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BỘ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO
THPT CHUYÊN HÀ NỘI – AMSTERDAM
CỘNG HÒA XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM
Độc lập – Tự do – Hạnh phúc
ĐỀ THI TUYỂN SINH NĂM 2016 - 2017
Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút
I - LEXICOLOGY AND GRAMMAR (3.0 pts)
a. Circle the best options A, B, C or D to
complete the sentences
1. Don’t worry. Your luggage will be looked
_____.
A. after B. up C. at D. upon
2. Never _____ till tomorrow what we can do
today.
A. put off B. put over C. put back D. put away
3. It’s raining heavily. Please come _____ my
umbrella.
A. with B. under C. for D. to
4. In our university, we often take _____
between two periods.
A. ten - minute breaks B. a break ten minutes
C. a ten - minutes break D. a ten - minute
break
5. Everyone knows about pollution problems,
but not many people have _____ any solution.
A. looked in B. seen through C. got round to
D. come up with
6. The doctor took out of her bag an unusual
_____ but promised her young patient that it would not hurt her.
A. instrument B. method C. control D. utensil
7. He went to a school which _____ good
manners and self-discipline.
A. blossomed B. planted C. harvested D.
cultivated
8. The reason why this game attracts so many
youngsters is that _____ other video games, this one is far more
interesting.
A. comparing to B. in compared with C. on
comparison to D. in comparison with
b. Choose the best option A, B, C or D that is
closest in meaning to the underlined word(s).
1. The father and mother reached a compromise
over the custody of their daughter.
A. argument B. deadlock C. agreement D.
controversy
2. The child has always adhered to the
teacher’s rules.
A. questioned B. heard C. repeated D. followed
3. Research into hydrogen technology was
facilitated by money from Congress.
A. aided B. terminated C. followed D. preceded
4. He had his own inadequacy to blame for
being fired.
A. poverty B. personality C. appearance D.
insufficiency
5. The time constraints prevented the students
from finishing the test on time.
A. periods B. clocks C. signals D. limits
c. Give the correct forms of the words given
to complete the passage.
It is commonly believed that a break from
everyday routine can only do you good. Every summer, you can
spot prospective (1. holiday)
________________________ at airports and waiting for car ferries. They are
unmistakable - you can tell them a mile away
by their sun hats and hopeful expressions.
For all their optimism, what often actually
happens can be a rude awakening from the blissful holiday dreams
of the rest of the year. Sunburn, mosquitoes
and (2. foresee) ________________________ expenses can make
you think twice about how (3. benefit)
________________________ getting away from it all really is.
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The fact is, the likelihood of something going
wrong is maximized when you are abroad and unfortunately,
your ability to deal with crisis and
catastrophe is often minimized. This could be because of language problems,
(4. familiar) ________________________ with
the culture, or simply a different climate, all of which make
everything seem different and unreal.
So, what is the answer? (5. Doubt)
________________________, an annual escape from normal working life
is a very positive thing. However, the wisdom
of seeking an exotic location is (6. question)
________________________ when you think of all
the things that can go wrong.
d. Complete the sentences by finding one word
which fits in all three spaces.
1. There is free _____ to all the museums on
our tour, which might be good new for budget conscious visitors.
His resignation was instantly interpreted as
an _____ of failure. Despite frantic efforts to revive the company,
it recorded losses for the third time in a
row.
Because Liam was completely drunk he was
refused _____ to the disco and had to go home.
2. Please come and _____ me in the tennis
match.
Danny is a bit miserable so we really should
go round and try to _____ her up.
A _____ went up as the Prince entered the
stadium.
3. Most tourists come to this part of the
world to _____ in the scenery and soothing sounds of the jungle.
I know it’s Dave’s fourth whisky, but I can
assure you he can hold his _____.
May I have a soft _____, please? I’m driving
today.
4. Travelling and meetings are _____ and
parcel of being a businessman.
Mike decided to _____ company with Jeff and
set up his own firm when the differences between the two
became too big.
Family get-togethers have been an integral
_____ of this small community’s life for decades.
5. The society organized an _____ day to
familiarize the public with its international activities.
I won’t turn a deaf ear to your ideas. I’m
always _____ to your suggestions.
The intermediaries’ conciliatory gestures
helped to _____ the way for further peace talks and negotiations.
e. Match the verbs with suitable prepositions
in the box to make phrasal verbs, then give the correct forms
of the phrasal verbs to complete the
sentences. You can use the verbs twice. There are some extra.
get come talk pay down with on into
cut step hold give apart in out off
1. Don’t try to ____________ me ____________
going to the concert. I can’t afford the time.
2. I opened the back of the watch to put a new
battery in, and the whole thing suddenly ____________ in my
hand! I hope I can get it repaired.
3. The job itself is well-paid and
interesting, but commuting to the city every day really ____________ me
____________.
4. Their lives changed completely once the
loan ____________ as it meant they could treat themselves to meals
out and weekends away
5. It took me half an hour to ____________ at
the waiting room while he was busy writing a letter.
6. People often manage to advance their
careers by ____________ in ____________ the right people and telling
them what they want to hear.
III-READING (2,5 pts)
a. Read this passage carefully and do the
following tasks.
British merchants established a trading post
in Singapore in the early nineteenth century, and for more than a
century trading interests dominated. However,
in 1965 the newly independent island state was cut off from its
hinterland, and so it set about pursuing a survival strategy. The good international communications it already
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enjoyed provided a useful base, but it was
decided that if Singapore was to secure its economic future, it must
develop its industry. To this end, new
institutional structures were needed to facilitate, develop and control foreign
investment. One of the most important of these
was the Economic Development Board (EDB), an arm of
government that developed strategies for
attracting investment. Thus from the outset, the Singaporean government
was involved in city promotion.
Towards the end of the twentieth century, the
government realized that, due to limits on both the size of the
country’s workforce and its land area, its
labor-intensive industries were becoming increasingly uncompetitive.
So an economic committee was established which
concluded that Singapore should focus on developing as a
service centre, and seek to attract company
headquarters to serve South East Asia, and develop tourism, banking,
and offshore activities. The land required for
this service-sector orientation had been acquired in the early 1970s,
when the government realized that it lacked
the banking infrastructure for a modern economy. So a new banking
and corporate district, known as the ‘Golden Shoe’, was planned, incorporating the historic commercial area. This
district now houses all the major companies
and various government financial agencies.
Singapore’s current economic strategy is
closely linked to land use and development planning. Although it is
already a major city, the current development
plan seeks to ensure Singapore’s continued economic growth
through restructuring, to ensure that the
facilities needed by future business are planned now. These include
transport and telecommunication
infrastructure, land, and environmental quality. A major concern is to avoid
congestion in the central area, and so the
latest plan deviates from previous plans by having a strong
decentralization policy. The plan makes
provision for four major regional centers each serving 800,000 people,
but this does not mean that the existing
central business district will not also grow. A major extension planned
around Marina Bay draws on examples of other
‘world cities’, especially those with waterside central areas such
as Sydney and San Francisco. The project
involves major land reclamation of 667 hectares in total. Part of this
has already been developed as a conference and
exhibition zone, and the rest will be used for other facilities.
However, the need for vitality has been
recognized and a mixed zoning approach has been adopted to include
housing and entertainment.
One of the new features of the current plan is
a broader conception of what contributes to economic success.
It encompasses high quality residential
provision, a good environment, leisure facilities and exciting city life.
Thus there is more provision for low-density
housing, often in waterfront communities linked to beaches and
recreational facilities. However, the lower
housing densities will put considerable pressure on the very limited
land available for development, and this
creates problems for another of the plan’s aims, which is to stress
environmental quality. More and more of the
remaining open area will be developed and the only natural
landscape surviving will be a small zone.
Complete the summary below using the words
given in the box. There are some extra:
deregulation service recycling
decentralization
entertainment industry tourism labour
When Singapore became an independent,
self-sufficient state it decided to build up its (1)
____________________, and government
organizations were created to support this policy. However, this initial
plan met with limited success due to a
shortage of (2) ____________________ and land. It was therefore decided
to develop the (3) ____________________ sector
of the economy instead. Singapore is now a leading city, but
planners are working to ensure that its
economy continues to grow. In contrast to previous policies, there is
emphasis on (4) ____________________. In
addition, land will be recovered to extend the financial district, and
provide (5) ____________________ as well as
housing. The government also plans to improve the quality of
Singapore’s environment, but due to the
shortage of natural landscapes it will concentrate instead on what it calls
beautification.
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Write: True (T) if the statement agrees with
the information; False (F) if the statement contradicts the
information and Not Given (NG) if there is no
information in the passage.
_______ 6. After 1965, the Singaporean
government switched the focus of the island’s economy.
_______ 7. Singapore’s four regional centers
will eventually be the same size as its central business district.
_______ 8. Planners have modelled new urban developments
on other coastal cities.
_______ 9. Labor-intensive industries are
among the current priorities for Singapore’s city planners.
_______ 10. The government has enacted new
laws to protect Singapore’s old buildings.
b. Some paragraphs A-H have been removed from the passage. Put them back to their correct places 1-7.
One night, not so long ago, just as I was
drifting off to sleep; the phone rang. It was my 19-year-old son, who is
at university in Edinburgh, calling to say
that he had broken up with his girlfriend at midnight and he had been
wandering around the city ever since, not
knowing what to do. I told him to catch the first train home. He arrived
looking a wretch, but after a good sleep and
some home cooking he began to feel his old self again.
1. ______
Girls I knew then were fairly open with their
mothers, but none of my male contemporaries would ever have
admitted asking their mothers for advice.
Despite all our talk about how important it was for men to let down their
defenses and learn how to express their
feelings, most of us still secretly felt that any man who depended on his
mother too much was a bit of a mummy’s boy.
2. ______
But things don’t work that way any more. In a
world of short-term contracts, downsizing and redundancy, even
the most promising and ambitious of our
children will go through many career highs and lows during their
twenties, and whenever they hit those depths,
many of them will return to the nest. A typical son will continue to
be at least partly dependent on his mother
well past the age of 18.
3. ______
They’re also better able to see through the
mask of apparent self-confidence. When my boy was growing up, he
always maintained a fairy invincible front.
His early imaginary play involved sieges, ambushes and surprise
attacks. His starting point, though, was
always a danger against which he needed to defend himself. He used the
games to convince himself that he could
prevail.
4. ______
In his teens, he used many of these same
tricks to keep me at bay. If I drove him anywhere to meet his friends, he
insisted I drop him off out of the sight of
where they were waiting. There were girlfriends I never met, and phone
conversations which were all in code. But
occasionally, a confidential mood would come over him and he would
tell me whatever happened to be on his mind.
5. ______
‘And there’s another important change’ she
adds. ‘Most of us took pains to reassure our sons that it was okay for
them to show physical affection or cry when
they were upset. If our boys are not so anxious now about showing
their emotions, our efforts in this area have
not been in vain.’ This seems to be backed up by research, which
shows that boys call their mothers on their
mobile phones more than anyone else.
6. ______
The mothers at the other end of the line often
have correspondingly low expectations. But we try to keep our
anxieties at manageable levels by saying; ‘All
right, you can stay out until four in the morning, but only if you
call me every hour to let me know you’re
okay.’ Those of us who add the offer, ‘And if you need a lift let me
know,’ often regret it. Most phone calls will
begin: ‘I’m at the station. When can you pick me up?’
7. ______
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What I didn’t anticipate was for the same
thing to happen with my son. I assumed I would lose him, just like all
the experts said. It may be that they were
wrong all along - that sons have always confided in their mothers - and
just made sure that no one else knew. Have I
stumbled on motherhood’s best-kept secret? Even if I have, it doesn’t
diminish my sense of wonder. It’s still like
getting a present you never expected.
A. These days, however, mothers can expect to
be relied on almost indefinitely for the type of advice that
calls on our experience of the outside world. A generation ago, it was accepted that sons would
eventually leave their mothers to join the
world of men and work. Mothers put their 18 years in and
then opened the door to allow their sons to
move into jobs for life.
B. Friends told me that they, too, were
getting the same volume of confidences. Celia Pyper says this is
normal behavior for today’s boys: ‘Our sons
will tell us more than their fathers told their mothers,
because we have brought them up to do so. Our
norm has been to empathize with our children when
they tell us about their actions or feelings,
whereas the previous generation tended to be shocked.’
C. Many of my friends are surprised at this
reluctance of their 20-something sons to break away. But
according to psychotherapist Celia Pyper, the
mother-son intimacy is nothing new. ‘Mums have always
been easier to talk to,’ she observes.
‘They’re more cuddly than their fathers, and sons realize early on
that their mothers are more accepting of human
frailty.’
D. They are not in any doubt about how to
respond to the situation. As one friend said of her rather reticent
son: ‘My job is to give my son courage’ and
whilst we might welcome the chance to see more of our
children. One does have the feeling that there
is something anti-natural in all this.
E. ‘But don’t assume that girls are any tougher than boys,’ says Celia Pyper. ‘Daughters need their mothers
too.’ Certainly, I know how much my own
daughters need me. But this continuing mother-daughter
bond is something I expected.
F. This, alone, may not imply closeness,
however, Rob rings his mother from university three times a
week, but says he is careful to edit what he
tells her. And although he’ll approach her for advice on
practical issues, when it comes to matters of
the heart: ‘Why would I go to my mother or my father,
after the mess they’ve made of their lives?’
he asked.
G. The next afternoon he told me what had
happened. Then he told me more, and more, and even more.
A moment arrived when I couldn’t help asking
myself, should I be hearing all of this? It wasn’t that I
was shocked. He reminded me of myself in my
own student years, but with one important difference -
I would never ever have confided in my parents
this way.
H. As he got older and had to ride to school
on a bus, with other children, all too often there were situations
in which he didn’t. I had to teach him how to
put up new defenses so that his rougher classmates would
not see his weaknesses.
c. Read the passage and decide which answer A,
B, C or D best completes the following statements
according to the information in the passage.
THE OLYMPIC GAMES
In ancient Greece, athletic festivals were
very important and had strong religious associations. The Olympian
athletic festival, held every four years in
honour of Zeus, eventually lost its local character, became first a national
event, and then, after the rules against
foreign competitors had been waived, international. No one knows exactly
how far back the Olympic Games go, but some
official records date back from 776 B.C.
The Games took place in August by Mount
Olympus. Many thousands of spectators gathered from all parts
of Greece, but no married woman was admitted
even as a spectator. Slaves, woman and dishonoured persons were
not allowed to compete. The exact sequence of
events is uncertain, but events included boys’ gymnastics, horse-
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racing, field events such as discus and
javelin throwing, and the very important foot races. There was also boxing
and wrestling and special tests of varied
ability such as the pentathlon, the winner of which excelled in running,
jumping, discus and javelin throwing and
wrestling. The evening of the third day was devoted to sacrificial
offerings to the heroes of the day, and the
fourth day, that of the full moon, was set aside as a holy day.
On the sixth and last, all the victors were crowned with holy garlands of wild olive from a sacred wood. So
great was the honour that the winner of the
foot race gave his name to the year of his victory Although Olympic
winners received no prize money, they were, in
fact, richly rewarded by their state authorities. The public honour
also made the strict discipline of the
ten-month training period worthwhile. In spite of the lengthy training,
however runners were known to drop dead from
strain at the winning post. How their results compared with
modern standards, we unfortunately have no
means of telling.
After an uninterrupted history of almost 1,200
years, the Games were abolished in A.D. 394, the Christian
era, because of their pagan origin. It was
over 1,500 years before there was another such international athletics
gathering. The Greek institution was revived
in 1896 and the first small meeting took place in Athens. After the
1908 London Olympic, success was
re-established and nations sent their best representatives. In times of peace,
the Games have taken place ever since at
four-yearly intervals. In Munich in 1972, competitors from more than
120 countries were watched by huge crowds.
Nowadays, the Games are held in different
countries in turn. The host country provides vast facilities,
including a stadium, swimming pools and living accommodation, but competing countries pay their own athletes’
expenses. Athletic contests are still the
feature, but now many more sports are represented, women compete, the
ancient pentathlon, for example, have been
modified into a more comprehensive test, and the marathon races,
initiated in 1896, and are now a celebrated
event.
The Olympics start with the arrival in the
stadium of a torch lighted on Mount Olympus by the sun’s rays. It
is carried by a succession of runners to the
stadium. The torch symbolizes the continuation of the ancient Greek
athletic ideals, and it bums throughout the
Games until the closing ceremony. The well-known Olympic flag,
however, is a modern conception: the five
interlocking rings symbolize the uniting of all five continents
participating in the Games.
1. The order of athletic events at the ancient
Olympics _____.
A. has not definitely been established
B. varied according to the full moon
C. was decided by Zeus, in whose honour the
Games were held
D. was considered unimportant
2. During the Games, on the evening before the
moon was full, _____.
A. heroes were sacrificed to Zeus
B. large sums of prize money were distributed
to the heroes
C. all the victors were crowned with garlands
D. the heroes were honoured with sacrificed
offerings
3. Competitors had to train _____.
A. for four years B. for ten months
C. until they collapsed exhausted D. for
periods determined by their state authorities
4. Modern athletes’ results cannot be compared
with those of the ancient runners because _____.
A. details were not recorded B. they are much
faster
C. the ancient runners fell down dead D. the Greeks
had no means of telling the time
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5. The continuity of the Olympic Games _____.
A. was broken in the year A.D. 1200 B. has
never been broken
C. was interrupted for over 1,500 years D. was
broken in 1896
6. Nowadays, the athletes’ expenses are paid
by _____.
A. the national funds of competing nations B.
the winners themselves
C. the athletes themselves D. commercial organizations
7. At the beginning of the Games in the host
country _____.
A. a torch is ignited at sunrise
B. a light torch is brought into the stadium
C. relays of runners light their torches in
the stadium
D. a torch is ignited by the Greek ambassador
8. The modern Olympics compared with the ancient
ones are _____.
A. inspired by the same ideas B. completely
different in every aspect
C. more restricted in the variety of events D.
too much concerned with international rivalry
IV. WRITING (2.5pts)
a. Complete each of the following sentences in
such a way that it means the same as the sentences printed
before it.
1. She didn’t say a word when she left the
room.
She left
_______________________________________________.
2. They thought that the little girl had found
out the keys accidentally.
The keys
_______________________________________________.
3. The kids dived straight into the pool when
we arrived.
No sooner
_______________________________________________.
4. “We are not doing enough to protect the
environment from pollution these days,” John said.
John said
_______________________________________________. .
5. Because the sales have dropped recently,
profits have declined.
As a result
_______________________________________________.
b. Rewrite the sentence by using the word
given in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed
before it. Do not alter the given word in any
way.
1. Jack and Rose never agree on how to bring
up their children. (eye)
_________________________________________________________
2. A reliable source has told me that the
local newspaper is going to shut down. (authority)
_________________________________________________________
3. Too little interest has been shown in the
project to make it viable. (Not)
_________________________________________________________
4. Our detectives are determined to find out
exactly what happened in this case. (bottom)
_________________________________________________________
5. We were just going to bed when the
earthquake happened. (point)
_________________________________________________________
THE END
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KEY
LEXICOLOGY AND GRAMMAR (30 x 0.1 pt = 3.0 pts)
a. Circle the best option A, B, C or D to
complete the following sentences.
1. A. after
2. A. put off
3. B. under
4. D. a ten-minute break
5. D. come up with
6. A. instrument
7. D. cultivated
8. D. .in comparison with
b. Choose the best option A, B, C or D that is
closest in meaning to the underlined word(s).
1. C. agreement
2. D. followed
3. A. aided
4. D. Insufficiency
5. D. limits
c. Give the correct forms of the words given
to complete the passage.
1. holidaymakers
2. unforeseen/ unforeseeable
3. beneficial
4. unfamiliarity
5. Undoubtedly/ Doubtlessly
6. questionable
d. Complete the sentences by finding one word
which fits in all three spaces.
1. admission
2. cheer
3. drink
4. part
5. open
e. Match the verbs with suitable prepositions
in the box to make phrasal verbs, then give the correct forms
of the phrasal verbs to complete the
sentences. You can use the verbs twice.
1. talk... into
2. came apart
3. gets.... down
4. had been paid off
5. hold on
6. getting... with
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III. READING (25 X 0.1 pt - 2.5 pts)
a. Read this passage carefully and do the
following tasks.
1. industry 2. labour 3. Service 4.
Decentralization 5. entertainment
6. True (T) 7. Not given (NG) 8. True (T) 9.
False (F) 1.Not Given (NG)
b. Some paragraphs A-H have been removed from
the passage. Put them back to their correct places 1-7.
1. G 2.A 3.C 4.H 5.B 6. F 7. E
c. Read the passage and decide which answer A,
B, c or D best completes the following statements according
to the information in the passage.
1. A. has not definitely been established
2. D. the heroes were honoured with sacrificed
offerings
3. B. for ten months
4. A. details were not recorded
5. C. was interrupted for over 1,500 years
6. A. the national funds of competing nations
7. B. a light torch is brought into the
stadium
8. A. inspired by the same ideas
IV. WRITING (2.5 pts)
a. Complete each of the following sentences in
such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed
before it (5 X 0.1 pt = 0.5 pt)
1. She left the room without saying a word.
2. The keys were thought to have been found
out accidentally by the little girl.
3. No sooner had we arrived than the kids
dived straight into the pool.
4. John said (that) they were not doing enough to protect the environment from pollution those days.
5. As a result of the recent drop in the
sales, profits have declined.
b. Rewrite the sentence by using the word
given in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed
before it. Do not alter the given word in any
way. (5 X 0.1 pt = 0.5 pt)
1. Jack and Rose never see eye to eye about
bringing up/ how to bring up their children.
2.1 have/ (got/had) it on (good) authority
that the local newspaper is going to shut down.
3. Not enough interest has been shown in the
project to make it viable.
4. Our detectives determine/are determined to
get to the bottom of this case.
5. We were on the point of going to bed when
the earthquake happened.
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