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1 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐẮK LẮK ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Đề thi gồm có 10 trang) KỲ THI TUYỂN SINH VÀO LỚP 10 TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG NĂM HỌC 2023-2024 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH – CHUYÊN Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề I. LISTENING: Part 1. For questions 1-5, listen to the conversation and complete the form. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer in the boxes below. Number (0) is done as an example. (1.0 pt) APPLICATION FORM FOR USE OF LIBRARY INTERNET SERVICE Family name: (0)_______________ First name: (1) ______________ Jayne Address: Unit 15, 35 Maximilian Way, Whitfield. Postcode: (2) ______________ Occupation: Nurse Mobile: (3) _______________ ID number: (4) _______________ Date of Birth: 25th (5) _____________, 1975 Example: (0). Milton Part 2. For questions 6-10, listen to a conversation, choose and write the correct letter A, B or C for each answer in the boxes below. (1.0 pt)
2 6. What is the man's destination? A. Salt Lake City, USA B. New York City, USA C. Helsinki, Finland 7. When is the man's departure date? A. the twenty-ninth B. the twenty-second C. the twenty-third 8. What is the flight number for the second half of the man's journey? A. 555 B. 90 C. 1070 9. How long is the man's layover between flights? A. less than an hour B. less than two hours C. less than three hours 10. What request did the man make regarding his flight? A. He asked for a specially-prepared dinner. B. He wanted an aisle seat. C. He asked for a seat near the front of the plane. Part 3. For questions 11-20, complete the sentences. Write ONE WORD for each answer in the boxes below. (2.0 pts) THE HISTORY OF COFFEE Coffee in the Arab world There was small-scale trade in wild coffee from Ethiopia. 1522: Coffee was approved in the Ottoman court as a type of medicine. 1623: In Constantinople, the ruler ordered the (11) ___________ of every coffee house. Coffee arrives in Europe (17th century) Coffee shops were compared to (12) ______________. They played an important part in social and (13) ______________ changes. Coffee and European colonisation European powers established coffee plantations in their colonies. Types of coffee were often named according to the (14) ____________ they came from. In Brazil and the Caribbean, most cultivation depended on (15) _____________. In Java, coffee was used as a form of (16) _______________. Coffee became almost as important as (17) _______________. The move towards the consumption of (18) _______________ in Britain did not also take place in the USA. Coffee in the 19th century Prices dropped because of improvements in (19) _______________.
3 Industrial workers found coffee helped them to work at (20) _______________. II. USE OF ENGLISH Part 1. Choose and write in the boxes below the correct option (A, B, C or D) that best completes each unfinished sentence. (3.0 pts) 21. The soap opera star threatened to ________ her dentist for $10 million. A. prosecute B. charge C. convict D. sue 22. Laura wonders whether to go camping with her friends or to stay at home in order to prepare for her final composition. She is on the horns of a _________. A. predicament B. mess C. dilemma D. puzzle 23. As he accepted the award from the organization, his voice ________ with emotion. A. quivered B. flinched C. cringed D. winced 24. It was so foggy that the driver couldn't ________ the traffic signs. A. break out B. keep out C. make out D. take out 25. I asked him what to do but his instructions were so _________ that I still didn't understand. A. inexplicable B. muddled C. illegible D. garbled 26. We have to ________ our homework right now, or we won't finish it today. A. go about B. go out C. go for D. go in 27. The film is ________ based on a true story, but most of it is fiction. A. casually B. loosely C. faintly D. lightly 28. David: "It's terrible. I don't think I will be able to pass the exam." Mary: "_________” A. Let's try it. B. Why not pass it? C. Ok. What's that? D. Don't worry. Everything will be all right. 29. You can buy goods on the Internet with a credit card, but there is a danger of ________ if someone else obtains the number. A. corruption B. fraud C. embezzlement D. disruption 30. The music aroused an ________ feeling of homesickness in him. A. intense B. intentional C. intensive D. intended 31. The new law allows school districts to spend more money on less _________ children. A. advantageous B. advantaged C. disadvantaged D. disadvantageous 32. The teacher asked a difficult question, but finally Ted _______ a good answer. A. put up with B. keep pace with C. made rooms for D. came up with
4 33. The ceiling fans were on, but unfortunately they only _______ the hot, humid air. A. stirred up B. poured through C. turned into D. cut back 34. When my children ________ their toys, I donated them to a charity. A. outgrew B. outnumbered C. outlasted D. outwore 35. I am not able to go anywhere this weekend because I am up to my _______ in work. A. eyes B. neck C. head D. nose 36. The company is in _______water over their refusal to reduce prices. A. dirty B. cool C. hot D. deep 37. Tim was forced to leave his job but he got a generous golden ______. A. compensation B. handshake C. parachute D. capital 38. Mrs. Allison did say that we could take dictionaries into the exam with us,_______ ? A. didn't she B. doesn't she C. could we D. couldn't we 39. To fit together the thousands of fragments of the broken vase was a long and _______ task. A. minute B. careful C. painstaking D. minuscule 40. ______ than spectators began to return to the slope. A. Not until the rain stopped B. Hardly did the rain stop C. No sooner had the rain stopped D. Hardly had the rain stopped 41. ______ have made communication faster and easier through the use of email and Internet is widely recognized. A. That it is computers B. That computers C. Computers that D. It is that computers 42. If flights to Cyprus _______ so expensive these days, they might have gone there for their honeymoon last spring. A. weren't B. aren't C. wasn't D. hadn't been 43. The doctor recommended that the patient ______ in bed until a specialist was called in. A. had to stay B. stayed C. must stay D. stay 44. She joined the local tennis club, ______ were at least 60. A. most of its members B. most whose members C. most of whose members D. most members 45. It is in this hospital _______. A. that helps the homeless B. where the homeless is helped C. that the homeless are helped D. the homeless has been helped 46. ______, he was determined to continue to finish the five-thousand-mile bike journey. A. Tired as he might feel B. However tired C. As he might feel tired D. He felt very tired though 47. My grandparents have been married for over 50 years and they still get along _______. A. runningly B. jumpingly C. walkingly D. swimmingly