Đề thi tuyển sinh vào lớp 10 THPT Chuyên Thái Nguyên môn Tiếng Anh (Dành cho thí sinh thi chuyên Anh) năm học 2022-2023 có đáp án

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I. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space. (0.5 point) 71. Sales forecasts indicate a poor ______ for the clothing industry. (LOOK) 72.Tom spoke ______ because he was so tired. (BREATH) 

73. I did everything I could to make their stay enjoyable, but they weren’t at all ______. (APPRECIATE) 74.The best way to solve this dispute is to find a neutral, ______ third party and follow his  or her suggestions. (INTEREST) 

75.His performance in the match today ______ his reputation as a great player. (LIE) 

71. outlook 

72. breathlessly 

73. appreciated

74. disinterested 

75. belied

II. Read the following passage and fill in each of the blanks with ONE suitable word. (1 point) Experts say that if you feel drowsy during the day, even during boring activities, you  haven’t had (76) ______ sleep. If you routinely fall asleep within five minutes of lying down,  you probably have severe sleep deprivation, possibly even a sleep disorder. Microsleeps, or  very brief episodes of sleep in an otherwise awake person, are another mark of sleep  deprivation. In many cases, people are not aware that they are experiencing (77)______. The  widespread practice of “burning the candle at both ends” in Western industrialized societies  has (78) ______ so much sleep deprivation that what is really abnormal sleepiness is now  almost the norm. 

Many studies (79) ______ it clear that sleep deprivation is dangerous. Sleep-deprived  people who are tested by using a driving simulator or by performing a hand-eye coordination  task perform as badly as or worse than those (80) ______ are intoxicated. Sleep deprivation  also magnifies alcohol’s effects (81) ______ the body, so as fatigued person who drinks will  become (82) ______ more impaired than someone who is well rested. Driver fatigue is  responsible for an estimated 100,000 motor vehicle accidents and 1,500 deaths each year,  according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Since (83) ______ is the  brain’s last step before falling asleep, driving while drowsy can – and often does – lead to 

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disaster. Caffeine and other stimulants cannot overcome the (84) ______ of severe sleep  deprivation. The National Sleep Foundation says that if you have trouble keeping your eyes  focused, if you cannot stop yawning, or if you can’t remember (85) ______ the last few miles,  you are probably too drowsy to drive safely. 

76. enough 

77. microsleeps 

78. created

79. make 

80. who 

81. on

82. much/far 

83. drowsiness 

84. effects

85. driving

III. Choose the most suitable heading for each section from the list of headings (A-I) below.  Write the appropriate letters (A-I) in the space provided after questions 86-90. (0.5 point) 

N.B. There are more headings than sections, so you will not use all of them.  

List of Headings

A. Species protected by tracking 

B. Researchers go deeper with innovation 

C. Unravel the dwindling of species 

D. Mapping ocean highway 

E. Functions of satellites in tracking  

F. Tagging for tracking 

G. New technique facilitating fishery 

H. Black box of marine biology 

I. Stratified ocean highway

Example: Section 1: B 

86. Section 2: F 

87. Section 3: C 

88. Section 4: A 

89. Section 5: I 

90. Section 6: G 

From Black Box to Blue Box 

Section 1 

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has just held its  annual meeting. One highlight was a session on new techniques for tracking marine animals. Making a living as a fisherman has never been easy. With the continual decline in fish  stocks currently under way, it is becoming an even harder way to grind out a living. And it is  not only fish that are disappearing, but marine fauna generally. In the past 20 years, for example,  90% of leatherback turtles and large predatory fish, such as sharks, have disappeared. Section 2 

Where and how this is happening has been difficult to say, since the ocean is something  of a black box. Things go in, and things come out, but what happens in between is hard to  unravel. According to researchers presenting their work at the AAAS meeting in Seattle,  Washington, this is now changing. Today, when many marine biologists swig their morning  coffee and download their messages, they receive special e-mails from their research subjects.  These messages, relayed by a satellite, tell them exactly where their animals have been. This 

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has been made possible thanks to advances in underwater electronic tagging, and it is causing  a revolution in marine biology.  

One of the leading researchers in oceanic tagging is Barbara Block of Hopkins Marine  Station in Pacific Grove, California. She tags bluefin tuna, which are commercially valuable  animals that can reach 680 kg (1,500lb) in weight, and swim at speeds of up to 80kph  (50mph). So far, her group has tagged around 700 bluefin. Many of the tags are surgically  implanted, a tricky thing to do while on board a moving boat. These tags archive their data in  memory chips, and are eventually recovered when a fish is caught and butchered. (The tags  carry a healthy reward). Other tags, though, are fastened to the outside of a fish, and pop off  at a pre-programmed time and date. They then broadcast their results to a satellite. Dr. Block’s  work has shown that blue-fin can migrate thousands of kilometres across the Atlantic,  ignoring boundaries that have been set to protect stocks in the western Atlantic. 

Section 3 

Tagging is also helping David Welch, head of the Canadian government’s salmon  programme, to find out where and why large numbers of the fish are vanishing. He uses small  acoustic tags (the size of a large multivitamin capsule) that are sewn into the body cavities of  salmon. These tags broadcast their signals to microphones on the seabed. 

Dr. Welch can now track where an individual salmon spends its life and watch trends  in an entire population. He was surprised to find that most salmon do not die as they leave the  river and enter the sea, as previously believed. And he is finding that climatic fluctuations  play an important role in determining population. 

Dr. Welch and his colleagues are planning to install a system of microphones stretching from the coast of Washington State to southeastern Alaska. This could follow the movements  of some 250,000 fish – collecting data on their direction of travel, speed, depth and position.  If that works, the plan is to extend the system from Baja California in Mexico to the Bering  Sea – a project that would involve about 1,000 underwater tracking stations. Section 4 

Meanwhile, Andrew Read, a marine biologist at Duke University in North Carolina, is  following 45 tagged loggerhead turtles. These animals must come to the surface to breathe. When  they do so, the tags (which are glued to their shells) talk to the nearest convenient satellite. 

Dr. Read told the meeting that the tracking data he collects are now available online,  to allow fishermen to follow the movements of turtles and, if they wish, to modify the  deployment of their nets accordingly. Bill Foster, a fisherman from Hatteras, North Carolina,  and Dr. Read, proposed the project because the Pamlico Sound near Hatteras was closed to  large-mesh gill nets (which are dragged behind a boat like a curtain) for four months a year  because too many turtles were being caught by accident. Now, the fishermen are helping the  researchers, and attaching tags to healthy turtles that are accidentally caught in their nets. 

Section 5 

Together, all this work is beginning to fill in the map of marine ‘high ways’ used by  particular species, and their preferred habitats. It is also showing where particular animals  prefer to stay close to the surface, and where they prefer deeper waters. As in the case of Dr.  Read’s turtles, this is helping scientists to devise ways of protecting rare species in an efficient  manner, without interfering too much with the exploitation of common ones.

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Larry Crowder, also at Duke University, has overlaid maps of marine highways for  loggerhead and leatherback turtles in the Pacific onto those of ‘longline’ fisheries, in which  people catch prey on fishing lines that are several kilometres long. Turtles often take the bait on  the hooks that these lines carry. Dr. Crowder wants to identify the places of greatest danger to  these turtles, in the hope that such places will be considered for protection. This need not, he says,  mean a ban on fishing, but rather the use of different hooks, and other sorts of gear that are less  damaging to turtles. It also turns out that turtles spend 90% of their time within 40 metres of the  surface, so setting hooks deeper than this would reduce the chance of catching them accidentally.  Section 6 

Conservationists are now pushing the notion of ‘ocean zoning’. Like the land, parts of  the sea – such as turtle highways – would be defined as sensitive, and subject to restrictions  on how extractive industries operate. If this idea is ever to work, tagging data will be crucial.  And because tagging data come in continually, this could mean that sensitive areas in the  ocean could be flexible, changing in both time and space. Enforcing such zones might be  difficult. But it would help fish, and other marine fauna, breathe a bit easier. And careful  management might leave the fishermen on top as well. 

IV. Finish the second sentence in such a way that its meaning is similar to that of the original one. (0.5 point) 

91.The tourists were unharmed after the train crash. 

The tourists were none the worse for the train crash. 

92.Fancy you and I meeting in the middle of Africa like this! 

It’s really odd that you and I should meet in the middle of Africa! 

93.You must remember to lock the drawer whatever you do.  

On no account must you forget to lock the drawer. 

94.We can start at either 7 a.m or 8 a.m.  

It makes no difference whether we (will) start at 7 a.m or 8 a.m. 

95.Could you possibly get here before lunch? 

Is there any chance/ any way (that) you could get here before lunch? 

V. Rewrite each of the sentences below in such a way that its meaning is similar to that of the  original one, using the word given in brackets. Do not change this word in any way. (0.5 point) 

96.She wasn’t very big but she was very strong. (LACKED) 

What she lacked in size she made up (for) in strength. 

97. Peter made absolutely sure nothing would go wrong when he planned the expedition. (CHANCE) Peter left nothing to chance when he planned the expedition. 

98.The audience didn’t enjoy his performance. (DOWN) 

His performance didn’t go down (well) with the audience. 

99.As far as I am concerned, the project is nearly completed. (NEARING) To the best of my knowledge, the project is nearing completion. 

100. David cannot possibly borrow the car tonight. (QUESTION) 

It’s out of question for David to borrow the car tonight.  

THE END 

Total: 30 questions; 3 points

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