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TRƯỜNG THPT YÊN LẠC 2

KỲ THI KSCL ĐỘI TUYỂN HSG LỚP 12
NĂM HỌC 2017 – 2018
ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian: 180 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề
(Đề thi gồm 05 trang)

A. LISTENING (The recording will be played TWICE)
Questions 1-10
Complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

West Bay Hotel- details of job

Example

Answer

Newspaper advert for temporary staff

• Vacancies for 1____________
• Two shifts
• Can choose your 2_______________( must be the same each
•
•
•
•
•
•

•
•

week)
Pay: £5.50 per hour, including a 3___________________
A 4________________ is provided in the hotel
Total weekly pay: £231
Dress: a white shirt and 5______________ trousers (not
supplied)
a 6______________(supplied)
Starting date: 7_____________
Call Jane 8_______________ (service Manager)
before 9_______________tomorrow (Tel: 832009)
She’ll require a 10___________________

B.
PHONETICS
Pick out the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other words. Identify your answer
by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C or D.
1. A. architecture
2. A. unaffected
3. A. necessary
4. A. disappear
5. A. disease

B. comparison
B. unanimous
B. infamous
B. government
B. aspect


C. championship
C. unaccoutable
C. automobile
C. hurricane
C. design

D. communism
D. unambiguous
D. technique
D. triangle
D. mature

C. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
Part 1. Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct answer A, B, C or D.

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1. He prefers to attend Economics University rather than _______.
A. go to Polytechnic B. to be accepted to Polytechnic
C. studying Polytechnic
D. to attend Polytechnic
2. It could have been a lot worse _____ there.
A. when he had not been
B. had he not been
C. for he had not been
D. whether or not he had been
3. It is advised that not only Tam but also his friends ___ punctual.
A. be

B. are
C. is
D. were
4. It was an embarrassing situation, but she managed to _____.
A. laugh at it
B. laught on it
C. laugh it off
D. laugh it out
5. When his alarm went off, he shut if off and slept for ____ 15 minutes.
A. other
B. others
C. another
D. the others
6. _______ as taste is really a composite sense made up of both taste and smell.
A. That we refer to B. What we refer to
C. To which we refer D. What do we refer to
7. It took the parents a long time to ______ their children’s game.
A. catch up with
B. catch up
C. catch on to
D. catch out
8. Prizes are awarded _____ the number of points scored.
A. resulting from B. adding up
C. presented to
D. according to
9. Many _____ crafts such as weaving are now being revived.
A. customary
B. habitual
C. traditional
D. ordinary

10. The soldier was punished for _______ to obey his commanding officer’s orders.
A. refusing
B. regretting
C. objecting
D. resisting
11. The police finally arrested the _______ criminal.
A. famous
B. renowned
C. respectable
D. notorious
12. Football is the most typical example of ______ sports.
A. viewer
B. watcher
C. spectator
D. observer
13. Do you need to give your speech another _______ or do you already know it by heart?
A. break-down
B. check-up
C. run-through
D. mix-up
14. Mr. Jones knew who had won the contest, but he kept it under his ______ until it was announced
publicly.
A. cap
B. tongue
C. hat
D. umbrella
15. The ceiling fans were on, but unfortunately they only _____ the hot, humid air.
A. stirred up
B. poured through
C. turned into

D. cut back
Part 2. Supply the correct form of the word provided to the right of each blank.
1. _______, we could still win, but it’s not very likely.
THEORY
2. They never dare to leave their child ________ for even a moment.
ATTEND
3. He was taken to court for _________.
PAY
4. Nothing wrong will happen to you as long as you follow the strict _____ set by the
inspector.
GUIDE
5. The Vietnamese people are happy to talk about their past and show an amazing resilience
and _________.
FORGIVE
6. The teacher warned the children that if they _______ again, they would be punished. BEHAVE
7. The manager handed in his _____ after being accused of dishonesty.
RESIGN
8. It is said that the problem of rapid climate change has been caused by two drastic____. FOREST
9. She is so ______ that she won’t let anything stand in her way of her ambition.
MIND
10. It’s ______ when people won’t believe things that are obviously true.
FURY
Part 3. The text below contains 10 mistakes. Find and correct all the mistakes in the numbered lines.

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Simply be bilingual does not qualify anyone to interpreting.

1_________________


Interpreting does not merely a mechanical process of converting 2_________________
one sentence in language A into a same sentence in language B. 3_________________
Rather, it is a complex art in that thoughts and idioms which have 4_________________
no obvious analogues from tongue to tongue - or words which
have multiple meaning – must quickly be transformed in many a 5_________________
way that the message is clearly and accurately expressing to the 6_________________
listener.
There are two kinds of interpreters, simultaneous and
consecutive, each require separate talents. The former, sitting in an 7_________________
isolated booth, usually at a large multilingual conference, speaks
to listeners wearing headphones, interpreting that a

8_________________

foreign-language speaker says as he says it-actually a sentence
afterwards. Consecutive interpreters are the one most international 9_________________
negotiators use. They are mainly employed for smaller meetings
without sound booths, headphones, and another high-tech gear.

10_________________

D. READING COMPREHENSION
Part 1. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer by circling the corresponding letter
A, B, C or D.
Legend has it that sometime toward the end of the Civil War (1861-1865) a government train
carrying oxen traveling through the northern plains of eastern Wyoming was caught in a snowstorm and had
to be abandoned. The driver returned the next spring to see what had become of his cargo. Instead of the
skeletons he had expected to find, he saw his oxen, living, fat, and healthy. How had they survived?
The answer lay in a resource that unknowing Americans lands trampled underfoot in their haste to

cross the “Great American Desert” to reach lands that sometimes proved barren. In the eastern parts of
the United States, the preferred grass for forage was a cultivated plant. It grew well with enough rain, then
when cut and stored it would cure and become nourishing hay for winter feed. But in the dry grazing lands
of the West that familiar bluejoint grass was often killed by drought. To raise cattle out there seemed risky or
even hopeless.
Who could imagine a fairy-tale grass that required no rain and somehow made it possible for cattle to
feed themselves all winter? But the surprising western wild grasses did just that. They had wonderfully
convenient features that made them superior to the cultivated eastern grasses. Variously known as buffalo
grass, grama grass, or mesquite grass, not only were they immune to drought; but they were actually
preserved by the lack of summer and autumn rains. They were not juicy like the cultivated eastern grasses,
but had short, hard stems. And they did not need to be cured in a barn, but dried right where they grew on
the ground. When they dried in this way, they remained naturally sweet and nourishing through the winter.
Cattle left outdoors to fend for themselves thrived on this hay. And the cattle themselves helped plant the
fresh grass year after year for they trampled the natural seeds firmly into the soil to be watered by the
melting snows of winter and the occasional rains of spring. The dry summer air cured them much as storing
in a barn cured the cultivated grasses.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. A type of wild vegetation
B. Western migration after Civil War
C. The raising of cattle
D. The climate of the Western United States

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2. What can be inferred by the phrase “Legend has it” in line 1?
A. Most history book include the story of the train.
B. The story of the train is similar to other ones from that time period.
C. The driver of the train invented the story.
D. The story of the train may not be completed factual.

3. The word “they” in line 4 refers to _____.
A. plains
B. skeletons
C. oxen
D. Americans
4. What can be inferred about the “Great American Desert” mentioned in line 6?
A. Many had settled there by the 1860’s.
B. It was not originally assumed to be a fertile area.
C. It was a popular place to raise cattle before the Civil War.
D. It was not discovered until the late 1800’s.
5. The word “barren” in line 6 is closed in meaning to _____.
A. lonely
B. uncomfortable
C. infertile
D. dangerous
6. The word “preferred” in line 7 is closed in meaning to _____.
A. favored
B. available
C. ordinary
D. required
7. Which of the following can be inferred about the cultivated grass mentioned in the second paragraph?
A. Cattle raised in the Western United States refused to eat it.
B. It had to be imported into the United States.
C. It would probably not grow in the western United States.
D. It was difficult for cattle to digest.
8. Which of the following was NOT one of the names given to the western grasses?
A. Mesquite grass
B. Bluejoint grass
C. Buffalo grass
D. Grama grass

9. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a characteristic of western grasses?
A. They contain little moisture
B. They have tough stems
C. They can be grown indoors
D. They are not affected by dry weather
10. According to the passage, the cattle help promote the growth of the wild grass by_____.
A. eating only small quantities of grass.
B. continually moving from one grazing area to another.
C. naturally fertilizing the soil.
D. stepping on and pressing the seeds into the ground.
Part 2. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to complete the following passage by circling
the corresponding letter A, B, C or D.
FUN AND GAMES
Do you think computer games are just for kids? Then you should think again. You might be surprised to learn
that the games industry now makes more money than Hollywood. (1)___ a family buy a new PC, all they really
want to do is to play games.
It is (2)______ surprising that video gaming has become one of the most popular (3)_____ of entertainment
today. A good game is like a good film, it will hold your (4)_____, (5)_______ your imagination and play with
your emotions.
The big difference, however, is that watching a movie is a passive (6)______. You have to say how the (7)_____
develops or which characters dominate the story. With computer games, you direct the action and that is
(8)______ makes them so exciting. Finding the (9)_____ game is likely to signal the beginning of a lasting love
affair with the interactive world of make-believe.
It is wrong to think of gaming as something simply for children and teenagers. In fact, the (10)____ growth area
of the market is the 25-35 age group.
1. A. As soon as
2. A. Whatsoever
3. A. makes
4. A. feeling
5. A. hold


B. As well as
B. no
B. means
B. attention
B. capture

C. As far as
C. hardly
C. sorts
C. breath
C. grasp

D. As long as
D. barely
D. forms
D. control
D. clutch

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6. A. pastime
7. A. event
8. A. thing
9. A. accurate
10. A. broadest

B. action
B. content

B. which
B. right
B. widest

C. passion
C. account
C. what
C. complete
C. biggest

D. fun
D. plot
D. part that
D. proper
D. farthest

Part 3. Read the passage and fill in each numbered gap with ONE suitable word.
We advertised the (1)______ of Sale Manager last week in the national newspapers. So far we’ve had
more than fifty (2)______ for the job. As you know, we’re offering a (3)______ of £19,000. We would
prefer to appoint some one with a few years’ (4)_____ in the field. Remember that we stated in the
advertisement that high academic (5)______ are not so necessary for a job like this; we need to stress
that in this company all (6)______ are treated in the same way. Everyone is entitled to an annual share in
the (7)_____ of the company, and we believe that good working relations between (8)______ and
(9)______ are essential. We’ve selected ten (10)______ to be interviewed next week. The sucessful one
will take up his/her job from next month.
E. WRITING
Part 1. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it has a similar meaning to the
original one. You must not change the word given.
1. She listens more sympathetically than anyone else.
(SYMPATHETIC)

→ She___________________________________________________________.
2.You are asking questions because you didn’t pay enough attention . (INATTENTION)
→ Had ___________________________________________________________.
3. You didn’t think carefully enough before you decided.
(OUGHT)
→ You ____________________________________________________________.
4. The book was not as good as he had hoped.
(EXPECTATIONS)
→ The book________________________________________________________.
5. Scientists say that forests are being destroyed by air pollution. (BLAME)
→ Scientists ________________________________________________________.
Part 2. Write an essay within 250 words on the following topic.
“When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.”
Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above?
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
-----THE END----Cán bộ coi thi không giải thích gì thêm.

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SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC

KỲ THI KSCL
ĐỘI TUYỂN HSG LỚP 12 NĂM HỌC 2017 – 2018
HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM MÔN: TIẾNG ANH

TRƯỜNG THPT
YÊN LẠC 2

(Đáp án gồm 02 trang)

A. LISTENING. (10 pts)
Part 1. (10 pts: 1pt/each correct answer)
1. waiter(s)
2. day off
3. break

4. (free) meal

6. jacket

9. mid-day/12.00 p.m

7. 28 June

8. Urwin

B. PHONETICS. (5pts)
(5 pts: 1p/each correct answer)
1. B
2. B

3. B

5. dark
(coloured/colored
)
10. reference

4. A


5. B

C. LEXICO - GRAMMAR. (35 pts)
Part 1. (15 pts: 1pt/each correct answer)
1. A
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. C
11. D
12. C
13.C
14.C
15.A
Part 2. (10 pts: 1pt/each correct answer)
1. Theoretically
2. unattended
6. misbehaved
7. resignation

6. B

3. non-payment
8. deforestation

7. C

8. D

9. C


4. guidelines
9. single-minded

10. A

5. forgiveness
10. infuriating

Part 3. (10 pts: 1pt/each correct answer – 0.5 pt/ each finding + 0.5pt/ each correction)
Mistake/ line
Correction
1. to
for
2. does
is
3. a same
the same
4. that
which
5. many
such
6. expressing
expressed
7. require
requires
8. that
what
9. one
ones

10. another
other
D. READING (30 pts)
Part 1. (10 pts: 1p/each correct answer)
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5.
C
Part 2. (10 pts: 1p/each correct answer)
1. A
2. C
3. D
4. B
5. B
Part 3 (10 pts: 1p/each correct answer)
1. position/post
2. applicants
3. salary

6. A

7. C

8. B

9. D

10. B


6. A

7. D

8. C

9. B

10. C

4. experience

5. qualifications

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6.employees/
7. profit
staffs
E. WRITING. (20 pts)

8.management/bosse
s

9. staffs

10. candidates


Part 1. (5 pts: 1pt/each correct answer)
1. She is a more sympathetic listener than anyone else.
2. Had it not been for your inattention, you wouldn’t be asking questions.
3. You ought to have thought more carefully before you decided.
4. The book failed to come up to his expectations.
5. Scientists blame the destruction of forests on air pollution.
Part 2. Essay Writing (15 pts)
Correct form of essay
writing
(15 points)

- Contents: a provision of all main reasons and appropriate supporting
ideas and relevant examples (8pts)
- Language: a variety of vocabulary and appropriate structures (4pts)
- Presentation: coherence, cohesion, and appropriate style (3pts)

Incorrect form of essay
writing
(8 points)

- Contents: a provision of all main reasons and appropriate supporting
ideas and relevant examples (4pts)
- Language: a variety of vocabulary and appropriate structures (2pts)
- Presentation: coherence, cohesion, and appropriate style (2p)

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