TỈNH HÀ GIANG LỚP 11

ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT (Đề này có 27 trang, gồm 15 câu)

1. The best travel books of this year fall into three main categories: ______ informational,
narrative, and anecdotal.
A. truly B. fully C. literally D. purely
2. As a matter of ______, we have six security guards on the premises at all times.
A. wisdom B. prudence C. foresight D. acumen
3. With just a little preparation and regular feeding and watering, you can guarantee that
you have a ______ of colour throughout the summer.
A. disturbance B. riot C. demonstration D. rally
4. It was such a sad movie that we were all reduced ______ tears.
A. for B. with C. into D. to
5. Serena is still ______ ignorant of the fact that she is about to be made redundant.
A. blissfully B. decorously C. jubilantly D. ecstatically
6. At the end of the competition, all the runner were ______ exhausted.
A. actually B. wholly C. utterly D. eventually
7. No decision has been taken about the building of the new airport. The authorities are
still ______.
A. beating about the bush B. comparing apples and oranges
C. sitting on the fence D. holding all the aces
8. The inconsiderate driver was ______ for parking his vehicle in the wrong place.
A. inflicted B. harassed C. condemned D. confined

9. It’s important to keep your ______ about you when you are walking through the
African bush.
A. wits B. heads C. brains D. minds
10. His appearance at the reception with the late Mayor’s widow caused something of a
______.

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 A. confusion B. rumour C. wonder D. stir
11. Derek had no experience of white-water canoeing, so it was extremely______ of him
to try and shoot the rapids.
A. hazardous B. intrepid C. perilous D. foolhardy
12. Members of the aristocracy don’t ______ a great deal of power nowadays.
A. practice B. wield C. sway D. manage
13. Why do you object to him being taken on – he’ll be a(n) ______ to the
company?
A. property B. estate C. asset D. material

14. A boycott of other countries’ sporting events appears a politically more expedient
form of protest than trade ______.
A. treaties B. actions C. blocks D. sanctions
15. 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
Question 6. Give the correct form of the words given in brackets. (10 pts)
A recent government report (1. HIGH) _______ the extent to which credit card debt is
spiraling. Blame is (2. PORTION) _______ solely to the credit card companies, who, the
report claims, will go to any (3. LONG) _______ to attract new customers. (4. ADD)
_______, according to the report, they are responsible for encouraging (5. EXIST)
_______ customers to borrow more by raising their monthly limit. Certainly a recent
advertising campaign by a major credit card company – which has since been (6.
DRAW) _______– seems to bear these findings out.

However, while the responsibility of the credit card companies is not (7. CONSIDER)
_______, it is, in my opinion, unfair to lay all the blame on their shoulders. The (8.
MAJOR) _______ of credit card users are able to make their (9. PAY) _______ on time
without difficulty. There will always be a minority of people in our society who are

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financially (10. RESPONSE) _______. If they run up huge debts, is it really the credit
card company’s fault?

Question 7. Identify 05 errors in the following passage and correct them. Write your
answers in the space provided in the column on the right. There is an example at the
beginning. (5 pts)
Example 0. include => includes
Whirlwind, any rotating air mass, (0) include the tornado and the large cyclonic and anti-
cyclonic storm. In meteorology, the term whirlwind is more strict applied to the smaller
swirling atmospheric phenomenon commonly known as dust devil or dust whirl, which
occurs mostly over deserts and semiarid plains during hot, calm days. The principal cause
of whirlwinds is intense insulation, or incoming solar radiation receiving by the earth,
which produces an overheated air mass just above the ground. This air masses rises,
usually in the form of a cylindrical column, sucking up loose surface material, such as
dust, sand, and leaves. Whirlwinds vary in height from 30 to 152 m, but exceptionally
vigorous dust devils may exceed 1524 m in height. The vortices of whirlwinds range in
size from a little meters to several hundred meters and, depend on their force and size,
dust devils may disappear in seconds or last several hours. Brief whirlwinds are erratic in
motion, but the longer-lasting ones move slowly with the prevailing winds.
PART III. READING (60 pts)

Question 8: Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D)
best fits each gap. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (10 pts)
(CAE builder)
Gerard Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
When Gerard Mercator was born in 1512, the geography of the globe still (0)___
remained ______a mystery. It was unclear whether America was part of Asia, if there
was a vast (1) _________of sea at the top of the world or if Australia was connected to
Antarctica.

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 Mercator’s childhood was spent chiefly in Rupelmonde, a Flemish trading town on
the river, and it was here that his geographical imagination was (2) _________by the
ships which passed to and from the rest of the world. Alongside imagination, he
developed two very different skills. The first was the ability to gather, (3) _________and
co-ordinate the geographical information provided by explorers and sailors who
frequented the margins of the known. He also had to be able to imagine himself (4)
_________from the heavens, to achieve the visionary (5) _________of gods in the skies,
(6) _________ down on the world. The main reason why Mercator’s name is familiar to
us is because of the Mercator Projection: the solution he (7)_________to represent the
spheroidal surface of the globe on a two-dimensional plane. It is less well known that
Mercator was the first man to conceive of mapping the (8) _________surface of the
planet or that he (9) _________the idea of multiple maps being presented in bound
books, to which he gave the name ‘Atlas’.
It is difficult for us now to be surprised by maps, so many are there, and of such
detail and coverage, but we should bear in mind that Mercator lived at a time when such
knowledge was far from (10) _________. He was the man who altered our worldview
forever.
0. A. remained B. continued C. maintained D. endured
1. A. territory B. distance C. range D. expanse
2. A. raised B. reared C. supplied D. nourished
3. A. congregate B. amass C. assimilate D. construct
4. A. suspended B. located C. situated D. attached
5. A. inspection B. observation C. perspective D. assessment
6. A. glimpsing B. scrutinizing C. watching D. gazing
7. A. invented B. contrived C. devised D. schemed
8. A. sheer B. full C. entire D. utter
9. A. pioneered B. initiated C. lead D. prepared
10. A. typical B. common C. routine D. normal

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Question 9: Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space.
Use only one word in each space. (10 pts).
There is an example at the beginning (0).
(CPE succeed)
Karaoke fever

Karaoke is fast (0)____becoming_____ the nation’s Number One party pastime.

Public humiliation has (1)_________ been so fashionable. It’s 1 a.m. at an exclusive
location in the heart of London. A major pop singer has taken the stage but rather than
sing her latest hit, she treats the crowd (2)_________ a Michael Jackson song. What was
(3) _________ the party habit of teenagers is now favoured by London’s coolest crowd
and everyone is having a (4) _________. So why are so many of our young celebrities
queueing up to make fools of (5) _________ in clubs and bars across the country? Maybe
it’s because belting (6) _________ a naff pop song to a public audience shows that even
though you may be a celebrity, you don’t (7) _________ yourself too seriously. And if
you are a big movie star, that’s a good message to get across. Nobody gets away without
being laughed (8) _________ on a karaoke evening, no matter how famous they are. (9)
_________ all, that’s the whole point of the exercise. But for the musical experts among
you, a word of warning: this isn’t about proving to the world that you know all the lyrics
to a serious song. It’s about expressing your inner performer. Don’t bother (10)
_________ up at a karaoke night if you aren’t prepared to sing; you’ve got to put in the
effort and prove that you are one of the ‘in-crowd’. Break a leg!

( (TOEFL iBT advanced)

Solving Deforestation problems
As more and more countries around the globe move towards industrialization in an
attempt to compete in the global market, an environmental crisis over deforestation --- the
cutting down, burning and general damaging of forests --- is looming for mankind. Over
the last several decades, environmental specialists have proposed various strategies
aimed at slowing down this process of deforestation in developing countries. Many

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of these proposals are indeed valuable ideas in that they are realistic attempts to address
some of the causes of deforestation, such as farming, cattle ranching, and commercial
logging. All of them rely on government involvement of some kind.
There are three broad categories of solutions: state economic policies, internal
agreements, and international programs. ■ A) Economic policies generally attempt to
limit the activity of small farmers through government actions. ■ B) Government actions
can include the clear and proper definition and enforcement of property rights, meaning
that squatting, or illegally settling on land, would be more difficult. ■ C) Subsidies can
be used to encourage conservation. That is, money may be paid to supplement the
income of those farmers who make an effort to reduce the usual amount of damage to the
forest that their farms cause. In addition, taxes can act as a deterrent to undesirable land
use. ■ D) For example, certain kinds of agriculture, like the slash-and-burn method, as
well as cattle ranching, may be taxed to discourage these activities.
An internal agreement may be made between governments and indigenous or native
people living in the moist rainforests and open woodlands of the tropics, where the vast
majority of this deforestation is occurring. Such an agreement would allow people to
carry on traditional activities adapted for some economic benefit. One example is the
rubber-tappers in Brazil. These native people draw sap from rubber trees in the
rainforest, without damaging or killing the trees. The sap, in turn, is sold to rubber
companies, thereby providing the native people with economic benefits.
Finally, international agreements usually involve the exchange of monetary aid in
return for government action to protect its forests. One such plan seeks to help play a
nation’s debt in exchange for restrictions on certain kinds of activities in rainforests. This
is appealing for a poor country such as Brazil, which has an international debt of $160
billion. Instead of selling logging concessions to play down that obligation, the
government receives money for banning or restricting logging in its forests. There is also
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protect their environments. While all of these ideas could possibly work, it remains to be
seen whether there will be any real progress in rainforest conservation.
It is clear that something must be done to protect the forests of the world. If the
current rate of deforestation continues, the world’s rainforests will vanish within 100
years, causing numerous adverse effects on global climate and eliminating the majority of
plant and animal species on the planet. Deforestation significantly increases the amount
of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere each year, which in turn causes an
increase in global temperatures. Also, scientists speculate that the tropical rainforests,
though covering only seven percent of the Earth’s dry surface, contain more than half of
the 5 million to 80 million species of plants and animals that comprise the “ biodiversity “
of the planet. The loss of species resulting from radical climate change will have a
drastic effect. The Earth is losing species every day that could potentially prevent cancer
or lead to a cure for AIDS. In addition, other organisms are losing species they depend
upon, and thus face extinction themselves. Unless some form of concrete solution for
deforestation is enacted quickly, the survival of all creatures living on Earth could be in
jeopardy.
1. According to paragraphs 3 and 4, what is the main difference between an internal
agreement and an international agreement?
A. International agreements are more effective than internal agreements.
B. An international agreement is between countries; an internal agreement is between a
government and its people.
C. Internal agreements benefit governments; international agreements benefit indigenous
groups.
D. Internal agreements are more effective than international ones.
2. The word "obligation" in paragraph 4 could best be replaced by ________.
A. promise B. relationship C. guarantee D. debt
3. In paragraph 1, what does the word "them" refer to?
A. The causes of deforestation

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B. Decades
C. Proposals
D. Developing countries
4. Look at the four squares [■] that indicate where the following sentence could be
added to paragraph 2:
“Deforestation by a peasant farmer is often done to raise crops for subsistence and is
driven by the basic human need for food.”
Where would the sentence best fit? Choose the square [■] where the sentence should be
added to the passage.
A. Line 2 B. Line 3 C. Line 5 D. Line 7
5. Why does the author mention rubber-tappers in paragraph 3?
A. To provide an example of an internal agreement
B. To provide an example of an international agreement
C. To provide an example of a state economic policy
D. To provide an example of why Brazil is a poor nation
6. According to the passage, what are the major adverse effects of deforestation?
A. An increase in carbon dioxide and decrease in biodiversity
B. Warmer weather and an increase in biodiversity
C. Loss of plant and animal species and an increase in global debt
D. An increase in global debt and human diseases
7. Which of the following sentences best expresses the essential information of the
highlighted sentence?
A. In coming decades, environmental scientists will suggest several strategies for
stopping deforestation in
third-world countries.
B. Environmental scientists, in recent years, have suggested that deforestation slows
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C. In recent decades, several methods for countering deforestation in poor countries have
been suggested by experts on the environment.
D. Experts on the environment have been concerned about the impact of deforestation on
the Earth's biodiversity in recent decades.
8. From the passage, it can be inferred that ________.
A. state economic policies are more effective than international agreements
B. indigenous peoples in the tropics depend on forestry to make money
C. the three types of solutions mentioned will save the rainforests
D. deforestation is not a very serious problem
9. The word "deterrent" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. fine B. penalty C. incentive D. discouragement
10. The word "this" in paragraph 4 refers to _________.
A. a poor country
B. a nation's debt
C. an international agreement
D. an obligation

The Hollywood Film Industry

A This chapter examines the ‘Golden Age’ of the Hollywood film studio system and
explores how a particular kind of filmmaking developed during this period in US film
history. It also focuses on the two key elements which influenced the emergence of the
classic Hollywood studio system: the advent of sound and the business ideal of vertical
integration. In addition to its historical interest, inspecting the growth of the studio
system may offer clues regarding the kinds of struggles that accompany the growth of
any new medium. It might, in fact, be intriguing to examine which changes occurred
during the growth of Hollywood studio, and compare those changes to contemporary
struggles in which production companies are trying to define and control emerging
industries, such as online film and interactive television.
B The shift of the industry away from ‘silent’ films began during the late 1920s. Warner

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Bros.’ 1927 film The Jazz Singer was the first to feature synchronized speech, and with
it came a period of turmoil for the industry. Studios now had proof that ‘talkie’ films
would make them money, but the financial investment this kind of filmmaking would
require, from new camera equipment to new projection facilities, made the studios
hesitant to invest at first. In the end, the power of cinematic sound to both move
audiences and enhance the story persuaded studios that talkies were worth investing in.
Overall, the use of sound in film was well-received by audiences, but there were still
many technical factors to consider. Although full integration of sound into movies was
complete by 1930, it would take somewhat longer for them to regain their stylistic
elegance and dexterity. The camera now had to be encased in a big, clumsy, unmovable
soundproof box. In addition, actors struggled, having to direct their speech to
awkwardly-hidden microphones in huge plants, telephones or even costumes.
C Vertical integration is the other key component in the rise of the Hollywood studio
system. The major studios realized they could increase their profits by handling each
stage of a film’s life: production (making the film), distribution (getting the film out to
people) and exhibition (owning the theaters in major cities where films were shown
first). Five studios, ‘The Big Five’, worked to achieve vertical integration through the
late 1940s, owning vast real estate on which to construct elaborate sets. In addition,
these studios set the exact terms of films’ release dates and patterns. Warner Bros.,
Paramount, 20th Century Fox, MGM and RKO formed this exclusive club. ‘The Little
Three’ studios - Universal, Columbia and United Artists - also made pictures, but each
lacked one of the crucial elements of vertical integration. Together these eight
companies operated as a mature oligopoly, essentially running the entire market.
D During the Golden Age, the studios were remarkably consistent and stable
enterprises, due in large part to long-term management heads - the infamous ‘movie
moguls’ who ruled their kingdoms with iron fists. At MGM, Warner Bros, and
Columbia, the same men ran their studios for decades. The rise of the studio system also
hinges on the treatment of stars, who were constructed and exploited to suit a studio’s

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image and schedule. Actors were bound up in seven-year contracts to a single studio,
and the studio boss generally held all the options. Stars could be loaned out to other
production companies at any time. Studio bosses could also force bad roles on actors,
and manipulate every single detail of stars’ images with their mammoth in-house
publicity departments. Some have compared the Hollywood studio system to a factory,
and it is useful
to remember that studios were out to make money first and art second.
E On the other hand, studios also had to cultivate flexibility, in addition to consistent
factory output. Studio heads realized that they couldn’t make virtually the same film
over and over again with the same cast of stars and still expect to keep turning a profit.
They also had to create product differentiation. Examining how each production
company tried to differentiate itself has led to loose characterizations of individual
studios’ styles. MGM tended to put out a lot of all-star productions while Paramount
excelled in comedy and Warner Bros, developed a reputation for gritty social realism.
20th Century Fox forged the musical and a great deal of prestige biographies, while
Universal specialized in classic horror movies.
F In 1948, struggling independent movie producers and exhibitors finally triumphed in
their battle against the big studios’ monopolistic behavior. In the United States versus
Paramount federal decree of that year, the studios were ordered to give up their theaters
in what is commonly referred to as ‘divestiture’ - opening the market to smaller
producers. This, coupled with the advent of television in the 1950s, seriously
compromised the studio system’s influence and profits. Hence, 1930 and 1948 are
generally considered bookends to Hollywood’s Golden Age.

List of Headings
i. The power with each studio
ii. The movie industry adapts to innovation
iii. Contrast between cinema and other media of

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 the time
iv. The value of studying Hollywood’s Golden Age
v. Distinguishing themselves from the rest of the
market
vi. A double attack on film studios’ power
vii. Gaining control of the industry
viii. The top movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age
: Paragraph A _____iv____
1. Paragraph B __________
2. Paragraph C __________
3. Paragraph D __________
4. Paragraph E __________
5. Paragraph F __________
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
6. After The Jazz Singer came out, other studios immediately began making movies with
synchronized sound.
7. There were some drawbacks to recording movie actors’ voices in the early 1930s.
8. There was intense competition between actors for contracts with the leading studios.

Task 3: Complete the summary below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from
the passage for each answer.
THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS
Throughout its Golden Age, the Hollywood movie Industry was controlled by a
handful of studios. Using a system known as (9) ______________, the biggest studios
not only made movies, but handled their distribution and then finally showed them in
their own theaters. These studios were often run by autocratic bosses - men known as
(10) ______________, who often remained at the head of organisations for decades.

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However, the domination of the industry by the leading studios came to an end in 1948,
when they were forced to open the market to smaller producers - a process known as
divestiture.

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