ĐỀ THI OLYMPIC TRUYỀN THỐNG 30 THÁNG 4 LẦN THỨ XXVII – NĂM 2023 MÔN TIẾNG ANH – KHỐI 10 CÓ ĐÁP ÁN

Our enjoyment of a joke is increased by the pleasure of figuring out on the pieces needed to get it. In addition, getting the jokes makes you an insider compared to those who don't get it. We have own experienced the frustration of not getting a joke: fear of being judged stupid, along with a sense of being excluded from a pleasure shared by others. Sometimes someone may carefully explain the joke so that the other person doesn't feel left out. But as the old saying goes, if a joke has to be explained, it isn't very funny. All over the world, people smile and laugh, making humor a universal element of human culture. During the Middle ages, people used the word "humors" (derived from the Latin, humidus, meaning "moist") to refer to various body fluids believed to regulate a person's health. Researchers today document the power of humor to reduce stress and improve health. One recent study of cancer patients, for example, found that the greater people's sense of humor, the greater their odds of surviving the disease. Such findings confirmed the old saying that "Laughter is the best medicine". Humor is found everywhere because it works as a safety valve for potentially disruptive sentiments. To put it another way, humor provides an acceptable way to discuss a sensitive topic without appearing to be serious or offending anyone. Having said things somewhat controversial, people can simply state, "I didn't mean anything by what I said. It was just a joke!". People also use humor to relieve pressure in uncomfortable situations. One study of medical examinations found that most patients try to joke with doctors to ease their own nervousness. To sum up, humor is much more important than we may think. It is a means of mental escape from a conventional world that is never entirely to our liking. This fact helps explain why so many comedians are from the ranks of historically marginalized people, including Jews and African Americans. As long as we maintain a sense of humor, we assert our freedom and are not prisoners of reality. By putting a smile on our faces, we can change ourselves in the world just a little and for the better. 8. According to the author, what is humor? A. A mixture of different realities C. An ambiguity of a reference B. A contradiction between two social beliefs D. The double meaning of a value 9. Which statement is an example of mixing up words to generate humor? A. "Spilling that glue made a real sticky situation!" C. "Silence was louder than thunder." 10. It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that... B. "It's déjà vu all over again." D. "He's the very pineapple of politeness." A. Performances lacks punchlines can be deemed as anticlimactic. B. The conflict between the actor and the audience often brings the house down. C. Meticulous preparation of the performers plays a role in the success of the show. D. Perfect delivery skills and accurate use of words must be practiced regularly. 11. Why would a comedian want the audience to make an effort to understand a joke? A. To augment our enjoyment of the comedy C. To avoid the general letdown 12. What can lead to one's failing to "get" the humor? A. Inattention to the missing pieces C. Neglience of the elements 13. Which one of these is a benefit of humor? A. Humor moderates the flow of fluids in our body. B. To sidestep the feeling of being an insider D. To tactfully give the listeners the clues B. Misunderstanding of realities D. Apprehension of judgement B. There is a strong correlation between humor and stress level. C. Humorous patients stand a higher chance of recovering from illness. D. Humor diffuses tension without causing embarrassment. 14. What does the word "marginalized" refer to? A. minuscule B. disrespected C. insignificant D. unpretentious Trang 5 /8 Passage C You are going to read an extract from a book about the aesthetic of everything. Six paragraphs have been removed from the extract. Choose from the paragraphs AG the one which fit each gap. There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. WHO WROTE THE RULE THAT NATURE IS BEAUTIFUL? What could be more beautiful than mountain scenery? Quite a lot, actually. The mountains which Ruskin and other Victorian sentimentalists worried to save from the ravages of the industrial world were not always popular. On the contrary, mountains used to represent a prospect of triply-distilled horror. And for very good reasons: the psychological revolution against mountains was based on practical objections. If you had no more sure a means of transport than feet or a horse, mountains represented not exhilarating freedom, great views, wildflowers and fresh air, but stifling confinement - with a measure of added danger. 15... The assumption of mountains into our vocabulary of the 'beautiful' is a relatively recent one. Like public schools, Scottish national costume and Morris dancing, mountains were an "invention" of the 19th century. 16....... The architect Viollet-le-Duc, for example, rather over-busily reinvented French medieval architecture - and was always a pioneer alpiniste so he can also be said to have reinvented French mountains. However, hyperventilating, perhaps, at the top and possibly discomfited by the attentions of the short- toed eagles and the maddening wind (Ventoux means windy in the local dialect) Petrarch had a profound spiritual experience. 17....... Or at least, this conceit became conventional wisdom thanks to the poet's self- mythologizing which was accepted by Jakob Burckhardt (1818-97), the first modern historian of the Renaissance. Burckhardt recokened Petrarch's ascent of Mont Ventoux to be the beginning of a modern sensibility, which had an appreciation and an understanding of nature rather than a revulsion against it. Busy researchers have now disproved Petrarch's claim to mountaineering originality. The Emperor Hadrian went up Etna in 121 to see the sunrise, and it seems a local man went up Ventoux a few years before 1336 - but Petrarch's claim was poetically accurate if not quite technically sound. 18....... Yet in the 17th century, the Alps was still seen as an digested deformed lumps. if they had a purpose at home, it was only a horrible curtain protecting the "garden" of Italy from tourist herds originating up north. The ugly Alps were construed as a necessary dramatic anticipation of the beauties of waiting intrepid travelers further South. To enhance pleasures, the horrors were necessary. Before the invention of the picturesque, the stage of mind which sees nature as a painting or a garden. All a traveler found in mountains was, philosophically speaking, a formless void. 19. But by 1741 Richard Pococke, later Protestaant Bishop of Meath, made the first recreational visit to a glacier in the soon the Alps became acceptable as a source of delight. The very brink of destruction had become a starting point for tourism. And by the 1780s, mountaineering was fast evolving as a sport with rules established by Horace Benedict de Saussure (who climbed Mon Blanc in 1787). 20. The Alpine Club was founded in London in 1857 and when the British climber Edward Whymper successfully scaled the forbidden Matterhorn in 1865, it was the beginning of the golden age of mountaineering. Bringing the ones horrible mountains into the arena of recreation was one of the most remarkable achievements of the industrial age. And this process was completed at the moment of maximum economic activity in Britain. With the destruction of some areas of natural beauty by canals, railways, meals, factories, reservoirs, housing, mines, houses, dogs, asylums, hospitals, and storage facilities, compensation will sought for industrialization in the appropriation of nature's greatest spectacle as entertainment. List of paragraphs: A. It is one of the great symmetries of cultural history that the same people who were busy destroying nature were, at the same time, busy discovering it. B. Here for the first time the idea of a mountain as frightful, ugly thing, a source of menace, threat and foreboding, was modified to the mountain as an object of veneration and a stimulus for rumination. C. And, from the practical point of view, a place where you might very easily fall down a horrible precipice or meet not only a short-toed eagle, but carnivorous animal or a malignant mountain spirit. D. "Ugly" was not a word that an Occitan paysan of the 14th century would have used, but as he gazed, perhaps, on the Dentelles de Montmirail, if he gazed at them at all, his reaction would have been. somewhere between disgust and fear. E. On his return to level ground, he promptly wrote a now famous letter to the Augustinian monk, Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro. In this letter Petrarch claimed to be the very first person to have climbed a mountain for pleasure or instruction. F. Here, the sun shone and nature was genial and beneficent. Layers of history were so deep that it was said there were ruins piled upon ruins. Trang 6 /8 G. The English were pioneers in this rediscovery: no longer fearful travelers through misty gloom, they turned the Alps into a playground for hearties. II. OPEN CLOZE (20 PTS) ChatGPT, the artificial (1) language model from OpenAl, has been making headlines since November for its ability to instantly respond to complex questions. It can write poetry, generate code, plan vacations and translate languages, (2) within seconds. GPT-4, the latest version introduced in mid- March, can even respond to images (and ace the Bar Exam). Google has released Bard, its own A.I. chatbot, (3) the company says can draft emails and poems and offer guidance. But for all of their impressive abilities, chatbots can also serve up harmful content or answers rife (4). inaccuracies, biases and stereotypes. They are also capable of saying things that sound convincing but are, in fact, completely (5) up. And some students have begun using chatbots to plagiarize. Many parents are already distressed about their children's heavy (6) health ramifications of social media. Therefore, they may be tempted to (7) Instead, experts say families should explore this technology together, thinking critically about (8) strengths and weaknesses. on digital devices and the mental their heads in the sand. "The worst thing parents can do is forbid their child to use these new systems because they are (9) to stay," said Justine Cassell, a professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University who has studied how interacting with machines in humanlike ways can affect learning and communication. "Helping their child understand the positives and negatives is (10) more helpful."