Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi THPT cấp tỉnh năm 2017 môn Tiếng Anh - Sở GD&ĐT Ninh Bình (Đề 1) (Có đáp án)

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D. control
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A. expansion
B. conversation
C. question
D. station
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2. Identify the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other words in the same group. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (0.5 point)
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A. alternative
B. guitarist
C. agriculture
D. semester
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A. heritage	
B. mysterious
C. historical
D. particular
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A. electronic
B. television
C. secretary
D. temporary
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A. introduce	
B. Japanese
C. technological
D. photograph
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A. contribute
B. tsunami
C. tornado
D. category
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PART B: VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR. (6.5 points)
1. Choose the correct answer (A, B, C, D) to each question. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (1.5 points)
1. Kate really takes_______her mother. She has got the same character.
A. in
B. up
C. after	
D. on
2. They had never come_______such a beautiful village before.
A. off
B. along
C. at
D. across
3. He kept his marriage a secret for years, but eventually the truth_______.
A. came out
B. came through 
C. went out
D. turned out
4. These jeans will_______when you wash them.
A. decrease
B. reduce
C. shrink
D. lessen
5. I looked up their number in the telephone_______.
A. guide
B. list
C. directory
D. catalogue
6. Men still expect their jobs to take _______.
A. superiority
B. imposition
C. priority
D. seniority
7. _______of the financial crisis, all they could do was to hold on and hope that things would improve. 
A. At the bottom 
B. At the height 
C. On the top 
D. In the end
8. _______your head when you go in as the ceiling is not very high.
A. Consider
B. Mind
C. Attend
D. Look
9. It turned out that we_______rushed to the airport as the plane was delayed for several hours.
A. hadn’t
B. should have
C. mustn’t have
D. needn’t have
10. _______better working conditions.
A. What’s interesting the workers most is
C. What interest the workers most is 
B. What’s interested the workers most is
D. What interests the workers most is
11. He got an excellent grade in his examination_______ his particularly hard work.
A. on account of
B. regardless of
C. in spite of
D. in addition to
12. I’m_______my brother is.
A. nowhere like so ambitious
C. nothing as ambitious than
B. nothing near as ambitious as 	
D. nowhere near as ambitious as	
13. It was only_______he told me his surname that I realized that we had been to the same
school 
A. then
B. until
C. as soon as
D. when
14. Too many undergraduates think it is easy to_______a job once they leave university.
Unfortunately, jobs for graduates are getting scare. Finding a suitable one is another problem. 
A. obtain
B. leave
C. collect
D. apply
15. The company_______half its work force
A. unemployed
B. turned down
C. retired
D. dismissed
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2. Give the correct form of the verbs in the sentences below. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (1.0 point)
1. The little boy had a lot of trouble (convince)_______everyone that he had seen a mermaid.
2. The girl got into a lot of trouble. She (not tell)_______a lie.
3. Don’t call him between 8 a.m and 10 a.m tomorrow. He (interview)______applicants then.
4. I didn’t have any money. Otherwise, I (lend)_______him some.
5. Don’t just sit there (watch)_______the game.
6. We would rather she (come)_______ early tomorrow.
7. (finish)_______the building of the house, they had a house-warming party.
8. It is important that she (make)_______an effort to get the scholarship.
9. The man is reported (kill) _______on the way to work last Sunday.
10. Not until he came into light I (recognize) _______who he was.
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3. The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Only numbered lines contain mistakes. IDENTIFY and CORRECT them. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (1.0 point). 
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Things started to go wrongly as soon as we got to the hotel. We were all completely exhausting after our long journey and looking forward to a shower and a rest. However, we found that our room was not ready, which was very annoyed, although the manager was extreme apologetic. While we were waiting, we asked about the excursions to places of an interest which we had read about in the brochure. Imagine how we felt when we were told they had all been cancelled! Apparently, the person responsible of organizing them had left suddenly and had not been replaced. Then Sally saw a notice pinned to the door of the restaurant, saying it was closed for redecorated, and Peter discovered that the swimming pool was empty. When we eventual got to our room we were horrified to find that it was at the back of the hotel, and we had a view of a car park, that seemed to be used as a rubbish dump. We seriously began to wonder whether staying or not.
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4. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (1.0 point)
1. The land there is not very________so their main industries are forestry and mining. (FERTILIZER) 
2. In that school, students will be punished if they________. (BEHAVIOUR)
3. The early years of the 1980s were________dry, which resulted in a bad crop. (EXCEPT)
4. Pollution and________water supplies have become problems that farmers have been suffering in the last 2 years. (SUFFICIENT)
5. Houses like these in this town are ________expensive. (INCREASE)
6. Experiments________ that we can improve our memory if we train. (INDICATION)
7. My children have been really________lately. (TROUBLE)
8.________object to the use of driftnets for tuna fishing because these nets also catch dolphins. (ENVIRONMENT)
9. Parents tend to________their children as they often consider them as little kids. (ESTIMATE)
10. While some people care about physical________, others think it is not important at all. (ATTRACT)
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5. Complete these sentences by using the correct form of one the phrasal verbs below in each space. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (2.0 points).
run across
get through
make out
talk over
look into
get off
catch on
tell apart
get down
fall through
1. I couldn’t________ what he was saying. I think he was drunk.
2. The police are________ the causes of accident.
3. At the last minute their plans________, so they had to stay home.
4. The twins look so much alike that almost no one can________them________.
5. I am not sure if this is a suitable topic for research paper. I need to________ it________ with my teacher before I start writing. 
6. I didn’t know there were jewels hidden in my attic. I just________them.
7. That style looks so old-fashioned; I don’t think clothes like that will ever________.
8. This dull weather is so depressing. It is_______me_______.
9. ________ the bus when you get to the railway station.
10. I’ve tried ringing her several times but I haven’t been able to________.
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PART C: READING. (6.0 points)
1. Read and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (2.0 points)
The first traffic signal was invented by a railway signaling engineer. It was installed outside the House of Parliament in 1868. It (1) _______like any railway signal of the time, and was operated by gas. (2)_______, it explored and killed a policeman, and the accident (3)_______further development until cars became common.
Modern traffic lights are an American invention. Red-green systems were installed in Cleveland in 1914. Three-colour signals, operated (4)_______hand from a tower in the (5)_______of the street, were installed in New York in 1918. The (6)_______lights of this type to appear in Britain were in London, on the junction between St. Jam’s Street and Piccadilly, in 1925. Automatic signals were installed (7)_______year later.
	In the past, traffic lights were special. In New York, some lights had a statue on top. In Los Angeles the lights did not just (8)_______silently, but would ring bells to (9)_______the sleeping motorists of the 1930s. These are gone and have been (10)_______by standard models which are universally adopted.
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A. resembled
B. looked
C. showed
D. semmed
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A. However
B. Therefore
C. Although
D. Despite
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A. forbade
B. disappointed
C. avoided
D. discouraged
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A. by
B. with
C. through
D. in
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A. middle
B. heart
C. focus
D. halfway
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A. original
B. primary
C. first
D. early
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A. a
B. in the
C. in a
D. the
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A. change
B. alter
C. vary
D. move
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A. rise
B. raise
C. wake
D. get up
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A. reproduced
B. replaced
C. removed
D. remained
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2. Read the following passage and choose the best answers to the questions. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (2.0 points)
	During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost nothing was written about the contribution of women during the colonial period and the early history of the newly formed United States. Lacking the right to vote and absent from the seats of power, women were not considered an important force in history. Anne Bradstreet wrote some significant poetry in the seventeenth century, Mercy Otis Warren produced the best contemporary history of the American Revolution, and Abigail Adams penned important letters showing she exercised great political influence over her husband, John, the second President of the United States. But little or no notice was taken of these contributions. During these centuries, women remained invisible in history books. 
	Throughout the nineteenth century, this lack of visibility continued, despite the efforts of female authors writing about women. These writers, like most of their male counterparts, were amateur historians. Their writings were celebratory in nature, and they were uncritical in their selection and use of sources. During the nineteenth century, however, certain feminists showed a keen sense of history by keeping records of activities in which women were engaged. National, regional, and local women’s organizations compiled accounts of their doings. Personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, and souvenirs were saved and stored. These sources form the core of the two greatest collections of women’s history in the United States – one at the Elizabeth and Arthur Schlesinger Library at Radcliff College, and the other the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. Such sources have provided valuable materials for later generations of historians.
Despite the gathering of more information about ordinary women during the nineteenth century, most of the writings about women conformed to the “great women” theory of history, just as much of mainstream American history concentrated on “great men”. To demonstrate that women were making significant contributions to American life, female authors singled out women leaders and wrote biographies, or else important women produced their autobiographies. Most of these leaders were involved in public life as reformers, activists working for women’s right to vote, or authors, and were not representative at all of the great mass of ordinary women. The lives of ordinary people continued, generally, to be untold in the American histories being published.
1. The word “contemporary” in the passage is CLOSEST in meaning to_______.
A. temporary	
C. past
B. written at that time
D. belonging to future time
2. The word “representative” in the passage is CLOSEST in meaning to_______.
A. satisfied
B. supportive
C. distinctive 
D. typical
3. In the first paragraph, Bradstreet, Warren, and Adams are mentioned to show that _______.
A. even the contributions of outstanding women were ignored.
B. a woman’s status was changed by marriage.
C. only three women were able to get their writings published.
D. poetry produced by women was more readily accepted than other writings by women.
4. The word “they” in the passage refers to_______.
A. authors
B. efforts
C. sources 
D. counterparts
5. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The keen sense of history shown by American women.
B. The role of literature in early American histories.
C. The place of American women in written histories.
D. The “great women” approach to history used by American historians.
6. In the second paragraph, what weakness in nineteenth-century histories does the author point out?
A. They put too much emphasis on daily activities.
B. The sources of the information they were based on were not necessarily accurate.
C. They left out discussion of the influence on money on politics
D. They were printed on poor quality paper.
7. The phrase “male counterparts” refers to_______.
A. female writers’ husbands
C. male writers
B. female writers’ writings
D. female writers’ organizations
8. On the basis of information in the second paragraph, which of the following would most likely have been collected by nineteenth-century feminist organizations?
A. Letters from a mother to a daughter advising her how to handle a family problem.
B. Books about famous graduates of the country’s first college.
C. Newspaper accounts of presidential election results.
D. Biographies of John Adams.
9. What use was made of the nineteenth-century women’s history materials in the Schlesinger Library and the Sophia Smith Collection?
A. They were combined and published in a multivolume encyclopedia about women.
B. They were shared among women’s colleges throughout the United States.
C. They formed the basis of college courses in the nineteenth-century.
D. They provided valuable information for twentieth century historical researchers.
10. In the last paragraph, the author mentions all of the following as possible roles of nineteenth-century “great women” EXCEPT_______.
A. reformers
C. activists for women’s rights
B. authors	
D. politicians
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3. Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word to complete the passage below. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (2.0 points)
Some sports activities have traditionally been connected with young people, even though (1)_______isn’t always clear why. Skateboarders, for instance, are expected to be teenagers wearing clothes which are too big for them. When you come to think of it, there’s no practical reason (2)_______people over the age of 21 shouldn’t take (3)_______ the sport.
Skateboarding involves a certain amount of falling off the board, (4)_______can of course be painful, but this also applies to other sports like skiing (5)_______surfing. Sports should not be restricted to teenagers only. There is nothing wrong with a grown- up gliding down the road on his or her board.
(6)_______the same time, I must confess that I felt a certain sympathy for my niece Emily, when her father, (7)_______older brother Tom, announced that he was going skateboarding with her. At the age of 14 you are very conscious of (8)_______other people think of you. She knew all her friends would laugh at her if she arrived for the regular Saturday morning skateboarding sessions in the local park with her dad.
Emily felt the embarrassment would be more than she could bear, so she kindly asked her father if he (9)_______ go skateboarding somewhere else. Tom realized (10)_______embarrassed Emily must have felt and burst out laughing.
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PART D: WRITING. (6.0 points)
1. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it has the same meaning as the sentence printed before it, using the cues given. (2.0 points)
1. We’ve been trying to sell our house for well over six months.
→ Our house has been for___________________________________________________.
2. You should get out and about more.
→ It’s high time __________________________________________________________.
3. It seems as if there is a slight deterioration in his physical condition.
→ His physical condition ___________________________________________________.
4. I’ve forgotten that commentator’s name but he’s very well-known.
→ That commentator, ______________________________________________________.
5. “Why don’t you invite the Marshalls to the barbecue on Sunday, Long?’
→ They suggested_________________________________________________________.
6. It was overeating that caused his heart attack.
→ If____________________________________________________________________.
7. As the chemicals were properly combined, the prescription has brought about the expected result.
→ Because of_____________________________________________________________.
8. The man’s life was one of great poverty.
→ Throughout____________________________________________________________.
9. Something must be done quickly to solve the problem of homelessness.
→ Urgent action __________________________________________________________.
10. You may be disqualified if you don’t obey the regulations.
→ Failure to obey _________________________________________________________.
2. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it has the same meaning as the sentence printed before it, using the exact words in brackets. (2.0 points)
1. I’ve considered the advantages and disadvantages and I’ve decided not to go. (WEIGHTED) 
→ _____________________________________________________________________.
2. My views on this subject are exactly the same as yours. (DIFFERENCE)
→ _____________________________________________________________________.
3. I arrived late because I missed the 10.30 train. (TURN)
→ _____________________________________________________________________.
4. Oskar didn’t feel like going out last night. (MOOD)
→ _____________________________________________________________________.
5. If anyone succeeds in solving the problem, it will likely be him. (MOST)
→ _____________________________________________________________________.
6. Although he was exhausted, he agreed to join the activity. (AS)
→ _____________________________________________________________________.
7. The film was as good as we had expected. (LIVED)
→ _____________________________________________________________________.
8. They declared war on the pretext of defending their territorial rights. (EXCUSE)
→ _____________________________________________________________________.
9. Her success went beyond her expectations. (NEVER)
→ _____________________________________________________________________.
10. We wouldn’t have come to that restaurant if you hadn’t insisted. (INSISTENCE)
→ _____________________________________________________________________.
3. The graph below shows the proportion of the population aged 65 and over between 1940 and 2040 in three different countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant. Write about 150 words. (2.5 points)
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