ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI THPT CẤP TRƯỜNG Môn Tiếng Anh 12 NĂM HỌC 2020 – 2021 Môn thi TIẾNG ANH có đáp án (cực hay)

Part 2. Fill each blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the numbered blanks provided below  the passage.  

Life on a small island may seem very inviting (1) _________ the tourists who spend a few weeks there in the  summer, but the realities of living on what is virtually a rock surrounded by water are quite different from (2)  _________ the casual visitor imagines. Although in summer the island villages are full of people, life and  activities, when the tourist season is (3) _________ many of the shop owners shut down their businesses and  (4) _________ to the mainland to spend the winter in town. Needless to say, (5) _________ who remain on the  island, either by choice or necessity, face many hardships. One of the (6) _________ of these is isolation, with  its many attendant problems. When the weather is bad, (7) _________ is often the case in winter, the island is  entirely cut off; this means not only that people cannot have goods (8) _________ but also that a medical  emergency can be fatal to someone confined to an island. At times telephone (9) _________ is cut off, which  means that no word from the outside world can get through. Isolation and loneliness are basic reasons why so  many people have left the islands for a better and more (10) _________ life in the mainland cities, in spite of  the fact that this involves leaving “home”. 

Part 3. Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to each question.  MUSICAL TALENT 

 Among all the abilities with which an individual may be endowed, musical talent appears earliest in life.  Very young children can exhibit musical precocity for different reasons. Some develop exceptional skill as a  result of a well- designed instructional regime, such as the Suzuki method for the violin. Some have a good 

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fortune to be born into a musical family in a household filled with music. In a number of interesting cases,  musical talent is part of an otherwise disabling condition such as autism or mental retardation. A musical gifted  child has an inborn talent; however, the extent to which the talent is expressed publicly will depend upon the  environment in which the child lives.  

 Musically gifted children master at an early age the principal elements of music, including pitch and  rhythm. Pitch- or- melody - is more central cultures, for example, in Eastern societies that make use of tiny  quarter- tone interval. Rhythm, sounds produced at certain auditory frequencies and grouped according to a  prescribed system, is emphasized in sub- Saharan Africa, where the rhythmic ratios can be very complex.  

 All children have some aptitude for making music. During infancy, normal children sing as well as babble,  and they can produce individual sounds and sound patterns. Infants as young as two months can match their  mother’s song in pitch, loudness, and melodic shape, and infants at four months can match rhythmic structure  as well. Infants are especially predisposed to acquire these core aspects of music, and they can also engage in  sound play that clearly exhibits creativity. 

 Individual differences begin to merge in young children as they learn to sing. Some children can match  large segments of a song by the age of two or three. Many others can only approximate pitch at this age and  may still have difficulty in producing accurate melodies by the age of five or six. However, by the time they  reach school age, most children in any culture have a schema of what a song should be like and can produce  a reasonably accurate imitation of the songs commonly heard in their environment. 

 The early appearance of superior musical ability in some children shows that musical talent may be a  separate and unique form of intelligence. There are numerous tales of young artists who have a remarkable  “ear” or extraordinary memory for music and a natural understanding of musical structure. In many of these  cases, the child is average in every other way but displays an exceptional ability in music. Even the most gifted  child, however, takes about ten years to achieve the levels of performance or composition that would constitute  mastery of the musical sphere.  

 Energy generation in music history has its famous prodigies - individuals with exceptional musical powers  that emerge at a young age. In the eighteenth century, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began composing and  performing at the age of six. As a child, Mozart could play the piano like an adult. He had perfect pitch, and  at the age of nine he was also a master of the art of modulation - transitions from one key to another - which  became one of the hallmarks of his style. By the age of eleven, he had composed three symphonies and 30  other major works. Mozart’s well- developed talent was preserved into adulthood.  

 Unusual musical ability is a regular characteristic of certain anomalies such as autism. In one case, an  autistic girl was able to play “Happy Birthday” in the style of various composers including Mozart, Beethoven,  Verdi, and Schubert. For the autistic child, music may be the primary mode of communication, and the child  may cling to music because it represents as a haven in the world that is largely confusing and frightening.