still relatively ENTERTAIN (1) Hollywood is, of course, the capital of the EXPENSE (2) cinema industry Hollywood movies make up NATION (3) 75% of all the films we watch at our local ROUGH cinemas Although we may find it difficult to remember the names of (4) and French film stars, Hollywood stars, such as ITALY Sylvester Stallone and Meryl Streep are (5) names HOUSE all around the world Moreover, only Hollywood seems to make certain kind of films (6) SUCCESS Anh ngữ chất lượng cao Cơ sở 1: số 41 ngõ 168 Kim Giang, Hoàng Mai, HN ĐT: 043.5597963/0979.487.406 (Ms Xuân Quý, MA) Email: quyspring@gmail.com Cơ sở 2: Tầng sân sau tòa nhà I9, Thanh Xuân Bắc, HN ĐT: 043.542866/0979.587.407 (Ms Xuân Quý, MA) (7) are one example but we can also include westerns MUSIC although for a time "spaghetti westerns" were quite (8) FASHION with cinema goers But cowboys and Indians are really a Hollywood (9) and they are still going strong after all these SPECIAL years Such films, however, have not remained (10) TOUCH by time and changes in attitudes The cowboys are no longer always the goodies as they were in the 1940s B Reading I Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space Use only one word in each space Who are the best drivers? Which drivers are the safest on the (1) ? According to a recent survey, young and inexperienced drivers are the most likely to have an (2) Older drivers are more careful Gender makes a difference, too Young men have (3) worst accidents records of all They are (4) aggressive than older (5) They also choose faster (6) with bigger engines One of the most interesting facts in the survey (7) the passengers have an effect on the (8) When young male drivers have their friends in their car, their driving becomes worse When their wife or their girlfriend is in the car, however, their driving is (9) But the opposite is true for women Their driving is more (10) when their husband or boyfriend is in the car II Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space WALT DISNEY There is no one who has not heard of Walt Disney; he is without (0) B one of the most famous figures in the twentieth century and (1) most people know hardly anything about him (2) he became one of the most successful men in history, he (3) school at the age of sixteen and then studied art for a short time By the (4) years of this century, he had (5) started to produce cartoons in Hollywood in (6) with his brother Roy, who, is for some reason, never (7) to become as famous as Walt Disney is perhaps most well-known on (8) of his lovable cartoon character, Mickey mouse, who first (9) in 1928 in a film called Steamboat Willie One of the most (10) cartoon films of all time is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which when it was (11) in 1937, was the first full-length cartoon in the history of the cinema (12) the 1950s, Walt Disney had become one of the world's major (13) of films for cinema and television As Disney Productions (14) , its founder retained complete artistic control of the films and he also (15) on to publish books for children and cartoon strips in newspapers, featuring such characters as Donald duck and Pluto the dog A comparison B doubt C disagreement D explanation A yet B then C already D however A Despite B In spite of C Although D even A graduated B completed C left D failed Anh ngữ chất lượng cao Cơ sở 1: số 41 ngõ 168 Kim Giang, Hoàng Mai, HN ĐT: 043.5597963/0979.487.406 (Ms Xuân Quý, MA) Email: quyspring@gmail.com Cơ sở 2: Tầng sân sau tòa nhà I9, Thanh Xuân Bắc, HN ĐT: 043.542866/0979.587.407 (Ms Xuân Quý, MA) A primary B early C beginning D initial A still B soon C yet D already A partnership B friendship C relationship D membership A achieved B reached C succeeded D managed A case B account C view D regard A appeared B performed C starred D began 10 A common B excited C popular D known 11 A seen B released C circulated D advertised 12 A Until B Since C By D To 13 A businessmen B owners C publishers D producers 14 A grew B enlarged C increased D succeeded 15 A took B put C pushed D went III Read the text below and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F) or if the text doesn't say (DS) Put a tick () in the right box The first one has been done as an example Many countries around the world have no caves This is not because there are no hills or mountains in those places Some of the world's biggest mountains have no caves because they are not made of the right sort of stone But the low, limestone hills of the north of England and the south of France are full of interesting caves For hundreds of years, people have enjoyed finding caves and going inside them This sport is called "caving", and the people who it are called "cavers Cave exploration began in Europe and even today most cavers come from there That is why we know so much about European caves But in many other parts of the world there are hundreds of caves which few people have ever visited For example, there are many caves in Russia and Afghanistan, in Albania and China, but not many cavers in those countries and it is often very difficult for foreign cavers to get permission to visit T F  Every country in the world has caves Caves are found in limestone hills and mountains The south of England has very few hills or mountains Most cavers are European There are still many unexplored caves in the world Many foreigners visit the caves in Russia C Writing I Put these sentences in the right order to complete the text A is also an international city where you can eat food from B wonderful beaches! When they think of Sydney, many people think DS Anh ngữ chất lượng cao Cơ sở 1: số 41 ngõ 168 Kim Giang, Hoàng Mai, HN ĐT: 043.5597963/0979.487.406 (Ms Xuân Quý, MA) Email: quyspring@gmail.com Cơ sở 2: Tầng sân sau tòa nhà I9, Thanh Xuân Bắc, HN ĐT: 043.542866/0979.587.407 (Ms Xuân Quý, MA) C opened in 1973 for music, theatre and dance Near D building looks like sails on Sydney Harbor It was E the Opera House is one of the longest F all over the world, or just visit some of the thirty G Sydney is the oldest and biggest city, with 3,7 million H buildings are the centre for much of Australian business It I people It is a busy modern city and its high-rise J of the Sydney Opera House The roof of this beautiful K bridges in the world - the Sydney Harbor Bridge II Use the words in the brackets to combine the following sentences He said, “Arrive on time for the interview tomorrow.” (reminded) - I didn’t know I had to write my name in block capitals (wish) - This man used to smoke Now he stops smoking (no longer) - You will meet her later You will have an opportunity of it (meeting) - I have forgotten the tickets I’m sorry for it (having) -