English Specialized Class – Dat Dinh & Ha My & Mentor Team

KỲ THI THỬ HỌC SINH TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN

ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 10

Thời gian: 150 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)

(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

Section A: Listening (4 points)

HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
• Bài nghe gồm 3 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, thí sinh có 30-40 giây giữa mỗi phần
nghe để đọc bài.
• Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh ( bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.

Part 1 - Multiple choice: (0,2 points per)

You will hear people talking about graffitis. For questions 1-5, choose the best answer
(A, B, or C).

1. The most widespread style of graffiti in Brazil is Show hint

1. anti-capitalistic and anti-war
2. legalized
3. dangerous and illegal
2. The Brazilian graffiti is different from simply some scribbling on a wall because
1. it always lacks harmony
2. it takes originality seriously
3. it portrays skeletons
3. The reporter in the centre of Sao Paulo mentions all of the following, EXCEPT
1. it's Tuesday evening
2. he's approaching a huge loud group of people
3. there are some police cars at the end of the street
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4. The group of people (mentioned by the reporter) know what the graffiti on the
buildings says because
1. they know the language of the graffiti
2. they wrote most of it
3. they have lived in this area for a long time
5. The more risky the process of graffiti tagging is, the more its artist is
1. searched by the police
2. considered extravagant
3. respected among other graffiti taggers

Part 2 - MULTIPLE MATCHING (0,2 points per)

You will hear five different people talking about their experiences as owners of small
local shops. For questions 6-10, choose from the list (A-F) what each speaker says. Use
the letters only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to use.

A. I think customers are starting to value small shops more.

B. I don't mind hard work as long as I can be my own boss.
C. I think small shop owners should lower their prices to compete.
D. I am satisfied with my relationship with shops nearby.
E. I feel competition may one day force me to close down.
F. I provide a service which older people find very important.

6. Speaker 1 _____

7. Speaker 2 _____

8. Speaker 3 _____

9. Speaker 4 _____

10. Speaker 5 _____

Part 3 (0,2 points per)

You will hear an interview with Alan Burgess, who has just returned from the Arctic
where he was filming polar bears. For questions 11-20, complete the sentences.

Filming polar bears

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It took the team approximately 11. ________________ to make the film.

Of all the places Alan went to, 12. _________ was the coldest.

Alan found that clothes made of 13. _____________________ were best for keeping
warm.

The team disguised their camera equipment with 14. _________________ paint.

Polar bears have a strong 15. _______________

In the summer, polar bears may lose as much as 16. ______________ of their body
weight.

Polar bears eat plants in order to obtain 17. ________ to improve their usual diet.

Baby polar bears can be seen playing in the snow from the month of 18. _______

On one occasion, a polar bear almost managed to enter Alan's 19. ____________

Alan is going to work on a number of 20. _____________ for university students.

Section B: Grammar & Vocabulary (4 points)

PART I: LEXICO GRAMMAR Choose the best answer from A, B, C, or D to

complete the following sentences. Write your answers in the box provided.
1. When Bill saw my new car, he was ________ with envy.
A. blue B. white C. yellow D. green
2. Vietnam Airlines regrets _________ passengers that the flight to HCM City will be 30
minutes late.
A. informing B. to inform C. inform D. for informing
3. _____ to the invention of the steam engine, most forms of transport were horse-drawn.
A. Akin B. In addition C. Prior D. With reference
4. She _________ him of lying to her.
A. threatened B. blamed C. criticized D. accused
5. She should have been here but she’s _________ flu.
A. gone through with B. gone down with
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C. come in for D. come up against

6. He tends to act ________ impulse, especially when he is together with his best friends.
A. at B. on C. by D. with
7. As she is so heavily overlooked, there is a _____ possibility that she will have a
nervous breakdown.
A. distinct B. distinctive C. little D. manifest
8. My mother _____ when she found out that I’d forgotten to do the washing-up again.
A. stood her ground B. felt of color
C. hit the ceiling D. made my blood boil
9. It’s essential that he _________ his term paper by the end of next week.
A. submit B. submits C. submitted D. has submitted

10. _________ the hard evidence against him, the jury had no option but to find him
guilty.
A. In view of B. Given that C. In regard to D. With a view to

Answer:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART II: Use the word given in the capitals at the end of each line to form a word that
fits in the space in the same line. Write your answers in the box provided.
Many people seem to have inconsistent attitudes towards drink driving.
On the one hand, they view it as totally 1._________ that anyone should 1. object
through their own selfishness be a danger to other road users. To kill
somebody while driving under the influence is surely 2._________,
however accidental it may be, and is technically defined as irrational 2. pardon
killing.

Yet at the same time, people 3._________ seem to assume that the same 3. rational
laws do not apply to themselves. Talking to the wheel having had a few
glasses over the limit doesn’t seem 4._________ when you do it 4. reason
yourself. Surely only a couple of extra drinks is perfectly 5._________,
you reason. Yet when other people commit the offense, it is condemned 5. permit
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as unethical and downright 6._________. Why these double standards? 6. morality

Surely it makes perfect sense that such a potentially lethal practice be
declared illegal? And yet the die-hards continue to flout the
7._________, continuing to drive even when 8._________. 7. regular
8. qualify
Answer
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.

PART III: The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Identify and correct the
mistakes. Write your answers in the box provided.

1 Studies have shown that in many places - where signs and traffic lights have been
2 removed and whom everyone is responsible for their own actions in ungoverned space
3 - the rate of accidents goes down. The reason was that the traditional strict separate
4 between cars, cyclists, and pedestrians encourages clashes at crossings. Although
5 shared space requires cars to lower their speed, it brings down on travelling times
6 since it encourages a continuous flow of traffic instead of bringing it to a halt through
7 traffic signals.

8 In recent years, however, city and traffic planners will have decided to tackle this issue
9 with “road space attractiveness” measures to breathe new spirit into lifeless satellite
10 towns. The unregulated and unorthodoxed approach of shared space makes it obvious
11 to each and every individual that this concept requires cooperation, that sharing is the
12 new having. But the vision of no more set traffic cycles, less linear and predefined
13 patterns, of freely flowing and intermingling participants in an open and boundless
14 space, are equally unfettered and fascinating. That is the vision in the spiritual of
15 Pericles who wrote around 450 BC that “you need freedom for happiness and courage
16 for freedom.”

KEY
Mistake Line Correction Mistake Line Correction
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Section C: Reading (6 points)

Part I: GUIDED CLOZE: Read the following passage and decide which answer (A,
B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write your answers in corresponding numbered
boxes.

A BOOMING CAREER

At one time the (0)_B. notion_ of a career on stage may have been (1)_______ upon by
certain sections of society. Nowadays, however, parents would be well (2)_______ to
actually push their (3)_______ into the safe and lucrative world of comedy.

(4)_______ the number of awards, the profusion of clubs and the amount of profitable
broadcasting work available are (5)_______ to go by, comedy is the new accountancy.
Where once a (6)_______ comedian would have to endure years on the circuit of small-
time venues and get (7)_______ in free drinks and curled-up sandwiches, comedians can
now work in several media and be paid a (8)_______ salary for writing jokes for TV and
media. The live comedy circuit has (9)_______ and the general public seem to have a(n)
(10)_______ appetite for comedic talent both in front of and behind the camera.

0. A. recognition B. notion C. belief D. acknowledgement

1. A. scrutinized B. dug C. frowned D. stumbled

2. A. advised B. incited C. ignited D. informed

3. A. successors B. heirs C. offspring D. family

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4. A. Despite B. If C. Although D. Given

5. A. everything B. anything C. nothing D. none

6. A. bypass B. drive-in C. mix-up D. stand-up

7. A. paid B. involved C. returned D. dived

8. A. current B. regular C. frequent D. oftentimes

9. A. dawned B. watered C. mushroomed D. thundered

10. A. insatiable B. indefinite C. unbearable D. inexplicable

KEY

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2: Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use
only ONE word in each space. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes.

HOW WE GET RID OF RUBBISH

In 1997, American oceanographer Charles Moorne discovered (0)__by__ chance a vast

floating mass of plastic garbage in the Pacific Ocean. Since then, the ‘plastic soup’ has
been growing at (1)_______ scientists believe to be an alarming rate. Held (2)_______
place by swirling underwater currents, the garbage ‘soup’ actually (3)_______ of two
linked areas, on (4)--_______ side of the islands of Hawaii. About one-fifth of the
garbage gets thrown off ships or oil platforms with the rest of (5)_______ coming from
land. Historically, ocean rubbish has biodegraded but modern plastics are (6)_______
durable that objects half-a-century old (7)_______ sometimes found here.
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Plastic garbage causes the deaths of more than 100,000 marine mammals every year,
(8)_______ to mention over a million seabirds. There is a risk to human health, too,
(9)_______ hundreds of millions of tiny industrial plastic pellets, spilled or lost,
(10)_______ their way into the sea, and eventually into the food chain onto dinner plates.

Answer

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3. Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C, or D to answer the
questions. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
The human criterion for perfect vision is 20/20 for reading the standard lines on a
Snellen eye chart without a hitch. The score is determined by how well you read lines of
letters of different sizes from 20 feet away. But being able to read the bottom line on the
eye chart does not approximate perfection as far as other species are concerned. Most birds
would consider us very visually handicapped. The hawk, for instance, has such sharp eyes
that it can spot a dime on the sidewalk while perched on top of the Empire State Building.
It can make fine visual distinctions because it is blessed with one million cones per square
millimeter in its retina. And in water, humans are farsighted, while the kingfisher,
swooping down to spear fish, can see well in both the air and water because it is endowed
with two foveae – areas of the eye, consisting mostly of cones, that provide visual
distinctions. One foveae permits the bird, while in the air, to scan the water below with one
eye at a time. This is called monocular vision. Once it hits the water, the other fovea joins
in, allowing the kingfisher to focus both eyes, like binoculars, on its prey at the same time.
A frog’s vision is distinguished by its ability to perceive things as a constant motion picture.
Known as “bug detectors”, a highly developed set of cells in a frog’s eyes responds mainly
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to moving objects. So, it is said that a frog sitting in a field of dead bugs wouldn’t see them
as food and would starve.
The bee has a “compound” eye, which is used for navigation. It has 15,000 facets
that divide what it sees into a pattern of dots, or mosaic. With this kind of vision, the bee
sees the sun only as a single dot, a constant point of reference. Thus, the eye is a superb
navigational instrument that constantly measures the angle of its line of flight in relation to
the sun. A bee’s eye also gauges flight speed. And if that is not enough to leave our 20/20
“perfect vision” paling into insignificance, the bee is capable of seeing something we
can’t – ultraviolet light. Thus, what humans consider to be “perfect vision” is in fact rather
limited when we look at other species. However, there is still much to be said for the human
eye. Of all the mammals, only humans and some primates can enjoy the pleasures of color
vision.

1. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. limits of the human eye C. different eyes for different uses
B. perfect vision D. eye variation among different species

2. The word “criterion” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to

A. standard B. need C. expectation D. rule

3. The phrase “without a hitch” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to

A. unaided B. without glasses C. with little hesitation D. easily

4. According to the passage, why might birds and animals consider humans very visually
handicapped?
A. humans can’t see very well in either air or water
B. human eyes are not as well suited to our needs
C. the main outstanding feature of human eyes is color vision
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D. human eyes can’t do what their eyes can do

5. The word “that” in paragraph 1 refers to

A. foveae B. areas of the eye C. ones D. visual
distinctions

6. The word “ blessed with” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to

A. parted with B. supplied for C. endowed with D. ruled out

7. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true

A. kingfishers have monocular vision
B. bees see patterns of dots
C. hawks eyes consist mostly of cones that can allow it to scan with one eye at a time
D. humans are farsighted in water

8. Where in the passage does the author discuss that eyes are useful for avoiding starvation?
A. lines 1-5 B. lines 7-10 C. lines 14-17 D. lines 21-24

9. The phrase “paling into insignificance” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to

A. fading away C. without colored light
B. of great importance D. being reduced to little importance

10. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A. eyes have developed differently in each species
B. humans should not envy what they don’t need
C. bees have the most complex eye
D. perfect vision is perfect
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Answer
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 4: Matching headings

The passage below has seven paragraphs, A-G

Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-G from the list of headings below
Write the correct number, i-ix, next to 1-6 on your answer sheet

List of Headings

i. The reaction of the Inuit community to climate change

ii. Understanding of climate change remains limited
iii. Alternative sources of essential supplies
iv. Respect for Inuit opinion grows
v. A healthier choice of food
vi. A difficult landscape
vii. Negative effects on well-being
viii.Alarm caused by unprecedented events in the Arctic
ix. The benefits of an easier existence

1 Paragraph B

2 Paragraph C

3 Paragraph D

4 Paragraph E
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5 Paragraph F

6 Paragraph G

Climate Change and the Inuit

The threat posed by climate change in the Arctic and the problems faced by

Canada’s Inuit people

Unusual incidents are being reported across the Arctic. Inuit families going off on

snowmobiles to prepare their summer hunting camps have found themselves cut off from

home by a sea of mud, following early thaws. There are reports of igloos losing their

insulating properties as the snow drips and refreezes, of lakes draining into the sea as

permafrost melts, and sea ice breaking up earlier than usual, carrying seals beyond the

reach of hunters. Climate change may still be a rather abstract idea to most of us, but in

the Arctic it is already having dramatic effects – if summertime ice continues to shrink at

its present rate, the Arctic Ocean could soon become virtually ice-free in summer. The

knock-on effects are likely to include more warming, cloudier skies, increased

precipitation and higher sea levels. Scientists are increasingly keen to find out what’s

going on because they consider the Arctic the ‘canary in the mine’ for global warming – a

warning of what’s in store for the rest of the world

For the Inuit the problem is urgent. They live in precarious balance with one of the

toughest environments on earth. Climate change, whatever its causes, its direct threat to
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their way of life. Nobody knows the Arctic as well as the locals, which is why they are

not content simply to stand back and let outside experts tell them what’s happening. In

Canada, where the Inuit people are jealously guarding their hard-won autonomy in the

country’s newest territory, Nunavut; they believe their best hope of survival in this

changing environment lies in combining their ancestral knowledge with the best of

modern science. This is a challenge in itself

The Canadian Arctic is a vast, treeless polar desert that’s covered with snow for most of

the year. Venture into this terrain and you get some idea of the hardships facing anyone

who calls this home. Farming is out of the question and nature offers meagre pickings.

Humans first settled in the Arctic a mere 4,500 years ago, surviving by exploiting sea

mammals and fish. The environment tested them to the limits: sometimes the colonists

were successful, sometimes they failed and vanished. But around a thousand years ago,

one group emerged that was uniquely well adapted to cope with the Arctic environment.

These Thule people moved in from Alaska, bringing kayaks, sledges, dogs, pottery and

iron tools. They are the ancestors of today’s Inuit people

Life for the descendants of the Thule people is still harsh. Nunavut is 1.9 million square

kilometres of rock and ice, and a handful of islands around the North Pole. It’s currently

home to 2,500 people, all but a handful of the indigenous Inuit. Over the past 40 years,

most have abandoned their nomadic ways and settled in the territory's 28 isolated

communities, but they still rely heavily on nature to provide food and clothing.
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Provisions available in local shops have to be flown into Nunavut on one of the most

costly air networks in the world, or brought by supply ship during the few ice-free weeks

of summer. It would cost a family around £7,000 a year to replace meat they obtained

themselves through hunting with imported meat. Economic opportunities are scarce, and

for many people, state benefits ate their only income

While the Inuit may not actually starve if hunting and trapping are curtailed by climate

change, there has certainly been an impact on people’s health. Obesity, heart disease and

diabetes are beginning to appear in people for whom these have never before been

problems. There has been a crisis of identity as the traditional skills of hunting, trapping

and preparing skins have begun to disappear. In Nuvavut’s igloo and email’ society,

where adults who were born in igloos have children who may never have been out on the

land, there’s a high incidence of depression

With so much at stake, the Inuit are determined to play a key role in teasing out the

mysteries of climate change in the Arctic. Having survived there for centuries, they

believe their wealth of traditional knowledge is vital to the task. And the Western

scientists are starting to draw on this wisdom, increasingly referred to as ‘Inuit

Qaujimajatuqangit’, or IQ. ‘In the early days, scientists ignored us when they came up

here to study anything. They just figured these people don’t know very much so we won’t

ask them’ says John Amagoalik, an Inuit leader and politician. ‘But in recent years IQ has

had much more credibility and weight.’ In fact, it is now a requirement for anyone hoping
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to get permission to do research that they consult the communities, who are helping to set

the research agenda to reflect their most important concerns. They can turn down

applications from scientists they believe will work against their interests, or research

projects that will impinge too much on their daily lives and traditional activities

Some scientists doubt the value of traditional knowledge because the occupation of the

Arctic doesn’t go back far enough. Others, however, point out that the first weather

stations in the far north date back just 50 years. There are still huge gaps in our

environmental knowledge, and despite the scientific onslaught, many predictions are no

more than best guesses. I could help to bridge the gap and resolve the tremendous

uncertainty about how much of what we’re seeing is natural capriciousness and how

much is the consequence of human activity

KEY

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Section D: Writing (6 points)

- Sentence transformation: (1 point)
1. The school's management is investigating allegations of teacher brutality. (into)
Allegations of teacher brutality__________ the school's management.
2. None of the phones were left when we got to the shop. (time)
______________________the shop, all the phones had been sold.
3. If you shout at your kids, which is unnecessary, it won’t make the blind bit of
difference. (off)
In the event of________________, they won’t learn from it.
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4. We were considering moving abroad, but we decided not to bother at the last
minute. (opted)
We were thinking about emigrating, but we ______________the last minute.
5. The consistent humorous events in the film made me laugh a lot. (cracking)
I couldn’t help _________________ the funny moments in the film.

- Letter: (2 points)
An English friend of yours is visiting your city next summer. Write to him and tell him
about the places he should visit and the clothes he should wear. You must also invite him
to stay with you during his stay.

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- Essay: (3 points)
Some universities offer online courses as an alternative to classes delivered on campus.
Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

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