TRI H HNG VNG

LN TH VIII- CAO BNG

K THI OLYMPIC HNG VNG NM 2012

MN THI: TING ANH- LP 10
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Part I: Phonetics (5 points)

Question 1: Identify the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from
that of the other words in the group. (2.5 points)
B. linked
C. lived
D. opened
1. A. arrived
B. main
C. faint
D. paint
2. A. explanation
B. tedious
C. tendency
D. peculiar
3. A. genius
B. thenceforth C. thrive
D. thresh
4. A. throat
B. paths
C. months
D. Wreaths
5. A. mouths
Your answers:
1 2.. 3.. 4 5
Question 2: Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others (2.5
points)
1. A. signature
B. generator
C. scholarship
D. achievement
2. A. coincide
B. community
C. conception
D. committee
3. A. envelop
B. astronaut
C. tuberculosis
D. poverty
4. A. factitious
B. comparable
C. wannery
D. popular
5. A. architectural
B. engineering
C. maturity
D. comprehension
Your answers:
1.. 2.. 3.. 4 5
Part 2: Lexico - grammar (35 points)
Question1: Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in the blankets. (5 points)
1. His father left him $700,000 but he lives so extravagantly that he .....................................
(spend) it all before hes 35
2. It is demanded that the conditions of safety......... ...... .............................(improve).
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3. Things ...............................................(leave) on the table untouched

4. I could tell from the frightened look on her face that something terrible (happen )
..................................................
5. He resented (ask).. ......to wait. He expected the minister to see him at once.
6. Id rather (live).....................in the eighteenth century than in the nineteenth
century.
7. It was our fault to keep Jane waiting so long. We ( inform) ...........................................her in
advance
8. He (not resign)............................., we would have been forced to sack him
9. It is important that we (be)..... on time for the meeting tonight.
10. Comets are rarely bright enough (see).. ................with the naked eye.
Question 2: Fill in each blank in the sentences below with a suitable preposition or
adverb particle (5 points)
1. Several students have come __________ with bird flu, which has put us all in an alarming
situation.
2. So engrossed __________the book was Ana that she didnt realise the dark clouds were
gathering in the sky and the wind was blowing hard.
3. Several of the employee _____________him complained of his bullying behavior.
4. The coach attaches great importance ____________a sense of team spirit.
5. Roger dabbled ____________painting for a while, but recently he has given up.
6. I turned _____________ at the meeting but the others didnt come.
7. Without a fridge, fresh food will go _____________ very quickly
8. The surgeon operated _________ his leg yesterday.
9. After 5,000 metres Johnson was still ________ the lead.
10. You cant expect chocolates made ___________ fresh cream to keep very long.
Question 3: Identify and correct the 5 errors in the following passage. Underline them
and write your correction in the right column given. (5 points)
After an absence in thirty years, I decided to visit my old school again. I had expected to
find change, but there was not a completely different building. As I walked up the school drive,
I wondered for a moment if I had come to right address. The grimy, red brick fortress with its
tall windows that had looked up grimly on the playground and playing fields had been swept
away. In its place stood a bright, modern block risen from the ground on great concrete stilts. A
huge expanse of glass extended across the face of the building, and in front, there was a wellkept lawn where previously there had been an untidy gravel yard.
Your answers:
Errors

Correction

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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Question 4: Supply the correct word forms (10 points)

1. (1. globe) ....................................is the ongoing process that deepens and broadens the
relationships and .. ...........(2. depend) among countries.
2. A bath is not the same thing as sleep, but anything that lets you relax for a while is ,
too. (3. restore)
3. Not sick, Mai guessed, but probably ....... now that she drank a lot at the party last
night. (4. hang)
4. These students voluntarily spent their summer vacations helping the (5. advantage)
5. Mr. Joseph Tan is working in the ...............(6. crime) department. He is always
carrying out investigations.
6. Mary has no practical experience in treating sick animals. She only has (7. book)
....................... knowledge of the subject.
7. Will the Eurosport channel provide any (8. cover) ............................... for the approaching
Tour de France?
8. Write a paragraph about Tet Holiday (9. person) ........................., that is, as though you are
not involved in the Holiday.
9. His busy schedule made him completely (10. access) .......................................to his students.
Your answers:
1
6
2.
7
3
8
4.
9
5.
10...
Question 5: Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete each sentence. (10 points)
1. The girl in the shop was _________ how to use a new kind of electronic cooker.
A. proving
B. establishing
C. exposing
D. demonstrating
2. I _________ him to arrive in time for dinner.
A. hope for
B. attend
C. expect
D. think
3. Britain _________ a welcome to all tourists.
A. holds out
B. extends
C. throws
D. hands
4. Ever since we quarreled in the office, Janice and I have been _______ enemies.
A. assured
B. confirmed
C. defined
D. guaranteed
5. He seemed very quiet, but it would be a mistake to ______ his intelligence.
A. devalue
B. depreciate
C. underrate
D. minimize
6. Which is more important, luck or effort? Luck is __________ effort.
A. of the same importance
B. of the same importance as
C. the same importance as
D. as the same importance as
7. Robert and his wife ________ to my house for tea yesterday evening.
A. came round
B. came about
C. came down
D. came away
8. Each of the guests ________ a bunch of flowers.
A. are given
B. is given
C. were given
D. give
9. To everyones surprise, Mr. Brown ________ at the Trade Union meeting.
A. turned in
B. turned over
C. turned up
D. turned round
10. Everyone burst out laughing. There was a lot of ______
A. laughs
B. laughter
C. laughings
D. laugh
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1
2.
3
4.
5.

6
7
8
9
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III. READING COMPREHENSION: (30 points)

Question 1: Read the following passage and choose the Best option to complete the blank
or answer the question. (10 points)
Even before the turn of the century, movies began to develop in two major directions:
the realistic and the formalistic. Realism and formalism are merely general, rather than
absolute, terms. When used to suggest a tendency toward either polarity, such labels can be
helpful, but in the end they are just labels. Few films are exclusively formalist in style, and
fewer yet are completely realist. There is also an important difference realism and reality,
although this distinction is often forgotten. Realism is a particular type, whereas physical
reality is the source of all the raw materials of film, both realistic and formalistic. Virtually, all
movie directors go to the photographable world for their subject matter, but what they do with
this material- how they shape and manipulate it- determines their stylistic emphasis.
Generally speaking, realistic films attempt to reproduce the surface of concrete reality
with a minimum of distortion. In photographing objects and events, the Filmmaker tries to
suggest the copiousness of life itself. Both realist and formalist film directors must select (and
hence emphasize) certain details from the chaotic sprawl of reality. But the element of
selectivity in realistic films is less obvious. Realists, in short, to preserve the illusion that their
film world is unmanipulated, an objective mirror the actual world. Formalists, on the other
hand, make no such pretense. They deliberately stylize and distort their raw materials so that
only the very naive would mistake a manipulated image of an object or event for the real thing.
We rarely notice the style in a realistic movie; the artist tends to be self-effacing. me
filmmakers are more concerned with what is being shown than how It is manipulated. The
camera is used conservatively. It is essentially a recording mechanism that produces the surface
of tangible objects with as little commentary s possible. A high premium is placed on
simplicity, spontaneity, and directness. his is not to suggest that these movies lack artistry,
however, for at its best the realistic cinema specializes in art that conceals art.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Acting styles
B. Film plots
C. Styles of filmmaking
D. Filmmaking 100 years ago
2. With which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree?
A. Realism and formalism are outdated terms.
B. Most films are neither exclusively realistic nor formalistic.
C. Realistic films are more popular than formalistic ones.
D. Formalistic films are less artistic than realistic ones.
3. The phrase " this distinction " in the first paragraph refers to the difference between
A. formalists and realists
B. realism and reality
C. general and absolute
D. physical reality and raw materials
4. Whom does the author say is primarily responsible for a style of film?
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A. The director
B. The actors
C. The producer
D. The camera operator
5. The word "It" in the first paragraph refers to
A. the photographable world
B. their subject matter
C. this material
D. their stylistic emphasis
6. The word " Copiousness " in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to
A. abundance
B. greatness
C. fullness
D. variety
7. How can one recognize the formalist style?
A. it uses familiar images.
B. it is very impersonal.
C. it obviously manipulated images. D. it mirrors the actual world.
8. The word " tangible " in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to
A. concrete
B. complex
C. various
D. comprehensible
9. The word " self-effacing " in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to
A. modest
B. shy
C. egocentric
D. introverted
10. Which of the following films would most likely use a realist style?
A. A travel documentary
B. A science fiction film
C. A musical drama
D. An animated cartoon
Question 2: Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each
space. (10 points)
The elementary means of communicating with other people is (1) ____ messages by voice.
This fact is widely (2) _____ and we recognize the voice as a feature characterizing the identity
of a person. The array of voices is immeasurable as no two are exactly similar. They can be
nasal, resonant or shrill produced in (3) _____ with the individual physical (4) _____ of the
throat
One possible implemetation of the art of voice recognition is voice profiling used by police
analysts as a method of (5) ____ court evidence in trials. Every year thousands of audiotapes
with recorded interviews or casual utterances are (6) _____ to the purpose to help identity the
probable culprit. Specialists dealing with the voice investigation claim that people can (7)
_____ themselves away by their accents, infections or other voice attributes like pitch, intensity
and loudness. A recorded sample is usually (8) _____ into electric impulses and later
transformed into a pictorial recording which is processed by a computer program. Very
frequently voice analysts have a stab at deciphering the relevant information which may be
mingled with background noise or other interfering sounds until they (9) _____ the desired
results.
Thankfully, these efforts help the police detect individuals who threaten their victim by
phone or inform about bomb planting or those who make offensive calls (10) _____ the peace
of decent citizens.
1.
A. commuting
B. discharging
C. informing
D. conveying
2.
A. reassured
B. acknowledged
C. declared
D. reckoned
3.
A. consent
B. accordance
C. dependence
D. support
4.
A. tendencies
B. credentials
C. assets
D. properties
5.
A. substantiating
B. facilitating
C. pledging
D. withstanding
6.
A. used
B. put
C. employed
D. set
7.
A. give
B. turn
C. prove
D. tell
8.
A. reformed
B. exchanged
C. adjusted
D. converted
9.
A. attain
B. manouevre
C. elaborate
D. succeed
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A. distracting

B. dismantling

C. dispersing

D. disturbing

Your answers:
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3.

4.

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8.

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10.

Question 3: Fill each blank with one suitable word: (10 points)
(1)_______ today than they used to be. At the beginning of the 19th century, women
seemed to have almost no (2) _______ at all. They could not vote or (3) _________ sign a
contract. Their marriages were arranged by their parents. They were once kept at home and if
they were allowed to work, they were never (4) ________ responsible jobs. It is strange to
think that, as (5) ______ as we know, most women were happy with that situation.
Today the position is quite different. Women now can vote and (6) ________ their own
husbands. In 1970, a law was passed to give them an equal share of property in the (7) _______
of divorce and in the same year the Equal Pay Act gave them the right to get equal (8) ______
with men for work of equal value.
Yet, (9) ________ these changes, there is no doubt that there are still great differences in
statue between and women. Many employers may be even in majority- seem to (10)
________the Equal Pay Act. It is also more difficult for woman to get a promotion than a man
does.
Your answers:
1
6
2.
7
3
8
4.
9
5.
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PART IV WRITING (30 points)
Question 1. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first
sentence, using the words given. (5 points)
1. I only realized how dangerous the situation had been when I got home.
Only
2. Andrew is the most generous person I have ever met.
I have ..
3. John could not find the right house.
John was .
4. Its not a habit of mine to sleep in the afternoon.
I am.....
5. He had hardly left the office when the telephone rang.
No sooner ...
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Question 2: Write a new sentence similar in meaning to the one given, using the words
given (5 points)
1. Tony demanded to complain to the hotel manager personally.

INSISTED

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2. His shop has now stopped trading after making heavy losses.

BUSINESS

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3. Peter knew that he had no chance to get a driving licence as it was too hard for him. WIND
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4. We were not very surprised to hear that he had been stealing money from the company.
CAME
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5. She felt uncomfortable in the huge hotel. FISH
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Question 3: (20 points) Write a paragraph of about 150 words on the following topic:
Some students prefer to study alone, while other students prefer to study with others.
Discuss the advantages of each type of studying. Then indicate which you prefer and why.

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