Đề thi thử vào lớp 10 chuyên THPT môn Tiếng Anh năm học 2016-2017 - TT Bồi dưỡng văn hóa HaNoi - Amsterdam

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TT BỒI DƯỠNG VĂN HÓA 
 HANOI - AMSTERDAM 
 ĐỀ THI THỬ VÀO LỚP 10 CHUYÊN THPT 
 Năm học : 2016-2017 
 Môn thi : TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN) 
 Thời gian làm bài : 120 phút 
( Thí sinh làm bài vào tờ giấy nay) 
 (Không được dùng bất cứ loại từ điển hay tài liệu nào) 
PART A: PHONETICS 
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group. 
(5 pts.) 
1. A. facsimile B. transfer C. spacious D. fax ______ 
2. A. swallow B. switch C. sweet D. sword ______ 
3. A. scenic B. extinct C. decrease D. coexist ______ 
4. A. agreed B. boxed C. based D. listened ______ 
5. A. off B. of C. if D. fly ______ 
II. Choose the word whose main stressed syllable is placed differently from that of the others in each group. 
(5 pts.) 
1. A. appreciate B. experience C. embarrassing D. situation _____ 
2. A. excited B. interested C. confident D. memorable _____ 
3. A. floppy B. embrace C. cotton D. idol _____ 
4. A. complain B. destroy C. terrify D. imagine _____ 
5. A. carefully B. correctly C. seriously D. personally _____ 
PART B: LEXICO AND GRAMMAR 
I.Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. Write your answer (A, B, C or D) in 
the box provided. (20 pts.) 
1. The weather is going to change soon; I feel it in my _____. 
 A. body B. legs C. skin D. bones 
2. Before the invention of the Internet, people couldn’t _____ of such universal access to information. 
 A. reminisce B. conceive C. contemplate D. access 
3. ___________, Americans eat a light breakfast. They don’t eat a lot of food in the morning. 
 A. By and large B. Fair and square C. Ins and outs D. Odds and ends 
4. There has been a recommendation that Peter _____ the president of the country. 
 A. will be elected B. be elected C. is elected D. was elected 
5. For a whole month, Muslims ________eating and drinking during daylight hours. 
 A. abstain from B. keep from C. stay from D. stand from 
6. TV advertising in the late afternoon tends to _____ young children. 
 A. target B. point C. focus D. aim 
7. He traveled _____ for 20 years and then he decided to return home. 
 A. farther away B. far from it C. far and wide D. farthest of all 
8. No matter how angry he was, he would never _____ to violence. 
 A. refuse B. resort C. resist D. resolve 
9. Simon .............................in me on the understanding that I wouldn't tell anyone else. 
A. confided B. intimated C. confessed D. disclosed 
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10. If you want to be a rock star, talent helps, but what it really .... down to is luck. 
A. boils B. revolves C. centers D. refines 
11. That argument is no good: it won’t  
 A. hold water B. blossom C. make water D. pass water 
12. If you get measles, you will .in spots. 
 A. break out B. break up C. break D. break down 
13. Insults roll off him like water  
 A. down a drain B. on a tin roof C. into the river D. off a duck’s back 
14. Go to the Chinese and bring back a grilled pork chop. 
 A. carry-away B. carry-on C. take-away D. fast-courses 
15. As a result of government .., more jobs were lost. 
 A. cut-aways B. cut-backs C. cuttings D. drop-backs 
16. No one knows precisely how much he earns a month, but $ 5.000 can’t be ................ of the target. 
 A.far B. broad C. wide D. distant 
17. She insisted that the reporter _______ her as his source of information. 
A. not mention B. doesn’t mention C. hadn’t mentioned D. didn’t mention 
18. Look, will you stop ______ in and let me finish my sentence! 
 A. plugging B. pushing C. butting D. moving 
19. We put his rude manner ______ ignorance of our British customs. 
 A. up to B. down to C. off at D. up with 
20. I would rather you _______ the office phone for personal purpose. 
 A. shouldn’t have used B. shouldn’t use C. not to use D. didn’t use 
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II. Give the correct form of the word in brackets to complete the following passage. Write your answer in the 
box provided. (5 pts.) 
Mount Mulanje in Malawi is the highest mountain in (1. CENTRE) Africa, part of a range which 
comprises no fewer than twenty peaks over 2,500 meters. The range is readily (2. ACCESS) by road and a day’s 
drive allow a (3. LEISURE) circumnavigation. More energetic visitors, particularly walkers and climbers, are 
rewarded with an experience that is (4.FORGET). 
 Mulanje is a (5. BREATH) sight, visible for miles around. The giant slab of rock appears to protrude 
almost vertically from the plain. This impression is borne out by the existence of the longest sheer rock-face in 
Africa, demanding for even the most skilled (6. MOUNTAIN). The explanation for this dramatic geography lies 
in the rock: hard granite, very (7. RESIST) to erosion, which contrasts with the softer rocks of the plains. 
 Most visitors remain on the lower, gentler slopes, making use of forest huts for overnight 
accommodation. The trek up the foothills, along clearly defined paths, is not overly (8. CHALLENGE) but may 
take up to a week. As the climate cools gradually, almost (9. PERCEPTIBLE), with every few meters of altitude 
gained, so the full diversity of fauna and flora is revealed in all its (10. SPLENDID). 
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III. Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition or particle. (5 pts.) 
1. We’re all very obliged _________________you 
2. He escaped by passing himself ___________________ as a guard. 
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3. He’s quite careless ________________ danger. 
4. When she sets ________ ________ an examination, she always tries to avoid crossing the part of a woman. 
5. I’ve been so anxious _________________ you. 
6. She refused to be a party _______________________ any violence. 
7. Embarrassment rooted her _______________________ the spot. 
8. This service is free ___________________ charge. 
9._________________ the devil and the deep blue sea. 
10. We cannot afford to take risks when people’s lives are ________________ stake. 
IV. Underline and correct ten mistakes in the following passage. Write the corrections in the column on the 
right. (10 pts.) 
 Research has found that children took on a supermarket trip make a purchase 
request every two minutes. More than $200 million a year is now spent on advertising 
directly to children, most of them on television. That figure is likely to increase and it 
is in the supermarket aisles that the investment is most likely to be successful. For 
children, the reasons behind their parents’ decisions about that they can and cannot 
afford are often unclear and arguments about how bad sugar is for your teeth are 
inconvincing when compared with the attractively and emotionally persuasive 
advertising campaigns. 
 According to Susan Dibb of the National Food Alliance, ‘Most parents concerned 
about what they give their children to eat and have ideas about what food is healthy – 
although those ideas are not always accurate. Obviously, such a dialogue among 
parents and children is a good thing, because if the only information children are 
getting about productivity is from TV advertising, they are getting a very one-side 
view. Parents resent the fact that they are competing with the advertising industry and 
are forced into the position of repeated disappointing their children.’ The Independent 
Television Commission, which regulates TV advertising, prohibits advertisers from 
telling children to ask their parents to buy products. 
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PART C: READING 
I.Read the following passage and answer the questions by choosing the options A, B, C or D. Write your 
answer (A, B, C or D) in the box provided. (10 pts.) 
EXOTIC AND ENDANGERED SPECIES 
When you hear someone bubbling enthusiastically about an exotic species, you can safely bet the speaker 
isn’t an ecologist. This is a name for a resident of an established community that was deliberately or 
accidentally moved from its home range and became established elsewhere. Unlike most imports, which can’t 
take hold outside their home range, an exotic species permanently insinuates itself into a new community. 
Sometimes the additions are harmless and even have beneficial effects. More often, they make native 
species endangered species, which by definition are extremely vulnerable to extinction. Of all species on the 
rare or endangered lists or that recently became extinct, close to 70 percent owe their precarious existence or 
demise to displacement by exotic species. Two examples are included here to illustrate the problem. 
During the 1800s, British settlers in Australia just couldn’t bond with the koalas and kangaroos, so they 
started to import familiar animals from their homeland. In 1859, in what would be the start of a wholesale 
disaster, a northern Australian landowner imported and then released two dozen wild European rabbits 
(Oryctolagus cuniculus). Good food and good sport hunting – that was the idea. An ideal rabbit habitat with no 
natural predators was the reality. 
Six years later, the landowner had killed 20,000 rabbits and was besieged by 20,000 more. The rabbits 
displaced livestock, even kangaroos. Now Australia has 200 to 300 million hippityhopping through the southern 
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half of the country. They overgraze perennial grasses in good times and strip bark from shrubs and trees during 
droughts. You know where they’ve been; they transform grasslands and shrub lands into eroded deserts. They 
have been shot and poisoned. Their warrens have been plowed under, fumigated, and dynamited. Even when 
all-out assaults reduced their population size by 70 percent, the rapidly reproducing imports made a comeback 
in less than a year. Did the construction of a 2,000-mile-long fence protect Western Australia? No. Rabbits 
made it to the other side before workers finished the fence. 
In 1951, government works introduced a myxoma virus by way of mildly infected South American 
rabbits, its normal hosts. This virus causes myxomatosis. The disease has mild effects on South American 
rabbits that coevolved with the virus but nearly always had lethal effects on O. cuniculus. Biting insects, mainly 
mosquitoes and flenses against the novel virus, the European rabbits dies in droves. But, as you might expect, 
natural selection has since favored rapid growth of populations of O. cuniculus resistant to the virus. 
In 1991, on an uninhabited island in Spencer Gulf, Australian researchers released a population of rabbits 
that they had injected with a calcivirus. The rabbits died quickly and relatively painlessly from blood clots in 
their lungs, hearts, and kidneys. In 1995, the test virus escaped from the island, possibly on insect vectors. It has 
been killing 80 to 95 percent of the adult rabbits in Australian regions. At this writing, researches are now 
questioning whether the calcivirus should be used on a widespread scale, whether it can jump boundaries and 
infect animals other than rabbits (such as humans), and what the long – term consequences will be. 
A vine called kudzu (Puerarialobata) was deliberately imported from Japan to the United States, where it 
faces no serious threats from herbivores, pathogens, or competitor plants. In temperate parts of Asia, it is a well 
– behaved legume with a well – developed root system. It seemed like a good idea to use it to control erosion on 
hills and highway embankments in the southeastern United States. (A) With nothing to stop it, though, kudzu’s 
shoots grew a third of a meter per day. Vines now blanket stream banks, trees, telephone poles, houses, and 
almost everything else in their path. Attempts to dig up or burn kudzu are futile. Grazing goats and herbicides 
help, but goats eat other plants, to, and herbicides contaminate water supplies. (B) Kudzu could reach the Great 
Lakes by the year 2040. 
On the bright side, a Japanese firm is constructing a kudzu farm and processing plant in Alabama. The 
idea is to export the starch to Asia, where the demand currently exceeds the supply. (C) Also, kudzu may 
eventually help reduce logging operations. (D) At the Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers report that 
kudzu might become an alternative source for paper. 
1. Based on the information in paragraph 1, which of the following best explains the term “exotic species”? 
A. Animals or plants on the rare species list 
B. A permanent resident in an established community 
C. A species that has been moved to a different community 
D. An import that fails to thrive outside of its home range 
2. The world itself in the passage refers to 
A. most imports B. new community C. home range D. exotic species 
3. The word bond in the passage is closest in meaning to 
A. move B. connect C. live D. fight 
4. According to the author, why did the plan to introduce rabbits in Australia fail? 
A. The rabbits were infected with a contagious virus. B. Most Australians did not like the rabbits. 
C. No natural predators controlled the rabbit population. D. Hunters killed the rabbits for sport and for food. 
5. All of the following methods were used to control the rabbit population in Australia EXCEPT 
A. They were poisoned. 
C. They were moved to deserts. 
B. Their habitats were buried. 
D. They were surrounded by fences 
6. Why does the author mention mosquitoes and fleas in paragraph 5? 
A. Because they are the origin of the myxoma virus B. Because they carry the myxoma virus to other animals 
C. Because they die when they are infected by myxomaD. Because they have an immunity to the myxoma virus 
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7. According to paragraph 6, the Spencer Gulf experiment was dangerous because 
A. insect populations were exposed to a virus B. rabbits on the island died from a virus 
C. the virus may be a threat to humans D. some animals are immune to the virus 
8. Why does the author give details about the kudzu farm and processing plant in paragraph 8? 
A. To explain why kudzu was imported from abroad 
B. To argue that the decision to plant kudzu was a good one 
C. To give a reason for kudzu to be planted in Asia 
D. To offer partial solutions to the kudzu problem 
9. Which of the following statements most accurately reflects the author’s opinion about exotic species? 
A. Exotic species should be protected by ecologists. 
B. Importing an exotic species can solve many problems. 
C. Ecologists should make the decision to import an exotic species. 
D. Exotic species are often disruptive to the ecology. 
10. Look at (A), (B), (C), (D) in the last two paragraphs. Where the following sentence could be best inserted in 
the passage 
(A), (B), (C), or (D)? Asians use a starch extract from kudzu in drinks, herbal medicines, and candy. 
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II. Read the text below and write one word in each space to complete it. Write your answer in the box 
provided. (10 pts.) 
 Society has changed in many ways since the introduction of computers, and people's lives at home and 
at the office have been (1) ________ . Most people are working for fewer hours per week than they (2) 
________ to, and manufacturers and advertising agencies are becoming much more interested in (3) ________ 
people spend this extra leisure time. One recent report stated that (4) ________ the number of hobbies had not 
increased; each hobby had become more specialized. 
A second (5) ________ is that nowadays, many managers would rather spend time with their families 
than stay (6) ________ in the office every day. Home life seems to be just as important as working. Some 
companies now make managers (7) ________ their annual holidays even if they don't want to, because this 
leads to such an (8) ________ in their performance if they have some rest. 
In spite of these changes, some people are working harder than ever before. The standard of exams is 
getting higher, and increased competition is (9) ________ it harder to get into university than it was 20 years 
ago. School children and students are now having to work so hard that in many cases they work (10) ________ 
hours than their parents. 
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PART D: WRITING 
I. Rewrite each of the following sentences using the word(s) given so that its meaning stays 
the same. (10 pts.) 
1. I have frequently made stupid mistakes like that. 
=> Many's........................................................................................................................................................... 
2. I rarely sleep in the afternoon. 
=> I’m not in ....................................................................................... 
3. You think that fat people are always jolly, but you are wrong. 
=> Contrary ........................................................................................................................................................ 
4. It was not until five years had elapsed that the whole truth about the murder came out. 
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=> Not for ........................................................................................... 
5. Erika said I had caused the accident. 
=> Erika blamed ................................................................................................................................................. 
6.My grandfather had completely forgotten that he phoned me last night. (RECOLLECTION) 
=> My grandfather didn’t have ........................................................................................... 
7. Many customs restrictions within the EC have been abolished. (AWAY) 
=> Many customs................................................................................................................................................. 
8. At the moment I can’t afford to buy a new car. (QUESTION) 
=> At the moment................................................................................................................................................. 
9. Students at the school are not allowed to go into the Rainbow Disco. (BOUNDS) 
=> The Rainbow Disco........................................................................................................................................... 
10.When they broke the news, she stayed perfectly calm and controlled. (HAIR) 
=> When they broke the news ............................................................... 
II. Write a composition about the following topic: 
Food-safety violations, including using improved fertilizers and toxic chemicals to produce foods, are 
increasing at an alarming rate. What suggestions would you give to solve these problems? 
You should write about 250 words. (20 pts.)