Đề thi chọn đội tuyển học sinh giỏi dự thi quốc gia môn Tiếng Anh - Năm học 2016-2017 - Sở GD&ĐT Ninh Bình (Có đáp án)

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7. The police decided to _____ the department store after they had received a bomb warning.
 A. abandon 	B. evacuate 	C. evict 	D. expel
8. I didn't take up his recommendation, as he sounded so_____about it.
 A. half-baked 	B. half-hearted	 	C. half-timbered 	D. half-witted 
9. When we went to Egypt he knew ___ no Arabic, but within six months he had become extremely fluent.
 A. entirely 	B. virtually 	 	C. barely 	 	D. scarcely 
10. Despite all the evidence, he wouldn't admit that he was in the _____.
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Part 2: The passage below contains 10 errors. Identify the errors and write the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes. 
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MARRIAGE
A great major of adults in the industrialized world -in fact, about 90% - will be married at some time in their lives. Of those who do not, some may choose to keep single, but others still have no choice. An alarm number who marry will divorce, but this is not because marriage itself has lost its attractive, instead people break up particular relationships and try again. For example, of the four out of ten American marriages that end in divorce, 80% are preludes to furthering union. Every society has its own definitions of which a perfect marriage should be. In the Western world, it seems that a husband and wife have a perfect marriage if they love each other, have no other sexual partner, show trust, loyalty and intimacy, confide in each other, demonstrate mutual respect, are willing to listen to their partner's concerns and agree with their children's upbringing. However, from time to time the imbalance of social expects shifts. For example, a study carried out in 1986 showed that 74 per cent of American-couples rate equal in the relationship as an important component of marriage. We can be fairly sure that their great-grandparents (and particularly their great-grandfathers) did not place the same value on this.
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Part 3: Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the corresponding numbered boxes.
GLOBAL ENGLISH
Global English exists as a political and cultural reality. Many (21. guide)__________ theories attempt to explain why the English language should have succeeded (22. nation)_______________while others have not. Is it because there is something (23. inherence)__________________ logical or beautiful about the structures of English? Does its simple grammar make it easy to learn? Such ideas are (24. conceive)_________. Latin was once a major international language, despite having a complicated grammatical structure, and English also presents learners with all manners of real difficulties, not least its spelling system. Ease of learning, therefore, has little to do with it. After all, children learn to speak their mother tongue in (25. approximate)___________ the same period of time, regardless of their language. English has spread not so much for (26. language)__________ reasons, but rather because it has often found itself in the right place, at the right time. Since the 1960s, two major developments have contributed to (27. strong)________ this global status. Firstly, in a number of countries, English is now used in addition to national or (28. region)__________ languages. As well as this, an (29. electricity)_________ revolution has taken place. It is estimated that 80% of such (30. wide)_________ communication is now in English. 
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III. READING COMPREHENSION (5.0 points)
Part 1: Fill in each of the numbered blank with ONE suitable word.
 The coolest kids in Europe share a (1)_______ ambition. They want to get married, have children and live happily ever after. They know it means having their children first and sticking with their (2) _______ even if they fall out of love. This news comes from the report of a new study that made out to find the answer to the modern riddle: What will today’s (3) _______really, really want tomorrow?
 Poignantly, one of the clearest answers is that they want to have happy families. Even in the most liberal countries there was condemnation for (4) _______, demands that parents should (5) _______ their marriage vows and admiration for stable couples.
 It appears that among the middle classes, the quality of our children’s lives has suffered from the (6) _______on parents in high-stress professions. In the days when the (7) _______ of ‘quality time’ first emerged, I remember seeing a TV producer on location dial home on her mobile phone to read her son a bedtime story. This is just not good enough.
 Quality time cannot be time-managed. Children need unconditional time in the same (8) _______ that they need unconditional love. This study found a generation that had given up (9) _______ to get their parents’ attention but was (10) _______to do better for their own children.
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Part 2: You are going to read a magazine article. Eight sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-I the one which fits each gap (11-18). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. 
A. One such, the physicist Sir Isaac Newton wrote that, for him, each note of the musical scale corresponded to a particular color of the spectrum: when he saw a color, he sometimes heard the note. 
B. Interestingly, he stated that his wife and son both have the gift of color hearing and that their son’s color sometimes appears to be a mix of those of his parents. 
C. The scheme of colors that he recommended for each aged group was intended to reflect a child’s stage of development. 
D. As each child develops, he or she learns to use all the senses co-operatively.
E. Later we see that the anatomical drawings of Leonard Da Vince reflect the 15th century belief that the senses have a common mechanism.
F. It turned out that she could also see the letters in different colors and that she also heard musical notes in color.
G. Apparently, green helps people relax, whereas red is good for getting people to talk and produce ideas.
H. There was also a boy who felt pressure sensations in his teeth when cold compresses were applied to his arms.
I. This idea of sensory unity is a very old one.
LISTENING TO COLOUR
Color has a deep impact on each and every one of us . In both offices and factories, shops and homes, the management of color is used to improve the environment (11) _______. However, too much color can have a different effect from the one intended- excess red brings out our aggression, for example, while too much green makes staff lazy.
 In the early part of the twentieth century Rudolf Steiner studied these effects of color on individuals. He developed a theory from which he produced color schemes for a learning environment. 
(12) _______ .The younger children had pink/red, while the older ones had yellow/green.
 	Although learning to integrate information from different senses is vital, for the majority of people sight, tough, taste, smell and hearing are fundamentally separate. Yet there is evidence , some anecdotal, some more scientific, to suggest that they are, in fact, linked. (13) _______. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle argued that the five senses were drawn together by a “common sense” located in the heart. (14) _______.
In more modern times, many individuals have reported experiencing what is normally felt through one sense via another and have described occasions when experiences of one sense also trigger experiences of another. Many respected scholars have reported the linking of the senses, known as synaesthesia. (15) _______. And the philosopher John Locke reported the case of the blind man who claimed that he had had a revelation of what the color scarlet looked like when he heard the sound of the trumpet for the first time.
 More recent studies include the case of a girl who associated color with the notes of bird song. (16) _______ . Among a group of college students it was found that more than 13 percent consciously summoned up images of color when they were listening to music, claiming that this made the experience more enjoyable. When their tutor asked them to draw what they “saw” when they heard a note rise and fall on the clarinet, their imagines included lips, lines and triangles. One even drew a house nestling amid hills.
 The author Vladimir Nabokov was once interviewed for a magazine article. He told the story of his “rather freakish gift of seeing letters in color”. (17) _______. For example, the letter M, for him was pink, and to his wife it was blue and in their son they found it to be purple.
In his autobiography, he remembered the time when he was seven years old. He was using old black and white alphabet blocks to build a tower, while his mother was watching. He casually remarked to her that the colors of the letters were all wrong. (18) _______.
 	This gift for seeing letters or hearing music in color is not yet understood. There are probably more people out there who have the gift, but feel embarrassed or awkward about admitting it.
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Part 3: Read the passage and do the tasks that follow.
MAKING EVERY DROP COUNT
A. 	The history of human civilisation is entwined with the history of the ways we have learned to manipulate water resources. As towns gradually expanded, water was brought from increasingly remote sources, leading to sophisticated engineering efforts such as dams and aqueducts. At the height of the Roman Empire, nine major systems, with an innovative layout of pipes and well-built sewers, supplied the occupants of Rome with as much water per person as is provided in many parts of the industrialized world today.
B. 	During the industrial revolution and population explosion of the 19th and 20th centuries, the demand for water rose dramatically. Unprecedented construction of tens of thousands of monumental engineering projects designed to control floods, protect clean water supplies, and provide water for irrigation and hydropower brought great benefits to hundreds of millions of people. Food production has kept pace with soaring populations mainly because of the expansion of artificial irrigation systems that make possible the growth of 40% of the world's food. Nearly one fifth of all the electricity generated worldwide is produced by turbines spun by the power of falling water.
C. 	Yet there is a dark side to this picture: despite our progress, half of the world's population still suffers, with water services inferior to those available to the ancient Greeks and Romans. As the United Nations report on access to water reiterated in November 2001, more than one billion people lack access to clean drinking water; some two and a half billion do not have adequate sanitation services. Preventable water-related diseases kill an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 children every day, and the latest evidence suggests that we are falling behind in efforts to solve these problems.
D. 	The consequences of our water policies extend beyond jeopardizing human health. Tens of millions of people have been forced to move from their homes - often with little warning or compensation - to make way for the reservoirs behind dams.' More than 20% of all freshwater fish species are now threatened or endangered because dams and water withdrawals have destroyed the free-flowing river ecosystems where they thrive. Certain irrigation practices degrade soil quality and reduce agricultural productivity. Groundwater aquifers are being pumped down faster than they are naturally replenished in parts of India, China, the USA and elsewhere. And disputes over shared water resources have led to violence and continue to raise local, national and even international tensions.
E. 	At the Outset of the new millennium, however, the way resource planners think about water is beginning to change. The focus is slowly shifting back to the provision of basic human and environmental needs as top priority - ensuring 'some for all,' instead of 'more for some'. Some water experts are now demanding that existing infrastructure be used in smarter ways rather than building new facilities, which is increasingly considered the option of last, not first, resort. This shift in philosophy has not been universally accepted, and it comes with strong opposition from some established water organisations. Nevertheless, it may be the only way to address successfully the pressing problems of providing everyone with clean water to drink, adequate water to grow food and a life free from preventable water-related illness.
F. 	Fortunately - and unexpectedly - the demand for water is not rising as rapidly as some predicted. As a result, the pressure to build new water infrastructures has diminished over the past two decades. Although population, industrial output and economic productivity have continued to soar in developed nations, the rate at which people withdraw water from aquifers, rivers and lakes has slowed. And in a few parts of the world, demand has actually fallen.
G. 	What explains this remarkable turn of events? Two factors: people have figured out how to use water more efficiently, and communities are rethinking their priorities for water use. Throughout the first three-quarters of the 20th century, the quantity of freshwater consumed per person doubled on average; in the USA, water withdrawals increased tenfold while the population quadrupled. But since 1980, the amount of water consumed per person has actually decreased, thanks to a range of ' new technologies that help to conserve water in homes and industry. In 1965, for instance, Japan used approximately 13 million gallons of water to produce $1 million of commercial output; by 1989 this had dropped to 3.5 million gallons (even accounting for inflation) - almost a quadrupling of water productivity. In the USA, water withdrawals have fallen by more than 20% from their peak in 1980.
H. 	On the other hand, dams, aqueducts and other kinds of infrastructure will still have to be built, particularly in developing countries where basic human needs have not been met. But such projects must be built to higher specifications and with more accountability to local people and their environment than in the past. And even in regions where new projects seem warranted, we must find ways to meet demands with fewer resources, respecting ecological criteria and to a smaller budget.
Choose the correct heading for paragraph B - H from the list of the headings I – XI below. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. There has been an example at the beginning.
List of headings
I. Scientists' call for a revision of policy
II. An explanation for reduced water use
III. How a global challenge was met
IV. Irrigation systems fall into disuse
V. Environmental effects
VI. The financial cost of recent technological improvements
VII. The relevance to health
VIII. Addressing the concern over increasing populations.
IX. A surprising downward trend in demand for water
X. The need to raise standards
XI. A description of ancient water supplies
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Example: Paragraph A: XI
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20. Paragraph C:
21. Paragraph D:
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23. Paragraph F:
24. Paragraph G:
25. Paragraph H:
Do the following statement agree with information given in the Reading Passage? In the corresponding numbered boxes, write
 	YES if the statement agrees with the claims of the writer
 	NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer
 	NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
Questions
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26. Feeding increasing populations is possible due primarily to improved irrigation systems.
27. Modern water systems imitate those of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
28. Industrial growth is increasing the overall demand for water.
29. Modern technologies have led to reduction in the domestic water consumption.
30. In the future, governments should maintain ownership of water infrastructures.
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Part 4: Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each question.
	Life originated in the early seas less than a billion years after Earth was formed. Yet another three billion years were to pass before the first plants and animals appeared on the continents. Life's transition from the sea to the land was perhaps as much of an evolutionary challenge as was the genesis of life.
What forms of life were able to make such a drastic change in lifestyle ? The traditional view of the first terrestrial organisms is based on megafossils - relatively large specimens of essentially whole plants and animals. Vascular plants, related to modern seed plants and ferns, left the first comprehensive megafossil record. Because of this, it has been commonly assumed that the sequence of terrestrialization reflected the evolution of modern terrestrial ecosystems. In this view, primitive vascular plants first colonized the margins of continental waters, followed by animals that fed on the plants, and lastly by animals that preyed on the plant-eaters. Moreover, the megafossils suggest that terrestrial life appeared and diversified explosively near the boundary between the Silurian and the Devonian periods, a little more than 400 million years ago.
	Recently, however, paleontologists have been taking a closer look at the sediments below this Silurian-Devonian geological boundary. It turns out that some fossils can be extracted from these sediments by putting the rocks in an acid bath. The technique has uncovered new evidence from sediments that were deposited near the shores of the ancient oceans - plant microfossils and microscopic pieces of small animals. In many instances the specimens are less than one-tenth of a millimeter in diameter. Although they were entombed in the rocks for hundreds of millions of years, many of the fossils consist of the organic remains of the organism.
	These newly discovered fossils have not only revealed the existence of previously unknown organisms, but have also pushed back these dates for the invasion of land by multicellular organisms. Our views about the nature of the early plant and animal 	communities are now being revised. And with those revisions come new speculations about the first terrestrial life-forms.
31. The word “drastic” in line 4 is closest in meaning to_______.
	A. widespread	 	B. radical 	C. progressive 	D. risky
32. According to the theory that the author calls “the traditional view” what was the first form of life to appear on land?
	A. Bacteria	 	B. Meat-eating animals 	
	C. Plant-eating animals	D. Vascular plants
33. According to the passage, what happened about 400 million years ago?
	A. Many terrestrial life-forms died out.	 
B. New life-forms on land developed at a rapid rate.
	C. The megafossils were destroyed by floods. 	
D. Life began to develop in the ancient seas.
34. The word “extracted” in line 14 is closest in meaning to _______.
	A. located 	B. preserved 	C. removed 	D. studied
35. What can be inferred from the passage about the fossils mentioned in lines 10-12?
	A. They have been helpful in understanding the evolution of terrestrial life.
	B. They were found in approximately the same numbers as vascular plant fossils.
	C. They are older than the first plants and animals. 	
D. They consist of modern life-forms.
36. The word “instances” in line 17 is closest in meaning to_______.
	A. methods 	B. processes 	C. cases 	D. reasons
37. The word “they” in line 18 refers to_______.
	A. roc