| THPT CHUYÊN VĨNH PHÚC | ĐỂ THI CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN HSG 12 CẤP TỈNH LẦN 1 NĂM HỌC: 2018-2019 |
| (ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC) | Môn thi: Tiếng Anh |
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| Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề) |
A. LISTENING
I. Listen to the recording and complete the note with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS.
FOUR BUSINESS VALUES
| Many business values can result in (1)_____________________ Senior managers need to understand and deal with the potential (2)_________ that may result. Collaboration During a training course, the speaker was in a team that had to build a (3)____________ Other teams experienced (4)___________ from trying to collaborate. The speaker's team won because they, reduced collaboration. Sales of a (5)______________ were poor because of collaboration. Industriousness Hard work may be a bad use of various company (6)______________ The word 'lazy' in this context refers to people who avoid doing tasks that are (7)____________ Creativity An advertising campaign for a (8)____________ was memorable but failed to boost sales. Creativity should be used as a response to a particular (9) ____________ Excellence According to one study, on average, pioneers had a (10) ____________ that was far higher than that of followers. Companies that always aim at excellence may miss opportunities. |
II. You will hear two people speaking about their fondness for trains. For questions 1-5, choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.
1) What point does Philip make about the people who are involved in the locomotive side of trains?
| A) Some avoid doing it because its too dirty. | B) Some worry about the dangers involved. |
| C) Some find it to be an instinctive activity. | D) Some only do it for the financial rewards it brings. |
2) When Mike discusses why he enjoys the world of trains, what contrast does he identify between the different groups of people he interacts with?
| A) A difference in social status. | B) A difference in ages. |
| C) A difference in technical ability. | D) A difference in motivation. |
3) What view is stated by Mike about how the railway has helped him in his role as a parent?
| A) It has helped him develop a closer relationship with his daughter. | B) It has taught him patience. |
| C) It has helped him focus on his daughters career possibilities. | D) It has given him stability in his life. |
4) When discussing different aspects of the railway, both speakers agree that ___________.
| A) Age does not need to be a handicap. | B) Both men and women are equally welcome. |
| C) It can be quite demanding. | D) Cleanliness is not the first adjective that springs to mind. |
5) What final conclusion do both speakers reach about volunteering on the railway?
| A) The time they have spent has been difficult but worth it. | B) They have both learnt a lot. |
| C) They are better people for having been involved with it. | D) It has helped them grow while at the same time giving them a direction for the future. |
B. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR
I. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
1. If the work-force respected you, you wouldn't need to _________ your authority so often.
A. assert B. affirm C. maintain D. inflict
2. The factory is working below _________ because of the shortage of essential materials.
A. range B. scope C. capacity D. denstiy
3. His new designs are ______ the trend in women’s fashion right now.
A. aiming B. setting C. building up D. following
4. She wants to give full ______ to her anger about discrimination.
A. manifestation B. vent C. wear D. barometer
5. Without telling her directly, they ______ that she’d got the job.
A. prophesied B. inferred C. insinuated D. intimated
6. Athletes need to have a higher _________ of protein and vitamins in order to stay heathy
A. intake B. increase C. infection D. production
7. He claimed _____ from military service because he was a foreign national
A. liability B. exception C. demobilization D. exemption
8. It’s Prime Minister’s right to ______ an election at any time he likes
A. summon B. nominate C. call D. submit
9. The footballer never really recovered from the injury ______ at the beginning of the season.
A. got B.struck C.endured D.sustained
10. The drought ________ considerable problems for farmers.
A. instigated B. posed C. flexed D. pressed
11. At the start of the course, everyone is assigned a(n) ________ of studies.
A. advisor B. consultant C. counsellor D. guide
12. Jerry has been burning the midnight ________ over the last few days; his final exam is soon.
A. lamp B. light C. candle D. oil
13. In my first year at university I lived in the halls of ________ .
A. abode B. residence C. dwelling D. accommodation
14. Books taken from the short ________ section are due to be returned the next day.
A. borrowing B. credit C. loan D. return
15. You are bound to find information on the stock market crash of 1987 in the newspaper ________ .
A. files B. archives C. records D. collections
16. The accused confidently ________ that he was innocent.
A. preserved B. maintained C. conserved D. defended
17. We did our best to fix the broken computer but our efforts bore no ________.
A. success B. fruit C. luck D. end
18. I knew my mother would ________ a face the minute she saw my new haircut.
A. drag B. lift C. pull D. raise
19. There are a lot of computer programmes nowadays, but really good ones are few and far ________.
A. between B. apart C. away D. amongst
20. He is such a kind and caring young boy - he wouldn’t hurt a ________ .
A. bird B. worm C. fly D. bug
II. Supply the correct form of the word in bracket to complete the passage.
The signal broke a seven-hour wait of (1. AGONY) intensity and sparked scenes of (2. JUBILEE) at the European Space Agency’s mission control in Darmstadt. The team in charge of the Rosetta mission achieved what at times seemed an impossible task by landing a (3. ROBOT) (4. CRAFT) on a comet for the first time in history. The moment the tension broke came shortly after 1600 GMT when the Philae called home. “We are there. We are sitting on the surface. Philae is talking to us,” said a (5. JUBILEE) Stephan Ulamec, Philae lander manager at the DLR German space centre. “We are on the comet.” Andrea Accomazzo, the Rosetta flight operations director, added: “We cannot be happier than we are now.”
But celebrations were tempered by the later discovery that the probe’s two harpoons had not fired to fasten the craft down in the (6. LOW) gravity. Scientists now think the probe may have bounced after first coming into contact with the surface. Ulamec said: “Maybe today we didn’t just land once, we landed twice.” The safe, if (7. CARE), (8. TOUCH) of the lander gives scientists a unique chance to ride (9. BOARD) a comet and study from the surface what happens as its activity ramps up as it gets closer to the sun. The first images beamed back from the lander’s descent revealed a dramatic (10. SCAPE) of pits and precipices, craters and boulders. However, there have been gaps in its radio link with the orbiting Rosetta mothership.
III. There are 10 mistakes in the passage. Find and correct them.
There are numerous reason behind the choice of clothing we make, ranging from the practice to the bizarre, but in every likelihood humans began wearing clothes in order to shield themselves of the elements.
‘The Iceman’, found mummifying in the ice of a glacier on the Italian-Austrian border in 1991, was still clad with remarkably well-preserved garments which would obviously have protected him from the rain and cold five thousand years ago.
The clothing worn by people living in warmer climates further illustrates this basic function of clothing. In hot, dry desert regions, people tend to wear cool, flowing materials which cover much of body, including the head. This helps keep them cool during the heat of the day and helps to keep the wearer warm at night when temperatures increase dramatically. On the other hand, many peoples living in tropical regions, with their constant high temperatures and humidity, are sparse clothed.
Not all clothing is functional, moreover, and at different times throughout history people, especially women, have worn clothes which are impractical – restricting the wearer’s movements and in some cases cause physical discomfort. Examples of such restrictive clothing can be seen in the hooped and corseted gowns worn by wealthy women in the 18th century, and in the opulent, heavy robes traditionally worn by royalties. Such customs send a clear message that the wearer does not need to work but occupies a position in society that others can be commanded to work for them.
Example: 0. reason à reasons
IV. Fill in the blank with ONE suitable preposition.
1. The school examination for eleven-year-olds was done_________ with some years ago.
2. Tuck your shirt ________your trousers.
3. At first Tim insisted he was right, but then began to back ________
4. He is a solicitor________ profession.
5. A huge crowd turned _________ in the pouring rain to cheer the president.
PART C. READING
I. Read the passage and choose the correct answer that best fill in the blank.
OFFICE STRESS
Stressful atmospheres, (1) _______ of deadlines and long hours dominate office life, according to a survey (2) _______ recently.
The majority of those questioned said a good salary and career (3) _______ were their main reason for working. But (4) _______ numbers did not believe their employers offered either. In general the survey found that most felt that (5) _______ of life was more important than (6) _______and company perks. Most would prefer employers to offer (7) _______ hours, challenging tasks and job (8) _______ rather than perks such as company cars and private health care. Many employers’ (9) _______ to understand this meant more than a third worried about their work on holiday, and 40 per cent took days off (10) _______when not ill.
Workers were also (11) _______ by the conditions they had to work in. A fifth struggled with (12) _______ technology, badly lit offices and chairs which caused backache. Half said their (13) _______ would increase if their environment improved.
On the plus side, the biggest (14) _______ was the friendship offered by colleagues, and it appears that the office also affords the chance to flirt with colleagues, make (15) _______ calls to friends abroad, steal stationery and play computer games.
1. A. weight B. force C. heaviness D. pressure
2. A. published B. printed C. publicised D. proclaimed
3. A. outlooks B. odds C. prospects D. views
4. A. important B. impressive C. heavy D. significant
5. A. quality B. calibre C. excellence D. worth
6. A. rank B. status C. degree D. grade
7. A. pliable B. elastic C. amenable D. flexible
8. A. safety B. security C. sanctuary D. protection
9. A. failure B. defeat C. deficiency D. lack
10. A. indisposed B. unwell C. injured D. sick
11. A. pestered B. inflamed C. irritated D. ruffled
12. A. behind the times B. expired C. out-of-date D. invalid
13. A. fertility B. capacity C. value D. productivity
14. A. compensation B. damages C. reimbursement D. atonement
15. A. idiosyncratic B. unique C. personal D. individual
II. Read the text and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS
Anybody who says they can reliably forecast the future of newspapers is either a liar or a fool. Look at the raw figures, and newspapers seem doomed. Since 2000, the circulation of most UK national dailies has fallen by between a third and a half. The authoritative Pew Research Center in the USA reports that newspapers are now the main source of news for only 26 percent of US citizens as against 45 percent in 2001. There is no shoratge of prophets who confidently predict that the last printed newspaper will be safely buried within 15 years at most.
Yet one of the few reliable facts of history is that old media have a habit of surviving. An over-exuberant New York journalist announced in 1935 that books and theatre ‘have had their day’ and the daily newspaper would become ‘the greatest organ of social life’. Theatre dully withstood not only the newspaper, but also cinema and then television. Radio has flourished in the TV age; cinema, in turn, has held its own against videos and DVDs. Even vinyl records have made a comeback, with online sales up 745 percent since 2008.
Newspapers themselves were once new media, although it took several centuries before they became the dominant medium for news. This was not solely because producing up-to-date news for a large readership over a wide area became praticable and economic only in the mid-19th century, with the steam press, the railway and the telegraph. Equally important was the emergence of the idea that everything around us is in constant movement and we need to be updated on its condition at regular intervals- a concept quite alien in the medieval times and probably also to most people in the early modern area. Now, we expect change. To our medieval ancestors, however, the only realities were the passing of the seasons, punctuated by catastrophes such as famine, flood or disease that they had no reliable means of anticipating. Life, as the writer Alain de Botton puts it, was ‘ineluctably cyclical’ and ‘the most important truths were recurring’.
Journalism as a full-time trade from which you could hope to make a living hardly existed before the 19th century. Even then, there was no obvious reason why most people needed news on a regular basis, whether daily or weekly. In some respects, regularity of newspaper publication and rigidity of format was, and remains, a burden. Online news readers can dip in and out according to how they perceive the urgency of events. Increasingly sophisticated search engines and algorithms allow us to personalise the news to our own priorities and interests. When important stories break, internet news providers can post minute-by-minute updates. Error, misconception and foolish speculation can be connected or modified almost constantly. There are no space restrictions to prevent narrative or analysis, and documents or events cited in news stories can often be accessed in full. All this is a world away from the straitjacket of newspaper publication. Yet few if any providers seem alive to the new medium’s capacity for spreading understanding and enlightenment.
Instead, the anxiety is always to be first with the news, to maximise reader comments, to create heat and sound and fury and thus add to the sense of confusion. In the medieval world what news there was was usually exchanged amid the babble of the market place or the tarven, where truth competed with rumour, mishearing and misunderstanding. In some respects, it is to that world that we seem to be returning. Newspapers have never been very good- or not as good as they ought to be- at telling us how the world works. Perhaps they now face extinction. Or perhaps , as the internet merely adds to what de Botton discribes as our sense that we live in ‘ an improvable and fundamentally chaotic universe’, they will discover that they and they alone can guide us to wisdom and understanding.
1. In the first paragragh, the writer is presenting __________.
A. his interpretation of a current trend.
B. evidence that supports a widespread view.
C. his prediction on the future of print journalism.
D. reasons for the decline in newspaper readership.
2. What point is the writer making in the second paragraph?
A. Existing media are not necessarily replaced by new ones.
B. The best media technologies tend to be the most long-lasting.v
C. Public enthusiasm for new types of media is often unpredictable.
D. It is inevitable that most media technologies will have a limited life.
3. Which phrase in the second paragraph has the same meaning as ‘held its own against’?
A. ‘had their day’ B. ‘withstood’ C. ‘flourished’ D. ‘made a comeback’
4. In the third paragraph, the writer stresses the importance of __________.
A. a shift in people’s attitudes towards the outside world.
B. certain key19th- century advances in mechanisation.
C. the challenges of news distribution in the pre-industrial era.
D. the competition between newspapers and more established media.
5. What does the writer suggest is the main advantage of online news sites?
A. the flexibility of the medium B. the accuracy of the reporting
C. the ease of access for their users D. the breadth of their potential readership
III. Read the passage and think of ONE word that best fits in the numbered blank.
A BELATED CONFESSION
“I have been having a crush on you for the past 4 years, I never had the (1)______ to tell you, but I can’t be so cowardly anymore.” said Peter as he caught Helen hand in the crowd watching fireworks.
Helen was taken (2)_______ by Peter’s words, both because he appeared out of nowhere and also never had she expected a boy, so silent and seemed uninterested in class’ business, would like her.
“Peter? Why are you here? I thought you said you wouldn’t come.”
“-Listen, we don’t have much time (3)_________, I’m moving to another country, this will be the last (4)________ we can be together until a few more years”
“Why didn’t you tell-“
“-I realized that I had made a mistake, a huge one. I had always been such an (5)________, never made an effort to make friends, but you always tried to (6)________ me, you truly changed me, and so I don’t want to lose you.”
No (7)________ words were said, they slowly turned to the sky. Little does Peter know, Helen had also had something for him, but she had been afraid that her friends would’ve teased her. Ever since her boyfriend (8)________ her and her friends turned their back on her, Peter has always been there for her, he never talked much, mostly listen, but that’s enough for her.
At that (9)_______ moment, she knew she didn’t want to let him go, but then it was too late. He’d always been stoic, never wanted others to worry about him, so he decided to keep it a secret before he leaves. That night, there wasn’t (10)________ his first kiss but also her first time feeling truly cared about and loved
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