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TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN HOÀNG VĂN THỤ NĂM 2018

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Thời gian làm bài 180 phút

(Đề này có 16 trang)

I. LISTENING (50PS)

I. You will hear someone talking on the radio about a Language Study
Fair. For each question, fill in the missing information in the
numbered space. In each space, use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.
You will listen to the CD twice.

The Language Study Fair

Dates: 17th to 19th of March

Place: (1)…………….. Education Centre

Fair includes: - stands with textbooks

- talks by educational speakers

- exhibition of (2)…………………..

- demonstrations of latest computer programs

Opening hours: 9.30 a.m. – (3)……………….Thursday and Friday

9.30 a.m. – 4.00 p.m Saturday

Tickets: (4)………….……

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 or £3 for (5)…………………………..

Tickets can be booked by ringing the hotline on 984 7711.

II. Listen to two passages and choose the correct answer. You will
listen to the passages twice.
1. When in Australia have Asian honey bees been found in the past?
A. Queensland B. New South Wales C. several states
2. A problem with Asian honey bees is that they
A. attack bees B. carry parasites C. damage
crops
3. What point is made about Australian bees?
A. Their honey varies in quality
B. Their size stops them from pollinating some flowers.
C. They are sold to customers abroad.
4. Grant Freeman says that if Asian honey bees got into Australia,
A. the country’s economy would be affected
B. they could be used in the study of allergies.
C. certain areas of agriculture would benefit.
5. In order to set up her research programme, Shona got
A. advice from personal friends in other countries.
B. help from students in other countries.
C. information from her tutor’s contacts in other countries.
III. Listen to some of the theories people have had about the cause of
his death and decide whether the statements are true or false. You
will listen to the CD once.

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1. Napoleon died at the age of 51.

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 2. No one knows exactly why Napoleon died.

3. Some people think that he had lung cancer

4. It is suggested that he was poisoned by his wife.

5. According to the third theory the poison in the dyes

in wallpaper led to his death.
IV. Listen and complete the sentences below. Write no more than
three words for each answer.

1. Governments have been mistaken to ...................... slums.

2. There is often a lack of .................... concerning housing projects.

3. Housing policies which are based on principles of ..................... are

particularly effective.

4. Some ......................... should always be provided by governments.

5. Migrants will only ........................ in housing if they feel secure.

6. Governments often underestimate the importance of ...................... to

housing projects.

7. The availability of ......................... is the starting point for successful

housing development.

8. Urbanisation can have a positive effect on the ......................... of

individuals.

9. The population size of cities enables a range of ........................... to occur.

10. City living tends to raise the level of .................................... to occur.

II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (50PS)

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I. Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct answer (A,
B, C or D).
1. Salt and ice can be used to _______ food.
A. contaminate B. pollute C. include D. preserve
2. Ask Tom to give you a hand lifting the suitcase. He is as strong as _______.
A. an elephant B. a buffalo C. a gorilla D. a horse
3. Have you sold ______ of those shirts yet?
A. out B. off C. on D. for
4. ______I to have known there is such an appropriate curriculum, I would
have registered for it at
the beginning.
A. If B. Do C. Were D. Providing
5. When you do something, you should _______.
A. weigh up the pros and cons B. turn over a new leaf
C. go down well with it D. get through to it
6. I made no impression on you at school as I was neither an excellent
student nor a(n) ______one.
A. good B. disruptive C. original D. compulsory
7. By the time I was told about the terrible affair, I _______ in what he often
said to me.
A. believed B. was believing
C. would have believed D. had believed
8. "How is the traffic there?" -"______."
A. No matter B. Absolutely C. Not too bad D. Good idea
9. "Is the course interesting?" -"______."
A. Agreed B. Ready C. Really D. Absolutely

10. All three TV channels provide extensive ____ of sporting events.

A. broadcast B. network C. coverage D. vision

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 11. They seemed to be ____ to the criticism and just carried on as before.
A. disinterested B. sensitive C. uncaring D. indifferent
12. “Shall we go out tonight?” - “____”
A. Yes, I can B. Yes, we are C. Yes, we go D. Yes, let’s
13. It's no use ___ over ___ milk.
A. crying/ spilt B. to cry/ spilling

C. crying/ spilling D. crying/ to spill

14. They are fighting to eradicate the _________________ of starvation caused

by the civil war.
A. leaving B. legacy C. remains D. tradition
15. The tracker stalked the tiger for days but the animal capture.

A. missed B. slipped C. jumped D. eluded

16. This book will be a delight to readers of science fiction.

A amateur B. skilled C seasoned D. loving

17. A considerable of folklore has built up regarding the magical

properties of sites such as Stonehenge.

A. pile B. body C. doctrine D. culture

18. Closure of schools took place falling numbers of pupils.

A. in the context of B. with regard to

C. with a concern for D. in consideration of

19. Don't worry - the documents are safe lock and key at my place

A. under B. on C. in D. within

20 for Tom's opposition, we would have agreed to the contract.

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A. Be it not B. Would it not have been

C. Should it not have been D. Had it not been

II. Each line of the following passage has one mistake related to either
grammar or vocabulary usage. Find and correct them.
Air pollution is a cause for ill – health in human beings. It a lot of
countries, there are laws limited the amount of smoke which factories can
produce. Because there isn't enough information on the amount of smoke
in the atmosphere, doctors have proved that air pollution makes lung
cancer. The gases from the exhausts of cars have also risen air pollution in
most cities. The lead in petrol produces a poisoned gas which often collects
in busy streets surrounding by high buildings. Children who live in areas
where there is a lot of lead in the atmosphere cannot think as quick as
other children and they are clumsy where they use their hands. There are
long-term effects of pollution. If the gases in the atmosphere continues to
increase, the earth's climate will become warmer. A lot of ice near the Poles
may water and may cause serious floods.
III. Fill in each blank with a suitable PREPOSITION or PARTICLE.

1. The teenager took his father’s credit card and ran ................................ 7,000
dollars’ worth of purchases.

2. Don’t believe her when she says she’s got stomachache. She’s putting
it .......................... . She just wants to get out of going to school.

3. I’ve always found his attitude ......................................... me rather puzzling.

4. If you want to have an evening out, the child is sure to be quite

safe ......................... the care of a baby sitter.

5. The younger worker can be trusted ............................... the work, he won’t

spoil it.
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6. Frank was not cut _________ the job of a policeman because of his excitable
character.

7. Have the authorities finished looking ___________ the cause of the

explosion yet?

8. It’s impossible to live on the low unemployment benefit I come_____ from

the government.

9. Everybody put Mr. Spark’s success ________ his extraordinary cleverness

at persuading people to entrust their money with him.

10. Many a change has been brought ___________ in the climate by global
warming.

IV. Supply the correct form of the words in brackets.

Vitamins, taken in tiny doses, are a major group of organic compounds
that regulate the mechanisms by which the body converts food into energy.
They should not be confused with minerals, which are (1.
organic) ......................in their makeup. Although in general the naming of
vitamins followed the (2. alphabet)................................ order of their (3.
identify) .............................................the nomenclature of individual substances
may appear to be somewhat random and (4. organize) ..................................... .
Among the 13 vitamins known today, five are produced in the body.
Because the body produces sufficient quantities of some but not all
vitamins, they must be supplemented in the daily diet. Although each
vitamin has its specific (5. designate) .............................................. and cannot be
replaced by another compound, a lack of one vitamin can interfere with the
processing of another. When a lack of even one vitamin in a diet is
continual, a vitamin deficiency may result. The best way for an individual to
(6. sure) ............................ a necessary supply of vitamins is to maintain a

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balanced diet that includes a (7. vary)............................................... of foods and
provides adequate quantities of all the compounds. Some people take
vitamin supplements, predominantly in the form of tablets. The vitamins in
such supplements are (8. equal) ............................. to those in food, but an
adult who maintains a balanced diet does not need a daily supplement. The
ingestion of supplements is recommended only to correct an existing
deficiency due to (9. balance) .................................... diet, to provide vitamins
known to be lacking in a restricted diet, or to act as a therapeutic measure
in medical treatment. (10. specify) .................................., caution must be
exercised with fat-soluble substances, such as vitamins A and D, because,
taken in gigantic doses, they may present a serious health hazard over a
period of time.
PART III. READING
I. Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word
or phrase for each space
English spelling
Why does English spelling have a reputation for being difficult? English
was first written down when Christian monks came to England in Anglo-
Saxon (1) ______ .They used the 23 letters of Latin to write down the sounds
of Anglo-Saxon speech as they heard it.
However, English has a (2) ______ range of basic sounds (over 40) than
Latin. The alphabet was too small, and so combinations of letters were
needed to (3) ______ the different sounds. Inevitably, there were
inconsistencies in the way that letters were combined.
With the Norman invasion of England, the English language was put (4)
______ risk. English survived, but the spelling of many English words
changed to follow French patterns, and many French words were (5) ______
into the language. The result was more irregularity.

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 When the printing press was (6) ______ in the fifteenth century, many
early printers of English texts spoke other first languages. They (7) ______
little effort to respect English spelling. Although one of the short-term
effects of printing was to produce a number of variant spellings, in the long
term it created fixed spellings. People became used to seeing words spelt in
the same way. Rules were (8) ______ and dictionaries were put together
which printers and writers could refer to. However, spoken English was not
fixed and continued to change slowly - just as it still does now. Letters that
were sounded in the Anglo-
Saxon period, like the 'k' in 'knife', now became (9) ______. Also, the
pronunciation of vowels then had (10) _____ in common with how they
sound now, but the way they are spelt hasn't changed.
1. A. ages B. centuries C. times D. years
2. A. deeper B. longer C. thicker D. wider
3. A. explain B. express C. perform D. tell
4. A. at B. in C. on D. under
5. A. announced B. found C. introduced D. started
6. A. discovered B. invented C. made up D. taken up
7. A. brought B. did C. made D. put
8. A. drawn up B. filled in C. got across D. handed out
9. A. dump B. quiet C. silent D. speechless
10. A. much B. many C. few D. little

II. Fill in each blank with one suitable word. Write your answers in the
spaces bellow.
Is Photography Dead?
For a long time in the past photography was not regarded as an art. It
was simply a skill and it was criticized for being too mechanical and not

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creative enough. At last, however, photography is now accepted as a unique
and very important (1)........of art.
The photograph's claim to be an objective record of reality is now
seriously challenged, and the important function of photography in
modern-day society is consequently (2) ......threat. The threat has suddenly
become all the more serious as more and more photographers are (3)....... to
the new technology which computers offer.
Moreover, a (n) (4) ........ number of colleges have now begun to offer
(5) ....... in computer imaging. All these developments (6)........ a disturbing
question. Is photography, as we know (7)......., dead?
In spite of its complete transformation by new technological
developments, however, photography will continue to play a (8) ........role in
our culture. Although it may no longer (9)........ to be realistic, modern
photography can continue to provide us with fresh visral (10) .........about
ourselves and the world in which we live.
III. Read the following passage and choose the best answer
Staggering tasks confronted the people of the United States, North and
South, when the Civil War ended. About a million and a half soldiers from
both sides had to be demobilized, readjusted to civilian life, and reabsorbed
by the devastated economy. Civil government also had to be put back on a
peace time basis and interference from the military had to be stopped.
The desperate plight of the South has eclipsed the fact that
reconstruction had to be undertaken also in the North, though less
spectacularly. Industries had to adjust to peacetime conditions: factories
had to be retooled for civilian needs.
Financial problems loomed large in both the North and the South. The
national debt had shot up from a modest $65 million in 1861, the year the
war started, to nearly $3 billion in 1865, the year the war ended. This was a

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colossal sum for those days but one that a prudent government could pay.
At the same time, war taxes had to be reduced to less burdensome levels.
Physical devastation caused by invading armies, chiefly in the South and
border states, had to be repaired. This herculean task was ultimately
completed, but with discouraging slowness.
Other important questions needed answering. What would be the future
of the four million Black people who were freed from slavery? On what
basis were the Southern states to be brought back into the Union?
What of the Southern leaders, all of whom were liable to charges of
treason? One of these leaders, Jefferson Davis, president of the Southern
Confederacy, was the subject of an insulting popular Northern song, "Hang
Jeff Davis from a Sour Apple Tree", and even children sang it. Davis was
temporarily chained in his prison cell during the early days of his two-year
imprisonment. But he and the other Southern leaders were finally released,
partly because it was unlikely that a jury from Virginia, a Southern
Confederate state, would convict them. All the leaders were finally
pardoned by President Johnson in 1868 in an effort to help reconstruction
efforts precede with as little bitterness as possible.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Wartime expenditures
B. Problems facing the United States after the war
C. Methods of repairing the damage caused by the war
D. The results of government efforts to revive the economy
2. The word "Staggering" is closest in meaning to
A. specialized B. confusing C. various D.
overwhelming
3. The word "devastated" is closest in meaning to

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 A. developing B. ruined C. complicated D.
fragile
4 According to the passage, which of the following statements about the
damage in the South is correct?
A. It was worse than in the North. B. The cost was less than
expected.
C. It was centred in the border states. D. It was remedied
rather quickly.
5. The passage refers to all of the following as necessary steps following the
Civil War EXCEPT
A. helping soldiers readjust B. restructuring industry
C. returning government to normal D. increasing taxes
6. The word "task" refers to
A. raising the tax level B. sensible financial
choices
C. wise decisions about former slaves D. reconstruction of
damaged areas
7. Why does the author mention a popular song ?
A. To give an example of a Northern attitude towards the South
B. To illustrate the Northern love of music
C. To emphasize the cultural differences between the North and the
South
D. To compare the Northern and Southern presidents
8. The word "them” refers to
A. charges B. leaders C. days D. irons
9. Which of the following can be inferred from the phrase "...it was unlikely
that a jury from Virginia, a Southern Confederate state, would convict
them"?

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A. Virginians felt betrayed by Jefferson Davis. B. A popular song insulted
Virginia.
C. Virginians were loyal to their leaders.
D. All of the Virginia military leaders had been put in chains.
10. It can be inferred from the passage that President Johnson pardoned
the Southern leaders in order to
A. raise money for the North B. repair the physical damage in
the South
C. prevent Northern leaders from punishing more Southerners
D. help the nation recover from the war

IV. Read the text below carefully and then do the following exercises.
Testing 1, 2, 3, …
A. These are testing times. In both education and the field of work, the
prevailing wisdom apears to be: if it moves, test it and if doesn’t, well, test it
anyway. I say wisdom, but it has become rather an absession. In addition to
the current obstacles, like GCSEs, A-levels, GNVQs, ONDs, and HNDs, not to
mention the interviews and financial hurdles that school-leavers have to
overcome in order to access higher education, students are facing the
threat of “new tests”, Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs)
B. SATs are being imported from the United States, where they have been
in use for nearly a hundred years. As a supplement to A-levels, the tests
purport to give students from poor backgrounds a better chance of
entering university. SATs are intended to remove the huge social class bias
that exists in British universities. But, in fact, they are, no more than an
additional barrier for students. The tests, which masquerade as IQ tests, are
probably less diagnostic of student potential than existing examinations,
and, more seriously, are far from free of the bias that the supporters
pretend.

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C. First of all, as for any other tests, students will be able to take classes to
cram for SATs, which again will advantage the better-off. At a recent
conference of the Prefessional Association of Teachers, it was declared that
school exams and tests are biased toward middle-class children. Further,
the content of the tests in question is not based on sound scientific theory,
merely on a pool of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), set up by a group of
item writers.
D. The questions in SATs are tested on a representative sample of children.
Those which correlate with the school grades of the children are kept, and
the rest discarded. This is highly unsatisfactory. There is also evidence that
in MCQs tests women are at a disadvantage, because of the way they think,
i.e. they can see a wider picture. And it is worth noting that MCQs are only
as good as the people who write them; so, unless the writers are highly
trained, those who are being tested are being judged against the narrow
limitations of the item writers.
E. Globalisation has introduced greater flexibility into the workplace, but
the educational system has not been so quick off the mark. But there are
signs that times are a changing. Previously, students took exams at the end
of academic terms, or at fixed dates periodically throughout the year. Now,
language examinations like the TOEFL, IELTs and the Pitman ESOL exams
can be
taken much more frequently. The IELTs examination, for example, is run a
test centre throughout the world subject to demand. Where the demand is
high, the test is held more frequently. At present, in London, it is possible
for students to sit the exam about four times a week.
F. Flexible assessment like the IELTs has been mooted in other areas. It has
been suggested that the students may in future be able to walk into a public
library or other public building and take assessment test for a range of

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skills on a computer. The computer will dispense an instant assessment
and a certificate. The beauty of this system is the convenience.
Questions 1 – 5: This reading passage has 6 paragraphs (A-F). Choose
the most suitable heading for each paragraph from the list of headings
below. Write the appropriate number (1-10) next to the paragraph.
One of the headings has been done for you.
Note: There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use
all of them.
YOU MAY USE ANY HEADING MORE THAN ONCE
0. Paragraph A ___9____ Paragraph B _________ Paragraph C _________
Paragraph D_________ Paragraph E _________ Paragraph F _________
List of Headings
1. Assessment in the future
2. The theory behind MCQs
3. Problem with SATs
4. Misuse of testing in School
5. The need for computer assessment
6. The benefits of SATs
7. Testing in workplace
8. The sortcoming of MCQs
9. Too much testing
10. Flexibility in language tesing
Question 6- 10: Read the passage again and then decide whether the
following statements agree with the information in the reading or not.
Write:
Yes if the statement agrees with the information in the passage.
No if the statement contradicts the information in the passage

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No Information if there is no information about the statement in the
passage.
Example:
0. SATs is the abbreviation of Scholastic Aptitude Tests .
Answer: Yes
6. In the fields of education and work the prevailing wisdom seems to be to
test everything.
7. Research in genetics refutes the theory that people are predestined to
follow certain careers.
8. Psychometric testing is favoured by headmaster and mistresses in many
high schools.
9. The writer of this article is in favour of testing in general.
10. According to the writer, students get benefits from SATs

PART V. WRITING (50PS)

I. Rewrite the following sentences in such a way that the second
sentence has the same meaning as the first one.
1. Something must be done quickly to solve the problem of homelessness.
--> Urgent .................................................................................
2. I simply fail to understand some of my colleague‟s attitudes to work.
-->I have some colleagues ...................................................
3. I did not realize how much he was influenced by his brother.
-->I did not realize the extent ....................................................
4. Mass tourism has been one of the causes of the environmental problems.
-->Mass tourism is ....................................................................
5. It was six months since I stopped subscribing to that magazine.
-->I cancelled ................................................................
6. These books are on loan from the British Council library.

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-->These books have ...................................................................
II. Rewrite the following sentences with the given words in such a way
that the second sentence has the same meaning as the first one. Do not
change the form of the word in brackets
1. These two makes of computer are practically the same. (hardly)
................................................................................................................................
2. His smooth manner didn’t deceive us. (taken)
................................................................................................................................
3. Everyone who spoke to the victim is a suspect. (under)
................................................................................................................................
4. The northwest of Britain has more rain each year than the southeast.
(annual)
..........................................................................................
III. Write a composition about 200 – 250 words on the following topic:
“Written books are not needed because we can read almost everything on the
Internet”. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
THE END

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