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S͞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI OLYMPIC TRUYỀN
THỐNG 30/4
TP. H͒ CHÍ MINH LẦN THỨ XXIV – NĂM 2018
TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH – Kh͑i:
10
LÊ HỒNG PHONG Ngày thi: 07/04/2018
Th͝i gian làm bài: 180 phút
Đề này có 08 trang.
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
Thí sinh làm phần trắc nghiệm (MULTIPLE
CHOICE) trên phiếu trả lời trắc nghiệm và phần tự luận (WRITTEN TEST)
trên phiếu trả lời tự luận.
Trên phiếu trả lời trắc nghiêm, thí sinh tô
thêm 2 số 00 vào trước số báo danh (bằng bút chì).
Phần mã đề thi trên phiếu trắc nghiệm, thí
sinh tô vào ô 001.
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Choose the best options (A,
B, C, or D) that best complete each of the following
sentences. (40 PTS)
1. The local authority expressed regret as US
drone strike has ______ killed innocent hostages.
A. incongruously B. vehemently C.
inadvertently D. graciously
2. These days the castle is swamped with
______ of tourists.
A. mobs B. throngs C. shoals D. cliques
3. He left the meeting early on the unlikely
______ that he had a sick friend to visit.
A. excuse B. pretext C. motive D. claim
4. He decided to withdraw from the powerboat
race as he could see a(n) ______ of danger.
A. prediction B. foreboding C. omen D. dearth
5. I slipped briefly back into sleep and
emerged when breakfast was being served outside in a(n) ______ garden-
courtyard.
A. whimsical B. extravagant C. extortionate D.
enchanting
6. He had a momentary ______ of concentration
and before he knew it the car had spun out of control.
A. lapse B. loss C. slip D. mistake
7. In the hands of a careless driver, a car
becomes a ______ weapon.
A. fatal B. mortal C. lethal D. venal
8. He glanced at Juliet accusingly and she
looked ______ abashed.
A. completely B. absolutely C. utterly D. suitably
9. We were sorted out into groups according to
the types of honors and quite a long wait ______.
A. ensued B. eventuated C. supervened D.
transpired
10. The Prime Minister will decide whether to
release the prisoner or not; that’s his ______.
A. derogatory B. abdication C. prerogative D.
humanity
11. His new play is not only interesting but
also unique. It is really off the beaten ______.
A. road B. path C. route D. track
12. That Peter was born and brought up in a
rich family is as clear as the ______.
A. nose on his face B. tip of his tongue C.
back of his hand D. hair on his head
13. I will try to finish the job to the best
of my ______.
A. knowledge B. ability C. means D. command
14. Tim said the meal was ______, so we didn’t
have to worry about the price.
A. on the house B. on his expense C. for him
D. for his money
15. Let Hercules himself do what he may, for a
cat will mew and a dog will have his ______.
A. day B. time C. month D. year
16. Breaking his leg ______ a blow to his
chances of becoming a professional footballer.
A. brought B. caused C. dealt D. struck
17. In the acting career, the moment one first
cut his ______ will be the most memorable with embarrassment
and pride bubbling up inside.
A. nails B. teeth C. fingers D. hair
18. His French is roughly ______ with my
Japanese, so communication was rather difficult.
A. in harmony B. on a par C. on equal term D.
on good terms
19. Max has been ______ my ears all night
about his new job.
A. bending B. deafening C. rolling D. biting
20. The fighting has stopped, so to ______,
the war is over.
A. all pins and needles B. all chop and change
C. all prim and proper D. all intents and purposes
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21. We would sooner Mr. Tram ______ us the
urgent information the other night.
A. would have sent B. had sent C. sent D. had
been sent
22. Would you be ______ my letter while I am
away?
A. too good as to forward B. so good as to
forward
C. as good as to forward D. so good as forwarding
23. He ______ us on the last day of the
congress, so his presence at the opening ceremony was something of a
surprise.
A. could have joined B. had to join C. was
about to join D. was to join
24. You could have done ______ inviting Sam to
the party.
A. better or worse than B. a lot worse than C.
much better as D. nothing as worse as
25. He works until nine o’clock every evening,
and that’s quite ______ the work he does over the weekend.
A. except for B. apart from C. without D. but
for
26. I would rather go skiing ______ picnicking
this weekend.
A. than going B. than to going C. than to go
D. than go
27. It is mandatory that smoking in public
______.
A. is prohibited B. must be prohibited C.
prohibiting D. be prohibited
28. In geometry, an ellipse may be defined as
the locus of all points ______ distances from two fixed points is
constant.
A. the sum of whose B. of which the sum C.
whose sum of D. which the sum of
29. Tony gripped his brother’s arm lest he
______ by the mob.
A. would be trampled B. were trampled C. be
trampled D. could have been trampled
30. The mini dress was ______, but now it is
making a comeback.
A. a fad once thought to be finished B. once
though a fad to be finishing
C. thought a fad to be finished once D. once thought to be a finishing fad
31. If you never put oil into your car engine,
one day it will ______.
A. flake out B. shut down C. seize up D. run
off
32. If you pay the restaurant bill with your
credit card, it will ______ with you later.
A. settle down B. settle up C. pay back D. pay
off
33. In those days, doctors ladled ______
antibiotics to patients.
A. with B. on C. in D. out
34. Let’s find a place where we can ______ the
storm.
A. wait out B. wear off C. wind down D. shrug
off
35. The schoolboy winced ______ the sight of
the cane in the headmaster’s hand.
A. at B. for C. by D. of
36. I was completely bowled ______ by their
warm reception.
A. with B. up C. off D. over
37. I am not ______ liberty to tell you
anything about his private life.
A. in B. at C. by D. on
38. The figure is more ______ 200. I think.
A. of B. at C. like D. with
39. Their performances are really ______
compare. How amazing!
A. out of B. over C. within D. beyond
40. The party was ______ full swing when I
arrived. Everyone was singing and dancing.
A. in B. on C. about D. with
READING COMPREHENSION 1:
Read the following passage carefully and
answer the questions below.
STEP BACK IN TIME
Historical biographer Antiona Fraser reveals
the pleasures of studying a bygone era.
Gibbon was inspired to write The Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire sitting on the steps of the Capitol at
Rome one evening, listening to the sound of
monks chanting. My own inspiration to become a historical biographer
came in rather less elevated circumstances, as
a teenager one rainy Oxford afternoon: I began to read Lytton
Strachey's Eminent Victorians, and was in
particular fascinated by his essay on Cardinal Manning. This was going to be
the life for me! Once back at school I plunged
into further research in the library. A very different picture emerged.
Gradually as I pursued the topic, I became
aware of Strachey's daring sallies into "artistic truth" (as opposed
to
historical truth). Nevertheless I never forgot
my original sense of being transported into a world more vivid than my
own.
An ability to convey this sensation is, I
believe, at the heart of the matter. If you, the biographer, don't thrill to
your subject, you can hardly in all fairness
expect the reader to do so. In a sense (not of course the commercial sense)
the choice of subject is irrelevant so long as
it meets that requirement. You could say that I was extremely lucky to
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choose Mary Queen of Scots for my first foray
since there proved to be a world-wide public for the troubles of the ill-
fated Queen. But you could argue equally that
I made my own luck, since I had always been obsessed by Mary's story
from childhood. Nor was success fore-ordained.
It was, after all, the leading publisher Mark Bonham-Carter of (then)
Collins who said to me when I confessed my
project, "They say that all books on Mary Queen of Scots sell and no
books on South America do", before adding
with a laugh, "Perhaps yours will be the exception."
Nevertheless I did have luck. In the 60s,
so-called narrative biography was said to be passé. Mary Queen of
Scots was an early beneficiary from the fact
that the public continued to have an appetite for it, so long as the
research was felt to be solid.
The actual research for a biography - now
that's a whole other matter. The paramount need for it - historical
truth not Stracheyesque truth must be
established - means that biographers discover for themselves the reality of Dr.
Johnson's wise dictum: "A man will turn
over half a library to make a book. "
And what about those fabled things boasted of
on blurbs: hitherto unpublished documents? Obviously it is
every researcher's dream to discover such
papers, and their discovery once again may make a project commercial
which would not otherwise be so. At the same
time I would issue a caveat about hitherto unpublished documents.
HUDs are not in themselves more valuable than
the printed sources - it's a historical coincidence that one set has
become known early on, the other not. One
needs to evaluate them even more closely. Here I speak from personal
experience. A series of chances led me to discovering some hitherto unpublished letters of Oliver Cromwell just as I
was finishing my manuscript. I blazoned my
finds across the text: only to realise at the proof stage, that they might be
unpublished but they were not very important
in the grand scheme of things... an expensive mistake.
Where the perils and pleasures of writing
historical biography are concerned, there are two perils which seem
to me to raise points of principle. The first
is the peril of anachronistic judgements. For example, in the 16th
century more or less everybody took astrology
seriously and more or less everybody enjoyed a jolly afternoon out to
see the bears baited . It's no good dismissing
the former as meaningless and cringing from the latter as disgusting.
I would further cite the peril of hindsight.
We may know that Henry VIII will marry six times, but he didn't, and
he would have been amazed if it had been
predicted at the time of his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
And the pleasures? Manifold! Principal among
them however is the opportunity to lead a life less ordinary. As a
biographer, I can rule over kingdoms, lead the
cavalry into battle, patronise the great artists of the past and all without
leaving my chair.
41. What did the writer learn while
researching a historical figure as a teenager?
A. There was a surprising amount of
information available.
B. It was not possible to take everything she
read as fact.
C. It was difficult to interpret the true
meaning of what she read.
D. It was necessary to consult a wide range of
sources.
42. What does that requirement refer to?
A. the reader’s response to a writer’s subject
B. the correct choice of subject
C. the commercial appeal of the book D. the
writer’s ability to communicate their enthusiasm
43. What did Mark Bonham-Carter believe about
the writer’s choice of subject?
A. Her long-standing interest in it may ensure
her book’s success.
B. It did not guarantee her book’s success.
C. There are already too many books written on
it.
D. It was a wise choice for her first
biography.
44. The main point that the writer is making
in the fourth paragraph is that
A. a biography is more likely to be successful
if it contains new information.
B. researchers must be careful to check all
facts thoroughly.
C. research material can include inaccurate
information.
D. extensive reading is crucially important.
45. What warning does the writer give to
biographers about unpublished documents?
A. They are difficult to obtain as their
discovery is down to chance.
B. Their overall significance to the book must
be carefully considered.
C. Their use could result in diminished
commercial success for a book.
D. It should not be assumed that they are
authentic.
46. An example of an anachronistic judgement
that the writer gives is
A. not being able to imagine oneself living in
the sixteenth century.
B. being uninformed about sixteenth century
customs and practices.
C. viewing the sixteenth century from a
twenty-first century perspective.
D. focusing only on the negative side of life
in the sixteenth century.
47. In the article as a whole, the writer
implies that her main motivation for becoming a historical biographer was
the chance to
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A. carry out extensive research. B. become
immersed in history.
C. discover unpublished documents. D.
establish historical truth.
48. The word elevated is closest in meaning to
______.
A. lofty B. normal C. raised D. high
49. The word passé is closest in meaning to
______.
A. obsolete B. out of fashion C. antique D.
archaic
50. The word their in the fifth paragraph
refers to ______.
A. blurbs B. researchers C. unpublished
documents D. historical truths
READING COMPREHENSION 2:
Read the following passage carefully and
answer the questions below.
The Amazonian wilderness harbors the greatest number
of species on this planet and is an irreplaceable
resource for present and future generations.
Amazonia is crucial for maintaining global climate and genetic
resources, and its forest and rivers provide
vital sources of food, building materials, pharmaceuticals, and water
needed by wildlife and humanity.
The Los Amigos watershed in the state of Madre
de Dios, south-eastern Peru, is representative of the pristine
lowland moist forest once found throughout
most of upper Amazonian South America. Threats to tropical forests occur
in the form of fishing, hunting, gold mining,
timber extraction, impending road construction, and slash-and-burn
agriculture. The Los Amigos watershed,
consisting of 1.6 million hectares (3.95 million acres), still offers the
increasingly scarce opportunity to study
rainforest as it was before the disruptive encroachment of modern human
civilization. Because of its relatively
pristine condition and the immediate need to justify it as a conservation zone,
this
area deserves intensive, long-term projects
aimed at botanical training, ecotourism, biological inventory, and
information synthesis.
On July 24, 2001, the government of Peru and
the Amazon Conservation Association signed a contractual
agreement creating the first long-term
permanently renewable conservation concession. To our knowledge this is the
first such agreement to be implemented in the
world. The conservation concession protects 340,000 acres of old-
growth Amazonian forest in the Los Amigos
watershed, which is located in south-eastern Peru. This watershed protects
the eastern flank of Manu National Park and is
part of the lowland forest corridor that links it to Bahuaja-Sonene
National Park. The Los Amigos conservation
concession will serve as a mechanism for the development of a regional
center of excellence in natural forest
management and biodiversity science.
Several major projects are being implemented
at the Los Amigos Conservation Area. Louise Emmons is
initiating studies of mammal diversity and
ecology in the Los Amigos area. Other projects involve studies of the
diversity of arthropods, amphibians, reptiles,
and birds. Robin Foster has conducted botanical studies at Los Amigos,
resulting in the labeling of hundreds of plant
species along two kilometers of trail in upland and lowland forest. Michael
Goulding is leading a fisheries and aquatic
ecology program, which aims to document the diversity of fish, their
ecologies, and their habitats in the Los
Amigos area and the Madre de Dios watershed in general. With support from
the Amazon Conservation Association, and in
collaboration with U.S. and Peruvian colleagues, the Botany of the Los
Amigos project has been initiated. At Los
Amigos, we are attempting to develop a system of preservation,
sustainability, and scientific research; a
marriage between various disciplines, from human ecology to economic
botany, product marketing to forest
management. The complexity of the ecosystem will best be understood through a
multidisciplinary approach, and improved
understanding of the complexity will lead to better management. The future
of these forests will depend on sustainable
management and development of alternative practices and products that
do not require irreversible destruction.
The botanical project will provide a
foundation of information that is essential to other programs at Los
Amigos. By combining botanical studies with
fisheries and mammology, we will better understand plant/animal
interactions. By providing names, the
botanical program will facilitate accurate communication about plants and the
animals that use them. Included in this
scenario are humans, as we will dedicate time to people-plant interactions in
order to learn what plants are used by people
in the Los Amigos area, and what plants could potentially be used by
people.
To be informed, we must develop knowledge. To
develop knowledge, we must collect, organize, and
disseminate information. In this sense,
botanical information has conservation value. Before we can use plant-
based products from the forest, we must know
what species are useful and we must know their names. We must be
able to identify them, to know where they
occur in the forest, how many of them exist, how they are pollinated and
when they produce fruit (or other useful
products). Aside from understanding the species as they occur locally at Los
Amigos, we must have information about their
overall distribution in tropical America in order to better understand and
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manage the distribution, variation, and
viability of their genetic diversity. This involves a more complete
understanding
of the species through studies in the field
and herbarium.
51. The phrase genetic resources refers to
A. plant seeds B. different races of people.
C. diverse species of plants and animals. D.
cells that can be used in genetic cures for diseases.
52. In paragraph 2, the author emphasizes that
the current environmental condition of Amazonian South America
is ______.
A. mostly unscathed
B. restorable through his project
C. irredeemable everywhere but in the Los
Amigos water shed
D. varying from destroyed to virtually
pristine
53. The word encroachment in paragraph 2 is
closest in meaning to ______.
A. intrusion B. augmentation C. infringement D. seepage
54. The author implies in paragraph 3 that the
agreement between Peru and the Amazon Conservation Association
is history primarily because it ______.
A. was the first long-term agreement regarding
land in the Amazon Rainforest
B. represented the first time a South American
government had agreed to renew a conservation agreement
C. is essentially a permanent conservation
agreement
D. represents the first time such an agreement
has been in the form of a renewable contract.
55. The author’s main purpose in the passage
is to ______.
A. demonstrate that conservation efforts have
been historically successful and so should be continued
B. garner support for opposition to
destructive activities in the Los Amigos watershed
C. position the Los Amigos watershed agreement
as a success towards the achievement of the vital goal of
conservation the Amazonian rain forests
D. argue that the study pristine rainforests
is essential for documenting and studying the myriad new species
that the forests contain
56. The author’s tone in the passage can be
best described as ______.
A. advocacy for his project over the other
competing projects
B. general praise for conservation projects in
Amazonian South America
C. passionate support for his and related
projects
D. zealous advocacy for his point of view
57. The work of Louise Emmons, Robin Foster, and Michael Goulding (in paragraph 4) are employed in the passage
as ______.
A. colleagues of the author’s in his botanical
project
B. examples of the kinds of activities the
author and his colleagues are trying to halt
C. scientists who are representative of new
trends of study in Amazonian botany
D. scientists involved in projects related and
amenable to the author’s
58. The author’s botanical project involved
all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A. studying plants in laboratory B. studying
how plants are used by humans and animals
C. facilitating pharmaceutical use of plants
D. labeling plants in the Los Amigos area
59. When the author says that the botanical
project will provide names he means that the project ______.
A. help recognize new species
B. aid in the standardization of names for new
species
C. participate in naming the region’s
different zones
D. clarify the conclusion surrounding the
names of different organizations working in Amazonia.
60. When the author says that botanical
information has conservation value he means that ______.
A. a robust understanding of conservationism
is aided botanical information
B. conservationists should strive to preserve
botanical information
C. specification is of importance for
conservation
D. political discussions about conservation
should use botanical nomenclature
GUIDED CLOZE 1: Choose the most appropriate
words to fill in the blanks.
The national park movement began in the United
States in 1870 when a team of explorers suggested that part
of the Yellowstone River region be (61) ______
in order to protect its geothermal (62) ______, wildlife, forests and
(63) ______ scenery for the benefit of future
generations. Congress (64) ______ by creating Yellowstone National
Park, the world'
s first, in 1872.
The idea proved (65) ______, and the number of
national parks in this country grew rapidly, new parks being
set up by presidential (66) ______ and
sometimes as the result of gifts by states of the union or by individuals.
Administration of this increasingly complex
system was in the hands of the U.S. Army for thirty years from 1886, but
then Congress created the National Park
Service as part of the Department of the Interior to (67) ______ it.
Today, in addition to what might be thought of
as typical national parks, the Service also manages places of
historic interest, hiking trails, seashores,
rivers, (68) ______ of scientific interest and memorials. In all, more than 300
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entities are involved, covering over 32
million hectares. Each unit is directed by a superintendent who is responsible
for
all aspects of the operation. Staff (69)
______ administrative personnel and, according to the nature of the unit, park
rangers, naturalists, historians, and (70) ______ workers.
61. A. set up B. set aside C. set by D. set in
62. A. tokens B. characters C. features D.
traits
63. A. breathless B. optimal C. exceptional D.
prominent
64. A. countered B. retrieved C. designated D.
responded
65. A. prevailing B. banal C. widespread D.
popular
66. A. analogy B. proclamation C. constitution
D. dissemination
67. A. oversee B. overlook C. overcharge D.
overact
68. A. observatories B. reserves C. reservoirs
D. estuaries
69. A. cover B. control C. undergo D.
undertake
70. A. maintenance B. sustainable C.
protectorate D. conservation
GUIDED CLOZE 2: Choose the most appropriate
words to fill in the blanks.
Ocean water plays a(n) (71) ______ role in
supporting life. The great ocean basins hold about 300 million
cubic miles of water. From this vast amount,
about 80,000 cubic miles of water are sucked into the atmosphere each
year by evaporation and returned by
precipitation and drainage to the ocean. More than 24,000 cubic miles of rain
descend annually upon the continents. This
vast amount is required to (72) ______ the lakes and streams, springs
and water tables on which all flora and fauna
are dependent. Thus, the hydrosphere permits organic existence.
The hydrosphere has strange characteristics
because water has (73) ______ unlike those of any other liquid.
One (74) ______ is that water upon freezing
(75) ______ by about 9 percent, whereas most liquids contract on
cooling. (76) ______ this reason, ice floats
on water bodies instead of sinking to the bottom. If the ice sank, the
hydrosphere would soon be frozen solidly,
except for a thin layer of surface melt water during the summer season.
Thus, all aquatic life would be destroyed and
the interchange of warm and cold currents, which moderates climate,
would be (77) ______ absent.
Another outstanding characteristic of water is
that water has a heat capacity which is the highest of all liquids
and solids except ammonia. This characteristic
enables the oceans to absorb and store vast quantities of heat, (78)
______ often preventing climatic extremes. In
addition, water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. It is
this characteristic which helps make oceans a
great storehouse for minerals which have been washed (79) ______
from the continents. In several areas of the
world these minerals are being commercially exploited. Solar evaporation
of salt is widely (80) ______, potash is
extracted from the Dead Sea, and magnesium is produced from sea water
along the American Gulf Coast.
71. A. principle B. principal C. dispensable
D. expendable
72. A. replenish B. reinforce C. replete D.
restore
73. A. property B. characteristics C. assets
D. nature
74. A. alienation B. distinction C. contrast
D. inconsistency
75. A. extends B. inflates C. increases D.
expands
76. A. For B. By C. In D. With
77. A. remarkably B. vaguely C. unnoticeably
D. indefinitely
78. A. so B. hence C. and then C. consequently
79. A. off B. out C. up D. down
80. A. exercised B. exerted C. practised D. proceeded
WRITTEN TEST (70 PTS)
I. CLOZE TEST (20 PTS)
OPEN CLOZE 1: Fill in each numbered blank with
ONE suitable word.
A new threat to our health seems to have
arisen in our midst, confusion and stress brought (1) __________
by technology. All you need to do to prove
this to (3) __________ is to telephone a large company; a recorded voice
will (3) __________ you with a bewildering
list of choices, and when you have finished answering its questions, you
will probably be to several minutes of piped
music before you eventually make contact with a human being. But the
stress you undergo as a result is negligible
compared to the (4) __________ the telegraph made on people 150 years
ago. Until (5) __________, messages could only
travel as fast as a messenger could carry them. But now they could
be sent great (6) __________ in seconds.
Before long, (7) __________ cables were laid across the oceans, and thirty
years later, the network reached 20,000 towns
around the world.
Information arrived so quickly, often
contradicting what had previously been transmitted, (8) __________
businessmen had to work much harder to (9)
__________ abreast of developments. If we find difficulty with the
Internet, which is technological evolution,
(10) __________ revolution, our ancestor had a far harder task in getting
used to the invention in the first place.
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OPEN CLOZE 2: Fill in each numbered blank with
ONE suitable word.
Negative impacts from tourism occur when the
level of visitor use is greater than the environment’s (11)
__________ to cope with this use within the
acceptable limits of change. Uncontrolled conventional tourism poses
potential (12) __________ to many natural
areas around the world. It can put enormous pressure on an area and
lead to impacts such as soil erosion,
increased pollution, (13) __________ into the sea, natural habitat loss,
increased
pressure on endangered species and heightened (14) __________ to forest fires. It often puts a strain on water
resources, and it can force local populations
to compete for the use of critical resources.
Water, and especially fresh water, is one of
the most critical natural resources. The tourism industry generally
(15) __________ water resources for hotels,
swimming pools, golf courses and personal use of water by tourists. This
can result (16) __________ water shortages and
(17) __________ of water supplies, as well as generating a greater
volume of waste water. Tourism can create
great pressure on local resources like energy, food, and other raw
materials that may already be in short supply.
Greater extraction and transport of these resources exacerbates the
physical impacts associated with their
exploitation. Because of the (18) __________ character of the industry, many
destinations have ten times more inhabitants
in the high season as in the low season. A high demand is placed upon
these resources to (20) __________ the high
expectations tourists often have (proper heating, hot water, etc.).
II. WORD FORMATION (20 PTS)
WORD FORMATION 1: Supply the correct forms of
the words given.
1. To the __________, most computer systems
seem complex and difficult to understand. (INITIATIVE)
2. The pieces of evidence fell into place with
the __________ precision of a well-made jigsaw puzzle. (VOICE)
3. Parents have deep __________ about allowing
business values to be used in schools. (GIVE)
4. For many people, social networking offers
them a feeling of __________ from the real world. (ESCAPE)
5. Not sick, Mai guessed, but probably
__________ now that she drank a lot at the party last night. (HANG)
6. The boats surrounded the whales, drove them
into nets, where they became __________ and were rendered
helpless by harpoon thrusts. (MESH)
7. “P” is a __________ consonant. (LIP)
8. Perhaps __________, recent computer
modeling studies predict fewer tropical cyclones if the ocean heats up
further as a result of global warming.
(INTUITION)
9. New immigrants have been successfully
__________ into the community. (SIMILAR)
10. We have to learn good examples, to look at
our behavior and stop being __________. (RIGHT)
WORD FORMATION 2: Fill in the blank with an
appropriate form of one of the words given to make a
meaningful passage.
BRIDGE LIVE ALLEGATION SEQUENTIAL NAME
HEALTHY CORPORATE ACCOMPANY LICENSE GAINFUL
William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote
under the (11) __________ of O. Henry, was born in North
Carolina. His only formal education was to
attend his Aunt Lina’s school until the age of fifteen, where he developed
his (12) __________ love of books. By 1881 he
was a (13) __________ pharmacist. However, within a year, on the
recommendation of a medical colleague of his
Father’s, Porter moved to La Salle County in Texas for two years herding
sheep. During this time, Webster’s (14)
__________ Dictionary was his constant (15) __________, and Porter gained
a knowledge of ranch life that he later (16)
__________ into many of his short stories. He then moved to Austin for
three years, and during this time the first
recorded use of his pen name appeared, (17) __________ derived from his
habit of calling “Oh, Henry” to a family cat.
In 1887, Porter married Athol Estes. He worked as a draftsman, then as a
bank teller for the First National Bank.
In 1894 Porter founded his own humor weekly,
the “Rolling Stone”, a venture that failed within a year, and
later wrote a column for the Houston Daily
Post. In the meantime, the First National Bank was examined, and the (18)
__________ indictment of 1886 stated that
Porter had embezzled funds. Porter then fled to New Orleans, and later to
Honduras, leaving his wife and child in
Austin. He returned in 1897 because of his wife’s continued (19) __________,
however she died six months later. Then, in
1898 Porter was found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment in
Ohio. At the age of thirty five, he entered
prison as a defeated man; he had lost his job, his home, his wife, and finally
his invented name he now used to hide his
identity. He wrote at least twelve stories in jail, and after (20) __________
his freedom, went to New York City, where he
published more than 300 stories and gained fame as America’s favorite
short Story writer. Porter married again in
1907, but after months of poor health, he died in New York City at the age
of forty-eight in 1910. O. Henry’s stories
have been translated all over the world.
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III. ERROR CORRECTION (10 PTS)
Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage
and suggest corrections.
Line 1 Preserving organisms in museums is one
way of retaining them for posterity, but almost people agree that it
would be nice to keep a few of them live in
the wild, too. At the moment, which species survive, which decline to
threatened or even status and which succumb
for extinction is something of a lottery. WORLDMAP is an easy-
to-use software that identifies geographical
patterns in diversity, rarity and conservation priorities. It can perform
a range of specialist biological analysis for
infinitely countless numbers of species, with a view to provide
biodiversity data for research purposes. The
program divides the surface area of the world into cells, usually
arranging in a rectangular gird. WORLDMAP can
also predict the likelihood of a hitherto unobserved species found
in an area on the basis of theirs known
distribution. Given the patchiness of most records, which is a useful trick.
Furthermore, it can select complementary areas
for preservation. Those are not necessarily cells with the highest
individual biodiversity, but for those which,
together, maximize what is preserved by picking places with the least
overlapping species.
LINE MISTAKE CORRECTION
IV. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20 PTS)
Rewrite the following sentences using the
words given.
1. Linda was very nervous, which made her look
like a bashful girl. (CAME)
→ Such
__________________________________________________________________________________
.
2. As soon as the funds ran out, they had to
abandon the scheme. (PETERED)
→ The instant
_____________________________________________________________________________ .
3. Why did you reveal my plan to Kathy?
(BREATHED)
→ I’d
____________________________________________________________________________________
.
4. David was responsible for the family
business as soon as his father retired. (CHARGE)
→ Scarcely
________________________________________________________________________________
.
5. Your encouragement helped to make things
less grievous after such a heavy loss. (CUSHION)
→ It was
_________________________________________________________________________________
.
6. Tina was crazy about stamps, so she spends
lots of money on them every month. (SPLASHED)
→ Had it _________________________________________________________________________________
.
7. He tried hard but couldn’t compensate for
what had done. (AMENDS)
→ Try
___________________________________________________________________________________
.
8. Experts think that all dogs evolved from
wolves. (DESCENDED)
→ All dogs
__________________________________________________________________________
experts.
9. We didn’t learn he still managed to live
with very little money as a waiter until later. (EKED)
→ Not until
_______________________________________________________________________________
.
10. Nobody is certain if the project will be
permitted to continue. (GO-AHEAD)
→ It’s still touch
______________________________________________________________________ or not.
END OF TEST – BEST OF LUCK
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LÊ HỒNG PHONG Ngày thi: 07/04/2018
Th͝i gian làm bài: 180 phút
ANSWER KEY
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1. C. inadvertently
2. B. throngs
3. B. pretext
4. C. omen
5. D. enchanting
6. A. lapse
7. C. lethal
8. D. suitably
9. A. ensued
10. C. prerogative
11. D. track
12. A. nose on his face
13. B. ability
14. A. on the house
15. A. day
16. C. dealt
17. B. teeth
18. B. on a par
19. A. bending
20. D. all intents and
purposes
21. B. had sent
22. B. so good as to
forward
23. D. was to join
24. B. a lot worse than
25. B. apart from
26. D. than go
27. D. be prohibited
28. A. the sum of whose
29. C. be trampled
30. A. a fad once thought
to be finished
31. C. seize up
32. B. settle up
33. D. out
34. A. wait out
35. A. at
36. D. over
37. B. at
38. C. like
39. D. beyond
40. A. in
READING COMPREHENSION 1:
41. B. It was not possible to take everything
she read as fact.
42. D. the writer’s ability to communicate
their enthusiasm
43. B. It did not guarantee her book’s
success.
44. D. extensive reading is crucially
important.
45. B. Their overall significance to the book
must be carefully considered.
46. C. viewing the sixteenth century from a
twenty-first century perspective.
47. B. become immersed in history.
48. A. lofty
49. B. out of fashion
50. B. researchers
READING COMPREHENSION 2
51. C. diverse species of plants and animals.
52. D. varying from destroyed to virtually
pristine
53. A. intrusion
54. C. is essentially a permanent conservation
agreement
55. C. position the Los Amigos watershed
agreement as a success towards the achievement of the
vital goal of conservation the Amazonian rain
forests
56. C. passionate support for his and related
projects
57. D. scientists involved in projects related
and amenable to the author’s
58. D. labeling plants in the Los Amigos area
59. B. aid in the standardization of names for
new species
60. A. a robust understanding of
conservationism is aided botanical information
GUIDED CLOZE 1:
61. B. set aside
62. C. features
63. C. exceptional
64. D. responded
65. D. popular
66. B. proclamation
67. A. oversee
68. B. reserves
69. A. cover
70. A. maintenance
GUIDED CLOZE 2:
71. B. principal
72. A. replenish
73. B. characteristics
74. D. inconsistency
75. D. expands
76. A. For
77. A. remarkably
78. B. hence
79. D. down
80. C. practised
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WRITTEN TEST
OPEN CLOZE 1:
1. about
2. yourself
3. provide / supply
4. impression
5. then
6. distances
7. submarine
8. that
9. keep / stay
10. not
OPEN CLOZE 2:
11. ability
12. threats
13. discharges
14. vulnerability /
susceptibility
15. overuses
16. in
17. degradation
18. seasonal
19. more
20. meet
WORD FORMATION 1:
1. uninitiated
2. unequivocal
3. misgivings
4. escapism
5. hungover
6. enmeshed
7. bilabial
8. counter-intuitively
9. assimilated
10. self-righteous
WORD FORMATION 2:
11. pseudonym
12. lifelong / life-long
13. licensed / licenced
14. Unabridged /
unabridged
15. companion
16. incorporated
17. allegedly
18. subsequent
19. ill-health
20. regaining
ERROR CORRECTION
LINE MISTAKE (0,5 pt each) CORRECTION (0,5 pt
each)
1 almost people most people / almost all
people
2 live alive
3 succumb for succumb to
5 infinitely countless countless
5 provide providing
7 arranging arranged
8 theirs its
8 which that / this
9 cells the cells
10 but for but rather
SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (1 correct part
between “|” symbols equals 1 pt)
1. Linda was very nervous, which made her look
like a bashful girl. (CAME)
→ Such was Linda’s / her nervousness that |
she / Linda came over / across as a bashful girl.
2. As soon as the funds ran out, they had to
abandon the scheme. (PETERED)
→ The instant the funds peter out, they had to
abandon the scheme.
3. Why did you reveal my plan to Kathy?
(BREATHED)
→ I’d rather / sooner you | hadn’t breathed a
word about my plan to Kathy.
4. David was responsible for the family
business as soon as his father retired. (CHARGE)
→ Scarcely had his father retired when | David
took / was (put) in charge of the family business.
5. Your encouragement helped to make things
less grievous after such a heavy loss. (CUSHION)
→ It was your encouragement that | helped (to)
cushion blow after such a heavy loss.
6. Tina was crazy about stamps, so she spends
lots of money on them every month. (SPLASHED)
→ Had it not been for Tina’s / her craze for
stamps, | she / Tina wouldn’t have splashed out on
them every month.
7. He tried hard but couldn’t compensate for
what had done. (AMENDS)
→ Try as he might, | he couldn’t make amends
for what he had done.
8. Experts think that all dogs evolved from
wolves. (DESCENDED)
→ All dogs are though to have | been descended
from wolves according to / by experts.
9. We didn’t learn he still managed to live
with very little money as a waiter until later. (EKED)
→ Not until later did we learn | he (still)
eked out a / his (miserable) living / an existence as a
waiter.
10. Nobody is certain if the project will be
permitted to continue. (GO-AHEAD)
→ It’s still touch and go whether | the
project will get / be given the go-ahead or not.
THE END
