Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi tỉnh năm học 2013 - 2014 môn: Tiếng Anh 11 - Vòng 1

SỞ GD&ĐT QUẢNG BÌNH KỲ THI CHỌN HSG TỈNH NĂM HỌC 2013-2014 
 Khóa ngày 28-3-2014
 ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Môn: TIẾNG ANH 
 LỚP 11 THPT - VÒNG I
Họ và tên:.. Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) 
Số báo danh:.. Đề gồm có 05 trang
Lưu ý: * Thí sinh làm bài vào tờ giấy thi.
	* Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu, kể cả từ điển.
	* Giám thị không hướng dẫn hoặc giải thích gì thêm. 
SECTION ONE: LISTENING
*Note: You will listen to the tape twice. 
Part 1. Questions 1 and 2. Choose the correct letter A, B or C. (2ms)
1. In the lobby of the library, George saw
	A. a group of playing music.
	B. a display of instruments.
	C. a video about the festival.
2. George wants to sit at the back so that they can
	A. see well	B. hear clearly	C. pay less
Part 2. Questions 3-10. Complete the form below. Write no more than TWO WORDS OR A NUMBER for each answer. (8ms)
SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL
BOOKING FORM
NAME: George O’Neill
ADDRESS: (3).., Westsea
POSTCODE: (4)
TELEPHONE: (5)...
Date
Event
Price per ticket (£)
No. of tickets
5 June
Instrumental group - Guitarrini
£7.50
2
17 June
Singer (price includes (6)in the garden) 
£6
2
22 June 
(7) ...
Anna Ventura
£7.00
1
23 June
Spanish Dance& Guitar Concert
(8) £.
(9)
NB Children / Students/ senior Citizens have (10) discount on all tickets.
SECTION TWO: PHONETICS
Part 1. Pick up the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. (3ms) 
11. 	A. pool	B. stood	C. shoot	D. soon
12. 	A. debt	B. doubt	C. subtle	D. noticeable
13. 	A. talked	B. passed	C. wretched	D. touched
Part 2. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group. (2ms) 
14. 	A. television	B. definition	C. documentary	D. information
15. 	A. pavement	B. patience	C. headache	D. response
SECTION THREE: 	LEXICO - GRAMMAR 
Part 1. Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) which best completes each sentence. (13ms) 
16. - “How do you like your steak done?”
 - “ ”
	A. Very much.	B. Well done.	C. Very little.	D. I don’t like it.
17. Even if you are rich, you should save money for aday.
	A. rainy	B. foggy	C. snowy	D. windy	
18. “ The inflation rate in Greece is five times  my country .” he said.
	A. as much as 	B. more than 	C. as many as that in 	D. as high as that in 
19. He was determined to a success of business.
	A. do	B. make	C. finish	D. work
20. They’re staying with us ..the time being until they can afford a house.
	A. for	B. in 	C. during	D. at
21. Martha, Julia and Mark are 17, 19 and 20 years old  .
	A. independently 	B. respectfully	C. separately	D. respectively
22. All students should be  and literate when they leave school.
	A. numeric	B. numeral	C. numerous	D. numerate
23. Bill: “Do you need any help?” ~ Jerry: “.. ”
	A. I haven’t got a clue.	B. No, thanks. I can manage.	
	C. That’s all for now.	D. That’s fine by me.
24. Not having written about the required topic, a low mark.
	A. my presentation was given	B. the teacher gave me	
	C. the teacher gave	D. I was given
25. As the drug took.., the boy became quieter.
 	A. force 	B. influence	C. action 	 	D. effect
26. The numbers addto 70.
	A. off 	B. up 	C. in	D. out
27. . he does sometimes annoys me very much.
	A. When	B. Why	C. Who	D. What
28. My mother told me to for an electrician when her fan was out of order.
	A. send	B. write	C. rent	D. turn
Part 2. Put the verbs given in brackets into the appropriate tenses or forms. (7ms)
29. I don’t think he (change) .in the thirty years I have known him. 
30. She advised that the gate (keep) .. locked.
31. I suppose when I come back in two years’ time, they (pull)... down all these old buildings.
32. (remove)  all traces of his crime, the criminal left the building.
33. I caught him (climb)...over my wall. I asked him to explain but he refused to say anything.
34. I am disappointed that you didn’t tell me. You (tell) me!
35. I sat down at the desk and wondered why my father’s letter (not/ arrive)
Part 3. Read the text below. Use the words given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. (10ms)
AN IMPORTANT ENGLISH TOWN
 	The site of the town of Winchester was a (36)  	NATURE
 place for a (37) ..... at the point where a river cut	SETTLE
 through the chalk of (38) .. hillsides. A simple 	SOUTH
 camp at St Catherine’s Hill was the (39) . known	EARLY
 use of the site. This was followed by an iron Age hill-fort , but 
 this was left (40) . . by 100 B.C. It was the	INHABIT
Romans who finally established the town and (41)  	ROUND
 it with a defensive wall for the protection of their people .
 	With the (42)  of its first cathedral in the seventh	BUILD
century, the town became an important (43). centre. 	RELIGION
Later, King Alfred, who had (44) .....pushed back 	SUCCESS
the invading Danes, moved his palace to Winchester. The town 
then experienced rapid (45) .., and its central role in 	DEVELOP
English history was underlined in 1066 when the conquering 
Normans, like Alfred, made Winchester their capital. 
Part 4. Choose the underlined word or phrase in each sentence that needs correcting and correct them. (5ms)
46. When her dog died, she cried very hardly for half an hour.
 A B C	 D
47. There are about 500 species of poisonous snakes, 200 of them are harmful to us.
 A 	 	 B	 C	 D
48. David is the player whom I think scored the winning goal for the team.
	 A	 B	 C D
49. The main difference of the stars and the planets is that the stars produce their own 
 A 	 B C	 D
heat and light, but the planets do not.
 50. This refrigerator is very old to keep things at a proper temperature. 	
 A B C	 D
SECTION FOUR: READING COMPREHENSION 
Part 1. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ONE word in each gap. (10ms)
 	Ministry of Transport officials are currently studying a report of a recent near-miss (51) Heathrow Airport when a Jumbo Jet (52)... so slow over houses and offices (53) eye-witnesses could count the bolts on the wings of the plane and see the terrified expressions on the (54) of the passengers.
 	The pilot of the plane (55)so nearly crashed into houses remained calm throughout the incident, showing his incredible skill to (56)what could have been a disaster. One (57)the plane’s four engines stopped, just a (58) seconds after the Jumbo (59)taken off. Air traffic controllers heard an emergency call and then (60)the Jumbo disappear over the houses. Everyone thought a crash was inevitable.
Part 2. Choose the word that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage. Choose A, B, C or D to indicate your answer. (10ms)
THE EARLY DAYS OF FOOTBALL
	Football became the game we know today during the regime of Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century. So many different (61) ......of the game were being played in Britain at that time, that in 1863 the Football Association was (62)........in order to draw up and agree the (63).......of the game.
 	Throughout the country, new football (64).were built and the development of the railways (65)....... that football teams and their (66).......could travel to the matches. In 1888, The Football League was (67).........up with twelve clubs, and football became a national sport, (68).......to rugby by many people as the more popular game of the (69)............ .
 	Sometimes people play the game in just a field. In one town, Burnley, in the north of England, the field had a river running along the side of it in which players took baths after matches. People stood on banks (70)......from earth and it was not until the early 1900s that proper stands were built. The players would have had two wooden posts for the goals with tapes across the top instead of a cross bar, and nets were not invented until 1891.
61. A. methods	B. conditions	C. forms	D. ways
62. A. formed	B. made	C. joined	D. offered
63. A. techniques	B. laws	C. rules	D. lines
64. A. grounds	B. places	C. lands	D. courses
65. A. helped	B. intended	C. said	D. meant
66. A. organizes	B. fans	C. partners	D. helpers
67. A. put 	B. got	C. set	D. made
68. A. wanted	B. preferred	C. liked	D. favoured
69. A. two	B. both	C. other	D. one
70. A. produced	B. made	C. consisted	D. worked
Part 3. Read the following passage and choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each question. (5ms)
 	Drunken driving - sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder - has become a national epidemic. Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.
 	A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.10 blood alcohol content or roughly three beers, glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American macho image and judges were lenient in most courts, but the drunken slaughter has recently caused so many well - publicized tragedies, especially involving young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant.
 	Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18-20 year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21.
 	Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programmes to help young people to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and teach them to resist peer pressure to drink.
 	Tough new laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in many areas already, to a marked decline in fatalities. Some states are also penalizing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A tavern in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was “obviously intoxicated” and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.
 	As the fatalities continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years of national prohibition of alcohol that began in 1919, what President Hoover called the “noble experiment”. They forget that legal prohibition didn't stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption and organised crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution.
71. Drunken driving has become a major problem in America because ...
A. most Americans are heavy drinkers. 	
B. Americans are now less shocked by road accidents.
C. accidents attract so much publicity. 	
D. drinking is a socially accepted habit in America.
72. Why has public opinion regarding drunken driving changed? 
A. Detailed statistics are now available. 	 	
B. The news media have highlighted the problem. 
C. Judges are giving more severe sentences. 	
D. Drivers are more conscious of their image.
73. Statistics issued in New Jersey suggested that
	A. many drivers were not of legal age. 	 
	B. young drivers were often bad drivers.
C. the level of drinking increased in the 1960s. 
D. the legal drinking age should be raised.
74. Laws recently introduced in some states have
A. reduced the number of convictions. 	
B. resulted in fewer serious accidents.
C. prevented bars from serving drunken customers.
D. specified the amount drivers can drink.
75. Why is the problem of drinking and driving difficult to solve? 
A. Alcohol is easily obtained. 	B. Drinking is linked to organized crime. 
C. Legal prohibition has already failed. 	D. Legislation alone is not sufficient.	
SECTION FIVE: WRITING
Part 1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it. (10ms)
76. We’d prefer you not to smoke.
	→ We’d rather ...
77. Tony’s very charming, but I wouldn’t trust him.
	→ Charming................
78. I dislike it when people criticise me unfairly.
	→ I object...............
79. While I strongly disapprove of your behaviour, I will help you this time.
	→ Despite my .....
80. Experts think that all dogs evolved from wolves.
	→ All dogs ..
81. Unless she’s really hungry, she never eats snacks between meals.
	→ Only when ..
82. The only thing that prevented the passing of the bill was the death of the Prime Minister.
	→ Had it not.
83. He was a fool to say that.
	→ It ..
84. He spends two hours a week sorting out his stamps.
	→ Sorting out his stamps 
85. “I don’t think John will come,” said Bill.
	 → Bill doubted  
Part 2. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence using the word given. DO NOT CHANGE THE WORD GIVEN. You must use between three and five words, including the word given. (5ms)
86. Tim looks nothing like his father. (TAKE)
	→ Tim . his father at all.
87. We lost the game because of my mistake. (FAULT)
	→ It was ... win the game.
88. I’d rather you didn’t phone me at work. (PREFER)
	→ I’d ... me at work.	
89. Sara had to finish the accounts and type several letters as well. (ADDITION)
	→ Sara had to finish the ......several letters.
90. I couldn’t go to work because of the transport strike. (PREVENTED)
	→ I ..to work by the transport strike.
Part 3. Essay writing. (10ms)
Some people think that parents should teach children how to be good members of society. Others, however, believe that school is the place to learn this.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge and experience. (Write at least 200 words)
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