Đề thi olympic Tiếng Anh năm 2000

ĐỀ THI OLYMPIC TIẾNG ANH NĂM 2000
PART ONE: PHONOLOGY
A. Pick out the word whose bold part is pronounced differently from those of the others.
1. A. ginger	B. ginseng	C. gipsy	D. girl
2. A. uncle	B. bugle	C. huge	D. latitude
3. A. bargain	B. complain	C. ascertain	D. campaign
4. A. evasion	B. evasive	C. desuetude	D. desultory
5. A. trays	B. says	C. bays	D. days
6. A. emblem	B. electrification	C. exact	D. entire
7. A. chick	B. chic	C. cheat	D. machismo
8. A. brood	B. naughty	C. foolscap	D. brooch
9. A. slaughter	B. naughty	C. draught	D. plaudit
10. A. fathom	B. feather	C. anthem	D. within
B. Group the following words into columns according to their stress patterns. 
coincide	speciality 	ecipe	cylinder	personify
spectrometer 	melancholy 	altogether 	hereditary 	index
1st syllable
2nd syllable
3rd syllable
PART TWO: VOCABULARY
A. Supply the correct form of the word in the parentheses.
1. You cannot enter the country without the..documents. (require)
2. The old man collapsed after doing some..exercises. (strain)
3. The..of water is necessary. (pure)
4. She is training to be a... (beautiful)
5. This..houses the largest telescope in the country. (observe)
6. Many beliefs of a culture are..represented in rituals. (symbol)
7. I’ve never known such a person. (quarrel)
8. Thank you for your generosity; we shall always be .. to you. (debt)
9. Professor Smith has joined the company in an .. capacity. (advise)
10. Please..our letter of the 10th. We have not had a reply. (know)
B. Choose the correct answer.
1. When the police examined the house, they found that the lock had been..with.
A. touched	B. tampered	C. broken	D. hindered
2. David’s married Elizabeth? - No, I don’t beliere it! You’re pulling my..
A. toe	B. leg	C. mind 	 	D. hair
3. I’m afraid I haven’t got the..idea why he never turned up.
A. least	B. smallest 	C. weakest	D. faintest
4. He was a very .. man; one day he would be happy, the next miserable.
A. uncontrollable	B. uneven	C. temperamental	D. dispirited
5. Do you know, she’s bought curtain material exactly the same as ours. She’s a dreadful...
A parrot	B. dog-in-the-manger	C. ape	D. copy cat
6. That book looks like an advanced..text to me.
A. economic	B. economical	C. economics	D. economists
7. He didn’t share his secret with many people but he..in her.
A. confessed	B. concealed	C. confided	D. consented
8. I was woken up by the sound of sheep..in the meadows.
A. neighing	B. crowing	C. bleating	D. croaking
9. The accusation left him quite..with rage.
A. speechless	B. silent	C. dumb	D. mute
10. He bought a pair of sunglasses with silver...
A. rims	B. brims	C. edges	D. boundaries
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PART THREE: GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURES
A. Fill in each blank with one appropriate preposition or particle.
1. Her husband was courteous..her.
2. You should comply	..the school rules.
3. Be calm and don’t make a fuss.. such trifles.
4. John’s very good..his hands.
5. She knows how to get..her father to buy her a new car.
6. The police are looking..the past	record of the suspect.
7. When she heard the news of the crash, she broke..and cried.
8. She always sides..her son against her husband.
9. In the warm sun, the grass dries..quickly.
10. You shouldn’t look down on people who aren’t as well..as you are.
B. Use the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1. I can’t bear the thought of you (go) .. home without someone (accompany)..you.
2. I’d rather (live)..in ancient Greece.
3. He insisted that die new baby (name)..after his grandfather.
4. There (be)..no further business, I deelare the meeting closed.
5. The uneaten breakfast was still on the table. She (call)..away in a hurry.
6. I (write)..photographs every week, I promise, and I (try)..to make them legible.
7. Were I (know)..the answer, I’d tell you right away.
8. It’s no use crying over (spill)..milk.
C. Rewrite the following sentences with the given words in such a way that the second sentence has the same meaning as the first one. Do not change the form of the words in brackets.
1. Under no circumstances should you phone the police.
The last	
2. Sam didn’t celebrate until he received the prize.
It was not.	
3. Nobody expected her to lose, but she did.
Against.	
4. You’ll learn the basic rules. Then you’ll find it easy to play.
Once.	
5. If nothing unfortunate happens, I’ll see you next week.
All being...	
6. The government have been reviewing their education policies recently.
The government’s..	
7. When a policeman appeared at the door, I was pretty taken aback.
Imagine..	
8. My protests were ignored.
No body..	
9. It’s what people cal that betrays their social background, not their table manners.
What gives..	
10. The chances are a hundred to one against you.
It’s most..	
D. Rewrite the following sentences with the given words in such a way that the second sentence has the same meaning as the first one. Do not change the form of the words in brackets.
1. Tasteful furniture made your room more attractive. (GRACED)
2. The train is 5 minutes late in leaving. (DUE)
3. We had a long discussion about the problem but we couldn’t solve it. (LENGTH)
4. The river Volta overflowed last year. (BURST)
5. You didn’t think carefully enough before you decided. (OUGHT)
6. I think you should try and be optimistic as you can. (SIDE)
7. Don’t misquote: I never said I hated ballet. (MOUTH)
8. While they were on leave, the sailors exploited their freedom fully. (MOST)
9. He shouldn’t have told her such things. (UNWISE)
10. Teaching doesn’t suit her (CUT)
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PART FOUR: READING COMPREHENSION
A. Cloze test: Fill in each numbered space with one appropriate word.
According to an old (1)in the early seventeenth century a Penvian was cured (2) a terrible fever by eating the bark of the cinchona tree. Quinine, the drug which can be (3) from cinchona bark, was (4) widely used as medicine until 1816.
Quinine has proved invaluable to modern medicine. It is used in the (5) of malaria, a (6) transmitted by the anopheles mosquito and common in the tropical (7) of the world. Quinine preparation are also used to help cure typhoid fever, rheumatic fever, and (8)  sicknesses.
The cinchona tree belongs to the evergreen family and, unlike most evergreens, (9) very fragrant flowers. Cinchona trees are native to South America, but arc now (10)  in such other places as India, Ceylon and Java.
B. Read the following passage and choose the correct answers.
A new British medical instrument is about to change dramatically our ability to recognise disease hidden inside the body. It is called the magnetic scanner, and it gives information about the body which current machines, such as the brain scanner and the more recent body scanner, cannot provide. And unlike existing machines, the new machine docs not use X-ray radiation waves, which makes it much safer for patients.
Unlike existing scanners, a magnetic scanner can show the side or the back of a suspect part of the body. Used on, for example, a lung with suspected damage, it can turn the image of the lung to give a scries of different views. The image is not simply worked out in the computer’s “imagination”, the magnetic scanner actually examines every side of the lung. When examining the softer part of the body with existing scanners, doctors frequently have to use a “contrast medium” to make a muscular organ show up to X-ray waves, the usual “contrast medium” given to patients before a stomach X-ray scan takes place is harmless, but for some brain scans so that it passes into the brain, this is unpleasant and painful and it can be dangerous. The magnetic scanner needs no “contrast medium”.
The new machine can also see in greater detail than ever before. Growths of all kinds show up clearly on the brain and so do the dead patches which are the signs of the disease, multiple sclerosis. Until now patients complaining of double vision or an inability to control their muscles from time could be suffering from some much more easily cured diseases and a brain scanner could not distinguish between these with certainty. The doctor can now definitely say whether or not cancer of multiple sclerosis is present. Previously, these diseases have been missed and patients have been given false information about their health. The technique is still improving with great speed: pictures produced a couple of years ago look very simple compared with those of today.
1. What does the new magnetic scanner machine do?
A. It looks al a diseased part of the body from all directions.
B. It can look right through a diseased part of the body.
C. It sends sound waves to the diseased part of the body.
D. It uses a computer to “imagine” different views of the body.
2. What disadvantage do existing machines have?
A. Patients need an injection before they are used.
B. The contrasts recorded are too strong.
C. It is often necessary to use a contrast medium.
D. The X-ray waves are sometimes painful.
3. In what way is the new machine an improvement?
A. It can cure some diseases much more easily.
B. It will never give a double view.
C. The techniques involved can be learned quickly.
D. It can show all the details of a diseased part of the body.
4. The machine is useful in identifying the disease multiple sclerosis, because it shows	
A. dark spots in the eyes.	B. dead areas in the brain.
C. cancer like growths.	D. damage to muscles.
5. “Sclerosis ” means
A. a disease that causes an organ or soft part of the body to become hard.
B. a disease that causes indigestion.
C. tuberculosis.
D. bronchitis.