Title ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 12 HẢI PHÒNG BẢNG B 2021-2022.docx ✅

1 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO HẢI PHÒNG ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Đề thi có 12 trang, gồm 02 phần: tự luận và trắc nghiệm) KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI THÀNH PHỐ LỚP 12 BẢNG B NĂM HỌC 2021 - 2022 ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) Ngày thi: 18/01/2022 PART A: LISTENING 1. You will hear two urban planning students called Carla and Rob discussing their presentation on cities built by the sea. For questions 1-5, choose the best answer (A, B or C). You will listen TWICE. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (5 pts) CITIES BUILT BY THE SEA 1. Carla and Rob were surprised to learn that coastal cities ___________. A. contain nearly half the world's population B. include most of the world's largest cities C. are growing twice as fast as other cities 2. According to Rob, building coastal cities near to rivers ___________. A. may bring pollution to the cities B. may reduce the land available for agriculture C. may mean the countryside is spoiled by industry 3. What mistake was made when building water drainage channels in Miami in the 1950s? A. There were not enough for them. B. They were made of unsuitable materials. C. They did not allow for the effects of climate change. 4. What do Rob and Carla think that the authorities in Miami should do immediately? A. Take measures to restore ecosystems B. Pay for a new flood prevention system C. Stop disposing of waste materials into the ocean 5. What do they agree should be the priority for international action? A. Greater coordination of activities B. More sharing of information C. Agreement on shared policies II. You will hear Charlie Reid giving a talk about the Amazon rainforest. For questions 1-10, complete
2 each of the sentences with ONE word or number. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (10 pts) What happens in the Amazon has a (1) _________ impact on the planet as a whole. In the 10 years up to 2009, (2) _________new species of plants and animals were discovered. The plants and animals are in danger because the Amazon's (3) _________ are at risk. The region is using its vital resources to place itself in the (4) _________ market. The (5) _________ of allowing even a small percentage of the carbon to escape would be (6) _________ Rapid (7) _________, thanks to plans put forward by the government, has resulted in forest clearances. The demand for livestock means farming offers substantial financial (8) _________ Activities to obtain (9) _________ and other natural resources are also problematic. To safeguard the water requirements of farming, the forest (10) _________ needs to be protected. PART B: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY I. Give the correct form of the word in brackets to complete each of the following sentences. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (5 pts) 1. The software is ___________ easy to install and cheap to operate. (COMPARE) 2. Advertising is particularly effective on people who are highly ___________. (SUGGEST) 3. All of us envied him for the extraordinary ___________. (ACQUIRE) 4. I would be grateful if you would ___________ receipt of this letter. (KNOW) 5. Tom is a very ___________ person and writes lists for everything. (METHOD) 6. The way one behaves through life is really a matter of ___________. (BRING) 7. Everyone thinks Kent is a weatherman, but he's actually a ___________. (CLIMATE) 8. The actress gazed ___________ at her husband from the stage. (AFFECTION) 9. The agenda for the meeting is still not ___________. (FINAL) 10. The management decided the office was ___________ and sacked three junior typists. (MAN) II. Fill each blank with a suitable phrasal verb in the correct form or tense to complete each of the following sentences. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (10 pts) bring out turn out stick out put by take of give over to pull off dry up go off stand up to 1. Mimi became jealous when Jack's career started _________. 2. Janine said she'd win the tournament and she actually _________ it_________. 3. By _________ only £50 a month you will have enough for a new bike in two years. 4. The factory _________ only one hundred cars a year, that's why they are so expensive. 5. This room is _________ entertaining foreign visitors.
3 6. Harriet _________ in the photograph because of her bright pink blouse. 7. The piece of equipment is very well made and can _________ the roughest treatment. 8. Because of the transport strike, supplies _________ and we had to stop production. 9. Even though two of the bands are dead, a new 'The Beatles' album called Love was recently _________. 10. My son has _________ computer games because they are not as interesting as before. III. The following passage contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes on your answer sheet. Number 0 is an example. (10 pts) Example: 0. Line 1. so→ such Social networking sites (0) so as Facebook, MySpace and Orkut are now estimated to have more than 700 million users worldwide. Like users can create any profile of themselves they choose, you might expect them to portray themselves in the best possible light. When users put up a profile, it would be reasonable for us to present flattering images, choose sophisticated and discerning interests, and careful express their thoughts so as to appear more intelligent than in real life. But according to recent research, this is not the case. Far from presenting themselves in a flattering way, almost users' profiles reflect their true personalities and reveal both psychological weaknesses and natural physical flaw. Research was carried out for 250 Facebook users who put in a personality questionnaire. Its results were compared with the same people's Facebook profiles. A survey was conducted to assess not only the participants' actual personality, but their "ideal" personality in another words, what kind of person they would be if they actually possessed all their ideal characteristics. These results were then compared with the participants' Facebook profiles. What emerged was astonished: far from being idealized versions of themselves, the versions are agreeable, extroverted, conscientious, neurotic and sociable as these people are in real life. PART C: READING Fill in each blank in the following passage with ONE suitable word. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (5 pts) SAVING THE WHALE As part of Project Pelagos, a marine reserve covering the same area as Switzerland and located in the Ligurian Sea is being planned. (1) _________ programme was devised by environmentalists from the University of Genoa (2) _________ response to growing concern about the number of whales and dolphins (3) _________ harmed in those waters. Every year large numbers of dolphins, rorquals and finback whales migrate to this area from Atlantic waters in search of food. (4) _________, studies estimate that correspondingly large numbers never return to
4 mate in native waters. The deaths are being (5) _________ by the presence of DDT, a pernicious insecticide voluntarily banned in Britain, in the seas off the Ligurian coast. Its (6) _________ on marine animals is cumulative rather than instantaneous, so whales returning to the same area year after year are particularly vulnerable. The (7) _________ major problem is the use of large fishing nets to trap dolphins and whales. Very recent laws prohibit Italy's fishing boats, some of (8)_________ have drag nets up to 10 kilometres in length, from entering the area, but (9) _________ yet there is nothing to prevent foreign boats from fishing there. The nets are a particular problem and (10) _________ has been estimated that approximately 400 dolphins perish in them each year. PART D: WRITING 1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the original one(s). Write your answers on your answer sheet. (10 pts) 1. It was wrong of you to allow such a four-year-old child to walk home alone. → You should 2. The person who told me the truth about what happened was Fiona → It. 3. The trip was so amazing that we will never forget it. → It's too 4. George was last heard of a week ago. → Nobody 5. People believe that the Chinese invented paper in 105 A.D. → Paper 6. You didn't attend yesterday's class so you can't do this exercise now. → Had 7. He stormed out of the room after he had handed in his resignation. → Having 8. The minister proposed regular meetings for the committee. → The minister suggested 9. You are more likely to have an accident when you drive so fast. → The 10. All the children will receive a prize, whatever their score in the competition. → No matter II. Rewrite each of the following sentences using the capitalized word given in brackets in such a way