Title ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 9 QUẢNG BÌNH 2023-2024.docx ✅

3 Tom Tern is trying to deal with these problems. Tern is a mechanical engineer at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He's working on ways to make plastic out of corn and soybeans. He says this kind of plastic can be turned into compost after it's used. He says the plastic will decompose, just like leftover vegetables or garden clippings, as long as the plastic is chopped up. “TERN: You just need to have a proper composition of water, air, and temperature. You mainly have to chop the plastic into small pieces so that the bacterial other microorganisms can consume them.” Tern says special composting facilities some day could reduce mountains of discarded plastic into just carbon dioxide, water, and some leftover organic material. Tern says plastics are made of strings of carbon and hydrogen, and those are some of the main ingredients in both oil and plants. In fact, the first plastics were made from plant materials more than 100 years ago. Tern is working on materials known as bioplastics. He says they're not as strong as the petroleum-based variety and they're harder to work with. He's experimenting with additives that will make bioplastics stronger and easier to mold. When engineers get this recipe they might initiate the replacement of petroplastics with a new variety that's biodegradable. Part 3. For questions 11-20, you will hear a talk on a TV programme. Listen and complete each sentence with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS. (10pts) The strap was a long piece of leather made especially for (11) ___hitting____ children's palms. Today, children who misbehave at school seldom even get a (12) ___telling off____. In the fifties, Yvonne was strapped for coming to school in (13) ____wrong shoes___ in Yvonne thought the way she was disciplined at schools was (14) ____(very) cruel___ and unfair. The members of the organisation P.O.P.P.I. all had (15) ___young children____ In 1979, because of P.O.P.P.I. (16) ____the government___ made the strap illegal. Yvonne describes her children as (17) ___lazy____ and irresponsible. Yvonne does not think her children understand (18) ___how lucky____ they are. She is now sorry that the government changed (19) ____the law___. She believes that there would be less (20) ____(teenage) crime___ if the strap was still used. TRANSCRIPT Yvonne:   Any of you who are of my generation or older will no doubt remember … the strap. But for those youngsters listening, I’d better explain because I’m saying this for your benefit. The strap, as they called it, was a thick piece of leather about an inch wide and half as long as a belt and it was especially designed for hitting small children, on the palms of their hands. Nowadays, if you do something wrong at school, you’re unlucky if you even get a telling off. And even the most serious offences get little more than a concerned phone call from the head teacher to your mum and dad. Now, when I was at St Anne’s School for Girls in the
4 fifties, we didn’t have things quite so easy. It didn’t take much to get a strapping. I’ll never forget the first time it happened to me. One morning, I came to school in the wrong shoes – brown ones instead of black – and that was enough for the principal to call me up in front of the whole class of children and beat my hand until it bled. I saw this and many other examples of our school’s discipline system as very cruel and unfair. Now, unlike many people of that time, I didn’t just forget about it when my school days were over. Soon I had children of my own and the thought that they would one day get the same treatment, really made my blood boil … and that’s when I heard about P.O.P.P.I. … er … Parents Opposed to Physical Punishment of Infants. All the other members were like me. They had young children and didn’t want some unfeeling teachers filling their lives with misery. So we started writing letters. First, to the schools, then to the education department and eventually, to our local politicians, and in 1979, the government put an end to the strap … and to the cane … and to the paddle and we thought that we had guaranteed our children the chance to grow up into fine young people. And that, I’m afraid, did not happen. My own son and daughter have turned into lazy, irresponsible young adults who really have no idea how lucky they are. I’m sure you all know people like them … and they’re not the worst by far. But it’s only recently that I’ve begun to think – to wish – that they’d never changed the law. Cruel it may have been, unfair it often was, but it taught us our place in society. And that’s something that few young people today seem to know or want to respect. For example, we wouldn’t have all the teenage crime that goes on nowadays if those teenagers concerned had, when they’d been younger, been given the strap. SECTION TWO: PHONETICS AND LEXICO - GRAMMAR Part 1. For questions 21-23, pick up the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. (3pts) 21. A. stone B. zone C. glove D. phone /stoʊn/ /zoʊn/ /ɡlʌv/ /foʊn/ 22. A. ancestor B. innocent C. musician D. recycle /ˈænsɛstər/ /ˈɪnəsənt/ /mjuˈzɪʃən/ /riˈsaɪkl/ 23. A. solution B. reception C. protection D. suggestion /səˈluːʃən/ /rɪˈsɛpʃən/ /prəˈtɛkʃən/ /səˈdʒɛstʃən/ Part 2. For questions 24-25, choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group. (2pts) 24. A. tobacco B. buffalo C. mechanic D. deposit /təˈbækoʊ/ /ˈbʌfələʊ/ /mɪˈkænɪk/ /dɪˈpɒzɪt/ 25. A. concern B. athlete C. charter D. hygiene