Đề kiểm tra kiến thức vào lớp 10 THPT chuyên môn Tiếng Anh - Năm học 2015-2016

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TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN ĐỀ KIỂM TRA KIẾN THỨC 
 NGUYỄN HUỆ VÀO LỚP 10 THPT CHUYÊN 
 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN) 
 Ngày thi: 8 tháng 5 năm 2016 
 Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút 
 (Đề thi gồm 06 trang) 
- Thí sinh điền đáp án vào khung kẻ trống trong đề. 
- Thí sinh không được sử dụng bất kỳ loại tài liệu nào kể cả từ điển và điện thoại. 
- Giám thị không giải thích gì thêm. 
Họ & tên: 
SBD: 
Phòng thi số: 
Học sinh trường THCS: 
ĐIỂM 
(Thống nhất) 
GIÁM KHẢO 1 
(Điểm/họ tên/chữ ký) 
GIÁM KHẢO 2 
(Điểm/họ tên/chữ ký) 
PART I: LISTENING - (Time for listening: 2’35 x 2 = 5’10) (15pts) 
You are going to listen (TWICE) to a man talking about his trips. Listen and complete the tasks. 
Questions 1-5: Decide whether these statements are True (T) or False (F). Write your answers in the 
box below. 
1. The man often travels for his job as a rug seller. 
2. The man is asked to give a talk about his trips in Europe and Africa. 
3. The man is willing to answer questions at the end of his talk. 
4. It often takes the man at least three months to prepare carefully for his trips. 
5. The man only get information about the places he is going to visit on the Internet. 
Your answers: 
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 
Questions 6-15: Complete the table. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORD AND/OR A NUMBER 
for each answer. Write your answers into the box below. 
Countries visited Interesting facts 
Morocco  many (6) _______ and beautiful mosques 
Turkey  travelled there by (7) _______ 
 good for local (8) _______ 
 bought a beautiful Turkish (9) _______ 
(10) _______  visited Gujarati Textile (11) _______ 
 great examples of (12) _______ embroidery 
 lots of wildlife in (13) _______ areas 
 saw increadible colouful (14) _______ and several (15) _______ spiders 
Your answers: 
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 
PART II: PRONUNCIATION, VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR (35 points) 
Questions 16-17: Choose the word (A, B, C or D) whose underlined part is pronounced differently 
from that of the others. Write your answers into the box below. 
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16. A. advent B. invent C. decent D. percent 
17. A. pursue B. hesitate C. comparison D. poster 
18. A. ragged B. sacred C. dogged D. scared 
Questions 18-20: Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that differs from the others in the position of the 
primary stress. Write your answers into the box below. 
19. A. questionaire B. introduce C. recommend D. concentrate 
20. A. continuous B. scandalous C. malicious D. delicious 
Your answers: 
16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 
Questions 21-30: Choose the best option (A, B, C or D) to complete each of the following sentences. 
Write your answers into the box below. 
21. I’d like to make _______ for crashing your car. Let me pay for the repairs. 
 A. improments B. correctione C. amends D. adjustments 
22. Thanks for lending me your umbrella; it really came in _______. 
 A. used B. handy C. handful D. needy 
23. James never shows his emotions; no matter what happens, he always keeps a stiff upper _______. 
 A. mounth B. eye C. head D. lip 
24. I got a new baseball _______ yesterday. 
 A. stick B. racket C. club D. bat 
25. Eat your vegetables. They’ll _______ you good. 
 A. do B. make C. get D. help 
26. Don’t drop your sweet wrapper on the floor, _______? 
 A. do you B. aren’t you C. will you D. won’t you 
27. She may have missed the train, _______ she won’t arrive for another hour. 
 A. at the case B. all the case C. just in case D. in which case 
28. I should like to rent a house, modern, comfortable, and _______ in a quiet position. 
 A. most of all B. above all C. first of all D. after all 
29. I was disappointed that the restaurant had _______ flowers on the table. 
 A. false B. untrue C. artificial D. forged 
30. _______ write with your left hand when you broke your arm? 
 A. Did you have to B. Had you have to C. Needed you to D. Must you 
Your answers: 
21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 
26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 
Complete the sentences with the appropriate phrasal verbs from the box in their correct form. There 
are two extra ones that you do not need to use. Write your answers into the box below. 
put through come by die down take over bear up get into 
look on join in give away call for carry out drop off 
31. I didn’t think he would _______ so well in that situation. 
32. Come and help me to carry the boxes! Don’t just stand there _______! 
33. I watched a horror film on TV last night, but I can’t remember how it ended. I must have _______ before 
the end. 
34. Tomorrow, we will be _______ an experiment to test this theory. 
35. Just ask them if you can play and I’m sure they’ll let you _______. 
36. Do you think the wind has _______ enough for us to go sailing without any danger? 
37. Environmentalists are _______ stricter controls on the use of leaded petrol. 
38. The robber couldn’t explain how he _______ such a large amount of money when the police caught him. 
39. Did you hear about the millionaire who _______ his entire fortune to charity? 
40. Who is going to _______ the family business when Arstha’s father retires? 
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Your answers: 
31 32. 33. 34. 35. 
36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 
Questions 41-50: Complete the following passage by writing the correct form of the words given in 
brackets. Write your answers into the box below. 
RAIN MAKING 
 When it rains, it does not always pour. During a typical storm, a (41. COMPARE) _______ small 
amount of the lock-up moisture in each cloud reaches the ground as rain. So the idea that human 
intervention - a rain dance, perhaps - might encourage the sky to give up a little (42. ADD) _______ water 
has been around since prehistoric times. More recently, would-be rain makers have used a more direct 
procedure - that of throwing (43. VARY) _______ chemicals out of aero-planes in an effort to wring more 
rain from the clouds, a practice known as “cloud seeding”. 
 Yet such techniques, which were first developed in the 1940s, are (44. NOTORIETY) _______ difficult 
to evaluate. It is hard to (45. CERTAIN) _______, for example, how much rain would have fallen anyway. 
So, despite much anecdotal evidence of the advantages of cloud seeding, which has led to its adoption in 
more than 40 countries around the world, as far as scientists are concerned, results are still (46. 
CONCLUSIVE) _______. That could be about to change. For the past three years (47. RESEARCH) _______ 
have been carrying out the most extensive and (48. RIGOUR) _______ evaluation to date of a revolutionary 
new technique that will substantially boost the volume of (49. RAIN) _______. 
 The preliminary (50. FIND) _______ of their experiments indicate that solid evidence of the technique’s 
effectiveness is now within the scientists’ grasp. 
Your answers: 
41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 
46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 
PART III:READING COMPREHENSION (25 points) 
Questions 51-55: You are going to read a magazine article on space travel. Five paragraphs have been 
removed from the article. Choose from the paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap (51- 55). 
There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0). 
Write your answers into the box below. 
CHEAP ACCESS TO SPACE 
Charles Conrad went to the moon with Apollo 12 and circled the Earth in Skylab. But from now on, he is 
going to aim high for himself. His company, Universal Space Lines, hopes to produce a more economic 
rocket that will be able to go in space again and again. 
(0) _____ G _____ 
NASA, the U.S, government-owned space program, plans to develop such a rocket. However, the 
immediate priority is missions to Mars, which will require different technology. So it is more likely that 
people outside the NASA program will develop re-useable rocket design. Rick Tumlinson runs an 
independent organization called the Space Frontier Foundation and firmly believes that it is time for 
business to get involved. 
(51) __________ 
So Tumlinson is also in business to prove a point. Space is our destiny, he says, so why not get on with it a 
bit more eagerly? To this end, the SFF is holding a conference in Los Angeles shortly, to be called Space: 
Open for Business. 
(52) __________ 
Another company, Kistler Aerospace, has similar plans; “Our goal is to become a delivery service to low 
Earth orbit that will radically re-align the economics of doing business in space. Satellites will be our 
parcels: our vehicles will be operated in repeated flights with air freights efficiency.” 
(53) __________ 
Their own view is that it is impossible for NASA, which is government-owned, to offer an “open frontier”. 
This is not a matter of budgets or schedules, but of fundamental purpose and design. NASA is “elitist and 
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exclusive”, whereas the SFF believes in opportinities for everyone “a future of endlessly expanding new 
choices”. 
(54) __________ 
Of course, the ex-astronaut and businessman Charles Conrad agrees. “I’m trying to get affordable space 
transportation up and operative so that everybody can enjoy space. And by the way, the Japanese are hard 
at work building a space hotel.” 
(55) __________ 
If he is right, mass space travel will have arrived by 2050 and space tourism will have become a viable 
industry. More importantly, the human race will have made serious progress in crossing that final frontier. 
A. Companies will always be looking for profit. For this reason, the SFF is not in favor of American 
missions to Mars, claiming that there’s nothing in it for investors. At the same time, they do accept 
that these missions could bring scientific benefits. 
B. 
He sees the NASA program as a bit of a dinosaur. “25 years after the Wright Brothers, people could 
buy a commercial plane ticket ... but many years after landing on the moon, we sat around watching 
old astronauts on TV talking about the good old days.” 
C. 
In 1997, the SFF ran a survey on the Internet, called “Cheap Access to Space”, where it asked 
American taxpayers for their views on the U.S space program and on what American’s future 
priorities should be in space transportation. 
D. 
U.S government officials don’t see the future for space tourism. Here again, private companies may 
well prove them wrong. David Ashford, director of Bristol Spaceplanes Limited, once said that space 
tourism would begin ten years after people stopped laughing at the concept. Recently, he added this 
striking comment: “people have stopped laughing.” 
E. 
Charles Conrad is due to speak there. But his company is in fact only one of several that already 
have blueprints for getting into space and back cheaply. Rotary is working on something that would 
be launched like a rocket but return like a helicopter. Pioneer Rocket plane believes there could be a 
million dollar market in delivering packages from one side of the planet to the other in an hour. 
F. 
They would like to see “irreversible human settlement” in space as soon as possible and maintain 
that this will only happen through free enterprise. “Building buildings and driving trucks is not what 
astronauts should be doing; that’s what the private sector does.” 
G 
“Cheap” is an important word in space technology nowadays and re-useable rockets will be a key 
way of controlling costs. They will deliver things to orbits, bring stuff back to Earth and then go up 
again, perhaps with machinery for a space factory, or even carrying tourists. 
Your answers: 
0. G 
51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 
Questions 56-65: Read the following passage and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each 
numbered blank. Write your answers into the box below. 
CRITICISM 
It can take a long time to become successful in your chosen field, however (56) _______ you are. One thing 
you have to be (57) _______ of is that you will face criticism along the way. The world is (58) _______ of 
people who would rather say something negative than positive. If you’ve made up your (59) _______ to 
achieve a certain goal, such as writing a novel, don’t let the negative criticism of others (60) _______ you 
from reaching your target, and let constructive criticism have a positive effect on your work. If someone 
says you’re totally (61) _______ talent, ignore them. That’s negative criticism. If, however, someone 
advises you to revise your work and gives you good reasons for doing so, you should (62) _______ their 
suggestions carefully. There are many film stars who were once out of work. There are many famous 
novelists who made a complete (63) _______ of their first novel – or who didn’t, but had to (64) _______ 
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approaching hundreds of publishers before they could get it published. Being successful does (65) _______ 
on luck, to a certain extent. But things are more likely to turn out well if you preserve and stay positive. 
56. A. talented B. invested C. mixed D. workable 
57. A. alert B. cleaver C. intelligent D. aware 
58. A. overflowing B. full C. filled D. packed 
59. A. mind B. brain C. thought D. idea 
60. A. cease B. remove C. avoid D. prevent 
61. A. lacking B. short C. missing D. absent 
62. A. think B. consider C. look round D. take 
63. A. rubbish B. trash C. mess D. garbish 
64. A. put off B. bank on C. keep on D. drop in on 
65. A. require B. depend C. need D. trust 
Your answers: 
56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 
61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 
Questions 66-75: Read the passage carefully, then fill in each blank with ONE suitable word. Write 
your answers into the box below. 
Maybe you recycle cans, glass, and paper. Do you know that nature recycles, too? One of the things 
nature (66) _______ is water. Water goes from oceans, lakes, and rivers into the air. Water falls from the air 
as (67) _______ or snow. Rain and snow eventually find their way back to the oceans. Nature’s recycling 
program for water is (68) _______ the water cycle. 
The water cycle has four stages: storage, evaporation, precipitation, and runoff. Water on Earth gets 
stored in oceans, lakes, rivers, ice, and even underground. Water goes from storage into the atmosphere by a 
(69) _______ called evaporation. When water evaporates, it changes from a liquid (70) _______ a gas, 
called water vapor. Water vapor goes up into (71) _______ atmosphere. Water returns to the Earth as 
precipitation in rain or snow by changing into drops of water when the air (72) _______ cold enough. 
Clouds are collections of water droplets. Most precipitation (73) _______ into the oceans and goes right 
back into storage. 
Water that falls on land always flows from (74) _______ places to lower ones. This flow is called 
runoff. Water from land flows into streams. Streams join (75) _______ to make rivers and eventually the 
water flows into storage in the oceans. Then the water cycle starts all over again. 
Your answers: 
66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 
71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 
PART IV: WRITING (25 poitns) 
Questions 76-80: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the 
sentence printed before it. 
76. The teachers agreed to introduce the new methods. 
 There was _________________________________________________________________________ 
77. There was no need for you to have gone to all that trouble. 
 You _____________________________________________________________________________ 
78. It’s sad, but unemployment is unlikely to go down this year. 
 Sad ______________________________________________________________________________ 
79. You must never mention this secret to him. 
 Under ____________________________________________________________________________ 
80. If you were in the situation I’m in, you’d feel the same. 
 If you put _________________________________________________________________________ 
Questions 81-85: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, 
using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, 
including the word given. 
81. I was about to leave when she turned up. (POINT) 
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 I was ____________________________________ when she turned up. 
82. I wasn't expecting my colleagues to organise a farewell party on my last day at the company. (TAKEN) 
 I ____________________________________ when my colleagues organised a farewell party on my last 
day at the company. 
83. Considering that Luke is so young, you must admit he’s making excellent progress as a musician. 
(ACOOUNT) 
 If you ____________________________________ young Luke is, you must admit he’s making excellent 
progress as a musician. 
84. Peter was in trouble with his boss because he didn’t finish an important project by the deadline. (HOT) 
 Peter was ____________________________________ because he didn’t finish an important project by 
the deadline. 
85. You should punish him severely so that others will be afraid to behave as he did. (EXAMPLE) 
 You should ____________________________________ so that others will be afraid to behave as he did. 
Questions 86-100: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? 
“Fast food is becoming a part of our daily life. Some people argue that fast food has negative effects on 
our lifestyle and diet.” 
Write about 250 words to support your opinion (and do not include your personal information). 
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TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN ĐÁP ÁN HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM 
 NGUYỄN HUỆ ĐỀ KIỂM TRA KIẾN THỨC 
 VÀO LỚP 10 THPT CHUYÊN - LẦN III NĂM 2016
 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN) 
- Tổng điểm toàn bài: 100 điểm (100 câu x 1 điểm)  Điểm cuối cùng rút gọn = 10 điểm 
- Từ câu 1 đến câu 85 x 1 điểm = 85 điểm; từ câu 85-100: bài viết luận = 15 điểm 
- Chú ý: Khi cộng điểm toàn bài, giám khảo chấm làm tròn điểm đến 0,25/0,5/0,75 
 (lẻ 0,1 – 0,2 làm tròn thành 0,25; lẻ 0,3 – 0,4 làm tròn thành 0,5; lẻ 0,6 – 0,7 làm tròn thành 0,75) 
PART I: LISTENING: (15pts) 
You are going to listen (TWICE) to a man talking about his trips. Listen and complete the tasks. 
Questions 1-5: Decide whether these statements are True (T) or False (F). Write your answers in the 
box below. (5.0 poitns) 
Your answers: 
1. F (rug buyer) 2. F (Europe and 
Asia) 
3. T 4. T 5. F (on the Internet 
and in books) 
Questions 6-15: Complete the table. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORD AND/OR A NUMBER 
for each answer. Write your answers into the box below. (10 poitns) 
Your answers: 
6. historical 
buildings 
7. boat 8. crafts 9. carpet 10. India 
11. Museum 12. Indian silk 13. remote 14. birds 15. poisonous 
PART II: PRONUNCIATION, VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR (35 points) 
Questions 16-17: Choose the word (A, B, C or D) whose underlined part is pronounced differently 
from that of the others. Write your answers into the box below. 
Questions 18-20: Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that differs from the others in the position of the 
primary stress. Write your answers into the box below. (5.0 poitns) 
Your answers: 
16. C 17. B 18. D 19. D 20. B 
Questions 21-30: Choose the best option (A, B, C or D) to complete each of the following sentences. 
Write your answers into the box below. (10 poitns) 
Your answers: 
21. C 22. B 23. D 24. D 25. A 
26. C 27. D 28. B 29. C 30. A 
Complete the sentences with the appropriate phrasal verbs from the box in their correct form. There 
are two extra ones that you do not need to use. Write your answers into the box below. (10 poitns) 
Your answers: 
31. bear up 32. looking on 33. dropped off 34. carrying out 35. join in 
36. died down 37. calling for 38. came by / had 
come by 
39. gave away 40. take over 
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Questions 41-50: Complete the following passage by writing the correct form of the words given in 
brackets. Write your answers into the box below. (10 poitns) 
Your answers: 
41. comparatively 42. additional 43. various 44. notoriously 45. ascertain 
46. inconclusive 47. researchers 48. rigorous 49. rainfall 50. findings 
PART III:READING COMPREHENSION (25 points) 
Questions 51-55: You are going to read a magazine article on space travel. Five paragraphs have been 
removed from the article. Choose from the paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap (51- 55). 
There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0). 
Write your answers into the box below. 
Your answers: 
0. G 
51. B 52. E 53. C 54. F 55. D 
Questions 56-65: Read the following passage and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each 
numbered blank. Write your answers into the box below. 
Your answers: 
56. A 57. D 58. B 59. A 60. D 
61. A 62. B 63. C 64. C 65. B 
Questions 66-75: Read the passage carefully, then fill in each blank with ONE suitable word. Write 
your answers into the box below. 
Your answers: 
66. recycles 67. rain 68. called 69. process 70. into 
71. the 72. gets / is 73. falls 74. high 75. together 
PART IV: WRITING (25 poitns) 
Questions 76-80: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the 
sentence printed before it. (5.0 poitns) 
76.  There was an agreement among the teachers to introduce the new methods. 
77.  You needn’t have gone to all that trouble. / You didn’t need to go to all that trouble. 
78.  Sad as it is, unemployment is unlikely to go down this year. 
79.  Under no circumstance must you mention this secret to him. 
80.  If you put yourself in my place/position/situation, you would feel the same. 
Questions 81-85: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, 
using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, 
including the word given. (5.0 poitns) 
81.  I was on the point of leaving when she turned up. 
82.  I was taken by surprise when my colleagues organised a farewell party on my last day at the 
company. 
83.  If you take into account how young Luke is, you must admit he’s making excellent progress as a 
musician. 
84.  Peter was in hot water because he didn’t finish an important project by the deadline. 
85.  You should make an example of him so that others will be afraid to behave as he did. 
Questions 86-100 (15 poitns): Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? 
“Fast food is becoming a part of our daily life. Some people argue that fast food has negative effects on 
our lifestyle and diet.” 
Write about 250 words to support your opinion (and do not include your personal information). 
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