PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO
HUYỆN BÁ THƯỚC

Đề số 14

KỲ THI GIÁO VIÊN GIỎI CẤP HUYỆN
NĂM HỌC : 2011 - 2012

ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
(Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút )

Question 1:
a - Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest:
1. A. perhaps
B. attack
C. arms
D. animal
2. A. defeat
B. dead
C. leader
D. teacher
3. A. stop
B. sea
C. season
D. sometimes
4. A. whole
B. forest
C. open
D. role
5. A. prevention B. psychiatrist C. pneumonia D.psychology
b- Choose the words with the different stress pattern from the others:

1. A. station
B. person
C. believe
D. capture
2. A. architect
B. collection C. contrary
D. lemonade
3. A. notice
B. decay
C. common
D. spelling
4. A. customer
B. however
C. factory
D. evening
5. A. daughter
B. decide
C. provide
D. enjoy
Question 2: Put the verbs given in brackets into their appropriate tense or form.
1. I’m preparing to support anything he (say)…….. tomorrow.
2. Sometimes I (get)…………. up before the sun (rise)………..
3. He said he (be) ………….mistaken.
4. Don’t speak until someone (ask)………….. you.
5. What (you, look)………… at? (I, wear)………. the wrong clothes again?
6. Ann really likes (invite)……….. to dinner parties.
7. David (be)………. born after his father (die)………...
8. I (not, send)………. the parcel until I hear from you.
9. It’s high time you (start)………… working more seriously.
10. I’m sorry, madam, but this carpet (already, sell)………..

Question 3: Supply the correct forms of the words in the capital letters.
1. Thanks for everything. I had a … time.
(wonder)
2. He lives in a … house by the sea.
(wood)
3. Most orphans are bred in …
(orphan)
4. Mrs Brown lived lonely in her …
(poor)
5. I really don’t think he has the … to do this job.
(able)
6. John is old enough to be … of his parents.
(depend)
7. He gave no … for his absence.
(explain)
8. The weather in this country is so … that you never know what to expect. (predict)
9. How can you … the fact that some people live in mansions while others live in
slums?(Just)
10. The roads were … … because of the snow.
(pass)
Question 4: Complete each sentence by using a correct preposition.


1. Police officers don’t have to wear uniform when they are ……..duty.
2. I feel very tired ……times I considered giving up work.
3. The children were all upset, and some were ……tears.
4. This factory needs modernizing. Everything here is …..date.
5. Don’t worry, everything is ………control.
6. Sorry, I seem to have taken the wrong umbrella ………..mistakes.
7. Please hurry. We need these documents ………..delay.

8. That wasn’t an accident! You did it ………..purpose.
9. We thought the two films were very similar ………….a great extent.
10. We decided to take a holiday in Wales ……….. a change.
Question 5: Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage.
Use only one word in each space.Microscopes
It happened over 300 years (1)…………… in Holland. Anton van Leeuwenhoek had a
new microscope that he (2) ……….. made . One day he looked through it at a drop (3)
………… lake water. What he saw surprised him.
The water was alive with what Leeuwenhoek called "wee beasties." The microscope
made tiny organisms look 200 times (4) ……….. than life size. Leeuwenhoek was one of the
first scientists to see (5)…………. things that were that small. His work was a giant step (6)
………… science.
can see individual atoms. Pictures can be made to show the objects (8)………organisms
much bigger. The pictures add greatly to (9) ………..we know about tiny objects and
organisms. Microscopes have come a long way (10)............ 300 years!
Question 6 Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences
1. That’s my friend_______________ comes from Japan.
A. which B. who
C. whom
D. where.
2.That’s the doctor for________________ Cliff works.
A. that
B. which
C. whom
D. whose
3. Human beings are … their environment.
A. concerning
B. breaking C. destroying
D. demolishing
4. Human beings should stop cutting …… trees.

A. up
B. on
C. over
D. down
nd
5. The 22 Sea Games were well prepared and successfully ….…. although it is the first
time Viet Nam hosted.
A. organization B. organize C. organized
D. organizational
6. Unless we ……. throwing garbage into the river, it will be polluted.
A. will stop B. don’t stop
C. won’t stop
D. stop
7. It soon became ……. that no one was going to come to her party.
A. clearly B. clear
C. cleared
D. clearing
8. The more we work together, the ……. we understand each other.
A, lot
B. better
C. likely
D. more interesting
9. There is …….. salt in the pot.
A. a lot of
B. many
C. few
D. plenty


10. The car was so expensive that I didn’t buy it.

A. The car was such expensive that I didn’t buy it.
B. The car was cheap enough for me to buy.
C. The car was not so expensive that I couldn’t buy it.
D. The car was too expensive for me to buy.
Question 7: Rewrite the following sentences without changing their original meaning.
Begin with the given words.
1.
Although we live in the same street, we hardly ever see each other
Despite ………………………………………………………………………
2.
They succeeded in obtaining political rights because of their hard struggle
Because …………………………………………………………………………
3.
If management and unions don’t become more flexible, there will be more strikes
Unless …………………………………………………………………………
4.
She didn’t go until he pleaded with her.
Not until ………………………………………………………………………
5.
Mary: “ You can’t borrow my motorbike, Peter”.
Mary refused …………………………………………………………………
6. We regret to inform you that your application has not been successful.
Much to …………………………………………………………………….
7. People no longer smoke so many cigarettes as they used to.
The .....................................................................................................................
8. Their relationship was doomed because of their incompatibility.
Had ....................................................................................................................
9. You should admit that you are to blame, not to conceal it.
I’d rather ............................................................................................................
10. If she had been less determined she wouldn’t have been able to get better so quickly.

It was her ...........................................................................................................
Question 8: Read this passage carefully and then choose the best answer to questions
below.
The diseases connected to smoking are big problem. Doctors think that the annual
medical cost for lung cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses connected to smoking is
between 12 and 35 million pounds.
And smoking costs society money in other ways. Between 27 and 61 billion pounds
are spent each year on sick days when people don’t go to work, on wages that you don’t get
when you don’t go to work, and work lost at the company when you are sick.
This money counts the wages from people who die of cancer at young age and stop
paying taxes. This doesn’t count fire started by cigarettes, which kill fifteen hundred people
yearly and injure another four thousand. Smoking costs every man, woman and child in the
UK from one hundred and ten to two hundred and fifty pounds each year in the lost work
and wages. When you add another fifty to one hundred and fifty pounds yearly in insurance


cost, that comes to one hundred and sixty to four hundred and ten pounds. If everyone
stopped smoking, a family of four could have up to one thousand six hundred and forty
pounds a year more.
Smoking will also cause other problems. People who don’t smoke will live longer, and
so they will take money from the government when they are old. But they also work for
more years and pay more taxes.
In the end, the value of a non-smoking nation is not in pounds. The good health of the
people is the true value for us all.
1.If everyone stopped smoking, all the United Kingdom……………………………
A.would have more money.
B. would live longer
C.would have less money.
D. would have no more problems
2.Every year companies lose ………because of the diseases

A.money
B. work
C. wages
D. time
3.If everyone stopped smoking, a family of four could have ……….. more each year.
A.from 110 pounds to 260 pounds
B.from 1,340 to 1,430 pounds
C.from 160 pounds to 410 pounds
D.1,640 pounds
4.The true value for the UK of not smoking is ……………………
A.more work
B. more taxes
C.good health
D. more money
5.This text is about …………………..
A.taxes which are not paid by smokers.
B.diseases that smokers get
C.how much smoking costs the UK
D.how much the UK get if everyone stopped smoking
Question 9: Write one side of an argument: