SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC Trường THPT Chuyên Vĩnh Phúc ĐỀ THI CHỌN HSG VÙNG DUYÊN HẢI – ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ LẦN THỨ VI Môn thi: Tiếng Anh 10 Thời gian làm bài: 180’ I LISTENING Section 1: Questions – 10 Complete the table below Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer Name Hostelling HOSTELS Location Cost of double room Notes Example 10 minutes $50 per night but Membership card International West from downtown by only $1…………… offers discount on End Answer …… for members entry to bus……… 2…………………… Internet access costs 4…………… Hostel Near beach Two- $62 Meals extra but $3 per 3…………… Was built as a hostel minute walk to only available in in 7………………… 5…………………… 6…………………… Can hire 8………………… Backpackers Hostel In 9………………… $45 plus $5 for from hostel A 10……………… district on every floor for breakfast guests to use Section 2: Questions 11 – 15 Complete the sentences below Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer 11 Bilingualism can be defined as having an equal level of communicative ……………… in two or more languages 12 Early research suggested that bilingualism caused problems with ……………… and mental development 13 Early research into bilingualism is now ejected because it did not consider the ………………… and …………………… backgrounds of the children 14 It is now thought that there is a …………… relationship between bilingualism and cognitive skills in children 15 Research done by Ellen Bialystok in Canada now suggests that the effects of bilingualism also apply to ……………… Questions 16 – 20 Choose the correct letter A, B, or C 16 In Dr Bialystok’s experiment, the subjects had to react according to A the colour of the square on the screen B the location of the square on the screen C the location of the shift key on the keyboard 17 The experiment demonstrated the ‘Simon effect’ because it involved a conflict between A seeing something and reacting to it B producing fast and slow reactions C demonstrating awareness of shape and colour 18 The experiment shows that, compared with the monolingual subjects, the bilingual subjects A were more intelligent B had faster reaction times overall C had more problems with the ‘Simon effect’ 19 The results of the experiment indicate that bilingual people may be better at A doing different types of tasks at the same time B thinking about several things at once C focusing only on what is needed to a task 20 Dr Bialystok’s first and second experiments both suggest that bilingualism may A slow down the effects of old age on the brain B lead to mental confusion among old people C help old people to stay in better physical condition II GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY Exercise 1: Choose the best answer to fill in the blank Last year ABBA made a of several million crowns A win B gain C profit D salary Even though I didn’t want my son to leave home, since he was 21 there was nothing I could to _ it A hinder B prevent C resist D cease You’ll have to use the stairs, I’m afraid The lift is out of _ A function B work C order D function Have you seen a mug anywhere, Roy? We seem to be one A missed B less C deficient D short We got a very good _ in the newspaper this morning They must have liked the play A critic B article C praise D write-up I’m afraid I really couldn’t eat any more I’m _ A full up B fed up C filled up D famished One day I’m going to find a/an of land somewhere in the country and build a house on it A area B plot C ground D patch The position of monarch is not something that is chosen by the people It is A inherit B generated C hereditary D passed over Don’t tell Anne about Paul and Jane breaking up – you know what a/an she is; it will be all over the town in no time A talker B liar C gossip D scavenger 10 I can’t eat this meat; it’s too _ A strong B soggy C tough D bad 11 David’s married Elizabeth Green? No, I don’t believe it! You’re pulling my ! A leg B hair C head D arm 12 The accused man was proved innocent and was A liberated B excused C interned D acquitted 13 It rains whenever I go out without my umbrella A continually B invariably C typically D infallibly 14 Don’t waste your time telling Janet a joke; she’s totally _ of a sense of humour A deficient B missing C devoid D lacking 15 The photocopier in our office needs a complete These copies are terrible A maintenance B repair C overhaul D renovation 16 A prominent member of the Cabinet was as correspondent in the divorce case A cited B included C accused D linked 17 The travel agency sent us a detailed of our journey to India A docket B agenda C itinerary D documentation 18 Since our train leaves at 10:30, it is that everyone is at the station no later than 10:15 A imperative B urgent C desired D inescapable 19 After travelling all day, he was completely _ A done in B done up C broken down D used up 20 Technology is advancing so rapidly nowadays that computers and other machines seem to be after a very short time A antiquated B irreparable C disused D obsolete Exercise 2: There are ten mistakes in the following passage Find the mistakes and correct them The main sources of energy in the world are fossil fuels - coal, oil and natural gas Fossil fuels are non-renewable - this mean that nature cannot recreate them as fast as people using them up today Sometimes in the future, all of them will run out and we will need other renewable sources of energy Some renewable energy sources are being available now One of them is water, what has been used to create energy for thousands of years Today, hydro-or water power, generate by huge dams, is a major source of electric in many parts of the world But hydropower has its own costs When dams are built, the area above them is flooded, even for miles In some places, people lose their homes as well as the rich soil river in which they once growed their crops In other places, wonderful wild landscapes buried forever under new, artificial lakes Below the dams, the natural habitats of fish and wildlife in the river valley are destroyed as the course of the river is changed Exercise 3: Fill in each blank with one suitable particle or preposition Don’t tell me you like his taste _ clothes! He looks terrible! Although we were all rather irritated by the situation at the time, we laughed _ it afterwards The national debt has been decreased $10 billion this year Her latest novel is coming in paperback soon I wish you’d lay _ telling me what to all the time I’d better turn early I didn’t sleep well last night He has a talent for getting the most complicated ideas _ For the last twenty years, he has been laying _ 15%of his salary for his old age He had a bad time in the army but he has put it _ him now 10 Joan threw books and papers the room whilst trying to find her passport and her cheque book Exercise 4: Fill in each blank with the suitable form of the word in capital It’s noisy in space! Inside the International Space Station, it is so noisy that the astronauts cannot hear one another As a result, United States and Russian engineers have launched a (1) repair programme which they hope will lead to the PRIOR (2) of the station’s 72-decibel roar: the equivalent of standing REDUCE beside a busy motorway ‘It is not a (3) situation,’ said Mike HEALTH Engle, a (4) for the engineering team ‘Apart from astronauts SPEAK losing sleep, there is a danger one of them will (5) a colleague’s HEAR instruction and press an incorrect button!’ (6) , most of the noise IRONY comes from the equipment needed to keep them (7) ‘The coolers LIFE are the worst,’ Mr Engle explained ‘But without them, the station would become (8) hot! When we put together the station we faced a BEAR choice We could either spend extra years (9) that the station SURE would be totally quiet, or we could get on and build the thing Now it’s assembled, we are doing our best to (10) it down Exercise 5: Read the text and fill in each blank with one suitable word QUIET Exploring the Arctic Ocean A huge international project to explore the Arctic Ocean has begun It is expected to discover thousands of new species of marine animals, many of which have been completely cut (1) from the rest of the world for thousands of years Scientists claim that the study of the unknown depths of the Arctic Ocean, perhaps the (2) understood ocean on earth, is now urgent (3) of the growing threat (4) its unique marine life posed by global warming Climatologists estimate that the Arctic summer has increased by five days every decade for the (5) _ forty years, and that a totally icefree Arctic summer will soon occur The Arctic Ocean is unusual as much of it is capped with ice and there is land all around it ‘It is as (6) _ the Arctic Ocean is inside a box which has a lid of ice on the top There’s (7) _ other place in the world like it,’ says chief scientist Ron O’Dor A particular focus planned for the project he is undertaking will be the Canada Basin, an underwater hole 3,800 metres deep where life has remained isolated (8) millennia This Arctic exploration project is part of the Census of Marine Life, a collaboration of more than 300 scientists from 53 countries, (9) _ aim is to address our ignorance of what lives in the sea Since the Census began several years ago, more than 500 new species of fish have been identified However, scientists believe (10) could be ten times as many yet to be discovered III READING Exercise 1: Read the text and choose the best answer to fill in each blank We really can tell if we are being watched Stories about how people somehow know when they are being watched have been going around for years However, few (1) have been made to investigate the phenomenon scientifically Now, with the completion of the largest ever study of the socalled staring effect, there is impressive evidence that this is a recognizable and (2) sixth sense The study (3) hundreds of children For the experiments, they sat with their eyes covered and with their backs to other children, who are told to either stare at them or look away The results consistently showed that the children who could not see were able to tell when they were being stared at In a total of 18,000 trials carried out worldwide, the children (4) sensed when they were being watched almost 70% of the time The experiment was repeated with the (5) precaution of putting children who were being watched outside the room, (6) from the starers by the windows This was done just in case there was some (7) going on, with the children telling each other whether they were looking or not This prevented the possibility of sounds being (8) between the children The results, though less impressive, were more or less the same Dr Sheldrake, the biologist who designed the study, believes that the results are (9) enough to find out through further experiments (10) how the staring effect might actually come about A tries B tests C attempts D aims A genuine B accepted C received D sure A involved B contained C comprised D enclosed A exactly B correctly C thoroughly D perfectly A attached B added C connected D increased A separated B parted C split D divided A pretending B lying C cheating D deceiving A delivered B transported C transmitted D distributed A satisfying B convincing C concluding D persuading 10 A really B carefully C definitely D precisely Exercise 2: Read the text and choose the best answer During the late Middle Ages, oil paint took hold as the artistic medium of choice because it was effective, flexible, ad resilient relative to the wax-based, watercolor, fresco, or tempera paints prevalent at the time Although contemporary commercially prepared paints contain a mixture of pigments and linseed oil, poppy oil paints are also available to connoisseurs The original recipes developed in medieval European monasteries relied on fast-drying bases derived from various organic oils predominantly valued for their medicinal qualities The pigments are insoluble, lightproof, and chemically inert powders ground in the base Occasionally, varnish can be added to increase the paste’s ability to reflect light and to cover pictures with a protective seal The resulting stiff, resinous compounds are often packaged in flexible metal or plastic tubes Historically, yellow pigments have been added to the oil, and then the paste was layered over tin foil to imitate the appearance of gold leaf Despite the numerous experiments to accelerate the drying process, oil paints dry comparatively slowly with little color alteration An important advantage of color stability is that tones and undertones are easy to blend, match, transpose, and grade, and mistakes and smudges are simple to correct Due to the creamy consistency of most mixtures, artists can exploit their viscosity in thick applications, sprays, thin trickles, and three-dimensional blobs The purification by boiling and filtering and bleaching of oils can impart varied hues to powdered pigments, while drying time can be reduced by adding metallic oxides Professional painters who mix their own medium usually have their own trademark methods of mixing materials that art experts recognize as a part of an artist’s creative work The thickness of the paste also plays an important role in defining the stages of painting a picture After the basic design is sketched in pencil or charcoal, the broad background or foreground areas of the canvas are covered with thin, diluted paint on top of the primer A thicker paint, often with added varnish, is subsequently used to refine and outline the foundation The width of the brush depends on the type of paint the artist chooses to use, and stiff bristles are usually found in narrow brushes for making sharp lines, while softer brushes of animal hair can be employed in broad strokes What does the passage mainly discuss? A The evolution and history of oil paintings and media B The technology and development of drying oils C The recipes and ingredients for producing oil paints D The composition and techniques for mixing oil paints It can be inferred from the passage that oil paintings A supplanted the use of tempera and fresco B took hold of the artistic choices in the Middle Ages C promoted artistic talent since the early times D supported the usefulness of applying paints The word “connoisseurs” in bold is closest in meaning to A explorers B experts C exporters D experimenters According to the passage, medieval monks extracted oil A from minerals B in conjunction with pigments C from plants D in combination with medicines The phrase “the base” in bold is closest in meaning to A paint B oil C chemicals D pestle The purpose of paragraph is to illustrate A the laboriousness of making oil paints B the durability of oil colors C the complexity of oil purification D the superiority of oil paints The word “viscosity” in bold is closest in meaning to A stiffness B elasticity C stickiness D eloquence Which of the following is NOT mentioned as components of oil paints? A accelerants B retarders C sealants D glosses The word “trademark” in bold is closest in meaning to A signature B selection C significance D secret 10 The author of the passage implies that an oil painting A requires professional painters to mix their own paint B contains a layer of canvas and charcoal C thickens as the oil continues to dry in stages D requires multiple layers of brushwork Exercise 3: Read the text and the tasks followed Did tea and beer bring about industrialization? A B Alan Macfarlane thinks he could rewrite history The processor of anthropological science at King’s College, Cambridge has, like other historians, spent decades trying to understand the enigma of the Industrial Revolution Why did this particular important event – the world-changing birth of industry – happen in Britain? And why did it happen at the end of the 18th century? Macfarlane compares the question to a puzzle He claims that there were about 20 different factors and all of them needed to be present before the revolution could happen The chief conditions are to be found in history textbooks For industry to ‘take off’, there needed to be the technology and power to drive factories, large urban populations to provide cheap labour, easy transport to move goods around, an affluent middle-class willing to buy mass-produced objects, a market-driven economy, and a political system that allowed this to happen While this was the case for England, other nations, such as Japan, Holland and France also met some of these criteria All these factors must have been necessary but not sufficient to cause the revolution Holland had everything except coal, while China also had many of these factors Most historians, however, are convinced that one or two missing factors are needed to solve the puzzle C The missing factors, he proposes, are to be found in every kitchen cupboard Tea and beer, two of the nation’s favourite drinks, drove the revolution Tannin, the active ingredient in tea, and hops, used in making beer, both contain antiseptic properties This, plus the fact that both are made with boiled water, helped prevent epidemics or waterborne diseases, such as dysentery, in densely populated urban areas D Historians had noticed one interesting factor around the mid-18 th century that required explanation Between about 1650 and 1740, the population was static But then there was a burst in population The infant mortality rate halved in the space of 20 years, and this happened in both rural areas and cites, and across all classes Four possible causes have been suggested There could have been a sudden change in the viruses and bacteria present at that time, but this is unlikely Was there a revolution in medical science? But this was a century before Lister introduced antiseptic surgery Was there a change in environmental conditions? There were improvements in agriculture that wiped out malaria, but these were small gains Sanitation did not become widespread until the 19 th century The only option left was food But the height and weight statistics show a decline So the food got worse Efforts to explain this sudden reduction in child deaths appeared to draw a blank E This population burst seemed to happen at just the right time to provide labor for the Industrial Revolution But why? When the Industrial Revolution started, it was economically efficient to have people crowded together forming towns and cities But with crowded living conditions comes disease, particularly from human waste Some research in the historical records revealed that there was a change in the incidence of waterborne disease at that time, especially dysentery Macfarlane deduced that whatever the British were drinking must have been important in controlling disease They drank beer and ale For a long time, the English were protected by the strong antibacterial agent in hops, which were added to make beer last But in the late 17 th century a tax was introduced on malt The poor turned to water and gin, and in the 1720s the mortality rate began to rise again Then it suddenly dropped again What was the cause? F Macfarlane looked to Japan, which was also developing large cities about the same time, and also had no sanitation Waterborne diseases in the Japanese population were far fewer than those in Britain Could it be the prevalence of tea in their culture? That was when Macfarlane thought about the role of tea in Britain The history of tea in Britain provided an extraordinary coincidence of dates Tea was relatively expensive until Britain started direct trade with China in the early 18 th century By the 1740s, about the time that infant mortality was falling, the drink was common Macfarlane guesses that the fact that water had to be boiled, together with the stomach-purifying properties of tea so eloquently described in Buddhist texts, mean that the breast milk provided by mothers was healthier than it had ever been No other European nation drank tea so often as the British, which, by Macfarlane’s logic, pushed the other nations out of the race for the Industrial Revolution G But, if tea is a factor in the puzzle, why didn’t this cause an industrial revolution in Japan? Macfarlane notes that in the 17th century, Japan had large cities, high literacy rates and even a futures market However, Japan decided against a work-based revolution, by giving up labour-saving devices, even animals, to avoid putting people out of work Astonishingly, the nation that we now think of as one of the most technologically advanced, entered the 19 th century having almost abandoned the wheel While Britain was undergoing the Industrial Revolution, Macfarlane notes wryly Japan was undergoing an industrious one H The Cambridge academic considers the mystery solved He adds that he thinks the UN should encourage aid agencies to take tea to the world’s trouble-spots, along with rehydration sachets and food rations Questions – Choose the most suitable headings for paragraphs B – F from the list of headings below Write the appropriate number (i – x) There are more headings than sections so you will not use all of them List of Headings (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) (vii) (viii) (ix) (x) The significance of tea drinking Possible solution to the puzzle Industry in Holland and France Significant population increase The relationship between drinks and disease Gin drinking and industrialization Dysentery prevention in Japan and Holland Japan’s waterborne diseases Preconditions necessary for industrial revolution Introduction EXAMPLE Section A Section B Section C Section D Answer x Section D Section F Questions – 10 Complete the table using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage CENTURY mid 17th century late 17th century SOCIAL CHANGE IN BRITAIN main drinks were still (6) REASON gin becomes more popular, especially with poor people beer becomes expensive because of (7) early 18th century (8) _ drinking starts to become widespread mid 18th century hops helped to make beer last longer EFFECT ON POPULATION no significant change mortality rate goes up Britain starts trade with mortality rate goes China down decline in urban deaths (10) caused by water used for tea and (9) _ beer; antibacterial qualities of tannin infant mortality rate goes down by half IV WRITING Exercise 1: Complete the following sentences using the given words/phrases I/ pass/ test/ matter/ hard/ be If/ you/ not/ help/ I/ not meet/ my brother/ last month We/ not/ get/ on/ plane/ without/ tickets I/ not see/ him/ since/ he/ graduate/ university We/ learn/ languages/ easily/ help/ computer Exercise 2: Rewrite the following sentences using the given words without any change so that their meanings are the same as the original Five boys on a motorbike at the speed of 60 mph are very likely to end up in hospital RECIPE They’ll cause a lot of trouble CAT Teaching doesn’t suit her CUT Organic vegetables are said to be health WONDERS I tried to talk to Jack about the problem but he was too busy WORD Exercise 3: Paragraph writing People attend college or university for many different reasons Why you think people attend college or university? Write a paragraph (about 200 words) on the topic using examples and details in your answer Key I LISTENING: Total: 15 points Questions – 10: points (0.5 point/one correct answer) 41 summer museums 1887 hour scooter(s) Elliscoat entertainment ferry 10 kitchen Questions 11 – 20: 10 points (1.0 point/one correct answer) 11 proficiency 16 A 12 learning 17 A 13 social (and) economic 18 B 14 positive 19 C 15 adults 20 A II GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: Total: 35 points Exercise 1: Total: 10 points (0.5 point /one correct answer) C A 11 A 16 A B B 12 D 17 C C C 13 B 18 A D C 14 C 19 A D 10 C 15 C 20 D Exercise 2: Total: points (0.5 point /one correct answer) mean => means generate => generated using => are using electric => electricity Sometimes => Sometime soil river => river soil being => x growed => grew what => which 10 buried => are buried Exercise 3: Total: points (0.5 point /one correct answer) in in about across by aside out behind off 10 about/around Exercise 4: Total: points (0.5 point /one correct answer) priority Ironically reduction alive healthy unbearably spokesman/spokesperson ensuring mishear 10 quieten Exercise 5: Total: 10 points (1.0 point /one correct answer) off if/though least no because for to whose last/past 10 there III READING: Total: 30 points Exercise 1: Total: 10 points (1.0 point /one correct answer) C A A C A C B B B 10 D Exercise 2: Total: 10 points (1.0 point /one correct answer) D A B C B D C B A 10 D Exercise 3: Total: 10 points (1.0 point /one correct answer) ix beer and ale ii tax/ tax on malt/ malt tax iv tea v waterborne diseases/ dysentery 5.i 10 boiled IV WRITING: Total: 20 points Exercise 1: Total: points (1.0 point /one correct answer) I passed the test no matter how hard it was./ I’ll pass the test no matter how hard it is If you hadn’t helped, I would not have met my brother last month We cannot get on the plane without tickets I haven’t seen him since he graduated from (the) university We (can) learn languages easily with the help of the computer Exercise 2: Total: points (1.0 point /one correct answer) I tried to have a word with Jack about the problem but he was too busy They’ll put the cat among the pigeons She isn’t really cut out for teaching Organic vegetables are said to wonders for one’s health Five boys on a motorbike at the speed of 60 mph is a recipe for disaster Exercise 3: Total: 10 points Well-organized, varied and correct in grammatical structures and vocabs, interesting ideas Suggested ideas: new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge Dowload full: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11TCxGpyQWHy8v4le-1782u9cFXvyLln6? usp=sharing ... mishear 10 quieten Exercise 5: Total: 10 points (1.0 point /one correct answer) off if/though least no because for to whose last/past 10 there III READING: Total: 30 points Exercise 1: Total: 10 points... point /one correct answer) C A A C A C B B B 10 D Exercise 2: Total: 10 points (1.0 point /one correct answer) D A B C B D C B A 10 D Exercise 3: Total: 10 points (1.0 point /one correct answer)... agenda C itinerary D documentation 18 Since our train leaves at 10: 30, it is that everyone is at the station no later than 10: 15 A imperative B urgent C desired D inescapable 19 After travelling