Kỳ thi chọn học sinh giỏi cấp tỉnh lớp 12 năm học 2012 - 2013 tiếng anh 150 phút

SỞ GD&ĐT NGHỆ AN
Đề dự phũng



(Đề thi gồm 05 trang)
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH LỚP 12 
NĂM HỌC 2012 - 2013

Mụn thi: TIẾNG ANH LỚP 12 THPT - BẢNG B
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phỳt




Họ và tên thí sinh: ........................................................................................................................
Ngày tháng năm sinh: ..............................................................................................................
Số báo danh

Học sinh trường: ............................................................................................................................
Số phách



Họ và tên, chữ ký giám thị 1:

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Họ và tên, chữ ký giám thị 2:

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Chỉ dẫn:
1. Đề thi gồm 05 trang. Thí sinh kiểm tra số trang trước khi làm bài.
2. Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi (ghi câu trả lời vào các ô được đánh số phía dưới đề của mỗi phần).
3. Thí sinh giữ gìn cẩn thận bài làm. 
4. Nếu thí sinh làm sai, dùng thước gạch, không dùng bút tẩy màu trắng. Thí sinh chỉ được dùng bút một màu xanh hoặc đen để làm bài. Không dùng mực màu đỏ. 
5. Giám thị không giải thích gì thêm. 
6. Thí sinh không được sử dụng bất cứ tài liệu nào kể cả từ điển.

















SỞ GD&ĐT NGHỆ AN
Đề dự phũng



(Đề thi gồm 05 trang)
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH LỚP 12 
NĂM HỌC 2012 - 2013

Mụn thi: TIẾNG ANH LỚP 12 THPT - BẢNG B
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phỳt

ĐIỂM
HỌ TấN, CHỮ KÍ GIÁM KHẢO
SỐ PHÁCH
Bằng số:…………………………………..
Bằng chữ:………………..……………….
Giỏm khảo 1: ………………………………………
Giỏm khảo 2: ………………………………………



SECTION A – PHONETICS
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.
1. 	 A. breath	B. break 	C. thread 	D. tread
2. 	 A. believes	B. pencils	C. contents	D. tables
3. 	 A. ragged	B. wicked	C. naked	D. packed
4.	 A. cherish	B. chorus	C. chaos	D. scholar
5.	 A. hysteria	B. hypocrite	C. hypocrisy	D. hydroplane

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II. Identify the word whose stressed pattern is different from that of the others.
6.	A. discover	B. invention 	C. difficult	D. important
7. 	A. animal 	B. bacterial 	C. habitat	D. pyramid 
8. 	A. considerate	B. photographer	C. community	D. circumstance 
9. 	A. scenery	B. festival 	C. atmosphere	D. location
10.	A. opposite	B. geography 	C. compulsory	D. endangert

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Section B – vocabulary and grammar
I. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D.
11. You should not burn _______. You had better dig a hole and bury it.
	A. dishes 	B. lab 	C. garbage 	D. shift
12. Should an object be let off in the cabin of a spaceship, it _______ .
	A. floated 	B. is floating 	C. will float 	D. would float
13. Either John or his children ____ breakfast each morning.
	A. make 	B. makes 	C. made 	D. to make
14. ASEAN also works for the _______ of peace and stability in the region.
	A. promote 	B. promotion 	C. promotional 	D. promoter
15. Jane is ______ age as Mary.
	A. as same	B. the most same	C. the same	D. more same
16. Don’t share the matter with anyone else. Please keep it in ______
 	A. private 	B. possession 	C. property 	D. tongue
17. Hardly ______ attack people.
	A. have snakes	B. do snakes	C. snakes do	D. snakes will
18. I never listen to _____ radio. In fact I haven't got ____ radio.
 A. a/a 	B. a/the	C. the/the	D. the/a
19. It took me a very long time to ______ the shock of her death.
A. turn off 	B. take on 	C. get over 	D. keep up with
20. You are not _______ to say anything unless you wish to do so.
	A. obliged 	B. willing 	C. equal 	D. attracted
21. Are there enough apples for us to have one _______ ?
	A every	B. each	C self	D individually
22. Do you get your heating _______ every year?
	A. checking	B. check	C. be checked	D. checked
23. Body language is a potent form of _______ communication.
	A. verbal 	B. non-verbal 	 	C. tongue 	D. oral
24. We _____ 	last night, but we went to the concert instead.
A. must have studied	B. might study	C. should have studied	D. would study 
25. Both Ann and her sister _______ her mother.
A. take after 	B. take place	C. take away	D. take on

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II. There is one mistake in each of the following sentences. Find and correct it.
26. Caroline refused taking the job given to her because the salary was not good.
27. While the brows were away on holiday, their house was broke into.
28. Two out of three people striking by lightning survive. 
29. Why don’t you congratulate our son about passing his final exam?
30. There is such few ink that it will be impossible to finish addressing the envelopes.
31. I found it wonderfully to travel abroad.
32. The notebook lists every opportunities for handicapped workers in the area. 
33. I don't know why is the elevator not working properly today.
34. In the end, she quit the job because it was too bored.
35. Every candidate under considering for a federal job must undergo a thorough medical examination.


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Section C – reading

I. Read the following passage, and then choose the best answer from A, B, C or D.
Napoleon Bonaparte’s ambition to control all the areas around the Mediterranean Sea led him and his French soldiers to Egypt. After loosing a naval battle, they were forced to remain there for three years. In 1799, while constructing a fort, a soldier discovered a peace of stele (a stone pillar bearing an inscription) known as the Rosetta stone, in commemoration of the town near the fort. This famous stone, which would eventually lead to the deciphering of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics dating to 3100 B.C was written in three languages: hieroglyphics (picture writing), demotic (a shorthand version of Egyptian hieroglyphics) and Greek. Scientists discovered that the characters, unlike those in English, could be written from right to left and in other directions as well. The direction in which they were read depended on how the characters were arranged. Living elements (animals, people, and body parts) were often the first symbols, and the direction that they faces indicated the direction for reading them. 
Twenty-three years after the discovery of the Rosetta stone, Jean Francois Champollion, a French philologist fluent in several languages, was able to decipher the first word - Ptolemy - the name of an Egyptian ruler. This name was written inside an oval called a “cartouche”. Further investigation revealed that cartouches contained names of important people of that period. Champollion painstakingly continued his search and was able to increase his growing list of known phonetic signs. He and an Englishman, Thomas Young, worked independently of each other to unravel the deeply hidden mysteries of this strange language. Young believed that sound values could be assigned to the symbols, while Champollion insisted that the pictures represented words. 

1. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Napoleon’s Great Discovery	B. Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone
C. Thomas Young’s Great Contribution	D. The importance of Cartouches
2. Napoleon’s soldiers were in Egypt in 1799 because they were __________
A. celebrating a naval victory	B. looking for the Rosetta Stone.
C. waiting to continue their campaign 	D. trying to decipher the hieroglyphics
3. Why was the piece of newly discovered stele called the Rosetta Stone?
A. It was shaped like a rosette	B. It was to honor Napoleon’s friend Rosetta. 
C. The town near the fort was called Rosetta	D. The fort was called Rosetta.
4. The person who was responsible for deciphering the first word was __________
A. Champollion	B. Thomas Young	C. Ptolemy	D. Napoleon
5. All of the following statements are true EXCEPT __________.
A. cartouches contained names of prominent people of the period. 
B. Champollion and Thomas Young worked together in an attempt to decipher the hieroglyphics 
C. one of Napoleon’s soldiers discovered the Rosetta stone
D. Thomas Young believed that sound values could be assigned to the symbols

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II. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D to fill in the gaps in the following passage.
 More and more people are discovering that sharing and talking about their favorite books with others can be as rewarding as the act of reading (41)_____. For people who feel that they are too busy to sit down with a book, a book club helps them schedule time to read, others have gained self-confidence by (42)_____ in or leading a discussion. And most people enjoy the chance to (43)_____ new friends.
A successful book club should have a group that is small enough so even the quiet people can be heard but also big enough for many different (44)_____. The best arrangement is a (45)_____ of ages, sexes, and backgrounds for more reading variety and livelier discussions.
The book club could (46)_____ in one subject or type of book, like mysteries, science fiction, or biographies. Or the members could read books of all types, as long as the book is highly recommended by someone who thinks it would be (47)_____ discussing.
Some book clubs meet in places like bookstores, public libraries, or restaurants, but most have their meetings in members’ homes. This approach simply (48)_____ more privacy and time for longer meetings.
To make the meeting go smooth, a leader should be (49)_____ . The leader will usually start the discussion by asking what the author’s main idea was. Book club members should never be afraid to offer their opinions, even if they don’t like a book. They just need to be prepared to explain (50)_____they didn’t like something.
41. 	A. it	B. itself	C. themselves	D. oneself
42. 	A. participating	B. taking	C. talking	D. sitting
43. 	A. do	B. make	C. form	D. gather
44. 	A. characters	B. issues	C. attitudes	D. opinions
45. 	A. mixture	B. range	C. number	D. lot
46. 	A. focus	B. talk	C. specialize	D. concentrate
47. 	A. valuable	B. busy	C. worth	D. useful
48. 	A. offers	B. supplies	C. encourages	D. takes
49. 	A. called	 	B. named	C. suggested	D. appointed
50. 	A. what	B. why	C. how	D. where

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III. Fill in each numbered gap with one suitable word.
Books are written to provide knowledge and good books enrich the mind. By putting ourselves (51)_________ the influence of superior mind, we (52)__________ our mental powers. Through good (53)__________ we learn that people everywhere are the (54)__________, in all ages and in all classes. (55)__________ knowledge improves our love (56)__________ others and helps us to live in peace with them. We also (57)__________ that the world has made not only for man alone but (58)__________ every creature that can feel hunger and thirst, warmth and cold. 
Though it may be possible for us to travel (59)__________ the world and see the things happening today, it is not possible for us to see the things that happened in the past. But good books (60)__________ us to see not only into the most remote regions of the world today but also the world in which our ancestors lived.

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Section D – writing
I. Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one.

61. Sally finally managed to get a job. 
→ Sally finally succeeded 	
62. We couldn’t get nearer because of the police. 
→ The police 	
63. Somebody repaired her car yesterday. → She 	
64. She and I have never been there before.
→ Neither	
65. The only thing that prevented the passing of the bill was the death of the Prime Minister. → Had it not 	
II. Use the word given in brackets and make any necessary additions to write a new sentence in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Do NOT change the form of the given word(s).

66. If the patient hadn’t been treated, he would have died.	 	(without)
→ 	
67. “It was my fault to break your vase yesterday” said Jane to her brother.	 (admitted) 
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68. She can’t afford to buy the car	. 	(so)
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69. He is too old, but he still does his gymnastics every morning.	 	(despite)
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70. Tim looks nothing like his father. 	 	(take)
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III. Write a composition about 150 – 200 words on the following topic: 
“Written books are not needed because we can read almost everything on the Internet”. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
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