Đề thi chọn đội tuyển học sinh giỏi tỉnh môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 11 - Năm học 2016-2017 - Trường THPT Lê Hữu Trác

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ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC ĐỘI TUYỂN HSG TỈNH
 Năm học: 2016- 2017
 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH 11
 Thời gian làm bài: 150’
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Name: ............................................................................. Class: 11......
I. LEXICO – GRAMMAR: 
PART 1: Circle the letter A, B, C or D that corresponds to the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. 
Question 1: Many young people in the West are expected to leave ______ could be life’s most important decision - marriage - almost entirely up to luck. 
A. what
B. that
C. which
D. who
Question 2: ______ to caring for the poor, Mother Teresa is greatly respected throughout the world.
A. Devoting 
B. Being devoted 
C. Having devoted 
D. Devoted
Question 3: Since drinking water is a ______ resource, we should let children know how precious it is, and teach them to conserve it. 
A. limitless 
B. limited 
C. limiting 
D. limitation
Question 4: When disaster ______, organisations such as Oxfam quickly provide help.
A. comes 
B. approaches
C. arrives
D. strikes
Question 5: The number of people traveling by air has been growing _______.
A. by leaps and bounds 
B. from time to time 
C. slow but sure
D. by hook or by crook 
Question 6: Salt is manufactured in quantities that exceed those of most, ______, other commercial chemicals. 
A. of not all 
B. not if at all 
C. are not all
D. if not all
Question 7: The boss told the workers that he would try his best to continue running the company and promised not to ______ any employees during the economic recession.
A. cross out
B. shut down 
C. lay off 
D. take over
Question 8: The accident is said _______ the driver’s careless driving and the thick fog.
A. to have been resulted in 
B. to result from
C. having resulted in 
D. to have resulted from
Question 9: I can’t do whatever I want because I am still financially ______ on my parents.
A. determined 
B. dependable 
C. reliant
D. subject
Question 10: New ways have to be found to _______ of waste materials and poisonous gases so that we can have cleaner surroundings.
A. deal
B. remove
C. do
D. dispose
 Question 11: Two friends Peter and Linda are talking about pet.
- Peter: “Well, cats are very good at catching mice around the house.”
- Linda: “______.”
A. Nothing more to say.
B. You can say that again.
C. Yes, I hope so.
D. No, dogs are very good, too.
Question 12: The previous negotiations did not go anywhere, and we intend to start them again next week with a ______ slate.
A. new
B. plain
C. clean
D. fresh
Question 13: The goal is to make higher education available to everyone who is willing and capable ________ his financial situation.
A. with reference to 
B. owing to
C. regardless of 
D. in terms of
Question 14: Ha Noi is cold this time ______. You need ______ warm clothes if you go there. 
A. of the year – to pack
B. of year – packing
C. of year – pack 
D. of year – to pack
Question 15: Bill and Ted ________ each other straight away and became firm friends.
A. took after
B. held together
C. took to
D. let in
Question 16: As soon as you buy a car, it starts falling in ______.
A. price
B. value
C. cost
D. worth
Question 17: ________ what is the most important point of an issue will allow you to make a better decision.
A. Understanding
B. Understand
C. Understood
D. To understand
Question 18: Joseph is a very efficient manager. He always outlines everyone’s duties ______ at the company’s weekly meetings.
A. in case
B. in brief 
C. on par
D. on call
Question 19: As time _________ we saw less and less of each other.
A. went off
B. went up
C. went by
D. went over
Question 20: Despite his interest in art, he studied ________ engineering in college. 
A. mechanistic
B. mechanical
C. mechanically
D. mechanism
Part 2: Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined words or phrases that are INCORRECT in each of the following questions.
Question 1: With his father’s encourage and guidance, Mozart was introduced to music at an early age.
 A B C D 
Question 2: Thousands of years ago, the Sahara had water enough so that people and animals were able to 
 A B C
survive on the edge of the desert.
 D
Question 3: Taking these considerations for account, I believe that it is still a problem for many 
 A B
women to assert themselves, irrespective of their educational background.
 C D
Question 4: Although assemblage has been a part of art for centuries, its appearance in the West as a	 A	 B	 C
serious art form is quite fairly recent.
	D	
Question 5: If she can’t keep up payments she risks to lose her home, as thousands of families have done.
	 A	B	 C	 	 D
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PART 3: Give the correct forms of the words in brackets to complete the blank space. Write your answers in the numbered boxes below. (1,5 points)
	THE RECIPE FOR GOOD COMMUNICATION
Research shows that more than half of our (0) conversations end in some sort of (1) ________________ While it’s easy to blame the listener for the problem, we also to blame if we don’t ( 2) ____________ what we mean in the first place.
. Accurate listening requires ( 3) ____________ effort, and if you try to do something else at the same time, you won’t listen ( 4) __________. 
There’s a (5) _____________ for people to think they know what a speaker is going to say, instead of hearing them out or to criticise too ( 6) _________________ before a person has ( 7) _________ made their point. It’s when people feel they are being undervalued and not being treated with ( 8) _______ that problems begin and ( 9) _______ can break. Treating others as you want to be treated is an ( 10)__________ rule for good communication
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CONCENTRATE
EFFECT
TEND
READY
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POLITE
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PART 4: Complete the text below by filling in each blank with a suitable PREPOSITION.
She said she didn’t need any support that she could arrange everything...................... herself.
Danny wished his father could stay ...................... good, but the man still had a few months of the military service to do.
Mrs Railey was very glad ............... her son’s victory in the school competition
I am unable to use my computer at present; it’s been............... repair since last Monday.
After a long walk through the dense jungle, the refugees found themselves in a rocky terrain where they could feel free ................... their pursuers.
The poor man died ................ heart attack had been our most devoted worker.
Apart .............. a hash physical training, the troops have had to go through an extensive language course.
For many years, the population of the Siberian tiger has been ................ real danger of extinction.
Alice is working hard ................... her business skills as she wants to make a good manageress.
This man has no idea about the law procedures, he must have been appointed as a juror ........................ mistake.
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II. READING:
PART 1: Fill in each numbered blank with ONE appropriate word: 
	The computer has brought nothing (1)______problems to the world of the twentieth century.
Chief among the problems has (2)____the dehumanization of society. People are no (3)____ human. Each of us is a series of numbers, numbers to be fed into computers. There are our credit card numbers, our bank account (4)______ , our social security numbers, our telephone and electricity numbers - the computer number game is endless.
	What happens to these computerized numbers ? They are distributed to a network of government agencies and business (5)______can use them to invade our privacy. The Internal Revenue Service stores millions of facts about every citizen. Credit agencies exchange (6)____ on the spending and saving practices of nearly every American adult. Mailing lists are (7)_____ available by computers to dozens of organizations, public and private, who bombard us with unwanted mail.
Just let the computer which stores (8)______ concerning our accounts, let us say with a credit card company, make an error and it is almost impossible to correct it. The result is an avalanche of bills, threads, and loss of credit standing.
	The computer has thrown thousands of people out of (9)______ . The gamut of computer- generated unemployed runs from highly skilled technicians to typists.
	These are some of the reasons why I feel that the (10)______ of the computer has been detrimental to the quality of our life in the twentieth century.
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PART 2: Choose the word to fill in the missing gap: 
EARLY DAY OF FOOTBALL
Football became the game we know today during the (1) _____ of Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century. So many different (2) _____ of the game were being played in Britain at that time, that in 1863 the Football Association was (3) _____ in order to draw up and agree the (4) _____ of the games.
Throughout the country new football (5) _____ were built and the development of the railways (6) _____ that football teams and their (7) ____ could travel to the matches. In 1888, the Football League was (8) _____ up with twelve clubs and football became a national sport. (9) _____ to rugby by many people as the more popular game of the (10) _____.
1. A. years 	B. rule 	C. period 	D.reign
2. A. methods 	B. conditions 	C. form 	D. ways
3. A. formed 	B. made 	C. joined 	D. offered
4. A. techniques 	B. laws 	C. rules 	D. lines
5. A. grounds 	B. places 	C. lands 	D. courses
6. A. organisers 	B. fans 	C. partners 	D. helpers
7. A. put	B. got 	C. set 	D. made
8. A. wanted 	B. prefered 	C. liked D. favoured
9. A. two 	B. both 	C. other 	D. one
10. A. lying 	B. moving 	C. running 	D. causing
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PART 3: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Write A, B, C or D to indicate your answers on the answer sheet. ( 1 points)
A Japanese construction company plans to create a huge independent city-state, akin to the legendary Atlantis, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The city, dubbed “Marination”, would have about one million inhabitants, two airports, and possibly even a space port. Marination, if built, would be a separate country but could serve as a home for international organisations such as the United Nations and the World Bank. 
Aside from the many political and social problems that would have to be solved, the engineering task envisaged is monumental. The initial stage requires the building of a circular dam eighteen miles in diameter attached to the sea bed in a relatively shallow place in international waters. Then, several hundred powerful pumps, operating for more than a year, would suck out the seawater from within the dam. When empty and dry, the area would have a city constructed on it. The actual land would be about 300 feet below the sea level. According to designers, the hardest task from an engineering point of view would be to ensure that the dam is leak proof and earthquake proof.
If all goes well, it is hoped that Marination could be ready for habitation at the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century. Whether anyone would want to live in such an isolated and artificial community, however, will remain an open question until that time. 
1. According to the text, Marrination, when built, will be a (an) __________ city.
	A. underground	B. underwater	C. marine	D. legendary
2. The word ‘akin’ in paragraph 1 could be best replaced by ________.
	A. similar	B. next	C. likely	D. close
3. Which of the following would NOT be a problem for the construction plan?
	A. social	B. political	C. financial	D. engineering
4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?
	A. Marination will be located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
	B. Marination will be built in a deep place in the Pacific Ocean.
	C. Marination could be served as home for international organisations.
	D. Marination would have about one million inhabitants.
5. The word ‘monumental’ in Paragraph 2 means _________.
	A. important and difficult	B. like a large monument
	C. serving as a monument	D. important and historic
6. What is going to be built first?
	A. a city	B. a dam	C. a monument	D. a sea bed
7. The phrase ‘suck out’ in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
	A. draw out	B. pull out	C. dry up	D. take out
8. The most difficult task is to protect the dam against _________ and earthquake. 
	A. fire	B. water	C. sunlight	D. weather
9. According to the text, people could come to live in the future city in the year _______.
	A. 2020	B. 2010	C. 2012	D. 2002
10. What does the author imply in the last sentence of the passage?
	A. The construction of Marination could never be completed in time. 
	B. People will ask an open question about living in Marination.
	C. People will ask how they can live in such an isolated and artificial city. 
	D. People might not want to live in an isolated and artificial community.

III. WRITING: 
Sentence transformation
Part 1: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence before it.
Maria didn’t apply for the job in the library and regrets it now
Maria wishes .
It’s not certain that Jones will get the job.
It is open
It is believed that the man escaped in a stolen car
The man 
“I don’t really like her, even though I admire her achievement
Much.
Everyone started complaining the moment the announce was made.
No sooner....
Part 2: Use the word given in brackets and make any necessary additions to write a new sentence in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Do NOT change the form of the given word. You must use between three and six words, including the word given. 
 “I’m sorry I have to leave so early” John said 
apologized
John  leave so early
This is the worst production of this play I have ever seen
bad
I have production of this play.
If I could work in the media, that what I would like to do
opportunity
If I so, I would like to work in the media.
I’ve arranged a trip around Europe next year.
arrangement
I’ve on a trip around Europe next year.
I’m sure that her success made her parents feel wonderful
must
Her success  feel wonderful
Part III. 
 Some people believe that the Earth is being harmed (damaged) by human activity. Others feel that human activity makes the Earth a better place to live. What is your opinion? Write an essay (within 180 words) to express your ideas. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
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KEY
I. LEXICO – GRAMMAR: 6 điểm
Part 1: 20 điểm (1điểmchomỗicâuđúng )
1.A
2. D
3. B
4. D
5. A
6. D
7. C
8. D
9. C
10. D
11. B
12. C
13. C
14. D
15. D
16. B
17. A
18. B 
19. C
20. B
Part 2: 10 điểm (1 điểmchomỗicâuđúng )
1. B
2. B
3. A
4. D
5. B
Part 3: 10 điểm (1 điểmchomỗicâuđúng )
1. by 
3. about
5. from
7. from
9. at 
2. for
4. under
6. of
8. in
10. by
Part 4: 10 điểm (1 điểmchomỗicâuđúng )
1. misunderstanding
2. clarify
3.concentration
4. effectively
5. tendency
6. readily
7. fully
8.politeness
9. relationships
10. essential
II. READING: 
Part 1: 10 (1 điểmchomỗicâuđúng )
1. but 
3. longer 
5. which 
7. made 
9. work 
2. been 
4. numbers 
6. information 
8. data 
10. advent
Part 2: 10 (1 điểmchomỗicâuđúng )
1. C
3.A
5.A
7.B
9.B
2.C
4. C
6.D
8.C
10.A
Part 3:10 (1 điểmchomỗicâuđúng )
1. C
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. A
6. B
7. D
8. B
9. A
10. D
III. WRITING (20 điểm)
Part 1: (5điểm) = 1 điểmchomỗicâuđúng
1. Maria wishes SHE HAD APPLIED FOR THE JOB IN THE LIBRARY.
2. It is open TO QUESTION (AS TO) WHETHER JONES WILL GET THE JOB
3. The man IS BELIEVED TO HAVE ESCAPED IN A STOLEN CAR
4. Much as I admire her achievements, I don't really like her.
5. No sooner HAD THE ANNOUNCE BEEN MADE THAT EVERYONE STARTED COMPLAINING 
Part 2:(5 điểm) = 1 điểmchomỗicâuđúng
1. “I’m sorry I have to leave so early” Jonh said 
apologized
John APOLOGIZED FOR HAVING TO leave so early
This is the worst production of this play I have ever seen
bad
I have NEVER SEEN SUCH A BAD production of this play.
If I could work in the media, that what I would like to do
opportunity
If I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO so, I would like to work in the media.
I’ve arranged a trip around Europe next year.
arrangement
I’ve MADE AN ARRANGEMENT TO GO on a trip around Europe next year.
I’m sure that her success made her parents feel wonderful
must
Her success MUST HAVE MADE HER PARENTS feel wonderful
Part 1: (10 điểm) Essay
- Task Response (25%): fully addresses all parts of the task, presents a fully developed position in answer to the question with relevant, fully extended and well supported ideas 
- Coherence and Cohesion (25 %): links information and ideas logically, uses a range of cohesive devices appropriately, presents a clear central topic within each paragraph
- Lexical resources (25%): uses a wide range of vocabulary fluently and flexibly, uses some uncommon lexical items, produces rare errors in spelling and/or word formation
- Grammar/Structures (25%): Uses a wide range of structures accurately and flexibly with few errors or inappropriateness.