Đề thi học sinh giỏi cấp tỉnh Tiếng anh lớp 12 chuyên - Năm học 2015-2016 - Sở GD & ĐT Bắc Ninh

ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
UBND TỈNH BẮC NINH
SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO
ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH
NĂM HỌC: 2015 – 2016
MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH - LỚP 12 (CHUYÊN)
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Ngày thi: 24 tháng 3 năm 2016
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* Ghi chú: Đề thi gồm 13 trang. Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi.
PART ONE: PHONETICS: (10 pts)
I. Choose the word with the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others (5 pts)
1. A. kerosene	B. tinsel	C. pessimism	D. mussel
2. A. considerate	B. candidate	C. associate	D. adequate
3. A. scowl	B. frown	C. sprout 	D. dough	
4. A. bombard	B. discard	C. mustard 	D. retard
5. A. intellectual	B. situation	C. digestion	D. Greenwich
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II. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other three (5 pts)
6. A. mischievous	B. miscellaneous	C. intimacy	D. veterinary 
7. A. infamous	B. inventory	C. negligence	D. congenial 
8. A. impotent	B. ignorant	C. admirable	D. affidavit
9. A. primate	B. asset	C. innate	D. preface
10. A. monetary	B. paralysis	C. protagonist	D. analogous
Your answers:
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PART TWO: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (60 pts)
I. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences (20 pts)
11. You can’t believe a word that woman says – she is a _____ liar.
A. dedicated	B. devoted 	C. committed	D. compulsive
12. There can be no _____ fixes or magic solutions to the problem of unemployment.
A. fast 	B speedy 	C. quick 	D. sudden 
13. When you come down the hill, do drive slowly because it is not _____ obvious where the turning is.
A. immediately 	B. directly	C. instantaneously	D. quite
14. At her trial in 1431, Joan of Arc was accused of being in _____ with the devil.
A. cooperation	B. association	C. league	D. conjunction
15. The flights are full at the moment, so you’ll have to _____.
A. run a stroke of luck	B. get a better luck 	
C. be down on your luck 	D. take pot luck
16. I heard ______ that Jack has been dropped from the basketball team.
A. in the woods	B. on the grapevine	C. under your feet	D. on the olive branch
17. Many habitats change ________ the types of plants and animals that live there.
A. with respect to B. in respect for C. as for	 D. as against
18. Unfortunately some really ill animals have to be _______ by our center.
A. put down	B. turned over	C. passed away	D. taken out
19. John first dabbled _____ buying old maps for his collection.
A. in 	B. on 	C. at 	D. for
20. It’s a matter of urgency to put right at once but nothing suitable _____ to mind.
A. returns	B. emerges	C. sprouts 	D. springs
21. When my father was a young student, they were taught to memorize information and _____ it for exams. Thankfully, those teaching techniques have become outdated.
A. pinpoint 	B. dock	C. regurgitate	D. revise
22. He was arrested for trying to pass _____ notes at the bank.
A. counterfeit	B. fake	C. camouflaged	D. fraudulent
23. Living in the countryside is a far cry from reading about it. It _____. You have to deal with _____ poverty and go through the bad patch.
A. is of crass stupidity/ grueling	B. is no mean feat/ grinding
C. goes against the grain/ abject	D. dwindles away to nothing/ extreme
24. He had his money _____ in a secure bank account.
A. hammered away at	 B. jabbered about	C. slaved away	D. squirreled away
25. The train service has been a _____ since they introduced the new schedules.
A. shambles	B. rumpus	C. chaos	D. fracas
26. ‘The film was pretty bad, wasn’t it?’ – ‘Yes, I think it was _____’.
A. exemplary	B. excruciating	C. expeditious	D. explicit
27. When the forces on an object are balanced, you can say that the object is in _____.
A. collusion	B. equilibrium	C. collision	D. incubation
28. There were a number of strong candidates for the post but Peter’s experience _____ the scales in his favor.
A. weighted	B. tipped	C. balanced	D. overturned
29. We are conscious that sleeplessness usually _____ those who are exposed to a great deal of stress, anxiety or depression.
A. betrays	B. bestows	C. besets	D. bemoans
30. I think that the artist’s cartoons are usually rather _____________ as they are intended to appeal to a mass number of audiences.
A. lowbrow	B. highbrow	C. dearly	D. impenetrable
Your answers:
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II. Fill in each of the numbered blanks with one suitable preposition. (10 pts)
31. This soup is too hot to eat. I’ll wait for it to cool _____.
32. Tim is seventeen and at the moment he doesn’t care very much _____ anything except clothes.
33. Last year Ross was charged _____ a variety of crimes, including assault and car theft.
34. It’s a long journey so remember to fill _____ the petrol tank before you go.
35. Luckily, the bomb which went _____ near the bank last Friday didn’t kill anyone.
36. A car suddenly pulled _____ in front of me and I couldn’t stop in time.
37. Luckily, the rain held _____ so we were able to play the match.
38. I don’t think I’ll ever rich, but you live _____ hope, don’t you?
39. Mr. Deacon next door had a very serious operation. Apparently, it’s a miracle he pulled_____. 
40. I don’t know what happened. I was just sitting at my desk and I suddenly blacked _____ for a few minutes.
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 III. Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word in the number space provided in the column on the right. (0) has been done as an example (10 pts)
Example: 	0: willingly
We are the only animal that chooses what it will look like. True, the chameleon changes color- but not (0. WILLING) ________. Unlike us, it doesn’t get up in the morning and ask itself, “What shall I look like today?”, but we can and do. Indeed, the (41. ANTIQUE) _________ of body decoration points to the conclusion that it is a key factor in our development as the (42. DOMINATE) _________ life-form on our planet. No human society has ever been found where some form of body decoration is not the norm.
By (43. CUSTOM) _________ their physical appearance, our ancestors distanced themselves from the rest of the animal (44. KING) _________. Within each tribe this helped them to mark out differences of role, status and (45. KIN) _________. Our ancestors developed (46. ORDINARY) _________ techniques of body decoration for (47. PRACTICE) _________ reasons. How to show where on tribe ends and another begins? How to memorably underline the (48. SIGNIFY) _________ of that moment when an individual becomes an adult member of society? (49. ARGUE) _________, without the expressive capabilities of such “body language” we would have been (50. FINITE) _________ less successful as a species.
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IV. Identify 10 errors in the following passage and correct them (20 pts)
Human memory, formerly believed to be rather inefficient, is really more sophisticated than that of a computer. Researchers approaching the problem from a variation of viewpoints have all concluded that there is a great deal more storing in our minds than has been generally supposed. Dr. Wilder Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgery, proved that by stimulating their brains electrically, he can elicit the total recall of specific events in his subjects’ lives. Even dreams and another minor events supposedly forgotten for many years suddenly emerged in details. Although the physical basic for memory is not yet understood, one theory is how the fantastic capacity for storage in the brain is the result of an almost unlimited combination of interconnections between brain cell, stimulated by patterns of activity. Repeated references with the same information support recall. In other word, improved performance is the result of strengthening the chemical bonds in the memory.
Your answers:
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PART THREE: READING (70 pts)
I. Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. (15 pts) 
Reports that the government is about to _____ (61) the go ahead to plans for the building of a new runway at London's Gatwick airport have angered local _____ (62) and raised fears of increased noise and exhaust pollution. The _____ (63) plans also include permission for additional night flights and will _____ (64) the compulsory purchase of farmland, _____ (65) the demolition of a number of private homes. According to sources close to the Ministry of Transport, the government is known to be concerned by the increasing _____ (66) of traffic at London Heathrow, where there are no plans for further runways in the foreseeable _____ (67) Gatwick is widely _____ (68) as a better _____ (69) for expansion than London's third airport, Stansted, which still _____ (70) from poor transport links. A spokesperson for the Keep Gatwick Quiet association, _____ (71) up of local people, accused the government of _____ (72) back on promises made before the General Election. 'We were told then that the airport authority had no _____ (73) of building another runway and we believe that the government has a duty to _____ (74) its pledges. Prominent figures in the government are also believed to be concerned at the news, although the Prime Minister, interviewed last night, is _____ (75) as saying that reports were 'misleading'. However, he would not give an assurance that plans for building a runway had definitely been rejected.
61. A. sign
62. A. inhabitants
63. A. controversial
64. A. involve
65. A. further to
66. A. sum
67. A. years
68. A. regarded
69. A. potential
70. A. affects
71. A. made
72. A. getting
73. A. desire
74. A. bear out
75. A. quoted
B. make
B. dwellers
B. debatable
B. concern
B. as well as
B. size
B. period
B. believed
B. outlook
B. undergoes
B. set
B. falling
B. intention
B. count on
B. known
C. give
C. occupants
C. notorious
C. assume
C. moreover
C. volume
C. time
C. felt
C. prospect
C. experiences
C. brought
C. going
C. wish
C. pull off
C. thought
D. approve
D. residents
D. doubtful
D. need
D. what's more
D. length
D. future
D. held
D. likelihood
D. suffers
D. taken
D. turning
D. objective
D. stand by
D. written
Your answers: 
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II. Fill each gap in the passage below with ONE appropriate word. (20 pts)
AN ECONOMIC PROBLEM
Inflation is not a new phenomenon, (0) .but one that has existed at various times in various places. In _____ (76) severest form; however, hyperinflation can destroy a nation's economy. _____ (77) happened in revolutionary France and Weimar Germany; _____ (78) bundles of notes were needed to pay for a loaf of bread. But what is inflation? Briefly, it may be defined as a continual increase in prices affecting the economy. The rate of inflation is determined _____ (79) changes in the price level, which is an average of all prices. When _____ (80) prices rise while others fall, this will not necessarily affect the price level, as inflation occurs _____ (81) if most major prices increase. The problem with inflation is that it reduces the value of purchasing power of money, as well as eroding people's savings. Wage increases which are below or equal _____ (82) the level of inflation will result in a declining or static _____ (83) of living for workers, while wage increases above the rate of inflation will merely stoke the fire for further inflation. So what can a government do to stop the process? It can increase taxes, raise interest rates, decrease the money supply, reduce government spending or set a ceiling _____ (84) price and wage rises. Why none of these is a popular measure is understandable, but if they reduce inflation _____ (85) a mild two to four percent per annum, as opposed to allowing it to rise to double-digit severe inflation, it is preferable in the long run.
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III. Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) according to the text. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (12 pts)
Orientation and Navigation
To South Americans, robins are birds that fly north every spring. To North Americans, the robins simply vacation in the south each winter. Furthermore, they fly to very specific places in South America and will often come back to the same trees in North American yards the following spring. The question is not why they would leave the cold of winter so much as how they find their way around. The question perplexed people for years, until, in the 1950s, a German scientist named Gustavo Kramer provided some answers and. in the process, raised new questions.
Kramer initiated important new kinds of research regarding how animals orient and navigate. Orientation is simply facing in the right direction; navigation involves finding ones way from point A to point B.
	Early in his research, Kramer found that caged migratory birds became very restless at about the time they would normally have begun migration in the wild. Furthermore, he noticed that as they fluttered around in the cage, they often launched themselves in the direction of their normal migratory route. He then set up experiments with caged starlings and found that their orientation was, in fact, in the proper migratory direction except when the sky was overcast, at which times there was no clear direction to their restless movements. Kramer surmised, therefore, that they were orienting according to the position of the Sun. To test this idea, he blocked their view of the Sun and used mirrors to change its apparent position. He found that under these circumstances, the birds oriented with respect to the new "Sun." They seemed to be using the Sun as a compass to determine direction. At the time, this idea seemed preposterous. How could a bird navigate by the Sun when some of us lose our way with road maps? Obviously, more testing was in order.
	So, in another set of experiments, Kramer put identical food boxes around the cage, with food in only one of the boxes. The boxes were stationary, and the one containing food was always at the same point of the compass. However, its position with respect to the surroundings could be changed by revolving either the inner cage containing the birds or the outer walls, which served as the background. As long as the birds could see the Sun, no matter how their surroundings were altered, they went directly to the correct food box. Whether the box appeared in front of the right wall or the left wall, they showed no signs of confusion. On overcast days, however, the birds were disoriented and had trouble locating their food box.
	In experimenting with artificial suns, Kramer made another interesting discovery. If the artificial Sun remained stationary, the birds would shift their direction with respect to it at a rate of about 15 degrees per hour, the Sun's rate of movement across the sky. Apparently, the birds were assuming that the "Sun" they saw was moving at that rate. When the real Sun was visible, however, the birds maintained a constant direction as it moved across the sky. In other words, they were able to compensate for the Sun's movement. This meant that some sort of biological clock was operating-and a very precise clock at that.
	What about birds that migrate at night? Perhaps they navigate by the night sky. To test the idea, caged night-migrating birds were placed on the floor of a planetarium during their migratory period. A planetarium is essentially a theater with a domelike ceiling onto which a night sky can be projected for any night of the year. When the planetarium sky matched the sky outside, the birds fluttered in the direction of their normal migration. But when the dome was rotated, the birds changed their direction to match the artificial sky. The results clearly indicated that the birds were orienting according to the stars. 
	There is accumulating evidence indicating that birds navigate by using a wide variety of environmental cues. Other areas under investigation include magnetism, landmarks, coastlines, sonar, and even smells. The studies are complicated by the fact that the data are sometimes contradictory and the mechanisms apparently change from time to time. Furthermore, one sensory ability may back up another.
86. Which of the following can be inferred about bird migration from paragraph 1?
A. Birds will take the most direct migratory route to their new habitat.
B. The purpose of migration is to join with larger groups of birds.
C. Bird migration generally involves moving back and forth between north and south.
D. The destination of birds' migration can change from year to year.
87. The word ‘perplexed’ in the passage is closest in meaning to _____.
	A. defeated	B. interested	C. puzzled	D. occupied
88. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A. Experiments revealed that caged starlings displayed a lack of directional sense and restless movements.
B. Experiments revealed that caged starlings were unable to orient themselves in the direction of their normal migratory route.
C. Experiments revealed that the restless movement of caged starlings had no clear direction.
D. Experiments revealed that caged starlings' orientation was accurate unless the weather was overcast.
89. The word ‘preposterous’ in the passage is closest in meaning to _____.
	A. unbelievable	B. inadequate	C. limited	D. creative
90. According to paragraph 3, why did Kramer use mirrors to change the apparent position of the Sun?
A. To test the effect of light on the birds' restlessness
B. To test whether birds were using the Sun to navigate
C. To simulate the shifting of light the birds would encounter along their regular migratory route
D. To cause the birds to migrate at a different time than they would in the wild
91. According to paragraph 3, when do caged starlings become restless?
A. When the weather is overcast	
B. When they are unable to identify their normal migratory route
C. When their normal time for migration arrives
D. When mirrors are used to change the apparent position of the Sun
92. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 4 about Kramer’s reason for filling one food box and leaving the rest empty?
A. He believed the birds would eat food from only one box.
B. He wanted to see whether the Sun alone controlled the birds' ability to navigate toward the box with food.
C. He thought that if all the boxes contained food, this would distract the birds from following their migratory route.
D. He needed to test whether the birds preferred having the food at any particular point of the compass.
93. According to paragraph 5, how did the birds fly when the real Sun was visible?
A. They kept the direction of their flight constant.
B. They changed the direction of their flight at a rate of 15 degrees per hour.
C. They kept flying toward the Sun.
D. They flew in the same direction as the birds that were seeing the artificial Sun.
94. The experiment described in paragraph 5 caused Kramer to conclude that birds possess a biological clock because _____.
A. when birds navigate they are able to compensate for the changing position of the Sun in the sky
B. birds innate bearings keep them oriented in a direction that is within 15 degrees of the Suns direction
C. birds' migration is triggered by natural environmental cues, such as the position of the Sun
D. birds shift their direction at a rate of 15 degrees per hour whether the Sun is visible or not
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