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1 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TỈNH QUẢNG NINH ĐỀ THI MINH HỌA KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH THPT Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH - Bảng A Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề (Đề thi này có 18 trang) HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE • Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe và mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu; • Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe. Part 1. (1.0 point): Listen to the recording and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). Write your answers in the corresponding boxes provided. 1. The number of students with anxiety increased by 135% in eight years. F 2. College students experiencing several mental health problems doubled by over 60%. T 3. According to Dr Lipson, traditional college years, a key developmental time, coincides with the age of onset for lifelong mental illnesses. T 4. Most people suffering from their mental health crises will have them after 24. F 5. In the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and school closures have resulted in many students worrying about their uncertain future. T TRANSCRIPT Rates of depression among college students have surged in the past decade. A new study from Boston University reports that the number of students experiencing anxiety or depression more than doubled between 2013 and 2021. They found that the number of students suffering from anxiety jumped by 110 per cent. The number of students with depression skyrocketed by 135 per cent over the eight-year period of the study. In 2021, over 60 per cent of students met the criteria for having some form of mental illness. This is double the rate from eight years ago. Alarm bells are now ringing among mental health therapists. However, the number of students seeking therapy has fallen by 18 per cent. Rates of depression among students had been on an upward trend even before 2013. Researcher Dr Sarah Lipson said: "College is a key developmental time. The age of onset for lifetime mental health problems also directly coincides with traditional college years." She said: "Living in a new setting, and away from home, can often create overwhelming and stressful circumstances." She added that 75 per cent of lifetime mental health problems will be present in people by the age of 24. Dr Lipson cited the COVID-19 pandemic, the loneliness of lockdowns, and school closures as factors that exacerbated this mental health crisis. Many students fear for their future, which they see as being increasingly full of uncertainty. Part 2. (1.0 point): You will hear part of a lecture about culture of organizations. and answer the questions with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Write your answers in the spaces
2 provided. 1. In what kind of organizations is the power culture commonly observed? small organizations 2. What form of communication often occurs in organizations with power culture? conversations 3. What is job security considered to be in power culture organizations? a low priority 4. How are jobs controlled in large companies with role culture? rules and procedures 5. What can large organizations achieve due to their size in relation to production costs? economies of scale TRANSCRIPT Good morning, everyone. Now, whether you're going to university to study business or some other subject, many of you will eventually end up working for a company of some kind. Now, when you first start working somewhere, you will realize that the organization you've joined has certain characteristics, and we often refer to these social characteristics as the culture of the organization. This includes its unwritten ideas, beliefs, values, and things like that. One well-known writer has classified company cultures by identifying four major types. The first type is called the power culture, and it's usually found in small organizations. It's the type of culture that needs a central source of power to be effective, and because control is in the hands of just one or two people, there aren't many rules or procedures. Another characteristic is that communication usually takes the form of conversations rather than, say, formal meetings or written memos. Now, one of the benefits of this culture is that the organization has the ability to act quickly, so it responds well to threat or danger on the one hand, an opportunity on the other. But on the negative side, this type of organization doesn't always act effectively because it depends too much on one or two people at the top, and when these people make poor decisions, there's no one else who can influence them. And the kind of person who does well in this type of business culture is one who is happy to take risks and for whom job security is a low priority. The next type is known as role culture, that's R-O-L-E, not R-O-W-L, by the way, and this type is usually found in large companies which have lots of different levels in them. These organizations usually have separate departments that specialize in things like finance or sales or maintenance or whatever. Each one is coordinated at the top by a small group of senior managers, and typically everyone's job is controlled by sets of rules and procedures. For example, there are specific job descriptions, rules for discipline, and so on. What are the benefits of this kind of culture? Well, firstly, because it's found in large organizations, its fixed costs or overheads, as they're known, are low in relation to its output or what it produces. In other words, it can achieve economies of scale. And secondly, it is particularly successful in business markets where technical expertise is important. On the other hand, this culture is often very slow to recognize the need for change and even slower to react. What kind of person does this type of culture suit? Well, it suits employees who value security and who don’t particularly want to have responsibility. Part 3. (1.0 point) You will hear part of a radio phone-in programme about consumer competitions that
3 appear in magazines or are run by shops, in which advice is given to people who regularly enter them. Circle the answer (A, B, C or D) that fits best according to what you hear. 1. Diana has phoned because she ____________. A. feels that she is the victim of an injustice. B. is reluctant to consult a lawyer yet. C. fears she misunderstood an agreement she made. D. wants to avoid falling out with her best friend. 2. Kathy tells Diana that ____________. A. her problem is a rather unusual one. B. she should have been more careful when dealing with her friend. C. it is unfortunate that her friend has the attitude that she has. D. she would regret taking legal action. 3. What does Kathy tell Ron about using different names when entering competitions? A. People who do so are regularly caught out. B. It may affect the quality of a competitor’s entries. C. There are rarely occasions when it might be justified. D. It is unusual for competitors to decide to do so. 4. What has led Stan to phone in? A. an inadequate response to a complaint he has made B. a feeling of confusion as to the rules of a competition C. a belief that he has been sent inaccurate information D. a desire for more openness about the results of competitions 5. What does Kathy tell Stan about the competition he entered? A. Some of the phrasing of the instructions is ambiguous. B. The rules allow for results that may appear unfair. C. A deliberate attempt has been made to mislead competitors. D. It is the sort of competition that it is best not to enter. TRANSCRIPT Presenter: OK, today I have with me Kathy Ford, winner of more than 500,000 worth of prizes in all sorts of consumer competitions and dubbed ‘The Queen of Competitions’ by the British press. She’s now editor of Competitor’s World magazine and as an expert on competitions has appeared regularly on TV. Kathy, let’s go straight to our first caller, and that’s Diana. Diana, what’s your query? Diana: Yes, hello Kathy. Well, in order to send in two entries to a competition where only one entry per person was allowed, I asked my best friend if I could submit an entry in her name. She agreed, and the understanding
4 was that, if ‘her’ entry won, I would receive the prize, but I would buy her a small gift for allowing me to use her name. Well, the inevitable has happened - I’ve won a much-needed new washing machine, but in my friend’s name, and she has now refused point blank to hand the machine over. If I went to a lawyer, would I have any hope of getting my prize from her? Kathy: Not even the faintest chance. I’m afraid that your efforts to evade the rules have not only cost you the prize, but also your best friend as well, and legally you just don’t have a leg to stand on. Even if you’d drawn up some sort of legal agreement with your erstwhile friend, I think you’d find that the law would still take a very dim view of your case, since it was obviously done with premeditated fraudulent intent. It’s not worth trying to evade the rules as you’ve just found out the hard way. Presenter: Next, it’s Ron. Ron, go ahead, you’re through to Kathy. Ron: Someone told me that some firms that run competitions keep a blacklist of frequent prizewinners, and that I should use a lot of different aliases in order to avoid being put on such a list. Is this true? Kathy: No! Competitors can sometimes get a little paranoid, and if they start going through a winless spell (and we all get them, from time to time!) they start to imagine that they’ve been blacklisted. No reputable firm would even contemplate such a measure, and the only time there’s even a faint risk of this sort of thing happening is with ‘in store’ competitions, where an individual store manager might just conceivably think ‘Oh no, not him again’ and deliberately disregard your entry. For mainstream competitions, however, such worries are groundless, and the use of aliases is not only unnecessary but can even prove to be pretty stupid. Think about it for a moment - what would happen if you won a holiday under a phoney name? Or were asked to prove your identity to collect a prize at a presentation ceremony? My advice is to stick with your own name and if prizes stop arriving, take a long, close look at the quality of your entries rather than trying to blame it on blacklists. Presenter: OK, next it’s Stan. Stan, what can Kathy help you with? Stan: Well, Kathy, I recently entered a competition which asked you to estimate the distance between a store in Newcastle and its London head office, using the shortest route. In order to make my entry as accurate as possible, I used a Routemaster computer program to determine the shortest possible way and calculate the distance, quite literally, from door to door. Imagine my astonishment, therefore, when I sent for the results and found that the answer they had given as being ‘correct’ was fully 73 miles longer than mine. I know my answer was correct, so do I have grounds to make a formal objection? Kathy: I’m sorry, but no, you haven’t. As far as the promoter is concerned, the key word in the instructions, here, is ‘estimate’ - they expect you to guess, not measure the distance accurately, and it’s likely that their own answer will also be based purely on an estimate. As a result, judges will always be right, even when they are wrong as in a case like this, and in entering the competition at all, you have agreed to abide by the rule that states ‘the judges’ decision is final’. Distance estimation competitions have always given rise to this sort of