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1 UBND TỈNH BẮC NINH ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH NĂM HỌC: 2022-2023 MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH 12 Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) (Đề thi gồm 12 trang, 80 câu trắc nghiệm) Listen to Ben getting advice from Clara and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions. Question 1: What has made Clara check on Ben? A. He has a lot of essays to write. B. He has too many classes recently. C. He missed their class that day. D. He’s missed a few classes. Question 2: What does Ben do at the beginning of the conversation? A. He is honest about the problem from the start. B. He refuses to mention his problem. C. He makes the problem sound more than it is. D. He makes the problem sound less than it is. Question 3: What is the main way Ben’s anxiety is affecting normal life? A. He doesn’t want to go out. B. He feels stupid. C. He can’t remember what day it is. D. He always feels bored. Question 4: What is the surprising thing about panic attacks, according to Clara? A. They make you feel so bad. B. People keep their panic attacks private. C. So many people have them. D. Just a few people have them. Question 5: How does Clara recognise Ben’s problem is panic attacks? A. She has the same problem now. B. Ben’s doctor told her. C. She had the same problem in the past. D. She and Ben live together. Question 6: What does Clara warn Ben about the advice she will give? A. It will be difficult to hear. B. It won’t be easy to follow. C. It isn’t very practical. D. It won’t be difficult to follow. Listen to the UN Messenger of Peace, Leonardo DiCaprio’s opening remarks at the 2014 United Nations Climate Summit in New York City on September 23, 2014 and choose the correct answer to each of the questions. Question 7: How many people marched in the streets of New York on Sunday? A. 40,000 B. 140,000 C. 4,000 D. 400,000 Question 8: Why does he say “I pretend for a living”? A. Because he’s an actor. B. Because he pretends to play fictitious characters.
2 C. Because he always pretend to be making a living. D. He enjoys solving fictitious problems. Question 9: How has mankind looked at climate change? A. As if it was real. B. It is not a real problem. C. He is an actor. D. He plays fictitious characters. Question 10: What’s happening with the oceans? A. They have climate events B. The ocean floor is rising up. C. They have intensifying droughts. D. They are acidifying with methane plumes rising up from the ocean floor. Question 11: What are the examples of climate change? A. Oil spills in the ocean. B. Storms in the West Antartic and Greenland. C. Extreme weather events. D. Droughts in Southest Asia. Question 12: Who’s Samuel Locklear? A. He’s a historian. B. He’s a scientist. C. He’s the Admiral of the US Navy’s Pacific Command. D. He’s the Admiral of the US Air Force. Question 13: What’s the speaker’s view on the problem of climate change? A. People should change their light bulbs or to by a hybrid car. B. Climate change is not a disaster. C. Climate change is a big problem so industries and our governments must take decisive large- scale action. D. Individuals can solve it. Question 14: What measure is suggested to deal with climate change? A. To eliminate government subsidies for all oil and gas companies. B. To put a price tag on carbon dioxide emissions. C. To protect our ecosystems from collapsing. D. To ban industrial and agricultural polluters in the name of a free market economy. Question 15: According to the speaker, what are inalienable human rights? A. Clean air and a liveable climate. B. A human debate. C. A partisan debate. D. A question of both politics and our own survival.
3 Question 16: What does he want to talk to the leaders of the world? A. They are honored delegates in the conference. B. They shouldn’t pretend for a living. C. His messages are clear. D. Climate change is an urgent problem. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions. Question 17: People who are unhappy sometimes try to compensate by eating too much. A. For some people, eating too much is a reason to be miserable. B. When depressed, people occasionally attempt to offset their misery by overeating. C. Unhappy people are usually overweight because they tend to eat too much. D. Eating too much occasionally makes people unhappy and depressed. Question 18: Realizing the environmental impact of the fashion industry, some bloggers, vloggers and influencers are now entering the “no-buy” movement. A. In stead of using the things they have already owned, some bloggers, vloggers and influencers make a commitment to buy new stuff because of the environmental impact of the fashion industry. B. It is a new trend that some bloggers, vloggers and influencers now refuse to buy new stuff regardless of the environmental impact of the fashion industry. C. Some bloggers, vloggers and influencers, taking fashion industry’s environmental impact into account, now refuse to buy new products. D. With the fashion industry’s environmental impact out of consideration, there’s a move to avoid new stuff among some bloggers, vloggers and influencers. Question 19: I’m sure it wasn’t Ms. Katie you saw because she is in Norway. A. It couldn’t be Ms. Katie you saw because she is in Norway. B. It can’t have been Ms. Katie you saw because she is in Norway. C. It mightn’t be Ms. Katie you saw because she is in Norway. D. It mustn’t have been Ms. Katie you saw because she is in Norway. Question 20: Thomas Hardy romanticized the people of the country, whereas Emile Zola decribed them more realistically. A. Although both came from the countryside, Emile Zola was describes as a realist, while Thomas Hardy was viewed as a romantic. B. Emile Zola wrote about rural people as they actually were, but Thomas Hardy saw them romantically. C. Emile Zola was a more romantic writer than Thomas Hardy, especially in regard to how he viewed country people.
4 D. Thomas Hardy was one of the people who found the countryside romantic, but Emile Zola’s view of it was realistic. Question 21: Residents of the suburbs enjoy good social amenities without the noise and bustle of living in the town centre. A. Suburban people take pleasure in good social amentities without the noise and bustle of living in the town centre. B. Good social amentities in the suburbs make the residents enjoyable than living in the town centre. C. Suburban people prefer living in the countryside with good social amenities than the noise and bustle of the town centre. D. The noise and bustle of living in town centre makes the residents of the suburb feel more enjoyable with the good social amentities. Question 22: The newspapers are putting the blame on his private secretary but I think several people are equally guilty. A. It seems to me that several people are at fault, not just his private secretary as the newspapers are suggesting. B. According to the newspapers, it is not only his private secretary who is to blame, several other people are involved. C. The name of some guilty people were given to the newspapers by his private secretary. D. Some of the people who are quite as guilty as his private secretary have managed to avoid getting their names in the newpapers. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges. Question 23: At a shoe shop. Mr. Bradford: “I’d like to try on these shoes, please.” Salesgirl: “_____________ .” A. Why not? B. I’d love to. C. That’s right, sir. D. By all means, sir. Question 24: Veronica and Madison are in a restaurant. Veronica: “None of us like the restaurant.” Madison: “___________. I think it’s OK.” A. Of course. B. Speak for yourself. C. So do I. D. I’d go along with that. Question 25: Ernest is having trouble getting some change for the automatic vending machine, so he asks a passer-by. Ernest: “Excuse me, could I trouble you for some change?”