Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi lần thứ VIII môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 10 - Năm học 2014-2015

HỘI CÁC TRƯỜNG CHUYÊN VÙNG DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ 
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LẦN THỨ VIII
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH - KHỐI 10
	 Ngày thi: 18 tháng 4 năm 2015
Thời gian: 180 phút
Đề thi gồm: 10 trang
(Thí sinh viết câu trả lời vào bảng cho sẵn trong đề)
Điểm
Giám khảo 1
Giám khảo 2
Số phách
Bằng số
Bằng chữ
A. LISTENING (40 points)
HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
	Bài nghe gồm 3 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu.
	Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc.
	Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
Part 1: You will hear an English woman called Britta talking to an interviewer about her life in Berlin, the capital of Germany. For each question, circle the correct answer. (10 points)
1. How long has Britta lived in Berlin?
	A. four years	B. six years	C. twenty years
2. What does Britta say about living in Berlin?
A. She can’t sleep at night because of the traffic noise.
B. She misses the museums and theatres in Bonn.
C. She likes living in a big, busy city.
3. The area of Berlin where Britta lives is __________
A. a rather expensive place to live
B. a good place to eat out
C. a long way from the city centre
4. Britta says that her nephew, Philippe, likes going __________
A. to the park with her	
B. to the shop with his parents
C. to a gallery with her
5. Britta has a lot of friends who __________
A. live near her	B. work with her	C. are still in England
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Part 2: Listen to a talk and decide if these statements are True (T) or False (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points) 
1. Loans that are used to buy a home are known as mortgages. 
2. A deposit can be worth about a tenth of the price of a home. 
3. One of the mistakes banks made was they gave out loans to candidates with good credit report. 
4. One result of the crisis is that a lot of mortgages went unpaid. 
5. The speaker feels that banks alone are responsible for the crisis. 
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Part 3: You will hear a woman talking to a man about joining a drama club. Complete the note below with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. (20 pts) 
MIDBURY DRAMA CLUB
Background
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Club started in __1957__
prize recently won by (1) ____________ section 
usually performs (2) ____________ plays
Meetings
next auditions will be on Tuesday, (3) ____________
help is needed with publicity and (4) ____________
rehearsals take place in the (5) ____________hall
nearest car park for rehearsals in Ashburton Road opposite the (6)____________
Costs
annual membership fee is £ (7)____________
extra payment for (8)____________
Contact
secretary’s name is Sarah (9) ____________
secretary’s phone number is (10) ____________
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B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (60 points) 
I. Choose the best answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the following questions and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 pts)
1. When we start work in the morning, I usually ______ at the schedule for the whole day.
glimpse	B. watch 	C. monitor	D. glance
	2. Scottish pound notes are not legal ______ in England. 
	A. tender 	B. money 	C. exchange 	D. value
3. If you’re interested in a career in ______, you must be prepared to work hard for little money. 
	A. acting	B. playing	C. performance	D. stage
4. Mrs. Smith always likes someone to ______ her to the bus stop at night. 
	A. go	B. company	C. join	D. accompany
5. After the funeral, the residents of the apartment building ______. 
	A. sent to the cemetery each week flowers faithfully.
	B. sent faithfully flowers all week to the cemetery.
	C. sent flowers faithfully to the cemetery each week.
	D. sent each week faithfully to the cemetery flowers.
6. I don’t like Anthony, he seems to take too much ______ in criticizing everyone. 
A. joy 	B. fascination 	C. pleasure 	D. entertainment
7. Conversations you strike up with travelling acquaintances usually tend to be ______.
 	A. insufficient	B. perverse	C. trivial	D. imperative
8. He found that the test was child's ______. 
	A. play	B. games	C. matches	D. delight 
9. The unscrupulous salesman ______ the old couple out of their life savings. 
	A. deprived	B. swindled	C. robbed	D. extracted
	10. _______ for Tom's opposition, we would have agreed to the contract.
	A. Be it not 	 	B. Would it not have been 
	C. Should it not have been	 	D. Had it not been
11. Sheila couldn’t attend the meeting as the date ________ with her holidays.
	A. clashed	B. struck	C. opposed	D. occurred	
12. Our town has a real problem with youth crime, ______ do many other British towns. 
so	B. nor	C. as	D. like
13. It was Martin who ______ the initiative in introducing our guests to the princess. 
A. adopted 	B. took 	C. led 	D. pursued
14. I was proud to be ______ out for special praise for my performance.
	A. selected	B. singled	C. separated	D. distinguished
15. The teacher gave me some ______ advice on which college to enrol.
	A. nonsensical	B. sound	C. loud	D. preposterous
16. She did six hours’______ studying a day for her exam. 
	A solid	B heavy	C strong	D big
17. He opened the account with a(n) ______ to running up a healthy overdraft. 
	A. aim	B. view	C. purpose	D. plan
18. I haven’t got the time to do my own work, ______ help you with yours.
 	A. leaving aside	B. not counting	C. let alone	D. apart from
 19. Helen was very much in ______ of her father. 
	A. respect	B. awe	C. regard	D. admiration 	 
20. ______ are a form of carbon has been known since the late eighteenth century. 
	A. Diamonds	B. Because diamonds	C. That diamonds	D. Diamonds, which
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II. Read the following text which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the errors and write the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 pts) 
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 The market for tourism in remote areas is booming as ever before. Countries all across the world are active promoting their 'wilderness' regions – such as mountains, Arctic lands, deserts, small islands and wetlands – to highly spending tourists. The attraction of these areas is obvious: by defining, wilderness tourism requires little or no initial investment. But that does not mean that there is no cost. Like the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development recognized, these regions are fragile (i.e. highly vulnerable of abnormal pressures) not just in terms of the culture of their inhabitation. The three most significant types of fragile environment in these respects are deserts, mountains and Arctic areas. An important character is their marked seasonality. Consequently, most human acts, including tourism, are limited to clearly defined parts of the year.
 Tourists are drawn to these regions by their natural beauty and the unique culture of its people. And poor governments in these areas have welcomed the 'adventure tourists', grateful for the currency they bring. For several years, tourism is the prime source of foreign exchange in Nepal and Bhutan. Tourism is also a key element in the economics of Arctic zones such as Lapland and Alaska and in desert areas such as Ayres Rocks in Australia and Arizona’s Monument Valley.
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III. Fill in the gaps in the following sentences with suitable particles. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. There is an example at the beginning (0). (10 pts)
0. He finds it hard to put _________ the noise of the nearby factory.
Answer: up with 
1. Hardly anyone would have thought that the boxing champion would give ____________ after the first round. 
2. Would you mind turning the radio down a little? I’m feeling weary ____________ the noise it’s making. 
3. That chair is not very strong. Do you think it is ____________ your weight? 
4. Leave me alone. I’m not ____________ the mood for your silly joke. 
5. He never told us he was Italian and that his real name was Franco. We all knew him ____________ the name of Eddie. 
6. The firefighters fought the blaze while the crowd looked ____________. 
7. Guess who I bumped ____________ in town. Our old physics teacher, Mr. Watson. 
8. I’m sorry to hear that Dick and Peter have fallen ____________.They were such good friends. 
9. Don’t worry. The pain should wear ____________ fairly soon. 
10. If everyone chips ____________ we can get the kitchen painted by noon. 
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IV. Use the word in capitals at the end of each of the following sentences to form a word that fits suitably in the blank. There is an example at the beginning (0).
0. We had an interesting ______________ about football. DISCUSS
Answer: discussion 
1. She has a ______________ attitude towards life. CARE
2. Most peasants were living in subhuman conditions as the Feudalism had ______________ them for a long time. POOR 
3. It’s undeniable that the ______________ of the local incompetent healer was responsible for her sudden death. DIAGNOSE 
4. Many diseases which were once thought _______________ now can be routinely treated. CURE
5. Are all those ______________ they put in food really necessary? ADD 
6. Your presence has enriched our lives ______________. MEASURE 
7. Doris Carter, who is 107 today, puts her ______________down to having a loving family and seven cups of tea a day. LONG 
8. Film studios spend millions of dollars on ______________for new movies. PUBLIC 
9. The trouble with Mr. Brown is that he’s so ______________. One minute he goes mad when you come late then he says nothing. You never know where you are! CONSIST 
10. This matter is very ______________ . Don’t discuss it outside the office. CONFIDENCE 
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C. READING (60 points)
I. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (15 pts)
	Phobias, such as an extreme fear of spiders or heights, can cause genuine suffering. In the past, one (1) __________ to treatment involved the use of mind-(2) __________ drugs, although these often caused undesirable (3) __________ - effects in the patient. Another common method still in use is behavioural therapy. This involves exposing people to their particular phobia under controlled (4) __________. The (5) __________ behind this is that a new memory can be created which says the feared object or situation in (6) __________ is safe. In most cases, the effects seem to be more positive than those achieved through chemical intervention.
Most recently, in 2009, a series of (7) __________experiments led by Elizabeth Phelps at New York university looked at the way ‘fear memories’ were retrieved and the way they could be manipulated. Originally, the experiments had been (8) __________ on laboratory rats. Every time the rats were exposed to a certain sound, they were given an electric shock, so they learnt to fear the sound. Scientists (9) __________ it was possible to eliminate that fear through ‘extinction training’, in which the rats were then exposed repeatedly to the sound without any electric shock.
The timing of this training was (10) __________. Fear of the sound was only erased in those rats that were trained after an interval of a few minutes but no longer than a few hours after the fear memory was revived. Phelps’ study, on human (11) __________ given electric shocks when shown coloured cards, was (12) __________ on the rat tests. A year after the experiments, nineteen of her (13) __________ took part in further tests. Those who had received ‘extinction training’ more than six hours after the fear memory was revived still showed signs of fear towards the coloured cards. Those who had been trained quickly showed no signs of fear - (14) __________ that the fear memory had been eradicated. The research team’s (15) __________ seemed to offer hope for a new form of phobia treatment.
1. A. way
B. means
C. method
D. approach
2. A. altering
B. changing
C. adapting
D. transferring
3. A. other
B. after
C. side
D. over
4. A. examples
B. conditions
C. cases
D. rules
5. A. action
B. theory
C. practice
D. process
6. A. front
B. mind
C. question
D. point
7. A. pioneering
B. leading
C. main
D. breaking
8. A. found out
B. taken part
C. looked into
D. carried out
9. A. gained
B. discovered
C. acquired
D. wondered
10. A. meaningful
B. urgent
C. crucial
D. foremost
11. A. volunteers
B. nominees
C. candidates
D. applicants
12. A. derived
B. aimed
C. designed
D. based
13. A. members
B. interviews
C. subjects
D. people
14. A. indicating
B. pointing
C. noting
D. gesturing
15. A. findings
B. intentions
C. options
D. summaries
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II. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ONE word in each gap. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. There is an example at the beginning (0). (15 pts)
Example: 0. when
THE BLOOD MOON
	A lunar eclipse occurs (0) ________the Earth’s shadow falls directly onto the moon. (1) ________ happens as a result is that the moon stops being a silvery white colour and turns coppery red instead; the sort of colour usually only seen in the sky at dawn or sunset. An astronaut on the moon, looking towards Earth (2) ________ a lunar eclipse, would see a black disc, surrounded (3) ________a bright red ring. It’s the light from this red ring which is reflected back to the dark Earth from the moon’s surface. In ancient times, long (4) ________ any of this was understood, the lunar eclipse was known (5) ________a blood moon and was thought to be an omen of disaster.
	Total eclipses can only occur when there is a full moon, and then only if it is lined (6) ________ with the Earth in a particular way. (7) ________easily obscured by cloud cover, blood moons are fairly common, and it is relatively easy to calculate where and when you might be (8) ________ to see one.
	For example, in 1504 Christopher Columbus was stranded in Jamaica and (9) ________ dire need of provisions, but the local inhabitants were reluctant to help. Columbus knew that a lunar eclipse would occur on 29 February, however. So, the day before, he warned local leaders that the moon would disappear (10) ________ they helped him. They remained skeptical. But when the moon slowly started to change colour, they became so frightened that they started to bring food.
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III. Read the text below and choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D). Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (15 pts) 
	Staggering tasks confronted the people of the United States, North and South, when the Civil War ended. About a million and a half soldiers from both sides had to be demobilized, readjusted to civilian life, and reabsorbed by the devastated economy. Civil government also had to be put back on a peace time basis and interference from the military had to be stopped. 
 	The desperate plight of the South has eclipsed the fact that reconstruction had to be undertaken also in the North, though less spectacularly. Industries had to adjust to peacetime conditions: factories had to be retooled for civilian needs. 
 	Financial problems loomed large in both the North and the South. The national debt had shot up from a modest $65 million in 1861, the year the war started, to nearly $3 billion in 1865, the year the war ended. This was a colossal sum for those days but one that a prudent government could pay. At the same time, war taxes had to be reduced to less burdensome levels. 
 	Physical devastation caused by invading armies, chiefly in the South and border states, had to be repaired. This herculean task was ultimately completed, but with discouraging slowness. 
 	Other important questions needed answering. What would be the future of the four million Black people who were freed from slavery? On what basis were the Southern states to be brought back into the Union? 
 	What of the Southern leaders, all of whom were liable to charges of treason? One of these leaders, Jefferson Davis, president of the Southern Confederacy, was the subject of an insulting popular Northern song, "Hang Jeff Davis from a Sour Apple Tree", and even children sang it. Davis was temporarily chained in his prison cell during the early days of his two-year imprisonment. But he and the other Southern leaders were finally released, partly because it was unlikely that a jury from Virginia, a Southern Confederate state, would convict them. All the leaders were finally pardoned by President Johnson in 1868 in an effort to help reconstruction efforts precede with as little bitterness as possible. 
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Wartime expenditures 	
B. Problems facing the United States after the war 
C. Methods of repairing the damage caused by the war 
D. The results of government efforts to revive the economy 
2. The word "Staggering" is closest in meaning to ________.
A. specialized 	B. confusing 	C. various 	D. overwhelming 
3. The word "devastated" is closest in meaning to ________.
A. developing 	B. ruined 	C. complicated 	D. fragile 
4 According to the passage, which of the following statements about the damage in the South is correct? 
A. It was worse than in the North.	B. The cost was less than expected. 
C. It was centred in the border states. 	D. It was remedied rather quickly. 
5. The passage refers to all of the following as necessary steps following the Civil War EXCEPT ________.
A. helping soldiers readjust 	B. restructuring industry 
C. returning government to normal 	D. increasing taxes 
6. The word "task" refers to ________.
A. raising the tax level 	B. sensible financial choices 
C. wise decisions about former slaves 	D. reconstruction of damaged areas 
7. Why does the author mention a popular song? 
A. To give an example of a Northern attitude towards the South 
B. To illustrate the Northern love of music 
C. To emphasize the cultural differences between the North and the South 
D. To compare the Northern and Southern presidents 
8. The word "them” refers to ________.
A. charges 	B. leaders 	C. days 	D. irons 
9. Which of the following can be inferred from the phrase "...it was unlikely that a jury from Virginia, a Southern Confederate state, would convict them"? 
	A. Virginians felt betrayed by Jefferson Davis. 	
	B. A popular song insulted Virginia. 
	C. Virginians were loyal to their leaders. 	
	D. All of the Virginia military leaders had been put in chains. 
10. It can be inferred from the passage that President Johnson pardoned the Southern leaders in order to ________.
	A. raise money for the North 	
	B. repair the physical damage in the South 
	C. prevent Northern leaders from punishing more Southerners 
	D. help the nation recover from the war 
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IV. Read the following passage then do the tasks that follow. (15 pts)
THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE AND DISABILITY
	A. The Alexander Technique is a method of psychophysical re-education developed by F. Matthias Alexander more than a century ago, initially as a result of trying to solve a vocal problem. It is a technique for the elimination of ingrained habits of 'misuse' that interfere with the healthy and harmonious functioning of ourselves as a whole, often the underlying cause of many conditions, such as back pain, neck and shoulder tension, fatigue, breathing disorders and other stress-related illnesses.
	B. Our natu