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1. SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH LẠNG SƠN LỚP 12 NĂM HỌC 2021-2022 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH-CHUYÊN ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) (Đề thi gồm 12 trang, 04 phần) Điểm của bài thi: Họ tên, chữ ký của giám khảo - Bằng số: 1. ___ ___ - Bằng chữ: 2. ___ ___ SỐ PHÁCH: A. LISTENING (4 POINTS) Part I: Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. Health Benefits of Dance Recent findings: - All forms of dance produce various hormones associated with feelings of happiness. - Dancing with others has a more positive impact than dancing alone. - An experiment on university students suggested that dance increases (1)___. - For those with mental illnesses, dance could be used as a form of (2)___. Benefits of dance for older people: - accessible for people with low levels of (3)___ - reduces the risk of heart disease - better (4)___ reduces the risk of accidents - improves (5)___ function by making it work faster - improves participants' general well-being - gives people more (6)___ to take exercise - can lessen the feeling of (7)___, very common in older people Benefits of Zumba: - A study at The University of Wisconsin showed that doing Zumba for 40 minutes uses up as many (8)___ as other quite intense forms of exercise. - The American Journal of Health Behaviour study showed that: + women suffering from (9)___ benefited from doing Zumba + Zumba became a (10)___ for the participants.
2. B. They realised they had achieved something special. C. They were afraid of what they might find on the surface. D. They were worried about how they would take off again. 5. What feature of the moon made the greatest impact on Charles? A. the brightness of the sun B. the vastness of the sky C. the loneliness of the place D. the absence of any stars 6. What does Charles feel was the most memorable part of his mission? A. nearly falling into a crater B. walking on the moon’s surface C. seeing things never seen before D. holding a piece of the moon B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (4 POINTS) Part I: Choose the word or phrase which best completes each of the following sentences. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. 1. When the two fighter jets collided into each other during the performance, ___ broke out among the spectators. A. turbulence B. pandemonium C. turmoil D. clamour 2. He had been in many a tight ___ during his life, and guarding a warehouse did not trouble him unduly. A. scrap B. patch C. spot D. rein 3. Noisy parties are really not my ___. A. predilection B. liking C. scene D. preference 4. It's raining again! That's ___ at the weekend! A. a mixed blessing B. a rude awakening C. par for the course D. part and parcel 5. The color of someone's skin should be ___ no account. A. from B. on C. by D. of 6. They weren't speaking to each other, but I think it's ___ now. A. beaten down B. held off C. blown over D. rolled in 7. Having been exposed to the sun, his already dark complexion became ___. A. swarthy B. sullen C. sweltering D. tarnished 8. I know it's easy to be smitten with a romantic partner, but I don't think it's healthy for one to ___ the other on a pedestal. A. fix B. put C. lay D. stick 9. The book describes her ___ as a war correspondent. A. tragedies B. exploits C. stunts D. antics 10. He felt his space had been ___ when his father came to stay. A. invaded B. intruded C. usurped D. conquered Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
3. Fans are generally taken (1)___ when a famous actor or actress suddenly (2)___ the profession at the height of his or her career. Greta Garbo, who made her last film when she was not yet 40, was a notable (3)___ in point. Sportsmen and women face this decision earliest. Though they generally have evidence that their powers are in (4)___, very few have the self-awareness to get out while the going is still (5)___. Politicians are perhaps the last to realise that the game is up. As long as they can (6)___ on to power, they refuse to accept the advice of party members, no doubt suspecting it is prompted by their colleagues' own ambitions! 1. A. surprised B. astonished C. unawares D. unexpected 2. A. quits B. withdraws C. resigns D. vacates 3. A. case B. type C. example D. illustration 4. A. decrease B. decline C. descent D. decay 5. A. fine B. well C. good D. fair 6. A. keep B. stick C. fasten D. hang Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Part II: Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. What is Creativity? The easiest way to determine what constitutes creativity is to consider what is missing from some of the current, popular definitions. In management literature, and (1)___ popular discourse, creativity has two principal aspects. First, creativity is all about novelty or difference – a deviation from conventional tools and perspectives. Secondly, it requires that creative individuals be (2)___ the freedom to express their individual talent or vision. These two themes, individualism and innovation, are rooted in a Western philosophical tradition which has reinforced a one-sided and destructive stereotype of creativity and creative people. (3)___ this conflation of creativity with individualism and innovation does is to disconnect creative thinking from the contexts and systems that give their innovations and talents meaning and value. It also perpetuates the notion that creative industries can be (4)___ aside from 'ordinary' industries as a unique sphere of activity, as if creativity were the privilege of a few officially designated businesses and missing from everywhere (5)___. Psychological definitions of creativity generally contain two distinct components. In the first place, creativity requires that we make or think something (6)___, or a new combination of existing elements. This is the element of novelty or innovation. However, mere novelty is not enough. To be creative, an idea must also be useful or valuable. This second part of the (7)___ is reflected in the emphasis on 'problem-solving' in psychological creativity tests and in the argument that creative ideas must demonstrate 'fitness or purpose'. Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
4. It is not quantifiable criteria that sell houses, but abstract qualities such as charm and potential. Agents agree that the light-socket counters tend not to buy. Nor do those who make multiple visits, who often suffer for their dithering. 'I am told it is like buying a new dress,' says Colin Swait, another agent. 'You go to every shop before you go back to the first one, and sometimes it has been sold.' What elicits the emotional response that draws the offers is a single stunning room or view. 'Eighteenth-century houses are popular,' says Swait. 'They are the houses of our childhood stories, the houses that appear in literature and costume drama, the houses of our dreams. Any biographer will tell you how important houses are to people, how much we are moved by a sense of place.' The business of house-hunting can be something of a nightmare, a bad dream of wrong room sizes and wrong addresses from which we eventually awake with a sense of coming home. Just as long as we know it as such when we get there. 1. Which of these is decisive for the majority of people buying a house? A. their first impression B. the size of the house C. its conditions D. the area where it is situated 2. What is Tara Chapman saying about her feelings with regard to her flat? A. They will be the same on leaving as on first sight. B. She will behave the same way for different reasons. C. She is sure someone will buy it for the same reasons as she did. D. She is sad that she will not get a fair price for it. 3. What does Melissa suggest attracts couples to houses? A. Something that reminds them of their wedding. B. The fact that a house is different from others they have seen. C. The contents of the house that the owners are also offering. D. The feeling that they would like to live like the present owners. 4. Why did Mr Kirkland feel that he had a problem? A. He was afraid the woman would regret making up her mind so quickly. B. He thought that her quick decision would put other buyers off. C. He thought that other buyers would be angry that he hadn't advertised that the house was for sale. D. He suspected that he could get a better price for the house. 5. What attracted Mr Illingworth and his wife to the house they bought? A. its situation B. its general condition C. its being ideal for their children D. the fact that they saw its most attractive features first 6. Which buyers are most likely to be disappointed? A. Those who are unwilling to bargain. B. Those who worry too much about details. C. Those who take a long time to make up their minds. D. Those who rely on first impressions.
5. the Pitman ESOL exams can be taken much more frequently. The IELTS examination, for example, is run at test centres throughout the world subject to demand. Where the demand is high, the test is held more frequently. At present, in London, it is possible for students to sit the exam about four times per week. F. Flexible assessment like the IELTS has been mooted in other areas. It has been suggested that students may in future be able to walk into a public library or other public building and take an assessment test for a range of skills on a computer. The computer will dispense an instant assessment and a certificate. The beauty of this system is the convenience. G. The workplace has been at the forefront of developing in-house schemes to establish whether people are suitable for particular jobs and/ or careers. Psychological profiles and hand-writing analysis as well as aptitude tests are now part of the armory of the corporate personnel officer; an interview and a curriculum vitae no longer suffice. But, as in the education field, there are dangers here. Testing appears to confirm the notion that certain people are predestined to enter particular careers. All of us have heard someone say: he/ she is a born actor, a born teacher, and so on. The recent work on the human genome and the research in genetics adds further credence to this notion. H. How long before psychological profiling is introduced into schools to determine a child's future? With the aid of psychometric tests, children may soon be helped to make more informed choices about the subjects they choose to study at secondary school, and then university. But people will still be pointed in the wrong direction. In many cases, the result will conflict with the person's own desires, mainly because he/she filled in the test wrongly, or the test did not pick up an essential piece of information. Unless the assessors are highly trained experts, many more people will find themselves mid-life in jobs that they did not really want to do. I. Whilst testing achievement is essential and indeed inevitable, it needs to be treated with caution. Tests are, after all, only tools − not an end in themselves. Lists of headings i. Assessment in the future ii. The theory behind MCQs iii. Not enough testing iv. Problems with SATs v. Misuse of testing in schools vi. The need for computer assessment vii. The future of psychometric testing in schools viii. Testing with caution ix. Testing in the workplace x. Globalisation in testing xi. The benefits of SATs xii. The shortcoming of MCQs xiii. Too much testing xiv. Flexibility in language testing Example: Paragraph A: xiii Your answers: Paragraph B: Paragraph C: Paragraph D: Paragraph E: Paragraph F: Paragraph G: Paragraph H: Paragraph I:
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7. TRENDS IN THE PROPERTY MARKET Ever since property prices in Britain began to rise in previously unseen at rates, it has been predicted that they would eventually level off, allow allowing more young couples to buy their own home. Unfortunately for those first-time buyers, though, the property market has been fuelled by single buyers as they scramble to get on the first step of the housing rung ladder. Soaring prices have meant that many prospective buyers, who have been saving for years, have reached the end of their tether as they can now no longer afford to buy the kind of property they had set their hearts on. The money they have been putting away is now simply adequate for their needs which means their efforts may have been in inadequate vain vein. To add insult to injury, it has been forecast by leading economists that this dramatic shift towards more and more people buying their own home is set to continue over the next twenty years. READING (5 POINTS) Part I: (0.6 points) (0.1 point/ 1 correct answer) 1. C 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. C 6. D Part II: (1.4 points) (0.2 points/ 1 correct answer) 1. in 2. given/ offered/ granted 3. What 4. set 5. else 6. new 7. definition Part III: (1.4 points) (0.2 points/ 1 correct answer) 1. A 2. B 3. D 4. D 5. A 6. C Part IV: (1.6 points) (0.2 points/ 1 correct answer) 7. D Paragraph B: iv Paragraph C: iv Paragraph D: xii Paragraph E: xiv Paragraph F: i Paragraph G: ix Paragraph H: vii Paragraph I: viii WRITING (5 POINTS) Part I: 2 points (0.2 points/ 1 correct answer) 1. is never at a loss for 2. goes without saying that Julia will make 3. got round to replying to/ answering 4. can fend for themselves in spite of/ despite 5. have known better than to lend 6. one/ a moment did we question 7. is subject to his passing