Kỳ thi OLYMPIC truyền thống 30-4 TP Hồ Chí Minh lần 3 năm 2017 môn Tiếng Anh 10 – ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC

OPEN CLOZE TEST (60 pts)

Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word to make a meaningful passage. PASSAGE A

Greenland is the largest island in the world but has a small (1). coastline because a large part of the country is (3).

(4).

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of 56,000. Many of these 'Greenlanders' live (2).

to the with ice and glaciers. Since the 1960s, the country has had economic and social problems. Its traditional (5)

and its biggest is fishing but the country still imports much more than it (6) Now, however, life is about to change dramatically and all because of the weather. The world's (7) is getting warmer and you can already see the change in Greenland: the ice melts. One industry that is (8). from the melting ice is the oil industry. Nowadays, the sea around the west (9) of Greenland has no ice for six months of the year. This (10)

oil companies can explore this area. They plan to drill for oil in the next few years. Greenlanders have (11)_____ feelings about this modern development. However, the country's prime (12)_______ explains the dilemma: 'The Arctic people are the ones most (13) to climate change but we need a strong economy and we have to utilise the opportunities that oil could bring us have any other natural (14)_ for the time (15)___ that hold as much potential as oil.' PASSAGE B

we don't

The great avenues are quiet, the shops are (1). Soon the streets will be full of people and (2)______________. As with most other cities, you see the real Paris when the city (3) up. There is, however, (4) part of Paris which is silent and (5).

from people 24 hours a day. Under the city are hundreds of kilometres of (6) There are sewers and old subways (7). there are also spaces of all kinds: canals and catacombs, (8) cellars which have been made into nightclubs and galleries. (9).

you to them in their books. For example, Victor Hugo. Les Miserables, and in the story and musical The (12) of the Opera there is a pond beneath the old opera house. Most people think this is (13). but in fact there is an underground pond here with fish. A 'normal' tourist can visit parts of Paris beneath the ground. However, it's illegal to enter other parts of the tunnels and (14)___ search the area. It's also very (15) because some of the tunnels might collapse.

go under Paris, there is history and legend. Historians and novelists often (10)_______ mentions the tunnels in his famous (11).

SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20 pts)

Rewrite each sentence in such a way that it means almost the same as the one printed before it. Use the word in brackets without making any change to it.

1. He spent all his money and he even borrowed some from me.

Not

2. We like to talk to Jill because she is humorous.

→ We enjoy

(sense)

3. You should see the principal for further advice, I think. (refer)

I'd like you

(well)

4. Everyone started complaining the moment the announcement was made. (burst)

→ As

5. I hate both of the paintings they sent yesterday. (expectations)

→ Neither

6. They are highly likely to win the scholarship.

often

(granted)

→ In all

7. Mind your step, or you'll slip on the wet floor. → Unless

(over)

8. It is evident that he is making good progress at school.

(getting)

→ Obviously,

9. Scarcely had he got out of the house when it started raining. (down) → No

10. They said that Paula had quit five jobs before working for us. → Paula was

(up)