Đề Chuyên Anh TP Đà Nẵng 2024-2025 có đáp án

SECTION A: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (50 pts)

I. Choose the option (A, B, C or D) that best fits each of the following sentences. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20 pts)

1. Andrew expects to complete the project in July and __________ do the rest of his team.

A. as   B. neither  C. nor  D. so

II. Read the text below carefully. There are TEN mistakes in the text. They either are grammatically incorrect or don’t fit in with the sense of the text. UNDERLINE each mistake and write the mistake and the correction in the corresponding line in the box provided on the Answer Sheet. An example has been provided. (10 pts)

Example: 0. rapid  rapidly

WHY COUNTRIES ARE CHOOSING TO BUILD NEW CITIES IN PLACES AT HIGH RISK OF WORSENING FLOODS

As the world rapid urbanizes, the amount of building in flood-prone areas is soaring, according to new research, sparking concerns about people’s vulnerability to disasters as the climate crisis escalates.

III. Complete each of the following sentences with ONE suitable particle or preposition. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 pts)

1. We cannot stand idly __________ and see her hurt. 

IV. Use the word given in CAPITALS at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 pts)

THE CLASSIC MEDITERRANEAN VACATION SPOT THAT SITS OVER A LIVE VOLCANO

Everywhere you look on Santorini, you’re reminded that you’re on a volcano. The lunar landscapes, the black and red beaches, the pebbles made of (1. SOLID) __________ lava. The Greek island’s transfixing beauty is a result of the area’s violent volcanic history.

SECTION B: READING (30 pts)

I. Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 pts)

STOP, LOOK, LISTEN

Essential pre-purchase reading before you buy…

The best judge of your ideal hi-fi is you yourself. Trust your ears. 

II. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ONE word in each gap. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 pts)

The European Union has launched an investigation into Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, citing concerns about inadequate protection for children on its platforms.

III. You are going to read a newspaper article in which a scientist talks about the process of invention. TEN sentences have been taken out of the article. Choose from the sentences A-J the one which fits each gap (1-10). Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 pts)

WHY WE NEED LONE SCIENTISTS

Inventor James Lovelock mourns the passing of the golden age of solitary scientific genius

In 2011 journalist-philosopher Jonah Lehrer argued that the days of the lone scientist were over and that, if the equals of the great individual scientists of the past - Galileo, Newton and Einstein - appeared today, they would find no place in the modern world of science. 1. __________. My first instinctive thought was that this was nonsense.

SECTION C: WRITING (20 pts)

I. Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it is closest in meaning to the one printed before it. Use the word given in CAPITALS and do not alter it in anyway. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (10 pts)

1. The marketing managers had an all-day meeting on Friday. They all work in America. (OF)

=> The marketing managers, ______________________________, had an all-day meeting on Friday.

II. Write a paragraph to answer the question: 

“Students are normally stressed out before the exam. What do you think they should do to reduce stress?”

Write about 150 words. (10 pts)

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