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ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH 2009 - 2010

THỜI GIAN:  90 phút

I. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR:

1. Looking down at the coral reef, we saw ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­__________of tiny, multi – colored fish.

A. swarms                              B. flocks                    C. teams                     D. shoals

2. I’m ________aware of the need to obey the rules of the competition.

A. well                                    B. far                          C. much                      D. greatly

3. It was impossible for to tell the truth so she had to _________a story.

A. invent                                B. combine                C. manage                  D. lie

4. Dave and I have _______to meet at the bus station at 9 o’clock.

A. confirmed                         B. combined              C. appointed              D. arranged

5. It turned out that we __________rushed to the airport as the plane was delayed by several hours.

A. hadn’t                                B. should have          C. mustn’t have        D. needn’t have

6. The pollution problems in town have been _______by mass tourism in the summer.

A. exacerbated                      B. developed             C. augmented            D. contributed

7. In the hotel lobby the detective caught ______of the man he had been hired to follow.

A. glance                                B. view                       C. vision                    D. sight

8. “Go on, finish the desert. It needs ________up because it won’t stay fresh until tomorrow.

A. eat                                      B. eating                     C. to eat                      D. eaten

9. When they could put _______the noise no longer, they banged on their neighbor’s door.

A. back                                   B. in for                      C. off                          D. up with

10. ______have settled, one of their first concerns has been to locate an adequate water supply.

A. Wherever people                                                 B. There are people who

C. Whether people                                                   D. People

Part 2: Use the words in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO LEARN

My attemp to teach myself Spanish has been ….unsuccessful……(0)                       SUCCESS

so far and I’m wondering whether I am simply …………….(1)                      ABLE

to learn foreign languages at my age. I am not ……………..(2)                       PATIENCE

and neither am I …………..(3), so why have I found it almost                        INTELLIGENCE

………………(4) to learn more than just the basics of Spanish after             POSSIBLE

nearly six months of study? My vocabulary is …………(5)beyond               ADEQUATE

very basic expressions and my grammar is …………..(6) to say the              SATISFY

least. It is not only that my Spanish is ………….(7) but I suspect                  CORRECT

I sound very …………(8), too. Recently, I met a Cuban tourist in                  POLITE

a café and …………..(9), I must have said something                                       FORTUNE

……………(10) because she looked very offended and got up and               APPROPRIATE

 sat at another table.

Your answers:

1…………………………2……………………………3……………………..4……………………5…………………………6……………………………7……………………..8……………………

9…………………………10……………………………..

Part 3: Rewrite the sentences replacing the underlined verbs with the correct form of one of the verbs in the box. One exampe has been done for you.

carry on                   find out              go in for           look back on               own up

put up with              stand up for        think over        turn down

Example : (0) I’m sure we’ll all remember this holiday with great pleasure.

                        …………..we’ll all look back on this holiday……….

1. I didn’t expect to win the competition. I only entered it for a joke.

………………………………………………………………………………………….

2. Unless you confess we shall all be punished.

…………………………………………………………………………………………

3. Before you accept this offer, please consider it very carefully.

…………………………………………………………………………………………

4. We can’t continue if you don’t co – operate.

…………………………………………………………………………………………

5. When the critics attacked her work she defended it vigorously.

…………………………………………………………………………………………...

6. He was offered a new job but he refused it because he didn’t want to move house.

…………………………………………………………………………………………..

7. We moved house because we couldn’t bear the noise from the motorway any longer.

…………………………………………………………………………………………

8. He had to leave when his boss discovered what he had been doing.

………………………………………………………………………………………..

Part 4: Choose the one underlined part that is wrong.

1. Since one of their members was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, the family felt badly when heard

                            A                                                                                                              B                   

over the radio that the peace talks were to be discontinued.

            C                                                         D

2. Have you read in the Columbia Spectator that Jeff’s leg was broken while playing football?

            A                                                                         B                       C                           D

3. Stores were jammed with last – minute Christmas shoppers, but the festive spirit was slight

                                  A                       B                                                                                             C

disrupted by homade boms that exploded at two department stores.

                                                            D

4. How much times did Peter and Alice have to do the experiment before they obtained the result

                A                             B                                                                                                         C

they had been exciting.

                        D

5. I’d be very exciting to go to England one day.

         A                   B          C                         D

6. The police didn’t permit going across that area, but they didn’t let us to know why.

                                                  A                                     B               C                     D

Part 5: Put each verb given in brackets into an appropriate tense or form.

1. I left my pen here and now it has gone. Someone must ……………………(borrow) it.

2. She ………………….(sleep) for ten hours! You must wake her up.

3. He looked frightened as if he ……………..(see) a ghost.

4. I have considered asking him………………(raise) my salary but I don’t think he can afford to do it.

5. I’m sure you will forget me by the time I ……………(come) back in five years.

6. I can help …………………….(feel) sorry for these orphans. If there were a home for them.

II. READING COMPREHENSION

Part 1: Read the article. Choose the most suitable heading from the list A – I for each part (1 – 7) of the article. There is one extra heading that you do not need. There is an example at the beginning (0).

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Larry Waters was a lorry driver, but he had always wanted to fly. After leaving school he wanted to become an Air Force pilot, but unfortunately, he was turned down because of his poor eyesight. So he had to do with watching others fly the fighters jets that criss – crossed the skies over his backyard. As he sat there in his garden chair he dreamed about the magic of flying.

1

Then one day, Larry came across an advertisement in the local paper and realized there was a way of making his dreams come true. He went to a specialist store and bought forty – five weather balloons and several tanks of helium. These were not brightly – coloured party balloons, but large spheres measuring more than one metre when fully inflated. His plan was to float lazily into the sky, and spend the afternoon sunning himself 10m above his girlfriend’s garden before eventually coming back down to earth.

2

When he returned home, he attached the balloons to his garden chair, tied the chair to his car, and filled the balloons with helium. Then he packed a few sandwiches and drinks and took his air gun so that he could burst a few balloons when it was time to return to earth.

3

When his preparations were complete, Larry said in his chair and cut the cord.But he made a mistake in his calculations and things did not turn out quite as he had planned. He did not float up as gently as he had expected: within seconds, he passed the 10m altitude that he had hope to reach, rising quickly to 30m and then 300m. He climbed and went on climbing until he finnally levelled at 3,000m.

4

At that height he did not want to risk shooting any of the balloons because he was afraid it might unbalance his aircraft and send him , crashing to the ground. So he stayed up there among the clouds sailing around for fourteenth hours desperately trying to come up with a solution to the problem of how to get back the earth.

5

Eventually, many hours later, he drifted into the main approach corridor for Los Angeles International Airport. Fortunately, a Pan Am flight passed him and air traffic control was alerted. The pilot explained that he had just seen an armed man floating in a garden chair at 3,0000m just ouside the plane.

Understandably, the air traffic controller found this difficult to believe, but a few minutes later a Delta Airlines pilot called with the same message. Radar confirmed the existence of an unidentified flying object above the airport and the authorities sent for a Navy helicopter to investigate.

6

As night bagan to fall, offshore breezes bagan to blow Larry out to the sea and when the helicopter arrives, the wind from the propeller kept pushing his home- made aircraft further away. Eventually, they hovored several hundred metres above him and managed to drop down a line, with which they were able to pull him gradually back to safety.

7

As soon as Larry hit the ground he was taken away by the police charged with invading Los Angeles’ International Airport airspace. But as he was being led away in handcuffs a television reported called out, “Why did you do it?” Larry stopped , looked the man and explained “I’ve been dreaming of flying for years. I just got tired of waiting.”

A. No way down                                                       F. A bright idea

B. An incredible report                                           G. Heading for the clouds

C. A difficult rescue                                                            H. Getting ready for take - off

D. Free as a bird                                                       I. A lifelong ambition

E. Under arrest

Part 2: In this section you will find after the passage five quesitons, each with suggested answers. You must choose one which you think fits best.

PURE SCIENCE AND APPLIED SCIENCE

Many of the latest scientific accomplishments fall in the realm of pure science. This is reseach for the sake of increasing man’s knowledge without concern about how the knowledge is going to be used. In contrast with pure science is “applied” science.The production of synthetic diamonds is an example of applied science. In applied science the facts and principles of pure science are used in the solution of a problem which has or will have intermediate economic and social importance.

Often in the past, applied scicience has gone far ahead of pure science. Its practical applications have been used for man’s good even for the basic facts and principles were understood. For example, the telegraph, telephone and electric motor, which could not work without electrons, were invented before man discovered the electron. People were vascinated long before viruses were investigated. Chemicals like sulphuric acid and soda were manufactured before man began to understand the nature of the atom. Today, however, if app-lied science is to grow it must depend more and more on increased knowledge of pure science.

1. The aim of the pure science is …………….

A. to promote the production of pure chemicals

B. to solve practical problems of everyday life.

C. to develop human knowledge of the general principles of science.

D. to apply scientific facts to the invention of electronic devices.

2. Applied science has ………………………….

A. made our life more comfortable with understanding of basic scientific theories.

B. made our lives more enjoyable with the production of everything we need.

C. given the basic facts and principles of science.

D. helped us to research for the sake of increasing man’s knowledge.

3. In the past applied science went far ahead of pure science because ………….

A. pure science has been discovered only in recent years.

B. men understood the basic facts and principles od pure science before they discovered and invented things.

C. pure science had been considered less important than applied science.

D. many inventions and discoveries had been made before men knew the basic scientific theories.

4. The fact that vacciantion had been practiced long before the investigation of viruses  means……

A. people devoted a lot of time to the study of pure science.

B. applied science  went far ahead of pure science

C. pure science went far ahead of applied science.

D. the study of pure science was delayed for a long time.

5. If applied science is to develop more efficiently ……………

A. its practical applications must be used for man’s good.

B. people must devote more time to the study of the neutron and atomic energy.

C. it must rely on the increasing knowledge of pure science

D. people must solve problems of immediate economic and social importance.

Part 3: Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only ONE word in each space.

Science has told us so much (1)…………..the moon that it is fairly easy (2)…………imagine what it would it be life to go there. It certainly not a friendly place. As there is no air or (3)……………

There can be no life of any kind. There is no variety of scenery either. For mile after mile there are only flat plains of dust with mountains around them. Above, the sun and stars (4)………………in a black (5)………………..If you stepped out (6)………….the mountain shadows. It will mean moving from severe cold into great heat. These extreme temperatures continually break rocks away from the surface (7)……….the mountains. The moon is also a very silent world for sound waves can only travel (8) ……………air. But beyond the broken horizon, you see a friendly sight. Our earth is shining more brightly (9)………………the stars. From this distance, it looks (10)…………..an immense ball, colored blue and green and brown.

IV. WRITING

Part 1: For each of the sentence below, write new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence, but using the words given.

1. Paula said I had caused the accident.

blamed

2. In the next few years we’ll probably hear a lot more about the environment pollution.

likely

3. The last Olympics Games were held in Seoul.

took

Part 2: Finish of the following sentences:

1. The salesman told me that my new car would be delivered next Wednesday

According___________________________________________________________

2. As I get older I want to travel less.

The older____________________________________________________________

3. It took us five hours to get to Tay Ninh.

We spent_________________________________________________________

4. Although her leg hurt, Van finished the marathonrace.

In

5. Roses can’t possibably grow in such poor land.

It is impossible________________________________________________________

KEY

I. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR:

Part 1: 1D    2A    3A            4D       5D       6A       7D       8B       9D       10A

Part 2:

1. unable        2. patient        3. intelligent              4. impossible             5. inedequate

6. unsatisfactory       7. incorrect    8. impolite     9. unfortunately        10. inappropriate

Part 3:

1. went in for             2. own up       3. think it over          4. carry on     5. stood up for

6. turned it down      7. put up with            8. found out

Part 4: 1B       2D       3C       4A       5B       6D

Part 5: 1. have borrowed     2. has slept    3. had seen    4. to raise       5. come          6. feeling

II. READING COMPREHENSION

Part 1: 1F       2H       3G       4A       5B       6C       7E

Part 2:

1C       2B       3D       4B       5C

Part 3: 1. about         2. to    3. water          4. shine          5. sky              6.of     7. of    8. through

9. than                        10like

IIII.WRITING

Part1: Paul blamed for me causing the accident.

2. . In the next few years we are likely to hear a lot more about the environment pollution.

3. The last Olympics Games took place in Seoul.

Part 2:

1. The salesman told me that my new car would be delivered next Wednesday

According to the salesman, my new car would be delivered next Wednesday

_The older____________________________________________________________

3. It took us five hours to get to Tay Ninh.

We spent__five hours getting to Tay Ninh.

4. Although her leg hurt, Van finished the marathonrace.

It spite of her hurt leg, Van finished the marathonrace.

5. Roses can’t possibably grow in such poor land.

It is impossible_to grow roses in such poor land.