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1 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC (Đề thi có 10 trang) KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH THCS NĂM 2024 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH - Bảng B Ngày thi: 06/03/2024 Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề SECTION A. LISTENING (4.0 points) Part 1. You will hear a talk between Curtis and Spencer about clothes and their sense of style. Circle the correct answer (A, B, C or D) to each question. (1.0 point) 1. At university, Spencer ___________. A. dressed up B. wore casual clothes C. only wore jeans D. wore T-shirts and jeans 2. What is Curtis’s fashion sense? A. untidy B. simple C. comfortable D. colorful 3. Both Spencer and Curtis think that heels are ___________. A. not nice B. painful C. classy D. dangerous 4. Spencer says heels make people ___________. A. walk faster B. less aggressive C. more confident D. less confident 5. Spencer says it is ___________ to find shoes her size. A. hard B. uncomfortable C. time-consuming D. easy TRANSCRIPT Curtis: Hi Spencer, I thought we might talk about fashion a little bit. Could you describe to me your style or your fashion sense? Spencer: Well my fashion sense has definitely changed over the last decade. I was kind of recently out of uni and my uni years it was always every night I wanted to look superb. I even dressed up for class (1), it was, you know, that whatchamacallit a big university, but it was also a very old kind of university where everybody dressed up all the time, very southern, very, you know, let's look good for every kind of occasion. And since graduating from there, I have, you know, entered the real world and I only dress up for work or if I'm going out, which I love dressing up for an occasion. But day-to-day I also love just throwing on a t-shirt and jeans, what about you? Curtis: I think for me the most important thing is comfort (2). So my fashion sense hasn't really changed very much. I would still wear shorts and a t-shirt and sandals almost every day if I could (2). But because of my job I have to dress up for work. But it's not really comfortable and I feel like it's not really me. Occasionally I do like to wear a suit but maybe once in a long while, not every day. Spencer: Yeah, it definitely after several, you know, weeks of kind of throwing on the same day-to-day
2 comfortable clothes, and you have one occasion that you go out for and dress up for, it does kind of feel like, you know, oh, I'm worth a million bucks like, you know, looking great, one time you're wearing ... dressed to the nines, wearing all your best clothes. Curtis: Right. At the same time if I do dress up I want the most comfortable clothes I can get to dress up in, like I want shoes that look nice. But to me, looking comfortable looks nice. If I see people who don't look comfortable in what they're wearing I don't think they look very good. So sometimes I see people with really tall heels for example and people might say, "Oh, this looks so nice." But I just, I feel like they must be painful, it must be really hard to wear and to walk in. (3) Spencer: That's so true, I hate heels, I cannot wear heels. Half of it's confidence though, like I don't like being particularly taller than a lot of people, it just kind of makes me unconfident. But every now and then like you see a really tall person wearing a pair of heels, and you know, shoulders high like super, super confident and they look great. (4) But also it is painful after several hours of wearing heels (3) if you're walking around a bit. Curtis: Right. Sometimes I find that with men's dress shoes as well, sometimes they're really narrow and my feet are a little bit wide and so you get these really long and pointed dress shoes that narrow towards the toes. And because of that I have a very hard time finding dress shoes for myself. I have to do a lot of shopping to find a good pair. Spencer: I got lucky, I have tiny feet, so every time I walk into a shoe store my size happens to be the one that's on display. (5) Curtis: Oh, I see. Spencer: And it's really quite good, yeah. Oh, that looks cute, I can just try it on then and there, so yeah, it is good. Curtis: Yeah. Part 2. You will hear the head teacher of a school talking to a group of parents about an international student exchange programme. Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. (2.0 points) INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMME The school’s exchange programme is called (1) ______ Open homes _____. A return visit is then arranged (2) ______ six months _____ later. Children first get to know their exchange partners by taking part in a (3) ______ pen-friend/ penfriend _____ scheme. The programme is not only intended for students who enjoy using their (4) ______ languages _____. The two countries most often visited on the programme are (5) ______ France and Germany _____.
3 Some students suffer from problems such as homesickness and (6) _____ loneliness/ feeling lonely ______. To help students who have problems, a professional (7) ______ professional group leader _____ is always available. Local visits are described as being (8) ______ fun _____ and also educationally (9) ______ educationally valuable _____. Students enjoy visiting (10) ______ wildlife _____ parks most of all. TRANSCRIPT Good evening. I'd like to welcome all those parents whose children have just started at the school. The purpose of this meeting is to give you information about the international exchange program known as Open Homes, which the school runs. For one week a year, pupils are invited to stay with a family abroad and attend school with a child of the same age. Our return visit is then arranged six months later when our pupils and their families open their homes and become the hosts. In general, children aged 13 to 15 years old, but no younger, seem to get something out of this trip. Now, I realise that your own children will only be 11 or at most 12 this year, but we feel that it's important to begin by making the links that will make a future exchange more successful. So, we want children to make a pen friend of their prospective overseas partners a year or so before the visit. By taking part in this scheme, they will already know someone in, and a lot about, their destination before they leave. We've established links with schools in various countries. In the past, European exchanges have been the most popular, especially amongst children keen to practise their languages. But this is not the only aim of the programme, so those more interested in other subjects should not be put off. One year, we organised a trip to Holland which was very successful, although none of the children were studying Dutch. Our most regular destination, however, is France, with Germany coming a close second, although we are in touch with a school in Poland which is very keen to take part, as is a school in Canada. Although most children love the experience, we must be prepared for some difficulties. This may be the child's first trip abroad, leading to feelings of homesickness as well as loneliness. A week can seem a long time when you feel lonely or are missing home. So, each group of pupils is accompanied by a professional group leader, which means there's always someone with training on the spot to solve any difficulties. This is a relief for both parents and host families, as you can imagine. There is variety built into the week, and this definitely helps. For example, children attend lessons together in the morning and then visit a local place of interest in the afternoon. These trips can be fun as well as educationally valuable, and parents are invited to come along too. In the past, we've managed to combine the pure entertainment of places like theme parks with the learning opportunities provided by wildlife parks, museums, etc. And surprisingly, it's actually the wildlife rather than the theme parks which proves the most popular time and time again.
4 So, I hope I've given you some insight. Part 3. You will hear five different men talking about visits they have made to a hospital. Choose from the list A-F the reasons why each attended the hospital on the occasion described. Use the letters only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to use. (1.0 point) A. to have a medical check-up B. to collect somebody C. to deliver supplies D. to visit a relative E. to have an operation F. to do maintenance work Speaker 1: _____A_____ Speaker 2: _____E_____ Speaker 3: _____D_____ Speaker 4: _____F_____ Speaker 5: _____C_____ TRANSCRIPT Speaker 1 Well, the last time I went to the hospital was because I needed a medical certificate. I’d just been offered the job in Kuwait and they needed an official piece of paper from any qualified doctor saying that I had healthy lungs, heart, liver and good eyesight. And well, I couldn’t go to my regular doctor because I had already given his name as a reference. And well, I was a bit nervous because if the doctor didn’t declare that I was perfectly healthy, I wouldn’t get the job. Speaker 2 I’d always thought they’d give me something to put me to sleep and when I came round everything would be over and all I would see would be a few stitches. But these days it’s all done with a local anaesthetic so you stay awake through the whole thing and you can see everything they’re doing. Of course, they tell you that you don’t have to look but you can’t really look anywhere else, can you? Of course, you don’t feel anything, but it’s a bit scary. Speaker 3 I didn’t know what to expect. I mean, when somebody has such a big operation nothing really prepares you for … what happens afterwards. It’s not a bit like it is on telly. When at last I managed to find the right room I almost didn’t recognise her. It really was a bit of a shock but the staff all seemed really pleased with her progress and were even talking about … er … going home in just a few days. I don’t know about these things and I believed what they said. If I’d known what was going to happen, I’d have stayed there all night just to be with her, right up to the end. Speaker 4 Well, the call on my answerphone said there was this leaking roof in one of the wards. ‘A drip’ they called it. Well, it hadn’t been raining much so I suppose it didn’t seem too bad to them. But when I got up there, the