Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi tỉnh môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 12 - Đề số 1 - Năm học 2016-2017 (Có đáp án)

Đề thi học sinh giỏi tiếng Anh 12- Đề số 1
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Đề chính thức
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH LỚP 12 CẤP THPT
NĂM HỌC 2016 – 2017
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH 
Thời gian: 150 phút ( không kể thời gian giao đề)
Họ và tên thí sinh:.......................................................
Ngày tháng năm sinh:..................................................
Số báo danh
Học sinh trường:.......................................................
Số phách
Họ tên, chữ ký giám thị 1:
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Họ tên, chữ ký giám thị 2:
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CHỈ DẪN:
1. Đề thi gồm 12 trang. Thí sinh kiểm tra số trang trước khi làm bài.
2. Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi 
3. Thí sinh giữ gìn cẩn thận bài làm. 
4. Nếu thí sinh làm sai, dùng thước gạch, không dùng bút tẩy màu trắng. Thí sinh chỉ được dùng bút một màu xanh hoặc đen để làm bài. Không dùng mực màu đỏ.
5. Giám thị không giải thích gì thêm. 
6. Thí sinh không được sử dụng bất cứ tài liệu nào kể cả từ điển.
SECTION I: LISTENING: (11 points) 
Part I: Thuc is taking a course in Study skills in English. Now in his class on reading skills, the teacher is making a quick review about what they learnt in the last class. Listen to this conversation and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F). 
1. It is important to know the purposes of reading. 
2. Surveying a book will help decide whether the book is necessary for you. 
3. The contents pages of a book show how the book is organized. 
4. Unlike the index, the table of contents gives more detail about the concepts mentioned in the book. 
5. It is necessary to make sure that the level of the book is neither too easy nor too difficult for you. 
6. The date of publication can usually be found on the cover. 
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Part II: Listen to the conversation again and answer these questions. 
In what way do the purposes of reading help your reading a book? 
Apart from the organization of the book, what do the contents pages tell readers? 
Where can readers often find the index of a book? At the beginning or at the end? 
Where are the items of a book alphabetically arranged, in the contents or the index? 
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What skill can help you decide quickly whether the book is easy enough for you? 
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SECTION II: GRAMMAR AND READING: (69 POINTS) 
PART I: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (29 POINTS)
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the followings.  
Question 1:  Few businesses are flourishing in the present economic climate.
A. taking off  B. setting up C. growing well  D. closing down
Question 2:  The dog saw his reflection in the pool of water . 
     A. imagination  B. bone  C. leash  D. image
Question 3:  At times, I look at him and wonder what is going on in his mind.
A. sometimes  B. always  C. hardly  D. never
 Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the followings. 
Question 4:  We ought to keep these proposals secret from the chairman for the time being.
A. revealed  B. frequented C. accessible  D. lively
Question 5:  They protested about the inhumane treatment of the prisoners.
A. vicious  B. warmhearted  C. callous  D. coldblooded
 Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. 
Question 6:  The Boeing 747 is twice ______ the Boeing 707.
A. bigger than  B. more bigger than  C. as big as  D. as bigger as
Question 7:  I will stand here and wait for you ______ you come back.
A. because  B. though  C. so  D. until
Question 8:  ______ poor always need the help from all people in the society.
A. An  B. q  C. The  D. A
Question 9:  Let’s begin our discussion now, ______?
A. shall we  B. will we  C. don’t we  D. won’t we
Question 10:  Of all the factors affecting agricultural yields, weather is the one ______ the most.
A. that influences farmers  B. farmers that is influences
C. why farmers influence it  D. it influences farmers
Question 11:  It gets _______ to understand what the professor has explained.
A. the more difficult  B. difficult more and more
C. more difficult than  D. more and more difficult
Question 12:  I was doing my homework ______ the light went out.
A. after  B. before C. while  D. when
Question 13:  My student practices ______ English with her friends every day.
A. speaking  B. to speak  C. spoke  D. speak
Question 14:  John: “I’ve passed my final exam.”            Tom: “______”
A. That’s a good idea.  B. Good luck.
C. It’s nice of you to say so.  D. Congratulations!
Question 15:  There’s somebody walking behind us. I think we are ______..
A. followed  B. being followed  C. following  D. being following
Question 16:  _______, we tried our best to complete it.
A. Thanks to the difficult homework  B. Despite the homework was difficult
C. Difficult as the homework was  D. As though the homework was difficult
Question 17:  It is necessary that children __________ of their old parents.
A. takes care  B. to take care  C. take care  D. took care
Question 18:  ______ ten minutes earlier, you would have got a better seat. 
A. Had you arrived  B. If you arrived C. Were you arrived  D. If you hadn’t arrived
Question 19:  The song has ______ been selected for the 22nd Sea Games, Vietnam.
A. officially  B. office  C. official  D. officer
Question 20:  Edith Harlow has kindly agreed ______. You should ask him.
A. to helping  B. to help  C. help  D. helping
Question 21:  People usually can get sufficient ______ of the calcium their bodies need from the food they consume.
A. variety  B. source  C. amount  D. number
Question 22:  It is possible ______ may assist some trees in saving water in the winter.
A. to lose leaves  B. that the loss of leaves
C. the leaves are lost  D. when leaves have lost
Question 23:  Kitchen appliances called blenders became ______ in the 1930s, when Stephen B. Poplawski developed a machine that excelled at making his favorite drink.
A. establish  B. established  C. which establish  D. establishing
Question 24:  In the preparation of fibrous material for production uses, stiff woody fibers from plants ______ fibers from animal sources.
A. the most heat the  B. need, the more heat than
C. than more heat the  D. need more heat than
Question 25:  A partnership is an association of two or more individuals who ______ together to develop a business
A. work  B. working  C. worked  D. they work
Question 26:  Chosen as the nation’s capital at the end of the American Civil War, ______ the city of over a million people.
A. Washington, DC is now    B. for Washington, DC,
C. Washington, DC,     D. now in Washington, DC,
Question 27:  It is a top secret. You _______ tell anyone about it.
A. won't  B. needn't  C. mustn't  D. mightn't
Question 28:  The cosmopolitan flavor of San Francisco is enhanced by ______ shops and restaurants.
A. ethnicity  B. its ethnicity  C. its many ethnic  D. an ethnic
Question 29:  Studies indicate ______ collecting art today than ever before.
A. more people that are  B. there are that more people
C. that there are more people  D. people there are more
Part II: The text below bas 10 'mistakes. Read it carefully and pick out the mistakes. (10 points)
WHY I DISLIKE COMPUTERS
Almost everyone says that computers are wonderful and that they are changing our own lives for the better by making everything faster and more reliable, but I am not so much sure that this is the case. 
The other day I was standing in large department store until waiting to pay for a couple of films for my camera when the assistant announced that the computer which controlled the till it had stopped working. I did not think this was a big problem and I set myself off to find another counter, but of course, all the machines are one part of the same system. So there we were: a shop full of customers, money at the ready, waiting to make our purchases, but it was quite clear that none out of the assistants knew what to do. They were not allowed to take our money and give to customers a written receipt, because the sales would not then have been recorded on the computer system. In the end, like with many other people, I left my shopping on the counter and walked out. Don't you think so that's ridiculous? It would never have happened before computers, and that, for me, is all the problem: we are beginning to depend on these machines for so completely that we simply cannot manage without them anymore. 
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PART III: Read the article below and then decide which word (A, B, C or D) best completes each space. Make the right choice and your answers in the box. · (15 points)
WHAT TEENAGERS DO WITH THEIR MONEY
Thirteen-year olds do not spend as much money as their parents suspect at least not according to the findings of a (1) ......... survey, Money and Change. The survey (2) ................ three hundred teenagers, 13-17 years old, from (3)............. Britain. 
By the time they (4).............. their teens, most children see their weekly allowance rise dramatically to an amazing national average of$ 5.14. Two thirds think they get (5) . money but most expect to have to do something to get it. 
Although they have more cash, worry about debt is (6) ............. among teenagers. Therefore, the (7) ............. of children (8) ............. an effort to save for the future. 
Greater access to cash (9) ............. teenagers does not, however, mean that they are more irresponsible (10) ............. a result. The economic recession seems to have encouraged (11) ............. attitudes to money, even in the case of children at the ages. Instead of wasting what pocket (12) ............. they have on sweets or magazines, the 13-year-olds who took (13) . in the survey seem to (14) ............. to the situation by saving more than half (15) .............. their cash. 
1. a. late b. recent c. latest d. fresh 
2. a. included b. contained c. counted d. enclosed 
3. a entire b. all over c. complete d. the whole 
4. a. reach b. get c. make d. arrive 
5. a. acceptable b. adequate c. satisfactory d. enough 
6. a. gaining b. heightening c. increasing d. building 
7. a. most b. maximum c. many d. majority 
8. a. make b. do c. have d. try 
9. a. among b. through c. between d. along 
10. a. like b. as c. for d. in 
11. a. aware b. knowing c. helpful d. cautious 
12. a.cash b.money c.change d.savings 
13. a. part b. place c. share d. piece 
14. a. reply b. answer c. respond d. return 
15. a. from b. as c. of d. for 
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Part IV: Read the following passage, choose the best answers, and write them in the box below. (8 points)
CONSERVATION- OR WASTED EFFORT?
The black robin is one of the world's rarest birds. It is a small, wild bird, and it lives only on the island of Little Manger off the coast of New Zealand. In 1967, there were about fifty black robins there; in 1977 there were fewer than ten. There are only black robins left in the world. The island has many other birds, of course, of different kinds, large and small; these seem to multiply very happily. 
Energetic steps are being taken to preserve the black robin- to guard those remaining and to increase their number. Detailed studies are going on, and a public appeal for money has been made. The idea is to buy another island nearly as a special home, a "reserve", for threatened wild life, including black robins. The organizers say that Little Manger should then be restocked with the robin's food- it eats only one kind of seed-and so renewed for it. Thousands of required plants are at present being cultivated in New Zealand. The public appeal is aimed at the conscience of mankind, so that the wild black robin will not die out and disappear from the earth in our time at least. 
Is all this concern a waste of human effort? Is it any business of ours whether the black robin survives or dies out? Are we losing our sense of what is reasonable and what is unreasonable? 
In the earth's long, long past hundreds of kinds of creatures have evolved, risen to a degree of success- and died out. In the long, long future there will be many new and different forms of life. Those creatures that adapt themselves successfully to what the earth offers will survive for a long time. Those that fail to meet the challenges will disappear early. That is Nature's proven method of operation. 
The rule of selection-''the survival of the fittest"-is the one by which man has himself arrived on the scene. He, being one of the most adaptable creatures the earth has yet produced, may last longer than most. Some creatures, certain small animals, insects and birds, will almost certainly outlast man, for they seem even more adaptable. You may take it as another rule that when, at last, man shows signs of dying out; no other creature will extend a paw to postpone his departure. On the contrary, he will be hurried out; for Nature, though fair, is a hard-heard mistress. She has no favorites. 
Life seems to have grown too tough for black robins. I leave you to judge whether we should try to do anything about it. 
1. The black robin is dying out mainly because ......... . 
a. people have been very careless about its survival. 
b. its only food is becoming exhausted on Little Manger. 
c. the other birds on the island have destroyed it. 
d. the appeal for money has come at the wrong time. 
2. The success of the other small birds on Little Manger shows that ........ . 
a. the island cannot have very much food left. 
b. something has to die out, they cannot all be winners. 
c. the big birds have all been attacking the black robin. 
d. the black robin has failed to meet the challenges of life. 
3. As regard selection and survival, the decisive factor seems to be ........ . 
a. the ability to adapt to changed and changing conditions. 
b. the number of wild life reserves that are available.· 
c. the concern and generosity of the public. 
d. the size of the home or the amount of space one has to live in 
4. The evidence seems to suggest that ........ . 
a it is a disaster for every one when one kind of bird dies out. 
b. all creatures are concerned about the survival of others. 
c. Nature expects and accepts the dying out of weaker breeds. 
d. man is to blame when such a ting happens. 
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Part V: Read the text below. Use the word given to form a word that fits in the space. (7 points)
THE ENVIRONMENT: OUR RESPONSIBILITY
These days it is impossible to open a newspaper without reading about the damage we are doing to the environment. The earth is being (1.threat) ........ and the future looks bad. What can each of us do? We cannot clean up our (2.pollution) ........ rivers and seas overnight. Nor can we stop the (3. appear) .......... of plants and animals. But we can stop adding to the problem while (4. science) ... search for answers, and laws are passed in nature's defense. 
It may not easy to change your lifestyle (5. complete) ................ , but some steps are easy to take: cut down the amount of (6.drive) ............. you do, or use as little plastic as possible. It is also easy to save energy, which also reduces household bills. We must all make a personal (7. decide) ............. to work for the future of our planet if we want to ensure a better world for our grandchildren. 
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SECTION III: WRITING (20 points) 
Part I: Finish each of the following sentences in such way that it means exactly the same as the sentence given before it. (10 points)
1. "Why hasn't Nam phoned?" she wondered. 
=>She wondered .......................................................................................... . 
2. The thief tried to escape but the police stopped him. 
=>The police prevented the thief ..................................................................... . 
3. Lan began studying English ten years ago. 
=> Lan has ................................................................................................... . 
4. My mother made these curtains. 
=> These curtains ........................................................................................ . 
5. "lfl were you I wouldn't trust Diep", Lan's mother told her. 
=> Lan's mother advised .............................................................................. . 
6. Nam is better at chemistry than Tuan. 
=> Tuan is not .......................................................................................... . 
7. His parents made him study for his exams. 
=>He was ................................................................................................... . 
8. I only help you if you promise to try harder. 
=>Unless .................................................................................................... . 
9. She bought that house in 1994. 
=>She has .................................................................................................. . 
10. They believe that he is mad. 
=>He .......................................................................................................... . 
11. It was such a boring film that he fell asleep. 
=>The film .................................................................................................. . 
12. We spent three hours getting to HO CHI MINH City. 
=>It took .................................................................................................... . 
13. She does not usually stay up so late. 
=> She's not used ........................................................................................ . 
14. This is his first visit to Date. 
=> He is ..................................................................................................... .
15. It was his own fault that he lost his job. He was late for work every morning. 
=> If .......................................................................................................... . 
Part II: In some countries, teenagers have jobs while they are still students. Do you think it is a good idea? Support your opinion by using specific reasons and details. (in about 150 words) (10 points)
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