Đề thi môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 10 - Kỳ thi chọn học sinh giỏi cấp Tỉnh năm học 2015-2016 - Sở GD & ĐT Hải Dương

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ĐỀ CHÍNH THƯC
KÌ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH LỚP 10 THPT
NĂM HỌC 2015-2016
MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút
(Đề thi có 06 trang)
Chú ý: Thí sinh làm bài vào tờ giấy thi
Phần trắc nghiệm: Chỉ cần viết đáp án A, hoặc B, C, D
Phần tự luận: Viết đầy đủ theo yêu cầu của bài
(Thí sinh không được sử dụng bất cứ tài liệu gì.)
A. LISTENING 
	Hướng dẫn làm bài Nghe: 
Bài Nghe gồm có 02 phần, mỗi phần thí sinh được nghe 02 lần. Mở đầu và kết thúc phần nghe có tín hiệu nhạc.
Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) có trong bài.
Part I: Listen to the recording and choose the best answer to each question (7.0 points):
1. When was gold discovered in San Francisco?
	A. In 1784	B. In 1848	C. In 1884	D. In 1948
2. Where is Sutter’s Mill located?
	A. In the East of San Francisco.	B. In the Northeast of San Francisco.
	C. In the Southeast of San Francisco.	D. In the Middle of San Francisco.
3. Among 100,000 people who reached the coast of California, only ________ were women.
	A. 8,000	B. 18,000	C. 38,000	D. 28,000
4. ________had traveled overland across the American continent.
	A. All of them	B. Few of them	C. Half of them 	D. More than half of them 
5. ________ were abandoned as everyone rushed to California.
	A. Saloons, farms and houses	B. Homes and farms
	C. Homes, farms, stores and factories	D. Homes, farms and stores
6. What happened to many of the ships which were anchored in San Francisco Bay?
	A. They were preserved.	B. They were sold.
	C. They were deserted.	D. They were destroyed	.
7. It can be inferred from the listening that laws and orders at that time were ________. 
	A. violated	B. respected	C. modified	D. observed 
Part II: Listen to the recording and write down the correct answer A, or B, C to each question (8.0 points):
SPEAKER
WHERE PEOPLE DECIDE TO EAT
1
 A. Chinese restaurant 
B. Fast Fried Chicken
C. Fast food
2
A. Quick Burger 
B. Hamburgers
C. Pizza Pit
3
A. home 
B. out
C. restaurant
4
A. steak house
B. Korean restaurant
C. Japanese restaurant
5
A. seafood restaurant 
B. pizza restaurant
C. steak house
6
A. Korean restaurant
B. Japanese restaurant 
C. Mexican restaurant
7
A. fast-food restaurant 
B. French restaurant
C. Hamburgers
8
A. French restaurant
B. home
C. Thai vegetarian restaurant
8. Speaker 1:_______
9. Speaker 2:_______
10. Speaker 3:_______
11. Speaker 4:_______
12. Speaker 5:______
13. Speaker 6:______
14. Speaker 7:_______
15. Speaker 8:_______
B. PHONETICS 
Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from that of the others (5.0 points):
16. 	A. photographer	B. participant	C. professional	D. destination
17. 	A. determine	B. interrupt	C. impossible	D. atomic
18. 	A. nutritious	B. contemptuous	C. numerous	D. contagious
19. 	A. questionnaire	B. Japanese	C. engineer	D. practical 
20. 	A. elephant	B. rhinoceros	C. habitat	D. leopard 	
C. GRAMMAR – VOCABULARY – LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
I. Choose the word, phrase or expression which best completes each sentence (20 points):
21. A number of houses were ________ so that a new school could be built.
	A. wiped out	B. destroyed	C. demolished	D. attacked
22. “I’m sorry, Mrs. Thomson. I didn’t break the clock ________ purpose,” said the little girl.
	A. by	B. on	C. with	B. for
23. Lama: “________, Lily?”	Lily: “Oh, terrific. Thanks.”
	A. What did you do during your geography field trip	
B. How was your geography field trip
	C. How did you spend your geography field trip	
D. Did you have a nice geography field trip
24. It is commonly known that the Greenhouse Effect occurs ________ heat radiated from the Sun. 
	A. when the earth’s atmosphere trap	
B. when does the earth’s atmosphere trap
	C. when the earth’s atmosphere is trapped	
D. when the earth’s atmosphere traps
25. The floor was so rotten that it almost gave ________ under Tommy’s weight.
	A. way	B. away	C. back	D. up
26. Boss: “Have you been able to reach that customer?”	Secretary: “________.”
	A. Oh, there’s no approval	B. Yes, I have known him for 6 years
	C. It’s much too high to reach	D. Oh, no. The line’s busy 
27. In Vietnam, many ________ crafts such as weaving and embroidering are now being revised.
	A. ordinary	B. traditional	C. habitual	D. customary
28. ________, Mike always feels lonely and unhappy.
	A. Despite his wealthy	B. However rich he is	C. Rich as is he	D. In spite of his being wealth
29. About 600 years ago, ________ that glass coated with silver nitrate would turn yellow when fired in an oven.
	A. the discovery	B. it discovered	C. it was discovered	D. it was discovering
30. Tom: “Do you want me to give you a hand with the washing?”	Maria: “________.”
	A. No, thanks. You can say that again	B. No, thanks. I can manage it myself
	C. Of course, not for me	D. Thanks. Your hands are so warm.
31. Jack promised to join us for dinner, but, to our disappointment, he didn’t ________.
	A. turn up	B. take in	C. make off	D. pull out
32. The explorers ________ for two days without food before they ________ a small cottage under an oak.
	A. has been walking / saw	B. were walking / saw
	C. had been walking / saw	D. walked / had seen
33. ________ blue whale, breathes air through a hole at the top of its head.
	A. The	B. The largest mammal C. The largest 	D. The largest mammal, the
34. Bob: “Take care of yourself, Kevin.”	Kevin: “________.”
	A. Yes, I do	B. Not at all	C. I will	D. You’re welcome
35. I think my car needs________. It stops running every five or six miles.
	A. to repair	B. repairing	C. to be repairing	D. repaired
36. No sooner ________ home ________ that the house had been broken into.
	A. had Ms. Taylor arrived / when she found	B. had Ms. Taylor arrived / than she finds
	C. had Ms. Taylor arrived / than she found	D. did Ms. Taylor arrive / when she found
37. Mark: “Do you think that smoking should be banned in public.”	Veronica: “________.”
	A. Yes, it’s an absurd idea	B. Well, that’s very surprising
 	C. Of course not. You bet	D. There’s no doubt about it.
38. ________ to her cousin’s wedding party, she would not have met her old friend, Bob.
	A. If Sarah didn’t go	B. If Sarah hasn’t gone	
C. Had Sarah not gone	D. Has Sarah not gone
39. The long journey in an ________ car made the little boy tired out.
	A. air-condition	B. air-conditioned	C. air-conditioner	D. air-conditioning
40. The reporters thought that the football manager would be depressed by his dismissal, but he just ________.
	A. ran it down	B. called it off	C. laughed it off	D. turned it down
II. Give the correct form of the words in brackets (5.0 points):
41. As Vietnam is on the way to develop and integrate into the world, there is a great demand for skillful (TECHNICAL) ________.
42. Many species of plants and animals found in this area can be dated back to (HISTORY)________ times. 
43. The Prime Minister showed his nervousness by constantly (STRAIGHT) ________ his tie.
44. There isn’t enough coal for the coming winter, so we have to use it (SPARE) ________.
45. We are sorry for Jackie. She was (ORPHAN) ________ as a baby. 
III. Choose the underlined word or phrase in each sentence that needs correcting (5.0 points):
46. Thanks to the Internet, businessmen do not hardly have to travel as much as they used to.
 A B C D
47. Fertilizers are used primarily to enrich soil and increasing yield. 
 A B C D
48. It is a fact that each country has their own traditions, some of which have existed for hundreds of years.
 A B C D
49. Eric doesn’t care how much does the motorbike cost because he is going to buy it anyway.
 A B C D
50. Surrounded by the forested mountain slopes are the town of Cornel, a former silver mining town 2,357 meters 
 A B C 
above sea level.
 D
D. READING
I. There are FIVE blanks in the passage below. From the options given in the box, choose the most suitable for each blank. There are THREE EXTRA OPTIONS that you do not need to use (5.0 points):
A. moreover, you will be asked to discuss
B. not necessarily the Earth
C. earthquakes and volcanoes
D. however, you will discover that
E. regard geology as an academic subject
F. enjoy the geological museum
G. that is relevant to everyday life
H. and more importantly, the moon
To many people, the word “geology” conjures up a rather dull image of lumps of rock in glass cases. People tend to (51) ________ that you don’t need to know about unless you have to study it at school. If you visit the Earth Galleries at London’s Natural history Museum, (52) ________ this image couldn’t be further from the truth. 
	The aim of the exhibition is not to procedure future geologists, but rather to inspire interest in a subject (53) ________ . The Earth Galleries turn the traditional idea of geological museum upside down literally because you begin at the top. The central space in the museum is a glass-topped atrium. As you enter, you ride up to the top of this by escalator. On the way, the escalator passes through a massive revolving globe, measuring eleven meters in diameter. This represents a planet, (54) ________ . Once at the top, you work your way down through the six different exhibitions that make up the museum. 
	The individual exhibitions explain natural phenomena such as (55) ________ as well as looking at the Earth’s energy resources and where our most common building materials come from. These exhibitions allow everyone to appreciate the fascination of geology. 
II. Read the passage below and decide which option A, B, C or D best fits each space (10 points):
Face-to-face conversation is two-way process: You speak to me, I reply to you and so on. Two-way (56) ________ depends on having a coding system that is (57) ________by both sender and receiver, and an agreed convention about (58) ________ the beginning and end of the (59) ________. In speech, the coding system is the language like English or Spanish; the convention (60) ________ one person speaks at a time may seem too obvious to mention. In fact, the (61)________ that people use in conversations and meetings are often non-verbal. For example, lowering the pitch of the voice may mean the end of a sentence, a sharp intake of breath may signal the desire to (62)________, catching the chairman’s (63)________may indicate the desire to speak in a formal setting like a (64)________, a clenched fist may indicate anger. When these (65)________ signals are not possible, more formal signals may be needed.
56. 	A. communicator	B. communication	C. communicate	D. communicating
57.	A. known	B. translated	C. understood	D. heard
58.	A. signing	B. symbolizing	C. signalling	D. showing
59.	A. message	B. topic	C. idea	D. theme
60.	A. to which	B. when	C. why	D. Ø
61.	A. symptoms	B. signals	C. signs	D. symbols
62. 	A. interfere	B. interchange	C. intercept	D. interrupt
63. 	A. neck	B. eye	C. shoulder	D. hand
64. 	A. chat	B. debate	C. broadcast	D. lecture
65. 	A. visual	B. auditory	C. verbal	D. sensory
II. Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question (10 points):
	Madison Square Garden, a world-famous sporting venue in New York City, has actually been a series of buildings in varied locations rather than a single building in one spot. In 1873, P.T. Barnum built Barnum’s Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome at the corner of Madison Avenue and 26th Street, across from Madison Square Park. Two years later, bandleader Patrick Gilmore bought the property, added statues and fountains, and renamed it Gilmore’s Gardens. When Cornelius Vanderbilt bought the property in 1879, it was renamed Madison Square Garden.
	A second very lavish Madison Square Garden was built at the same location in 1890, with a ballroom, a restaurant, a theater, a rooftop garden, and a main arena with seating for 15,000. However, this elaborate Madison Square Garden lasted until 1924 when it was torn down to make way for a forty-storey skyscraper.
	When the second Madison Square Garden had been replaced in its location across from Madison Square Park, boxing promoter Tex Rickard raised six million dollars to build a new Madison Square garden. This new Madison Square Garden was constructed in a different location, on 8th Avenue and 50th Street and quite some distance from Madison Square Park and Madison Avenue. Rickard’s Madison Square Garden served primarily as an arena for boxing prizefights and circus events until it outgrew its usefulness by the late 1950s.
	A new location was found for a fourth for Madison Square Garden, atop Pennsylvania Railroad Station, and plans were announced for its construction in 1960. This current edifice, which includes a huge sports arena, a bowling center, a 5,000-seat amphitheater, and a twenty-nine-storey office building, does retain the traditional name Madison Square Garden. However, the name is actually quite a misnomer. The building is not located near Madison Square, nor does it have the flowery gardens that contributed to the original name. 
66. The main point of this passage is that Madison Square Garden ________.
	A. has had a varied history in various locations	
B. was P.T. Barnum’s major accomplishment
	C. is home to many different sporting events	
D. was named after and adjacent park
67. Which paragraph discusses the third incarnation of Madison Square Garden?
	A. The first paragraph.	B. The second paragraph.	
	C. The third paragraph.	D. The last paragraph.
68. What is a “venue” in paragraph 1?
	A. A place where people come together.	B. An event in a competition.
	C. An exhibit of various products.	D. An invitation to a program.
69. According to the passage, Patrick Gilmore did all of the following EXCEPT that he ________.
	A. purchased the property at the corner of Madison Avenue and 26th Street
	B. made improvements to the property that he bought
	C. named the property that he bought Madison Square Garden
	D. sold the property to Cornelius Vanderbilt
70. The word “lavish” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ________.
	A. simple	B. modern	C. elaborate	D. outlandish
71. How long did the second Madison Square garden last?
	A. 11 years	B. 34 years	C. 45 years	D. 60 years
72. Which of the following would most likely have taken place at Rickard’s Madison Square Garden?
	A. A balloon dance	B. A theater production	
	C. A basketball game	D. a tiger show
73. An “edifice” in paragraph 3 is most likely________.
A. an address	B. an association	C. a competition	D. a building
74. Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome was renamed Gilmore’s Gardens in ________.
	A. 1890	B. 1879	C. 1875	D. 1874
75. What can be inferred about the current Madison Square Garden?
	A. It is on Madison Avenue.	B. It is across from Madison Square Park.
 	C. It has incredible gardens.	D. It is above a transportation center.
E. WRITING
Part I: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before (5.0 points):
76. Jenny entered the room quietly so that she would not disturb the lecturer.
@ So as .
77. The price of crude oil has decreased sharply in recent years.
@ There ....
78. I don’t think it’s a good idea to invest all your money in the property market.
@ Were .
79. Ben was too exhausted to complete the marathon race.
@ So.. 
80. That is the funniest story that my children have ever read.
@ My children have never .. .
Part II: Use the suggested words and phrases below to make a complete letter (10 points):
Dear Sir or Madam, 
81. reply / your advertisement / Baltimore Sun newspaper / April 2, 2016 / I / write / apply / post / secretary. 
82. In / advertisement / you / say / you look / secretary / good typing skills / who / fluent / German. 
83. I just / complete / two-year secretarial course / College of St. John. 
84. At / end / course / I / pass all / exams / flying colors.
85. Before / I / start / course / I / spend / 2 years / Hanover / live / German family. 
86. While / I / there / I / learn / speak German / fluent. 
87. addition / I / chance / work / part-time office assistant / German company.
88. I / grateful / if / you / send / more information / job / application form.
89. Enclosed / herewith / my resume / and / letter / recommendation.
90. I / look / forward / hear / you. 
Yours faithfully, 
Catherine Smith
Part III: “Facebook is neither good nor bad. It depends on how you use it.” What do you think about the statement? In about 150 words, write a paragraph to express your opinion. 
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